Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 1: to today. I mean, it's a great mix of real
Speaker 1: news and good news.
Speaker 2: We are kind of on tariff watch right now.
Speaker 1: President Trump likely to announce some sort of compromise deals
Speaker 1: with Mexico and Canada soon.
Speaker 2: This after the victory lap.
Speaker 1: He took the longest address ever for a president before Congress.
Speaker 1: I turned it off a little after seven thirty. I
Speaker 1: gave it a solid ninety minutes and then wanted to
Speaker 1: check out Paradise because Amy King has recommended it, Deborah
Speaker 1: Mark has recommended it. One of a couple people on
Speaker 1: Instagram friends of the show, Doreen, one of them recommended
Speaker 1: it as well. So I checked it out and you're
Speaker 1: all right, it's really good. It's really well acted. I
Speaker 1: just watched a couple episodes. It is a what you
Speaker 1: watch on Wednesday, So let us know what you are
Speaker 1: watching at Gary and Shane and on Twitter. On Facebook,
Speaker 1: you can use the talk back feature. If you're listening
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app, just use that microphone feature. But yes,
Speaker 1: we are awaiting some sort of compromise when it comes
Speaker 1: to those tariffs. A president did address last night. They
Speaker 1: say that a compromise could come as soon as today.
Speaker 1: Jd Vance has a trip to the border. Now, I
Speaker 1: don't think that Trump would give jd Vance the honors
Speaker 1: of announcing this at the border, but the announcement could come,
Speaker 1: and then jd Vance's comments at the border could come.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be a nice little dovetail announcement there or
Speaker 1: appearance I guess I should say of him being at
Speaker 1: the border. The stock market did close lower do to
Speaker 1: the tariffs. Right now we're looking at the Dow up
Speaker 1: one oh seven. So some hopes on Wall Street, but
Speaker 1: more importantly for us here locally, where are we with
Speaker 1: the egltz? We go to our eglet desk. Amy King
Speaker 1: has been manning the egal desk and this is a
Speaker 1: nest by the way, that we've been tracking thousands of people,
Speaker 1: not just bird watchers, but it's made bird watchers out
Speaker 1: of people. Since twenty twelve, a third grader discovered this
Speaker 1: nest in the Big Bear area, and the first bald
Speaker 1: eagle chick to hatch in the Big Bear Valley happened
Speaker 1: shortly after, and then we got the live cameras.
Speaker 2: That was twenty twelve. Those thirteen years ago.
Speaker 1: We've been following Jackie and Shadow, and for almost three
Speaker 1: years Jackie and Shadow, none of their eggs have hatched
Speaker 1: for these two beautiful bald eagles until now, Amy, what
Speaker 1: is the latest.
Speaker 2: Well, we have two eaglets.
Speaker 3: They call them bubbleheads right now because their necks are
Speaker 3: so weak that they just bobble around and they're hysterical
Speaker 3: to watch because mom is feeding them now and so
Speaker 3: she gives them little tiny bits of I think there's
Speaker 3: a dead bird up in the nest right now, but
Speaker 3: she also feeds and fish and stuff, and they peck
Speaker 3: at each other, so they're already fighting like little siblings do.
Speaker 3: And it's absolutely one of the cutest things you've ever seen.
Speaker 3: Both of the eagles are on the nest right now,
Speaker 3: and I and sixty five other sixty five thousand other
Speaker 3: people are watching the Big Bear Eagle camp. When I
Speaker 3: got in this morning, I just turned it on because
Speaker 3: I'm obsessed, like so many of us here at the station,
Speaker 3: and there was still like, I don't know, twenty thousand
Speaker 3: people watching, And that was at three p thirty in
Speaker 3: the morning, so it is it's kind of must see TV.
Speaker 3: But both of the eaglets are doing well. They're known
Speaker 3: as Chicks one and two right now because they don't
Speaker 3: have names, but they will get names. And here's how
Speaker 3: they do it. The public is invited to suggest names
Speaker 3: and then third graders in Big Bear get to vote
Speaker 3: on it and pick the winning names.
Speaker 1: Wow, what kind of fun that is? So where do
Speaker 1: we submit our ideas for names?
Speaker 3: I would go to the Friends of Big Bear Valley
Speaker 3: site their website and see how to do it there.
Speaker 3: But it's a little early because they're just a day
Speaker 3: or two old. We are still watching to see if
Speaker 3: that third egg is going to hatch. So the little
Speaker 3: eaglitz are sitting next to their brother or sister who's
Speaker 3: still encased in an eggshell, and we're hoping that that
Speaker 3: one is going to hatch too.
Speaker 2: We don't know.
Speaker 3: But because there was like a week between the time
Speaker 3: the first egg was laid and the time the second
Speaker 3: egg was laid, this little guy is still viable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as of last night the egg became old enough
Speaker 1: to start pipping.
Speaker 2: But let's I mean, let's be grateful for what we have.
Speaker 2: We got two.
Speaker 1: We've got two beautiful, big bobble headed baby eglits, and
Speaker 1: that is very exciting. We have the live cam on
Speaker 1: our page. If you just google Gary Shannon Kfi and
Speaker 1: click that first thing that comes up probably is our
Speaker 1: web page and you can find the live cam posted
Speaker 1: there as well. I love that Jackie and Shadow ps
Speaker 1: And we talked about it earlier in the week about
Speaker 1: shared household duties, about you know, you got to watch
Speaker 1: your football game Amy and didn't have to do the dishes,
Speaker 1: and how important it is to a relationship to have those.
Speaker 1: Jackie and Shadow seem to be a really good example
Speaker 1: of two partners that share the duties when it comes
Speaker 1: to like rolling over those eggs and taking care of
Speaker 1: the nests.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and even nesting time, when Jackie will let Shadow
Speaker 3: take over, he's right there and ready to sit on
Speaker 3: the eggs and incubate him. And when I was watching
Speaker 3: last night too, and she they because they have the
Speaker 3: infrared camera so you can see him at night, and
Speaker 3: she started screaming about something and he was there within
Speaker 3: about fifteen seconds. So he's always close and it's so
Speaker 3: cool to see them working together.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. I love it. We are going to
Speaker 2: be so devastated. Don't even I.
Speaker 1: Mean, it's just it's like one of the reasons I
Speaker 1: don't have a pet, because I can't handle it when
Speaker 1: we lose pets, it's very difficult.
Speaker 2: It's the artist thing.
Speaker 1: It's like it's the way that the pets look to
Speaker 1: you to care for them and everything.
Speaker 2: And we are so invested with Jackie.
Speaker 1: In Shadow, which is, let's just enjoy what's going on
Speaker 1: right now and enjoy their baby Egletz and we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens with the third egg. It was going to
Speaker 1: be three to five days when the cracks started happening
Speaker 1: Monday Sunday until Monday, and we knew that these birds
Speaker 1: were ready to come out, and they did, so we'll
Speaker 1: stay on top of them. Uh okay, well we are
Speaker 1: on tariff watch and we'll get to that. It was
Speaker 1: the longest address last night for a president before Congress, and.
Speaker 2: Let's just get right to it.
Speaker 1: I mean, the President hit the nail on the head
Speaker 1: when he talked about his relationship with Democrats.
Speaker 4: This is my fifth such speech to Congress, and once
Speaker 4: again I look at the Democrats in front of me
Speaker 4: and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say
Speaker 4: to make them happy or to make them stand or
Speaker 4: smile or applaud Nothing I can do. I could find
Speaker 4: a cure to the most devastating disease, a disease that
Speaker 4: would wipe out entire nations, or announce the answers to
Speaker 4: the greatest economy and history, or the stoppage of crime
Speaker 4: to the lowest levels ever recorded. And these people sitting
Speaker 4: right here will not clap, will not stand, and certainly
Speaker 4: will not cheer for these astronomical achievements. They won't do it,
Speaker 4: no matter what five times I've been up here. It's
Speaker 4: very sad, and it just shouldn't be this way.
Speaker 1: So if you didn't watch it, or if you're not familiar,
Speaker 1: all the Democrats are to the right of him, sitting
Speaker 1: in front of him in the rows to the right,
Speaker 1: and all the Republicans to the left, And it is
Speaker 1: quite the juxtaposition. The left, the entire panel of people
Speaker 1: standing up and cheering and hoot and hollering and smiling,
Speaker 1: and the exact opposite on the opposite side of the aisle,
Speaker 1: there were Democrats that just remain seated, with firm lines
Speaker 1: of their mouth forming firm lines throughout the entire thing.
Speaker 1: They held up small signs, black circular signs in white letters.
Speaker 1: Some of them said musk steals. Other signs read false,
Speaker 1: and they would hold these signs up. They would not cheer.
Speaker 1: At one point Al Green was standing and he would
Speaker 1: not sit down, and he was escorted out. Now there
Speaker 1: was a moment I thought the best line for the
Speaker 1: President of the night came when he was talking about
Speaker 1: on all of the old people, not old people, I
Speaker 1: should say dead people who remain on the government dole.
Speaker 4: Three point five million people from ages one one hundred
Speaker 4: and forty to one hundred and forty one, and money
Speaker 4: is being paid to many of them. And we're searching
Speaker 4: right now. In fact, Pam, good luck, good luck, you're
Speaker 4: going to find it. But a lot of money is
Speaker 4: paid out to people because it just keeps getting paid
Speaker 4: and paid, and nobody does and it really hurts social
Speaker 4: security and hurts our country. One point three million people
Speaker 4: from ages one hundred and fifty to one hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty nine and over one hundred and thirty thousand people
Speaker 4: according to the Social Security databases, our age over one
Speaker 4: hundred and sixty years old. We have a healthier country
Speaker 4: than I thought Bobby.
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought that was his best line. Like
Speaker 1: him or hate him, I mean that was an entertaining line.
Speaker 1: And hearkening back to calling him Bobby, and then I
Speaker 1: think he went on to say something or maybe it
Speaker 1: was later about oh, the Democrats won't even apply to Kennedy.
Speaker 1: That's how you know things are bad. Just trying to
Speaker 1: lighten the mood in the room to people who do
Speaker 1: not want the mood lightened, that is for sure. Tariffs
Speaker 1: did get talked about. He said it something to the
Speaker 1: effect of and I'm or phrasing that it's going to
Speaker 1: be an inconvenience for a little while and we can
Speaker 1: handle it now. When you ask the experts about these
Speaker 1: tariffs on China and Mexico and Canada, they say that
Speaker 1: we will expect, or we should expect, to pay an
Speaker 1: extra twenty cents per gallon of gas, an additional fifty
Speaker 1: cents for each avocado, and thousands more on new vehicles
Speaker 1: if you're in the market. John Luciano is owner of
Speaker 1: Straight Volkswagen and Amarillo, Texas. He says tomorrow's cars are
Speaker 1: going to be more expensive. He says, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if the consumer has caught on yet how much cars
Speaker 1: are going to going to be going up, but it's
Speaker 1: going to be big. The polling is not great when
Speaker 1: it comes to optimism on the economy. There was that
Speaker 1: post election peak when it came to optimism, but now,
Speaker 1: according to the polls, Americans are feeling worse about their
Speaker 1: finances inflation in particular, than they were a few months ago.
Speaker 1: And a lot of these uncertainties are related to the
Speaker 1: tariffs themselves, just fresh pulling out this week, since these
Speaker 1: things have been rumored to go into effect and have since.
Speaker 1: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik said that the administration may roll
Speaker 1: back some of these measures against Canada and Mexico as
Speaker 1: early as today. He went on Fox Business said I
Speaker 1: think Trump is going to work something out with them.
Speaker 1: Trump touched on this last night, as I mentioned, he said,
Speaker 1: in April, you're going to see more action when it
Speaker 1: comes to what America demands or what it's willing to
Speaker 1: give to other countries, kind of insinuating that we have
Speaker 1: been fleeced as a country by other places globally when
Speaker 1: it comes to imports and exports. Here's what he said
Speaker 1: about what's going to go down in April.
Speaker 4: April second, reciprocal tariffs kick in, and whatever they tariff
Speaker 4: us other countries, we will tariff them. That's reciprocal back
Speaker 4: and forth. Whatever they tax us, we will tax them.
Speaker 4: If they do non monetary tarts to keep us out
Speaker 4: of their market, then we will do non monetary barriers
Speaker 4: to keep them out of our market.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of that too.
Speaker 4: They don't even allow us in their market. We will
Speaker 4: take in trillions and trillions of dollars and create jobs
Speaker 4: like we have never seen before. I did it with China,
Speaker 4: and I did it with others, and the Biden administration
Speaker 4: couldn't do anything about it because there was so much money.
Speaker 4: They couldn't do anything about it. We have been ripped
Speaker 4: off for decades by nearly every country on Earth, and
Speaker 4: we will not let that happen any.
Speaker 1: Longer, can we? I think we let's just come to
Speaker 1: an agreement. Let's just let it go with Joe Biden. Yea,
Speaker 1: Let's let the health updates go with the pope. Let
Speaker 1: him rest, Let Joe Biden rest. He took a lot
Speaker 1: of shots against Joe Biden last night, unnecessarily, so it
Speaker 1: was a victory lap, especially after Zelenski came out and
Speaker 1: said that he regrets what happened in the Oval office
Speaker 1: on Friday. It was a victory lap for Trump last
Speaker 1: night and he took it. And this may be a
Speaker 1: really crass thing to say about this news item, but
Speaker 1: you've heard about the officials in La County and the
Speaker 1: Probation Department thirty of officers and guided on criminal charges.
Speaker 1: This is an into an investigation about allegations they allowed,
Speaker 1: in some cases, encouraged gladiator fights between teenagers inside the
Speaker 1: county's juvenile halls.
Speaker 2: You know you'll watch that movie too.
Speaker 1: The fact that the probation officers are arranging organized fights
Speaker 1: between juvenile hall attendees to make it nice, that is crazy.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's very serious.
Speaker 1: Obviously, counts of child abuse, conspiracy, battery, it's awful. We'll
Speaker 1: get into all the details, but you know there's going
Speaker 1: to be a movie made about that.
Speaker 2: You just know it.
Speaker 1: The IRS is getting ready to cut as much as
Speaker 1: half of its workforce. Multiple reports that this is indeed
Speaker 1: the case, part of the administration's efforts to cut down
Speaker 1: on the federal workers. The IRS has around one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand employees. I thought that was low, only one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand employees has not yet finalized the exact amount that
Speaker 1: it will let go. They say that they're going to
Speaker 1: be submitting their plans to the White House in the
Speaker 1: coming weeks, but that it will not impact the processing
Speaker 1: of tax returns.
Speaker 2: Now, explain that one to me.
Speaker 1: You're going to get rid of half of the IRS
Speaker 1: and it not impact tax returns. That's either a boldfaced
Speaker 1: lie or proof that that is a bloated agency. If
Speaker 1: business as usual can continue for the IRS after it's
Speaker 1: hacked into half, that is proof that this cutting of
Speaker 1: the government is working, at least in this department. But
Speaker 1: my money's on there just lying. They're trying to say,
Speaker 1: continue to fill out your tax returns, get it all
Speaker 1: in on time, do what you're supposed to do, because
Speaker 1: we're going to be on top of things. How could
Speaker 1: you still be on top of things, at least to
Speaker 1: the extent that you were before you were half the size.
Speaker 1: The Lieutenant Governor of Texas is making a name for himself,
Speaker 1: or trying to. Dan Patrick is the name he wants
Speaker 1: to rename the New York Strip Steak after Texas. This
Speaker 1: is an odd mountain to die on, or at least
Speaker 1: to stand on for a bit of time. Lieutenant Governor
Speaker 1: Dan Patrick there in Texas says that there will be
Speaker 1: a resolution to the Texas Senate to officially change the
Speaker 1: name to the Texas Strip to better market Texas Beef.
Speaker 1: He says this will benefit the state's economy. He said,
Speaker 1: just because a New York restaurant named Texas Beef a
Speaker 1: New York strip back in the nineteenth century doesn't mean
Speaker 1: we need to keep doing that. See taking a page
Speaker 1: out of the Gulf of America. He said that liberal
Speaker 1: New York should not get the credit for our hard
Speaker 1: working ranchers in Texas. The owner of the famous Delmonico's
Speaker 1: in Lower Manhattan responded, saying, it's the New York Strip
Speaker 1: and it'll always be the New York Strip.
Speaker 2: I can't do the accent, but you could hear the accent.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Well, we've got some rain here today.
Speaker 1: It's going to rain at least the forecasts where we
Speaker 1: are here in Burbank the majority of the day and
Speaker 1: into the tomorrow, and then we get a break for
Speaker 1: the weekend and then more rain. Before we get into
Speaker 1: the details of that, Does it make you feel better
Speaker 1: when I say that the eastern half of our country
Speaker 1: is getting slammed with real weather because I don't know
Speaker 1: it's February. Powerful winds, blizzard conditions, thunderstorms. East Coast is
Speaker 1: going to get hit. South is the Carolinas and Virginia.
Speaker 1: They're going to see real tornadoes, not just the pretend
Speaker 1: ones that they threaten us here with tornadoes in tents.
Speaker 1: Winds today, and then you've got heavy snowfall and blizzard
Speaker 1: warnings in Iowa, Minnesota, and Michigan.
Speaker 2: They say that's.
Speaker 1: All going to calm down a little bit by tomorrow
Speaker 1: for those places, but strong winds will still persist. Yes,
Speaker 1: we will get some rain today. Late today is when
Speaker 1: the bulk of the rain is supposed to hit and
Speaker 1: last through early Friday. For La County. Next week, it
Speaker 1: seems like is when we're going to get hit the
Speaker 1: hardest this area. We had one of the driest starts
Speaker 1: to the raining rainy season in recorded history, which led
Speaker 1: to some of the issues we saw with the fires
Speaker 1: and the palisades. And they're in Alta Dina. So we
Speaker 1: will get some strong winds with the rain. They say
Speaker 1: gus could peak between thirty and fifty miles per hour Thursday.
Speaker 1: Thunderstorms they say may hit tonight through Thursday as well,
Speaker 1: and yes, we are on guard as per usual when
Speaker 1: it comes to debris flow and damage for the Palisades
Speaker 1: and they eat and fire burn areas. But we will
Speaker 1: get a break with sunshine Friday, Saturday and Sunday, so yes,
Speaker 1: we can have our seasonal effective disorder for a while,
Speaker 1: but it will go away before it comes back all
Speaker 1: next week. We had a story that we didn't get
Speaker 1: to yesterday, and Amy King brought it up to me
Speaker 1: again today because I don't know why people think of
Speaker 1: swearing when they talk to me, but they do. And
Speaker 1: I've read research about this before that swearing actually can
Speaker 1: help you get through pain or stress. That it is
Speaker 1: this release. It's actually science proven to be this release.
Speaker 1: And there's more research that we're going to tell you
Speaker 1: about later today.
Speaker 2: But we want to know what your favorite swear word is.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding that I'm even going to pump the
Speaker 1: brakes on that that's one of those things that Gary
Speaker 1: would definitely stop me from doing, so that we don't
Speaker 1: have people using the talkback feach just swearing at.
Speaker 2: Us all day.
Speaker 1: Secretly, I hope that happens, but I won't know because
Speaker 1: I don't check that stuff. So Gary, I'll come back
Speaker 1: just to a slew of mfs and all the things
Speaker 1: that you want to leave for him. But as Amy
Speaker 1: brought up for me today, and we'll get to the
Speaker 1: story coming up later in the show, fake swear words
Speaker 1: don't work. Philip Rivers comes to my mind as the
Speaker 1: person who used the most fake swear words ever. Shoot, darn, heck,
Speaker 1: golly dog, gamet. I don't want to swear to go
Speaker 1: through all of them, because I might accidentally do so.
Speaker 1: But there are people who swear quite a deal with
Speaker 1: never swearing. He's one of those people. But Amy pointed
Speaker 1: out in this latest research that those phony swear words
Speaker 1: do not have the physical benefits that actual swear words
Speaker 1: have for us.
Speaker 2: So we will get into that.
Speaker 1: You may be thinking you're doing something good for yourself
Speaker 1: by avoiding the real bad words.
Speaker 2: You're not. It's actually bad for your health and you
Speaker 2: don't want that. And you know what else?
Speaker 3: Huh will Cole Schreiber then sent me a note and said,
Speaker 3: I'm guessing you can handle pain pretty well. Huh Oh,
Speaker 3: I don't think I've heard you swear, Amy, I just
Speaker 3: sit in different rooms out of all the years that
Speaker 3: we've worked together.
Speaker 2: I would like that version of Amy King.
Speaker 1: You know what I'd like is the Amy King Amy
Speaker 1: does the Way's voice.
Speaker 2: If I could.
Speaker 1: Get Amy King on Ways to swear at me while
Speaker 1: we're both in traffic together.
Speaker 2: I would pay for that service.
Speaker 3: Because as it stands now, it's just you swearing at.
Speaker 2: Me right traffic.
Speaker 1: But if it was Amy King's voice saying, take a
Speaker 1: right here, f this MFN traffic, go around it this way,
Speaker 1: screw these a holes like I am all in, I
Speaker 1: would pay probably seven ninety nine a month for that,
Speaker 1: just to hit a price point.
Speaker 2: I think I think we're onto something. Amy.
Speaker 1: I kind of upset we did this on the air
Speaker 1: and somebody's gonna steal the idea a swearing traffic app
Speaker 1: voice with the beautiful like a beautiful voice like Amy
Speaker 1: swearing with you.
Speaker 2: God so good.
Speaker 1: All right, we've got viral video to tell you about
Speaker 1: today's viral video, and you're gonna love it because it's
Speaker 1: about a penguin, and it's about a penguin painting, and
Speaker 1: who can hate that?
Speaker 2: The paperwork fallout.
Speaker 1: From last night's addressed to Congress by the President has begun.
Speaker 1: You saw Texas Democrat Al Green refuse to sit down
Speaker 1: yelling at Trump before he was escorted out. Today, Republicans
Speaker 1: are circulating censure resolution papers against him. Also last night,
Speaker 1: Trump referred to Elon Musk as the head of the
Speaker 1: Department of Government Efficiency, despite the administration naming someone else
Speaker 1: as the administrator of DOGE.
Speaker 2: Of course, that.
Speaker 1: Has prompted new evidence to be submitted on behalf of
Speaker 1: plaintiffs suing over what they say is confusion about doge's
Speaker 1: role within the federal government. Let no piece of any
Speaker 1: sort of policy go unlitigated. That's got to be some
Speaker 1: sort of rule somewhere. So we will stay on top
Speaker 1: of all of the news coming out of Washington. We
Speaker 1: are awaiting some sort of potential compromise when it comes
Speaker 1: to the tariffs with Canada and Mexico. We know that
Speaker 1: jad Vance has a trip planned to the border with
Speaker 1: Mexico today, so maybe that is in conjunction with something
Speaker 1: planned by the administration.
Speaker 2: We'll find out.
Speaker 1: Lebron James now the first player in NBA history to
Speaker 1: score combined fifty thousand points in the regular season and
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I'm hearing a lot of Lebron hate around lately.
Speaker 1: On sports radio just in the building. Not really sure
Speaker 1: what it's all about. It's the hating the greatness, the
Speaker 1: greatest that endures. I don't know, all right. Marlee the Penguin,
Speaker 1: this is something that is not controversial. Have you heard
Speaker 1: about Marlee the penguin. Well, Marley is a penguin named
Speaker 1: after Bob Marley. How cool is that? I mean, right
Speaker 1: off the right out of the gate. Marley is uncontroversial,
Speaker 1: named after Bob Marley. Twice a week, Marley the Penguin
Speaker 1: hops into an art room at what's called Moody Gardens.
Speaker 1: It's in Galveston, Texas. And Marley, this little tiny penguin.
Speaker 1: Penguins are smaller than you think they are, at least
Speaker 1: that I thought they were. Marlee is about a foot tall,
Speaker 1: weighs about seven pounds, so that's the size of Marlee.
Speaker 1: And Marley hops onto this sponge, the square of a sponge.
Speaker 1: It's soaked with this non toxic paint blues and greens
Speaker 1: or yellows or purples, and Marley coats the bottom of
Speaker 1: her feet by stepping around on this sponge. Then she
Speaker 1: walks a couple times across an eight x ten canvas
Speaker 1: with the help of a biologist who showers her with praise.
Speaker 1: The biologist will.
Speaker 2: Her name is Janey.
Speaker 1: Janey will pat little Marlee on the bottom, and Marlee
Speaker 1: will shake its tail and flutter its little arms or
Speaker 1: flaps or wings. Listen, I'm not a zoologist anyways. And
Speaker 1: then the penguin walks across this canvas and art is made.
Speaker 1: You've got her little penguin prints of the blue or
Speaker 1: the green or what have you. Now, that's all fun
Speaker 1: and games. But the excitement is when Marley finishes walking
Speaker 1: across a canvas and.
Speaker 2: Is so stoked about what she has just done.
Speaker 1: She looks back at the canvas, she shakes her little
Speaker 1: penguin ass and she flaps her little wings, and she
Speaker 1: is so pleased by her artwork.
Speaker 2: It is the cutest thing. Why and how is it
Speaker 2: so cute? I do not know.
Speaker 1: But the video has gotten sixty million views, more than
Speaker 1: six million likes, more than thirty two thousand comments in
Speaker 1: the comments section, and the biologist Jane tells her, tells
Speaker 1: little Marley, you are just the best artist in the world.
Speaker 1: And Marley seems to understand when Jane says that people
Speaker 1: are watching this as a sort of zen to get
Speaker 1: through the workday. One of the comments reads, why am
Speaker 1: I not doing this with my life? What am I
Speaker 1: doing with my life? And why is it not this?
Speaker 1: Someone else chiming? In my guidance counselor never mentioned this
Speaker 1: as a job option, of course, speaking about Janey the
Speaker 1: penguin biologist, who gets to just pass little Marley's bottom
Speaker 1: and watch Marley create art. This is a penguin that
Speaker 1: has her own TikTok page, as you can imagine, who doesn't.
Speaker 1: If Joe in accounting has his own TikTok page for
Speaker 1: his feet, why wouldn't Marley the penguin have her own
Speaker 1: TikTok page. She hatched in Montreal twenty one years ago,
Speaker 1: and she was sent with her brother Hendrix. I mean,
Speaker 1: who named these penguins? I want to meet that person,
Speaker 1: Marley and Hendrix. My goodness makes me want to go
Speaker 1: to the Monterey Festival. From nineteen sixty seven, Marlee and
Speaker 1: Hendrix were sent to the Moody Gardens in Texas, about
Speaker 1: six months old. Now Moody Gardens is a home to
Speaker 1: a lot of penguins, one hundred and seven of them
Speaker 1: King penguins, Macaroni penguins, Rock copper penguins like Marley. What's
Speaker 1: a macaroni penguin anyway, So she was kind of nothing special, really,
Speaker 1: she was like one of all the other penguins. Rock Coppers,
Speaker 1: by the way, are one of the smallest of the
Speaker 1: penguin species, and they're known for their spiked black head feathers.
Speaker 1: She does have like a spiky hairstyle, bright yellow eyebrows,
Speaker 1: and in the wild they live on rocky shorelines for
Speaker 1: about ten or fifteen years, but in captivity they can
Speaker 1: live into their thirties.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Female rock coppers usually lay two eggs a year, but
Speaker 1: Marley seems to be a career gal. She's never laid
Speaker 1: an egg, but she has painted a lot of pictures.
Speaker 1: These pictures sell like hotcakes within hours through the Moody
Speaker 1: Gardens gift shop.
Speaker 2: Right now, they go for about fifty bucks.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine what these things are going to skyrocket too?
Speaker 1: Marley's made about two hundred of them.
Speaker 2: So there you have it.
Speaker 1: If you want to escape your Wednesday work day, just
Speaker 1: google Marley the Penguin, click on the video and watch
Speaker 1: Marlee dancing. I've only looked at it seven or eight times,
Speaker 1: and you can decide whether that's a lie or not.
Speaker 1: Also a reminder that we do have the eglet live
Speaker 1: cam up on our web page at Gary and Shannon
Speaker 1: so we can make your day go quicker in that
Speaker 1: regard to we're all about our feathered friends?
Speaker 2: Are we not? All right? More?
Speaker 1: Coming up, We've got a bunch of local news to
Speaker 1: catch you up with the gladiator fights and the juvenile
Speaker 1: halls in La County, California.
Speaker 2: Test scores.
Speaker 1: There is a powers that be that want to make
Speaker 1: us feel better about our failing test scores and what
Speaker 1: they're doing about that, to which I argue, should we
Speaker 1: feel better about them?
Speaker 2: Or should we just fix them?
Speaker 1: We'll get into all that coming up next right here
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