Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2: What else is going on? Time for what's happening?
Speaker 3: Well, the biggest deal today is the news conference that
Speaker 3: came out of the Pentagon earlier this morning, and in it,
Speaker 3: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth talked about more details that
Speaker 3: pertained to the American strike on the Iranian nuclear facilities.
Speaker 3: He didn't get into the discussion of how successful, whether
Speaker 3: they were successful, or anything. He railed against, of course,
Speaker 3: the leaked Defense Intelligence Agency report that came out and
Speaker 3: said it was leaked, it was not meant for public consumption,
Speaker 3: and that very few of the media outlets that leaked
Speaker 3: it actually referred to it as low confidence, which is
Speaker 3: the way the Defense Intelligence Agency wrote that report because they.
Speaker 2: Didn't have a whole lot of information.
Speaker 3: A day after the bombs fell, and Pete Hegseth, alongside
Speaker 3: the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said you've
Speaker 3: got to remember something more importantly, which is this operation
Speaker 3: proves we the United States, the most powerful military in
Speaker 3: the world, can do whatever we want at any time.
Speaker 3: Regardless of space time, whatever that them.
Speaker 4: There's been a lot of discussions about what happened to
Speaker 4: what didn't happen.
Speaker 2: Step back for a second.
Speaker 4: Because of decisive military action, President Trump created the conditions
Speaker 4: to end the war, decimating, choose your word, obliterating, destroying
Speaker 4: Iran's nuclear capabilities.
Speaker 2: We think he forgot to say that part.
Speaker 3: We think we're confident, but we think that's what he
Speaker 3: needed to say, because again, we don't have the intelligence yet.
Speaker 3: We haven't had enough time to figure out what the
Speaker 3: battle damage assessment's going to look like. Prosecutors today in
Speaker 3: the Sean Diddy Combs case began their closing arguments. They
Speaker 3: said that Combs was the head of a kingdom, the
Speaker 3: head of a criminal kingdom. Seven weeks. This thing has
Speaker 3: been going on, culminating in its final days. The last
Speaker 3: of the thirty four witnesses took the stand. The government
Speaker 3: is being given four hours to make closing arguments. Defense
Speaker 3: attorneys will make their plea to jurors as well. They'll
Speaker 3: do a quick rebuttal, and then it looks like the defense,
Speaker 3: it looks like the jury will begin deliberations on Monday.
Speaker 3: The judge has said today is prosecution. Tomorrow is defense
Speaker 3: with a quick rebuttal from prosecution, and then jury instructions
Speaker 3: and deliberations would start on Monday. So something we'll keep
Speaker 3: an eye on for what will be a holiday shortened
Speaker 3: week next week. A couple of cities here in La
Speaker 3: County have canceled July fourth events. They said that they
Speaker 3: were citing safety concerns because of the federal immigration enforcement
Speaker 3: operations that have been going on. Cut ahead, of course,
Speaker 3: made headlines for the wrong reasons. When the Vice mayor
Speaker 3: came out and asked where the gangs were, Kottahey said,
Speaker 3: it's going to postpone it's July fourth celebration, which was
Speaker 3: originally scheduled for July third.
Speaker 2: In addition to.
Speaker 3: That, the Bell Gardens city officials have announced they're going
Speaker 3: to cancel the concert and two outdoor movie nights out
Speaker 3: of an abundance of caution. Those events were scheduled for
Speaker 3: tomorrow tonight, sorry July third, and then July tenth. They
Speaker 3: were doing Thursday night events. Huntington Park announced that they
Speaker 3: are going to postpone their Independence Day celebration on July third.
Speaker 3: They didn't actually specify that it was because of immigration enforcement.
Speaker 3: La Times has a pretty breathless headline that suggests that
Speaker 3: measles cases this year are already passed last year's total,
Speaker 3: and then when you look at it, it says that
Speaker 3: this year there have been seventeen cases.
Speaker 2: Last year there were fifteen cases, but in.
Speaker 3: Recent years that those numbers are minuscule. Back in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 3: there were seventy three cases of measles in the state
Speaker 3: of California, and before that, if you remember the big
Speaker 3: outbreak that they connected to Disneyland, somebody had gone there.
Speaker 3: December twenty fourteen through April of twenty fifteen, more than
Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty people got the measles.
Speaker 2: So yeah, technically the.
Speaker 3: La Times headline is correct that there are more measles
Speaker 3: cases today than there were an all of twenty twenty
Speaker 3: four but it's still a pretty small number. A couple
Speaker 3: of La restaurants have received one of the top honors
Speaker 3: the three star rating by the Michelin Guide. Chef Michael
Speaker 3: Kimrusti's seafood focused restaurant Providence and then the Zabala Spanish
Speaker 3: restaurant called Somni received the top honors, an improvement over
Speaker 3: each of those who would previously had two Michelin Stars,
Speaker 3: but now that they've both got three, Huntington Beach PD
Speaker 3: is launching an e bike safety program. They say they
Speaker 3: want to mitigate the area's high rate of crashes. E
Speaker 3: bikes have exploded in popularity. A fifteen year old named
Speaker 3: Evan Eatman his eleven year old were gifted e bikes
Speaker 3: for Christmas, and these two kids say, I love everything
Speaker 3: about it. It's not very difficult, it's powerful, it accelerates
Speaker 3: really easily. But in all honesty, they are The number
Speaker 3: of e bike crashes involving kids has doubled.
Speaker 2: In the last few years.
Speaker 3: I live in a spot that's got a five lane
Speaker 3: road that goes gradually up this hill. It's a couple
Speaker 3: miles long, and right down that middle lane, which is
Speaker 3: supposed to be a turn lane, is where these kids
Speaker 3: ride the bikes. They'll pop wheelies on them, some of
Speaker 3: them wearing helmets, but they'll easily reach thirty miles an
Speaker 3: hour going downhill, and it's not going to take a
Speaker 3: car crash for them to be severely injured. They just
Speaker 3: got to screw up at one point and they're off
Speaker 3: of that thing in their head just becomes spaghetti on
Speaker 3: the sidewalk. And then finally, if you're a huge fan
Speaker 3: of Vogue magazine and who isn't, Anna Wintour is going
Speaker 3: to be stepping down as the editor in chief. She's
Speaker 3: leaving her position. She told her staff just yesterday. She's
Speaker 3: not leaving Vogue entirely. She said she'll stay on as
Speaker 3: the global Chief Content Officer and Global Editorial Director at Vogue.
Speaker 3: Began her career as editor in chief back in nineteen
Speaker 3: eighty eight. No word yet on who will succeed her.
Speaker 3: Strange science is coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty.
Speaker 3: We know how fires work. Fire burns your house down,
Speaker 3: you make an insurance claim. Hopefully it's covered, right. That's
Speaker 3: pretty standard. It happens thousands of times every year. Obviously,
Speaker 3: at the beginning of this year had a few thousand
Speaker 3: more of those kinds of claims. The State Insurance Commissioner
Speaker 3: has now had to deal with and is trying to
Speaker 3: put together statewide rules for smoke claims. Think of those homes,
Speaker 3: whether they're in Altadena or near Altadena that did not
Speaker 3: get burned but suffered severe smoke damage, or the Palisades Malibu,
Speaker 3: anywhere in those areas where the home itself didn't burn,
Speaker 3: but there was severe smoke damage. And there are a
Speaker 3: couple of different things that we know about smoke damage.
Speaker 3: First of all, it's much more widespread. You can have
Speaker 3: smoke damage a couple of miles away from where there
Speaker 3: was active flame. There was a fire in Colorado back
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty one, the Marshall Fire, most destructive fire
Speaker 3: in the state of Colorado, and found that people in
Speaker 3: homes as far as two miles away from that burn
Speaker 3: zone reported symptoms that were consistent with not just exposure
Speaker 3: to smoke, but exposure to toxic smoke. Recurring headaches, itchy
Speaker 3: runny eyes, metallic taste in their mouth, dry cough. But
Speaker 3: insurance companies do not often test for toxic substances when
Speaker 3: it comes to smoke damage, and when they do, they
Speaker 3: do a couple of biggies, right, a couple of a
Speaker 3: few harmful substances, but there are probably two dozen that
Speaker 3: are often found in smoke that can cause lasting harm.
Speaker 3: So some families who can afford it have taken this
Speaker 3: into their own hands. They're paying out of pocket for
Speaker 3: private tests with the hopes that they could then file
Speaker 3: acclaim with their insurance and get reimbursed later.
Speaker 2: Others, they don't have that luxury. They simply don't have
Speaker 2: the money.
Speaker 3: New York Times did an interesting thing recently where they
Speaker 3: put out a questionnaire at about five hundred people from
Speaker 3: here in California, including people as far as a mile
Speaker 3: and a half away from either one of the fires.
Speaker 3: Responded to this questionnaire, and a majority of those had
Speaker 3: homes that were still standing, but reported that insurance companies
Speaker 3: did not want to pay for the testing after the
Speaker 3: smoke damage. Dozens of those people who said that their
Speaker 3: homes were damaged by smoke agreed to share the results
Speaker 3: of the lab tests on their homes, almost every single
Speaker 3: one of them. A study for fifty six homes a
Speaker 3: total of one hundred and twenty two reports conducted by
Speaker 3: sixty four different companies. All fifty six of those homes,
Speaker 3: Nearly every single one of them showed a level of
Speaker 3: contamination beyond just the maloder just beyond just the smoke smell,
Speaker 3: which a lot of insurance companies will pay to fix
Speaker 3: or at least partially. For example, one father sent his
Speaker 3: toddlers close to a lab and discovered that the dress
Speaker 3: tested positive for lead. Swabs of surfaces, slices of furniture,
Speaker 3: extractions of drywall all showed the presence of a bunch
Speaker 3: of different heavy metals, toxic gases, and other hazardous substances.
Speaker 3: And like I said, there's no statewide plan, even an
Speaker 3: industry plan for handling smoke claims. So the insurance Commissioner
Speaker 3: Ricardi Lara has put together a task force to try
Speaker 3: to come up with them. There's no accepted standard, despite
Speaker 3: the fact that we have seen fires over and over
Speaker 3: and over and over and over again that have decimated
Speaker 3: these communities. Melissa Morrow is the mother of two teenage kids.
Speaker 3: Her home did survive the fire in Altadena, but said,
Speaker 3: this is crazy, It's blatant. How do you go from
Speaker 3: being so thankful to now wanting your house to burn
Speaker 3: down the five bedroom home that she lives in. She
Speaker 3: and her husband asked the insurance company to do a
Speaker 3: comprehensive test on the damage. Flames did burn their deck
Speaker 3: and did melt their pool furniture, but the house itself
Speaker 3: was spared. Their insurance company said they didn't want to
Speaker 3: do it, but that they were going to plan their
Speaker 3: they were going to send their own industrial hygienist crew
Speaker 3: sent by the insurance company, spent a few hours. So
Speaker 3: they swabbed about fifteen surfaces around the house and took
Speaker 3: half a dozen samples of the air.
Speaker 2: But that was it.
Speaker 3: All they found. The three things they found char soot,
Speaker 3: and ash. Nothing about lead, nothing about any of these
Speaker 3: other toxic and potential heavy metals that could cause problems.
Speaker 3: And in terms of cleaning cleaning up, the insurance company said,
Speaker 3: you should probably just you know, wipe everything down, maybe
Speaker 3: a special vacuum or a soot sponge. They spent seventeen
Speaker 3: thousand dollars, hired their own industrial hygienis, spent about ten
Speaker 3: hours as opposed to just a couple drilling into the walls,
Speaker 3: into the furniture, collecting gases, more than two thousand data
Speaker 3: points from hundreds of locations on that property, and basically
Speaker 3: his report said that the house was unsafe to inhabit.
Speaker 3: So there's going to be this fight going on and
Speaker 3: it will continue for a long time figuring out what
Speaker 3: insurance companies are going to be required to do. When
Speaker 3: it comes to when they say it's just smoke damage,
Speaker 3: how significant that damage might actually be all right, strange science.
Speaker 1: When we come back, you're listening to Gary and Shannon
Speaker 1: on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3: We love these strange stories, these strange science stories. So
Speaker 3: let's kick that off, shall we.
Speaker 1: Strange? Yes, it's like weird science, but strange.
Speaker 3: Gonna say this amino acid wrong, But that's what we
Speaker 3: do to strained science is mispronounced things just to get
Speaker 3: to get your anger up. Btain b taine b et
Speaker 3: ai n e b tane a modified amino acid that
Speaker 3: plays an important role when it comes to metabolism, and
Speaker 3: btaine is a molecule that's made by your kidneys. It's
Speaker 3: also found in some foods, and they're saying it can
Speaker 3: produce a bunch of benefits just like exercise does, and
Speaker 3: can slow some signs of aging, at least when you
Speaker 3: feed it to mice. We don't know if it happens
Speaker 3: in humans, but it's worth the shot, right. There's a
Speaker 3: new study that came out in the magazine or journal
Speaker 3: Sell that shows consistent exercise does raise levels of that
Speaker 3: compound of btane, at least in young men. That study
Speaker 3: also found that feeding that betain to the aged mice
Speaker 3: boosts their immune health and their grip strength. How do
Speaker 3: you study the grip strength of a mouse? For now,
Speaker 3: obviously there's nothing that can replicate the actual benefits to
Speaker 3: your body of just doing the exercise. Exercise itself sharpens
Speaker 3: the mind. It can smooth and sooth i should say inflammation.
Speaker 3: It can help your cells damage, repair damaged tissue, keep
Speaker 3: some diseases at bay, or at least at the very
Speaker 3: least eases some of their symptoms. But this deep level
Speaker 3: molecular mechanism as to why it works is still not
Speaker 3: fully clear. So a group out of China, the Chinese
Speaker 3: Academy of Sciences, enlisted the aid of thirteen healthy young
Speaker 3: men to lounge about for forty five days. That's really
Speaker 3: hard to do, isn't it. Yeah, sure, it was lounge
Speaker 3: about for forty five days, limit their physical activity, and
Speaker 3: then have them run five k's every one or two days.
Speaker 3: And the researchers would take the blood and the stool
Speaker 3: samples from these guys and they would do a bunch
Speaker 3: of measurements on them after their forty five day rest,
Speaker 3: and then twenty five days into their new running routine,
Speaker 3: and they said that they found the exercises were reshaping
Speaker 3: the body at a molecular level. After twenty five days
Speaker 3: of regular running, there were changes in immune cells, in
Speaker 3: lipid metabolism, in the gut, microbiome, et cetera, but that
Speaker 3: the biggest change was the abundance of that amino acid
Speaker 3: that btane, And following up on those results, they then
Speaker 3: started feeding btaane to mice. Old mice that drank water
Speaker 3: spiked with btaan had stronger muscles, less inflammation, and more
Speaker 3: youthful skin than their counterparts who did not get the supplement. Again,
Speaker 3: still no answer as to how they were able to
Speaker 3: test the grip strength of a mouse. There's a new
Speaker 3: study also into spiders that says the female when you
Speaker 3: look at a species of spider where the female eats
Speaker 3: the male after sex, that the males are pretty picky
Speaker 3: about who it is. They go a f for scientific
Speaker 3: studies spent an ordinate amount of time and effort to
Speaker 3: demonstrate something that is rather obvious, and in this case,
Speaker 3: they have done it again. This one specifically is looking
Speaker 3: at koi males and seductive females in the sexually cannibalistic
Speaker 3: colonial spider Cryptophora citricola and It's about the relationship dynamics
Speaker 3: in a group living spider cces, a species that is
Speaker 3: where females are prone to eat the males after sex.
Speaker 3: Researchers found that the males were selective about their mates.
Speaker 3: They favored the younger ones duh, and the well fed females,
Speaker 3: maybe because the males hoped they wouldn't get eaten. Another
Speaker 3: fascinating strained science story that's coming up, specifically behind those
Speaker 3: light bulb moments, you know when you say aha or
Speaker 3: eureka or whatever. There have been a whole series of
Speaker 3: books that have been written about light bulb moments and
Speaker 3: the actual brain science that goes into those.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: We're in the middle of austrange science.
Speaker 3: We saw that lake, I think they called it to
Speaker 3: Larry Lake here in central California where outside of Fresno,
Speaker 3: there was a lake that had kind of come back
Speaker 3: after this naturally occurring lake after it had been dammed
Speaker 3: and irrigated, and you know, they've changed basically the water
Speaker 3: table of the Central Valley. When agriculture came in they're
Speaker 3: seeing something like that out in the outback. In Australia,
Speaker 3: Catty Tanda Lake Eyre is a thirty seven hundred square
Speaker 3: mile ephemeral lake and despite the fact they call it
Speaker 3: a lake, it rarely has any water in it. They
Speaker 3: get about five and a half inches of rain in
Speaker 3: that part of Australia every year, and they said it's
Speaker 3: more like a giant saltpan in the South Australian desert,
Speaker 3: in fact, like we see the Great Salt Flats here
Speaker 3: in the United States. A British speed record breaker in
Speaker 3: nineteen sixty four used the racetrack that was this just
Speaker 3: dried saltpan to record a world speed record at four
Speaker 3: hundred and three miles an hour. In nineteen seventy four,
Speaker 3: the lake filled to its capacity for just the third
Speaker 3: time on record. That flooding has been taken as the
Speaker 3: high water mark and they haven't seen it since then.
Speaker 3: But as of right now, this year, tropical Cyclone Alfred
Speaker 3: dumped a bunch of rain on that Queensland area, the
Speaker 3: water flowing down to this Catty Tanda Lake Eyre, and
Speaker 3: they said it appears to be filling for just the
Speaker 3: fourth time in one hundred and sixty years a huge
Speaker 3: tourist boom as people go check that out.
Speaker 2: The waterbirds that.
Speaker 3: Have made their way inland now are also one of
Speaker 3: the reasons why so many people are headed out that direction.
Speaker 3: If you're a fan of books on neurology, listen. I
Speaker 3: know not everybody's going to say, oh yeah, that sounds great.
Speaker 3: But Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called Blink, and in
Speaker 3: it he talked about the difference between our gut reactions.
Speaker 3: You know, something that happens immediately, and we just react
Speaker 3: to something. Sometimes it's we react to the way someone looks,
Speaker 3: or re react to a sound.
Speaker 2: We react in a way that.
Speaker 3: Is faster than we can consciously even make a decision,
Speaker 3: which takes a lot of brain power and a lot
Speaker 3: of time. There's another book called Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow.
Speaker 3: Doctor Daniel Canneman a similar book, much more detailed in
Speaker 3: terms of the science behind all of that. But this
Speaker 3: continues to be one of those issues where people are
Speaker 3: fascinated by what is the difference between the flash reaction
Speaker 3: to something and an actual time spent by your brain
Speaker 3: making a decision about something. Cognitives psychologists have talked about
Speaker 3: how to distinguish insight from analytical problem solving.
Speaker 2: It's a better way to put it.
Speaker 3: And they say that the insight kind of lives by itself.
Speaker 2: Not everyone agrees for that.
Speaker 3: With that, there's a psychologist out of Temple University and
Speaker 3: he says that insight might not be as different from
Speaker 3: analytical thinking as it seems. And he says that insight
Speaker 3: also comes from the brain gradually building on what it
Speaker 3: already knows, which incorporates new information each failed attempt that exists.
Speaker 3: Your brain constantly learns and alters the way it's going
Speaker 3: to react to something based on how many times you've
Speaker 3: experienced this thing. Now, that doesn't explain some of the
Speaker 3: very early experiences that we have when we're kids, when
Speaker 3: we're babies, there are things that we react to instinctively
Speaker 3: without any previous exposure to it. I mean, think about
Speaker 3: when you put a baby down in a crib and
Speaker 3: their arms kind of shoot out like they're falling. Well,
Speaker 3: they've never fallen before. How would they know to do that?
Speaker 3: What is it about that?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: This psychologist says the main feature of insight is the
Speaker 3: emotion that someone feels after they find an answer or
Speaker 3: they create something that seems new. That's that aha moment
Speaker 3: that I was talking about, the Eureka thing, and whatever
Speaker 3: happens in your brain at that time, he says, releases
Speaker 3: the right chemical or something happens in your brain neurologically
Speaker 3: that reinforces whatever it was that you did that was correct,
Speaker 3: or that you solved a problem that you hadn't been
Speaker 3: able to solve before. All that exists in this world
Speaker 3: of trying to figure out how your brain works.
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