WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:02.960 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.879 AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:07.360 on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:11.640 What else is going on? Time for what's happening? 5 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:18.719 Well, the biggest deal today is the news conference that 6 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:22.559 came out of the Pentagon earlier this morning, and in it, 7 00:00:23.559 --> 00:00:27.800 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth talked about more details that 8 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:31.519 pertained to the American strike on the Iranian nuclear facilities. 9 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:36.039 He didn't get into the discussion of how successful, whether 10 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:38.479 they were successful, or anything. He railed against, of course, 11 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:42.039 the leaked Defense Intelligence Agency report that came out and 12 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:44.560 said it was leaked, it was not meant for public consumption, 13 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:47.520 and that very few of the media outlets that leaked 14 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:51.320 it actually referred to it as low confidence, which is 15 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:55.840 the way the Defense Intelligence Agency wrote that report because they. 16 00:00:55.719 --> 00:00:57.119 Didn't have a whole lot of information. 17 00:00:57.359 --> 00:01:01.799 A day after the bombs fell, and Pete Hegseth, alongside 18 00:01:01.799 --> 00:01:04.719 the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said you've 19 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:09.280 got to remember something more importantly, which is this operation 20 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:13.879 proves we the United States, the most powerful military in 21 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:17.719 the world, can do whatever we want at any time. 22 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:23.319 Regardless of space time, whatever that them. 23 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:25.000 There's been a lot of discussions about what happened to 24 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:25.680 what didn't happen. 25 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:26.920 Step back for a second. 26 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:31.079 Because of decisive military action, President Trump created the conditions 27 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:38.200 to end the war, decimating, choose your word, obliterating, destroying 28 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:41.319 Iran's nuclear capabilities. 29 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:43.200 We think he forgot to say that part. 30 00:01:43.519 --> 00:01:47.879 We think we're confident, but we think that's what he 31 00:01:47.959 --> 00:01:52.079 needed to say, because again, we don't have the intelligence yet. 32 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:54.439 We haven't had enough time to figure out what the 33 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:58.400 battle damage assessment's going to look like. Prosecutors today in 34 00:01:58.439 --> 00:02:01.719 the Sean Diddy Combs case began their closing arguments. They 35 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:07.799 said that Combs was the head of a kingdom, the 36 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:10.919 head of a criminal kingdom. Seven weeks. This thing has 37 00:02:10.960 --> 00:02:14.439 been going on, culminating in its final days. The last 38 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:16.800 of the thirty four witnesses took the stand. The government 39 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:20.680 is being given four hours to make closing arguments. Defense 40 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:24.080 attorneys will make their plea to jurors as well. They'll 41 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:28.240 do a quick rebuttal, and then it looks like the defense, 42 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:33.000 it looks like the jury will begin deliberations on Monday. 43 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:36.800 The judge has said today is prosecution. Tomorrow is defense 44 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:40.120 with a quick rebuttal from prosecution, and then jury instructions 45 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:43.120 and deliberations would start on Monday. So something we'll keep 46 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:46.479 an eye on for what will be a holiday shortened 47 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:49.879 week next week. A couple of cities here in La 48 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:53.000 County have canceled July fourth events. They said that they 49 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:58.280 were citing safety concerns because of the federal immigration enforcement 50 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:00.879 operations that have been going on. Cut ahead, of course, 51 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:03.680 made headlines for the wrong reasons. When the Vice mayor 52 00:03:03.800 --> 00:03:07.520 came out and asked where the gangs were, Kottahey said, 53 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:10.319 it's going to postpone it's July fourth celebration, which was 54 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:12.199 originally scheduled for July third. 55 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:14.639 In addition to. 56 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:20.479 That, the Bell Gardens city officials have announced they're going 57 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:22.919 to cancel the concert and two outdoor movie nights out 58 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:25.360 of an abundance of caution. Those events were scheduled for 59 00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:29.919 tomorrow tonight, sorry July third, and then July tenth. They 60 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:33.800 were doing Thursday night events. Huntington Park announced that they 61 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:37.400 are going to postpone their Independence Day celebration on July third. 62 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:40.919 They didn't actually specify that it was because of immigration enforcement. 63 00:03:41.719 --> 00:03:45.080 La Times has a pretty breathless headline that suggests that 64 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:49.120 measles cases this year are already passed last year's total, 65 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:52.360 and then when you look at it, it says that 66 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:55.960 this year there have been seventeen cases. 67 00:03:56.719 --> 00:04:00.360 Last year there were fifteen cases, but in. 68 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:05.400 Recent years that those numbers are minuscule. Back in twenty nineteen, 69 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:08.719 there were seventy three cases of measles in the state 70 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:11.240 of California, and before that, if you remember the big 71 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:14.199 outbreak that they connected to Disneyland, somebody had gone there. 72 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:19.360 December twenty fourteen through April of twenty fifteen, more than 73 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:21.920 one hundred and thirty people got the measles. 74 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:24.560 So yeah, technically the. 75 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:28.920 La Times headline is correct that there are more measles 76 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:32.680 cases today than there were an all of twenty twenty 77 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:36.319 four but it's still a pretty small number. A couple 78 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:38.959 of La restaurants have received one of the top honors 79 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:45.519 the three star rating by the Michelin Guide. Chef Michael 80 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:51.120 Kimrusti's seafood focused restaurant Providence and then the Zabala Spanish 81 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:54.839 restaurant called Somni received the top honors, an improvement over 82 00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:59.399 each of those who would previously had two Michelin Stars, 83 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:02.439 but now that they've both got three, Huntington Beach PD 84 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:05.199 is launching an e bike safety program. They say they 85 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:08.040 want to mitigate the area's high rate of crashes. E 86 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:13.639 bikes have exploded in popularity. A fifteen year old named 87 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:16.560 Evan Eatman his eleven year old were gifted e bikes 88 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:19.879 for Christmas, and these two kids say, I love everything 89 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:23.319 about it. It's not very difficult, it's powerful, it accelerates 90 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:29.040 really easily. But in all honesty, they are The number 91 00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:32.519 of e bike crashes involving kids has doubled. 92 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:33.199 In the last few years. 93 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:37.519 I live in a spot that's got a five lane 94 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:41.360 road that goes gradually up this hill. It's a couple 95 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:44.639 miles long, and right down that middle lane, which is 96 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:46.680 supposed to be a turn lane, is where these kids 97 00:05:46.759 --> 00:05:50.360 ride the bikes. They'll pop wheelies on them, some of 98 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:53.519 them wearing helmets, but they'll easily reach thirty miles an 99 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:56.160 hour going downhill, and it's not going to take a 100 00:05:56.199 --> 00:05:59.199 car crash for them to be severely injured. They just 101 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:01.959 got to screw up at one point and they're off 102 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:06.079 of that thing in their head just becomes spaghetti on 103 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:09.160 the sidewalk. And then finally, if you're a huge fan 104 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:13.319 of Vogue magazine and who isn't, Anna Wintour is going 105 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:15.920 to be stepping down as the editor in chief. She's 106 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:20.079 leaving her position. She told her staff just yesterday. She's 107 00:06:20.120 --> 00:06:23.519 not leaving Vogue entirely. She said she'll stay on as 108 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:27.959 the global Chief Content Officer and Global Editorial Director at Vogue. 109 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:30.600 Began her career as editor in chief back in nineteen 110 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:34.399 eighty eight. No word yet on who will succeed her. 111 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:36.879 Strange science is coming up at the bottom of the hour. 112 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:41.519 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 113 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:42.639 AM six forty. 114 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:48.040 We know how fires work. Fire burns your house down, 115 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:53.199 you make an insurance claim. Hopefully it's covered, right. That's 116 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:58.360 pretty standard. It happens thousands of times every year. Obviously, 117 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:01.800 at the beginning of this year had a few thousand 118 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:06.720 more of those kinds of claims. The State Insurance Commissioner 119 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:09.800 has now had to deal with and is trying to 120 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:16.959 put together statewide rules for smoke claims. Think of those homes, 121 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:21.800 whether they're in Altadena or near Altadena that did not 122 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:27.319 get burned but suffered severe smoke damage, or the Palisades Malibu, 123 00:07:27.399 --> 00:07:30.759 anywhere in those areas where the home itself didn't burn, 124 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:37.480 but there was severe smoke damage. And there are a 125 00:07:37.480 --> 00:07:41.000 couple of different things that we know about smoke damage. 126 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:43.959 First of all, it's much more widespread. You can have 127 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:46.839 smoke damage a couple of miles away from where there 128 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:49.480 was active flame. There was a fire in Colorado back 129 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:52.519 in twenty twenty one, the Marshall Fire, most destructive fire 130 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:55.519 in the state of Colorado, and found that people in 131 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:58.560 homes as far as two miles away from that burn 132 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:02.680 zone reported symptoms that were consistent with not just exposure 133 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:09.000 to smoke, but exposure to toxic smoke. Recurring headaches, itchy 134 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:14.279 runny eyes, metallic taste in their mouth, dry cough. But 135 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:19.160 insurance companies do not often test for toxic substances when 136 00:08:19.160 --> 00:08:23.240 it comes to smoke damage, and when they do, they 137 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:26.079 do a couple of biggies, right, a couple of a 138 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:31.480 few harmful substances, but there are probably two dozen that 139 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:34.639 are often found in smoke that can cause lasting harm. 140 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:38.320 So some families who can afford it have taken this 141 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:41.200 into their own hands. They're paying out of pocket for 142 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:44.120 private tests with the hopes that they could then file 143 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:47.159 acclaim with their insurance and get reimbursed later. 144 00:08:47.799 --> 00:08:50.759 Others, they don't have that luxury. They simply don't have 145 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:51.200 the money. 146 00:08:51.879 --> 00:08:55.120 New York Times did an interesting thing recently where they 147 00:08:55.159 --> 00:08:59.200 put out a questionnaire at about five hundred people from 148 00:08:59.240 --> 00:09:04.360 here in California, including people as far as a mile 149 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:06.360 and a half away from either one of the fires. 150 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:10.440 Responded to this questionnaire, and a majority of those had 151 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:13.840 homes that were still standing, but reported that insurance companies 152 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:16.720 did not want to pay for the testing after the 153 00:09:16.759 --> 00:09:21.559 smoke damage. Dozens of those people who said that their 154 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:24.200 homes were damaged by smoke agreed to share the results 155 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:29.320 of the lab tests on their homes, almost every single 156 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:33.120 one of them. A study for fifty six homes a 157 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:35.399 total of one hundred and twenty two reports conducted by 158 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:38.200 sixty four different companies. All fifty six of those homes, 159 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:40.600 Nearly every single one of them showed a level of 160 00:09:40.639 --> 00:09:46.240 contamination beyond just the maloder just beyond just the smoke smell, 161 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:50.559 which a lot of insurance companies will pay to fix 162 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:54.639 or at least partially. For example, one father sent his 163 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:57.559 toddlers close to a lab and discovered that the dress 164 00:09:57.960 --> 00:10:05.679 tested positive for lead. Swabs of surfaces, slices of furniture, 165 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:10.240 extractions of drywall all showed the presence of a bunch 166 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:14.399 of different heavy metals, toxic gases, and other hazardous substances. 167 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:20.279 And like I said, there's no statewide plan, even an 168 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:25.440 industry plan for handling smoke claims. So the insurance Commissioner 169 00:10:25.480 --> 00:10:27.799 Ricardi Lara has put together a task force to try 170 00:10:27.799 --> 00:10:31.080 to come up with them. There's no accepted standard, despite 171 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:33.639 the fact that we have seen fires over and over 172 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:36.039 and over and over and over again that have decimated 173 00:10:36.039 --> 00:10:41.039 these communities. Melissa Morrow is the mother of two teenage kids. 174 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:43.960 Her home did survive the fire in Altadena, but said, 175 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:46.279 this is crazy, It's blatant. How do you go from 176 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:50.000 being so thankful to now wanting your house to burn 177 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:57.480 down the five bedroom home that she lives in. She 178 00:10:57.559 --> 00:10:59.879 and her husband asked the insurance company to do a 179 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:05.480 comprehensive test on the damage. Flames did burn their deck 180 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:08.720 and did melt their pool furniture, but the house itself 181 00:11:08.799 --> 00:11:13.679 was spared. Their insurance company said they didn't want to 182 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:15.639 do it, but that they were going to plan their 183 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:19.519 they were going to send their own industrial hygienist crew 184 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:22.519 sent by the insurance company, spent a few hours. So 185 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:25.320 they swabbed about fifteen surfaces around the house and took 186 00:11:25.320 --> 00:11:26.879 half a dozen samples of the air. 187 00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:28.759 But that was it. 188 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:35.759 All they found. The three things they found char soot, 189 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:39.399 and ash. Nothing about lead, nothing about any of these 190 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:43.159 other toxic and potential heavy metals that could cause problems. 191 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:49.399 And in terms of cleaning cleaning up, the insurance company said, 192 00:11:49.519 --> 00:11:53.039 you should probably just you know, wipe everything down, maybe 193 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:58.200 a special vacuum or a soot sponge. They spent seventeen 194 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:03.120 thousand dollars, hired their own industrial hygienis, spent about ten 195 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:06.679 hours as opposed to just a couple drilling into the walls, 196 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:11.919 into the furniture, collecting gases, more than two thousand data 197 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:15.679 points from hundreds of locations on that property, and basically 198 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:19.759 his report said that the house was unsafe to inhabit. 199 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:22.240 So there's going to be this fight going on and 200 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:24.600 it will continue for a long time figuring out what 201 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:26.600 insurance companies are going to be required to do. When 202 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:30.120 it comes to when they say it's just smoke damage, 203 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:34.519 how significant that damage might actually be all right, strange science. 204 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:38.240 When we come back, you're listening to Gary and Shannon 205 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:41.039 on demand from KFI AM six forty. 206 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:44.440 We love these strange stories, these strange science stories. So 207 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:45.919 let's kick that off, shall we. 208 00:12:47.399 --> 00:12:55.879 Strange? Yes, it's like weird science, but strange. 209 00:12:56.480 --> 00:12:59.639 Gonna say this amino acid wrong, But that's what we 210 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:02.440 do to strained science is mispronounced things just to get 211 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:06.159 to get your anger up. Btain b taine b et 212 00:13:06.440 --> 00:13:10.600 ai n e b tane a modified amino acid that 213 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:13.480 plays an important role when it comes to metabolism, and 214 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:17.039 btaine is a molecule that's made by your kidneys. It's 215 00:13:17.039 --> 00:13:20.080 also found in some foods, and they're saying it can 216 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:26.759 produce a bunch of benefits just like exercise does, and 217 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:29.799 can slow some signs of aging, at least when you 218 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:31.559 feed it to mice. We don't know if it happens 219 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:34.120 in humans, but it's worth the shot, right. There's a 220 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:39.679 new study that came out in the magazine or journal 221 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:44.600 Sell that shows consistent exercise does raise levels of that 222 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:47.360 compound of btane, at least in young men. That study 223 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:50.240 also found that feeding that betain to the aged mice 224 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:55.159 boosts their immune health and their grip strength. How do 225 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:59.960 you study the grip strength of a mouse? For now, 226 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:04.080 obviously there's nothing that can replicate the actual benefits to 227 00:14:04.120 --> 00:14:09.120 your body of just doing the exercise. Exercise itself sharpens 228 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:12.600 the mind. It can smooth and sooth i should say inflammation. 229 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:18.200 It can help your cells damage, repair damaged tissue, keep 230 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:20.960 some diseases at bay, or at least at the very 231 00:14:21.080 --> 00:14:25.080 least eases some of their symptoms. But this deep level 232 00:14:26.039 --> 00:14:28.600 molecular mechanism as to why it works is still not 233 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:32.200 fully clear. So a group out of China, the Chinese 234 00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:36.399 Academy of Sciences, enlisted the aid of thirteen healthy young 235 00:14:36.440 --> 00:14:41.519 men to lounge about for forty five days. That's really 236 00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:44.679 hard to do, isn't it. Yeah, sure, it was lounge 237 00:14:44.679 --> 00:14:48.080 about for forty five days, limit their physical activity, and 238 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:52.480 then have them run five k's every one or two days. 239 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:54.519 And the researchers would take the blood and the stool 240 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:57.159 samples from these guys and they would do a bunch 241 00:14:57.240 --> 00:14:59.960 of measurements on them after their forty five day rest, 242 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:03.159 and then twenty five days into their new running routine, 243 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:08.000 and they said that they found the exercises were reshaping 244 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:11.080 the body at a molecular level. After twenty five days 245 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:14.320 of regular running, there were changes in immune cells, in 246 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:18.399 lipid metabolism, in the gut, microbiome, et cetera, but that 247 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:22.200 the biggest change was the abundance of that amino acid 248 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:26.679 that btane, And following up on those results, they then 249 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:32.080 started feeding btaane to mice. Old mice that drank water 250 00:15:32.200 --> 00:15:35.759 spiked with btaan had stronger muscles, less inflammation, and more 251 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:39.720 youthful skin than their counterparts who did not get the supplement. Again, 252 00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:42.080 still no answer as to how they were able to 253 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:46.519 test the grip strength of a mouse. There's a new 254 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:50.519 study also into spiders that says the female when you 255 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:53.879 look at a species of spider where the female eats 256 00:15:53.960 --> 00:15:58.720 the male after sex, that the males are pretty picky 257 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:01.679 about who it is. They go a f for scientific 258 00:16:01.720 --> 00:16:04.639 studies spent an ordinate amount of time and effort to 259 00:16:04.679 --> 00:16:07.840 demonstrate something that is rather obvious, and in this case, 260 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:13.080 they have done it again. This one specifically is looking 261 00:16:13.159 --> 00:16:18.399 at koi males and seductive females in the sexually cannibalistic 262 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:24.279 colonial spider Cryptophora citricola and It's about the relationship dynamics 263 00:16:24.840 --> 00:16:27.799 in a group living spider cces, a species that is 264 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:30.759 where females are prone to eat the males after sex. 265 00:16:31.039 --> 00:16:34.279 Researchers found that the males were selective about their mates. 266 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:40.080 They favored the younger ones duh, and the well fed females, 267 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:45.080 maybe because the males hoped they wouldn't get eaten. Another 268 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:49.759 fascinating strained science story that's coming up, specifically behind those 269 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:53.399 light bulb moments, you know when you say aha or 270 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:56.200 eureka or whatever. There have been a whole series of 271 00:16:56.200 --> 00:16:59.480 books that have been written about light bulb moments and 272 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:02.360 the actual brain science that goes into those. 273 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:03.759 We'll talk about that when we come back. 274 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:08.400 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 275 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:09.519 AM six forty. 276 00:17:09.720 --> 00:17:11.200 We're in the middle of austrange science. 277 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:14.079 We saw that lake, I think they called it to 278 00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:18.160 Larry Lake here in central California where outside of Fresno, 279 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:20.759 there was a lake that had kind of come back 280 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:25.440 after this naturally occurring lake after it had been dammed 281 00:17:25.480 --> 00:17:29.440 and irrigated, and you know, they've changed basically the water 282 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:32.400 table of the Central Valley. When agriculture came in they're 283 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:36.880 seeing something like that out in the outback. In Australia, 284 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:43.079 Catty Tanda Lake Eyre is a thirty seven hundred square 285 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:46.640 mile ephemeral lake and despite the fact they call it 286 00:17:46.680 --> 00:17:49.720 a lake, it rarely has any water in it. They 287 00:17:49.799 --> 00:17:51.480 get about five and a half inches of rain in 288 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:54.200 that part of Australia every year, and they said it's 289 00:17:54.319 --> 00:17:57.640 more like a giant saltpan in the South Australian desert, 290 00:17:57.720 --> 00:18:03.279 in fact, like we see the Great Salt Flats here 291 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:07.599 in the United States. A British speed record breaker in 292 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:14.279 nineteen sixty four used the racetrack that was this just 293 00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:18.200 dried saltpan to record a world speed record at four 294 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:21.720 hundred and three miles an hour. In nineteen seventy four, 295 00:18:21.759 --> 00:18:24.000 the lake filled to its capacity for just the third 296 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:27.039 time on record. That flooding has been taken as the 297 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:29.160 high water mark and they haven't seen it since then. 298 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:33.599 But as of right now, this year, tropical Cyclone Alfred 299 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:37.359 dumped a bunch of rain on that Queensland area, the 300 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:41.200 water flowing down to this Catty Tanda Lake Eyre, and 301 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:43.119 they said it appears to be filling for just the 302 00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:46.079 fourth time in one hundred and sixty years a huge 303 00:18:46.119 --> 00:18:49.160 tourist boom as people go check that out. 304 00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:51.039 The waterbirds that. 305 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:54.000 Have made their way inland now are also one of 306 00:18:54.039 --> 00:18:56.799 the reasons why so many people are headed out that direction. 307 00:18:58.119 --> 00:19:02.640 If you're a fan of books on neurology, listen. I 308 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:04.920 know not everybody's going to say, oh yeah, that sounds great. 309 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:09.680 But Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called Blink, and in 310 00:19:09.720 --> 00:19:13.799 it he talked about the difference between our gut reactions. 311 00:19:14.319 --> 00:19:17.240 You know, something that happens immediately, and we just react 312 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:20.759 to something. Sometimes it's we react to the way someone looks, 313 00:19:20.960 --> 00:19:23.039 or re react to a sound. 314 00:19:23.599 --> 00:19:26.039 We react in a way that. 315 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:29.960 Is faster than we can consciously even make a decision, 316 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:31.839 which takes a lot of brain power and a lot 317 00:19:31.880 --> 00:19:35.400 of time. There's another book called Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow. 318 00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:40.160 Doctor Daniel Canneman a similar book, much more detailed in 319 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:42.920 terms of the science behind all of that. But this 320 00:19:43.039 --> 00:19:46.160 continues to be one of those issues where people are 321 00:19:46.599 --> 00:19:52.039 fascinated by what is the difference between the flash reaction 322 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:56.400 to something and an actual time spent by your brain 323 00:19:56.839 --> 00:20:01.480 making a decision about something. Cognitives psychologists have talked about 324 00:20:01.519 --> 00:20:05.359 how to distinguish insight from analytical problem solving. 325 00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:06.319 It's a better way to put it. 326 00:20:06.759 --> 00:20:11.799 And they say that the insight kind of lives by itself. 327 00:20:12.200 --> 00:20:13.559 Not everyone agrees for that. 328 00:20:13.880 --> 00:20:16.920 With that, there's a psychologist out of Temple University and 329 00:20:16.960 --> 00:20:19.559 he says that insight might not be as different from 330 00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:22.599 analytical thinking as it seems. And he says that insight 331 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:26.720 also comes from the brain gradually building on what it 332 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:32.200 already knows, which incorporates new information each failed attempt that exists. 333 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:36.400 Your brain constantly learns and alters the way it's going 334 00:20:36.440 --> 00:20:39.960 to react to something based on how many times you've 335 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:42.799 experienced this thing. Now, that doesn't explain some of the 336 00:20:42.960 --> 00:20:46.440 very early experiences that we have when we're kids, when 337 00:20:46.440 --> 00:20:49.839 we're babies, there are things that we react to instinctively 338 00:20:50.359 --> 00:20:54.519 without any previous exposure to it. I mean, think about 339 00:20:55.079 --> 00:20:58.839 when you put a baby down in a crib and 340 00:20:58.880 --> 00:21:03.640 their arms kind of shoot out like they're falling. Well, 341 00:21:03.680 --> 00:21:07.279 they've never fallen before. How would they know to do that? 342 00:21:09.079 --> 00:21:10.160 What is it about that? 343 00:21:10.759 --> 00:21:10.960 Now? 344 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:14.920 This psychologist says the main feature of insight is the 345 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:18.039 emotion that someone feels after they find an answer or 346 00:21:18.079 --> 00:21:21.440 they create something that seems new. That's that aha moment 347 00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:24.240 that I was talking about, the Eureka thing, and whatever 348 00:21:24.359 --> 00:21:28.920 happens in your brain at that time, he says, releases 349 00:21:28.960 --> 00:21:32.640 the right chemical or something happens in your brain neurologically 350 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:38.640 that reinforces whatever it was that you did that was correct, 351 00:21:39.039 --> 00:21:42.119 or that you solved a problem that you hadn't been 352 00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:46.359 able to solve before. 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