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Speaker 2: President Trump was on Capitol Hill today. He's trying to
Speaker 2: implore House Republicans to drop their fights.
Speaker 3: Over his big, beautiful bill.
Speaker 2: We'll talk more about it when we get into swamp Watch. Yesterday,
Speaker 2: at this time, we actually talked with Nick Berg, an
Speaker 2: author of former Special Operations Army member who has written
Speaker 2: a book about his life in Iran, coming to the
Speaker 2: United States, serving in the military, and maybe maybe not
Speaker 2: going back to Iran for some less than official acts.
Speaker 2: But Iran's Supreme leader has pushed back against criticism of
Speaker 2: the nuclear program there. The Iatola said that Tehran won't
Speaker 2: ask for permission from anyone to enrich uranium and called
Speaker 2: statements from America as nonsense. He made these comments during
Speaker 2: a memorial for the late President Rayisi, who died in
Speaker 2: a helicopter.
Speaker 3: Crash last year.
Speaker 2: If you want to go back and check out that
Speaker 2: interview that I did with Nick, he had some interesting
Speaker 2: insights into not just life in Iran having been born there,
Speaker 2: but what the current political climate is there in Iran
Speaker 2: and what these talks mean.
Speaker 3: So you can go back and check out the podcast.
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Speaker 2: Shannon and you'll hear it there all right. The la
Speaker 2: City Budget and Finance Committee is looking over Karen Bass's
Speaker 2: budget proposal and it's making its way through. There's still
Speaker 2: a lot of work that they have left to do.
Speaker 2: Michael Monks is an absolute nerd when it comes to
Speaker 2: this stuff, and we appreciate that because nobody else wants
Speaker 2: to do it. This is an important look at a
Speaker 2: city that's dealing with a billion dollar budget shortfall and
Speaker 2: how do we You can't close that, that's too big
Speaker 2: of a whole to sew up, but how do you
Speaker 2: make that smaller?
Speaker 3: That's what we're dealing with.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what they're working through the budget committee. The
Speaker 2: way procedurally this thing works is the mayor presents a
Speaker 2: budget and then the city Council's Budget Committee has a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks to comb through it and figure out
Speaker 2: what they like, what they don't like, things that they
Speaker 2: want to fix. That process has now completed as of
Speaker 2: last Friday. The Budget Committee has done its work. They've
Speaker 2: heard from all of the departments they've heard from the public,
Speaker 2: they've revised the numbers. When Mayor bask came out with
Speaker 2: this proposal was pretty shocking one. You know, the budget
Speaker 2: deficit was somewhere between eight hundred million and a billion dollars,
Speaker 2: as you said, but more concerning was the fact that
Speaker 2: she says we've got to layoff people more than sixteen
Speaker 2: hundred flesh and blood workers, not vacant positions like last year,
Speaker 2: real people who would be losing their jobs and services
Speaker 2: that matter to the public in Los Angeles. Now, the
Speaker 2: budget Committee says, we've got the report together, We've moved
Speaker 2: some money around, we've finagled some numbers. We think we've
Speaker 2: got those layoffs down to about five hundred. You mentioned
Speaker 2: last year that it wasn't laying off real people, was
Speaker 2: it just the not hiring to fill vacant positions. That's
Speaker 2: exactly right, because when a department gets its budget each year,
Speaker 2: there are a number of positions that do not currently
Speaker 2: have bodies occupying them, but they're budgeted for, and often
Speaker 2: what we learned last year going through this process, like
Speaker 2: those positions often go years, So instead of just dedicating
Speaker 2: that money to a department, they put it back in
Speaker 2: the general fund. We see this year that that money
Speaker 2: eve operated very quickly. Well that almost so that echoes
Speaker 2: what we see in a lot of corporations. I'm not
Speaker 2: putting ours up as a glory of me either example
Speaker 2: of this. But if the job continues to be done
Speaker 2: with fewer people, even though there's a technically an open position.
Speaker 3: They'll just cut that position.
Speaker 2: They won't even bother with it. Well, you can get
Speaker 2: the job done with fewer people. Let's just get the
Speaker 2: job done with fewer people. Yes, And all of these
Speaker 2: managers last year and this year made their case to
Speaker 2: the budget committee. Look, if you take this from us,
Speaker 2: then this work won't be done. But somehow they have
Speaker 2: to figure out how to do it. It was going
Speaker 2: to be harder if the budget were adopted as proposed
Speaker 2: by mere Bass, because a lot of positions were on
Speaker 2: the chopping block, positions in street services, street cleaning, and
Speaker 2: of course the police department. And we learned that when
Speaker 2: you say there are four hundred jobs to be cut
Speaker 2: from the police department, not officers, just jobs, that there
Speaker 2: are jobs related to the process of justice that are
Speaker 2: not necessarily done by somebody wearing a badge. And so
Speaker 2: that got a lot of attention, not just from the
Speaker 2: public but from the people on the budget committee. There
Speaker 2: were about four hundred layoffs expected there. They think they've
Speaker 2: saved about one hundred one hundred and fifty of those.
Speaker 2: These are photographers, people who process evidence. They play significant roles,
Speaker 2: but they have asked the police department in this budget
Speaker 2: report to slow down their hiring. One of the big
Speaker 2: issues also has been homelessness and spending on homelessness. Do
Speaker 2: they address those issues at all a little bit. They
Speaker 2: are not going to grant Mayor Bass as much money
Speaker 2: as she would like to have for her inside Safe program.
Speaker 2: Mayribas also proposed a thirty six million dollar program that
Speaker 2: would be new within the fire department to have some
Speaker 2: of that first interaction with homeless people to be housed
Speaker 2: in that fire department. It was thirty six and a
Speaker 2: half million dollars, So the Budget Committee's report takes that away.
Speaker 2: One other pieces, they are calling for more oversight of
Speaker 2: the homeless spending in this budget. Recall that it wasn't
Speaker 2: that long ago that we all kind of learned there's
Speaker 2: no point person at Los Angeles City Hall keeping tabs
Speaker 2: on these dollars. We learned it through a federal court hearing,
Speaker 2: and then we learned it through conversations out in the
Speaker 2: open during city council meetings that there's a lot of
Speaker 2: money exiting that building and nobody keeping tabs of the receipts.
Speaker 3: You have another segment in you can you stick around?
Speaker 2: I'd love to you know, I'm Debora Mark today too,
Speaker 2: So at ten thirty, it's a lot.
Speaker 3: Manny's got to relieve me. I'll tell you what you
Speaker 3: relieve Heather.
Speaker 2: But we'll do the next segment in the other room,
Speaker 2: because these are just going to be general, random questions.
Speaker 2: Absolutely about Michael Monks, specifically about city Hall, but we'll
Speaker 2: talk about that we come back.
Speaker 1: We'd love that you're listening to Gary and Shannon on
Speaker 1: demand from six forty.
Speaker 2: Michael Monks has joined us and we're talking about what's
Speaker 2: going on in terms of the La City budget. Karen
Speaker 2: Bass has made her proposal, and now that the five
Speaker 2: five member Budget and Finance Committee has reviewed the proposal
Speaker 2: and made some additions and subtractions to it, we're getting
Speaker 2: a better idea. One of the things Michael you mentioned
Speaker 2: was the proposal calls for a reduction in this sworn
Speaker 2: hiring in the La Police Department at two hundred and
Speaker 2: forty recruits in six classes.
Speaker 3: We talked about this off the air.
Speaker 2: There's been a problem in the last several years simply
Speaker 2: recruiting people to work in the LA Police Department. That's
Speaker 2: sort of the natural occurrence based on current events and
Speaker 2: that sort of thing. And now there artificially reducing the
Speaker 2: number of sworn officers that they're looking for because of
Speaker 2: the budget problems. That's right, and the police Department's not
Speaker 2: necessarily happy about this. They are funded each year the
Speaker 2: highest funding any department receives. It's a big department and
Speaker 2: takes a lot of resources and it's very expensive. But
Speaker 2: in all of these years that you have heard chiefs
Speaker 2: even come on our air or speak publicly somewhere else
Speaker 2: and say we can't fill our ranks to the numbers
Speaker 2: that we want, it doesn't mean that they haven't received
Speaker 2: the money to do so.
Speaker 3: They have.
Speaker 2: This is the first year where some members of city Council,
Speaker 2: namely the Budget Committee, says, why don't we just deliberately
Speaker 2: slow down hiring. I mean, you're not filling these positions anyway,
Speaker 2: and we can reallocate some of those resources elsewhere to
Speaker 2: save jobs that also directly interface with the public. One
Speaker 2: of the other issues that Karen Bass brought up in
Speaker 2: her original proposal was that she was going to take
Speaker 2: a pay cut, or at least not the scheduled race.
Speaker 2: We haven't heard a whole lot else about that or
Speaker 2: what that means. Here's what happens. The Budget Committee does
Speaker 2: its thing for two weeks and then they come out
Speaker 2: with their report. This is our final revision to the budget.
Speaker 2: They did that last Friday. Tomorrow at La City Hall,
Speaker 2: the full City Counsel will get their hands on this,
Speaker 2: and that might be where you hear things about salaries
Speaker 2: for elected officials.
Speaker 3: It's also the last time that.
Speaker 2: The public can really weigh in before significant decisions are
Speaker 2: made about this thing. The fiscal year starts July one,
Speaker 2: but the only item on tomorrow's agenda is this. Where
Speaker 2: do we stand With Karen Vass's ask of Gavin Newsom
Speaker 2: for the state to pick up some of this. It
Speaker 2: looks like we're progressing without that happening, and the La
Speaker 2: Times reported yesterday that Governor Newsom was basically like, that's
Speaker 2: not happening. I mean, the state is in its own
Speaker 2: financial conundrum. They've got a twelve billion dollar budget shortfall.
Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom has his own headaches related to finances. And
Speaker 2: then what kind of standard would you set, especially in
Speaker 2: lean financial times, for the state government if you bail
Speaker 2: out Los Angeles. What happens when Oakland, San Francisco, San Diego,
Speaker 2: the rest of them have significant problems like this too,
Speaker 2: and by the way, they do in general ten thousand
Speaker 2: maybe twenty thousand foot level. What's the power dynamic in
Speaker 2: LA in terms of the way the city charter allocates
Speaker 2: power to the mayor versus the city council, et cetera.
Speaker 2: And how does that compare to other other big cities.
Speaker 2: A lot of cities are different. There are many ways
Speaker 2: to cook a city government. And the mayor does have
Speaker 2: some executive authority in Los Angeles, but much of the
Speaker 2: power really lies with the city council here, and that
Speaker 2: is true in a lot of big cities, but not
Speaker 2: all of them. So you know, where I come from,
Speaker 2: a little place called northern Kentucky, you might have a
Speaker 2: mayor who sits on a board with commissioners, yet they
Speaker 2: all have the same amount of power. It's just that
Speaker 2: the mayor might get a longer term, or the mayor
Speaker 2: might be the guy who signs certain documents to make
Speaker 2: them legal, and or the mayor is the grandson of
Speaker 2: the guy who founded the town. You've been there, I
Speaker 2: see you visited. Say hello to my mom next time
Speaker 2: you're in town. Oh, trust me, bear in mind. Sorry, sorry, no,
Speaker 2: it's all right, go for it. I would call you stepdaddy, absolutely,
Speaker 2: stepdad or stepdaddy, whatever you like.
Speaker 3: Okay, what's happening here? Move on? Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2: Anyway, across the river from Covington where I'm from, in Kentucky, Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: and just about fifteen years ago, they decided the mayor
Speaker 2: needed more power, so they created a directly elected mary.
Speaker 2: I mean basically, that's to say, all over the country
Speaker 2: people are figuring out what the dynamics are. But it
Speaker 2: does seem that the legislative body at the municipal level
Speaker 2: does wield a lot of power. Now, the mayor is
Speaker 2: the one who presented this budget, and the council is
Speaker 2: the one that dices it up and adopts it. But
Speaker 2: we will have to see what the mayor has to
Speaker 2: say about these revisions. Yeah, and the reason I ask
Speaker 2: is because of the person herself of Karen Bass herself,
Speaker 2: because of the time she spent in Congress, because of
Speaker 2: the time she spent in the state legislature. I'm just
Speaker 2: I'd be curious to have a conversation with her about
Speaker 2: how much power she feels she actually has for the
Speaker 2: city compared to those other positions that she's held in government.
Speaker 2: I think she's been wounded by the fires, undoubtedly, public
Speaker 2: opinion polls indicate that that is true, But at city
Speaker 2: Hall she appears to still be quite influential. I think
Speaker 2: we can point to the firing of former fire chief
Speaker 2: Kristen Crowley that went her way, the Mayor's way, exactly
Speaker 2: the way that she wanted, with very few falling out
Speaker 2: of line. Council President Marquise Harris Dawson is a disciple
Speaker 2: of Karen Bass, ran the same community based organization that
Speaker 2: she did before she went into elected office, and even
Speaker 2: some of the farther maybe democratic, Socialist, progressive members of
Speaker 2: council still seem to be very strongly in Mayor Bass's camp.
Speaker 2: Despite her strong position on wanting more police officers, they
Speaker 2: seem to be pretty well aligned too. So if it
Speaker 2: were a different person with the dynamics change, could they
Speaker 2: change possibly, but right now, even though her popularity may
Speaker 2: be fading among the electorate, she seems to still have
Speaker 2: a lot of influence at city council.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you for that, my pleasure.
Speaker 2: Michael Monks from Campfine News'll hear more of him today.
Speaker 2: We will talk next segment about what's going on in
Speaker 2: the investigation into the explosion in Palm Springs.
Speaker 3: Conway did a lot on this yesterday.
Speaker 2: It was pretty fascinating because the biggest question that investigators, FBI,
Speaker 2: Palm Springs, PD, everybody's going to have is where did
Speaker 2: the explosives come from? We know that the twenty five
Speaker 2: year old kid, I say kid, twenty five year old
Speaker 2: guy blew himself up when he attacked that fertility clinic,
Speaker 2: had shown some excitement towards explosives for his entire life.
Speaker 2: But this goes beyond just model rocketry and lighten things
Speaker 2: on fire with matches. So where did he get these explosives?
Speaker 2: And we'll talk about that and the next few steps
Speaker 2: in that investigation we come back.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Saturday's explosion outside that fertility clinic in Palm springs was
Speaker 2: perpetrated by a a twenty five year old guy that
Speaker 2: was known as a rocket hobbyist. We told you that
Speaker 2: he had some very strange nihilistic views. This anti life
Speaker 2: philosophy and readdit as a side note, has banned the
Speaker 2: community that was devoted to people like this guy. Yesterday,
Speaker 2: a spokesperson for Reddit confirmed to NBC that they had
Speaker 2: banned the efilism e filismism the subreddit after the explosion.
Speaker 2: Reddit said that they banned that community specifically because they
Speaker 2: have rules on Reddit that prohibit somebody from promoting self harm.
Speaker 2: And again, these nihilist anti lifers believe that the most
Speaker 2: altruistic thing to do is kill yourself so that you
Speaker 2: don't tax the rest of society. Why they're people that
Speaker 2: believe that and then write about it doesn't make sense
Speaker 2: because I would have thought that, well, they would have
Speaker 2: killed them.
Speaker 3: Again, it's a weird I don't get it.
Speaker 2: The FBI now has to figure out where this guy
Speaker 2: got this extraordinary amount of high range explosives, and the
Speaker 2: FBI says, based on their preliminary investigation, that these were
Speaker 2: used with precision. This guy knew what he was doing,
Speaker 2: at least at least in their early investigation. We know
Speaker 2: that he lived in twenty nine Palms, farther out in
Speaker 2: the desert, about an hour away from where the explosion
Speaker 2: took place. In twenty nine Palms is the home of
Speaker 2: the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center. It's the largest
Speaker 2: Marine training base in the world, and yes, they have
Speaker 2: explosives there, but it's not like you can walk on
Speaker 2: to a Marine Corps combat center and walk out with
Speaker 2: boxes of explosives. So how did this guy Not that
Speaker 2: that's where he got him from, but how did this
Speaker 2: guy get the explosives? Is there a possibility, sure, but
Speaker 2: there is no affiliation that this guy has with the
Speaker 2: Marine Corps. In twenty twenty one, there was a small
Speaker 2: about a small amount ten pounds of plastic explosives that
Speaker 2: was missing from twenty nine Palms during a training exercise.
Speaker 2: At the time, it was suspected to have been stolen.
Speaker 2: The military says they did recover it, but they haven't
Speaker 2: explained much of the details In all of that, a
Speaker 2: former bomb expert with ATF says that this guy's proximity
Speaker 2: to twenty nine Palms to the Marine Corps base is
Speaker 2: clearly something that they would have to look into. That's
Speaker 2: an obvious line of investigation, and they will interview people
Speaker 2: that this guy may have corresponded with on social networks,
Speaker 2: whether it was Reddit or any other way that he
Speaker 2: was talking to people, and focus on somebody who may
Speaker 2: or may not have had security clearance that would have
Speaker 2: provided access to explosives. Again, they're not saying that that's
Speaker 2: where it came from, but you I want them to
Speaker 2: track that down.
Speaker 3: You can also you can also use.
Speaker 2: Other materials from nearby training facilities, military training facilities and
Speaker 2: firing ranges to make larger explosives. And in fact that
Speaker 2: former bomb expert Scott sweet Howe told the La Times
Speaker 2: that he worked a similar case in the early in
Speaker 2: his career with the ATF in which a guy was
Speaker 2: building pipe bombs from spent ammunition and was using them
Speaker 2: in attacks here in southern California, but also as far
Speaker 2: east as Chicago. You can buy a lot of the
Speaker 2: chemicals used to make explosives online, and again that's part
Speaker 2: of the inquiry is was this guy compiling smaller amounts
Speaker 2: of these materials. If you buy some of this stuff
Speaker 2: into large of an amount right in one fell swoop,
Speaker 2: it raises red flags and the government, the ATF they'll
Speaker 2: they'll you know, they'll drop a dime. They'll do a
Speaker 2: little quick door knock to see if you're going to
Speaker 2: blow things up or if you had a legitimate reason
Speaker 2: for buying it. As we saw though in the Oklahoma
Speaker 2: City bombing, there are some very common chemicals that can
Speaker 2: be used to make very very powerful bombs. One major
Speaker 2: vendor of these kinds of chemicals warns customers that federal
Speaker 2: regulations require them to go through all the orders for
Speaker 2: the possible use in constructing m ads or other illegal
Speaker 2: exploding fireworks. And obviously that's the more common version of it.
Speaker 2: Someone wants to make a small explosion, not blow up
Speaker 2: their car and try to take other lives with them. Now,
Speaker 2: if this guy, if there's twenty five year old suspects
Speaker 2: in the bombing and Palm springs, was researching or was
Speaker 2: buying these bomb making materials without trying to cover his tracks,
Speaker 2: it's pretty funny, because this former bomb expert says, you
Speaker 2: and I would be pretty disappointed or surprised to know
Speaker 2: there is no all encompassing AI program. There's no algorithm,
Speaker 2: there's no software that the government has used to screen
Speaker 2: their search histories. That seems like it's a pretty I
Speaker 2: wouldn't say easy fix, but something that to atf ATFE,
Speaker 2: now that they include explosives, would want to get on.
Speaker 2: It seems like the images from that explosion in Palm
Speaker 2: Springs appear to be focused, they said, in one direction,
Speaker 2: and that's why the current thinking from the FBI is
Speaker 2: this guy knew what he was doing. It was specifically
Speaker 2: a targeted directional explosion intended to cause maximum damage to
Speaker 2: that fertility clinic. They're still trying to figure out whether
Speaker 2: he was inside the car or outside the car at
Speaker 2: the time of the explosion. I mean, if you've seen
Speaker 2: the images, he's clearly out of the car obviously when
Speaker 2: the thing blows up after it blew up. But they
Speaker 2: also said that he may have tried to live stream
Speaker 2: all of this and failed to do so. As far
Speaker 2: as what they believe, so it is, it's still an
Speaker 2: ongoing investigation. It's going to be some time before we
Speaker 2: figure out what exactly drove this guy. Outside of mental
Speaker 2: health instability, shall we say so, speaking of, there is
Speaker 2: a natural explosion that could possibly be awaiting us. Right
Speaker 2: off the coast to California. A mysterious and very highly
Speaker 2: active volcano right under the ocean. We'll explain where that
Speaker 2: is and why we need to be careful of it,
Speaker 2: even though it's about seven hundred miles off the coast
Speaker 2: of San Francisco.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: There's one specific congressman and Michael Monks. I think it's
Speaker 2: a congressman from your state, from your home state of Kentucky,
Speaker 2: that the Donald Trump is not happy with. James Comer. Wrong,
Speaker 2: Thomas Massey, you got, that's my congressman, my old one.
Speaker 2: Thomas Massey is he don't give two corny turds what
Speaker 2: Donald Trump says. But we'll explain what the deal is
Speaker 2: between those two guys. Federal health officials are no longer
Speaker 2: going to routinely approve annual COVID shots for younger people
Speaker 2: and kids who are healthy. Companies that want to market
Speaker 2: their vaccines are going to need to conduct very large
Speaker 2: new studies. According to the FDA, This is a huge
Speaker 2: change in the FDA's approach to updating these vaccines. The
Speaker 2: FDDA said today that annual COVID shots will still be
Speaker 2: regularly approved for seniors and for younger people who might
Speaker 2: have increased.
Speaker 3: Health risks from the virus.
Speaker 2: Mortgage rates actually up over seven percent yesterday at one point.
Speaker 2: They're at six point nine to nine percent as of
Speaker 2: right now. And then the story, of course of Joe
Speaker 2: Biden and his prostday cancer diagnosis made the headlines yesterday.
Speaker 2: Not as headline e was that Scott Adams, the creator
Speaker 2: of the Dilbert comic strip, revealed that he has also
Speaker 2: been diagnosed with prostate cancer, but said in a very
Speaker 2: heartrending post that he does not have long to live.
Speaker 2: Put a live stream up yesterday. Scott Adams is sixty seven.
Speaker 2: He said that he has also been diagnosed with prostate
Speaker 2: cancer that has spread to the bone. He said my
Speaker 2: life expectancy is maybe this summer, and went on to
Speaker 2: say I expect to be checking out from this domain
Speaker 2: sometime sometime this summer.
Speaker 3: A couple of talkbacks to.
Speaker 4: Get to Hey, Gary, just returned back from a week
Speaker 4: trip in Tennessee. We attended our daughter's graduation from the
Speaker 4: University of Tennessee. I just wanted to say thank you
Speaker 4: though for the hot tip at the Salt and Pepper
Speaker 4: Museum in Gatlinburg. We spent today there visiting whiskey tasting,
Speaker 4: but we definitely stopped at the Salt and Pepper Museum.
Speaker 4: It is truly a sight to be seen, and you
Speaker 4: should really be a tour or travel guy. Thanks again
Speaker 4: for the hot tip. My kids couldn't believe me.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I need a tour guide job
Speaker 2: for Tennessee. It was just a suggestion, but I'm glad
Speaker 2: you had fun. It was an absolute blast when when
Speaker 2: my wife and I went to.
Speaker 3: That same Hey, Henny, you doing okay? You sound a
Speaker 3: little lonely, like when you talk to yourself in the garage. Anyway,
Speaker 3: I wanted.
Speaker 2: To know if you were okay with leftover roast tonight
Speaker 2: or if you wanted me to make some salmon.
Speaker 1: Let me know.
Speaker 3: Love you bye. Hey Michael Monks, would you do me
Speaker 3: a favor?
Speaker 2: Would you remind me to plug all of my devices
Speaker 2: when I get home so that my wife doesn't leave
Speaker 2: me messages on the talk back?
Speaker 3: That was so sweet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a big fan of that, Shannon, Yeah, I would.
Speaker 3: Should I just tell her I prefer roast? Do you
Speaker 3: I do?
Speaker 2: You should be honest? Okay, Well, I prefer roast, honey,
Speaker 2: that's odd. Feels like I could have done that in
Speaker 2: a text message.
Speaker 3: Did not sound excited at all.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm I'm uncomfortable with that level of intimacy being
Speaker 2: and that's a never mind. There's about a mile below
Speaker 2: the surface of the ocean, about seven hundred miles northwest
Speaker 2: of San Francisco. The Axial Seamount is about to erupt.
Speaker 2: This is an underwater volcano and what they refer to
Speaker 2: as a darkened part of the Northeast Pacific Ocean. So
Speaker 2: when you refer to dark parts, this is where it
Speaker 2: is now if you live here or in Oregon or
Speaker 2: in Washington. They said, this is not one of the
Speaker 2: old fashioned volcanoes that explodes or that erupts explosively. That's
Speaker 2: the way they put it. It's not like Mount Saint Helens.
Speaker 2: They say, this is more of a Hawaiian style volcano
Speaker 2: which seeps and leaks. Sounds awful, but it is less
Speaker 2: likely to create the conditions that would make a tsunami.
Speaker 2: That's probably not what's going to happen. Axial Seamount is
Speaker 2: similar to the type of eruptions that you'd see on
Speaker 2: Kilauea on the Big Island and the eruptions are not
Speaker 2: noticeable to us on land. Very different story if you're underwater,
Speaker 2: which I don't know anybody who is a mile down
Speaker 2: seven hundred miles northwest of San Francisco, but there are
Speaker 2: heat plumes from the eruption that will rise to the seafloor,
Speaker 2: and anything that lives that far down could potentially be
Speaker 2: killed by the heat. But they're saying that the whales,
Speaker 2: most of the marine life that we see lives much
Speaker 2: closer to the surface and would not be would not
Speaker 2: be impacted by the heat. Outermost layer, the lava flow
Speaker 2: would almost immediately cool and form a crust because you know,
Speaker 2: seawater's cold, and the lava underneath that.
Speaker 3: Could flow and remain molten for some time.
Speaker 2: But for the most part, they say that the Axial
Speaker 2: seamount is not expected to keyword expected to trigger a
Speaker 2: long feared magnitude nine along the Cascadia subduction zone that
Speaker 2: would probably spawn the tsunami for Washington, Washington, Oregon, and
Speaker 2: California along the northernmost coastal counties there. But they said
Speaker 2: Axial seamount is too far away from the Cascadia subduction
Speaker 2: zone that it's going to pose a threat to that,
Speaker 2: but man, it's going to be great if that thing goes.
Speaker 2: If there was any way for us to get some
Speaker 2: sort of specific instruments. There are some instruments that are
Speaker 2: on or near the axial seamount. They say that they
Speaker 2: could lose those if the lava flow is strong enough,
Speaker 2: but it would be pretty cool to see up close
Speaker 2: what exactly goes down below the surface up next all
Speaker 2: of the swamp watch stuff to get to And a question.
Speaker 2: We're gonna do a couple of days on this. This
Speaker 2: is a question about drinking with your kids. If you
Speaker 2: have teenagers, do you allow them to drink under your supervision?
Speaker 2: I assume, but do you allow them to drink? Or
Speaker 2: when you were a kid, did your parents allow you
Speaker 2: to drink? And a change at all the way that
Speaker 2: you think about alcohol and what role it plays in
Speaker 2: your life.
Speaker 3: We'll do that when we come back.
Speaker 2: But leave us a talkback message like my wife did
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Speaker 2: leave us a quick message and ask if I would
Speaker 2: like roast or salmon.
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