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Speaker 1: But I don't know the verbiage when I'm looking at this,
Speaker 1: the tsunami warning that went out a lot.
Speaker 2: Of a lot of caps, a lot of all caps.
Speaker 1: Yes, But the verbiage is a tsunami is expected at
Speaker 1: approximately twelve pm. Don't you think the verbiage should be
Speaker 1: a little bit less alarming, Like aren't there people who
Speaker 1: got this and had like heart palpitations and extreme anxiety
Speaker 1: when you see the verbiage a tsunami is expected at
Speaker 1: approximately twelve pm where you live, Like, shouldn't it say
Speaker 1: something like a tsunami could make landfall around noon?
Speaker 2: I don't know, could potentially.
Speaker 1: When it says it's expected, it sounds like it's going
Speaker 1: to happen a.
Speaker 3: Certainty, right, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, here's the thing we you know, one of
Speaker 4: the things that they use in terms of their tsunami
Speaker 4: tracking is this series of buoys that exist, you know,
Speaker 4: out in the ocean, many of them right along the coastline.
Speaker 4: And immediately they were saying that this is not the
Speaker 4: kind of earthquake that usually results in a tsunami because
Speaker 4: it it slipped horizontally, as opposed to one plate diving
Speaker 4: down underneath another one and causing vertical lift, so that
Speaker 4: this it would have been very unusual for it to
Speaker 4: be a significant tsunami in the first place, But out
Speaker 4: of an abundance of caution, they're going to tell us
Speaker 4: that a tsunami is possible, and that would I think
Speaker 4: your point is that would be a better word. I
Speaker 4: think so than one is expected to come your way.
Speaker 1: Before we completely close the freak out file. Is there
Speaker 1: a potential that that was a four shock?
Speaker 4: There always is a potential that that was a four shock.
Speaker 4: What you're doing is frightening Deborah on purpose.
Speaker 2: I think that's that mean, Shanne.
Speaker 4: I would like to say it this way. Yeah, there's sorry.
Speaker 4: It was a significant earthquake seven point zero, right, and
Speaker 4: it hit an hour and twenty minutes ago or so
Speaker 4: up off the coast.
Speaker 3: And I did the math.
Speaker 4: It's closer to about forty miles off the coast of
Speaker 4: Ferndale up in northern California, where the San Andrea's fault
Speaker 4: makes a hard left and goes out to the ocean.
Speaker 4: I like to think it was your will, your grit,
Speaker 4: your determination that prevented this from being anything bigger than
Speaker 4: it needed to be.
Speaker 2: Really, I'm getting credit for that.
Speaker 4: I feel like if you had some power, if you
Speaker 4: felt like you had some agency over these earthquakes, you
Speaker 4: wouldn't be as afraid of them as you are.
Speaker 1: So okay, are you just trying to pay Deborah back
Speaker 1: for keeping her sex in our show and not letting
Speaker 1: John know about her proclivities.
Speaker 4: I'm also trying to protect her from you.
Speaker 3: You're trying to plant nightmares in her head.
Speaker 1: I did have a look on my face like watch
Speaker 1: this door shock, keep.
Speaker 2: It on or keep it on?
Speaker 4: Lean into Yeah, but there have been a series of
Speaker 4: aftershocks as some of them as powerful as a five
Speaker 4: point zero that hit just about ten minutes ago that
Speaker 4: was much farther off the coast of off the coast
Speaker 4: of northern California, in a handful of others that continue
Speaker 4: to crop up. Usually those earthquakes they're far enough out.
Speaker 4: Those are a couple hundred miles out off the coast,
Speaker 4: not going to be felt, but they do exist along
Speaker 4: the San Andreas Fault. So the argument is that these
Speaker 4: are after shocks, you know, far ranging, but still after
Speaker 4: shocks from this big earthquake.
Speaker 1: What a chamber of commerce boost for California today because
Speaker 1: this all the.
Speaker 2: Coast is getting.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful day up and down the coast, and
Speaker 1: all the national news agencies are taking these live shots
Speaker 1: sunny skies and beautiful beaches, and you know, this is
Speaker 1: when the lake effect is going on in the Northeast area,
Speaker 1: and that's great.
Speaker 4: We wanted to talk to people who are up in
Speaker 4: that area, and if you are there, you can always
Speaker 4: leave us talk back messages on the iHeart app and
Speaker 4: that's how you let us know what happened, what you felt,
Speaker 4: if you have people up there, or if you are
Speaker 4: up there yourself. One of those places right now, Merritt wrote,
Speaker 4: is the owner of the Farmer's Daughter there in Ferndale. Hey,
Speaker 4: thanks for taking time for us today, Maren.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 3: So that was quite a little rock and roll there
Speaker 3: for you. What'd you feel?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I wasn't at the store, but I was
Speaker 5: in Eureka, and everybody here said the same thing. It
Speaker 5: was very much like being out a rough boat. It
Speaker 5: was very long, the strongest earthquake I've been in we've
Speaker 5: been in a lot. You just take it living in
Speaker 5: this beautiful area. But we've kind of had enough.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of Victorians and beautiful buildings there.
Speaker 1: Have you heard anything about any damage.
Speaker 5: No, I mean we've had lots of them before, and
Speaker 5: much more damage I think structurally. So I think since
Speaker 5: it was rolling, but it was just a strong force.
Speaker 5: I mean we had two in a row before. I
Speaker 5: think they did more damage because it was shaking, yeah,
Speaker 5: and this was rolling in a drool. Yeah.
Speaker 1: There was one in December a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two that seemed to do more damage,
Speaker 1: at least so.
Speaker 5: Far before too.
Speaker 4: Yep, we were talking earlier that we had had some
Speaker 4: calls from people who said that they have relatives that
Speaker 4: are up in the area and they knew right away
Speaker 4: that once the earthquake hits, the tsunami is always a
Speaker 4: threat immediately afterwards, and they had already gone to higher ground.
Speaker 3: Is that top of mind for.
Speaker 4: You when you do feel an earthquake, Is that something
Speaker 4: you think about right away?
Speaker 5: Well, kind of a little bit. My daughter lives up
Speaker 5: in Smith River, and they that counted dil Nort got
Speaker 5: evacuated and then everybody in Ferndale. I think my daughter
Speaker 5: and son live out Centerville Road, so they you know,
Speaker 5: everybody knows to move away, and the kids are all
Speaker 5: out of school. It's just yeah, it's just we're picking
Speaker 5: up and we're going to be open, and you know
Speaker 5: it's going to take longer this time to clean up.
Speaker 5: We have jewelry everywhere everywhere.
Speaker 2: Oh man, break.
Speaker 5: Our berry's running fine, and nobody got hurt so far
Speaker 5: that I know it all anywhere, So I praise the
Speaker 5: word for that. So we just hang on and count
Speaker 5: our blessings and then go on to the next day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of the next day, I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: want to be all crazy and trying to scare.
Speaker 2: Scare anybody does.
Speaker 1: But after that six point four and twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: they said there was over two one and fifty aftershocks
Speaker 1: above a magnitude one point Oh. The largest one was
Speaker 1: that next January four point nine, and then a five
Speaker 1: point four, I mean four point five in Ferndale there,
Speaker 1: So well, yeah.
Speaker 5: We had a six point eight, seven and a six
Speaker 5: point five all in a matter of twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you are done with that, I can tell.
Speaker 5: Oh, it will be It's like birthing pain. You forget him?
Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Merret.
Speaker 4: We appreciate your time, okay, Merret Brodigan from from the
Speaker 4: Farmer's Daughter. You can check out the Farmer's Daughter Ferndale
Speaker 4: on Instagram. Great little craft shop there on Main Street
Speaker 4: and Ferndale. It looks really cute, very cool.
Speaker 3: Big guys.
Speaker 6: My son is a student at cal Poly Humble. I
Speaker 6: just checked in with him. He said it was a
Speaker 6: little bit of shaking, nothing that to him felt like
Speaker 6: a seven point oh.
Speaker 1: He said.
Speaker 6: People are gathering around Hell waiting for the SOMHAMI to
Speaker 6: see if there's something coming in. But other than that,
Speaker 6: send everything's fine up there and Humboldt.
Speaker 4: One of the images of iconic California images, of course,
Speaker 4: of earthquakes is the pool water slashing back and forth.
Speaker 4: My sister in Chico sent me images of the pool
Speaker 4: water slashing back and forth in their pool.
Speaker 2: So far, that's kind of it.
Speaker 1: I saw a couple homes up in Ferndale, a couple
Speaker 1: of grocery stores and things where things were knocked off
Speaker 1: the shelves and things of that nature. But it's a
Speaker 1: wild that a seven point zero could hit so close
Speaker 1: and not have more damage, especially for those older buildings.
Speaker 1: We wanted to get to the latest coming out of
Speaker 1: New York about the United Healthcare CEO who was shot
Speaker 1: and killed yesterday morning in midtown Manhattan. A former bodyguard
Speaker 1: for Brian Thompson says he's in complete disbelief that this
Speaker 1: guy didn't have security when he was murdered. This was
Speaker 1: one of the questions you and I floated earlier this
Speaker 1: morning when we were talking about it, if he had,
Speaker 1: as his wife reported to NBC News yesterday very quickly
Speaker 1: after the murder, by the way, that he had had
Speaker 1: threats on his life enough to where he would let
Speaker 1: her know. Why didn't he have security, especially in a
Speaker 1: place like New York City. His ex security guards guy
Speaker 1: by the name of Philip Klein. He runs a Texas
Speaker 1: based security firm. It's called Klein Investigations. He previously provided
Speaker 1: bodyguards for this guy in the two thousands. He says
Speaker 1: he shocked and baffled to see that he didn't have
Speaker 1: a detail, which is at least ten security guards with
Speaker 1: him while out and about in Manhattan. The insurance industry,
Speaker 1: they say, often faces crazy people, and that should have
Speaker 1: been the case, they said. He said he should have
Speaker 1: been wearing a vest in addition to having guards by
Speaker 1: his side, but says that he didn't have one on
Speaker 1: due to personal preference. He thinks that United Healthcare has
Speaker 1: some explaining to do as.
Speaker 3: To why they didn't have security for him right.
Speaker 1: Interesting, and is United Healthcare maybe one of the people
Speaker 1: that ordered a hit if this was in fact a
Speaker 1: hit ordered by someone, because remember this was a company
Speaker 1: that was being investigated, and he knew that the company
Speaker 1: was being investigated, so he divested a bunch of his
Speaker 1: stock to the tune of fifteen million dollars. He was
Speaker 1: recently separated from his wife. There's a lot going on
Speaker 1: this guy's situation. Uh, was he going to roll on
Speaker 1: the company? I don't know? Or was this somebody who
Speaker 1: came out of nowhere because they were denied coverage and
Speaker 1: or knew somebody close to them that who was denied
Speaker 1: coverage and died or something like that. The still images
Speaker 1: of the suspect are odd because to me, it looks
Speaker 1: like three different people in the same clothes. Now, there
Speaker 1: was a report early this morning that they believe the
Speaker 1: suspect was living with two men in a hunt hostel
Speaker 1: in the area of Midtown.
Speaker 3: Was it?
Speaker 4: And your theory is that there would be three individuals
Speaker 4: all wearing the same clothes to throw off the trail, Yeah,
Speaker 4: which would be a professional move. Yes, but then there's
Speaker 4: evidence at the scene that would make it look unprofessional.
Speaker 2: But was it planted at the scene?
Speaker 4: Well, there is So the latest I saw is that
Speaker 4: they believe they do have at least one fingerprint off
Speaker 4: of a water bottle that this guy left at the scene.
Speaker 2: There's a professional would.
Speaker 3: Ever do that.
Speaker 2: There was a candy wrapper I think.
Speaker 4: A coffee cup phone, ahone, a phone that they said
Speaker 4: they're still trying to crack into.
Speaker 2: And then remember the AMMO was branded.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he had written the he had written words on it.
Speaker 4: Apparently a couple of bullet cases depose It was denied, Defend,
Speaker 4: and depose, similar to the title of an anti insurance
Speaker 4: book call Delay, Deny, Defend Why insurance companies don't pay claims?
Speaker 3: In What you can do about It?
Speaker 4: There were also some unspent rounds at the scene, and
Speaker 4: I mentioned yesterday the video shows the guy racking the
Speaker 4: slide on this semi automatic handgun. Why would he do that?
Speaker 4: Maybe he used the wrong AMMO for the silencer. Didn't
Speaker 4: have it set upright, or a subsonic amm or I
Speaker 4: mean all of these different theories that go into that. No,
Speaker 4: either a complete amateur right would allow there to be
Speaker 4: unspent bullet casings which they could also get fingerprints off
Speaker 4: of depending on how he loaded the weapon, or the
Speaker 4: absolute greatest professional would plant those to make it look
Speaker 4: like it wasn't professional. So once they figure out who
Speaker 4: this is, I mean, they're going to be able to
Speaker 4: answer all of the most of the who's this some
Speaker 4: of those questions who.
Speaker 1: They are, because if you look at the three pictures,
Speaker 1: the noses and the chins are different.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a guy with a very almost like Greek
Speaker 1: looking face, chiseled face, strong nose, strong jaw, and then
Speaker 1: the other one it's more of a sculpted face, maybe
Speaker 1: even more feminine, with a longer, thinner nose.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: They have also said investigators believe that the gun that
Speaker 4: was used is a version of a rare World War
Speaker 4: two gun. Wow detectives are said to be focusing on
Speaker 4: a Connecticut gun shop and have specifically zeroed in on
Speaker 4: the purchase of what's called a B and T VP nine.
Speaker 4: It's a model, it's an update on a well rod
Speaker 4: pistol that was developed in the Second World War, which
Speaker 4: if in fact, if that's what it is, it has
Speaker 4: a difference. It's not a slide mechanism. It's a kind
Speaker 4: of a bolt that you pull out of the back
Speaker 4: of the barrel. I don't know the right terminology, but
Speaker 4: it would be an updated version of that. But it's
Speaker 4: an old World War two sort of technology, which could
Speaker 4: explain some of those discrepancies with why he would need
Speaker 4: to do that versus the silencer or subsonic rounds all
Speaker 4: that sort of thing. So there's just so much weird
Speaker 4: stuff in this.
Speaker 1: And then there was a story that this guy who
Speaker 1: was murdered had deployed AI to automatically deny benefits for
Speaker 1: sick people. That that came out about a year ago,
Speaker 1: and was picking up traction online.
Speaker 3: Did AI order the hit?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Okay, well wait a minute.
Speaker 4: Of all the crazy things, you shoot that one down
Speaker 4: very very quickly.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm the only one allowed to be crazy.
Speaker 1: I see someone's got to be irrational.
Speaker 3: Crazy party one?
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, Well our long National Night California Nightmares over
Speaker 1: which one the one where we thought we were going
Speaker 1: to be wiped out by a massive tsunami that struck
Speaker 1: all along the coast.
Speaker 4: National Weather Service officially canceled itsunami warning for the coast
Speaker 4: from middle of California all the way up through parts
Speaker 4: of Oregon. There was a seven point zero magnitude quake
Speaker 4: that hit at about ten forty four this morning, well
Speaker 4: off the coast of Ferndale. I guessed about forty or
Speaker 4: fifty miles off the coast, and they said at one
Speaker 4: point more than five million people were under a tsunami
Speaker 4: warning because of the possibility of a tsunami, according to
Speaker 4: geological survey. The earthquake itself was felt as far south
Speaker 4: as San Francisco.
Speaker 3: People said it was a.
Speaker 4: It was more of a rolling than a jeelting, followed
Speaker 4: by some smaller aftershocks. No immediate reports of any significant
Speaker 4: damage or injuries or anything, but obviously that's something we'll
Speaker 4: keep our eyes on.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 1: The Kardashianization of the country may be coming to an end.
Speaker 1: It did feel like we reached peak, maybe like three
Speaker 1: years ago, where so many women look just like the
Speaker 1: Kardashians when it came to the fake butts and the
Speaker 1: boobs and the corset type thing to get that waist
Speaker 1: small and the bee stung lips, the super straight, shiny,
Speaker 1: dark hair.
Speaker 2: It seemed like everyone looked just like that.
Speaker 1: They say that in tandem with the rise of ozempic
Speaker 1: and the other GLP one meds, the image is fading fast,
Speaker 1: they say.
Speaker 2: Even the Kardashians themselves.
Speaker 1: Are deflating, with butts apparently reduced fillers seemingly dissolved.
Speaker 3: I uh, does that stretch out the skin also?
Speaker 4: And then when you take that stuff out, I have
Speaker 4: no idea deflated balloon.
Speaker 2: On my face. Never wanted to make my butt bigger.
Speaker 1: New York plastic surgeon Darren smith Well says lifts and
Speaker 1: even breast reductions are on the rise, along with tummy
Speaker 1: tucks to make the mid.
Speaker 2: Section look more fit.
Speaker 1: He reports a twenty five percent uptick in many arm lifts,
Speaker 1: which give the area more streamlined and toned appearance. Interesting, said,
Speaker 1: I see a twenty percent increase in women coming in
Speaker 1: for lifts this year over last. And when they want implants,
Speaker 1: they only want to go up one bra size.
Speaker 3: Is that a significant enough padded bra?
Speaker 2: I know?
Speaker 4: I mean, get those little chicken cutlets or whatever they
Speaker 4: are that you stick in therenutlets.
Speaker 3: Isn't that the thing?
Speaker 1: They look like chicken cutlets, they look like I know
Speaker 1: what you mean, but I don't think that's a thing.
Speaker 3: Is that a thing that people put those in there? Yeah,
Speaker 3: of course they didn't.
Speaker 4: There's also the backlash to injectables. Apparently it's largely largely
Speaker 4: the result of social media.
Speaker 3: They said.
Speaker 4: Filler market has been down in twenty twenty four. Everyone
Speaker 4: was encouraged to get that very contoured, overfilled Instagram face,
Speaker 4: but now there's a real fear.
Speaker 3: Of looking weird.
Speaker 4: Here's the other aspect about this that I've always been
Speaker 4: fascinated with so many times totally stereotype here and say,
Speaker 4: most of the time it's women that get this done.
Speaker 4: I mean, I know that the percentage of men that
Speaker 4: do it now is much greater than it was before.
Speaker 4: But women doing it to appear attractive, right, I assume
Speaker 4: that's why they would do it in the first place.
Speaker 4: And they do the complete opposite, like they look exactly opposite,
Speaker 4: or the effect is the exact opposite. It makes them
Speaker 4: look much less attractive.
Speaker 1: I feel that way with makeup from time to time, interesting,
Speaker 1: like I think because you overdo it or for instance,
Speaker 1: they had one of the morning shows had a woman
Speaker 1: that was all natural, and then they had her fully
Speaker 1: made up and it was a split screen, and I
Speaker 1: think I said to you out loud, God, she looks
Speaker 1: so much prettier without all that makeup. It makes her
Speaker 1: look older in fact and just phony and fake. And
Speaker 1: look at how beautiful she is without any of that
Speaker 1: crap on. You know, I think sometimes get a little
Speaker 1: carried away with all that.
Speaker 4: So like Grandma Jenny over there to explaining why girls
Speaker 4: need to stop tarting it up.
Speaker 2: My husband.
Speaker 1: I were at Golden Road a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and there was a young guys behind the bar work
Speaker 1: in the bar, and I overheard their conversation and one
Speaker 1: of them was saying something to the effect of the
Speaker 1: to the other one of yeah, you don't you don't
Speaker 1: know what you're gonna get with the eyelashes and with everything,
Speaker 1: And then the other guy goes, yeah, not until you
Speaker 1: wake up the next morning, do you know what you
Speaker 1: got is falling off and your death becomes her.
Speaker 4: Well, what's funny is I've seen this kind of version
Speaker 4: of this article in different places, and the one thing
Speaker 4: that I am a little bit amazed at is that
Speaker 4: facelifts are just a thing of the past.
Speaker 1: No, facelifts now have become like a hip replacement surgery.
Speaker 1: Remember hip replacement surgery was a big deal, like while
Speaker 1: you're growing up.
Speaker 2: Like you get your hip replaced, it was, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Now hip replacement has become kind of stream. I'm not
Speaker 1: a doctor, but it's become less of a big deal
Speaker 1: than it was, less of an or deal the way
Speaker 1: that they're able to do it. Facelifts the same thing
Speaker 1: they're saying, facelifts now are seen as less drastic and
Speaker 1: altering than injectables.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and here's the thing.
Speaker 4: That's when you would see in the in the early nineties,
Speaker 4: you'd see someone got a facelift, you'd go, oh my gosh,
Speaker 4: she clearly got a facelift. Right now, if someone gets
Speaker 4: a facelifts, it's much less recognizable.
Speaker 3: Like you said, they're getting better at it.
Speaker 4: But it's also not the a drastic change where you've
Speaker 4: got cheek implants or right stupid duck lifts or something
Speaker 4: like you can't.
Speaker 2: Even tell that I got a facelift, right Oh, you
Speaker 2: can do.
Speaker 3: I can see the scars.
Speaker 2: You can see the scars. Where are the scars.
Speaker 3: They're right next to your head or hair. I mean sorry,
Speaker 3: of course they're on your head.
Speaker 2: Scars. Did you do it on the ear? Where did
Speaker 2: they do on decisions? I don't know what did.
Speaker 1: They even do because they say they don't use fat anymore,
Speaker 1: so what do they They just justay this slice right there?
Speaker 2: Does this look better?
Speaker 4: They do about like a three quarters of an inch thing,
Speaker 4: and then they just go, look at my face.
Speaker 2: They put zip ties around be okay, normal, lift it
Speaker 2: lift really?
Speaker 1: Oh do you remember when we were out with Fred Rogan?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, one of my favorite plastic surgery stories.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 1: We're at a bar in this like darkly lit bar,
Speaker 1: just having a drink with Fred after we taped his
Speaker 1: TV show one night, and we're talking about botox. Fred
Speaker 1: gets out his phone, turns the flashlight on his phone,
Speaker 1: points it at our faces and was like, all.
Speaker 2: Right, I'm the guy. So this is what you do.
Speaker 3: Here's what you could do.
Speaker 2: Frown now, don't frown. Frown then, don't frown. You don't
Speaker 2: need botox. You do not need botox. Very funny. It
Speaker 2: was like a classic La moment.
Speaker 3: What you could do?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, if you are interested, you know if
Speaker 4: you want to start getting into that market.
Speaker 2: Here's a couple of entry level things that you might
Speaker 2: want to do with.
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Speaker 2: Oh my godness, that's so funny.
Speaker 1: But I do have a little bit of a problem
Speaker 1: with that because Fred says the West in the United
Speaker 1: States makes me want to have a where you at
Speaker 1: in the Eastern United States?
Speaker 2: Friday?
Speaker 1: Maybe, isn't It's a weird week since we had a
Speaker 1: broadcast on Tuesday, Tomorrow's Friday.
Speaker 4: Tomorrow's Friday. Right tonight is Thursday. Today, the all day
Speaker 4: is Thursday, and we had an earthquake day, Yes we did.
Speaker 4: It's time for strange science.
Speaker 1: It's like weird science, but strange. The Christmas Star will
Speaker 1: grace the night sky this weekend. Actually, a trifecta of
Speaker 1: stargazing events could be visible in space in the coming days.
Speaker 1: In addition to the Crescent moon and the possibility of
Speaker 1: more displays of the northern lights. Venus will be glowing
Speaker 1: bright starting today yesterday, and Jupiter will go into op
Speaker 1: position on Saturday.
Speaker 3: That's good for your star sign.
Speaker 2: Do you know what this means, Jacob?
Speaker 3: I don't think I've seen him slap his forehead harder.
Speaker 1: There's nothing he hates more than astrology, and like legit
Speaker 1: hate Like it's not even ha ha ha, It's like
Speaker 1: it pains him when we do astrology?
Speaker 3: Is it because mercury is in retrograde?
Speaker 1: Is mercury in metro retrograde? Metro grade mercury right now
Speaker 1: and space wars we'll call it metro grade.
Speaker 4: The Christmas Star may have been historically been when Jupiter
Speaker 4: and Saturn were in conjunction, between Jupiter and Saturn or
Speaker 4: a conjunction between Jupiter and Venus, and that Christmas stars
Speaker 4: is Venus referred to as a Christmas star because it's
Speaker 4: going to be the brightest object in the sky besides
Speaker 4: the Moon and the Sun.
Speaker 2: We are not in.
Speaker 1: That's hard mercury retrograde until December thirteenth.
Speaker 3: Oh, but it is right around the corner.
Speaker 1: I thought I felt something and in astrology mercury retrograde
Speaker 1: is set to affect the areas of life that mercury governs, communication, travel, technology.
Speaker 2: The mind, the mind.
Speaker 1: It can cause brain fog, misunderstandings, unexpected conflict.
Speaker 3: Do you ever wonder why you wear clothes?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Like, where did it come from? That humans?
Speaker 4: Way back in the old days it's cold walk around
Speaker 4: in all of our glory, we.
Speaker 2: Would wear furs.
Speaker 3: We wouldn't live in places that were cold.
Speaker 2: I mean the pictures of cavemen and the furs.
Speaker 4: Yes, well, I mean, but why did they even choose
Speaker 4: furs in the first place.
Speaker 1: Because the protection from the elements, maybe not just because
Speaker 1: you have a naked house.
Speaker 4: David Reid is Associate Curator of Mammals at the Florida
Speaker 4: Museum of Natural History, and he's been looking into this
Speaker 4: mystery of why and when did human ancestors first decided
Speaker 4: first decide that we needed to wear clothes, and his
Speaker 4: work has focused on lice as the reason these tiny
Speaker 4: parasites have lived on us and probably other mammals for
Speaker 4: a very long time, and that this was a way
Speaker 4: to protect ourselves against lice. We wanted to find another
Speaker 4: method for pinpointing when humans might have been weaving clothing,
Speaker 4: so they are well adapted to clothing. We know that
Speaker 4: body lice or clothing lice almost certainly didn't exist until
Speaker 4: clothing came about in humans.
Speaker 1: Maybe we knew that we didn't want to see each
Speaker 1: other's genitals. Maybe we knew that those were private parts.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't just be exposed to everybody all the time.
Speaker 4: Okay, but you wear a lot more than you just
Speaker 4: cover in your dark parts.
Speaker 3: So you cover, You're covering all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we'd be really cold if we were just
Speaker 1: sitting here in our underwear.
Speaker 2: In this room.
Speaker 3: We would not fly.
Speaker 1: Why are we allowed to do a strange science segment
Speaker 1: like it's just two boneheaded boneheads.
Speaker 4: Mark Stone and King from the Max Plank Institute estimated
Speaker 4: that clothing use began about one hundred and seven thousand
Speaker 4: years ago, and they said that one of the reasons
Speaker 4: that we know that we started wearing clothes was because
Speaker 4: body lice started showing up clothing lice, but that the
Speaker 4: last ice age occurred about one hundred and twenty thousand
Speaker 4: years ago, and that we were bundling up before that.
Speaker 4: We were trying to develop these we're trying to or
Speaker 4: just simply were developing the technology that would be necessary
Speaker 4: to have the species survived.
Speaker 1: Oh, Deborah's going to love this story. Have you ever
Speaker 1: wondered what prehistoric humans eight thirteen thousand years.
Speaker 3: Ago the umes and garbanzo.
Speaker 2: Be No, we eat mammoths.
Speaker 1: Oh, people consumed large animals such as mammoths. Could you
Speaker 1: imagine taking a bite of a mammoth, Deborah?
Speaker 3: That would be a big no no.
Speaker 2: But you'd have to to survive. I wouldn't have survived.
Speaker 5: And you know what, maybe that would be Okay, I
Speaker 5: wouldn't have to deal with earthquakes in the future, and right.
Speaker 2: You'd rather dive and deal with earthquakes.
Speaker 4: I do have good news on the plastics front. Okay,
Speaker 4: we have discovered a plastic eating insect which could help
Speaker 4: reduce pollution faster and more efficiently than anything that we
Speaker 4: could dream about.
Speaker 2: Is this the Kenyan mealworm?
Speaker 4: Well, it's the larvae of a lesser eating Kenyon mealworm.
Speaker 3: They said it can digest plastics.
Speaker 2: Oh, this is the Alpha Tobias darkling beetle.
Speaker 3: How did you know that?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I've read my journals.
Speaker 4: It is an insect species native to Africa that has
Speaker 4: been shown to be able to digest plastics. It has
Speaker 4: an enzyme that can break down polystyrene, best known as
Speaker 4: the key ingredient in styro foam. So that's good news.
Speaker 4: Let those buggers take over the earth for a while.
Speaker 2: We don't do styrofoam much anymore, do we.
Speaker 3: I don't think anybody does styrofoam of any kind.
Speaker 4: It's in packaging a lot in your what do you
Speaker 4: call it, your Christmas gifts, but.
Speaker 3: Other than that, it's not it's not around again.
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