Good Morning Monterey Bay

Ep. 606 - GMMB Friday 11 July 2025

Dr. Pete was treated to the story we heard earlier in the week of Jack finding a bag of sixty pill pockets and eating them all. The question posed to him was when does a pet owner know it is time to take a pet who has eaten the wrong thing to the vet for an emergency visit. Dr. Pete had lots of instructions for us about that.

Christopher Carr joined us to talk about the excise tax on marijuana.

Ep. 605 - GMMB Thursday 10 July 2025

Assembly member Dawn Addis has been busy lately. She discussed all of these:

• She is still working on reducing heat-related illness among farm workers.
• She is following up on the investigation and cleanup of the recent BESS fire in Moss Landing.
• She got to ride in a bright red '58 Triumph roadster in a Fourth of July parade.
• She is looking into the problem of under-insured people in California. Apparently it is a widespread problem, and appears to be by design on the part of insurers.

Will Fort of Big Basin State Park is part of the project to reimagine the park after the CZU fires there not long ago. They have solicited input from the public, who can see the plans in detail online.

Ep. 604 - GMMB Wednesday 9 July 2025

Jaime Smith knows it is corn season, and told us of ways to prepare fresh sweet corn. One of the recipes was for corn fritters. He even told us of how to reheat them later. Spoiler alert: it is neither just a microwave nor an air fryer alone.

Ep. 603 - GMMB Tuesday 8 July 2025

Rachael Shelton was with us in the studio. She shared with us more of the expertise she has picked up along the way during her journey to earning a law degree.

Ep. 602 - GMMB Monday 7 July 2025

As has been true lately, Mark Mozena had plenty to talk about in his space report, but it was not all good.

• Trump’s Spending Bill includes $10B for NASA - vast majority for human exploration programs in southern NASA Centers. No help for science programs. 
• A new fight over the Space Shuttle Discovery and should it move to a Texan museum. 
• EU introduces massive Space Act - touches on regulations across all space industry. Potentially huge impact to the commercial market. 
• MethaneSAT - a methane monitoring mission backed by Google and Bezos has failed in orbit after 1 yr
• Rare snowing in Atacoma Desert in Chile caused the European Telescopes to be switched into safety modes. 
• New drama between Elon and Trump and a new political party

During the Ag report, Michael Olson had Ron Haedicke on to tell us all about the upcoming Santa Cruz County Fair, which regular listeners will know Rosemary and Bill love.

Ep. 601 - GMMB Thursday 3 July 2025

Gary Shapiro's homework for Bill was to watch two Humphrey Bogart movies. They are The African Queen and The Desperate Hours. Although it is not a Bogart movie, Cape Fear came up in conversation, and watching that, the original version, was also assigned. The River Wild was the movie Bill mistakenly remembered as being called Cape Fear, so it is a good thing Gary teaches film and not he.

Christina Wise is a recent addition to the board at Damian's Ladder. She was here to let us know about an upcoming event they are having at the local Moose lodge. It is a dinner on July 20th.

Alex Shaffer could not be with us, but we talked movies anyway. Rosemary's pick of the week was Kill The Jockey. She had selected one ahead of time that Bill would likely want to see and was right about that. It is Videoheaven.

We will have a "best of" episode in place of a live program tomorrow, during the Independence Day holiday.

Ep. 600 - GMMB Wednesday 2 July 2025

Jaime Smith shares our dislike of barbeque sauces that are laden with too much sugar. At foodsmith he uses pineapple juice and apple cider vinegar in his sauces. He uses no sugar. He shares our fondness for Kewpie mayonaisse as well. For a sauce to use with on fish, he suggests salsa.

Gary Shapiro spoke of Beverly Gage's book, G-Man. It is all about J. Edgar Hoover. She claims he did not wear women's dresses. Who knows for sure?

Ep. 599 - GMMB Tuesday 1 July 2025

Rachael Shelton's uncle told her she was too old to party with the youngsters. How rude, right? It turned out he might have been right, in that one case. She also discussed alternative excercises one can do at the gym during off-peak hours.

Dr. Dawn Motyka joined us for the first of what will be regular visits. Tune in to get the tips on how to be healthier. We will make it fun. Today she said what we eat ought to look like what it is, meaning not be processed. She suggested walking as a cheap, effective and easy way to improve one's health. Sleep is important too, and we heard her technique for dealing with jet lag.