Good Morning Monterey Bay

Ep. 617 - GMMB Monday 28 July 2025

Mark Mozena had lots to talk about today.

• Our understanding of dark energy may be evolving…could lead to a new understanding of how the universe will “end”
• A new “oldest galaxy” found - MoM-z14. We have no served it just 280 million years after the Big Bang. More mature than expected…
• John McFall is the first disabled person approved to travel to the space station. A British paralympian and surgeon
• 4000 employees have decided to leave NASA - 25% of the workforce. NASA pressured to stop and cancel all Earth imaging satellites and programs. 
• Tough times for NOAA and Weather prediction - head of NOAA Satellites is placed on leave and weather forecasters are losing access to three hurricane tracking satellites 
• The massive Thirty Meter Telescope (designed and managed by UCSC) may be losing all federal funding to build it in Hawaii. Spain has offered to take over. 

Mr. Olson had a difficult to believe story. Section 453 of the House Appropriations Bill grants pesticide manufacturers legal immunity from lawsuits related to their products, even in cases where new evidence shows harm or companies withheld safety information. 

 

Ep. 616 - GMMB Friday 25 July 2025

Dr. Pete described what happens when a dog needs the gut scanned. We also heard what to do for a poisoned dog, like gastric lavage, inducing vomitting via introduction apomorphine beneath the eyelid and more.

In the good news we learned that Freedom Bakery is celebrating a fiftieth anniversary. We also heard about a fellow with an electric mustang--a car, not a horse--who gives free rides to veterans.

Charlie Keutman had scary stories about the citrus leaf miner, relevant this time of year. He also told us of a sale coming up August second. It is being held by the Monterey Bay Iris Society.

Ep. 615 - GMMB Thursday 24 July 2025

Allison Parham was with us to talk about the Doon art tour coming up.

Jill Troderman, certified holistic nutritionist, joined us in the studio to talk about what we should put in our bodies. It seems like common sense but there is a lot to know and Jill knows a ton. She is teaching a six-week class soon, online. Read about it on her Holistic Family Nutrition website. Jill will be with us again next month, probably August 25.

Ep. 614 - GMMB Wednesday 23 July 2025

In good news animals figured prominently. We first heard of two ladies who gave a foal a ride in a canoe, then a cat that accompanied a ten year old boy to school, achieving a perfect attendance record.

Jaime Smith introduced us to maitre d butter. We discussed coconut water and coconut meat and even putting coconuts on a fire. He named the fifth flavor, added to the traditional salty, sweet, sour and bitter. That is umami.

Cosmic Joe Jordan of Dark Sky Santa Cruz joined us in the studio. He told us we can look forward to a new crescent moon tomorrow, a meteor shower soon, and even a recurrent nova. TCORBOR goes off once every 80 years, and is due any time now. It is a bit overdue.

Ep. 613 - GMMB Tuesday 22 July 2025

Rachael Shelton educated us this morning. First she taught us how to navigate a four-year-old's birthday party, then we learned correct piano placement.

John Laird let us know the legislator's have recessed, and are back in their districts, most looking to get some vacation. They first finished the budget, which pleased him. He is working on refreshing a bill that has lapsed, which prevented defendant's attorneys in pain and suffering cases from trying to win a case by stalling it until the victim died. They are looking at a Canadian program for penalizing manufacturers responsible for creating too much waste that can not be recycled, and implementing something similar in California.

Ep. 612 - GMMB Monday 21 July 2025

Dan Haifley was with us to talk about the ocean and things that effect the ocean, like the budget. The good news is that rather than be cut, the marine sanctuary budget may be going up. There is a paddle out soon for Wallace J. Nichols, author of The Blue Mind. Treasure Cove Park, the marine-themed, all inclusive play area at Jade Street Park is getting closer.

There was less doom and gloom than we have sometimes had recently in the space report from Mark Mozena.

• NASA releases beautiful video from the closest flyby of the sun by Parker Solar Probe. 
• Golden Dome has a new program manager confirmed by the Senate - General Guetlein 
• New images show the formation of a new protoplanet around a distant baby star - HD135344D (only 10M years old)
• House and Senate are both moving forward with their funding bills for NASA - both at mostly flat levels (well above Trumps proposed 25% cut).  Also rejects cancelling 55 operating space missions. 
• 2100 employees at nasa have announced they will leave. 12% of total workforce. 
• Yesterday was the 56th anniversary of the first moon landing - Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969. Celebrations and also protests within space community 
   
  In the ag report, Michael Olson told of several local farms where one can pick one's own fruit or vegetables, or in the case of Beeline Blooms, flowers.

Ep. 611 - GMMB Friday 18 July 2025

Dr. Pete first talked of Bruce the retriever, then all about the benefits to families of having a dog. We also heard about growing pains in dogs. Unfortunately one dog, a police dog, died in a hot car.

In good news we learned of a mobile coral spawning machine.

Alex and Rosemary had the same picks of the week for movies. They were Eddington, Life After, and Shari & Lamb Chop.

Charlie Keutman had lots to say about vines.

Ep. 610 - GMMB Thursday 17 July 2025

Gary Shapiro Recommends the movie You Can't Cheat an Honest Man. Besides W. C. Fields, it stars two ventriloquists, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. Gary taught us that ventriloquists once performed on radio, which came as a surprise. He also let us know about collections of various things he has kept, and is keeping, over the years.

Charles Pasternak of Santa Cruz Shakespeare joined us in the studio. He had lots to tell us about the program, the talented actors and other members, the beautiful venue at DeLaveaga, the new food vendor Line 38, the summer schedule and more. He also got to meet Jack.