Good Morning Monterey Bay

Ep. 609 - GMMB Wednesday 16 July 2025

Jaime Smith says young green olives are best for stuffing, while older black ones and kalamatas are best for tapanades. He taught us how to make a tapanade.

Gary Shapiro told us the history of Superman. Larry Tye has written a book called The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero, which he recommends.

Ep. 608 - GMMB Tuesday 15 July 2025

In the good news we heard of a fellow who won the Chelsea flower show. Did you know there is a famous Chelsea flower show?

Rachael Shelton tried to please a fellow who would not be pleased. She kept trying. Some people are just like that. They do not want to be pleased. She also let us know there are whales out just now all along the beach.

Ep. 607 - GMMB Monday 14 July 2025

Amber Roland of the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter came on the air to tell us of the current $70 adoption program. It is for a limited time. Visit the shelters, in Santa Cruz or Watsonville or online.

Gail Pellerin, who goes on break soon and will then be back in her district, is going to try one of the new DMV kiosks, at a Safeway in Sacramento. She will let us know whether she was able to get new tags from it. She mentioned at risk programs about which she is concerned, like head start, meals in schools, prenatal care and child care. She gave a politician's answer when asked her opinion of the recent name change at the Cocoanut Grove, which is fine. She is excited about her daughter getting married, which will happen a year from now.

Mark Mozena has not had much good news for us recently, but there was some today.

• China may have performed the first ever successful docking and refueling in space. A huge step for continuous space exploration. 
• New Gravitation Wave Detection - largest black hole merger ever observed 
• Senate trying to be a savior for NASA funding. A long road to go but the first glimmer of hope - though this comes on the heels of 2000 nasa employees leaving. 
• Private astronauts have undocked from the space station and heading home. 

Michael Olson also had some good news. That is that those sheets of plastic that appear on so many agricultural fields around here can now be recycled.

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.