Good Morning Monterey Bay

Ep. 493 - GMMB Friday 24 Jan 2025

Dr. Pete told us all about:

• Dog's eyelashes and eyelids
• Congestive heart failure
• Elephants who are not people
• Giant pandas
• Waking to harp music

Charlie knows lots about bare root fruit trees, like selecting them, planting them, grafting, polinizers versus self-fertilizers, staking and soaking when put in the ground, using a root basket, and on and on.

Felicia Van Stolk, the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History was with us in the final segment.

Ep. 492 - GMMB Thursday 23 Jan 2025

Jacobi ran down some of the logistics of and guests at the recent inauguration.

Gary and Bill discussed old television shows and actors, including westerns, like Star Trek and Bonanza, with Gunsmoke being the best.

We heard all about the award-winningest clean, safe bathrooms of the U.S.A.

Ep. 491 - GMMB Wednesday 22 Jan 2025

Jaime came on and talked with us about vinegars and oysters.

Gary interviewed two authors, David Browne and Maurice Gosfield. He did not interview them on our show, of course, but he told us about the interviews.

Ep. 490 - GMMB Tuesday 21 Jan 2025

We heard of a veteran's missing medals reunited with his family, and a San Francisco furniture store owner who willed a great sum of money to parks for benches.

Dawn Addis, Assemblymember for district 30 which includes Moss Landing, was with us in the second hour, talking about the recent fire there.

In the third hour John Laird, state senator, was with us to talk about the same thing, as well as the SB 38 which he authored, requiring battery power storage facilities to have emergency plans in place.

Ep. 489 - GMMB Monday 20 Jan 2025

In good news we heard of a kid who found a meteorite after it broke a window in his family's car. Cool.

Mark Mozena had lots of space news for us.

• Blue origin successfully launched the massive New Glenn rocket for the first time.
• Starship launched and disintegrated over the Caribbean. (Sadly we weren’t able to see it from the islands) 
• Inauguration Day in DC - space policy speculations are aflutter. Mars vs Moon, China competition, Space Force vs other agencies, workforce structure, Space Command location, etc. 
• Two lunar landers launched to moon - Firefly’s Blue Ghost and iSpace’s Resilience are heading to the moon
• 6 Planets are all visible in night sky now - a nice alignment for stargazing.  A planetary parade!

Michael Olson has researched what he can about the Moss Landing battery fire. We need lots of answers in the coming days.

Ep. 488 - GMMB Friday 17 Jan 2025

We gave updates on the battery fire in Moss Landing, relaying messages from the county office of response, recovery and resilience and letting people know about several road closures.

Dr. Pete told how he would treat animals burned in fires, as well as how eclipses affect animals, what he thinks of raw food for cats and that we should bang on the hood of a car in this cold weather before starting it, just to warn any critters that have sought refuge there. Lastly, he and Rosemary laughed themselves silly talking about English racing snails.

Charlie mentioned that this is the time of year to plant bare root roses. He explained in detail how to prune and otherwise maintain existing roses, also done this time of year.

Alex liked the movies this week better than Rosemary, who was of the opinion that every last one of them is a stinker. They did agree that David Lynch, who just died, made quite a mark in the industry.

Ep. 487 - GMMB Thursday 16 Jan 2025

Wayne Newton appears not to have a fan in either Jacobi or Rosemary. Bill likes him well enough.

Good news included a story of new wildlife being discovered in the UK, including entirely new species. We heard of a logging trucker being named a hero after assisting a trooper facing off against a bad guy. Finally we had a story of a plaque lost from the wharf that has been found and returned.

Ep. 486 - GMMB Wednesday 15 Jan 2025

Kevin Drabinsky of Caltrans was on to tell us of several changes coming to Highway 9.

Jaime Smith said about the only thing that he can grow in the hottest part of summer is sweet potatoes, so he did. Then he made us hungry talking about many different types of flavored mashed potatoes.

Jeff Manke taught us that the largest flying birds are bustards. He talked penguins too. He did four separate Christmas counts of birds, and said numbers are down all over.