Good Morning Monterey Bay

Ep. 553 - GMMB Friday 18 Apr 2025

Dr. Pete told us about hip replacement in dogs, as well as retrobulbar infections.

The movie pick of the week for both Alex and Rosemary was a re-release of a black and white movie originally released in 1978, now with enhanced resolution. It is Killer of Sheep.

Charlie Kuetman told us everything about getting tomatos planted.

Ep. 552 - GMMB Thursday 17 Apr 2025

In the good news we heard first of a group of high school kids who have created a mobile app that uses a photo of one's mouth to diagnose mouth cancer, with fair accuracy. We heard a second story of a lost toddler, who was in some wild country for sixteen hours, lead by a farm dog seven miles back to the dog's farm, where the farmer rescued the child.

Following a Dear Bill segment, Rosemary got him to talk about an old girlfriend.

Ep. 551 - GMMB Wednesday 16 Apr 2025

Jaime was all over the place today. We started off hearing about cooking a ham--understandabe since Easter is  nearly upon us. Then we heard about growing kale for cows. He shared his chutney recipe. Finally we were quizzed on what BRT stands for in relation to a leg of lamb. Spoiler: It is "Boned, rolled and tied."

Jeff Manke had advice for us in case we happen upon a baby bird. It is spring, so that is not unlikely. If it is feathered and can perch on your finger, leave it alone. Its parent will take care of it. The story that a person's smell on a bird will cause its parent to shun it is pure fiction. If the bird is not yet feathered and able to perch, try to return it to it's nest, or a similar setting. If it is injured, in the area of Santa Cruz, California, take it to native animal rescue.  

We also learned that turkey vultures and albatross have terrific smelling acuity. The rest of the time we spoke of the  seven species of swans. Trumpeters are the largest fling birds in the U.S. They can have a ten-foot wingspan. If you wonder why swans honk, listen. It's prett simple.

Ep. 550 - GMMB Tuesday 15 Apr 2025

Rachael Shelton told us about studying in the library, which for her includes a lot of reading. Her friend Christina is turning 40 and building a workshop. Rachael gets Bill's need to have just the right pens to use.

Dana Snyder joined us in the last half hour. She helps people organize, and taught us an acronym that helps. It is SPACE.

Sort

Purge

Assign a home

Containerize

Equalize/Evaluate

Ep. 549 - GMMB Monday 14 Apr 2025

Mark Mozena's weekly report of space-related news was fairly grim.

• Last week was Space Symposium - largest annual space policy and leadership conference in the US. Strong themes around space in new geopolitical landscape and rethinking traditional partnerships
• This morning Gayle King, Katy Perry, and 4 others launched on the first all female crew - for a 10minute ride before returning to Earth
• White House gave passback to the agencies where they laid out enormous cuts to science and research in space - cutting weather programs and transferring space traffic management to a commercial entity as well as reducing nasa science funds by 50% (over all 20% cut to top level NASA, 70% cut to astrophysics, and 50% cuts to Earth Science and Heliophysics)
• Nominated NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman had his Hearing in the Senate last week.  Little drama and will likely pass though his testimony is at odds to the passback numbers for NASA
• China performed “dogfighting” maneuvers in space that put systems on “high alert”.
• Possible strong Auroras on Wednesday after the sun blasts 2 CMEs towards earth

In the ag report, Michael Olson had Ron Hedicke with him, to discuss the hunt for a new CEO/Fair Manager for the Santa Cruz County Fair.

Ep. 548 - GMMB Friday 11 Apr 2025

Dr. Pete covered these topics:

• What are all the benefits of having pets?
• What do we do when we encounter an animal that has rabies, or we suspect it does?
• Why do dogs lick their lips so much?

In the good news we heard about a village in Japan where they have invented a trading card game that features the old men of the village, and it is wildly popular with the local kids. We also heard about a cat that was lost for sixteen years before being reunited with its owner.

Charlie said it is time for tomatoes, and then taught us everything we need to know about growing them. Well, not everything, but a lot.

Alex and Rosemary had the same movie favorite picks this week. They were Warefare and The Uninvited.

Ep. 547 - GMMB Thursday 10 Apr 2025

Shaz Roth, of the Pajaro Chamber of Commerce, told us about the Business Expo this afternoon in the harvest building at the Santa Cruz County fairgrounds. We will be broadcasting live from there today.

Michael Gaither was with us in the studio. He did five songs for us.

• When We Could Run
• Hey Karma
• Siri And Alexa
• Starlite Drive-in Saturday Night
• Little Angels Everywhere

Ep. 546 - GMMB Wednesday 9 Apr 2025

Jaime Smith talked of these.

Florida college basketball and a house divided by it

Asparagus

Macaroni and cheese

Roast chicken

Brian Burgundo is the development manager for economic development and housing for the city of Santa Cruz. He was pretty excited about the new library. It has been in the planning stages since 2014, and we're getting close to breaking ground now. The whole project should be finished in 2028.