Good Morning Monterey Bay

Ep. 699 - GMMB Tuesday 16 December 2025

Susan O'Connor-Fraser filled in for Rosemary today. Rosemary anticipates returning tomorrow.

CNN's heros of the year includes a Chicago couple helping young people stay on the straight and narrow by growing and selling flowers, as well as a man with a corgi in a backpack who cheers up others.

Rachael told another of her serpentine-pathed stories. It began somewhere near cookie dough-induced food poisoning and meandered past her uncle dying on Christmas day, but found its way back.

John Laird's household is being terrorized by two young cats, holding his Christmas tree hostage. Of course he also spoke of the housing going up in the area and the controversy around that.

Ep. 698 - GMMB Friday 12 December 2025

Dr. Pete taught us that when a dog's ear is irritated and it shakes its head, it is less often due to an infection and more often due to allergies, which can also be treated. We learned that dogs and cats can carry and spread the flu. We also heart about Nystagmus.

Good news was exciting. There are bunches of dinosaur footprints in Bolivia and a giant underwater wall in Brittany.

Rosemary's movie pick of the week was The King of Color, a documentary. Alex agreed, but had several picks, including multiple horror movies.

Charlie Keutman talked a little bit about bare root roses, as it is the season. He talked a lot more about Christmas gifts for gardeners, as it is that season as well.

Ep. 697 - GMMB Thursday 11 December 2025

In good news, we heard of an animal that has gone from extinct in the wild to merely endangered. That is the scimitar-horned oryx.

In more good news, Jonny Fabulous was with us in the studio. He shared music and stories with us, as he always does. He let us know he is working on a Christmas album. He's doing his annual Christmas sing-along at the Sand Bar in Capitola on the 17th. That is always fun.

Ep. 696 - GMMB Wednesday 10 December 2025

Mari Segura filled in for Rosemary today. She and Jaime Smith talked of buñuelos nad champurados.

We enjoyed disco Christmas songs for the bumper music today.

Ep. 695 - GMMB Monday 8 December 2025

Mark Mozena was with us to talk space.

• Jared Isaacman’s second hearing to become NASA Administrator - China China China
• Combined with a China Space hearing on Congress
• New study showing impact of satellites on astronomy - impacting future science missions
• NASA spacecraft hacking vulnerability found by AI software…undetected for years
• Gemini’s meteor shower next weekend - should be dark skies

In the ag report we heard that many of the local Christmas tree farms have not yet recovered from the CZU fire that burned in 2020. We also learned that plastic Christmas trees are not trees.

Ep. 694 - GMMB Friday 5 December 2025

Dr. Pete told us all about ear hematomas in dogs. Also, now we know not to let our pets drink from the water in which we place our Christmas tree.

In good news we heard of three nuns who had been moved from their abbey to a nursing home. They liberated themselves and made it back to the abbey, where they are going to get to stay.

Charlie Keutman taught us how to grow a Christmas tree, or how to treat one if we get a live one. We also learned about poinsettias. 

 

Ep. 693 - GMMB Thursday 4 December 2025

An Australian fellow shows the way, helping an 88-year-old man who still works full-time. Sasha DiGiulian climbed El Capitan in Yosemite via the Direct Line, the first woman to free climb it.

Gary Shapiro had more to tell us about White Christmas, the movie. Then he gave us some of the history of studios losing a bit of their grip on the control of movie-making, with a shift from factory-style production to a system where movies can be made by all.

Rob Oliveros joined us for the entire third hour. He started the facebook group Santa Cruz Against Runaway Development. There is lots of building happening locally with even more planned. Rob wants to keep the developers in check, and keep them honest. It is a big task, and he will be back with us again.

Ep. 692 - GMMB Wednesday 3 December 2025

We heard of Catholic charity converting the popemobile into a mobile pediatric medical clinic for treating children in Gaza. Also, Claude the albino Crocodile, ambassador of the California Academy of Sciences, has died.

Jaime Smith addressed the perennial question, how long do Thanksgiving leftovers remain okay to eat?

Gary Shapiro told us of the movie Holiday Inn, then showed his prowess by doing well on the trivia quiz Bill presented to Rosemary the prior Monday. The topic was the movie's remake, "White Christmas."