Good Morning Monterey Bay

Ep. 496 - GMMB Wednesday 29 Jan 2025

Rosemary managed to find some good news stories around the recent fires.

Jaime Smith started off talking about chicken stock and turkey burgers. Bill then sidetracked him with discussion of the peanut butter and nannar sandwiches Elvis favored. Jaime suggested he even liked hamburgers with peanut butter and bannanas, and we found mention of them online. So, separately, both he and Rosemary will make these before next Wednesday, and that day we will compare notes. That should be episode 501.

Ep. 495 - GMMB Tuesday 28 Jan 2025

John Hohmann told us of the Polar Plunge coming up in March, to benefit Special Olympics. Rosemary joins him for it every year. It seems this year Bill will as well.

Holland MacLaurie, port director of the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor discussed damage done in recent storms, and rebuilding that has been done since.

Rachael told of her secret plan to beat the early morning traffic.

Ep. 494 - GMMB Monday 27 Jan 2025

Assemblymember Gail Pellerin let us know she has asked for testing to be done to reveal what contamination was caused by the recent power plant fire in Moss Landing. Now we are awaiting the results.

Mark Mozena had various space-related topics to discuss.

• NASA Administrator confusion and no National Space Council
• What does trump’s space manifest destiny mean
• Industry shake up predicted - mergers and major changes to space companies
• Astronomers seek global ban on space advertisements 

Michael Olson wondered what the new president's deportation plans will mean to the 55,000 agriculture workers and 25,000 tourism workers in Monterey County, many of whom are immigrants.

Is it unkind to call a man a rodent face? What is horse girl? There were more questions than answers today.

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.