In the good news we heard about Osiris Rex. We have talked about that before. It is a project to collect material from an asteroid and bring it back to earth. Well it is back, and scientists have discovered the building blocks of life in the samples returned. That is big news, indeed. We also heard about the local Hideout restaurant buying basketballs for 250 kids.

It is time again for the AT&T Pro Am, so we know where Jacobi is going to be for the next few days. He reminisced about the tournament in the old days, before recent changes, but said it is going to be very good golfers and a great time.

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.

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.

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.

Dr. Pete told us all about:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.