Jaime Smith says young green olives are best for stuffing, while older black ones and kalamatas are best for tapanades. He taught us how to make a tapanade.

Gary Shapiro told us the history of Superman. Larry Tye has written a book called The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero, which he recommends.

In the good news we heard of a fellow who won the Chelsea flower show. Did you know there is a famous Chelsea flower show?

Rachael Shelton tried to please a fellow who would not be pleased. She kept trying. Some people are just like that. They do not want to be pleased. She also let us know there are whales out just now all along the beach.

Amber Roland of the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter came on the air to tell us of the current $70 adoption program. It is for a limited time. Visit the shelters, in Santa Cruz or Watsonville or online.

Gail Pellerin, who goes on break soon and will then be back in her district, is going to try one of the new DMV kiosks, at a Safeway in Sacramento. She will let us know whether she was able to get new tags from it. She mentioned at risk programs about which she is concerned, like head start, meals in schools, prenatal care and child care. She gave a politician's answer when asked her opinion of the recent name change at the Cocoanut Grove, which is fine. She is excited about her daughter getting married, which will happen a year from now.

Mark Mozena has not had much good news for us recently, but there was some today.

Dr. Pete was treated to the story we heard earlier in the week of Jack finding a bag of sixty pill pockets and eating them all. The question posed to him was when does a pet owner know it is time to take a pet who has eaten the wrong thing to the vet for an emergency visit. Dr. Pete had lots of instructions for us about that.

Christopher Carr joined us to talk about the excise tax on marijuana.

Assembly member Dawn Addis has been busy lately. She discussed all of these:

Will Fort of Big Basin State Park is part of the project to reimagine the park after the CZU fires there not long ago. They have solicited input from the public, who can see the plans in detail online.

Jaime Smith knows it is corn season, and told us of ways to prepare fresh sweet corn. One of the recipes was for corn fritters. He even told us of how to reheat them later. Spoiler alert: it is neither just a microwave nor an air fryer alone.

Rachael Shelton was with us in the studio. She shared with us more of the expertise she has picked up along the way during her journey to earning a law degree.

As has been true lately, Mark Mozena had plenty to talk about in his space report, but it was not all good.

During the Ag report, Michael Olson had Ron Haedicke on to tell us all about the upcoming Santa Cruz County Fair, which regular listeners will know Rosemary and Bill love.

Gary Shapiro's homework for Bill was to watch two Humphrey Bogart movies. They are The African Queen and The Desperate Hours. Although it is not a Bogart movie, Cape Fear came up in conversation, and watching that, the original version, was also assigned. The River Wild was the movie Bill mistakenly remembered as being called Cape Fear, so it is a good thing Gary teaches film and not he.

Christina Wise is a recent addition to the board at Damian's Ladder. She was here to let us know about an upcoming event they are having at the local Moose lodge. It is a dinner on July 20th.

Alex Shaffer could not be with us, but we talked movies anyway. Rosemary's pick of the week was Kill The Jockey. She had selected one ahead of time that Bill would likely want to see and was right about that. It is Videoheaven.

We will have a "best of" episode in place of a live program tomorrow, during the Independence Day holiday.

Jaime Smith shares our dislike of barbeque sauces that are laden with too much sugar. At foodsmith he uses pineapple juice and apple cider vinegar in his sauces. He uses no sugar. He shares our fondness for Kewpie mayonaisse as well. For a sauce to use with on fish, he suggests salsa.

Gary Shapiro spoke of Beverly Gage's book, G-Man. It is all about J. Edgar Hoover. She claims he did not wear women's dresses. Who knows for sure?