WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.879 Okay, I had one, but I just feel like it's not 00:00:03.879 --> 00:00:06.639 fringy enough paranormal news about that. I'm 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:08.580 just gonna read the article title. This isn't 00:00:08.580 --> 00:00:10.919 what we're gonna actually read, but you'll see 00:00:10.919 --> 00:00:13.720 where I'm going with this. Ghost Adventures stars 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:16.879 wife arrested for alleged murder -for -hire plot 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:19.519 targeting him. It's just not fringy enough for 00:00:19.519 --> 00:00:21.920 us, I don't think. No, it's not. No, I didn't 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:24.679 think so. It's fringy in the wrong way, in fact. 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:28.510 It is. So... I'm back to the spreadsheet. Do 00:00:28.510 --> 00:00:31.789 I need to go through the titles, the ever widening? 00:00:31.789 --> 00:00:34.530 Yes. Yes, you do. OK. I'm actually very curious 00:00:34.530 --> 00:00:38.149 what the new titles are. I've got Dealer's Choice 00:00:38.149 --> 00:00:40.990 and it's not that one because Dealer's Choice, 00:00:40.990 --> 00:00:43.649 I only had one and it was just not fringy enough. 00:00:43.890 --> 00:00:46.289 And the fact that you read the ones that you 00:00:46.289 --> 00:00:49.289 want to most weeks precludes this one for the 00:00:49.289 --> 00:00:52.390 most part. It's true. We got Feel Good, Feel 00:00:52.390 --> 00:00:54.929 Bad, now with even more bad news. And you know 00:00:54.929 --> 00:00:57.390 what? It's the same amount of bad news, I feel 00:00:57.390 --> 00:00:59.710 like, because I haven't been adding to this spreadsheet, 00:00:59.890 --> 00:01:02.909 unfortunately. So whatever we do is going to 00:01:02.909 --> 00:01:05.590 be old news. We got pretty sure this is bad. 00:01:05.549 --> 00:01:09.250 feeling disappointed that one's empty so we can't 00:01:09.250 --> 00:01:14.689 do it well it's not empty there's just nothing 00:01:14.689 --> 00:01:18.269 new we got feeling uncertain feeling like an 00:01:18.269 --> 00:01:21.569 update can't choose between good or bad feelings 00:01:21.569 --> 00:01:23.489 you can't choose that one either there's nothing 00:01:23.489 --> 00:01:27.230 new yet we got feeling like science to be filed 00:01:27.230 --> 00:01:30.569 that one I've read everything in it too I need 00:01:30.569 --> 00:01:33.849 to update it and feeling like a christmas mini 00:01:33.849 --> 00:01:37.349 oh wow i'm feeling uncertain okay i think that's 00:01:37.349 --> 00:01:39.790 like one of two that you can warn me against 00:01:39.790 --> 00:01:42.609 picking it did have some in there okay let's 00:01:42.620 --> 00:01:45.359 Well, the last one we did was Feeling Uncertain. 00:01:45.420 --> 00:01:47.939 Oh, damn it. OK, we can't do that one because 00:01:47.939 --> 00:01:51.280 both of those have been read. So let's go with 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:54.859 this one, which has got to be extremely out of 00:01:54.859 --> 00:01:58.719 date. And it's from indiatoday .in. You think 00:01:58.719 --> 00:02:01.620 the IN stands for India? Yeah, I think so. OK. 00:02:01.620 --> 00:02:03.519 You're always in for a surprise when it's with 00:02:03.519 --> 00:02:07.000 me. And this website is just riddled with ads. 00:02:07.180 --> 00:02:09.139 Just absolutely riddled. I bet there's a few 00:02:09.139 --> 00:02:11.719 secret ads in there, too. There probably is. 00:02:11.949 --> 00:02:15.949 Skies in Mongolia mysteriously turn blood red. 00:02:16.289 --> 00:02:20.210 Pictures show eerie phenomenon. This is December 00:02:20.210 --> 00:02:24.250 2nd, 2023, quite a while ago. I can't tell who 00:02:24.250 --> 00:02:28.370 actually wrote this. Okay. Anyhow. Nonetheless, 00:02:28.889 --> 00:02:31.810 it's the Chelsea Mini. Yeah, thank you. In an 00:02:31.810 --> 00:02:34.590 extraordinary celestial display, the skies over 00:02:34.590 --> 00:02:38.289 Mongolia turn deep blood red as the country experienced 00:02:38.289 --> 00:02:41.460 one of the rarest auroral events on Friday. and 00:02:41.460 --> 00:02:45.159 early Saturday. The intense coloration is attributed 00:02:45.159 --> 00:02:48.120 to the initial impact of a significant solar 00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:51.199 storm that collided with Earth, creating a spectacle 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:54.580 that left Onlookers in awe. I feel like we should 00:02:54.580 --> 00:02:57.860 change this to Filed Under Disappointed. Yeah. 00:02:58.479 --> 00:03:01.060 The phenomenon, known as an aurora, typically 00:03:01.060 --> 00:03:04.259 occurs closer - okay. You know what, you guys? 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:08.139 You heard that here last. I'm gonna read another 00:03:08.139 --> 00:03:11.259 one. The skies were just kind of rarely red in 00:03:11.259 --> 00:03:16.819 Mongolia. One time in 2023. Due to the northern 00:03:16.819 --> 00:03:19.659 lights. That was gonna be bad, so I'm just gonna 00:03:19.659 --> 00:03:22.460 cut it. Let's do this one. I'm just gonna skip. 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:24.800 What was this filed under? Pretty sure this is 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:27.000 bad. Well, it should have been filed under dealer's 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:29.219 choice, apparently. It's not really dealer's 00:03:29.219 --> 00:03:31.680 choice, it was just the next up. I just clicked 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:33.900 on it, it looked fine. Killer whales have found 00:03:33.900 --> 00:03:37.560 new homes in the Arctic Ocean potentially reshaping 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:40.120 marine ecology. I've been hearing about this 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:42.560 and I'm very curious what they say because yeah, 00:03:42.780 --> 00:03:45.099 nothing is prepared for like the brutalness of 00:03:45.099 --> 00:03:47.289 a killer whale in the Arctic. Cause they're all 00:03:47.289 --> 00:03:50.469 kind of like peaceful, chubby creatures. I was 00:03:50.469 --> 00:03:53.310 wondering if like there have been some yachts 00:03:53.310 --> 00:03:55.050 up there that they were following, but you bring 00:03:55.050 --> 00:03:57.889 up a very good point I didn't think of. No, delicious 00:03:57.889 --> 00:04:01.310 narwhals in fact, unfortunately. Oh no. So this 00:04:01.310 --> 00:04:04.330 one is much more recent than old Northern Lights 00:04:04.330 --> 00:04:07.069 in Mongolia. This one is the 3rd of September, 00:04:07.150 --> 00:04:10.550 2024. So only a little bit old. Caroline Hemphill. 00:04:10.610 --> 00:04:14.629 And this is from Manga Bay. Also really haven't 00:04:14.629 --> 00:04:17.629 heard of that one. I don't know. It has a donate 00:04:17.629 --> 00:04:20.839 button so it seems like it might be legit. Or 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:24.800 at least bribeable. Exactly. Let's jump in. Killer 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:27.240 whales are finding a new place to roam in the 00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:30.339 rapidly changing Arctic Ocean. Though indigenous 00:04:30.339 --> 00:04:32.879 people in the region have seen the whales, also 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:35.839 known as orcas, pop up sporadically for centuries, 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:39.019 the predators now have more access to the chilly 00:04:39.019 --> 00:04:41.680 waters than ever before. Two distinct killer 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:44.600 whale populations now claim habitats in the Arctic, 00:04:44.819 --> 00:04:47.439 according to a team led by researchers at the 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:50.389 University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. But 00:04:50.389 --> 00:04:53.610 the whales' presence raises conservation concerns 00:04:53.610 --> 00:04:56.350 that may be difficult to address, the team reported 00:04:56.350 --> 00:04:59.170 recently in Global Change Biology. Killer whales 00:04:59.170 --> 00:05:01.589 haven't often been able to access the Arctic. 00:05:01.709 --> 00:05:04.949 Thick ice sheets pose a natural barrier, breaking 00:05:04.949 --> 00:05:07.949 their dorsal fin if they push too hard into it. 00:05:07.949 --> 00:05:11.069 But as the northern polar regions warm up faster 00:05:11.069 --> 00:05:14.129 than anywhere else on Earth, the ice melts, letting 00:05:14.129 --> 00:05:17.870 in more of the voracious predators. The researchers, 00:05:17.910 --> 00:05:30.329 led by evolution, You find it odd that this person's 00:05:30.329 --> 00:05:32.870 an expert on this area and they're in Manitoba, 00:05:33.350 --> 00:05:38.470 like landlocked Manitoba. What's at the top? 00:05:38.610 --> 00:05:41.110 Are you sure it's completely landlocked? There's 00:05:41.110 --> 00:05:43.470 a bit of it I think that touches Hudson Bay. 00:05:43.629 --> 00:05:45.850 Hudson Bay, that's what it is. For the most part, 00:05:45.850 --> 00:05:48.509 I'm pretty sure it's landlocked. Hudson Bay wouldn't 00:05:48.509 --> 00:05:51.740 be... arctic though Hudson Bay at the top it 00:05:51.740 --> 00:05:54.500 is but there's no hold on let me i gotta pull 00:05:54.500 --> 00:05:57.040 up a map yeah let me look at a map real quick 00:05:57.040 --> 00:05:59.540 no never mind they have a pretty prominent connection 00:05:59.540 --> 00:06:01.939 to Hudson Bay okay they do okay i thought they 00:06:01.939 --> 00:06:04.040 might but then i was you know somebody says one 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:05.939 thing and i question everything because yeah 00:06:05.939 --> 00:06:08.779 i was like no you can go to manitoba to see the 00:06:08.779 --> 00:06:11.180 polar bears and they're arctic well yeah i think 00:06:11.180 --> 00:06:13.939 of manitoba as like farmland for the most part 00:06:13.939 --> 00:06:17.120 no i do also very progressive pm premier very 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:20.800 good i do like him NDP? It's neither here nor 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:22.360 there for this episode. Yeah, don't worry about 00:06:22.360 --> 00:06:27.389 him. His last name's Canoe. Really? Oh yeah, 00:06:27.529 --> 00:06:31.449 he's an indigenous. The researchers, led by evolutionary 00:06:31.449 --> 00:06:34.269 geneticist Colin Garroway of the University of 00:06:34.269 --> 00:06:36.870 Manitoba, were curious about the Arctic's growing 00:06:36.870 --> 00:06:39.250 population of killer whales and their impacts. 00:06:39.329 --> 00:06:41.829 They decided to peek into the genomes of a few 00:06:41.829 --> 00:06:44.170 of the animals to find out where they came from. 00:06:44.329 --> 00:06:47.569 Initially, they used samples of blubber and skin 00:06:47.569 --> 00:06:50.290 collected over time by field biologists. Quote, 00:06:50.310 --> 00:06:53.350 we did an analysis that something like 23andMe 00:06:53.350 --> 00:07:21.740 at Garroway, the results? It really is just a 00:07:21.740 --> 00:07:23.680 matter of being in the right place at the right 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:27.079 time." Corey Matthews, a marine biologist at 00:07:27.079 --> 00:07:29.579 the University of Manitoba who did field work 00:07:29.579 --> 00:07:31.600 for the study. Well, this is a different guy. 00:07:31.779 --> 00:07:33.639 I was like, why are they introducing that guy 00:07:33.639 --> 00:07:36.220 again? When the sleek animals show themselves, 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:38.600 researchers set aside their excitement to try 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:40.959 and get up close. Using crossbows, they shoot 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:43.920 the whales with small biopsy darts, which collect 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:46.160 tiny amounts of skin. No wonder they don't want 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:48.399 to come anywhere near their boats. Yeah, it's 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:50.779 true. You had to pretend like you're a super 00:07:50.779 --> 00:07:53.740 rich billionaire. Yeah, no. No sound of wealth. 00:07:53.980 --> 00:07:58.899 Bullets coming at your dorsal fin. The samples 00:07:58.899 --> 00:08:01.779 immediately go into a liquid nitrogen -cooled 00:08:01.779 --> 00:08:04.720 container. DNA results confirm that the two groups 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:07.399 of whales are so distinct that they might not 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:10.259 recognize one another as potential mates. That's 00:08:10.259 --> 00:08:12.980 pretty interesting. The populations are small. 00:08:13.139 --> 00:08:16.139 About 200 individuals currently live near Baffin 00:08:16.139 --> 00:08:18.660 Island, Garroway said. In the long run, they 00:08:18.660 --> 00:08:21.540 might be unable to adapt to evolutionary pressures 00:08:21.540 --> 00:08:24.220 because of their lack of genetic diversity. A 00:08:24.220 --> 00:08:26.620 pressing concern is marine habitats evolve due 00:08:26.620 --> 00:08:29.550 to climate change. However, killer whales also 00:08:29.550 --> 00:08:32.690 might tip scales in the balanced Arctic ecosystem. 00:08:33.090 --> 00:08:35.450 Quote, Arctic whales are just chubby, slow and 00:08:35.450 --> 00:08:38.769 delicious, end quote Carol said. Belugas, Oh 00:08:38.769 --> 00:08:41.230 head whales and narwhals are protected by the 00:08:41.230 --> 00:08:43.490 ice sheets that usually keep killer whales out. 00:08:43.629 --> 00:08:46.090 Now the predators can get them more easily than 00:08:46.090 --> 00:08:48.750 ever before. Oh, here's a nice map. Yep. It would 00:08:48.750 --> 00:08:51.009 be considered Arctic, wouldn't it? For some reason 00:08:51.009 --> 00:08:52.909 I'm on Google Maps and there's an island in the 00:08:52.909 --> 00:08:55.830 middle of Hudson Bay and it is very Arctic looking 00:08:55.830 --> 00:08:59.370 on Google Maps. Okay. And for some reason, it 00:08:59.370 --> 00:09:02.590 lets you in Santa Kilawhack. You can go inside 00:09:02.590 --> 00:09:05.789 the general store on Google Maps. Yeah. And there's 00:09:05.789 --> 00:09:09.509 pelts and there's winter jackets and there's 00:09:09.509 --> 00:09:12.490 a toy aisle and that's it. And you can't go anywhere 00:09:12.490 --> 00:09:15.529 else in town. I mean, even the bottom of Hudson 00:09:15.529 --> 00:09:18.710 Bay is pretty nervous. Arctic whale populations 00:09:18.710 --> 00:09:21.210 still outnumber killer whales in the region. 00:09:21.490 --> 00:09:23.629 There are likely hundreds and thousands of narwhals 00:09:23.629 --> 00:09:25.789 compared to a few hundred killer whales that 00:09:25.789 --> 00:09:27.870 have moved in, Garroway said. Quote, they're 00:09:27.870 --> 00:09:30.409 not yet making a difference, but they could eventually 00:09:30.409 --> 00:09:33.330 end quote, he noted. But that assessment might 00:09:33.330 --> 00:09:36.429 be premature, said marine biologist Mads Peter 00:09:36.429 --> 00:09:39.389 Hyde Jorgensen of the Greenland Institute of 00:09:39.389 --> 00:09:42.110 Natural Resources, who was not involved in the 00:09:42.110 --> 00:09:45.769 research. Quote, I find that the authors exaggerate 00:09:45.769 --> 00:09:47.710 the importance of killer whales when claiming 00:09:47.710 --> 00:09:50.649 they cause major ecosystem changes. End quote, 00:09:50.909 --> 00:09:53.629 he wrote in an email to Mangan Bay. Man, those 00:09:53.629 --> 00:09:57.250 fiery Greenlanders. Just having to get in everybody's 00:09:57.250 --> 00:09:59.240 face with their opinions. That's what they're 00:09:59.240 --> 00:10:02.000 known for. Local indigenous groups will watch 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:04.720 closely as the story unfolds. Arctic whales are 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:07.820 an important food, cultural, and economic resource, 00:10:07.980 --> 00:10:10.600 and are harvested sustainably. Other whales could 00:10:10.600 --> 00:10:13.259 threaten those hunting traditions if their populations 00:10:13.259 --> 00:10:15.740 grow, the research team noted. For now, these 00:10:15.740 --> 00:10:18.259 new Arctic residents serve as a case study for 00:10:18.259 --> 00:10:21.039 the profound shifts in population dynamics that 00:10:21.039 --> 00:10:24.220 ecologists are monitoring worldwide. Quote, it's 00:10:24.220 --> 00:10:26.620 a massive global experiment in climate change, 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:29.440 end quote, Garroway said. quote, and we get to 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:32.220 watch a short part of it, end quote. And that's 00:10:32.220 --> 00:10:35.220 the end of the article. So it basically is just 00:10:35.220 --> 00:10:37.480 a longer version of what you said at the beginning, 00:10:37.500 --> 00:10:39.480 but it answered none of your questions. And they 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:41.379 even said, yeah, they're slow and delicious, 00:10:41.700 --> 00:10:44.679 which is very unfortunate for these slow, delicious 00:10:44.679 --> 00:10:47.659 creatures. And you know what? Something came 00:10:47.659 --> 00:10:50.840 up just recently as I was re -listening to some 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:54.039 episodes prior to the episode coming out Friday. 00:10:54.299 --> 00:10:56.700 I'm not going to spoil it for you, but we were 00:10:56.700 --> 00:11:01.240 talking about the creation of the mammoth meatball. 00:11:01.740 --> 00:11:04.120 And if they're so delicious, why aren't we making 00:11:04.120 --> 00:11:06.740 meatballs out of them? So slow and delicious. 00:11:07.059 --> 00:11:09.659 That's a good question. Yeah. I just don't think 00:11:09.659 --> 00:11:12.259 it's feasible for us to hunt it like the orcas. 00:11:12.440 --> 00:11:14.860 It's too hard for us to even find them. And like 00:11:14.860 --> 00:11:17.279 narwhals are actually a fairly recent kind of 00:11:17.419 --> 00:11:19.559 thing we've studied because they're so hard to 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:22.419 find. They're so cool. But being feasible as 00:11:22.419 --> 00:11:25.019 a meatball did not stop people when they thought 00:11:25.019 --> 00:11:27.799 of making mammoth meatballs. That's true. I guess 00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:29.899 we can wait and see. Because that's the least 00:11:29.899 --> 00:11:32.000 feasible. There's a few things that worry me 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:34.019 about this. And they specifically said not to 00:11:34.019 --> 00:11:36.840 worry because the predator population is so much 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:39.419 lower than the prey population. I don't know. 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:42.019 Have you ever, Chelsea, seen the wolf rabbit 00:11:42.019 --> 00:11:45.350 ratio? Yes. Yeah, when rabbit populations are 00:11:45.350 --> 00:11:48.009 high, wolf populations explode because there's 00:11:48.009 --> 00:11:51.149 so many rabbits. Oh, yeah. I didn't even think 00:11:51.149 --> 00:11:54.289 about that. Which makes me think they might just 00:11:54.289 --> 00:11:56.129 explode and populate. Thankfully, it's a huge 00:11:56.129 --> 00:11:58.690 creature, so it takes a long time for it to explode 00:11:58.690 --> 00:12:01.370 in population. But nevertheless, on the other 00:12:01.370 --> 00:12:03.850 end of it, too, maybe narwhals are going to adapt 00:12:03.850 --> 00:12:06.649 that giant tooth as some type of sword like defense. 00:12:06.649 --> 00:12:09.970 And I would pay to watch those battles. I really 00:12:09.970 --> 00:12:13.230 would. And based on what you just said, Do you 00:12:13.230 --> 00:12:17.509 think that, based on climate change and the takeover 00:12:17.509 --> 00:12:20.629 of the billionaires, that the orcas are just 00:12:20.629 --> 00:12:23.909 doing the natural expansion to have our backs? 00:12:24.269 --> 00:12:27.649 You think maybe that they're confusing these 00:12:27.649 --> 00:12:31.409 blubberous beings in the north as just northern 00:12:31.409 --> 00:12:34.029 billionaires? Are billionaires supposed to be 00:12:34.029 --> 00:12:36.419 delicious? If you're gonna describe any class 00:12:36.419 --> 00:12:39.720 of human beings, the ones who don't move a whole 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:42.580 lot are likely the most delicious. Should we 00:12:42.580 --> 00:12:45.419 be making billionaire meatballs? Is that what 00:12:45.419 --> 00:12:48.899 they are to orcas? Wow. We're learning a lot. 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:51.980 Wow. This is really incredible research that 00:12:51.980 --> 00:12:53.940 we're doing right now. I don't know that it's 00:12:53.940 --> 00:12:56.159 research, but it's - I think we can call it speculation. 00:12:56.919 --> 00:12:59.960 Yes. In any event, let's leave you guys the next 00:12:59.960 --> 00:13:02.059 48 hours to speculate on all these questions 00:13:02.059 --> 00:13:04.139 and maybe more, whatever comes to your mind. 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:06.139 Anyhow, you've got 48 hours, bye.