Okay, I had one, but I just feel like it's not
fringy enough paranormal news about that. I'm
just gonna read the article title. This isn't
what we're gonna actually read, but you'll see
where I'm going with this. Ghost Adventures stars
wife arrested for alleged murder -for -hire plot
targeting him. It's just not fringy enough for
us, I don't think. No, it's not. No, I didn't
think so. It's fringy in the wrong way, in fact.
It is. So... I'm back to the spreadsheet. Do
I need to go through the titles, the ever widening?
Yes. Yes, you do. OK. I'm actually very curious
what the new titles are. I've got Dealer's Choice
and it's not that one because Dealer's Choice,
I only had one and it was just not fringy enough.
And the fact that you read the ones that you
want to most weeks precludes this one for the
most part. It's true. We got Feel Good, Feel
Bad, now with even more bad news. And you know
what? It's the same amount of bad news, I feel
like, because I haven't been adding to this spreadsheet,
unfortunately. So whatever we do is going to
be old news. We got pretty sure this is bad.
feeling disappointed that one's empty so we can't
do it well it's not empty there's just nothing
new we got feeling uncertain feeling like an
update can't choose between good or bad feelings
you can't choose that one either there's nothing
new yet we got feeling like science to be filed
that one I've read everything in it too I need
to update it and feeling like a christmas mini
oh wow i'm feeling uncertain okay i think that's
like one of two that you can warn me against
picking it did have some in there okay let's
Well, the last one we did was Feeling Uncertain.
Oh, damn it. OK, we can't do that one because
both of those have been read. So let's go with
this one, which has got to be extremely out of
date. And it's from indiatoday .in. You think
the IN stands for India? Yeah, I think so. OK.
You're always in for a surprise when it's with
me. And this website is just riddled with ads.
Just absolutely riddled. I bet there's a few
secret ads in there, too. There probably is.
Skies in Mongolia mysteriously turn blood red.
Pictures show eerie phenomenon. This is December
2nd, 2023, quite a while ago. I can't tell who
actually wrote this. Okay. Anyhow. Nonetheless,
it's the Chelsea Mini. Yeah, thank you. In an
extraordinary celestial display, the skies over
Mongolia turn deep blood red as the country experienced
one of the rarest auroral events on Friday. and
early Saturday. The intense coloration is attributed
to the initial impact of a significant solar
storm that collided with Earth, creating a spectacle
that left Onlookers in awe. I feel like we should
change this to Filed Under Disappointed. Yeah.
The phenomenon, known as an aurora, typically
occurs closer - okay. You know what, you guys?
You heard that here last. I'm gonna read another
one. The skies were just kind of rarely red in
Mongolia. One time in 2023. Due to the northern
lights. That was gonna be bad, so I'm just gonna
cut it. Let's do this one. I'm just gonna skip.
What was this filed under? Pretty sure this is
bad. Well, it should have been filed under dealer's
choice, apparently. It's not really dealer's
choice, it was just the next up. I just clicked
on it, it looked fine. Killer whales have found
new homes in the Arctic Ocean potentially reshaping
marine ecology. I've been hearing about this
and I'm very curious what they say because yeah,
nothing is prepared for like the brutalness of
a killer whale in the Arctic. Cause they're all
kind of like peaceful, chubby creatures. I was
wondering if like there have been some yachts
up there that they were following, but you bring
up a very good point I didn't think of. No, delicious
narwhals in fact, unfortunately. Oh no. So this
one is much more recent than old Northern Lights
in Mongolia. This one is the 3rd of September,
2024. So only a little bit old. Caroline Hemphill.
And this is from Manga Bay. Also really haven't
heard of that one. I don't know. It has a donate
button so it seems like it might be legit. Or
at least bribeable. Exactly. Let's jump in. Killer
whales are finding a new place to roam in the
rapidly changing Arctic Ocean. Though indigenous
people in the region have seen the whales, also
known as orcas, pop up sporadically for centuries,
the predators now have more access to the chilly
waters than ever before. Two distinct killer
whale populations now claim habitats in the Arctic,
according to a team led by researchers at the
University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. But
the whales' presence raises conservation concerns
that may be difficult to address, the team reported
recently in Global Change Biology. Killer whales
haven't often been able to access the Arctic.
Thick ice sheets pose a natural barrier, breaking
their dorsal fin if they push too hard into it.
But as the northern polar regions warm up faster
than anywhere else on Earth, the ice melts, letting
in more of the voracious predators. The researchers,
led by evolution, You find it odd that this person's
an expert on this area and they're in Manitoba,
like landlocked Manitoba. What's at the top?
Are you sure it's completely landlocked? There's
a bit of it I think that touches Hudson Bay.
Hudson Bay, that's what it is. For the most part,
I'm pretty sure it's landlocked. Hudson Bay wouldn't
be... arctic though Hudson Bay at the top it
is but there's no hold on let me i gotta pull
up a map yeah let me look at a map real quick
no never mind they have a pretty prominent connection
to Hudson Bay okay they do okay i thought they
might but then i was you know somebody says one
thing and i question everything because yeah
i was like no you can go to manitoba to see the
polar bears and they're arctic well yeah i think
of manitoba as like farmland for the most part
no i do also very progressive pm premier very
good i do like him NDP? It's neither here nor
there for this episode. Yeah, don't worry about
him. His last name's Canoe. Really? Oh yeah,
he's an indigenous. The researchers, led by evolutionary
geneticist Colin Garroway of the University of
Manitoba, were curious about the Arctic's growing
population of killer whales and their impacts.
They decided to peek into the genomes of a few
of the animals to find out where they came from.
Initially, they used samples of blubber and skin
collected over time by field biologists. Quote,
we did an analysis that something like 23andMe
at Garroway, the results? It really is just a
matter of being in the right place at the right
time." Corey Matthews, a marine biologist at
the University of Manitoba who did field work
for the study. Well, this is a different guy.
I was like, why are they introducing that guy
again? When the sleek animals show themselves,
researchers set aside their excitement to try
and get up close. Using crossbows, they shoot
the whales with small biopsy darts, which collect
tiny amounts of skin. No wonder they don't want
to come anywhere near their boats. Yeah, it's
true. You had to pretend like you're a super
rich billionaire. Yeah, no. No sound of wealth.
Bullets coming at your dorsal fin. The samples
immediately go into a liquid nitrogen -cooled
container. DNA results confirm that the two groups
of whales are so distinct that they might not
recognize one another as potential mates. That's
pretty interesting. The populations are small.
About 200 individuals currently live near Baffin
Island, Garroway said. In the long run, they
might be unable to adapt to evolutionary pressures
because of their lack of genetic diversity. A
pressing concern is marine habitats evolve due
to climate change. However, killer whales also
might tip scales in the balanced Arctic ecosystem.
Quote, Arctic whales are just chubby, slow and
delicious, end quote Carol said. Belugas, Oh
head whales and narwhals are protected by the
ice sheets that usually keep killer whales out.
Now the predators can get them more easily than
ever before. Oh, here's a nice map. Yep. It would
be considered Arctic, wouldn't it? For some reason
I'm on Google Maps and there's an island in the
middle of Hudson Bay and it is very Arctic looking
on Google Maps. Okay. And for some reason, it
lets you in Santa Kilawhack. You can go inside
the general store on Google Maps. Yeah. And there's
pelts and there's winter jackets and there's
a toy aisle and that's it. And you can't go anywhere
else in town. I mean, even the bottom of Hudson
Bay is pretty nervous. Arctic whale populations
still outnumber killer whales in the region.
There are likely hundreds and thousands of narwhals
compared to a few hundred killer whales that
have moved in, Garroway said. Quote, they're
not yet making a difference, but they could eventually
end quote, he noted. But that assessment might
be premature, said marine biologist Mads Peter
Hyde Jorgensen of the Greenland Institute of
Natural Resources, who was not involved in the
research. Quote, I find that the authors exaggerate
the importance of killer whales when claiming
they cause major ecosystem changes. End quote,
he wrote in an email to Mangan Bay. Man, those
fiery Greenlanders. Just having to get in everybody's
face with their opinions. That's what they're
known for. Local indigenous groups will watch
closely as the story unfolds. Arctic whales are
an important food, cultural, and economic resource,
and are harvested sustainably. Other whales could
threaten those hunting traditions if their populations
grow, the research team noted. For now, these
new Arctic residents serve as a case study for
the profound shifts in population dynamics that
ecologists are monitoring worldwide. Quote, it's
a massive global experiment in climate change,
end quote, Garroway said. quote, and we get to
watch a short part of it, end quote. And that's
the end of the article. So it basically is just
a longer version of what you said at the beginning,
but it answered none of your questions. And they
even said, yeah, they're slow and delicious,
which is very unfortunate for these slow, delicious
creatures. And you know what? Something came
up just recently as I was re -listening to some
episodes prior to the episode coming out Friday.
I'm not going to spoil it for you, but we were
talking about the creation of the mammoth meatball.
And if they're so delicious, why aren't we making
meatballs out of them? So slow and delicious.
That's a good question. Yeah. I just don't think
it's feasible for us to hunt it like the orcas.
It's too hard for us to even find them. And like
narwhals are actually a fairly recent kind of
thing we've studied because they're so hard to
find. They're so cool. But being feasible as
a meatball did not stop people when they thought
of making mammoth meatballs. That's true. I guess
we can wait and see. Because that's the least
feasible. There's a few things that worry me
about this. And they specifically said not to
worry because the predator population is so much
lower than the prey population. I don't know.
Have you ever, Chelsea, seen the wolf rabbit
ratio? Yes. Yeah, when rabbit populations are
high, wolf populations explode because there's
so many rabbits. Oh, yeah. I didn't even think
about that. Which makes me think they might just
explode and populate. Thankfully, it's a huge
creature, so it takes a long time for it to explode
in population. But nevertheless, on the other
end of it, too, maybe narwhals are going to adapt
that giant tooth as some type of sword like defense.
And I would pay to watch those battles. I really
would. And based on what you just said, Do you
think that, based on climate change and the takeover
of the billionaires, that the orcas are just
doing the natural expansion to have our backs?
You think maybe that they're confusing these
blubberous beings in the north as just northern
billionaires? Are billionaires supposed to be
delicious? If you're gonna describe any class
of human beings, the ones who don't move a whole
lot are likely the most delicious. Should we
be making billionaire meatballs? Is that what
they are to orcas? Wow. We're learning a lot.
Wow. This is really incredible research that
we're doing right now. I don't know that it's
research, but it's - I think we can call it speculation.
Yes. In any event, let's leave you guys the next
48 hours to speculate on all these questions
and maybe more, whatever comes to your mind.
Anyhow, you've got 48 hours, bye.