Jamie Smith taught us the proper marks to make when barbecuing chicken, and talked about recipes for barbecue sauce. Also there was some mention of a cupcake made of meatloaf and mashed potatoes, but that came from Rosemary.

Gary Shapiro had some interesting details about Desi Arnez and Lucille Ball, as well as his usual discussion of books he's read recently and authors he has interviewed.

Jeff Manke said crows are really smart. If you mistreat one they will remember your face. Ravens are not the same. He also said he made a recent trip to southern California where he went birding in eight counties, and saw 200 species, including one for the first time, the gull-billed tern. He described some quite fascinating imitation done by another species he saw, the zone-tailed hawk.

We are very proud of Rachael Shelton. She has got results back from her most challenging test so far in her pursuit of a law degree, and she did great. She joined us in the studio today to talk about that, and more.

After beating Bill up in trivia last week, Rosemary started doing the same this week.

BrienG joined us to talk sports.

Gail Perllerin weighed in on Justin Cummings being cut from the coastal commission, her work on the budget, the worth of holding festivals and other events, and fire preparedness.

Mark Mozena had several interesting topics for us.

• After 20yrs of not being used, Voyager 1’s backup thrusters successfully fired - miraculously
• Strongest solar flare of the year occurred last week - caused radio blackouts across Europe and asia - caused a surprise aurora
• China has launched first batch of supercomputer satellites to space - 12 of planned 3000 satellites
• China launching next week an asteroid sample and a comet mission
• GEOInt conference in St Louis this week - all focused on national security and geospatial intelligence…shhhhhh

Bill learned how to pronounce wiemaraner, but has already since forgotton.