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Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, mm. Good morning and welcome to this special half our edition of Base. Sunday. I'm Jan Yasuhiro Barbara Rogers is on vacation for fans of T. V. S. A different world. We have an interview with a young man who makes being a

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nerd cool And appropriately for a sunday morning we have some gospel music from Oakland, from Oakland Choir. That is sure to bring song to your heart Before we get to that. This past week our hearts went out to to baby whales. Nicholas and alexander who beats

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themselves at Ocean Beach. Here's a story on them by eyewitness news reporter Liz Gonzalez Mac. Late this afternoon, the park's veterinarian Laurie gage told us that she has discovered a serious and potentially life threatening bruise on Nicholas. Now Nicholas is the largest and the sickest of

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the two whales. He's the one that we've seen on video tapes recently just floating on the top of the tank. The reason he floats is because he has developed some gas underneath the skin. The gas may be the result of an injury. Now you cannot see

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a bruise on Nicholas, but the veterinarian, Laurie gage felt it when she examined him this morning. I can feel a large, about eight circular area over his chest and I think that what's happened is he was either rammed by another whale or he ran into the

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rocks when he was teaching or a boat hit him. Something hit him there and not probably is what has caused him much of his trouble. The bruise is serious trouble if it has gangrene, the veterinarian cannot remove it because unlike human skin, there is no way

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to stitch a wound on a whale and return it to the water. As for alexander, he's not eating enough, but otherwise he is in relatively good shape, which makes me wonder if maybe alexander didn't just kinda accompany him into the beach because Nicholas got hit by

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something and alexander went with him in an effort to create a more peaceful environment for the whales. New barriers have been set up to keep humans at a distance, but the whales seem to enjoy what human contact they get. They never appear nervous even when the

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water level in their tank is lowered for feedings or examinations. We see that in animals, in remote locations like the Galapagos islands where the animals there have no adverse interactions with humans, so they have no fear of them. That may be the case here. Nicholas and

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alexander have been cared for at Marine World africa usa in Valeo. Now, usually we think of Marine world as an animal park, a fun place for the kids, but they offer much more. Now. I've been a longtime fan of the parks. I've taken my three Children

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there many times. So it's always nice to find out that a park you've always enjoyed offers expert care for stranded mammals like the baby whales and like a lot of you, I'm sure I watched every report in the whales from the time they were first rescued.

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Joining me now from Marine World is cecilia, pleasure cough, an animal trainer, a long time employee of Marine World and I have to say good friend of mine, welcome to base. Nice to be here. And we should tell our audience that we are taping the show

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on friday. And so far, alexander and Nicholas are surviving. They are, they are the stance. Well. Um, there is no change, which in a sense is good. Um, they had a good restful night, uh, this morning, alexander 8 15 fish, about £3. That's very good news.

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Uh Nicholas was tube fit again, which means that a blend of fish electrolytes fluids was placed in a tube and with a funnel and so we could get into a stomach. What we're concerned about now is we don't want the animals to become dehydrated. Um, We

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want to get enough. They don't drink water out in the open ocean, they get their moisture from fish. And so it's important for us to try to keep volume in them. The day they start to eat on their own is going to be a very exciting

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day we're gonna celebrate. We don't know when that will be. This is the longest time we've had these whales. This species, Yes. The only other time one member of the species was in captivity, it lasted 24 hours. The only other records we have of these animals

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are skulls, skeletons, things that have washed ashore. So we've made it over a week now and this is exciting. There's a lot we're learning. We initially thought, okay, it's one of four species of beaked whales. We don't know. Now a few researchers have looked, they are

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guessing it's probably a hub speak whale. Is that rare? Is that very rare? They are an animal that is more commonly found in this area as rare nous goes and uh, if in fact they are hubs whales, hubs, beaked whales, they are younger than we even

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thought. So that might give us another clue about perhaps another dietary approach we could take. Of course. We're all pulling for the whales 24-hour care. You're giving them a marine world, you brought in specialists from all over. We have a marine world staff that has volunteered

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their time 24 hours a day. We have the California Marine Mammal Center staff which is there. We have people phoning with suggestions which we appreciate but we also have doctors and medical teams coming in. Human doctor, human doctors. Last night we were we were talking earlier

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last night we had to cardiac surgeons and one cardiologist uh come in and help us out. And what we did is we did a procedure you saw in the video that Nicholas is has gas under the skin. Uh And it does whether it's the reason that

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he is listening a little bit to the side. We're not sure but we've been trying to release that gas. We've been able to do a little bit with needles but not in a perhaps as efficient of a manner. So these cardiologist helped us out. We inserted

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some infant catheters Under the skin. A total of four. This was last night. He has a netting over his body now which we can secure these two. So that because we obviously, as as they mentioned, we can't do any stitching, not that kind of skin they

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have. So that's helping secure it. And we were able to put a system in. I'm not a doctor, but it's a system where air can come out but not go in. And we actually they put a very delicate sort of pump on it to try to

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help get some of that gas out. Uh he had a very restful night. So that's a good sign. But every day is a blessing. Why are we paying so much attention to these whales? I mean I'm personally glad why all the attention. I think people people

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relate to an animal that is in need and that there are times that all of us we want to do something and you see the the effort that's going on there, everybody pushing and trying so hard and I think it makes people feel good to know

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that it can be done and and to and to you know, want to want to go for it to, you know, you see these animals trying and it makes you want to try also. What will we learn after all this? And let's hope they survive forever.

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But what can we learn from these animals about them perhaps? Well, they are a deep ocean species, which does not mean that many people are confused. Many people think this means they live at deep, deep depths, but they are in fact a mammal. They come to

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the air for their oxygen. Uh They don't have gills. And so they go, they live and feed in the deep oceans. They can dive up to 1000 ft to get squid. Then of course they come back up for their breath of air, but they might be

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able to stay down half hour, 40 minutes. Um I think man as he explores the ocean depths, is going to be fascinated by such a creature that anatomically is capable of doing such things behaviorally. We may also learn that. Why did these animals beach? Is there

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something going on in the ocean? Did we? We need to know more about keeping up the quality of the ocean systems so that we don't pollute things. Let's hope that we weren't a factor in it. We have no idea. So there's more we need to learn

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all initially. Perhaps the report was that maybe one of them was injured, the older one and the younger one simply followed the older one. It's very hard to say it is possible, but now as we learn more about them and try to identify them as a

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species and maybe if the ages correct, maybe he did follow his buddy in, but he's uh he's eating some but he's not eating on his own yet. He does not, he is not a strong animal himself. As much as we are thankful for every night we

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get, we have to always remember that uh it still is a 95 chance that they won't make it. That is the case in beached animals. And so we have guarded optimism. I love the fact that you take such good care of them, even putting sunblock cream

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on their skins, zinc oxide. And they also have a net over their tank. We have hydrophones in the water. We've been able to record their audio record the sounds that they make. It was we had there's never been a record of the, of the vocalizations of

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these animals. These animals have sonar abilities. We weren't really sure if they if they did as a species. And these clicks and these sounds give us cues to how they live. And of course the hope is that we can continue to learn from them and then

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treat other mammals. Everything we learned from them every day is helpful. Absolutely. Here in the future. I gotta ask you this, you see, is how did you come up with a name? Nicholas and alexander? Well, they were named by the staff that found the first one

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to pick them up. And of course now everybody knows him as Nicholas and alexander. And you've established a fund, Yes. We've established a fund in their name to hopefully um not only help continue to give them good quality care, But to care for other beached animals

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in the future. And we have a fundraiser coming up for them on September 16 and let's hope that they can celebrate it with us. And of course now these animals are known all around the world. I know you you're getting a lot of letters from kids

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sending you their allowance. We have, we've had Children send us their allowance, we've had people, you know, sending them cards and letters and it's It makes us feel good. It makes us know that you know that everyone else is out there rooting and that gives you

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support late at night when it's rather cold and you're trying to step up the little space heater and that sort of thing. So you are out there yourself and I know the staff is out there 24 hours a day and you're doing your share too where

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there are a percentage of the time. Most definitely. It's just uh everybody's, you know the food service people, the maintenance staff, the development staff. I mean it is something that pulls marine world even tighter together as a family and I noticed there was a quiet sign

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near their tank. Why do we have to be quiet well quiet in a sense to not distract the animals. And also as the veterinary staff is working, they often have to call for medications for things. They, the researchers are recording things. We just want to keep

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it very peaceful. And people have wondered, a lot of people have wondered if they can see that. I would want to know could I take my kids up to see if you can see them? Um but you cannot get right up to the edge of the

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tank. You have to be your about 10 ft away. But you when the water level is high and they're swimming, you can see them otherwise when the water level is low, if they're giving them a medication then they're not as visible. So we can bring our

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families up there, bring the kids up there, see alexander and Nicholas and of course come to the wonderful fundraiser that you've planned and more. I mean, you know, I come up there all the time as you know with my kids. So maybe this will be a

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special outing that we could come up too. So we'll see. Thank you very much for joining us and giving us an update on alexander and Nicholas and I'm gonna cross my fingers. So I hope they make it Now. There are a couple of events as sees

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mentioned, one of them coming up at marine world that we want you to know about on Saturday September 16 there will be a benefit whale and dolphin performance. Beginning and the beginning september 22nd through september 24th Conservation weekend. For more information you can call Marine World

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africa. Usa 707 area code 644 4000 I might add you can have breakfast with the whales, mammals on those days to arrive in the conservation weekend, breakfast with land animals one day breakfast, marine mammals the other yeah, I love really fun. We'll be right back with

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America's favorite nerd. Yeah, yeah. Mm Okay. Yeah, yeah. Mhm. You know him as Dwyane Wayne on the popular television show, a different world recently. Kadeem Hardison shared some thoughts and playing a nerd. I think I will start writing. I will write sooner than I know it's

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way overdue. In high school. My favorite subject was english because I wrote well and all the teachers said he's gonna be a great right, it's gonna be a great writer and I never really stuck to it. But now I see that I'm getting a lot of

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garbage scripts so I want to write my own stuff. Dwayne Wayne is the brainchild of three people and beats who was our first producer. That Mumford who was, I think I was executive producer and head writer and Ellen Falcon who was our director at the time.

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They all told me to do different things and I don't know what to do. So I just kind of, I was real nervous. It's great to see him grow up because uh it's helped to show a lot, you know, Debbie came in and she said, all

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right, we have to get mature now and one way to do it is to make Dwayne a little more mature. So yeah, I've had fun doing it. I kind of like to be silly. I like chasing the girls and having a lot of fun. But you

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got to be a team player and you give up a little bit so that we can all do well. So yeah, I like, I like the images presented. I know some people consider me a role model and I know it's true, but uh I try not

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to take it too seriously because then it would get to me and I would start thinking about everything I do and I do bad things as well as good things and if I was scared to live my life then I wouldn't have any fun. So yeah,

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I know they like what I do on tv and I'm glad for that. But then there's me not on tv all the time in the house doing what I want to do because it's my prerogative. Yeah. No, I, I know it. I, I do, I do.

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I really like it. I was sitting at a gas station on my motorcycle and I saw this yellow bug go by me and five minutes later the guy turned around, drove through traffic cause it was 4 35 o'clock and he pulled back up in the gas

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and his brother, I want to tell you doing right then keep it on, keep on, keep all drove out just like that. That makes me feel good. I really well don't go away gospel music from across the bay coming up next. Yeah. Mm. All right. A

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question. What does a rastafarian, a buddhist and a jew have in common. They're all members of the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir and here's a sample of their work. One, two, three, Okay. Yeah. Yeah wow. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Hi, start from the beginning again. Yeah, I promise

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you always bus you. Mhm remind us of his ever lasting love, he'll feel your broken heart well now. Okay right there. Oh God. Uh huh. Yeah. Mhm Yeah bye. Yeah. Yeah.

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Five former you're playing this time. Yes, my Yeah. Okay. Oh great music and joining me now is a man who brings all those voices to beautiful Harmony. The director of the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir terrance kelly, thank you for joining us

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on base. Sunday thank you for having all right now you've got to set the record straight. All faiths, all races, all walks of life, all ages in this choir, tell us how it came about. Jazz camp is where the choir originated from, we do a week

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of it every year and people wanted to do it more than just a week. They wanted to sing gospel music throughout the year, but there was no other avenue readily available for people. So um the people that started the Jazz camp decided to see if we

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could start acquiring, that's how we got started Gospel. When you think gospel, you think deep South Mississippi roots here in the Bay Area and a rasta firing a buddhist and do jewish people singing in it. Yeah, it's basically a message of love is what gospel music

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portrays. So anybody can sing about love and promote peace and harmony. So that's the basic unity and draw of the choir and now tell me um it looks like you do this full time, but you have another job, You are a checking services coordinator at the

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bank. Yes, I am. So you do this out of the love of your heart. Yes. Um there is some money in it, but not very much for the time that we put in, but it's a spiritual thing, it's good feeling thing, it's promoting love through music

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and fellowship. So that's where the pain comes in. You have had this quarter now for three years, three years singing gospel. But some of, I know some of the members have said because they are of different religions, they had a tough time saying for instance the

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word jesus. If they happen to be a jewish person, how did you remedy that? We had concept insert mentally, insert your own god. So as you say, jesus, if you're a buddhist you would think buddha and that allows everybody to be comfortable with singing the word

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jesus and portraying the love and unity of the music through the word jesus. By mentally inserting their own God you are famous. Your you and your acquirer now famous, come on, don't be modest. You have now played with linda Ronstadt. Yes you've done an album with

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her. We did two songs on her upcoming album Cry like a rainstorm. Um we did a little bit of on the third song and we did it at Skywalker Ranch where this is a ranch. Yeah and it was just wonderful the whole experience, bobby Mcferrin knows

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about you, you've been on Charles carroll morning show on Sundays, you're gonna play it slims. I mean the list goes on and on. Did you ever suspect that your choir would be so famous? No we thought that we get a lot of local notoriety we wanted

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to present and carry our message throughout California but it's gone past that already you've gone to san Quentin and I read you were success. We were a success but we give the glory to our gods because we um, we really took church to san Quentin, we

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went in with the inmates and you go in and they're tough guys, well not really so tough, but they have to present a tough image. So at the beginning they were sort of reserved, not saying very much and towards the middle they warmed up and towards

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the end we had a couple singing with us and I heard they had tears in their eyes. What are the goals for you for the choir? Um, to promote love um, to let people know that you don't have to be of the same race, same color,

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same age group or anything to get along. We have Um, from a 16 year old up to, we won't go into the older ages but we have quite a diverse group. I love your music and thank you, thank you for joining us on base sunday, thank

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you. Now you should know that the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir will be performing on sunday september 10th at the Russian River Jazz Festival and saturday september 23rd at the Redwood Record Music Festival in Oakland. For more information, call 5492430 Well that's it for this edition of

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Base sunday I had a great time. Barbara Rogers will be back next sunday at a new time. 8 30 in the morning as we leave you. Here is the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir performing at Stern Grove. Have a great sunday and a great labor day and

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I get that go back done. No. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Mm. Yeah. Okay, thanks. Yeah. Yeah. Uh huh. Yeah, Yeah.