WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:04.839 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 2 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:05.719 six forty. 3 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:10.800 And this is k i AM six forty Bill Handle 4 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:16.679 here on a taco Tuesday, September twenty four, as we're 5 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:21.120 possibly awaiting a regional war breaking out in the Mideast. 6 00:00:22.359 --> 00:00:25.760 Very bad stuff, all right. I want to talk about 7 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:27.160 plastic recycling for a moment. 8 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:29.480 There's an interesting lawsuit that has just been filed by 9 00:00:29.480 --> 00:00:34.359 the State of California suing Exon Mobile, accusing it of 10 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:38.719 misleading the public about the effectiveness of plastic recycling. 11 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:41.479 Now, let's start with the fact that Exon. 12 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:46.280 Mobile is a huge producer of the raw materials that 13 00:00:46.439 --> 00:00:50.960 create plastic bottles. Petroleum byproducts is what they use to 14 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:51.840 create bottles. 15 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:56.560 So here's Exon Mobile saying that. 16 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:02.560 We are producing plastics and wheat which can be recycled, 17 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:07.280 and we're promoting the fact that they are being or 18 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:12.680 should be recycled. Well, Attorney General Rob Bonta of the 19 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:17.000 State of California said or alleges that Exon Moobile is 20 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:21.760 engaged in a decades long campaign of deception that cause 21 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:27.200 an exacerbated the global plastic pollution crisis. So the City 22 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:30.359 of California is arguing it's your fault. You've lied to 23 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:35.319 us that this is recyclable and it's not being recycled. 24 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:40.400 Five to six percent a quote of these plastic bottles 25 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:43.920 are being recycled, and that's in the US. It's about 26 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:47.640 nine percent worldwide, they do a better job. So I 27 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:50.920 have my bottle of diet coke. Here my plastic bottle 28 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:56.000 of diet coke, and there it is plastic bottle recycled, 29 00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:00.799 the little recycle sign on there, the little little icon. 30 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:04.879 And here's what ends up happening in the world of recycling. 31 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:08.759 And I am a fanatic recycler. That's one thing where 32 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:14.879 I am environmentally conscious. I put plastic bottles, cans, cardboard, 33 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:17.520 and especially cardboard because now we all have tons of 34 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:21.560 it because we buy online. And those I break down 35 00:02:21.599 --> 00:02:24.599 and put them in a recycling bin. And my guess 36 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:30.360 is the cans and the cardboard gets recycled. The rest 37 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:33.439 of it is a waste of time. Why bother because 38 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:36.680 it's not being recycled. And this is the argument that 39 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:41.080 Robbont is making. It gets excellent. You're saying that this 40 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:44.400 is recyclable and it's not being recycled. 41 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:46.159 Therefore you are a bunch of liars. 42 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:49.840 Therefore, we're holding you responsible for destroying the environment. 43 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:52.919 What they're saying is it's recyclable. 44 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:58.240 It is California's fault for not having enough programs out 45 00:02:58.280 --> 00:02:59.879 there to recycle. 46 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:01.520 Ain't our fault. 47 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:04.800 We manusfacture the stuff that can be recycled. That's why 48 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:07.759 we put the little recycled or we tell the manufacturers 49 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:10.360 put the little recycled icon on there, because that's what 50 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:15.159 we can produce. And some plastics are recyclable, some are not. 51 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:20.879 Packaging some is some isn't. But we have a government 52 00:03:20.919 --> 00:03:24.800 here that says it's your fault, and I tell you 53 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:26.719 assuming that. 54 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:28.719 And I haven't. 55 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:32.560 Gone really into this because I don't when we do 56 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:35.120 one undor two segments. You know, I don't spend time 57 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:40.039 reading eighty one hundred pages of reports per segment. It's 58 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:44.960 if it can be recycled and the packaging says this 59 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:49.360 is recyclable, and it's not being recycled, then the problem 60 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:53.599 is much bigger than Exxon Mobile saying we recycle or 61 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:58.039 you should recycle, and this is recyclable. And these plastic 62 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:03.319 bottles and this is a god awful mess because they 63 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:08.439 break down into these microplastics, the nanoplastics, And we reported yesterday, 64 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:12.639 we said yesterday and maybe last week that these tiny 65 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:18.480 little bits of plastic, almost microscopic, are in everything all 66 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:22.639 of us, all the plants in the air, what we eat, 67 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:26.800 our environment, in the fish, in the cattle that we eat. 68 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:28.639 It's in everything on this earth. 69 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:31.720 And there was a study just came out that said 70 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:35.800 the Earth's oceans contain more than one hundred and seventy 71 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:43.040 trillion pieces of plastic, which is going to take hundreds 72 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:44.759 of years to break down. 73 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:49.920 So we are full of plastic. It's that simple. 74 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:55.040 And the state of California is suing Exonmobile. It's your fault, 75 00:04:55.319 --> 00:04:58.199 why because you've been telling us that this is recyclable 76 00:04:59.480 --> 00:05:02.879 and there isn't enough recycla What you really have to 77 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:06.720 tell us is that it is not recyclable. Well, it 78 00:05:06.839 --> 00:05:10.800 is recyclable, but it's not being recycled, and therefore it's 79 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:13.639 your fault. And Exon Mobil is throwing it right back 80 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:17.199 in California's face and saying you're dreaming. Don't tell us 81 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:20.439 about recyclable. All we make is the product. You're not 82 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:23.680 doing it. By the way, California isn't alone last year 83 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:30.360 New York suit PepsiCo accusing Pexico of polluting the Buffalo River. 84 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:34.560 And as you can imagine, the lawsuit against Exon. 85 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:37.560 Mobile is cheered by the environmental advocates and it's no 86 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:41.560 surprise that is happening here in California. So am I 87 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:44.959 going to take my bottle of diet coke plastic bottle 88 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:45.680 this time around? 89 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:47.519 And am I going. 90 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:53.680 To recycle it? Yes, because it's a habit. Is this 91 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:55.439 going to be recycled in anything? 92 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:59.079 Probably not? And what do they recycle it in? Well? 93 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:02.160 I think do they we package it into other plastic bottles. 94 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:04.319 I just think they make little pellets out of it, 95 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:09.519 and they use playground playground equipment with it or the 96 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:15.000 flooring of playgrounds. I don't know, all right, recyclable, I 97 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:17.439 think plastic. I think paper bags are a different story 98 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:23.040 in terms of recycling the cardboards certainly, certainly. 99 00:06:23.079 --> 00:06:27.600 New Year, they just make it into a pulp start over. Yeah, 100 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:29.600 that's what we do here, is we make everything into 101 00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:33.560 a pulp and recycle everything. Jokes stories. Yeah, that's a 102 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:35.319 good point. That's what we do, all right. 103 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:37.959 Here is the dilemma I want to share with you, 104 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:40.720 And this is in reference to Gavin Newsom signing a 105 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:44.319 bill into law yesterday, and it has to be with 106 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:46.079 students and cell phones. 107 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:49.759 Now, a couple of things we absolutely know. 108 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:55.079 One is that cell phones in schools, students do not 109 00:06:55.240 --> 00:06:59.920 pay attention to classes, lectures, or anything that's going on 110 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:03.959 in the classroom when they have their cell phone and 111 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:08.040 they're always either texting each other or looking things up, 112 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:11.720 or going on whatever sites or chatting or whatever they do, 113 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:13.759 and it disrupts school. 114 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:16.160 We know that. We know that school is disrupted. 115 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:19.319 We know that grades go down, we know the attention 116 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:22.839 span of students in class goes way down, and it 117 00:07:23.040 --> 00:07:28.879 truly affects the quality of the education. Okay, number one, 118 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:30.519 So that's easy. How do we get rid of that? 119 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:33.480 We ban We ban cell phones. 120 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:35.879 That's it. That makes it easy. Then we have the 121 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:37.360 whole issue of students are. 122 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:39.519 Going to do better, which they are, They're going to 123 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:40.720 come out actually reading. 124 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:43.800 They are. However, let's look at the other side of the. 125 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:48.800 Coin, and that is whenever there is an active shooter, 126 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:52.480 or there's a problem, or a kid gets hurt on 127 00:07:52.519 --> 00:07:57.279 the playground or has a medical issue, there's a cell 128 00:07:57.319 --> 00:08:02.279 phone boom. You call mom or Dad or you call 129 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:07.279 nine to one one. How many times have we heard 130 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:11.399 in various in every active shooter scenario in the last 131 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:15.680 several years, someone in the classroom, someone at the schools 132 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:17.839 picked this, Some students picked up their phone dial one 133 00:08:17.879 --> 00:08:22.680 one or call their parents. How do you reconcile safety 134 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:28.120 and cell phones? Which is one side of this coin. 135 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:34.120 The other side is the quality of education that almost 136 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:38.960 collapses because of cell phones. So Newsom signed to bill 137 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:43.159 yesterday will require California school districts to restrict or ban 138 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:46.159 student cell phone use. By the way, we have the 139 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:49.039 largest CA to twelve population in the country, and this 140 00:08:49.279 --> 00:08:53.960 is naturally one of the forefronts or the first laws 141 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:54.440 and the nation. 142 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:58.200 Naturally it is. It's called the Phone Free Schools Act. 143 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:02.600 Requires the thoul in school districts in California, charter schools, 144 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:07.559 county education offices to draft student cell phone policies by 145 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:10.600 July one, twenty twenty six. Now this is a fun one. 146 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:15.679 It's not banning cell phones in schools. What it is 147 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:20.759 is creates a process. 148 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:25.639 To set up task forces. Actually, it says to local schools. 149 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:29.399 Figure out how cell phones should be banned. 150 00:09:29.480 --> 00:09:32.600 It's up to you. That's it. The only thing the law. 151 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:36.480 Does say is schools have to restrict phone use in 152 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:39.159 order to support pupil learning and well being. 153 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:42.480 Wow, tell me that's not open ended. 154 00:09:44.039 --> 00:09:49.720 That's crazy, Newsom wrote in a statement after signing the bill. 155 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:51.279 Which quite often happens. 156 00:09:51.960 --> 00:09:55.080 We know and sometimes that he says nothing, Sometimes he signs, 157 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:57.200 Sometimes he sends a veto message. 158 00:09:57.360 --> 00:09:59.600 Well, this is a I have signed message. 159 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:03.639 We know that excess to smartphone use increases anxiety, depression, 160 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:06.600 other mental health issues. Absolutely true, and we have the 161 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:10.159 power to intervene. Absolutely true. The new law will help 162 00:10:10.200 --> 00:10:13.320 students focus on academic, social development and the world in 163 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:16.440 front of them, not their screens when they're in school. 164 00:10:17.080 --> 00:10:18.039 Probably true. 165 00:10:19.320 --> 00:10:23.600 However, let's talk about the safety of students having cell phones, 166 00:10:25.120 --> 00:10:29.639 which I don't think anybody can argue. A student with 167 00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:34.759 a cell phone has the ability of calling authorities, calling home, 168 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:40.759 virtually immediately telling the cops we're hiding in this classroom. 169 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:43.759 We're in number one thirty. 170 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:46.799 Eight, and we have the door barred, and we're in 171 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:51.799 the corner near the closet, and they know what's going on. Now, 172 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:55.159 the police, I have a much more sophisticated way of 173 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:57.639 entering school. They have floor plans now, and they know 174 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:02.200 the way schools are set up, where how classrooms are 175 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:05.600 set up. Well, how important it is for them to 176 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:08.039 know what's going on inside the classroom when there is 177 00:11:08.080 --> 00:11:11.200 an active shooter or when there is a problem. But 178 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:13.759 what if the students don't have access to phone calls? 179 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:20.399 Are they're doing better in school? How do you reconcile that? 180 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:23.240 And I don't think it could be reconciled now. The 181 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:28.480 technology is there, right people go. One of them is, sure, 182 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:30.159 use your cell phone and we're going to block it. 183 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:32.039 School's going to be a building where you can't use 184 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:33.360 it until someone unblocks it. 185 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:35.799 That's a possibility that works. 186 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:39.679 But then what if the administration doesn't know that there 187 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:43.600 is someone there and is a threat and people will 188 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:46.679 only find out when we have a shooter right outside 189 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:51.519 the classroom walking and stocking the halls. The other way 190 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:54.720 of doing it is simply collecting phone call the phones 191 00:11:54.840 --> 00:11:59.320 at the beginning of the school day. So the state 192 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:02.279 of California and this is a neat bill because what 193 00:12:02.440 --> 00:12:08.240 it has said is it doesn't have specifics. It says 194 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:10.879 school can't ban a pupil from having a cell phone 195 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:14.879 when a licensed physician or surgeon says the student needs 196 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:19.039 the device for health related reasons. Okay, so that's an exception. 197 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:22.559 If you need the device, doctor says you need it, 198 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:23.360 there's a doctor's note. 199 00:12:23.399 --> 00:12:27.440 You can have a phone. Also, students in certain. 200 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:31.759 Individualized education programs, they can bypass the restrictions. 201 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:33.679 And students will be. 202 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:36.240 Allowed to access the phones during emergencies. 203 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:38.600 Okay, how about this. 204 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:42.559 The school collects the phones, which a lot of schools 205 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:46.720 do at the beginning of the school day, but you. 206 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:49.200 Can access them if. 207 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:53.399 If there's an emergency. I don't know if it can 208 00:12:53.440 --> 00:13:00.799 be reconciled at all. And this is these are at 209 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:04.240 least this one. Yesterday I talked about unintended consequences when 210 00:13:04.279 --> 00:13:07.279 bills are passed. At least this one is so vague, 211 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:14.279 it is so non se consequential. It says, we agree 212 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:17.960 cell phones should be banned, but you have to look 213 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:21.679 at where it shouldn't be banned, and you have to 214 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:26.600 set up studies that determine that schools should figure out 215 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:30.519 a way to ban these phones. And it's you guys 216 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:33.320 figure it out. Okay, thank you, there's the law. It's 217 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:37.639 the you guys figure it out law. Now let me 218 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:40.519 tell you about a flight of a Boeing Triple seven 219 00:13:41.159 --> 00:13:44.600 that it was an American Airlines and the captain Dan. 220 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:47.759 Carey was alerted. 221 00:13:47.840 --> 00:13:50.200 You hear that, you know that blaring pull up, pull up, 222 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:53.639 pull up, when planes are descending too low. It's with 223 00:13:53.679 --> 00:13:58.080 a siren, and that's what he heard. Oh going too low, 224 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:02.000 pull up. He was a thirty two thousand feet and 225 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:05.320 he heard it. So what the hell happened? Well, it's 226 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:09.399 a kind of electronic warfare that now hundreds of civilian 227 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:14.679 pilots are encountering every single day. It's GPS spoofing. Pilots 228 00:14:14.879 --> 00:14:17.759 use GPS for navigation. 229 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:21.279 That is the way it works now. That is the. 230 00:14:21.279 --> 00:14:29.440 Primary way that airlines that airplanes are navigating. And these 231 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:35.639 are fake signals spoofing that tells pilots a whole bunch 232 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:41.200 of things. You're in the wrong place. All kinds of 233 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:46.399 glitches are happening. You have to descend, you have to ascend. 234 00:14:47.480 --> 00:14:50.759 The airplane is not working well, and it takes the 235 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:53.720 pilot a way to figure out. Primarily, the big problem 236 00:14:53.799 --> 00:14:55.919 right now seems to be navigation. The rest of it 237 00:14:55.960 --> 00:14:59.039 is just coming. And so what the pilots are being 238 00:14:59.039 --> 00:15:04.639 done is being being trained for this GPS. 239 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:05.919 Spoofing, and they sort of have to know. 240 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:10.559 I was watching a documentary yesterday again I love these things, 241 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:13.720 and it's about the Cold War. And there was one 242 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:18.159 incident nineteen eighty three in which the Russian, the new 243 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:22.200 Russian version of NORAD and that is trying to figure 244 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:26.559 out American missiles, nuclear ballistic missiles coming into Russia. 245 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:28.799 And there it showed on his screen. 246 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:34.440 The guy was running that particular department at the time, 247 00:15:34.919 --> 00:15:37.799 he was the overnight guy, and there he sees on 248 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:42.519 his screen four missiles from the United States coming in, 249 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:48.799 nuclear missiles coming in to attack the US. And he decided, 250 00:15:49.320 --> 00:15:52.360 you know, I don't trust the computer. I think the 251 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:56.480 computer's wrong on this. Even though I'm being told that's 252 00:15:56.519 --> 00:15:59.519 what's happening. It doesn't make a lot of sense. If 253 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:01.399 the US were going to attack RuSHA, it wouldn't do 254 00:16:01.480 --> 00:16:03.399 it with four or five missiles. It would do it 255 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:04.759 with hundreds of missiles. 256 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:09.759 And so he stopped it cold. He wouldn't go up. 257 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:14.840 Up the food chain, basically stopped World War II from happening. 258 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:16.039 By the way, he lost his job. 259 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:19.879 Instead of being a hero, he was nailed for it 260 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:22.879 because he embarrassed the higher ups who had put in 261 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:27.240 this system that was faulty. The point is he didn't 262 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:29.840 trust the computers. 263 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:31.840 He didn't trust his system. 264 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:35.840 And the shame of it is when you think of airplanes, 265 00:16:35.879 --> 00:16:38.519 and I've said this and this is a universality. 266 00:16:38.679 --> 00:16:42.600 Always trust the instruments. Always trust the instruments. 267 00:16:42.639 --> 00:16:47.399 They are far more effective than anything the eyeball can do. 268 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:49.759 For example, the horizon. John F. 269 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:54.120 Kennedy Junior boom went right into the augured into the 270 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:57.559 sea because he was looking at the horizon and he 271 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:01.240 lost it. The instruments tell you where it is, and 272 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:05.839 he wasn't paying attention. So pilots are now trained when 273 00:17:05.880 --> 00:17:12.160 it comes to these glitches, don't trust the instruments, go to. 274 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:13.440 Your gut feeling. 275 00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:18.359 For example, Captain carry, Now this was an easy one. 276 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:22.039 Right pull up, pull up, pull up. I'm a thirty 277 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:27.440 two thousand feet Where am I going to pull up from? No? 278 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:28.759 I don't have problem here. 279 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:33.440 But when you have, for example, the GPS telling you 280 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:36.960 you're off course when in fact you are on course, 281 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:37.799 how do they deal with it? 282 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:39.319 Well, one is training and now. 283 00:17:39.319 --> 00:17:41.680 There's but that's something else pilots have to deal with 284 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:44.039 on top of everything they have to deal with, on 285 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:46.240 top of the fact that they're working overtime, on top 286 00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:48.799 of the fact that falling asleep, on top of the 287 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:52.759 fact there aren't enough pilots out there, on top of 288 00:17:52.759 --> 00:17:55.920 the fact that they're not now hiring pilots with fewer 289 00:17:55.960 --> 00:18:00.640 hours in the air, so it is not being a 290 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:02.880 pilot today is far more difficult and a lot more 291 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:07.240 tiring than it used to be and dealing with now 292 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:11.200 in this case the GPS spoofy are there end a rounds? Yeah, 293 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:14.519 they have other ways of figuring out navigation. There are 294 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:17.799 there are systems that are in place that use things 295 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:18.920 other than GPS. 296 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:21.400 I mean, GPS is fairly new. You know. 297 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:24.319 Airplanes have been flying overseas and have been flying along 298 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:28.279 distance a lot longer than GPS has been around. But 299 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:30.960 we're going to as a matter of fact, it all 300 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:35.640 goes down to straight dead reckoning no airplanes. If you 301 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:38.680 look at some older airplanes, there's a little bubble on 302 00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:44.880 top of the cockpit and they used to use when 303 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:50.200 it was you know, instruments were fairly new and pilots 304 00:18:50.240 --> 00:18:54.519 were all trained to take a sexton and look at 305 00:18:54.519 --> 00:18:57.759 the night sky and navigate dead reckoning. 306 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:02.119 Of course they don't do that anymore, but that was part. 307 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:02.440 You know. 308 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:04.359 I wonder if pilots are still trained in that. I 309 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:06.160 don't think so. I don't think so. 310 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:09.039 I think there's too many redundancies in the GPS. I 311 00:19:09.079 --> 00:19:11.519 have to look that up, by the way, I really do. 312 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:17.079 I'll do that during the break. Hey, siri, are pilots 313 00:19:17.160 --> 00:19:19.440 trained in dead reckoning anymore? 314 00:19:22.359 --> 00:19:22.880 Yeah? 315 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:30.759 Pilots are still trained in dead reckoning? Okay, Hey, pretty impressive. 316 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:32.400 All right. 317 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:36.799 I want to share something with you, and this has 318 00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:40.160 to do with a kind of tourism, and it's called 319 00:19:40.519 --> 00:19:42.400 glacier tourism. 320 00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:46.039 And there's a guy, no I. 321 00:19:45.960 --> 00:19:50.839 Think three years ago, Zach Sheldon was watching was up 322 00:19:50.880 --> 00:19:53.920 near Valdez Glacier in Alaska, and he was watching these 323 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:57.559 huge chunks of ice breakoff and go into. 324 00:19:58.799 --> 00:20:00.599 Into the ocean. Calved. 325 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:02.519 It was actually next to a lake at Calved in 326 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:06.000 the lake below. And then he's looking there and they 327 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:09.559 find two bodies clinging to a canoe, a third about 328 00:20:09.559 --> 00:20:12.200 one hundred and fifty feet away. They were too close 329 00:20:12.240 --> 00:20:16.119 to the glacier's edge and they got caught up in 330 00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:19.880 the ice. Not necessarily ice falling on top of them, 331 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:22.880 but the wave that was created and they're too close 332 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:24.720 and you don't want to go in the water, not 333 00:20:24.920 --> 00:20:28.759 in that temperature. They were boating on Valdez Lake, two 334 00:20:28.839 --> 00:20:29.960 Germans and an Austrian. 335 00:20:31.200 --> 00:20:34.519 And why did they go? Because they wanted to see 336 00:20:34.559 --> 00:20:36.839 these glaciers. They're fast disappearing. 337 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:41.720 Glacier tourism has exploded in recent years, and. 338 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:42.720 There's a bunch of reasons. 339 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:45.839 One to fulfill a bucket list stream And I will 340 00:20:45.880 --> 00:20:48.559 tell you, and I've said this before, if you're going 341 00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:51.079 to go on cruises, there's three or four places in 342 00:20:51.119 --> 00:20:51.759 the world you. 343 00:20:51.839 --> 00:20:56.400 Want to go to. One of them Alaska the inland. 344 00:20:56.039 --> 00:20:59.519 Passage where part of it you go into Glacier Bay 345 00:20:59.640 --> 00:21:05.799 or other to see the glaciers. And guess what, there 346 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:11.119 ain't many glaciers left. Climate change has just wiped out glaciers. 347 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:14.119 If you ever go to Juno, and i'd been. My 348 00:21:14.200 --> 00:21:16.559 first Alaska trip was maybe thirty five years ago on 349 00:21:16.599 --> 00:21:18.440 a cruise and you get off and you spend the day. 350 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:24.640 Juno Mendenhall Glacier is the big glacier outside of Juno. 351 00:21:25.279 --> 00:21:28.160 And when I went there thirty five years ago, it 352 00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:33.960 was a few hundred yards from the town, the outskirts 353 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:36.480 of the town. I mean walk right there today, it's 354 00:21:36.599 --> 00:21:42.160 five miles away. It has retreated, it is shrinking, and 355 00:21:42.240 --> 00:21:47.720 you can see what's going on. So one reason is 356 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:51.559 to fill a bucket list dream. Another to get close 357 00:21:51.599 --> 00:21:54.160 to a natural phenomenon. This is absolutely gorgeous. 358 00:21:54.599 --> 00:21:57.039 Some for adventure, but I'll tell you what. 359 00:21:57.119 --> 00:22:02.039 Another reason has come up, another motivation to see the 360 00:22:02.039 --> 00:22:09.400 glaciers before they disappear. And it's called last chance tourism. 361 00:22:10.480 --> 00:22:13.160 Usually tourism is you want to be the first or 362 00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:15.759 one of the first, you know, sailing across the stretch 363 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:17.799 of water, if you're crazy enough, first. 364 00:22:17.519 --> 00:22:20.759 One, climbing a mountain. Now it's about lasts. 365 00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:26.160 Glaciers are becoming the poster child for last chance destinations. 366 00:22:28.559 --> 00:22:33.200 And even under the best case scenario. According to recent 367 00:22:33.240 --> 00:22:36.359 papers that have been done best case scenario, half the 368 00:22:36.400 --> 00:22:42.640 world's glaciers will be gone by twenty one hundred, and 369 00:22:42.960 --> 00:22:47.119 they become more accessible as they melt, they're more dangerous, 370 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:50.079 they're becoming more unstable. 371 00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:53.839 Last month, for example, there was an American. 372 00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:57.839 Tourist died when an ice cave collapse in Iceland, and 373 00:22:57.920 --> 00:23:03.960 it was at the Brio Breo Meta Ameda Quarter Joe 374 00:23:04.079 --> 00:23:09.759 Cool Glacier in Iceland, and the reason he died is 375 00:23:09.799 --> 00:23:13.240 because the guide spent so much time pronouncing the name 376 00:23:13.279 --> 00:23:18.119 of the glacier that he couldn't quite get out in 377 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:19.960 time trying to understand what happened. 378 00:23:20.880 --> 00:23:22.960 And there are deaths all over the. 379 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:28.240 World, and it is really unfortunate. It's been a lot 380 00:23:28.279 --> 00:23:31.519 of years since I've been to Alaska, and now there's 381 00:23:31.640 --> 00:23:35.079 eight zillion cruise lines as that go up there, and 382 00:23:35.160 --> 00:23:37.799 I don't know how many go into. 383 00:23:37.839 --> 00:23:42.240 These various glacier lakes. Used to be you go into 384 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:42.960 Glacier Bay. 385 00:23:43.400 --> 00:23:46.440 Now you've got four four ships allowed in there because 386 00:23:46.480 --> 00:23:49.160 it's just so dangerous and you have to you can't 387 00:23:49.200 --> 00:23:53.839 get that close. So that is that certainly is fairly safe. 388 00:23:53.880 --> 00:23:56.160 And I could take a big cruise line that close. 389 00:23:56.200 --> 00:23:59.519 Although you can hear the calving and you hear what 390 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:04.000 appeared to be right here rifle shots and that's the 391 00:24:04.039 --> 00:24:07.279 ice that's moving. Is kind of interesting, but it doesn't 392 00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:09.920 I mean, these are national parks. Doesn't stop anybody for 393 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:13.279 taking a canoe and going up there and dying, and 394 00:24:13.400 --> 00:24:16.440 so it's a shame. I think you can still take 395 00:24:16.480 --> 00:24:20.359 a helicopter out of Juno and land on the men 396 00:24:20.400 --> 00:24:22.680 in the Hall glacier and they're pretty careful. The guides 397 00:24:22.759 --> 00:24:24.440 go out in the morning and they make sure that 398 00:24:24.519 --> 00:24:28.440 they're safe places and there are the area is flagged off, 399 00:24:28.440 --> 00:24:30.759 but it's kind of neat walking around on top of 400 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:35.559 a glacier. Now, unfortunately you fall through and it's it's 401 00:24:35.599 --> 00:24:39.519