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Weird Mole People · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: What the heck happened? An expert weighs in, it's one
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  Speaker 1: more thing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm strong and getty.
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  Speaker 3: One more thing before we get to that.
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  Speaker 2: Two quick things. One.
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  Speaker 4: I just looked up at the Twitter machine and there
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  Speaker 4: is something on there about young people in New York
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  Speaker 4: talking about how they all got punched in the face
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  Speaker 4: because of a recent TikTok challenge in which the thing
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  Speaker 4: was to just walk up and punch people in the face,
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  Speaker 4: and some of the morons do it. I want a
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  Speaker 4: TikTok challenge that is, it's the leave your parents' house,
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  Speaker 4: get a job and support yourself challenge, the follow the law,
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  Speaker 4: pay your taxes, and raise your kids right challenge.
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  Speaker 2: See if that catches on, it'll be waiting forever for that.
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  Speaker 5: God.
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  Speaker 4: I saw one the other day where there's a whole
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  Speaker 4: bunch of iterations of this of like it's just abusing
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  Speaker 4: old people, the scaring them basically, and.
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  Speaker 1: It's just horrific, harsh and draconian penalty.
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  Speaker 4: I act like somebody broke into the house for Grandma
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  Speaker 4: and then and you know, get her reaction. Yeah, because
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  Speaker 4: she's an old woman who thinks somebody broke into her home.
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  Speaker 4: That's why she reacted that way. Why is that funny?
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  Speaker 4: You freaking moron. You should be in jail just for this.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it's concerning the people who do that and
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  Speaker 6: the people who laugh at it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god, this one was a I guess this
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  Speaker 4: was a Jackass thing originally from the Jackass movie. But
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  Speaker 4: I saw this on TikTok the other day. It was, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you push a stroller with a baby in it, a
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  Speaker 4: fake baby at toy the doll doll is the term
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  Speaker 4: fake baby? Yeah, and bother say and the like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the stroller you accidentally trip and push it into traffic
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  Speaker 4: in a car hits it or something like that, and
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  Speaker 4: then you get there the reaction of people who are
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  Speaker 4: horrified that a baby just got ran over, Why is
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  Speaker 4: that funny?
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  Speaker 6: Or you get the people that run out into traffic
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  Speaker 6: trying to stop it.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 6: There's another guy that's going he went viral the other
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  Speaker 6: day that was going through like walmarts and targets and
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  Speaker 6: going up to people that had full carts, families, I
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  Speaker 6: mean everything, and just pulling the cart and knocking it
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  Speaker 6: over and knocking this stuff everywhere and then running away
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  Speaker 6: for no reason at all other than to be a dick.
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  Speaker 4: Right, and then their friends film that and put it
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  Speaker 4: on TikTok and then people watch it, and I think
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  Speaker 4: that's okay.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I, well I had them.
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  Speaker 6: With the algorithm. Is the more attention they get, they
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  Speaker 6: get paid.
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad you're young in complaining about this, because when
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  Speaker 4: Joe and I complain about this, we just sound like
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  Speaker 4: you know, old men about modern culture. But this is
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  Speaker 4: a change in society.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yees, yeah, well you're complaining about it. I'm even
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  Speaker 1: now sketching out my plan to form a vigilante group
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  Speaker 1: that's going to find these internet scoundrels and hunt them
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  Speaker 1: down and give them some real world ass kickings.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I know what it was.
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  Speaker 4: So you take the car carrier thing that you put
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  Speaker 4: your baby in, like when you go into the grocery store,
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  Speaker 4: and then come back and snap it into the car seat.
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  Speaker 2: The person puts it on top of the.
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  Speaker 4: Car and it does some stuff and then drives off
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  Speaker 4: with on top of the car, and then you film
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  Speaker 4: the reactions of everybody freaking out that you drove off
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  Speaker 4: with your baby on top of your car.
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  Speaker 2: I do love that.
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  Speaker 6: In New York, there is a hashtag I punch back,
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  Speaker 6: and there are a series of videos of people I'll.
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  Speaker 4: Tell you what, you come and knock over my cart
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  Speaker 4: full of stuff with my kids there. I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 4: to fight myself to not tackle you.
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  Speaker 2: And we're rappling around.
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  Speaker 5: And find out huh oh god, dang it.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, this is troubling and disturbing in the
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  Speaker 1: world is ugly and full of evil. Anyway, So it
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  Speaker 1: turns out a giant cargo ship took out a bridge
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  Speaker 1: in Baltimore on the day that we are recording this podcast.
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  Speaker 1: The death toll is yet on unknown, but at a
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  Speaker 1: terrible disaster and incredibly dramatic video as well. This posted
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  Speaker 1: at Armstrong and Giddy dot com Tuesday, March twenty sixth Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: got this note from twenty thirty two. I'm speaking to
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  Speaker 1: you from the moon colony while Jack remains on Earth.
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  Speaker 3: Trump is in his fifteenth term. Finally, finally one party rule,
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  Speaker 3: as we dreamed of secretly all those years we were
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  Speaker 3: talking about the Constitution. So Al the Mariner, we'll just.
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  Speaker 5: Call him Al anonymous.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he'd mind, but does this sort of
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  Speaker 1: thing for a living, big ship shipping, and has corresponded
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  Speaker 1: with us through the years whenever something in his realm
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  Speaker 1: comes up. And he's quite knowledgeable and appreciate the note.
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  Speaker 1: But i'll read you parts of his email to us.
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  Speaker 1: I watched this with my captain and cadet. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what a cadet is. Apparently that's something on a ship,
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  Speaker 1: and from what we can tell, it looks like they
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  Speaker 1: lost the plant the ship's power and or propulsion and
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  Speaker 1: collided with the northern span of the bridge.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Actually twice they lost power. She meaning the.
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  Speaker 1: Boat most definitely had at least a harbor pilot on board,
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  Speaker 1: and may even have had a docking pilot on board too.
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  Speaker 1: Harbor or bay pilots get the ship from the sea
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  Speaker 1: buoy to the port, and docking pilots park the ship.
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  Speaker 1: Driving a conning a ship or driving it isn't nearly
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  Speaker 1: as simple as most people think it is.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's simple. I think it's probably really hard.
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  Speaker 5: Oh I thought it was hard, and it's harder than
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  Speaker 5: I thought.
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  Speaker 1: This ship has a bow thruster one, so okay, whooo.
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  Speaker 5: I'm trying so hard not to laugh.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to give him the encouragement.
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  Speaker 2: That was great, Jack, Thank you for that child got.
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  Speaker 4: My child is right, My son who's twelve, and I
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  Speaker 4: don't think he knows what he's talking about, dropped to That's.
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  Speaker 2: What she said on me the other day.
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  Speaker 4: Because it's popular in school, and I don't think they
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  Speaker 4: most of them know what they're really talking about.
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  Speaker 5: But I don't see that gives me hope for the
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  Speaker 5: next generation. It really does.
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  Speaker 2: Were they discussing China on the playground?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: Boy?
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  Speaker 1: So the ship has a bow thruster just like Jack,
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  Speaker 1: one slow speed diesel engine, and one fixed pitch propeller.
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  Speaker 1: In order for most of these types of ships to
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  Speaker 1: reverse propulsion, the engineers first have to have to unclutch
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  Speaker 1: the shaft. I won't, I won't, I won't good, shut
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  Speaker 1: down the engine, stop the shaft from spinning, restart the
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  Speaker 1: engine backwards, and clutch in the shaft. These ships are
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  Speaker 1: built to run most of their lives going forward as
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  Speaker 1: efficiently as possible, so.
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  Speaker 5: They are incredibly inefficient.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to make way a stern backing up In a
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  Speaker 1: perfect world, it would take a few minutes to start
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  Speaker 1: backing down. Well, this isn't a perfect world.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, I didn't know they could just start going backwards
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  Speaker 4: that fast.
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  Speaker 2: I figured it took longer than that, longer.
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  Speaker 5: Than what.
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  Speaker 1: No, in a perfect world, it would take a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes to start backing down, But this is not a
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  Speaker 1: perfect world. With ships, you can't just put it in reverse.
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  Speaker 5: First.
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  Speaker 1: You are trying to take off tens of thousands of
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  Speaker 1: long tons of momentum.
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  Speaker 5: It's a term I'm completely unfamiliar with.
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  Speaker 1: With the added delay of the plant going through its
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  Speaker 1: process of getting the stern bell going. So for the
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  Speaker 1: most part, mariners have to maneuver their way out of
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  Speaker 1: an oh shit moment. If you don't have power, you
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  Speaker 1: can't move the hydraulics involved with the rudder to push
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  Speaker 1: your stern over most cargoes, vessel pivot point is a
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  Speaker 1: third of the ship's length from the bow to the
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  Speaker 1: so even if we were able to start a turn,
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  Speaker 1: the ship may still have hit the bridge on the
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  Speaker 1: side of the vessel like a glancing blow. Also, with
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  Speaker 1: a fixed pitch prop, you will back up the opposite
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  Speaker 1: side your screw pins. Oh back up to the opposite
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  Speaker 1: side your screw pins. For example, if your prop spins
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  Speaker 1: clockwise going forward, this is called the right handed propel. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you were trying to back up your stern will get
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  Speaker 1: pushed to the left. Then he goes into how the
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  Speaker 1: rudder works. But the point is it is a nightmare
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  Speaker 1: to maneuver these things, and you've got to be extremely
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  Speaker 1: good at it because there's so much energy, that much
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  Speaker 1: weight in motion.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know you're seafaring people, Katie.
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  Speaker 4: Your dad has a boat and everything, and but if
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  Speaker 4: you've ever driven a boat at all, you know how
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  Speaker 4: difficult it can be to, you know, go a certain
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  Speaker 4: direction or stop from going a certain direction if you miscalculate.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, and everything takes extra time. There is no
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  Speaker 6: immediate maneuver on anything on the water.
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  Speaker 4: And then so our Joe and I's friend Dave, who
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  Speaker 4: lives on a boat down San Diego. Last time I
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  Speaker 4: was with it, I guess it was last Friday, fourth
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  Speaker 4: of July. So we're on his boat and we come
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  Speaker 4: back and he lost motors. He lost one of his motors,
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  Speaker 4: so he lost the motor on one side, so he
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  Speaker 4: could only navigate one direction, and man, we ended up
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  Speaker 4: having a bad thing happen all on one side of boat,
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  Speaker 4: trying to keep us from smashing into all these other
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  Speaker 4: boats and smashing his boat up against the poles because
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  Speaker 4: once you start drifting and you got no motors, like
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  Speaker 4: that guy was talking about, if you got no power,
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  Speaker 4: you're just going the direction you were going.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, And I don't know if you guys saw that
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  Speaker 6: video where it's sped up where you can see where
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  Speaker 6: this ship is heading towards the bridge.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the power goes out twice.
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  Speaker 6: So they're clearly having some big issues, let alone trying
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  Speaker 6: to maneuver this thing right.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll get to that in just a second, but
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  Speaker 1: he points out the description of how the rudder works
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  Speaker 1: that and anybody who has a boat knows this. You
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  Speaker 1: can't turn a boat that isn't moving right. It's got
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  Speaker 1: to be moving to turn, and if you need it
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  Speaker 1: to turn quickly, it needs to be going fast.
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  Speaker 4: If you've driven on snow or ice, you know this
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  Speaker 4: phenomenon is also right.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, so they had that problem, and it takes
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  Speaker 1: a long damn time to move a ship like that significantly,
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  Speaker 1: especially at the speeds they were going. Then he says,
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  Speaker 1: all of that being said, the loss of power adds
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  Speaker 1: on massive delay to try to make any corrective action.
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  Speaker 1: In the video, you can see the lights cut off
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  Speaker 1: and back on again. We timed it. It took well
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  Speaker 1: over a minute to get power back on. The regulations
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  Speaker 1: say that the emergency diesel generators should only take at
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  Speaker 1: most forty five seconds to restore power to the emergency systems.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that reminds me of the text we got that
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  Speaker 4: said I didn't know Boeing made ships.
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  Speaker 5: Now uh yeah, yeah, uh.
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  Speaker 1: With this, you'll probably hear why didn't they just drop
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  Speaker 1: an anchor? Well, it doesn't work like that in the
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  Speaker 1: movie Battleship or Contraband. In order for the flukes of
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  Speaker 1: modern anchors to fetch up, you have to be going
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  Speaker 1: almost one knot. I had a captain tell me one time,
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  Speaker 1: never run aground with two anchors on board. They don't
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  Speaker 1: do shit. But it makes it looks like you tried everything.
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  Speaker 4: Oh okay, so that sau Just First of all, I
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  Speaker 4: didn't think of the anchor thing. If I'd thought of it,
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  Speaker 4: I would have said that myself. Why didn't they drop
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  Speaker 4: the anchor? But don't run aground without having dropped both anchors,
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  Speaker 4: or at least it looks like you tried.
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  Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
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  Speaker 5: Wow. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Things like this can have a number of things go wrong,
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  Speaker 1: ranging from misjudgment from the pilot, of miscommunication between the
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  Speaker 1: pilot and captain, or a mistake in the engine room
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  Speaker 1: that caused a loss of power end or a propulsion shoot.
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  Speaker 5: It could be all three.
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  Speaker 1: I highly recommend keeping an eye on the YouTube channel
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  Speaker 1: what is going on with shipping. The guy there does
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  Speaker 1: a great job at explaining maritime and navy stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: he'll break this down as soon as he has info.
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  Speaker 4: So these great, big giant tanker ships that got all
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  Speaker 4: those containers on them, and railroad cars and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 4: or trailers for semis. I mean that gives you the perspective.
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  Speaker 4: It's the only way you can get any perspective on
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  Speaker 4: these things as they're sitting out in the ocean with
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  Speaker 4: nothing next to them. You look at those things and
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  Speaker 4: think he's one of those as like a train car
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  Speaker 4: or a container or whatever it is. Yeah, and you think,
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  Speaker 4: oh my god, that's a giant ship.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But remember so we were at a port in West
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  Speaker 4: Sacramento where they ship lots of rice in and out
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  Speaker 4: from around the world. Remember that guy telling us stories
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  Speaker 4: about those giant ships that come in and there aren't
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  Speaker 4: very many people on those ships, and how.
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  Speaker 2: Weird they all were. Yes, I do have you ever
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  Speaker 2: heard this, Katie before?
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  Speaker 4: But they're out there for months, and a lot of
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  Speaker 4: people that work on these ships are very strange people,
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  Speaker 4: because you're somebody that wants to be on a ship
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  Speaker 4: with no other human beings and like no entertainment or
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  Speaker 4: anything like that for months by yourself down in the
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  Speaker 4: dark of a ship's people.
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  Speaker 1: These guys, uh don't even have visas, so they can't
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  Speaker 1: come off the ship. So they'll dock in the US
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  Speaker 1: or dock in some port that sounds interesting. They're not
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  Speaker 1: allowed to get off the ship.
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  Speaker 2: They just stay in their dark ship. Special personality for
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  Speaker 2: that job.
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  Speaker 5: That was Frank, right, wasn't that his name? I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: That was super interesting though.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And whenever I see those ships, that's what I
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  Speaker 4: think of now, got some really strange mole people living
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  Speaker 4: on that ship.
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  Speaker 5: Romanian mole people. Must not be allowed off.
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  Speaker 6: Comes out of my mouth every time we go on
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  Speaker 6: the boat with my family, because we'll go out of
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  Speaker 6: the estuary and we're down on the sea level looking
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  Speaker 6: up at those things, and I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Always like, how do those how do they float? Right?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, they're you know, some terms are overused.
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  Speaker 1: They are quite literally breathtaking to see from anywhere close
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  Speaker 1: to them.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they displaced more than the weight of the water.
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  Speaker 4: Technically is how they float. But that's hard to imagine
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  Speaker 4: that that even happened.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they what Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Keep your shaft oiled? M right right?
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  Speaker 5: Wow? And a clip from shaft. Yeah, that was just
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  Speaker 5: all sorts of enterprise.
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  Speaker 2: It was a multi media presentation you gave us there,
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  Speaker 2: I know, Well, I guess that's it.