Latest / That KEVIN Show / BONUS RADIO: Earthquakes, Presidential Security, and Good Manners
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- 0:01Speaker 1: From the birthplace of radio's greatest era. Now from New York,
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- 0:54Speaker 2: Kevin McCullough, all right, welcome, It's the Tuesday Travel edition
- 1:00Speaker 2: of Radio Night Live. Travel Tuesday is what we call it.
- 1:02Speaker 2: She's Linda Perillo. I'm Kevin McCullough, glad to have you here.
- 1:06Speaker 2: And I don't know about you, but I did not
- 1:09Speaker 2: hear until like midway through the evening last night about
- 1:13Speaker 2: this earthquake in Columbia. But I've started to see some
- 1:15Speaker 2: of the footage coming out of there. That's really scary stuff.
- 1:19Speaker 3: It is, and it actually happened yesterday because I'm like
- 1:22Speaker 3: and I've got the news on like all the time,
- 1:25Speaker 3: because just I'm like an addict about information crazy. And
- 1:30Speaker 3: the thing is a lot of people took video, a
- 1:34Speaker 3: lot of people were and you could really see and
- 1:39Speaker 3: feel how they were getting through this and what it's
- 1:44Speaker 3: like to be a human being in the middle of
- 1:46Speaker 3: a tragedy. We're fragile, nobody's more prepared for something like
- 1:51Speaker 3: this than somebody else. We would react the way they reacted.
- 1:56Speaker 3: And to watch these buildings topple, all, Oh my god,
- 2:00Speaker 3: and you know there are people inside and people below.
- 2:04Speaker 4: I mean, it's really very scary.
- 2:06Speaker 3: But why I want to know we should have some seismologists.
- 2:11Speaker 3: I think they're called a sismologists right on the show.
- 2:13Speaker 3: I'd like to know, are these things more prevalent? I
- 2:19Speaker 3: seem to feel that we're hearing a lot about earthquakes
- 2:22Speaker 3: and natural disasters more than we ever had. Now Again,
- 2:25Speaker 3: is it the self reporting phenomenon? Is it the fact
- 2:28Speaker 3: that tagging onto what I just said, people are walking
- 2:30Speaker 3: around with their phones and you are able to capture
- 2:35Speaker 3: and be their own photojournalists, because they do have this
- 2:39Speaker 3: device in their hands.
- 2:40Speaker 4: To record things. Or is there some shift going.
- 2:43Speaker 3: On in the Earth that we don't know about or
- 2:47Speaker 3: don't understand yet, or whatever, because I think that there
- 2:50Speaker 3: are a lot of earthquakes lately, you don't think, so,
- 2:54Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 2:56Speaker 2: I don't know what the statistics are. I think that
- 3:01Speaker 2: the answer on some level. Let's see the USGS, which
- 3:05Speaker 2: is the United States Geological Society, recently addressed your question
- 3:11Speaker 2: in February of this show. Its conclusion is that the
- 3:15Speaker 2: apparent increase in Earth in the earthquake catalog is what
- 3:18Speaker 2: they call it is primarily because we have vastly more
- 3:22Speaker 2: seismic instruments, better communications, and much greater ability to detect
- 3:26Speaker 2: small ones. The National Earthquake Information Center now locates roughly
- 3:31Speaker 2: twenty thousand earthquakes a year, about fifty five every day
- 3:35Speaker 2: on planet Earth. Okay, so very few of them end
- 3:38Speaker 2: up being the size that the one in Columbia was yesterday.
- 3:42Speaker 4: Well that was I mean beyond I mean wow.
- 3:46Speaker 2: Before I moved to the East coast in the Southwest,
- 3:50Speaker 2: where I lived in Texas, I don't recall ever having
- 3:53Speaker 2: one earthquake. The entire time was my first eighteen years
- 3:56Speaker 2: of life. Moved to Chicago, went to college. Don't remember
- 4:00Speaker 2: any earthquakes in the Chicago area for the ten or
- 4:02Speaker 2: so years I was there. Married a girl from southern California.
- 4:06Speaker 2: She has them. I mean they had them, you know,
- 4:09Speaker 2: four or five times a year, but about ninety seven
- 4:13Speaker 2: percent of them just feel like you kind of lost
- 4:15Speaker 2: your balance momentarily when you were walking down the sidewalk,
- 4:17Speaker 2: like you wouldn't have even known that you really had one,
- 4:21Speaker 2: except that somebody was like, oh, did you feel that earthquake?
- 4:24Speaker 2: And then when I moved.
- 4:25Speaker 4: To New Jersey, we had a few here.
- 4:28Speaker 2: Kea had a few, and some of them bigger than others,
- 4:31Speaker 2: but most of them again kind of not really noticeable,
- 4:35Speaker 2: you know, in a terrible way. But these big ones
- 4:40Speaker 2: like the one in Columbia, man, that is do you
- 4:42Speaker 2: remember the one that happened in San Francisco and watching
- 4:45Speaker 2: the you know, the baseball stadium.
- 4:49Speaker 3: Yes, oh my god, I remember that.
- 4:52Speaker 2: Those ones don't happen nearly as often. But yeah, fifty
- 4:56Speaker 2: five earthquakes a day somewhere on planet Earth. That's a lot.
- 4:59Speaker 4: That is a lot, and again.
- 5:01Speaker 3: You know, we we have given ourselves full poetic license
- 5:07Speaker 3: to report this, and we are able to in a
- 5:11Speaker 3: nanosecond report just about anything. So you know, when you
- 5:15Speaker 3: go to the smallest one, Oh did you feel that
- 5:17Speaker 3: earth shake? That would never have amounted to anything in
- 5:20Speaker 3: the news twenty years ago, we're now reporting. So you know,
- 5:25Speaker 3: a lot of these things are geological phenomenons.
- 5:28Speaker 4: They are part of the atmosphere. It's part of what
- 5:31Speaker 4: happens with the earth.
- 5:32Speaker 3: You know, I've often thought about this, and only because
- 5:35Speaker 3: we're into our two hundred and fiftieth year and we're patriotic,
- 5:38Speaker 3: and you know, we talk about the storms and the
- 5:41Speaker 3: rain and the wind and the snow that happened during
- 5:46Speaker 3: these battles, Right, they had no idea if it was
- 5:51Speaker 3: going to snow, if it was going to rain, if
- 5:54Speaker 3: the next day was going to be sunny.
- 5:56Speaker 4: They knew nothing.
- 5:57Speaker 3: Imagine knowing nothing about what was going to happen the
- 6:01Speaker 3: next day with the weather.
- 6:02Speaker 4: Yeah, but we live on that. We or what's tomorrow
- 6:06Speaker 4: gonna be? Well, bring your umbrella, do this? Do that?
- 6:08Speaker 4: Like the weather has become news news worthy right.
- 6:13Speaker 3: Never before, But that's how we live and that's we
- 6:17Speaker 3: give each other information, and you know, again we're able
- 6:21Speaker 3: to But here's the thing, Kevin, We're able to help
- 6:24Speaker 3: these people because we know what happened to them. Right
- 6:27Speaker 3: many years ago, we wouldn't have known maybe what happened
- 6:31Speaker 3: to them, or get help or whatever, because I mean,
- 6:34Speaker 3: my god, these are not here. These are not rich
- 6:38Speaker 3: countries that have the conveniences that we have in the
- 6:41Speaker 3: United States.
- 6:42Speaker 4: These are poor people.
- 6:43Speaker 2: Well. In fact, partly the reason that damage is so
- 6:45Speaker 2: bad is because the infrastructure is so.
- 6:48Speaker 4: Lacking in these places.
- 6:49Speaker 2: And like in the US, over time, Florida got really
- 6:55Speaker 2: good at building hurricane proof housing along its shore, and
- 7:00Speaker 2: California got really good at building earthquake proof housing and
- 7:04Speaker 2: its you know, fault lines. And we learned more as
- 7:08Speaker 2: time went by, how to build better foundations, how to
- 7:10Speaker 2: you know, help things stand up. They don't have that
- 7:13Speaker 2: in places like Columbia. They don't have years and years
- 7:16Speaker 2: of people saying, hey, let's let's research and make this
- 7:19Speaker 2: foundation more secure and so forth. So when these things happen,
- 7:22Speaker 2: especially and I remember the earthquake that hit Haiti a
- 7:27Speaker 2: few years ago, and I've been to Haiti on mission
- 7:29Speaker 2: trips a few times, and I thought, there's no way
- 7:32Speaker 2: that that country could withstand, you know. And then after
- 7:36Speaker 2: the earthquake, that had a monsoon come through, and then
- 7:38Speaker 2: they had a measles outbreak and it was like, dude,
- 7:40Speaker 2: it just didn't stop for them for like eighteen months.
- 7:43Speaker 2: Just horrible things. But an earthquake hitting a very underdeveloped
- 7:48Speaker 2: or just very partially developed part of the world is
- 7:51Speaker 2: absolutely devastating. And people have not asked me yet, but
- 7:56Speaker 2: I know friends that my friends at Food for the Poor,
- 7:59Speaker 2: which do a lot of work in Latin and South America,
- 8:02Speaker 2: Central America, et cetera, will be doing something to help
- 8:05Speaker 2: the people of Columbia. If you want to check them out,
- 8:08Speaker 2: FFTP dot orgs where you can go and do that.
- 8:11Speaker 3: Listen, kid, I always have to add a little bit
- 8:13Speaker 3: of like sarcasm in So.
- 8:16Speaker 4: They interviewed this woman.
- 8:18Speaker 3: She's American and she moved with her husband who's also American,
- 8:23Speaker 3: to Merinine.
- 8:24Speaker 4: What are you doing?
- 8:26Speaker 2: It must be in the drug business at all I.
- 8:28Speaker 4: Thought about was the Manian drug cartel.
- 8:30Speaker 2: They've got to be a cartel family.
- 8:32Speaker 4: What are you doing there?
- 8:35Speaker 3: I don't want to hear about your earthquake experience because
- 8:37Speaker 3: you shouldn't be there, you should be here.
- 8:40Speaker 2: That's just one more statistic. I just found about seven
- 8:47Speaker 2: a magnitude seven or eight earthquake is what this thing
- 8:49Speaker 2: probably was, so one of the really big ones on
- 8:52Speaker 2: that scale. Since nineteen hundred, the long term expectation is
- 8:57Speaker 2: usually about fifteen magnitude sevens to seven point nine's on
- 9:03Speaker 2: a given year, and usually one magnitude eight or greater
- 9:08Speaker 2: on a given year, So about sixteen of your seven
- 9:10Speaker 2: to eight magnitude the big ones in a given year.
- 9:13Speaker 3: So they are and again the smaller ones are they
- 9:16Speaker 3: not recorded? Do they hear them? I mean, I know
- 9:19Speaker 3: even in Italy, you know, the ground would shake and
- 9:22Speaker 3: they would go, oh, Piccola, Remoto, and they would go
- 9:24Speaker 3: on with their day and like my mother was like,
- 9:27Speaker 3: what a small earthquake? Like okay, you know, but they
- 9:32Speaker 3: may be used to these smaller ones, and that's.
- 9:34Speaker 4: Why we don't hear.
- 9:35Speaker 5: No.
- 9:35Speaker 2: If there's twenty thousand of them going on a year,
- 9:37Speaker 2: that's fifty five a day. But we have better instrumentation
- 9:42Speaker 2: now so we can take them and report them. All right,
- 9:45Speaker 2: She's Linda, I'm Kevin. You're never gonna believe how president
- 9:48Speaker 2: you remember when he was in Turkey at the G
- 9:51Speaker 2: twelve just not long ago, and he got out because
- 9:54Speaker 2: there was an Iranian death threat against him. We're going
- 9:56Speaker 2: to tell you how he did it. State and stay
- 9:58Speaker 2: right here.
- 10:05Speaker 1: From New York. It's Radio Night Life with Kevin mccallaugh.
- 10:10Speaker 2: Welcome back. It's travel Tuesday. She's Lynda, I'm Kevin. And
- 10:14Speaker 2: speaking of traveling, Linda, you know the president just for
- 10:18Speaker 2: him to go across town in Washington, d C. It's
- 10:21Speaker 2: just sole big thing. You got to clear the roads,
- 10:23Speaker 2: you got to have all the all the motorcycles and
- 10:26Speaker 2: the motorcade, and you got to you know, make sure
- 10:28Speaker 2: there's nothing obstructing any part of the journey. Imagine having
- 10:33Speaker 2: to do that by taking him to another side of
- 10:36Speaker 2: the planet, going to a foreign capital and not knowing
- 10:40Speaker 2: the expectation of what you know, you're going to get
- 10:42Speaker 2: by way of cooperation and so forth over there. So
- 10:45Speaker 2: anytime the president leaves home base, it's a big, big deal,
- 10:49Speaker 2: and we send a small fleet of military personnel over
- 10:53Speaker 2: there with him. And not long ago, he was at
- 10:56Speaker 2: the G twelve and they were having the you know,
- 10:58Speaker 2: the conference, and he was telling Europe what a crappy
- 11:00Speaker 2: job they're doing, about being terrible neighbors and not paying
- 11:03Speaker 2: the share and all the rest of it. And they
- 11:06Speaker 2: all apologize and said, well, we'll do better, mister President,
- 11:08Speaker 2: I'm sorry. But before he came home, and I thought
- 11:11Speaker 2: this was interesting, they they had some legit death threats
- 11:16Speaker 2: against him that I guess are just always on him
- 11:19Speaker 2: from Iran. Anyway, Iran's been trying to kill him since
- 11:22Speaker 2: his first term and anyboy they don't like. But there's
- 11:30Speaker 2: a lot of speculation that even they were behind the
- 11:33Speaker 2: shooter that killed that tried to shoot him in Butler,
- 11:37Speaker 2: that there was some sort of a Rtian connection to
- 11:39Speaker 2: that kid being brainwashed and so forth. Anyway, since the war,
- 11:44Speaker 2: he's been even higher profile target for them, and so
- 11:48Speaker 2: they I don't know if you if you knew this,
- 11:50Speaker 2: but he had taken you remember that very fancy plane
- 11:53Speaker 2: that the Katarise had given him. They took that. They
- 11:57Speaker 2: took that as the first time for the first time
- 11:59Speaker 2: as the new Air Force one over to Turkey. And
- 12:03Speaker 2: when they got this threat, they were not confident that
- 12:07Speaker 2: the that the airplane had not been compromised in some way,
- 12:09Speaker 2: so they ordered the old Air Force one to come
- 12:12Speaker 2: pick him up to bring him home. But that wasn't
- 12:16Speaker 2: the end of it. And I didn't know until this morning.
- 12:18Speaker 2: I was reading Fox News, very very fascinating story. They
- 12:21Speaker 2: had the old Air Force one. They're on the tarmac.
- 12:24Speaker 2: They tell all the press, this is when he's leaving.
- 12:26Speaker 2: You see him go up the stairs, he turns, he
- 12:29Speaker 2: waves to the crowd. He gets on. He gets on
- 12:33Speaker 2: the air Force one. And then what happens next is
- 12:37Speaker 2: the fascinating part. On the backside of the plane where
- 12:40Speaker 2: nobody could see. They had an elevator basically pick up
- 12:45Speaker 2: a vehicle that was bulletproof, and Trump exited the backside
- 12:50Speaker 2: of the plane, got in that truck. They lowered it
- 12:52Speaker 2: down to the ground. It drove halfway across the airport
- 12:55Speaker 2: to awaiting Air Force se one, which are one of
- 12:59Speaker 2: those huge, huge and those can fly through hurricanes and stuff.
- 13:03Speaker 2: That's how Trump those airplanes are. But he flew from
- 13:07Speaker 2: anchor A, Turkey into London Heathrow on this unlabeled and
- 13:15Speaker 2: then and then to continue with the ploy, they had
- 13:19Speaker 2: all of the reporters and all the all of the
- 13:21Speaker 2: guests of the White House that traveled with him. They
- 13:24Speaker 2: had them get on the old Air Force one and
- 13:26Speaker 2: that landed in London as well, and then they reversed course.
- 13:30Speaker 2: They snuck him back onto air Force one so that
- 13:33Speaker 2: he could go back and say hi to the press
- 13:35Speaker 2: and everybody else, and then they flew the rest of
- 13:37Speaker 2: the way back to the US. Actually, they had brought
- 13:39Speaker 2: the new Air Force one up from Turkey, landed it,
- 13:42Speaker 2: and in London they moved everybody from the old Air
- 13:45Speaker 2: Force one over to the new guy, and then they
- 13:47Speaker 2: flew him the rest of the way home. But you
- 13:49Speaker 2: talk about a shell game literally trying to use this.
- 13:52Speaker 2: Can you imagine having to put a truck and elevating
- 13:56Speaker 2: it up so that he could just get onto.
- 13:58Speaker 6: It from the back the truck, right, So that's how
- 14:01Speaker 6: they loaded the food onto these airplanes anyway, So it
- 14:06Speaker 6: was a brilliant idea because he was shielded.
- 14:09Speaker 3: It's not like he had to get off the plane
- 14:11Speaker 3: and go into another vehicle. He stepped on the plane,
- 14:14Speaker 3: got onto the elevated truck right, stepped right on like
- 14:18Speaker 3: he was a tray of caprese salad, and.
- 14:22Speaker 4: Then they took him that same box.
- 14:24Speaker 2: They must have had really really strong intelligence that, Oh
- 14:28Speaker 2: my god, because I don't remember hearing anything like that
- 14:32Speaker 2: of a president in my lifetime.
- 14:34Speaker 3: Well, it shows why the Secret Service and everybody else
- 14:40Speaker 3: that works for US underground worked.
- 14:42Speaker 4: For the United States government.
- 14:44Speaker 3: They're trained to do exactly this kind of stuff.
- 14:47Speaker 4: They throw scenarios at them and say what would you do?
- 14:50Speaker 3: Because they have to be able to see this is
- 14:52Speaker 3: where I would fail the course completely.
- 14:56Speaker 4: They have to really be able to think on their
- 14:59Speaker 4: feet in.
- 14:59Speaker 3: A half half a second, troubleshoot in half a second, I'd.
- 15:04Speaker 4: Be like, Uh, what are we doing? I couldn't do it.
- 15:10Speaker 4: I do it.
- 15:11Speaker 3: You have to be a special type of person that
- 15:15Speaker 3: doesn't hear anything around you except this is what we
- 15:18Speaker 3: have to do.
- 15:18Speaker 2: Well, it makes me wonder, like, what the what the
- 15:21Speaker 2: threat actually was? So by not having him on the
- 15:25Speaker 2: plane that was labeled air Force one, and there's this,
- 15:28Speaker 2: but there's this, there's this, there's this protocol they go through.
- 15:31Speaker 2: Once the air what's the airplane is airborne? You have
- 15:34Speaker 2: to give it a call sign for all of the
- 15:36Speaker 2: international flight controllers to know what it where it is,
- 15:39Speaker 2: and you know what it is. So I'm wondering if
- 15:41Speaker 2: they thought that there was a that it was a
- 15:44Speaker 2: missile threat that might be once Air Force One was
- 15:49Speaker 2: was zooming down the tarmac and about to do lift off,
- 15:52Speaker 2: if somebody had an unobstructed shot of the runway and
- 15:56Speaker 2: thinking that it was clearly labeled Air Force one, that
- 15:59Speaker 2: that that that plane was just in greater danger, you know,
- 16:03Speaker 2: shoulder launched missile, some of these things that they're shooting
- 16:05Speaker 2: into the straight of hor moves. The part of the
- 16:08Speaker 2: reason that we've had trouble there is that they're they're
- 16:10Speaker 2: very portable. They can just run around with them and
- 16:12Speaker 2: put in different places. And if they had not been
- 16:15Speaker 2: confident that the city had been secured, and Turkey has
- 16:19Speaker 2: not been necessarily a very good I mean, I know
- 16:21Speaker 2: they're part of NATO, but they've not been a great
- 16:24Speaker 2: ally at times. And if you had a little bit
- 16:26Speaker 2: of loose security and somebody got in with you know,
- 16:28Speaker 2: a truck of some sort have a little missile launcher
- 16:31Speaker 2: on it trying to take out his plane. But brilliant
- 16:34Speaker 2: move putting him on a completely unmarked plane and getting
- 16:38Speaker 2: him to London that way, And.
- 16:39Speaker 4: That's what and that's what they have to do now.
- 16:42Speaker 3: I live in Madison, New Jersey, which is right next
- 16:48Speaker 3: to Marstown. So he has his posse all the time,
- 16:53Speaker 3: flying whenever he goes to Bedminster, right over my house.
- 16:58Speaker 3: Like literally, you see the fighter jets, you see his plane.
- 17:01Speaker 3: My kids wave, there's all scortes of a but ps
- 17:06Speaker 3: on that.
- 17:06Speaker 4: You bring up a point.
- 17:08Speaker 3: It's so visible when he does that. How safe is
- 17:13Speaker 3: he really? Because if I was a lunatic, which I am,
- 17:17Speaker 3: If I was a lunatic.
- 17:18Speaker 4: And wanted to just go, hey, I'm going to blow
- 17:21Speaker 4: the president up today, I have a clear shot.
- 17:25Speaker 2: Right here, well, you'd have to have some pretty incredible
- 17:27Speaker 2: technology to be able to pull it off.
- 17:29Speaker 4: Oh there, listen, there are crazies out there, weapons.
- 17:32Speaker 2: Level, but you would have to like that stuff is
- 17:34Speaker 2: not just available on the open market. You got to
- 17:36Speaker 2: you gotta have somebody and then you've got to be
- 17:37Speaker 2: able to get it into the country. So and you know,
- 17:41Speaker 2: speaking of your situation, what was it day before yesterday?
- 17:44Speaker 2: Assessana flu a little too close to Bedminster and they
- 17:47Speaker 2: had that F thirty five come chase him right out
- 17:49Speaker 2: of there.
- 17:50Speaker 3: That there were two I think there were two that
- 17:52Speaker 3: flew within the airspace. They weren't supposed to be there,
- 17:55Speaker 3: and they came very I think there was some footage.
- 17:58Speaker 2: They came, they they engaged him. They were like, you
- 18:01Speaker 2: better get out because we're here and we're a lot
- 18:04Speaker 2: faster than you and you're not supposed to be here.
- 18:06Speaker 2: And you know it.
- 18:08Speaker 4: I know it's crazy, but you know, listen, I.
- 18:10Speaker 3: Love being a part of those moments. I will tell
- 18:13Speaker 3: you this, because you know I love the Donald. Your
- 18:17Speaker 3: heart kind of sinks when those planes go over and
- 18:20Speaker 3: those flighter jets go a fighter just go over and
- 18:22Speaker 3: you go, oh my god, massive, this is bigger than me,
- 18:26Speaker 3: Like it's it's just an incredible moment.
- 18:29Speaker 2: Well, on July fourth, when they had the tall ships
- 18:32Speaker 2: sell into the harbor here in New York, we went
- 18:34Speaker 2: into the city and watched them come in. And before
- 18:37Speaker 2: that they had the military fly by, and so you
- 18:39Speaker 2: got all the not only just like the World War
- 18:42Speaker 2: two era jets, but you had all the current fleet
- 18:44Speaker 2: stuff fly through. My boys were like, this is the
- 18:47Speaker 2: coolest thing they've ever seen. Of Course, they have an
- 18:49Speaker 2: uncle who's flying in a Super Orange these days, so it's,
- 18:51Speaker 2: you know, all it comes to them naturally. All right,
- 18:54Speaker 2: got to take another break. Lots more travel talk. Don't
- 18:56Speaker 2: go anywhere.
- 19:02Speaker 4: Now.
- 19:03Speaker 1: I'm from New York back to radio night life. Here're
- 19:06Speaker 1: Kevin McCulla.
- 19:07Speaker 2: All right, welcome back. She's Linda Perillo. I'm Kevin McCullough.
- 19:11Speaker 2: She's fresh from Italy, just one week back. Do you
- 19:14Speaker 2: have you recovered?
- 19:16Speaker 4: I wish I was one week back. I'm like over
- 19:18Speaker 4: a month.
- 19:19Speaker 2: Back now, oh really that many?
- 19:21Speaker 4: I came back July ninth and it.
- 19:24Speaker 2: Has been a month. Well, I guess I'm just back
- 19:26Speaker 2: from Cape May. So it's like we did our little
- 19:29Speaker 2: summer travels and now we're back. But yeah, it's going
- 19:32Speaker 2: to be interesting. So you know, when you when you buy.
- 19:36Speaker 4: An airline ticket, yeah, go ahead.
- 19:39Speaker 2: When you buy an airline ticket, you spend a lot
- 19:41Speaker 2: of money these days because they're not cheap, and you're
- 19:44Speaker 2: trying to go someplace and it's usually for pleasure or
- 19:47Speaker 2: for work, and you want to get there on time,
- 19:51Speaker 2: and you want to have good etiquette with everybody around
- 19:54Speaker 2: you. You don't want to, you know, be nasty the people
- 19:56Speaker 2: you ride the plane with. You don't want to make
- 19:58Speaker 2: people's lives miserable. But I've read two stories in the
- 20:01Speaker 2: last week where and so because of that, I might add,
- 20:05Speaker 2: when we travel with our kids, man they get the
- 20:08Speaker 2: riot Act. Read to them like, you're not gonna misbehave
- 20:12Speaker 2: on this plane. You're not gonna talk back to people.
- 20:14Speaker 2: We're gonna you're gonna you're gonna be a good community
- 20:17Speaker 2: member sitting on this plane. Uh for the five hours
- 20:20Speaker 2: that we got to be on it, and then when
- 20:21Speaker 2: we get off, you can stretch your legs and we'll
- 20:23Speaker 2: do all the stuff. But and our kids travel wonderfully there.
- 20:27Speaker 2: They're so proper and mature, and they sit with each
- 20:30Speaker 2: other in their aisle and they you know, they goof
- 20:32Speaker 2: off a little bit. They sometimes order too many snacks
- 20:35Speaker 2: or whatever, but for the most part, they do a
- 20:37Speaker 2: good job. I can't fathom these stories that I'm reading
- 20:42Speaker 2: about where you have people that have purchase tickets and
- 20:46Speaker 2: that are flying on public airlines and their kids are
- 20:50Speaker 2: so bad. There's two there were two things that happened.
- 20:53Speaker 2: An Alaska Airlines flight had to return to the gate
- 20:57Speaker 2: because a kid refused to follow the rules. And then
- 21:00Speaker 2: another airline canceled the entire flight for the people that
- 21:04Speaker 2: were on it. And I how on earth as a
- 21:08Speaker 2: parent do you look yourself in the mirror and go, oh,
- 21:11Speaker 2: I'm doing such a great job.
- 21:13Speaker 4: Well, they're obviously not. Now here's the other thing too.
- 21:15Speaker 3: I'm trying to play as a parent of thank you God,
- 21:18Speaker 3: eight children with no issues.
- 21:20Speaker 4: Right, well, they have their little issues, but we're going there.
- 21:23Speaker 3: I want to give a little bit of leverage here
- 21:27Speaker 3: to the fact that maybe this kid had an issue. Okay,
- 21:30Speaker 3: and it's very difficult for the parent.
- 21:33Speaker 4: Right was this kid autistic in some way? Were they
- 21:36Speaker 4: on the spectrum?
- 21:37Speaker 3: Do they have other issues where they felt threatened by
- 21:41Speaker 3: sitting in the seed or whatever?
- 21:43Speaker 4: You know, that's the gray area that we don't.
- 21:46Speaker 3: Know, We don't have the information on. Now put that
- 21:48Speaker 3: on the shelf for a second. Let's say the kid
- 21:50Speaker 3: was normal. This is horrendous parenting and horrendous behavior by
- 21:57Speaker 3: a child. And what are the rules I always went
- 22:00Speaker 3: by with my children when traveling, and parents have to
- 22:03Speaker 3: do this no matter where you're going. Children are not
- 22:06Speaker 3: born knowing etiquette, They're not knowing they're not born knowing protocol.
- 22:11Speaker 4: This is something you need to teach them.
- 22:14Speaker 3: So if there's a warning window, I call it before
- 22:17Speaker 3: you go into a new atmosphere. In this case, let's
- 22:22Speaker 3: say flying you say to the child, guess what going on? Airplane? Yay,
- 22:28Speaker 3: Please sit in your seat. You cannot get up out
- 22:31Speaker 3: of your seat. You're going to have to wear a seatbelt.
- 22:34Speaker 4: Tell the kid.
- 22:35Speaker 3: Everything that's going and if we don't follow those rules,
- 22:39Speaker 3: we're gonna have to Now you can start with small things.
- 22:41Speaker 4: You will not have your iPad, you will not get
- 22:44Speaker 4: a treat.
- 22:44Speaker 3: You will you have to give them a repercussion along
- 22:49Speaker 3: with that.
- 22:50Speaker 2: Well, you're incentivizing really good choices.
- 22:53Speaker 4: But here's the thing.
- 22:54Speaker 3: You always have to give them a scenario and a warning.
- 22:59Speaker 3: This is what's going to happen today, so they don't
- 23:03Speaker 3: get there and go, well, where the bleep am I
- 23:06Speaker 3: what are we doing?
- 23:07Speaker 4: Right?
- 23:07Speaker 3: And then I think in this case it's up to
- 23:10Speaker 3: the parent on the plane to say this is not happening,
- 23:13Speaker 3: this is not happening, and do whatever you got to do.
- 23:16Speaker 3: I mean so many times, Kevin I had to say,
- 23:18Speaker 3: just wait, just wait till we land.
- 23:21Speaker 4: I get what was going to happen.
- 23:23Speaker 3: It was this liquid warning that had absolutely no infrastructure
- 23:28Speaker 3: to it at all, but I had to say it
- 23:32Speaker 3: so you know again and.
- 23:35Speaker 2: From the airplanes, from the airline's point of view, like
- 23:38Speaker 2: I don't understand. Like so in the Alaska flight, They
- 23:42Speaker 2: took the people off the flight, They returned them to
- 23:44Speaker 2: the gate, took them off the flight, and then the
- 23:47Speaker 2: rest of the plane got to take off. Now they
- 23:48Speaker 2: were delayed, which is you know, if you're an innocent
- 23:51Speaker 2: person there and you're yeah, that wrecks you if your timeline.
- 23:55Speaker 2: I always think, well, what about the people that are
- 23:57Speaker 2: on a tight timeline and they're trying to make a
- 23:59Speaker 2: business mean or whatever. You know, the consequences of running
- 24:03Speaker 2: late are always bad. But at least they got them
- 24:07Speaker 2: off the plane and the plane was able to go
- 24:09Speaker 2: on and proceed. Evidently, in the other case, it was
- 24:13Speaker 2: so bad that the flight got canceled. And I don't
- 24:15Speaker 2: know if that's because of how the gates are used
- 24:18Speaker 2: at the airport, or you know, there's a scheduling problem, whatever,
- 24:21Speaker 2: But man, your kid caused the entire flight.
- 24:25Speaker 4: How embarrassing is that?
- 24:27Speaker 3: Now, that's similar to what we I mean, at least
- 24:29Speaker 3: we got off when that woman you know, pregamed and
- 24:32Speaker 3: came on the flight completely annihilated. When I was going
- 24:35Speaker 3: to Italy, we had to stop that flight twice. We
- 24:38Speaker 3: were seven hours delay. Now let me tell you a
- 24:40Speaker 3: little story to tag on.
- 24:41Speaker 2: I forgot about that you did have this exact scenario.
- 24:45Speaker 4: Plan and so now here's this.
- 24:48Speaker 2: Actually hold that thought, because we got to take this
- 24:50Speaker 2: great and then come right back and you tell the
- 24:52Speaker 2: story from the beginning. She's Lynda. I'm Kevin. It's Travel Tuesday.
- 24:55Speaker 5: Tho.
- 25:00Speaker 4: What a little moonline can do.
- 25:01Speaker 1: It's radio night Life. Here's Kevin mccullo.
- 25:05Speaker 2: All right, Just before we went to break, Linda was
- 25:07Speaker 2: about to tell us because she herself experienced a delayed
- 25:12Speaker 2: flight because of bad behavior. And now your beloved Pat
- 25:16Speaker 2: has another experience that's gone down. What tell us tell
- 25:19Speaker 2: us about?
- 25:20Speaker 3: Well, he was flying to Anchorage to a hunt, which
- 25:24Speaker 3: I hate. But anyway, that's another another story.
- 25:27Speaker 2: But it didn't make you go that's an upside.
- 25:29Speaker 4: Oh thank god. So anyway, he gets on this plane.
- 25:34Speaker 3: He's supposed to be NonStop Anchorage, United they were supposed
- 25:37Speaker 3: to leave at three thirty in the afternoon, gets to
- 25:39Speaker 3: the airport.
- 25:39Speaker 4: Gets on the plane.
- 25:41Speaker 3: Flights delayed, ground stoppage. Whether here's the interesting part. They
- 25:45Speaker 3: were delayed so long that they left the tarmac. And
- 25:50Speaker 3: if they didn't, I mean they left the gate, and
- 25:52Speaker 3: if they didn't take off within twenty eight minutes, they
- 25:55Speaker 3: would have to return to the gate because the crew
- 25:58Speaker 3: was now going over.
- 26:00Speaker 4: It's a seven hour flight to anchorage.
- 26:03Speaker 3: So the flu the flu, the crew can be in
- 26:07Speaker 3: flight for a certain amount of time, but they had
- 26:10Speaker 3: to have taken off because now Union rules take over.
- 26:13Speaker 4: The pilot's gonna get fatigued. Whatever it is.
- 26:17Speaker 3: They had twenty seven planes in front of them. They
- 26:19Speaker 3: had turn around and.
- 26:20Speaker 4: Go back to the gate, wait for a new crew.
- 26:23Speaker 3: An hour and a half, two hours, they get the
- 26:25Speaker 3: new crew back on the plane. They're pulling out of
- 26:28Speaker 3: the gate, back medical emergency, turn around, went back to
- 26:33Speaker 3: the gate. It is now almost midnight. United cancels the
- 26:36Speaker 3: flight completely and will not allow anybody to get their luggage.
- 26:45Speaker 3: They were not going to offload the luggage for anybody.
- 26:48Speaker 3: The only way you were going to get your bag
- 26:50Speaker 3: is if you rebook the flight and your bag would
- 26:54Speaker 3: follow you the next day. Now he was not happy,
- 26:56Speaker 3: because he's never happy. So the next day he did
- 27:00Speaker 3: book a flight, which which was Chicago anchorage, so he
- 27:04Speaker 3: had a layover.
- 27:06Speaker 4: The bag did follow him.
- 27:07Speaker 3: I will give that to United, but you know, why
- 27:11Speaker 3: are we canceling a flight?
- 27:13Speaker 4: I don't know that to me?
- 27:15Speaker 3: In order what I'm going to say here is in
- 27:17Speaker 3: order to have a flight canceled, Kevin, you have to
- 27:21Speaker 3: remember these airlines are responsible for three hundred.
- 27:23Speaker 4: People just let's just say relatively.
- 27:26Speaker 3: They want to get the h out of there, okay, right,
- 27:30Speaker 3: So for them to cancel a flight, it's.
- 27:33Speaker 4: A pretty big decision.
- 27:35Speaker 3: And there were real ramifications behind that cancelation because now
- 27:40Speaker 3: they have the residual of dealing with these passengers that
- 27:44Speaker 3: you know, can't deal with.
- 27:47Speaker 4: An app, can't don't know what to do. Now you
- 27:50Speaker 4: have three hundred nobody's.
- 27:52Speaker 3: Happy they're coming off a plane, and now they're going
- 27:55Speaker 3: to bombard the agent, bombard the ticket agent. This is
- 27:59Speaker 3: going to be on at any cost. They don't really
- 28:02Speaker 3: want to cancel a flight, so ps A cancelation comes
- 28:07Speaker 3: from some real big issue that they had no choice for.
- 28:11Speaker 3: This was the only choice they could make was to
- 28:13Speaker 3: cancel a flight. And you know, it's not easy, It
- 28:17Speaker 3: really is not easy. Sometimes I feel for them, sometimes
- 28:20Speaker 3: I don't. In this case, a kid, come on, what
- 28:25Speaker 3: were the parents doing?
- 28:26Speaker 4: Really?
- 28:27Speaker 2: Well, that's just it, like, how how out of control
- 28:30Speaker 2: does a kid have to be to create this? Because
- 28:34Speaker 2: I've been on flights that had rowdy kids, and even
- 28:38Speaker 2: if even if the flight attendant has to come and
- 28:40Speaker 2: say to the parent, we need you to address this.
- 28:43Speaker 2: Like I've never seen something get so bad that it
- 28:46Speaker 2: was the later canceled in something.
- 28:48Speaker 3: Let me tell you, I was talking to my daughter
- 28:50Speaker 3: last night and I raised her and you know, she's
- 28:53Speaker 3: parenting like Mima, like her mommy. And we were talking
- 28:56Speaker 3: and we were making fun of these parents with the
- 28:59Speaker 3: gen parenting we call it. Where you're having a conversation
- 29:04Speaker 3: with a two year old. You cannot necessarily have a
- 29:08Speaker 3: conversation with a two year old.
- 29:10Speaker 4: Okay.
- 29:11Speaker 3: Sometimes the thirty something parent really needs to consider their
- 29:17Speaker 3: life experience and you really have to parent that kid.
- 29:22Speaker 3: And sometimes we got to be strict. I'm sorry, life
- 29:26Speaker 3: isn't going to be gentle all the time and let
- 29:28Speaker 3: you go do whatever you feel like doing.
- 29:31Speaker 2: I don't think there's anything to apologize in that.
- 29:33Speaker 4: I know, I'm all about it.
- 29:35Speaker 3: You know, you got to pick and choose your battles
- 29:37Speaker 3: for sure, and that was one of those moments.
- 29:41Speaker 2: Well. Speaking of airlines, a new safety campaign has been
- 29:45Speaker 2: launched by the International Air Transport Association. I haven't heard
- 29:48Speaker 2: of that. IATA remind IATA, Yeah, go ahead, Yeah, reminding
- 29:54Speaker 2: passengers what they need to do when it started to
- 29:58Speaker 2: evacuate the aircraft. They should follow crew instructions. They should
- 30:02Speaker 2: leave all baggage behind and move quickly to the nearest
- 30:05Speaker 2: usable exit. This is this, it's news where.
- 30:11Speaker 4: It's like what I was laughing when I.
- 30:13Speaker 2: Have you not how have you not heard that fifteen
- 30:16Speaker 2: thousand times if you traveled in your.
- 30:18Speaker 5: Life, I sent you this story and I was laughing
- 30:22Speaker 5: to myself, going, really.
- 30:25Speaker 2: This is well, this is why they put it. There
- 30:28Speaker 2: have been a growing number of cases evidenced online of
- 30:31Speaker 2: travelers stopping to grab personal items or bags, or recording
- 30:35Speaker 2: the evacuation on their phone call and stop with the
- 30:38Speaker 2: recording on the phone. Thing that is that is like, oh,
- 30:43Speaker 2: it's it's it's terrible. I need to film it. Like
- 30:46Speaker 2: that's the first thing they think of.
- 30:47Speaker 5: Now down, sweetheart, I love you. I'm going down. I'm
- 30:51Speaker 5: going down.
- 30:53Speaker 2: But they say there's more people when they have to
- 30:56Speaker 2: evacuate planes that are grabbing these things and doing these things.
- 30:59Speaker 3: Well, because their stuff is their stuff. Yeah, their laptops,
- 31:04Speaker 3: their phones, they figure they get off the plane.
- 31:06Speaker 2: Yeah. Blame all the blame, all the men, Hey, what
- 31:09Speaker 2: about the woman saying, well, that's my door, Well.
- 31:12Speaker 3: She's my bag, yeah, exactly, And they are out there,
- 31:17Speaker 3: we know they.
- 31:17Speaker 2: Are out there. Are you kidding me? If I was
- 31:20Speaker 2: with my lovely bride and she had her door bag
- 31:23Speaker 2: in the overhead.
- 31:24Speaker 4: She'd be grabbed things coming with us.
- 31:27Speaker 2: Actually, you know what she'ld be. You get my bag.
- 31:29Speaker 2: I'm going you get my bag.
- 31:31Speaker 4: Come off the plane. She's off the plane, Kevin's in the.
- 31:34Speaker 2: Over evan get the bag, save the door. Anyway, So
- 31:43Speaker 2: the I a t. A. Is just reminding everybody that
- 31:46Speaker 2: retrieving items from overhead binds cost valuable seconds and warns
- 31:50Speaker 2: that you put everyone's safety at risk. Carrying bags and
- 31:53Speaker 2: suitcases when passengers are struggling to get out can cause
- 31:55Speaker 2: people to fall or damage the slides.
- 31:57Speaker 4: And you have your phone, grab put it in your pocket,
- 32:01Speaker 4: run out. I mean the phone is your phone is everything.
- 32:04Speaker 2: It pretty much is.
- 32:05Speaker 4: Now, right, So I think having the phone.
- 32:07Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's everything except the door.
- 32:11Speaker 4: The phone is in the door.
- 32:14Speaker 2: Normally probably true anyway, So when we come back, it's
- 32:19Speaker 2: time for Perilla's pointers, and she's she's got a great
- 32:22Speaker 2: one that we're going to help you why should you
- 32:24Speaker 2: always check out at the front desk of your hotel?
- 32:28Speaker 2: I've asked myself this question, Should I just or should
- 32:32Speaker 2: I or should I check out at the front desk?
- 32:35Speaker 2: Good Housekeeping says you got to check out it. No
- 32:37Speaker 2: Travel Leisure says you got to You gotta check out
- 32:39Speaker 2: at the front desk. It's what's best. We'll find out
- 32:42Speaker 2: why next.
- 32:42Speaker 5: Take it.
- 32:49Speaker 1: Once again from New York. Here's Radio night Life and
- 32:53Speaker 1: Kevin McCullough.
- 32:55Speaker 2: All right, welcome back, final few minutes of Travel Tuesday.
- 32:57Speaker 2: She's Lenda Perilla. I'm Kevin McCullough and and Linda Travel
- 33:01Speaker 2: and Leisure is weighing in on something I've always kind
- 33:04Speaker 2: of wondered but never really asked anybody. You get to
- 33:07Speaker 2: the hotel, you have your stay, you're getting ready to leave.
- 33:12Speaker 2: You know that they're going to charge you for whatever
- 33:14Speaker 2: you've put on the tab when you leave. And they
- 33:18Speaker 2: don't care if they get the keys back anymore because
- 33:20Speaker 2: they're just the plastic throwaway key cards, right.
- 33:22Speaker 4: Well, they recycle them a lot of these plays.
- 33:25Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, do I care? I don't know.
- 33:28Speaker 4: I don't care about recycling. I'm terrible. I'm terrible.
- 33:30Speaker 2: Do you know how many hotel keys I've made it
- 33:32Speaker 2: home with.
- 33:32Speaker 5: In the last there's a whole stack of them, and
- 33:36Speaker 5: it's in my wallet, and it's like, oh, I can't
- 33:39Speaker 5: open the.
- 33:39Speaker 2: Door, and why is this in here? Anyway? So Travel
- 33:44Speaker 2: and Leisure says, look, go to the front desk and
- 33:47Speaker 2: always check out properly, take your key down there, and
- 33:50Speaker 2: do it all. And they say that's the best reason.
- 33:53Speaker 2: Why why why do they Why do they tell us
- 33:55Speaker 2: that I need to do something that I've been very
- 33:57Speaker 2: annoyed to have to do.
- 33:58Speaker 4: Well? The reason is it comes down to courtesy.
- 34:03Speaker 3: Right, So what they're saying is that they don't know
- 34:06Speaker 3: that you've left. This especially is for people that leave
- 34:10Speaker 3: earlier before checkout time.
- 34:12Speaker 4: Right. So if you leave before.
- 34:14Speaker 3: Check say you leave two hours, three hours before checkout time,
- 34:17Speaker 3: you got an early flight or whatever, and you don't
- 34:18Speaker 3: tell them you left, they think that room is still occupied.
- 34:21Speaker 3: When housekeeping, little house keeping housekeeping can get in there
- 34:26Speaker 3: and clean the room for the next guests and have
- 34:29Speaker 3: the room ready for the next guest. Because how many
- 34:31Speaker 3: times have you gone to a hotel, Kevin and you
- 34:33Speaker 3: tried to check.
- 34:33Speaker 4: It out, got ready? Oh, your room isn't ready yet,
- 34:37Speaker 4: and this is the reason why.
- 34:39Speaker 3: So this way housekeeping, it's really about that housekeeping can
- 34:43Speaker 3: keep going with momentum.
- 34:45Speaker 4: So if you leave it since a m. In the
- 34:46Speaker 4: morning and.
- 34:48Speaker 3: Checkout isn't usually until like eleven, and you drop your
- 34:51Speaker 3: key off, well now you've given them a five hour
- 34:52Speaker 3: window to go in there and clean that room.
- 34:54Speaker 2: And I think hotel karma kicks in because if you, if,
- 35:00Speaker 2: if you want to check in early at places where
- 35:02Speaker 2: you go stay, and often I do. Often when I
- 35:05Speaker 2: make my reservation, I'll request an early check in and
- 35:07Speaker 2: they'll say, well, mister mccaulough, we'll do it, we'll see
- 35:09Speaker 2: what we can do. They never promise anything. But like,
- 35:13Speaker 2: you got to pay it forward if you want, if
- 35:14Speaker 2: you want to get some early check ins on your trips,
- 35:17Speaker 2: maybe you should be the one that's notifying the hotel that.
- 35:20Speaker 3: You left early exactly exactly so you know, again you
- 35:25Speaker 3: pay it forward, right, so if you want that done.
- 35:27Speaker 4: But here I got to admit I never do it.
- 35:30Speaker 2: I'm terrible.
- 35:30Speaker 3: Nobody wants to stop at the front desk. Nobody wants
- 35:34Speaker 3: to stop.
- 35:35Speaker 4: At the front desk. That's just the way it goes.
- 35:36Speaker 3: Now, you can middle of the road. Here's the compromise.
- 35:41Speaker 3: Take your key and put it in that box. There's
- 35:45Speaker 3: usually a key drop box. Sometimes these hotels are going green.
- 35:49Speaker 3: They're saying please return the key because we recycle them,
- 35:51Speaker 3: we use them for the next guest and gots I
- 35:53Speaker 3: just paid you. It's like it's like the towel, like,
- 35:56Speaker 3: please reuse your towels in my phone.
- 36:01Speaker 2: I feel like I'm having a conversation I've had with
- 36:04Speaker 2: my bride a couple of times. This is not my house.
- 36:08Speaker 2: I am getting fresh towels. Yeah, no, that's that's that's true.
- 36:12Speaker 3: And just every European hotels will do that because they
- 36:16Speaker 3: are more geared to doing the right thing.
- 36:19Speaker 2: They're thinking ahead. That's right. This is the problem, whether
- 36:22Speaker 2: you have crappy kids on an airline, whether you can't
- 36:25Speaker 2: get it in the hotel room, whatever, think ahead. Thinking
- 36:28Speaker 2: ahead solves so many problems in life. All right, Linda,
- 36:31Speaker 2: great to see you within this week. We'll talk to
- 36:34Speaker 2: you next week. Kevin mckella and Linda Perell saying, have
- 36:36Speaker 2: a great night.