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Speaker 2: Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt,
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Speaker 3: They call me Ben.
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Speaker 4: to know. It is the top of the week and
Speaker 4: as is our want. Fellow conspiracy realist, we return to
Speaker 4: you from the weekend with some strange news. We're going
Speaker 4: to learn about volcanic eruptions. We're going to order some pizza.
Speaker 4: We're gonna go into the air and fly the friendly sky.
Speaker 4: But before we do that, just a quick update, just
Speaker 4: like thirty seconds as we were talking off air, you guys,
Speaker 4: remember we talked about super pigs earlier. Of course, we
Speaker 4: just learned that Minnesota is bracing for an invasion of
Speaker 4: feral or super pigs, and state lawmakers and several state
Speaker 4: agencies have started going into disaster modeling like planning for
Speaker 4: widespread poor sign invasions.
Speaker 2: Well, congratulations to y'all.
Speaker 5: Got to get those elephant guns on the ready, you know,
Speaker 5: to contend with all those feral hogs.
Speaker 4: That's a lot of the conversation that's happening now. We
Speaker 4: have a lot of listeners out there in Minnesota, so folks,
Speaker 4: stay safe, let us know your experiences. And as a
Speaker 4: listener pointed out previously, no, the bacon is not good,
Speaker 4: so just do be aware of that.
Speaker 3: Just a little radioactive, right, it's no.
Speaker 2: There was another story recently about a pig life species,
Speaker 2: but it's not a pig, but they were invading golf courses.
Speaker 2: Do you guys remember something about this.
Speaker 5: Well, that's why there's a real problem. They're getting into
Speaker 5: the golf courses.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's Gator country golf courses. They need to respect
Speaker 4: to the ecosystem.
Speaker 2: I don't think I even wrote it down in my
Speaker 2: list of articles here. M never mind, it's not even
Speaker 2: worth the mention because I can't I can't think of
Speaker 2: what it was. They're not pigs, they're pig like and
Speaker 2: they were eating up golf courses and it was a
Speaker 2: whole invasion deal, kind of like the super pigs thing.
Speaker 2: That's gonna happen. I guess he's just got it just gophers.
Speaker 3: No, I'm just joking.
Speaker 5: I was just thinking of what is a caddyshack about
Speaker 5: the pesky gopher.
Speaker 4: Well, one thing we can say that we're all very
Speaker 4: fortunate for right now at least, is that an invasion
Speaker 4: of feral pigs will not affect affect you if you
Speaker 4: are in the air, right because pigs can't fly quite.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they won't affect you there. They're called have Alina.
Speaker 2: That's the type of creature. It's in Arizona, and they're
Speaker 2: destroying golf courses. Okay, let's jump to the skies. This
Speaker 2: is reporting coming out very recently as of the one
Speaker 2: I'm going to look at, primarily is an NPR article
Speaker 2: from November tenth. I'm going to take you back a
Speaker 2: little bit further into October to start the story. On Wednesday,
Speaker 2: October fourth, a plane took off, as planes do, from
Speaker 2: Stansted Airport in London, and it was on its way
Speaker 2: across the ocean to Orlando, Florida, to the International Airport there. Now,
Speaker 2: as this plane is beginning to take off, it's just
Speaker 2: getting up to altitude, cruising altitude. The people on board
Speaker 2: noticed something a little weird. It was a lot louder
Speaker 2: than usual inside the plane, and it seemed to be
Speaker 2: a lot colder than usual while inside the plane, and
Speaker 2: they were trying to figure out what was going on. Now,
Speaker 2: this is very important before we get too far. This
Speaker 2: is a large air bus plane that can carry hundreds
Speaker 2: of people if necessary, I think one hundred and seventy
Speaker 2: passengers if it was full up. On this particular flight,
Speaker 2: there were only nine passengers and eleven crew members on
Speaker 2: this flight, and they are mostly passengers or they were
Speaker 2: all passengers of this particular events company that has not
Speaker 2: been named, at least I haven't seen it named. So
Speaker 2: it was like a small chartered flight basically of a
Speaker 2: large plane to go from London to Orlando. So the
Speaker 2: small group of people hear this weird thing they're experiencing
Speaker 2: the cold. One of the crew members goes to the
Speaker 2: back of the plane because everybody's seated kind of near
Speaker 2: the exit, the primary exit seats there across the wings.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm talking about, guys, Yeah, of course,
Speaker 2: so most everybody is up there as a tiny group
Speaker 2: of people. One of the crew members goes to the
Speaker 2: back and notice is something that you don't usually see
Speaker 2: on a plane. You guys, think about the windows that
Speaker 2: you've seen. If you've ever flown on a plane, you've
Speaker 2: always got if you're sitting in the window seat, in particular,
Speaker 2: you notice that there's a pane of material like glass, right,
Speaker 2: and then there's a space like an air pocket, and
Speaker 2: then another pane on the outside right hopefully yeah. Oh, theoretically,
Speaker 2: they noticed that one of the panes on the outside
Speaker 2: was just flapping just as they were reaching thirteen thousand
Speaker 2: feet in the air, and they're like, uh, guys, this
Speaker 2: is probably not right. They continue checking out the plane.
Speaker 2: They're right, this is a safety hazard. This isn't good.
Speaker 2: We're you know, as we're raising up right, that plane
Speaker 2: is pressurizing more and more and more. And if it
Speaker 2: gets too pressurized and there's not the safety of those
Speaker 2: two windows, potentially we've all seen the movies, guys, Yeah,
Speaker 2: depressurizing a plane.
Speaker 5: Gets sucked out of the emergency exit in Fight Club.
Speaker 2: You know, well, you know, there's no way to predict
Speaker 2: exactly what could have happened if they would have continued
Speaker 2: rising up into the air to that cruising altitude of
Speaker 2: probably thirty thousand feet but it probably wouldn't have been good.
Speaker 2: So what they decided to do is turn around and
Speaker 2: head back in land again. Before you know, they continued
Speaker 2: on their journey. Well, when they landed, guys, they found
Speaker 2: some pretty disturbing things. Not only was there that one
Speaker 2: exterior window pane that was dislodged and flapping in the wind,
Speaker 2: there were two exterior panes right next to it that
Speaker 2: were completely missing.
Speaker 3: Jeez, what's going on? You have a gremlin? No, I
Speaker 3: don't right? Well was it?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 4: What this was all? So the reports are saying four
Speaker 4: in total windows compromised? Is that correct?
Speaker 2: Yes, there was a there was a fourth window that
Speaker 2: was also compromised.
Speaker 3: That was it.
Speaker 2: Again, While they were on the craft, they could only
Speaker 2: really observe that one issue with that one window pane,
Speaker 2: and if it wasn't if it was completely dislodged and
Speaker 2: removed from the plane the way the others the other
Speaker 2: two were. And then the third one that was also
Speaker 2: I think missing was like further down on the plane,
Speaker 2: they wouldn't have been able to observe the problem at all.
Speaker 2: They would have just heard the loud sound, which was
Speaker 2: described by the way in the official reports as capable
Speaker 2: of damaging hearing like it was that loud.
Speaker 4: Oh that's a real flappity due. Okay, well, well.
Speaker 2: It was just a flappity due Gibbs.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So I mean probably from the frequency of it, right,
Speaker 5: because I mean the pressure and wind outside absolutely insane.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, But but I guess my point is
Speaker 2: they wouldn't have noticed if that one wasn't still hanging
Speaker 2: on for dear life, right, or they wouldn't have been
Speaker 2: able to make that determination as quickly.
Speaker 5: I thought that immediately the other ones that were missing.
Speaker 5: Depending on how clear these are, you might not clock
Speaker 5: that there was not that outer layer unless there was
Speaker 5: something amiss or something that you know, tipped off what
Speaker 5: was going on like that sound and that visual.
Speaker 4: Or unless you did some kind of pre flight check.
Speaker 3: Maybe.
Speaker 4: I'm just you know, it's not an aviator yet, not
Speaker 4: an aviator yet.
Speaker 2: So that for me, that's what this whole story is about, right,
Speaker 2: don't the pilots. There's usually a team of two or
Speaker 2: more pilots that are on a flight, especially a commercial flight. Again,
Speaker 2: this is more of a private flight than a commercial flight,
Speaker 2: even though it's on a commercial craft. But still the
Speaker 2: standard practice is for one of the pilots to do
Speaker 2: a full walk around on that aircraft or like on
Speaker 2: the tarmac before they take off anytime anywhere. That is
Speaker 2: standard practice for any airline, doesn't matter who you are.
Speaker 2: That occurs. How did it get missed? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know how it got missed. Gosh, I feel
Speaker 2: like I'm jumping ahead too much. Guys. Let me just
Speaker 2: give you a little more of the detail here of
Speaker 2: what occurred, or at least what was found after they landed,
Speaker 2: because this is important stuff. That aircraft was used in
Speaker 2: the filming of some kind of video content. Unsure really
Speaker 2: what it was. It seems to be promotional content, probably
Speaker 2: having to do with either a company or an airline
Speaker 2: or something, because it does the plane does appear to
Speaker 2: have I don't know, some kind of special paint job
Speaker 2: on it. That's at least what it looks like to me.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm incorrect there Again, some of the reporting doesn't
Speaker 2: give specifics on like what the company was it was
Speaker 2: involved in either the flight or the filming. But there
Speaker 2: were these specialized lights being used in that filming to
Speaker 2: simulate the sun. So like imagine sitting in an aircraft,
Speaker 2: like in an airplane like this, like when you would
Speaker 2: take with delta, for instance, for anybody you know in
Speaker 2: the US or American Airlines sitting in that aircraft then
Speaker 2: having a simulated light source outside that's supposed to mimic
Speaker 2: like the sunset or the sunrise right coming in at
Speaker 2: a specific angle, but.
Speaker 5: Not like necessarily the like temperature of the sun right,
Speaker 5: which is more I just because in my mind, and
Speaker 5: I'm immediately like thinking like it's melted the glue on
Speaker 5: the window bushings or whatever the hell you want to call.
Speaker 2: Well, it's not the temperature of the sun. But these
Speaker 2: are particularly hot, very bright lights. The name of them,
Speaker 2: at least as mentioned in the official reports, is a
Speaker 2: maxi brute twelve.
Speaker 5: Hey, I wasn't proposing that a light on Earth could
Speaker 5: meet the temperature of the sun.
Speaker 2: Oh well, the max surface temperature of these lights. So
Speaker 2: the actually, let's make sure I'm even saying this right,
Speaker 2: alexis because this is film lighting. But the maximum surface
Speaker 2: temperature of these lights that means, like I think if
Speaker 2: you touch the light itself is two hundred degrees celsius.
Speaker 2: The ambient temperature is about forty five degrees celsius. And
Speaker 2: we just talked about like that forty to forty five
Speaker 2: degrees celsius thing we were discussing photosynthesis, That's what was
Speaker 2: it been. It was like one hundred and sixteen hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty something degrees run that.
Speaker 4: Two hundred degrees celsius is like three hundred and ninety
Speaker 4: something fahrenheit, just under four hundred degrees fahrenheit.
Speaker 2: But the ambient temperature, so like the temperature that's and
Speaker 2: again alexis correct me if I'm way off base here,
Speaker 2: I'm looking for you in the chat or on Mike.
Speaker 2: Ambient temperature of a light like that would be the
Speaker 2: temperature that the air essentially gets around it or anything
Speaker 2: that that light is hitting rights touches. Well, yeah, depending
Speaker 2: on the distance from the actual light source on.
Speaker 6: A maxi brute. Yeah, I've never really thought about the
Speaker 6: ambient temperature of a maxi brute other than to tell
Speaker 6: actors not to touch it. But yeah, you would have
Speaker 6: it so far away from any talent that because they
Speaker 6: do get really hot. But like all tungsten lights like
Speaker 6: that get super high, which is especially like the bigger,
Speaker 6: like heavier wattage ones. Oh yeah, I'm not sure, but yeah,
Speaker 6: they get like they can burn you like I tell
Speaker 6: my students also not to touch them because they can
Speaker 6: burn you.
Speaker 4: Psyche note and you don't have to answer this.
Speaker 3: Uh uh.
Speaker 4: How often do you find yourself having to tell actors
Speaker 4: not to touch things that are hot? Well?
Speaker 6: And I don't know how much in depth you all
Speaker 6: want to go about lighting and set lighting right now,
Speaker 6: But I mean tungsten lights are getting a little bit
Speaker 6: less common is LEDs led.
Speaker 3: Which are cooler and lasts longer.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but they also have like we're of like a
Speaker 6: clinical look to them, for sure, tungsten lighting, because tungsten
Speaker 6: is actually, you know, on fire, like the filament is
Speaker 6: on phone. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I have a little lighting kit that I bought years ago,
Speaker 5: like you know, like a Lowell or something like that.
Speaker 5: And even like the key light on it, it looks
Speaker 5: like the stove like it looks like the rings on
Speaker 5: an induction stove like it's and it's it's surrounded by
Speaker 5: a cage. But even if you put your hand in
Speaker 5: close enough to it, yeah, it'll burn you like a
Speaker 5: car cigarette lighter.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you have to wear gloves like we have, like
Speaker 6: gloves that we wear even n like to adjust the
Speaker 6: barn doors for example, to go on the front of
Speaker 6: the light, but like you have to turn it off
Speaker 6: and like it cool down before you move it, or
Speaker 6: you have to these hot hand gloves because they get
Speaker 6: super hot, and we definitely I feel like most actors
Speaker 6: at this point probably know not to get especially with
Speaker 6: something like a Maxi Brute. You wouldn't really have that
Speaker 6: near talent like usually we use Maxi brutes, they're like
Speaker 6: way up top.
Speaker 5: Somewhere, well, Matt, In this case, the talent is the plane,
Speaker 5: so I guess that maybe they're not as concerned about
Speaker 5: the distance because there's nobody like out there close by
Speaker 5: to maybe put their hands on it.
Speaker 2: Well, the talent is inside the plane, right, So the
Speaker 2: plane in a way is your set.
Speaker 3: So got it.
Speaker 2: You're lighting the set and in this case, a Maxi brute,
Speaker 2: which let's just describe it, guys. It's got three of
Speaker 2: these tungsten lamps across the top, right, and that's the
Speaker 2: first row, and then it goes down with those three lamps.
Speaker 2: I think it's four lamps, so three three three three, right.
Speaker 2: These are all very warm and on the set there
Speaker 2: were at least six of these max of brutes functioning
Speaker 2: simultaneously to simulate the sunlight, and according to Maxibrutes, like
Speaker 2: the actual official literature for the Maxi Brute, it needs
Speaker 2: to be a minimum of ten meters away from anything
Speaker 2: that's being lit, so the object that that light is hitting.
Speaker 2: In this case, it appears that these lights, these six
Speaker 2: crazy powerful lights, were closer than ten meters to the
Speaker 2: plane itself. So not the actors weren't closer than ten meters,
Speaker 2: but the plane itself was closer than ten meters.
Speaker 4: Question, yes, is it possible that the is it possible
Speaker 4: that during the filming of this thing some of those
Speaker 4: outer panes could have been removed for any reason and
Speaker 4: then inserted reinserted incorrectly.
Speaker 5: That doesn't strike me as a particularly removable part though,
Speaker 5: like it seems like it would be bound with some
Speaker 5: serious adhesive or like I just don't know how easy
Speaker 5: it would be just to pop those off. My initial
Speaker 5: impulse was like there was some adhesive that was melted
Speaker 5: or damaged.
Speaker 2: According to the report, there is foam or a lot
Speaker 2: if you just imagine like a ceilant, right, like ceiling foam.
Speaker 2: There was foam that was melted found on the plane
Speaker 2: where that thing that should have kept it on there
Speaker 2: didn't keep it on there. And super important fact, in
Speaker 2: a later runway inspection of that Stanstead airport, a shattered
Speaker 2: window pane was found just on the runway. So it
Speaker 2: seems likely that the scenario here is that during filming
Speaker 2: it melted some of the components of those exterior windows
Speaker 2: where that light was hottest, and then somebody missed during
Speaker 2: an inspection after the like, it wasn't even that long
Speaker 2: after the filming that they ended up flying that plane.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I might get aroun, I want to get
Speaker 2: it wrong, but it was imagine filming at night and
Speaker 2: then sometime the next day flying out from that airport.
Speaker 5: And Matt I was looking up on sine light dot
Speaker 5: com this device and it comes in a range of
Speaker 5: four thousand watts to twenty four thousand w Did you
Speaker 5: mention the wattage already of this one.
Speaker 6: They're basically like a set of one thousand watt tungsten
Speaker 6: fixtures and you put them in an array, so their
Speaker 6: wattage is based on how many of the actual lamps
Speaker 6: you have on that array. You have, for example, Maxi
Speaker 6: Brooks that are nine thousand whites, because they're nine thousand
Speaker 6: watt fixtures connected on a grid together basically, and you
Speaker 6: can just keep adding them to get more and more
Speaker 6: wattage depending on what you need.
Speaker 2: So these are it's an array of twelve per light
Speaker 2: fixture or light per light that was being used right,
Speaker 2: and then there were six of those, so twelve times six,
Speaker 2: that's your ultimate wattage that you're getting there. But no depressurization, oh,
Speaker 2: no depressurization on the plane itself while was while it
Speaker 2: reached up to fourteen thousand feet.
Speaker 3: But who knows what might have happened if it continued
Speaker 3: on right.
Speaker 2: The big question is what would have happen? Guys, there's
Speaker 2: so much more to cover here, but we have to
Speaker 2: move on. The big deal is nobody caught this thing
Speaker 2: during an inspection, which is crazy. There are so many
Speaker 2: pre flight checklists that every plane has to go through,
Speaker 2: but they're primarily done by the crew and specifically the
Speaker 2: pilot team that is done from the cockpit right checking systems.
Speaker 2: It isn't necessarily checking the plane itself, like the exterior
Speaker 2: of it. That's done by the single pilot that usually
Speaker 2: gets out and looks on the tarmac. But guys, there's
Speaker 2: this whole This is stuff that I didn't know and
Speaker 2: Ben as you go on that journey to get your
Speaker 2: pilot's license. It would be really interesting to delve into
Speaker 2: this a little more because there's stuff that's being done
Speaker 2: right now where Imagine if you take your car in
Speaker 2: right to the shop, you've got like a certain mileage
Speaker 2: that you're gonna get specific things done, like a tire, rotation,
Speaker 2: oil change, all that stuff right Well, with planes, they've
Speaker 2: got a pretty similar maintenance schedule for like when it
Speaker 2: actually has to go into a hangar and you've got
Speaker 2: to spend hours and hours, if not days, inspecting that
Speaker 2: plane to make sure it's flight ready. Delta, like, we're
Speaker 2: going to shout out Delta because they're kind of the
Speaker 2: Atlanta company and that we're all aware of and we've
Speaker 2: got some friends and family that work with that company.
Speaker 2: They're doing something really interesting in attempting to replace a
Speaker 2: lot of the human hours that go into the maintenance
Speaker 2: and inspections of planes, replacing it with drones that actually
Speaker 2: like do a imagine a huge three D scan of
Speaker 2: an airplane to make sure everything is intact in working order.
Speaker 2: I thought that was a really cool tidbit of information,
Speaker 2: but it's al see. But here's the thing. Would you
Speaker 2: guys feel more comfortable knowing a specialized set of human
Speaker 2: eyes that flies planes on a regular basis looked at
Speaker 2: that plane, inspected it before you took off, or if
Speaker 2: a drone used its internal systems to scan it.
Speaker 4: To be honest with you, man, I think that that
Speaker 4: Pandora's jar has already been a bit unscrewed. A lot
Speaker 4: of commercial pilots are kind of there to help human
Speaker 4: passengers feel the same thing you're describing, like a human
Speaker 4: is in charge of this. The human pilots use a
Speaker 4: lot of software right to get a plane in the air,
Speaker 4: and the real art of it with commercial aircraft is
Speaker 4: landing the thing right or being on hand if something
Speaker 4: goes wrong. So it makes sense from the company's perspective
Speaker 4: to use drones. But to your point, it also makes sense,
Speaker 4: especially in the inspection stages, for a company to lean
Speaker 4: into that and say, our craft are inspected by actual
Speaker 4: people every time we fly. Last thing, I'll say, dude,
Speaker 4: if you drive a car by the way you are
Speaker 4: supposed to and no one enforces this, but you're supposed
Speaker 4: to give yourself a four point check on the exterior
Speaker 4: of the car every time you drive it yeah every time.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Well that's.
Speaker 5: Why the way you guys don't do that.
Speaker 2: Well, it's kind of it's weird because it's become like
Speaker 2: a three or two point inspection now because of the
Speaker 2: systems like the tire pressure gauges that are now that
Speaker 2: now exist that are supposed to be smart and we'll
Speaker 2: alert you of things like that. Come on, man, you
Speaker 2: can't trust those all the time. I've so I'm I'm
Speaker 2: my old car would give me false readings all the
Speaker 2: time and I had to replace.
Speaker 5: The sensors go bad all the time for sure. Anyway,
Speaker 5: just I have a sensor on my car that even
Speaker 5: right after like I'll, you know, fill the tires up
Speaker 5: and reset it and it comes back on every time.
Speaker 5: But I've just refilled it and it's a brand new tire.
Speaker 5: So it's like, yeah, is that on my priority list
Speaker 5: to get that sensor fixed? If I'm actually keeping an
Speaker 5: eye on my tire pressure, probably not. But for some
Speaker 5: people they might not be keeping a close eye on
Speaker 5: their tire pressure because they depend on the sensor.
Speaker 2: Well, just look out for all this stuff. Keep your
Speaker 2: eyes on those windows next time you're in flight, and
Speaker 2: don't think about this story. We'll be right back after
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Speaker 5: Hey guys, you guys want to have a pizza party?
Speaker 2: Are we firing everyone?
Speaker 4: It's the best way to fire everyone in a company.
Speaker 5: It would appear, So keep your eyes on YouTube for
Speaker 5: that Easter egg to uh to pay dividends. But speaking
Speaker 5: of paying dividends, Dominoes did that entirely by accident in
Speaker 5: the form of one of these larger than life promotional
Speaker 5: things you guys remember, like endless shrimp at Red Lobster.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Lobster Fest. I have lost a couple of
Speaker 4: avant garde sketches about that. Also shout out endless breadsticks,
Speaker 4: olive garden.
Speaker 5: Endless anything. Finite amounts of this stuff for sure with
Speaker 5: your internet today. Fellas did the story that I'm about
Speaker 5: to talk about, but they in it they referenced to
Speaker 5: how Red Lobster's sales have been or their foot traffic
Speaker 5: rather has been up like four percent year over year,
Speaker 5: but their sales are down like ten dollars and something
Speaker 5: because of all the free shrimp they're given away. So, uh,
Speaker 5: this toy is not about for shrimp. It's about free
Speaker 5: pizza and Domino's, you know, in the age of like
Speaker 5: clever social media marketing campaigns and all of that, came
Speaker 5: up with something called Emergency Pizza. It was a promotion
Speaker 5: where you get a code and it's sort of like wimpy.
Speaker 3: It's like, I'll gladly pay.
Speaker 5: You tuesday for hamburger today, only it's more like, I'll
Speaker 5: give you a hamburger Tuesday and I'll give you this
Speaker 5: voucher today.
Speaker 3: And and it was a code, like a code that you.
Speaker 5: Could redeem online because more and more people are ordering
Speaker 5: their pizzas online.
Speaker 3: They want you to use these apps, you know.
Speaker 5: It's all of this was way of keeping you kind
Speaker 5: of in this uh you know, proprietary ecosystem that these
Speaker 5: companies have.
Speaker 3: And someone miss.
Speaker 5: Made a mistake somewhere along the way.
Speaker 3: Someone made a little.
Speaker 5: Loopsy and apparently these codes were good for indefinite use
Speaker 5: even a single person.
Speaker 4: No, yeah, well not anymore, right.
Speaker 5: Oh no, no, they've shut it down.
Speaker 3: Shut it down, no.
Speaker 5: Burn it, burn it down. Yeah, emergency. The Emergency Pizza
Speaker 5: program failed spectacularly when some eagle eyed redditors and Instagrammers
Speaker 5: and people that like this, a whole community of people
Speaker 5: that share coupon codes online, and there's like websites that
Speaker 5: you can go to to get the coupon codes. And
Speaker 5: you know, there's even like I believe services like honey
Speaker 5: Honeys Honey Yeah, where it'll like automatically apply a discount
Speaker 5: code to your your shopping cart, like if you're doing
Speaker 5: online shopping or whatever.
Speaker 3: It might be. So this is one of those.
Speaker 5: And yeah, somebody, a guy named Warrio sixty four, which
Speaker 5: is fun, who is apparently a deal sharer on x.
Speaker 3: I just got to start saying, Yeah, I'm just gonna
Speaker 3: say Twitter.
Speaker 5: On Twitter, he shared this code or a screenshot of
Speaker 5: the code being applied, proving that yes, in fact, you
Speaker 5: do get a free pizza with this code. But then
Speaker 5: that code was passed around the internet, and like, you know,
Speaker 5: I have seen that is sort of the way these
Speaker 5: deal things is work. Is maybe you find one of
Speaker 5: these codes online, maybe it'll work for you, maybe it won't.
Speaker 5: They must have some sort of number attached to it,
Speaker 5: like you can only be used so many times and
Speaker 5: there has to be a new code generated. But apparently
Speaker 5: no such safeguard was involved in this promotion, and workers
Speaker 5: employees that Domino's Pizza franchises across the country reported individuals
Speaker 5: coming in with like ten twenty thirty pizzas at a time,
Speaker 5: creating just absolute chaos in the form of long lines,
Speaker 5: backed up order cues, all the hits and to the
Speaker 5: point where there's a really great quote from Domino's management.
Speaker 3: A lot of this chatter, by the way, took place
Speaker 3: on apparently.
Speaker 5: I don't know if it's official, but there is a
Speaker 5: Domino's employee subreddit where folks from across the Domino's franchise.
Speaker 3: World can communicate.
Speaker 5: And I don't think it's inherently like negative. It's just like,
Speaker 5: here's stuff that's going on. Be on the lookout for
Speaker 5: this whatever. Here, here's what came from a text. Actually
Speaker 5: this is not on the sub a bit. We'll talk
Speaker 5: about that in a minute. To an employee saying, uh, well,
Speaker 5: from one of the managers, quote, don't make any free pizzas.
Speaker 5: Cancel them as soon as one pops up on the screen,
Speaker 5: check and see if it's a free emergency pizza. If
Speaker 5: it is, cancel it asap. But somehow this thing was
Speaker 5: able to run rampant for like a long time, and
Speaker 5: some employees on the subreddit were saying how it eventually
Speaker 5: became really suspicious. So like one employee looked at like
Speaker 5: order cues and you can like place future orders for pizzas,
Speaker 5: like you can schedule them. And people were placing scheduled
Speaker 5: orders for pizzas like for weeks ahead using the same coupon.
Speaker 2: Code dude Pizza in Perpetuity. Amazing.
Speaker 5: I mean, what a deal it would seem so so yeah,
Speaker 5: apparently managers were just panicking and messaging. You know, employees
Speaker 5: and folks up in the C suite, the the D suite, whatever,
Speaker 5: were not particularly helpful or receptive.
Speaker 3: They didn't really have a plan for this. It was
Speaker 3: obviously it originated with them.
Speaker 5: And this is exactly the kind of like, you know,
Speaker 5: ham fisted promotion that when it goes badly, who suffers.
Speaker 5: It's the employees who aren't making that much money. Who
Speaker 5: were the ones who were dealing with angry customers coming
Speaker 5: in angry that their pizza free pizzas aren't ready. Apparently
Speaker 5: some stores took to calling customers and say, I'm sorry,
Speaker 5: we're not going to fill your order. The person that
Speaker 5: commented in the Kotaki article by Zach Sweisen that they
Speaker 5: interviewed this fell I think this actually was specifically a
Speaker 5: DM question and answer session with this guy said that
Speaker 5: generally people were not like enraged when they told their
Speaker 5: pizza orders would not be fulfilled, because they kind of
Speaker 5: knew they were doing something wrong after a point where
Speaker 5: they had already gotten leg you know. I mean, you
Speaker 5: get one free pizza. That's wow, that's great. Anything's great.
Speaker 5: But then the same code works again and then again
Speaker 5: and again. I mean, come on, folks, at some point,
Speaker 5: you're just being greedy. I mean, how much pizza can
Speaker 5: you really eat? Like you guys order a large pizza
Speaker 5: in recent times. I mean even if you've got like
Speaker 5: a family, you know, that stuffing's up in the fridge
Speaker 5: and I like to freeze it actually so that I don't,
Speaker 5: you know, midnight snack fat kid eat that stuff.
Speaker 3: So it's very weird.
Speaker 5: It honestly seems more like a flex than it is,
Speaker 5: like we're gonna actually eat all this pizza. Where are
Speaker 5: they what are they doing? Are they reselling it like
Speaker 5: on the street, Like I just got a wonder.
Speaker 4: You could send it to different addresses. That is something
Speaker 4: that that's like a little bit of active activism. Digital
Speaker 4: Gerdia Tactics people have used in the past order a
Speaker 4: bunch of people. That's sort of the opposite pizzas to
Speaker 4: someone's address.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but that's like the opposite though, because these are
Speaker 5: free pizza. Is that that whole grift only works if
Speaker 5: the folks are on the hook to pay for them.
Speaker 5: That's sort of the prank, right, is that you order
Speaker 5: a bunch of pizzas and like the bills two hundred,
Speaker 5: But if you're sending them free pizzas, a free pizza, that's.
Speaker 4: That's the grift part is sort of the sith Lord
Speaker 4: or dark side version, but the the Discordian charitable.
Speaker 3: Yeah, spend would give.
Speaker 4: You like that, which was Domino's original idea. Unfortunately it
Speaker 4: just backfired. I blame student loans man.
Speaker 3: Sure, for sure.
Speaker 5: I do hope that some of these bros carrying, you know,
Speaker 5: armloads of pizzas were going out finding unhoused people and
Speaker 5: just giving them tons of pizza or like setting up
Speaker 5: like tables, you know, in places where there's a lot
Speaker 5: of like traffic for you know, unhouse people and like,
Speaker 5: you know, just giving away free pizza.
Speaker 3: I'd be cool with that. That was not reported on
Speaker 3: I kind of doubt that happened.
Speaker 5: Seems like the people that would capitalize on this kind
Speaker 5: of exploit would not be folks that would be thinking
Speaker 5: about that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 5: There's no number in the article that we know of
Speaker 5: yet either that indicates just how much money Dominos lost
Speaker 5: on this. From the reports, know, hundreds of pizzas being
Speaker 5: you know, sold quote unquote out the door in a
Speaker 5: manner of hours. Probably quite a lot. We'll have to see.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 5: By the way, some of the comments on the employee
Speaker 5: Reddit were very negative. One is Domino is an awful
Speaker 5: company that is bad at basically everything. They don't know
Speaker 5: how to increase business because they don't understand what the
Speaker 5: problems are this. That's yeah, sick burn and probably accurate
Speaker 5: because if they're the ones that came up with this
Speaker 5: and then they let it run wild and absolutely make
Speaker 5: the lives of their already seemingly disgruntled employees a living hell,
Speaker 5: it does seem like they maybe could focus on other things, uh,
Speaker 5: and not these kind of Pie in the Sky promos.
Speaker 4: High in the Sky, nice Hey.
Speaker 5: Pizza, Pie in the Sky. Ben's pun was so quick
Speaker 5: and and and sharp that it took me a second
Speaker 5: to even wrap my head around it was your punn.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I didn't make it on purpose, though it was. It
Speaker 5: was an unintentional punt, and you pointed it out group group.
Speaker 5: Can we do that as like a group again?
Speaker 3: I think I've got brain fever. Guys.
Speaker 2: I just went to Dominoes dot com and there is
Speaker 2: a pop up on the front of the website. It
Speaker 2: isn't It just pops up and it says order now
Speaker 2: and get a free Dominoes emergency pizza to use next time.
Speaker 2: The limit one per customer.
Speaker 4: It reminds me of that. It reminds me that case
Speaker 4: what was it Leonard versus Pepsi Coo where they had
Speaker 4: this advertisement for Pepsi points and in the commercial the
Speaker 4: implication is that if you if won a masses a
Speaker 4: large enough degree of Pepsi points, you will be able
Speaker 4: to yourself buy a jet. And some guy got the
Speaker 4: Pepsi points. Yeah, it was like, we don't actually have
Speaker 4: a jet?
Speaker 3: Would it have been a Pepsi jet? Dang?
Speaker 5: It was a huge court case really, so it's just
Speaker 5: another case of over promising and under delivering. And I mean,
Speaker 5: I guess if it was do you think they added
Speaker 5: that limit one per customer. That seems like the kind
Speaker 5: of thing that would always be in the boilerplate language
Speaker 5: for any deal like this. And honestly, do you think
Speaker 5: though that they, because of that limit one per customer
Speaker 5: in the language, they could ultimately seek retribution from the
Speaker 5: folks that exploited this this boo boo.
Speaker 4: It'd be a very bad look. It'd be difficult to
Speaker 4: even litigate that because then you have to you have
Speaker 4: to track down a code that could have been There
Speaker 4: are a thousand ways to spoof it, right, So yeah.
Speaker 3: No way of tying it to an individual.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And pizza places, I think pizza shops generally have
Speaker 4: a pretty good margin in comparison to other restaurants, So like,
Speaker 4: isn't that why if you go to any large pizza chain,
Speaker 4: they're inevitably going to have a pop up deal Like
Speaker 4: Matt you just describe, you get into there, and then
Speaker 4: you know, you go to Marco's or Little Caesar's where
Speaker 4: the other ones Pizza Hut, Dominoes, and they'll they'll say,
Speaker 4: you know, oh, you're buying a medium pizza. Do you
Speaker 4: want to love arge pizza?
Speaker 3: Two?
Speaker 4: What about some crazy bread? Or when's the last time
Speaker 4: you had chicken wings.
Speaker 3: You can't afford not to get the meal deal.
Speaker 5: Honestly, that's frankly kind of true, because if you look
Speaker 5: at what the price you could in some of these deals,
Speaker 5: you end up paying less for the massive, you know,
Speaker 5: Schmorgsborg pizza deal than you would for a single unit
Speaker 5: of pizza. And that's by design because they want to
Speaker 5: move as much of that stuff as possible. They know
Speaker 5: what the raw materials cost, they know what the labor costs.
Speaker 5: One would hope, but the Internet today. Fellas also pointed
Speaker 5: out when it comes to deals like this, especially with
Speaker 5: the red Lobster example, where they're losing all this money,
Speaker 5: isn't someone doing the math somewhere down the line about
Speaker 5: like how is this going to shake out for the
Speaker 5: bottom line?
Speaker 2: Guys? Okay, I'm gonna do some math for you right now,
Speaker 2: you're ready.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I just tried to order a medium two topping pizza
Speaker 2: from my local Dominoes. According to my cart on my website,
Speaker 2: that would cost me, as a customer, sixteen dollars and
Speaker 2: forty nine cents. Now, according to what I'm seeing online,
Speaker 2: it only costs Domino's one dollar and thirty cents to
Speaker 2: make a medium pizza, So like, think about the margins
Speaker 2: a profit they're making each time they sell a medium pizza.
Speaker 2: So really they're only losing. They're losing less than two
Speaker 2: dollars a pop per medium pizza that they sold during
Speaker 2: that thing. But there's other costs involved too.
Speaker 4: Right, the labor, as we said earlier. I think that's
Speaker 4: one of the things we're all very concerned about the
Speaker 4: people who are already having really difficult underpay jobs. There's
Speaker 4: that meme that oh gosh, that macro image that came
Speaker 4: out with a just flood of pizzas going down a
Speaker 4: shoot and the did you guys see that one? I
Speaker 4: think it's asolve all of the articles. Yeah, but I
Speaker 4: can't remember the provenance of it. But it is illustrative
Speaker 4: of the problem. You know, whenever you look at a
Speaker 4: big business, you have to ask where their revenue is
Speaker 4: coming from and how much you know about the profit margins,
Speaker 4: because like, where are you most likely to popcorn in
Speaker 4: your house? From your microwave or to movie theater? And
Speaker 4: the markup is insane right right, And there's a history
Speaker 4: to all of this.
Speaker 5: It reminds me too, this is a little different, but
Speaker 5: it's just in terms of like businesses knowing how their
Speaker 5: models should work, and if that even is being honest,
Speaker 5: Like the idea of I'm showing up to get my
Speaker 5: rental car and we don't have any rental cars. It's
Speaker 5: like a Seinfeld bit, but it's real, you know, And
Speaker 5: it's like, well, why did I make a reservation? What's
Speaker 5: the point of the reservation if it's not actually managing
Speaker 5: the inventory that you have? And maybe there's somebody higher
Speaker 5: up in an organization like that could explain other you know,
Speaker 5: mitigating circumstances that would lead to that, maybe people not
Speaker 5: returning things or whatever.
Speaker 4: I mean. See also plane tickets, dude, Now if you
Speaker 4: buy a plane ticket, now you have to pay a
Speaker 4: premium to get a quote refundable plane ticket because otherwise
Speaker 4: the implication is that reservation may leave you sol if
Speaker 4: they have overbooked the flight, which does happen, or if
Speaker 4: there are you know, for instance, some dodgy windows.
Speaker 5: Why would they overbook the flight There's a finite number
Speaker 5: of seats. Who's making that call? How is that allowed
Speaker 5: in whatever booking algorithm they have? I don't know, but
Speaker 5: it happens all the time.
Speaker 4: We got to stick with delta. We got to get
Speaker 4: our medallions, you guys. We got to be like John
Speaker 4: Hodgman when he wrote that book. What did he get?
Speaker 4: Do you guys remember John?
Speaker 3: Diamond medallions, Diamond medallion. H one day?
Speaker 4: One day.
Speaker 3: Well, I think we've had our pizza party for the day.
Speaker 5: So let's hear some ads and then we'll be back
Speaker 5: with another piece of strange news.
Speaker 4: And we have returned, folks. We're going to explore something
Speaker 4: that doesn't quite have an answer yet. And this is
Speaker 4: with a big thing you to a lot of people
Speaker 4: who have reached out through one medium or another to
Speaker 4: ask about what appears to be an escalating pattern. The question,
Speaker 4: are volcanic eruptions on the rise or is human civilization
Speaker 4: only able to notice them more often? Before we get
Speaker 4: into it, does anybody care to make an opening guess?
Speaker 3: Oh, Josh, yeah, no, I don't. I have no, I
Speaker 3: couldn't possibly.
Speaker 2: I'll go ahead and say, there they there are more
Speaker 2: volcanoes erupting, just to give us a baseline.
Speaker 4: There are there are. That's that's smart, Matt, because it
Speaker 4: also depends on what our time scale is. Right, are
Speaker 4: we talking about more volcanoes erupting? Compared to nineteen fifty,
Speaker 4: or are we talking about more volcanoes erupting compared to
Speaker 4: the early formation of the Earth, You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Let's go by hundreds of years, let's go by.
Speaker 4: Centuries, all right. So recently this became pretty important to
Speaker 4: a lot of people. As we were recording right now,
Speaker 4: parts of Iceland are being evacuated due to concerns about
Speaker 4: earthquakes that may preface a volcanic eruption. Part of Italy
Speaker 4: has also run into this issue. The largest volcano in
Speaker 4: all of Eurasia erupted quite recently, spewing tons and tons
Speaker 4: of smoke that disrupted travel across the Pacific Ocean. So
Speaker 4: we all know the Smithsonian, right, They make all kinds
Speaker 4: of things. They're most famous for making museums here in
Speaker 4: the US and magazines, right, and magazines. Yeah, I should
Speaker 4: have said that too. I am subscribed. They also are
Speaker 4: super into volcanoes. The Smithsonian Institution created the Global Volcanism Program.
Speaker 4: It's a database of pretty much all the eruptions that
Speaker 4: humans can prove for the past twelve thousand years. And
Speaker 4: they're an excellent resource if you want to If you
Speaker 4: want to check out their website, you can see a
Speaker 4: running tally of volcanic eruptions, and you can get some
Speaker 4: pretty interesting numbers as well. Right now, they're saying forty
Speaker 4: six volcanoes were in what they call continuing eruption status
Speaker 4: as of October eleventh, of twenty twenty three. That doesn't
Speaker 4: mean everyone is a huge barn stormer, right, Some of
Speaker 4: them are just Earth's little little farts. They're a little
Speaker 4: silent but deadly parts of this beautiful gaya superorganism.
Speaker 2: Do you guys remember that Herzog documentary Into the Inferno.
Speaker 5: As Yeah, how could I forget all Earth screaming out
Speaker 5: in pain?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: And it's it's strange because you know, we've seen this
Speaker 4: happen before. In twenty twenty two, humans being great pattern
Speaker 4: recognizers said, holy smokes, there is a coordinated series of
Speaker 4: attacks on US food manufacturers, and that turned out to
Speaker 4: be more a consequence of people paying attention to isolated
Speaker 4: and not uncommon events. The question here is, I don't know.
Speaker 4: When I first started looking into this, I was full
Speaker 4: of uncertain disaster was on the way. There was a
Speaker 4: study that came out in summer of this year that said, yes,
Speaker 4: volcanic eruptions are increasing, and I immediately thought something I
Speaker 4: think a lot of our fellow non volcanologists think, which
Speaker 4: is ring of fire? Right, not just the Johnny Cash song.
Speaker 4: Do we all remember the ring of fire?
Speaker 3: Burns, burns, burns. That's all I remember.
Speaker 4: In the world of volcanology and people who study tectonic plates,
Speaker 4: the ring of fire describes the masses encircling the sort
Speaker 4: of like the top three sides of the Pacific Ocean,
Speaker 4: and these places have a lot of volcanic activity historically.
Speaker 4: So there's long been a fear or collection of theories
Speaker 4: that a ton of eruptions in that ring of fire
Speaker 4: could signal other larger natural disasters, the kind of stuff
Speaker 4: that would trigger, for instance, fault lines like the San
Speaker 4: Andreas fault line, other phenomenal in the worst way disasters
Speaker 4: such as typhoons such as oh what is it that
Speaker 4: guys are in Yellowstone?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: Triggering stuff like that because these systems are all interconnected,
Speaker 4: and it turns out that I don't know. So I'm
Speaker 4: reading a lot of sort of calm down things like
Speaker 4: from Statista or Statista which recently, just three hours ago
Speaker 4: before we recorded, released the following statement. A total of
Speaker 4: thirty countries overseas, territories and departments have seen volcanic eruptions
Speaker 4: of all levels in twenty twenty three so far, and
Speaker 4: they're pointing out that, yes, there are definitely eruptions. But
Speaker 4: then you go to you go to things like a
Speaker 4: Mashable article by Mark Kaufman, who says that we as
Speaker 4: a civilization might just be noticing more and connecting patterns
Speaker 4: where patterns may not necessarily exist. Kaufman does an excellent
Speaker 4: job of pointing out some work from the Smithsonian and
Speaker 4: the GVP, which says basically, this, hey, guys, Earth is
Speaker 4: a volcanic place. Every single day. There's like forty fifty
Speaker 4: volcanoes erupted to sub level everywhere. We just don't notice
Speaker 4: all of them because a lot of them are in
Speaker 4: very remote places. So if a volcano or erupts in
Speaker 4: an empty forest and no one's there to hear it,
Speaker 4: did it explode?
Speaker 5: Yeah, No one's there to be frozen clutching their infant
Speaker 5: child in statue form to be viewed by tourists a
Speaker 5: thousand years later.
Speaker 4: We're practicing the sin of onen. It's the fanciest way
Speaker 4: to say masturbating.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, Oh, embarrassing, But no, I mean, we certainly hear
Speaker 5: about volcanoes erupting or people living around active volcanoes and
Speaker 5: all of this stuff, but we don't hear often about
Speaker 5: catastrophic volcanic eruptions because those are just a little fewer
Speaker 5: and farther between, right, Like you can plot them on
Speaker 5: a historical graph, and like, what are we talking? Dozens?
Speaker 5: Certainly not as massive and deadly as like Pompeii, and
Speaker 5: probably more than dozens. But what would you say, Ben,
Speaker 5: if we looked at like a thousand year timeline, like
Speaker 5: how many bordering on, you know, just decimating events?
Speaker 3: Are we talking in terms of volcanic eruptions?
Speaker 4: Ooh, that's tough to guess, you know what, Let's get
Speaker 4: Let's get back with that when maybe later in this
Speaker 4: week or the next, because that is something worth diving in.
Speaker 4: We'll actually have to re listen to our Yellowstone, our
Speaker 4: Yellowstone episode from how long ago was that, Matt? How
Speaker 4: many years ago was that?
Speaker 3: I have no idea.
Speaker 2: I was just thinking about Mount Saint Helens and that
Speaker 2: was back before we were born.
Speaker 5: Can I just say that I did look up list
Speaker 5: of volcanic corruptions by death toll and it's it's a
Speaker 5: sizeable scroll, but it's not pages and pages and pages.
Speaker 3: At all.
Speaker 4: Well, they're only counting human deaths, I know, But.
Speaker 5: I'm just saying like that's you know, we don't These
Speaker 5: things don't happen every day.
Speaker 4: Right right, I mean, eruptions happen every day. But an
Speaker 4: eruption is not necessarily a catastrophe. It could even we
Speaker 4: could even argue that these fiery farts of the Earth
Speaker 4: are a good sign for the world, and be careful
Speaker 4: with that. We'll see why as we end this. But
Speaker 4: the majority of planet Earth's surface is of volcanic origin.
Speaker 4: The Earth needs to churn out new rock and build
Speaker 4: new land masses, and that's why sometimes islands just surface
Speaker 4: in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of Pacific,
Speaker 4: someone's sailing by, or nowadays someone's looking at a satellite
Speaker 4: and they go, hey, that wasn't here before, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean. And surely I imagine at this point, surely
Speaker 4: there's like a cracked team of people who have a
Speaker 4: flag and they just go to that new island and
Speaker 4: put their flag down first. Let us know if you've
Speaker 4: ever been part of part of that crack team in
Speaker 4: case podcast it doesn't work out for us. We're real
Speaker 4: go getters. Here's the issue though. It made me think
Speaker 4: of our fracking episode and our exploration fracking years and
Speaker 4: years back, which turned out to be correct. The Earth
Speaker 4: being a connected, large system of processes, right that all
Speaker 4: inner that all interact, right They They are vulnerable to
Speaker 4: the efforts of humanity, So fracking can damage water tables.
Speaker 4: Fracking in some cases may make conditions more favorable for
Speaker 4: an earthquake. The question, then, is there any possibility that
Speaker 4: human action in the age of the anthropascene could be
Speaker 4: leading to increased volcanic activity?
Speaker 3: Right now?
Speaker 4: Scientists are divided on that, which I think is double
Speaker 4: plus on good. It's not great, not a great cool thing.
Speaker 5: I mean, I guess in the same way that maybe
Speaker 5: plants are gonna stop making their own food, right like,
Speaker 5: things are changing, not necessarily for the better.
Speaker 4: Well, that's that's a good question, because that's something we
Speaker 4: talked about in depth in the photosynthesis episode. Is this
Speaker 4: something that should be a reason for alarm or is
Speaker 4: this being over reported? I don't know, knowing Matt, what
Speaker 4: do you guys think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, reporting on the volcanoes, they're just doing their own thing. Man, Now,
Speaker 2: I'm just shoking. The Iceland stuff is really scary when
Speaker 2: civilization is closer to, you know, the epicenter of where
Speaker 2: some of these eruptions are going to occur. I don't know,
Speaker 2: it's exciting. Volcanoes are exciting, and they're not They're not
Speaker 2: even a fraction as depressing as most of the stuff
Speaker 2: that's happening in the news. So I say, more volcanoes.
Speaker 3: Right, all right, right on, dude.
Speaker 5: Do you know the highest human death toll volcanic eruption
Speaker 5: was much more recent than Mount Vesuvius. Yeah, it was
Speaker 5: in the eighteen hundreds in Indonesia. I had no idea
Speaker 5: Mount Tambora seventy one thousand to two hundred and fifty
Speaker 5: thousands dead. Wait really, yeah, I'd never even heard of that.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's on me. But it's referred to as
Speaker 5: the year without a Summer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, ring of fire, the sky went dark. You know,
Speaker 4: this stuff is real, and the problem is similar to
Speaker 4: predicting earthquakes. Scientists don't have a big window at this point.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: We can see which conditions may be favorable for an
Speaker 4: earthquake or an eruption. We can see what might be
Speaker 4: indicative of a future disaster, but we can't really predict
Speaker 4: it very far out, and we certainly can't stop them.
Speaker 4: There's not an eruption killer at this point. It's very
Speaker 4: much that the humans are the prey in this natural process.
Speaker 4: And right now to what you were saying just thirty
Speaker 4: minutes ago, as we actually this happened while we were recording.
Speaker 4: Iceland is predicting a significant likelihood of a volcanic eruption
Speaker 4: within several days in southwestern Iceland, and hundreds of earthquakes
Speaker 4: are shaking the region. We don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 4: If you are a conspiracy realist tuning in in Iceland,
Speaker 4: let us know what's going on on the ground. I
Speaker 4: know we'd all love to visit there one day. Please
Speaker 4: be safe, Please do your best to alert your pilot
Speaker 4: if the window looks dodgy. Please also remember that the
Speaker 4: people who work delivering and making pizzas are just like
Speaker 4: you and should not be the victim of untoward things.
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