1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Good morning, Ross. So I was wondering if you could 2 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: do me a favor. This is really a message for 3 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: that and Michael brown Fellow. I won't be able to 4 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:10,479 Speaker 1: talk to him this morning, but could you tell him 5 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:11,640 Speaker 1: that he sucks? 6 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 2: Hey, Michael, you suck. 7 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 3: Wow. Happy Friday, everybody, it's a low hall Friday. Happy Friday, 8 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 3: you know, just you know, at least I woke up 9 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 3: to my dogs. The dogs were happy to see me. 10 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:28,480 Speaker 2: Well because you feed them. 11 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 3: Well that may be true, but I'll take it. You know, 12 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:34,599 Speaker 3: Hell's bells. I feed you and you don't love me. 13 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 2: So you know, when's the last time you fed me? 14 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 2: I don't know I need you. 15 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 3: I'm missus Redbeard. You go to lunching you it's been 16 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 3: quite a while since we've had lunch. 17 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 2: Only if you're buying. 18 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 3: Well, see that's it. You know. I keep thinking that 19 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 3: at some point, you know, least maybe Missus Redbeard and say, hey, 20 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 3: let me take you to lunch. 21 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no, no, I will. 22 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 3: Maybe I'm need some trade, you know, maybe I can 23 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 3: go to the front office and get a little trade 24 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 3: and we can go to the same place. You always 25 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 3: know where you have trade, because that's where the salespeople 26 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 3: will take you, and it's usually the same place over 27 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 3: and over and over, and. 28 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 4: Yet you're talking about our Christmas bonuses. I will say 29 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 4: to that, what our what exactly? Okay that we got 30 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 4: fifteen years ago? 31 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:12,039 Speaker 3: Right? 32 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 2: I will say though that quickly. 33 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 4: That talkback was left dur outside of the Michael Brown 34 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:21,400 Speaker 4: Show hours. So feel free leave a talkback almost any time, 35 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 4: because I listened to all of them. 36 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:27,399 Speaker 3: Is there a way that you know there for us? 37 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:31,039 Speaker 2: Not until I listened to it? Okay, but do. 38 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 3: You still have that graph or something that shows you 39 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:35,319 Speaker 3: like how many you know, which stations get what. 40 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:36,920 Speaker 2: It does say what station it was for? 41 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 4: So I will generally keep my listening to talkbacks to 42 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 4: either KOA or k how. 43 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 3: So post our you know, once we got the U 44 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 3: hols and the moving vans and everything, and we made 45 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 3: the track cross country to come over here to this studio. 46 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 3: Have we done pretty well in the talkbacks? Are we 47 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 3: still pretty much beating everybody? Oh? Yeah for sure? 48 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 4: Oh okay, Well, there are times that other stations when 49 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 4: give stations like getting things away, and we kind of 50 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 4: match at that point because they're bribing people for talkbacks, 51 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 4: right right. 52 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 3: Whereas we're just giving people bull crap. Leave leave a 53 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 3: talk back and we'll send you to mean how good 54 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:21,679 Speaker 3: your talkback is. You could get a half gallon of 55 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 3: bull crap. You could get a full gallon of bull crap. 56 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 3: I when when Denver International Airport opened, I had flown 57 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 3: out from Stapleton like four or five days before, parked 58 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 3: at Stapleton, knowing that when I came back, I was 59 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:43,119 Speaker 3: going to land at Denver International. And I did, and 60 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 3: you know, it was all full of balloons. Everybody was 61 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:47,519 Speaker 3: all excited, you know, and it was you know, blah 62 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 3: blah blah. 63 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 2: Did they have like a shuttle from Yes, they. 64 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 3: Had Shuttle's force that took us back over to Stapleton. 65 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 2: That's cool. 66 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 3: And it was interesting because that do you remember when 67 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 3: they had the exits or the parking garages were out 68 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:04,920 Speaker 3: like near where Pina and all the toll booth. 69 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:06,799 Speaker 2: Yeah, the toll Oh my god. They were an hour 70 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:08,799 Speaker 2: and a half away from the airport. 71 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:10,639 Speaker 3: Hour and a half away from the airport, and you 72 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 3: would you could look at your ticket as you left, 73 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 3: knowing that you're going to pay an extra day by 74 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 3: the time you got to the toll booth. 75 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 4: Seriously, for those people that are new around here to 76 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:22,359 Speaker 4: the Denver area. Yeah, the toll boosts quite literally were 77 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 4: by seventy. 78 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 3: I'm saying they were at least at least a mile 79 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 3: away from the parking sarages. Yes, yeah, so, and then 80 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 3: they would funnel everybody from all the parking garages into 81 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 3: what twelve lanes or something out there was. 82 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 2: An enormous amount. It was. 83 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:43,320 Speaker 3: You would sit in that line and you would literally 84 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 3: end up paying an extra day because you were sitting 85 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 3: in the line. 86 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 2: Yep. 87 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 3: And so they you know, and I point that out 88 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 3: because of where I'm going with the story. Design flaws 89 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 3: are I think, not a bug but a feature of 90 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 3: Denver International Airport. And I don't know why, but on 91 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 3: a larger, kind of a grander scale, why is it 92 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 3: that in this country we can't build? And golly, I 93 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 3: wish I could use the S word or the BS 94 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 3: word because we can't build S word. There's a story 95 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 3: in California right now. You remember how Governor Marlon Reese 96 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:27,719 Speaker 3: how he wanted to build the Wildlife Overpass somewhere al 97 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,600 Speaker 3: on seven. I think it's all in West seventy somewhere. 98 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 3: I don't know where it does I don't care, but 99 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 3: at least we finished that, right, Well, California's trying to 100 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 3: build one. I forget. I want to say it's one 101 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:45,159 Speaker 3: hundred and fourteen million, or say, with some outrageous amount 102 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 3: of money, was that it. Well it's not finished, oh 103 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 3: of course, and it's like ten years behind. And it's 104 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 3: just it's nowhere. It's just stopped. It's just they've got 105 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,719 Speaker 3: it across the interstate. But there are still cranes and 106 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:00,799 Speaker 3: everything on both sides. There's no there's no acting, nothing's happening. 107 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 3: So the poor little does and the deer and the 108 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 3: you know where the deer and the antelope play can't 109 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 3: cross the bridge. And I'm thinking it's just it's And 110 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 3: he wants to build high speed rail. Garrett Polish wanted 111 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 3: to build so called high speed speed rail from Fort 112 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:18,599 Speaker 3: Collins to Pueblo. It's all bull crap. And I've been 113 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 3: I've been in a real bugaboo mood about this blackout 114 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 3: that occurred at Denver International Airport. And I want to 115 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 3: emphasize again I'm not a journalist. I am not a journalist. 116 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:33,160 Speaker 3: I did not go to journalism school. I do not 117 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 3: pretend to be a journalist. But I'd like to know 118 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:40,160 Speaker 3: why nobody in this city, in this state are asking 119 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 3: the questions that I ask. Why are people not asking why? 120 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 3: Why did this happen? How did it happen? Oh, they'll 121 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 3: tell you, they'll get I'll tell you what. Here's what, 122 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:56,720 Speaker 3: here's if. Here's what actually happened at Denver International Airport. 123 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 3: If you if you read the local news, equipment failure 124 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 3: at an Excel Energy substation is blamed for the outage. 125 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:12,719 Speaker 3: Excel crews were activating a new transformer. Now listen to 126 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 3: that closely. They were activating a new transformer at one 127 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:23,480 Speaker 3: of two substations serving DA when the equipment failed. So 128 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 3: it wasn't like they were building a new substation. They 129 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 3: weren't re equipping and tearing down and you know, rebuilding 130 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 3: the old substation. They were activating a new transformer. That 131 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:39,360 Speaker 3: was it, and the equipment failed and that cut power 132 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 3: to the airport for about an hour. Now, the timing 133 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:46,840 Speaker 3: is notable. This wasn't some random grid failure. The other 134 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:51,919 Speaker 3: substation was not affected and was able to partially serve 135 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:57,840 Speaker 3: the airport. But I don't want to give you too 136 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 3: much of the hint over where I'm going. But if 137 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:04,680 Speaker 3: the other substation was able to partially serve the airport, 138 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 3: isn't that like the engineer is telling us that the 139 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 3: trains will be operable ninety nine percent of the time. 140 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:17,240 Speaker 3: So if you're in that one percent, you're screwed. So 141 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 3: if the other substation was able to partially serve the 142 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 3: airport partially, is doing heavy a lot of heavy lifting. 143 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 3: Partial power meant this some lights in some stores, but 144 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 3: not operations. All the critical systems remained without power for 145 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 3: roughly an hour, including the trains that take people from 146 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 3: the main I'm going to explain this way for the 147 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 3: people who are listening outside Denver or have never been 148 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 3: to Denver International Airport. The critical systems remained without power 149 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 3: for roughly an hour, including the airport trains that take 150 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 3: people from the main terminal out to the concourses. The 151 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 3: outage froze escalators, the security screening conveyor belts installed, the 152 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 3: underground trains that linked the main terminal to the concourses, 153 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 3: and because people couldn't reach the gates, the FAA didn't 154 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 3: have any choice but to issue a ground stop. Now, 155 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 3: when you issue a ground stop at Denver International Airport, 156 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 3: the fifth largest airport in the country Africa. I think 157 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 3: we're in the top ten worldwide too. That means that 158 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 3: planes were that were going to take off from Lax 159 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:32,960 Speaker 3: or Dulles, you know, someplace else to come here. They 160 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 3: suffer from a ground stop too. You don't want a 161 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 3: bunch of planes flying in the air where they will 162 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:43,320 Speaker 3: nowhere to go. So the FAA ran the ground stop 163 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 3: from around nine to fifty four am. Power restored around 164 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 3: eleven AM full operations back to normal by noon. By 165 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 3: three pm, two hundred and seventy two departing and two 166 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 3: hundred and seventeen arriving flights had been delayed. Eight flights 167 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 3: were canceled. This was not even the first time. On 168 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 3: February one, Yeah, just you know, a month Agodia experienced 169 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 3: another power incident, part of a broader Excel energy outage 170 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:21,840 Speaker 3: affecting more than one hundred thousand customers across Douglas, Elbert, 171 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 3: Arapo and Denver counties, which also impacted the airport's trains. 172 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:30,560 Speaker 3: So now we're at twice in six weeks. Pattern, See 173 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:34,719 Speaker 3: a pattern? Who see you better? Now? I've asked myself 174 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 3: and I've asked some other people, why didn't the backup 175 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 3: power save the day. Because as the guy as the 176 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 3: under Secretary of Homeland Security who was in charge of 177 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 3: continuity of operations, Continuity of governments are called COOP and 178 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 3: COG plans. Continuity of government is if we have to, 179 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 3: you know, if we're suffering sporst case situation, because they 180 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:03,680 Speaker 3: started back in the Eisenhower administration, if we're going to 181 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:07,080 Speaker 3: suffer from a thermonuclear laydown, you know, we're just being attacked. 182 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 3: How do we keep the government operating? Well, we have 183 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 3: secret locations and we also have operational plans, all of 184 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,240 Speaker 3: which are how do we disperse the government, how do 185 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:18,839 Speaker 3: we protect the president, how do we keep the chain 186 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 3: of succession, how do we get people from you know, 187 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 3: where they wherever they are in the country. So if 188 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 3: you're in the top let's say, I can't speak too 189 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 3: much detail, but let's just say you're in the top 190 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 3: five or the top three. You're the vice president, you're 191 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:35,559 Speaker 3: the Speaker of the House, in the Secretary of State. 192 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 3: So those three in the line of succession, we just 193 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:42,680 Speaker 3: happen to know where they are every single minute of 194 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 3: the day, and wherever they are, we already have plans 195 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:50,320 Speaker 3: in case something happens to potus of how do we 196 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 3: get the Vice President, the Speaker of the House, or 197 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 3: the Secretary of State to a undisclosed location where we 198 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 3: can secure them and protect them in case they end 199 00:11:02,679 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 3: up becoming potus. At the same time that we have 200 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 3: those kinds of plans, we also have plant contingency plans, 201 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 3: operational plans to keep everything running. Make sure you still 202 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 3: get your Social Security check, make sure that all you 203 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:19,800 Speaker 3: still get your EBT guards, and we exercise those. We 204 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:23,599 Speaker 3: even have a place to take the members of the 205 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 3: United States Supreme Court so that they can actually still 206 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:31,720 Speaker 3: conduct hearings and do things. We have plans to take 207 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 3: the entire United Stall I shouldn't say the entire that 208 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaker 3: would be a little hyperbole, to make sure we have 209 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,240 Speaker 3: enough of the members of the House in the Senate 210 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 3: to locate them to undisclosed locations. And by the way, 211 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 3: let me just dispel some rumors right now, none of 212 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 3: those places are underground outside Denver International Airport, So all 213 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:53,319 Speaker 3: you conspiracy theorists just get that out of your head. 214 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 3: But my point being, we have all of these plans, 215 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 3: continuity of operations, continuity of government, can ingency plans. If 216 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 3: you will to keep things running well. I'd like to 217 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 3: know where are the contingency plans and the operational plans 218 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:12,680 Speaker 3: for Denver International Airport. Not because I live in Denver, 219 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 3: but yes, because I live in Denver, but also because 220 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 3: this is what we call in homeland security critical infrastructure. 221 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 3: It's something that is necessary for the economy of the country. 222 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 3: Whether you like it or not, Denver International Airport is 223 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:36,199 Speaker 3: a very important cog in the gross domestic product of 224 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 3: the United States of America. So here's where the contingency 225 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 3: plan question that I have, about where we're the plans 226 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 3: and where it gets interesting and where the answer is 227 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 3: genuinely more complicated than they failed backup generators that we 228 00:12:55,760 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 3: have at DIA. I think there's a misconception. Emergency generators 229 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 3: at facilities likedia are only engineered for life safety systems, 230 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:12,439 Speaker 3: emergency lighting, fire suppression, security cameras, and some comms. They 231 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 3: are not sized and they are not designed to power 232 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 3: the underground training system. Oh, engineers, they keep telling me 233 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:21,719 Speaker 3: it'll work ninety nine percent of the time. Where were 234 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 3: you then, stupid freaking engineers. They are not The full 235 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 3: escalator network can't work. The TSA conveyor belts, the jet bridges, 236 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:38,199 Speaker 3: the HVAC systems, the power draw of Deia's automated people 237 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 3: mover that train system alone is enormous. We're talking about 238 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 3: something closer to a subway line than an elevator. And 239 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 3: the FAY I want to be clear here too, for 240 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 3: anybody listening out, you know, in long Man or in 241 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 3: the tower anywhere else. The FAA ground stop was not 242 00:13:54,800 --> 00:14:00,840 Speaker 3: an operational failure. That was a safety decision. When critical systems, 243 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 3: when the jet bridge, power and ground control infrastructure are compromised, 244 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:09,760 Speaker 3: you cannot safely sequence aircraft. So a ground stop is 245 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:14,199 Speaker 3: exactly what a proper contingency plan looks like. The alternative 246 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 3: keep landing planes when you can't get people to the gates, 247 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 3: that's going to be. That's just going to exacerbate the problem. 248 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 3: So the real structural vulnerability is guess what, it's dependency 249 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 3: on the grid. A grid maintained by Excel Energy that 250 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 3: can't do squat. Denver International is served by two Excel substations. 251 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:43,520 Speaker 3: One failed during a transformer activation, and the remaining substation 252 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 3: could only partially carry the load of the airport. That's 253 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 3: the actual problem. Denver International has no independent generation capacity. 254 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 3: It is entirely dependent on Excel's infrastructure. I want you 255 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 3: remember that, because in a minute, we're going to go 256 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 3: back in time and we're going to go back to 257 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 3: the planning and the design of Denver International and show 258 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 3: you how, Oh, political influence, corruption, ineptitude, and absolute incompetence 259 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 3: is what we're experiencing today. Two substations, two freaking substations 260 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 3: for one of the busiest airports in the country, the 261 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:31,640 Speaker 3: fifth busiest in the United States. That is a single 262 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 3: what we call what we call in the business, a 263 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 3: single point of failure that's masquerading as redundancy. Oh well, 264 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 3: we got two substations, we have redundancy. No, you have 265 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:47,000 Speaker 3: a single point of failure. One goes out, you shut 266 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 3: down the airport. And DA's own leadership is admitting to this. 267 00:15:53,720 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 3: The CEO of really okay, the CEO, Phil Washington, has 268 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 3: announced plans, Now this is previous. He's announced plans he'd 269 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 3: like to study the feasibility of building a small, modular 270 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 3: nuclear reactor at the airport, saying that an in house 271 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 3: power source would guard against blackouts that create major international 272 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 3: travel disruptions. Really, no, Feci Sherlock. Now, when you're CEO 273 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 3: is floting nuclear reactions as a solution. He is conceding 274 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 3: that the current setup totally inadequate. Here's what he said 275 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 3: this week. Denver continues to explore alternative energy sources via 276 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 3: a RFI, a request for information from the private sector, 277 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:44,440 Speaker 3: so that we can ensure greater redundancy. Wait a minute, 278 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 3: you're missing a point, CEO. You don't need greater redundancy, 279 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 3: you need alternative sources. But anyway to finish this quote, 280 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 3: Denver continues to explore alternative energy solutions via request for 281 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 3: information from the IT sector so we can ensure greater 282 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 3: redundancy and meet our growing energy needs. Let me translate 283 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 3: that for you. We know we're exposed, and we're still 284 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,879 Speaker 3: just kind of gathering ideas. That's what a request for 285 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 3: information is, Hey, could you send us some ideas? So 286 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:22,680 Speaker 3: is this a contingency planning failure? I would say partially, 287 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 3: but not in the way that I think most people 288 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:29,119 Speaker 3: are thinking, or in the way that Denver's trying to 289 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 3: tell you, or that the local media is trying to 290 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 3: report to you. Because the backup systems they did what 291 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:40,720 Speaker 3: they were designed to do. The emergency lighting work people 292 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 3: weren't in the dark, and some of the systems stayed operational, 293 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:49,120 Speaker 3: and the FAA executed a proper groundstop. That's a contingency 294 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 3: plan that is working as written, but the failure is 295 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 3: a strategic failure, not a tactical failure. The contingency plan 296 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 3: was never designed to keep a major international hub fully 297 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 3: operational through a sustained grid outage, because nobody built in 298 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 3: the generation capacity to make that possible. And here's the 299 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 3: kickerdia's numerous expansion projects. I think since I landed at 300 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:21,360 Speaker 3: Denver International on the day it opened, I think it's 301 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:26,920 Speaker 3: been under construction every thing day since that day. Their 302 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:32,480 Speaker 3: numerous expansion projects could have tripled the airport's peak power 303 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 3: demand by twenty forty. Oh, they're adding capacity, rating passengers, 304 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:41,880 Speaker 3: riting concourses, and they still get their power from two 305 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:46,639 Speaker 3: Excel substations. So the uncomfortable question for DIA in the 306 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:51,840 Speaker 3: city of Denver is this, why didn't the backup power work? 307 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:57,200 Speaker 3: It's why in twenty twenty six does the fifth busiest 308 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 3: airport in America have no independence power generation? 309 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:03,160 Speaker 2: Why? 310 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:06,120 Speaker 3: Why not? Wow? Michael, which do you think was worse 311 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:09,159 Speaker 3: being stuck on one of the trains out there at DA. 312 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 2: Were being stuck up on the escalator. I'll take a 313 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:14,440 Speaker 2: half bucket full of the bulkrap Lease. 314 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 3: Are you the one that left this text message? Let's 315 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 3: see zero three nine seven, wrote Michael. It's really a 316 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 3: good thing that you weren't on the escalator when it stopped, 317 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 3: because you would have been delayed for hours waiting for 318 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:36,160 Speaker 3: it to start again. It's very that's very good. That's 319 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:40,399 Speaker 3: very very good. Or fifty five ninety Michael, it's the 320 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:43,240 Speaker 3: lizard people at DA getting grumpy again. 321 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:44,679 Speaker 2: I like that one, I know. 322 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:46,680 Speaker 3: And then a lot of you asking about the solar panels. 323 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:51,119 Speaker 3: You think they'll sellar panels out they're generating enough electricy 324 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:55,480 Speaker 3: to even run you see, the solar panels can't even 325 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 3: run always out at the airport. They probably can't even 326 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 3: run one of the coke machine. 327 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 2: Just think of it like this. 328 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 4: You need at least twenty five to thirty solar panels 329 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:08,160 Speaker 4: to run your house, right, you're good. 330 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 3: You might be able to run one of the shops 331 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:13,400 Speaker 3: because it's all interconnected, so it's not gonna run squad. 332 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 3: So we I've gotta make note that Chuck Norris has 333 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:19,880 Speaker 3: passed away. Because last night's Hold Dragon what I had seen. 334 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:23,440 Speaker 3: I saw the headline that truck Chuck Norris had been hospitalized, 335 00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 3: and the response to him being hospitalized was this, gee, 336 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 3: I hope the hospital survived. 337 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 2: That's great. 338 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:35,359 Speaker 3: Isn't that great? Is phenomenal? That's so Chuck Norris. He 339 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:40,879 Speaker 3: would have loved that. I hope the hospital survived. Rip 340 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 3: Chuck Norris. All right, back back to where we were. 341 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 3: What what I the hell we were doing about Denver 342 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:50,800 Speaker 3: International Airport? 343 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:52,320 Speaker 2: Here? 344 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:56,199 Speaker 3: Let me frame it this way. The uncomfortable question for 345 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,440 Speaker 3: Dimmer International Airport and all the y'all who's that run 346 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:03,320 Speaker 3: the city and Denver? It's not why didn't the backup 347 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:07,920 Speaker 3: power work? It's instead why in twenty twenty six does 348 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:11,399 Speaker 3: the fifth busiest airport in the entire country, one of 349 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:15,119 Speaker 3: the tenth busiest in the entire world, have no independent 350 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 3: power generation excel. They're incompetence. They're activating a new transformer, 351 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 3: a scheduled planned maintenance activity, and boom, the whole place 352 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 3: goes dark. That's not an act of God. That's a 353 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:36,919 Speaker 3: design choice with consequences that landed on eighty thousand Spring 354 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 3: Break travelers. The communication failure on top of it was 355 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:48,920 Speaker 3: completely avoidable. One traveler reported that even the intercom systems 356 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:52,199 Speaker 3: weren't working, they couldn't make announcements or let people know 357 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 3: what was happening. Maybe your backup power plan should maybe 358 00:21:56,359 --> 00:22:00,360 Speaker 3: at a bare minimum, keep the PA system on. That's 359 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 3: not a generating generator sizing problem. That's a planning failure. 360 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:14,159 Speaker 3: So let's swerve from all of that into I just 361 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:21,959 Speaker 3: wanted to know. And you gotta get really pissed off 362 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:23,919 Speaker 3: when people say, oh, you're a talk show host, you 363 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 3: just work three hours a day. When when I started 364 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:34,200 Speaker 3: digging into this two days ago, I spent as much 365 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:37,880 Speaker 3: time as I would have probably writing a brief for 366 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 3: the Colorado Supreme Court or some federal district court somewhere 367 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:48,679 Speaker 3: for a trial. There is a damning picture of the 368 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:53,639 Speaker 3: complete and utter failure of planning for contingencies from the 369 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:55,679 Speaker 3: day that I not not just the day that I 370 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 3: landed on DiiA open for the first time, but all 371 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:04,640 Speaker 3: the years prior to that, watching it being constructed, all 372 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 3: the planning, the engineering, the consulting, the lawyers, everybody involved 373 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 3: in the politicians. This is a known vulnerability, and there's 374 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 3: a timeline of deliberate in action since December of two 375 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 3: thy seventeen. It's the wake up call that they did 376 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 3: not wake up to. Atlanta International Hartsfield Jackson suffered a 377 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 3: massive power outage in December twenty seventeen. That one caused 378 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 3: an eleven hour blackout at the nation's busiest airport, And 379 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:42,520 Speaker 3: of course that impact had travel throughout the entire country, 380 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 3: and that prompted airports around the globe, around the globe, 381 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 3: not just around the country, around the globe, to take 382 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 3: a second look at their own power systems, including DIA. 383 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,240 Speaker 3: Now that's what we call in the business a precipitating event, 384 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,880 Speaker 3: because every airport in America said quote that could be us, 385 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:09,000 Speaker 3: and Denver's own systems engineering manager said it out loud imprint. 386 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:16,439 Speaker 3: This is where the story goes from unfortunate to inexcusable. 387 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:22,800 Speaker 3: March twenty nineteen. Yes, this is what I do for 388 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:29,120 Speaker 3: a living. There's a magazine called Airport Improvement. I've got 389 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:32,720 Speaker 3: to give a subscription to this airport improvement magazine. March 390 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:37,639 Speaker 3: of twenty nineteen published a detailed feature Guess what now, Dragon, 391 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 3: How many years ago was March twenty nineteen? This is 392 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,879 Speaker 3: March twenty twenty six. I can't do math? Is that like? 393 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 3: You know? Seven years? Seven years, Airport Improvement Magazine published 394 00:24:53,359 --> 00:25:02,359 Speaker 3: a detailed feature on the power vulnerability assessment Denver International Airport. 395 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:08,880 Speaker 3: The airport's own manager of Systems Engineering, Colon Choi, walked 396 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:16,040 Speaker 3: through the entire problem on the records, as I said, 397 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 3: Demmer's got two substations, both through Excel Energy. You know, 398 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,199 Speaker 3: even that's a problem. Let me tell you how I 399 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:28,159 Speaker 3: think about contingency planning. So my mobile service, my cell service, 400 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 3: is with T Mobile. I also have a personal Wi 401 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 3: Fi hotspot. Guess what that's not with T Mobile, so 402 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:40,479 Speaker 3: that no matter where I am, if T Mobile fails, 403 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 3: I can use the Wi Fi hotspot to make Wi 404 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:49,879 Speaker 3: Fi calls using Horizon. That's called contingency planning. That's just 405 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:53,120 Speaker 3: how my brain works after spending six years among those 406 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 3: A holes in Washington, DC. So we've got two substations, 407 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 3: both through Excel Energy, each theoretically capable of supporting the 408 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:08,040 Speaker 3: airport's entire power load. Oh I thought, I thought earlier 409 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 3: in the program, I said that those substations could not 410 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:15,600 Speaker 3: support the entire power load. Oh, we'll let's go back 411 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:19,360 Speaker 3: to Airport Improvement Magazine in March of twenty nineteen. Quote, 412 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 3: we have redundancy on top of redundancy at the airport boundary, 413 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:32,399 Speaker 3: said the manager of Systems Engineering in twenty nineteen. MM 414 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:37,520 Speaker 3: was Colon lying, then we're lying now. In the beginning 415 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 3: there was nothing. Then shut Norris Roundhouse kicked nothing and. 416 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:43,119 Speaker 2: Told it to give a job. 417 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,440 Speaker 3: So I don't know whether sometimes people just don't hear 418 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:53,760 Speaker 3: what I say, or maybe I'm not speaking the King's 419 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 3: English twenty eight or six rights. Michael, please do not 420 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 3: equate a pal electrical monopoly Excel with either competence and 421 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:11,160 Speaker 3: or a clue. Well, I'm not. I'm pointing out that 422 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 3: Excel is part of the problem here. Yeah, So I 423 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:21,200 Speaker 3: don't know where you're getting that. So back to Airport 424 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:25,800 Speaker 3: Improvement magazine from twenty nineteen, where the airport's owned manager 425 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 3: of Systems Engineering, Cullen Choi, identified exactly what the problem is. 426 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:34,840 Speaker 3: You know, So we have two substations through Excel, each 427 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:39,280 Speaker 3: theoretically capable of supporting the airport's entire powerload. Well I 428 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,639 Speaker 3: said earlier in the program that there's no way that 429 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:46,400 Speaker 3: those two substations can indeed take care of the entire 430 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 3: powerload of everything that's out there. Just the moving walkways 431 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:54,840 Speaker 3: are like a subway line. So two substations can't do that. 432 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 3: But Choi said, we have redundancy on top of redundancy 433 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:03,359 Speaker 3: of the airport. Bow Well, the problem is between the 434 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:08,640 Speaker 3: airport boundary and the interior wall plugs. The system transitions 435 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:16,359 Speaker 3: from redundancy to a single feed. You may have fifteen substations. 436 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:22,240 Speaker 3: The problem is they transition to a single feed. And 437 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:27,240 Speaker 3: that's where Denver International really scrutinized its strategy. Denver runs 438 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:31,879 Speaker 3: on a twenty five kV distribution system, so the voltage 439 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:36,680 Speaker 3: that it receives from Excel is too high for airport 440 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 3: equipment and needs to be stepped down before use. We 441 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 3: to say that again, the power they get is it's 442 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 3: too high for the airport equipment, so they've got to 443 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 3: step it down before it gets used. They publicly acknowledge 444 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:56,160 Speaker 3: that in twenty nineteen that the redundancy ends that the 445 00:28:56,240 --> 00:29:00,440 Speaker 3: fence line. So again they can have fifteen substations. The 446 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,160 Speaker 3: fence line doesn't make any difference once you get past 447 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:07,200 Speaker 3: the substations. They're on a single feed. Think about what 448 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 3: a terrorist could do with that. You now know publicly 449 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,560 Speaker 3: well you've known since March of twenty nineteen from airport 450 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,960 Speaker 3: what's it called to a keep forgetting Airport improvement magazine, 451 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:23,640 Speaker 3: because that's that's such a contradiction Airport Improvement magazine. So 452 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 3: we now known since March seven years ago that there 453 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,600 Speaker 3: is a single line feeding their entire airport. So if 454 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,600 Speaker 3: you're if you're isis your al Qaeda or you're just 455 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,000 Speaker 3: some nut job, you find out where that single line is, 456 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 3: figure how to blow it up. You shut down their 457 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,920 Speaker 3: entire airport. In fact, you shut down two ways. Just 458 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:45,240 Speaker 3: an explosion. Oh that'll cost panny, so that'll shut things down. 459 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,120 Speaker 3: You cut off that one feed, you shut down the 460 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,240 Speaker 3: entire shut down the entire system. And they said so 461 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,560 Speaker 3: on in a magazine. They set it in a magazine. 462 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:58,080 Speaker 3: But here's the line that I'll make every taxpayer's blood boil. 463 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 3: After Atlanta, some airports pressure their local utilities to guarantee 464 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,040 Speaker 3: a more reliable feed, and they spent millions of dollars 465 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:13,200 Speaker 3: purchasing generators for every potential load. Choi said in the magazine, 466 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:18,120 Speaker 3: we didn't do that. We're taking a slow metered. 467 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:20,040 Speaker 2: I can't even quote it. 468 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 3: We're taking a slow metered approach slow and metered. 469 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:27,840 Speaker 2: Uh. 470 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:31,720 Speaker 3: Seven years later and the airport goes dark during spring 471 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,960 Speaker 3: break because an Excel crew was energizing a new transformer. 472 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:39,239 Speaker 3: And they call that a planned routine maintenance operation and 473 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 3: a single substation trip. That's the dividends that you get 474 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 3: when you're on a slow and metered approach. Mister Joy, 475 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 3: what an idiot? 476 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,560 Speaker 2: What does that even mean? We'll get to it when 477 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:55,240 Speaker 2: we get to it. 478 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, I think he was trying to 479 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 3: play pilot. We're taking a slow and needed approach to 480 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:02,000 Speaker 3: the land. 481 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:02,640 Speaker 2: Yeah. 482 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, So we took off from our hair and we're 483 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 3: already planning our land. We still have two hours and 484 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,800 Speaker 3: forty five minutes to go, but you know, five minutes 485 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:18,560 Speaker 3: into flight, now, let's think about landing sometime. Good grief, 486 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:22,720 Speaker 3: we've also had a dress rehearsal. I know this just 487 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:28,200 Speaker 3: happened this past week. A power incident in early February 488 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 3: that hal of the airport's training system that was due 489 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:35,080 Speaker 3: to a failed transformer at an Excel substation, which then 490 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 3: spread to the other substations. That was six weeks before, 491 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 3: two days ago. 492 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 2: Six weeks. 493 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:43,960 Speaker 3: Two power incidents in six weeks. In the response from 494 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 3: DEA leadership was still a press release saying that they 495 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:57,040 Speaker 3: were quote exploring alternative energy solutions. Wow, can we do 496 00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:01,840 Speaker 3: anything in this country? Let me just I can't resist it. 497 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:07,000 Speaker 3: May I just point out that Denver International Airport is 498 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:08,680 Speaker 3: owned by the City and County of Denver. I know 499 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:13,320 Speaker 3: it's got its own little entity, but Denver is a 500 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:23,600 Speaker 3: Democrat controlled city. Huh. Democrat controlled is as to slow 501 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:28,480 Speaker 3: and metered, as democrat is to incompetence. Now I haven't 502 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 3: even finished. I'm going to get to the main event. 503 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,720 Speaker 3: So when we get back, we'll get to the main 504 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 3: event that occurred on March eighteen, just a mere two 505 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:39,640 Speaker 3: days ago.