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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you should know, a production of I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh,

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Speaker 1: and there's chucking. It's just us, but that's okay because

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Speaker 1: we today are doing stuff you should know. The heat

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Speaker 1: wave addition, that's the heat brows of the fact. Have

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Speaker 1: you been singing that song all day? I've been trying

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Speaker 1: so hard not to and it's not working. How about you?

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Speaker 1: Oh man, it's Martha Invent and the Vandellas. How can

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Speaker 1: you not? Yeah? The problem is is all I just

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Speaker 1: it's just this constant loop of heat wave like heat wave,

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Speaker 1: I know, heat wave. Just that's it over and that's

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Speaker 1: the only part I know. And it's terrible. I think

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Speaker 1: I know that. One of the first lines is uh

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Speaker 1: whenever we oh near me. Oh, that's the same song.

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Speaker 1: I think, so right, because I'm I thinking of something. No,

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Speaker 1: I think it is. But every movie that ever uses

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Speaker 1: it just uses that first line and then starts to

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Speaker 1: fade out before they get to the heat wave card.

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Speaker 1: So I never put two and two together. A great song,

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Speaker 1: great song, for sure, But you don't want just heat

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Speaker 1: wave on a loop in your head. I can tell you.

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Speaker 1: Uh no, No, I just looked at the lyrics and

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Speaker 1: I'm wrong anyway, But whenever I'm with him, Okay, but

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Speaker 1: it's that's what you're talking about. It's not like a

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Speaker 1: totally different song or something. Whenever I'm with him, something

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Speaker 1: inside starts to burning and I'm filled with desire. Heat wave?

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Speaker 1: Could it be a devil in me? Heat wave? The

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Speaker 1: way love is supposed to be? He'd wave, Yes, All right,

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Speaker 1: let's done. Let's never speak of that again. Sexy song.

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Speaker 1: I didn't realize it was that sexy. Well, sure, she

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Speaker 1: talking about getting all hot for a dude, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's your over. That's not what There's nothing

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Speaker 1: sexy about the heat wave that we're talking about. No,

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Speaker 1: deadly maybe the antithesis of sexy. Yeah, they think about

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Speaker 1: it heat wave sex. And there's such a thing as

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Speaker 1: cold waves, which will touch on briefly. They are very

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Speaker 1: much related to heat waves are kind of its polar opposite,

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Speaker 1: if you'll excuse the pun, but the you could make

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Speaker 1: a case that that would be far sexier than a

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Speaker 1: heat wave. Yeah. At least you're you know, warming yourself up, right,

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right. Uh, And boy, we we used a

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Speaker 1: lot of great weather website references for this one, right, Yeah, yeah, great, great,

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Speaker 1: great segue there, chuck. So, um, we got some info

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Speaker 1: from from Noah j No. Actually, the thing is, I

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Speaker 1: can't even be taken seriously when I'm trying to be

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Speaker 1: serious and genuine like that was genuine. I'm still learning.

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Speaker 1: So that was so Noah gave us a bunch of information,

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Speaker 1: your nephew. Um. There's also the Center for Climate Change

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Speaker 1: and Energy Solutions. Is this my cue? Yep uh, World

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Speaker 1: Weather Attribution, the New York Times, the failing New York Times, NASA,

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Speaker 1: ACU Weather, Yeah, and a bunch more, but those are

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Speaker 1: the ones that we got the meat of this stuff from. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and we're talking about heat waves, which is the I

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Speaker 1: was about to call it a phenomenon. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if it is categorized at that, but it's a weather event.

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Speaker 1: It's a natural disaster. Well yeah, and as we'll see,

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Speaker 1: one of one of the worst. It is when there

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Speaker 1: are consecutive days where the temperature is higher than usually

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Speaker 1: is that is to say, higher than the historical average.

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Speaker 1: But there's no like it depends on where you are.

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Speaker 1: What is uh, what a heat wave is like, It's

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Speaker 1: not necessarily like three days and it's eight degrees hotter

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Speaker 1: than usual for those three days. Now, because it varies

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Speaker 1: region to region, like in New Hampshire, a heat wave

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Speaker 1: And that's just like yawn to those of us down

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Speaker 1: it's regional, like spices that go in hot dogs, right.

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Speaker 1: But the thing is is like that depends the reason

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Speaker 1: that they do that. The reason there's no single definition

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Speaker 1: for heat waves because people are acclimated to different kinds

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Speaker 1: it's going to affect you and your body a lot worse.

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Speaker 1: So it makes a lot of sense. But the two

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Speaker 1: at height, that's the minimum that I've seen in the

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, a legit heat wave. Oh boy, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: this one speaks to my heart because, as everyone who's

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Speaker 1: my friends certainly know, I am a I'm a polar bear.

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Speaker 1: So the sun and humidity is not good for Chuck.

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Speaker 1: I hate it. I hate it. I grew up in

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Speaker 1: much as I sweat, which is a I can't imagine

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Speaker 1: I sweat. Well, yeah, you'd be like one of those

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Speaker 1: people who can't sweat and can die from it. But

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Speaker 1: when I lived in l a uh, it can get

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Speaker 1: you can sweat and you're cooling down pretty good. But

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Speaker 1: but I just want to kind of set set up

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Speaker 1: my personal involvement with heat waves, which is boo thumbs down.

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Speaker 1: You're personally involved through sweatiness, is what you're saying. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and when those heat waves, especially the late heat waves

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Speaker 1: It's just it makes me mad. Yeah, those are not

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Speaker 1: like okay, great, it's fall, and then you're just dog

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Speaker 1: days summer again. It's terrible. I'm with you on that.

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Speaker 1: But how did these things come about to begin with?

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Speaker 1: Why is it hot for a week straight way hotter

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Speaker 1: don't want to lose anybody this early on if they're like, uh,

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Speaker 1: two days in a row of ninety degree weather? Why

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Speaker 1: are talking about this because, like we said, Chuck, Noah

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Speaker 1: really terrible stuff can happen during a heat wave, even

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Speaker 1: silent but deadly. So as you're saying how do heat

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Speaker 1: the big stat which is heat waves kill more people

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Speaker 1: other natural disasters. It's the deadliest kind of natural disaster.

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Speaker 1: The thing is is it doesn't happen all at once,

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Speaker 1: We're just beginning to awaken to it because it's not

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Speaker 1: an obvious natural disaster, but it is most decidedly a

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Speaker 1: natural disaster. Yeah, that's a good point. Like it's not

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Speaker 1: So let me just restate that less confusingly. It's a

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Speaker 1: of times for that reason because they could derail. Yeah, concrete,

424
00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 1: an asphalt, any kind of metal and glass on a

425
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:14,800
Speaker 1: building you've uh, I mean, buildings can like their shape

426
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 1: can briefly change and expand and contract or I guess

427
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:23,200
Speaker 1: expand and not contract for a little while, all due

428
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:24,920
Speaker 1: to this heat wave. And you know, we talked a

429
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 1: little bit about the urban heat island effect at some point, um,

430
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:31,919
Speaker 1: but this is you know, this is why you got

431
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,520
Speaker 1: to New York City and a heat wave and it's

432
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 1: it's one of the hottest places on the planet. It

433
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,520
Speaker 1: feels like, yeah, because it actually is way hotter than

434
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:42,280
Speaker 1: other places because of all those building materials number one,

435
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 1: that are excellent absorbers of heat, all that blacktop and

436
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 1: asphalt and um, all that steel, but also chuck like

437
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:55,159
Speaker 1: the distinct lack of vegetation like trees and stuff that

438
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,240
Speaker 1: actually helped cool the air. Like it's not just shade

439
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 1: that they do, Like they actually release water vapor into

440
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,359
Speaker 1: the air and actually cool the nearby air. So the

441
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 1: more trees you have, the lower the urban heat island effect.

442
00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 1: But that's just not like a huge, huge um trait

443
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 1: of the average city. Like somebody actually wrote a book

444
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 1: called A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. That's how significant the

445
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,119
Speaker 1: idea of a tree in Brooklyn was. You know what

446
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:24,200
Speaker 1: I'm saying. That's funny. Uh. Energy takes a big wall

447
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,920
Speaker 1: up to um for the obvious reason and more um

448
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,720
Speaker 1: obvious when being that you know, everyone's cranking those air

449
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 1: conditioners everyone's refrigerators and freezers are working over time. Um.

450
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:41,239
Speaker 1: Industrial refrigeration is working over time. And you combine that

451
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:45,479
Speaker 1: with the fact that transmission capacity is reduced during these

452
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:50,880
Speaker 1: high temperatures, it's gonna strain the electrical grid even more. Uh.

453
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:54,640
Speaker 1: It's just nothing is running with any kind of efficiency.

454
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:58,719
Speaker 1: And if you want to really have some people die quickly,

455
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 1: you have an energy power outage during a heat wave

456
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 1: because of these overstressed systems. And that's when all of

457
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 1: a sudden, like nobody has refrigeration or air conditioning, and uh,

458
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 1: it can get brutal pretty quickly. Yeah, because I mean,

459
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 1: if you, if you think about it, you've got incredible

460
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 1: demand on the system. And then the system itself can't

461
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,919
Speaker 1: really um, it can't get rid of its you know,

462
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 1: waste heat like it needs to, just like a human

463
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 1: body does. So Yeah, if the system blacks out or

464
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,199
Speaker 1: even browns out, it's that's not the time to do it,

465
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 1: but that's when it's most likely to happen. And then

466
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 1: on the same on the opposite side of the same coin, chuck,

467
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 1: are those cold waves I was talking about? Um, And

468
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 1: that was what happened in Texas. Uh this past winter

469
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 1: it was a high pressure front, but instead of a

470
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 1: mass of like super hot air, it was a massive

471
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,160
Speaker 1: super cold air and it just settled in and stayed

472
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:54,440
Speaker 1: there and froze Texas and Texas infrastructure suffered. I think

473
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 1: we talked about in the electrical grid episode. Um. And

474
00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:59,879
Speaker 1: it was the same thing. They just couldn't keep up

475
00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:03,639
Speaker 1: with the demand, and the weather itself was taxing the

476
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 1: system too. And uh, it's the same thing in a

477
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 1: heat wave. It's just for the opposite reasons, but the

478
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: same outcome, right. Uh. And if you're thinking, hey, you know,

479
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 1: look at the bright side, warmer winters mean we're not

480
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 1: going to be using as much energy in the wintertime

481
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:23,439
Speaker 1: to heat our homes, so it all balances out. Uh,

482
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:26,120
Speaker 1: that's not true. They've done a lot of studies and

483
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:30,160
Speaker 1: they're pretty much coming to the conclusion that the heat

484
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 1: is out is tipping that scale too far in the

485
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 1: other direction. And even if we are saving a little

486
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,879
Speaker 1: bit of energy and or even a great deal of

487
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 1: energy in the wintertime due to warmer temperatures, it's not

488
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 1: going to balance it out. Um. Water is another big

489
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,199
Speaker 1: one to chuck, which makes a lot of sense, Like

490
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:50,159
Speaker 1: people drink more water they need more water. Uh, they

491
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 1: might take cool baths to cool down, but not just humans.

492
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 1: Livestock need more water during this time. Um power plants

493
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: need more water to stay a cool, crops need more water.

494
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,160
Speaker 1: Everything needs more water. But the problem is is during

495
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:08,440
Speaker 1: heat wave when you need water the most, that's when

496
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,879
Speaker 1: it's like the least available because it becomes pretty scarce.

497
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:16,479
Speaker 1: Because drought and heat waves are they work really well together.

498
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: They kind of go hand in hand. Actually in a

499
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 1: lot of cases. Yeah, I mean that kind of creates

500
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 1: a similar feedback feedback loop, and that when there is

501
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 1: moisture in the ground thanks to rain and stuff like that,

502
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,879
Speaker 1: even when it gets hot, the earth is going to

503
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: soak up a lot of that sun and use some

504
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 1: of that energy to get rid of that water and

505
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 1: turn it into water vapor. If that ground is already

506
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: super dry because of a drought, then it's just it's

507
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 1: basically just baking like an oven, and that energy has

508
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 1: no other use. It doesn't have the use of turning

509
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 1: it into water vapor, so it's just baking, yeah, just

510
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 1: heating that ground up instead, so it just gets hotter

511
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 1: and hotter, which is terrible stuff. So UM plus also

512
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: with drought stricken landscapes. Those are more susceptible to wildfire.

513
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 1: So as there's more and more heat waves, we can

514
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 1: expect worse and more widespread wildfires. Basically too, we talked

515
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: about animals, it's not animals. I think a lot of

516
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: people forget about animals and situations like this. Uh. I

517
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 1: think people think more about animals when it gets super

518
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: super cold and like really bad cold. Friends come in.

519
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 1: But they're susceptible to the heat too. And it's not

520
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 1: just you know, our little you know, domesticated pets that

521
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 1: we love and and unfortunately some of the street animals

522
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 1: like really suffer. But livestock, you know, if you're on

523
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: a farm, those cows and chickens don't like that kind

524
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: of heat either. Uh. Sometimes it can affect their mortality rates. Uh,

525
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: it can affect things way downstream because uh they might

526
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: be rep you know if they don't want to have

527
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 1: that heat wave sex either, so that they might be

528
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: reproducing less, which is gonna have a down on stream effect. Uh.

529
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 1: And then you know all the crops are going to

530
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 1: be affected too, Yeah, especially the ones that cops when

531
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 1: it comes snatch that what cops want to come and

532
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: snatch my crops. I don't what is that? You do

533
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 1: remember that as a Cypress Hill lyric, a very famous one.

534
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 1: I don't. Oh yeah, yeah, okay, I remember. Now, boy,

535
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 1: we mentioned cypers Hill a lot on the show. They're

536
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 1: kind of like, uh, they're like a mascot now, like

537
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 1: Frank the Chair. I knew that sounded familiar. Cops come

538
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: and try to snatch my crops. Here it is, and

539
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 1: then that has to be followed, of course by heat Wave. Boy,

540
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 1: somebody should sample that on a on a hip hop tune.

541
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 1: That'd be great. What heat Wave? Yeah, I bet it

542
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 1: has been sure. I could see Puff Daddy sampling that.

543
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 1: That'd be up his alley. Oh yeah, did ever tell

544
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 1: you I went to his house one time. It sounds

545
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 1: vaguely familiar, but I'd like to hear it again. It's

546
00:30:58,120 --> 00:30:59,959
Speaker 1: not the biggest story, but I ran an errand as

547
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 1: p a over to his house one time and had

548
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 1: to drop something. Now, so I had to go go

549
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 1: knock on his door and walk inside the front and

550
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 1: drop something off. Something was something in air quotes. No,

551
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 1: it was some for the job. It wouldn't a big deal,

552
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 1: but it was like clothes or something. But it was.

553
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: It was just very shiny and white. Everything was shiny

554
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 1: and white. I can imagine, which is you know, it's

555
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 1: a way to go, I guess, but I don't know.

556
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 1: It's a look it's too much. It's too much. I

557
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, there's a long time ago. He

558
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 1: may not be into that now. But white couches and

559
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: big white marble floors, I mean, I like white couches

560
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: and and I do like white stuff, but it's also like,

561
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 1: gotta have lots of color. Like the white stuff is

562
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 1: just a it's just a backdrop for your color. That's

563
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 1: in my that's my opinion. We are too messy. We

564
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: can't have white things. I understand, you know. Yeah, told

565
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: well you need to have if you have a white couch,

566
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 1: it's got to be a uh slip cover because you're

567
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 1: gonna have to wash it, yes, if you drink red wine.

568
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 1: But but there is one that we haven't covered you.

569
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: I think we should before we take a break, and

570
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: it is air pollution, which uh might be overlooked by

571
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 1: some people, but it really makes a lot of sense

572
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: because number one, we're like demanding way more from power

573
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 1: plants than usual during a heatwave with all that a c.

574
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,959
Speaker 1: So those power plants are putting out more emissions than usual.

575
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: But then the actual like conditions of the heat wave

576
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: itself make the air pollution worse, does it not? Yeah?

577
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 1: I mean that that same cap that uh kind of

578
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 1: forces all that air down and keeps everything stagnant, that

579
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 1: same cap is in place for uh, these emissions that

580
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: are going up into the air. So it's just it's

581
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: just like bottling it all up. It's gonna make things

582
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: a lot worse. Yeah, and so, and also ozone is

583
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 1: more easily produced. You've got ozone and like particulate matter

584
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: from from emissions, all combining to make your breathing much

585
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: more difficult. Danger. Right, So let's take a break, man,

586
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: and then we'll talk about some couple of famous heat

587
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 1: waves and what the future holds. How about that, let's

588
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: do it. Learn it's stuff with Joshua John stuff all right.

589
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: So if you were alive on the earth this summer, um,

590
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 1: you might remember and said, all you almost started with it,

591
00:33:57,840 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: and you didn't. You've really come a long way John

592
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: with what you almost said, unless you're living under a rock.

593
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, no, it really wasn't all right, Um,

594
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 1: so between June and June, Uh, something was brewing down

595
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: in Mexico that was very hot, and this big, massive

596
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:19,319
Speaker 1: warm air moved up and kind of settled over the

597
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 1: middle of the United States and and didn't move for

598
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 1: a while. And uh, it was just sort of your

599
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:29,840
Speaker 1: classic heat wave. But even in places like where that

600
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,359
Speaker 1: they're used to the heat in the summertime, it got

601
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 1: exceedingly hot. Like if you were in Arizona and Phoenix,

602
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: you're used to hot weather for sure, but it it

603
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 1: cracked a hundred and fifteen degrees for six consecutive days,

604
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,439
Speaker 1: which is a record for even Phoenix. That is not

605
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 1: okay for anybody, no, but so so it's bad enough

606
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 1: for Phoenix. But still, I'm sure the people of things

607
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: were like, yeah, it's kind of hot, but come on,

608
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,959
Speaker 1: we could we could handle worse. Um, it was play

609
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 1: this is where it's not normally hot at all. That

610
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 1: really took the brunt of that heat wave. And as

611
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, the heat wave is generally called

612
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: referred to as the Pacific Northwest heatwave because that's where

613
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: it really stunk the worst. Yeah, I can't believe Portland,

614
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 1: Oregon got up to a hundred and twelve degrees. That

615
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,720
Speaker 1: is bananas. Yeah, And we should say when you're talking

616
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: about air temperatures and you are seeing the temperature on

617
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,840
Speaker 1: the news or whatever, that measurement was taken in the shade.

618
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:32,400
Speaker 1: That's not the sunlight sunshine temperature. That's what that the

619
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 1: temperature is in the shade. Okay, So wrap your head

620
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 1: around that one. Yeah. So a hundred and twelve in

621
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 1: Portland's hundred and four in Seattle, which broke a record.

622
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: Um it was. It was bananas and and that kind

623
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 1: of like a lot of people in that part of

624
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 1: the country. I don't really know percentages, but there are

625
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 1: there are people who don't have h VAC units. They

626
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 1: count on opening their windows and stuff like that. There

627
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 1: are places in the United States, believe it or not,

628
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: that don't have HVAC and that that use ceiling fans

629
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,919
Speaker 1: and stuff and they just don't eat. Yeah, for sure. Um.

630
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 1: There was another town too that we have to mention,

631
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 1: chuck Lytton, British Columbia, which is north a couple hundred

632
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 1: miles north of Seattle. They hit a hundred and sixteen

633
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 1: and set a new record not just for themselves but

634
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 1: for Canada as a whole and then the town burned

635
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 1: down from a wildfire right afterward. Very sad, so like

636
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 1: it was a really big deal. And one of the

637
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:34,759
Speaker 1: things that that I think this the Pacific Northwest heat

638
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: wave in June, and I think there were multiple ones

639
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: around that region over the well not just in the

640
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,320
Speaker 1: Pacific Northwest, but in like the Midwest States in particular

641
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 1: U this year. But what I think these the heat

642
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:49,800
Speaker 1: waves in the U s s you're kind of woke

643
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 1: people up to, is like these things are like really deadly.

644
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 1: They looked at excess deaths, which they kind of take

645
00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 1: the background number of deaths, the deaths you'd expect, and

646
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 1: then see how many more occurred on a particular day

647
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: or over a particular period or during a heat wave.

648
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: And they've concluded thus far that in Washington State alone,

649
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,839
Speaker 1: six people died from that heat wave over the course

650
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 1: of a few days. Yeah, like thousands of people total

651
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 1: um all over that region. And you know this is

652
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,760
Speaker 1: that's a little bit of a squishy number because it's

653
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,280
Speaker 1: and we'll talk a little bit about this, like people

654
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: who study is kind of stuff, they're doing the best

655
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 1: they can. They can't necessarily say like every single one

656
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 1: of those deaths was because of the heat wave. But

657
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: it is a really good measure. Um, And if you're

658
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:39,800
Speaker 1: if you're just looking at sort of round numbers, uh,

659
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:41,720
Speaker 1: it's it's not the kind of thing that you can dismiss.

660
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 1: And Plus, if history is any kind of guide that

661
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,840
Speaker 1: those numbers will probably be revised upward in the next

662
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 1: year or so, I would guess. Yeah. And it's not

663
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 1: just the United States. There was a heat wave in

664
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 1: Europe in two thousand three that was it was the

665
00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 1: warmest summer on record since the fifteen forties. And I

666
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 1: was like, how do they know that? I don't know.

667
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: So I looked, there's a bunch of different ways they

668
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: can kind of miss us out. Yeah, parchment is the answer. Um,

669
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 1: there's there's They take bore holes is basically one of

670
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:18,240
Speaker 1: the best ways I saw, where when when it's hot

671
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: on on this Earth's surface, that temperature radiates downward through

672
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 1: the Earth. And if you take a core sample, a

673
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:30,479
Speaker 1: borehole sample sample, you can actually kind of deduce from

674
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 1: whatever temperature a specific moment in time is, like say

675
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 1: like in the fifteen forties, this would have been at

676
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: the surface, that it actually that you can actually get

677
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:45,759
Speaker 1: the temperature roughly from that era. I think we talked

678
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:49,360
Speaker 1: about that before. This was really familiar. Okay, well it

679
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: sounded new to me. I had no idea, But I

680
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 1: think that's pretty interesting because there was nobody in fifteen

681
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: forties saying, oh, it was eighty degrees celsius it was

682
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,959
Speaker 1: super hot, which I think that's like really really hot,

683
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken. But um, nobody was recording temperature

684
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: like that. Some people did record the weather, but it

685
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: was just like a smattering of observations and nothing scientific.

686
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: Because this is pretty scientific. Um, so they have to

687
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:16,320
Speaker 1: use even more scientific stuff today to kind of deduce

688
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 1: what it was before. Right. You might see, like it

689
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:22,239
Speaker 1: was very hot the day we burned this person at

690
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 1: the stake, right, and we made even hot glancing reference.

691
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean Milan, Paris, London, all these places

692
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 1: broke record temperatures, uh, temperatures, temperatures. I can say that

693
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 1: like a lazy Southerner temperature temperature because of hookworm, you

694
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 1: say it like temperature. Yeah, but in the you know,

695
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,720
Speaker 1: in a couple of years after they calculated that, about

696
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: thirty thousand people died all over Europe, and then later

697
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: on they said that could have been as high as

698
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:56,840
Speaker 1: seventy tho people when they studied it. Years after that,

699
00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 1: seventy thousand people died from a two week Hey wave

700
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:04,399
Speaker 1: in Europe in two thousand three, and this may be

701
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:08,320
Speaker 1: what we're looking at going forward. Yeah, so we talked

702
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 1: about you were you were saying, like, um, that there's

703
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: there's people who like are trying to figure out how

704
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 1: much this is increasing, how much of it has to

705
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 1: do with climate change. There's a it's a new branch

706
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 1: of science called attribution studies, and it's pretty much in

707
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: league with climatology. I get the impression that it's made

708
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: up of climatologists and it's a brand new type of

709
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 1: science and it's really hard to do. Um. But they're

710
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:37,320
Speaker 1: they're starting from an article I read the data set

711
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:41,720
Speaker 1: post climate change. Basically this this one point to degrees

712
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 1: celsius that has risen since we started keeping records in

713
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:48,879
Speaker 1: eighteen eighty. I believe it's like the benchmark here that

714
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 1: it's starting to happen, like weird stuff is starting to

715
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: happen in more and more frequency, that this data set

716
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 1: is growing. And then they have since the eighteen eighties

717
00:40:56,680 --> 00:41:00,160
Speaker 1: to compare it against and so using a lot more

718
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 1: sophisticated statistical analysis that I can quite wrap my head around. Um,

719
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: they're figuring out how to say this weird weather event

720
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 1: like the one in the Pacific Northwest had ex chance

721
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 1: of happening had climate change never happened, had we never

722
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: started releasing greenhouse gas emissions during the industrial age. And

723
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 1: they've actually done that. There was a study that that

724
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: actually kind of came to some pretty interesting conclusions about that. Yeah.

725
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 1: They you know, they you hear about like a hundred

726
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,360
Speaker 1: year storm or something like that. Uh, they did a

727
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 1: calculation and they said, you know, this was that that

728
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 1: heat wave in this year in the United States was

729
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 1: in a one thousand year event. And that's factoring in

730
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 1: like the current climate that we are already in. Yeah,

731
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 1: like if we frozeur if our climate did not get

732
00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 1: any hotter or change in any way than it did

733
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 1: now for from now on, that it would have been

734
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:02,399
Speaker 1: a thousand year event like now basically right, And then

735
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 1: they can further extrapolate and say with this was pre

736
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 1: um pre end of the nineteenth century, I guess, Yeah,

737
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 1: eighteen eighty that's that benchmark date when everyone around the

738
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:16,359
Speaker 1: world started to keep like pretty accurate weather records from

739
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,799
Speaker 1: that point on. They said that that would have been

740
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:21,399
Speaker 1: about a hundred and fifty thousand year event back then,

741
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: and in the future it might become like a five

742
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 1: or ten year event. Yeah, by the twenty fifties maybe, Yeah,

743
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 1: because I think that it's like thirty or forty years

744
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 1: from now, the overall global temperature there it is again,

745
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:41,839
Speaker 1: is gonna rise in another two degrees celsius. No, two

746
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:45,479
Speaker 1: degrees celsius total since eighteen eighty Okay, yeah, I guess

747
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 1: that would be catastrophic. Yeah, I don't know what would happen.

748
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,399
Speaker 1: I think we should do an episode explaining temperature rise

749
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 1: in like what effects it's going to have and all

750
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 1: that sure sot into our doomsday series. So even even

751
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 1: taking aside like climate chain UM and an increase from

752
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:06,920
Speaker 1: climate change, UM, there's there's a lot of data that

753
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: just says, yeah, we're actually seeing a lot more heat

754
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 1: waves than we used to just in the past, like

755
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 1: fifty sixty years UM, and just taking data starting in

756
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty I think UM the weather the National Weather

757
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 1: Service to a study that basically said, UM, looking at

758
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 1: fifty cities in the United States, forty six of them

759
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 1: have seen a signific statistically significant increase in heat waves

760
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:36,359
Speaker 1: since the nineteen sixties, so much so that like during

761
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties they could expect about two heat waves

762
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: per year these fifty cities in the United States. Now

763
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 1: they're averaging about six per year. And the season for

764
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 1: heat waves in these cities is on average forty seven

765
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: days longer than it was in nineteen sixty. So there's

766
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 1: definitely a big upward trend in heat waves. It's becoming

767
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 1: this new normal for us. Yeah, and it's it's really

768
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 1: all about data. Um in more data you have, because

769
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:06,360
Speaker 1: they you know, there are still freak weather events that um,

770
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 1: they don't want to just throw everything in there and

771
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:10,879
Speaker 1: say it's all caused by the rising climates all over

772
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 1: the world. Uh. But the more time goes on, like

773
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:18,359
Speaker 1: the more of this data set is enriched and the

774
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 1: the wheat is separated from the chaff just sort of naturally,

775
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 1: the more data you get, and those statistical anomalies will

776
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 1: they will be revealed, yes as such. Yeah, well, which

777
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:32,840
Speaker 1: I think it behoo's us to say, like any good

778
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 1: attribution um climatologists is going to tell you like that

779
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 1: that heatwave in the Pacific Northwest could have just been

780
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: statistical bad luck. It may have had nothing to do

781
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 1: with climate change. It could have just been like that

782
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 1: was the one we drew. Because a thousand year event

783
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 1: means you have a one in a thousand chance on

784
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:53,800
Speaker 1: any given year of that you could happen next year. Again,

785
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 1: statistically is unlikely, but it's possible just from statistics that

786
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 1: it was just bad luck that it happened. But um, yeah,

787
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 1: what you were saying is actually totally accurate that the

788
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:09,880
Speaker 1: more unfortunately weird freak weather events go on, the bigger

789
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:11,880
Speaker 1: the data set they're going to have to compare to

790
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:17,360
Speaker 1: pre you know, climate change times and see what is

791
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:20,399
Speaker 1: actually trending upward. And it looks like they're probably right

792
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:24,760
Speaker 1: about heat waves. Yeah, and they you know, people should

793
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:28,359
Speaker 1: feel good knowing that they're really trying to get good

794
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 1: accurate data. It's it's not they don't want to just

795
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:37,239
Speaker 1: be doomsday uh people and say, you know, they want

796
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:39,879
Speaker 1: to really get good accurate numbers in there. So if

797
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: you're a person who thinks climate change is bogus or

798
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 1: it's not human caused or whatever, or they're just trying

799
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 1: to scare you, and you know they're going to throw

800
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 1: everything in there that happens and say it's because of this.

801
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: They're not doing that. They're really really working super super

802
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: hard to get a super accurate record and picture of

803
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:00,799
Speaker 1: what things are like now and and what they're like

804
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 1: moving forward. You're not being good winked. I think people

805
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 1: who are still saying that are basically like standing in

806
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,400
Speaker 1: a burning house being like, the house isn't on fire,

807
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 1: It's fine. Yeah, Um, so what can we do to

808
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: stop this stuff? Well, you can't stop it. What can

809
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 1: we do to help ourselves out in the meantime. No,

810
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:20,320
Speaker 1: eventually we probably will be able to control the weather,

811
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:22,880
Speaker 1: which sounds like Bond villain esque, but we'll probably be

812
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: able to control it to our benefit and the benefit

813
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 1: of the planet I'm guessing in the next like hundred

814
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 1: years possibly. But until then, we can do absolutely nothing

815
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:34,280
Speaker 1: about this except kind of try to mitigate the effects

816
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 1: of it. One of the things that's starting to happen

817
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: our local governments are starting to get a little more

818
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: hip to the idea that they need, you know, plans

819
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 1: in place so when a heat wave comes along, because

820
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 1: they're actually pretty easy to forecast by many days out,

821
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: so you can give people a lot of warning and

822
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 1: then if the government has this plan in place, they

823
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:56,280
Speaker 1: can open up cooling center. So you've got a convention

824
00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 1: center is not being used well that now is a

825
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:00,760
Speaker 1: cooling center where you're running lots of ace for residents

826
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:03,440
Speaker 1: who don't have a c to come cool off. You

827
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:08,759
Speaker 1: can start um reroofing buildings in your city with you know,

828
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 1: green roofs or even like like um cool roofs, which

829
00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 1: is basically a roof that's not black and that's all

830
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: it takes to to cool that roof by fifty degrees

831
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: sometimes on a sunny day. Um. There's just a lot

832
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: of stuff where if you just stop and look at

833
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: the infrastructure and even the color of the infrastructure use

834
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 1: in cities, just changing it to lighter colors would have

835
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 1: an enormous effect on the urban heat island effect. Oh yeah,

836
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 1: plant more trees. I love those green roofs are good

837
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: looking anyway, Sure they look like Hobbit houses, a Hobbit skyscraper.

838
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: No less uh, making the electrical grid more efficient because again,

839
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 1: if you've got a heat wave and that thing breaks down,

840
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:51,399
Speaker 1: it's just exacerbating the problem. So those are all things

841
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 1: we can do to help out a little bit. Yeah,

842
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 1: we'll probably figure it out more as it goes on,

843
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 1: but does it's a pretty good start. And the other

844
00:47:57,239 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 1: thing that you can do is you can actually if

845
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 1: you watch your local news and the weather person says

846
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: there's a heat advisory today, like that means that it

847
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 1: could be dangerous to be outside. Like they're not just

848
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:11,560
Speaker 1: whistling Dixie there, hope. I had a borderline heat stroke,

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Speaker 1: uh this summer, first time in my life. What I

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Speaker 1: was playing golf, I got I was able to play

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Speaker 1: the historic East Lake Golf Club near where I live,

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Speaker 1: and I it was brutally hot. It is a walking

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Speaker 1: only course, so it's not like you're riding around a

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Speaker 1: golf cart. And you know, golf courses aren't their trees

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Speaker 1: on the edges, but you're out on that sun if

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Speaker 1: you're hitting them straight, you know what I mean. And

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Speaker 1: I started feeling funny. I got a little dizzy a

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Speaker 1: couple of times. And I'm at the age now where

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Speaker 1: I'm smart enough for where I was like, I gotta

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Speaker 1: do something here, dudes, Like this isn't right. I don't

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Speaker 1: feel right. I've been hot all my life and I

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Speaker 1: don't feel right, So I they called sort of embarrassing,

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Speaker 1: but they called a golf cart out and I went

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Speaker 1: back to the clubhouse for like three holes in cool down,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, and then went back out. I missed those

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Speaker 1: three holes, but I rejoined my buddies and uh and

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Speaker 1: finished out the back nine. But you had the lowest

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Speaker 1: score of all then, exactly it was. But I'm glad

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Speaker 1: that I was smart en if I was like, well,

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Speaker 1: this is a little embarrassing, but I just I've got

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Speaker 1: to take care of myself, Like not dying of pete

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00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:22,799
Speaker 1: stroke is much better than you know, playing on to

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Speaker 1: not be embarrassed. I mean, that's come on, because you

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Speaker 1: know what's really embarrassing is dropping dead. Of course it is.

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Speaker 1: And then it would think about how it would affect me, chuck,

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Speaker 1: I would have to explain it to all of our listeners. Man. Uh.

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Speaker 1: It took me a long time to cool down. Like

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Speaker 1: I went in the icy, coldest clubhouse I've ever been

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Speaker 1: in and it was just pounding water and it took

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Speaker 1: me fifteen minutes to feel normal. And then I took

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Speaker 1: a cold shower upstairs in the clubhouse. In the clubhouse

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Speaker 1: and the bought a new shirt in the clubhouse nice

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Speaker 1: and um, and then came back out and I was like,

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Speaker 1: I felt normal again. But it took a half hour.

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Speaker 1: There there's your answer. That's why it's an all walking course,

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Speaker 1: because they want to move those replacement shirts unsuspectingly eive. Wow. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you made it, buddy, and you did the

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Speaker 1: right thing. And I hope everybody learns a lesson from you.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if it's embarrassing. We're talking about your

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Speaker 1: life and your health here. You just go cool off,

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Speaker 1: or you stopped playing, or you just don't gotta do

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Speaker 1: it like you gotta look out for yourself everybody. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it's just dumb golf. Yeah, who cares? Okay, Uh,

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Speaker 1: you got anything more on heat heat waves? Nope? Well,

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Speaker 1: if you want to know some more stuff about saving

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Speaker 1: your took us from heat stroke and stuff again, go

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Speaker 1: listen to our Desert Survival episode. And since I said that,

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Speaker 1: it's time for listener mail, I'm gonna call this Merchant's

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Speaker 1: house museum. This from the Embalming episode. Hey, guys, been

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Speaker 1: listening since you started when I was in high school.

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00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:06,839
Speaker 1: You've been a real comfort more than ten years and

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Speaker 1: You've kept me company, distracted me, and made me laugh.

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Speaker 1: I'm emailing you because Josh mentioned the Merchant's House Museum

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Speaker 1: in the Embalming episode. I work at the Merchant's House

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Speaker 1: and it was so cool to hear you guys mentioned

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Speaker 1: the museum. I'm impressed Josh even remembered Seabury Treadwell's name.

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Speaker 1: It's a great small museum in the Greenwich Village East

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Speaker 1: Village area that most New Yorkers and tourists don't even

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Speaker 1: know about. I wanted to see if you could plug

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Speaker 1: the MHM a bit because for the last ten years

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00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:37,040
Speaker 1: has been fighting a real estate developer who wants to

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Speaker 1: do construction on the site next to the house, and

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Speaker 1: now it would endanger the hundred and eighty nine year

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Speaker 1: old building. Enforced UH force it to close temporarily, if

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Speaker 1: not permanently. Our small staff are always looking for more visitors, volunteers,

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Speaker 1: and donors interested in saving the landmark. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: mentioning the Merchant's House Museum. And this is from Lizzie

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Speaker 1: in Deck UH. She her and Lizzie and everyone else

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Speaker 1: out there doing the work at the Merchant's House Museum.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, And if you go to New York City.

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Speaker 1: Go visit the Merchant's House Museum. If you can't go,

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Speaker 1: maybe go in line and make a donation. Yeah, nicely done, Chuck,

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Speaker 1: Thanks again for writing in Lizzie. That was good stuff.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you did. Um and who could ever forget

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Speaker 1: Sea Barry Treadwell's name, Come on, great name Well. If

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Speaker 1: you want to get in touch with us like Lizzie

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Speaker 1: did and help you fight off a real estate developer

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Speaker 1: who wants to ruin your museum or historical location, we

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Speaker 1: want to hear from you. You can send us an

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