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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuff Bryant.
Speaker 1: Don't spray me Brom. Yeah, I forgot about that guy.
Speaker 1: Don't taste me Bro, Florida and now man leave it
Speaker 1: to a gator. Who was it that was speaking at it?
Speaker 1: I don't remember. Was it Al Gore? Mmmm? I don't remember.
Speaker 1: And it was a politician? Was Al Gore? Kids got
Speaker 1: rowdy and they taste and don't taste me bro. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was fun. That was a fun meme for a
Speaker 1: little while. So, speaking of memes, Chuck crazy that you
Speaker 1: brought that up. Yes, have you seen the casual pepper
Speaker 1: spray cop meme? Yeah? I have seen it. I think
Speaker 1: that what this this University of californ Wi Davis cop
Speaker 1: who famously sprayed these very docile, peaceful students. It was
Speaker 1: awful to watch. But this meme is hysterical, Yeah, I think. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: they keep taking him and inserting him into like famous pictures,
Speaker 1: photographs and paintings and things like that my favorite one
Speaker 1: I've seen so far. As he's spraying Julie Andrews in
Speaker 1: the field from the sound of music. Yea, that there's
Speaker 1: a whole tumbler um. I think it's just pepper spray
Speaker 1: cop is what it's called. It's already by the time
Speaker 1: this comes out, that will already be old. I think
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty much there now. I had a
Speaker 1: pretty short run, but it's a pretty pretty good example
Speaker 1: of how you know, if you do something in the
Speaker 1: age of the Internet that the general populist doesn't like,
Speaker 1: they're gonna get you for it. And they got this guy,
Speaker 1: Lieutenant John Pike of the Davis Police Department, right yeah,
Speaker 1: and apparently Anonymous published his like home address. His cell
Speaker 1: phone number is emails email I address all this stuff.
Speaker 1: That's not cool. I thought that the home addresses maybe
Speaker 1: a bit too far um. But anyway, this this guy,
Speaker 1: this pepper spray cop um, the just everything about it
Speaker 1: has been extremely controversial. And actually the guy who helped
Speaker 1: weaponize pepper spray for the FBI, uh Cameron Logman. He
Speaker 1: basically said, quote, I have never seen such an inappropriate
Speaker 1: and improper use of chemical agents. Basically, the a c.
Speaker 1: L U is saying, like, you can't do this, dude,
Speaker 1: Like you can't just pepper spray people who are sitting
Speaker 1: quietly and peacefully, non threatening lee. It's supposed to be
Speaker 1: as a you know, for cops, it's supposed to be
Speaker 1: if someone is threatening me physically or resisting arrest in
Speaker 1: some way physically, right, And in that sense, pepper spray
Speaker 1: is extremely effective. One of the reasons why is it
Speaker 1: doesn't trigger your it doesn't depend on a sensation of pain.
Speaker 1: It circumvents your pain center and just elicits a completely physical,
Speaker 1: non cerebral response. So whether you're on PCP or totally
Speaker 1: drunk or psychotic, or whatever the case may be, and
Speaker 1: there's you're in some sort of state where you can't
Speaker 1: experience pain, this stuff is still going to incapacitate you.
Speaker 1: If you can't experience pain, it's going to incapacitate you,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be extremely painful. I think what
Speaker 1: was so startling about Pike was that how casual it
Speaker 1: was in the video. It looked like he was spraying, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we'd be gone on his yard. That's what
Speaker 1: got everybody. Yeah, that and the fact that everybody was
Speaker 1: just sitting docile and quietly. You know, it was horrifying.
Speaker 1: Did you see what Megan Kelly said on Fox News. Yes,
Speaker 1: she dismissed pepper spray after this incident as quote a
Speaker 1: food product. Essentially, She's right in some ways. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's definitely derived from food. You can say that pepper
Speaker 1: spray is a natural. It's made from naturally. I think
Speaker 1: to see her get sprayed in the face, so and
Speaker 1: see if she's still at that it's a food product.
Speaker 1: I would I would take um McDonald's cheeseburger spray to
Speaker 1: the face any day of the week. Pepper sprayed not
Speaker 1: so much. You want to talk about this, this is
Speaker 1: one of our rare topical timely timely topical ones. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's being used all over the place. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: you see, Davis got such a a lot of coverage
Speaker 1: because it was so casual in heinous. But they're using
Speaker 1: pepper spray all over the place with this Occupy Wall
Speaker 1: Street movement, all over the place. And the problem is
Speaker 1: is you're not supposed to be doing that, even though
Speaker 1: it is considered a non lethal weapon, even though it
Speaker 1: supposedly wears off after four to six hours. You're not
Speaker 1: supposed to spray peaceful demonstrators who are exercising their Second
Speaker 1: Amendment First Amendment right to assemble. It's all of them.
Speaker 1: So all right, let's talk about pepper spray. Um we
Speaker 1: uh we know the active ingredient pepper spray because it's
Speaker 1: also one of the active ingredients and peppers, chili, peppers,
Speaker 1: and cayenne. It's uh oleo resin capsicum, or O C
Speaker 1: as they like to call it. You know, I read
Speaker 1: I wrote the article on bear spray on the site.
Speaker 1: The same stuff, same stuff. Basically, it just shoots farther
Speaker 1: for obvious reasons, because you want to stop a bear
Speaker 1: thirty feet away and not five feet away. Um. But
Speaker 1: the O C is a natural oil found in a
Speaker 1: lot of peppers, a lot of different types of peppers,
Speaker 1: and O C has a compound called cap sasan, and
Speaker 1: that is what is responsible for that burning sensation. Even
Speaker 1: though it's colorless, odorless, flavorless, that's the burn you're gonna
Speaker 1: feel when that seed, actually the pepper itself, but especially
Speaker 1: the seed hits your tongue, isn't it. Yeah? Um? And
Speaker 1: cap sason itself is colorless and odorless and flavorless, but
Speaker 1: it's extreme only potent, very So one milligram of pure
Speaker 1: cap sasin can cause blistering on your skin. That's substantial.
Speaker 1: That's pretty serious stuff. So it's a natural compound. It's
Speaker 1: also a blistering agent. You know. I think people are
Speaker 1: like people like Megan Kelly who say, well, it's just
Speaker 1: a food product, natural. Um, it can still cause blisters
Speaker 1: on your skin. So with pepper spray, basically pepper spray
Speaker 1: is is cap sasin mixed with say water oil. Well
Speaker 1: is oil already okay, but it can also be mixed
Speaker 1: with an oil based or water based solution. UM. Then
Speaker 1: you put it in a canister with a propellant that
Speaker 1: helps shoot it, and you um uh air soolize the
Speaker 1: whole thing. You pressurize it is that is that a word?
Speaker 1: It is? Now? I like it. You pressurize it. So
Speaker 1: then when you press a button and everything's deep pressurized,
Speaker 1: it goes shooting out and stick to the face of
Speaker 1: some protester or a man on PCP or in the
Speaker 1: case of the article I sent you from the New
Speaker 1: York Times, it had a lovely picture of an eighty
Speaker 1: four year old woman that occupy Wall Street that was
Speaker 1: pepper sprayed in the face and it looked pretty awful.
Speaker 1: I can't remember her name, but she's like a lifelong
Speaker 1: protester and a lifelong activists and um, yeah she got
Speaker 1: sprayed in Seattle, right. I bet she's had it more
Speaker 1: than once. Then she's like, take more than pepper spray
Speaker 1: to stop me. So there's three basic patterns that you
Speaker 1: can spray this this liquid pepper out of your little dispenser.
Speaker 1: It can be the stream, and chances are if you
Speaker 1: have one of the little tiny caps are not capsule sized,
Speaker 1: but like the little canister in your purse, then it's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be the little stream that you see coming
Speaker 1: out close range. Right in the eyes is where you
Speaker 1: want to put it. But I mean it packs a
Speaker 1: punch because it's super concentrated. Yeah, big time. Um, it's
Speaker 1: just tough to hit your target. Yeah, So that's just
Speaker 1: alone's like right up on top of you. The mist
Speaker 1: is uh fine, you know missed. Obviously, liquid is sprayed
Speaker 1: out and it's gonna cover a larger area make it
Speaker 1: much easier to hit your target. And then the fog
Speaker 1: is similar to a miss, but it's even wider and
Speaker 1: it looks like Pike was using like the hip from
Speaker 1: the hip canister a big one missed and or fog.
Speaker 1: And there's also another one that's not mentioned. There's foam,
Speaker 1: and foam has the able to deal there. Foam has
Speaker 1: the additive advantage of not blowing back in your face,
Speaker 1: which is a kind of a problem if you ever
Speaker 1: are spraying somebody with an assailant. I just know where
Speaker 1: the wind is and get the hit up wind. Do
Speaker 1: you watch cops? Uh No, I watched it occasionally for fun.
Speaker 1: I think I mentioned that before because it makes me
Speaker 1: feel better about myself. I saw one the other day
Speaker 1: when that was this guy like he wouldn't come out
Speaker 1: of this really dense shrub, and uh so the cops
Speaker 1: went in there after him, and then another one like
Speaker 1: sprayed the heavy fog one and all these cops came
Speaker 1: out and they were like, we got them, we got them,
Speaker 1: but they couldn't see anything. It's like, man, you guys
Speaker 1: did that in the wrong order, my friend, and it
Speaker 1: wasn't funny. Of course, I don't want to see cops
Speaker 1: pepper spray, so I'm not making fun of that, but
Speaker 1: it was pretty funny at the time. So, uh, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get about one to sixty bursts in your little
Speaker 1: thing in your purse. It's about four and a half
Speaker 1: inches long. If you have the little personal dispenser, yes,
Speaker 1: which basically is just the canister, the trigger button, and
Speaker 1: if you're smart, you butt the kind that has a
Speaker 1: safety mechanism. Yeah, you don't want that going off in
Speaker 1: your purse. No, you don't. Um And actually a pretty
Speaker 1: good thing to do is to look to the left
Speaker 1: or the right of the pepper spray you're buying at
Speaker 1: the hardware store and get the medicated white specially formulated
Speaker 1: for treating pepper spray. How did they sell those right
Speaker 1: next to them? They tend to yees, So if you
Speaker 1: have some in your person you're carrying that, you probably
Speaker 1: want to keep these medicated wipes too, just in case
Speaker 1: of an accident, because that would stink. I saw the
Speaker 1: history of pepper spray, not the spray, but people have
Speaker 1: actually been using hot peppers as defense and as torture
Speaker 1: devices for like thousands and thousands of years. Apparently the
Speaker 1: Japanese geisha would stick these peppers in there like slice mopen,
Speaker 1: stick them in their kimonos. So if any guy got
Speaker 1: a little too rough. Just put it in as fat
Speaker 1: as pepper in his fat face. Yeah, that would do it.
Speaker 1: Um and the Maya actually had they were well aware
Speaker 1: and well versed with hot peppers living in Central America. UM,
Speaker 1: And so anytime they were in a fight or a battle,
Speaker 1: they would light a bunch of them on fire and
Speaker 1: the smoke would carry to the other army and make
Speaker 1: them die. I never thought about that, make them want
Speaker 1: to die? Do you cook with peppers sometimes? I actually
Speaker 1: made a New Year's resolution this year that I'm going
Speaker 1: to be a bowl to eat hotter stuff in two
Speaker 1: because I am a total WoT. I'm myself. I've gotten
Speaker 1: better at it over the years, but like, yeah, a
Speaker 1: hall Openio can take me out. Yeah, but some of
Speaker 1: that stuff is so hot, it's like it's it's not
Speaker 1: like a pleasurable eating experience any longer for me at least. No.
Speaker 1: There's also a lot of people who feel the exact opposite.
Speaker 1: For some reason, they really like peppers. Like Um, there's
Speaker 1: this place in San Antonio called Chunky Burger. I believe
Speaker 1: already they have a they have a um burger with
Speaker 1: it's called the Four Horsemen, and you have to like
Speaker 1: pre order it and it has habanerro. It has three
Speaker 1: kinds of peppers that you've heard of, and then it
Speaker 1: has a fourth pepper called the ghost pepper. Yea, the
Speaker 1: ghost pepper is called boot Jill Lokia. It's from northern India,
Speaker 1: Bangladesh area, and it is the world's hottest pepper, hottest
Speaker 1: natural pepper. And um, there's a video. There's plenty of
Speaker 1: videos actually on YouTube of people eating these things and
Speaker 1: then like the reaction that lasts an hour. It is
Speaker 1: agony for an hour. But in this cheeseburger has the
Speaker 1: ghost pepper. And when they've made it before, people who
Speaker 1: are not eating the ghostburger but just happened to be
Speaker 1: in the restaurant when this thing was being prepared have
Speaker 1: had to be carted off an ambulance as before because
Speaker 1: they were in the same building as this stuff when
Speaker 1: it was seared. The ghost Chili made an appearance on
Speaker 1: Top Chef last week. Actually, yeah, they're they're doing Texas
Speaker 1: this year, and so they had one of the challenges
Speaker 1: was they had all these peppers laid out and they
Speaker 1: had their Schofield heat units, which we'll talk about here
Speaker 1: in a second as to how hot they were and
Speaker 1: you got to choose your pepper and each one had
Speaker 1: a different amount of money attached to it that you
Speaker 1: would win if you want the challenge. And only one
Speaker 1: dude attempted to cook with this, with the ghost pepper,
Speaker 1: and he actually won the challenge. Ye nice, but I
Speaker 1: got one for you, and I guess it's not natural.
Speaker 1: But the Guinness record is the scorpion, the Trinidad scorpion,
Speaker 1: specifically the scorpion Butch t named for Butch Taylor. So
Speaker 1: I guess this guy, this hot sall Sky, has made
Speaker 1: his own pepper somehow and it registers one point four
Speaker 1: million on the scofield He's like a Luther Burbank chart.
Speaker 1: And to put that in the comparison, if you've ever
Speaker 1: had a Heavin Eiro, which is generally known as really hot,
Speaker 1: that's only three three, so that's crazy. A ghost Chili's
Speaker 1: about a million, and this trendid scorpions one point four
Speaker 1: and then pepper spray is that is so hot? Man,
Speaker 1: this is so scary. Yeah. Pepper spray is rated um
Speaker 1: between five hundred thousand and five million scofield units. So
Speaker 1: this ghost pepper or the Scorpion pepper gets up to
Speaker 1: one point five million. There's pepper spray out there, that's
Speaker 1: at the five million. Scofield heat units and Schofield heat
Speaker 1: units are named after an American chemist from like the
Speaker 1: nineteen tens named Wilburg Schofield, and he came up with
Speaker 1: a very ingenious idea of how to classify the heat
Speaker 1: associated with a pepper agreed cap sasan um. He diluted
Speaker 1: it in sugar syrup and then would have would feed
Speaker 1: it to human test subjects. And the school filled heat
Speaker 1: units say like nine thousand or five hundred thousand, that's
Speaker 1: the number of times it has to be diluted before
Speaker 1: it becomes undetectable by humans. That's right, And that's the
Speaker 1: old school method, and it worked pretty well, but it is,
Speaker 1: you know, subjective, because it's going by but a single
Speaker 1: person's taste buds. And although I did see when he
Speaker 1: tested them, they could only taste one and that was it.
Speaker 1: So he didn't say, like, try these eight peppers, right,
Speaker 1: let's try this pepper two thousand times. It was like
Speaker 1: one pepper percession. Nowadays, they have something a little more
Speaker 1: advanced that's a little more accurate within five and it's
Speaker 1: called high performance liquid chromatography and I'm not exactly sure
Speaker 1: how that works, but it works well. Well, it's not subjective,
Speaker 1: I imagine. Yeah, And they, like I said, it's within
Speaker 1: five percent, so they can tell. And I don't know
Speaker 1: how they if they still displayed in scofield units, are not?
Speaker 1: I think they do? Do they um? And they they
Speaker 1: basically they take like the cap satan or they take
Speaker 1: a pepper and just lay it on like a protozoa
Speaker 1: or in amba and see how long it takes to
Speaker 1: dissolve it. That's not subjective. When I cook with peppers
Speaker 1: a d ced and I wear gloves and a painting
Speaker 1: respirator because I inhale that stuff. And these aren't even
Speaker 1: the super hot ones. Yeah, I just can't take it. Man.
Speaker 1: Or if I rub my eyes or my nose or
Speaker 1: any part of your body bad because what peppers do
Speaker 1: with this peppers, the cap stasan in a pepper infiltrates
Speaker 1: your mucous membranes is especially effectively, and especially the mucous
Speaker 1: membranes that are sensitive to heat or cold, say your nose,
Speaker 1: your throat, your mouth, your eyes, and is after you
Speaker 1: cut it open or after you weaponize it. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: if you just take like a jalapeno and rub it
Speaker 1: on your skin. You're not gonna get much for react. No, no,
Speaker 1: because like you said, the most is found in the
Speaker 1: seeds or at the very least inside um. But like
Speaker 1: we said, the pepper spray weaponized pepper spray UM with
Speaker 1: a skillful heat unit of between five hundred thousand and
Speaker 1: five million um is if if sprayed into these mucous
Speaker 1: membranes of your area, is going to have a predictable
Speaker 1: effect on you. And it's going to be horrific and
Speaker 1: terrible for a while for you. Yes, what it's gonna do.
Speaker 1: You're gonna feel burning sensation in your in your face,
Speaker 1: your eyes, your nose, in your mouth, maybe even your throat.
Speaker 1: Uh that's gonna last anywhere from forty five minutes to
Speaker 1: an hour. Uh. Your eyes are gonna become really irritated.
Speaker 1: They might swell shut, might temporarily blind you. Which is
Speaker 1: a great thing if you're being attacked or if a
Speaker 1: cop is being assaulted, because it's meant to disable the person.
Speaker 1: Like it took me a second, that was weird. Uh,
Speaker 1: what you want to do? You're just trying to disable
Speaker 1: someone long enough to either arrest them, or to get
Speaker 1: the heck out of there. If you're just being assaulted
Speaker 1: on the street and I have a canister of pepper
Speaker 1: spray and it says it's not immediate in this article
Speaker 1: it says the effects are immediate. It says the effects
Speaker 1: are not immediate, So spray and run and make an
Speaker 1: X at the eyes. Yeah, I'd just like, do you
Speaker 1: carry this canister and run? Is this in your car? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Really interesting? You know, mess with me, dude, if you
Speaker 1: see me in the Volvo, you don't want to mess
Speaker 1: with me. I got one of those collapsible batons, do
Speaker 1: you really? Yeah? Man, those are scary. I don't keep
Speaker 1: it in my car. I can brain somebody with that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'll keep it by my bed. Though.
Speaker 1: It's good thinking take out the knee. I like the
Speaker 1: pepper spray better, though. I should get some of that.
Speaker 1: You totally should. I mean I buy it for Emily,
Speaker 1: of course, what are you trying to say? Hey, if
Speaker 1: I'm not carrying a class of baton and less than
Speaker 1: a man, do you know I think you should get
Speaker 1: a baseball bat with the nails driven through the end
Speaker 1: of it, like in New York. Okay, all right. Uh,
Speaker 1: you're not less than a man if you use peppers.
Speaker 1: I know. I'm very comfortable with myself and my masculinity. Good.
Speaker 1: Your throat, Josh, might even swell shut. Um, it's not
Speaker 1: gonna like choke you to death. It depends, well I could,
Speaker 1: I guess huh. And if you're allergic to anything in there,
Speaker 1: if you've got like heart trouble, that's how I can
Speaker 1: choke you to It could be fatal. Yeah, there's plenty
Speaker 1: of Um, there's plenty of instances of people who are
Speaker 1: allergic to cap Sason being sprayed with pepper spray and
Speaker 1: going into an anaphylaxis, which is basically a whole body
Speaker 1: allergic reaction. And one of the key stars of this
Speaker 1: reaction is that your airwaghs close and you die. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It says here though that they've never proven that that
Speaker 1: was the sole cause of death in any case, Absolutely untrue.
Speaker 1: Is that? Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah, they've proven that, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: people with asthma are particularly um plagued when they are
Speaker 1: sprayed with pepper spray. But the A c. L. You
Speaker 1: did just this one study of California um in I
Speaker 1: believe it's ninety two, it became legal for cops to
Speaker 1: use pepper spray, and then in ninety four in California,
Speaker 1: and then in ninety four it became legal for the
Speaker 1: general public to carry. So they cel you did this
Speaker 1: study of UM pepper spray in California from among cops
Speaker 1: and found that they were cops were using it statewide.
Speaker 1: Basically they're spraying people twenty four times a day during
Speaker 1: this period all over the whole state. They found that
Speaker 1: one out of about six hundred sprays resulted in the
Speaker 1: death of the person from sprays and UM about twenty
Speaker 1: six people total during that time died from me and
Speaker 1: pepper sprayed. YEA, so potentially lethal. Well, yeah, definitely, and
Speaker 1: it's for the thing is for the average person though. No,
Speaker 1: your nose is going to um burn, your eyes are
Speaker 1: going to burn, You're gonna become temporarily blind. Like you said,
Speaker 1: you throw, it will swell some so it will be
Speaker 1: kind of difficult to breathe, but that might last five
Speaker 1: to fifteen minutes. Um. The problem with pepper spray, other
Speaker 1: than the fact that it's just being used like it's
Speaker 1: flower lately, is that, um, there are people out there
Speaker 1: who can die from its use, and you don't know
Speaker 1: who's allergic to CAP, says, and they might not even know.
Speaker 1: Woman in Seattle for insance, great example. If she hadn't
Speaker 1: built up her hardcore immunity to whatever the years of
Speaker 1: protesting right, she might have died. She would have been
Speaker 1: in trouble. So let's say you get sprayed and you're, uh,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna giving advice to criminals here. But let's
Speaker 1: say you're a good guy and you're peacefully sitting on
Speaker 1: the sidewalk and a cop comes by and spraying in
Speaker 1: the face. It's oil, you gotta remember. So while it
Speaker 1: may feel great to splash your face with water for
Speaker 1: a minute, it's not gonna do anything in the long run.
Speaker 1: And why oil and water don't mix? My main why Well,
Speaker 1: because H one is a polar molecule, was made of
Speaker 1: polar molecules, and what's made of nonpolar The water's polar,
Speaker 1: meaning that say, if you're looking at um a water molecule,
Speaker 1: on one side, there's gonna be some electrons and one
Speaker 1: side is gonna be protons positive and negative. Oils are nonpolar,
Speaker 1: meaning they're electrons are distributed evenly all around. So that's
Speaker 1: why they don't mix, which is like you said, water
Speaker 1: is gonna feel good for a second, but it's not
Speaker 1: gonna do anything to get the oil in the oily
Speaker 1: capsaction off of your face, which is what you want
Speaker 1: to do. Uh, you don't want to touch the area
Speaker 1: on your face or even sprayed, because it's gonna get
Speaker 1: all over your hands except chuck, except to get your
Speaker 1: if you're wearing contacts, just jam your fingers into your
Speaker 1: eyes and get those out. As you can't just throw
Speaker 1: them away. Well, I don't imagine you would want to
Speaker 1: reuse us. No, but in this this um this one
Speaker 1: survival guide I saw it basically said like don't don't
Speaker 1: keep them. I never thought about that. I guess if
Speaker 1: you wear glasses, you might be h you know, at
Speaker 1: an advantage. Yeah, if you had on your sunny especially
Speaker 1: if you were like wrap around Oakley's or something that
Speaker 1: you wear on the back of your neck indoors and
Speaker 1: like restaurants. So what you're saying is if you're a
Speaker 1: tremendous cheeseball, then then you're fine, but you're probably the
Speaker 1: one spraying the protesters if you wear Oakley's, Like that
Speaker 1: is the thing. So there's some dudes that they were like,
Speaker 1: what what right? Uh? It says in here to to
Speaker 1: blink rapidly. I think you probably have no choice but
Speaker 1: to do that. But let's say you're not and you're
Speaker 1: just going with your eyes open, blink rapidly because you
Speaker 1: want to tear up as fast as possible. Help flush
Speaker 1: whatever is in there out. Use hand soap or no
Speaker 1: tear shampoo, dish soap, any kind of soap. I saw
Speaker 1: a ratio. Dawn water is a good way to get
Speaker 1: the oil off of your face. I would just squirt
Speaker 1: dawn all over my face. I wouldn't be like meture anything.
Speaker 1: And like you said, medical wipes that those are with
Speaker 1: the E M T s carry when the cops spray
Speaker 1: the people and they're like, I can't see right. So
Speaker 1: if you got these wipes, it's a good idea. UM.
Speaker 1: And if you're gonna go out and buy pepper spray
Speaker 1: for use as self defense, UM or for fun, you
Speaker 1: you are going to want to be familiar with the
Speaker 1: laws of your state and or country. Yeah. It varies
Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah. Well, like if you live in Canada
Speaker 1: and Belgium, tough luck for you. You can't own pepper
Speaker 1: spray unless you're a member of law enforcementber of the military.
Speaker 1: Canadians are so peaceful though, they really are. You know,
Speaker 1: they don't eat pepper spray, all right, Uh, stay away
Speaker 1: from the Belgian so I'm telling you, well, it depends
Speaker 1: are you talking about the Flanders side or the French side.
Speaker 1: Belgians actually very nice. I've been there really. Yeah. My
Speaker 1: uncle lives there, so when I travel to Europe, I
Speaker 1: stayed with him for a couple of days. It's very nice. Um,
Speaker 1: Hong Kong. You need a permit. Different states have different
Speaker 1: laws on like how big of a canister you can use,
Speaker 1: whether or not you can carry it in yourself. You
Speaker 1: have to be what percentage of what? Yeah, of cap
Speaker 1: sasan so imagine if they sell it in your state, though,
Speaker 1: it would comply right, Oh yeah, not necessarily most likely,
Speaker 1: but check into it, get on get on the web
Speaker 1: and look at your local government or law enforcement or
Speaker 1: just ask a cop. Yeah. And then you want to
Speaker 1: replace it every three years, Yeah, you want to replace it, Emily.
Speaker 1: If you love your wife, Chuck, you want to go
Speaker 1: replace that for Emily. Yeah, that would be bad. If
Speaker 1: she ekes someone's face and they were like what what
Speaker 1: nothing but aerosol got me wet. I'm really mad. And
Speaker 1: what kind of prices are we talking? I don't know,
Speaker 1: seven dollars, twenty dollars if you have to ask, you
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Speaker 1: can we get back to it. I'd like to you're
Speaker 1: the one who stopped us. We got some big feedback
Speaker 1: on the Air Force one podcast, like from insiders, from
Speaker 1: military dudes. I got one that I was not even
Speaker 1: allowed to read on the air because the lady first
Speaker 1: of all send it from her email address from her
Speaker 1: husband because he didn't want to be associated. So kind
Speaker 1: of read this if it's anonymous you want now, so,
Speaker 1: unfortunately can't get to that. But if you help me
Speaker 1: with those two, I will read the third. Oh all right,
Speaker 1: do you want to read the third in the middle
Speaker 1: and I'll read the first in the last or one? Yes,
Speaker 1: so chuck. Here's one from Brandon in Pittsburgh p a
Speaker 1: um so. Brandon says, I was listening to your podcast
Speaker 1: on air Force one and heard you guys were a
Speaker 1: bit stumped on why the seven forty seven couldn't fly
Speaker 1: above forty ft. I felt like we got that it
Speaker 1: disintegrates totally once it reads an ensuing right, not true.
Speaker 1: I'll save you most of the aeronautics engineeringly lingo and
Speaker 1: say quite simply, the air above forty feet is too
Speaker 1: thin to support the weight of the aircraft. Getting an
Speaker 1: aircraft to flies all about moving air over the wings.
Speaker 1: A seven forty seven is not capable of going fast
Speaker 1: enough through the thin air to create enough lift. So
Speaker 1: to answer your question, then forty seven will will not
Speaker 1: fall apart or lose its life support capabilities oxygen. It's
Speaker 1: simply just can't go any higher than that. Pretty cool.
Speaker 1: That was Brandon in Pittsburgh. Thanks Brandon. All right, this
Speaker 1: one is unknown, and I don't know if it was
Speaker 1: intentionally unknown or not. I can't remember, but if you
Speaker 1: wrote this email, thank you and I'm sorry that didn't
Speaker 1: get your name. Guys. I used to work as a
Speaker 1: ramp agent in airport and oireland where Air Force one
Speaker 1: would frequently stop to refuel. I held security clearance to
Speaker 1: service the plane and had the privilege of doing so
Speaker 1: on four or five occasions. First, a small correction from
Speaker 1: the podcast. The Marine one helicopter is not a Chinook.
Speaker 1: It is either a Seeking or a black Hawk, depending
Speaker 1: on the location. Where'd you get the resign? I thought
Speaker 1: the ones with two two propellers or two um front
Speaker 1: and back? I thought, are you sure? Well? We got
Speaker 1: a lot of corrections on that um. So that's what
Speaker 1: he says. First, the black Hawk can be disassembled to
Speaker 1: fit inside the C seventeen cargo plane that a company's
Speaker 1: Air Force one, which we got that wrong. But I
Speaker 1: think you're going to take care of that. Now for
Speaker 1: the fun details. When the aircraft is on the ground,
Speaker 1: a camera deploys from underneath the plane between the main
Speaker 1: landing gear and offers a panoramic view of all ground activity.
Speaker 1: There are also static pinhole cameras located at regular intervals
Speaker 1: along both sides of the main fuselage and then the
Speaker 1: nose landing gear. These are only noticeable if you're standing
Speaker 1: beside one of them. Once I tried to count them
Speaker 1: all but quickly lost count. That's how many of there are.
Speaker 1: The same is true for the large number of antenna
Speaker 1: communication aerials, et cetera, which run the full length at
Speaker 1: the top of the aircraft. Next some security details. When
Speaker 1: the president is making a multi country trip, there will
Speaker 1: be identical cars, limos, and secret service detachments, etcetera. Simultaneously
Speaker 1: positioned at each location. This ensures everything is in place
Speaker 1: at every destination. When the airplane is at any foreign airport,
Speaker 1: hard telephone line is run from the main terminal to
Speaker 1: the plane in the event of any wireless connectivity issues,
Speaker 1: and whenever, both air Force one and its twin sister.
Speaker 1: Both on the ground. They always park opposite each other,
Speaker 1: tail to tail, so both can taxi and take off
Speaker 1: immediately without any interference at a moment's notice. Pretty cool,
Speaker 1: And then you're gonna bring it home here, so check
Speaker 1: them bringing it home with one from Bill m u
Speaker 1: a s F retired Charleston, South Carolina, the Air Force.
Speaker 1: Really here's a mechanic. Did not know that. I'm a
Speaker 1: retired U. S. Air Force lobmaster who flew as a
Speaker 1: crew member on C seventeens and C five's during many
Speaker 1: many presidential support a missions. During the Air Force one podcast,
Speaker 1: you mentioned the President's limos being carried by C one fort.
Speaker 1: While that was once a true statement, it hasn't been
Speaker 1: that way for a number of years. So we need
Speaker 1: to go update the The C one one fleet has
Speaker 1: been decommissioned and sent to the bone yard. The C
Speaker 1: seventeen is the main airlifter used to carry the limos,
Speaker 1: communication package, marine helicopters, not chinooks though friend and military
Speaker 1: or and myriad of other stuff and personnel used debt
Speaker 1: the president's destination. I missed my military days and sam
Speaker 1: missions were certainly a highlight of my career, as I
Speaker 1: accrued over eighty five thousand flying hours during twenty one years.
Speaker 1: So this guy's he knows what he's talking about. What
Speaker 1: was his Name's Bill M from Charleston, South Carolina. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I want to point out Bill also had a
Speaker 1: number of very nice things to say about the show,
Speaker 1: but since it was so long with the listener mail
Speaker 1: that Dad cut a lot of that out. But thank
Speaker 1: you very much, Bill, He was very kind of you.
Speaker 1: Thanks Bill, Thanks Brandon, Thanks unknown irishman. Oh but wait, Chuck,
Speaker 1: if you'll if you'll indulge me before we go, Um,
Speaker 1: I want to give a special shout out, a special
Speaker 1: Christmas shout out for one of our younger listeners, Casey,
Speaker 1: who's twelve. She is a friend's niece and she's very sweet.
Speaker 1: She's a big fan, and she is bribing us and
Speaker 1: we're gonna totally go for it. Um. She has asked
Speaker 1: us if we'll wish her brother Lincoln a merry Christmas
Speaker 1: for her. She's given us five options that varies from
Speaker 1: a crocheted scarf to uh, what my vote goes for?
Speaker 1: And I hope you'll agree. A batch of homemade, uniquely
Speaker 1: decorated sugar cookies. You want to go with that one, Okay,
Speaker 1: So we're gonna take option one, Casey. Uh, And in
Speaker 1: exchange for those uniquely decorated schugar cookies, we're gonna say, Lincoln,
Speaker 1: your sister Casey wishes you a merry Christmas and happy
Speaker 1: New Year. And that's a happy birthday right now to
Speaker 1: bonus a birthday. She's just that sweet. Has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with birthdays. She's just working her networks. You get
Speaker 1: some favors, fayntes. Yeah, So Merry Christmas, Lincoln, Merry Christmas, Casey,
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