WEBVTT - 911 Is Not a Joke 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:04.960 Do do do do. Attention Pacific Northwest, both the Canadian 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:07.960 side and the American side. Stuff you Should Know is 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:12.440 coming to you live. That's right. And this combined with 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:15.160 Seattle in San Francisco, which we have just completed, will 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:17.640 be our I would say, our only true West Coast 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:21.000 dates this year. So true. So if you are anywhere 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:25.599 near Portland or Vancouver, then come on out and see us. Yep. 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:28.200 So we're going to be in Vancouver at the Chain 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:32.320 Center on Sunday, March twenty nine, and then the next 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:34.559 night we're going to go on down to Portland, and 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:36.720 this time we're going to be at the Arlene Schnitzer 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.800 Concert Hall, which is a beautiful room, will be there 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:41.800 for the first time, and that's going to be on 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.920 Monday March. That's right. We have stepped it up in 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:47.879 viny side. So don't make fools of us, please, right, 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:50.920 So you can go get tickets and all the info 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:55.720 you need at s y s K live dot com. 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.040 Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of My 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:06.960 Heart Radios How Stuff Works. Hey, welcome to the podcast. 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.960 I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryan over there, 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:16.120 there's guest producer Josh t rocking it out and this 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:20.080 is stuff you should know. Take to a dish. Yeah, 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:24.440 one of the rare second takes. We lost a whole 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:29.560 fourteen seconds of try number one. Right. It wasn't any 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.880 good anyway, that's what it was. Josh turned into like 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.759 Elvis Custel was like, no, no, stop, stop, I don't 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:40.840 look at that reference SNL call back. Yeah it was nice. 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.479 So um, as you can tell, Chuck, I'm pretty excited 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.720 about this episode, which is kind of surprising because talking 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:49.800 about nine one one seems like it might be the 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:53.640 most boring thing we could talk about. You think, untrue 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:57.920 what with all the people dying and well cats stuck 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:01.840 in trees? Sure, what else? That should name everything you 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:05.520 shouldn't call nine one one four? Let's see neighbors playing 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:09.679 his music too loud? That one exactly. Uh Yeah, there's 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.280 a bunch of stuff you shouldn't call nine one one four, 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.799 which we'll talk about. But um one thing, like I 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:18.840 am familiar with nine one one. I remember growing up 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:20.920 as a child in the eighties and I was like, 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:24.480 I remember hearing about this new system that was coming 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:27.560 around when I was growing up in Toledo and I 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:29.720 was like, that doesn't make any sense because nine one one, 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:31.880 it turns out, has been around at least since nineteen 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:35.160 sixty eight in the US. It's been around way longer 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:39.600 than parts in UK. True, but I like to think 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:43.240 of Toledo is kind of a happening spot. Toledo didn't 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:47.440 get a fully functional nine one one system until nineteen nine. 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:51.240 Did you look it up? Yeah? So you you guys 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.760 resorted to the previous method, which was run down the 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:59.520 street screaming for neighbors, just swinging a cat by tail. Yeah, 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.839 that was siren. Yeah. I seem to remember. I don't 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:05.560 know exactly when we got it, but I think I 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.840 remember it happening like because if I if I remember correctly, 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:10.520 when I was a kid, we had one of those 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.440 little cards next to the kitchen phone that had police 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.600 fire and whatever else. So that had to have been 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:18.280 pre nine one one or else we wouldn't have had 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:21.440 that dumb thing, right, Yeah, that would just confuse the children. 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.720 Call these numbers first, right, and if they don't answer, 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:27.520 then did the super easy thing that will rout it 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.800 to the correct person child. Your parents have just taken 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:34.600 out a substantial life insurance policy on you. Yeah, for 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.360 that's a long that's a long game, right, there is 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:41.360 so chuck as new as nine one one as even 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:45.320 though it seems old, right, especially for younger listeners, I 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.800 would guess that it seems pretty They probably think it's 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.480 been around since you know, of course some buggy days. Yeah, 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:55.160 since rotary phone days. Yeah right. So um, as as 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:58.240 as old as it is or as new as it is, 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:04.440 it's gotten pretty uh robust, very robust. Yeah, every year. 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:07.480 These are some stats that are Buddy Dave Russe helped 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:11.400 us compile two hundred forty million calls in the US. 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.760 That is six hundred and fifty thousand calls a day. Yeah, 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:21.479 that's like nine hundred thousand calls a minute. No, sure, 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:26.719 I just did that back of the m uh. And 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:30.520 another important thing here is that of calls these days 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.800 are from your wireless phone. That's a big deal, it is, 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:36.560 which we'll get to. But um, that changed things. Yeah. 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:39.200 The big spoiler is is that the nine one one 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.760 system that we currently currently use in the United States 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:47.599 is hopelessly antiquated, and they're working on improving it. And 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.800 nothing that we should say about how antiquated is should 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.400 keep you from calling nine one one is still generally works, 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:58.440 but it's having troubler. It's had trouble traditionally keeping pace 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:03.760 with the massive sweeping changes in telecommunications. Yeah, has has 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.080 gone on in the last couple of decades. Yeah, because 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.360 telecom is always trying to move forward and they don't 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.800 think like, but maybe we should slid the pace for 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.440 nine one one, right, exactly know and plus I mean 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.920 nine one one was we'll see those systems are built 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.480 alongside the other system, so when the other system leads forward, 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:23.359 they have to go through and rebuild this this system 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.880 that's just for nine one one, because you can't get 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.080 rid of an old system because people, well we'll get 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.200 to that stuff. We'll get to that. Let's not spoil it. 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.960 But uh, we were laughing earlier about things that you 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:37.120 should and should not call for. Um, some of these 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.599 are debatable, I think, Oh yeah, I think so, says 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:43.600 who says me, We'll get to the last one really 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.200 is the only one that's debatable. But obviously, if if 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:50.040 there's a fire or smoke that you think is a fire, 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:54.640 where there's smoke, there's fire, medical emergency and you can't 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.000 you know, obviously getting an ambulance or get in a 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:58.320 get in your car and run some one of the 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:00.800 emergency room if you can. If it's quicker and you 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:05.280 can do so safely, it's quicker and cheaper cost the 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:08.599 gas maybe a couple of tolls, who knows, compared to 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.640 like an ambulance ride. No, that's a that's a good point. 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.680 But I mean imagine if your home just loaded and 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:18.560 your kid gets hurt, you should probably call nine one one, 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:22.120 Call nine one Uh. Car accidents, of course, um, if 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:25.720 they are major enough and like have injuries, yeah, called 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:27.719 call nine one one. You should be able to tell, 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:30.320 like if somebody's like, oh, that kind of hurt my neck, 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:32.279 you don't have to call nine one one. You could 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.080 call Here's the other thing. If we're saying don't call 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.000 nine on one, that doesn't mean like don't alert anybody. 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.039 But there are there's a your police have their own 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.080 phone number, Your local police have their own phone number. 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:46.440 Look it up and call that the non emergency number, right. Uh. 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.320 And then obviously the last category is some sort of 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:54.920 crime being committed, violence being committed, call nine one one. Yeah. 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:58.320 So that's like no one's going to argue with that, 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:02.080 I think. So Okay, there are plenty of instances where 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.440 you shouldn't call nine one one, and yet people reliably 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:07.760 call nine one one for stuff like this, And I 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.680 think that's because it's been drilled into everyone's head. It's 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:12.760 kind of a double edged sword. You can't drill that 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.360 into everyone's head. One one one, one one one. All 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:16.920 you gotta do is call nine one one and then 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.320 not expect to get some cats stuck in the tree calls. 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.560 You keep going back to that, Well, we actually had 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:25.200 did that when I was a kid. Did you call 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.400 nine one one for that? Well, you know the funny story. 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.440 It's not very funny, my dad, but we had a 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.440 cat stuck in a tree. My dad went up and 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:35.800 he got stuck in the tree and he just climbed 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.560 up too high. Yeah, and you got freaked out, I 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.520 think so. I mean, I was a kid, so you 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.800 know they weren't saying your father is very afraid and 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:47.800 he's screwed up. I was just a kid kind of like, well, 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.600 now dad's up there, and now there's fireman here helping 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.600 my dad out of a tree. Cats and Dad's get 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.160 stuck in tree. Yeah, And looking back, I think that's 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.840 totally probably what happened. He got way up there. It 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.560 was freaked out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's cute. I have 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:03.840 to ask him about that one day. Um. Okay, so 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.080 your dad's stuck in a tree, I would say, that's 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:09.360 call nine one on cats stuck in a tree. Now, 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.040 unless you live in Pleasantville, don't call nine one one 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:16.520 for that. Um. If you have a question about the 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.280 speeding ticket you got the other day, that's not a 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.600 call that you would place through nine on one Again, 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:23.760 you can just call there's even a number on the 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:28.480 back of the ticket. Dumb. Okay, hey, bringing that back 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.760 just for that second. Okay, what else? Oh, of course, 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:36.200 anything dealing with your animals unless well, I'm not gonna 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.840 even gonna say that. I was gonna say, if there's 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.720 an animal attacking someone, yeah, you would call tell nine 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:43.800 one one for that. Come out and shoot this dog. 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:48.600 Basically it could be rabid. It's terrible call. Heckt hat out? Uh. 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:54.120 But otherwise, if the cat in the tree, lost, animals, injured, animals, 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.680 noisy neighbors, I love that day. Puts power outage in 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:02.480 here and in parentheses, call your power company, right, It's 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.760 that last one I think is a little it kind 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:07.640 of opens a can of worms, and that is the 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:14.320 suspicious person thing, because uh, you know, they they say 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:19.720 to call for suspicious activity, which theoretically is a suspicious person. 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.600 I think the distinction is uh and what we see 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.800 and we'll get into this later racial biases. You know, 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:31.360 people in neighborhoods calling the cops on someone because they're 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:35.560 black and walking down my street, which happens, that is 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:40.480 not a suspicious person um even I mean, if there's 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.960 nothing going on, I know, people try to justify it. 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.920 But then local police say, you know, hey, always call 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.640 us if you think something might be going on. And 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:51.920 that's where it gets dodgy, because that comes down to 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:56.160 a human beings perception. So it can be very tilted. 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.040 As Dave put it. He put it a couple of 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:02.319 ways I thought were pretty smart. He said, people aren't suspicious. 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:06.000 Behavior is suspicious. Yeah, and they say specifically to call 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:10.120 nine one for suspicious activities. But again, these are people, 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.120 so it's just such a weird fine line you're walking there. 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:17.319 The other little litmus tests that I've seen is stop 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.480 just for a second, because this is suspicious behavior. You 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.720 see somebody like breaking into a car, like assaulting somebody 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.840 that's that's beyond suspicious. That's like the act. That's the 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.480 act um, that's a crime being committed. So you have 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.440 a second when you see a suspicious person to stop 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:35.000 and think, like what I what I call nine on one? 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.440 If this person were white, or if you're a black 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.400 person doing this, say what I called nim one with 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.000 this person were black, And if the answers no, then 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:45.240 maybe you shouldn't call. Maybe they're not acting that suspiciously. Yeah, 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:49.280 it's just interesting. On these Facebook neighborhood pages, it's kind 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:53.120 of evenly divided between people saying, uh, don't call nine 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.360 one one for this, This is just a guy going 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:59.400 door to door perhaps other people saying, no, you know what, 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.480 it's it's nine or ten o'clock at night and someone's 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.839 knocking on your door in our neighborhood. Semious, maybe you 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:07.960 should call the cops and let them work it out. 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:11.079 And for the cops, they say, you know, call us. 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.160 That doesn't mean we're going to dispatch eight cars to 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:16.359 your home, but we might work you through the situation 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.960 and it's all going to be fine. Yes, But this 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:21.520 is the only one where I thought was a little 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:24.800 bit like you shouldn't just say, like, don't call nine 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.360 one one when you see a suspicious person. No, you 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:31.360 certainly shouldn't say that. At the same time that, I 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.320 think one of the big hesitations for calling nine one 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:39.040 one these days is like the either the increase or 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:42.840 the increase in reporting of people innocent people who had 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.720 nine one one called on him being killed by the cops. 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.920 That and that death would not have happened. Their death 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:54.600 wouldn't have happened had a person been suspicious of them 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.600 and called nine one one. And the fact, you know, 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.040 when when news of something like that gets out, it 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.240 will make you second guess that kind of thing, like 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:05.880 you're for sure you're It makes you realize you're bringing 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:09.640 like people who are armed and jumpy out to a 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:14.640 situation where it's just somebody walking around or whatever. And 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.120 when you look at it from that respect, it can 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.440 make you second guess the whole thing. Yeah, And things 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:22.719 can look it can look like potential malfeasance that's not 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.520 you know, like a lot of people, you see a 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:29.280 lot of people saying, well, I think someone's chasing my house, um, 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.720 because a car pulled it into my driveway and sat 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:33.520 there for two minutes. They asked me if I wanted 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:37.520 to know more about syrac or someone stopped and was 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:40.680 taking pictures of my house, Like, you never know, somebody 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.520 might be taking picture of the oak tree that they're 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.880 trying to learn about, or or just looking up something 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.559 on their phone and standing in the direction of your house. 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.280 Nine times out of ten they're trying to figure out 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:56.440 at the oak tree near your house. I'm trying to 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.400 give people the benefit of the doubt, you know. No, 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:01.440 I'm with you anyway. It's just that's where it gets 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:06.719 a little dodgy and what we'll have statistics later on 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:11.959 about actual racial bias, because it's real. Okay, moving on, 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:13.719 you want to take a little break after that. It 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:17.160 seems like a good spot. I think I do. Okay, well, everybody, 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:37.079 we're taking a rare Josh break and we'll be right back. Okay, 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:40.640 we're back. That Josh break was invigorating. I wasn't doing anything. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:42.319 I was just taking a picture of oak tree. We'd 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:47.240 get off my back. What kind of oak is that, sir? 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:51.319 There's only one kind of oak. I know, there's a 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:54.600 bunch of different oaks. Everyone in Ireland's like, no, that's 0:13:54.600 --> 0:14:00.320 not true. Uh, while we're mentioning calling one though, um, 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.880 you can get arrested. It is a crime to prank 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:05.920 call nine one one. Yeah, you don't want to do that. 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.480 Or to swat. It's called swatting. That's a I think 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.600 that deserves its own podcast. Maybe because there was some 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.360 some guy got killed right from a swatting incident. Yeah, 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.439 I think it's happened more than once. Yeah, that's serious stuff. 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.000 If you don't know it's swatting as well, just give 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:23.440 you the four one one on this abuse of nine 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:28.320 one one man, I love myself something great. Um. So, 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:33.440 swatting is where you are a hacker, right, and you 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:37.240 can disguise the number that you're coming you're calling from, uh, 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.360 to make it look like you're calling from a house 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.760 that you want the cops to go to, and you 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.160 basically say like, I'm in this house and I'm holding 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.360 hostages and what are you going to do about it? 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:50.640 Johnny law? And the law comes out and usually swat 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:54.000 that I shouldn't say. Usually in some cases the swat 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.880 team will actually enter this house where people who have 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:00.240 no idea what's going on are and maybe the the 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:04.080 people who have been swatted, you know, said something mean 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.560 to the to the guy who you know, called the 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.640 swat team out on them. But it's basically it's not 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:13.080 like saying, like there's a I think there's a hostage 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:16.240 situation in this house. It's I'm the guy holding the hostages. 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:19.960 And here's where I mean, like and swat teams stick 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:22.840 right exactly, the swat teams like we're gonna go kill 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.040 that guy. I'll bet you would never in a million 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:28.560 years bring your swat team out, and whatever you do, 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:32.560 don't come in guns blazing, right, which we're joking about 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.480 something that's really happened. Sure, So like I really think 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.120 we need to talk at least the short we'll look 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:40.280 into it a little first, one on swatting and one 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:44.640 on dockx inga two weird new things that people do now, right, 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:49.840 But but swatting is definitely a crime. Yes, okay. Also 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.000 so that you don't make nine on one feel like 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:54.520 I think this is great. This is almost like a 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:58.680 public service announcement that we're in the midstup. So you, um, 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:00.720 you don't get in trouble with the nine one one, 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:04.200 so they don't think that you're pranking them when you're not. 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:08.120 If you ever call nine one one accidentally, or say 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:10.600 your kid does or whatever. You do not want to 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.680 hang up the phone. Yeah, I did that a few 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:15.840 years ago. I feel like I accidentally called nine one 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.440 one because I think cell phones have a feature that 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:24.560 it enacted like an automatic call by accident. And I 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:26.120 saw it and I went, oh crap, and I hung 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:28.520 up right and I got a call back, like in 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.480 a second. That's great. Ideally you should. Yeah. Umi has 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:33.640 a great story from when she was a kid. She 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.760 um got scared. Uh, I can't remember something about her 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:41.120 grandmother who was perfectly fine, but she called nine on 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:44.800 one and I got scared with nine on one answer 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:46.600 and hung up and they kept calling back and she 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:50.120 kept hanging up. They came out to the cast a 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:53.840 little welfare check. Yeah, basically, Um, but you don't want 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.800 to do that. Don't follow the Umi model of nine 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:58.440 on one, Like just stay on the phone and be like, 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.480 I'm really sorry. This is an act sentental call and 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.879 I'm definitely not the bad guy pretending that this is 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.119 an accidental call. Make sure you say that to. My 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:10.560 name is Timmy, I'm five, It's all good. My name 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:14.119 is little boy with brown hair. So I think the 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:20.359 history is fairly interesting. Um because England started nine, not 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:25.240 nine one one, but their version, which is way back 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:29.160 in n seven in London. I didn't know it either, 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:30.959 but they they were the first city in the world 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:35.120 that created the three digit model. Apparently, as the story goes, 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:38.360 there was a fire in downtown London and people tried 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:40.840 to get through the fire department and they were put 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:44.679 on hold and switched around, and so they said. The 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:48.760 town crier came out and said nine is the answer, yeah, 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:54.199 which so easy to remember. Um, I guess no one 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:57.080 else was using at the time. But this is back 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:59.880 in the day of rotary phones, right. Oh yeah, well, 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.359 so that that's actually that was. It was a burden 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:07.440 to dial with a rotary dial. One should have been 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.680 for sure. I just thought that was kind of clumsy 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:14.400 of them, a little bit clumsy of the Brits. But 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.080 let me see here. I think it was a twelve 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:21.240 mile radius around London at first after World War Two 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:25.040 and went wider. Uh And because you know, Britain like 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:29.679 to do a little world conquering. You can find in 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:33.440 cities all over the world where London has or where 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:37.359 England has left there. Uh. Imprint that's a way to 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:40.239 put it, for sure. Yeah. Um. And the US of 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:43.080 course said, well, we're not gonna let the Brits outdo us. 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.880 You're you're gonna do brexit. Hold my beer. Yeah, we're 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:51.600 gonna wait twenty something years and do it ourselves, right exactly. So, um, 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:56.000 I think in nineteen fifty seven, the Fire Chiefs Association, sorry, 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:59.080 the National Association of Fire Chiefs I was way off. Um. 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.959 They said, hey, we should come up with an easy 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:05.560 to remember three digit number for people to report fires. 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:09.240 And other people said, hey, that's a great idea. We'll we'll, 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:12.720 we'll do that to report emergencies, and the Fire Teach's 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:16.720 Association said no, just fires, right. Luckily no one listened 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:20.560 to them. Well, they didn't listen to the just firepart, 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:23.000 that's right. Um. And then a couple of years after 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:26.440 that or maybe uh yeah, a few years later, the 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:28.800 National Academy of Scizees said, this is actually a really 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:30.960 good idea. We should do this for calling ambulances to 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:36.959 And then finally, um Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:41.159 the Administration of Justice said no, all emergencies should have 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:44.360 a three digit, easy to remember number. That's right. So 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:47.720 the FCC says, who should be get in touch with here? 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:50.320 How about a T and T? Because these were the 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:55.399 days of phone monopolies, right or phone monopoly it's just 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:59.400 one right? Uh No, I think when did they break 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:03.240 up the phone cup niece. I think it was before this, 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:07.640 because they broke them up into the different bells, right, yeah, 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:10.680 where they were all the different bells part of one 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:13.840 big phone company. That's right? Which one? I just said, 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:18.120 two different things? Liberty Bell, the Southern Belle bell from 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:22.480 Pacific Bell, Pacific Bell, the bell from Beauty and the Beast, 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:27.360 all the bells, Albuquerque Bell. Sure, why not? You can 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:30.080 ring my bell. That's a good one. That's a good song. 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:32.360 It's a good one. But I think more and more 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:36.440 and more by Andrea true connection is far better. What's that? 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:39.919 Virtually the same thing, but just a better, better song. Okay, 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:42.600 they got in touch with a T and T and 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:46.160 they said, can you help us out with this? Apparently 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:50.080 a T and T is the one that chose because 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:52.800 it hadn't been used yet, which is kind of the 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:56.159 first stumbling block again. The rotary dial. Rotary dial that 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:59.520 was nine one ones a lot better way. It's it's 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:02.840 two words better. It is, sure, it's better and it 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:05.320 was easy to remember. And you know, I think they 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:08.040 had set up at this point already four one one 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:11.360 in a lot of areas, so they just kind of 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:17.040 extended that idea of the something one one right. So, um, 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:21.400 the first this really surprised me. The first um on 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:23.840 one call that was ever placed in the United States. 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:27.320 New York City. You would think, so, Washington, d C, Chicago, 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:30.920 what else you got? Chicago? You already said that one. Okay, 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:34.480 I don't know. What about Los Angeles? Yeah, why not? 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:38.919 What about Albuquerque? They're doing fun? Okay, No, none of 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:42.959 those are correct. Haileyville, Alabama was the site of the 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:45.239 very first nine one one call. Yeah, that's a good 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:51.119 little tribute question. I think that pedal to the metal. 0:21:53.760 --> 0:21:56.159 By the way, I recently watched I had recorded all 0:21:56.160 --> 0:21:59.399 those Jeopardy shows with the Ken Jennings on there. The 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:03.159 Champion run some of the better TV I've seen in 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:06.679 a while, really good stuff. Yeah. Well, I mean, if 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:08.439 you're a Jeopardy fan that it was as good as 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:12.640 it gets, like the smartest competitors and like big time 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:15.520 drama because they you know, they had to bring it 0:22:15.640 --> 0:22:17.920 on those daily doubles. It wasn't like a regular show 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:21.520 like they were daily doubling on like twenty dollars and 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:26.280 stuff like. It was really tense, good drama. Yeah, so 0:22:26.320 --> 0:22:28.359 cool because I think Kid knew that other guy, the 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:31.159 whole Celtzer guy was a as a gambler and he 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:33.760 made his name for really just going all in, and 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:35.720 Ken knew this, so he had to do the same 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:39.080