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Speaker 1: Welcome to you stuff you should know from house stuff

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Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Josh Clark and they're sitting by me. Is Chuck Bryant

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Speaker 1: across from you and Jerry Rowland beside us. Here we are, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is stuff. Hey, and this is a fan request

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Speaker 1: by one of our younger fans. Yeah. When Cormack ron Dalzo,

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Speaker 1: it's right, our buddy, Joe's son and wife Cat, they

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Speaker 1: all listen as a family and it's adorable. They shout

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Speaker 1: at their stereo as a family. Yeah, apparently Cat shouted

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Speaker 1: at the stereo when you didn't remember thirteen year old

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Speaker 1: girls doing finger spelling sign language, Joe said. Kat was like,

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Speaker 1: how can he not have known this? That's all we did.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't around Tolito. Yeah, and you know what, Emily

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Speaker 1: didn't know about it either, and she was in Ohio,

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Speaker 1: so maybe it's everywhere but Ohio, Ohio. Colon left behind

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Speaker 1: as usual. It's pretty funny. But yeah, Cormack suggested that

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Speaker 1: we do an episode on black box flight recorders, and

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Speaker 1: that's what we're doing. Yeah, So Chuck, if you'll indulge

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Speaker 1: me before we get started. Um, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you remember, but a couple of years ago a fan

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Speaker 1: sent in some day planners for us UM that were

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Speaker 1: like year long day planners, the the ones made out

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Speaker 1: of old library books. Yeah, and like um and they

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Speaker 1: had like h like de coupage like clicker stuff on

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Speaker 1: the on the cover. They were great. Perfect. Can't find

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Speaker 1: anything even remotely that good anywhere I've been looking for

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Speaker 1: a while. So, dear listener, if you're still out there

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Speaker 1: and you were listening UM, get in touch with us,

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Speaker 1: because I would love to buy those from you every year.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you like those? Oh they were great? Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you mean went crazy for it. Yeah, So if you

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Speaker 1: are that person, get in touch with us. Yeah. Stuff

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Speaker 1: podcast at Discovery dot com and put in the subject

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Speaker 1: line I'm the person Josh is looking for our day planners.

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Speaker 1: Uh okay, thank you, Chuck. So we're talking black boxes,

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Speaker 1: that's right, it's pretty interesting. I thought, Yeah, we should

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Speaker 1: probably put to rest the inane question of if they

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Speaker 1: can make something like a black box that can survive

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Speaker 1: an airplane car crash, why don't you just make the

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Speaker 1: whole airplane out of a black box material? And the

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Speaker 1: answer is because it wouldn't fly. Simple as that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so I'm glad we got that out of the way. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and they're also we should go ahead and say right

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Speaker 1: up front, they're not black. Uh. They're generally like bright

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Speaker 1: orange with like reflective tape and things, because you want

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Speaker 1: to be able to find it. Yeah, amongst the rubble

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Speaker 1: as of the I think the sixties or seventies, there

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Speaker 1: became a mandate where you had to paint them bright

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Speaker 1: orange so you could find them. But they think that

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Speaker 1: they were called black boxes originally because either the original

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Speaker 1: ones were blacky or because it was kind of a

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Speaker 1: grim moniker because the boxes will become charred in the

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Speaker 1: wreckage and turn black. Yeah. I saw another explanation to that,

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Speaker 1: I don't think holds water. That they were initially like

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Speaker 1: round and red, and when they first debuted it, someone

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Speaker 1: in the room said, oh, what a nice black box,

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Speaker 1: as a smarmie thing to say, I guess about something

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Speaker 1: that's round and red. I don't know if that holds

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Speaker 1: water though. Yeah. It's weird all around. And apparently in

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Speaker 1: the aviation industry they don't call them black boxes anyway.

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Speaker 1: That's like something for the news media and jerks like us,

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Speaker 1: they probably call them crash survivalbal memory units. I think

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Speaker 1: what they call them is either one of the two

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Speaker 1: things that are either a flight data recorder or a

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Speaker 1: voice box. Well, there's a there's a lot of um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's not that hard. But because of the media, and

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Speaker 1: in part because of this article, uh, it's very unclear

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Speaker 1: that black boxes are different things. Yeah, there's two different

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Speaker 1: We'll get into it, but there's really two different kinds.

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Speaker 1: And what you would think of as a black box

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Speaker 1: is actually a group of components the system that yeah,

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Speaker 1: that formed this system that's meant to record the flight

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Speaker 1: data and the cockpit um sounds, which is the discussion

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Speaker 1: and the beeps and the pings and all that of

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Speaker 1: every single flight that goes into the air, commercial flight yeah, um,

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Speaker 1: in order, and then it is housed in a way

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Speaker 1: frequently the only survivor of a plane crash. Yeah. And

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Speaker 1: And the whole point is, of course, is to get

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Speaker 1: if it's the sole survivor, then there's no one there

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Speaker 1: to say, oh, well there's fire. There there's fire. It's

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Speaker 1: In the nineteen forties there was a Finish aviation engineer

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Speaker 1: named V. A. Ho which doesn't sound finish umigration and

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Speaker 1: he did some of the first um flight recording was

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Speaker 1: any voices like cockpit recording. Well, supposedly the Right Brothers

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Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. Yeah, it's like there's been flight data

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Speaker 1: an Australian named David Warren was the one who really

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Speaker 1: came up with the black box recorder. Yeah, he's the

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Speaker 1: one that brought the voices into it, the actual audio recording. Okay, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he was He was a member of a crash investigation

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Speaker 1: what was going on at the time. So he developed them. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So go uh Ozzy Yazzy Azzi so um. Initially the

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Speaker 1: black box recorders were UM recording on magnetic tape, and

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Speaker 1: magnetic recorders, which no one uses anymore. That's two thousand

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Speaker 1: One of the big reasons why it was with magnetic

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Speaker 1: memory sticks and reconfigure them and get the eat off

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Speaker 1: of them. Still. Yeah. They cost between ten and fifteen

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Speaker 1: like they work with the airline manufact airplane manufacturers themselves

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Speaker 1: to like preinstall them on these planes. Right. Yeah, So

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Speaker 1: airplanes to the airlines with the black boxes are installed.

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Speaker 1: It's like a part of the plane. That's right. Um,

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Speaker 1: so we should probably explain this now it's been long enough.

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Speaker 1: A black box can be one of two things, well,

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Speaker 1: one of three things really. Um. It can be the

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Speaker 1: that's right, or it can be the crash survival baluh

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Speaker 1: memory unit. Black box refers to all three of those. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a nuclear war. Basically, so on any flight, on any

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Speaker 1: And so all of this information is coming into the

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Speaker 1: basically it's like an upstream passive eavesdropping units called the

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Speaker 1: Flight Data Acquisition Unit, and it takes all of this UM.

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Speaker 1: and it takes all of this incoming information and it

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Speaker 1: records it. So not only is the are the pilots

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Speaker 1: it's being recorded as well, UM and it's being routed

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Speaker 1: to the recorders through the Flight Data Acquisition Unit. Right.

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Speaker 1: which you can't do that on magnetic tape, you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Yeah, they have to start drinking vodka

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Speaker 1: the sounds, that's a big deal. Like not only do

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Speaker 1: you want to hear Captain Jim say, holy crap, our

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Speaker 1: And they're trained to pick up all that ambiance sound

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Speaker 1: right exactly. And they can sit there and hear a

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Speaker 1: their cell phone is loaded. Um, so you've got again,

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Speaker 1: data recorder, and all of that info going out to

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Speaker 1: those two guys is going through the flight data Acquisition unit.

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Speaker 1: And it's sending the info all the way to the

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Speaker 1: back of the plane, where the cockpit voice recorder and

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Speaker 1: the flight data recorder are located. And why is it

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Speaker 1: located in the back, because the front of the plane

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Speaker 1: we talked about that in our Surviving a Plane Crash episode.

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Speaker 1: to analyze the data. So they're going to transport it

426
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Speaker 1: to the h to a lab at the NTSP the

427
00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 1: National Transportation Safety Board. We should say, the the country

428
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,480
Speaker 1: that this happens in, or if it's like an international

429
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 1: waters the country that the airline is registered in is

430
00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 1: responsible for leading the investigation. So in the United States

431
00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:48,199
Speaker 1: would be the NTSB. Okay, yeah, sure. Um. And just

432
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,960
Speaker 1: like any relic you find, if you know about finding

433
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 1: undersea items that have been in salt water, you want

434
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 1: to transport that in its own state that you found it,

435
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,600
Speaker 1: so in its own yeah, like if it's it's the

436
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 1: same thing as if you find a piece of sunken treasure.

437
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,119
Speaker 1: You don't want to bring it out and dry it

438
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,119
Speaker 1: off with a hair dryer. You want to keep it

439
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 1: submerged in saltwater because that's where it's been living. And

440
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: that's the sucking treasure pro tip from Chuck. I did

441
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:17,960
Speaker 1: an article on that. Actually that's how I know this. Um.

442
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,439
Speaker 1: But yeah, so if if they find it in the ocean,

443
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 1: they want to transport it in salt water and a

444
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:26,439
Speaker 1: cooler to a lab where they can really treat it right,

445
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,240
Speaker 1: give it the V I P treatment. Yeah. Um. And

446
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:32,639
Speaker 1: if the whole black box is still intact, yeah, you

447
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 1: can actually just use it's it's computer interface. It's already

448
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 1: installed this part of the recorder. Yeah, you can just

449
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:41,360
Speaker 1: plug it in and download all the stuff off of it. Yeah,

450
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,119
Speaker 1: it can be super quick. But oftentimes that stuff, like

451
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,840
Speaker 1: we said, is mangled and burned away, and so you

452
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 1: have to just take the memory sticks and then you know,

453
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:52,199
Speaker 1: hook it up to a different machine so you can

454
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:55,359
Speaker 1: retrieve the data, that's right, which takes a little longer. Yeah,

455
00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:59,360
Speaker 1: it can take weeks or months. When you get the data. Obviously,

456
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 1: when you have the flight data recorder data, you can

457
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 1: feed that into a computer and create a simulation using

458
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:11,879
Speaker 1: a model to visualize what the plane was doing based

459
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 1: on all those readings from all those different arrays. When

460
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 1: you put them all together, it can create a computer

461
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 1: model of the plane to show what it was doing

462
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 1: at the time of the crash. Um, the cockpit voice

463
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 1: recorder uses a little more of human ingenuity to piece

464
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:30,199
Speaker 1: it together, and this takes way longer. Yeah. One thing

465
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 1: you're gonna have is um a representative from the airline.

466
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Speaker 1: You're gonna have a representative from the plane builder because

467
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 1: they don't like their planes to go down. Um, there's

468
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 1: gonna be uh, I guess whatever country or in your

469
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:46,679
Speaker 1: version of the NTSB is going to be there. And

470
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 1: then sometimes they might have a translator or language specialist,

471
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Speaker 1: depending on you know what nationality your your pilot was,

472
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:57,240
Speaker 1: because i'mout to translate some stuff and you have people

473
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Speaker 1: who are trained in deciphering beeps and pings and Knox

474
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: and airline cockpits, and they put all this together. It's

475
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 1: a pretty interesting job, you know. Um. And you you

476
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 1: take that information, you put it together with the model,

477
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:15,679
Speaker 1: the simulation from the plane, the flight data recorder, and

478
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 1: then these days also the flight computers send out warning

479
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 1: messages like flight four four seven air France. It's sent

480
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,400
Speaker 1: out like twenty four warning messages um in the four

481
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 1: minutes before it crashed. So they had that already on hand,

482
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 1: but nothing else. Yes, And then they started to piece

483
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 1: it together after they went and got the wreckage, which

484
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 1: we should say in some cases, when possible, they'll actually

485
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,919
Speaker 1: piece the entire plane back together to Oh yeah, I

486
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 1: didn't know that. Yeah, they'll get like a huge airplane

487
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,160
Speaker 1: hangar and take all the wreckage and pieces together piece

488
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 1: by piece and try to get the plane back together

489
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,680
Speaker 1: to help that to help to help give a complete

490
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 1: picture of what the heck happened. Did you see that

491
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:57,199
Speaker 1: the flight the Denzel Washington movie? No, I heard it

492
00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,879
Speaker 1: was so depressing. It was good. Wasn't they filmed that

493
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: here too in Atlanta? But yeah, it was intense for sure. Okay,

494
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,159
Speaker 1: I'll check it out and then chuck Um, it's not

495
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 1: just airplanes where you can find black boxes, buddy, that's right.

496
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:16,160
Speaker 1: They're on trains planes already on planes, they're on trains,

497
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 1: and sort of a newish thing is putting versions of

498
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 1: these and cars, um, either to give you like an

499
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 1: insurance break. I think you can opt for these sometimes

500
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 1: to prove that you're a safe driver and get it

501
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,239
Speaker 1: basically tracks like how fast you go and if you're

502
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:37,159
Speaker 1: speeding and taking turns too fast and stuff like that. Yeah,

503
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: but they're a little controversial, I guess because I think

504
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 1: in England you can actually get traffic tickets based on right. Yeah,

505
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 1: I knew that was coming. Yeah, but some there's some

506
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 1: car manufacturers that manufacture basically flight data recorders into their

507
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: cars already. It's not necessarily recording like your cockpit conversation

508
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 1: or anything like that, but it is keeping track of

509
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: your car. It's like, um, you you know how like

510
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: your car will tell you that your tire pressure is

511
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 1: low or your doors open or something like that. There's

512
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: something that's recording all that stuff, including all of your

513
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: engine stuff and everything else that's part of your car too,

514
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: which amounts to a black box. Because we left out

515
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 1: we said that. You know, the point of having a

516
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 1: black box is to figure out what the heck happened.

517
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: We didn't quite go far enough, because the point of

518
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 1: figuring out what the heck happened, it's such as to

519
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: satisfied curiosity. But if there's a problem that's going to

520
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 1: translate to other planes too, mechanical failure, right, you want

521
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 1: to go be able to fix it. Or if there's

522
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: a way to make planes safer in the future, um

523
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: or prevent an accident. That's the whole point of the

524
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 1: black boxes, to learn from tragedy. Yeah, they should put

525
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 1: the voice recorders in cars, for right, Yeah, for d

526
00:29:56,640 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 1: why crash? This guy sounds drunk? Pull them over all right, Focus, focus,

527
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 1: Like you start hearing stuff like that, you're in big trouble.

528
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: Like no one else was in the car saying that

529
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 1: out loud to yourself, but you're arguing about whether you

530
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 1: should focus. I shouldn't be driving, it's fine, right, we

531
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 1: shouldn't be joking about that. That's like super sad. Well,

532
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 1: this is a pretty pretty sad episode. Yeah, but we

533
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 1: should make pretty sad episode suggested by like a four

534
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 1: year old I know what's going on with Cormack I

535
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 1: don't know. We'll have to get to the bottom of that.

536
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of parenting is going on.

537
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 1: And as hood, you are great parenting. I'm sure I

538
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 1: don't have anything else. I don't either. You got anything else?

539
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 1: I got nothing else. Well, we should like Cormack who

540
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 1: this is how we originally got the idea for this episode. Um,

541
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 1: we should let him play us out to listener mail.

542
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,479
Speaker 1: Let's hear it. If you want to know more about

543
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 1: Black Boss, into a streach you are, and you can

544
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 1: have fun at our fun and entertaining home on the

545
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: wet stuff you should know dot com. Al Right, well

546
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 1: that was just too adorable. That's pretty cute. Maybe we

547
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: should make that a regular thing. Yeah, so I have

548
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: an idea. Okay, Um, you guys out there in podcast

549
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: listener land, if you have a cute kid, you should

550
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 1: records a cute kid doing our sign off for you

551
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 1: know whatever, saying that. If you want to get in

552
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: touch with me and chuck tweet to us, try us

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Speaker 1: on Facebook, YadA, YadA, YadA, And um, a cute kid

554
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: that's a fan of the show, Like, don't just train

555
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 1: your kid and force them to do something they don't

556
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 1: know what they're doing exactly, So send us that email

557
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: it to us. Email your permission for us to use it,

558
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 1: um and uh maybe we'll put it in some kind

559
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 1: of supercut or whatever. Yeah, include whether or not you

560
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 1: want us to say your kid's name or not. All

561
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: that j all the safety standard safety this is. That's

562
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: very exciting. We haven't had like a call out for

563
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: anything in a while. Yeah, this could be cool. Nice. Well, okay,

564
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: so it's listener mail time, right, Yeah, I'm gonna call

565
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: this uh clearing up some kosher things. We've had a

566
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 1: great response with our episode on salt, so thanks for

567
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: everyone that wrote in so far. A slight correction for

568
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 1: you guys on Kosher salt. You work correct on its

569
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: use of drawing blood out of meat, as eating blood

570
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 1: is against Jewish dietary laws. Simply salting the meat, though,

571
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: will not make it kosher, which is a common misconception.

572
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: To have a kosher meat, Firstly, you must have a

573
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 1: kosher animal, one that choose its cud and has split hoofs.

574
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 1: While pigs have split hooves, they do not chew their cut.

575
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: They're not kosher. Cannot be a scavenger, so no catfish

576
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 1: or lobsters. No lobster, I saw that felt. Oh yeah,

577
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: that's right. Although fish is not considered meat, it is

578
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 1: called parv p A r V, essentially meaning neutral, as

579
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: in not meat or dairy, which are never eaten together.

580
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: And it cannot be a predator. So no hawks or

581
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: chickens or no chicken hawks are chickens predators. Um, if

582
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: you're a worm of chickens of predator, you know what

583
00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 1: I mean? All right? Secondly, guys, and this is key.

584
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Speaker 1: The weill must be killed in a ritual called shifting

585
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: by trained ritual s s H E, K H T

586
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: I n G the second H through me. This process

587
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: involves a super perfectly sharp, rectangular ended knife. It's about

588
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: twice as long as the particular animal's neck. It is

589
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 1: forbidden to stab or tear the flesh, hence the squared

590
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: inn and sharpness and one swift motion. The esophagus, trachea,

591
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: herotid arteries, and jugular veins are all cut. The animal

592
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 1: may not even feel it. Well, just's to say uh,

593
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 1: and we'll pass out and then die in seconds. The

594
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 1: blood is then drained from the animal, and after butchering,

595
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 1: it assaulted with coash or salt to draw out the

596
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: remaining blood and rinsed. You know, I knew a lot

597
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 1: of that because I read this very very interesting article

598
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Speaker 1: in Harper's Um several months ago, and this guy basically

599
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 1: infiltrated the meat industry and like Nebraska or something like that,

600
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 1: and he describes like kosher process of slaughter and how

601
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: different it is from regular process, but that they have

602
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 1: this special guy who's like a rabbi or something who

603
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 1: works on this line at the slaughterhouse in in Nebraska.

604
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 1: He's like a super specialized dude throat cutter. Yeah wow.

605
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: But he uses like this incredibly sharp instrument. It's really good.

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00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: He's a schector. It's a really really interesting article. I

607
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 1: can't remember the name of it, but I recommend anybody

608
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:26,319
Speaker 1: going and finding it. You know what, maybe you can

609
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 1: post that in your blog. Do I have a blog? Yeah?

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00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,399
Speaker 1: You do. Your blog posts about the best things you've

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Speaker 1: read this week. Oh yeah, yeah, maybe you should throw

612
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Speaker 1: it in there. All right. So those are the very

613
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Speaker 1: basics of kosher meat. Guys. Jewish dietary laws and certification

614
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 1: are much too lengthy for an email or a single

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Speaker 1: episode for that matter. It's very convoluted, highly recommend a

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Speaker 1: delightfully with the book called Kosher for the Clueless but

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Speaker 1: Curious by Simon Episdorff. I hope this is making words

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Speaker 1: and names. I hope I've shed some light on this

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Speaker 1: highly complex aspect of Judaism. That's for Michelle and Cedar Park, Texas.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Michelle, just near Austin, UH. If you want to

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