WEBVTT - Selects: 911 Is Not a Joke 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:05.280 Hey, everybody, Chuck here on your Saturday Selects, and hey, guys, 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:06.680 you know what I'm going to do. I'm going to 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:10.040 take us on a little walk down memory lane from 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:13.720 twenty twenty and my fix for the next geez maybe 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:16.720 up to twenty weeks for me and then Josh picks his, 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:19.439 so maybe forty weeks almost a year. Are going to 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:21.840 be walking back through the year of COVID, kind of 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:27.240 what was going on thematically that year and before and after, 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:29.800 and we'll see if there's any fruit to bear as 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:33.000 far as looking back. I hope this is more interesting 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:35.800 than your usual select. But we're going to start it 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:39.000 off with February thirteenth, twenty twenty pre COVID by about 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:41.959 a month ish with our episode nine to one one 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:44.839 is not a joke, all about nine to one one 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:45.600 and how it works. 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:47.040 Great episode, check it out. 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:58.760 Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:03.120 Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:03.720 Charles W. 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:07.960 Chuck Bryan over there, there's guest producer Josh t rocking 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.959 it out, and this is Stuff you should know. 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:17.679 Take to a dish. Yeah, one of the rare second takes. 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:22.120 Right it we lost a whole fourteen seconds of try 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:22.680 number one. 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:23.200 Right. 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:27.160 It wasn't any good anyway, That's what it was. Josh 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.000 turned into like Elvis Costell was like, no, no, stop stop. 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:35.039 Oh wow, look at that reference snl callback. Yeah it 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:35.880 was nice. 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:40.160 So, as you can tell, Chuck, I'm pretty excited about 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.920 this episode, which is kind of surprising because talking about 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:44.760 nine to one one seems like it might be the 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:48.560 most boring thing we could talk about. You think untrue, 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:52.520 what with all the people dying and well, yeah, cat 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:53.400 stuck in trees? 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:57.320 Sure what else? I should name everything you shouldn't call 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:58.080 nine one one. 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:01.240 For Let's see neighbor playing his music too loud. 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:02.320 That's fine, exactly. 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.520 Yeah, there's a bunch of stuff you shouldn't call nine 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:10.200 one one for, which we'll talk about. Sure, but one thing, 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:13.640 like I'm familiar with nine one one. I remember growing 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:15.840 up as a child in the eighties, and I was like, 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.400 I remember hearing about this new system that was coming 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.320 around when I was growing up in Toledo. Yeah, and 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.320 I was like, that doesn't make any sense because nine 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.200 one one, it turns I has been around at least 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.120 since nineteen sixty eight in the US. 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:30.960 It's been around way longer than parts in the US. 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:34.600 In UK, Yeah, true, but I like to think of 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:36.560 Toledo as kind of a happening spot. 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:38.680 Sure, Toledo didn't get a. 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:42.359 Fully functional nine to one one system until nineteen eighty nine. 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:46.840 Did you look it up? Yeah, so you guys resorted 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.960 to the previous method, which was run down the street 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.359 screaming for neighbors. 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.800 Just swinging a cat by its tail. Yeah, that was 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:55.440 your siren. 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.440 Yeah, I seem to remember. I don't know exactly when 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.560 we got it, but I think I remember it happening 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.000 like because if I if I remember correctly, when I 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.040 was a kid, we had one of those little cards 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:09.600 next to the kitchen phone that had police, fire and 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:11.920 whatever else. So that had to have been pre nine 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:14.959 one one or else we wouldn't have had that dumb thing, right. Yeah, 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:16.360 that would just confuse the children. 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.720 Right, call these numbers first, right, and if they don't answer, 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:20.880 called nine one one, Yeah. 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:22.440 Then do the super easy thing that will rout it 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:23.680 to the correct person. Child. 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.440 Your parents have just taken out a substantial life insurance 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:28.280 policy on you. 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:29.440 Yeah. 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.960 For uh, that's a long that's a long game, right, 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:35.880 there is so chuck as new as nine one one is, 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:40.160 even though it seems old, right, especially for younger listeners, 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.040 I would guess that it seems pretty. 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:43.960 They probably think it's been around since you know. 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.840 Of course some buggy days. Yeah, since rotary phone days. 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:48.160 Yeah right, So. 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.680 As as as old as it is or as new 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.120 as it is, it's gotten pretty. 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:58.760 Uh robust, very robust. Yeah. 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:02.160 Every year. Are some stats that our buddy Dave Ruse 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:05.760 helped us compile two hundred and forty million calls in 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:09.120 the US. That is six hundred and fifty thousand calls 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:09.520 a day. 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:15.600 Yeah, that's like nine hundred thousand calls a minute. No, 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.120 are you sure? I just did that. Back of the 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.560 arm made the double takes that I noted. 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.599 And another important thing here is that eighty percent of 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.760 calls these days are from your wireless phone. That's a 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:30.520 big deal, it is, which we'll get to, but that 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:31.200 changed things. 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:31.479 Yeah. 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:33.960 The big spoiler is is that the nine to one 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:37.679 win system that we currently use in the United States 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:42.560 is hopelessly antiquated, and they're working on improving it. And 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:45.400 nothing that we should say about how antiquated it is 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:47.440 should keep you from calling nine one one. It still 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:51.320 generally works, but it's having trouble or it's had trouble 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:57.480 traditionally keeping pace with the massive sweeping changes in telecommunications. Yeah, 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:00.000 has gone on in the last couple days. 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:02.919 Yeah, because telecom is always trying to move forward, and 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.359 they don't think like, oh, but maybe we should slid 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:06.599 the pace for nine to one one. 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:07.159 Right, exactly. 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.480 No, And plus I mean nine one one is we'll 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:13.120 see those systems are built alongside the other system, so 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:14.920 when the other system leads forward, they have to go 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:18.680 through and rebuild this system. 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:20.640 That's just for nine to one one, because you can't 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.120 get rid of an old system because people, well we'll get. 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.160 To that stuff. We'll get to that. Let's not spoil it. 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:29.200 But we were laughing earlier about things that you should 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.720 and should not call for. Some of these are debatable, 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.760 I think, oh yeah, I think so it says who 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.520 says me, Okay, we'll get to the last one really 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.320 is the only one that's debatable. But obviously, if there's 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.680 a fire or smoke that you think is a. 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.000 Fire, where there's smoke, there's fire. 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.800 Medical emergency and you can't you know, obviously get an 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:52.600 ambulance or get in a get in your car and 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:54.960 run someone of the emergency room if you can. If 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:56.960 it's quicker and you can do those safely. 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:58.120 It's quicker and cheaper. 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.920 Oh well, sure, the gas maybe a couple of tolls, 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.560 who knows, compared to like an ambulance ride. 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.400 No, that's a that's a good point. But I mean 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:11.520 imagine if your home just loaded and your kid gets hurt, right, 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.200 you should probably call nine one one, Yeah, call nine one. 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:18.480 Car accidents, of course, if they are major enough and 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.560 like have injuries, yeah, call nine one one. 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.160 You should be able to tell, like if somebody's like, oh, 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:25.720 that kind of hurt my neck, you don't have to 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:26.560 call nine one one. 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:28.120 You could call Here's the other thing. 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.200 If we're saying don't call nine one one, that doesn't 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.360 mean like don't alert anybody, right, But there are there's 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:35.920 a your police have their own phone number, Your local 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:37.680 police have their own phone numbers. They do look it 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.279 up and call that the non emergency number. 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:44.039 Right, And then obviously the last category is some sort 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:47.680 of crime being committed, violence being committed. 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.000 Sure, call nine one one. Yeah. 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:54.640 So that's like no one's gonna argue with that, I think, so, okay, 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.920 there are plenty of instances where you shouldn't call nine 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:01.080 one one, and yet people rely. I oblique called nine 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:02.760 one for stuff like this, And I. 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.600 Think that's because it's been drilled into everyone's head. It's 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:07.680 kind of a double edged sword. You can't drill that 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.640 into everyone's head. One nine one. All you gotta do 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:13.160 is call nine one one and then not expect to 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:15.520 get some cat stuck in the tree calls. 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:17.760 You keep going back to that, Well. 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:19.600 We actually had did that when I was a kid. 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:21.080 Did you called nine one one for that? 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.360 Well, you know the funny story. It's not very funny 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.040 to my dad, but we had a cat stuck in 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.960 a tree. My dad went up and he got stuck 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:30.160 in the tree and. 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.520 He just climbed up too high. Yeah, and he got 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:34.560 freaked out. I think, so that's right. 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:36.960 I mean I was a kid, so you know they 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:40.920 weren't saying, your father's very afraid and has screwed up, right, 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:42.960 I was just a kid kind of like, well, now 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.600 dad's up there, and now there's firemen here helping my 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:46.840 dad out of a tree. 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.200 Cats and dads get stuck in tree. 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:52.600 Yeah, and looking back. I think that's totally probably what happened. Sure, 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:54.520 he got way up there, it's freaked out. 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:56.920 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's cute. I have to ask him 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:57.600 about that one day. 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:00.800 Okay, so your dad stuck in a tree, I would say, 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.360 that's call nine one One's a choice. Cat's stuck in 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.280 a tree. Now, unless you live in Pleasantville, don't call 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:07.240 nine one one for that. 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:08.080 Yeah, that's true. 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:12.320 If you have a question about the speeding ticket you 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.720 got the other day, that's not a call that you 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:16.160 would place through nine one one. 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.560 Again, you can just call. There's even a number on 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:19.680 the back of the ticket. 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:24.200 Don't be dumb. Okay, hey, bring that back just for 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:25.960 that second. Okay, what else, chuck? 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:30.640 Oh, of course, anything dealing with your animals, unless well, 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.320 I'm not even gonna say that. I was gonna say, 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.160 if there's an animal attacking someone, yeah, you would call 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.280 call nine one one for that. Come out and shoot 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:38.720 this dog. 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.920 Basically it could be rabid. It's terrible call hect hate out. 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:47.920 But otherwise, if the cat in the tree, lost, animals, 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:53.120 injured animals, noisy neighbors, I love that day. Puts power 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.960 outage in here and in parentheses, call your power company. 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:56.320 Right. 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.440 It's that last one I think is a little It 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:02.400 kind of opens a can of worms, and that is 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:09.360 the suspicious person thing, because you know, they say to 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:14.680 call for suspicious activity, which theoretically is a suspicious person. 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.640 I think the distinction is in what we see and 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:22.240 we'll get into this later racial biases. You know, people 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:26.640 in neighborhoods calling the cops on someone because they're black 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:30.600 and walking down my street, which happens, That is not 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:36.080 a suspicious person even, I mean if there's nothing going on, 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.040 I know, people try to justify it. But then local 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.400 police say, you know, hey, always call us if you 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.040 think something might be going on. And that's where it 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:48.720 gets dodgy, because that comes down to a human being's perception. 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:51.079 So it can be very tilted. 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.000 As Dave puts it, he put it a couple of 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.160 ways that I thought were pretty smart. He said, people 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.559 aren't suspicious. Behavior is suspicious. 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.600 Yeah, and they say specifically to call nine one for 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:06.280 suspicious activities. But again, these are people, so it's just 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.080 such a weird fine line you're walking there. 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:12.200 The other little litmus tests that I've seen is stop 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:15.400 just for a second because of this suspicious behavior. You 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.560 see somebody like breaking into a car, like assaulting somebody, 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:20.360 that's beyond suspicious. 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.240 That's like the act, that's the act, it's a crime 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:23.880 being committed. 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.440 So you have a second when you see a suspicious 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.600 person to stop and think, like would I call nine 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.000 on one if this person were white? Right, if you're 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:34.079 a black person doing this, say would I call NIME 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:34.760 one with this person? 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:35.200 We're black? 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:37.840 And if the answers no, then maybe you shouldn't call. 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:39.720 Maybe they're not acting that suspiciously. 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:44.000 Yeah, it's just interesting. On these Facebook neighborhood pages, it's 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:48.040 kind of evenly divided between people saying don't call nine 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.320 one one for this, this is just a guy going 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:54.320 door to door perhaps other people saying, no, you know what, 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.040 if it's nine forty five or ten o'clock at night 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:00.120 and someone's knocking on your door in our neighborhood. 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.320 It seems like suspicious. Maybe you should call. 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:03.600 The cops and let them work it out. And for 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.520 the cops, they say, you know, call us. That doesn't 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.560 mean we're going to dispatch eight cars to your home, 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.520 but we might work you through the situation and it's 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.079 all going to be fine. Yes, But this is the 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:16.760 only one where I thought was a little bit like, 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.040 you shouldn't just say, like, don't call nine one one 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:21.480 when you see a suspicious person. 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:26.120 No, you certainly shouldn't say that. At the same time that, 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.120 I think one of the big hesitations for calling nine 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:33.000 one one these days is like the either the increase 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.640 or the increase in reporting of people innocent people who 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.080 had nine one one called on them being killed by 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:44.480 the cops exactly that, and that death would not have happened. 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:49.160 Their death wouldn't have happened had the person been suspicious 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.240 of them and called nine one one. And the fact, 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.000 you know, when when news of something like that gets out, 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.040 it will make you second guess that kind of thing, 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:00.360 like you're for sure you're It makes you realize you're 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:04.440 bringing like people who are armed and jumpy out to 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:08.760 a situation where it's just somebody walking around or wherever. 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.599 And when you look at it from that respect, it 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:13.600 can make you second guess the whole thing. 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.480 Yeah, and things can look it can look like potential 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.640 malfeasance that's not you know, like a lot of people 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:21.880 you see a lot of people saying, well, I think 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:25.800 someone's kising my house because a car pulled it into 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:27.440 my driveway and sat there for two minutes. 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.120 They asked me if I want to know more about 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.360 Sierra Corus. 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:33.720 Or someone stopped and was taking pictures of my house, 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.720 Like you never know, somebody might be taking picture of 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.679 the oak tree that they're trying to learn about, or 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.480 just looking up something on their phone and standing in 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:44.440 the direction of your house. 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:46.600 Right, nine times out of ten, they're trying to figure 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:48.560 out more about the oak tree near your house. 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:52.959 Oh, I'm trying to give people the benefit of the doubt, 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:53.120 you know. 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:55.000 No, I'm with you anyway. 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.559 It's just that's where it gets a little dodgy, for sure, 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:01.560 and what we'll have statistics that the thick later on 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.480 about actual racial bias because it's real. 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.960 Sure, Okay, moving on. You want to take a little 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:09.680 break after that? It seems like a good spot. 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:10.720 Oh I think I do. 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:15.480 Okay, Well, everybody, we're taking a rare Josh break and 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:16.280 we'll be right back. 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.800 Okay, we're back. That Josh break was invigorating. 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:36.480 I wasn't doing anything. I was just taking a picture 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:37.719 of oak tree. When you get off my. 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:41.360 Back, Oh my gosh, what kind. 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:41.800 Of oak is that? 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:42.200 Sir? 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:46.280 There's only one kind of oak. I know there's a 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.160 bunch of different oaks. Everyone in Ireland is like, no, 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:50.400 that's not true. 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:56.959 While we're mentioning calling nine one one though you can 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.240 get arrested. It is a crime to prank call nine 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:00.080 one one. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:00.800 You don't want to do that. 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:02.559 Or to swat. It's called swatting. 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:04.920 That's a bit I think that deserves its own podcast. 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.920 Maybe because there was some some guy got killed right 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:09.920 from a swating incident. 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:11.640 Yeah, I think it's happened more than once. 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:13.360 Yeah, that's serious stuff. 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:14.959 If you don't know it's swatting is we'll just give 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:18.040 you the four to one one on this abuse of 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:19.000 nine one one. 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:21.440 Man, I love myself. Somethings great. 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:28.240 So swatting is where you are a hacker, right, and 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.000 you can disguise the number that you're coming you're calling 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.920 from to make it look like you're calling from a 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:37.560 house that you want the cops to go to, and 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:39.760 you basically say like I'm in this house and I'm 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.320 holding hostages and what are you going to do about it? 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:43.040 Johnny law? 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:46.360 And the law comes out and usually swat that I 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.280 shouldn't say. Usually in some cases the swat team will 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.360 actually enter this house where people who have no idea 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:55.800 what's going on are and maybe that the people who 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:59.560 have been swatted, you know, said something mean to to 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.400 the guy who you know, called the swat team out 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.160 on them. But it's basically it's not like saying like 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:09.000 there's a I think there's a hostage situation in this house. 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.200 It's I'm the guy holding the hostages. 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:12.880 And here's where I am mean. 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:16.960 Like in swat teams stick right exactly, the swat team's like, 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:18.320 we're gonna go kill that guy. 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.480 I'll bet you would never in a million years bring 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:21.680 your swat team out. 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.960 And whatever you do, don't come in guns blazing, right, 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:28.480 which we're joking about something that's really happened. 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.000 Sure, So, like I really think we need to talk 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:32.400 at least a short side, I think. 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:33.880 So we'll look into it a little. First. 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.760 We'll do one on swatting and one on docksing. Okay, 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:39.480 two weird new things that people do now. 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:44.000 Right, but but swatting is definitely a crime. Yes, okay, 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.760 Also so that you don't make nine on one feel 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:49.360 like I think this is great. This is almost like 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:51.800 a public service announcement that we're in the midst of Yeah, 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.800 we do these so you you don't get in trouble 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:56.800 with the nine on one, so they don't think that 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.320 you're pranking them. 0:15:58.520 --> 0:15:59.040 When you're not. 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.040 If you ever called nine one one accidentally, or say 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.520 your kid does, or whatever, you do not want to 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:06.320 hang up the phone. 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.440 Yeah I did that a few years ago. I feel 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.400 like I accidentally called nine one one because I think 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:17.080 cell phones have a feature that it enacted like an 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.800 automatic call by accident, right, And I saw it and 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:22.280 I went, oh crap, and I hung up, right and 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:23.960 I got a call back, like in a second. 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.720 That's great. Ideally you should. Yeah, Umy has a great 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:31.040 story from when she was a kid. She got scared. Uh, 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:34.760 I can't remember something about her grandmother who was perfectly fine, 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:38.840 but she called nine one one and got scared with 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:40.880 nine one one answered and hung up, and they kept 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:42.480 calling back and she kept hanging up. 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:43.160 That's very cute. 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.920 They came out to the house a little welfare checking. Yeah, basically, 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:49.920 but you don't want to do that. Don't follow the 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.760 UMI model no of nine on one, Like just stay 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:54.400 on the phone and be like, I'm really sorry, this 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:58.200 is an accidental call, and I'm definitely not the bad 0:16:58.280 --> 0:16:59.880 guy pretending. 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.440 That this is an accidental call. Make sure you say 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:01.840 that too. 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:05.040 My name is Timmy, I'm five. It's all good. 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.040 My name is little boy with brown hair. 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:12.920 So I think the history is fairly interesting because England 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:17.840 started nine not nine one one, but their version, which 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:21.320 is nine nine nine, way back in nineteen thirty seven 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:21.920 in London. 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:22.800 I didn't know this. 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:24.919 I didn't know it either, but they they were the 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:29.240 first city in the world that created the three digit model. Apparently, 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:32.200 as the story goes, there was a fire in downtown 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.560 London and people tried to get through the fire department 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:38.479 and they were put on hold and switched around, and 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:41.560 so they said the town crier came out and said 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:43.200 nine nine nine is the answer. 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:47.320 Yeah, which so nine nine nine it's easy to remember. Sure, 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:50.440 I guess no one else was using nine nine nine 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:52.480 at the time. But this is back in the day 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:56.520 of rotary phones, right, Oh yeah, so that that's actually 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:59.240 that was a It was a burden to dial nine 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:00.960 nine nine with the roadary. 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:03.320 Should have been for sure. Yeah. 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:05.960 I just thought that was kind of clumsy of them, 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:08.159 a little bit clumsy of the Brits. 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:11.520 But let me see here. I think it was a 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:15.960 twelve mile radius around London at first after World War 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:20.080 Two and went wider and because you know, Britain liked 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:23.800 to do a little world conquering. You can find nine 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.720 nine to nine in cities all over the world. Yeah, 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:30.800 where London has or where England has left their imprint. 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.439 That's a way to put it, for sure. Yeah. And 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:36.520 the US of course said, well, we're not going to 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:37.880 let the Brits out do us. 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.200 You're going to do brexit. Hold my beer. 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:45.280