1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:04,760 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, This is Chuck Hello, New York. Specifically, I'm 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:08,800 Speaker 1: coming out there next week, next Tuesday, to perform as 3 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: a part of UH, the We Knows Parenting podcast. My 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:16,439 Speaker 1: buddies Beth Newell and Pete McNerney. Pete, He's Peter. What 5 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: am I talking about? Uh? They're performing live We Knows 6 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:23,440 Speaker 1: Parenting for the first time at Little Fields in Brooklyn 7 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 1: on Tuesday night, and I'm gonna be there. I'm coming 8 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: up for this. I'm gonna take the stage with them. 9 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk kids, and it's a good chance to 10 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 1: uh to say hi. Emily is gonna be there to everyone, 11 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 1: So come on out if you are in the New 12 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:41,239 Speaker 1: York area Tuesday. That's this Tuesday at Little Fields in Brooklyn. 13 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:44,560 Speaker 1: Go to We Knows Parenting dot com and buy tickets 14 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: there and UH, I would love to meet you. So 15 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 1: come on out and say hello. Welcome to Stuff You 16 00:00:50,960 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 1: should know, a production of I Heart Radios How Stuff Works. Hey, 17 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, There's Charles w. 18 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:06,559 Speaker 1: Chuck Brian, there's Jerry over there. And this is part 19 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: due the sequel of Hoover Damn. Let's find out what happens. 20 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 1: So I think the last thing I said was they 21 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 1: poured the last bucket of concrete on and the end, 22 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:26,759 Speaker 1: so let's do listener mail. Okay, I'm getting definitely worth 23 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: the two part um. Okay, Chuck. So they poured the 24 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:34,040 Speaker 1: last bucket of concrete, they grouded everything off, and all 25 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: of a sudden, you now have one solid sheet of damn, Hoover, damn, 26 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: and um. At the bottom, it's much much wider than 27 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 1: it is at the top. It's like six plus feet 28 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 1: at the bottom, that's how wide it is. At the 29 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 1: top is forty five, which still feels substantial. And indeed 30 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: it's enough to have a two lane highway going over it, 31 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 1: and for a very long time, for sixty something years, 32 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 1: I've leave that was how you got um from Arizona 33 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 1: to Las Vegas. You had to drive over the Hoover 34 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: dam on top of it, which seems just about as 35 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:13,079 Speaker 1: bone headed as it gets. But I guess they were. 36 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 1: They were They really wanted the gift shop money from 37 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 1: everybody they could get their hands on. Yeah, it was 38 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: kind of cool to have been forced to do that, 39 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:22,360 Speaker 1: because whether you liked it or not, you were gonna 40 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 1: see an amazing thing. Um. But eventually, like you, like 41 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:29,679 Speaker 1: you were hinting at, traffic just picked up and picked 42 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: up and they're like, you know what, this isn't great 43 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 1: to have all these cars um driving over this thing 44 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 1: every day. So let's build a bridge. You know what 45 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: we'll do. Let's build the longest concrete gravity arch bridge 46 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 1: on in North America. Which is appropriate because again, if 47 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 1: you take a gravity arch bridge and lay it on 48 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 1: its side, you've got basically the Hoover Dam right there. Yeah. 49 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:51,639 Speaker 1: So it spans over a thousand feet about a thousand 50 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 1: sixty feet of the Black Canyon, just south of the 51 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 1: old Route, nine feet above the canyon. Have you been 52 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:02,639 Speaker 1: to this bridge? Yeah, it's cool, Like I have driven 53 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 1: over that bridge since I visited the damn itself in 54 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 1: ninety six. And you get a great view from up there, yes, 55 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: you do. You also get to experience the most terror 56 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 1: you can possibly experience on a bridge because the railing 57 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: is like less than five ft tall. There's no big barrier, 58 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:25,799 Speaker 1: there's no nuts, there's no nothing. It's just void right 59 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 1: on the other side. It's so scary. But yes, the 60 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: view is is unparalleled. I don't think you can walk 61 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 1: across it, though, can you Yes, you can, Yes, I 62 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: had no idea. Oh yeah, there's a no, there's a 63 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 1: pedestrian walkway and the railing is less than five ft. 64 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 1: I didn't notice that. Oh yeah, that's that's why you 65 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 1: weren't terrified. You you walk across this thing and it 66 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: is so scary. Oh my gosh, it's scary. But it's 67 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: really really amazing, like the most amazing views of Hoover 68 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: dam Um. Prior to the bridge opening. We're all done 69 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 1: like from about this vantage point by helicopter. Now, any 70 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: smoke can just walk out there, just park and walk 71 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 1: and and see it yourself, and it's pretty amazing. You 72 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: see all sorts of rainbows. We saw a bunch of 73 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: rainbows while we were there, because the water is flowing 74 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 1: out of the damn outlets and um, the sun shining 75 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:19,280 Speaker 1: and there's just rainbows. Like you can't you can't throw 76 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 1: a rock and not hit a rainbow around there. Well, 77 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: Bob mould would end up writing a great song, uh, 78 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 1: after being inspired by a visit. There a rainbow connection. No, 79 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 1: he Bob Moulden remember Sugar sure and Whisker do. Yeah, 80 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,280 Speaker 1: but Sugar was his band in the early nineties. And uh, 81 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: he had a great song called Hoover dam I didn't 82 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:43,279 Speaker 1: not standing on the edge of the Hoover Damn. That's 83 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: such a good bob mole. So March one, believe it 84 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 1: or not, they finished this thing under budget two years 85 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 1: ahead of schedule. Um, yeah, I want to say something 86 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: about that real quick. Remember they called Frank crow the 87 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 1: the guy who was running was the project manager for 88 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 1: the whole thing. Crow. They called him hurry up Crow's right. 89 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:11,599 Speaker 1: So he um made the company eight million dollars. Remember 90 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 1: how they bid the thing out at just twenty four 91 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: grand over cost. By coming in under budget and that early, 92 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: they saved eight million dollars. So he was he was 93 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 1: quite the hero for the corporate overlords, old slow money bags. 94 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 1: Crow right. So finally the moment comes, and I can't 95 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: imagine what this must have been like, but they were 96 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: able to release that Colorado River that had been on hold, 97 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,279 Speaker 1: we'll not on hold, but flowing in a different place 98 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:47,600 Speaker 1: all those years, back into that original route. And all 99 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: of a sudden you have Lake Mead, the Lake Mead Reservoir. 100 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:55,280 Speaker 1: It is um a hundred and ten miles stretching a 101 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 1: hundred and ten miles upstream from the Hoover Dam and 102 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:03,600 Speaker 1: attracts ten million people a year two water, ski and 103 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,799 Speaker 1: sun and boat and do fun things. Yeah. Because again 104 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 1: it was the designated as the nation's first national recreation area, recreation, recreation, recreation. Uh, 105 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 1: it's the biggest reservoir in the world and um, which 106 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: is saying something because there's some gigant or reservoirs out there. Yeah, 107 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 1: this one is one point to four trillion cubic feet. 108 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 1: They so there's so much water in their chuck that 109 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 1: they measure it by acre feet, which is how much 110 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:40,479 Speaker 1: water it takes to flood an acre a square acre 111 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 1: of land. And there's something like twenty eight million acre 112 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 1: feet in in Lake Mead at its capacity. That's a 113 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 1: lot of flooded acres. As a matter of fact, it's 114 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 1: like twenty eight million square flooded acres of water right there. 115 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,440 Speaker 1: That's a lot of water. Yeah, And like me decide 116 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:05,599 Speaker 1: we should probably go over some of them, some of 117 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 1: the stats for Hoover Damn itself, because it's it's done now. 118 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 1: It's the um at the time was the tallest damn 119 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 1: in the world by more than three feet um seven 120 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: six ft from the canyon floor. And now it is 121 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: the second tallest still the second tallest concrete gravity damn 122 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 1: in the United States, behind the Araville Dam in California, 123 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 1: which I don't know if you looked at that, but 124 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: it's no Hoover dam Oh is it schlubby? I mean 125 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: it's fine. Looks like a big giant slipping slide. It's 126 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 1: got this huge ramp. Yeah, it's fun. But again, Bob 127 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: Mule didn't write a song called the Araville Damn. Can 128 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 1: I hear a little snippet of it? If you have 129 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 1: no no, no, no no, just just play the first 130 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: one again and I'll do this. Aura Ville's so good 131 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 1: Today Hoover Dame is still uh second in the country 132 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: in power production and ranks eleventh in the world in 133 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: power production. It's second in the country still for power. Yeah, 134 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 1: for power production. Wow, that's that's that's crazy and the 135 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 1: biggest until nine when the Grand Coulee hydro electric Dam 136 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 1: in the Columbia River in Washington State took it over, right, right, 137 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: But so that there and there's still one and two 138 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 1: I guess then is the thing that's right. But what's craziest, 139 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:35,439 Speaker 1: So the hydro electric power from the Hoover Dam generates 140 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 1: like four billion kilowatt hours annually. Okay, that that must 141 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 1: be like enough to power the entire US. That's actually 142 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 1: not the case at all. Um, it's about I believe 143 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 1: quarter or a five of the annual power consumption of 144 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:59,720 Speaker 1: just Los Angeles County, just Los Angeles. Um, it's about 145 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 1: a of it, but so sure, and it is having 146 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 1: a significant impact. I read that if they stopped producing 147 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 1: electricity at the Hoover Dam, everyone in California and the 148 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 1: Southwest power bills would go up by like a month. 149 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:20,079 Speaker 1: That's pretty substantial. Um, but it's it's still I'm I'm 150 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: I guess I'm saying like I'm surprised it's the number 151 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 1: two guy on the block. Still. Yeah. They the way 152 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 1: they distribute it to is, Um, California gets about almost 153 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 1: fifty of the power. Uh, Nevada, Nevada, they both get, 154 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: and then Arizona gets about close to n Did they 155 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 1: split that yeah, Nevada, Nevada. Yeah, Yeah, but that's only 156 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:49,200 Speaker 1: fifty three or fifty seventy three. That's still not I 157 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 1: wonder where if the rest where the rest goes downstream 158 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 1: the power? Yeah, well no, always so you're talking about 159 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 1: the power of the water. The power. Oh, I don't know, 160 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:04,320 Speaker 1: because I wonder how much of that operates the damn itself. 161 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:07,679 Speaker 1: Can't be that much. I mean, that's a lot left over. 162 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,080 Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Yeah, I'm not really sure. So, um, 163 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 1: regardless of where that that phantom electricity goest Chuck, I 164 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:20,680 Speaker 1: want to talk about another extraordinarily foresightful um part of 165 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 1: this project. Do you remember when they diverted the river 166 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 1: in those four tunnels around the damn project site? What 167 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:32,679 Speaker 1: what are you talking about? Well, let's go back. Well, 168 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 1: we'll go back and replay the entire episode real quick, 169 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: and they'll be in there somewhere. So, so they diverted 170 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 1: the river so they could build the dam, and they 171 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:45,319 Speaker 1: saved those those tunnels. They didn't just like cover them 172 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 1: up and say forget you, we don't need you anymore. 173 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 1: They said, no, no, no, we can actually use you 174 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: in the future. So one on each side is now 175 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:55,920 Speaker 1: called the penn stock. It's a it's they they've been 176 00:10:56,080 --> 00:11:00,439 Speaker 1: um encased in steel and then um narrow rowed from 177 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:03,199 Speaker 1: fifty ft to thirty ft in diameter, which is still 178 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 1: pretty substantial, and they use those to send water from 179 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:13,200 Speaker 1: the lake mead to the power station turbines on either side, 180 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 1: the Nevada side and the Arizona side, and that's where 181 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 1: the hydroelectric power is is generated. So they use the 182 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 1: diversion tunnels to generate the hydroelectric power. Now, yeah, it's 183 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 1: amazing the water falls into these things. Uh go down 184 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:31,719 Speaker 1: about five feet into this power station, which, by the way, 185 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: part of the tour is you get to go down 186 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:38,679 Speaker 1: into the bowels. We miss that, which is kind of neat. Um. Yeah, 187 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 1: you didn't about the word bowels just turned you off, 188 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 1: So that's why did um. So it falls about five 189 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 1: feet into the power station. Uh, it's flowing here at 190 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 1: about two thousand cubic feet between two and three thousand 191 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 1: cubic feet per second, And anyone who knows what hydro 192 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 1: electric power means, all you're doing is using that water 193 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 1: to spin turbine and connect that to a power generator 194 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Arizona, Nevada, and California are 195 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:10,680 Speaker 1: getting juice, right, which is pretty ingenious because if you 196 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:14,760 Speaker 1: think about it, when when that water is flowing from 197 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 1: Lake me down these um these pen stocks to the turbines, 198 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:22,720 Speaker 1: they're not using any pumps or anything like that. It's 199 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 1: all just gravity um sending it over like a six 200 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 1: hundred feet drop and what did you say? It was 201 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 1: like two thousand to three thousand cubic feet per second, 202 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 1: So that chuck is a lot of water. That is 203 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of water, so much so that converted 204 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 1: into big Max per second. You're talking eighty nine thousand, 205 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:48,839 Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty seven big Max per second if 206 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 1: you're moving water to two thousand cubic feet per second. 207 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: And that's actually accurate based on the dimensions of big 208 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: MACA did the calculation. That's how many big Max would 209 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:01,560 Speaker 1: be flying past you in a second if if it 210 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 1: were big Max instead of water they were sending down 211 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:07,400 Speaker 1: there the other stat which staggers me and uh, because 212 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:11,839 Speaker 1: I was thinking, like, there's no way Julia actually figured 213 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 1: out the horse power of this whole thing, and she 214 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 1: did well, she found someone who did, and this thing 215 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:28,960 Speaker 1: can crank out almost three million horsepower combined. I know 216 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 1: that's a lot of horse power, but I'm just trying 217 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:33,560 Speaker 1: to like put it in other terms, like how many 218 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 1: how many trains is that We'll just think about standing uh, 219 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 1: in the middle of a desert and seeing three million 220 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:43,559 Speaker 1: horses charging at you. It's a lot of horsepower. That's 221 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:47,200 Speaker 1: a lot of horses. It is so the way that 222 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:52,079 Speaker 1: the water gets from Lake Mead down to the turbines, 223 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: I mean, it's all very much control. And the way 224 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:55,960 Speaker 1: they control it is if you ever go to the 225 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,440 Speaker 1: Hoover Dam, just on the Lake Mead side of the dam, 226 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:02,439 Speaker 1: there these four towers that rise out of the water, 227 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 1: and those towers have gates that can be opened and 228 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 1: closed to let water in. And those are the gates 229 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:11,440 Speaker 1: that let the water and that send it to the 230 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:15,320 Speaker 1: pen socks down in into to power the turbines and 231 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:18,319 Speaker 1: the power stations, apparently to the tune of three million 232 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 1: horse power. It is amazing. Again, all of this if 233 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 1: you step back and just kind of look at it 234 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 1: as a kid, you're like, yeah, put a hole here 235 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 1: to make the water go there, to make the turbine spin. 236 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 1: It's really simple in a lot of ways. But the 237 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 1: amount of ingenuousness it took to actually execute it, that's 238 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 1: where the chef's kiss lines. All right, let's take a 239 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 1: break here and uh, we're gonna come back and talk 240 00:14:44,680 --> 00:15:18,800 Speaker 1: about uh spill ways right after this. Alright, chuck. So 241 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:23,880 Speaker 1: they used two of the four diversion tunnels to feed 242 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 1: the turbines to generate hydroelectric power that leaves to other ones. 243 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 1: And I know they didn't just forget about those what 244 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 1: are they using those four? And this is sort of 245 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 1: the final component here, because what they had to do was, Um, 246 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 1: I mean, when this thing is working great, which it 247 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 1: almost always has, we'll get to that in a second. Um, 248 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:47,640 Speaker 1: everything's awesome. People are getting power, people are waterskiing on 249 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 1: Lake Mead. Um, people are getting water, Crops are getting water, 250 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 1: cows are drinking water. Everybody's happy. But they did have 251 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 1: to think about the fact that the Colorado River used 252 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 1: to be quite a bear and may get angry again 253 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 1: one day, or this thing may fail one day. So 254 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 1: we need to think about what happens if something does 255 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 1: go wrong, whether it's a flood or the system breaks 256 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 1: down or something. So they thought ahead and they they 257 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 1: set up what we're called spill ways. They can actually 258 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:21,400 Speaker 1: divert once again, all that water into those two outer tunnels, 259 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: uh that are now referred to as spill ways. But 260 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 1: this is downstream, right right, so not the upstream tunnels 261 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 1: that are being used UH for the flibbertyg of its. 262 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 1: Have you ever seen a fish ladder? Surely you have, Yeah, 263 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 1: we've I think we've even talked about them on something before. Yeah. 264 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 1: That's basically like an upstream spill way. Yeah, okay, So 265 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 1: this is the opposite that's sending it down, and it's 266 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 1: it's it's the exact same principle and almost the exact 267 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 1: same design as that little overflow hole that you have 268 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: in your sink. So like you you can't flood your 269 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: bathroom because eventually, if that water or level hits that hole, 270 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,080 Speaker 1: it's just going to go into the hole and down 271 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 1: the drain. Anyway, this is the exact same thing. So 272 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:12,639 Speaker 1: they utilize those remaining two um diversion tunnels as the spillways, 273 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: and they didn't lower them at all. Remember they reduced 274 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 1: the other ones to like thirty ft from fifty ft. 275 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 1: These are still fifty ft spill ways lined with like 276 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 1: three ft of concrete. But they follow very similar trajectories 277 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:27,480 Speaker 1: where you know, the water hits a certain level on 278 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:30,360 Speaker 1: like a flood or whatever, and it goes through these 279 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:33,680 Speaker 1: spill ways and then it drops several hundred feet I 280 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 1: think six hundred feet, which is a lot for a 281 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:38,919 Speaker 1: lot of water to drop. It starts to pick up 282 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:42,680 Speaker 1: a pretty pretty high velocity, and then it it all 283 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 1: spills out of these gates a little further downstream beyond 284 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:51,120 Speaker 1: the hydroelectric plants, and everybody's saved and happy and nothing. No, 285 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:54,439 Speaker 1: no waters ever meant to go over the top of 286 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:57,479 Speaker 1: the Hoover Dam. If that ever happened, that would be 287 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 1: colossally bad. It's never designed to do that. Um, it 288 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 1: probably never will do that. Even if humans suddenly just 289 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:10,159 Speaker 1: vanish overnight, the spillways would probably still work. But um, 290 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 1: that's what it's designed for. Is designed to just get 291 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 1: rid of that water and reroute it, basically like they 292 00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:18,919 Speaker 1: rerouted the Colorado River, but this time they're rerouting it 293 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:21,399 Speaker 1: around the power stations which would be swamped with that 294 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 1: much water. Yeah, and they don't let it's it's not 295 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 1: like they were like, all right, if this gets within 296 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:28,840 Speaker 1: like three or four feet, we're gonna take action. If 297 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 1: it gets to within they said it at twenty seven feet. 298 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:34,840 Speaker 1: So if the water rises for any reason to within 299 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 1: that twenty seven feet to the top of where those 300 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:42,359 Speaker 1: cards are driving, the spillway gates open up, uh, and 301 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:46,159 Speaker 1: it diverts that water and the dam uh is not 302 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 1: able to breach, which like you said, would be catastrophic. 303 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:52,360 Speaker 1: It let's out a big huray uh. And the good 304 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 1: news is the system, that outlet system has never failed 305 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 1: uh and it's only had to be used twice once 306 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 1: for the test in one and then in nineteen eighty three. 307 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:07,560 Speaker 1: It was actually a flood that got within that caused 308 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 1: that river to go up within twenty seven feet and 309 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 1: they opened up that spillway, which I imagine there was 310 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:15,959 Speaker 1: I mean, it was probably kind of scary, but they 311 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:18,880 Speaker 1: were probably some engineers that were pretty excited to get 312 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 1: to use those spillways finally, Yeah, because they I mean, 313 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:23,440 Speaker 1: you would have had to have been an old time 314 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 1: or to have been there for the nineteen forty one 315 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:28,880 Speaker 1: test by the time three came around. So I'm sure 316 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:31,119 Speaker 1: all these people wanted to see this because they they 317 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:33,920 Speaker 1: had never seen it work before, and they also wanted 318 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 1: to know if it did work. And it definitely worked. 319 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 1: I mean it was it wasn't a drill like one. 320 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:41,400 Speaker 1: It was a straight up flood like this is what 321 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 1: it was designed for, and it worked just fine. Yeah. 322 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 1: But both times during the test and during that flood, 323 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:50,640 Speaker 1: those spill ways suffered some some damage. So let's talk 324 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:55,120 Speaker 1: about the um the failures that have happened over the years. Right. 325 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 1: So in those those first few years, when everyone was 326 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,360 Speaker 1: still kind of biting their nails a little bit, there 327 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:03,199 Speaker 1: were there were a couple of problems. Um Air bubbles 328 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:07,760 Speaker 1: formed in these spill ways and seepage, like water started 329 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:10,480 Speaker 1: seeping under the base of the dam, which is not 330 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 1: good at all. No, and those are actually two different things, 331 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:18,680 Speaker 1: so both we'll start with the the um air bubbles, right. 332 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:22,480 Speaker 1: So that's that's called cavitation. And when the spill ways 333 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 1: were used, both in that ninety one test and in 334 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:30,360 Speaker 1: the actual flood, when that water, that huge, huge amounts 335 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:33,840 Speaker 1: of water fell, you know, six hundred feet down to 336 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,879 Speaker 1: the elbow of the spill way that led it the 337 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:40,760 Speaker 1: rest of the way out to the river um when 338 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: it hit, when it impacted. By that time, these things 339 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 1: called cavitations, a little like bubbles of vapor had formed 340 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 1: in the water column. And these things were so strong 341 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:57,000 Speaker 1: that when they collapsed they had enough force that they 342 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:00,879 Speaker 1: could like shatter concrete. So when this the spill test 343 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 1: was done, the spell way test, and then when the 344 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:04,959 Speaker 1: flood was over, and the spell ways were turned off. 345 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,720 Speaker 1: They went and investigated. There were huge chunks of concrete missing. 346 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 1: The water had just sheared it away like it was nothing. 347 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 1: And the cavitation is still not really fully understood. It's 348 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:20,399 Speaker 1: part of like a really um infrequent unusual occurrence like that, 349 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 1: like water typically doesn't flow that fast on Earth over 350 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 1: you know, a man made structure, so it's not like 351 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 1: something we have to worry about. But they figured out 352 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 1: that if you insert aer raiders or air ducts something 353 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: to insert air into that water to kind of lessen 354 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 1: the blow kind of pad or pillow the the impact 355 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 1: of those cavitations collapsing, it can protect concrete. And so 356 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 1: after one they didn't really know what they were doing 357 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:52,399 Speaker 1: after somebody had figured out aeration by that time, and 358 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:54,640 Speaker 1: so they installed them right afterwards. And as far as 359 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:57,159 Speaker 1: I know, they haven't tested it to see if it works, 360 00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 1: but in other places it's been shown to work, so 361 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:02,680 Speaker 1: I think gets a pretty safe bat that if those 362 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 1: overflow spill ways have to be used again, they probably 363 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 1: won't cavitate because of the aeration that was inserted into 364 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 1: the spill ways. Now, yeah, well, I actually saw in 365 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 1: forty one they knew that they could do this with 366 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,200 Speaker 1: air ducks, but the government wouldn't pony up for the money. 367 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:20,359 Speaker 1: Oh is there right, Yeah, they denied the funds. And 368 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,720 Speaker 1: uh it took until that flood of eighty three when 369 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:25,959 Speaker 1: it happened again, when the government was like, all right, 370 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 1: we'll pay for this stuff. Fine, Hoover's ghost came out 371 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 1: for the don't get involved. It's not the government's job 372 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 1: to pay for broken concrete. So, um, this seepage was 373 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: the other was the other sort of engineering failure, and 374 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 1: we should, you know, we need to point out that 375 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 1: this thing is performed really, really well, Like none of 376 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:51,280 Speaker 1: these failures broke the damn. You know, that's a really 377 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:53,440 Speaker 1: good point, and I think it's definitely worth pointing out. 378 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:57,359 Speaker 1: Like the spill waves those were huge you know where 379 00:22:57,359 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 1: where and tear that that probably shouldn't have happened in 380 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:03,800 Speaker 1: probably won't again. But yeah, the whole system still worked. Yeah. 381 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 1: So if you have a damn like this, Um, the 382 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:11,199 Speaker 1: stability of this whole thing relies on keeping all that 383 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,439 Speaker 1: water out. So any seepage under the base of that 384 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:18,320 Speaker 1: damn is not good. It's gonna cause uplift pressure that's 385 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:23,200 Speaker 1: gonna shift the whole foundation, and this grout uh basically 386 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:26,199 Speaker 1: was was failing. Um, a grout curtain is going to 387 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:29,240 Speaker 1: prevent the seepage. So they were pressure injecting all this 388 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 1: grout into these holes trying to fill cavities, but it, uh, 389 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 1: it was not and they were getting some seepage in there. Well, 390 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:42,960 Speaker 1: they did a really poor job of geological exploration before 391 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 1: they ever started the project. Yeah, that was the main 392 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:49,040 Speaker 1: issue there. So, like the same grout that they they 393 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:52,679 Speaker 1: introduced into those cooling pipes after they were finished building 394 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 1: the actual damn itself, they were they were introducing that 395 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:00,439 Speaker 1: into these holes they drilled to kind of fill those cracks, crevices, faults, 396 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,400 Speaker 1: all this stuff that's in the bedrock. Because normally, when 397 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: the Colorado rivers flowing chuck, it's like it's fine, it's 398 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 1: allowed to keep going and it doesn't try to get 399 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:12,040 Speaker 1: anywhere aside from the river bed. But when it runs 400 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,560 Speaker 1: into the dam, then it's got issues. The water wants 401 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 1: to go somewhere, right, Yeah, that's what water does. It 402 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 1: wants to go somewhere, So it starts to find those 403 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:24,119 Speaker 1: little cracks and crevices and faults, and when it fills 404 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:27,159 Speaker 1: up enough of them, it can actually lift up the dam, 405 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 1: and that's what it was doing, it was lifting up 406 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,320 Speaker 1: the dam. So they went back and drilled more holes 407 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 1: and added even more grout and basically created this barrier. 408 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:39,200 Speaker 1: So you've got the barrier that's the dam, and then 409 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 1: you have the barrier that's this grout reinforced bedrock, you know, 410 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 1: hundreds of feet down into the earth. So now the 411 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 1: water just gives up and does what it's told. Yeah, 412 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 1: I love that they they really went overboard there and 413 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:58,639 Speaker 1: like an additional three feet underground with this grout. But 414 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:03,200 Speaker 1: imagine being like the dam is actually lifting up, it's 415 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,520 Speaker 1: starting to float. That is the exact opposite of what 416 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,440 Speaker 1: you want to go on with your damn. Yeah, for sure, 417 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,879 Speaker 1: because apparently on the on the face of the damn, 418 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 1: the um upstream face, the water pressing up against it 419 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 1: like meat, is over a hundred miles long. It's an 420 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 1: enormous amount of water and it's being held back by 421 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 1: this one slab of concrete. And I guess I think 422 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,480 Speaker 1: Julius said it was like forty five thousand pounds per 423 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,959 Speaker 1: square feet of pressure pressing up against the damn at 424 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 1: all times. So yeah, that that um that's a that's 425 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 1: just Harry if you think about it, especially then if 426 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 1: you start to think about the that amount of that 427 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 1: amount of concrete like being lifted up by the water 428 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,160 Speaker 1: and it's just basically being moved out of the way, 429 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 1: and they had to stop it in time. Alright, folks, 430 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,400 Speaker 1: we're gonna take our last break. We're gonna come back 431 00:25:55,400 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 1: and finish up with part four, Part two of Hoover 432 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 1: Damn right after this. All right, we're gonna bring it 433 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:38,080 Speaker 1: home here with um or or we could keep talking 434 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:42,240 Speaker 1: about it forever, uh, with a little bit on how 435 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:45,359 Speaker 1: um the Hoover Damn just really changed the United States 436 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 1: and especially the Southwest. UM Roosevelt Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the 437 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 1: damn on sept and man insult to injury. Former President 438 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,359 Speaker 1: Herbert Hoover was not even on the guests list to 439 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 1: come from and see that dedication. No, do you mene 440 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 1: like four years after and he was the guy who 441 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 1: was the first champion of the whole thing too, I 442 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 1: mean like it was his project for sure. So uh, 443 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,920 Speaker 1: that area, that region, it really changed everything, um aside 444 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,479 Speaker 1: from Boulder City becoming a real place, which is kind 445 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 1: of neat in Vegas growing. The whole region was allowed 446 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:28,440 Speaker 1: to flourish, um because well one big reason it's because 447 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:34,160 Speaker 1: they tamed that Colorado River. No more flooding, right, Um, 448 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,439 Speaker 1: So no more flooding meant that you could actually have 449 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:42,640 Speaker 1: like a stable agricultural um industry, right yeah the area. 450 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,160 Speaker 1: It says here the region's crops and livestock account for 451 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 1: and of the entire country's production. Yeah, and they grow 452 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,359 Speaker 1: so much like lettuce and cilancho and stuff that that 453 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:57,679 Speaker 1: regions now called America's salad bowl. Um. It's a huge, like, 454 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,880 Speaker 1: it has enormous amounts of production, and it never would 455 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 1: have gotten to that that point had the Hoover damn 456 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 1: not produced like a steady, reliable supply of irrigation and 457 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 1: um done away with flooding. Like there's no more. There 458 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 1: hasn't been a single flood from the Colorado River that's 459 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,960 Speaker 1: affected any of the land in the area since the 460 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 1: Hoover Dam came online. You know, when I lived in 461 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:24,920 Speaker 1: Yuma and I waited tables at Julianna's patio cafe, there 462 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:28,080 Speaker 1: was this this dude, I can't remember his name, but 463 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:29,880 Speaker 1: this one guy that would bring in a bunch of 464 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:34,160 Speaker 1: big money guys uh to eat every now and then, 465 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 1: like six or eight of them for these business dinners. 466 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,360 Speaker 1: And he was a lettuce guy. Oh yeah, okay, And 467 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 1: I just thought it was so funny growing up in 468 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,480 Speaker 1: Atlanta and never you know, thought about it. But he 469 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 1: all he did was grow let us in. If he 470 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,960 Speaker 1: came in with his you know, six or eight buddies, 471 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 1: like you had to shut down and take that table 472 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,560 Speaker 1: only like he expected you to only wait on your 473 00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:00,440 Speaker 1: table right. Well, there's some real lettuce in it for you, 474 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 1: Oh there was. It was he a good tipper because 475 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 1: a lot of times those guys are not well. It 476 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 1: was he always had a party big enough to where 477 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 1: the tip was included. Um. And he would usually give 478 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,040 Speaker 1: you give you a little lettuce on top of that. 479 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 1: That's nice. Literally, here's a piece of romaine for you. 480 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 1: It's good for you, kid, and spank you on the 481 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 1: bottom as you were walking away down. Um. So the 482 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 1: Hoover Dam changed everything, like Uh, places like Tucson, Arizona 483 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,640 Speaker 1: would not even have been allowed to happen. Uh in 484 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,760 Speaker 1: Las Vegas and l A booming like it did, um 485 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 1: thanks to the Hoover Dam. Like you said, no flooding 486 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 1: tons of production and everything is under control. One thing 487 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:46,520 Speaker 1: they did have to worry about, well, we'll talk about 488 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,560 Speaker 1: what they are worrying about now in a minute. But 489 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 1: one thing they did worry about then and then, like 490 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,719 Speaker 1: in World War two and again at nine eleven, was 491 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 1: the fact that it's a terror target because it so 492 00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 1: many places rely on this for water, the irrigation. That 493 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:06,080 Speaker 1: if terrorist organization took out the Hoover Dam especially I 494 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 1: mean to be bad anytime, but especially in World War two, 495 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 1: it would have been catastrophic. Yeah, so I guess nineteen 496 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 1: thirty nine, the Mexican government let the American embassy in 497 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:19,560 Speaker 1: Mexico City know, hey, we just heard that the Germans 498 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 1: are planning on bombing Hoover Dam, and UM America was 499 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 1: like what, And they put up all these new safeguards 500 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 1: and got military police to patrol the area. They installed 501 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:34,040 Speaker 1: floodlights on Lake Mead, they put up a steel net 502 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 1: so you couldn't get anywhere near the um, anywhere near 503 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,000 Speaker 1: the dam on the Lake Mead side because remember, I mean, 504 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 1: people are like boating and recreating on this um. So 505 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,160 Speaker 1: they had to kind of keep people away from the 506 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:48,040 Speaker 1: damn for the first time. And but they still kept 507 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 1: going on. You could still go visit and everything, and 508 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 1: then Pearl Harbor happened. Um, and they were like damns 509 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 1: closed and they closed the damn to the public for 510 00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 1: the duration of the war, I think until like the 511 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 1: end of ninety five they finally opened it to the 512 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,640 Speaker 1: public again. All because of the dirty Nazis. Yeah, man, 513 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,400 Speaker 1: and they um they did. The damn itself actually had 514 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 1: its own police force. Um. The Army of course came 515 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,360 Speaker 1: in there to help out as well. But it was 516 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,280 Speaker 1: a pretty big deal because not only are you disrupting 517 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 1: water and maybe flooding the valley, but the power supply 518 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 1: to southern California. There was a lot of aviation manu 519 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:29,080 Speaker 1: still is a lot of aviation manufacturing in Southern California 520 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,880 Speaker 1: and for and I think that's what the Nazis were 521 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:37,200 Speaker 1: really after, to disrupt the power supply to the aviation industry. Yeah, 522 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,920 Speaker 1: because at the time America wasn't even in World War 523 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,440 Speaker 1: Two yet, but we were helping the British with the 524 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,800 Speaker 1: aviation stuff we were building. So they were trying to 525 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 1: strike at the heart of British capabilities by blowing up 526 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:52,360 Speaker 1: the Hoover Dam. There, unexpected the Nazis want to blow 527 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:54,520 Speaker 1: up the Hoover dam and the US is like, what 528 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 1: did we do? We're not even in this so called 529 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,479 Speaker 1: World war, right, Oh yeah, helping them? It's all right, 530 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 1: I got you. We're still not going to let you 531 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,600 Speaker 1: do it, but now we understand. Uh. And then, of 532 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,880 Speaker 1: course after nine eleven it was, um, there was a 533 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,280 Speaker 1: lot of fear that that could be a potential and 534 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:14,640 Speaker 1: it still limbs as a potential terrorist target. Well that 535 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,479 Speaker 1: was one reason why they built the bridge, the bypass bridge, 536 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,600 Speaker 1: was They're like, you know, this is just too vulnerable 537 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:24,280 Speaker 1: letting people drive over it. And so from what I understand, 538 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:29,680 Speaker 1: either after um the German bomb plot became evident or 539 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:31,640 Speaker 1: after nine eleven, and I think it was after nine 540 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,720 Speaker 1: eleven until that bridge opened up, when you drove over 541 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 1: the Hoover damn you had to wait and it would 542 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,960 Speaker 1: happen and I guess shifts, and you would be escorted 543 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:46,400 Speaker 1: across by the police um in groups of cars, and 544 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:47,960 Speaker 1: then you'd be you'd make your way to the other 545 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,240 Speaker 1: side and they'd be like keep going, don't even look back, 546 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,640 Speaker 1: or we'll arrest you. Um. And then that's how you 547 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:56,640 Speaker 1: got across until they finally opened the bypass, which must 548 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,960 Speaker 1: have been um up, but there are a lot of delays. Yeah, 549 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:05,800 Speaker 1: probably so in that situation. So the current threat, aside 550 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,920 Speaker 1: from that looming terror threat, is the fact that, uh, 551 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:14,040 Speaker 1: there have been about sixteen years of drought in that area, 552 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:20,040 Speaker 1: and uh it's scary. Man. Lake meat is not the same. 553 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,520 Speaker 1: I mean it is what it like a hundred and 554 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:26,720 Speaker 1: fifty feet uh lower than it used to be then 555 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:29,920 Speaker 1: it wasn't two thousand and thirty feet. I mean that's amaze. 556 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,840 Speaker 1: That's a huge, huge drop. Yeah, there's like a bathtub 557 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 1: ring high water mark. Now it's just the discoloration along 558 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:39,720 Speaker 1: the canyon walls where you can see where it used 559 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,520 Speaker 1: to be, and it's really significant. And the problem is 560 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,920 Speaker 1: when they built the dam, they built it so that 561 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:51,120 Speaker 1: the the gates that um allow water down to the 562 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,800 Speaker 1: pen socks to the hydro electric plant they cut off 563 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:58,000 Speaker 1: at a certain height. After that the water is too 564 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:00,600 Speaker 1: low to flow through the gates, and in you have 565 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:04,360 Speaker 1: no hydro electric power. Same thing with the pipes that 566 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:08,319 Speaker 1: pump water out to Las Vegas and Los Angeles and 567 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,880 Speaker 1: Tucson and everywhere else that gets water. Um, they're at 568 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,520 Speaker 1: a certain height too, so once they I think, once 569 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:18,160 Speaker 1: the water level hits like eight ft, there's no more 570 00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,719 Speaker 1: water that can be drawn out. And they actually got 571 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:25,960 Speaker 1: around this by creating a new low level pumping system 572 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:30,680 Speaker 1: to where they came in and went under the under 573 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:34,239 Speaker 1: Lake Mead and tapped into it and now just like 574 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,080 Speaker 1: a bathtub drain at the bottom of a bathtub, there's 575 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,960 Speaker 1: a pumping station so that that now they're not like, Okay, 576 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:44,680 Speaker 1: we have eight water we can't get to to drink 577 00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:46,920 Speaker 1: from any longer. Now they're like, no, we can. We 578 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,440 Speaker 1: can get to all the water we need to for 579 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:53,240 Speaker 1: um for drinking, which is a huge relief. That's a big, 580 00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:55,759 Speaker 1: big deal that they were able to do this. But 581 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,360 Speaker 1: at the same time, everyone's still very much aware that 582 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,239 Speaker 1: they're like, we still have issues, like we're losing water 583 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:06,520 Speaker 1: through evaporation and from um, you know, lower and lower 584 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,879 Speaker 1: snow accumulations up in the Rockies where all this water 585 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,080 Speaker 1: comes from in the first place. Like there's a big 586 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,080 Speaker 1: problem with climate change and it's having an enormous impact 587 00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,640 Speaker 1: on Lake Mead, and because all these areas you know, 588 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:21,400 Speaker 1: depend on it for electricity and water, everybody's really freaked 589 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,799 Speaker 1: out right now, Yeah, so the the current proposition is 590 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:28,759 Speaker 1: the l A Department of Water and Power. Um, they 591 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:32,000 Speaker 1: have something on the table that it's basically like a loop, 592 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,759 Speaker 1: a cycled loop system. They said, why don't we do 593 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:38,080 Speaker 1: a return path for that water. Put a huge pump station, 594 00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:42,360 Speaker 1: solar powered pump station downstream that's gonna then send water 595 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:46,040 Speaker 1: and cycle it back up to the reservoir. And not 596 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,200 Speaker 1: only that, I mean it's a pretty good idea. Um. 597 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,759 Speaker 1: Not only that, it would you could still you know, 598 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:54,440 Speaker 1: you could enable more power generation and also create a 599 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:58,279 Speaker 1: reserve of electricity for peak periods. So then all of 600 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,360 Speaker 1: a sudden, the Hoover Dam is like a big battery 601 00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:06,520 Speaker 1: essentially run by uh, solar power, right, which sounds great. 602 00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:08,839 Speaker 1: It's like, okay, yeah, why why just let all that 603 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:12,640 Speaker 1: water go when you're just generating hydroelectricity from it? You know, 604 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,520 Speaker 1: put it back. But all the people who depend on 605 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:19,400 Speaker 1: that water down stream say, uh, we still need that water. 606 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,879 Speaker 1: You can't pump it back into Lake Mead. We need 607 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:25,239 Speaker 1: that stuff like that's our water. Um. And that's part 608 00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:27,319 Speaker 1: of the problem with it, Chuck, is that there's so 609 00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:32,080 Speaker 1: many people who depend on this, not just from Hoover Dam, 610 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:37,480 Speaker 1: but there's like multiple damns above Hoover Dam too. So 611 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,920 Speaker 1: there's a lot of people drawing water for all sorts 612 00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:44,239 Speaker 1: of different purposes. Um, from the Colorado River. That there's 613 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,560 Speaker 1: just it seems to be too many. There's just too 614 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,520 Speaker 1: many people. There's too many, there's too much need. And 615 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:53,360 Speaker 1: when you toss in climate change, uh and the impact 616 00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,480 Speaker 1: that the sixteen or nineteen your drought is having, it's, um, 617 00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:59,080 Speaker 1: it's it's it's a really precarious position right now that 618 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,680 Speaker 1: they have not figured out. Yeah, pretty scary, man, it 619 00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:06,920 Speaker 1: is scary for sure. I got nothing else that is 620 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,120 Speaker 1: surprising because there is a lot to talk about. I've 621 00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:12,759 Speaker 1: got one more thing. So you said that, um that 622 00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:17,960 Speaker 1: uh FDR dedicated the place in right? Is that what 623 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,799 Speaker 1: I said? I believe that's what you said. Everybody, Yeah, 624 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:26,640 Speaker 1: that's what you said. So. Um. There is a sculptor 625 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:31,279 Speaker 1: named Oscar J. W. Hanton And you know the the 626 00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:35,480 Speaker 1: winged Art Deco giant figures the statues that are there 627 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,400 Speaker 1: on site. So he created those. And did you notice 628 00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,680 Speaker 1: the Toronto floor the apron that's in front of those statues. 629 00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:46,200 Speaker 1: I don't remember. It's okay. So there are these two 630 00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,440 Speaker 1: giant art deco statues. They look kind of like the 631 00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:52,080 Speaker 1: Oscar Award, but with wings and they're seated and um. 632 00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:56,120 Speaker 1: They're there to just basically commemorate this conquering of humanity 633 00:37:56,160 --> 00:38:00,600 Speaker 1: over you know nature. Um. But on the round in 634 00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:04,320 Speaker 1: Toronto is a star map and it shows the exact 635 00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:08,879 Speaker 1: position of the stars in the sky on that day 636 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:13,480 Speaker 1: in when Hoover Dam was dedicated, So that future generations 637 00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:16,160 Speaker 1: to come, even if there's like no more Americans and 638 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,440 Speaker 1: no one speaks English anymore, and this whole area has 639 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,400 Speaker 1: been abandoned, they could come back and find the Hoover 640 00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:24,520 Speaker 1: Dam and the star map and calculate the exact day 641 00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:26,840 Speaker 1: that it was dedicated, just based on the position of 642 00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:31,520 Speaker 1: the stars and this Toronto floor and that neat. That's amazing, 643 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,879 Speaker 1: extra little touch there. Learn that on the self guided tour. 644 00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:39,680 Speaker 1: By the way, yep, if you want to know more 645 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:42,160 Speaker 1: about the Hoover Dam, go go to the Hoover Dam. 646 00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:43,960 Speaker 1: We can talk about it all day long. We could 647 00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,200 Speaker 1: talk about it for two more episodes and it still 648 00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,719 Speaker 1: wouldn't get across what it's like to be there. Uh. 649 00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,839 Speaker 1: And since I said that it's time for listener mail, 650 00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:59,080 Speaker 1: I'm gonna call this. Uh uh, Well, we got something 651 00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:02,040 Speaker 1: wrong in deserts or Rival, which, by the way, we 652 00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,600 Speaker 1: got a lot of kudos that that perhaps maybe our 653 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,719 Speaker 1: funniest episode. That was great. It was a lot of fun. Yeah, 654 00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:11,120 Speaker 1: we're being silly that day. Those are always good. Hey, guys, 655 00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:13,080 Speaker 1: been an ABBOD listener for years. Can't thank you enough 656 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:16,600 Speaker 1: for the countless hours of entertainment. Despite all the great 657 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,520 Speaker 1: topics and education, I've never been tempted to write until today. 658 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:24,080 Speaker 1: During your Desert Survival opening an immediate and hilariously enjoyable 659 00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:27,920 Speaker 1: left turn tangent Chuck, you mentioned your tribute to Annie 660 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:32,800 Speaker 1: with a reference to food Glorious Food. I feel so dumb. 661 00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:36,960 Speaker 1: That song is actually from Oliver, which I know. I 662 00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:40,280 Speaker 1: know that everybody knows. You know that I know Annie 663 00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:43,960 Speaker 1: and I know Oliver. Maybe they were friends. Could I 664 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:49,200 Speaker 1: have school, please, Daddy war books? That's it. That's the 665 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,680 Speaker 1: big line, um, he said. I thought you might get 666 00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:53,560 Speaker 1: a kick out of how I know this to be true. 667 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:55,799 Speaker 1: When I was about eight or nine, my hometown did 668 00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:59,440 Speaker 1: a community production of Oliver and I was cast. What 669 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,040 Speaker 1: part did you play? You may ask, Well, in the 670 00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:05,720 Speaker 1: song food Glorious Food, there's a line that goes food, 671 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:11,480 Speaker 1: glorious food, peas puddings, and save lois. What next is 672 00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:16,640 Speaker 1: the question, rich gentleman, habit boys indigestion. At the singing 673 00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,759 Speaker 1: of Indigestion, my role and shining moment of the performance 674 00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:22,640 Speaker 1: was to lean over while the tuba and the orchestra 675 00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:25,799 Speaker 1: pit let out a deep and juicy note. Yes that's 676 00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:29,400 Speaker 1: right everyone. I was in the credits as the flatulent orphan. 677 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:32,480 Speaker 1: See you get that he bends over in the tuba 678 00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:36,160 Speaker 1: goes uh got it. Needless to say, guys, my life 679 00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,640 Speaker 1: peaked early. I will always be remembered for that song. 680 00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:43,879 Speaker 1: Thanks for all you do. That is Eddie in Denver, Colorado. Eddie, 681 00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,840 Speaker 1: that was a fantastic listener mail, good one, like a 682 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:50,000 Speaker 1: award winning maybe, ye man, I mean, if you're talking 683 00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:53,839 Speaker 1: tuba farts, you've got my heart. Yeah you. Eddie just 684 00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:58,680 Speaker 1: got the Hoover Damn Award for listener Mails, the current 685 00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:02,359 Speaker 1: Hoover Damn Award older. So thanks for that good one. 686 00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:05,160 Speaker 1: If you want to get in touch with us, you 687 00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:08,399 Speaker 1: can go to stuff you Should Know dot com. All 688 00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:10,719 Speaker 1: of our social links are on there, or you can 689 00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:13,320 Speaker 1: just send us an email. Send it off to Stuff 690 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:20,680 Speaker 1: Podcast at i heart radio dot com. 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