1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know 3 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:16,479 Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to 4 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:19,279 Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. With me? Is always this 5 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 1: Charles W. Sober as a judge Bryant? Yeah, yeah, Actually 6 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: when I say sober as a judge, I mean it 7 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: in relation to that one judge from Gwynette County who 8 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: was busted on the news for being drunk in the 9 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:35,840 Speaker 1: middle of the day on the on the not the stand. 10 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: Where would he be what's that called? Uh Chambers? Now 11 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: that's no, No, it was that the It was a 12 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:44,199 Speaker 1: a bar. Oh it'll like, you know, like during the day, 13 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 1: like for lunch, and I remember on the promo for whatever, 14 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: you know, news expose, a local news expose they had. 15 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 1: It was, um, he not only passed the bar, he 16 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 1: stopped and drank at it. I thought you were gonna 17 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: say he was drinking while judging. Well that was the implication, 18 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 1: is that he was doing the morning session out to lunch, 19 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: get drunk, and then going back and doing the afternoon session. Crocked. 20 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 1: The guy thinks it's like nineteen sixty one or something. 21 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:15,840 Speaker 1: I would actually love for my judge to be slightly hammered. 22 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 1: I don't know, man, because you know what, he's a 23 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 1: mean drunk yeah in trouble. Yeah, exactly precisely. Um So 24 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: I guess that's as good as set up as any. Right, Well, 25 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 1: I mean, why don't you want the judge drinking. It's 26 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: not just because you want him to, you know, pass 27 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: a sensible sentence, right, It's also he's got to get 28 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: from the bar back to the courthouse, and on route 29 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: he could take out an entire family. Yeah, and I 30 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: doubt if the judges got his rob on on his bicycle, 31 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 1: although you shouldn't be driving a bicycle really drunk down 32 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: the road either. And plus I don't think they're allowed 33 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: to wear the robes outside of the court. I would 34 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 1: wear mine everywhere. I know you would, Chuck, And you 35 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 1: wear nothing underneath it, right, Chuck. Give us some stats. 36 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: There's some pretty add stats from two thousand eight that 37 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 1: I know you have on hand, Yes, Josh, if you're 38 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: talking about traffic accidents that result in death. In two 39 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 1: thousand and eight, there were um a little more than 40 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 1: thirty seven thousand total deaths by traffic accident, and about 41 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 1: close to fourteen thousand of those were alcohol related. Right, 42 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 1: that's thirty seven percent of all traffic related deaths were 43 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: because of alcohol. Yeah, and it's kind of hovered in 44 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: that range I noticed of the past few years. Um, 45 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: but I went back just for curiosity's sake, and in 46 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 1: of deaths were alcohol related, and there were twice as many. 47 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: There were twenty six thousand alcohol related deaths by you know, 48 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: vehicular means. I wonder though, if it's not just because 49 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 1: of more driving DRAWNK I'm sure that's something to do 50 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: with it. But if that it's because there were fewer 51 00:02:56,880 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: SUVs on the road as well, it's probably that would 52 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: skew the ratio. Probably not as advanced testing more lax. 53 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:05,959 Speaker 1: I think back then you could literally have an open 54 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: beer in the car if you weren't drunk, just drive 55 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 1: holding the beer and you're like, it's my first one, right, 56 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? You just take a couple 57 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: of SIPs while the cop pulls you over. That's a 58 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 1: the days, Well, Chuck, we are not a teetotal or society. 59 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:21,080 Speaker 1: We tried that once, it was called prohibition. It didn't 60 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:26,119 Speaker 1: work very well, right, you know, the mentality behind prohibition 61 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 1: was alcoholics have to have alcohol. The rest of us 62 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 1: who are in alcoholics don't have to have alcohol, so 63 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: we can reasonably give it up for the benefit of 64 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: the alcoholics. Right. It didn't work, So we are you know, 65 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 1: we we know everybody likes to take a drink here there, 66 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: So there is a certain amount of alcohol that you're 67 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: allowed to have. I think in most states it's a 68 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 1: zero point zero eight. I think it's every state now. 69 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 1: But how to test that? Yes, there's a couple of ways. 70 00:03:56,080 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 1: There's a few ways, um, blood urine. But I think 71 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 1: you could make a really excellent case that a police officer, 72 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 1: um removing a sample of blood or collecting the urine 73 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 1: of a driver he suspects as drunk, would you know, 74 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: reasonably violate the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure, 75 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: as well as a couple of human rights. Exactly, you 76 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:23,360 Speaker 1: don't want some cops stabbing you with a hypodermic, right, 77 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: but your breath is expelled without any expectation of privacy, 78 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,160 Speaker 1: which I think is why we have the breathalyzer and 79 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 1: why it's in use. Talk about the breathalyzer truck, which 80 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 1: you could also call the most confounded contraptions ever known 81 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 1: to man. They're way more advanced than I thought they 82 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 1: ever were. I thought there was a little gnome inside 83 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:51,719 Speaker 1: that was like smells like Budweiser and lots of it, 84 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: and then no, yeah, no, it's like some of these, 85 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 1: some of these contraptions, there's um a few we're going 86 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:00,279 Speaker 1: to talk about. There's three main types, but some of 87 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 1: them seem almost um Rube Goldberg ask like total you 88 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 1: would expect at some point there's a candle that that's 89 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 1: going to burn, a stream that drops an anvil, it 90 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 1: hits a catapult that like she's kitten somewhere, like that's 91 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: one of the processes. Yeah. I just want to point 92 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: out too before we move on that the point oh a. 93 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 1: You know, they've done test over the years and they 94 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:25,839 Speaker 1: found that point oh four actually impairs a human being. Yeah, 95 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: the Medical Association says point oh five five. So I 96 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:30,919 Speaker 1: just think I find it odd that that wouldn't be 97 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 1: the limit that they would say you can get a 98 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: little impaired, and that's fine, just go ahead and get 99 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:37,679 Speaker 1: behind the wheel, but just not this level of impaired. 100 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 1: It just seems we should be blink really hard and 101 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:44,279 Speaker 1: frequently while you're driving. I guess that just shows that 102 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: we are not a teetotal society. So they do understand, 103 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:50,039 Speaker 1: like you might have a drink at a bar, having 104 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 1: dinner and then get in your car and go home, 105 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:55,599 Speaker 1: and that's okay. I guess that's what they say. Yeah, 106 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:57,360 Speaker 1: So I mean, at the very least, you can't be 107 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:01,239 Speaker 1: arrested for it, although I understand if it's right around 108 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: point oh eight, it's at the cops discretion. Yeah, And 109 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: whether or not even get a breathalyzer, yeah, because not 110 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 1: all of them have them. And then I think all 111 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: of them do the field sobriety tests first, because the 112 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: breathalyzers sort of a pain to get going, so right, 113 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:17,160 Speaker 1: but I can do the test. I think the presence 114 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 1: the fact that the breathalyzer exists, if you do a 115 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: field sobriety test and arrest the person without giving him 116 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 1: a breathalyzer, I think that that's probably frequently acquitted, is it, 117 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:30,600 Speaker 1: I would think so? Yeah, And I've never been I've 118 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 1: never blown into a breathalyzer, never been even pulled over 119 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: for alcohol. Good buddy, Moving on, so let's talk about 120 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:42,200 Speaker 1: the breathalyzer um from this article written by Craig Freud 121 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:46,359 Speaker 1: and Reach PhD, the only PhD who writes for the 122 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 1: site Your buddy, Right, No, I don't know. Oh, I thought, oh, 123 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:53,359 Speaker 1: that's right, Tom, Tom chif he has a PhD in 124 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 1: School of Hard Knocks. Um. I was surprised to find 125 00:06:56,839 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: out how old these things are. In the nineteen forties, 126 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:04,039 Speaker 1: they were testing the blood alcohol content by the breath. Yeah, 127 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:06,560 Speaker 1: they were called drunk a meters back then. They really were. 128 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:08,720 Speaker 1: And it had some guy with like a crumpled fedora 129 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 1: and like stars popping around his face. They really were, 130 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 1: though they were called drunken meters. And I believe that 131 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 1: they did not have like a nose on there that 132 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: turned more red as you blew into it was like 133 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: you know, if you if you blew three pink elephates, 134 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 1: you're going downtown, buddy. But yeah, that that was when 135 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: they were first used. But the actual breathalyzer trademark breathalyzer 136 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 1: was invented in fifty four by Dr Borkenstein. Yes, from 137 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: the Indiana State Police, right, yeah, And um that was 138 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: another thing. I learned that the Indiana State Police have 139 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 1: doctors on their payroll. Yeah, I guess so, inventor doctors. Yeah. Um. 140 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 1: And the premise of all of the um breath analyzing machines. 141 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: I don't know what that that category would be called. 142 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 1: That sounds right, breath analyzing machine, breath alcohol content, breath 143 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: analyzing machines, a breaking bubble, right, a piping feature. Um. 144 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: They they all work on the same principle, and that's 145 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 1: that alcohol is actually absorbed into um, the lungs, yeah, 146 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 1: and in your blood. Yeah, Like you drink. You take 147 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: a drink of alcohol, and you know, if you're a 148 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 1: reasonable adult and you've been drinking for a little while, 149 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 1: you know that it doesn't like, you don't digest that alcohol, 150 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 1: and it doesn't like change into maple syrup once it 151 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: hits your body. It stays as alcohol in your blood 152 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 1: to be delicious if it changes into communile syrup. Right. 153 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 1: And there's actually a predictable ratio between the blood alcohol content, 154 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:46,720 Speaker 1: which is what screws you up and makes you like 155 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 1: blink really heavy and drive into other cars, and the 156 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: aviolar content, which is what's in your lungs and your breath. Right, 157 00:08:55,920 --> 00:09:00,040 Speaker 1: And it's a one is the ratio. So if you 158 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 1: have um milli leaders of alcohol in your breath. You've 159 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 1: got one milli leader in your blood stream. That's the formula. 160 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 1: That's the basis for all this, right, all breathalyzers or 161 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 1: breath alcohol monitoring machine. So so considered this right there, 162 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:22,960 Speaker 1: just the fact that we're measuring breath, we're actually measuring 163 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: a reflection of the blood alcohol content. Okay, that's that's 164 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 1: step one removed from actuality. Yes, okay, but again remember 165 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:35,960 Speaker 1: the fact that breathalyzers exist um shows a deep and 166 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: continual um commitment by the state to protect human rights, 167 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:44,959 Speaker 1: individual rights, and protect human lives. Right that that too, 168 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 1: of course, Chuck. So let's talk about the first one, 169 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 1: the breathalyzers, the Kleenex, the aspirin, the xerox of the 170 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 1: breath analyzing machines. Uh, Josh, that is the I don't 171 00:09:57,840 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 1: know if it's the most common. I couldn't get any 172 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 1: stats on which you know. I think Atlanta uses the 173 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,439 Speaker 1: infrared one. Actually, do you have like an inn at 174 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 1: the d a's office in Atlanta? You know a lot 175 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 1: about Atlantic that I do. The breathalyzer, Josh uses a 176 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: chemical reaction that basically makes it change color. So what 177 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:21,199 Speaker 1: happens is you you blow into and I'm glad I'm 178 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: explaining this one because this is the only one I 179 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 1: truly understood. I got um the fuel cell one. All right, Well, 180 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: hopefully someone can come in and explain what the infrared 181 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 1: one means. Maybe Matt. Who's guest producing Matt, Matt, are 182 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 1: you still with that band? He says, yes, Blinds and scissors. 183 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:41,319 Speaker 1: Uh so, Josh, the breath the actual breathalyzer. What you 184 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 1: do is you blow into it. There are two glass 185 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:48,440 Speaker 1: vials with a chemical reaction mixture and then a system 186 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 1: of photo cells. Why is that funny? I don't know. Uh. 187 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: So you breathe into the device and it bubbles up, 188 00:10:56,200 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 1: and the bubbles to a mixture of sulfuric acid, tassium dichromate, 189 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 1: silver nitrate, and water. Right, so that you have reddish 190 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:10,680 Speaker 1: orange dichromate. Right, that's key. And when you breathe into 191 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 1: that and it's bubbling it, actually the alcohol in it 192 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:18,079 Speaker 1: converts it to a green chromium ion. Right. Yeah, It 193 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 1: changes the color to green depending on how much alcohol 194 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: you've had. It varies on how much color change takes place. Right. Okay, 195 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 1: so you're with us so far, right, are you seeing? 196 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:34,440 Speaker 1: Like how how difficult this is getting So we've converted 197 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 1: alcohol content to a color, right, Okay, go ahead, Chuck. So, 198 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:41,680 Speaker 1: like I said, the degree of color change is related 199 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 1: to how much alcohol you expel for your breath. So 200 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 1: what happens then, is it it goes over to the 201 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 1: photo cell system and there's an electric current that causes 202 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 1: a needle to move up. Okay, So the color remember this, 203 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 1: it's gone from reddish orange, not even red or orange. 204 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,960 Speaker 1: Just to further comp it's a reddish orange that goes 205 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: to green, which is weird. The wavelength is measured to 206 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 1: determine how green that green ion is because Chuck, remember 207 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:14,440 Speaker 1: the butterfly Wings episode. Like like color exists in different wavelengths, 208 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 1: it's how it's differentiated. So there's something measuring the wavelength, right, 209 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 1: and then it's comparing the green to the reddish orange 210 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:26,719 Speaker 1: the original unreacted solution. Yes, And that's what's connected to 211 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 1: the meter. Because the cop doesn't just hold it up 212 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:32,560 Speaker 1: like a pregnancy test, thank god, and say that looks 213 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 1: sort of green to me at least in this like 214 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 1: yellowish green, rather than as he's holding it next to 215 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: your green car, you know. So it's actually hooked up 216 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 1: to a device an electric current moves the needle, and 217 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:49,080 Speaker 1: then the cop then rotates a knob to bring the 218 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 1: needle back to its original zero. Reading is what I 219 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:56,400 Speaker 1: gather and how much he turns that knob. The knob 220 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 1: has the point oh one point oh two, and that 221 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:03,040 Speaker 1: will tell tell him or her, if it's a female cop, 222 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 1: how much alcohol you have in your breath. So if 223 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:08,720 Speaker 1: you see, if you take a breathalyzer and you see 224 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 1: a cop turning a knob and shaking head like wow, 225 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 1: and he keeps turning it and turning it, you're probably 226 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 1: in trouble. You're crocked. You're crocked exactly. So um, the 227 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: blood alcohol content has been converted into a color. The 228 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 1: color is compared to the original unreacted color. That disparity 229 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:28,839 Speaker 1: has turned into an electrical pulse which moves the needle, 230 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:32,079 Speaker 1: and you move the needle back to zero by turning 231 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:36,560 Speaker 1: a knob. In the amount of degree the knob that's 232 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 1: required to get it back to zero is how drunk 233 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:42,960 Speaker 1: you are. And then the basketballs on top of the 234 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,679 Speaker 1: mouse and it's trapped. That's a great recap to by 235 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:48,160 Speaker 1: the way, thank you. That was That was the only 236 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:50,600 Speaker 1: one I really actually understood too. Well. This should be 237 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 1: fun then, because up next Josh is the intoxilizer, and 238 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 1: that's the one that uses infrared spectron spectroscopy. So not 239 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 1: only can you convert um blood alcohol content where your 240 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 1: breath alcohol content into a color, you can shoot infrared 241 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 1: light at it and measure how much is absorbed and 242 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,600 Speaker 1: then figure out how much alcohol is in the blood 243 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 1: using that standard ratio. Right, Yes, And that's possible because 244 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: molecules vibrate constantly, and when you shoot in for a 245 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 1: light into a molecule, it will the vibration will change 246 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 1: and the bonds, the literal chemical bonds will actually change, right, 247 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:38,760 Speaker 1: And we know how much, like say, um, a carbon 248 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 1: to oxygen bond in ethanol alcohol, which is what is 249 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 1: in our bloodstream, right, how much will be absorbed in 250 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 1: how much would be reflected back? Right? Yeah? Okay, so 251 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 1: once again you're dealing with wavelengths, right, yeah, So checking 252 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 1: this one, it's UM. I strongly strongly recommend uh people 253 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 1: who are listening to this podcast go onto the site 254 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 1: afterward and look at the batalizer article because there's some 255 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: really great illustrations that I wouldn't have been able to 256 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 1: get this without looking at these um But this one 257 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:15,240 Speaker 1: looks kind of like a nitrous ox side chamber, but 258 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 1: with two holes in it, right, Um, And then at 259 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: the end there's a Courts lamp. So the Courts lamp 260 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: generates an infrared beam that shoots through the nitrous ox 261 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 1: side chamber. Right, you blow into the top hole and 262 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 1: your breath is in there, and it exhales through the 263 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 1: other hole right onto a spinning wheel. Right. Well, no, 264 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 1: it goes, it goes through the infrared beam, and then 265 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 1: it goes onto this, Yeah, this filter wheel, and each 266 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 1: of the there's different lenses in this filter wheel polarized too. 267 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 1: I guess just let certain colored ions passed through, right, 268 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 1: I know, the the different um I guess the different 269 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 1: infrared beams make it through this color wheel hit a 270 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 1: photo cell, which then interprets these things the wavelengths into 271 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 1: an electrical pulse again, and then that ultimately hits a 272 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 1: microprocessor where the information is translated into the blood alcohol 273 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: content the percentage. Could they make it any more difficult? 274 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 1: They could. I think the breath lizer may be more 275 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: difficult than that one, more complicated. Yeah, this one just 276 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 1: seems like Holy cow, because there's like a filter wheel 277 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:31,359 Speaker 1: and infrared light. Yeah, but I think they're equally complicated. 278 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:33,760 Speaker 1: And that's what they use in Atlanta. This is the 279 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 1: one they use, the intoxicator, the intoxicalizer, the eradicator. The 280 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: intoxicator would be you and I. Did you see the 281 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 1: kids in the hall on the soup recently? No, they 282 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: reunited for the first time. Yeah they did. Ah, they're 283 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 1: back with the show. Yeah, to promote mini series or something. 284 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 1: They don't. I think it's on HBO or so, although 285 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:58,640 Speaker 1: they got nothing on the State. Yeah, you're a big 286 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 1: State fan, aren't you love this guy? You love David Wayne, 287 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 1: I do in came Marino. Those are my boys. So 288 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:08,479 Speaker 1: josh uh, that's pretty much it for the intoxicalizer, right 289 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:12,919 Speaker 1: bing bang boom done. Uh. Now this is the the 290 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 1: Alco Sensor. I love that there's two, the three, and 291 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:19,200 Speaker 1: the four. I guess the one and the two went 292 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:21,640 Speaker 1: the way of the Dodo, right. Yeah, they just said 293 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 1: everybody was drunk all the time, version one and version 294 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 1: two or the drunk a meters of the yea. Then 295 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:31,119 Speaker 1: they changed the name two Alco sensor. And luckily the 296 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 1: Alco sensor UM is perfected now and it uses fuel 297 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 1: cell technology. It's kind of the same thing that they're 298 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 1: talking about for cars, which is crazy. It's pretty much 299 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 1: the exact same thing. You have a positive post and 300 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,479 Speaker 1: a negative post, and then between you have a um 301 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:51,000 Speaker 1: an electro light, which is just basically a thin film, right. Yeah, 302 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 1: that the poster platinum electrodes for all you chemistry nerds 303 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:58,120 Speaker 1: out there, right, so this one has, uh, the the 304 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:03,680 Speaker 1: suspected drunk driver low through a UM the say, the 305 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:09,160 Speaker 1: negative post, that the platinum negative post, and this oxidizes 306 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 1: the alcohol present in the breath, right yes, and that 307 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 1: produces protons, electrons, and something called acetic acid, right So, 308 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 1: but the the acetic acid is actually vinegar, so it's 309 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 1: actually producing vinegar in that weird okay that these things 310 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:27,240 Speaker 1: stink after a few uses. Um. The the really important 311 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:30,359 Speaker 1: part here is that it strips the ethanol, I believe 312 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:35,360 Speaker 1: the hydrogen, specifically of its electrons. Now, electrons have this 313 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:39,680 Speaker 1: thing called electron flow where they naturally gravitate from negative 314 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:42,919 Speaker 1: side a negative post of like a chattery, to the 315 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:46,680 Speaker 1: positive and the electron flow, this movement of electrons is 316 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 1: actually where we get our electricity from. This is exactly 317 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 1: how a fuel cell works. In a in a car 318 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:55,840 Speaker 1: that runs on hydrogen. Um, so you direct these the 319 00:18:55,920 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 1: electro light won't let the electrons go through, Okay, So 320 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:04,919 Speaker 1: these negatively charged electrons are run through a circuit. In 321 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 1: the middle of the circuit, you have, um, this electrical 322 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 1: pulse that's there, this electrical electrical meter that's reading the 323 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 1: pulse the current right as it passes through to the 324 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 1: positive side to rejoin its friends. And however, I guess 325 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 1: the more electrons there are present, the more blood alcohol 326 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 1: there is. So this this meter converts you know, a 327 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 1: high voltage to you know the equivalent B A C. Right, 328 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:33,600 Speaker 1: So the more alcohol is oxidized, basically the great of 329 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:37,000 Speaker 1: the current. And then the microprocessor reads this current and 330 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:41,639 Speaker 1: says being drunk, right or point oh eight? Yeah, this 331 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 1: is actually the simplest one, you think, So, yeah, that's 332 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:51,359 Speaker 1: for my money, buddy. I'm going with the what is 333 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:55,440 Speaker 1: this one called again and toxiclizer because it sounds the coolest. 334 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 1: I'm going with the gnome. That's the simplest one. This 335 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 1: is drink. Um. I got a couple of things here. Um. 336 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:06,919 Speaker 1: Obviously we're not encouraging anyone to drink and drive. Ever, no, 337 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:09,800 Speaker 1: I think that's really important because they do say that 338 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 1: even one drink can impair you. But they do have 339 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:15,840 Speaker 1: some They floated some stats out there about how much 340 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 1: you can supposedly drink and and still not blow a 341 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,280 Speaker 1: d u. I yeah, they say a hundred and eighty 342 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:25,680 Speaker 1: pound man, which show me a hundred and eighty pound man. 343 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:29,360 Speaker 1: Come on, you gotta get above two bills if you're 344 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 1: a dude. Yeah, I think so too. I don't. I 345 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:35,359 Speaker 1: think the trend is going the other way though, jeans 346 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 1: and everything. Well, I'm gonna have a shirt that says 347 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:40,760 Speaker 1: real men way two hundred pounds or more. I'll bet 348 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 1: we'd get one on our Facebook page that we do. 349 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:46,399 Speaker 1: So a hundred and eighty pound dude can supposedly be 350 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: at point eight after four drinks, but they don't give 351 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:53,639 Speaker 1: an amount of time either. Yeah, that if I have 352 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:55,880 Speaker 1: four drinks, and what kind of drinks if I have four? 353 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: So let's say that it's that standard like one shot, 354 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 1: you know, one number of ounces of wine and then 355 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:05,359 Speaker 1: like I think of wine or a twelve ounce of 356 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 1: beer or a shot is supposedly all the same. Dude, 357 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:11,640 Speaker 1: if I have four shots, yeah, I'm I'm definitely impaired. 358 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 1: You don't want me getting behind the wheel of a 359 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,119 Speaker 1: car four shots in an hour, especially exactly. But I 360 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,680 Speaker 1: think this should be I think they say, like the 361 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,200 Speaker 1: cop that I read an interview with from Atlanta said 362 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:24,399 Speaker 1: that he says, if you can stay within one drink 363 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 1: per hour, you're probably gonna be okay, and you shouldn't 364 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:31,199 Speaker 1: sweat it, right. And I've also adopted drinking a glass 365 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 1: of water while drinking a drink. Oh yeah, because it's 366 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:41,119 Speaker 1: it's not necessarily the dilution, although I suspect that that 367 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:45,119 Speaker 1: does have an effect. Um. But number one, you're expelling 368 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 1: alcohol more frequently because you're drinking a lot of water. 369 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 1: What three urine? Yeah, yeah, but that doesn't change your 370 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:54,440 Speaker 1: blood alcohol hold on. And then secondly you're drinking, you're 371 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 1: spreading it out over more time because you're not just 372 00:21:57,119 --> 00:21:59,639 Speaker 1: drinking alcohol the whole time. You drinking alcohol and water. 373 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,720 Speaker 1: So that's say, doubling the amount of time it takes 374 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 1: to finish a drink. So in theory, you could play 375 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,920 Speaker 1: boggle while you drank and as long as it took 376 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: more times. But I wouldn't play boggle. You couldn't thinking 377 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 1: men tavern, they have all those games there you No, 378 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,160 Speaker 1: I'm not plugging them. It's just a boat local bar 379 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:20,200 Speaker 1: that has like board games, so it's fun. Do you 380 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,679 Speaker 1: want to give the address? No, I don't. It's on 381 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 1: College Avenue indicator. Um. But the same cop also verified 382 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 1: what I thought, which is they always do a field 383 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 1: sobriety test first, which is I mean there's different variations 384 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: the count. Your count better do the ABC's backwards. Yeah, 385 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:41,080 Speaker 1: I can't do that right now, dead sober, there's no 386 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:45,639 Speaker 1: way you could. I think you should right now. No, 387 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:50,960 Speaker 1: I've tried it. I know it starts with Z and uh. 388 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 1: Here's another tip too, is you should never ever sing 389 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 1: the alphabet song. If you're pulled over by a cop 390 00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 1: and they asked you to say the alphabet, not a 391 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 1: good move would singing the song like people? I think 392 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 1: it wasn't that judge, but some public figure recently did that. 393 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 1: I think one of the like when I Na Mel 394 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:14,439 Speaker 1: Gibson sang the Alpha that song. Uh, and Josh. Of 395 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,720 Speaker 1: course there are other And like I said, we're not 396 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 1: telling you how to beat an alcohol test. No. I 397 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 1: think the point here is for for this stuff we're 398 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 1: about to talk about. We're talking about the the aviolar 399 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:29,120 Speaker 1: concentration the amount of alcohol concentrated in your breath. It's 400 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 1: not constant. It depends on what phase of the breath 401 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 1: you exhale. Um. And I think people who are um 402 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,400 Speaker 1: a little drunk or drunk and are thinking like this 403 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 1: could use this to their advantage. But at the same time, 404 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:44,880 Speaker 1: cops might use the opposite to their advantage as well. 405 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: And I think it's smart to know, you know, so 406 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 1: you don't get an unnecessary beef against you well, and 407 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 1: it provides it results in an inaccurate reading, and you 408 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 1: want accuracy. Whether it's you trying to influence it or 409 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 1: the cop trying to influence it, they can be influenced. 410 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:06,720 Speaker 1: Like so, hyperventilating, Josh, will lower You're reading. This feels wrong, 411 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:09,480 Speaker 1: it does, but it actually will lower. They've done studies 412 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:13,359 Speaker 1: and if you hyperventilate for twenty seconds, it will actually 413 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:16,639 Speaker 1: decrease the reading by ten. And let's say if you 414 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,040 Speaker 1: ran up a couple of flights of stairs they and 415 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 1: then blow in. They said it will decrease it by 416 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 1: twenty because it's a more shallow breath. And I think 417 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 1: that the breath at the bottom of the lungs is 418 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:30,120 Speaker 1: richer in alcohol content. That's why the cops says, blow 419 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:33,640 Speaker 1: harder and deeper when you're blowing on the breathalyzer, right, 420 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:37,119 Speaker 1: That's that's I I have a problem with anybody trying 421 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:42,480 Speaker 1: to UM, trying to get out of you know, breathalyzer reading. UM. 422 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,479 Speaker 1: But I also have a problem with UM a police 423 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:49,119 Speaker 1: officer trying to jack up in a breathalyzer reading. And 424 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:53,359 Speaker 1: apparently if you if you breathe really deeply, really hard, 425 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,479 Speaker 1: you exhale from the bottom of your lungs, the reading 426 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 1: can be UM one and a half times more with 427 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:03,400 Speaker 1: the actual blood alcohol content is which is significant when 428 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,119 Speaker 1: you're talking about like point oh eight percent or you know, 429 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:10,200 Speaker 1: seven point one percent or something like that. Yeah. Uh. 430 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:13,000 Speaker 1: The only problem with these as far as someone out 431 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 1: there thinking, you know what, I'll just I can hyperventilate 432 00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 1: beat this is you forget that the cop is there 433 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:23,240 Speaker 1: at all times. You can't hyperventilate in front of you. 434 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:25,159 Speaker 1: Do you're gonna get shot in the back. So what 435 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,600 Speaker 1: you're probably gonna end up doing is breathing just like 436 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 1: they say to and you'll be pinched. I think ultimately, though, 437 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 1: all numbers can be tossed out the window. If you're 438 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:37,680 Speaker 1: a driver, you know, if you're impaired, if you shouldn't 439 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 1: be driving. Yeah, don't and um, don't believe any of 440 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,399 Speaker 1: those myths about pennies in your mouth or mints or 441 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,879 Speaker 1: onions or in nothing will affect your blood alcoholic content. 442 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,119 Speaker 1: The MythBusters blew that wide open. Snopes blew it wide open. 443 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,160 Speaker 1: Common sense blows up wide open. And uh, you can 444 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,640 Speaker 1: also I checked into it. You can buy a breathalyzer. 445 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,520 Speaker 1: They have consumer models, right, and they have some that 446 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 1: are hooked up to the ignition of your car. Yeah, 447 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 1: the one lote of you start. Yeah, but apparently you 448 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 1: can get the top rated one is about a hundred 449 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 1: and fifty bucks. So if you're that big of a 450 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: lush that you want to purchase one of these and 451 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 1: carried around, or maybe you're being really responsible. I mean, 452 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,440 Speaker 1: it depends on how you look at it. Yeah, I 453 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 1: finish the sentence. Well, then you can buy one for 454 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:22,639 Speaker 1: a buck fifty, keep in your purse or your or 455 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 1: your pocket, and then before you leave the bar, just 456 00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:26,680 Speaker 1: blow into it and say, you know what, I should 457 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:32,439 Speaker 1: weigh a little while. That's so, that's breathalyzers. And again 458 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:36,680 Speaker 1: we would strongly recommend you go well, we strongly recommend 459 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 1: you don't drink and drive and um. Secondly, we strongly 460 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 1: recommend you go onto how stuff works dot com and 461 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 1: look up breathalyzers. You're gonna find some pretty You're you're 462 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 1: gonna find some illustrations that will make you go, Okay, 463 00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:52,920 Speaker 1: I get it, nitrous ocks side charge, I know it. Right. Then, 464 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,119 Speaker 1: all right, Chuck, what do we have? Do we have 465 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,440 Speaker 1: listener mail? Yeah, well let's do the listener mail chime. 466 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:06,760 Speaker 1: And now let's do a little bit of plugging first. Okay, 467 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 1: plug it south By Southwest. Yes, go to H T 468 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:15,840 Speaker 1: T P colon slash slash panel picker one word dot 469 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 1: s x s W dot com, sign up and you 470 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 1: can vote for us. We're under interactive panels stuff you 471 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,679 Speaker 1: should know. 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Yeah, 492 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:29,760 Speaker 1: Josh wrote a really great long form too part thing 493 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,760 Speaker 1: that's blog post. It really spells out CIVA and everything 494 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:36,160 Speaker 1: you need to know about it, and well, thank you. Um, 495 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:40,720 Speaker 1: I almost forgot chuckers. Um. We have a very robust 496 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,120 Speaker 1: T shirt gallery. Um, not just the winning designs, but 497 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,920 Speaker 1: a lot of the ones that came close not so close, 498 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 1: basically pretty much all of them. I think there's like 499 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,720 Speaker 1: ten fifteen that aren't up there, but there's a bunch 500 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 1: more and it's like looking into the minds of like 501 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: stuff you should know listeners. It's really interesting. There's some 502 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,320 Speaker 1: cool designs on they see him go to um let's 503 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 1: see how stuff works dot com slash t shirt pictures 504 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:12,760 Speaker 1: and it's te hyphened shirt hyphen pictures dot htm and 505 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 1: that will take you to it. Awesome. Yeah, it's a 506 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 1: listener mail. Finally, Okay, Josh, I'm gonna call this love 507 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 1: from Jamaica. Remember how in the in the grow Houses 508 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 1: one when we talked about I thought Jamaica might be 509 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 1: the highest rate of marijuana consumption. Yeah, it turned out 510 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,280 Speaker 1: it was Papua New Guinea. Yeah, and then Africa, all 511 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 1: over Africa. Um. So this is from Shoonnari in Jamaica. 512 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 1: She says. Here in Jamaica, we don't have indoor grow houses, 513 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,480 Speaker 1: but more outside cultivation. People grow it outside in deep, 514 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,640 Speaker 1: overgrown bush country, far away from prying eyes, and also 515 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,160 Speaker 1: in the mountains where people don't venture much. They grow 516 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 1: with them amongst regular crops like bananas and coffee and 517 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,800 Speaker 1: sugar to mask the appearance from the sky. And they're 518 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:58,760 Speaker 1: normally family operations or local, locally based where the whole neighborhood, 519 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,240 Speaker 1: so to speak, we'll keep a watch out for cops, 520 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:03,720 Speaker 1: and the whole neighborhood benefits in some way from the 521 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:07,320 Speaker 1: influx of cash that the marijuana provides plus free weed, 522 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 1: I guess. So. Uh. Sometimes the local law enforcement will 523 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 1: raid these growing operations, but the growers still will set 524 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 1: traps for them that will hamper their willingness to even 525 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:19,240 Speaker 1: go into these areas. So you got like a badger trap, 526 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,280 Speaker 1: and they're like a tiger pit. Yeah, cops like, I 527 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 1: ain't going in there. Yeah, you see one cop fall 528 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:26,600 Speaker 1: into a tiger pit, you're not gonna follow him. Well, 529 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 1: listen to this. One trap I saw on the news 530 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:32,560 Speaker 1: sometime back. Takes the form of hidden water spikes. So 531 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:36,640 Speaker 1: they'll basically make a muddy pond and grow marijuana on 532 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 1: top of this. And in these ponds there are solid 533 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:45,239 Speaker 1: paths and there are also paths with spikes sticking up. 534 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,920 Speaker 1: That's a tiger pit. Oh, is that what it is? Yeah, 535 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,840 Speaker 1: it's a hole with like that. You dig a pit 536 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 1: and then at the bottom there's these sharpened sticks all 537 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,080 Speaker 1: sticking up, so when you fall in, you're in deep, 538 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,360 Speaker 1: deep trouble and my blessing. I thought a tiger pit 539 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 1: was like a pit with a tiger in it. It 540 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 1: may have a tiger in it, but it's in pale 541 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 1: line steaks. I wouldn't last five minutes in the Jamaican 542 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,920 Speaker 1: Jamaica in no way. Uh. In general though, because of 543 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:15,560 Speaker 1: our Rastafarian heritage, where marijuana is part of the religious practice, 544 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:20,440 Speaker 1: marijuana was illegal but decriminalized for domestic use. So as 545 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:22,680 Speaker 1: a result, seeing someone smoking pot in the open is 546 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:26,479 Speaker 1: not strange, but it can land you a fine. So 547 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:30,440 Speaker 1: this comes from Shinari. I think I said SHARONI didn't 548 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 1: I Shari in Jamaica? He said, CHARONI doesn't ring a 549 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:39,160 Speaker 1: bell all right, So thank you Shinari for listening to Yeah, 550 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,080 Speaker 1: uh yeah, I didn't know we had any listeners. And no, 551 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,560 Speaker 1: she's not in Jamaica. That's her home of Jamaica. Now 552 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:48,600 Speaker 1: she lives everything, does she really? Okay? Well, thanks Shinnari. 553 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 1: We appreciate you keeping the home fires burning down there 554 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:55,000 Speaker 1: in Jamaica. 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