1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: This episode is brought to you by square Space. Start 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: building your website today at squarespace dot com and are 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: offered code stuff at check out and you will get 4 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: ten percent off squar Space. Set your website apart. Welcome 5 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:17,239 Speaker 1: to you Stuff you should know from how Stuff Works 6 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh 7 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 1: Clark reporting from the eye of the Tornado, which is 8 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:34,480 Speaker 1: why it's quiet and calm. Oh wait, that's a hurricane. Uh. 9 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 1: And there's Charles that you took Bryant and Jerry's over there, 10 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 1: and the section howdy sir, how are you? I'm good. Um. 11 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:45,520 Speaker 1: I should say right off the bat that my wife 12 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 1: Emily is kind of obsessed with tornadoes from her childhood 13 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 1: growing up in Ohio, which we'll talk about Tornado Alley, 14 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: but some people put parts of Ohio and Tornado Alley. Yeah, 15 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 1: some people do. My family did. Yeh. Was it like 16 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: a thing growing up tornado aware at the end of 17 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 1: tornado Alley, right, I mean you'd see them, so the 18 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: tornado might come knock and then here's what we'll do. Well, yeah, 19 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: and we did it plenty of times. Go down in 20 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: the basement for practice or tornadoes all right, Yeah, sure, no, 21 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: Ohio is definitely at the end of Tornado Alley. I 22 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: know if you look at the map, it doesn't look 23 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:27,759 Speaker 1: like most of it is. Well it depends on what map. Yeah, Um, 24 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: if you look at the Clark family map and apparently 25 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:34,039 Speaker 1: the Seneboguan family map, it's on Tornado Alley. Yeah. So 26 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: she's still obsessed with tornadoes and the movie Twister. Every 27 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:41,400 Speaker 1: time it's on, she'll watch whatever part of it is on. 28 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 1: It's a good one. But I think also you you 29 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: may you could make the argument that Twister kind of 30 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 1: um cinematizes tornadoes. You think you maybe it's a little 31 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 1: although there are some parts where it's like you should 32 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 1: not be telling people to do this, like out running 33 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: a tornado. Yeah, that's a good thing to not do. 34 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 1: As a matter of fact. Well, we saw I watched 35 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 1: there was some video going around the other day of 36 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 1: a lady who survived the tornado that went through. I 37 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: think she was a FedEx driver at a convenience store 38 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: and it's just like this camera footage and she kind 39 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 1: of ducks behind a soda machine and you just see 40 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 1: it go through and just wreck everything. And then she 41 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: walks out and I told Emily, I was like, this 42 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: is your worst nightmare, and she said yes. I said, 43 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 1: but it's also you're your deepest desire. Oh it's like 44 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 1: that for her. Huh. I think so, she said, if 45 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:34,799 Speaker 1: I know I could survive it, I think it might 46 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: be my deepest desire to like get through a tornado 47 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 1: going right over me. So that's herb session runs deep. 48 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: So you've seen that footage of those people under an 49 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 1: overpass for the video, Like the tornado appears to go 50 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:52,360 Speaker 1: right over the overpass the underpass. What's the difference. I 51 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 1: think if you're going over the road below, you're on 52 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 1: the overpass, if you're underneath the overpass underpass, Okay, I think, 53 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: all right, yeah, I'm sure some highways civil engineer, so 54 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: um chuck uh. There are plenty things that Emily should 55 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 1: do and shouldn't do if she's going to survive that 56 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: tornado that she secretly really wants to experience. All right, 57 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:23,920 Speaker 1: And there's a lot of myths associated with tornadoes, Like 58 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 1: I grew up, you didn't grow up with tornadoes. Well, 59 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: I mean Georgia has tornadoes here and there here there, Yeah, 60 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: Like it seems like I've seen them in the in 61 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 1: the North Georgia Mountains before. Like I remember one time 62 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: when I went to go drive to go camping, there 63 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 1: had been a recent tornado and there were some houses 64 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: that were just toothpicks. Yes, as a matter of fact, 65 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: I think there was a bad one in Ringold, you remember, 66 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 1: which is a little north of here Um and you, 67 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 1: me and I were driving through and it was like 68 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: pines that you could see where it crossed the highway 69 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: because there was this a swath of pine trees, like 70 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 1: you said, there has just been crushed like toothpicks on 71 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 1: one side and then on the other side, but then 72 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:04,640 Speaker 1: not further up and not further south. It was pretty neat, 73 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: but it was also like, oh yeah, like a bunch 74 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: of people died here. It is definitely weird when you 75 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 1: see like a house will be splintered in the next 76 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: door neighbors is fine, Yes, it's just so like creepy. 77 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:19,920 Speaker 1: It is very random. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty pretty creepy. 78 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 1: Were you and you me on your way to Dollywood 79 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 1: by any chance? That's it's entirely possible. I just figured 80 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 1: anytime you get in a car and head north, you're 81 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:33,720 Speaker 1: probably going to Dollywood Point or North you me, okay. So, um, 82 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: we're talking tornadoes, and there's tons of myths and legends 83 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 1: associated with them, some of them even um discussed and 84 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 1: put put out there by scientists, as we'll see. But 85 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 1: one of the big ones, it's pretty sad one, is 86 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:53,040 Speaker 1: the idea that tornadoes seek out, um, mobile home parks. 87 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:55,279 Speaker 1: Trailer parks. Yeah, that's sort of the old joke, you 88 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:59,479 Speaker 1: know it is, and uh it's pretty grim joke. But 89 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 1: the weird thing is is it appears to be true 90 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 1: that trailer parks are likelier to be hit by tornadoes 91 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: than immobile homes, homes on foundations, neighborhood subdivisions, that kind 92 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 1: of thing. Well, I think it's probably correct to say 93 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 1: it might appear that way for several reasons. Go ahead, yeah, 94 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 1: well yeah, Well one reason is that, um, there there's 95 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 1: clearly a media bias when it comes to showing tornado 96 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 1: footage because uh, they tend to show the most damage 97 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 1: on the six o'clock news. That is absolutely true. So 98 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 1: mobile home is way more likely to be completely destroyed 99 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 1: than like, ah, a concrete house, let's say. And and 100 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: the reasons why they're pretty obvious, but they're worth mentioning. 101 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 1: And mobile home is made out of much more lightweight 102 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:56,840 Speaker 1: material than UH, immobile home. Is that what you would 103 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 1: call it? I would say, I don't want to call 104 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 1: it a permanent foundation. Nice. And that leads us to 105 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 1: number two. Number two is that a mobile home is 106 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:12,279 Speaker 1: by definition, usually not anchored to the ground through a 107 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:15,840 Speaker 1: foundation like a permanent structure. It's like a home, all right. 108 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 1: And so you put those two things together. When a 109 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 1: tornado comes through UH, it creates horrible devastation, not just 110 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 1: to the mobile homes, but to the people inside. And 111 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 1: you're much more likely to die in a tornado if 112 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 1: you live in a mobile home than in a permanent structure. Yeah. 113 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:35,280 Speaker 1: It says here that a larger building could possibly would 114 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 1: stand up to a hundred miles an hour on UH 115 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: for wind, whereas fifty five could be really devastating in 116 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: a mobile home. Yeah. And so people in mobile homes 117 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 1: in the United States are ten to twenty more ten 118 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: to twenty times likelier to be killed in a tornado 119 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:55,479 Speaker 1: than someone who lives in a permanent foundation home. Yeah. 120 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 1: And I said concrete house earlier, Um, I didn't mean 121 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 1: brick house, I mean eat house. Yeah, because they have 122 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 1: one in my neighborhood like a cinder block house. Yeah, 123 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: it's concrete house, but a brick house to that counts. 124 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: Those concrete houses are built like a brick house. Uh. 125 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: The other thing that we found out is UM Purdue 126 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: University at one point did a little research and found 127 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 1: out that tornadoes, Uh, you're more than likely gonna find 128 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 1: a tornado what they call a transition zone where you 129 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 1: may be transition from a more dense city area to 130 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: a more rural area where the land changes. Yeah, and 131 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: they produced studied tornadoes and Indiana specifically from nineteen fifty 132 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: two twelve and found that they are um much likelier 133 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 1: to touch down in these transition zones. Right, But that 134 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 1: doesn't explain why. They just were able to say, yes, 135 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 1: this happens more frequently, and it just so happens that 136 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 1: these are places where mobile home parks and trailer parks 137 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 1: are likelier to be Yeah. There usually not like in 138 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 1: the middle of the city. So they were saying that 139 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 1: it is actually likely or for a mobile home to 140 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: be hit more by a tornado, possibly because it's right 141 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: there in the spot where they would they would hit. Um. 142 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: But again, we don't know why I have a pet 143 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: theory here, I think that we don't well, it's clear 144 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:23,680 Speaker 1: we don't understand tornadoes yet very well enough, and not 145 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 1: just us scientists too. Um. And I think one of 146 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 1: the things that we're gonna learn about tornadoes as we 147 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 1: understand them more and more is that they're guided or 148 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:37,199 Speaker 1: attracted to static electricity. Mobile homes tend to be made 149 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 1: out of more metal than brick or wood homes or 150 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 1: concrete homes, and so would generate more static electricity, and 151 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:49,319 Speaker 1: um could possibly serve as kind of almost a beacon 152 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: to a tornado that would attract it. That's my guess. 153 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 1: And then, um, do you also remember back in I 154 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:58,679 Speaker 1: don't remember when it wasn't I couldn't find it on 155 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 1: the web, but either in by Anna or k ro 156 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:05,960 Speaker 1: which if you live outside of Georgia it's Vienna or Cairo. Um, 157 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 1: there was a mobile home factory that got hit by 158 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 1: a tornado. I think I do remember that. You remember, 159 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:14,680 Speaker 1: made pretty big news because everybody's like irony and the 160 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: old joke. So that's my pet theory. Static electricity off 161 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 1: of mobile homes attracts tornadoes. Did you come up with 162 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 1: that all all in your lonesome Yeah? Used my nogging 163 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:29,319 Speaker 1: pretty good, thanks man. Uh. Should we move on to 164 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 1: the underpass overpass quandary? Yeah? Um, you will hear. You 165 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: probably have heard, because the the rationale used to be, Hey, 166 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,440 Speaker 1: if you're out on the highway, get out of your 167 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 1: car and run under that overpass or underpass and huddle. 168 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:49,559 Speaker 1: Makes total sense. Or or drive your car under there 169 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 1: and sit there. Yeah, and drive your car under and 170 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 1: then run up to the part where the overpass meets 171 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:57,959 Speaker 1: the underpass and just wedge yourself in as much as 172 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 1: you can. The safest place ever where skateboard or spray 173 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 1: paint exactly. Yeah, and smoke marijuana for the first time. 174 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:11,599 Speaker 1: It's uh, it makes total senses. Are extraordinarily sturdy concrete structures, 175 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:15,560 Speaker 1: and anybody who knows anything about tornadoes knows that you 176 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:19,440 Speaker 1: want to be in a concrete structure. But the caveat 177 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:21,439 Speaker 1: is that you want that thing to be an enclosed 178 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:25,560 Speaker 1: concrete structure, either in some sort of concrete walls with 179 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: a concrete roof or underground or something like that. And 180 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 1: an overpass or underpass is actually a tornado uh frenzy 181 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 1: whipping machine. It actually will do the opposite. It's one 182 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:42,400 Speaker 1: of the worst places you can go. Yeah. It creates 183 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 1: what they call a wind tunnel effect, so that the 184 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 1: wind and the underpass is stronger than the wind on 185 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:50,240 Speaker 1: the ground or above it. Yeah. It funnels the wind 186 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 1: through and increases its velocity, so the wind is actually 187 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 1: faster in the underpass. And with that wind, as you know, 188 00:10:56,559 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 1: comes uh all kinds of debris that will impale your 189 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:04,079 Speaker 1: body without even feeling bad about it. Yeah, it gets 190 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 1: whipped up by that wind tunnel. And then when the 191 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 1: tornado passes, that debris that's in the air is going 192 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 1: to suddenly like shift and come back for a second 193 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:17,200 Speaker 1: glancing blow if you're lucky. Yeah. I was just thinking 194 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 1: when you said to hide all the way up at 195 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 1: the very tip top that if the tornado was going 196 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:26,080 Speaker 1: parallel and like literally was as if it was going 197 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 1: down the highway above you, Uh, that maybe there is 198 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 1: something to that, But tornadoes are so wide, it's not 199 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 1: like it's as wide as that street. Well. Yeah, and 200 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 1: and the this article also makes the point that just 201 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 1: the part of the funnel that touches the ground is 202 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 1: not the only place where there's winds. There's high winds 203 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:46,479 Speaker 1: all around the tornado as well. You just don't necessarily 204 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:48,719 Speaker 1: see them and that video there we talked about the 205 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:51,559 Speaker 1: very famous video of the people taking shelter underneath and 206 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 1: overpass and filming it as the tornado goes by overhead. 207 00:11:56,679 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 1: Apparently they were being subjected to um something called an 208 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 1: inflow jet, uh, surface inflow jet, which was wind whipping 209 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 1: off the ground toward the tornado. So they weren't actually 210 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 1: in the path of the tornado. The tornado is like, yeah, 211 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:16,520 Speaker 1: pretty close, like thirty over and to them they were like, 212 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 1: it was the tornado, but it actually wasn't. Had it 213 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 1: been the tornado, they may not have survived. And they 214 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:25,560 Speaker 1: were actually very lucky to have survived anyway. So um, 215 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 1: but a lot of people point to them and they're like, yeah, 216 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 1: that's exactly what you should do. See And that's a 217 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 1: total anomaly that those people survived. Right, You can't take 218 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 1: one video and say this is the standard. Exactly these 219 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 1: people lived, even though it's amazing. Yeah, although they did 220 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 1: say the um the FedEx driver was super smart for 221 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 1: wedging herself between two soda machines. Oh yeah, although I 222 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 1: could she could have been squashed by those two. Well 223 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 1: it worked out for her. Yeah, let's just say that 224 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:57,959 Speaker 1: There's one other problem with taking shelter under an overpass too, um, 225 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:03,079 Speaker 1: is when you park your car around there, it's gonna 226 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: get kicked up by the tornado and possibly land on 227 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:08,120 Speaker 1: its side in the middle of the road, so that 228 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: when the tornado passes and the paramedics need to get 229 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:15,320 Speaker 1: through there to get to rescue people, they're gonna have 230 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 1: a hard time with your car on its side in 231 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 1: the middle of the road because you left it right 232 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:21,480 Speaker 1: in the path of the tornado. Yeah. Plus there's a 233 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 1: problem with people. Well, we'll we'll get we'll get to 234 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: trying to outrun a tornado here in a minute, all right, 235 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,560 Speaker 1: should we take a break. Let's take a break, man, 236 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 1: all right, Josh. There's another old thing that you've probably 237 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:57,560 Speaker 1: heard growing up in Toledo, which is, uh, if you 238 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:00,440 Speaker 1: see a tornado or you know a tornado's coming, um, 239 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 1: open up your windows so it can just pass on through. 240 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 1: Makes total sense. Yeah, not necessarily passed through. But uh, like, 241 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 1: was it de pressurized the home maybe? Yeah? So um uh, 242 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:17,640 Speaker 1: tornado is driven by low pressure winds, right or a 243 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 1: low pressure front. Um. And the idea was that if 244 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 1: the pressure was higher in your house than the tornado 245 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 1: outside your house would explode. And it was actually this 246 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:30,160 Speaker 1: is what scientists told people to do for many years. 247 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: He said, go open your windows. I remember that. I 248 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 1: don't remember us ever opening our windows, but I remember 249 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 1: it was like I should you shouldn't use kind of thing. Um. 250 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,640 Speaker 1: And the problem is is that ways tear like a 251 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 1: tremendous amount of time windows when you need to be 252 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: taking shelter somewhere. Um. And then secondly, it does absolutely nothing. 253 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, it can. It can have 254 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 1: even different effects than if you left the window closed. Yeah. 255 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 1: I wonder if um that started because they didn't know 256 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: much about it, and they would say, well, that house 257 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 1: looks like it exploded. Um, because they do look like 258 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 1: it they exploded, but they didn't. Have you ever seen 259 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 1: one up close? What the wreckage? Yeah? Well just driving 260 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:14,800 Speaker 1: by it like you know, like a house. Yeah, yeah, 261 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 1: like on the on the road, and then the house 262 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 1: was beside the road. But I didn't like walk through it. 263 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: You was telling me once about when she was a 264 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 1: kid down south, um, that there was a neighborhood that 265 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 1: just got just leveled. And she was actually talking about 266 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:30,240 Speaker 1: how it just insane it is when you're seeing a 267 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 1: house that's standing, but everything around it's like totally destroyed. 268 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 1: But she was like, this is like it was unnerving 269 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 1: just the destruction, like seeing houses like that because you know, 270 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 1: they're supposed to be solid and safe. Yeah, they're not 271 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 1: supposed to look like they exploded or anything like that. 272 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 1: Although if you've ever done house construction and stuff like that, 273 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:52,360 Speaker 1: I remember, I don't know I had this idea I 274 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 1: had that I don't I don't think I knew how 275 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:56,480 Speaker 1: houses were built. And then once I sort of did 276 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 1: a little bit and I was like, oh man, this 277 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: is just there's just a bunch of wood, you know. 278 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 1: So I mean it makes sense, but it is very 279 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 1: distressing to see that turned into toothpicks. Um. So if 280 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 1: you did go to the trouble of opening all of 281 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 1: the windows in your house right and the tornado came 282 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 1: through and it didn't actually level your house, because that's 283 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:21,520 Speaker 1: the other thing with opening the windows. The tornado could 284 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 1: care less about the lower high pressure which is gonna 285 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 1: level your house if it wants to see if it 286 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: gets in the way. Um, But if you if it 287 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: did just pass by enough that it didn't level your 288 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 1: house and the windows are open, it could conceivably blow 289 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: the roof off the sucker because because those windows are open, 290 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 1: apparently the the the tornado actually raises the pressure in 291 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 1: the house upward somehow, and then gusts can lift the 292 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 1: roof right off. And they did this. They figured this 293 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: out by doing tests. And I looked everywhere to find 294 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 1: out who conducted this test and how they did it. 295 00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 1: Couldn't find anything that thing. Maybe I was always just 296 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 1: wondered though, And they were like, we performed tests, right, 297 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:09,159 Speaker 1: trust me. How do you blow the roof off of 298 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 1: a house and a test? Yeah, or simulated tornado? Yeah, 299 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:15,680 Speaker 1: you cut on a smaller scale. But does it does 300 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:19,879 Speaker 1: it graduate upward? I don't know. I'm thinking to me, 301 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:23,040 Speaker 1: I'm off today. No, you're not. I feel off. Oh, 302 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:25,160 Speaker 1: you're right on. I gave blood for the first time 303 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: on Sunday. Oh. I thought you about to say, like 304 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 1: an hour ago, you saw it. That's the first time 305 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 1: you've ever given blood in your life? Really? Yeah, And 306 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:37,680 Speaker 1: you're like, man, I waited way too long. You're gonna 307 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:39,919 Speaker 1: start giving blood too much. Probably you're gonna be like, 308 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:42,440 Speaker 1: take my platelets, take up. I'll be like Peggy Hill, 309 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 1: what happened to her. Oh she got into a blood 310 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:51,720 Speaker 1: donating contest with her next door neighbor min basically to 311 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:54,639 Speaker 1: see who was the most generous. That's pretty funny, and 312 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 1: she really went overboard. Did you eat some nutter butters 313 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 1: and have some juice nutter butters and uh a little 314 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:04,920 Speaker 1: welch is um? Yeah? See. I used to not give 315 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,920 Speaker 1: us blood blood as much because I was severely needle phobic. 316 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 1: But um, needles have gotten so much smaller now. Ay 317 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:16,880 Speaker 1: and um, if you get you know someone who does 318 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 1: how to do it properly, it's really not that bad. 319 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 1: Oh No, it wasn't bad at all. I'm like, I 320 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:24,000 Speaker 1: really am ashamed that I waited this long in my life. 321 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,760 Speaker 1: For years, years, honestly years, I was under the impression 322 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 1: that you couldn't give blood if you had a tattoo. 323 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:34,639 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that old thing. Yeah. And then um, I 324 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 1: met you me and she was like, why why don't 325 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:39,199 Speaker 1: you donate blood? Yeah? She's like, what's your problems? Right? 326 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 1: And I told her and she's like, no, that's not 327 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,240 Speaker 1: true at all. Right, and then and then three or 328 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 1: four years five years later, six years later, I was like, 329 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:49,479 Speaker 1: all right, let's do it. Well, you can make up 330 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:51,480 Speaker 1: for it now. And hey people out there, you might 331 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:54,320 Speaker 1: have some Josh Clark blood pump into your body soon. 332 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:57,960 Speaker 1: How about that? Pretty neat? What were you? I can't 333 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:00,119 Speaker 1: remember your blood type? It was? It was you and 334 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 1: Jerry were the same positive beat. So am I We 335 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 1: have the same type, so a positive. I love that 336 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:09,400 Speaker 1: Jerry speaks especially quietly. Can you make sure you edit 337 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 1: yourself out? Okay? Yeah, because you were both a positive 338 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:14,919 Speaker 1: remember that because you made the joke I had the 339 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:17,199 Speaker 1: same that you're a positive person or something like that. 340 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:19,680 Speaker 1: It's a good way to remember it. Jerry would have 341 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:21,280 Speaker 1: known that we have the same blood type as she 342 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 1: came to our live show. Um, Jerry could get some 343 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:28,639 Speaker 1: Josh blood. Do you know how upsetting that would be 344 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: for you? What if one you had to rely on 345 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:33,600 Speaker 1: the other to live? Yeah, if like Jerry cut herself 346 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 1: and got some blood and it turned out to be mine, 347 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:41,000 Speaker 1: if she cut herself. Uh, should we move to the bathtub, sir? 348 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:46,120 Speaker 1: Let's um the old I'm gonna call it an old 349 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 1: wives tale that go get in the bathtub because that's 350 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:52,360 Speaker 1: a really safe place in your home to withstand the tornado. 351 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:58,400 Speaker 1: Because bathtubs are strong and and thick, and they're not. 352 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 1: Though you were talking about houses being made of like 353 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: wood and drywall, A bathtubs just like a fiber lass 354 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:08,360 Speaker 1: shell around a two by four frame. What's your bathtub 355 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:09,919 Speaker 1: depends on what kind of bathtub you do. If you 356 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 1: have like an old cloth footed iron tub, that's what 357 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 1: I got. I could withstand anything and that thing. Okay, 358 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:16,960 Speaker 1: so most people don't have that. They have and you think, 359 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:18,359 Speaker 1: like you're getting in a bathtub, you're like, oh, this 360 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: thing is pretty sturdy. But really, if you if you 361 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:24,159 Speaker 1: could pick it up, it's just fireglass around two by fours. 362 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,040 Speaker 1: You're like, I've kicked a hole in the five bathtubs. 363 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 1: It's easy. I'm on at least five. Uh. So the 364 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:36,640 Speaker 1: logic is is that it's heavy, uh and sturdy. Um. 365 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,200 Speaker 1: And I think a lot of this logic came out 366 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,360 Speaker 1: from the day when bathtubs were sturdier than they are now. 367 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: I agree with you, But either way, it's not it's 368 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 1: only a good idea if that bathtub happens to be 369 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 1: in a safe part of your home. Precisely right, So, 370 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:53,879 Speaker 1: in a safe party of your home is a room 371 00:20:53,920 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 1: with no exterior facing walls, no exterior facing windows obviously. Um, 372 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 1: if your bathtub is in a bathroom with an exterior 373 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:06,920 Speaker 1: facing wall or exterior facing window, is that superfluouced I 374 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:10,879 Speaker 1: need to say that, Um, just do not get in 375 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 1: your bathtub because that wall in that room is very 376 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 1: likely to be ripped apart by a tornado, even if 377 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 1: the rest of the house isn't. So you want to 378 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:21,719 Speaker 1: go as much into the center of your house as 379 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:25,159 Speaker 1: possible and as windowless a room as possible, say like 380 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:28,520 Speaker 1: a closet inside your house, So surrounded by as many 381 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: rooms as possible. So, if you have a bathtub and 382 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:34,880 Speaker 1: a kill dungeon, go to the kill dungeon you set. Yeah, 383 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:37,400 Speaker 1: if you have a don't have a bathtub in there. 384 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:39,679 Speaker 1: If you have a cloth at tub and the kill dungeon, 385 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 1: then you're you're golden. You could just go ahead and 386 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 1: take a bath, so chuck. Another legend about tornadoes seems 387 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:51,120 Speaker 1: to be that they avoid cities. Yeah, but it's kind 388 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 1: of like the same thing as the mobile home thing. 389 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 1: If my theory is incorrect. Um, where it just seems 390 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 1: that way. The reason why is because there's way more 391 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 1: rural area in the United States than there is city. Yeah, 392 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:10,400 Speaker 1: even though most people live in cities. They're packed in there, 393 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 1: which is why we're all stressed out. That's right, of 394 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 1: the population in the US lives in urban centers. But 395 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:23,440 Speaker 1: it happens Oklahoma City. Um in what year was this 396 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 1: two they had? They had one, one, two, huge, right, 397 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 1: and e F five And that is based on the 398 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 1: Fujita tornado scale. Could have sworn. We did a show 399 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:40,160 Speaker 1: in tornadoes. I specifically remember saying that tornado is formed 400 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:45,159 Speaker 1: because there's this a horizontal columns swirling air that eventually 401 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 1: like moves down and becomes vertical, and that's your tornado. Well, 402 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 1: we did a very in the early days of the 403 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:53,879 Speaker 1: five minute episodes. We did one about being in the 404 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 1: eye of the tornado. You know what it might have been? 405 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:01,360 Speaker 1: Can it really rain frogs maybe? Or did we talk 406 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 1: about water spots separately or was that the same episode 407 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 1: that was the one where you predicted Sharknado, which I 408 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:14,119 Speaker 1: got nothing for. So Oklahoma City in n nine was 409 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:18,960 Speaker 1: an e F five, which is the strongest possible tornado 410 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,399 Speaker 1: on the tornado scale. I was looking into the Fogita scale. 411 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:27,320 Speaker 1: So apparently Theodore Foujita made up the scale like out 412 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 1: a whole cloth basically without doing real investigation into it. 413 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,399 Speaker 1: He just said, I'm teddy Fujita. Yeah, I would I 414 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 1: say with tornado, but he said, like, we'll say, n 415 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:41,119 Speaker 1: F five is like this. But he didn't actually go 416 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:45,320 Speaker 1: out and compare the wind speeds to the level of destruction. 417 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:47,919 Speaker 1: He didn't do that that leg work. Who is he 418 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,440 Speaker 1: and why did we listen to him? Apparently everybody liked 419 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 1: the name of his scale because they went out and 420 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 1: adjusted it. So it's been since adjusted to where it 421 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,639 Speaker 1: now actually reflects reality a lot better thing. But in 422 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:03,479 Speaker 1: F five is as as like you said, it's as 423 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:07,159 Speaker 1: bad as it gets, um, and the it can just 424 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 1: keep getting worse and worse. There's no F six or 425 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,040 Speaker 1: F seven or anything like that. But um, it's like 426 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 1: an F five plus. Even the even the minimum F 427 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 1: five though, is mind boggling in its destruction. So that 428 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:22,399 Speaker 1: went through Oklahoma City in nineteen, which is clearly a 429 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,920 Speaker 1: biggest city, did a billion dollars with a damage and 430 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,879 Speaker 1: killed thirty six people. So that, yeah, that's pretty devastating 431 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 1: for a city. Yeah. And then two thousand thirteen, like 432 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 1: you said, another one hit, Uh, twenty five people were 433 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,480 Speaker 1: killed and that was both in the city and UH 434 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:41,120 Speaker 1: in the suburbs outside the city. But we had one 435 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,960 Speaker 1: in Atlanta in two thousand eight. Yeah, I remember where 436 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 1: I was because it was the day before my birthday. 437 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was yeah, and um, the day before 438 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,639 Speaker 1: the IDEs of March. I was at UH in Kirkwood 439 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,920 Speaker 1: having pizza with Emily and Justin and Emily sister Sarah 440 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,920 Speaker 1: and a. You know, it was like a bad storm clearly, 441 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 1: but Emily said, oh my god, it's raining sideways and 442 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 1: we looked out the window and the rain was blowing sideways. 443 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 1: The wind was blowing so hard, and we were just like, man, 444 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 1: that's crazy, let's get another beer. Um. And I guess 445 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:19,000 Speaker 1: if we were in Kirkwood, Cabbage Town is less than 446 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 1: like three miles away, and that's where it hit, was 447 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: one of the places it hit, and the cotton mill offs, 448 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 1: so like less than a few miles away. Tornadoes were 449 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,200 Speaker 1: wrecking the city and we were just in there drinking 450 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,920 Speaker 1: and eating pizza. And we didn't until the next day 451 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,119 Speaker 1: how many miles away. I mean, it had to be 452 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,160 Speaker 1: what a couple of miles. Yeah, it doesn't It might 453 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:40,480 Speaker 1: have been less than that from there to there. Yeah, 454 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:46,160 Speaker 1: and uh pm to a little research because you kept 455 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 1: drinking and don't remember it. That's right. It was a 456 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,320 Speaker 1: super cell moved in the heart of downtown Atlanta, and 457 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: this is during the that's right SEC basketball tournament, and 458 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:57,880 Speaker 1: it blew the windows out in the west in yeah, 459 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:01,040 Speaker 1: the Peachtree Plaza Hotel, and they put plywood up over 460 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 1: the windows and left it there for like a year 461 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 1: and a half. It was longer than that, because I 462 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 1: remember driving and saying and I remember reading why it 463 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 1: took so long was because they were specialty windows when 464 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,399 Speaker 1: it was built back in the seventies or whatever. I 465 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 1: remember thinking like, how hard could it be to construct 466 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 1: new glass? I totally forgot about that. Like two years 467 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:22,800 Speaker 1: later it was. And like, for those of you who 468 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 1: don't live in Atlanta aren't familiar, this building is basically 469 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:29,040 Speaker 1: like the icon of the Atlanta Skyline, sort of the 470 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:33,199 Speaker 1: center tall building. Yeah, very very tall, cylindrical building with 471 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 1: like a revolving restaurant on the top. It's impossible the 472 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:41,600 Speaker 1: miss and it was dotted with plywood for two years. 473 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:45,480 Speaker 1: Totally forgot about that. So the SEC basketball tournament was 474 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 1: going on at the Georgia Dome and there was an 475 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:51,840 Speaker 1: NBA game being played, and I think you know, stuff 476 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:53,400 Speaker 1: like happened in the Georgia Dome. They had to stop 477 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,359 Speaker 1: the game for a minute. Crazy. Yeah, hundred and thirty 478 00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 1: miles an hour in f two not to ad. Not 479 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 1: too shabby. That's respectable for a city tornado, all right, Yeah, 480 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:07,160 Speaker 1: and thankfully only one person lost their life in that one, 481 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,119 Speaker 1: um which, if you think about it, is pretty remarkable 482 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 1: considering how you know a lot of people in the area. 483 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:20,359 Speaker 1: Um So you've got Oklahoma City has been hit twice terribly. Atlanta, 484 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:24,399 Speaker 1: Salt Lake City seen plenty of tornadoes, same with Dallas. 485 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:29,840 Speaker 1: In Miami, did not know about the Miami hurricane, although 486 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 1: it makes sense because that's the name of no, not 487 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,400 Speaker 1: the hurricane and tornado. Yeah, that's what I My brain 488 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,080 Speaker 1: just got zapped. Well, what are you going to say 489 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 1: about the hurricanes? Oh, the University of Miami. Yeah right, 490 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:44,679 Speaker 1: but it wasn't a hurricane, it was a tornado. I 491 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: can believe a hurricane in Miami tornado. That's the one 492 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 1: I have trouble in there named the University of Miami 493 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:54,160 Speaker 1: Severe Weather System. Right. I think we should definitely take 494 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 1: a break and we'll be back with more unbelievable facts. 495 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 1: Right after this, Chuck, I remember specifically, um, believing that 496 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 1: tornadoes were totally indigenous to North America. They only happened here. 497 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,879 Speaker 1: It seems like you only hear about them here. Yeah, 498 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: you know, but apparently they do happen elsewhere. The reason 499 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,120 Speaker 1: why most people think they only happened here is because 500 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 1: in North America we have something like I should say, 501 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 1: in the United States, not even just North America, but 502 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 1: in the United States we get about fourteen hundred reported 503 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:57,080 Speaker 1: tornadoes a year. That's a lot of tornadoes. Yeah. Um, 504 00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:00,920 Speaker 1: by comparison, Europe sees about three d and that's all 505 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 1: of Europe. And um, apparently tornadoes do happen on every 506 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 1: continent except the Antarctica. But the reason that it seems 507 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 1: like they happen here only is because they happen so 508 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 1: much more frequently here than elsewhere. Yeah, apparently South America 509 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:22,440 Speaker 1: has favorable conditions for tornadoes, and in between, Argentina and 510 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 1: Brazil especially, they have the right kind of storms to 511 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 1: produce tornadoes. But again, it doesn't happen as much right 512 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,880 Speaker 1: as the United States now. And so the other aspect 513 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:35,600 Speaker 1: of it, we go back to that same thing with 514 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 1: them the news covering trailer parks. It's um, a very 515 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 1: small proportion of tornadoes are actually like considered dangerous, something 516 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 1: like two or violent, I think is what they're called, 517 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:53,240 Speaker 1: right uh, or week or strong. It was the three 518 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:57,080 Speaker 1: percent of violent violent. So if you have three hundred 519 00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:01,440 Speaker 1: tornadoes a year, right, um, and only three percent of violent, 520 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:03,720 Speaker 1: that's not gonna make news quite as often as if 521 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:07,200 Speaker 1: you have four hundred tornadoes per year and three percent 522 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,720 Speaker 1: of violent, it's gonna seem like there's tornadoes that are 523 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:15,800 Speaker 1: just wrecking America all the time. Um. And then apparently 524 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:19,440 Speaker 1: also the United States specifically and parts of Canada. But 525 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 1: the US is in a very unique position for tornado 526 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 1: for in formation, right, and we have that thing called 527 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,080 Speaker 1: tornado Alley, and tornado Alley just so happens to fit 528 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,400 Speaker 1: very nicely over what's also known as the Great Plains, 529 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:40,360 Speaker 1: that's right. Uh. Specifically we are talking uh whereas here 530 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 1: central Texas head northward, northward, northward, the W is not 531 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 1: silent northward to in northern Iowa. Uh. And from central 532 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 1: Kansas and Nebraska east to western Ohio. That's what you're 533 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:59,400 Speaker 1: talking about, uh. And that is tornado Alley. That doesn't 534 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:03,120 Speaker 1: count floor to Apparently Florida is um a little bit 535 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:07,080 Speaker 1: of its own tornado alley. Apparently in Miami too. Yeah, 536 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 1: but like we said, Georgia, you know, we'll have them 537 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:12,200 Speaker 1: here and there. Yeah, yeah, because there's a tornado alley 538 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,440 Speaker 1: where they um. Okay, So if you look at the 539 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,479 Speaker 1: Great Plains right, it's it's relatively flat, so it allows 540 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 1: cool air to come down from Canada and it hits 541 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,800 Speaker 1: warm air coming up from the Gulf, and they meet 542 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:31,280 Speaker 1: and they form this front, this wedge that creates tornado 543 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 1: Alley itself. Because where those two things meet, that's where 544 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,600 Speaker 1: the type of storms that can produce tornadoes are formed, 545 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:44,080 Speaker 1: and so it forms basically, uh east west or southwest 546 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:48,760 Speaker 1: northeast line, and that essentially is tornado Alley. Yeah. And 547 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:50,960 Speaker 1: as far as weather conditions, we mentioned some of these 548 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,640 Speaker 1: other countries that do have those conditions. But the difference 549 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:58,440 Speaker 1: is in a place like the Bay of Bengal, it's 550 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 1: just a much narrower window of time that these conditions exist, 551 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,360 Speaker 1: whereas the United States. I mean, when it's tornado season, 552 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 1: it's it's a much wider uh, I mean it's several months, 553 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,520 Speaker 1: isn't it. Oh? Yeah, it's throughout the summer. Yeah, yeah, 554 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,520 Speaker 1: starting in late spring, depending on where you are. And 555 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:19,360 Speaker 1: then I think in Florida what they call Dixie Alley. 556 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 1: Dixie Alley, is that what they call it. That's what 557 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,320 Speaker 1: it said. It doesn't even make sense. I don't associate 558 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,600 Speaker 1: Florida with Dixie you know, well, of course not. It's 559 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 1: its own thing. It is very much its own thing. Um, 560 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:36,000 Speaker 1: Dixie Alley. Yeah, they they experienced tornadoes more in the 561 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 1: fall late fall. Yeah, because they're not in the heart 562 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,040 Speaker 1: of Tornado Alley. No, they're their own thing. They're their 563 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 1: own thing. Um. So then, Chuck, I feel like we've 564 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 1: really dispelled a lot of myths here, busted them, if 565 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:51,280 Speaker 1: you will, probably saved some lives. We should say, rather 566 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,160 Speaker 1: than just like, yeah, you're ten of twenty times likelier 567 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,640 Speaker 1: to die in a mobile home um, and just leave 568 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,480 Speaker 1: it at that. If you do live in a mobile 569 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:04,280 Speaker 1: home community, after you're listening to this episode, I want 570 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,040 Speaker 1: you to get on your laptop or your tablet or 571 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,040 Speaker 1: your PC or go to the mobile home community office 572 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:15,280 Speaker 1: and say where is the nearest tornado shelter? Because the 573 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:16,920 Speaker 1: thing that you should do if you live in a 574 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,080 Speaker 1: mobile home community is leave that mobile home community. When 575 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:26,040 Speaker 1: a tornado warning has been issued tornado watch no warning 576 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,960 Speaker 1: warning means that it's been seen, watches the weather is 577 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:33,680 Speaker 1: likely to produce him. Yeah, and I think those goods. 578 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:35,320 Speaker 1: They should just come up with better terms for that. 579 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,760 Speaker 1: Uh look out, it's a tornado should be the should 580 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:44,000 Speaker 1: replace uh warning? Yeah, or just like well, yeah, that's 581 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,280 Speaker 1: pretty good. I'll go with that. Thanks. Um, what what 582 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:51,560 Speaker 1: about getting in your car? Because if the average tornado 583 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:56,520 Speaker 1: goes thirty miles an hour and the fastest ever tornado 584 00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:00,120 Speaker 1: on record is only seventy three, man, I'll bet that 585 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,880 Speaker 1: is you would think, Man, just get in your car, 586 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:05,280 Speaker 1: because I can go a D in my pickup truck. 587 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:09,719 Speaker 1: I can can outrun the vast I'd go up to eight. 588 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:14,280 Speaker 1: I could outrun the fastest tornado ever in history easily. 589 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,759 Speaker 1: I do that every day on the highway. Well, you 590 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,960 Speaker 1: could conceivably in your truck, be okay, But what about 591 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,920 Speaker 1: those people who have, like, uh, a m C Gremlin. 592 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:27,120 Speaker 1: They probably can't go a D in that thing and 593 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:29,399 Speaker 1: their toasts. No, that is not the point, my friend. 594 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,560 Speaker 1: The point is you can't. You shouldn't try to outrun 595 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:34,960 Speaker 1: a tornado, even if you can drive faster than one. 596 00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:39,400 Speaker 1: Because tornadoes, while sort of predictable and that they usually 597 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:43,160 Speaker 1: follow a straight line, you never know what they're gonna do. Um. 598 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:47,399 Speaker 1: That's why you'll see one house spared while the others destroyed. Uh. 599 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,240 Speaker 1: And they're very wide, so they'll be her off course 600 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:52,839 Speaker 1: and before you know it, you are in the path 601 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:56,240 Speaker 1: of the tornado, not out running the tornado. Yeah, they 602 00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,960 Speaker 1: can veer, they can um stop touching the ground and 603 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,360 Speaker 1: then make contacting in right like you said, right in 604 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,160 Speaker 1: front of you or right around you. Um, and they 605 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:08,200 Speaker 1: will backtrack. There are certain conditions that tornado will double 606 00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:11,600 Speaker 1: back over its path and then go forward again. And 607 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:15,480 Speaker 1: that just happens like out of nowhere. They're extremely unpredictable. 608 00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:17,600 Speaker 1: So yeah, you you don't know that you're driving in 609 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:22,200 Speaker 1: the right direction, even if initially you are. And then secondly, um, 610 00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:26,160 Speaker 1: apparently is it Noah or the National Weather Service that says, 611 00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:30,120 Speaker 1: I think in all caps, do not get in your 612 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,240 Speaker 1: car and try to outrun a tornado. It's a CDC 613 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,640 Speaker 1: for some weird reason. That's not that's not a disease, 614 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:41,080 Speaker 1: is it? Like the Center for Disease Control and Injury Prevention. Now, 615 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:44,520 Speaker 1: though because maybe that would the injury prevention would account 616 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,240 Speaker 1: for that. But they do say that the least desirable 617 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,800 Speaker 1: place to be during the tornadoes in your vehicle, it 618 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:53,120 Speaker 1: should be the centers for disease control and injury prevention. 619 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:58,400 Speaker 1: But don't ask us about gun violence. Uh. In Oklahoma, 620 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:02,319 Speaker 1: the l Reno tornado in two thousand thirteen, Yeah, that 621 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,440 Speaker 1: was the one that hit Oklahoma City. Oh was it? 622 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:08,360 Speaker 1: This is a talking about unpredictability. This thing, within sixty 623 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,239 Speaker 1: seconds went from being a mile wide to two point 624 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,600 Speaker 1: six miles wide. Uh. And it's the one the widest 625 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:18,720 Speaker 1: one ever recorded. Uh in Tornado, United States, well, probably 626 00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,920 Speaker 1: all of tornado history. Man, nothing makes me think of 627 00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,920 Speaker 1: humans as just like fleas on the face of the 628 00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:28,399 Speaker 1: planet than tornadoes. This is crazy. Whether it comes out 629 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,480 Speaker 1: of nowhere, picks up everything where we do and like 630 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:35,120 Speaker 1: work for and strive for, and just kicks it into nothingness, 631 00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:38,239 Speaker 1: that's all natural disasters. To me. It's just like a 632 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:42,360 Speaker 1: big reminder, like, hey, humans, when you're long gone, brust 633 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,239 Speaker 1: you off my should there will still be earthquakes and tsunamis. 634 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:49,960 Speaker 1: You know, it's a feature of the planet. Uhent of 635 00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:54,880 Speaker 1: people killed in tornadoes, uh, are in their vehicles at 636 00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,319 Speaker 1: the time, which doesn't necessarily mean they're trying to outrun it, 637 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:03,000 Speaker 1: but um, you know it's no small beans, no don't. 638 00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,879 Speaker 1: And apparently in that the one in Oklahoma, there were 639 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:11,440 Speaker 1: a couple of notable storm chasers that even have like 640 00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,759 Speaker 1: really great safe track records that were killed and they 641 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,520 Speaker 1: people thought, you know, because these people were killed, that 642 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:21,000 Speaker 1: might be a real signal like they can't outrun tornadoes, 643 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:25,040 Speaker 1: nor should you try? Yeah? Is Bill Paxton and Helen 644 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:30,080 Speaker 1: Hunt ruined it for things? I like that movie? Yeah, 645 00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,319 Speaker 1: I liked it. It was a cute movie. It kind 646 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:35,799 Speaker 1: of holds up, actually doesn't really the special effects remarkably 647 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:39,799 Speaker 1: hold up. That's very surprising because that was like mid nineties, right. Yeah. 648 00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,080 Speaker 1: And there was another tornado movie that I did not see, 649 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:47,000 Speaker 1: just a couple of years ago. Uh, Into the Storm. 650 00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:50,880 Speaker 1: I think it looked really bad, although it had the 651 00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:54,560 Speaker 1: great Matt Walsh. What about nice paycheck for you, Mr 652 00:37:54,600 --> 00:38:00,399 Speaker 1: wallsh No, but he you know, he's relief, sure nice, 653 00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,080 Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm sure he did just fine on that one. 654 00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:11,440 Speaker 1: Um did you see San Andreas? Uh? I saw about 655 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:15,759 Speaker 1: it and the other sixt I fast forwarded through. I 656 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:19,120 Speaker 1: fast forwarded through everything except for all the devastation. That's 657 00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:21,560 Speaker 1: like the only part I cared about. Oh so it 658 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:26,719 Speaker 1: was six non devastation. That ratio is off, agreed. Huh, 659 00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:29,080 Speaker 1: that's disappointing because I kind of wanted to see it. 660 00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,600 Speaker 1: It looked like it would be kind of interesting. It's 661 00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:37,960 Speaker 1: Hollywood drec well, not that many disaster flicks aren't. Although 662 00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:42,120 Speaker 1: Towering Inferno that was a great movie, straight up great movie. 663 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:47,040 Speaker 1: Same with them The Poseidon Adventure, Oh my god, the 664 00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:48,640 Speaker 1: boat that I was about to call it the boat 665 00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:52,440 Speaker 1: that flipped upside down. But the original Yeah, definitely not 666 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:55,279 Speaker 1: the remakes. Why did they even bother? No? Actually, now 667 00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,920 Speaker 1: i'm thinking about it, Disaster flicks were good movies in 668 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:02,799 Speaker 1: the seventies. Airport great? Was it just Airport? And then 669 00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:05,560 Speaker 1: Airport seventy seven was the sequel? I think so. I 670 00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:07,560 Speaker 1: think they made like three or four after that too. 671 00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:10,560 Speaker 1: They don't make them like that anymore, my friend. Now, well, 672 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:12,719 Speaker 1: if you want to know more about tornadoes, we've got 673 00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,239 Speaker 1: a mess of articles on how stuff works about them. 674 00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:18,880 Speaker 1: You can type the word tornado or at an e 675 00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:22,560 Speaker 1: before you pluralize it in the search bar at how 676 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:26,000 Speaker 1: Stuff Works dot com and it will bring up great stuff. 677 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:31,640 Speaker 1: Since I said search parts time for listener mail, I'm 678 00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:35,160 Speaker 1: gonna call this Josh's pick for listener mail because you 679 00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:40,600 Speaker 1: picked it, yes, said japan Centric. Well your favorite places, right, yeah, 680 00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:45,120 Speaker 1: I'll explain all right. Um, hey, guys that just listened 681 00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,759 Speaker 1: to the show on nostalgia and then, although I'm a 682 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,719 Speaker 1: big Hodgman van h Japan is perhaps not the place 683 00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:53,959 Speaker 1: for him. Um. I find it fascinating that I'm living 684 00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:56,200 Speaker 1: in Japan, where the feeling of nostalgia is one of 685 00:39:56,239 --> 00:40:00,560 Speaker 1: the most treasured emotional experiences. The Japanese word for it 686 00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,279 Speaker 1: is you want to say it, I have to see 687 00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:08,200 Speaker 1: it in running, but I can pronounce it, uh not sukashi, notasukashi. 688 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:10,959 Speaker 1: And um that was actually why I picked this, because 689 00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:12,799 Speaker 1: I was telling you you mean that we did one 690 00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:17,000 Speaker 1: on nostalgias. It's like he talked about not Sukashi right, Well, 691 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:20,359 Speaker 1: here we are, uh not sukashi. Is that she eat 692 00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:24,200 Speaker 1: It's so close that it almost sounds like an extended 693 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,160 Speaker 1: eye because you don't want it right, but you don't 694 00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,839 Speaker 1: want to make it like right right right, But it's 695 00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:32,960 Speaker 1: like it's like just a little extra something on that 696 00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:36,680 Speaker 1: I I love it. Uh. That place connotes a feeling 697 00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:40,920 Speaker 1: of pleasant sorrow and sometimes a beauty. An interesting example 698 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,960 Speaker 1: is cherry blossom season. The season just commence here, and 699 00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,279 Speaker 1: I'm told that one of the reasons Japanese love the 700 00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,000 Speaker 1: season so much is it it's so short lived, lasting 701 00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,520 Speaker 1: only about two weeks each year. Uh. The short lived 702 00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:55,200 Speaker 1: beauty cultivates the pleasant sadness feeling even when the trees 703 00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,359 Speaker 1: are in full blue. And my friends indulge in pre 704 00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,600 Speaker 1: nostalgia knowing that we'll all end soon, and this adds 705 00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,280 Speaker 1: to their enjoyment and depth of the experience. That's really lovely, 706 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:05,680 Speaker 1: isn't it. If this sounds a bit overboard, I should 707 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:08,360 Speaker 1: mention that cherry blossom viewing feels somewhat like a spectator 708 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:11,080 Speaker 1: sport here, and droves of people turn out for picnics 709 00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:13,440 Speaker 1: under the trees with their high end cameras ready to 710 00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:16,839 Speaker 1: capture the perfect photo. Also found it interesting that one 711 00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,680 Speaker 1: of the positive outcomes of nostalgia you mentioned is that 712 00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:22,440 Speaker 1: it reminds us that life is worth living in light 713 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,719 Speaker 1: of the extremely long work hours and brutal commutes on 714 00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:28,560 Speaker 1: rush hour trains. No wonder Japanese really foster nostalgia to 715 00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:32,359 Speaker 1: remind them of life's simple joys. I think she's onto 716 00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:35,960 Speaker 1: something here. By the way I lived uh. I moved 717 00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:39,040 Speaker 1: to Tokyo last September and discovered your podcast last fall. 718 00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,080 Speaker 1: Living here involves lots of walking and train time. Your 719 00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:44,840 Speaker 1: podcasts are perfect entertainment as I'm moving about the city. 720 00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:49,160 Speaker 1: That is from Rebecca, Texan living in Tokyo. Thanks a lot. 721 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,600 Speaker 1: That's a great email, Rebecca, appreciate it. So you've experienced 722 00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,640 Speaker 1: that feeling that's a cashi Yeah, yeah, and nostalgia. Do 723 00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:58,000 Speaker 1: you toast and say that out loud and now you 724 00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:01,520 Speaker 1: go come pile when you okay? Uh? Not takashi is 725 00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:06,080 Speaker 1: you're just quietly shedding into your think about something very 726 00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:08,319 Speaker 1: lovely from when you were child. Would just feel those 727 00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:12,440 Speaker 1: big dummies in Japan look at Yeah, he's toasting something 728 00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:14,759 Speaker 1: that's sad. Uh No, No, it's not like that. I 729 00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:18,480 Speaker 1: think it's um. I don't. I'm not an expert on 730 00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:22,080 Speaker 1: not takashi, but I think it's not quite nostalgia. It's 731 00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:26,359 Speaker 1: just it's very close to it. It's just something there's 732 00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:28,600 Speaker 1: just something more. It's more of like an investigation on 733 00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:34,320 Speaker 1: nostalgia more of a relishing kind of thing. Interesting. Yeah, 734 00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,799 Speaker 1: I love Japan. I hope to go one day. You 735 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:41,480 Speaker 1: will love it, I mean, you'll absolutely love it. Just 736 00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:44,080 Speaker 1: an amazing place. You've gotta get Emily on board for 737 00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:47,000 Speaker 1: that flight. It's a pain. And when you come back, 738 00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:50,040 Speaker 1: depending on what direction you're traveling, where you're flying from, 739 00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:54,319 Speaker 1: you are nuts from jet leg for like two weeks. Yeah, 740 00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,520 Speaker 1: it always seems like you're just, uh, you don't even 741 00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,359 Speaker 1: know which way is up for more for like two weeks, 742 00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,200 Speaker 1: just like when is this gonna end? In like the 743 00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:04,400 Speaker 1: first five days? Just go buy in this haze that 744 00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:08,880 Speaker 1: you're not even aware of. Crazy, Yeah, Japan. If you 745 00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:10,720 Speaker 1: want to get in touch with us, you can tweet 746 00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:13,279 Speaker 1: to us at s by sk podcast. 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