00:00I saw the clip last night, I think, or maybe it was this morning, I can't, I don't know
00:03the difference, of the earthquake in Venezuela during the baseball game.
00:09Yeah, it was pretty crazy.
00:10I saw a clip of the reaction inside one of the major airports, and it just looked insane
00:16and terrifying.
00:17Apparently, there have been two of them, and according to the Daily Mail, you can take
00:21the Daily Mail for what it's worth, the headline is, Fears of 100,000 Dead After Back-to-Back
00:29earthquakes devastate Venezuela.
00:30I thought they just had one not too long ago.
00:33These were big ones.
00:34These are 7.1-ers and 7.5, which I can't fathom.
00:38Remember when we had the one in Maryland 15 years ago or so, and probably Virginia too?
00:43You guys felt it, right?
00:43I definitely felt it, yeah.
00:44And that was like a 3-something, a 3-1 or something?
00:47I can't even fathom a 7.1 or 7.5.
00:50It's a terrifying natural phenomenon.
00:53There was one in California yesterday, it was 5-6.
00:55And there was one in Japan, or off the coast of Japan.
00:58Apparently, they're not all related.
01:00They're all separate incidents.
01:03The Earth is just moving.
01:04Which strikes me as kind of weird that that could all happen on the same day and they're
01:09not somehow interrelated.
01:11Yeah.
01:11But what do I know about the way that Earth's mantle and core shifts around?
01:17I don't know.
01:17I don't know how that works.
01:18You haven't studied tectonic plates?
01:20What were you going to say?
01:21Well, they were moving yesterday.
01:22Yeah, the first one, the 7-1, was 45 seconds before the other one.
01:29Right.
01:29And so, it just weakened all the structures.
01:32And then, you know, a lot of these, like the one in Virginia was way underground.
01:36So, you didn't really feel it as much, even though I think it actually was much higher
01:39than the 3-something.
01:41Well, I felt it.
01:42Whatever the hell it was.
01:42Well, no, I'm just saying it wasn't as destructive.
01:44I think the one there, they're close by.
01:46It's right on the surface.
01:47And those videos are horrifying.
01:49Sure.
01:49I can't look at the videos.
01:50Yeah, I didn't see it.
01:51I'm punching out.
01:52Wasn't it the down-the-rabbit-hole thing about the Virginia earthquake that some people thought
01:57it was like testing some sort of like super-powerful weapon, and then it was classified, oh, it's
02:03an earthquake.
02:04Don't worry, it's just a very minor earthquake.
02:06Meanwhile, they're testing some sort of like pulse weapon that's going to be unleashed on
02:10somebody in the future.
02:11Who knows?
02:12I don't know.
02:13I would say don't rule it out.
02:15Could be like a 1% chance.
02:17Yeah, it says here 32 are officially dead in Venezuela, but you read that there could
02:22be 100,000.
02:22Well, the headline is fears.
02:24Oh.
02:24That's the headline.
02:25Yeah.
02:26Fears of 100,000 dead because they're just, you know, doing a scanning.
02:29Well, they're looking at all the devastation.
02:32Yeah.
02:32Of all the buildings that are flattened.
02:35Hmm.
02:35I mean, so they're just doing a quick math.
02:37Well, that could be 10,000.
02:39That could be 10.
02:39You know what I mean?
02:39It's just, it's a staggering number.
02:42You can't even comprehend it.
02:45Nope.
02:46That's correct.
02:47That would be like, it would be like the big house being full and all those people dying
02:53or close to that number.
02:54I know it holds over 100,000, but I tend to look at those early predictions and raise an
03:00eyebrow.
03:01I think those are kind of thrown out there to sow fear amongst people.
03:07I'd be shocked if there were 100,000 people dead.
03:09I have no idea.
03:09I haven't looked at the videos.
03:10I'm just reading the headline.
03:11I mean, I'm sure there are hundreds of thousands of people dead.
03:13There's probably more than 32.
03:14I mean, the first thing they said is 30, but, you know, they haven't evaluated anything
03:18yet.
03:19Yeah.
03:21High casualties and extensive damage are probable and the disaster is likely widespread.
03:26The U.S. Geological Survey said with initial death toll estimate likely between 10,000
03:32and 100,000.
03:34Hmm.
03:35Now, luckily, we live in a place where earthquakes are very rare.
03:38When they do happen, they're minor.
03:40I wouldn't know the first thing to do.
03:42I wouldn't.
03:42I'm not earthquake prepared as to what to do.
03:45Like, am I supposed to hide under something?
03:48Am I supposed to go into, like, a bathtub?
03:50I don't know why.
03:51Why would you hide under something when things collapse?
03:53I don't know.
03:54Like, it's like a table or something.
03:56Like, I don't know.
03:56I think you need to get out of whatever building you're in.
03:59I think a bathtub is not.
04:00If you have no time, a bathtub's not a horrible spot.
04:04But I think, yeah, if you can get outside, you get outside.
04:08Get outside.
04:09Okay.
04:095.6 in California.
04:11I think it went all the way up to Oregon.
04:14And it went into Utah.
04:15Yeah, I didn't even hear about that one.
04:16Yeah.
04:17I mean, Earth was rattling yesterday.
04:20Earthquakes are terrifying.
04:22Takes us on to something.
04:22I just typed up, what should I do during an earthquake?
04:25If you're indoors, stay there.
04:26Get under a desk or table and hang on to it.
04:29Okay.
04:29Or move into a hallway or against an inside wall.
04:33Stay clear of windows, fireplaces, and heavy furniture appliances.
04:37Fireplace comes tumbling down on you.
04:39It's made of, like, stone and brick.
04:40That's bad.
04:40If you're outside, get into the open.
04:43Away from buildings, power lines, chimneys, and anything else
04:46that might fall on you.
04:47What's open?
04:48Oh, I would run palms up to Cashel Elementary,
04:51and there's a big open field right next to it.
04:54That's probably the spot.
04:55It's probably my move.
04:57I was literally going to whistle when the earthquake hit.
05:01I was literally preparing to whistle.
05:02What year was that?
05:04Hold on.
05:04You're talking about 10 years ago.
05:06You were calling this from 15 years ago?
05:07How could you not recall it?
05:08I mean, you knew exactly what you were doing,
05:11like, right before it happened?
05:13Oh, yeah.
05:14You know, that's a very specific thing.
05:16I mean, I knew I was in my house,
05:18but I can't detail exactly that.
05:20No, no.
05:21Maybe if you were about to whistle, you could.
05:23Maybe.
05:24Maybe that's possible.
05:24There's so much shame around that
05:26and guilt associated with it.
05:28Yeah, it's not great.
05:29It tends to be memorable,
05:31and I think I did stand in the door well.
05:35Okay.
05:36But I didn't have time to go down.
05:38I was upstairs.
05:39I wasn't going to run down.
05:40I mean, not to make light of what happened in Venezuela,
05:43but it's a Maryland earthquake.
05:45Like, it's...
05:46I know, but when you don't...
05:47I wasn't expecting it to lay in there.
05:48I'll say your house is shaking.
05:50I've never experienced one before.
05:51It was fairly terrifying.
05:54And again, it was a minor nothing.
05:56It lasted maybe 10 to 12 seconds,
05:59maybe even less than that,
05:59and I think I found out via Twitter.
06:02Like, I was in my...
06:03She didn't feel it.
06:03I know I was in my basement,
06:05and I didn't feel anything.
06:06No, no, no.
06:06That's good.
06:07Yeah.
06:07If you felt it, trust me, it scared you.
06:10Cakes and I also were part of an earthquake in Puerto Rico.
06:13We were playing tennis...
06:14That's true.
06:16...probably 1985.
06:17Mm-hmm.
06:18So we were 14, 15 years old,
06:20and again, we didn't feel it.
06:22Yeah.
06:22We went back to my parents' condo,
06:25and they said,
06:26Did you feel it?
06:27I said, No.
06:27Apparently, the whole condo was swaying.
06:29Right.
06:30Well, that's terrifying,
06:31because that thing could just fall down
06:33like a house of cards in an earthquake.
06:35Still there.
06:36Still there.
06:37So when my wife was in Chicago
06:39while we were playing golf one day,
06:41she and Coop's mom,
06:43they went downtown,
06:44and, you know, did what moms do.
06:46She knew that my wife was a former architect.
06:48They did an architectural tour
06:51or something of downtown Chicago.
06:53Okay.
06:53Okay.
06:54And there's a building downtown.
06:56I wish I knew the name of it.
06:57I'm sure it's famous.
06:58I saw it on our way to Soldier Field.
07:01That it's a big, giant high-rise,
07:03and it was swaying a lot.
07:06You know, like that one in New York
07:07that they've built,
07:08that billion-dollar thing in New York
07:09that they can't habitate
07:13because it's blowing in the wind.
07:14It's unsteady,
07:15and they can't have people living in it.
07:18Nobody wants to live there?
07:18It's a billion-dollar disaster
07:20that they're going to have to figure out,
07:21and they don't even know
07:22if they know how to, like, collapse it.
07:25It's a big disaster.
07:26But this building in Chicago,
07:29what they did is
07:31they left two floors open,
07:33like windows.
07:34So the wind blows through it
07:36in the middle of it.
07:37Gotcha.
07:38Right?
07:38So, wild.
07:40So it kind of braces it a little bit?
07:41I guess it just goes through,
07:43and, yeah,
07:43and the building doesn't sway
07:45back and forth as much.
07:46That's kind of how they solve that
07:47and then, you know,
07:48make it inhabitable.
07:49Gotcha.
07:50It's a unique thing.
07:51I don't know anything about architecture.
07:53That's another one of the,
07:54of many,
07:55trust me,
07:55of many categories
07:56where I see it on,
07:57top up on Jeopardy.
07:59I mean, I don't know it.
08:00I don't know any architects.
08:01I know nothing, of course.
08:02Like, I might know one architect.
08:04Is Frank Lloyd Wright
08:05like a famous architect?
08:06Yeah, that's the one here
08:06in the United States.
08:07That's the only one I got.
08:08Right.
08:09Yeah, nobody knows.
08:10Nobody knows architects.
08:11How am I going to know
08:11about architectural styles?
08:13Unless you're an architect.
08:14I'm not going to know that.
08:14Yeah, but there was a tour for that.
08:16There was a person.
08:17They went on a tour
08:18and they explained it
08:19and then I saw the building
08:20and it's wild.
08:21You see,
08:21there's two open floors
08:22in the middle of the high rise.
08:24I don't even know.
08:24How do you get from,
08:26maybe I guess there's an S elevator
08:27that goes through it.
08:28There's got to be.
08:29Yeah.
08:30So it's still not completely open,
08:31but it's open.
08:32Yeah.
08:33Wild.
08:33A lot of things we don't know about.
08:35I just looked up
08:35the Leaning Tower of Pisa
08:37as we're having this discussion.
08:38Yes.
08:39If you had to guess,
08:40how many degrees is the lean?
08:42I mean, it's 25 degrees.
08:44I think it's a significant lean.
08:45I'm going to say...
08:46More than that?
08:4825 sounds like a lot.
08:49It might not be that.
08:5018 degrees.
08:52Jason, you have a guess?
08:54Well, it's obviously not 18 or 25.
08:56I'll say 35.
08:58According to Wikipedia,
08:59it's only a four degree lean.
09:01Really?
09:01It looks very exaggerated.
09:03It does.
09:04That's crazy.
09:05I've never seen,
09:05I've obviously never seen it in person.
09:07I've only seen pictures,
09:08so I can't really speak to it.
09:10And you'll never see it in person.
09:11Let's hope.
09:12So, I wouldn't say never,
09:14but I would say 1% chance or less.
09:18There's no way that's only 4% at the top.
09:21When do you think construction began?
09:23Construction began on the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
09:26Mr. Jeopardy over there.
09:28This is a great question.
09:30Has it been around...
09:31A thousand years ago.
09:32Is it a BC building,
09:34or is it post-BC?
09:36Let's see.
09:37Or AC, I guess.
09:38I'm going to say it was constructed
09:40in the year of our Lord 633.
09:45Any other guesses?
09:46No, I see it.
09:47That's a long...
09:47That's not a horrible guess, Kate.
09:491172.
09:50I was only about 500 years off.
09:53It's not terrible.
09:54I think that's an actually decent guess.
09:56I mean, it might be 4% at the bottom,
09:59but at the top, there's no...
10:01Four degrees?
10:01There's no way it's four degrees at the top.
10:03Well, that's...
10:04Remember the Dan Quinn motto is,
10:05even if you're one degree off,
10:06the further you get out.
10:08Well, that's 100% right.
10:10I'm looking at the top.
10:11I know this.
10:12If I had 100 chances to find Pisa
10:14on an Italian map,
10:15I'm not going to find it.
10:16I don't think I could find Rome
10:17on an Italian map.
10:18How many billions of people
10:21do you think have taken a picture
10:22where they point,
10:23they put their finger up
10:24and instead of the Tower of Pisa,
10:27they put their hand up like this?
10:28Every person that's been there
10:29is taking that hacky, wackadoo picture.
10:33All right.
10:33When we come back,
10:34we're going to get away
10:35from talking about architecture
10:36and earthquakes,
10:37and we're going to talk about
10:39what happened to the Washington Nationals
10:41last night.
10:41It's another disaster.
10:43A disaster on a much lesser, lesser scale.
10:46It's basically the same thing
10:48that happened to them on Tuesday night.
10:50Well, here's the thing.
10:51We'll talk about it.
10:52It's going to keep happening
10:52until they address the issue.
10:54Correct.
10:54And they know it.
10:55I mean, nobody should be surprised.
10:56When you have a subpar bullpen,
10:58bad things are going to keep happening to it.
11:00All right.
11:00We'll get into the Nats' latest collapse.
11:02We'll do that when we come back
11:04here on The Junk's.
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