Your Cat Has Been Manipulating You This Whole Time - Safety Third 175

William Osman (0:01)

Do you hear intro music, Nigel?

SPEAKER_2 (0:04)

I hear a mixture of stuff.

William Osman (0:05)

A mixture of stuff. All right, tell us to...

SPEAKER_2 (0:08)

None of them are the... Where's the Safety Third intro?

William Osman (0:12)

All right, tell us to stop when you hear the intro.

SPEAKER_2 (0:16)

Okay. There.

William Osman (0:19)

Oh, we got it, we got it.

SPEAKER_2 (0:24)

Oh, it cut off, but.

William Osman (0:29)

I think that was enough.

Allen Pan (0:30)

Is that enough for an intro?

John died, everybody, so we have to do it ourselves. And he leaves no instructions. He moves everything around the desktop. And I think there's a chance that it's recording.

William Osman (0:43)

All right, I'm going to turn off the air. No, we just leave it on. Yeah.

Allen Pan (0:46)

Yeah, this is OK. Listen, we don't have enough money to have an air conditioner installed that doesn't sound loud.

You know, that window unit, it's been hot here.

William Osman (0:56)

Yeah, it's real hot.

Allen Pan (0:57)

Welcome to this very special episode of Safety Third podcast. It's the hot episode. The past few have actually been really hot, but today's extra hot.

I'm going to sound like such a whiny ass right now. It's like 90 degrees outside.

William Osman (1:11)

What's it like in Canada, Nigel? Right now?

SPEAKER_2 (1:16)

What's humidity?

I'll check. What temperature is it?

Allen Pan (1:21)

45 percent humidity. That's relatively high, actually. It's not like crazy high. 90 degrees at 50 percent humidity.

William Osman (1:29)

It's that little boy up in the atmosphere doing things.

SPEAKER_2 (1:33)

So it's only apparently in Fahrenheit in your crazy units. It's 71

William Osman (1:38)

That's nice.

SPEAKER_2 (1:40)

The summer was really hot. But what's weirder is it feels like in Montreal, we've been having like tropical weather.

Allen Pan (1:50)

You know what? OK, we should talk about the incoming, the impending doom known as El Nino. So when I was in like, man, first grade, I think it was like 98

No, 98 would have been like third grade, whatever. It doesn't matter. So I'm like seven or eight years old. Yeah. And my dad worked at the LA. Times as a photographer. And so he got to go and do stories and kind of have like a journal. What do you journal journalism photographer pass? You just kind of can go places generally that they like no public here. And it's like, no, I'm a journalist.

So I remember our town got wrecked, right? We had this pier, the Ventura Pier, and it was long. I think at one point it was like one of the longest pier. Oh, now it's no longer one of the longest pier thanks to El Nino. So there's been a couple of like surge events, but it like apparently what happens, I've been reading some videos about this, and there's like the ocean currents and the atmospheric currents, and they can get reversed. And it's like between like Mexico and whatever is across the Pacific. Is that Africa?

William Osman (3:11)

So no. Yeah, if you keep going.

Allen Pan (3:13)

If you keep going, there's nothing under it, right? You go under India.

William Osman (3:16)

I think it ends up hitting like those islands. Just the islands? Yeah, like the Philippines and Micronesia.

Allen Pan (3:25)

I have an idea of like where things are relative to the equator on like our half. But when it comes to the other side, it like doesn't line up anymore.

William Osman (3:33)

So normally we get like this current of cold water that comes up off the bottom of the ocean and hits the California coast.

Allen Pan (3:40)

Right. And then that causes the air to cool, which then like drops it. And then you get like a cycle. So it's like it's this crazy fluid dynamic energy problem where if the current goes this way, cold water goes this way, then it causes like I could be doing this backwards. But like it's a general idea. It causes like the air to sink.

And then when the air sinks, it pulls air from over here. So you end up with like a cyclone.

William Osman (4:06)

Oh yeah. Like off shore.

Allen Pan (4:07)

Like atmospheric, like a vertical cyclone. And then you end up with an ocean current and they start feeding back into each other. And so El Nino is supposedly from my one like Vox, or I don't even know which one it was I watched.

It's when they flip. So when the normal current structure flips and it creates like complete opposite weather conditions. So places with monsoons get dry spells and places with dry spells like us get monsoons.