Rory O'Neill talks Brooklyn Bridge collision & Palm Springs bombing

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Horrible situation over the weekend. Obviously, many people recorded cell
phone video this Mexican Navy ship that was in the
waters in New York instruct the Brooklyn Bridge. Here's some
of the reactions from folks.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Oh wow, oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
I don't know why or how this happened. And maybe
Roy and Neil's got the answers for us. It looked
like the mass on this ship were just a little
too high for the bridge. Roy welcome in.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yeah, well JG. That ship was going backwards.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
It was supposed to be going the other direction at
the time of the collision. It wasn't supposed to be
going under the Brooklyn Bridge. It wouldn't fit. So lots
of questions as to whether or not there was a
power failure and issue with a rudder. And if you
couldn't tell from the video, if you're only watching on
your phone, you know, this was the big departure ceremony
for this ship.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
At the time. All of the cadets.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
And sailors on board were actually up the masts off
the yard arms in the rigging in formation.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
So the ship was supposed to be sailing.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
Out after spending several days in New York Harbor and
would be going down or going up to Iceland in
the next few days. But instead the ship went in
the wrong direction and backed into the Brooklyn Bridge.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Apparently two people lost their lives in this correct.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yeah, a female cadet in the marine. Both of them
died from their injuries. I think two others are still
in critical condition. A lot of the cadet got caught
up in the sails and rigging and had to be
cut out, and it took a long time to reach them.
You know, the US Navy, or rather the US Coast Guard,
has a very similar ship of the same design, I
think different centuries, but the same design, and it's also

(01:49):
used for these good will tours and tall ship festivals
and for recruitment and training. So these ships like this
are quite common, but a collision like this certainly is not.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, just awful situation there. I mean, as the ship reusable,
it was the ship ruined? Was it just the mass
that broke? I mean, how bad was the destruction?

Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yeah, all three of the tallest masts all snapped, and
so they'll need replacement.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
That's going to be an issue.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
But yeah, we'll see if the rest of it certainly
could be salvage. The ship was only built I think
in nineteen eighty two. It looks like it's from the
seventeen hundreds, but it's much dower.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, relatively speaking, that's new. You look at some of
the airlines out there. Some of these airplanes are made
in the fifties and they're still flying up there all right.
Switching gears and another domestic terrorist attect. It looks like
here one did four injured in the car explosion at
this Palm Springs fertility clinic. At a press conference yesterday,
Assistant Director in charge of the LAFBI there talking about

(02:51):
the suspect.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
We are fairly confident that that subject is guy Edward Barkiss,
twenty five year old, and this was a targeted attack
against the IDF facility.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Horrible situation. He, I guess, apparently died in the whole
thing himself, right.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
The only fatality is the person we believe responsible. Apparently
he may have been trying to live stream the attack.
They found some writings of what they're calling anti pro
life writing. So, but there was an attack on a
fertility clinic. Thankfully, the embryos inside were not damaged or
in any way, he is the only fatality.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
For other people suffered injuries.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
The explosion though, was so big it knocked out and
shattered windows up and down the block. But yeah, they're
trying to learn more about this guy.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
That motivation.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yill whack job for sure. I mean, how are you
anti pro life? You know, it's a bit different than
bombing an abortion at clinic, which is totally you know,
obviously bad as well. And Eric Rudolph we remember, you know,
bombed at clinic here in Birmingham. This was a whole
life IVF center. I don't understand the motivation there.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
He thinks we should not be pro creating. He thinks
we should not be having more children or sorry, let
me change my birth.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Not to be confused with pro creating, right.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
He thought we should not pro create.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
He doesn't think we should just you know, get involved.
If God can't do it and stuff, you shouldn't be
in the lab doing this, okay.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Well, and if he can't do it, then we shouldn't
be able to do either.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Jeez. So the investigation, I guess they're looking into, you know,
the motivation behind this.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
He's dead, so they just want to make sure no
one else was involved, right, you know, see, whether he
got his motivation from someone in particular, funded some way,
how did they learn this as somebody out there teaching this,
that's the stuff they want to follow up on.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
All right, Ry, Thanks buddy, I appreciate you having great Monday.