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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do you know what a three D printer is?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Have you ever seen one? Like in person?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Have you what kind of stuff did it? I mean,
was it somewhere out of business or where'd you see?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Actually?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
The first time I saw one was about a year
and a half ago. I was up at Microcenter on
Bethel Road and they had I think three of them
out for display to show people how they worked. And
then I had a friend who was making I guess
you would call it jewelry and they were using the
three D printer to do little cartoon character type trinket
things for bracelets.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
And that person is a friend that is selling those
still currently far as I know. Okay, because those printers,
I guess are pretty pricey. Yeah right. I can't imagine
what one would cost that actually prints buildings, actual structure.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
That intrigues me. The stuff that is used, the juice,
if you will, is essentially concrete. Yeah, but that whole,
the whole three D printed house thing intrigues the heck
out of me. Man. We could solve a lot of
problems once that becomes widespread and cost effective.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
There's a neighborhood of three D printed homes completed last
year in Texas, an actual neighborhood of these. And so
now Starbucks is opening its first three D printed store
this week and this one is also in Texas As
in Brownsville. Wow, and Alex Stone, ABC News joining us now, Alex,
(01:33):
I thought that when I saw this headline, I thought
to myself, this sounds like something that really would kind
of pop up in Los Angeles just because everything's trendy,
saying about La, Well, everything's trendy. You guys are always
first with a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I'm looking at pictures of it right now.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
It just looks like a Starbucks, but with like those
lines along the side.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
But it's three D printed, But why not just build
it by hand? What's the point?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
It's a lot can do it fast. Yeah, and I
think it's cheaper with with when you print it.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I'm pretty sure it looks like lines of like, yeah,
it's concrete tubing.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yes, it's piled on top.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
That's exactly what the template is laid out. And the
three D printer is like a small crane, if you will,
and it just goes along the the etch a sketch
pattern and builds the house as as the program requires.
And I mean it goes up very quickly. There's no
wood involved. There's no uh no manpower, no labor really
except for the operators of the machine. It's it could be.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
It doesn't look like it did a very good job.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
There's areas where it's like thicker and like like oozed
out a little bit.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Probably use the California printer down in Texas to do this,
that's what happened.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Like, there's an area where it looks like the concrete
when kind of like squeezed out. It's a little fatter
in that area, and yeah, some nicks out of other areas.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
It's like whoops.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
And interestingly enough, that's what it sounds like while it's printing.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah, yeah, it's in the next line.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah. People in the other neighborhood are like that was
Those people would knock it off. Stop eating taco bell. Yeah.
It's a BOAD two printer. I think I'm saying that right.
Uses a steel nozzle to print concrete layers, and the
advantages include reducing the amount of plastering and post treatment
of walls and reducing water evaporation because of minimized wall
(03:25):
surface area. So that's just a little snapshot on I
guess what is more efficient about using a three D
printer to print a building. This is a first for Starbucks.
It's fourteen hundred square feet. It's opening up on what
would that be Friday, May second, so that's it. Also
last year in Tennessee, Walmart added an eight thousand square
(03:49):
foot edition constructed with a three D printer as well,
all five hundred thousand for fourteen hundred square feet. So,
I don't know. Can they build a Starbucks for cheaper
than that? When you're talking about that type of square footage,
you would think the lumber and the dry wall involved
and the builders and I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
But there's no lumber in the building. Like they don't
have to put up a frame at all. You just
go around going of just concrete.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
But there's gotta be there's gotta be some way. Yeah,
we're getting into don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
The walls, interior and exterior are all one. They're one
pore from the printer. Now on the interior the home
and the exterior you can put a brick facade or
something like that. On the exterior if you want interior,
you can hang dry wall, but that wall is a
concrete wall. That's pretty much it is a wall.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Okay, yeah, that's why they can't do it in California
because the earthquakes. It wouldn't work out. Ah, we got
to have some give in our buildings here. But we
don't have brick buildings either.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Okay, wow, yeah I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I mean every now and then you'll see like brick
facades on buildings but made to come off in an earthquake.
But you have a brick building out here, doesn't do
you all that great earthquake.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I gotta be honest. If San Francisco, the first thing
that comes to my mind is like brownstone type buildings,
brick buildings. It's weird when you said that. It just
a little light one.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Yeah, we don't have basements either, No, with no basements
in California.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Oh man, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
You don't want to be in a basement when the
earthquake hits either, even though technically it's for another reason
below the water table and different reasons. But we don't
have basements, and you don't have a lot of concrete
or brick buildings.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
That is fascinating And I never realize that till just now, Yeah, until.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
I imagine being in a concrete building when I think
of when Lola Prita hit in nineteen eighty nine, all
the parking struckt or all the highways that pancaked on
top and people were trapped underneath. So anytime you go
into a parking structure and you're like ten floors underground,
you're just thinking, don't start shaking right now, don't do it.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yeah, the whole thing just goes Yeah, I don't just
collapses yeap. Oh man, So what you're reporting on today?
There was a golf cart incident. You know, I was
saying earlier at the top of the hour kind of
promoting this was coming up by Yeah. You know, I've
you know, hundreds and hundreds of rounds of golf and
been in golf carts where I'm like, oh, this is
the end, like, you know, people start acting stupid. You know,
(06:10):
that's been And that was earlier on not so much
now because typically I don't golf with somebody young enough
that does that kind of stuff where anyway I'm not
in it. But I started I saw that there was
a golf cart incident, and I'm like, man, so this
was John Elway, the great John Elway, and what is
the latest one.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
This yeah, and you've probably been on one where like
you're sitting on the back and they accelerate and you're
not expecting it and then you kind of go flying
off or you're jowled. So earlier today we got word
that John Elway's longtime agent and business partner, Jeff Spurbeck,
that he died from the injuries that happened with this
on Saturday evening and he was apparently riding in the
back seat of a golf cart at the super exclusive
(06:52):
Madison Club in Lacina, which is in the Palm Springs
area as Stagecoach was going on and coming from to
a stagecoach party that's not clear, and Spurbeck fell off
and TMT says that through their sources that he hit
his head. The Riverside County Sheriff's office tells us that
they're investigating it, but they didn't even get called in
(07:12):
until Monday.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
And it happened on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
It apparently seemed like it was an accident at that time,
which it still seems like it was, but the law
enforcement wasn't notified it didn't look like they needed to
be until finally on Monday, there were Ali Simon was
there she saw the immediate aftermath, and she tells.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Us it was so sad and our hearts just go
out to the families. But we were heading out of
the community and we pulled up and it had to
have happened probably one minute before us pulling.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Up, And she says it was clear right away that
Spurbeck was badly hurt.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
He was unfortunately lying on the ground and there are
people surrounding him just trying to make sure he was okay,
and people were on the phone just trying to get
help there as soon as they possibly could. It was
so scary, I mean it like it was nothing like
we've ever seeing. You just don't think so Skinner going
to ever witness anything like that. But his wife was
(08:06):
like hysterical, and.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
She says that she could see John Elway calling nine
one one for help, desperately trying to get medics there.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Yeah, he was on the phone trying to call nine
one one, call anyone.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
So Spurbeck was reportedly on life support at the only
trauma center in the Palm Springs area, and then this
morning he died, and the corner putting his time of
death earlier today.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
No indication that there was any wrongdoing.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
It appears this was a bad accident, but they are
going to investigate. Elway was reportedly at the wheel. We've
reached out to his reps and Spurbeck's company, a winery
that they owned together, but we haven't heard back yet.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
But it seems like a tragic accident.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Now, you said earlier that law enforcement nobody was informed
of this yet nine one one was called, and clearly
that's when EMS is dispatched, I'm guessing and by Saturday night,
you would think, and they're just now like being contacted
about it today.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
So it looks like the medics came, you know, just
like a medical emergency would be where police wouldn't be called,
and so was seen as just like, you know, this
guy fell off of a golf cart and medics came,
and firefighters came, and they took him to the hospital
and it kind of ended it that and then at
some point the Sheriff's department was brought into it have
told oh, you may need to look into this, but
(09:23):
it appears early on that they wasn't believed that they
were needed.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, there's a man, so tragic. Here's the other thing too,
they're going to determine if there was alcohol involved, you know,
and because it was a music festival, right they were
driving to it or from it, is that.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Yeah, they have a party involved with Stagecoach, the country
music festival. But laws would be different on a golf
cart and on private property in this community and on
the golf course. You know, you think of how many
people drive around in a golf cart and drink beer
and they have the beer carts and everything else, so
it's not like driving a vehicle on a public road.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
It is different.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
So will that come into play. No indication they had
been drinking, we don't know, but wouldn't be surprising with
the country music festival going on and the parties that
were going on, and apparently they were coming to or
from one of them, so that may have been involved
as well.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Man. So sad, no question, no matter how you staggering
for sure, Alex Stone, ABC News out of La Alex,
Thanks very much.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
You got a pace case, see you man.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I really I'm not trying to be Derek Downer here,
but I've never understood why you're allowed to drink and
drive a golf cart, yet you can't drink and ride
a bicycle on the street. You can't drink and drive
a golf cart on your street, a public street. I
get it that it's private property. But if you were
(10:47):
drinking and on a four wheeler on your private property
and something catastrophic happens, I believe, you know, police get
involved in that, and I don't know if DUI charges happen. Again,
I'm not trying to be that guy because people might
be listening that that golf and drink and they're like, dude,
shut up, why But I'm not the first. But that's
(11:07):
the thing I don't understand, because I would imagine there
was some drinking involved with this, and if there was,
Elway was driving, who do you go after the person
with the most money.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Well, they're going after the golf course.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
It occurred on their I know, but Elway was driving.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I understand that. But the golf course is responsible for
what happens on its property. The golf course may in
turn go after Elway or may team up with Elway's
legal people to come to a conclusion about how they
want to settle this.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
But because his widow is going to go oh.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, on that private I don't mean it to mean
anybody by name, but was it an Ohio state coach
four or four years ago? Maybe that was on their
four wheeler after a bowl game or something.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
And I do rin again, and I do remember somebody.
I don't want to say any names because I can't
remember exact property.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yep, no criminal charges involved. And you know somebody wants
to sue you for what happened on your property, they
can would, but it's homeowners.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
And then if there's alcohol involved, again it's it was yes,
that's who came to mind. It was Heartline and Brian Hartline, So.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
It's commons who. I don't care if it's a bicycle.
If you're on wheels, man, you're not in you know,
as as complete control as you could be right of yourself.
So that's common sense. But I don't know if there's
a broach of legality there, yeah, man, rereach of legality.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I'm sorry. Yeah, this is this is really sad. I
don't know how old the guy is either or was,
but you know you heard he was indicating how his
wife was hysterical, as you can imagine, And once all
the dust settles, there's going to be lawsuits flying, Yeah,
guaranteed