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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Alex Stone. ABC News is joining us now and Alex,
how are you, man?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
How's it going on today? To her in high school,
misty drizzle? Did you Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Yeah? Man, another one of those you go is that
really your name? When you when you first meet her,
and she goes, yeah, absolutely, and stop getting ones, start
tipping me with fines, you know, at least or more
or larger. But yeah, I am. I'm headed your way
on Friday. You're coming to LA I'm coming. Well, no,
(00:31):
by your way.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Make it all the way. You're just gonna make it
like four hundred miles short.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yes, it'll be dude. This is a this is an
enormous blackcheck tournament that's happening. It's a two hundred thousand
dollars black check tournament on Saturday, and it's at Palazzo
and so I'm in it, and so I'm coming out
Friday and just you know, come it's a quick turnaround.
I'm flying out Friday morning and then Sunday evening coming
(00:58):
back to.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Make some big bus. The good news is, after weeks
and weeks of rain, we've got all clear skies coming
up for the next while. So yeah, it's gonna be
great for.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
You, well, I haven't.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I haven't even looked at I think the even Vegas
Scott like a bunch of rain on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I think it's got to go there. It just heads east,
so yeah, it always hits there after us.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Right, and you're it would have to go a little
north too, right, I mean the way that because La
is a little bit kind of southwest from the anyway. Yeah,
but yeah, I keep thinking every time I'm gonna go
out there, I'm like, one of these times, man, I'm
gonna end up somehow someway.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
We will ride Dumbo together.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I you know, that would be so.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Fun to do something like that. But it's about what
did you tell me is about six hours through the
desert roughly driving.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I mean it depends on traffic, but if things are
backed up, but yeah, like four or four and a
half hours.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
But when you say backed up, like as in you know,
as you get close to one city or.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
When you go because a lot of time everybody's coming
back from Vegas, you know, at the end of a weekend,
And it just depends on when you're going. But uh,
if you fly it's thirty five minutes, it's not bad
at all. Well, let's go on Southwest for like like
fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
So let's say I did that one time, and then
I land in LA and then it takes me the
other five hours to get to wherever.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
That's about right, So.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Then it's like six and one a half dozen of
the other. And you know, I've never been to Los Angeles,
and I really would never try to navigate drive around there.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I don't think unless you're going nah, you'd be okay,
but you'd be fine. But you live there, and so
you are much braver and you know the ins and outs.
And I could see me.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
You just sit in traffic all the time. You don't move,
so it's easy to not make a wrong turn because
you're barely moving. Time to think about it.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
That's really funny, Yeah, because I could see me going,
I'm in Watts, How did I end up in and
I'm in big trouble.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
If something like that that happens, I think, Yeah, just
don't get off the freeway. You'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
So just stay on the freeway all the way to Disney.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Going to wherever you want to go. Just don't don't
get off to good gas or anything. You'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Right, Disneyland and just pay a million dollars to park
and another million to get in, and then I can
we have.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
A couple of turos together a dole whip. All will
be good.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Oh man, that's now you're singing, my that's that's perfect man.
Uh yeah, you'll be one of the first people I'll
let I'll notify if I if I take this thing down, Well,
I met like, if I take this thing down this weekend,
this tournament I'm in, you'll be one of the first.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
When you're much much richer. Let me know, ye on
your private jet and come out to La.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
So should I avoid then while I'm flying out the
water on board the aircraft?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, I mean, if you're drinking water, it's probably coming
out of a bottle or I think for Southwest, out
of their cans. But do you ever order coffee on board?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yes? I have drank coffee before I do too.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I remember the warnings over the years, and some people
say no that they don't touch it a coffee or
tea or I mean, you hope you're washing your hands
when you go to the bathroom and using the water
faucett in there. But there is a nonprofit that they
do these studies every couple of years, and they say,
don't do any of that because as they do their
airline rankings, that it's not scientific at all. This is
(04:20):
based on airline self reported data. But they give airlines
a water safety score based on public reports of E.
Coli in the water on planes, of other things in
bacteria and whatnot, and how many incidents in an airline
has had with the safety of its water, how often
they flush and disinfect the tanks on board. So this
is doctor Charles Platkin, he's he the author of the rankings,
(04:41):
and he says, look, water can become contaminated on a
plane in a number of different ways where they fill up,
what the truck is like when they bring it out
to the aircraft in and then the aircraft itself, of
all the other phillips it's done, where sediment is at
the bottom, and it may have stuff in it like E.
Coali and whatnot. That he says, there's a of ways
for it to get very dirty.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Aircraft can fill up in different locations. They could fill
up and if they fill up in New York City, well,
New York City's great water is great, whereas they fill
out in other locations.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Well, they may not be so great, So there's that.
Then they go into two trucks.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Those trucks could have contatinants, contabinants, so and then and
then the airline's own possible water tanks could have contabinuts.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
So he's with the Center for Food is Medicine. He says,
there are airlines that do better. He says Delta has
come a very long way, that they used to not
be so great, but now they put a lot of
emphasis on the quality of their water coming out of
the tap and everything else on board, and others and
not so much.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Well, let's say the Delta and Frontier are the best,
and the bottom tier is American Airlines, and then Jet
Blue is the second worst, and then Spirit.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, you could argue the kind of age of aircraft
may play a role as well of newer tanks. Yeah,
some of the older aircraft at American and elsewhere can
be like, you know, thirty thirty five years old, and
you think about how much water has been in those
holding tanks on board. But he and again this is
a non sientific the way they did this, But based
on his data, he says the water coming out of
holding tanks on planes for drinking, and even the faucet
(06:06):
in the bathroom. It's pretty nasty. So I said, what
don't shouldn't we be doing?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Do not drink the coffee, Do not drink the tea,
get it right before you get on the flight.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Oh and most importantly, do not wash your hands at
the lavatory because those the lavatories test worse than anything else.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
So don't wash your hand sanitizer with sixty percent alcohol
or better.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Now, our medical team here at ABC, they say, well,
that goes against medical advice that if you have water
and you have soap, that you want to use that
over hand sanitizer. That's gonna work better, even if you
are a little questionable on the water. As long as
you have soap that is effective. That they say instead
of using hand sanitizer, that you only use that when
you don't have water. But yeah, whatever, he and his
(06:47):
doctoress says, don't do it, but makes you think about
it that before you order coffee tea, before you wash
your hands in there. That may be pretty nasty coming out.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I gotta tell you, man, unless you know I use
hand sanitizer most of the time and especially when i'm
in public. Now at home, I'll use you know, the
soap and water in the sink. But I do that
mainly because depending on where you are, some of the
soap is just disgusting, like the way that it smells
(07:17):
that it gets on, yes, or if you're eating something
handheld and then it's up, but it can be so
strong that it's infiltrating, like, yes, it's gross, and so
just short of like ripping the toilet paper and getting
stuff under your fingernd well clearly something like that, then yeah,
(07:37):
you're gonna have to use soap and water and scrub
scrub scrub. But other than that, so the other thing
that I'm like going, oh my gosh, I haven't had
tea or coffee on a flight in quite a while.
But it's not I wasn't avoiding it because I thought, like,
whoa man, this might not be the most savory thing
to do. It's just been kind of I usually will
(07:58):
get it in the airport before or if I'm gonna
get coffee, simply because I'm kind of a coffee snob
with that stuff, like I want something that tastes really
really good, and most of the time airline coffee tastes
like craft coffee maker on board.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
So the other thing was too, what if the aircraft
that they've just filled up with water you kind of said,
you know different places, like he was going, well, they
fill up in New York. What if they fill up
in Tijuana and then we're in.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Like the Dominican Republic. Oh yeah, we got could be anywhere.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
We got trouble. Although, yeah, I know they're not really
gonna do that or whatever, but this kind of stuff
is I think you're doing God's work man when you
do stuff. I'm not kidding, Like, this is something that
needs to be people need to think about it, and
maybe now to a point they're gonna be going, I'm
thinking too much about it now, and they're like, why
couldn't they just left it alone because I was doing fun.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Just get something out of a can or a bottle
and you'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I one hundred percent agree with that.
Alec Stone, ABC News.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Are you is it warm there today?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
We are sixty two today, which is very cold.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Here, very cold, sweater weather. Maybe a parka, yes, scarf?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yes, he did best, heated best and all of that.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Alex, thank you very much. I leave Friday morning.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Oh okay, we'll talk again, all right, I'll see you
all right, all right,
Alex Stone. ABC News is joining us now and Alex,
how are you, man?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
How's it going on today? To her in high school,
misty drizzle? Did you Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Yeah? Man, another one of those you go is that
really your name? When you when you first meet her,
and she goes, yeah, absolutely, and stop getting ones, start
tipping me with fines, you know, at least or more
or larger. But yeah, I am. I'm headed your way
on Friday. You're coming to LA I'm coming. Well, no,
(00:31):
by your way.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Make it all the way. You're just gonna make it
like four hundred miles short.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yes, it'll be dude. This is a this is an
enormous blackcheck tournament that's happening. It's a two hundred thousand
dollars black check tournament on Saturday, and it's at Palazzo
and so I'm in it, and so I'm coming out
Friday and just you know, come it's a quick turnaround.
I'm flying out Friday morning and then Sunday evening coming
(00:58):
back to.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Make some big bus. The good news is, after weeks
and weeks of rain, we've got all clear skies coming
up for the next while. So yeah, it's gonna be
great for.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
You, well, I haven't.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I haven't even looked at I think the even Vegas
Scott like a bunch of rain on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I think it's got to go there. It just heads east,
so yeah, it always hits there after us.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Right, and you're it would have to go a little
north too, right, I mean the way that because La
is a little bit kind of southwest from the anyway. Yeah,
but yeah, I keep thinking every time I'm gonna go
out there, I'm like, one of these times, man, I'm
gonna end up somehow someway.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
We will ride Dumbo together.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I you know, that would be so.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Fun to do something like that. But it's about what
did you tell me is about six hours through the
desert roughly driving.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I mean it depends on traffic, but if things are
backed up, but yeah, like four or four and a
half hours.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
But when you say backed up, like as in you know,
as you get close to one city or.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
When you go because a lot of time everybody's coming
back from Vegas, you know, at the end of a weekend,
And it just depends on when you're going. But uh,
if you fly it's thirty five minutes, it's not bad
at all. Well, let's go on Southwest for like like
fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
So let's say I did that one time, and then
I land in LA and then it takes me the
other five hours to get to wherever.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
That's about right, So.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Then it's like six and one a half dozen of
the other. And you know, I've never been to Los Angeles,
and I really would never try to navigate drive around there.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I don't think unless you're going nah, you'd be okay,
but you'd be fine. But you live there, and so
you are much braver and you know the ins and outs.
And I could see me.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
You just sit in traffic all the time. You don't move,
so it's easy to not make a wrong turn because
you're barely moving. Time to think about it.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
That's really funny, Yeah, because I could see me going,
I'm in Watts, How did I end up in and
I'm in big trouble.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
If something like that that happens, I think, Yeah, just
don't get off the freeway. You'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
So just stay on the freeway all the way to Disney.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Going to wherever you want to go. Just don't don't
get off to good gas or anything. You'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Right, Disneyland and just pay a million dollars to park
and another million to get in, and then I can
we have.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
A couple of turos together a dole whip. All will
be good.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Oh man, that's now you're singing, my that's that's perfect man.
Uh yeah, you'll be one of the first people I'll
let I'll notify if I if I take this thing down, Well,
I met like, if I take this thing down this weekend,
this tournament I'm in, you'll be one of the first.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
When you're much much richer. Let me know, ye on
your private jet and come out to La.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
So should I avoid then while I'm flying out the
water on board the aircraft?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, I mean, if you're drinking water, it's probably coming
out of a bottle or I think for Southwest, out
of their cans. But do you ever order coffee on board?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yes? I have drank coffee before I do too.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I remember the warnings over the years, and some people
say no that they don't touch it a coffee or
tea or I mean, you hope you're washing your hands
when you go to the bathroom and using the water
faucett in there. But there is a nonprofit that they
do these studies every couple of years, and they say,
don't do any of that because as they do their
airline rankings, that it's not scientific at all. This is
(04:20):
based on airline self reported data. But they give airlines
a water safety score based on public reports of E.
Coli in the water on planes, of other things in
bacteria and whatnot, and how many incidents in an airline
has had with the safety of its water, how often
they flush and disinfect the tanks on board. So this
is doctor Charles Platkin, he's he the author of the rankings,
(04:41):
and he says, look, water can become contaminated on a
plane in a number of different ways where they fill up,
what the truck is like when they bring it out
to the aircraft in and then the aircraft itself, of
all the other phillips it's done, where sediment is at
the bottom, and it may have stuff in it like E.
Coali and whatnot. That he says, there's a of ways
for it to get very dirty.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Aircraft can fill up in different locations. They could fill
up and if they fill up in New York City, well,
New York City's great water is great, whereas they fill
out in other locations.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Well, they may not be so great, So there's that.
Then they go into two trucks.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Those trucks could have contatinants, contabinants, so and then and
then the airline's own possible water tanks could have contabinuts.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
So he's with the Center for Food is Medicine. He says,
there are airlines that do better. He says Delta has
come a very long way, that they used to not
be so great, but now they put a lot of
emphasis on the quality of their water coming out of
the tap and everything else on board, and others and
not so much.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Well, let's say the Delta and Frontier are the best,
and the bottom tier is American Airlines, and then Jet
Blue is the second worst, and then Spirit.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, you could argue the kind of age of aircraft
may play a role as well of newer tanks. Yeah,
some of the older aircraft at American and elsewhere can
be like, you know, thirty thirty five years old, and
you think about how much water has been in those
holding tanks on board. But he and again this is
a non sientific the way they did this, But based
on his data, he says the water coming out of
holding tanks on planes for drinking, and even the faucet
(06:06):
in the bathroom. It's pretty nasty. So I said, what
don't shouldn't we be doing?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Do not drink the coffee, Do not drink the tea,
get it right before you get on the flight.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Oh and most importantly, do not wash your hands at
the lavatory because those the lavatories test worse than anything else.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
So don't wash your hand sanitizer with sixty percent alcohol
or better.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Now, our medical team here at ABC, they say, well,
that goes against medical advice that if you have water
and you have soap, that you want to use that
over hand sanitizer. That's gonna work better, even if you
are a little questionable on the water. As long as
you have soap that is effective. That they say instead
of using hand sanitizer, that you only use that when
you don't have water. But yeah, whatever, he and his
(06:47):
doctoress says, don't do it, but makes you think about
it that before you order coffee tea, before you wash
your hands in there. That may be pretty nasty coming out.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I gotta tell you, man, unless you know I use
hand sanitizer most of the time and especially when i'm
in public. Now at home, I'll use you know, the
soap and water in the sink. But I do that
mainly because depending on where you are, some of the
soap is just disgusting, like the way that it smells
(07:17):
that it gets on, yes, or if you're eating something
handheld and then it's up, but it can be so
strong that it's infiltrating, like, yes, it's gross, and so
just short of like ripping the toilet paper and getting
stuff under your fingernd well clearly something like that, then yeah,
(07:37):
you're gonna have to use soap and water and scrub
scrub scrub. But other than that, so the other thing
that I'm like going, oh my gosh, I haven't had
tea or coffee on a flight in quite a while.
But it's not I wasn't avoiding it because I thought, like,
whoa man, this might not be the most savory thing
to do. It's just been kind of I usually will
(07:58):
get it in the airport before or if I'm gonna
get coffee, simply because I'm kind of a coffee snob
with that stuff, like I want something that tastes really
really good, and most of the time airline coffee tastes
like craft coffee maker on board.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
So the other thing was too, what if the aircraft
that they've just filled up with water you kind of said,
you know different places, like he was going, well, they
fill up in New York. What if they fill up
in Tijuana and then we're in.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Like the Dominican Republic. Oh yeah, we got could be anywhere.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
We got trouble. Although, yeah, I know they're not really
gonna do that or whatever, but this kind of stuff
is I think you're doing God's work man when you
do stuff. I'm not kidding, Like, this is something that
needs to be people need to think about it, and
maybe now to a point they're gonna be going, I'm
thinking too much about it now, and they're like, why
couldn't they just left it alone because I was doing fun.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Just get something out of a can or a bottle
and you'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I one hundred percent agree with that.
Alec Stone, ABC News.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Are you is it warm there today?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
We are sixty two today, which is very cold.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Here, very cold, sweater weather. Maybe a parka, yes, scarf?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yes, he did best, heated best and all of that.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Alex, thank you very much. I leave Friday morning.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Oh okay, we'll talk again, all right, I'll see you
all right, all right,
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