Exxon Valdez oil spill

Yeah.

And the ultimate example from the source about the danger of going quiet or snapping when the pressure to speak becomes too much goes all the way back to the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

Oh, that was such a disaster.

An absolute environmental and human catastrophe.

Yeah.

He says that Thomas' company did the public relations that helped repair Exxon's reputation after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

So like a massive, massive ecological disaster.

And this guy is basically the guy that was in charge of like

All right, so-

It's gonna be the Exxon Valdez

... okay.

All right, bud.

So, Sean, let me ask you this.

Let's talk about an old one like Exxon Valdez or the recent BP oil spill.

That client's going to call you up, walk you through the process of, we believe we have a fractured hull.

Your satellite's going to be able to determine where it's going to flow, the type of equipment it needs to contain it as quickly as possible, assuming

The U.S. sunk that.

There was a huge oil spill associated with it that is about eight times larger than the oil spill associated with the Exxon Valdez.

Remember the Exxon Valdez up in Alaska? That was a catastrophic spill.

And this one looks like it's going to be eight times larger than that.

And you don't even read about it in the paper.

I know I have this at least on, at least on DVD and it's got to have the extended cut.

Because that is definitely the big question with this movie is how much oil could the Exxon Valdez possibly be holding that they are able to indefinitely run these vehicles without

Especially since it did crash and leak a shit ton of it.

Quite famously, yeah.

A 42-gallon barrel of crude oil yields about 19 to 20 gallons of gasoline.

I'm just going to throw this out there.

That means that they would only get about half the amount of gas if they could refine that entire tanker, the Exxon Valdez.

Yeah.

And, and once he finished, a brilliant, brilliant student and brilliant scientist now, he went on to Alaska, and he's been working in Alaska for about thirty years.

And when the Exxon Valdez just, uh, you know, ran aground in Prince William Sound and killed tens of thousands of seabirds in one go, John was there.

He was, he was the guy that, you know, collected the bodies and did the counts and, and showed, like, this is a catastrophe of major proportions.

That was then.

Hey, man, Iceland, they find a way.

Exxon Valdez spilled more than 10 million US gallons of crude oil in Alaska's Prince William Sound.

Mm-hmm.

At the time it was the largest spill.

movie one specific one even I mean I mean one I one I completely I mean you know where you have Dennis Hopper as related to the captain of an oil tanker that had famously crashed and lost a lot of oil and yet even in 1995 because this hadn't happened just this had happened just recently I think there was a groan in the theater of like that wait a minute we don't know when this is taking place right I read online somewhere that in the script or I some production materials this is supposed to be the year 2500 which is like

which is how many years 500 years past the Exxon Valdez is happening yeah

yeah

I mean

It reminds you that this script was being written, not by people now, but it's being written for the expectation that the people now are going to get the joke.

It's not future-proofing it for anyone in the future.

Because if you were to watch it in 2026 and you weren't someone, let's say, between your age, my age, or maybe a little younger than me, does Exxon Valdez even mean anything to you?

Yeah, that...