Freight guy here. If we cause a derailment we get in trouble. If the track causes a derailment the maintenance crews get in trouble. If the train caused the derailment mechanical guys get in trouble. And if management's dumb plans were the cause then no one gets in trouble.
@johnathanh2660
Жыл бұрын
It was ever thus... (the first three *cost* money and mgmt save money by cutting corners)
@jacobrzeszewski6527
Жыл бұрын
When I deal marijuana I go to jail. But when Purdue deals fentanyl they get bonuses.
@jsunflyguy
2 жыл бұрын
I operate trains in the US, having derailed myself the process is generally: 1) Train derails 2) Blame the crew 3) Check if crew is ok 4) Crew is exonerated by black box or obvious sign of track/equipment failure. 5) Crew repeats same story 37 times to every manager and cop in a 5 mile radius. 6) Investigation concludes and everyone moves on. Ignore the lack of maintenance and inspections, do not look for a root cause.
@jacobrzeszewski6527
Жыл бұрын
Most derailments are either partial or don’t leave the vicinity of the tracks. And usually happen on shit rails rated for low speeds.
@AllenSJ5
2 жыл бұрын
The Penn Central episode has been broken into several parts, as required by antitrust law.
@ytanddave
Жыл бұрын
😂❤
@spamviking
2 жыл бұрын
Alice's 'covered wagon' comment in regards to certain modes of transport holding on by a fraction of a percent reminded me of the bullock teams that are still being used by the logging industry to this day to haul timber out of areas too rough for trucks.
@AlRoderick
2 жыл бұрын
Plus a certain amount of passenger services in Amish country, Central Park and Macinac Island.
@ThePopopotatoes
2 жыл бұрын
Plus the mail mules still used to deliver to a particularly isolated native reservation in Arizona. At least they were still doing that a few years ago...
@walterr3602
2 жыл бұрын
Back in my youth I was part of a crew doing trail work backcountry in Yosemite. We were out there for about a month, and every five days we got a good resupply by mule train! So to us, that was truly vital infrastructure.
@Robert0Pirie
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, Penn Central can't be the end of the show, they still haven't done Hurricane Katrina and just so many plane crashes.
@HamburgerTime209
2 жыл бұрын
Or the sinking of the MTS Sewol, talk about a disaster soaking in social murder.
@poppingfreshjpofboyn5654
2 жыл бұрын
Or the Tacoma Narrows bridge disaster.
@iron1349
2 жыл бұрын
and SpaceX, they need to do a SpaceX episode .
@wesbartlett4447
2 жыл бұрын
I'm waiting for Episode 200, Ottawa Confederation LRT
@wesbartlett4447
2 жыл бұрын
@@poppingfreshjpofboyn5654 whoops, you accidentally found yourself in a wormhole and are now in the future. They did that already.
@djtopicality
2 жыл бұрын
Good news for Alice: when the infrastructure bill was being debated every time you opened Twitter in the DC area you saw dozens of promoted posts from the inland waterway barge industry
@Debilitator47
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for the laughs and an eye opening look into big engineering and the root causes that lead to these disasters, not just the disasters in isolation. The Hindenburg episode is still by far my fave, and I'm a fan of dirigibles. Yes they are terrible. But they are also just highly imaginative and have a certain romanticism, possibly from the fact they didn't survive into the modern age to have cramped seating, a bag of stale peanuts, and indifferent flight crew. Please keep doing what you do. The laughs helped me survive the last months of my job, which no longer exists (company closed).
@ExecutorElassus
2 жыл бұрын
I really like how this episode proves the recent XKCD theory, that you know things are about to hit the fan when the temporal resolution of the chronology becomes increasingly exact.
@rwrunning1813
2 жыл бұрын
This podcast has mentioned Unstoppable at least three times, and that has to be at least three times more than any other podcast. And I love that.
@SadisticSenpai61
2 жыл бұрын
We had a derailment about a mile from where we live several years ago. I want to say 2020? Maybe 2019? I can't remember. It was in summer and I remember it messed with one of the bus routes cuz it happened in downtown. There was also something leaking that they were worried might have been toxic, but I think it largely turned out to be... mostly harmless? It was only one tanker car that was leaking at least and they cleaned it up pretty quickly. I don't think I ever learned what caused the derailment. They've got crews maintaining the tracks near here pretty much year round as it's Union Pacific's main line from Omaha to Chicago, so a track problem is probably unlikely.
@zimmerwald1915
2 жыл бұрын
1:36:38 The Holy Roman Empire was abolished in 1806. The first railway in what had at one point been the Holy Roman Empire opened in 1835.
@silaskuemmerle2505
2 жыл бұрын
1:41:26 Alice, I hate to be 'that guy' but the Hellcat was made by Grumman... Anyway, keep up the good work, and I look forward to the day where the Overton window shifts to the point that this podcast is seen as right wing
@ClaudiaNW
2 жыл бұрын
A time when there's still a two-party system, but it's the Communist Party of America and the Communist Party of America (Marxist-Leninist)
@silaskuemmerle2505
2 жыл бұрын
@@ClaudiaNW no, one of them is the Communist Party of America and the other is the Huey Long Memorial Party
@youllnevertakemealive2833
2 жыл бұрын
YAY 100 But Curtis made hawks, Grumman made the cats. Rookie mistake.
@silaskuemmerle2505
2 жыл бұрын
Don't forget the Son of a Bitch 2nd Class; the Helldiver
@GoredonTheDestroyer
Жыл бұрын
Vought made Corsairs, Grumman made Cats, Curtis made Hawks. Republic made... Eh... Thunder?
@oafhauohguoihgakds5151
2 жыл бұрын
congrats on episode 100, your'e halfway to being homologated for group b
@rwrunning1813
2 жыл бұрын
And only half a minute to being homogenated!
@alexparker4244
2 жыл бұрын
They'll simply break for lunch while quietly moving all the episodes to a different parking lot
@HonourableHusband
Жыл бұрын
Former resident of Japan, here. Much of the profit from Japan’s railway system comes from the railway companies owning the tracks, ornater, owning the land on which they sit. Huge profits from real estate development at stations. Brings to mind the history of streetcar suburbs in the USA.
@SadisticSenpai61
2 жыл бұрын
I believe that photo with Reynolds and all the white girls (most of whom dyed their hair blond) was taken in one of the atriums/lobbies of the Iowa Capitol Building. It's a beautiful building, but the flooring is pretty meh. Notably, no one is wearing a mask. A mask mandate has never been issued in Iowa - even when over a quarter of Iowans had covid. The most we got was a ban on eating indoors at restaurants which was finally taken away after Trump wasn't in office anymore. That ban on dining indoors at restaurants was also quite literally the only good thing Reynolds has done as governor.
@guyonthebike
2 жыл бұрын
I live in Iowa and whenever it's mentioned it's never good.
@Mercgribern
2 жыл бұрын
Yep... Trans and in Idaho. They're not stopping anytime soon. But I'm just being silly, right?
@Dark_LoreVT
2 жыл бұрын
57:58! Hell yeah! Shout out to the Reading Railroad! I highly recommend visiting the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum the next time y'all are in the Hamburg PA area. Well worth the visit! ❤
@Man2quilla
2 жыл бұрын
The Holy Pullman Empire
@kakarooku
2 жыл бұрын
i just wanted to say i’m watching this on the empire builder east bound from portland, or to chicago
@sleatersan
2 жыл бұрын
Aww, I take the Empire Builder east bound from Seattle once or twice a year. Creepy name, but good train.
@LucasL512
2 жыл бұрын
Having the 100th episode be part 2 of a series is such a perfect example of the WTYP podcast vibe
@FreeRadicalX
2 жыл бұрын
Wow happy centennial team, here's too 100 more 🍾
@aninterestingtitle7581
2 жыл бұрын
so is the start of the revolution the sign to stop the podcast or is the end of the podcast the sign to start the revolution?
@dorianhinkle5595
2 жыл бұрын
Here's to 100 more episodes so we can buy Alice more patches and watches, the utilitarian bracelet.
@AstroPeri42
2 жыл бұрын
liam's mic was broken at first in commemoration of the first episode without him. happy 100 everybody!
@adamboye89
2 жыл бұрын
so what im understanding is that penn central invented the 40ft lootbox?
@GenuineMartin
2 жыл бұрын
Ya- -iam!
@Mrrobi02468
2 жыл бұрын
episode 100!!!!!!!!!!! listening since day 1.
@redbasher636
2 жыл бұрын
Poor Liam and being barely able to understand best boy.
@MissFruityPie
2 жыл бұрын
Am I losing my mind, or does The God Damned News sting get ever so slightly faster/higher in pitch every episode?
@ClaudiaNW
2 жыл бұрын
It's called managed decline
@le_travie7724
2 жыл бұрын
Adeptus Mechanicus wouldn't even know how the trains ran. It'd just be chants and sacred oils
@Reagae-fv3cp
9 ай бұрын
PNCT does direct ship to rail tranfer.
@Personal_Chizo
2 жыл бұрын
2:37:20 Glorious, perfect, immaculate. No notes.
@izabelmeadow2757
2 жыл бұрын
remember when this podcast started and the episodes were 40 minutes long lmao
@michaelhawk6847
2 жыл бұрын
So painful to see my governor featured at the opening. 🤦
@RosealiaRook
Жыл бұрын
Hello I am once again demanding photos of cats when they are mentioned. I BEG for the cats to be shown
@BanJoKazoowie
2 жыл бұрын
2:37:20 I laughed more than I should have. Thank you for making me smile, Liam, as always
@Kinzokugia
4 ай бұрын
1:30:16 - "One ticket for the Screwpile Express, please."
@Josiahiswatching
2 жыл бұрын
First time I’ve heard the name drop of a city that is relatively close to my rural nowhere!
@jeffstaples347
2 жыл бұрын
And still, Liam's mic is fkn garbage.
@ClaudiaNW
2 жыл бұрын
Rocz: *mentions literally any town in the eastern US or Canada* Liam: "Remember that time we went there?"
@ViperhawkX
2 жыл бұрын
The Holy Roman Empire was disbanded by Napoleon in 1806. The first railroad in Germany powered by things other than horses (and their viscera) was in 1815 when Johann Friedrich Krigar built a copy of the Blekinsop steam engine for a mine in Upper Silesia. So there missed being a Holy Roman Train by less than ten years.
@Sir.Craze-
2 жыл бұрын
There's no way that's Right. The Holy Roman Empire was so long ag- *Google's on Google* _WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!!_
@steemlenn8797
2 жыл бұрын
@@Sir.Craze- Holy Roman Empire of German Nation (or whatever it is in English: Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation) btw. the first real railroad (e.g. passenger service between towns) in Germany was 1935 Nürnberg - Fürth.
@redbasher636
2 жыл бұрын
@@steemlenn8797 What nonsense are you talking about with that second fact. Please, source that for me.
@steemlenn8797
2 жыл бұрын
@@redbasher636 Haha, okay, I mistyped, of course it's 1835. Should not that hard to find out using a search - or even without searching ;)
@thomasgray4188
2 жыл бұрын
wow feels weird to compare un named engineering podcast episode 1 to episode 100 of WTYP.
@toslowlypoke
2 жыл бұрын
it feels like they added goddamn news and safety third and that's basically it tbh
@William-Morey-Baker
2 жыл бұрын
yet somehow the sound quality regressed to episode 1 levels...
@wesbartlett4447
2 жыл бұрын
@@toslowlypoke and?
@fuzzydunlop7928
2 жыл бұрын
I was actually surprised when I first found this podcast how fully-formed it seemed from the get-go. Like, check out the first episode of Lions Led by Donkeys for comparison.
@plaguebomb2712
2 жыл бұрын
@@fuzzydunlop7928 yeah for all the memes aside Justin has this very solid American showmanship
@angusmillerable
2 жыл бұрын
Alice makes an error at 1:30:19. A sleeper train is one you sneak into the road network with false documentation, have it drive around highways for years, and then when you give it the code word it links up with 100 boxcars and then details itself.
@Shredderbox
4 ай бұрын
The Manchurian Traindidate 😂
@Rankerquat
2 жыл бұрын
17:04 if you need a timestamp for when Liam takes his mic off the Lazy Susan. Here's to another 100 episodes of complaining about Liam's mic!
@LachlanPratt
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@warmachine5835
2 жыл бұрын
I kinda figured that Liam's mic was finally beaten down by the unrestrained anger it has to suffer week after week and had finally given up.
@klsinger124
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you 😊
@NinjaAgnostic
2 жыл бұрын
My favorite podcast that opens with: "How tall are you?" "5'11"" "I could fuck you up."
@TuckerWhite94
2 жыл бұрын
One hundred episodes!!! That means WTYP is now officially syndicated! Right?
@ernekid7241
2 жыл бұрын
It means that most of the jokes and the swearing are going to be cut for syndication
@thomasgiles2876
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but they speed up the podcast so they can add more Buy Snus commercials while keeping the podcast the same length. They are still not sponsored by Buy Snus though
@ewetoo
2 жыл бұрын
happy 100 WTYP!!
@juice-opinion
2 жыл бұрын
mondays at 9/8c on the CW
@eleSDSU
2 жыл бұрын
@@ernekid7241 That's how you get those 20 min episodes for reruns
@One_Missing_Worker
2 жыл бұрын
In the most recent RedLetterMedia video they talked about "Shake Hands With Danger" for about a minute.
@GrandLordGeek
2 жыл бұрын
You gotta know High Impact Hand Safety is going to be absolutely gruesome
@LifesNeverHumDrum
2 жыл бұрын
It gave me whiplash lol, my brain had no visual association for that song, I heard it here first.
@lightwaves1859
2 жыл бұрын
which one?
@LifesNeverHumDrum
2 жыл бұрын
@@lightwaves1859 kzitem.info/news/bejne/rJ6ZzGWekIpidWk specifically, Josh starts bringing it up at 35:33
@emmadrew50
2 жыл бұрын
Glad we brought back Liam mic issues for a cameo in the 100th episode :D
@Kandosii
2 жыл бұрын
Your friendly neighborhood bug nerd rolling up to say: Joro spiders only fly--or rather balloon--when they're tiny babies, so no, child hand spiders are not going to land in your hair unless you make it happen yourself. Also it's not that their fangs are too small to penetrate skin, it's that their venom isn't actually strong. If you get bitten, it'll just hurt a bit unless it gets infected. Also if anybody's worried, no, they will not come into your homes. They're field and forest spiders that like to have big open stretches where they can set up a big web. Which can have a bit of a gold tint to it, so that's dope. Also they've been in the southern US since 2013, and scientists haven't seen any negative ecological impact since then, so they're really just a nice immigrant family of two hundred million spiders, and I think we should all appreciate them for that.
@danielled8665
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I love spiders, and I always find it weird how freaked out people get over them. Most of them are harmless, they don’t poop in your food or suck your blood like other pests, and actively eat and trap the bugs that do actual damage!
@nothanksguy
2 жыл бұрын
@@danielled8665 i love spiders bcs theyre important to every ecosystem, and they eat other bugs around the house... But god damn it theyre creepy as shit with how those legs move. Same reason i hate millipedes
@Kandosii
2 жыл бұрын
@@danielled8665 no problem! Spiders are my favorite animals, and the media frenzy about Jorō spiders has just been driving me nuts recently. They're gorgeous creatures, and I'd love to see one in person! Especially their webs, the shimmering gold color must be amazing.
@Kandosii
2 жыл бұрын
@@nothanksguy fun fact about that: the reason why spiders move so differently from other creatures is because their legs aren't completely driven by muscles, they're powered by hydraulics! They have contractor muscles, but for two major segments of their legs, they have no extensor muscles. This is also why spiders stay small, and the biggest ones either have delicate, clumsy legs like the jorō spider or move slow like tarantulas: the amount of resources it takes to power the hydraulics puts an absolute limit on how big they can get! Still, their legs have inspired engineers to create new hydraulic articulation systems for use in space! Hopefully this makes their movement bit less creepy for you, but if it doesn't--this means that you can't escape the spider legs, even in space. :P
@nothanksguy
2 жыл бұрын
@@Kandosii that is so cool! Thanks for the info. It doesnt make me hate the movement any less, but at least i know the reason for my hatred now.
@Eric_Hunt194
2 жыл бұрын
It's so very on-brand that Episode 100 is part two of a three-part miniseries... Thanks for hundreds of hours of grim entertainment:- the best kind of entertainment! Also, a request for an episode on the Summit Tunnel Fire. Fiery train and a zero body-count.
@raycearcher5794
2 жыл бұрын
So it's one of those feel-good subterranean fire disasters!
@johnathanh2660
Жыл бұрын
@@raycearcher5794 Which leaves you with a lovely, warm feeling inside ;)
@q3st1on19
Жыл бұрын
Comment necromancy but what the fuck tunnel fire with no fatalities? Or by "zero body-count" do you mean there were zero bodies after the fact 🔥
@MeridiasBacon
2 жыл бұрын
I am an ecologist and focused a lot on entomology in school, i figured I would weigh in on the Joro spider. So these guys are in the group of spiders that we call orb weavers, which make those big round webs that you always run into in the woods. The Joro spider, like all spiders, is venomous. And it can in fact bite you, the whole "fangs too small" bit is usually untrue when people talk about spiders. BUT their bite, while painful, is not ultimately medically significant and will most likely not kill you unless you have the constitution of a... well, any engineering project that gets discussed here. I for one think they are incredibly beautiful animals and am almost excited to see one. However, with all invasive species, they present a threat to the ecosystems they colonize and should be euthanized when encountered. Also congrats on 100 eps gang, looking forward to lots more! Edit to say that the Joro spider has been in North America since around 2014. At this point it's basically what we call naturalized, meaning it's been here long enough that it has integrated itself into its new ecosystem and is probably here to stay. That said, that's only in the southern US so further movement northwards should be reported.
@danielled8665
2 жыл бұрын
I just foresee garden spiders being misidentified and killed, because of their similar black and yellow colour scheme and large size.
@Kandosii
2 жыл бұрын
The interviews with entomologists I've been reading say the Joro spider isn't posing a threat to native ecosystems and might be beneficial in some ways, but I can't find any scholarly sources on the matter. Do you know any publications that have covered this? I know it can be obnoxious when a commenter asks for a source, but I've done my digging and I really can't find anything.
@AsbestosMuffins
2 жыл бұрын
So kill it with fire, got it.
@MeridiasBacon
2 жыл бұрын
@@Kandosii I have not found any journal-published articles either, but what i have seen is that they may be helpful in fighting things like brown marmorated stinkbugs. A paper describing their introduction to NA says they've been in the southern states since ~2014 (Hoebeke et al. 2015). They're considered naturalized at this point, so yeah killing any is probably futile and unnecessary. The chinese mantis has been here since the 1800s and while introduced, we don't kill them like we do things like lanternflies or ash borers. I would guess that Trichonephila will get a similar treatment. My comments about killing them are really just out of principle towards any invasive. And don't sweat asking for a source. It's good to have these discussions!
@Kandosii
2 жыл бұрын
@@MeridiasBacon Thanks for the citation! I knew there had to be something out there, but I wasn't sure whether the data being discussed in interviews was unpublished. It might be worth editing your top comment to reflect the new information--given that your comment's been liked by the podcast, lots of viewers will be seeing it as an authoritative statement, and not necessarily reading this discussion.
@zuthalsoraniz6764
2 жыл бұрын
17:18 WHAT DO WE WANT? A sensible amount of Liam. WHEN DO WE WANT IT? As soon as is reasonably achievable.
@ClaudiaNW
2 жыл бұрын
NO. MAXIMUM LIAM AT ALL TIMES
@mina47879
2 жыл бұрын
As a trans person the anti trans stuff going on in the US scares the shit out of me. Where I live, Australia, things seems to be in general improving, (apart from the current federal government trying to ram through an "anti religious discrimination bill" (I'll give you one guess what the bill was actually about) right before the upcoming election, (long story short they sort of failed, its currently amended to be largely useless and is stalled in the senate where it will hopefully die, so yay?) but we'll ignore that cuz ignoring it makes me feel a whole lot less depressed, and also a bunch of usually conservative MPs actually crossed the floor to oppose it/vote for the current changes to it which was really encouraging to see) but it's super scary seeing this stuff go backwards in the US. FFS, just leave us alone, and let us do what we want with our bodies, that's all we want. Anyway, sry to anyone who actually read this paragraph of stuff lol. I'm just scared and wanted to say something. Also if you want to know about the Australian political system, it's just like the British system except a little less weird. Also our voting system sucks less.
@c.djinmyr
2 жыл бұрын
Stay safe down there bud 🏳️⚧️
@nothanksguy
2 жыл бұрын
8:55 my dads old shop was directly along some RR tracks in indianapolis. A train did derail once before i was born, apparently the final boxcar and caboose derailed together, swung into the lot across the street from my dad, and leveled an abandoned home. My dad then moved his office to the other corner of the shop, further from the tracks 🤣
@thecalham
2 жыл бұрын
Lol this is my worst fear living and working 100m from tracks in my town 😅 I just hope if it happens the trains not loaded with oil/chemical cars
@nothanksguy
2 жыл бұрын
@@thecalham same with my dad haha. The metal finishing plant in south indy got chemical shipments on monday mornings, so he would always find something outside of the office to do until noon on mondays.
@quantumblauthor7300
5 күн бұрын
everyone here chuckles
@Ncrawler6565
2 жыл бұрын
This is going to be ranked up there with other highly regarded trilogies. People will talk about how they are going to be spending their weekend re-listening to the Penn Central trilogy like how people talk about re-watching the Lord of the Rings.
@falloutghoul1
2 жыл бұрын
Probably because it takes an entire weekend to get through it.
@xmlthegreat
2 жыл бұрын
@@falloutghoul1 you say that as if that's a bad thing
@wesbartlett4447
2 жыл бұрын
Up there with Hardcore History, King of Kings Trilogy.
@lyndonwesthaven6623
2 жыл бұрын
The Decline and Fall of Penn Central Railway
@ClaudiaNW
2 жыл бұрын
Liam should have ended Part 1 by calling Jay "my brother, my Captain, my King"
@cas013500
2 жыл бұрын
Being trans living in Texas is getting really scary. It would be really nice if either libs or the larger voices on the left had literally anything to say about it that wasn't 'well it's not a real issue, just vote harder next time.' Jacobin's article was entirely about how this can only be solved with electoralism and supporting Democrats. It feels like no one gives a shit about us, so thank you at the very least.
@crystalenby3741
2 жыл бұрын
Agreed it really does feel like we’ve been abandoned and that nobody cares enough to do anything all anyone expresses is sympathy but that’s all it feels like we are getting.
@Superbouncybubble
2 жыл бұрын
Do what I did and move from Texas to Alabama, the political climate is somehow less hostile.
@MereMeerkat
2 жыл бұрын
Remember the last couple elections when we were all excited about Texas going purple? That was a nice dream.
@craigstephenson7676
2 жыл бұрын
@@Superbouncybubble Alabama kinda chill tho not even gonna lie
@plaguebomb2712
2 жыл бұрын
BECAUSE IT'S TRUE if only you had a democratic governor like the famously blue state Kentucky such law would be vetoed right?
@Leeqzombie
2 жыл бұрын
the goddamn news slide just has me thinking of that "multi-track drifting" manga panel
@NoraKischerBrowne
2 жыл бұрын
Came to the comments to see if someone referenced this, thanks OP
@nicklessrt
2 жыл бұрын
Okay, you all joke about wanting the post office in charge of everything, but I unironically believe this is the way forward. Combine the amazing logistics of the post office with more accurate and robust census data, and you have a perfect system for meeting the needs of the populace. Bring back post banking. Start making post offices into food banks, then full blown markets with a delivery option. Make the post office the center of civic life and pride. Remake that one Kevin Costner movie as a propaganda piece to really get people in the spirit. I'm all in on a post office lead revolution!
@ClaudiaNW
2 жыл бұрын
Nationalise Amazon and put it under post office control
@TheSpecialJ11
2 жыл бұрын
This is actually a really good point. Start with an organization whose primary goal is providing a universal service with utmost logistical sensibility and suddenly you're staring down the barrel of technocratic state ideals. If there's American citizens on American soil, the USPS is supposed to serve them. If only other services worked like that. It figures that the two federal government institutions whose existence is enshrined in the constitution have their shit together: the IRS and USPS.
@Joesolo13
2 жыл бұрын
@@ClaudiaNW 100%. Amazon getting massive warehouses while post offices shrink really just show shit's getting fucked up. Especially given how many could be hooked directly to train stations.
@himoffthequakeroatbox4320
2 жыл бұрын
The postmaster general used to be 7th in line of succession to the presidency till the post office was spun off.
@artistwithouttalent
Жыл бұрын
Nationalize the rail network while we're at it, bring back Conrail (with the exact same livery, shit was dope), and use that to offer parcel post through the USPS. /gen
@Bakamoichigei
2 жыл бұрын
That NS derailment... I _was_ going to say, from experience, "Hey, at least it wasn't _fifteen 29,000-gallon tank cars full of gasoline_ in the middle of downtown!" but yeah...it's a damn miracle there wasn't an Acela in the wrong place at the wrong time. 😬
@Bakamoichigei
2 жыл бұрын
For those curious; Oct. 22nd, 2007: poorly-maintained 80+ year old rails due to be inspected just days later give out and cause a derailment in downtown Middlebury, Vermont. I lived right across the river from the tracks, and the leaking gas that made it into the river was backing up against petro cleanup pontoon things they ran across to keep it from going over the falls, effectively pooling below my apartment. Like many residents of downtown, my father and I spent the night on cots at the Red Cross shelter they set up at the VFW.
@RemiCardona
2 жыл бұрын
@@Bakamoichigei By your first comment, I was going for the Lac Mégantic derailment in southern Québec. That one actually had _seventy-two_ DOT111 tanks of crude oil… I guess WTYP has two more episodes cut out for them, eh?
@Bakamoichigei
2 жыл бұрын
@@RemiCardona If I were commenting on Lac Mégantic _from experience_ it'd be incontrovertible proof that not only do ghosts _exist,_ but they can use the internet. 😏 Also, just _one_ episode; pretty sure WTYP already did Lac Mégantic. 🤔
@dkbmaestrorules
2 жыл бұрын
@@RemiCardona they've done Lac Megantic - it's one of the early episodes.
@joshostrowski8411
2 жыл бұрын
HOLY SHIT 100 EPISODES!!!! I wanted to say that you guys have made an incredible podcast over the last 2 years and I have loved every single episode. It's always a good day when you guys upload. You got me through some hard times and I am grateful for this disaster of a podcast that hates you back. Here's to 100 disastrous episodes and hopefully 100 more to come!!!
@wesbartlett4447
2 жыл бұрын
"Dear WTYP podcast, you have gotten me through the engineering disaster that is my life. Thank you."
@CowgirlShebop
2 жыл бұрын
I wanna thank Liam's parents for giving their cats fantastic names and making me smile.
@thehaprust6312
2 жыл бұрын
I hate it when I can't get through "The Goddamned News" without wanting to make a hundred comments. Anyway cats rule, I will fight anyone who says different.
@joshlikescola
2 жыл бұрын
A shitty week made less bad by listening to my favourite shitty podcast about shitty trains
@TaliaJohnson
2 жыл бұрын
I think the whiteness of that bill signing photo might have permanently damaged my retinas.
@semirrahge
2 жыл бұрын
EDIT: @17:08 he fixes it. Thank fuck! Liam's poor mic quality has reached an all time high. Or low. He's nearly incoherent. Good job, I guess? I have to assume this is deliberate since no one has pointed it out yet.
@newGarlick
2 жыл бұрын
luckily he fixed it after about 15 minutes
@welltheresyourproblempodca1465
2 жыл бұрын
I promise it was an accident
@revvvvvy
2 жыл бұрын
FUCK THE HATERS. MAXIMUM LIAM!
@semirrahge
2 жыл бұрын
@@welltheresyourproblempodca1465 I promise that I was only upset because I wanted to "Yay, Liam!" but I can't when I can't hear him...
@ClaudiaNW
2 жыл бұрын
@@revvvvvy MAXIMUM LIAM
@mattthelombax
2 жыл бұрын
18:56 Oh Northern Shrikes will also impale small birds and mice too! Absolutely wild.
@jackklein8507
2 жыл бұрын
The PC episodes have been so good, I would like to suggest another topic along similar lines: The Decline and Fall of Big Steel. Namely US Steel and Bethlehem Steel.
@Dracapane
2 жыл бұрын
The Holy Roman Empire was ended by Francis II of Austria in 1806 in favor of the title Emperor of Austria, which he himself proclaimed a few years earlier. This was after the loss of the Third Coalition against Napoleon. The first train in a german territory was when the Kingdom of Bavaria bought a british train for use in Nuremberg ("Der Adler" = the eagle).
@thomaspalazzolo5902
2 жыл бұрын
This put "Mobile Suit Holy Roman Gundam" into my head, but then I realized that's getting dangerously close to Evangelion. Congrats on 100 episodes!
@Chappington
2 жыл бұрын
"Danbury should be razed" - pretty sure the British did that already ~245 years ago. Evidently it wasn't enough.
@colinhubert213
2 жыл бұрын
Would someone please name their pet raven “Quoth”. I want to know that there is a Quoth the raven out there somewhere.
@RatchetSly
2 жыл бұрын
That's the name of a talking raven in the Discworld books, haha
@Sir.Craze-
2 жыл бұрын
Naw, can't do it. Nevermore.
@nightw4tchman
2 жыл бұрын
10:02 Christ, it's practically screaming 14 words. Thin layer of white (mostly blonde) women and then a group of men on the fringes...
@Dong_Harvey
Жыл бұрын
The white men where practically pushing the women/girls closer to the desk, like a tube of toothpaste... Whitening toothpaste
@JohnDoe-mj6cc
2 жыл бұрын
I was literally listening to yalls show when this dropped. I fucking love this show so much. Yay liam!
@callmeprettybaby
2 жыл бұрын
I am here to continue my heart’s pursuit of Roz, and more specifically, his delicious sounding chili.
@fairguinevere666
2 жыл бұрын
I will not take this spider slander! Arachnids are far better than insects, and mostly they're just chill dudes that enjoy hanging around and doing nothing unless they're hungry, in danger, or some dipshit is messing with them. Even the most nasty, mean tempered tarantulas don't enjoy hurting people, it's just often folks fuck around then make it the spider's problem when they find out. (This doesn't apply to australia; but no facts, logic, or common sense does.)
@ClaudiaNW
2 жыл бұрын
All bets are off in Australia. I mean Tony Abbott ate an onion like it was an apple. Would this occur in a normal country? (Not that I am in a position to judge. I'm from TERF Island)
@matthamm384
2 жыл бұрын
If you do a container episode, hit me up. I worked 9 years for a call center middleman for over-the-road chassis repair dealing with the absurdity of who gets charged for repairs (pro-tip: the "independent" driver if possible). I only left there to work as conductor/engineer for a railroad servicing container ops at a port. Also, father worked in trucking as containers started to co.e of age.
@wristofkings
2 жыл бұрын
I don't think any other channel I listen to makes me go from laughing my ass off to wanting to put a gun in my mouth quite like the first 20 minutes of this episode did. Happy 100th guys.
@steemlenn8797
2 жыл бұрын
Sounds like you would like Discworld series, especially the later (darker) books.
@eminatorstudios
2 жыл бұрын
This Trilogy will truly be the behemoth of the multipart episodes on this channel
@nathaniellindner313
2 жыл бұрын
I can't remember, was it always supposed to be a trilogy or is the gang just discovering ever-widening and deepening pools of incompetence in Penn Central to discuss as they do the podcast?
@robertcoldwell4742
2 жыл бұрын
Can't wait for the Netflix adaptation
@eminatorstudios
2 жыл бұрын
@@nathaniellindner313 in the first episode they talked about how this would become a three parter. To which degree that was a joke I can't really tell tbh so I just expect there to be a third one.
@nyooom7467
2 жыл бұрын
P E N N C E N T R A L P A R T 2 Finally! I’ve waited here for _checks notes_ 3 weeks. Oh how glad am I to see this.
@_d0ser
2 жыл бұрын
Just want to shoutout AUNZ Railfan. He uploads TONS of cab view videos of those rural train lines. Several multi-hour long journey's all through Japanese country sides and towns. Great channel to relax with.
@XoxSkateLoverxoX
2 жыл бұрын
Oh boy pet name talk! We have a tuxedo cat named Rowdy who is not particularly rowdy in his middle age; a calico named Aspyn who is a huge bitch and the only one we have who killed a mouse; and orange twins named Betamax and Laserdisc who are dumb as hell
@KrakenEggs
2 жыл бұрын
I have a husky-golden retriever mix named Gouda! he is as dumb as a box of bricks and i love him
@OddLeah
2 жыл бұрын
Our dogs are named after jazz musicians and our cats are named after LOZ princesses (no Zelda's).
@stephendaley266
2 жыл бұрын
What are the economics of passenger rail vs bus travel? It's inconceivable to me that Greyhound can make money but Amtrak can't! We all know the solution here... Time to nationalize the railroad infrastructure! All your tracks are belong to us!
@private2809
2 жыл бұрын
I'd imagine not having to maintain infrastructure is a massive component. (More accurately, externalizing that cost to the tax base)
@aleronupstill9816
2 жыл бұрын
Long haul truck driver here. Love you guys! Would like to encourage everyone that doesn't like trucking to stop buying shit, and stay off the highway if you value life and sanity.
@bsquiklehausen
2 жыл бұрын
Pssh - couldn't even hit 3 hours. You all are slacking!
@Sir.Craze-
2 жыл бұрын
Hopes of a nine hour total episode dashed. Nothing left to live for 😭😭 podcast ruined, just ruined.
@s4nari
2 жыл бұрын
Happy centennial everyone! Train good, car bad. Yay Liam. Fuck fascists and transphobes. Love to all of my fellow fans of the podcast that hates you back.
@TheSneakyDuck
2 жыл бұрын
As a postal worker I feel respected by this episode.
@wesbartlett4447
2 жыл бұрын
Hi fellow postie 🙋♂️
@HamSaladtv
2 жыл бұрын
As the son of a retired APWU leader I really think they need to make a 6 part post office series.
@c.djinmyr
2 жыл бұрын
Idaho wants to make it so they can pursue people who leave the state for gender affirming care too
@matthewjachtorowycz2455
2 жыл бұрын
13:08 that is fucking unconstitutional. You cannot prosecute someone who did a thing that was illegal before that particular thing became illegal.
@c.djinmyr
2 жыл бұрын
The "logic" is that it's not the state enforcing it, it's civil courts doing it. It's a fucked work around that the Supreme Court may actually uphold if it ever gets there.
@silaskuemmerle2505
2 жыл бұрын
You'll note it says investigate not prosecute. The plan is probably to make their lives a living hell for a few years (as if that was any better than prosecution)
@shadowmaster1313
2 жыл бұрын
@@silaskuemmerle2505 concluding you're an unfit parent doesn't require a conviction either, hope your 18+ trans kids was the youngest
@ernekid7241
2 жыл бұрын
This is real Edutainment. This is what PBS wants to be.
@TidusleFlemard
2 жыл бұрын
subtitling it for people with hearing problems (or not being accustomed with each speakers accents) would help with the edutainement part. I had some difficulty understanding everyone, but that could be due to how long the video is and my brain overheating tho.
@guilleroji
2 жыл бұрын
Gotta pack the SC. Pack it until every single citizen is a SC Justice and the SC is no longer a thing.
@darthbob88
2 жыл бұрын
Make Supreme Court duty as tedious as jury duty.
@zeitgeistx5239
2 жыл бұрын
Too bad there’s multiple white nationalist billionaires making sure the opposite happens.
@devinfaux6987
2 жыл бұрын
This continues to reinforce my theory that the greater someone's power and privilege, the less of an idea they have what the fuck they're doing. Put someone in charge of the biggest corporation on Earth and they'll be completely clueless.
@Actual-Knight
2 жыл бұрын
so cool that they deleted Liam as a throwback to the first episode
@chrisball3778
2 жыл бұрын
Good news! The invasive Joro Spider eats the invasive stinkbugs. Introduced species are creating their own equilibrium. It's not like anything like this has gone wrong before... cough... Cane Toad... cough.
@Runningfromtheredqueen
2 жыл бұрын
And thanks to Global Warming, the gorillas no longer freeze to death when wintertime rolls around.
@Man2quilla
2 жыл бұрын
Spiders are to me as fish are to Liam and I am freaking the fuck out. Also, yes I'd like maximum Liam
@thehand7902
2 жыл бұрын
Wonder how Liam feels about spiders that can live under water
@TheRealE.B.
2 жыл бұрын
That infrastructure bill is going to keep the Ohio River coal plants running for a loooooonnnnng time.
@coolmikefromcanada
2 жыл бұрын
I use to work in aircraft parts stores, it irritated me how few I could get sent via rail
@huntermorgan4201
Жыл бұрын
(around 1:30:00) I like Alice's vision for sleeper trains. Let's stop here tonight and everybody go to sleep all together in our one big train bed. What good was all that rushing around gonna do, that's what I'd like to know.
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