Well There's Your Problem | Episode 79: Malbone Street Wreck
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
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we recorded this the day before cuomo resigned i will fight you
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Hmm, as an engineer I feel qualified to say: it appears that, at some point, the train and the wall became too close together.
Wow, that's a conclusion so profound you could get a job at the NTSB... Also it was definitely pilot error
As a mom I feel qualified to agree with you. I feel someone was probably saying “stop” with steadily increasing volume and urgency while they got too close together, and that someone said “what?” immediately after the incident.
I agree with both of you, I think there is a mitigating factor in that the driver's blood tested for insufficient amounts of stimulants. Clearly, had he been more stimulated, he would have been alert, avoiding potential errors and being receptive to oral commands. Sad case indeed, if only he'd been taking more powerful amphetamines, the train could have been kept further from the wall.
@@jackhanson1274 as an ADHD sufferer on a steadily increasing volume of legal amphetamines, I feel qualified to counter that the party in question would simply ignore audio prompts with increased intensity while they focused on the lovely comic they read in the paper that morning. Tragically, the only real thing that could have prevented this is if the train cars were more rigid.
So the the spacial tolerances exceeded the design envelope?
"I've WATCHED you fall asleep standing up." "Every night, like a horse." had much more powerful energy when i thought Alice was implying that horses kept breaking into Justin's house to watch him sleep.
I fall asleep to them nightly and are a great background while I work
This is the kind of intentional misinterpretation that I live for!
"we'll do the news item when he resigns" well that aged well
Never say never!
Can't wait for next week's god damn news chiron: "Owned"
BE BANISH
*Bill Cosby has left the chat*
"Hey, I'm starting a Bitcoin mining company. Gimme your venture capital."
"Fooled you! I'm actually building a railroad! Doing something actually useful with this shit!"
Bring back the days when Venture capital was used to build a railroad between two villages that will never be profitable
can a train making it to its destination and back somehow be considered proof of stake
Hmm actually....this is possible. You outfit each of the cars and engines with mining rigs OR out a special Mine Cart on the train. Then you use any spare electrical production or breaking energy to mine the coin.
Mayne even some sort ofrube golberg like device to use the wheels or train motionto turn small generators. The motion of the train takes care of cooling via an advanced colling system called "wind"
@@PandorasFolly if you're using regenerative braking to slow down you might as well put that power back into the train in a battery or something
@@synthgal1090 Why make the train more efficient when you could make bitcoins to trade for adderall? :P
In honor of the 1955 demolition of the third avenue El, my mother received a holiday card from a friend with the greeting: "No El 1955".
this guy dealing with:
*grief
*the elements
*12 hour shift exhaustion
*$350 on the line
*having no fucking clue what he's doing
*cocaine flying about the cabins
*emotional labor of enduring racism
*being italian
i think this is Unlucky Luciano
Them saying Cuomo will never resign immediately after asking what an "L" is is just *chefs kiss*
I so want a video made to that audio showing Cuomo pics and clips
20:38 aged like the finest of Austrian wines.
Nothing funnier
Immediately followed by "what is an L"
best unintentional bit ever recorded
Riding a train out of downtown Osaka one night, a drunk businessman sat on the ground in the train car most of the ride, pull into his station he stands up takes one step and pukes all over the floor of the train, takes one more step and is out of the train and walking home like nothing happened. Doing bad shit on trains and then just leaving is a common phenomenon.
Damn at least if I get shit wasted I'll try my best to barf in a bin or bag. People really do be like that 😕
Not what I’d expect out of Japan. Not the being a drunk salaryman, but puking so inconsiderately in public.
Saving face
"If there's one thing you don't want to hear applied to a hospital, it's makeshift" Fun fact, my old workplace was next to a makeshift covid quarantine/treatment facility and no one told us until we found out via getting radio interference from them (:
loving the "out of service" sign on the clearly out of service train car
just in case you didn't notice.
Ehh it still looks better than a pacer
MBTA be like:
This is the most correct that sign has ever been.
@@deeznoots6241 Your dating yourself by mentioning such an out of date vehicle. Looks better than a Nissan Cube.
It's sad that old timey photos of mass transit look so futuristic now
It does, people were able to transport themselves using bipedal locomotion. A futuristic technology that no one in the modern day can comprehend.
@@jacobrzeszewski6527 basically, yeah. Before car companies -bribed- lobbied governments for car-focused infrastructure you could just walk places without taking ages to do so.
You seen the second system map? Makes me cry
it feels like every episode ends with "and everyone was acquitted."
And the victims were compensated with the equivalent monetary value of fifty Xboxen.
Malbone Street Wreck sounds like a killer Midwestern Emo band
Lost Cosmonauts, not to be confused with Lost Cause-monauts, who mistakenly posit that the Martian Rebellion was fought for planetary rights
Planetary rights? Aww shit, they owned slaves again, didn't they?
They did this same thing of getting office staff and management to work the labor positions at John Deere when their laborers went on strike recently and they couldn't get through even one day without having to call an ambulance. Respect your labor, companies. To all the people who do the real work wherever you find yourselves, recognize your power to shut shit down!
the unregulated period of elevated trains has a real eldrich dark city kind of energy to it.
I LITERALLY just finished watching a bsquiklehausen Cities: Skylines video, and then I see this uploaded. I hear "I'm bsquiklehausen" and I thought I must be having a very odd dream.
Biffa got me here.
Making a Mountain Goats reference nobody else understands is a mood
I DID
As someone who used to live on Southwood Plantation Road in Tallahassee, I know the mood well.
20:30 HOLY CRAP LOL
“We’ll do a news item when he f*cking resigns. Which will be never.”
“Well there’s your Cuomo….”
everybody dance 🦀🦀🦀🦀
Sioux City in the late 1800s. Smelled much worse, killed more livestock, but you could climb the elevated railway structure to avoid dying when the Floyd or Missouri rivers inevitably had another catastrophic flood
"I know you just worked 12 hours, and you just recovered from the spanish flu, and also your daughter died, and you've got some confusing accent buuuuut can you work another 8 hour shift for us, OKTHANKSBYE!" -Capitalism!
Y'all do realize that the more days in a row go by without Liam talking about the listeners, the deeper the illusion will set in that we have basic human worth?
I did some computer work at a now closed Midwestern refinery that had golf carts with corrugated sheet metal panels welded on them designated as 'emergency escape vehicles.'
That's comically dystopian.
That sounds like some post apocalyptic roger corman movie prop
One more factor you forgot to mention is that Luciano, the driver, just the day before had his account banned from Hoop and Stick Live for not saying the n-word enough.
I am a simple person:
I see WTYPP, I click, I yay-Liam.
you have entered the Liam zone
Yay Liam
Yay liam
Yay Liam
We all love the "yay Liam" button.
"THIS IS WHY YOU DO NOT CROSS PICKET LINES!"
I haven't gotten that far yet. But I agree.
0:57:00 “we’ve completely broken labor”- and in the meantime the Teamsters were striking to allow them to walk if conditions were unsafe. The Safety Thirds write themself.
God those photos of New York covered in trains do funny things downstairs
Are you one of those "railsexuals" we were recently hearing about on Twitter
Bitcoin miners are definitely the people I trust the most to run a nuclear power plant. Also, we may finally conclusively learn how Chernobyl went down.
What by watching it in real time?
@@excitableboy7031 Think they wouldn't live stream that shit? Whenever shit goes down people film it so everyone knows shit went down, problem with Chernobyl, the government covered it up, so a lot of deaths accounted to the incident were preventable, but they didn't tell their citizens.
Comrade Dyatlov was using reactor 4 to generate fake rubles.
@@Reddsoldier ByteRubles!
@@radfoxuk8113 and Elon Musk will copyright any of the news who talks about it (reference)
at about 14:57 when roz is laughing at alice's "you don't come to this podcast for nuance" joke, he laughs exactly in tune to the first notes of "megalovania"
heheHEH HEH
Thanks you broke my brain
57:13 that legend is a nightmare. I can barely tell the difference between "revenue" and "non-revenue" track, and you cannot convince me "active" and "removed" platforms are different.
It does its job in a marketing sense
Cause a train wreck.
Refuse to elaborate.
Leave.
I'm Andrew cuoooomo. I resiiiiigned. My sense of huuuuuumor can be inseeeeensitiiiive.
Governor Grabby
When you're driving down a long dark track in the dead of night, just remember the words of the ol' Pork Chop Express. Don't drive faster than you can see, other than that, it's all in the reflexes.
I’m gonna tell you about an accident, and I don’t wanna hear “act of God”!
@@Amarok41
...When they say, "act of god," they seem to assume they know which one.
@@Amarok41 I would kill for Alice to use that as a drop
I think the Baku fire is worse, but there’s also the 1903 Paris Metro fire which “only” killed 84 and forced a major overhaul (and would probably fit well here because there’s a lot of things that had to be fixed in the aftermath)
For horribleness, there's always the Kyoto Massacre but that isn't an engineering failure...
Thank you for helping me maintain my sanity as the 90+ degree weather where I am makes my industrial chemical production job more miserable than it already was.
Thanks for doing your job. You guys are underrated
"elevated railroad"? nah i prefer "domway"
lmfao
yet again, I underestimate how much comfort food I need to get past the god damn news.
Get it while you can, I guess
Just food? I need candy, whiskey, and weed.
I am, at this moment, drinking
Looks like I picked the wrong timeline to quit drinking.
@@grmpEqweer I would not only like to say congrats and I proud of you. But I'm also sorry because this really is the best timeline to be fcuking wasted.
Here I thought "El Train" was just a train that went to Mexico
Lol... 15 years of regret on a user name.
I've been this _since before the internet was public_
You were on DARPANet? Wow
I feel like there's an interesting story here!
26:54 it wasn't until this point I realized you were talking about the inefficiency of steam locomotives, not horses.
Only a steam locomotive can reduce an entire horse to a soup like homogenate in under 20 minutes
@@deeznoots6241 yet even then, it required a vacuum tube and one terrified Irishman ( which is also part of the act )
4:30 I can really identify with that deadair.
This was very entertaining...and seeing all those old train maps makes me want to say do an episode on the slow cannibalization of the MBTA, how they had tons of lines, then it congealed into the MTA, then slowly things were pushed around by Moses and the highways, and racial inequality, and then budgeting in the 80s, and some expansions are happening now but we need more...and the destruction of the Washington Street El into the Big Dig as well as the Northern Orange Line El north of Boston in 1975. Boston just did not have the budget to help any of these things but there were many stations and routes that were deprived of service and it spirals from there. It's a big rabbit hole though. Let me know if you need pronunciation help.
40:25 London actually has secret transfers, there's a few Out of Station Interchanges (OSI) that aren't shown on the map, but still recognized by the ticketing system - people had to do an FOI request to figure out what they were.
So, are people still able to use them at all?
@@SImrobert2001 yeah, people can still use them, it's just that they're not publicised on maps or the TfL website.
An OSI is when you exit one station's gateline, and re-enter another station's gateline within a set amount of time, and the ticketing system counts it as a continuation of the same journey instead of two separate journeys.
another """fun""" quirk is that sometimes breaking your OSI on purpose by timing it out, or entering another station can give you a cheaper fare.
the ticketing system in london is fucked, it's easy to use (tap in - tap out) but you just become the joker when you try to comprehend why it charges the amount it does.
@@IkilledA0livebox for like 99% of journeys the default is you get charged the cheapest just by doing the obvious tap in and tap out as appropriate.
But if even 1% there's things that are screwy that's a shit load of screwy things a day
It's not ecoterrorism it's eco freedom fighting
One man's trash is another man's irreplaceable old growth forest
Wtypp sings all the classics. Including Italians, Trains, New York City ft a cameo from Scabby the Rat
This comment holds up.
If Casey Jones ever taught us anything: DONT HIRE SCABS! or else you will go boom
Also don't be driving that train, high on cocaine.
You know what gets me? Just yesterday I was having an argument in which my opinion that the interstate highways were a mistake was an extreme position, because people still you can be a centrist about the things that are wrecking the planet
That is a rather extreme opinion. For low volume specialty purposes, highways are excellent infrastructure. They are also excellent for military purposes. Not so good for general purpose use for everything other than bulk cargo, as they are currently used for in the US.
To die on my tiny hill here I’d like to claim the Volk in Brighton as the oldest electric elevated railway, as it was mostly elevated when it opened in 1883, it’s just that it ran over the beach which has since risen and buried the supports making it level now…
Anyway that’s my bit, Volk was very cool and people don’t respect him enough for that time he tried putting a train on stilts (and also not really caring about profit and really just wanting to make cool trains).
Justin - FYI on the safety third, the "horizonal line" on an AutoCAD multileader is called the "landing distance" so if you increase that it will make the horizontal line longer.
Imagine getting 3 Mile Islanded by the glorified bit coin rig
The holy Bitcoin mine.
There is no evidence 3 mile Island had any observable negative health effects on anyone. A power plant was lost, and thats bad
I’m imagining a poor little radiator having a steam explosion like it’s a battleship going under
Now that there's more of these you should make a playlist for disasters caused by scabbing/poor labour practices
"El, Mr. Bond!"
Please always keep putting KJB drops into WTYP
I am reminded of someone who pays to have "This patron name is hilarious in the context of another podcast" read in the shoutouts of OA.
58:00 the legend on that map infuriates me. The colour allocated to an active platform is near indistinguishable from the colour of a removed platform. I know this is not germane to this episode, but I just have to vent.
17:22 Jumping in to add that it's El Salvador, not Ecuador, and that on Sept 7 it's going to be the country's co-official currency along with the gd US Dollar 🙃
Though Ecuador has its own fiscal problems related to the USD and IMF loans.
Add to that game clock running down the fact that you only have maybe 7300 possible days left of living and breathing, regardless of what happens in the world, and yeah... "whooo hoooo" * spins noise maker half-assed like *
i think the image of “a pointy solid lump of human mulch” is gonna take several years to get out of my head
WTYP made Cuomo resign with reverse psychology
I'm tired of living in the coolzone, its time to retire to the Liamzone
Yay Liamzone!
They put the 'out of service' signs on those cars because the union rules required that the 'guy who puts 'out of service' signs on wrecked cars' do so and the union workers wouldn't move them otherwise.
Taking a break from the usual attempt to get pinned to say Squigglehousen sounds like a very fancy professor name so maybe it isn't a terrible thing to have stick. There's a certain architectural professionalism that it has. It's neat
I'll take it!
farming steam acchievements by finding all the secret transfers
I find it funny that the bio every source seems to copy just says Malbone died on the steps of the US Capital in 1809, no actual reason, just standing there, exploded or something
Two words: Space Laser
Yes! Back to classic WTYP with trains.
"French Drain" is one of my favorite Mel Brooks musical set pieces
I agree with Alice. Covid has absolutely convinced me of Humanities’s complete inability to deal with global crisis, and we are all going to die in a tire fire.
Your avatar pic says so much...electing to wreck your lungs the long, slow way...
Nuclear power plant to mine Bitcoin is so uninspired. I'm gunna build a Dyson Sphere to mine my Bitcoin. The biggest Bitcoin reserves emanate from the sun.
Would also solve the global warming!
@@johnnyricks4342 You don't know shit, Sir! Have you ever tried to dumb a whole sun's worth of heat on the other side of the sphere into vaccuum? That's a cooler problem a normal mining rig cannot even dream of!
News that aged quickly
the moment when Alice says ‘hit da bricks’.. I’ve been thinking about how good that reference was for WEEKS.
crowdfunder to send Geoff Marshall back to 1910 to make those secret connection videos
Also, a similar thing happened to a friend when he worked at a gas plant in central Alberta. He was doing his normal job (loading propane and other stuff into tank cars) when something in the plant messed up and the raw feedstock for one of the processes was routed to the flarestack. This was obviously more than what the stack was designed to handle because balls of burning fuel started landing all around him and the railcars. Later that night a trucker pulled in slowly and expressed amazement that the plant was still standing, he had seen the flare's glow from 100 miles away.
Hi everyone! Could you try activating the closed captions? It helps us who are hard of hearing. Love you all!
It looks like they're "activated", but only auto-generated captions are available on this video. Alice is the one who does them but they take awhile, and it seems she doesn't get to all of them. 😕🍍
@@OriginalPineapplesFoster I am fine with auto-generated captions, but they tend to upload without any caption and you have to wait a few days up to a week before the auto-generated captions appear.
This is a picture of a train car. Only half of it's supposed to look like that...
But first we have to ask: What are train cars?
@@boldandbrash9447 so a train car, what is it? What does it do? Why does it look like that?
Climbing for your job is the origin of the word "hired"
10:32 yes and my doctor tells me it's "Panic Disorder" and now I have medical weed for it
'No, let's not go to that Denny's, let's go to the good one.'
-Liam
Alice is a Mountains Goats fan. That's reason #7043 why she's the GOAT.
"A 70 year old refinery with a large plume of various petroleum products floating in the water table beneath it"
Ah, just like all good refineries
OOOOOH! At long last!
The only L train I cared/knew about before this was the Liam train, headed straight to the Liam Zone (tm).
Cant wait to do a [REDACTED] to the nuclear bitcoin rig
Those boys that gave their lives to the emperor in them cherry blossoms received 20-30 hours of flight training.
They also got a cool sword!
He had enough money to buy himself some Nintendo brand playing cards
And cover the 1800’s trans-pacific shipping
TLDR: Steam punk version of the plane crash in Breaking Bad.
Bro I only just realized from that blues brothers joke that Jake and Elwood aren't actually brothers
I'm so glad all the train cars are more rigid now...
Get Adam something on the podcast? maybe? would be cool!
Have I got a surprise for you
I would love to see this collaboration, even if it's obligatory that the subject involve a certain Musk.
@@welltheresyourproblempodca1465 😮 it's gonna be a bonus episode isn't it? Fine! Take my money !
Ross Horse kicking the PC ended me
Secret subway, just replace the secret tunnel song from avatar with secret subway. P.S. WYTP episode on Cities Skylines with special guest biffa when?
Was gonna suggest this one then you did it! I lived for a short time near the Prospect Park station (mostly used the Parkside stop) and took the Franklin Ave Shuttle a lot for it being such a short line. Also, so glad you had bsquiklehausen on!
I learned about the early history of the subway in NYC at the Transit Museum, reopening this weekend! Love that place, with the classy wicker seats.
Omg. Never been this early to an episode. Totally wasn’t up all night.😅 2hr after upload. Love you guys. Keep uploading ‘cause haters guna hate.
My pronouns are he/him.
Next episode The Tacoma narrows bridge disaster!!!!!!🥰
No, Mr Bond, I expect you to violate the NAP.
YAY LIAM BOO CARS
Rapid Unplanned Disassembly
15:00 Seems we’re determined to recreate the tragedy of the commons in every dimension of life possible.
Can I have a job?
Consider this "me climbing the scaffolding to ask the engineer like John Hyland for a job"
I am trans, I had two years of engineering school (materials science) and I'm definitely a leftist.
"As industrialized countries we don't give a shit enough." no sadly the majority of the people in industrialized countries do, the problem is democracies don't seem to allow the majority to act, and even then most people can't comprehend the scope