Well There's Your Problem | Episode 129: East Palestine Derailment
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2024
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Chapters:
0:00:00 Intro
0:07:52 The God Damn News: Writer's Guild strike
0:15:43 The God Damn News: Civil War in Sudan
0:20:18 Context: Hightstown Wreck 1833
0:24:51 Context: Norfolk Southern's Existence
0:42:38 Context: Oily Rag Bearings
0:50:45 Context: Defect Detectors
0:59:37 Context: Vinyl Chloride
1:12:19 East Palestine Derailment
1:43:23 Media, Public and Political Reaction
1:52:19 The Brake Thing
2:19:12 East Palestine Cleanup
2:25:15 The real issue here is...
2:32:10 Safety Third: Circus Carpenter and Rigger - Наука та технологія
At least your editor knew this one was gonna go off the rails.
Boo boo! Get off the stage.
BA DUM TSS
Gold star comment
lol
#angryupvote
Alice: "I don't feel bad about doing a 5 hour episode anymore"
Devon: *audibly dies inside*
"we'll make you dumber and angrier"
WTYP: the lead poisoning of podcasts
[Devon's anguish] [hard cut] "YOU CANNOT BE DRINKING AT 9:44 AM."
I see this is already off to a classic start
Will definitely be using this. 👍🍍
Time is an illusion, drink whenever
Pouring one out for Devon for all their hard work.
The person is hired for doing the editing. It’s just a job. Devon does great work but let’s not pretend it’s a burden to do some editing of a podcast
@@MrJimheeren oh dear. You may want to visit a doctor and have your sense of humour checked.
@@MrJimheeren no, i want to pretend they do
@@EarsoftheWolf I’m clearly not into the joke. Because the whole comment section is supporting Devon for everything they does (and yes I’m aware they also do the editing of KJB)
@@MrJimheeren Geez Jimbo didn't know we can't appreciate someone for doing a job we didn't do ourselves. Bet you don't even tip people because you worked it into your head that thanking people for doing their job is harmful.
every 3 hour episode is infused with a part devon's soul that was extracted during the editing process
Just how I like it
Gotta read those legal documents that your employer gives you. Devon's never getting those bits of their soul back.
Explains why I'm rock hard
tragic, but also delicious.
A podcast horcrux.
I must correct: a British weeb is a Teaboo.
Most under rated comment.
I feel that Laim chastising Justin about a beer before 10 is the reversal of responsibility
Yay Laim
I so hope that Laim becomes a thing. He's officially Laim to me from now on.
Serial Experiments Laim
h’Laim
DARVO
As someone who works a miserable overnight shelf stocking job at Walmart with lots of overtime, I would like to express my support of unreasonably long podcast episodes. Apologies to Devon.
I do 5-8 hours of janitorial work in a church. Same, buddy.
The "yay Liam!" that burst from me when he said he was happier than he's been in years was unparalleled in both its enthusiasm and its sheer volume. So glad to hear it.
Also, I live for Devon's editorial comments, they do indeed do a *great* job!
A genuine Yay Liam.
Happy for the Big Boy.
Timestamps:
0:12:56 WTYP Crew endorse skipping and Liam says he likes people who give timestamps
0:20:18 Background and Context
1:12:19 East Palestine Derailment
EDIT More detailed timestamps (if you are the WTYP account you can copy these into the description to get chapters, the trick is starting with 0:00:00):
0:00:00 Intro
0:07:52 The God Damn News: Writer's Guild strike
0:15:43 The God Damn News: Civil War in Sudan
0:20:18 Context: Hightstown Wreck 1833
0:24:51 Context: Norfolk Southern's Existence
0:42:38 Context: Oily Rag Bearings
0:50:45 Context: Defect Detectors
0:59:37 Context: Vinyl Chloride
1:12:19 East Palestine Derailment
1:43:23 Media, Public and Political Reaction
1:52:19 The Brake Thing
2:19:12 East Palestine Cleanup
2:25:15 The real issue here is...
2:32:10 Safety Third: Circus Carpenter and Rigger
Nice!
that jump between parts 2 and 3 lol
Safety Third???
@@pearceburns2787 Good news, I just got done with much more detailed timestamps. I'm literally getting married this afternoon but I woke up at like 5am and couldn't get back to sleep so this is what I did with my morning.
@@Mickulty GO GET MARRIED CONGRATULATIONS 🎉🎉🎉
One of the reasons for the writers strike is the development of a practice called "minirooms," where instead of having a proper writers room, a studio hires a writing team for about 6 weeks to bang out the skeleton of a show (characters, basic premise, etc), and then only the showrunner goes on to write the whole thing. It's not a widespread practice--YET--but without action it very likely would become industry standard, especially with streaming having made episodic shows less and less common in lieu of serialized, entirely planned-out storylines, which are more easily managed by smaller teams/one person (at least in the eyes of the studios).
It feels like this season of the Mandalorian was written like this! I was wondering what happened there.
Sounds like a great way to lose quality
Not sure about that. Many Asian countries have few episodes, i.e. South Korea with 12, 16, or 20 episodes per show, and yet the writers of the show tend to be as well known as the producers and the main cast.
@@williamchamberlain2263 it sure is! also a recipe for jarring shifts in writing once the story fully transitions into being written by only that one person. lot of ideas and touches that are lost when the other writers are gone.
I thought minirooms was going to be the micro dosing equivalent of doing shrooms
As a doordash driver thank you to all of my podcaster friends you make my days livable
I use to do grub hub and then tow truck driving so I know how you feel. May the tip gods be kind to you today.
Pizza guy here. I fucking feel you my man
Solidarity with my brothers sisters and non binary pal's
Same. Saaaame. Have you gotten to the point of repeating them too?
I love the new wtyp side plot about Dev slowly losing their sanity
‘Podcast beer’ is now my go to excuse for day drinking while doing yard work
A podcast while doing yard work is a level of chaos I want to see
"It's a podcast beer - I always have a podcast beer." - Me, listening to my eighth podcast of the morning.
Brother yard work is already an excuse for day drinking
@@acheyawachtel9409 healthy, moisturized, staying in my lane (revving the electric polesaw while I shotgun a 10% IPA)
@@acheyawachtel9409 I work at a garden center and I'd say a good 40% of my day is accompanied by a podcast.
loving the audible noise to let us know when devs notes are on screen
Key, as I mostly just listen and occasionally glance to see if the slides have changed
Agreed. So need a audible noise for notes as I’m busy painting while listening. I need to know to look up.
3 eps in 2 weeks? Dang, this appears to be the most bountiful harvest from the podcasting mines of any April in the last few years
Achieving the Five-Year Plan's goals in record time
They hit a fresh vein!
Sounds like they may be front loading us before Liam and Roz go on a vacation / clandestine mission for the PSS together for a while
It is, after all, the month of Playpril, which is known to be bountiful.
punished_devon.jpg
I worked for a vending machine company during the pandemic and often listened to WTYPpod while servicing the Paulsboro Gas Refinery early in the morning. I would see the bridge where the vinyl chloride spill you mentioned happened, and would cross over the tracks (both on surface roads and inside the gates of the refinery itself) that train traveled to get there from the refinery, and I can assure you they are due for another derailment any day now judging from the things I saw in there.
Anyway my fondest memory of that stop is that I was listening to the WTYPpod episode on the World Trade Center when you all learned that RBG died and started burst out into raucous laughter as I was filling their coffee machine. There is now forever a connection in my brain between the WTC , RBG, and the Paulsboro Gas Refinery because of you jokers. Keep up the good work!
I fucking love that Alice talked about liking people who put on their podcast while doing more or less monotonous or repetitive jobs, because that's kinda my situation now: as a warehouse employee during graveyard shift it powers me thru it quite well, so thanks! ❤
I came for the engineering disasters & stayed because I love the tangents, diversions, & politics
I really hope WTYP comp some delivery for Devon when they edit these huge episodes. The kind of restaurant that includes salad and a loaf of bread with your entree, or whatever Devon wants. ✊ Solidarity
Given how you guys have said you like hearing peoples stories of when they listen to your podcast, here's mine: I found this podcast a few weeks back, around a month after my fiance passed away. I used to spend my work commutes with him, so they became very lonely. Now I look forward to time I can spend chilling on a bus, listening to this podcast. You guys have helped me a lot, thank you, and if it helps at all - I honestly really fucking love the God Damn News segment lol
Sorry for your loss, glad we could help in any way at all
Sympathies extended.
Didn't expect Alice to go all "Friendship ended with Glock. Alice and 1911 are now best friends"
in awe of devon’s constantly incredible fashion sense. the fugue state varsity tee is amazing and i need one
I didn’t catch that, that’s hilarious
I’ll buy a beer Koozies from WTYP that states “This Is My Podcast Beer”
I second this
That's a million dollar idea!
I am really enjoying this release schedule. As a non union worker that is slowly turning my coworkers towards unionization, I appreciate the continued work that WTYP is doing to give me World War Two levels of ammunition against my suburban brain worm having coworkers and their continuing support of being treated, paid, and just generally seen as shit. Y’all are doing good work. The further radicalization of the working class is indeed a noble pursuit.
Also, HELLO! GREAT WORK DEVON! WE LOVE YOU!
Actual, literal cucks don't enjoy getting cucked half as much as the American working class does.
No one was ready for Liam to be using more than 2% of his power.
As someone with multiple Corniliae in my family tree because they kept naming themselves after each other, there are lots of shortenings: Neil, Corny, Casey, Cora, Chuck, CJ, on and on.
Norfolk Southern what's your function?
keeping up this podcast helping businesses run!
Norfolk Southern how's that function?
keeping trains falling over one by one!
devon's choice of existential crisis music right at the opening was a great way to signal how amazing this episode was gonna be all the way down to the safety third.
I thought I recognized it from the movie Annihilation so I looked it up and it is
I'm a hospital janitor that works an eight hour shift in the afternoons to midnight. WTYP is one of the podcasts that helps me through the night.
I am too ADD to marathon any one podcast tho
I occasionally tap into that ADD hyperfixation and listen to one podcast channel for 48 hours straight.
@@MereMeerkat Unfortunately that's always hit at home and all of a sudden it's time to leave for work and I just spent my whole day harvesting stone in Valheim or something.
Incidentally while also listening to old podcasts and video essays
Happy Liam thanking me personally for my Patreon contribution? I think I have a tear in my eye. Yay Liam!
Yay Liam!
Good lord two weeks in a row at almost 3 hours. The podcast factory needs to unionize
Hey Devon thank you for adding the little audio cue when you chime in, because I do often put this on to be audio-mostly (I check when the words "next slide" or "it's not supposed to be like this" etc. come up) and I did not notice you chiming in in the earlier eps where you did that. But recently with the little Minecraft(?) noise I'm always alerted to check. Much appreciated.
There should be a patreon tier that just supports Devon as the cast is clearly trying to murder them.
Loving the mononyms for the guests. Next we'll move onto Codenames with Ep. 169: Watergate ft. Deep Throat
Running commentary:
* WGA strike is for more pay in streamed shows (which get canceled a lot more often) plus restrictions on using AI models to write shows. NPR had a report on that.
I am one of the truckers that listen to this podcast while rolling down the highway. I'm hoping it gets me to around Lebanon, MO from Carthage, MO. It would get me normally to around Rolla but I have a stop in Springfield where I'm posting this comment. I enjoy your show and I find these incidents interesting. Funny how these often things keep going on but little ever gets done about them. But they freely hand out regs on us truck drivers
Rampant unprofessionalism is something I demand from all of my favorite podcasts.
I know it’s not proper proletariat labour, but having you guys in my ears as I count cells in the lab really makes things easier, whether it’s at 6am on a Monday or 10pm or Sunday whichever other godawful hour the lab needs me.
Thank you so much for making things go by more pleasantly, I hope my $2 helps make things easier for you.
Do you have a boss?
Are you employed?
Congrats, you're a worker.
If you live off the salary provided by someone else for your labour, it is proper proletariat labour.
counting cells in a lab sounds like labor to me
it's only proletarian labour if you're whacking something with a hammer, so bring a hammer to the lab
any labour done for an owner is still prole work. you don't need to wield a hammer all day to be a member of the working class, we're in this together, all of us.
Rip Devin we love you
As a Dutchman, my confusion at everyone talking about "NS" as a railway company, but in the USA, is unending.
Well as a German that abbreviation has also other meanings for me...
@@valerylegasov86 the American NS is nicknamed 'Nazi Southern' in reference to how management treats their employees. For a while they even tried removing toilets from their locomotives and told crews to crap in plastic bags. When used bags started showing up all along the track their response was to put a serial number on each bag and keep track of who took each one.
@@bobsmith2637 🤮
@@bobsmith2637 After the Conrail split in June 1999, I started calling NS No Solution. The day after the split, some knob fucked up the computer system, and NS's entire share of Conrail disappeared. UPS was thrilled, as you can imagine. It took NS a few days to fix it.
One thing about ECP brakes in Europe: it’s actually fairly common on fast loco hauled trains (like 125+mph) and reliable, but it’s hard wired instead of radio controlled… and there’s a thing (in German translates to multi release brakes), where you can partially release the brakes… both have been in use for almost 50 years now…
You should consider doing an episode on the Dreyfus Affair.
It contains: The French, The Germans, massive systematic incompetence, false imprisonment, a scullery maid, anti-semitism, military goofiness, and a relatively happy ending.
It also has perhaps too much documentation. It’s perfect!
I second this. I think it would be hilarious.
This also has a powerful bonus episode energy
Honestly that reminds me of another incident around France in that era that they should do. The Fashoda Incident in Egypt.
Just wanted to say thanks for making a great podcast. Discovered it recently. I am a building inspector who has worked facilities with spicy rocks and my dad is a Fire Protection Engineer/former Fire Marshal. Appreciate the insight into all of these crazy disasters.
I used to listen to this podcast while working, but my job changed and now I can’t really multitask anymore. However, you’re still here to get me through the unpaid labor of keeping my own house in order, and I appreciate that greatly
Re: Bashir being ousted and "multiple militaries"
I remember reading an NYT article back when the revolution happened that said Bashir had a nickname like "the spider," or something like that, because of how indirect his control over the various paramilitaries of the country was. The idea was, I guess, that he sat at the center of a web, and rather than giving orders, he’d simply wiggle the threads and others would move. This helped him avoid blowback from the Darfuri genocide, since neither he nor his forces were directly involved in the worst atrocities carried out by the Janjaweed. The sense I remember getting was that there was a lot more "management" of various factions than actually having an iron grip over the country.
Assuming my memory is correct and the reporting was accurate -- I would guess it's a military crackup in the absence of a central leader around which loosely aligned factions coalesced? Though that still leaves open the question of what Bashir did that made the military see his ouster as desirable in the first place.
Anyways, praying for the people of Sudan. Watching the revolution get turned back was heartbreaking, so many good people sacrificed so much, and this is the result, I just can't bear it.
Edit to add: The "transition to democracy" always seemed like a paper-thin delay tactic, I never took the military seriously on their commitment to democracy at all -- the way I remember it happening, they literally wrested control from an already existing civilian government on the promise to return to that civilian government at some point in the future. I remember immediately recognizing this as tragic collapse into reaction, and I think they arrested some civilian leaders like a year later (they may have been released under international pressure) -- either way, I don't see Sudan returning to civilian rule without international pressure or more revolutionary action. Heartbreaking
I did a full time factory job with mandatory 10hr overtime and your podcast having longer episodes meant I had more to listen to (I will be sending a safety third at some point)
pauses Perun's 1 hour slideshow presentation to watch a nearly three hour slideshow presentation. I am the average european
Devin’s snarky replies and comments are like hidden gems for the podcast
If I had had access to podcasts, especially Hardcore History, when I was doing data entry, I probably wouldn't have remembered to clock out at the end of each day. I just would have carried on data-entering until I starved.
As a hvac engineer that works in plant rooms and roofs these podcast are life saving as both noise canceling and keeping me company while I work. Keep up the good work.
"You can not drink at 944am!" lmao Liam I'm drinking a redbull vodka at 736am
Alcoholics of the world, unite!
@@spaguettoltd.7933 You have nothing to lose but your brain(cells)!
The subcontracted transportation truck for swapping out rail crews is no joke the sketchiest kind of taxi cab service you could possibly imagine.
The last big writers’ strike gave us the reality tv boom of the early 2000s
As well as Dr Horrible’s Singalong Blog
@@FloydBunsen scab work
the 2020's writers' strike will lead to the return of gladiators as a cheap form of loosely-scripted entertainment 🦁
Shortly followed by what's usually referred to as 'the golden age of television' in the early 2010s
It also killed the interest in major network super Heroes. 🤜💥🪵🤞🤞🤞
My favortie strike right now is the Pittsburgh post gazette. Not sure how many people know, but the only people that really see them striking are the scabs, and anyone working at one of the neighboring warehouse facilities. They have supposedly been on strike since October last year.
Idk if yinz live round the burgh but the awareness is pretty mixed.
Couple corrections, 1 they're not in the warehouse(strip) district, they're downtown. That said this city is still covered in warehouses and industrial sites so it's easy to get confused if yinz don't know.
2 the strike has faced issues with police interference.
And 3 there's only two major News papers for western PA and the jagoffs that own the Post Gazette are conservative and thus slowly bent the paper further right for the last while along with the Tribune-review.
Therefore the readership doesn't care if they're even aware. The lefties In Town read the new courier, city paper and now the Pittsburgh union progress (started by the strikers) and also the college papers sometimes.
All that's to say strikes only work if people respect the strike and between the indifference of the PG readership and the willingness of scabs they're in for a long one that said they're supported by other newspaper guilds and the United steel workers so they'll hopefully be alright.
Tldr: if you live in the city you know all too well what's been goin on, but we aint their readers, it's jagoffs that live in boroughs and burbs further out and the neo libs in the shady side who don't give a fuck. This is a union town because the rich here always fought tooth n nail.
-source: I live in south side PGH.
@@maxpar6764just FYI, city paper was bought by Block Communications, same owner as the post gazette
44:34 the bearing is spinning, it stops, then the train starts spinning 😂
well the good thing about self-polymerizing monomers is you won't have any monomers left after enough time
In the fire department, we'd call hazmat things methyl, ethyl bad shit and call a hazmat crew. Just the fact that we'd call it methyl, ethyl bad shit instead of ethyl, methyl bad shit tells you all you need to know about how much organic chemistry everyone has had. When I actually took organic chemistry later on in my life, I thought this was pretty funny.
I don't work a horrifically gruelling job, but the length of these podcasts does get me through till lunch and it is a godsend. Helps balance out the jungle mixes
WTYP: "We'll get to the main course but you are gonna wade through our discourse, motherf*cker"
And that's why I love you guys.
17:06 In 1955 here in Argentina the navy and the army actually went to battle against the airforce, so you know... One can never be sure.
Always makes me smile to hear that Liam is in a good mood. Not to get all parasocial, but it makes me happy to hear other people happy, esp when they've expressed struggles with mental health
hey everyone, please stand in solidarity with the PSAC, the union of public servants in Canada, who are striking right now
Hahaha, I knew that this one would was gonna be fucking horrifying, and seeing that intro and hearing the crack of a beer confirmed it all for me.
Yeah this one would was gonna be that indeed.
True. Mindful that this is the second recording of the same content
This podcast is literally one of the best things for my job. When you're trucking 11 hours across Texas having equally miserable give me life.
Also good to Hear C4 energy getting a shout. That bad boy is part of a complete trucker breakfast.
C4 is secretly the codename for the complete breakfast of professional drivers everywhere:
Creatine
Caffeine
Calcium
Cocaine
I'd think that as a trucker you'd be a fan of *full throttle*
Devon is such an excellent addition to the team
Redbull water melon, the official drink of 16 hour water treatment double shifts
Fastest "TheGoddamnedNews" to full podcast. Ever.
Very good episode. Brian was a very intelligent and informative guest and I liked all of the background information on the messy rail mergers that got us here and all of the discussion on various media outlets providing bad coverage and worse solutions. Also, it was nice to learn about a confederate general who genuinely tried to change his ways and make amends in his post-war career. People should learn from his example that it’s never too late to do a good thing.
This cat is purring like crazy. Thank you content gods-including Devon
Look, they got 22 seconds off of the last one. Incrementalism works, Devon! Trust the process!
Angry beavers is exactly what I could imagine roz watching as a kid. I admire that in ppl
You always have to go into this show prepared for the worst, but nothing prepares you for Jerma.
I solder together thousands of the same part every day and yeah the 4 hour episodes help cover the endless drone of the extraction fan
i can feel the editors pain, we all also wish the episode were longer...
I wish to register my vote as #team3hourpod (sorry Devon). I'm self employed as a potter so I also require copious volumes of content to get through my days. I can sometimes binge TV shows, and of course podcasts, but WTYP is the perfect combo of audio and video that doesn't require my full visual attention. I can glance up occasionally to check the slides while I listen. Only downside is I occasionally miss Devon's interjections unless they are accompanied by a sound effect. Sorry again, Devon.
May I also recommend Fall of Civilisations podcast if you've not heard them? 3-hour bursts of pure loveliness with a very mellow narrator.
Devon should throw a sound cue so we don’t miss any of the little Easter eggs they throw in there. I’m sure a lot of us miss it because we look at the slide then look away to work as we listen lol
@@shadeitplease7383 there were some sound cues a couple eps back when the guest was trying to get back on topic with no luck. They just confused me at first because I wasn't looking but I eventually figured it out and had to rewind a bit.
@@Jablicek I'll check that one out! I'm working my way through the American History Tellers back catalog right now.
Holy shit, I'm also a potter! 🤝
And same on the word of Devon, I kinda want that audio cue to be louder/farther in advance so I don't miss it and have to get my hands clean enough to rewind.
I love this podcast but I also miss Franklin. It's so memorable and well made. Even once a year would be a plethora of Franklin to me.
i genuinely do learn a lot from this podcast. i completely believed the "civil war era brakes" narrative until now
Instead it's civil war era bearings
Oh shit those mad lads actually did it! My Sunday just got so much better!
1:04:30 I have never once seen such a tiny tank car, and I am glad for this. A baby tank car full of Bromine (not sure, watching on a phone) is downright terrifying
Lead is just really tired uranium.
To be perfectly honest small derailments when no ones injured or anything never gets mentioned anywhere in the world because they are expected to some extent but major one oh they are gonna be on the "first page" of every minor and major news sites as soon as possible. Which is was a shocker to me when major European and Asian sites already were talking about the derailment while the major NA news waited 6-8 days to even mentioned it.
To be fair, Secretary Butt Plug wouldn’t have done anything even if he could. He’s the personification of regulatory capture. And before anyone gets all mad about homophobia or whatever, I’m gay and channeling some irrationally angry Liam energy.
No joke I am legit happy to hear Liam is happy and enjoying life. Like that's great dude.
Nice to see the videos going down to a more reasonable length.
😊😂9th 0😅8
Shit I'm busy watching Perun, but I want to watch Devon succumb to madness
Literally just clicked over to this from mid-listen of Perun's latest.
Perun is fanastic. There needs to be word for long ass videos of nerds explaining stuff so I can just search by it.
@@jwebster126 slide show porn
@zephyrnet enjoy having the same day I'm having.
Huh, same here. Just got the popup.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries can wait for now.
Dow chemical is building new plants closer to each other because the rail delays for mid products cost them more than building the plant that finalizes the mid product next to the original plant
As a reluctant resident of Ohio, let me just say: oh HELL yeah, I’ve been waiting for this one!
i watched the entirety of MST3K while i was working nights, no complaints about length here.
You really need those high water detectors, even in a very deserty region. When I was a kid, there was this wash that was dry for most of the year but would quickly overtop its banks in a flash flood. More than once, I went down there as a kid when it had rained a lot and I saw the water up over the banks of the wash beginning to undermine the tracks. Trains would still be going by too but they were always going a lot slower so I guess someone alerted them to the fact that the water was at least high near the tracks but it never did anything but begin to undermine the side of that rock hill that had the track on top of it. When they redid the rail (which I guess they had to do to make it less susceptible to earthquake issues), they put it further from the wash and the Army Corps of Engineers also came and fixed the wash so that it was deeper and wider than before. Now water runs down that way year round and it's creates a lovely little patch the wilderness quite near to the city and I built one of my forts in the woods there.
I just finished a 3 year stint working 12 hour night shifts at a semiconductor fab "cleanroom" and regularly breathing in all sorts of yummy and pyrophoric chemicals, and what y'all said at the beginning about these episodes taking people through their miserable shifts has never been more true. Thanks for making it all a bit less shitty!
I should wait to listen to episodes while im at work, but im usually impatient. you make my MMORPG time and menial chores and errands much more enjoyable. I love long episodes
I'm not a live-in cess pit guard, but I'm always glad to see a new episode ahead of one of my Saturday on-calls.
I am a newer Patron and hearing that I helped enable Liam to volunteer at a food pantry, and that he enjoyed himself, is genuinely a reward to me
I would normally listen to this during my 3rd shift job but I'm instead watching this during my 6 and a half hour layover instead.
Thanks for making life a bit more bearable.
Me, opening a 750ml bottle of barleywine at 10:45am to watch this: "Yeah, Liam is right Rocz, you can't be drinking that early, damn!"
these sort of reactions have an exponential rate increase that once it kicked off self polymerizing, you're not going to be able to stop, nor dump enough heat from the reaction to slow it.
This podcast is one of my single digit motivations to continue living
Devon has become my favorite member of the podcast