Well There's Your Problem | Episode 56: The Vulcan Bridge
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Finally, after all this time, the Vulcan Narrows Bridge Disaster!
Have you been invited as a guest speaker yet? I would love you guys to dunk on shitty cycling infrastructure set up by incompetent city administrations.
I would love for you to make a guest appearance on the podcast... In the mean time, Vaush needs a bit of an education on city planning and urban vs rural development and your name came up on stream the other day... He would have you on stream for at least an hour I'm sure, could be great exposure
@Wout Horsman seriously... It was genuinely painful how little he understands the subject... He was "right" about walk-ability and thats about it...
FUCK! I was 4 hours late, goddamnit class! why couldnt you have been canceled!
@Not Just Bikes wth, you are here too xD
Btw, you want that city tour sometime in March if everything lets up here?
One hour of build up to the Soviet anthem drop. Quality.
poggers wrong hordak
@@youtubeisawebsite7484 I feel seen.
So quality that, even though I read this comment beforehand, the drop *still* had me cackling
Alice fighting the soundboard and losing the battle is genuinely one of my favorite things in this podcast. Doesn’t matter how bad a day I’m having, it’s an instant mood reset.
Current favorite was the “E E E e e e e” newsdrop
I hope she never fixes it
As long as she keeps nailing the Soviet anthem.
@@gabsrants Don't forget "The east is red" hehe
Which episode had the e e e e backdrop?
@eddynetweb new London school explosion I think
"Mom, I want the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster!"
"You can have the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster at home!"
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster at home:
Grandma at Christmas: "this is the one you wanted, right?"
Sounds like a quote from MST3K
Kid: "Mom, this isn't The Tacoma Narr...."
Mom: 1:00:28
Kid: "Ah, well! Not bad at all!"
USSR, my name is John Robinette, I live in the dystopian nightmare of rural West Virginia, our people have no bridge out of town and the only road is owned by a greedy railway baron who won't let us do it. Our elderly women have to pay young men to trespass on company property just to get basic good. Please liberate us! Our people need you!
Ok Alice, I think the slogan you wanted for your decal of the woman with a microphone between her legs is "Podcasters can go for hours, as long as you don't mind them pressing the wrong buttons every now and then"
Or "The tonge work won't stop ever."
Is vibrato, or tremolo, the better technique?
"The hotter the take, the hotter she gets!"
yeah the joke is definitely gonna be button based
I'd say this is a bit wordy to get to the point, but then I remembered what podcast we're listening to!
I’m glad ‘Yay Liam’ has become a bit because that’s what I also think when I hear Liam.
Nothing in this world could've prepared me for two texans, two Philadelphians and a british woman telling me about Appalachian mineworkers going communist bc nobody fixed their bridge.
Trulbillies are Kentucky based
@@GoodStarfish they were so unprepared they haven't heard a drawl from KY.
@@PanAndScanBuddy Kentucky isn't real, the south is just all texas and Alabama
Is your bridge breeding Bolsheviks?
Based.
all southern accents are texan
nah u should look into mountain talk, it's pretty neat the dialects that emerge in places like appalachia
The people of Vulcan had affordable access to healthcare, in that they had to ford a river to get to a hospital
Upvoting this under protest.
Gotta love how a bridge that looks like I could build it in a weekend caused this many problems.
Brought to you by the town bar owner who declared himself mayor and wrote to the First Secretariat of the Soviet Union in desperation because the state and federal government didn’t want to pay for it.
@@jamiekamihachi3135 What an absolute chad.
That's what happens when there's so little money that buying new furniture was considered an investment. In the '60s places like Vulcan and Kermit were often so poor that people walked on roads built through their communities because they couldn't afford cars. Or if someone did own a car, it was a truck where everyone would pile into the bed to get to town. Seeing photos and hearing stories of former family members of mine from that era was wild.
Fun fact: the UK having anthracite coal while Germany was stuck with bituminous coal probably contributed massively to UK world domination, and the winning of the two world wars. The advantage it gave in the industrial revolution and to navy ships of the time was massive, though rarely mentioned
Ppp
Very true
All glory to the Vulcan Soviet Socialist Republic
Vulcans were overated and even they knew it
Kinda mad no one else got Alice’s Star Trek reference early one.
The Vulcan Autonomous Oblast sounds cool as well
People's Republic of West Virginia (PRWV)
never would have guessed it, but this podcast is really elevated by a southern accent or two.
lmao
PA and KY go well together. And English accents are nice more or less
Especially "Dear Mr Brezhnev, I like your eyebrows."
@@AlanCanon2222 To be fair, that man had some _killer_ eyebrows.
I laugh when Liam said that John Robinette looks like he has never been sober of his life... Because in québécois french, "robine" means cheap alcool... The guy has the name to go with that!
Genuinely could not POSSIBLY have predicted the 1:00:19 twist in this one and it's one of the best things I've ever heard.
I think the poop thing depends on the hardness. Most turds would probably disassemble into a fine aerosol mist before hitting the ground, but those that survive that descent would be significantly heavier than a penny and be pretty damaging
Fun example of polluting colouring buildings - in the 80s they discovered No. 10 Downing Street is actually yellow. So now they paint the bricks to keep the 'traditional' look.
"Mr. Brehznev, build up this bridge!"
My ambition is now to start a West Virginia coal company called Big Lick Energy
A miner's job is never done with coal veins like that. You could become the world's 1st Throbber Baron.
I really love the fact that the Wikipedia-page voor Vulcan, West Virginia has a 5352 x 1009 px jpg of the town.
It's a picture of the railroad with a cargo-train on it.
Slaps roof of syphilis gun: *Syphilis gun discharges and gives a railroad baron Syphilis.*
The Myth of Syphilis
As a former meme addict, the second sentence was genuinely jarring as it doesn't follow the format. 😮🍍
oh i get it. discharge
This pod killed Rush Limbaugh. Great work team
he promised he'd keep fighting until they "finally did that bridge episode"
I heard Rush died from COVID, though! COVID takes another hero from our airwaves
They joke, but Appalachia natives know the reality of waking up some mornings like "well, guess we're working in 240p today."
At first I was like "Vulcan is in the middle of a prairie and by no rivers"
And then I learned there is more than one Vulcan.
Jesus Christ the gang are doing some serious overtime in the Podcast Mines
They have seized the means of podcast production.
Not enough cuz this isn’t 5 hours long
Boss Roz be pushing the crew hard
Podcast Lung is a true danger
@@NotJustBikes Vaush name dropped you on his livestream the other day... He was poorly discussing city planning and the value of walk-ability but he was an absolute moron and kept showing how little he knows about the subject, the chat was screaming your name and he finally BRIEFLY agreed he would watch your content to educate himself on the topic. He prefers Eco Gecko...
I prefer your content but Eco Gecko gets into the nitty gritty of the details a bit more than you do...
Vaush was on the "correct" side of the debate, but he was making such absolutely garbage takes that it felt like he was actually hurting his position... Honestly feels like he does that basically every time he ventures out of his wheelhouse... He knows just enough to be on the right side of the issue while simultaneously making that side look like absolute shit
God you guys and gal have a crazy output at the moment. I love it. Thanks for your work.
As a female construction worker, I gotta say I love those porta-potties, cuz you can see in them sorta and so I have to obviously avert my eyes when going past.
5:54 Congrats to that worker for joining the Mile Long Club
I hope y'all can cover the absolute state of Texas' handling of *cold* some future episode
Seconding this
I immediately thought of WTYP when that news broke
Going on 53 hours without power here! Freezing my tits off
Texas state institutions heard about global warming and thought never gonna use any of that snow and frost shit might aswell never prepare
Thirded. Texas' handling of anything really is episode fodder.
It might be interesting to point out that the Appalachian mountains and the Scottish Highlands were part of the same mountain range before their plates drifted apart
Oh, the mention of strange place names reminds me of a story my mom told me. See, near Climax, Minnesota, there's a town called Fertile. According to legend, a newspaper once ran a story under the headline "Fertile woman dies on way to Climax."
I like how Liam's C word got censored but not the explicit explanation of what he said
Followed by Alice just saying it uncensored
It kinda makes sense to me. One was taboo the other is just a place name. Even though they are the same word.
That's just because Liam respects his mum. We can thus infer that his mum is not a fish.
I love how often they casually talk about stuff getting taken out in the editing that doesn't end up getting removed
I have re-listened to that twist, that reveal at the 1-hour mark, several times now. What a magnificent use of a drop by Alice.
The accents in this episode are *chef’s kiss*. Love yinz (to add my Pittsburghese to the mix).
Since I've been freezing my nips off in the dark for the past 60 hours, can we get an episode on ERCOT and the Texas power grid?
Seconded.
The moment the storm rolled into Texas I was thinking that power grid would make a fine episode.
Yeah, that really does need to be an episode. Full of lots of Northerners scratching their heads at how on earth Texas wasn't prepared for a cold snap which occurs on average about every 5-10 years (and yes, I'm including myself in that). When it happens that often, you not only have a lot of time to prepare, but you also don't have an excuse for not being prepared. It's not like road salt goes bad.
That said, we're experiencing rolling blackouts in our northern state too. I'm not even sure why it's happening, although it probably has to do with the sub-zero temps we've had for the past week or so. But considering sub-zero temps are not exactly unusual for us, they really shouldn't be happening. It's not like we've had any major ice storms or blizzards lately, just light flurries at most.
Yeah! Those goddamn snakes, Abbott, Perry, and Patrick created this energy crisis by being entirely dependent on oil and refused to adopt regulations from the federal government that would've kept us running during the weathed
we're on it
I understand how funny a clean version of wtyp is as a concept, but y'all could turn my dad into a socialist with a clean version of this podcast. gotta love class-consciousness clashing with christian conservatism.
It would, to me, be similar to a TV station censoring the fart noises out of "Blazing Saddles".
That was Justin's show before wtyp, it was just him describing similar things.
I like wtyp but it takes a bit to get to the point.
I was going to say you should edit a version for him, but if that went well that's a lot of work to both edit more content + try have him not find the original
@@cfor8129 the problem is the episodes would be like 10 minutes long
(TGDN)The girlfriend was disappointed when she found out what running the train really meant.
**slow clap**
@@melissametivier4 , that is what OSHA is concerned about that could potentially develop from unsafe work practices.
So I'm gonna use my throwaway for this for a lot of reasons. I have never been on a worksite with danger of falling turds but i have had to run for cover from falling piss.
So i work in the wind industry and it's not uncommon for workers to piss in water bottles and dump it out a hatch or just piss right out the hatch if we're up there for long periods of time.
Now in the midwest in the winter it gets cold, one week we were having a pretty nasty cold snap and it got down to -20F, I was delivering parts to a crew and after running into the towerbase to check something I was walking back to my truck to get the parts out when i saw a bunch of ice shards fall onto and around my truck and just shatter all over the place. This scared the crap out of me as the blades can collect thick ice and if it falls on you it can be lethal. But all of these shards were yellow in color and pretty small, someone must have pissed out a hatch not knowing anyone was down there and it froze solid on the way down.
so uh yea that's my falling piss story.
The Horny Work Guy shirt for meteorologists is “Weathermen Do It With Models”.
You can't trust a male weatherman though. They always promise six inches.
YOU GUYS ACKNOWLEDGED THE POST I MADE LAST VIDEO AAAAA
For context I said I missed the "which itself is a disaster" they used to say.
Love you guys.
“It belongs in a museum!” The Cincinnati Union Terminal is now the Cincinnati Museum Center. They still have those big fancy Art Deco fountains out front. Still running. They just did a major renovation last year.
@@EmeraldLavigne maybe it was a few years ago now, I kinda forgot that last year didn’t happen. Just blocked it out
I'm from a dead coal town and I will always appreciate coal content. Everyone here has a dead family member from mine disasters
4:00 Dear god the amount of Texas in that voice, hope he’s not frozen and in the dark right now
Imagine in the Soviets had just donated one of those bridgelayer T-55s
_Old Obi Wan voice:_ *I'm afraid this isn't the bridge disaster podcast episode you're looking for*
33:20 Coal. It keeps the lights on
... laughs in Texan
Steam notifications are slowly becoming the new "Activate Windows" and I am here for it.
Well that story sure took an unexpected turn when Leonid Brezhnev showed up in the narrative.
So I convinced the chair of the biology department to give me one of the old microscopes that the school had after they bought new ones for the labs and literally the first slide I ever made at home was one on which I thought I was just going to see some moss (and I did) but on which I also discovered a tardigrade. I tripped out on the tardigrade until I had to go to my next class. I put the slide in the refrigerator of my apartment and assumed that the tardigrade would probably die but I wanted to look at it again anyway.
When I came back from class, I put that slide under the microscope and I thought the tardigrade was dead as I had assumed it would be but the light from the microscope warmed it up again and it went back to grabbing pieces of moss and shoving them in its mouth just like it had been doing before I put the slide in the fridge. It was awesome!
The great thing about having your own microscope is that you can look at things under it that you wouldn't otherwise bring to the lab. I made a slide from some weed I had (as I always have weed) and the trichomes containing the cannabinoids are so amazing to look at under a microscope! There are some that look like shark fins and there are others that look like mushrooms. It is so amazing! These are just the crystals that you see with the naked (lol) eye on weed that you buy (and if you don't see these, don't buy that weed). There are some interesting colors going through these shapes too. I recommend that anyone who can put weed under a microscope put weed under the microscope because it's pretty awesome.
Tardigrades are known for surviving in a number of extreme conditions - including trips to space - so I'm not surprised yours handled the fridge okay. What a fun experience though!
dude, weed
@@sleatersan It was like my second biology class ever, so I hadn't known about the amazing ability of tardigrades to survive extreme environments. Amazing little things!
@@nothing-2-live-4 Yeah weed is pretty epic under the microscope.
"Can we have the Tacoma Narrows episode?"
"We already have the Tacoma Narrows episode at home"
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA coffcoffwheeze ow
Tacoma Narrows Episode is coming up next week.
Please tell me you recorded something today, I need to hear Roczs manic cackle upon hearing "Rush Limbaugh has died."
Here in Texas we have "Cut n' Shoot," "Point Blank," and "Gun Barrel City." So apparently we don't do sex, we do violence in town names.
There is a teeny-tiny, 3-building town in Idaho named "Dickshooter," which has the best of both worlds.
The next episode is, of course, about the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse. The episode after the next, however, is the disaster known as 'Alice's Soundboard'.
a bonus episode on Alice's Soundboard, Liam's Mic, and Justin's bladder
This dude was like "I'm gonna tell the communists on you" and well,
if it didn't work.
31:23 Union Terminal, been there once, it was and hopefully still is a museum. If you like art deco this place is amazing.
Still a museum, they just finished up renovating the dome to keep it standing. The rear platforms were torn down in the 70's though.
Must say, i appreciate the regular podcasts. They really brighten my shite existence. Currently they are helping me quit my prescription meds. Thank you
I’m re-listening to this episode 3 years later, and I forgot how incredible this one was. The WTYP crew and the Trillbillies have amazing chemistry together
this episode was exactly the length of time it took to knit one slipper! :D
You are fast!
I've been listening to wtyp since the beginning and just want to say this is probably my favorite episode.
i was cursing this horrid Wednesday morning til I got this notification on my phone tysm
Somewhere on youtube is a construction safety video with the whole version of Shake hands with danger. I think it was sponsored by Caterpillar. Great job guys. I'm always looking forward to your next episode. Helps pass the long Minnesota winter!
Me after a tiring day: I just want to die.
Me seeing WTYP uploaded a new episode: Okay, so dying can wait.
At 42:00. You can see a red roof on a house to the left of the bridge … That’s the house I was born in ! March 8..1959…
I am honestly completely baffled at how the heart of union organizing in this country is so completely overrun by some of the worst capitalist politicians. I feel like there's an immensely huge opportunity being missed there by my socialist and communist siblings in Appalachia. You're the birthplace of unions and union militancy! Come on! 😭
Do not my friends become addicted to bridge crossings, for you will become resentful in their absence!
2 and a half min in, laim really spoiling us. 1) brings back the line "which is itself a disaster" which I saw people wanted back, and then also 2) Yay! Liam! which we all like :D
I think the best part is that he stirred up USSR/USA Animosity to get a $1.3 million dollar bridge built in a dead town. A town that wasn't going to get any more lively even with the bridge.
You confused the *shit* out of me by having a totally different Big Sandy River than the one I know of, since apparently there are *four* of them and you discussed the more interesting, possibly less mercury-contaminated one of them: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Sandy_River
Yea safety - 3rd again.... missed it sooo hard, its my fafourite section...
You shook hands with danger.
Quick bit of correction about Cincinnati's Union Terminal, since a quick scan of the comments didn't dig up anyone else sayin' it. For one, the casino's elsewhere in town--geographically very close, but still a 30-minute commute from the station. Instead, most of the Terminal's been converted into a "Museum Center"; one wing's natural science, another's regional and local history, and there's a children's museum and space for traveling exhibits in the basement and a big-ass hemispherical IMAX theater aft of the atrium, which still has all its original fixtures and recently underwent a complete restoration. Honestly, it's all pretty fuckin' awesome, _very_ well-executed, and I think it's one of the few things in this city worth bein' proud of.
Aside from that, yes--the only passenger service in or out of Union Terminal is the Cardinal, which in addition to only coming three times a week also arrives at 2am and leaves at 3, but the rest of the yard is still very active since we're a major freight hub. If freight's your bag, the Terminal yard's a great place for trainspotting.
Alice's soft "fuck, dude" in response to the strained sandworm jokes is one of the hardest laughs this pod has produced for me.
I am anxiety that this is secretly the Tacoma Narrows episode, the WTYP timeline eats its tail and we all fall into the Lethe
Vulcan, WV: The newest satellite state to the USSR
I drive a Tacoma and I'm a Poca Dot,and we played the Nitro Wildcats, love the podcast guys glad I found it
Definetly the funniest episode so far, literally had to pause and take a second to breathe after the red telephone and paratroopers joke got me
I didn't expect to walk away from a disaster podcast with a new personal hero.
I propose that we should start Trails to Commuter Rails and complete the railroad circle of life.
Ah, the escalator grandmas are definitely still a thing here in Saint-Petersburg. They are needed because the stations can be over 100 m underground (and it's one continuous escalator at 30 degrees), not so much to do anything if something happens to go wrong, but to disapprovingly yell at anyone doing anything out of the ordinary over the loudspeakers. Yes, sometimes they are just sleeping in there, but honestly, they give you some peace of mind. Pretty sure they still have them in Kyiv too, I know that they were all fired in Moscow a few years ago, but that's okay, the Moscow metro is nowhere near as deep.
They censored the Aussie word.
This is definitely a Southerner thing, see Chileans and Argentinians.
next week: Klingon Bridge Disaster - AKA casting Christopher Lloyd in 'The Search for Spock'
The assassination of Chancellor Gorkon was an inside job! The CIA killed him.
@@matthewbadley5063 Warp Core Plasma can't melt steel beams!
Wolf 359 was an inside job
14:05 the dismal river, notable for being the location of groverbridge
I thought the bridge would be named after the inventor of vulcanized rubber, Dr Spock.
Ah yes, the Kentucky-West Virginia Friendship Bridge
"THE REDS ARE INVADING KENTUCKY!"
The Cincy terminal’s a pretty awesome natural history museum now, though. The mammoth caught in a tar pit gave me nightmares as a kid. But yeah, there’s a casino like right down the street because reasons.
I have many fond memories of the museum center. The real disaster imo is the tangle of highways around it. And the Brent spence bridge which carries two interstate highways and has no shoulders or visibility. There was a truck accident and fire on it recently. The bridge is still standing so I guess it doesn't qualify for an episode 😂
I'm in love with Tom's voice.
Fun fact, LEGO had a hanging port a potty in their city tower crane set from 2010 ish I think.
Yes I remember that set. It’s older then 2010. 2006 I believe
The escalator-watching guys still exist in Russia.
Every floor of every building has an old lady watching TV at a desk.
In my line of work we have a version with the silhouette of a lady wearing underpants and the caption "Get 'em down safely with air traffic control."
Unjustified machismo is demonstrably universal and knows no bounds.
Wait did someone activate Windows?
Unactivate it!!!!
Yeah, that was a few episodes back. I'd considered offering a license a while back, but apparently somebody else beat me to it
If the Soviets had invaded Appalachia instead of Afghanistan, I'm pretty sure at least ONE tunnel would have been dug...
I didn't actually know Cincinnati terminal still had train service. I thought it was just a museum. My parents used to take me there when I was a kid. It's an impressive building.
Union terminal in Cincinnati is actually a really good museum now! Natural history and city history, and an omnimax theater with a lot of space movies. Had a lot of fun skipping class in high school to go to the museum and drop acid.
The "sand worm" was mean to be a cornucopia to tie in with the "land of plenty" tag line
I deeply appreciate the convos as being where i am and how i am; not a lot of stimulating conversation to be had amongst the public. Not without being subjected to explicitly painful issues that arise from basic differences in upbringing.
This podcast makes me feel at home again, just listening to all the snarkiness and the varied basic accents ping ponging perceptions on different angles on more convoluted subject matter. I.e engineering, social progressions and such that end up being hard for some to discuss but just a basically painful part of reality now.
I don't know how to word it well enough, just know i appreciate this podcast.
I love that you've done this for over a year and you all still completely fuck up everything related to production value, preparedness, etc. I love it.
In the advertising for the movie "the mothman prophecies" they published mothman short stories, including on where mothman does Chernobyl. Some people have circulated this without the source, so now lots of teenagers think mothman did Chernobyl.
Giving more evidence to the theory that Mothman was Ronald Reagan
Hey now Alice! There's some more straightforward funny names in the UK!
Fingringhoe, Twatt and Cockburnspath are all pure gold.
wtf I just signed up to the Patreon to learn about the Tacoma Narrows bridge disaster this isn't what I signed up for????
31:25
"Meanwhile!!! At the Hall of Just--- I mean... Engineering...!"
Troub-alert…well, there’s your problem.
52:08 "The stuff they mine in Germany and burn in Poland" Excuse me? We have our own dirty ass lignite mines, and we burn it in Bełchatów Power Plant. Highest individual CO2 emitter in EU by far. Having said that my favourite lignite power plant is Turów. Maybe not the largest one, but its location is just cute - nearest large cities are Prague and Dresden. Czechs are suing us over it in the EU Court of Justice literally right now. The only coal we import is the finest anthracite from mines in occupied Donbas. Importing lignite is not viable because it is too cheap and dirty (that is why every power plant is near the mine).