Well There's Your Problem | Episode 63: Infrastructure Week
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
- can't believe we're over four years into infrastructure week
also if you are mad about the poop building for any reason and want to take it out on us i would like to remind you that this is a "shall-issue" state
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I hate to criticize a generally superb progressive podcast, especially since my son is one of the presenters, BUT... Eurocentric thinking should be denounced. Infrastructure is not just aEuropean thing? When White people showed up in the US in the 17th Century andneeded to build roads to connect what would be large polluted congested cities 4 centuries later, they found, of all things, Indigenous People’s ROADS a/k/a Indian trails. These roads were gradually widened, paved, and given route numbers. Most of this had to wait until rthnic cleansing and the invention of the automobile were accomplished. Try state route 2 (Mohawk The Mohawk Trail),
Thanks dad
You've had guests on before. I think it's overdue for the oft-mentioned dad to visit.
Imagine getting dunked on by your own dad in the toob comments.
Can we have the Old Man Anderson Sr on the podcast please?
Idea for a suitable episode -
Well There's Your Problem: Well There's Your Problem
Yay William!
"I respect the mail bombing, i do not respect the anarcho-primitivism"-Justin Roczniak
Critical support for Ted K
@@phathumdeep emphasis on the 'Critical'
"I respect alligators, I do not respect fish." - Liam Anderson
he's right though
It's funny. I just watched that netflix show and then read in the manifest and it was like "Intro... rant about leftists and political correctness... main part... rant about leftists... end". I mean, he probably knew that most people will not read the whole thing. So he should put the most important stuff at the beginning. And the most important stuff for him obviously was that leftists have psychological problems, because they are self-hating and 'oversocialized'. And that his revolutionaries must not cooperate with leftists, because leftists are evil and just want all the power for themselves. He also blamed leftists for hating the United States, because they hate "everything that is good, strong and successful". That guy literally wanted to destroy the entire society. But even he is like that typical Homer-"USA! USA!"-American who will put his hand on his heart and sing the national anthem whenever he sees the American flag.
Whenever I hear stories about Liam and Roz traveling, it makes me think of an old married couple.
“You poor thing, you have the worst allergies” at like 0:30 warmed my heart
they do have that vibe
@@TalkingSoup if we werent living in a time where being gay is so accepted, they would be the prime candidate for some 'unmarried men who corresponded constantly but were *definitely* just friends' trope
Big Married Energy
honestly took me a while to figure if they were a couple or not.
It's arguable if Thatcher ever said "anyone over the age of 30 that finds themselves on a bus can be deemed a failure." (There is some discussion about it in her Wikiquote page.)
I'm positive she thought it, though.
Whether she said it or not she thought it.
@steam driver aye! go off king/queen!
Anyone who's soaked up enough piss as the corpse she is over the next thirty years makes her a loser IMO.
It's certainly been the motivating force behind British public policy. Outside London, bus services are pretty dismal. (They were deregulated by Thatcher, and then the massive cuts to council funding under David Cameron killed off much of what was left.)
That seems like a strategery situation
“Ohio only has one line going through it, that seems wrong.”
Yeah that’s too many.
what's ohio?
@@rampagerslife we're all ohio. We're all doomed
I politely ask you imagine I am pointing a gun at you.
As a pure-blooded Michigander, that line made me seethe. Ohio ought to be sunk into the earth and turned into a sixth Great Lake.
Hey, part of ohio is nice: the west virginia border
There's a reason image searching one state gets you landscapes and the other gets you maps
"Difficult to spill a train"
Alice showing she no memory of episode 7 of this podcast.
Yeah... but to be fair cars and trucks run off the road all the time, we just hear news about a train derailment
@@memomorph5375 right?!? Vaporize one town...
Due to mainenace neglegance not trough spilling it like a glass of water
While compared to a pipeline, spilling a train isn't that difficult, it is much more easily detected when it happens
Important chapters:
0:01:08 - Well there's your problem
0:01:30 - Introductions
0:02:17 - Infrastructure Week
0:03:09 - The Goddamn News
0:03:17 - train has crashed in taiwan
0:05:07 - the poop building
0:13:15 - what is infrastructure
0:16:34 - is Infrastructure imperialist?
0:17:28 - mail bombs
0:18:57 - internal improvements in the colony
0:36:26 - what's biden trying to do
0:40:00 - stuff that's not Infrastructure but it's up there
0:54:33 - train infrastructure
1:11:23 - water Infrastructure
1:31:28 - love and sausages
@@EnterAName5573 News ends at 11:40
@@EnterAName5573 the entire episode.
Thx man.
@@EnterAName5573 prove it
"what is infrastructure"
"is Infrastructure imperialist?"
"mail bombs
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not even five minutes
12% of the world's trade moves through this street
WCGW
Wall Street.
Our house
The Safety Third segment is always a palate cleanser because you know at least one person survived
my dad told me that when he was a kid he saw an aquacar drive into lake ontario while he and his family went swimming and all i got from it was that you used to be able to swim in lake ontario and by the time i was a kid in the 90s my parents would be like “don’t”
Probably didn't help that people kept driving cars into the lake...
@@William-Morey-Baker non-aqua cars
To be fair in your dad's time it was probably even more don't but they just didn't know or care.
More like Infrastructure Weak!
Ha-HA! Gottem!
so I was going to ask why Alice had so many gas masks, but then I asked, why don't I have a bunch if gas masks
A separate playlist with only "safety-third-segments" could be an interesting thing to have access to. They are self-contained stories that don't require familiarity of the podcast (so, easy to share by link, to promote the main podcast) and they are often very interesting glimpses into the realities of what goes on behind the scenes of the everyday-machinery.
They always leave me with a feeling of "man, it's a wonder catastrophic accidents don't happen more frequently. And It's weird, but oddly understandable, that people whose job has real consequences seem to have the same whatever-that'll-suffice-attitude I have in my own, non-dangerous job".
Safety third could be a whole ass show if they had a way to capture more stories.
Like one of those reddit robot channels, but that doesn't suck.
They're also a lot more content-dense than the actual episodes, it's by far the best part since they don't spend 20 minutes farting around after every individual point
hello passengers and welcome to the 5 year anniversary of our 7 day infrastructure week
Passenger: what time is it?
Answer: idk, time is a flat circle
One of my favorite train stories is about the town of Baxter, IA. When the train came through, it missed the town by 10 miles. So the town literally tore everything down (except the schoolhouse for some reason) and moved the entire town 10 miles north. The old schoolhouse is still there and has been converted into a house. Apparently, my grandparents rented it for a couple years shortly after they married. Towns lived or died based entirely on whether the train came through town or not.
The Schoolhouse would have been on a designated plot of land (extension of Northwest Ordinance), not easy to move.
Maybe the schoolhouse was the only stone house?
@@Daneelro Nope. It's made of wood, altho it now has the typical petroleum-based siding that's popular these days. We drove past it all the time to my grandparents' farm.
_push gahhhhhhhhhhh push gahhhhhhhhhh push gahhhhhhhhhh_
I have always hoped that cold war 2 would eventually lead to high speed rail because by god we can't let them be better at it
Yes, we can’t be humiliated by CHI-NA!
Literally that joke about the Soviet Union being the fourth power in the American Republic
I look forward to pulling a Vulcan and calling the CCP for humanitarian aid.
9:00 "P O O Box" is the best joke in this podcast's history
I wish to propose a motion to make "Yay Liam!" the official slogan of the podcast.
I thought it was “a show about engineering disasters that is itself a disaster”
I want a "Yay, Liam!" shirt.
Believe it or not Justin, but gas masks *do* help alleviate seasonal allergies. When I lived in Flagstaff, I would get absolutely terrible juniper allergies for roughly one week out of a year. The third year of my allergies, I began walking to work wearing an old IDF surplus gas mask I bought and my allergies almost melted off. They're also great for cutting onions.
He would have to shave his beard to make it effective.
IDF? Canceled.
@@alfalafelstine1536 you can buy them on amazon, though it does cost hundred something
Amazon is back to selling respirators. I'm sure a P100 filter would stop pollen and the sulfur molecules from onion. If not they do make filters specifically for sulfur compounds, or you can use the "organic vapor" ones like you'd need for tear gas.
It only costs about $40-$60 for a basic half-face 3M respirator with filters. It's what I've been wearing daily for the past year and something.
I have a Chinese knockoff 5000-series full-face respirator but it doesn't seal very well around my big American face. They use the 3M filters but YMMV fit-wise.
@@justinmilburn9657 you can get them to seal good enough with a beard, just don't do it in a place where the atmosphere can kill you
On the pictures of Trump at a steering wheel: A long time ago, during one of the first seasons of the apprentice, there is one scene at the beginning of one of the challenges where Trump drives up to the contestants in a Mercedes SLS somewhere around Central Park. I don't know why it's one of the only memories I have of that show, but it is. I don't remember the challenge, the contestants, or anything else about the show. It's one of those memories, like that one night Trump bought air time to promote his birtherism scam, that seems almost fictional now.
I was not ready for the Evergreen railroad car
And its from the defundet DEUTSCHE BAHN too XD
Replacing a private dog park with a three story apartment building kind of seems like the opposite of gentrification tbh.
If a city was doing development in a stupid way I’d expect it to be the other way around
That outro to the Safety Third made me sit up and give a tearful salute.
idk if that was intended but the character in star trek discovery who mentions musk is also a mirror universe fascist
Good point
But we're not supposed to know that when he does come to mention it. There's also a good possibility that he probably researched the shit out of the not mirror universe history, and that Musk was shoehorned in.
Either that or the writers are total hack-frauds who have no idea about the chronology of Star Trek - that is... around the 2010s, earth is stuck in the Eugenics Wars where augments like Kahn Singh eventually are defeated and exiled into space. And in the 2020s, the Neo-Trotskyists conquer Europe, and America puts its poor people into ghettos... or "Sanctuary Cities". Eventually, it call comes crashing down and then World War 3 happens, millions dead in nuclear war, millions more dead from the effects of radiation, others killed by the maniacal Colonel Green who "euthanises" people with damaged DNA from the nuclear war.
Finally, Zephram Cochrane decides he wants to be rich beyond his wildest dreams and builds warp drive, prompting First Contact with the Vulcans and ushering in Luxury Gay Space Communism.
The Star Trek universe is way more fascist before it basically nearly eradicates itself and meets aliens.
@@vaska00762 "Either that or the writers are total hack-frauds who have no idea about the chronology of Star Trek - that is..." Reading the, " - that is..." I could feel you sitting up straight. God, this moment was so palpable for some reason. I can't imagine your face, but I imagined your pupils changed dilation. lol. Go off King/Queen!
I have never watched or followed the series in any form, but unjustifiably and absolutely loved this breakdown. Reading, "...prompting First Contact with the Vulcans and ushering in Luxury Gay Space Communism." is one of the strongest advertisements of a television show I've ever heard in my life.
While this felt like a comprehensive summary of the relevant plot points, I can't know for sure... but something tells me you should try writing if you don't already. I don't know that I've _ever_ felt a writer's mood conveyed, if accidentally, any better in my entire life.
@@nunyabidnis3815 I've always sucked at creative writing. Star Trek is one of the few things I can really "nerd out" on, but that's probably because I've seen it multiple times, and I rewatch series every few years because I just adore Star Trek.
Except for the Original Series. I've rewatched that so many times I could probably summarise each episode just by looking at the episode's title.
But yeah... This is what I really don't like about Discovery and Picard - turning Star Trek into a kind of hyper-capitalist, xenophobic dystopia, all because the executive producers have been most famous for the god-awful Hawaii Five-O reboot. If there was something that could be enjoyed about the original Five-O, it was the campness. Now, it's just "muh cyberterrorist going to blow up Honolulu".
I do really think the idea of humanity being in a self-destructive death-spiral until finally realising that aliens exist, and uniting to end all poverty, disease, war and hopelessness is kind of uplifting in a way. While Star Trek has always... shown certain alien species as being different - violent, scheming, greedy, imperialist... at the very least it's still juxtaposed against what humanity can accomplish.
But yeah... The only writing that I could probably do is essays, and that might have something to do with being in university for 4 years writing essays for X and Y topic. The most "creative" thing I can really do these days is photography, but even that can be a kind of hack-fraud field.
@@vaska00762 "...Hawaii Five-O reboot..." Haven't seen that either, but I am grateful to have not seen that, as compared to Star Trek which I'd probably enjoy watching to some extent.
Then again, these are certainly not glowing reviews of that period.. as much as I do love Patrick Stewart.
Incredible Steam notification timing where someone is playing War Thunder, a "vehicular combat game", while a collage of various US Presidents driving is shown.
You should try it, it's 'Almost Fun'.
@@christophervanerp1133 Please do not inflict the almost-fun of War Thunder on anyone, it's burned me too hard.
@@g--stef4756 "We must imagine the War Thunder player happy"
-Camus
DO NOT HELMET SHAME!!!
SAFETY IS IMPORTANT.
Helmet shame when helmet is improperly worn is good tho
Egad! There's not too much that triggers me. This does.
Parents putting the lids on the kids totally wrong and then not wearing one themselves. My head was saved twice at least by now, so...
"Electrification of the whole country = Communism - Soviet Power" Laughed so hard, that's gold
I tell the finest jokes of the 1920s on this podcast
There are a couple versions of the joke. I think they're:
Communism = Soviet Power - electrification, and
Soviet Power = Electrification - Communism
Soviet humor best humor
Look: A Pyramide stores descesed and their possesions. This makes it a warehouse and thusly infrastructure.
I was half-expecting an allusion to the (extremely debunked and weird) crank theory that they were grain silos.
Or a very very inefficient morgue. Like the refrigerated trailers full of CoViD victims parked outside of backed-up crematoriums. But just for one guy and aprox. 200 mummefied cats and alligators.
I was literally playing civ VI yesterday and had that Thatcher quote come up and thought it was dumb. VI also quotes Churchill a million times too. V has all around far better quotes.
Half the time I'm playing Civ V when listening to WTYP
It's dumb, but it's specific dumb. To understand it requires a passing understanding of 1980s British political culture, so it's rather wasted in that game.
A bunch of civ vi quotes strike me as sarcastic...
Of course Civ 5 had the absolutely brilliant quote: "We can all agree, the past is over" -George W. Bush
"Plastics."
Is your infrastructure weak? Make it more rigid
Pittsburgh did officially drop its "h" at least once throughout history, but I suspect that the image shown around 21:00 simply dates from a time before standardized spelling was really even a thing, as evidenced by the use of "rail roads", "transhipping", "despatch", "travelling", and random capitalization of words.
ask anyone from Cleaveland about it
To be fair despatch and travelling are both British spellings (the former now archaic except in certain political contexts). And it's a common process for words to start out as two words, then become hyphenated, then finally become one word.
Pittsburg, KS spells it better in my opinion lol
It's funny how often the biggest problem with trains is that trucks wander into their path
Near my town we recently had a car be crushed between two trains going opposite directions. Far away from the nearest crossing. The world is strange.
No level crossings ever, GO AROUND 🤣
what I've learned from this part is that when building train routes in city sims the cars should always cross below the tracks if they cross at all
*podcast not part
1:06:38 now i’m imagining a bullet train going through lincoln’s head on mount rushmore, thanks a lot alice
As long as it goes from the back and out through the front
i'm slightly worried about the mileage tax, most of my friends drive cars that are pre-OBDII or pre-OBD whatsoever, several have malfunctioning speedometers leading to the odometer running fast or slow, and everyone i know who drives an old Volvo has an odometer that's just stopped. I feel that just as liberals failed to realize that Cash for Clunkers would lead to taking every reliable $500 beater off the road, i kinda wonder if poor people who need shitty old cars that you can't just put a tracker on or plug in a reader are gonna be somehow punished for it
Of course they will be punished for it, politicians dont give a shit about anybody that isnt donating 6 figures to their campaigns. Cash for clunkers like you mentioned was a big fuck you by the feds to the poor in this country while stroking off the automotive companies, and i wouldnt be surprised if they pull it again. Its just virtue signalling to look environmentally friendly without spending any actual money on programs that really help people.
Oh my, what a slide to begin with. HAHAHAHA
when I worked as a student groundskeeper at my university we had to use golf carts to get around with all our equipment and on day one the first opportunity I had to drive solo I took out a chunk of wall near the dorms and never told a soul
How the hell did you take out a wall with a golf cart?
@@OhShitSeriously infrastructure weak
Anna H oh my god
24:27 is probably one of my new favorite bits from the podcast. Just talking about Nixon driving the golf cart and ending with "Liam's vehicular now!" is just wonderful.
That first slide really highlights the issue of infrastructure on infrastructure crime.
Raz's premature jump into the podcast has me imagining them formally introducing the podcast at the very end of the episode as a bit
That's the way the original cur of Once Upon A Time In The West did it.
Of course pyramids are infrastructure. They're landing pads for Gouald spaceship-at least if you ask Daniel Jackson.
An absurd misconception, everyone knows the great pyramid of Giza was a power plant
Some of those pyramids where already in space having been enmeshed in this weird superstructure that unsurprisingly resembles a certain space laser
HOW DO I JOIN THE CEDAR PARK DOG ASSOCIATION?? My dog wants to join a professional association and go to dinners where she wears novelty hats
People in Montana (myself included) are really excited about the possibility of a north-south train! It's called "Big Sky Passenger Rail Authority." We used to have passenger rail this way in living memory, so I think it has a decent chance of passing. Especially since the wealthiest counties in the state are all joined in supporting it.
It's amazing how completely accurate Alice was in predicting that Republicans would use a transgender athlete panic to accomplish their political goals
Well There's Your Pollen
I need my weekly dose of 90+ minutes of bridge discourse
The dopamine rush of “yay Liam” is *chefs kiss *
"There's going to be an Amtrak episode at some point in the future"
So, right after the Tacoma Narrows Bridge episode then.
Beautiful. A cool, rainy day, some Elite Dangerous, a cuppa tea, and a new WTYP. This day's starting gooooood!
I'm 100% down with YAY LIAM as the first phrase that Liam says on every episode
this podcast has forever made me associate sniffing sounds with the word " *ideology* "
First zizek joke you've heard?
Zizek is great.
Remember to pronounce it 'ID*sniff*eology'
“The one thing on which [Biden] is consistently good is organized labor” is a HELL of a sentence to hear in December 2022
For Easter my little brother & I watched"'The Easter Bunny is Comin' to Town" which is made by the same folks that made the stop motion Christmas specials & there was a part where the Easter bunny, his hobo friend, & a commuanilist society of children recruited & mended a sentient rusty train that was not being used in order to subvert the will of a town's local autocrat & when I saw it I immediately was like "socialism train hell yeah!" & my brother was also like totally on board with socialism/communism train.
Absolutely love how the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec each get more daily Amtrak service than several states (e.g. South Dakota, Hawaii, Alaska).
South Dakota has no Amtrak service
We *need* to have Justin’s “I’m covered in cats” line to be added to Alice’s drop collection.
I've done it. I have now watched every youtube episode of WTYP. You guys are literally the best! If I wasn't a broke college student I'd give money on patreon. Keep up the good work
Dude it will cost you 2$ and some of the best episodes are the bonus episodes. Do yourself a favor and spent the money for at least a month so you can binge watch the whole lot. WTYP is life
Send them a nice email and they’ll send you a link! Worth it for the beer episode alone
for safety third i'd send in the story of the time my boss had me dump chemicals in the storm drain (he lied to me and told me it all goes to water treatment, I didn't know any better at the time or I wouldn't have done it :( ), the multiple times we all got carbon monoxide poisoning, the times we had so many t-shirt fibers floating through the air that everything was dyed the color of the shirts and our noses were constantly itching, the time I got stuck in a moving machine and everyone laughed at me, and how I had to clean screens with some extremely potent chemicals and a power washer with almost no ventilation every day, but I feel like none of it would be funny tbh lol. idk, if anyone's interested maybe I write something in. i'll drop names too, idgaf
Ethylene oxide is not to be messed with.
Totally about to send them a poop emoji sticker. :p
Can we send them novelty fake dog doo, my Opa had one of those and loved to leave it on his friends car seats.
Thank god they only specified no more “dried foods” I can still send them the soup
Also send them a beautifully machined letter O for their PO box.
Wait they said that the next episode was going to be on the Tacoma narrows bridge disaster! What gives!!!!?
Nothing, the next episode will be the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster, just like they said at the end of the episode.
Episode 13 was about Tacoma Narrows Bridge...
But it happened in parallel universe.
Free beer tomorrow.
You might want to check your patreon link in the description. Anyways keep up the good work guys.
yeah it's broke for me too
The link redirects to a 404 but if you just type out the link it somehow works. Weirdness
It's been broken for the past few videos...
It looks like a zero width space got stuck on the end of the URL, maybe when it was copy pasted to UA-cam. Honestly I'm surprised UA-cam doesn't strip characters like that out entirely.
Grew up in Baltimore County and either never knew, or had subconsciously repressed, that Baltimore has a subway system that reaches all the way to Owings Mills.
56:03: The "cities of the world linked by rail" map was not a serious map - it was an art piece, designed for the cover of a book of "transit maps of the world". I know this because I own a copy of the book. I was very confused when the cover art went viral on Twitter, devoid of context, and people thought it was an actual map.
Missed an perfect opportunity to say "Barkinglot". I'll show myself out now.
Outside the major cities, it's actually fairly common for EMTs to be volunteers in my state. Sometimes the counties will pay for the volunteer's training, but in a lot of counties it's entirely your own expense. My dad's cousin is the only EMT in her county. She's a volunteer and paid for her own training. She has a goat farm for her full time job. At least her county actually has money to maintain their roads. There's a couple counties in NW Iowa that don't even have that (only 1-2 gas stations in their entire counties, so very limited chances of collecting gas taxes) and have announced they're letting roads in their county "go back to gravel naturally" AKA those potholes are not getting fixed.
And no, that's not a thing either. Gravel roads actually require a lot of constant maintenance. They are cheaper to maintain than paved roads, but only because ice and road salt don't cause anywhere near the same kind of damage to the roads every year. If the gravel roads have a lot of heavy trucks driving on them, they require even more regular maintenance - to the point where it's probably worth the extra cost of paving them. And ofc, if the truck and/or trailer is over a certain weight, they really can't use those roads very easily, if at all. That said, a lot of farmers use semi trucks to transport their crops/animals on those kinds of roads every year, so they clearly find a way to make it work.
Dad and I got to talking about rural road maintenance after I watched Sam Seder and a libertarian caller debate the topic of roads for a bit. I've lived in cities most of my life, but like most Iowans, I'm only 2 generations removed from a farm, so the assumptions that gravel and dirt roads don't need much maintenance struck me as off (I've ridden and driven on plenty of them). My dad lives on a gravel road (he wants to retire as a goat farmer - yes, he got the idea from his cousin). He took me on a tour of the rural roads in his part of the county to show me examples of A, B, and C class roads. A is gravel, B is dirt, and C is essentially abandoned roads (usually classified as farm access roads and maintained entirely by the farmers that use it).
C class roads are supposed to be kept gated and locked and considered private property. The C class road Dad showed me is only used at one end. It was changed from a B class road to a C class road when the bridge close to the north end of the road collapsed into the creek and the county determined the cost of replacing the bridge was too expensive (another major factor was that no one lived on that stretch of the road and it was only used by farmers to access their fields). If it weren't for the signs and gate, you wouldn't even know there used to be a road there at the northern access point. That was a huge contrast to the southern access point which was extremely well-maintained - better than the B class road Dad showed me which had huge ruts in it. He said that dirt road is impassible unless you have an off-road capable vehicle when it's muddy. He added that the Avalanche my parents have wouldn't be able to get down it after a good rainstorm, let alone after a snowmelt. Contrary to popular belief, a lot of SUVs and even some trucks just can't handle that kind of off-road driving.
Nothing much to say, just thanks for typing this up! 🧡 It was an interesting read on something I don't know much about, having always lived in or around cities.
Meanwhile in the Cities they make six-figures 🤭🤭🤭
Wow, that's...☹️
@@richardscathouse In some cities anyway. None in Iowa make that kind of money - even in Des Moines.
I for one welcome high-speed hairpins that need to be inclined 40 degrees or something crazy.
the 220mph trains are all in south dakota and they just can't get them out cuz no rails have grown there yet
Dave courtney's 'ighly illegal parking lot
Yay Liam!
I thought I had covid last week. Thankfully, just a sinus infection. Yay spring! Yay Liam!
I'll be refreshing the search results for "grumman LLV" on govdeals every day for the next ten years
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Thanks for the podcast
You guys should do an episode on the eternally "coming soon" reopening of the Lakawanna Cutoff in New Jersey.
The Lakawanna Cutoff is a large, flat, and straight right of way that cuts through the NJ landscape, built by the Lakawanna Railroad (hence the same) a few decades ago. However, after the Lakawanna went south, their premier right of way did too.
However there have been talks of running rail back over the cutoff, which has been talking longer than it took the Lakawanna to build the damn thing back in 19whatever.
I have a story to share about the Amtrak Police.
So I was with my friend, Gideon, at Union Station in Washington DC. Keep in mind that just the night prior, I was allowed free reign of the track area, in fact, I was even given express permission by an Amtrak employee to go down to the platform to hang out with Gideon while they swapped the diesel engine with an electric one on his Cardinal. We had tickets for the Acela, and a little bit before boarding started, I decided to go out to the platform area and take some pictures of the trains. An Amtrak employee confronted us and told us that we weren't allowed to be there before boarding began and asked what we were doing. I explained and asked her if it were okay for us to take a few pictures then head back to the waiting room. She told us "okay, I guess." So I took a few photos and we went back to the waiting room.
Once boarding was called we headed to the platform to begin boarding our train. We made it about halfway up the platform, when we were approached by two Amtrak Police officers, one White and the other Asian. They asked if they could see the photos we had taken. I obliged and showed them the photos on my camera. We explained that we were railfans or whatever, and they told us okay and just to wait till boarding is called next time. The whole situation rubbed me the wrong way. If the Amtrak employee felt that we shouldn't be there, she should've just told us to leave, instead of telling us it was okay to take pictures first, then later call the cops on us.
Later on, we were passing through a station in New Jersey, I can't remember if it was Metropark or New Brunswick, but we saw a pair of Amtrak cops on the platform, again, one White and one Asian, and passing through at 100miles an hour, Gideon thought that it was the same pair of cops that had somehow followed our train and were one step ahead of us.
These always make my day better.
Keep up the great work!
Lol the expanded Amtrak service still requires you to go to Chicago to get from Kansas City to Denver.
"Your podcast is part of our curriculum now", also known as a Joe Kassabian
Ah yes the weekly installment of train good car bad
Thumbnail got my hopes up for a week-long episode about all infrastructure everywhere
1:08:50 I love this map so much, I wish we would do this. I've had to drive from FL to NC multiple times and it sucks, it's lonely and painful and if it starts to rain heavy I get panicky/stressed. I would LOVE to be able to ride up to NC to see my college friends, I don't care if I'd have to transfer over a couple times, that would be SO GREAT.
Back when there was this presidential physical fitness award of some sort when I was in elementary school, I used to always get it and I could do pull ups all day back then. They didn't count pull ups if you used other parts of your body to try to get your chin above the bar and they made you straighten your arms before starting your first pull up. I would challenge this Congress person to a yoga sun salutation and headstand challenge. If we tie, then we can do some dolphin push ups (ass high like downward facing dog but on the forearms and then you do push ups so bring it, bitch).
When it comes to the trans sports ban, I hope they intend to do a DNA test because none of us actually knows what proportion we have of X chromosomes and Y chromosomes. Furthermore, that doesn't matter all that much. I have always been perceived to be female (except by myself because I always just saw myself as a person) but I naturally have a high testosterone level. It even resulted in me having ovarian cysts and even one that had to be surgically removed. It sure confuses the hell out of people sometimes and they usually think I'm a dude when I can tell they're thinking about fucking with me but they don't because, as soon as I notice this, I firm up my arms even though I totally start with kicks if I have to fight a dude because they expect punches.
Anyway, no one should be mean to Alice because I'll kick your vulnerable fucking ass too. We stand up for our sisters and no one is interesting in someone else's opinion of who they are. I'll let you deice who you are too but don't fucking be mean to any of my sisters and they are sisters just as much as I am so we stand together and some of us can put a world of hurt on you even if we'd rather not have to do so.
Oh god I've had a miserable week, but the first slide with the Evergreen flat car saved it.
The Plattsburgh International Airport in the crown jewel of Clinton County, New York and had up to 2 flights to/from Canada a day!
Also one of Cuomo’s big pork/payoff construction projects north of Albany
That's as many international trains as Plattsburgh has too...
"difficult for a train to poison your groundwater"
**cursing in East Palestine**
I'd really like to see you do an episode on Flint. It would help to get your take and Justin's concise summary
The train involved in the accident in taiwan is a TEMU 1000 derived from the JR kyushu 885 series by hitachi. It is Part of the AT300 family of intercity trains
NHK World referred to the train as a "limited express" train. The JR Kyushu 885 is also intended as a "limited express" trainset, which are basically dedicated express trainsets which run on local lines, but skipping most stations. These are sometimes called "conventional express" services, as these run on Japan's narrow 3"6' rail lines, as opposed to the Shinkansen (new trunk line) which runs on standard gauge 4"8.5'.
Worth noting that another derived trainset is the British Rail Class 395, which is famously the UK's only domestic high speed rail rain, topping 225 km/h on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (or High Speed 1) before switching to old 3rd rail DC lines. There's also the British Rail Class 800/801/802/803/805/807/810 which are set to replace a mix of the "Intercity 125/HST" and "Intercity 225" trainsets (which were mentioned in the APT episode).
1:00:00 The Hiawatha track is now an insanely popular bike trail. My buddy tried going there a few weeks back and it was so crowded with cycles that they just took a selfie at the entry sign and left.
This reminds me of my one and only joke in physics lab. We were doing experiments with the oscilloscope and the teacher said that we needed to put any computers or phones under the desk because the electromagnetic field from them could interfere with the experiment. Since I have ADHD, I blurted out, "Oh no! What about our hearts? I'm sorry, students, but you will have to do the experiment from under the desk!"
I didn't mean to interrupt my lab teacher's brief lecture to tell us how to do the experiment but I just blurted it out. She had to pause and laugh so I hope that it helped her deal with the stress of being one of the proud, the few, the female physics grad students. She was the toughest lab grader but I took her class preferentially even though I wasn't the best at physics in the beginning, which is when I first had her lab class. By the end of physics, I learned that my problem with math occurred between my brain and my hand in that I would sometimes switch the order of the numbers and omit the signs. Physics taught me to understand the relationship between the various parts of an equation and it taught me that I don't fuck math up when I do it all in my head, which I started to do for even pretty complex problems. I would do the math in my head for tests and then write the answer I got lightly with my pencil. Then I would fill in the steps that I might have copied poorly and fucked up the whole math problem. I used to think that, despite having two parents who are math professors, I was stupid at math but really I was just math dyslexic because I understand and even like the logic of it all.
1:03:56 "Difficult to spill a train." Yeah I live on that Empire Builder Line in Montana and they derail a car of grain (in my area at least) every 2/3 years or so. If you take it across the entire stretch of line, it's pretty much annual that there's a grain car that spills. Also the fun part of that is: grain can be explosive. It's like a fuel/air bomb. They have to vacuum it all up and hope to god they don't accidentally light it on fire.
Suggestions for future episodes:
The Titanic
The Sunset Limited wreck
MH17
MH370
-Eschede derailment-
Amagasaki derailment
The Cajon Pass
2015 Philadelphia train derailment
2017 Amtrak Cascades derailment
The Crazy 8s incident
Metra Electric
Light rail (the concept in general)
BRT creeps
St Francis Dam
Mid-America Airport
DART
eBart
Penn Station
The Metroliner
Uh, what about the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster?
@@sgtkasi they are already doing that on the next episode
@@robk7266 oh shit my b, have a nice day.
They said they were going to do Penn Station eventually...
@@William-Morey-Baker I think Penn Station and the Metroliner will be in one episode. They said the whole episode will be on Penn Central.
Roz, you were so very generous with your pronunciation of Minot, ND on the Empire Builder. I've learned it is apparently NOT pronounced in the French manner lol
Awww... Liam and Roz don't realise the Amtrak cops are secretly protecting them.... (whispers; train good)
Nah dude its PEMDAS and the cop goes before the train and cancels out the good so they're just cops.
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Hearing Justin pronounce "my-not" as a "mih-know" made this NoDak native do a double take.
I literally never heard anyone use that pronunciation, I'm impressed.
Is the right pronunciation "Mye-note"? (I'm British, but years ago I knew someone online who lived in ND.)
@@ClaudiaNW the correct pronunciation is "my-not"
Specifically, "my-naht".
"Minnow"
It's MY-NOT you insufferable coastal ELITES
What I learned from this: America needs a cold war to be assed to do anything regarding functional internal development.
WHERE ARE MY MAGLEVS?!
Hmmmm maybe I should send those 10lbs of frozen fish I have to Liam...
Yey infrastructure, famously the most exciting topic!
I'm a garbage man (no I mean, the occupation) and I insist on calling it what it is, garbage man.
This podcast now needs the Sound bit of Liam omniously saying "only Busses"
I need to clip Justin's very defeated "fantastic" and then I'll figure out some use for it
Please do not look away from...
*T H E N O Z Z L E*
I love how, in the driving images, you can clearly see which presidents actually knew how to drive a car and not just a golf cart lmao.