Episode 117: The Great Yarmouth Suspension Bridge

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  • @tabula_rosa
    @tabula_rosa Рік тому +919

    the safety third reminds me of a time I worked in a power plant where a vat of sulfur produced by the burning of impure fuel had a tiny, microscopic leak that I helped spot by reporting a weird smell I noticed every time I walked past it. But by chance it leaked directly into a water runoff grate so they figured, what the hey no harm no fowl & told me to stop being a pussy about it.
    well it turns out, that that stuff can form acid gas through the process of evaporation. I happened to be standing next to a different grate over that runoff system when they fired up a new extension to the plant & a big bubble of aerosolized acid that had been in a dead zone got dislodged out of the sewage system, directly under me.
    Fortunately for me I had been the one to spot it before so I instantly knew. I closed my eyes, breathed out & threw myself away from the grate and laid there holding my breath until someone came & pulled me away. Luckily it turns out that that kind of aerosolized acid doesn't turn back into a liquid & act as acid on the human body until it touches a membrane such as the eye or lungs, so I was fine aside from coughing up blood for an hour and tasting & smelling acid every now & then for a year or so.
    (for some reason youtube asked me to double check to make sure my comment is respectful. so in the interests of respect, fuck elon musk, fuck donald trump & fuck every member of the supreme court living or dead)

    • @LeCharles07
      @LeCharles07 Рік тому +7

      also fuck deferred maintenance

    • @MrJimheeren
      @MrJimheeren Рік тому

      I get the first two fucks. But why every Supreme Court member living or death, isn’t that a little broad?

    • @All-the-wonderful-stars
      @All-the-wonderful-stars Рік тому +67

      Can USCSB please make a video about this

    • @moderatti
      @moderatti Рік тому +5

      Dude this should have been a safety third! Glad you’re alive though

    • @LordBloodpool
      @LordBloodpool Рік тому +93

      Imagine being the guy who had to report it if you'd died. "Yeah, uh, we, um, accidentally melted a guy to a soup-like homogenate".

  • @hotcreamyfart
    @hotcreamyfart Рік тому +459

    Sooner or later, a "Shake Hands with Danger" segment will be cited in an OSHA report.

    • @niallfoody97
      @niallfoody97 Рік тому +22

      Yes

    • @jordanyoussefzadehclementi9417
      @jordanyoussefzadehclementi9417 Рік тому +29

      If OSHA cared at all about workers it would have a dedicated staff member listening to WTYP to investigate domestic Shakes hands with Danger

    • @robk7266
      @robk7266 Рік тому +11

      That guy from Safety Third is The Joker now

    • @hotcreamyfart
      @hotcreamyfart Рік тому +3

      @@robk7266 do you wanna know how I got these scars?

  • @alaeriia01
    @alaeriia01 Рік тому +632

    23:15 Alice: "If we just sorta compress all the workers into a --"
    Me: "Soup-like homogenate."

    • @LeCharles07
      @LeCharles07 Рік тому +43

      Maybe chunky marinara.

    • @alaeriia01
      @alaeriia01 Рік тому +8

      @@LeCharles07 Brock Samson? I suppose you'd know quite a bit about chunky marinara, wouldn't you?

    • @emilyadams3228
      @emilyadams3228 Рік тому +9

      Ha, I thought the same thing. Legit disappointed that no one said it.

    • @Trendyflute
      @Trendyflute Рік тому +16

      labor viscera?

    • @MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot
      @MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot Рік тому +12

      @@Trendyflute lol UA-cam suggests translating your comment and when it does it becomes "the labor of the bowels"

  • @brianlawson3757
    @brianlawson3757 Рік тому +134

    That Safety Third segment was rough listening to, but a lot of folks don't understand that horrific work conditions like this still exist all over America. It's not just material production, either. I worked in logistics for sixteen years and I saw tons of basic safety violations, injuries, and situations that were blatantly an invitation for disaster in that field. All of it in the name of pushing out an extra pallet or two each shift. Remember kids, to the company it's not your life that matters, it's insurance and liability claims they're worried about at the end of the day. Organize and unionize, folks! ⚒😎🤘

    • @ArtoriusBravo
      @ArtoriusBravo Рік тому

      Every time I read or hear a segment about people being killed by the most basic security violations just to save like a 0.005 percent of the daily income of a corporation I am reminded of Hannah Arendt and the banality of evil.
      We tend to think of the Taliban or ISIS or the Nazis as the clearest representation of evil (which they are), but at least they think they are pursuing a greater good, twisted as it is.
      This corporate guys are killing people just to microscopically increase the revenue of the investors and they know it. They expect in exchange that perhaaaaaaps they might climb the corporate ladder and earn some extra dollars that way. If that's not evil I don't have a word for it.
      What a sickly twisted system we have in place.

  • @GabeSyme
    @GabeSyme Рік тому +289

    52:23
    I was very surprised by the forwardness of this fast food delivery person before Roz clarified that 'pizza boy' was the name of a cat

    • @QuatrinaVR
      @QuatrinaVR Рік тому +10

      Same

    • @stanislavkostarnov2157
      @stanislavkostarnov2157 Рік тому

      we really should have a Well there's Your Problem episode about cats!!!!

    • @tomhsia4354
      @tomhsia4354 4 місяці тому

      @@stanislavkostarnov2157The pet industry does deserve one.

  • @ghostsethrich7306
    @ghostsethrich7306 Рік тому +359

    I'm genuinely liking Devon's production touches. 👍

    • @lyndonwesthaven6623
      @lyndonwesthaven6623 Рік тому +34

      The premade screenshot frames for everyone's child death quotes were absolutely inspired

    • @LynxSnowCat
      @LynxSnowCat Рік тому +5

      @@lyndonwesthaven6623 1:17:05 -That- [Those frames] flowed really naturally too.

  • @dylanchouinard6141
    @dylanchouinard6141 Рік тому +371

    Ngl the Great Yarmouth Suspension Bridge sounds like a story HP Lovecraft would write after leafing through an engineering textbook before saying it’s “too rich for his blood”

    • @arthropodqueen
      @arthropodqueen Рік тому +5

      "truss? what is this W*lsh shit?"

    • @grmpEqweer
      @grmpEqweer Рік тому +28

      Yarmouth does sound as if you'd find eldritch, suspension bridge-destroying beings, ready to rise if invoked.

    • @iamjustkiwi
      @iamjustkiwi Рік тому +1

      It really does huh? Nice catch

    • @paleposter
      @paleposter Рік тому +6

      Definitely.
      Well there’s your Eldritch a podcast about unspeakable disasters that is itself a disaster

    • @madtheorist1856
      @madtheorist1856 Рік тому +15

      Like the Ashtablua Horror they covered before

  • @masonturner0
    @masonturner0 Рік тому +233

    This safety third was levels of impending doom we haven’t seen since the cadet on the range pointing his gun at his officer

    • @ianhomerpura8937
      @ianhomerpura8937 Рік тому +6

      What episode was that again?

    • @michimatsch5862
      @michimatsch5862 Рік тому +5

      Must have missed that episode, lol.

    • @melissad4456
      @melissad4456 Рік тому +12

      I think it was the caving episode

    • @artistwithouttalent
      @artistwithouttalent Рік тому +27

      @@melissad4456 Yup, that was the one, I remember because I had to skip the actual disasters because that image of a guy in a crevasse and Alice describing the situation really activated my claustrophobia, perhaps unsurprisingly.

    • @rjb7096
      @rjb7096 Рік тому +1

      @@ianhomerpura8937 watch?v=jUJKRVu6IVA &t=5564s for the start of the story

  • @SnausageKing
    @SnausageKing Рік тому +126

    I do love how William Shatner had one of those spiritual moments and Bezos immediately started thinking about how many amazon warehouse astronauts he’d need to build a gundam

    • @PanAndScanBuddy
      @PanAndScanBuddy Рік тому +2

      Also he panicked and sprayed everyone with champagne to stop Shatner

    • @Anthnax
      @Anthnax 10 місяців тому +1

      @@PanAndScanBuddy was it panic? I read it as stupidity, that's nothing but a bad look for him

  • @2005Cardinals
    @2005Cardinals Рік тому +151

    Striking PhD student from UC Berkeley here! Thanks for the shoutout! We’re trying to navigate both an intransigent UC system and a union bureaucracy that doesn’t always seem interested in fighting for us, but the rank and file organizing has been stellar.
    Our goals in particular include a cost-of-living yearly adjustment built into our contract and a 54k base wage for graduate student instructors. UC calls these demands “unrealistic.” We think it’s unrealistic to ask us to teach and research without a living wage.
    Solidarity! Eat the regents!

    • @michimatsch5862
      @michimatsch5862 Рік тому +3

      Solidarity forever!

    • @dayoldbaguettes
      @dayoldbaguettes Рік тому +4

      Good luck from an east coast grad! We make a pittance over here too.

    • @nataschavisser573
      @nataschavisser573 Рік тому +9

      Yeah, I remember working in a university lab some years back. They seemed to think that you should not complain about the poor wages because it is an honour to be there. Well fuck that. I need to eat. At a stage I actually had to go barefoot for a few weeks in summer because I could not afford new shoes. They are completely shameless.

    • @MrJohndoakes
      @MrJohndoakes Рік тому +1

      The UC system is an amoral monster (I've had dealings with UCSD), and I wish Ryan and his crew the best of luck dealing with that gang of shitjacking trash at UCB, the UCB Regents.

    • @GrandLordGeek
      @GrandLordGeek Рік тому +2

      Solidarity forever

  • @LML-013
    @LML-013 Рік тому +163

    When you seek out to 43 mins and there's still The Goddamn News bar in the tiny thumbnail. Perfection.

    • @riverroth3688
      @riverroth3688 Рік тому +9

      You never expect it but it's great.

    • @adams3627
      @adams3627 Рік тому +12

      Big news for big boys

  • @medickitten
    @medickitten Рік тому +125

    "Kids are like gnomes on suicide watch" BEST QUOTE EVER

  • @mathbookhero
    @mathbookhero Рік тому +25

    The whole shake hands with danger segment was like blow after blow to the gut saying "jesus christ" over and over until the realization that the writer was union came in like a god damn mike tyson uppercut sending me flying through the air only to crash through the floor in a wile-e-cyote manner with only the silhouette of my body visible.

  • @Themanwithnoscreenname
    @Themanwithnoscreenname Рік тому +115

    > A moondoggle, if you will
    Only a complete Lunatic would come up with that joke, and it's why I love this podcast.

  • @shinewherethouwillandthouh7455
    @shinewherethouwillandthouh7455 Рік тому +33

    Holy fucking absolute fuck. When "Jay" was referred to in the past tense I clenched my teeth. What a monster of a human to have survived, I would have screamed.
    BUILD A FUCKING HANDRAIL

  • @THE_BATLORD
    @THE_BATLORD Рік тому +22

    This safety third is GENUINELY horrifying. The workplace described feels straight up like it is out of the 1890s.

  • @Alevuss92
    @Alevuss92 Рік тому +97

    Finally! An episode that's only 40% discussing the disaster the episode is named for! We were *so close* (only 3 minutes) away from getting episode where the goddamn news took up more time than the disaster.
    Love what y'all do! It helps after a long day for my partner and I to hear y'all.

    • @warmachine5835
      @warmachine5835 Рік тому +14

      I'd totally listen to a full "The Goddamn News" podcast.

    • @kv4302
      @kv4302 Рік тому +4

      there was a lot of news

  • @wire_hall_medic8470
    @wire_hall_medic8470 Рік тому +32

    What you've got to remember is that the river WAS seven feet deep, before the riverbed was artificially raised by several feet of children.

  • @effluviah7544
    @effluviah7544 Рік тому +299

    After the bad news the past few days, like especially bad news, I just wanna say thanks for dropping a sick ass baller podcast. I'm currently drinking a Staropramen beer the size of my head. Originally I was drinking due to depression, but now I get to drink so I can enjoy watching a bridge fuck up somehow. Legit thanks, because now I'm 30% less sad.

    • @frank6842
      @frank6842 Рік тому +23

      Hang in there, we all care about you ❤️

    • @Swagguu
      @Swagguu Рік тому +11

      Cheers 💗

    • @Hevlikn
      @Hevlikn Рік тому +16

      Slainte. Remember these immortal words, "This too shall pass." See you at the next episode!

    • @carsonpearce5980
      @carsonpearce5980 Рік тому +13

      solidarity and good podcasts will help us through

    • @carlstott5309
      @carlstott5309 Рік тому +14

      Hey bridge may fall down, but we will stand tall

  • @tomfoolery4490
    @tomfoolery4490 Рік тому +149

    29:00 You guys should cover plans for space colonization at some point! I would gladly up my Patreon subscription to hear three hours of you guys pulling up the Project Rho website and going ham about all these wacky ideas for space exploration they came up with in the 60s (and are still coming up with). You know, Project Orion is fairly well-documented and could be an episode all its own.

    • @nicktorrid
      @nicktorrid Рік тому +5

      I am into this

    • @05Matz
      @05Matz Рік тому +13

      Ooooh, there's so many cool and slightly crazy (or crazy and slightly cool) plans for space colonization and spacecraft-related technologies to pick from, too! Like the nuclear salt water rocket. Any engine who's operating principle involves "...pump the water from its storage tanks into a wider chamber where it is allowed to become prompt-critical. Ensure that the fuel line geometry and materials are selected such that criticality is not achieved before the fuel is correctly in place..." you know is going to be a terrifying and amazing piece of kit. I could scroll Project Rho/Atomic Rockets forever. Or watch Issac Arthur videos.

    • @nicktorrid
      @nicktorrid Рік тому +8

      @@05Matz they just need to invent anti-concrete that'll hold up under tension from being pressurized, and at that point, they can make it big enough so that its power plant could be an ocean-liner-style bank of coal-fired furnaces

    • @grmpEqweer
      @grmpEqweer Рік тому +10

      Project Orion was a really good idea. We could all grow a new limb or two, that's useful.
      My second head agrees with me on this.

    • @alaeriia01
      @alaeriia01 Рік тому

      Project Pluto would be a fun one too.

  • @runningonmTee
    @runningonmTee Рік тому +70

    shoutout to WTYP for making a TrashFuture episode by accident in the first half

    • @MrJimheeren
      @MrJimheeren Рік тому +1

      Well TF has Milo Edwards and WTYP has not

    • @AGenericMoron
      @AGenericMoron Рік тому +10

      @@MrJimheeren To you, I recommend the WTYP episode about Milo's Giant Di- I Mean, The Nedelin Catastrophe. It's a pretty good one.

  • @marinary1326
    @marinary1326 Рік тому +73

    I love Milkshake, I love Pizza Boy, and I love Devon. And knowing how to spell Devon's name now, thanks!
    EDIT: Now I'm further into the episode, seeing the WTYP quotes as they happen, and I only love Devon more, this is exactly the kind of editing this podcast needed

  • @saddestcats
    @saddestcats Рік тому +123

    I'm an undergrad at Berkeley listening as I take BART up from home to attend my one lecture that is still mandatory attendance. Some people are panicking because of finals but I'm just having fun at the pickets and happy that I was able to go home early for Thanksgiving.
    What's outrageous? Poverty wages!

    • @CatherineA133
      @CatherineA133 Рік тому +21

      What’s disgusting? Union busting!! 🪧 Thank you for your support. Love to know other Berkeley folks listen to these folks! I have a feeling that UC will be giving out some friendly grades for those still holding finals.

    • @stevenryan231
      @stevenryan231 Рік тому +3

      I'm a California resident and took a bit to understand that UAW actually meant, yes, that UAW. UCB and Tesla?

    • @danielkorladis7869
      @danielkorladis7869 Рік тому

      @@stevenryan231 Tesla isn't unionized. All the UCs are.

  • @katiwithoutthee
    @katiwithoutthee Рік тому +42

    "kids are pretty resilient, you can throw them against walls and shit" - my dad circa 2005

  • @AsbestosMuffins
    @AsbestosMuffins Рік тому +35

    omg this safety 3rd hits my heart, I worked in a 120 year old salt mill for a spell and I have my own safety third story about it and it involves finding bits of a guy's finger

    • @cryptbeast3222
      @cryptbeast3222 Рік тому +6

      All these ancient death traps need to be shut down and nationalized. Just unbelievable.

    • @STOP_red_light
      @STOP_red_light Рік тому +2

      Please send it in to the WTYP crew, I'm sure they'd love to read it and I would be very interested to hear it.

  • @sweetprimrose
    @sweetprimrose Рік тому +34

    Also, lots of people couldn't swim and if you're wearing the type of clothes they wore at that era and did not anticipate being droned on a failing bridge, their woolen clothing becomes waterlogged and even heavier dragging a lot of people down even in shallow water.

    • @d3nza482
      @d3nza482 Рік тому +3

      Naah, Pennywise got them.

    • @sweetprimrose
      @sweetprimrose Рік тому +1

      @@d3nza482 The Australian punk band? I am shocked!!

  • @danjaguar126
    @danjaguar126 Рік тому +13

    "The acid vat is an ambush predator" is a sentence that has lodged directly in the Echolalia Stim lobe of my brain.

  • @RussellCHall
    @RussellCHall Рік тому +43

    As I sit here with my itchy eyes staring at my cat laying in my lap, knowing full well that I too am "slightly" allergic, all I can say as far as Roz goes is , "this guy gets it!"

    • @sakurakiyori
      @sakurakiyori Рік тому +2

      Every time I go visit my best irl friend, I just mainline Reactine and such, because I, too, am somewhat allergic to cats, and they have three.

    • @OutbackCatgirl
      @OutbackCatgirl Рік тому +10

      some sacrifices are worth it for the beans

  • @ciceronincheese7195
    @ciceronincheese7195 Рік тому +71

    Please buy a WTYP union hall.
    Alice's suggestion to just yell your opinion in the streets is also good.

    • @grmpEqweer
      @grmpEqweer Рік тому +1

      Just wire a loudspeaker into Liam's Van.

  • @Randomstuffs261
    @Randomstuffs261 Рік тому +80

    Tis truly a shame when your Greatly Suspended Bridge at Yarmouth suddenly stops being suspended

    • @ns-sj7gi
      @ns-sj7gi Рік тому +4

      The bridge wasn't great, theYarmouth is

    • @Randomstuffs261
      @Randomstuffs261 Рік тому +13

      @@ns-sj7gi How could it be truly Great without a Suspension bridge though?

    • @hypoaktivnaovca
      @hypoaktivnaovca Рік тому +14

      The suspense killed it.

    • @peskypigeonx
      @peskypigeonx Рік тому +2

      @@Randomstuffs261 an arch bridge!

  • @xsenobe4396
    @xsenobe4396 Рік тому +77

    I feel like Twitter is actually more toxic than reddit. At reddit at least you get to write what you think more complexly, not in this thought-vomit-style. Twitter forces people to voice their thoughts in this super simplified way that it just induces so much conflict because you get to fill in the blanks with your own bias (and we all have some).

    • @Basilo1146
      @Basilo1146 Рік тому +17

      Reddit is also somewhat more compartmentalized I feel. Like certainly, there are parts of the website that are absolute garbage, but you can largely tailor what groups you interact with very easily so you don't end up dealing with an overflow of bigots.
      Anyways, I've always found it really funny that people who use Twitter as their primary social media platform and were big enough suckers to pay 10 bucks for access to a forum constantly throw shade at reddit, but whatever

    • @grmpEqweer
      @grmpEqweer Рік тому

      Agreed about Twitter. I've just been using it to check up on certain groups I want to do stuff with.

    • @Vanya2893
      @Vanya2893 Рік тому +1

      @@Basilo1146 paying for verification is reddit energy though

    • @Basilo1146
      @Basilo1146 Рік тому

      @@Vanya2893 fuck, I forgot that there were also suckers who paid for reddit

    • @Sylvie_without_surname
      @Sylvie_without_surname Рік тому +2

      At least we can all agree on the worst medium... UA-cam comments!

  • @MrLeafeater
    @MrLeafeater Рік тому +62

    Back in the 90s, I worked at a certain hardest-working Ivy League University, in a dining hall. My job title was "casual", and I did every job in the place for 15 minutes at a time, so others could get their mandatory breaks. The UAW, instead of inviting casuals into their ranks, forced the university to eliminate the positions. It took a long time for me to see any good in unions, after that.

    • @grmpEqweer
      @grmpEqweer Рік тому +15

      Yes, that was a nasty move.

    • @madtheorist1856
      @madtheorist1856 Рік тому +30

      The one and only thing unions need to learn from cults, always be recruiting

  • @tarasaurus98
    @tarasaurus98 Рік тому +44

    I appreciate Devon's editing. Please give them more of my patreon money

  • @theoperrin9653
    @theoperrin9653 Рік тому +14

    So I grew up kind of near Great Yarmouth but hardly went because there are endless nice spots on the coast for a day trip that aren't towns in terminal decline. Having said that, I once had a school trip where we went to a museum at a Victorian herring curing works. It turns that if you smoke fish inside a biggish red brick house for a few decades it will smell that way over a century later. The only thing I remember other than the smell is someone gutting a fish in front of 30 or 40 children, one of whom fainted. All in all, it's a shame that Norfolk's third biggest museum is still not big enough to escape the spectre of massacred fish.
    More recently my partner and I gave up any idea of nice domestic holiday during covid lockdown (think Devon or Cornwall) because of the massively inflated prices, so stayed a few nights in a bed and breakfast at Gt Yarmouth. Even in holiday season there's very little there to do but go to arcades and drop hundreds of pennies into grubby machines, sitting with the regulars. It's still a beautiful place to walk around with the old buildings but it all feels a bit hollow. Picture semi-closed down shops and fifties music blaring to an empty promenade. They've voted conservative for decades and have been acutely hit by austerity with some of the worst pockets of deprivation. They also have a rampant heroin problem. But none of this is particularly extraordinary for an ex-seaside resort town in the UK.
    Although there's some good fucking fish n chips. Nothing in London comes close for price or taste. There's also a decently sized Portuguese population, I've been told because of a nearby meat packaging factory where no Brits wanted to work but not sure how true this is. This means there's a couple of excellent Portuguese cafes and restaurants around the place.

  • @seancase2746
    @seancase2746 Рік тому +21

    This week’s Safety Third comes to us from Ace Chemicals in Gotham City.

  • @thomasgiles2876
    @thomasgiles2876 Рік тому +139

    Is this the one where a strange moon rose in Victorian England and everyone had dreams of Eldritch beings and werewolves?

    • @PoolNoodleGundam
      @PoolNoodleGundam Рік тому +26

      I think I remember that one, killed a red squid with back problems and now I'm a blue squid

    • @bananadictator3032
      @bananadictator3032 Рік тому +4

      @@PoolNoodleGundam WHAT?????

    • @grmpEqweer
      @grmpEqweer Рік тому +13

      @@PoolNoodleGundam
      I'm also a blue squid.

    • @thomasgiles2876
      @thomasgiles2876 Рік тому +2

      @@grmpEqweer I'm just blue. Bah buh dee bah buh dah.

  • @TheShadowMagister
    @TheShadowMagister Рік тому +7

    I love that the most skipped to part of the video isn't people skipping the news, it's not people skipping the add, it's people excited for Alice seeing her dreams of a rigid world come true

  • @ellenh5468
    @ellenh5468 Рік тому +20

    My great grandfather (later a union rep probably this story has something to do with it) was on site when a guy fell into an acid vat like this safety third, except the rush to hospital didn't help. That was the 1940s

    • @cryptbeast3222
      @cryptbeast3222 Рік тому +5

      I don't want to imagine what it's like to watch someone die like that. I'd be fucked up for good.

  • @Goodall10
    @Goodall10 Рік тому +38

    Imagine if the guy that wrote the Safety Third had pulled too hard on that handle and been the one. Everyone just shows up to work in the morning and is like "Where's Kevin? Huh, he must've quit overnight." Nope, no thank you.

    • @francistheodorecatte
      @francistheodorecatte Рік тому +17

      oh, trust me, everyone on the next shift knows about the accident before they make it to the time clock. the locker room is always real fucking sober for a couple days after, too.

    • @SonOfAGunYYH
      @SonOfAGunYYH 7 місяців тому +1

      This reminds me of that one time where there was this dad and a son working at a recycling plant in South Carolina. one late-night shift, Burrell Gordon was working and by the time the next shift came in, he disappeared. Later on, they found tiny microscopic shreds of him in the materials, but it took like a month and plenty of lawsuits and protesting to make the plant shut down just so the inspection could happen to confirm that the son had been shredded.

  • @AnodicCasserole
    @AnodicCasserole Рік тому +22

    The UC one reminds me of what a friend at another lovely university (Edinburgh, some Alice represent in very broad terms yay) told me some time before, and to paraphrase: it's a glorified tax-exempt real estate investment vehicle that has to begrudgingly do useless things like paying people to teach for the status, and it would rather just be the biggest landlord over there instead; if anything, they're more worried about the custodial staff organizing and striking - because a faculty strike just means grad students on visa on a 16h shift plus students getting the paying thousands to read the syllabus experience, but no building staff means expensive closures due to health & safety hazards.

  • @IntervencionesGringas
    @IntervencionesGringas Рік тому +26

    Milkshake and Pizza Boy are nice cats. I can't have one cause my wife is super allergic. I oughta tell her about the Rocz strategy of "just adopt them anyway"

  • @jcmik
    @jcmik Рік тому +34

    All Pittsburgh anecdotes and digressions ARE relevant to the podcast by the token that the entirety of the city is an engineering disaster 💛 🖤

  • @hendrix24
    @hendrix24 Рік тому +11

    That moment right at the end where everyone fell silent contemplating the existential horror of this episodes safety third is the essence of what makes this podcast so wonderful.

  • @spaguettoltd.7933
    @spaguettoltd.7933 Рік тому +16

    49:44 Anywhere with limestone bedrock will have cloudy rivers, since CaCO3 is water soluble. Britain is very limey (pun intended), so the rivers are cloudy. The sedimentary geology of Britain is also responsible for the Industrial Revolution and the discovery of paleontology.
    Cloudy rivers from limestone terranes are readily observable in upstate New York and northern Ohio! It’s not all pollution! I’ve swum in the Genesee many times and am probably still fertile

  • @mina47879
    @mina47879 Рік тому +36

    God I missed Liam and his actionable threats

  • @thebeardprevails5246
    @thebeardprevails5246 Рік тому +33

    I've been listening to the Rhodesia ep on repeat to cope with the lack of new hotness. What a joyous day. New hotness.

  • @thomaspalazzolo5902
    @thomaspalazzolo5902 Рік тому +12

    Speaking of clown-related disasters, there was also the Hartford Circus Fire of 1944, which famous clown Emmett Kelly was present at and helped to put out. The tent itself, water-proofed by impregnating the material with highly flammable paraffin wax, caught fire. To make matters worse, one of the entrances was temporarily blocked off with cages for wild animals that were to perform.

  • @DisasterBreakdown
    @DisasterBreakdown Рік тому +25

    You guys can't just drop a banger when I'm about to go to bed...
    am staying up. fuck sleep :)

    • @grmpEqweer
      @grmpEqweer Рік тому +4

      ... Your next crash analysis can just be narrated with Liam's attitude problem, due to lack of sleep.

  • @MMmmmVarley
    @MMmmmVarley Рік тому +12

    As a young attendee of the 1988 Ramstein air show, I have not since and will not ever be attending air shows again. That being said, I don't think they should be banned. We can learn from past mistakes and move on safer than before, continuing to rock country fried rubes like a hurricane.
    That being said, the Paris air show of the 80's was an awesome open air arms swap meet that boggled the mind. The patches handed out were glorious.

  • @cyrusbailey4223
    @cyrusbailey4223 Рік тому +9

    When I saw the picture of the saftey third before I heard the story it reminded me that in Peoria, IL a man was incinerated at a caterpillar plant because they chose not to put in hand rails. hearing the story double reminded me
    Edit: apparently it reminded you too

  • @GaldirEonai
    @GaldirEonai Рік тому +13

    Just getting to the Safety Third and oh god they had wooden supports in close proximity to boiling sulfuric acid...

    • @ianhomerpura8937
      @ianhomerpura8937 Рік тому

      It's this one.
      ua-cam.com/video/UxxTDu3MWuw/v-deo.html

  • @mirtha1908
    @mirtha1908 Рік тому +10

    the first time I ever saw a hazard sign warning of "full engulfment" was when I was working down at the chocolate factory

  • @charleslecki3609
    @charleslecki3609 Рік тому +24

    I love gaze into Liam's eyes as he does actionable threats.

    • @MrJimheeren
      @MrJimheeren Рік тому +1

      Wait that was Liam in that picture?

    • @charleslecki3609
      @charleslecki3609 Рік тому +4

      @@MrJimheeren Pennsylvania's two largest bois Fetterman and Liam

  • @johnkonrad5040
    @johnkonrad5040 Рік тому +135

    Just as an update, I took your guys' advice and am currently turning my washing machine into a centrifuge. I don't know what yellow cake is or how to find it, but I find a good recipe for it online - So I think I'm about 80% of the way there!

    • @justicar5
      @justicar5 Рік тому +12

      NileRed can prob help with that :p

    • @peterpanda5069
      @peterpanda5069 Рік тому +11

      5 minute crafts will have a recipe for yellow cake

    • @afroponix3414
      @afroponix3414 Рік тому +9

      Check the baking aisle…they have all sorts of brands of yellow cake mix

    • @grmpEqweer
      @grmpEqweer Рік тому +6

      Make sure you grease the pan.

    • @Vazgriz
      @Vazgriz Рік тому +6

      Pray to god you don't drop that shit

  • @Leeqzombie
    @Leeqzombie Рік тому +7

    "They'll just run headfirst into walls like constantly" when I was a toddler I gave myself a concussion a few times this way. I'd lift my shirt over my face so I couldn't see and just run down a hallway for fun. One time I hit the corner of the wall where the hallway opens up into a larger space, and people were worried I'd cracked my head open or something.

  • @sixregrets
    @sixregrets Рік тому +21

    i'm so glad that devon got conscripted to do editing. rocz would definitely not have bothered to put up cat pictures

  • @DizzyEyes94
    @DizzyEyes94 Рік тому +18

    I feel like John Fetterman's aesthetic could be pretty easily wrapped up in the word, "Paroletarian," and I am 1,000,000% here for it

  • @RobinShiSummers
    @RobinShiSummers Рік тому +16

    Oh thank god, I was worried that having a official editor would shorten the episode lengths but not a chance! Phew, had me for a second.

  • @anthonycondon5833
    @anthonycondon5833 Рік тому +8

    Historian note: the period before the Victorian is usually referred to as the regency (the regency is *technically* 1811-1820, but it's good enough shorthand for the whole period between Georgian and Victorian)

    • @MrJohndoakes
      @MrJohndoakes Рік тому

      Yay! A historian writes in! Thank you, sir for putting it straight.

    • @ClaudiaNW
      @ClaudiaNW Рік тому +1

      I was baffled that they hadn't heard of William IV. IIRC he's the one who had no legitimate children (hence why he was succeeded by his niece Victoria) but had a whole illegitimate family with his mistress Mrs Jordan. I believe David Cameron is one of his descendants

  • @Basilo1146
    @Basilo1146 Рік тому +10

    The absolutely flabbergasted pause after 1:48:12 is absolutely amazing. Just, it feels like something that should be entirely unbelievable, yet you know deep down is entirely true

  • @faragar1791
    @faragar1791 Рік тому +16

    00:14:52
    A couple of years ago the 909 stopped for a few days at my city's local airport on its way to the Oshkosh Air Venture Air Show. While it was at the airport they were letting people tour the aircraft. I went to check it out and I bought a 909 T-shirt.

  • @05Matz
    @05Matz Рік тому +12

    Ow. This Safety Third really stole the show. Stole it, and threw it straight into the railing-less hot acid vat.

  • @DanCohoon
    @DanCohoon Рік тому +20

    I love Liam's actionable Threats

    • @grmpEqweer
      @grmpEqweer Рік тому +4

      He probably has lots of fans in Homeland Security.

  • @grantus_pax
    @grantus_pax Рік тому +24

    Finally, an excuse to write some Mothman x Cleric Beast

  • @Mergatroid
    @Mergatroid Рік тому +20

    Thank you once again for uploading right before I have a long Amtrak journey!

  • @Finestscarf
    @Finestscarf Рік тому +9

    My Great Great Grand Uncle died in an air show in the 40s at freeport in TX, his name was Claude, the crash killed 5 people as I've learned from the local paper.

  • @walterhorvath8102
    @walterhorvath8102 Рік тому +8

    Alice name-dropping Pictures for Sad Children around 17:30 made me happy. It was a great webcomic by someone who was dealing with a lot of mental illness and eventually took everything offline (including archived copies). Last I checked, to this day the vast majority of those comics are lost.

  • @ChloeAriT
    @ChloeAriT Рік тому +16

    I like how this is 2 hours long and less than half the runtime is talking about the actual disaster that's the title of the episode

  • @baum8981
    @baum8981 Рік тому +29

    Less than 1 minute in, this podcast manages to ask the important questions!
    How does one remember things?

  • @Stealth86651
    @Stealth86651 Рік тому +30

    Thanks to this podcast, I continually slip into imposter syndrome as I finally realize why it's called the "Victorian" era, so thanks I guess.

    • @MySerpentine
      @MySerpentine Рік тому +5

      And then after that was the Edwardian Era!

    • @iciajay6891
      @iciajay6891 Рік тому

      @@MySerpentine were I guess in the Charles era now 🤔

    • @Trendyflute
      @Trendyflute Рік тому +5

      @@iciajay6891 Carolean is the word for it, apparently!

    • @rupert7772
      @rupert7772 Рік тому +4

      @@Trendyflute wasn't it 'carolingian'? That's what they call the empire of Charles the great

  • @annemarie2300
    @annemarie2300 Рік тому +4

    I shared a tldr version of this safety 3rd at thanksgiving and all my relatives started sharing their own close brushes with death

  • @AlRoderick
    @AlRoderick Рік тому +30

    So can we call John Fetterman "Pittsburgh's favorite large adult son"?

  • @ahosie
    @ahosie Рік тому +5

    7 foot deep water over a British river... There's a non-zero number of victims that got stuck in the mud at the bottom of that bank 😓

  • @Agentporpoise
    @Agentporpoise Рік тому +4

    Bumping the idea to have an episode that's all safety thirds! Would be super fun and easy for y'all, and I'm sure you have mountains of stories so it's not like you'll run out soon

  • @gratuitouslurking8610
    @gratuitouslurking8610 Рік тому +3

    15:14 Thank you Ross for giving me a visceral case of remembering things I didn't know I forgot in perfect detail.

  • @fern5505
    @fern5505 Рік тому +3

    This is a strange episode because it feels like it should be a silly Atmospheric Railway type episode, but then like 80 people managed to die.

  • @ianhomerpura8937
    @ianhomerpura8937 Рік тому +6

    1:31:22 "You're looking at vats of acid."
    This would be a VERY interesting Safety Third.

  • @maneatingcheeze
    @maneatingcheeze Рік тому +3

    This safety third reminded me of a story of my great-grandmother. She worked in one of the local union steel mills in 50's and had to have my grandma pick beads of steel out of her skin at night that she would get occasionally when pouring the molten steel for whatever they were making.

  • @minikawildflower
    @minikawildflower Рік тому +14

    Episode dropped 2 minutes ago and I've already listened 3 times

  • @Toradoshi12
    @Toradoshi12 Рік тому +8

    Justin mentions injury via pig waste and I hope he's thinking of my grandpa who got half his face and ear melted off cleaning the kill room at a meat processor.

  • @RaunienTheFirst
    @RaunienTheFirst Рік тому +5

    I feel like the wire mill company would have spent a lot less money on H&S improvements than they spent on paying off their victims.

  • @toryr8532
    @toryr8532 Рік тому +7

    HI CATS
    I am apparently incapable of getting around to sharpening my kitchen knives unless I have a WTYD episode, so thank you for sharp knives and for endless snorfling

    • @quantumblur_3145
      @quantumblur_3145 Рік тому

      "thank you Jesus for my knife"
      _~a child at Thanksgiving once, moments before having his knife taken away_

  • @QuantumJump451
    @QuantumJump451 Рік тому +3

    I love how this episode gets to the advert before they've even started talking about the specific bridge the episode is about

  • @ayemessdee
    @ayemessdee Рік тому +6

    My great grandad was one if those guys who died by falling into a vat of hot beer mash. His skin apperently just peeled off him in sheets. I was told this story as a child, for some reason. In other news, I'm completely normal, why do you ask?

  • @moonbeast1312
    @moonbeast1312 Рік тому +10

    I love this episode of the God Damn News

  • @FloridatedH2O
    @FloridatedH2O Рік тому +5

    I know there's a risk of retaliation, but since the supplier of this week's Safety Third doesn't seem to work there anymore, it should be safe. Companies should be named and shamed, and I think this week it was most likely Liberty Steel in Bartonville, IL.

  • @Lunahoyer7040
    @Lunahoyer7040 Рік тому +8

    Just in time for me to listen to on my Amtrak train to Lynchburg tomorrow

  • @Flowerofearth
    @Flowerofearth Рік тому +2

    I grew up in Ipswich, slightly South of Great Yarmouth and never heard of this ! Also yes that area is all in East Anglia, we have interesting place names ✌🏻.

    • @ClaudiaNW
      @ClaudiaNW Рік тому

      Great Snoring and Little Snoring are my favourites. Also the pronunciation of Happisburgh

  • @TheShadowOfMars
    @TheShadowOfMars Рік тому +4

    Greetings from Norfolk! The river Yare rhymes with hair, but the Yar in Great Yarmouth rhymes with bar. The river Bure rhymes with cure. Acle rhymes with able. Nobody knows where Little Yarmouth is, or if it exists. When Roz jokes about the American version being nothing but a giant mini-golf, he doesn't know that just off the bottom-left corner of the lower-left photo is a giant pirate-themed mini-golf. The satellite image of brown rivers doesn't actually show the mouth of the Yare: the large body of water to the left is a wide stretch upstream, the mouth is a mile down off the bottom of the screen. In fact the Yare's mouth isn't in Yarmouth any more, it now forms the border between the Yarmouth Harbour Industrial Zone (a gated estate owned by Halliburton) and the town of Gorleston-on-Sea (rhymes with shawls, blood enemies of Yarmouth).

  • @josephpenn1115
    @josephpenn1115 Рік тому +7

    Just when I thought I was out of WTYP episodes to watch for my flight today, you all deliver.

  • @jasonpollock3768
    @jasonpollock3768 Рік тому +7

    If you guys ever do want to do that Artemis program episode, I did work on the space suit part of the program!

  • @TickTockTimeTraveler
    @TickTockTimeTraveler Рік тому +5

    Thank you everyone for another solid upload - nice to hear my fellow UC peers mentioned! It really does make my day when I can listen to a new episode from y'all. Down with the chancelors, Cynthia can eat my (redacted)

  • @cwhich
    @cwhich Рік тому +4

    Devon's editing adds a new level to this podcast I truly appreciate. those quotes got me real good

  • @wyrmoffastring
    @wyrmoffastring Рік тому +2

    yeah the second you mentioned unmarked and unrailed vats of hot sulfuric acid I'm bailing, but glad to hear y'all again

  • @stevenboyd5044
    @stevenboyd5044 Рік тому +3

    Thanks alot. Just got shouted at by my nurse. Headphones on laughing my head off. Now the ward hates me. 🤣🤣

  • @queergeologist8207
    @queergeologist8207 Рік тому +7

    pizza boy and milkshake are fantastic names for cats, please tell the cats I love them

  • @spyone4828
    @spyone4828 Рік тому +3

    I'm not really surprised to learn that workers at Universities in California are members of the United Auto Workers. I figured out that what you do for a living might have nothing to do with the union you are in when, decades ago, I found out the the American Association of University Professors is part of the Teamsters.

  • @Alex-js5lg
    @Alex-js5lg Рік тому +5

    I appreciate the Devon editing in the comic Justin mentioned.

    • @Alex-js5lg
      @Alex-js5lg Рік тому +1

      @@chancekahle2214 thank you! And thank Devon!

  • @pete3767
    @pete3767 Рік тому +3

    My head darted back to the screen so fast when there was mention of putting pictures of Roz's cats up on screen 😄

  • @benoitbvg2888
    @benoitbvg2888 Рік тому +5

    Welcome to Well There's Your Problem, a podcast about images of things who look like they shouldn't be that way.