Episode 117: The Great Yarmouth Suspension Bridge

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[@tabula_rosa]

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]

also fuck deferred maintenance

[@MrJimheeren]

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]

Can USCSB please make a video about this

[@moderatti]

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

[@LordBloodpool]

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".

[@brianlawson3757]

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]

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.

[@alaeriia01]

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

[@LeCharles07]

Maybe chunky marinara.

[@alaeriia01]

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

[@emilyadams3228]

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

[@Trendyflute]

labor viscera?

[@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot]

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

[@GabeSyme]

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]

Same

[@stanislavkostarnov2157]

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

[@tomhsia4354]

@@stanislavkostarnov2157The pet industry does deserve one.

[@mathbookhero]

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.

[@masonturner0]

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]

What episode was that again?

[@michimatsch5862]

Must have missed that episode, lol.

[@melissad4456]

I think it was the caving episode

[@artistwithouttalent]

@@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]

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

[@ghostsethrich7306]

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

[@lyndonwesthaven6623]

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

[@LynxSnowCat]

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

[@Themanwithnoscreenname]

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

[@dylanchouinard6141]

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]

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

[@grmpEqweer]

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

[@iamjustkiwi]

It really does huh? Nice catch

[@paleposter]

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

[@madtheorist1856]

Like the Ashtablua Horror they covered before

[@shinewherethouwillandthouh7455]

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

[@2005Cardinals]

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]

Solidarity forever!

[@dayoldbaguettes]

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

[@nataschavisser573]

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]

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]

Solidarity forever

[@medickitten]

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

[@SnausageKing]

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]

Also he panicked and sprayed everyone with champagne to stop Shatner

[@Anthnax]

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

[@LML-013]

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

[@riverroth3688]

You never expect it but it's great.

[@adams3627]

Big news for big boys

[@Alevuss92]

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]

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

[@kv4302]

there was a lot of news

[@marinary1326]

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

[@wire_hall_medic8470]

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.

[@THE_BATLORD]

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

[@UntoTheBreach24]

THE SATANIC MILLS ARE STILL HERE

[@effluviah7544]

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]

Hang in there, we all care about you ❤️

[@Swagguu]

Cheers 💗

[@Hevlikn]

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

[@carsonpearce5980]

solidarity and good podcasts will help us through

[@carlstott5309]

Hey bridge may fall down, but we will stand tall

[@IntervencionesGringas]

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"

[@tomfoolery4490]

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]

I am into this

[@05Matz]

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]

@@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]

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]

Project Pluto would be a fun one too.

[@runningonmTee]

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

[@MrJimheeren]

Well TF has Milo Edwards and WTYP has not

[@AGenericMoron]

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

[@saddestcats]

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]

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]

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

[@danielkorladis7869]

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

[@ciceronincheese7195]

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

[@grmpEqweer]

Just wire a loudspeaker into Liam's Van.

[@AsbestosMuffins]

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]

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

[@STOP_red_light]

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.

[@danjaguar126]

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

[@theoperrin9653]

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.

[@xsenobe4396]

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]

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]

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

[@Vanya2893]

@@Basilo1146 paying for verification is reddit energy though

[@Basilo1146]

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

[@Sylvie_without_surname]

At least we can all agree on the worst medium... KZbin comments!

[@tarasaurus98]

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

[@sweetprimrose]

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]

Naah, Pennywise got them.

[@sweetprimrose]

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

[@katiwithoutthee]

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

[@Altoclarinets]

... my condolences?

[@RussellCHall]

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]

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]

some sacrifices are worth it for the beans

[@thomasgiles2876]

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

[@PoolNoodleGundam]

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

[@bananadictator3032]

@@PoolNoodleGundam WHAT?????

[@grmpEqweer]

@@PoolNoodleGundam I'm also a blue squid.

[@thomasgiles2876]

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

[@DisasterBreakdown]

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

[@grmpEqweer]

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

[@thebeardprevails5246]

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

[@Randomstuffs261]

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

[@ns-sj7gi]

The bridge wasn't great, theYarmouth is

[@Randomstuffs261]

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

[@hypoaktivnaovca]

The suspense killed it.

[@peskypigeonx]

@@Randomstuffs261 an arch bridge!

[@jcmik]

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

[@thomaspalazzolo5902]

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.

[@Goodall10]

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]

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]

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.

[@MrLeafeater]

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]

Yes, that was a nasty move.

[@madtheorist1856]

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

[@spaguettoltd.7933]

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

[@AnodicCasserole]

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.

[@TheShadowMagister]

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

[@seancase2746]

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

[@cyrusbailey4223]

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

[@hendrix24]

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.

[@shadowmaster1313]

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]

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

[@johnkonrad5040]

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]

NileRed can prob help with that :p

[@peterpanda5069]

5 minute crafts will have a recipe for yellow cake

[@afroponix3414]

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

[@grmpEqweer]

Make sure you grease the pan.

[@Vazgriz]

Pray to god you don't drop that shit

[@mina47879]

God I missed Liam and his actionable threats

[@MMmmmVarley]

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.

[@sixregrets]

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

[@Leeqzombie]

"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.

[@DizzyEyes94]

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

[@05Matz]

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

[@Basilo1146]

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

[@RobinShiSummers]

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.

[@maneatingcheeze]

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.

[@walterhorvath8102]

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.

[@grantus_pax]

Finally, an excuse to write some Mothman x Cleric Beast

[@Mergatroid]

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

[@baum8981]

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

[@faragar1791]

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.

[@charleslecki3609]

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

[@MrJimheeren]

Wait that was Liam in that picture?

[@charleslecki3609]

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

[@mirtha1908]

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

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

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

[@Finestscarf]

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.

[@anthonycondon5833]

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]

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

[@ClaudiaNW]

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

[@ChloeAriT]

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

[@GaldirEonai]

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

[@ianhomerpura8937]

It's this one. kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6nbhXeraLKKq9k

[@QuantumJump451]

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

[@DanCohoon]

I love Liam's actionable Threats

[@grmpEqweer]

He probably has lots of fans in Homeland Security.

[@Stealth86651]

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]

And then after that was the Edwardian Era!

[@iciajay6891]

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

[@Trendyflute]

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

[@rupert7772]

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

[@josephpenn1115]

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

[@ianhomerpura8937]

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

[@ahosie]

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 😓

[@queergeologist8207]

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

[@AlRoderick]

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

[@oinksnork]

Not anymore

[@TheShadowOfMars]

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).

[@toryr8532]

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]

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

[@Toradoshi12]

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.

[@pete3767]

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

[@alwaysbecozy]

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

[@jasonpollock3768]

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

[@minikawildflower]

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

[@FloridatedH2O]

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.

[@AsbestosMuffins]

the problem with safety rails and paint is the aforementioned acid melts both. usually these things are designed in reverse from the way they described with a raised rim on the tank

[@mwood7012]

Thanks for the shoutout! Solidarity from all of us out here in Local 2865, and our other two units on strike, Local 5810 and the newly formed UAW-SRU. We're in this for the long haul.

[@moonbeast1312]

I love this episode of the God Damn News

[@Lunahoyer7040]

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

[@lazyidiotofthemonth]

Going to plug for the Great Chicago Leak(Flood) just because we get to talk about Chicago's Subway freight system.

[@cwhich]

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

[@pygmybugs]

Was that Safety Third letter from someone in upstate western NY? Because I grew up in a tiny, crappy town there, where the only jobs were at the THREE wire mills (or at a failing family dairy farm, or often both). Generations of this town worked there. And it wasn't until I moved away at 13 that I realized having almost every adult over the age of 35 MISSING PIECES was weird. Missing fingers, missing arms, missing eyes, lots of really weird cancers. I think they specifically pick these tiny, out of the way places because they know people have no other options. When I say everyone worked there, it was three wire mills in a town of about 2,000 people. Some people came in from further away, but pretty much every family had at least one immediate family member who worked at the mill. So if you raise a stink to OSHA or something, it's not just you that will be unemployed, it'll be the whole goddamned town.

[@ericnute]

More Devon! And make the text last longer: I'm watching at 1.25 speed, and I don't want to miss your comments if I look away. (loved Moondogle). (love Roz, Alice, and Liam. I hear your voices in my ear every time I look away, and you all have inspired me)

[@stevenboyd5044]

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

[@EmissaryofWind]

Congratulations on the most horrifying Safety Third yet, taking its place alongside the funniest Safety Third where the French air force obliterated the listener's homework

[@EmissaryofWind]

Actually, that should have been called Safety Tenth

[@Agentporpoise]

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

[@Xxx_EvilSmurf_xxX]

That safety third reminds me of a story in read in a book about industrial accidents. Child in a cotton mill, got chewed up by the gears.

[@TickTockTimeTraveler]

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)

[@Flowerofearth]

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]

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

[@georgepatient7710]

It's a pity more of Yarmouth wasn't on the bridge.