Well There's Your Problem | Episode 108: West Side Elevated Highway

[@tenkiforecast]

Here is a list of things that happened on July 7, 2022: - the Georgia Guidestones blew up - Sri Lanka went bankrupt - Creator of Yu-Gi-Oh! found dead off Okinawa - Tennessee somehow literally brought back laws from Nazi Germany - Boris Johnson resigned - Shinzo Abe got assassinated by a homemade shotgun Too many insane things happened.

[@nunyabidnis3815]

Hold on, what did Tennessee do this time?

[@curium9622]

@@nunyabidnis3815 I want to know

[@spamviking]

Over here in Australia, a 10 year effort by the previous government to put the Federal Police, ASIO, various cybercrime and surveillance groups under one 1984 "Ministry of Love" super ministry, the Department of Home Affairs, was broken up by the new Labor government and the remnants repurposed into organising inter-agency responses to natural disasters. Also they dropped charges against a whistle blower who exposed illegal spying by the Howard government on Timor-Leste, and are in the process of ending the LNP governments efforts to discourage and punish whistleblowing. So it aint all bad news out there.

[@fuzzybuzzy3159]

Oh my God my brother is going to be devastated about the Yu-Gi-Oh news.

[@GGsYoyo]

@@nunyabidnis3815 A court ruled that you can basically just put up a "No Jews allowed" sign so long as your establishment is funded by taxpayers and there's nothing they can do about it

[@AsbestosMuffins]

"We choose, in this decade...to put a man in New Jersey." "What about bringing him back again?" "Woah woah woah easy there, one step at a time."

[@maxentaxen6875]

Yeehaw

[@DistractedGlobeGuy]

"Why would we want that? It's a penal colony."

[@BlisaBLisa]

laika

[@a.gravemistake3061]

Hey Roz, y'all. Know things have been rough for some of you. Very happy to see new content and hear you in higher spirits. Hope you're doing better!

[@Debilitator47]

I don't follow personal news. What's going on with WTYP?

[@Alex-js5lg]

I was literally considering posting on the subreddit to see if everything's alright with them or if they've just had, like, very poorly coordinated vacations. All the best to the hosts! I'll take the show whenever I can get it, and you folks take care of yourselves whenever you can do it.

[@mgkleym]

@@Debilitator47 I think roz has been having the bad mental health because he is infact a smol bean.

[@icarus_falling]

Was there trouble then? I don't need a full report just an overview

[@Dexter037S4]

@@icarus_falling Very badly coordinated vacation timing.

[@GaldirEonai]

Gotta love how of all the ones they've done so far, the Safety Third that finally broke the crew was... ...the _meat deck._

[@NonsenseFabricator]

_the meat deck_

[@blackvulture6818]

Which according to Alice's first engineering principle: We need a rigid and stiff meat deck

[@gibbcharron3469]

Well, that and the 'perfect Minecraft block of meat'.

[@jamiekamihachi3135]

I’m still waiting on the I Don’t Respect Fish shirt.

[@falloutghoul1]

@@gibbcharron3469 OOF

[@coleharris8045]

Think we're gunna need a "meat deck" drop for Alice to play at unexpected intervals. Great podcast folks.

[@Yodaminnesota]

My dad is an engineer and worked on the Chicago el. He told me a story of some of the Ironworkers playing a game where they would jump onto the third rail and land on it with two feet because it can only kill you if you have one foot on and one foot off. They also used to piss on it. Dudes rock.

[@kwarra-an]

We really are a species of contrasts

[@grmpEqweer]

Shake weens with danger.

[@TheRealE.B.]

I'm intrigued by this culture of ironworkers with an above-average knowledge of physics.

[@christophero1969]

I work for a railroad in Chicago and people have really been killed by pissing on the third-rail. I do not believe your dads stories.

[@steemlenn8797]

If you are really "lucky", the newspapers report on you pissing. Because somethimes that on/off works that way too.

[@xalrath]

"If roads were meant to fly, Mister Liam?" "Robert Moses would have given them wings, Mr Roz."

[@nathaniellindner313]

Every time Bob Moses comes on the radio I have to think "but what are his views on bus access to Long Island?"

[@renerpho]

"Meat deck crew" is the perfect name for our hosts. Please get those T-shirts!

[@nitehawk86]

I am all for the meat deck.

[@Joe-vm6ds]

I would buy that shirt!

[@craigstephenson7676]

@@Joe-vm6ds same

[@charlesbradley9166]

Eagerly awaiting the announcement of wtyp's Raytheon sponsorship

[@zagnorch1336]

They might wanna talk to Robert Evans, who, for a while now, has been angling at Raytheon to advertise on his "Behind the Bastards" podcast, albeit as a goof. Coincidentally, just yesterday "Behind the Bastards" concluded a two-parter on Robert Moses.

[@keithpedersen3653]

Raytheon is hiring!

[@trashrabbit69]

I think it'd be more in line to have a sponsorship from General Dynamics. A engineering disaster podcast that is itself a disaster, funded by disasters.

[@minikawildflower]

@@trashrabbit69 I live in the shadow of a huge ass general dynamics plant, my days are numbered.

[@Banannaise]

@@zagnorch1336 yeah I’m pretty sure that’s the joke

[@sweetprimrose]

A shirtwaist is a type of blouse in the style of a men's shirt with more pleating and you could cinch and tuck into your skirt - in modern fashion a shirtwaist is like a long shirt that usually comes with a cinching drawstring at the center to give you shape.

[@shadowmaster1313]

It's super practical compared to some other styles which is why they had factories to make them

[@hrani]

The cut and style made them easy to buy off the rack, no need for custom work or adjustments, and the fabric meant they were easily washable. But because you didn't need a tailor or other skilled worker to make them, you could also cram just a sea of humanity into a little room to exploitatively make them: thus they were cheap. It's not like we've learned from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire all this time later!

[@miradrgn]

this has gotta be the hardest laugh we've heard outta roz since RBG died

[@annafdd]

Oh but that was existential despair laughter that chilled your heart and shrivelled your soul.

[@cpt_nordbart]

@@annafdd that was harrowing.

[@DiamondKingStudios]

I was about to comment that.

[@jasonyoung5628]

The concept of a meat deck, aside from being hilarious, reminds me of a couple of jobs I've had. One was when I was a maintenance guy in a beef packing plant. I've seen probably ten thousand cows turned into their constituent parts and soup-like homogenies and I only had the job for like six months. It was hot, oppressively malodorous, indescribably gory. Yet despite this, it was a job where smiling guys stood on narrow grated platforms slicing parts of cows off. Women worked there in full makeup as though they were going straight to the club afterward. I've had to weld together steel beams on equipment that was operating as I was trying to fix it. I broke a finger after dropping a very heavy cast steel hopper on it. It didn't hurt much, but the next day I was slightly alarmed to find my pointer finger was an inch shorter and two inches bigger around than usual. X-rays showed it broken right behind the first knuckle. A couple of pins later it set fine, and after twenty years I can hardly tell anything is amiss.

[@K-o-R]

I so want to hear Justin try and read that comment without corpsing 😂

[@unistrut]

I have joked with my friends that the next time someone says "BuT wHaT aBouT the iRisH?" I'm gonna try and convince them that that's what the "I" in "BIPOC" stands for.

[@maybemablemaples2144]

I thought the "I" was for Italians?/j

[@Abeardeen]

@@maybemablemaples2144 no no it was clearly Iranian

[@Frommerman]

I mean, arguably, the reason for Irish marginalization in the English-speaking world is because they are the descendants of Gaelic-speaking indigenous people whose culture was more or less wiped out by the British over the course of centuries. So yeah, rolling the Irish into the I is not entirely wrong.

[@grmpEqweer]

I'm totally going to do that. 😈

[@grantus_pax]

@@Frommerman damn, 2 mentions of the Irish and we're already colonizing Indigenous people's letter and death-marching them to acronym reservations

[@mrpieceofwork]

At roughly 1:44:00, the podcast pretty much * attempts * to fall apart. Click that for a couple riotous minutes of uncontrollable laughter emanating from each and all our dear podcasters.

[@alanbockelman]

*Oof*

[@regulate.artificer_g23.mdctlsk]

That was a really contagious laughter.

[@ebnertra0004]

Podcast.exe has stopped responding

[@mrpieceofwork]

@@ebnertra0004 kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIS9Z4ykg85_d6c

[@MartyParty23]

I’m always impressed how he keeps reciting the Commercial perfectly each episode word-for-word. A true professional.

[@flametitan100]

Listening to them talk about how much Boris Johnson is doing everything he can to stay in power is *hilarious* considering that in the time between recording and uploading, he did indeed resign.

[@Raptor747]

Actually, he hasn't resigned. He's still in power. And he hasn't said that he WILL resign, he said that he MAY resign, because the Torries have to choose a new PM first, and they are in no hurry to actually do that.

[@napalmholocaust9093]

Informal safety 3rd. My friend couldn't stop in time when in rain and fog a person appeared in his headlights waving their arms in the center of the road. He passed them and within feet plunged off the road into a ravine where the not rigid enough bridge used to be moments before. He was the 2nd or 3rd car in the bottom. His fiancee perished. He never recovered. Time stopped for him forever. Regret first.

[@PobortzaPl]

Holy fucking shit...

[@robertbodell55]

3:00 thin red line is an abridged quote from the journalist William H. Russel about the Southland Highlanders at the battle of balaclava in the Crimea war, nothing to do with napoleon although due to balance of power politics B.S Britain, and France ruled by a Napoleon were teaming up with Turkey to screw Russia, Hilariously Lord Raglan the British leader in Crimea had a bad case of fighting the last war in his head and regularly referred to the enemy who was Russia as the French e.g. he once said when seeing Russian cavalry manoeuvring " there go those damnible French" while a french general was standing right next to him

[@tillwersonst9720]

Inbreeding does marvels for your command structure and general staff.

[@radfoxuk8113]

@@tillwersonst9720 Thinking outside the box, is extremely easy when you cannot comprehend a box to start with.

[@ClaudiaNW]

@@tillwersonst9720 As Sam Vimes put it, someone who pronounces "years" as "hyahs".

[@steemlenn8797]

@@ClaudiaNW Translating the discworld novels must be nightmare job. Funny, but you lose all your hairs like a wizard that just wanted to peel an orange and missed the target.

[@paddyfolan]

Ah the Crimean War, back when the British Army was essentially a pyramid scheme. You paid for your rank and commission, the more you paid the higher rank you were given. Lords paid at the time £35k (£3m in todays money) to be colonels as that was the highest you could purchase. It also lead to the charge of the Light Brigade where idiots who paid for their ranks, Lord Cardigan, were trying to overrule each other, and refused to listen to talk directly to each other.

[@thehaprust6312]

If you want some good "show me on the doll where Robert Moses touched you", I recommend reading Marshall Berman's "All That Is Solid Melts Into Air". It's a literary analysis of modernity that is a thinly veiled polemic on Moses' awfulness.

[@GaldirEonai]

I like how this got released pretty much the same time as the news that Musk isn't going to buy Twitter after all. It's like he wanted to make extra certain he wouldn't be on this week's Goddamn News :P.

[@cutelasscutlass876]

That as well as the assassination of Shinzo Abe lmao

[@colonelgraff9198]

But Musk is being forced to buy it for $44 billion

[@William-Morey-Baker]

he cant back out of the deal without paying a shit ton of money... and he will be sued on top of that for a LOT more money

[@GaldirEonai]

@@William-Morey-Baker Yeah, there's absolutely no way he's done due diligence on that contract before diving in face first. He's got to be on the hook for a significant chunk of those $44b.

[@BlisaBLisa]

:/

[@davidmonaghan1896]

The Minecraft meat block comments remind me of the classic "Assume a spherical cow..."

[@pygmybugs]

Oh, PLEASE make a Meat Deck Crew shirt. Alice's idea of plain stencil font is perfect (although maybe white on black because I can't be entrusted with a white shirt).

[@kjdunne8683]

"And the comments said unto thee: 'Yay Liam!' And it was good."

[@annafellows9616]

The meat deck induced laugh break really made my day XD

[@Eric_Hunt194]

Also, "Bostonderry" should be on the shortlist if an intervention happens.

[@DougKingJax]

Every time Roz said *meat* deck I couldn't stop laughing.

[@AllMustJump]

For many years I always been fascinated by this Highway, A highway that was obsolete by the time it was built.

[@spikesmth]

In defense of the Embarcadero in SF, we have a light rail that runs most of its length and most of the properties along it draw huge numbers of pedestrians. The ferry building is well-used, fisherman's wharf is mostly back from Covid, Oracle Park and Chase Center. Sure, still too many cars, but I'm not mad the earthquake destroyed the old monstrosity.

[@AsbestosMuffins]

kinda hard to do elevated anything in SF because of the earthquakes, and because the entire waterfront is trash and mud instead of rock

[@Warpwaffel]

Roz: "It would make the fish sad." Me: "Good." Liam: "Good!"

[@Frommerman]

Liam "I don't respect fish" Anderson

[@NonsenseFabricator]

So much stuff's been happening that you can really narrow down the time of recording based on what stories they included in the news.

[@FreeRadicalX]

God damn this squad kicks ass, I'm glad you're posting again.

[@gaphic]

The sheer and utter timing of this video being uploaded WHILE I was trying to convince my dad that elevating the interstate and running it over our city center might not be the Best possible idea

[@Lessinath]

This episode also features almost two minutes of near continuous laughter and I can't think of anything better.

[@tempheror112]

Petition to have a dedicated "Meat Deck" sound bite.

[@EnderGraff1]

Yes please!

[@spamviking]

Petition to have the next patreon tier be called "the meat deck"

[@bobsmith2637]

That's the happiest "...With Slides!!!" intro I've heard yet. Nice touch!

[@bigpooper4156]

Hey same pfp

[@skylermathewson1203]

Very on-brand of BoJo to fit a "Them's the breaks" into a "My Party Told Me to Hit the Bricks" speech.

[@paleposter]

The jungle remix people did of the speech are fire

[@tombirkland]

I had a dream that I told a bunch of architects about this podcast and how they must listen to it. So it's good to see a new episode.

[@redbasher636]

Eagerly awaiting the Raid Shadow Legends video. In which you send them only you guys doing their read and then tearing it to SHREDS for 3 hours.

[@Daemonite]

This a podcast about gacha disasters. With slides.

[@steemlenn8797]

Or Nord VPN. This is a podcast about tunnels. But not the sort you can go through. With slides constisting of 0 and 1 only.

[@AsbestosMuffins]

"What did we learn?" Coulda had intermodal trains in the 1930s but didn't because too expensive

[@soullesspenguin]

My dad worked in a pet food factory as a maintenance tech. He had to hit the whole line E-stop upon witnessing a production temp literally standing on top of a scale bin and stomping a frozen meat block into the augers with his boot. My dad also had an accident repairing one of those bins and severed his pinky.

[@lmjohnsono]

My dad told me a story about the Belgian Blocks and why we had them all over Long Island as curbs and edgers and stuff. There was an export imbalance in the 1880s, so ships would leave the US with tons of stuff, but come back otherwise empty. So they'd load Belgian blocks on for ballast. When they got to the harbor, sometimes it was cheaper to just toss them over the side then pay a guy to unload and sell them. When they were later dredging the harbor in like, the 80s, they were coming up with absolute tonnage of belgian blocks that you could grab for free. Lots of boomers living in the suburbs and working in the city were building new houses out on the island then. Dad and his buddy Ronnie would load up Ronnie's truck and they'd take them home and use them for hardscaping. My old house still has those same belgian blocks lining the driveway. And Ronnie's still my dad's best buddy. Also, the pulaski skyway is terrifying

[@TheNamesWolf]

I was really expecting the Amtrak crash to make The God Damn News, great episode!

[@jakeisjake112]

I've been steeping in a bob Moses tea this past week. This is exactly what I want to hear while I'm stuck in beautiful new York traffic.

[@CorbinSimpson]

29:00 or so, it's literally the capitalist trolley problem: "You can stop the trolley at any time, but doing so would disrupt the trolley service, causing the company to lose profits."

[@muscledad3113]

“How badly do you want the Meat Deck shirt?” DESPERATELY

[@adams3627]

I think I need a "Meat Deck Crew" t-shirt now

[@douglasgraebner1831]

I don't know if this was Covered Elsewhere in the comments but the reason that the striped bass was such a big deal was as follows: 1) In the 80s they were *badly endangered....basically along their entire east coast range 2) the Hudson basin was one of the most important spawning habitats for them (the other was, bizarrely, a specific bend in the Potomac River; I think there might have been a few others? but keeping stripers from going extinct basically required keeping the Hudson River breeding population afloat 3) in a bizarre coincidence, the piers because of the depth, light penentration, shelter, etc were a *improbably good substitute* for the wetland striper habitat that got destroyed during the process of 19th century landfill. 4) because of this, the NYC bank of the Hudson/lower westside pier system had somehow become critical endangered species habitat. In the 80s. Life is weird. (on the plus side, 1) striper stocks have recovered considerably since then, and 2) as Other People Have Said it turns out New York Harbor is *the cleanest it's been since the Civil War*

[@alexandradunbar4177]

I was a bike messenger in the city of Boston during the big dig... I have stories that I am more than happy to contribute.

[@TemplarOnHigh]

40:40 - Oh Alice. Come to SEPTA safety training and be one of the office ladies trying desperately to cross safely over the live 3rd rail on the elevated section in between two trains coming from 63rd St.

[@haphazardlark1502]

I cannot overstate my love for the phrase “various Cornelii”

[@sparkpenguin]

"i'll wait for the horse but i can beat that train" hits my heart with a swell as both a new yorker and a floridian

[@Mclarenboy100]

"Meat Deck Crew" is a t-shirt i would purchase in a heartbeat

[@de-fault_de-fault]

Additional fun fact: Uncle Rudy demanded the Joe DiMaggio Highway label to make it seem inevitable that he would get his far west side stadium for the Yankees built next to it, more or less where Hudson Yards is now.

[@wagenenr8140]

They literally get the giggles during the safety third. Great ep

[@g--stef4756]

Note on the Georgia Guidestones, sadly they were demolished completely after the initial bombing as the remains were not considered safe.

[@kwarra-an]

I- what wasn't safe about them? It's just granite

[@maean7410]

@@kwarra-an they could fall onto someone

[@grmpEqweer]

@@maean7410 _While E Coyote has entered the chat_

[@steemlenn8797]

@@maean7410 Everyone who jumps over a black-yellow band around the smoking rests of a concrete building and gets mauled by falling concrete *deserves* to be removed from the gene pool. No reason to demolish the stone.s

[@Eric_Hunt194]

"It'd be funny if it was Boris and one guy running the country" So, one guy running the country?

[@mavretania6130]

WTYP is best absorbed from a chintzy desk at an email farm. Thank you for uploading during the workday so all us office lackeys have something to finish off the week

[@nuclearlion]

As an exhausted burnt out trucker, I also needed something good to listen to! Thank you WTYP!

[@nuclearlion]

@WhenTheChipsAreDown dear WTYP: I haven't done a social activity in forever, over the road trucking is garbage. This is not mentally healthy for humans. Please contact illuminati to have my job replaced with train.

[@spinecho609]

Listening to it mid engineering-disaster

[@mechtechpotato4249]

I can’t get the image out of my head of Liam loading a freeway spear machine gun and shooting freeways spears at the fish.

[@minikawildflower]

Alice is right, the third rail is simply tempting all of us who are Extremely Normal to touch it and reap the benefits

[@chillzedd8179]

This didnt happen in the timeline where they finished building the giant ziggurat bridge

[@Crowborn]

really makes u think

[@johannageisel5390]

Yay, I love you! I was anxiously waiting for a new episode. I need something to listen to while cleaning the kitchen.

[@SadisticSenpai61]

All the gains in fuel efficiency in the past decade has been countered by manufacturers making larger/heavier cars - so the mileage has remained exactly the same, despite the engines being more fuel efficient.

[@Frommerman]

HMMMMMM I WONDER WHY THAT MIGHT BE?????

[@SadisticSenpai61]

@@Frommerman So car manufacturers can charge more for the cars? There really aren't that many small cars on the market. And the ones that are on the market are typically imported and ridiculously expensive. There's a tiny EV that GM makes in China that sells for about $4k in China. They're finally going to bring it to the US this fall for... $30k. It's a US company. There's absolutely no reason for the price discrepancy. It's the same story for all small cars - they end up costing far more in the US than elsewhere in the world, possibly to make them "compete" with the larger vehicles that manufacturers actually want to sell. After all, if your choice is a gasoline powered 4 door sedan for $25k or a mini EV that seats 2 ppl for $30k, well... And then there's what you get approved for in loans that plays a role as well.

[@garrettlogue4249]

I enjoy Liams energy this episode.

[@BlargleRagequit]

We need Alice to add Roz saying "Meat Deck" to her list of drops to play later.

[@mrpieceofwork]

I am pretty sure I mentioned this b4, but I will mention it again... please do the Mizpah hotel fire in Reno, NV. Lots of things to say about how the US "State"/Capital treats the precariat and the lumpen-proletariat, as well as saving the wrong old buildings (see "the Mapes")

[@emh.1178]

Why would post-apocalypse people take advice from a people who blew themselves to smitherines? It's more like the American Ozymandias than a stonehenge lmao

[@luispacheco428]

I came here to celebrate this W over revisionist podcast "The Red-Scare"

[@dylanchouinard6141]

A true triumph of the immortal science of Justinism-Aliceism-Liamism!

[@highjumpstudios2384]

What's the red scare podcast about?

[@thomasgray4188]

Yes this is the best podcast

[@terryhickman7929]

I live for the episodes where you're all falling about laughing your a**es off. Thank you for bringing a ton of laughs to a very gray day🤣🤣

[@windwalker5765]

These guys are the true successors to Car Talk.

[@whym6438]

I literally fell off my chair laughing.

[@SadisticSenpai61]

Uh-oh. I'm having flashbacks to every grain bin horror story I've ever heard. This is going to get... very dangerous.

[@robertbrainerd5919]

These videos are so therapeutic. I wish there was a new video every day. Most of KZbin is trivial, repetitive, and boring. But these guys always have original perspectives and insights. There's absolutely nothing else like it on KZbin.

[@penta5698]

finally, the actionable threats have arrived

[@thehaprust6312]

Isuzu NPRs are the beast, and quite common in the US. Absolutely love a cabover.

[@maloyberg]

this is an ALL-TIMER episode. Thanks for the joy fellas and lady!

[@hisako-1984]

WTYPP is like the architects of trucks walking up to non-cabovers and saying "You're ruining my vision".

[@mor4y]

I had just insulted someone on Facebook in a argument about the Rail unions, I think I called him "Mr current thing" based on his profile pic, then recommended this podcast to another commenter and Mr Current Thing chimed in saying he's also a listener! So I maybe got you a extra viewer, and met another one out in the wild! :) And Mr Current Thing, if you're reading this, I'm quite spikey on Facebook, I'm actually nicer on KZbin behind a anonymous name! I kinda buck the trend 🤷‍♂️🤣

[@segarallychampionship702]

Hearing "Boris Johnson, the PM of the UK" is so fucking surreal because even the Liz Truss incident feels like it hapened forever ago even though this podcast ep is only 10 months old /edit: typo. also it still feels cursed

[@Topgun232]

This safety 3rd had me crying

[@mrg315]

I support the campaign for the "Meat Deck Crew" shirt. Note, it must include a perfect cube of frozen meat as part of the design.

[@masonturner0]

Pounding my fists on the table and chanting ‘pod’

[@angryKitt3ns]

As an American truck driver I absolutely endorse swapping over to cabovers, the inherently superior tractor

[@Hevlikn]

So glad to hear a podcast about engineering enthusiastically endorsing playing factorio badly

[@charlesbradley3663]

Bus Authority interior, ‘70s brick articulated surfaces, pigeons flashing up along gust of air flooding in through surreal sliding glass doors like that early scene from “Susperia”. Urban picturesque realness. Imperfect, but beautiful in a way.

[@LazerPig]

yay Liam

[@DAFLIDMAN]

Attempting a peace offering I see 👀

[@insertnamehere8715]

That'll do, pig. That'll do.

[@LazerPig]

@@DAFLIDMAN No, just attention seeking.

[@DAFLIDMAN]

@@LazerPig fair enough 🤣

[@thehaprust6312]

John Oliver covered the Guidestones and the Klansman that paid for them.

[@Ruby-pw4px]

43:00 Switzerland has just greenlit a national subterranean tunnel network ("Cargo Sous Terrain", CST) for freight only, with urban distribution centers in major cities to get trucks out of cities. Yes it fucking rules Edit: In fact, it sounds really quite similar to the whole system you are describing (except way more focused on the last mile - so we're talking pallets instead of containers, delivery scooters instead of trucks).

[@sarapocorn]

Hi from Switzerland - I am beyond excited.

[@grantus_pax]

excited for these subterranean tunnels to *never show up on the podcast* 🙏🙏🙏🚫🔥🚫

[@IntervencionesGringas]

true philly history heads will recognize Liam's loose reference to Frank Rizzo's famous statement to the press but switching Atilla the Hun for Norfolk Southern (and also taking out the slur)

[@darthbob88]

The last time I was this early, the molasses tank in Boston was still intact.

[@Altoclarinets]

To answer Alice's question: at the time, a "shirtwaist" referred to a women's blouse similar in style and appearance to a man's shirt. Later (ca. 30s-40s) the most common use of the word began to be to abbreviate "shirtwaist dress", which is a dress with a bodice similar in style and appearance to a man's shirt. These changed in appearance as the fashions in men's shirts changed (as well as women's fashions).

[@Altoclarinets]

(Triangle was the company brand)

[@cupidhoodlum]

it was so weird hearing about moses' plan to highway the piers. he actually pulled it off in niagara falls. the robert moses parkway stretched along the niagara river servicing niagara falls chemical facilities from the 1-90 into the city of niaga falls... AND continue along the niagara gorge. these highways cut off the local communities from the parkland surrounding the niagara river. one of these communities, on the other side of the chemical plants, is wtyp's next boston molasses disaster - Love Canal.

[@evamiller4886]

“Beeeeeep the capital building” Thanks Liam, good idea

[@senorsoupe]

I don't know if it's weird that I am happy that the term "meat deck" is now in my vocabulary

[@_oe_o_e_]

Say the line Comments “Yay Liam”

[@AsbestosMuffins]

To some Raytheon Exec, just send them a swag bag, you've got hundreds of them made up for conventions and stuff

[@ayemessdee]

'Meat Deck' just sounds to me like a cyberdeck but made of meat, which is some Cronenberg shit 🥩

[@hockeystix1361]

Looking at this makes me want y’all to cover the building and the horrid transportation system that is MARTA. The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. Built for the 1996 Olympic Games and only extends partially out of the city of Atlanta.

[@creampop8553]

You know things are right when they screw up the intro. ...Nothing's gonna prepare me for the subject nowadays.

[@miradrgn]

if i'd had to guess what a shirtwaist was i would've thought maybe it's one of those like, facade shirts that's basically a fancy bib under your tuxedo jacket, and if you're an opera singer who gets on bugs bunny's bad side he pulls it down like a window shade and makes it roll up and thwap you in the face repeatedly

[@VinceWhitacre]

Yay podcast! (With slides)

[@thomasgiles2876]

As far as my patronage is concerned, you are the only Podcast. Could you be? The most beautiful podcast in the world? You're the reason that God made a podcast!