Well There's Your Problem | Episode 139: The Impossible Railroad

[@2sudonim]

When Alice said, "Second -- third richest man in the world," I like to think that tumbling stock prices dropped him from the second to third richest man while she was speaking.

[@caidurkan2916]

Like a fumbled catch requiring the commentators to double back on themselves

[@hp67c]

But that would only mean some other asshole rose from third to second

[@alexanderboulton2123]

​@@caidurkan2916"Aaaaand the pass is...dropped- NO, FUMBLE! HE FUMBLRD THE TWITTER FOOTBALL! THIS WAS THE EASIEST CATCH OF HIS LIFE AND HE FUMBLED!"

[@ladykimono401]

"I guess I am they/them now because I had an argument with my brain and lost". Best guest quote ever.

[@BGraves]

Are you plural?! - Larry David

[@WingsStrings]

I forgot to mention this in the episode but at some point a local reporter noticed all of Spreckels' good deeds for san diego also conveniently involved paying Spreckels to use the service, to which he angrily shot back with "I'm a businessman, not a santa claus!" Which given the name of his dad is extremely funny to me.

[@whyy9951]

Another funny Spreckels fact: The other Spreckels brother controlling the rest of the sugar fortune back in San Francisco, Adolph, married a much younger sculpture model. She transformed society by referring to him as her “sugar daddy”

[@quantumblur_3145]

​@@whyy9951family of dominos

[@anttihelin6820]

@@whyy9951 My god. Adolph had a sugar company too. Incredible

[@trashrabbit69]

@@anttihelin6820 There's even a tiny town south of Salinas named after him. I believe the massive sugar mill there is still in use to this day.

[@AndrewDederer]

This road sounds like the real life version of.. "In sank into the swamp" "It burned" "It fell over" "It burned, fell over AND sank into the swamp."

[@theflyingspaget]

This road sounds like Christian apologists trying to put together three different accounts of the death of a railroad.

[@defeatstatistics7413]

It's just a little collapsed, it's still good!

[@bakaneko113]

Almost exactly what I was thinking

[@Dark_LoreVT]

" And the Fourth One stayed up!"

[@asmodon]

@@Dark_LoreVTI was looking for this comment! 😂

[@poundlandvodka]

really enjoying Devon becoming less of an editor and more of a visual participant in an otherwise mainly auditory podcast

[@isaactrockman4417]

I can’t stand that damn Audio cue

[@LordAJ12345]

@@isaactrockman4417 I like it. The podcast is usually up on my second screen and it tells me to look over.

[@biscuit715]

​@@isaactrockman4417it's so LOUD

[@isaactrockman4417]

@@LordAJ12345 I like the concept but the specific sound is horrible

[@isat.6228]

A podcast, with slides, and also reading.

[@kennethbenck9323]

4:22 Justin: Come on Milkshake don't do that! Milkshake:🐱*Cutely destroys the slides.*

[@melissametivier4]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@pamdemonia]

I'm a union electrician in San Francisco. Twice I have worked doing "tenant improvement" at Twitter (before the Musk supremacy). The second time I was tasked with laying out new linear lights which the architects had for some insane reason decided needed to be at a 40° angle to the general building layout. Not 45°, not the normal parallel/perpendicular layout, but 40°. The only reason I can figure for this is as some sort of test. Anyway, Twitter was not exactly run by the sane before Musk, I can only guess what that job would've been like today.

[@mgkleym]

Twitter hq as the modern equivalent of the winchester house as musk's brain is eaten away by transphobia and white genocide.

[@Bakamoichigei]

Laying out linear lighting at a 40° angle really feels like some Vault-Tec level social experiment shit... "How long will it take for this to drive everyone in the building _absolutely stark-raving fucking bonkers?!"_ 😨

[@pamdemonia]

@@Bakamoichigei yeah, no kidding.

[@driverx241]

i would simply construct a possible railroad

[@deeznoots6241]

You can’t its too damn possible

[@TrashHeapCustodian]

Thank you for this beautifully perfect comment

[@tryste_mx]

Just make it more rigid

[@BarackLesnar]

😂

[@AlRoderick]

The buildings opposite The X was not just a bunch of apartments, it also has the San Francisco city attorney.

[@FakeSchrodingersCat]

It's fine they don't work nights.

[@RooneyMac]

Ooooo, yea Elam done fukt up

[@SurelyYewJest]

@@RooneyMac Who's Elam?

[@steemlenn8797]

Well, I guess that saves time on evidence recording.

[@ruediix]

@@SurelyYewJest When someone acts like him, we are under no obligation to get his name right.

[@Armidilloman]

First a bridge, now a train?!? What's next? Boat episode??

[@AaronMk91]

What's next after a tragic boat episode? A tragic horse based sorta-train episode!?

[@grmpEqweer]

They could do a tragic plane-cow episode.

[@kumaflamewar6524]

Ooo maybe they'll do Bulk Jupiter next. That'd be cool

[@rawbebaba]

If this podcast has taught me ANYTHING its that if you're travelling and you come to a river or a large body of water, you can just turn around. You don't have to cross it. LOL, oh shit also FIND THE EXIT

[@rawbebaba]

@@kumaflamewar6524 so there's this memorial near me it's to a group of like 250 men and boys who died in a mining accident, I was like shit I should look that up and suggest so I Google searched for "memorial to mining accident victims Illinois" now I'm thinking cool there's like 1 of these right? Wrong. There's like 45-50 of these memorials, and then I'm like well okay so I'll I'll only view the ones with over 200 victims. ...well damn it's still like 25 memorials to accidents where over 200 people died. This made me laugh and then also because I'm actually problematic really filled my heart with a hatred of my enemies.

[@strghtflush]

More Milkshake takeovers, please.

[@readmorebooksidiots]

Give milkshake an episode. What's a cat disaster, outside wet?

[@silaskuemmerle2505]

Cats are gonna cat, so those aren't likely

[@AnInnocuousBlueCube]

Disaster Speedrun Milkshake%

[@chiraleven5552]

08/10/2023 Milkshake incident

[@markd2344]

My favorite railroad name of all time is Bethlehem Steel’s “Philadelphia, Bethlehem & New England Railroad.” It was a common carrier road that never left the Bethlehem city limits.

[@GlitchUnpatched]

now that's what i call misplaced ambition!

[@Dark_LoreVT]

Well. It did make it to the outskirts of Hellertown.. Kinda! Lol

[@Dark_LoreVT]

My favorite. Predecessor of the Lehigh New England Railroad. The Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie and Boston. It got the Pennsylvania part right. Never built to Poughkeepsie. And got nowhere near Boston !😂😂😂

[@markd2344]

They had a freight station at Didier, which was just east of the old arch viaduct over Hellertown Rd. The purpose of that station was to maintain common carrier status, even though no customer shipped or received freight there.

[@ebnertra0004]

My favorite is Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific. It _used_ to go to Duluth (I-35 kicked it over to Superior), did not go to Winnipeg, and was nowhere near the Pacific

[@allisonhastings4964]

It's been a rough week, time to curl up in a pile of stuffies and listen to disasters yay thank you guys.

[@OutbackCatgirl]

saaameee

[@Sam-vq1qf]

Hope y’all feel better

[@nothanksguy]

only ur nose sticks out, like a sled dog sleeping in the snow

[@OutbackCatgirl]

@@nothanksguy im that picture of the cat emerging from weighted blankets not knowing what year it is

[@allisonhastings4964]

@@OutbackCatgirl it's affirmative care to be smol pet in the blanket pile listening to the crew rant

[@NukaLemonade]

Ah, a rare case of Train Bad

[@nothanksguy]

O no

[@Puddlef1sh]

The universe is unbalanced! Train good!

[@taterthepenguin]

The train didn't fail. The train WAS failed by us.

[@jacobrzeszewski6527]

This is the United States. Capitalism leaves NOTHING incorruptible here.

[@AsbestosMuffins]

train only bad when people shouldn't be there

[@whoever6458]

I don't know if anyone remembers that game that used to come on old PCs called Ski Free where you were a little skiing person who had to maneuver in and around trees and other obstacles and jump the occasional jump in the course, then if you kept skiing after the finish line, an abominable snowman would come and eat your little character. Anyway, I had a cat who LOVED that game and would sit next to the computer monitor so she could bat at the trees as they went up the screen. I used to play it a lot because it was funny to watch her try to catch the trees on the screen and I would restart the game by pressing one of the F buttons (don't remember which one anymore) because it was the quickest way to start a new game and keep my cat's attention. One time, when I had been playing this game with the cat, I had to go to the bathroom but I just left the program on because I was going to come back and play it with the cat some more if she hadn't lost interest. When I came back from the bathroom, I noticed that the cat was playing the game herself so I waited for the abominable snowman to come out and the eat the character at the end to see what the cat would do. As it turned out, my cat had seen me hit whichever F button it was to restart the game, plus she had gathered that you had to move the computer's mouse to get the skier to go down the screen and therefore for the trees to go up the screen so she had been starting the game herself while I was in the bathroom. I watched her do it several times before I decided to give her a treat for being so smart. It sure was surprising and funny!

[@BiggestCorvid]

You hit F to escape the yeti, which I didn't learn until the xkcd comic about it

[@jannikheidemann3805]

Back when computer screens were made out of glass instead of foil you could do that without risking cat claw afflicted damage to your display device.

[@mikeschumacher]

As a San Diegan who rides trains more often than most people down here, I get asked a lot about why this line isn't reopened just in case the Del Mar Bluffs and/or San Clemente segments of the line to LA fall into the water. I may just send everyone to watch this instead.

[@michaelnixon7010]

And a very pleasant Activate Windows to you too!

[@SnausageKing]

I hope you come from this crisis of faith stronger, and realize everything is possible with Train

[@eragonarya225]

Devon I am not very far in but the editing today is very good, kudos

[@Alex-js5lg]

I am *almost* deconditioned from the MW2 hitmarker sound effect. It turns out real life is actually - somehow - *more* traumatic than Xbox Live lobbies circa 2010.

[@mercury4885]

i can't listen to WTYP in the car anymore because devon's editing has become a highlight for me that i can't miss

[@Crazyfrog41]

Same...

[@RooneyMac]

Makes listening to podcast version even more difficult. Now not only do you miss slides, you also miss Devon, Activate Windows, and Pizza Boy

[@kyleissuperdupercool]

Ah yes, I've walked by the first slide many times while playing Fallout New Vegas. I'm not gonna watch any further and just assume it's called The Impossible Railroad on account of giant killer wasps.

[@AbsolXGuardian]

Fucking Cazadores

[@j_murphy-mancini]

as soon as you said "san diego" and "railroad" i prayed that it would be john d. spreckels, and i yelled at the reveal. they named the largest outdoor pipe organ in the world after him (edit) sd is a lousy, but not the worst, place to live, but its a tremendous fun place to visit, they might even have more trolley lines open

[@thelonelyphish]

I gotta say I don't really see many reasons why it's lousy to live in SD, I've lived here my whole life and have always loved it the only things I can think of are how far right east county is (I live in EC and hate the average person out here), the homeless, and how car centric it is.

[@j_murphy-mancini]

@thelonelyphish i found the amount of time i spent in traffic or driving all over to be exhausting after several years, the lack of transit makes the distances you have to travel suck on the other hand, the food is very good

[@thelonelyphish]

@@j_murphy-mancini very valid but when it's the only thing you know you can get a sort of Stockholm syndrome

[@thelonelyphish]

@@j_murphy-mancini on the bright side through at least SD is trying to improve their transit, the new UTC station is really popular. I like using the trolley to go to Padres games, I'd love it if we had a single damn line that ran to the beach though, it'd make weekends so much better.

[@BvG_Venom]

I love a defiant Devon lol. Also the old man Capt. America is 100% Biden

[@scullystie4389]

I was there, Jack! Fighting Hitler!

[@kyleissuperdupercool]

*kneels down to whisper sweet nothings into Bucky's ear*

[@TrashHeapCustodian]

I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who makes that connection lmao

[@William-Morey-Baker]

that was such a good bit... genuinely put a smile on my synical face

[@boydsinclair7606]

I fought this guy, called Red Skull, and that was malarkey I couldn't tolerate.

[@kaasbroodje2490]

I enjoyed "island of Sodor situation". Also thanks Devon for the extra edits

[@mikachu69420]

you know its gonna be a good episode when the bridge in the thumbnail looks straight out of loony toons

[@thelovewizard8954]

That first slide blows my mind. I thought it was just a bit of trash on the side of a hill, but the fact that they're whole box cars is incredible. The sheer scale of that landscape and how it makes them look so small is beautiful.

[@j-bird1778]

Building and maintaining this railroad is like the story of Sisyphus.

[@timrice4913]

"The dirt is bad." Yes. The most efficient way to dig graves in the area uses explosives.

[@nitehawk86]

Theres a fallen boxcar along the white water rafting section of the Youghiogheny river in Ohiopyle State Park, along the section of track that Amtrak's Capitol Limited runs on. It serves as a useful marker to know when the rafting is just about done, as the takeout is right after it.

[@christianweagle6253]

I refuse to believe that those are real names of real places.

[@LeafseasonMagbag]

You should consider doing an episode on the Dreyfus Affair. It contains: The French, The Germans, massive systematic incompetence, false imprisonment, a scullery maid, anti-semitism, military goofiness, and a relatively happy ending. It also has perhaps too much documentation. It’s perfect! (It is about military engineering I swear!)

[@MrJimheeren]

Good one. But there are excellent podcast about the Dreyfus affair from other left leaning podcast out there. I’m pretty sure Lions led by Donkeys has one about it (or hell of a way to die) I’m not sure

[@luxborealis]

You keep requesting this every podcast, it isn’t gonna work.

[@Altoclarinets]

Didn't you say this on the last vid and I made some kind of comment about J'accuse! ?

[@LeafseasonMagbag]

@@luxborealis Please look into the Dreyfus Affair and tell me it doesn't somehow fit this show?

[@lightningwingdragon973]

This is technically a THIRD Tom Scott, because there's also Tom Scott (The Older One) on KZbin, who does videos on the USS Texas

[@Kitsunewill]

One of the things I like most about WTYP is the sheer contempt held for the audience

[@PoolNoodleGundam]

Cultivating an audience of subs, in response to truanon's heroin dom culture, and chapo's volcel audience

[@mercury4885]

same energy as the restaurants that roast you

[@taterthepenguin]

"WE DE-SERVE IT" *clap clap clap-clap-clap*

[@crazylegssw]

His Milkshake brings all the boys (& Alice) to a pause... Damn right, he'll swat at your roars. If you talk shit, he'll bring his paws!

[@aloden500]

31:00 so today we learned Alice likes to get free vacations by negging cities.

[@holo_val]

59:00 "Rainmaker, I require your strongest rains." "You can't handle my strongest rains, San Diego."

[@ExperiMentalDon]

_YOU CAN'T HANDLE MY STRONGEST RAINS. NO ONE CAN. MY STRONGEST RAINS ARE FIT FOR AN OCEAN, LET ALONE SOME LAND_

[@QuickQuips]

Right on cue for Hurricane Hilary to mess up San Diego.

[@johnpchang]

Looking at the storm path, it’s probably going to do some major damage to the bits and pieces of the line that remain. Like, ‘erase from the map’. Those hills don’t do well with ten inches of rain in a short period.

[@EmiEvergiven]

Sending Milkshake and Devon all my love thx

[@RooneyMac]

Edit after 10 mo.s: there's 626 comments. That stitch alien, six legged alien critter. Either nobody else comments and it stays that way, or somebody gotta chime in and change that. Original comment: The ever expanding cast of WTYP with Pizza Boy contributing in this episode Really made it go Off The Rails early on

[@Frommerman]

Now we just need Comrade Activate Windows back.

[@scorinth]

My favorite thing about this podcast is when the presenter responds to a joke with "we'll get to that." This episode wins for getting that, but *in stereo!* 😂

[@regulate.artificer_g23.mdctlsk]

I read "Xitter" as "shitter", because the "x" is sometime used for the "sh" sound.

[@poprox101]

YEEEEESSSSSS I was not expecting this to be worthy enough for the pod but I'm so glad it is.

[@howlingwolven]

I would simply make the railroad stronger and more rigid.

[@beesinpyjamas9617]

you forgot to mention the giant flashing X is adjacent to not just apartments but - an urgent care facility - a disability support group - an elder care facility

[@pBIggZz]

The best X meme I saw was the aerial footage of the big dumb sign at night doing its think, set to the theme of the Garlean Empire (magic techno romans/nazis) from Final Fantasy XIV

[@Akmundra1]

Thanks for the birthday present Alice, Liam, Justin and Devon!

[@squirestew4u]

happy birthday!

[@Akmundra1]

@@squirestew4u Ty

[@thomasgiles2876]

But not Devon, who wrapped and shipped it to you on your birthday.

[@carinafreeman6432]

Thank you Devon for giving the birthday gift too!

[@howlingwolven]

Happy birthday!

[@lizb7271]

I was hoping I would finally hear her introduce herself as November but I was disappointed. (Tangentially related) I've been getting into Kill James Bond recently and really appreciating hearing trans perspectives on movies. I would have got more out of Jennifer's Body the first time I watched it if I had been the right gender at the time.

[@bbqchezit]

As a native San Diegan I'm so chuffed that were getting an entire episode (kinda)

[@Topgun232]

Ohhh actionable threats from Alice! What a great start.

[@darthbob88]

Last time I joined an episode this early, Chernobyl reactor No4 was still standing.

[@seymoarsalvage]

So, we are one step closer to getting a calab with Hyce lol

[@LoPhatKao]

that would be awesome, and my instant favorite episode

[@Hyce777]

Just... tell me when, friends. :)

[@kosmokat111]

@@Hyce777 AYY YO THE PARROT

[@seymoarsalvage]

​@Hyce777 So many disaster stories about the Colorado Narrow gauge as a whole, it'll be hard to pick which one/s to cover 😅

[@cxvelasco1]

I wrote a twenty page paper in my City Planning grad school program about this rail line!! Welcome from San Diego!!

[@apeacebone6499]

Alice's Tom Waits reference is the best thing that has happened to me all week (and it's been a pretty good week)

[@Mickulty]

Timestamps: 0:00:00 Intro 0:03:31 The GD News: Even Justin's Cat Thinks X Is A Bad Name 0:13:51 The GD News: Trust The Process 0:18:32 Background: What Is a Transcontinental Railroad? 0:25:05 Background: Tom Scott, the 1876 Election and Pacific Connections 0:39:38 Background: State of Railroad Engineering in 1906 0:41:54 State of Railroad Engineering on the SD&A in 1906 0:50:25 It's Tough Being a Sugar Baby 0:54:10 She Zimmerman On My Telegram Until San Diego Floods 1:02:37 Terrain: A Real Humdinger 1:08:37 Problems On The Completed SD&A 1:28:16 Safety Third: Tickets Posted Inside Crushing Hazard Looking forward to November/Alice finding that recent Tom Scott (other one) video on tiny electric cars in Switzerland.

[@Dark_LoreVT]

Podcast topic recommendation. The 1959 Knox Mine Disaster. No spoilers . But it does involve shady mine bosses having workers dig a bit to close to the bottom side of a rather large river...

[@SurelyYewJest]

This episode is basically a long teaser trailer for extreme urban exploring. Also, while California may not trouble itself much with Pacific hurricanes, we in Arizona get the rain they send up through Baja and across the northern Sonoran desert.

[@jamespuffer2889]

If only the train was able to accomplish multi-track drifting…

[@RooneyMac]

That was the eschede derailment wasn't it?

[@silaskuemmerle2505]

If you ever collab with Hyce, you should have him do a safety third of one of his own railroad experiences

[@gonzoengineering4894]

Would lose my shit at that collab

[@QuarrelsomeLocalOaf]

4:20 we love Milkshake, don't we folks? 😻💕

[@RooneyMac]

Shit my bad in earlier comments, I thought it was Pizza Boy?

[@thegrimmarcher202]

"I got into a fight with my brain and lost" Well *that* landed to close to home.

[@toddabowden]

Thanks! You have made my night one of the best nights ever, just by releasing another awesome podcast. Also, I love trains and always will. Though more of Seaboard System / Chessie / SCL /ACL fallen flags fan the most! I'm glad you all are so educated on trains as well, you've taught me a lot I never would have known. Thanks again!

[@RooneyMac]

I named one of my cats Chessie. He's asleep behind me rn, and so is Toonces. It's nice to see them peacefully snoozing after their bouts during the day, the fight of Train Good Car Bad

[@shvndrgn]

I'm glad bonus guest Activate Windows is back again.

[@piccalillipit9211]

*WHEN DOING THE PARIDAKAR* rally we accidentally entered Algeria - which was a big NO-NO - very strict entry requirements and absolutely no boarder fence or anything

[@percy445]

“my pronouns are they/them now because i got into a fight with my brain and lost” is the eternal mood

[@tig968]

The Tom Scott bit at 25:16 broke me 😂😂

[@PFMediaServices]

They've mentioned the name in a previous episode but don't recall if they made this same reference - certainly not visually like this!

[@DAFLIDMAN]

Aww man I haven't got to that bit yet, I really hope they like Tom Scott I like his videos

[@DAFLIDMAN]

Ah now I see the bit 😅

[@JuneNafziger]

@@PFMediaServicesthere was a joke of “Tom Scott, of KZbin fame,…” in penn central part 1 I think

[@Eric_Hunt194]

The Tom Waits bit earlier in the gosh darn news broke me

[@SurelyYewJest]

46:47 There's a holding tank (probably water for irrigation or something) at the east end of El Centro that has "Sea Level" and a line painted halfway up the side. The tank is about where the "E" in El Centro is in the image.

[@jesusestrada5543]

How did I manage to watch this 51 seconds after it got posted. Perfect timing.

[@-Trinite-]

San Diego has one of the few extant goth scenes in America. Some of the same clubs have been running since the 90s. Plus, great hiking, beaches, architecture and the zoos are 1st rate. Really a fantastic town. Visit it.

[@jeffpicklo525]

Much needed episode after our OSHA meeting today and thanks Alice for the Tom Waits drop.

[@PuncakeLena]

Oh boy, I never noticed the captioner introducing herself up until now. This is nice

[@charleslecki3609]

Impossible you say, hard to believe, perhaps out of the range of possibilities

[@dantheginga]

Holy shit Wings & Strings!!! Love their contributions to the Brocoaster series, was stunned by the crossover!

[@whoever6458]

I grew up rolling my Rs, not because I grew up speaking Spanish (it was my 3rd language), but I grew up making that purring meow sound that cats make at my cats. lol

[@taterthepenguin]

Not even to the News segment yet and y'all are already cracking my shit up

[@rocketsfall]

Thank you for reading my story, now maybe my healing can begin and I don't have to freeze and stare into the middle distance every time I remember it. I 1000% did the slasher movie thing. I'm now doing asphalt testing in various labs where all I have to worry about is silicosis and any further idiocy will only result in minor burns. Still love the show and yall and still hope you have a good summer

[@charlesinsandiego2537]

Yay! Some local content for me! Our local model railroad has a gorgeous model of the Goat Canyon trestle.

[@JohnJohnson-vq7ze]

EH Harriman was also the guy in the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid who hires a team of cowboys to hunt the protagonists after they rob him. Maybe that's what Liam was thinking of. "I work for Mr. E.H. Harriman of the Union Pacific railroad!"

[@Thurzatuhl]

53:00 It's quiet, it's smooth, and an altogether delightful experience

[@splooie02]

Alice is gunning for the Interior Ministry position and she has my vote.

[@KyllanMan]

I have loved this podcast since episode 3 when i first found y'all, and i must say Devon is one of the most fun additions to the show. Unbelievably entertaining! Can't wait for more

[@josephglatz25]

The best laughs on WTYP come when somebody tries to build a railroad through a really stupid place.

[@QuatrinaVR]

0:21:45 That’s exactly what happened to my little town in Louisiana. The original town sat where the cemetery is still today with the old church house, but the railroad ran several miles in the other direction. So it’s ‘Old Town’ and ‘Town’ with the railroad tracks replaced by ‘Rails to Trails’ nowadays.

[@brettmcknight4677]

OMG Tom Waits reference @ 8:26 thank you Alice!

[@whatsoperadoc7050]

Next level editing.

[@sakurakiyori]

Devon is, as ever, hilarious !

[@Elios0000]

you guys need to get Hyce on talk about Narrow Gauge namely the Uintah Railway

[@Trendyflute]

The other day my mom referenced the upcoming Zuck/Musk smooth-brain contest as a "fight to the death" and I was like _oh god please let it be an actual fight to the death that would be amazing._ Celebrity Deathmatch needs to come back but it needs to be Billionaire Deathmatch; it would be so cathartic to see Charles Koch beat Charles Munger to death with a folding chair only to be splattered by Bill Gates on a suicidal high dive. Popcorn stuff.

[@Cyberleader135]

This episode made my day while I’m in the hospital due to work related-incidents, I love this podcast.

[@MrJohndoakes]

42:45 An S.A. de C.V. "(Sociedad Anonima de Capital Variable") is a stock corporation, a very common structure of large business in Mexico. Corona (the beer maker) is a S.A. de C.V., for example.

[@Ryu_Himora]

As a native San diegan, I can tell you the truth about our weather is that it is frustratingly stable. Whatever weather is going on now will continue to be that way for the foreseeable future. Right now, random light showers that have been going on for almost a week. Next up, the sun will boil everyone alive until the end of October. Sometimes we'll have weird heavy cloud cover for days at a time. It's never predictable and at the same time, constant.

[@adamknott7830]

You always do great work no matter the length but where are my 3 hour long episodes?

[@mrpieceofwork]

shhhh... Devon might hear you. ;)

[@adamknott7830]

@@mrpieceofwork oh yeah...Devon! Hey Devon! Make it longer!

[@CatherineA133]

I hope the Chernobyl episode will include a theoretical nuclear physicist so events can be described on the zeptosecond scale. The podcast that will outlive all of us. With slides.

[@adamknott7830]

@@CatherineA133 the podcast i listen to while dying in 50 years, with slides

[@hitchythe1]

8:25 I love nobody recognising and/or acknowledging Alice's Tom Waits reference

[@briandemille2878]

FINALLY, Anoter addiction to my playlist Wtyp but they only talk about trains

[@oinksnork]

The only way twitter could do the flashbanging thing on a comparable scale is making the Twitter app change from dark mode to light mode and back erratically

[@oinksnork]

I read this back just yet and, fucking banger if I'm honest

[@SethPowell7]

I miss this podcast being itself a disaster. That was the most endearing part and what made it compatible with my ADHD-addled brain. Seems like all of that gets edited out now.

[@OutbackCatgirl]

lol lmao krill issue (i have the adhd too it's still a disaster i like it)

[@GONEmypurpleflapjack]

it's an organized distaster and I enjoy it tbh

[@tarasaurus98]

The cats are certainly stepping up to do their part

[@japanamericacar427]

Finally a local disaster, the history of the san diego arizona rr is incredible

[@JustDiptych]

Is it hard, scheduling the Safety Thirds so that the ones that refer to a guest always appear in episodes without guests, and vice versa?

[@lightningwingdragon973]

I just visited San Diego, it was nice. Got to see the USS Midway

[@TimperialBroadcastingAgency]

San Diego has an aircraft carrier that's a naval aviation museum! You'd like that, November!

[@el1751]

LATE NIGHT WTYP ! WOOP WOOP ! THANK YOU TEAM (ESP DEVON HI)

[@lukeman9851]

I'm pretty sure what I learned is that the brighter timeline isn't stopping this railroad, but stopping Tom Scott from pushing the 1877 Compromise and instead telling Sherman it was time for round two.

[@DeadCanuck]

I’n so glad Devon is basically the 4th member. Amazing editing😂