Well There's Your Problem | Episode 162: The Olympics, Part 2

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[@a.gravemistake3061]

Roz: "For years, I was screamed at by a harsh, Eastern European woman who was formerly an Olympic level athlete. She left my body bruised, my legs sore, my muscles limp." November: "IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME"

[@alexbiggs1046]

When is it my turn to be happy?

[@Derkiboi]

literally 1984

[@mikehjt]

The East Block boycott of the 1984 Olympics was great for myself and my siblings. Before the boycot was announced, my Mom had promised she'd make a batch of chocolate fudge for every gold medal Canada won. Canada'd been woeful at the 76 games, getting one silver. My Mom's fudge was not woeful. Took her ages stirring it and she rarely make it except for bake sales at school. We kids hated that because there was always a rule that you couldn't buy any of the stuff you brought in until everyone else in school had had a shot at. My Mom's fudge was great and always sold before 2 classes had had a shot at it and we never got any. When the east bloc didn't show up for LA84, Canada got the biggest haul of gold medals we ever had. We kids were in heaven. But the fudge-making was so tiring for my Mom it got doled out one batch a month. It was great. She made the best fudge I've ever had and nothing else was close, so that boycott was an ill wind the blew my sister, brothers and I a great good.

[@SHRUGGiExyz]

Incredibly good story, shout out to your mom, who btw should get the first Canadian Gold Medal in Olympic Fudge Stirring o7

[@isprobablyjobhunting]

That is delightful.

[@loganl3746]

Would you be willing/able to share her recipe? Or is that a close guarded family secret?

[@jazzf8246]

I think the THIS EPISODE WAS RECORDED ON [DATE] during the God Damn News should really just be always on screen at this point

[@LifesNeverHumDrum]

Permanent screen burn, like the new P.O. Box address

[@devon1854]

Yeah im 100% doing that shit. They JUST recorded an oops all news and a ton more news has ALREADY HAPPENED SINCE

[@mixmastermind]

There Are Too Many Things Happening

[@GabrielA-iy4kc]

Just a note on the Australian who was on the podium with John Carlos and Tommie Smith. His treatment and the intent behind it remains a controversial matter in Australian Olympic history. He was not sent to the next Olympics, and the AOC continues to insist it was not because of any form of retribution. The Australian parliament saw it differently, and in recent years voted to provide an official apology. When he died in 2006, both Carlos and Smith came to Australia and were pallbearers at his funeral. They seemed to maintain a strong friendship and they appreciated his support. He came from a suburb called Coburg in Melbourne, where I was in foster care for a while and he was still remembered at the local school and in the community.

[@shadowmaster1313]

Norman was still definitely fast enough to get picked at the next Olympics, he was probaby Australia's best track star in that event for years after. He was also not invited to be involved in the 2000 Olympics at all, because the AOC totally didn't have it out against him

[@GabrielA-iy4kc]

@@shadowmaster1313 John Coates was a complete pissmidget

[@Andrew-g6q3e]

Yeah, there's a good documentary about Peter Norman called Salute (2008); he died in 2006 but they have a ton of interview footage from him. In 2000 he, as a medalist for Australia, in Australia, was a guest of the American track delegation. Even though Australia denied any mistreatment until after he had died, the black American athletes remembered him for his solidarity with their struggle. I used to live near San Jose State where they installed a very large statue of the podium. Norman asked they not include him, saying the empty podium allows the viewer to imagine taking a stand against racism. He's neat, the documentary is really good.

[@zac9399]

Me showing up 36 seconds after the episode uploads is Hog Science and I am here for the slop let's go

[@GilTheDragon]

The hog science is agronomy The bird science is otorhinolaryngology Ornithology is the nose science

[@scotchbingeington6761]

Mr Spock! Meet me on the meat deck, prepare for slurs and actionable threats in 5

[@dftp]

​@@scotchbingeington6761Assemble the MEAT DECK CREW

[@charlesklass4209]

Precision Scheduled Slop

[@kevinlardi5961]

She blinded me with hog science.

[@effluviah7544]

Had a little suicidal vibe yesterday, survived, and made it to see another podcast. Thanks for being the dangling carrot helping to encourage me to keep going. Love y'all, love everyone listening/watching too. If anyone else is also going through a hard time, I feel you, I love you.

[@merrydaye4763]

Guarantee the world is better with you in it!

[@GilTheDragon]

Commiseration about the bad brain. Oh to be an american politician; a brain perfectly balanced in 0s.

[@LifesNeverHumDrum]

Hell yeah, glad you’re here ❤

[@aadst1]

I hear ya, hang in there! If you haven't yet, get diagnosed, get medicated, and quit rawdogging life; JFC, I wish I did it earlier, but I've been there, sister/nonbinary sibling/brother. Hang in there! Or better yet, find something you really enjoy, center that, and go get some of those sweet, sweet endorphines.

[@BiggestCorvid]

Proud of you. This show also helped me through of one of my absolute lowest phases. Listening to helped me decide to get treatment and keep it up. I wish you the best on your continuing journey. Alone we are weak but by sharing we get the perspective to help us get better. Thanks for sharing.

[@lyyte-s4y]

1:29:50 There is a South Korean documentary called Sanggyedong Olympic, which portrays Korean government’s effort to evict poor people of Seoul prior to 1988 summer olympics and the struggles of people against it from the displaced residents’ perspective.

[@JPR3D]

My favorite podcast, even though I only follow a handful. My favorite gag by far is Justin taking every possible opportunity to remind us that the nuke in his basement is not his.

[@TrashHeapCustodian]

It is an A+ bit, I love it

[@WaterMan416]

This and what a hell of a way to die arw the only podcasts I don't put on the back burner for a week or so when life gets too busy. I follow way too many. And I put current ones on hold when I find a knew one and listen to the back catalog.

[@loadeddice4696]

@@WaterMan416 I feel that. One of these days I'll get caught up with "last podcast on the left" but oh boy it ain't gonna be any time soon.

[@_allegra]

I'm fond of "...we'll get to that"

[@LordAJ12345]

that bit was hibernating for quite a while but now it’s back in full force and I couldn’t be happier

[@Robert0Pirie]

I work for an NBC TV station, the IOC and NBC are absolute draconian when it comes to branding, sponsorships... local stations have so many hoops to jump through it should be considered a sport as well. We have a lawyer on speed dial just in case we accidentally fuck it up.

[@steemlenn8797]

Oh yes. If (sorry for the word) "Copyright Protection Assholery" was olypic, the IOC would win gold, Denuvo silver and the Sony Rootkit bronze.

[@pixelflowx]

im so excited for Olympics part 3's God Damn News where it's just two minutes of Justin and Liam just screaming and laughing about Biden stepping down

[@ericfischer8295]

ALSO newest horrible thing we can blame on corruption in the IOC? Killing the legendary "Mario and Sonic at the Olympics" games because they demanded Nintendo add NFT's

[@BiggestCorvid]

Jfc is that for real? I'm starting to suspect the US boycotted the Moscow Olympics simply because Coca Cola couldn't advertise as much as they'd like

[@ericfischer8295]

@@BiggestCorvid it is, sadly, 100% real, The IOC couldn't even say WHAT they wanted the NFT's to do, or what they would be, apparently they just told Nintendo to "make it happen" and Nintendo was like "Fck you bitches"

[@shadowmaster1313]

No they didn't ask Nintendo to do NFTs they decided they could make better games and do NFTs if they took the lisence away

[@franslair2199]

Nintendo would one hundred percent add NFTs, literally immediately.

[@musclecat1005]

​@@BiggestCorvidas we know, the Soviet Union was a big fan of Pepsi

[@dmrr7739]

My favorite misuse of the Olympic rings is in _On Her Majesty’s Secret Service._ An assault group in Olympic jump suits battle on a mountain top against the Red Cross.

[@Eloraurora]

Wait, did they not mention that in the KJB episode, or has it just been too long since I listened to it?

[@JulianSildenLanglo]

Wouldn't that violate the Geneva Conventions?

[@smatthewson2613]

@@JulianSildenLanglo It's set in Switzerland so I guess they get a pass?

[@BiggestCorvid]

About Elizabeth Swaney, that skier for Hungary: "In order to qualify for the Olympics, athletes needed to place in the top 30 at either a FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup event or FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships, and score a minimum of 50.00 FIS points. Swaney achieved this by attending competitions with fewer than thirty participants, with one event in China having fifteen (in which she placed thirteenth). Thirteen of her top 30 finishes were a result of her showing up, not falling, and recording a score."

[@-STONECYPHER-]

Lmao at the outage map. "Damage report!" "Smoke in the cockpit, the pilot seat doesn't go up and down anymore and the damage report machine has exploded"

[@UNC_Samurai]

As someone who played a LOT of Legend of the Five Rings in the 90s and early 2000s, the IOC & USOC threatened to sue Wizards of the Coast over the "multiple interlocking rings" and WotC had to change the backs of the cards. It's amazing how shitty of an organization you have to be to make Hasbro/WotC look like the good guys.

[@nathaniellindner313]

WoTC coulda sent the Pinkertons after actual criminals for once

[@CarlVolt]

​@nathaniellindner313 the IOC would have responded with the Wehrmacht

[@AlRoderick]

They made a statue of that black power salute moment at San Jose University where Smith and Carlos went, and they asked Peter Norman (the white Australian in second place) if he wanted to be depicted, but he said they should leave second place empty so people could pose on the podium with Smith and Carlos.

[@shadowmaster1313]

Yeah he was a good guy, shame they never let him live it down. Apparently there's an effort to make a statue of him in his home state, which is a bummer because he always said (rightly so) that Carlos and Smith were the important ones in that moment

[@SHRUGGiExyz]

That's actually really clever, and super kind of him, too!

[@TheGolux]

Yous guys picked a HELL of a three week period to post a three-part special that you recorded at the beginning of that period.

[@aadst1]

"He didn't get a cool eye patch..." Oh. Oh no. It was much stupider 😂

[@Transit_Biker]

EarPad.

[@DrKlausTrophobie]

@@Transit_Biker And how long did he wear that band aid? 3 days? 🤡

[@polarknight5376]

In some other close by timeline, the glass hit his eye instead of his ear, and Donnie got an eyepatch to complete the 007 villain look. A slightly better timeline, I think.

[@ScarceCastle2]

Houstonian here - saw a recent headline that the outage map our wonderful electric utility provider was updating was in fact *hand-drawn*. They're also asking for billions of dollars for repairs and rebuilding, which is gonna come in the form of rate hikes. Lovely.

[@steemlenn8797]

Hand drawn? How do you even do that?

[@bx0fshrp0bjx]

Introducing my new engineering podcast Hey Here’s Your Issue. It’s legally distinct.

[@realcanadian67]

Hey, Heres An Issue. The "Your" is too similar.

[@theflyingspaget]

​@@realcanadian67"hey, here's someone's issue"

[@gothdeer]

November not having a reference point for Alice's Resturant is so precious

[@unityostara6380]

Kabelsalat: the only salad that prepares itself!

[@steemlenn8797]

And it has a long shelf live. Both on and under the shelf.

[@xmlthegreat]

Economics student here: *ECONOMICS IS NOT A SCIENCE*

[@capsjukebox]

It seems to be becoming more a Psychiatry-with-Math discipline

[@xmlthegreat]

@@capsjukebox *pointing a revolver at you* Always has been

[@JoshSweetvale]

​@@capsjukeboxIf you take out the psychiatry, you get talk of 'rational markets' If you take out the math, you get people who invest in tech startups.

[@steemlenn8797]

At least you learned one thing there that everybody knows who never studied it.

[@MatecaCorp]

The only thing that LA 28 brings to mind is how astronomically stupid they were to not extend Metrolink to LAX when they had the chance

[@IndustrialParrot2816]

Yep

[@Gunni1972]

Trump will probably hire Elon Musks Boring company to complete that... somewhen in 3028 LOL

[@paulnrswain]

At the time of the 2012 London Olympics I was working for a cycling charity in London and the Olympics were making the same claim as the guest that these lanes would encourage cycling and they could be converted into bus lanes after the games. However I did an FOI request asking how many of the lanes were going to be on the left side or the right side and I think 95% of the lanes were on the right side, making them not that usable for cyclists or convertible to bus lanes. Needless to say they were all taken out after the games and none got converted into bus or cycle lanes, all went back to traffic lanes.

[@thefareplayer2254]

If it’s an episode where November tells a bunch of classic Soviet jokes, it’s a great episode!

[@smatthewson2613]

Cat-sitting at a freaking amazing house. Recently had an awesome dinner, indulged in some of the tastier elements of my fresh presription and just finished the washing up to return to the computer to find two hours of WTYP. Even if the fash attack my club tomorrow night I'll remember this week fondly.

[@ericfischer8295]

"Dear Nova, are you still making Penn, Secret Service Badges?" :3c

[@charlesparr1611]

Robbing banks is literally what you go to business school to learn how to do. The whole idea of business is to take money from a bank and get to appropriate the surplus value obtained by using that money for yourself rather than letting the actual owners (ie society as a whole) of the resources also claim the benefits. Advanced bankrobbing is when you not only pry the money away from society, make profits, keep the profits AND the seed capital. For that one, just look at the recent history of the American automobile industry, the mortgage business, and most of the rest of business, actually.

[@RooneyMac]

Back in the 07-08 school year, I got crammed into business classes for the last semester. I told the faculty including the principal this would not work, pointing to what was already going on at the time and that I could tell them why in *one* word: ENRON

[@sideways5153]

Tech startup business is the go-to right now, actually. Businesses like Uber, Netflix, and Amazon that undercut normal businesses, run at a loss, kill the industry, then try to monopolize the remnants. Finance jerks were bad enough when American Psycho was parodying their subculture, and in the decades since things have only gotten worse

[@AGeekTragedy]

Nova "Comecon Olympics". My brain "ComicCon Olympics"

[@sailrdavej8336]

Ex Texan here - can confirm H.E.B. is chain grocery business done right. But, in no way is that a good enough reason to live in that benighted state.

[@a.gravemistake3061]

I am posting the Disco Elysium screenshots, I am pointing at the big 'you do not have a cop-o-type sign'

[@KaneYork]

Secret Service new hire shows up, "you didn't REALLY mean that you were going to kill the president, right?" Sometimes they have to try multiple times to get the person to say no they weren't

[@oohhboy-funhouse]

"Marksmanship is Important". I died right there.

[@CopenhagenRayne]

always have to be impressed that WTYP turns podcast recording into a strange form for endurance race quote " I just saw the number of slides left" team in endurance race with all of them pulling each other through it

[@cfredrics]

1:16:49 Mme X just caused me to shout "YOU JUST GOT CEAUŞESCU'D". I'm glad I live alone.

[@newsjunkie7135]

Somehow listening to WTYP at 2 pm feels like drinking at 2 pm...

[@Hevlikn]

Bliss?

[@JardinAtomico]

Roz imitating the cadence of "Alice's Restaurant" during Safety Third is just fucking *chef's kiss*

[@_oe_o_e_]

Mario and Sonic and Well There’s Your Problem at the Olympics 2024

[@starfinney6308]

Having played Mario & Sonic @ da Olympic games are my only interaction with the Olympics ever

[@DaveUnknown]

15:55 I did not expect an old GameGrump reference in a WTYP podcast

[@wdavem]

When I was a kid I saw the torch runner for the "84 olympics and I saw an olympic cop rip all the 35mm film out of people's cameras to expose and ruin it. The flame wasn't burning very well at all. And I heard about a few things I just can't say!

[@krandlez]

1:05:55 the person who paid their way into the olympics was Vanessa Mae, the British-Singaporean violinist competing for Thailand in ski slalom. Obviously, Thailand is not a regular in the winter olympics having brought two athletes to the 2014 Sochi games

[@carsonryan4465]

Hey November, could you toss that reading list about the talk to end criminology? I'd love to read through that

[@austoful]

I am a history Grad, I put forward History as "The untrusting science"

[@capsjukebox]

As a fellow History graduate I refer to it as the ALL Science bc all other sciences happen within it

[@TempestDra]

Oh thank god, I've been sitting here contemplating my mortality and now I have something much better to do with the next two hours!

[@AaronMk91]

If any of you guys get doorknocked for discussing the assassination attempt mid-recording any episode, you should invite the investigators to sit as a guest to talk about whatever

[@K-o-R]

I was going to see Queen at the O2 ( _the_ Queen, not... the Queen) and we were staying near the Excel centre. As it happens, that day there was a total tube strike and the cable car was the _only_ feasible way to get to the event.

[@dantem4119]

If people thought the la Olympics would be a transportation nightmare then wtf is Salt Lake City going to do.

[@LifesNeverHumDrum]

HA HA oh god getting anywhere in Salt Lake while an Olympics is going on? Good luck, stay home 😂

[@IndustrialParrot2816]

The Rio Grande plan

[@coliimusic]

I caught that Grumps Reference, Devon "And then I had a popsicle, and then I fired, and I missed"😂😂

[@SamuraiMujuru]

"Feral goose" seems like a redundant statement. 🤔

[@StarlightSocialist]

Peace was never an option.

[@Altoclarinets]

Feral = animal from a previously domesticated population that has returned to a wild state with no human husbandry. There are wild, migratory goose populations that have never been domesticated, and feral ones descended from domestic geese dumped at whatever lake

[@garrettbean9624]

​@@Altoclarinets pretty bold claim that any goose has ever been truly domesticated

[@lewisshaw6071]

congrats to November Kelly for inventing the new exciting sport European Double Superposition Feetballs

[@SonOfAGunYYH]

1:47:05 both of the gloves belonged to the Australian, Peter Norman, actually! He was approached by Carlos and Smith about joining in, and being quite a religious fellow (who actually believes his religion, in a novel twist!) was eager to help out, but said that it'd be disrespectful for him as a white guy to take any amount of the moment away from Smith and Carlos. So, instead, he offered them his gloves in exchange for the badge he's wearing, and stood by in solidarity! unfortunately he passed away pretty young, his career shattered because, like "Israel", Australia as a white settler colony was not happy that 'ONE OF THEIR OWN' helped The Coloureds, so he was black-listed everywhere in the field he loved and fell to alcoholism. Smith and Carlos remembered him fondly and honored him at his funeral as an ally.

[@toppersundquist]

Civil Engineering, the stable science.

[@BiggestCorvid]

I would think odlf Civil Engineering as the Rigid Science, equinology is the stable science 🐎

[@TheLolzKnight]

@@BiggestCorvid DAMMIT I WAS GOING TO MAKE THAT JOKE. Well played my fine Corvid, well played

[@Gunni1972]

Social engineering: The pursuit of madness in the name of "Normality".

[@KirillTheBeast]

@@BiggestCorvid Obligatory "You beat me to that joke" comment. Hat = tipped

[@BiggestCorvid]

@KirillTheBeast you know ring that bell for notifications, yo

[@allmannrcs]

Kabelsalat mentioned 🗣

[@dominicmcnamee7216]

November hitting me right in the childhood around 29 mins in. I was devastated when Hypnodisk got knocked out by the flippy thing.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Impressing Jodie Foster was an impure motivation but the act of trying to whack Reagon was in itself karmically pure meaning it evened out so he eventually got a gig as a folk singer as a cosmic consolation.

[@theryanbard]

Podcasting is the posting science

[@tee_es_bee]

1:12:40 Correction: The Miracle on Ice was a medal round round-robin win. While it contributed to the US winning gold, they still had a match after this that they needed to win to secure it. Yeah, there is a reason round-robin is not done for the top places anymore.

[@zacharydenboer5450]

Speaking of peacocks, our university just has them roaming around and I have had an exam where they were screaming at each other outside

[@redcoconutcurry359]

how very Flannery O’Connor

[@carlfishy]

Yeah we had peacocks outside the English department at the University of Western Australia. The staff hated them.

[@worawatli8952]

Imagine LA28 holding opening ceremony in Los Angeles River.

[@josejaimes-ramos1546]

The moment they hit the river they combust into a fireball.

[@worawatli8952]

@@josejaimes-ramos1546 A mock police chase as a show would be fun. rofl

[@dominiccasts]

1:39:45 “An elevator that only goes up and an elevator that only goes down”, also known as a Paternoster. And there’s another Tom Scott archive visit

[@MrJohndoakes]

Also a tie-in to the Patrick McGoohan show "The Prisoner" (1967-68), which had one in an episode.

[@blakebrooks4314]

My tism thanks you

[@DougKingJax]

The text for the first slide in the goddamn news made me laugh so hard I started coughing.

[@LifesNeverHumDrum]

It was timed perfectly with me getting off my bus, so I was able to keep my hacking wheezing cough-laugh to myself

[@DougKingJax]

@@LifesNeverHumDrum thankfully I am at home.

[@KirillTheBeast]

For me, it just reinforced my suspicion about hilarious shit happening whenever I'm drinking something, triggering a spit-take. It was just sparkling this time, so no sticky mess.

[@simonmartin9931]

Hold on, the penny's dropped. Trump was shot at in Pennsylvania. So isn't that a failure of the Pennsylvania Secret Service (as showcased in the bonus Liam's Van episode)? I know that membership IDs were available from your good selves but I never applied for one. That said, please could you send me one, so I can send it back to yourselves along with the standard issue monster energy drink and snap brim cap, in disgust at the failure of Liam's organ in guarding the convicted felon Mr Trump?

[@ikes9711]

That's the US curling team based out of Duluth MN, comprised of just normal dudes primarily from Minnesota and Wisconsin

[@spamviking]

On the subject of mascots, one of my fave things from the 2000 Sydney games the unofficial mascot that was more popular than the 3 official ones; Fatso the Fat Arsed Wombat. Conceived by an Australian comedy duo, Roy & HG, as a protest to the commercialisation of the Olympics, he was a one of two custom made stuffed wombat plushies with a big fat arse. They'd take him around venues, Aussie athletes would stand on podiums with him, and the AOC & IOC HATED him. The threat of bans only made him more popular with the Aussies, so much so that they eventually relented. He actually made it onto official postage stamps. There was never any official merch but shitloads of bootlegs which, given the whole point of Fatso, was both tolerated and encouraged. They even built a statue to commemorate him years later, which, in typical Australian fashion, was stolen.

[@outistynnanyt5153]

Plainly Difficult is actually quite good!!! Y'all's level of jank, but visual

[@otdewiljes]

Shoutout to everyone's favourite science teacher, Devon

[@bx0fshrp0bjx]

I did not expect a wild Arlo Guthrie to appear. I grew up near the historic garbage trail.

[@omega52390]

Saw the album cover and immediately in my head: oh boy an illegal dumping story

[@samgoodwin3717]

My first ever KZbin comment to say that as a PA in Atlanta, in this exact safety third situation, I chose Dekalb farmer’s market at the end of of a 26 hour day. Dreaming of the day when you could tell the producer “my union rep says it goes in the backseat of your fucking car.”

[@tomtrask_YT]

Last time I was downtown, San Jose still has a mural commemorating Tommie Smith and John Carlos. Sometimes this city does make me proud.

[@russianbear0027]

1:07:46 i dunno how the general public felt in the soviet union, but my parents circle were very upset that so much money was spent on the olympics instead of fixing problems. There was also a wave of arrests in the human rights orgs around that time to make it harder to get international attention.

[@KazyEXE]

38 minutes until they get to the topic, we're back baybee

[@TalkingSoup]

for the record, plainly difficult is a pretty damn good channel. he does good research

[@SamMcDonald83]

Never have I anticipated a Goddam News segment more...

[@LoPhatKao]

dropped everything to listen pity about that vase....

[@MrTrainman96]

I can't believe this came out right as Prime is in hot legal trouble for getting loose with Olympic trademarks

[@TheRealE.B.]

Since Criminology is the Cop Science, I assume it's one of those majors where even a potted plant could get straight As.

[@luswirbs]

only if the plants racist

[@evanranshaw4659]

Roz! It's been Roz making the grunting breathing noises this whole time! Liam was offline and I heard it!

[@jorgemontero6384]

Stadiums are easy to understand: Every single one of them is urban blight. Even when they are active stadiums, they are just empty most days. And it's not that they are empty: They reshape infrastructure all around them for said game day. It's even worse in America, where the extra infra is space for cars that won't be there most of the time. So you either make game day a nightmare, or you overbuild infra, which makes roads too fast, leading to more crashes and wastes space. It's a little less bad when its a purely urban stadium, and the only extra infra cost is underground.... but it's still not good. When the stadium is used very little? They might as well dug a giant hole in the ground, as it'd be less bad

[@brianhoover1643]

Dale Earnhartopolis, in a more perfect world

[@aft3rbrn3r]

I live in a town with both an olympics and paralympics tradition. We'd agree with you on combining the events, Madam.

[@Transit_Biker]

I enjoy having several presentation styles on engineering disasters etc.

[@LifesNeverHumDrum]

WOO I am rolling around like a little hog in mud

[@soullesspenguin]

aww November hasn't heard Arlo Guthrie

[@johnher4946]

We do have In-N-Out here in Houston, barely. It'll take another decade or two to get full coverage in Texas but eventually it'll be able to hold its own against Whataburger. I kinda feel that In-N-Out just feels a little fresher and less grody, but my go-to burgers here are gonna be Loaded Burger and JLB Eatery. I'm more of an Asian food guy myself, so I prefer going to Chinatown when I've got the time. Also, highly refined peanut oil is generally safe for allergic people, but unfortunately Five Guys is full of bags of roast peanuts as well. If the allergy isn't serious a to-go order is probably safe but I wouldn't risk it.

[@johnher4946]

I studied Chemical Engineering and am now atoning by studying for a doctorate in Bioengineering. I am atoning for my sins (sorry for Drake's well btw).

[@franslair2199]

1:47:00 the Australian guy was in full support of them, decided to not do the gesture because it would be inappropriate. He was expelled from professional sports in punishment and had to make ends meet as like a middle school gym teacher

[@dotv2359]

I misread the guest name as Malcolm X and said "damn; that's a big get for them."

[@sparkpenguin]

HOT RUNNINGS edit* madame X is describing a very common thing in the south if you live near an old fancy/heritage area. in pelican town and scottish town and scientology town we have tons of peacocks, they are mean, they are fancy roosters/turkeys, they attack your car after you make a run for it and lock yourself inside, they do shit everywhere, and they call loudly into the night. coyotes do nothing. i will supplement madame X's peacock call with the MAY*YOOOOOOOOOO*

[@thomaspalazzolo5902]

My favorite mascots were the American "Izzy" (name origin: So... what is he? Izzy.) and the Chinese team of mascots that were just funtimes for furryfolk.

[@bravocharlie68]

Speaking as someone with personal familiarity with power distribution, refineries and similar facilities are on semi-isolated grids and distribution networks. It gets uglier when they are prioritized using private contractors to bring their own lines back online days to weeks ahead as paying customers. (Also notably they own all their infrastructure one it passes fence-line.) For the simple reason of size, demand, and value as a single customer, a refinery will get their power back fast before residential and other commercial customers.

[@robertbensch7748]

I´ve had my Kabelsalat already, and I´m still hungry.

[@fslknsadglkdahawerykljwa3aw643]

I like that things are moving so fast that I've already forgotten half of the "news"

[@norkshorkson8930]

Yall make an afternoon so much better

[@FYIiSuk]

Fun fact about Olympians being dentists is one of the hockey players from the miracle on ice team was my mom's dentist in rural Minnesota in the 90s.

[@rawbebaba]

Bro, so much is happening right now. I forgot part 1 existed, I forgot the Olympics are happening, lol.

[@LifesNeverHumDrum]

I literally saw it on tv the other day and thought “what? That’s not real, that’s just a thing WTYP talked about”

[@RhythmsCompany.2]

Gosh, yeah. I feel so defeated and so so bad about everything in my country, constantly watching news, heartbroken because I'm not helping my brothers because I just can't, seeing how the world views us and just go 'Wild, but they need to do that themselves'... I feel abandoned, I feel unable. And then there's The Olympics and WTYP. I feel the right to vent because, well, there's my problem.

[@guilleroji]

1:40:21 You don't even get to see Messi play, because Messi is injured and is older than 23.

[@omega52390]

I feel like there was a lack of appreciation for Justin doing to Alice's restaurant cadence for the entire safety third. It's also clear November had never heard the song before

[@user-mj2ol6kv8y]

Like a minute in and November you forgot philosophy, the gay science!

[@GabrielA-iy4kc]

your content continues to be freaking amazing. thanks for this and the mystery guest rocks.