Well There's Your Problem | Episode 53: New London, Texas School Explosion

of all the horrible things which have happened in the american school system, this is one of them
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[@donnawaal3704]

Dam you guys ramble about bull shit instead of getting on with the story witch is to bad I wanted to listen to the. Story about the the school in TX but know you want talk about other bull shit so I a.m. unsubscribing from your Channel

[@welltheresyourproblempodca1465]

damn almost 9 months until a pinable comment, that's a record

[@tybushnell9819]

@@welltheresyourproblempodca1465 It’s getting rarer and rarer it seems and the pinnacle accounts are half the fun.

[@xmlthegreat]

I can genuinely not tell if this is a troll account or not...

[@donnawaal3704]

If you are talking about my account. It is not no troll account. I dont so that shit . fuck I hardly on social media. Yes I have a FB page but I have just to play the games on there thats it. And talk to a couple of people. I am a loner I stay by self . so no this not a troll acount

[@ScotSteam47]

@@donnawaal3704 , think that's what a troll would reply with?

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

eighty minutes? what is this, an episode for ants?

[@Meatloaf_TV]

lol

[@ThomasAllen90]

It needs to be at least three times the size!

[@omni774]

the Hindenburg episode was rock bottom so i view this as a huge improvement

[@shadoeboi212]

@@omni774 your wrong and your opinion is wrong

[@oscarsusan3834]

Is this guy gonna murder me?Thank god 9 out of 10 times......

[@Machouseproductions]

Learning that Roz is only 27 was such a slap in the face. Just based on his voice and mannerisms I had him pegged as some middle aged industry expert who's getting too old for this shit.

[@Mradevans]

I get the feeling that he's been 45-49 since he was 10 years old and will continue to be so for about another 60 years

[@alfalafelstine1536]

He's never come across as that old to me. He's got that millenial nihilism. Also he stated a long time ago the voice is from smoking, not age.

[@nader50752]

Wait WHAT THE FUCK

[@tobiaslesquid352]

Oh my God we're the same age, I thought he was an adult!

[@VinceWhitacre]

@@alfalafelstine1536 I HAVE BEEN SMOKING LONGER THAN HE HAS BEEN ALIVE why does my voice sound like a child's

[@ernekid7241]

Time for the parasocial relationship hour with my Internet friends.

[@peterfarkas4732]

damn I just realized I sad the same thing lol ooopz

[@sithofdarkness8927]

smart engineer man and funny compatriots make funny joke about horrifying things, ha

[@hannahjackhalcro3848]

tbf being in lockdown alone.. I probably listen to this pod more than I talk to real humans

[@jadefalcon001]

"parasocial relationship hour" is my new favorite internet-age phrase.

[@__leftistVegan]

We're all friends here except for the pinned posters

[@dr.vikyll7466]

"Theres not a lot in schools that can explode". No, but the University in Oslo had to close off a classroom for 20 years to avoid radiation poisoning

[@welltheresyourproblempodca1465]

Go on

[@wolight]

@@welltheresyourproblempodca1465 Since it's been a week and OP did not "Go on" The short version is that someone at Oslo University left a big chunk of Strontium 90 in an unlabled cardboard box in the basement of a science lab. It sat there from some time in the year 1992 until mid-2004 when it was discovered. It is impossible to know if anyone got cancer because of this but it's just easier to cordon off the building until the radiation levels go down. A similar incident happened in the Grand Canyon visitor center, where a quite frankly hilarious amount of glowing uranium was stored in three five-gallon wooden barrels just below a display millions of tourists interacted with between 2000 and 2018

[@Raw774]

@@welltheresyourproblempodca1465 a similar thing happened to a university in Manchester, England, where Rutherford did a bunch of early radiation research and now they can’t use those labs any more.

[@somethingsnowing]

Also part of Minnehaha Academy in Minneapolis exploded in August 2017 killing 2 and injuring 9. The work crew in the basement dismantled piping upstream of the gas meter, an action they were not qualified to do.

[@louisvictor3473]

@@somethingsnowingIs their slogan "Minnehaha - A school for laughs and giggles"? It should be.

[@adder3597]

"Financial Suicide Bombing". That's my new favourite description for the r/WallStBets mayhem.

[@j2simpso]

Not a fair comparison, some of those folks will walk away just fine. It's my like playing Russian roulette and forgetting which chamber the bullet was put in! 🤣

[@sc149]

@@j2simpso its MORE like a bunch of hedgefunds were offering people an infinite bet to play short selling russian roulete, but were so cocksure no one would take up their offer and so shit at communicating that as a whole the hedgefunds sold 140% of the bullets in the gun to raise short term capital. now there is a qeue of three million people to play russian roullete and will at worst win something split between them.

[@chrisweston6908]

But if you “eject” at the right time, you land comfortably in a beach chair with a margarita in your hand. 😂

[@matthewbadley5063]

They're going to do a second 9/11 on wall street but with stocks instead of planes.

[@jhoughjr1]

people with nothing to lose have the most power

[@deeznoots6241]

Talking about the dangers in school without any mention of the possibility of massive amounts of rocks falling on you due to unsafe piling up by a coal board

[@goodluck5642]

WTYP podcast is clearly Welsh state media

[@SportyMabamba]

(Aberfan Disaster intensifies)

[@hjt091]

Unlikely to happen in Texas due to extreme geographic flatness, but I get you

[@DistractedGlobeGuy]

@@hjt091 if an industrial disaster can happen anywhere, Texans will find a way to make it happen in their state.

[@ianhomerpura8937]

@@goodluck5642 aka BBC Cymru

[@wkiernan]

In Florida, if you're a pedestrian walking down the road, you are advised to walk facing traffic, which is a good idea because when a driver is using his cell-phone or popping open another can of beer, his car or pickup truck may kind of wander across the edge of pavement, making it a smart idea to keep your eye on approaching traffic so you can jump out of the way. However, local traffic law says if you're riding a bicycle, you're supposed to drive in the same direction as motor traffic. Once I was stopped by a policeman who was going to give me a ticket for violating that law. I told him that, having been smacked in the back of the head by an extra-wide truck mirror (like you use for towing trailers) on two-lane U.S. 41 North of Tampa, Hell was going to freeze over before I ever rode on a public street with my back to traffic, and to my surprise, he decided to not give me a ticket after all, which was the only time I ever talked my way out of a traffic ticket. So my question is, is that just a Florida aberration or do other places also have this idiotic rule for bicyclists?

[@vylbird8014]

Here is Britain, it's illegal to cycle on the pavement - cycles go in the road with all the cars, not in the pavement with pedestrians. This rule is constantly violated though, because cyclists all have their experience with near-misses on the road (bikes being small and easily overlooked), and realize the pavement is safer for them: A bike-on-pedestrial collision isn't likely to cause anything worse than a few bruises, while bike-on-car is much more serious.

[@Runningfromtheredqueen]

In Norway, a bicycle under operation is a vehicle and subject to the same laws as other vehicles. A bicyclist who dismounts and rolls the bicycle along while walking is a pedestrian. So in short, if a scooter or motorcycle has to do something (like stay on one side of the road, obey a traffic sign or a traffic light) so does a bicycle in operation. Usually. A bicycle can, for instance, use a bicycle lane or ignore a "no access for motor vehicles" sign for obvious reasons.

[@sweetpeabee4983]

In the states I've lived in, riding a bike is considered the same thing legally as driving a car, so yeah, you gotta ride with traffic. It's the worst. In theory, bike lanes exist to mitigate the problem; in practice they rarely _exist_ at all and if they do, cars are parked in them, rendering them unusable. Imo the US kinda really actively disincentivizes bike use in exactly this way: by forcing individual bikers out into traffic. If there were huge swarms of bikers like there are in some Chinese cities, just as an example, it would be easier to boss around traffic flow, but because we're all off biking uneasily by ourselves, it's uh...yeah, there's a reason I tend to just walk or bus around these days....

[@vylbird8014]

@@sweetpeabee4983 Bike lanes. Those places you drive where cars shoot past you at thirty miles an hour relative, inches from touching your handlebars. Worse than riding in traffic, in some ways - at least in the road drivers will slow down as they overtake you while shouting insults out the window.

[@lyndonwesthaven6623]

Can only speak for Colorado, but I was pulled over by a cop for running a stop sign on my bicycle, and informed that I was expected to obey the same traffic laws as a car. It was a pretty empty residential area, and I hadn't known and was fourteen, so I got off with a lecture.

[@llehctimttelrap]

Your pilot light is just a very small natural gas flare stack.

[@j2simpso]

The ditched the pilot light since pilots are expensive! 🤣

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

@@j2simpso They tried to unionize so they had to go.

[@davidheitzenrater9027]

"Why can't you Uber to a hospital?" Oh! I know this one because I work in a retail hellscape! I don't know if it applies to Britain as well but in America transporting an injured person to a hospital is a separate sort of insurance so if the uber gets into an accident on the way to the hospital the driver is *utterly fucked*.

[@adder3597]

Quite possibly, though if I can get there under my own steam/by transport that isn't an ambulance you can bet your arse I'll do so- ambo crews are already overworked as it is, might as well prevent one unnecessary callout.

[@jhoughjr1]

dont think that is the case.

[@cakbep]

Naturally, I’ve had to take a ride share to the hospital twice. And they’ve been fully aware and “complicit,” because lol you’ll starve to death if you don’t risk your life daily for fractions of a dividend.

[@Basilo1146]

Why did Alice have to be right with the "We make our own gas!" joke. Just for once, can't Justin answer "No" to one of those

[@ebnertra0004]

I suspect that Texas mainly uses oil and gas for everything to try and heat up the world so much that winter can't come for them again

[@meh12345HEY]

"A grease fire doesn't explode" It certainly does when you add water to it. Never try to put out a grease fire with water.

[@whym6438]

Liam: Everything's bigger in Texas including the explosions. Halifax: Do I mean nothing to you?

[@alfalafelstine1536]

Lebanon: ...

[@CowMaster9001]

Ufa: ?

[@ianhomerpura8937]

Texas City is iconic for a reason.

[@Iknowtoomuchable]

If they ever actually do an episode on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge disaster, I hope they end it by saying the next episode is on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge disaster.

[@TheEnoEtile]

We'll find out next week, right? Right?

[@DistractedGlobeGuy]

Nah. Bhopal.

[@TalkingSoup]

constantly pleased with the ever-growing list of wtypp enemies: - organic chemistry - oil - fascism - cars - fish - elon musk - billionaires - terfs and other transphobes - oil byproducts - texas - capitalism - car-based infrastructure - harder and more rigid steel - pronouncing the names of chemical compounds

[@TalkingSoup]

also: - justin saying dates and/or times

[@rhael42]

what are you talking about? rigid steel is the best. the more rigid, the better.

[@TalkingSoup]

@@rhael42 you're right i'm so sorry for my mistake

[@TuckerWhite94]

You left out The Dutch.

[@JacobBax]

@@TuckerWhite94 What about the Dutch?

[@shaunvankoppen4330]

I can't tell you how much I look forward to this podcast.

[@themroc8231]

And the Tacoma Narrows Bridge one they said was coming.

[@j2simpso]

@@themroc8231 meh the cause of that disaster is obvious, they built the bridge too narrow. The disaster is literally in its name!

[@TheEnoEtile]

@@j2simpso no spoilers for next week

[@Nick_J_]

Same, its my favorite pod

[@OriginalPineapplesFoster]

Picturing Roz in front of that giant flame, saying aloud, "Oh God I've killed us all," in exactly the tone he uses while recounting the story..... 😂🍍

[@joshlikescola]

Thanks for reading my safety third! I feel the story is better being read in a deadpan way by Justin To answer the question: NHS 111 said that if I had a medical emergency on my way to hospital, I don't think taxis/private hire are insured to deal with it or something? I think if I randomly had a heart attack, they didn't want the driver to dump me at the side of the road. Also yes I know Uber is bad 😂, but I'm also a hypocrite Also, I've seen a couple post-shooting cordons, but not been shot yet! Fortunately the weapons aren't as powerful, so people tend to survive (also because British trauma units are so used to dealing with this shit)

[@darthbob88]

User Volsung Odinson seems to confirm that, " "Why can't you Uber to a hospital?" Oh! I know this one because I work in a retail hellscape! I don't know if it applies to Britain as well but in America transporting an injured person to a hospital is a separate sort of insurance so if the uber gets into an accident on the way to the hospital the driver is *utterly fucked*. "

[@DeadWhiteButterflies]

I do enjoy how consistently I seem to be like, "Man I wish there was a new WTYP episode. I wanna hear some more of Alice's snark", and then suddenly a new episode just materialises in my feed ☺️

[@Nadeldrucker]

You should think that more often, then!

[@Wafflepudding]

48:28 - It''s not the tone of the podcast but the thought of parents desperately trying to dig their kids out of rubble and finding remains broke my heart

[@liquidfur2]

This episode literally hits close to home for me. I live about 45 minutes from New London in an unincorporated rural community with one traffic light. In East Texas, we are all taught about the New London school explosion beginning in elementary school. I was in 3rd grade the first time. It was awesome and not at all terrifying 🙃. I'm way older than all of you, and my clients at my business are all my parents age. Several of them have told stories over the years about the "free" natural gas pipelines. If you lived close to one, you just ran a line out there and tapped into it. Oil and gas is everything here. Kilgore College (just a few minutes from New London) is home to the East Texas Oil Museum. This part of Texas has been fracked from one end to the other and back again a hundred times over since before there were any regulations on what kind of chemicals they could pump back into the ground. It should come as no surprise then that this is also a cancer hot spot. The whole area is basically one giant engineering disaster, so I'm sure there's more material for when you come to Texas one day. It shouldn't give you cancer if you don't stay too long, but I can't guarantee that.

[@PanAfricanCommunalist]

I’m also from East Texas (Crockett) it’s crazy how countless crazy stories from the region don’t get out more. the Slocum Massacre was right outside my hometown and hardly anyone knows.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

29:55 the _downside_ is all the unrecorded methane and other volatile greenhouse gases leaking out of abandoned, badly-maintained, or cut-price-cut-corners frakking wells. I wouldn't be surprised if that balances out the greenhouse reduction from the CO2 reductions.

[@storeswallah]

Roz on the DC Sniper: "when the first child drops the Totally Spies! lunchbox, the next child picks it up and continues to run!"

[@gizoginjr]

What's this a reference to?

[@shadoeboi212]

@@gizoginjr totaly spies and enemy at the gates? "The man with the rifle shoots, the man without the rifle follows."

[@thehaprust6312]

"The New London School Distract is proud to announce that it has met its five-year plan for soup-like homogenate in one second today."

[@americancockpunch]

every photo of a building should be preemptively captioned "X Building Before Explosion" just in case

[@DistractedGlobeGuy]

Seconded! Motion passes! Meeting adjourned!

[@rubenisapanic]

"You could hook up a turbine to his body spinning in his grave, and power a city the size of Albany" is one of the funniest lines I've heard on the internet.

[@willklemm509]

Did anyone else think the news drop was going to be the old EA Sports intro, " EA...IT'S IN THE GAME!"

[@HarristheFord]

E, E, E. EEEE!

[@slaughterround643]

that's not the _old_ EA Sports sound. kids these days smh

[@tompain9735]

Texas and explosions: can you name a more classic duo?

[@kwarra-an]

Mass shootings and the US

[@ciceronincheese7195]

'End of Slideshow,' yet another fallen comrade, like Activate Windows. Their sacrifice will not be forgotten.

[@GroundThing]

36:02 Assuming you mean kcalories, aka the calories listed for food, the fusion potential energy of the sun is about 2.87x10^40 kcal, which means, based on a 2000 calorie diet, it would take the population of Earth about 5 septillion years to eat the sun, assuming population stays constant.

[@anjoliebarrios8906]

This should be top comment

[@DeadCanuck]

It’s November 2023, the Folding Ideas doc on the GameStop “short squeeze” has been released. It’s very enlightening to look at views at the time in comparison to the much more boring reality. Amazing podcast as always

[@Bakamoichigei]

Regarding the subject of this week's Safety Third; I live in Vermont, in a town that's not that rural, but also not quite urban. I learned years ago that bicycles are simply a convoluted means of killing oneself. Here in town, you get ticketed for riding on the sidewalk, but if you ride in the street people will _actively try to murder you_ all the while yelling at you to "Get out of the fucking street!" As if the casual _everyday_ cruelties weren't enough, one day, on my way home from high school, some jagoffs in the back of a pickup decided it'd be a real laugh-riot to bean me with a water balloon from the oncoming lane while I'm taking a steep hill. I wiped out, wrecking the bike, and sliding a few dozen feet tangled up in it after my (luckily helmeted) head bounced off the pavement. During the ten minute walk across town to my mother's apartment, limping and bleeding, I had pretty much made up my mind that I was no longer going to have anything to do with school...or people, for that matter. (Oh, and to complete the picture; upon reaching my mother's, I had to patch myself up with packing tape and paper towels, because she didn't have first-aid supplies. So yeah, it was _a lot._ ) That was a bit over 20 years ago. 😑

[@JohnDoe-mj6cc]

Holy fuck

[@spamviking]

On roundabouts, bicycles, and the Arch de Triumph, when I was in Paris in 2009 I was doing the very stereotypical sightseeing route and when at the Arch I saw this Frenchman in a business suit, briefcase in his bikes basket, tie blowing back over his shoulder, ride without stopping right into the maelstrom of traffic that perpetually circles the monument, all the time he was ringing his bell furiously. I still heard that bell ringing after I lost sight of him mass of cars and trucks.

[@TheOzzyMartin1]

It’s bad when this isn’t even the first school explosion I think of in this state

[@weatheranddarkness]

Ah! But is it the worst one?

[@melmelhodgepodge3800]

Texans call every soda a Coke. Regardless, if that soda is actually a Coke. People who say Pop are usually in the Midwest.

[@sirrliv]

Can confirm. Or we just skip straight to asking for what we really want, which is usually Dr Pepper.

[@izzystar5904]

Can confirm as well

[@aprilk141]

Soda pop is a coke?

[@alfalafelstine1536]

Fun fact: there's a gas station called Pops in Oklahoma which sells hundreds of different soda types.

[@1Cirmag]

A big Texas soda... Big Red. I can't stand it, others seem to love it, least they say they do. And HEB is a blessing. It's good as a grocery store, great as a parallel power structure covering the shortfalls of the TX government.

[@prjndigo]

03:20 "Beating around the bush." You usually can't scare injured *or dead* birds out of the bush... it's a reference to not wanting to climb in the bush to get the bird out.

[@furnish1696]

Nah beeting is when you and others walk in a line making noises and hitting bushes with sticks in order to scare birds usually pheasants or grouse out and up.of the ground towards a line of gun men usually in raised butt if you're on the Moor dogs are normaly used to retrieve the dead birds. The phrase is saying don't waste time hit the bus and scare the bird

[@kisachi6971]

Schools aren't supposed to explode?

[@tardvandecluntproductions1278]

A good school is a boring school. Also goes for governments.

[@j2simpso]

Depends on the school. Some high pressure schools which use standardized testing create just the right environment for this to occur! 🤣

[@volatilesky]

Failure of the school systems science program to properly teach chemistry to students, resulting in disproportionate numbers of failed ied's.

[@memomorph5375]

My old school had a boiler explosion, not as bad as this one!

[@spinaltap526]

Someone better tell Alice Cooper

[@maxcube1023]

I've never seen a thin person drinking gasoline. Big oil doesn't like me, doesn't matter I'll keep drinking that trash.

[@memomorph5375]

When I was in middle school, we had a (non fatal) boiler explosion that I hadn’t thought of in years... peace to all the children and families hurt in this catastrophe

[@twothreebravo]

"This is not usually the sort of disaster which occurs at schools" Texas: "Hold my guns"

[@benjaminmschroeder]

I have never heard this many E drops outside of a TF episode

[@nothanksguy]

My old high school blew up last summer! Look it up, carmel high school had a furnace explosion (zero deaths luckily)

[@authoranonymous8892]

If you haven't, you should send it to them as a Safety Third.

[@henryefry]

My brother is a traffic engineer in MA. I'm pretty sure he worked on the redesign of kelly square. Sometimes he sends me pictures of his plans and I tell him to add more bike lanes and signal priority for buses and he says that it's not in the contract his company signed with the whatever city that street is in. I also like to annoy him about LOS and pedestrians phases. He likes to call me hypocrite every time i get in a car so it's even.

[@mattthelombax]

Who are we?! THE WILDCATS! Who are we gonna beat?! THE WILDCATS!

[@WaterMan416]

Too many wildcats. My school's mascot was a damn wildcat too.

[@faggykrueger]

@@WaterMan416 Mine too! We need to spay and neuter all these damn wildcats!

[@AlRoderick]

I don't know if having a trans woman play for a men's football team is transphobic, feminist, misogynist, or based actually.

[@MrCzechTexan]

The next Texas episode should be the West Fertilizer Plant Explosion... y'know, to keep up with the theme Edit: You can do a live show literally anywhere in Texas, nobody gives a shit about the pandemic here. Also the reason why we're the hardest hit. Flights from Glasgow->Dublin->Dallas are ~$500, Philly to Dallas are ~$40. Just make sure nobody that looks like they're "aware" is within earshot, they'll start shootin'. Better hurry up, tornado season's starting soon.

[@SASardonic]

or the texas A&M bonfire disaster

[@semirrahge]

They did the Texas City fertilizer explosion already... This is the episode of the infamous 'cum bucket brigade'. But yes, no one here gives a single fuck about the pandemic and I give no excuses for wearing a respirator. Everywhere.

[@TheGreatPurpleFerret]

What makes you think these guys would want to host a show in the middle of a pandemic? Lol

[@WarpedHorizon]

@@semirrahge Texas City and West, Texas are two different fertilizer explosions, 66 years apart

[@allisonstilley9536]

Or the 2005 Texas City Explosion, the Crash at Crush, or the 2019 Port Neches Explosion.

[@noahmansland3301]

regular biking is probably the thing that made me the most conscious about how mortal i am

[@deanc9453]

"Surely, you can't say the people of Dallas don't love you, Mr. Rocszniak."

[@brandonbohan7281]

Ross is 27? He’s two years older than me? I fucking squeak and this guy sounds like he has 2 decades of engineering experience. The fuck!

[@Vinno1234]

I mean he does it's just that he was born with a hard-hat and a diploma

[@ClaudiaNW]

I'm actually older than him!

[@loaf8506]

G R O V E R G A S

[@blackvulture6818]

Load-bearing gas pipelines

[@trashrabbit69]

Also doing business as: ConocoPhillips

[@kazmark_gl8652]

The sadest part of a new WTYP episode coming out is knowing its gonna be another week until the next one. oh and all those exploded children that also sucks.

[@1121494]

Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse is coming next Episode? Exciting! Looking forward.

[@jarrodlombardo]

The Safety 3rd reminds me of something that is so common it has a special name: the Seattle Left. Seattle residential neighborhoods have lots of small roundabouts; simple 4 way intersections with a small planter or curb ring in the middle. Very often, when Seattle drivers want to take the 3rd exit from the roundabout, instead of staying to the right and passing the first two exits then turning right into the 3rd exit, they will instead turn left, driving into potential oncoming traffic to make the turn. Going the wrong way around the roundabout by driving into oncoming traffic is the Seattle Left. I'm happy to not live or drive there anymore.

[@joshlikescola]

I once had a driver go the wrong-way around a roundabout to overtake me on the bike lol

[@comhalain]

57:50 Goddamn it Alice, that Garth Marenghi's reference made me lose my shit in laughter, I almost died (gotta do a covid test now just to be sure)

[@BlarryOfficial]

Aw, that's fantastic! I just came home from work just for new exploding schoolkids content.

[@AceHawk37]

Nothing like waking up to a new WTYP podcast!

[@robmckennie4203]

very uncomfortable to find out justin is 3 years older than me, and not 23 years older than me.

[@fizzgibble]

yeah I'm three years older than him and uuuhhh.

[@VinceWhitacre]

More uncomfortable to learn he's 19 years younger than me.

[@VinceWhitacre]

"It's like if my dad was cool" turned into "it's like if my dad was my son" real fast

[@collinbarker]

Going back to the taste of oil, sour crude is much worse. Think of the smell of rotting meat combined with that of rotten eggs permeating everything. I used to live in Oil Springs, Ontario (first commercial oil well, and still producing) and they only have sour crude. The smell gets in everything too. Some of the buildings there date back to when no one lived there, as it was the land the wells were on, and the smell is still stronger inside the building than outside. Interesting method to extract oil there, the wells there produce so little oil, that it is actually cheaper to pump them using jerker lines, rather than the normal grasshoppers, so driving around there are a mess of rocking beams about a meter off the ground.

[@zizkazenit7885]

Will you do an episode on the disaster of electric cars? Since Biden was inaugurated, I’ve been hearing a torrent of breathless lib-dem praise for Biden’s plan to take all internal combustion engine cars off the road in 30 years and replace them with(obviously) electric cars. I want people to understand why relying completely on electric cars is not an environmentally sound or even a technically feasible idea. If you did an episode, it might inject some sense into the conversation.

[@vylbird8014]

The American cultural resistance to mass transit is well known. A car isn't just a means of transport in America: It's a symbol of freedom. The freedom to go where you want, when you want.

[@amyk6869]

That Safety Third story was surprisingly mild as bike accidents go.

[@joecummings1260]

Hedge funds be like,,,,,,,,.. how dare you steal our stolen money, we stole that fair and square, you have no right to steal it

[@Bob.martens]

Those dishes can wait, let the baby cry, lock the dog.

[@22015slee]

Less than 3 mins in and I see we've already offended more than as many nationalities, French, Austrian and Slovekian/Slovanian! Bodes well!

[@benoitbvg2888]

As a Frenchman, I get offended if they DON'T slander us in an episode. That being said, I rarely get offended at this podcast.

[@Quintinohthree]

In 1 line, you've managed to offend half of those nationalities. Impressive.

[@tardvandecluntproductions1278]

I'm almost offended they didn't even offended us Dutch. I demand special treatment!

[@Quintinohthree]

@@tardvandecluntproductions1278 Liam may hate us, but offend he cannot.

[@j2simpso]

Technically it's Czechoslovakian.

[@Quintinohthree]

Before I can watch this I must ask, how could a school possibly explode? I expect this to be answered as I watch.

[@thehand7902]

Not cycling but today someone almost changed lanes into me and another dude blew a stop sign going like 50 in a grocery store parking lot and almost hit me on my way driving home Be safe out there

[@Smonserratm]

Listening to this episode while cooking with a gas stove 10/10

[@zacharynielsen8106]

the best part of the intersection drawing is that there is an intersection in Watertown MA that is identical, but not a roundabout. Also one of the routes incoming is a bridge. Its also just as difficult to navigate as a pedestrian as a roundabout would be.

[@alaeriia01]

Oh fucking hell, is that Watertown Square? I _hate_ that intersection.

[@GretchenDawntreader]

re: Safety Third and the bike at roundabout....as a pedestrian, I have found it important to always assume drivers will do the most unpredictable shit. I will always go behind a stopped car as I figure the odds are highest they won't suddenly throw it in reverse and floor it

[@GretchenDawntreader]

I am also obnoxious about waiting to make eye contact with a driver

[@KawlinRolfe]

Alice is totally right, Zone control was probably the methodology to strew from the original plans. The pay-off vs a large steam system was probably minimum, but location environmental-condition control was all the rage back then. Easier to just have an energy line direct to the room that needs it... Until it blows up. Sorry for the rambly post, but this ep is right up my alley for understanding redundancy.

[@vontosmagicmurderbag2611]

I've always wondered whether Abigail Thorne from Philosophy Tube knew Alice at all after she made a joke about only trans Muslims getting to heaven. Now I'm wondering if Alice knew Abigail was trans and if that was somehow connected to them doing a podcast together. I don't care at all about James Bond, but I'm going to listen to the podcast just in hopes of satisfying the gossip part of my brain.

[@alicecaldwell-kelly9530]

Abi and I are good friends and I knew she was trans for months before she came out, yes

[@Huntracony]

Context: I live in the Netherlands where people know how to use roundabouts As a pedestrian, I prefer roundabouts. Cars don't approach you as fast so I feel more secure that they're gonna stop and they often replace traffic lights, meaning I don't have to wait for them. They don't even take much more space usually as they also replace turning lanes. They suck for cyclists though, because they come at an odd angle and often too fast for drivers to see them.

[@PimithyAnn]

When I was in undergrad I got hit by a car as I was walking across a road on campus. The thought of "am I about to be murdered?" definitely crossed my mind as I saw the car hit my legs. Good to know that's a universal feeling in these sorts of situations.

[@srjskam]

I wonder how many students had the thought "by golly, I wish this school would just blow up" that day.

[@vandelayofficial492]

"restrictions on who could call themselves an engineer"

[@slaughterround643]

regulations are communist and that's why we need brexit. /s obviously

[@ThePorpoisepower]

RE: Biking on the road... There are 3 scenarios that I fear for my life 1... riding on bike lane, with a bus lane to the right, and normal traffic to the left. Bus frequently stray into the bike land. 2... riding on a freway with 60mph traffic less than 5 feet to my left with no barrier. 3... people opening car doors directly in my path without warning... I've come withing 6 inches or less of ramming somebody's door at 15mph more than once.

[@rancidmarshmallow4468]

my middle school might've come close to exploding once because they let 7th graders in the chem classroom with natural gas taps and one day the class idiot opened one and the teacher didn't notice till like 5 mins late

[@Theoddert]

you could manually create the "end of slideshow click to exit" easily. Have it get grainier every time like the news banner

[@NightShadowReal]

what likely happened with the safety third guy was that the car didn't stop or our unlucky bicycler was unlucky enough to be hidden by the car's A-pillar for an amount of time

[@brisetta]

Oh a minisode! Since its the second year of the pandemic, can you guys put out twice as many episodes? I cant get enough!

[@joshuasutherland6692]

Also Roz and Liam are talking out of their arses about coal power. They should know, Philly has five primo prewar coal plants in the area.

[@pyrotheevilplatypus]

Regarding the bike accident - there's this psychological phenomenon called “inattentional blindness” that means you LITERALLY cannot see something you are looking directly at. It doesn't have anything to do with not paying attention - despite the name - you're instead deeply focused on the "wrong" thing. I once read a study about motorists in Florida being completely blind to motorcycles (I'm really hoping it was a simulation) because they'd been instructed to look for passing cars when changing lanes. When they were told to look for motorcycles, they were able to spot the bikes easily but had difficulty with cars that matched the surroundings (grey and black cars getting lost against asphalt and tar for instance). It's why we often have that sensation while finding something we're looking for "if it were a snake it would have bit you" - you are so convinced that it ISN'T going to be where you're looking, your brain kind of "turns off" your perception of it. That's most likely why the other driver didn't see the letter-submitter - he was so fixated on looking for cars, his brain shut off "bike"

[@GoodLordBagel]

There is is Buc-ee's and a Whataburger in Daytona Beach now. The Florida panhandle is basically a Texas colony at this point

On the common kitchen on the student apartment building I live in part-time we have a ”stop the fire alarm” button. It’s used frequently

[@cobaltwerewolf]

I will never get tired of Alice being fuckin terrible at drops. I love it. E E E e e e eeee....

[@deetoher]

School being like prison hits home a little more when you attended a secondary (high) school that was designed on the same principles of a H-block prison, and won architecture prizes on the results.

[@ZanraiKid]

I feel like I can timestamp the recording of this podcast with the name drop of PhilosophyTube Also, best wishes to Abigail.

[@jclementine3371]

I'd imagine any good Philly Citizenship process would involve Gritty at some stage

[@shmehfleh3115]

1930s gas infrastructure + 1930s power tools = the most dangerous deathtrap imaginable.

[@riinak7212]

I love watching this - great history, great commentary, specialised knowledge...fun times! And the hosts have great chemistry with each other. But is it *organic* chemistry...?

[@lucasaccount573]

This is a 80 minute podcast against gun laws and IM ALL FOR IT!

[@kevinrussell3501]

Getting hit by a car while on a bicycle sucks. Been there, done that

[@maximilianwimmer627]

the Gas tapping reminded me of an old line from Swiss comedian Emil Steinberger: "Since I always felt cold, I decided to extend the gas line into my room by myself.....and then we had to move."

[@AwesometownUSA]

Man, all these pictures of the chaos & carnage in the aftermath of the school explosion, they’re pretty disturbing to take in. The thing that _really_ freaks me out, though, is that aberrant, menacing-looking clown, who seems to be smiling at the camera in every shot?? So sketchy...

[@IlkkaVuoristo]

Me: "I'm never going to wait an episode more..." Alice: "... get Kate back in ..." Me : "Oh, fork..."

[@Phengyang010]

I love (hate) the mix of emotions I went through during this episode. Thanks for the podcast!

[@ReverendTed]

I spent one of my elementary school years in New London back in the late 80s. (You can see the elementary school in the background of the main photo used in this episode.) We once had a survivor come and talk to us - a girl asked to switch seats so she could be next to her boyfriend and he agreed. She was crushed by a concrete beam and he'd suffered survivor's guilt ever since. There was also a story about a rambunctious young boy whose mother told him to wait in the car to avoid disrupting the PTA meeting. The car was crushed, but he'd been disobedient and got out to play and survived.

[@zuthalsoraniz6764]

To be fair, with the citybuilders, basically none of them consider greenhouse gas emissions. Their air pollution consideration is local-scale air pollution, which is stuff like sulfur dioxide and soot, and there natural gas definitely is an intermediate compromise solution between coal and nuclear or renewables.

[@jacobjohnson6384]

From Texas and yeah Dr. Pepper or Big Red would be the local sodas. That said we call soda “coke” here which which is totally not confusing when talking about Dr. Pepper.

[@mbilbo]

Just dropping in for a quick thumps up, and to mention, that I much appreciate the improved download speed for the podcast version. Rotfront!

[@SuperTobyproductions]

"I called the police and ..." "CANCELED"