Well There's Your Problem | Episode 61: Khian Sea Disposal Incident

this wouldn't have happened if we could just dump our trash in new jersey
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[@chancevought8298]

A reminder that this podcast is hosted by people that think you will burn in hell if you deny Islam.

[@maglorian]

oh shit, then I better convert quickly!

[@kinew9212]

It's more than that, Alice has managed to work the shahada into her bits on the episodes, so by listening to this podcast you've actually become Muslim. Congratulations and As-salamu alaykum

[@MrARCN7]

Come on, Podcasters, don't be a coward and pin + heart this cringeposting gem of a comment.

[@marball]

currently engaging in consensual CBT with Allah, so im safe. Sucks to be you

[@grmpEqweer]

Since I'm an atheist, I don't think what anyone thinks will happen to me when I die really matters. 🤷

[@mitchhosking5599]

Bring back Roz's dream journal as a segment. This relationship isn't going to parasocial itself.

[@themigmadmarine]

Isn't that kinda how that works by definition?

[@pmcgee003]

Not with that attitude. 🤣

[@thomasjardine2108]

I agree, bring it back

[@lyndonwesthaven6623]

We demand that you produce content for us, the swine, as you sleep

[@RazorSkinned86]

Me: furiously googling for Liam's onlyfans while picturing raz being force-feminized by a russian arms dealer

[@lasschesteven]

Sending the PO box a French maid costume with a note attached saying "you'll get the weapons if I get a picture of Roz in this"

[@sithofdarkness8927]

I don't care, I want this pinned. No insult could top what I just found as I clicked on this video.

[@uilsoum875]

haven't watched the episode yet, very eager to find out what the hell this means

[@anarchomando7707]

Is that arms dealer in charge of the Jewish space lazer

[@lasschesteven]

@@anarchomando7707 No, but he does have a good deal on a secret Soviet space laser if you're willing to put on a playboy bunny outfit.

[@EmissaryofWind]

"You didn't really shake hands with danger, danger just decided to give you a reacharound" needs to go on a shirt

[@mouthhouse8139]

Sending an Anthrax CD through the mail is pretty funny.

[@SamWhitlock]

Innnnn... West Philadelphia, battletorn and razed In the trenches was where I spent most of my days Resupplying, airspace-denying, all cool Shooting down some bogies outside of the school When a couple of MIGs who were up to no good Started dropping ordinance on my side of the 'hood I launched one lil Patriot missile and my commander got scared He said "You're moving to the frontlines of the war in Aleppo" - Ode to Justin's Nautical Nightmare

[@soniab78]

Aaaaand the winner is!! ^^^^^^

[@Iknowtoomuchable]

Doesn’t perfectly match the rhythm of the original song, 0/10 see me after class.

[@Davkanus]

@@Iknowtoomuchable well I don't see you doing it any better. =P

[@alexkorman1163]

I didn’t even see this comment and I had the exact same idea. Great minds I guess.

[@SamWhitlock]

@@alexkorman1163 share your version too! 😁

[@rileynibhroin6395]

Perhaps the dream Russian arms dealer was probably just operating off Cinderella logic, where only the rightful owner of these shoes may purchase from his Ural truck full of Kalashnikovs and RPG-7s

[@cobaltwerewolf]

Fairy Armsdealer

[@Sir.Craze-]

I appreciate this comment possibly more then I should...

[@memomorph5375]

I just got out of top surgery! Now I can recover with my favorite podcast! Also, sex work is work. From onlyfans to full service workers, they deserve to work in safe and respectful conditions

[@maglorian]

congratulations on your surgery, I hope you enjoy the podcast! :)

[@pelicans456]

Congrats! And that goes double for LiamOnlyFans

[@TrashHeapCustodian]

Fuck yes!!!!

[@jeffreymilliman2306]

Congratulations!

[@Raw774]

congrats and hope you're recovering okay

[@a.gravemistake3061]

When my dad was a kid, he worked with his dad as a plumber's assistant. I showed him this episode's Safety Third and had a good ten minutes watching his face narrate a horror story. And then as the capper, he told me that five years after we moved into the house I lived in as a kid that they replaced the broken water heater and the plumber told him, "hey good thing you replaced this, the last guy put the pressure release valve on backwards"

[@boydsinclair7606]

😳

[@CarlVolt]

Oh boy, with this timing I can listen to this, go to bed and forget the whole episode and listen to it again

[@kazmark_gl8652]

Glad I'm not the only one.

[@FireFish97]

Exactly what I'm doing now

[@felixecho]

Shhhh... They will make a patreon level for reruns!

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Copious drinking helps with the forgetting - take a shot every time Alice starts a diversion, bless her heart.

[@jochemvanest]

I wasn't expecting other people did that too :)

[@Nealikus]

Sewage, trash, and waste disposal engineers and scientists are the unsung heroes of the modern age. It's a job that takes a lot of studying with absolutely no glamour or status.

[@phathumdeep]

I hope we all caught Alice's sleeper joke in the first minute. The reason we use the word "tank" for "ground assault vehicle" dates to their earliest modern use in WW1. When shipping them to the front by train, like all good military supplies, they were packed in crates to ward against prying eyes. It doesn't look good to have a bunch of sophisticated military hardware bumbling along down a train track where anybody's spies can see them. Yet giant crates will still arouse suspicion, and so to further the illusion they were labeled as "tanks" to imply that these crates were actually transporting water tanks. You can probably see where it went from there.

[@anthonycondon5833]

Holly shit, this is true! Fact of the day!

[@Tomartyr]

I thought her joke was based on the fact they were originally called landships, hence Landship Committee.

[@GigasGMX]

The big boat should not get an episode until it’s been long enough for a bunch of people to write reports and photocopy them into oblivion.

[@alexkorman1163]

In West Philadelphia born and raised, in the guerrilla war is where I spent most of my days. Shoot outs, blasting, killing some fools, and killing the infidels outside of the school When The Lion of Damascus who was up to no good, started to barrel bomb my neighborhood. My house got blown up and my mom got scared, she said “you’re going in your boat to kill Syrians in the air.”

[@schnoodle3]

I had an old beater car that stalled in the drive thru lane at Taco Bell. The workers had to come out and push my heap out of the way of the pick up window. This is how I imagine the crew of the Evergreen felt.

[@ProjectThunderclaw]

"Welcome to 'It's Somebody Else's Problem', a podcast with slides."

[@Dong_Harvey]

"My name is Jason Rothschild, my pronouns are Sir/King." "I'm Alaina Keller, my pronouns are Madam/Empress." "And I'm Liam!"

[@liger04]

@@Dong_Harvey Yay Liam!

[@-voiceoftheturtle]

Major engineering mishap makes international headlines: Me: 'Can't wait for the next Goddamn News!'

[@Hypocrite-ical]

Liam's bellow of joy & triumph when notified the Supreme Court had declared it was the right of every Philadelphian to dispose of their trash in New Jersey was the positivity I needed to push myself through the rest of my workday.

[@ClaudiaNW]

Every red-blooded American has a god-given constitutional right to dump their trash in New Jersey. Give me liberty or give me death

[@DylanWintersteen]

Every time they say west Philadelphia I expect someone to fill in "born and raised" TV broke my brain

[@PandorasFolly]

You were not the only one

[@anthonycondon5833]

Yep.

[@zackburke5459]

Onlyfans is where you spend most of your days?

[@XTremeCaffeine]

"And then they trucked it across the river to New Jersey" My brain: "Everything is legal in New Jersey"

[@deeznoots6241]

My favourite fun fact about the Suez canal is that when it was first set to be open by the French who built it they were gonna have a French ship be the first ship to go through, but of course a British captain thought that letting the French get any slight symbolic victory was outrageous so in the middle of the night he secretly moved his ship to the front of the line and dared anybody to stop him

[@tibbygaycat]

I gotta say the best move the British have ever done

[@kingkonut]

based

[@altayveyongunner1321]

😂 damn that petty.The funny thing is human history is full of shit like this

[@geddycary-avery1977]

KZbin autocaptions translating Alice's quiet chuckle as "[Music]" is a real mood

[@KirillTheBeast]

I caught that; it warmed my soul

[@whoever6458]

So, back when I was in the fire department, we had a joke that would go around. What can happen in a wild fire is that ashes can fill in depressions in the ground and, when this happens, there is also often burning material under the ash. So the joke was to remind one another not to step in an ash hole. lol

[@bryan.conrad]

When she said EPA challenge coin I got super excited. And then I realized it was a bit and got really let down. And then she said "I'm looking for my EPA challenge coin" and I was entirely redeemed. That's so cool Alice and I'm very jealous.

[@ClaudiaNW]

It's real, she posted it on Twitter

[@Bisquick]

"Sea disposal incident" is quite a nice way to say they just dumped shit into the ocean.

[@mrboomward]

Roz is getting dangerously close to invoking the curse of Assad by saying tankies are weird.

[@95keat]

The weirdest thing about this story to me is how the ship left port before they even found a place to store the ash Is that normal?

[@cobaltwerewolf]

"Fuck it, we'll do it live" is surprisingly common in freight shipping

[@ProjectThunderclaw]

They had a place. There was an agreement to dump it on a private island. Only they didn't clear it with the local government, so when Greenpeace ratted them out, the government put it's foot down.

[@civishamburgum1234]

Me: being exited for a cool "Incident" Video: WElcome to WEll there's Your Problem. A Podcast about weird dreams Me: Ok. Tell me more.

[@frank6842]

Welcome home

[@vaska00762]

Fun fact: Waitrose (and it's parent company, John Lewis) are worker owned co-operatives. This is opposed to the "Co-Op", which is a consumer owned co-operative.

[@jeanlucdiscard]

The absurdity of US policy in the 80s really influenced the game Sim City. Hey, don't build landfills and industrial areas immediately close to residential areas, that's not a good idea. Or was it the other way around; Will Wright was like, hey don't do this, and Reaganites were like, lol, thanks for the advice. Reagan be like, FURRRTTTTTTT. Spread my methane across this great land.

[@PisauraXTX]

Yeah we do seperate our garbage on board of this ship. Biodegradables go off the starboard side and incinerator ashes go off the port side

[@marinary1326]

Liam sets up an OnlyFans for videos of him opening the shit from the PO box

[@evamiller4886]

I’d watch unboxing videos of all the junk people send them

[@patrickmattin9609]

Still confused on where boats fall on the "train good car bad" spectrum.

[@boydsinclair7606]

Boat is like a car that thinks the ocean is a road. Therefore bad. (Except in convoys, cos that's sorta like a train)

[@patrickmattin9609]

I think I'm going with neutral good.

[@sc149]

one boat is bad. two personal boats that are conected, canals, or one big boat multiple people use, those can be good. but also if it burns ocean grade petroleum products its probably pretty bad

[@patrickmattin9609]

@@sc149 Nuclear boat caravans then, got it

[@sc149]

@@patrickmattin9609 *Has* there ever been an accident on a nuclear powered naval vessel :D

[@elen5871]

i know this is only the goddamn news but i also read that the Ever Given was going at least 13.2 knots -- the speed limit in the Suez is like 7-8 knots lol -- which makes me imagine the suez pilot just going full steam then slamming the e-brake Tokyo drift style, but also it meant the BULBOUS BOW was considerably lower in the water (and subsequently soil) than it would have been otherwise.

[@elen5871]

wow what a terrible comment i am so high

[@reidfann]

​@elen5871 it's a good comment. You're fine. 👍

[@Goodall10]

I fully expected this story to end with the ship "coincidentally" anchored off-shore in the Caribbean during hurricane season. "Oh, Hurricane Seamus sank the ship? Isn't that a shame."

[@dkbmaestrorules]

Last time I was this early, the Tacoma Narrows bridge was still up

[@katamariroller2837]

The best thing to come out of the Suez Canal Clog was probably the rule 34 material.

[@memomorph5375]

She’s only 2 years old!!

[@centurion1945]

The ship is only 2 years old you pervert!

[@Mr8lacklp]

@@memomorph5375 yeah but what's that in ship years?

[@AnnDVine]

my favourite was when someone just drew a giant Lady Dimitrescu where the ship would be

[@jamesbarels469]

Learning about the history of welding and pressure vessels, even as an anarchist, is a good lesson in regulations and standards.

[@scarylion1roar]

Dream discussion: last night I dreamed that I was back at my old, shitty job, and my shitty boss betrayed the Disney villains for a better deal with the devil.

[@Raw774]

sounds like most bosses

[@EmissaryofWind]

"We love a waste disposal incident" Times Beach episode confirmed

[@1121494]

There's also other options like Love Canal.

[@NyanPoptartCat]

Roz going off the handle is my kryptonite. He seems to hold back more than anyone else, so when he does it slays me. I need more of this in my life.

[@cold_punk]

All Raz's dream could make me think of was "In west Philadelphia, bombed and razed"

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Funny thing is that fly ash can be added to concrete mixes and sequestered that way.

[@steveofthewoods3119]

My uncle lived near the landfill, every so often during the summer the wind would shift and you could smell the ROTTING garbage in the landfill. But, being from NJ, this was just accepted as a normal inconvenience and I never thought of it as a strange experience until now. In 5th grade we also took a field trip to the active landfill (we were on the bus with the windows closed, we were fine), which I didn't realize was a strange experience until I was talking to my boyfriend about it during quarentine.

[@DeadWhiteButterflies]

Just wanna say, thanks for being here. Had a case of 'mental health' for want of a better phrase, this past week and it really got to me today. Especially with work, stuff closing down and creeping fash shit. This bit of sillyness helps a great deal. Thanks.

[@anthonycondon5833]

They've done this for me a few times on the last few months

[@thomasgray4188]

Bashar Al Assad invades Philadelphia? time for another hoi4 mod.

[@dylanchouinard6141]

Man, I know Kaiserredux is supposed to be weird, but this is a bit much

[@thomasgray4188]

@@dylanchouinard6141 no it's not weird enough

[@MrARCN7]

I mean, with the approach of offering Amnstey to former opponents, reintegrating them into organic state-structures and armed organs that the Syrian Arab Army got imposed on them by iranian advisors to overcome their own incompetence, maybe the occupation of Philadelphia will result in a somehow more competent administration than the Democrats and lead it to be sucessfully synergised into a slapdash; but functional Syrian Arab Republic guided by *anti-husseinite revisionist* Arab Socialism in coalition with the Philadelphia Ba'ath Party. Can't wait for Rocz to start shitposting God, Syria and Bashar at people and for Liam to join Alice in Shia islam when the SAA bribes him with a cursed BMP Technical to replace his shitty van. Maybe it would make his ranty energy more amusingly bearable too...

[@dylanchouinard6141]

@@MrARCN7 I gotta correct you: Roz would 100% join Rojava

[@MrARCN7]

@@dylanchouinard6141 BMPs, Oilbucks and enormous mustaches, tho...

[@mtext8599]

After Alice wanted a sense of scale at 51:40 I got curious too and this is what I came up with: 1200 x 2000 = 2400,000 lbs trash incinerated/day 2400 x 6 = 14,400 lbs fly ash/day 14,000 x 2000 = 28,000,000 lbs fly ash on ship 28,000,000 / 14,400 = 1944.4 days = 5.33 years worth of ash on the boat.

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

just make the sea rigid

[@PobortzaPl]

"On the way they slowly change ship manifesto" And I started laughing so hard I almost fell from my chair.

[@joshuahadams]

On the bulbous bow thing, precursors to modern bulbous bows were on pre-dreadnought warships, called ram bows, to make ramming more likely to sink the other boat by punching a hole below the waterline. HMS Dreadnought’s only combat engagement resulted in her cutting the German submarine U-29 in half by ramming it.

[@dennismartin7406]

I love it when "incident" is in the title

[@frikkinlasers9354]

29:36 just figured out Roz is saying "fly ash" and not "fly ass", everything makes much more sense now, thanks

[@scorinth]

... by analogy to "sex ass" I can only imagine this being a great new personal transportation device.

[@ClaudiaNW]

A shipment of 1.7 billion fly asses that have been surgically removed from dead flies.

[@cas013500]

I'm so glad my maid costume for Roz arrived. You're welcome.

[@s4nari]

And here I was re-watching the episode on the Atmospheric Railway when this new one was up. Thanks Team!

[@scifience8297]

I want an episode on the leaning tower of Piza just so that y'all can go after Italians more

[@Warpwaffel]

It's not an engineering desaster yet. Still standing. :D

[@frikkinlasers9354]

just do one on Italians

[@deeznoots6241]

@@Warpwaffel but its leaning... and it’s uhh... not supposed to do that

[@lightaflamethrower8573]

So Liam, if I wanted to send three Secret Service pens from the Pittsburgh office, for inter/Pennsylvania solidarity, could you then give them to Justin and Alice?

[@frank6842]

He definitely could

[@whoever6458]

I had a pretty epic hot water heater fail in my old apartment. One night, I got up from studying for a test the next day to go to the bathroom and found that my entire hallway was soaked with water. I looked in my bathroom and the water tasing coming from there and it wasn't coming from my washing machine in the hall either. When I opened the small closet with my water heater in it, I was met with the sight of water pouring out of the bottom of the water heater. I quickly located the shut-off valve so I went to shut it off but it was jammed. Then i called maintenance even though it was past 10 pm at that time but the water continued to pour into my apartment because I had no way to shut anything off before that shut-off valve in the little closet with the water heater. Since I'm a chick (I guess or whatever), I suspect they assumed that I simply wasn't strong enough to shut the valve since I had told them I tried that, so they sent the maintenance man over. Now, mind you, I was in the peak of my physical fitness of my entire life but the assumption is still that women are weak (which I will use to my advantage whenever I can just to spit the absurdity of sexism). Well, surprise surprise, he couldn't shut the valve either but, unlike me, he was able to shut the water off to the entire building. He did devise an ingenious way to reroute the water to the drain until the next day when he replaced the valve. It took another day to get the hot water heater and it was winter or else I wouldn't care all that much. What I did was to boil a huge pot of water and then mix it with the cold water available through the tap so I could take a bath. It made a pretty damn warm bath so it worked.

[@0oumakun]

i wasn't expecting to hear about "age gap" fanfiction on this podcast today, and yet 10/10 A+

[@carnivorousjazz827]

wtyppod but every time justin says "Yes." liam gets further from his mic

[@huntermorgan4201]

Lol, extremely underrated comment

[@CatFish107]

Yo, the helmsperson is the lowliest position on the bridge of a ship. They are virtually a meat puppet. The helmsperson holds zero responsibility. The captain/master would have been on the bridge, and entirely responsible for the vessel. There would have also been a local pilot onboard, only being responsible as an "advisor", but in practice, giving all the commands to the helmsperson.

[@CatFish107]

again, it's not the guy with the wheel (the worker) who determines what is done with that wheel. It's the fucking captain / pilot (management). Alice, quit shitting on labour.

[@alicecaldwell-kelly9530]

@@CatFish107 oops sorry

[@CatFish107]

@@alicecaldwell-kelly9530 All good. My comment was a bit hyperbolic, just thought that bit could use a correction. Keep up the good work!

[@hinzster]

I can explain the Georgia rhinoceros: somebody said to the guy creating those challenge coins "we thought long and hard about animals native to Georgia that we want to protect, and all we came up with was the rhinoceros beetle", to which the reply was "Rhinoceros? Got you, fam!"

[@nerdywolverine8640]

was looking for this!

[@Cinerary]

I like the idea that the route Roz drew was actually the captain of the ships actual route cuz he had rapid onset dementia along with all of his crew and he’s like, “ok we’re going somewhere here, eh close enough. No wait we gotta go to that other place which is like, around this area”

[@moonbeast1312]

His name is Liam, and he is burdened with glorious parcels

[@FionaOfMountLawley]

It hasn't been mentioned yet at the 27 minute mark, but it's not the first time that the Ever Given has been involved in an incident with circumstantial similarities. Slightly over two years ago, in February 2019, it collided with and heavily damaged the Finkenwerder, a 25-metre-long (82 ft) ferry boat, at Blankenese, near the harbour of Hamburg. Two minutes after the collision, a traffic ban on the Elbe river was mandated due to high winds.The Elbe is also an important water transport route, and winds were a contributing cause. The Golden class container ships, which it is an example of seem to have a problem with controllability in close proximity to other craft or where there's anything else it can run into when there is wind.. Considering the Ever Given went in service in September 2018, it's racking up a pretty dire safety record very quickly.

[@Eibarwoman]

Several Great Lakes freighters before sinking were known for dismal safety records such as the Henry Steinbrenner (two collisions one of which was a sinking and salvaged, then foundered in Lake Superior), the Carl Bradley ran aground multiple times in the year where the ship split in two and sank.

[@Deimonik1]

I had a dream once where bald ducks pecked me to death because they wanted their feathers back from my comfy duck feather pillow.

[@dejjal8683]

Just to make Liam happy, Wawa is aggressively pushing north through New Jersey fighting Quickcheck along the way. Poor 7-Eleven will not survive this war.

[@khan_k]

Eyyy, my ADHD ass almost forgot you guys existed. Nice to see it's back.

[@Sir.Craze-]

Makes and sound like smoking weed. Good god I wish.

[@twothreebravo]

Fun Fact: One of the first ships to transit south from the Great Bitter Lake after the Suez Canal reopened was the Ever Golden a sister ship to the Ever Given. Captain's Orders: "Don't fuck this up. Don't fuck this up. Please Don't fuck this up."

[@SImrobert2001]

Just think, that captain missed the opportunity for the most hilarious practical joke ever. (Edit: Alice got to it before me. )

[@RubyofTrinity]

A Safety Third adjacent anecdote. The house I grew up in was built by a lovely gentleman renowned for his LACK of contracting skill. If there was a corner to cut, he would shave it off. The sheer volume of mishaps we encountered in the first year of living in that house defies description. In order to keep things relevant, I will limit myself to the water-related shenanigans. - The hoses connecting the washing machine to the taps were metric (the house was in PA), and consequently too large. They sprayed all over like something out of Looney Tunes the first time mom tried to do laundry. Thank heaven we had put up waterproof wallpaper. (look it was the late 80s) - Related to the above. The water hookup wasn't very tight. It leaked for 25yrs into the subfloor without us knowing. We only found out when we tore up the linoleum to install hardwood floors and discovered a soft spot immediately in front of the back door. Thank god, no one fell through. - Turns out the pressure regulator for the water coming into the house wasn't engaged. You could see the floorboards buck when the kitchen sink was turned on, and taking a shower was like standing in front of an opened fire hydrant. - Related to the above, the pipe connecting our house to the city hookup was made of PVC plastic. It later cracked during the Blizzard of '93, causing our basement to flood. We had to rent a small backhoe and dig up the yard to replace the entire pipe. - Mom tried to open the dishwasher for the first time and the darned thing fell out of the cabinet, still in all its shrink wrap. It had never been installed. - Some genius had managed to screw the towel rack in the upstairs bathroom into the water main. That takes skill, people. That's all I can think of at the moment. Hope that gave you a giggle.

[@whoever6458]

It depends on what kind of women's shoes they are. If they're just tennis shoes, then it's no big deal unless you can't find any wide enough for your foot (often my problem with them). If it's any kind of fancy shoe, then there is this inexplicable assumption that women's feet are incredibly pointed at the toe so what ends up happening is your toes get continually jammed into the ridiculous point on the shoe, which only gets worse as the hell gets higher. Then, with any sort of high heel, your risk of spraining your ankle or doing yourself other sorts of bodily harm increases as the heel gets higher. I tried it once when I was a kid trying to be more like an adult and that was the last time I ever wanted a pair of shoes with a high heel again because I did sprain both ankles and finally decided to walk on the stupid stalking which go which these sorts of shoes, which are also a ridiculous kind of sock. I would have potentially made the deal if all I had to do was wear women's tennis shoes that I found comfortable but the bottom line is that there are few things more important than a supportive and comfortable shoe since the alignment of the rest of your body depends on the shoes on the bottom of your feet while you're walking around. Most women's shoes are uncomfortable though so if you don't get to try the on first or even know what sort of shoes they are, I'd cancel that deal too.

[@gNatflaps]

i once lived in an apartment, where the old steam heater produced such loud water hammer that it shook the floor. i think i measured it and it peaked at like 100dB (for reference, the point at which OSHA requires hearing protection is 85dB) Luckily I got my landlord to turn the heater off entirely, as well as managing to not set myself on fire with the space heater i used all winter in lieu of it. Very glad this episode didn't come out until after I moved out of that place, although honestly i could probably submit my own safety 3rd about how much of a death trap that place was.

[@whoever6458]

So another troll that new fire fighters are often subjected to is, when you have to memorize where to get each tool on the fire engine, someone asks you where the water hammer is. Water hammer is the potentially destructive force caused by a lot of water going down a pipe all at once, which is why you should always turn the fire hydrant on slowly instead of blasting it on as fast as you can. I say, troll them back by telling anyone who asks you where the water hammer is on the engine that it's not on the engine but in the fire hydrant itself. They will be confused, which is how they wanted you to feel when you were asked the water hammer question with regards to where this "tool" is found on the engine. So you elaborate by saying that turning on the hydrant too fast can result in basically a tsunami of water flowing all at once down the hoses, which causes damage, so the water hammer is found in the source of the water and one's objective is to not use it when fighting fire. That will be the day you pass your "where is is on the fire engine" test.

[@whoever6458]

In Mount Shasta, California, there is this hardware store called "Do It." They have many different things sold under their brand name, like Do It Wood, Do In Nails, etc. I thought it was the funniest thing in all of Mount Shasta when I was there and it's actually a pretty good hardware store considering how small the town is there. If anyone ever gets the chance, it's totally worthwhile to visit Mount Shasta because the volcano is amazing and the water is the best I've ever tasted right from the tap because it comes off of the glaciers. The only time I wouldn't recommend going there is if (and when) the volcano is erupting but vulcanologists don't seem to think that's going to happen in the near future.

[@philiproszak1678]

Nice tip! Thanks

[@satelliteexile2089]

I remember this Batman episode, who could forget when Adam West said "Some days you just can't get rid of 14,000 tons of fly ash", absolute classic TV

[@blackvulture6818]

Dang, we blew our cover, time to inform president Assad of the change of plans

[@davidl6558]

Speaking to over-pressured boilers, I had the displeasure of being on an EMS response to a boiler explosion after Hurricane Irene. A residence had utility workers on the scene. As their crew walked down the stairs into the basement, the boiler burst, spraying the whole basement with steam and at least partly collapsing the stairs. Two utility technicians received burns severe enough to get flown to a burn center. Don't mess around with boilers.

[@joshuahadams]

Iirc boiler explosions were what really screwed a lot of early 20th century warships, if the magazine didn’t catch fire. Cold water getting at a hot boiler caused thermal shock, the metal in the pressure vessel gave way, and you don’t have to worry about it being on fire anymore. That or a shell or torpedo hit the boiler and it just bust from the shockwave or a hole blown through it.

[@condorscondor]

That safety third is the most diy dad shit.

[@willyroof1]

Got here just in time to listen while enjoying morning coffee

[@goodluck5642]

same fam

[@deeznoots6241]

*asks for better writing for safety third* *shocked when people start to write full novels*

[@thomasgray4188]

Ok I'm at 5:49 I'm in college having lunch after an open book test and Somone just drove a batmobile style 3 wheel car past the window in full view of everyone and for some reason only i seem to have noticed it?

[@grmpEqweer]

They're called a Polaris Slingshot.

[@thomasgray4188]

@@grmpEqweer looked it up yep looks like Somone took one and went huh this would make a good batmobile.

[@ThePlayerOfGames]

3:50 Having a nightmare about being arrested for podcasting that ends up in a dawn raid is just the lived reality of UK 2021

[@Fullchristainname]

This episode is giving me flashbacks to when I would try to get my college roommates to pick up after themselves.

[@kiyote437]

If you want a floating technical, look up naval trawlers and armed yachts. It's exactly what it sounds like: a trawler or yacht with a 20mm Oerlikon AA gun on it. The Royal Canadian Navy used them quite a bit during WWII, as did many other navies.

[@stevendaleschmitt]

some folks have a penchant for contradicting anything that they get 'told', and the less they know about it the more contradictory or suspicious they can be...they only survive life because they so rarely make an independent decision that matters..

[@Jetsetlemming]

Dang that boiler situation was truly scary. Especially since I lived in a house where the pipes knocked for like six years as a kid. Probably for the best that I DIDN'T know I was sitting on a bomb that whole time, I suppose.

[@effluviah7544]

I wrote a Transformers fan fiction about the Ever Given, because I wanted it to transform into a huge goddamn robot because it would be awesome, but there's no sex in it, so I'm safe and didn't do the bad thing. Thumbs up!

[@christopherclukey8849]

After all the ”Don't send us anthrax" bits on previous episodes, hearing Liam complain about the Anthrax CD made my morning. In fact, it almost caused a coffee related Safety Third because I laughed so hard. To whoever sent it I say: You are the man, you're so bad you should be in detention. 😅

[@segarallychampionship702]

1:12:15 Reminds me of the new waste burning facility in my hometown and how the city and the waste management subsidiary of the city did an entire PR circus on how "it's clean" and "we're turning waste into energy" and how that somehow turns into clean energy and how it's so efficient that nothing gets into the atmosphere (which might in the end be true but any ash you collect from a filter still has to be disposed of somehow, and also there's still a possibility of it becoming airborne), and then you open the datasheet for the plant and in the "accepted waste" column it allows pretty much anything except hazmat/bio waste containing hazmat and non-combustible materials. Which includes things like glue, industrial waste, textile waste incl. synthetics, plastic, electronics and general (unsorted) waste. Waste not accepted is only numbered and not written, so you have to look up another datasheet to figure out what you _can't_ send there.

[@schnoodle3]

The other flyash related disaster is the thousands of miles of newly laid highways in the US which self destructed within a couple years of being laid. This was due to the EPAs and US DOT mandated use of flyash in the concreate as a way of using up waste ash from coal power plants. Many roads started developing cracks and spalling within months of being laid and had to be completely torn up and redone coasting billons

[@dakunssd]

Do you have a link or reference for that? Because googling it, I only found references to the test studies conducted on using coal flyash as a cement supplement and no reference to failures caused by flyash specifically. I work in landscaping, and am studying to be a engineer, and I never heard that using flyash as a supplement can cause cracking and spalling, specifically. Inproper mixtures, cheaping out on cement quality and content, thermal expansion and contraction, inproper compaction, improper hardening due to climatic factors etc, all of those things cause cement to erode. I read in one of the study headers that they were testing mixtures up to 80% flyash to cement, was that causing the problems? As an aside, I have never seen poured concrete pavement slabs that lasted beyond a few years in a high stress application like roadways or sidewalks. They always break and they always look ugly af.

[@schnoodle3]

@@dakunssd Look at "What went wrong with M-6, the poster child for concrete failure". I think I have some references if you need them.

[@dakunssd]

@@schnoodle3 I read the article, there was a reference to introducing fly ash/slag sand to the concrete mix but no indication that it caused the failures. Sounds more like inconsistent mixes, inadeaquate testing, and a contractor that decided to use concrete despite it sitting too long in the pout truck, probably to minimise loses; aka good old profit motive taking precedent over proper building. That's nothing new. Adding puzzolanic cements like fly ash and ceramic slag usually strengthens concrete and makes it more impervious to chemical degradation, Yeah, it's basically a poisonous waste product but I'd rather have it mixed to concrete than dumped. If you do have further references I'd like to see them, maybe there's something there I havent heard of yet. BTW I don't get why you guys in the US still build concrete slab roads at all. I live in Germany and nearly every streach of the Autobahn that used to be concrete slab has been replaced with high grade asphalt; precisely because of degradation and thermic expansion issues.

[@Rishnai]

@@dakunssdWe do love oil in the USA, but maintenance on asphalt roads requires consistency and skill. With a concrete road it’s equally awful for the lifetime of its bridge.

[@trainsbangsandautomobiles824]

For the safety 3rd part; Remember what AvE says, do NOT fuck around with pressure vessels!"

[@MrJimheeren]

That was a good episode. Never heard of it and it was a way better story then I expected. Hurrah for WTYP

[@spyone4828]

It's funny - I, too, hadn't heard of this (or had vague memories of it being in the news when I was too young to care about the news), but a TV show I like from the period kinda references it: a mobster owns a garbage disposal company and a recurring point is a barge of garbage that keeps moving around but can't unload anywhere, and eventually it comes back to his dock. And it turns out he's been using it to smuggle drugs, as nobody's thoroughly searching a boatload of garbage even if it did just go on a tour of drug-producing nations.

[@sithofdarkness8927]

Happy Passover Liam. Have a good day everyone else.

[@BadDriversofMaryland]

I just found this podcast and I have to listen to all the rest of the episodes but I do say I love the historical and present day educational content I get from listening to this. Being a Temple student studying city and regional planning, the more I know about the history of decisions made and their outcomes, the better prepared I will be when I have to make my own.

[@jackiepierce6314]

I once didn't pay my gas bill. I thought I might have a month to pay it but it got turned off by the gas company. So a few years before I bought a new hot water heater. My uncle installed it. The hot water heater was too big for it's space. So when the gas company came in to turn on the gas they had to check things out before turning on my gas said I couldn't use the oven since it didn't have a pilot light to turn it on, and my hot water heater wasn't connected properly to the hood (or what ever apperatice) so I'm getting CO2 in the house. Solved the problem by selling the house to the neighbor next door to my right, who knew all the problems and only boughtthe property so the company on the left wouldn't buy the property (I live in Houston, no zoning).

[@StarlightSocialist]

According to my calculations, the ash load is the result of 4.666 *_billion_* pounds of trash. Let's assume the trash has an average density close to that of water. Some sinks, most of it floats, but we compact it together until the density is 1. Let's further assume that we have a football field whose boundaries of play are surrounded by invisible walls of force. (I, of course, am referring to the football played in America.) 360 feet of freedom long, 160 feet wide, and 160 feet tall. Sixty two pounds of trash per cubic foot means we could fill one of those with garbage, then do it seven times more and there would _still_ be leftovers.

[@Davkanus]

Just in time to get me through my work shift. Love y'all! Thanks for the great content

[@briar9997]

It is six in the morning please why do you upload like this I will never sleep

[@eanmanley]

Because its 8 in the morning in PA

[@briar9997]

@@eanmanley that’s still too damn early in the morning in my, very nocturnal, opinion

[@vaporisedair4919]

Last time I was this early, the Tacoma Narrows bridge had just collapsed!

[@britishairsofter]

Also in terms of mothman. A while back they said mothman hadn't been seen outside of the United States. But there's a theory somewhere of mothman being seen at Chernobyl. But it's called the blackbird of Chernobyl if you are interested.

[@persbaderse]

there actually is a poop-related toy for kids on the market right now, it's a flamingo that poops slime into a see-through toilet???? i hate it, every time i see a commercial i'm like WHY