Well There's Your Problem | Episode 98: Penn Central (Part 1)

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[@FreeRadicalX]

No joke I've always thought that Alice has a really good podcasting voice. It's a distinct style and brand and it's great.

[@marcuswalters8093]

Admit it, you just like her 'cos she's English.

[@-Cece]

Luv her voice, it's ASMR to me

[@alexmuller6752]

alice just overall great voice. creams my ears. yes, justin great authoritative voice i just can't help but believe everything he says. yay, liam very great unstable madness heart of gold voice. gotta love him.

[@PMickeyDee]

She reminds me of a British Bea Arthur, very mellow and soothing

[@cfredrics]

She’s Scottish. Not English.

[@LordMangudai]

42:58 "Lee went on to do PR for illustrious groups like Standard Oil, the DNC, Bethlehem Steel, and of course the National Socialist German Workers' Party" these sorts of deadpan Rocz deliveries are what I come back to this podcast for, please never change

[@AGenericMoron]

Yes.

[@25usd94]

“Yes.”

[@mikez354]

😅😅

[@xmlthegreat]

We'll get to that.

[@cfredrics]

Yes.

[@thearto]

11:30 If you're gonna call 'em "wheelie bins" instead of "garbage cans", don't be surprised when they start doing sick-ass stunts. Nominative determinism at work.

[@Pheonixco]

If they make wheelie bins, then do they make stoppie bins?

[@Altoclarinets]

@@Pheonixco Ollie bins

[@Alevuss92]

speech act theory

[@ClaudiaNW]

We are a very bin-oriented country in general

[@jackhanson1274]

It's hard to get in the skate-park with all the bins in there. They show up early and buy up all the day passes. Bastards.

[@NotJustBikes]

I'm glad you decided against ranking all of your previous guests by the sound of their sweet podcast voice. ... because they would all be angry at me when I won.

[@AllenSJ5]

Yes

[@tjbarke6086]

Sorry, Sean KB's belligerent New York accent is better.

[@ClaudiaNW]

@@tjbarke6086 *whispers* Squareheads

[@tjbarke6086]

@@ClaudiaNW That's OUR word!

[@CABOOSEBOB]

What episode were you on

[@Baumgardener]

As a business school grad I would also like to make the point that the curriculum heavily encourages a lack of empathy and abuse of your fellow man and the planet. One of the stories from one of my professors in Project Management involved a superfund site that he was the lead PM on that came in 6 months ahead of schedule and 10 million dollars under budget. What he won't tell you is that site is still poisoning many people which is statistically provable. He is proud of saving money for a private business, meanwhile thousands of people lives are made worse every day. Business school is evil learn trades instead. I am now happily self employed as a handy man and will never return to a corporate environment lest I treat the office much like that scene in wanted.

[@elfappo9330]

I dropped out of business school and became a lumberjack because I was so disgusted and jaded by the curriculum.

[@tabula_rosa]

my ex's business school associates program had a semester on strike breaking. I thought I was having a stroke

[@cookies23z]

can semi-confirm, was in business school for accounting, felt this awful dread, swapped to trying to become an electrician, much better, I dont want to die when I go to class (because I did some schooling before apprenticeship, even though that is arguably not optimal, but I had some school funding thing left behind by my grandma)

[@excitableboy7031]

Friend of mine went to business school in America, came out a communist.

[@caitlinblt7446]

I knew there was a reason I didn’t like business majors…

[@dmrr7739]

“The office of President of the Pennsylvania Railroad killed anyone who took it.” I guess you might call that a terminal station in life.

[@rhiannahmunjic8036]

Oh my god, get outta here! (delighted)

[@DiamondKingStudios]

Like the Pennsylvania Railroad, Atlanta’s Terminal Station down here in GA is also long gone. Before Hartsfield-Jackson, there was Terminal Station.

[@geoffreyentwistle8176]

I have to appreciate a pun that works on multiple levels... 😂

[@Kingsleyrulz]

"I'm not in a great mood" perfect start to a... I'm going to assume 6 hour podcast that's split in two.

[@cranktherider4302]

even better-- a (i assume) _nine_ hour podcast that's split in _three_

[@mikestanley2937]

They said 10 hours over 3 parts on twitter

[@cts006]

I can't wait for the bonus episode that was recorded directly after the last part.

[@R4baDader]

ten

[@SyntheticParanoia]

@@cts006 Loopy Roz dropping a random maniacal Joker laughter within the first 3 minutes in the recording of the bonus episode. That alone is worth way more than 2 dollars.

[@randythetool]

hell yeah team we did it, longer than every individual Marvel Cinematic Universe film. Great job gang.

[@thomasgiles2876]

Penn Central: Endgame

[@flametitan100]

And it's only part _1_

[@eleSDSU]

@@flametitan100 Penn Central: Inifinity war

[@sc149]

more consistantly enjoyable than any marvel movie thus far also.

[@lasschesteven]

The Nate Bethea extended universe is the superior extended universe

[@JulianSildenLanglo]

I was in London during this "Storm" and I've got to say it was pretty overrated. They just need to make England more rigid.

[@grmpEqweer]

...England was already pretty turgid. Manly. Standing erect, I thought.

[@ThePadawan3]

@@grmpEqweer Ah yes, as in the mythical Mull of Kintyre test.

[@robspecht9550]

“He wrote his Death Poem on a Stock Certificate” such a good line.

[@thomaspalazzolo5902]

For baiting Alice: "This structure was so flexible and malleable. It was a major issue. But no one could figure out how to deal with it. Oh well."

[@lukewest7216]

I love it when my podcast about engineering disasters is interupted by a corporate spy thriller starring all your favorite gilded age corporate actors fighting over a worthless airline in the 1960s

[@lrminer2024]

In which the pinkertons are somehow on the good side

[@lukewest7216]

@@lrminer2024 I think good is a strong word considering who the 'good guys' are. Less weird might be more accurate

[@franksonjohnson]

"When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side facing down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the two will hover, spinning, inches above the ground. With a giant buttered-cat array, a high-speed monorail could easily link New York and Chicago." -John Frazee, The Journal of Irreproducible Results Sorry I stumbled across this quote and swore I would copy pasta it on your next train episode sight-unseen 🚂

[@MyChannel773]

wonderful, no notes

[@platedlizard]

i grew up reading TJIR and that's a classic

[@Derpy-qg9hn]

Here's the real question: will the Buttercat HSMR operate as an AC or DC system?

[@emilyadams3228]

@@Derpy-qg9hn It'll be AC/DC, cos since it goes to New York and Chicago, it's an actual Highway To Hell.

[@DiamondKingStudios]

@@emilyadams3228So we make I-80 redundant.

[@nickduma3049]

The toilet flush on mic with no effort to edit it out after the fact really just solidifies that this podcast will forever spiritually remain in the wild west days of the internet when the entirety of content was just some dudes who got together with a DV Cam and the majority of podcasts were just made with Garage Band and a dream. At this point I would probably be upset if a competent producer cleaned up this beautiful mess :D

[@georgemachappy]

"So it just so happened that someone in the meeting was a double agent for Pan Am" is possibly the juiciest thing I've heard on this podcast in a hot minute

[@ididthisonpulpous6526]

Your discussion of coupling car technology in the 1960s reminds me of my uncle who worked in a rail yard in Arkansas at that time. He was working in a train yard and was working underneath a flat car when someone decided to couple that car while he was still working, unknown to him. He got lucky. He pulled one of his legs off the track, unfortunately he lost the other below the knee. He has worn a prosthetic leg ever since. He still gets around on it at age 89. He worked his whole life doing manual labor on a prosthetic leg. He also liked to freak people out with it. He once "tripped" in a whole in the trail and screamed "They've got me! They've got me!" and fell forward with his leg unfastened and crawled towards my cousins and I... Leg missing below the knee...

[@tibbygaycat]

Fucking legendary

[@LostSnowdrift]

>three hour runtime >(part 1) NOW **THIS** IS PODCASTING

[@25usd94]

Penn Central. What I Expected: Death by Privatization, truck, and anti competitive economics What I Got: The Curse of Protestantism, Fraud, Corporate Espionge, sex scandals, Goons, a failing not-airline, PINKERTONS

[@The52car]

Same

[@ewanhogg3068]

'Warrior's Heart' but the ICC he's singing about is the Interstate Commerce Commission instead of the International Criminal Court.

[@effluviah7544]

Three hours, three parts, FUCK YES. We can now link the episodes together and make a podcast train, the highest form of podcast.

[@themroc8231]

10:20 About storm Eunice. In 1999 me and my school buddies in France were like the second year of kids who didn't need to do 2 years of mandatory service in the army. Instead, we only had to show up for a single "citizen day" at a military base, where an officer who couldn't give a single f*ck would give us like a literacy test and a civic education sermon before sending us home. But you know: it was a single day to replace two years we had all been thinking all our lives we most definitely would have to do, so that day still felt SUPER important. But my buddy had a problem: the day before his day they announced on TV that there was going to be storm Lothar. a storm like we had never seen, something historical. So the morning after he prepared really early, and he went to take the train. He had to hold himself to the walls to be able to walk, and he was blown away a few times, while also avoiding all sort of debris that were flying through the streets and potted plants falling from the windows. Eventually he made it to the military base, where he rang a long time until a soldier came, who found him holding to the gate for dear life. When he made it inside, a bunch of soldiers told him what a dumb, stupid motherf*cker he was, so f*cking dumb that he was literally the only guy to show up of like 3 or 4 hundreds who were supposed to be there that day. Only the officer seemed impressed: he told him that if there ever was a proof that he was made for the army, that was it (his gay, anarchist ass was utterly unconvinced). Long story short: the train he had taken was about the last one to run the line that day and some electric cables fell later, which meant he had to spend the night at the base. And then reconvene to come back at a later date to do his "citizen day" with all the others. Turns out the wind went as fast as 150 km/h that day (about 90 m/h). France basically stopped cutting wood for like 7 or 8 years after that, that's how much trees fell on that day.

[@quantumblur_3145]

This soldier belongs to God

[@thehaprust6312]

My mom named her cats after railroads. She had Chessie (see my icon) and Denver, but her favorite was Erie Lackawanna.

[@tombirkland]

I had a cat named Chessie for the same reason.

[@joshuagreen3185]

My dad's a model railroader who models the C&O, so our family pet growing up was named Chessie. One slight complication: Chessie was a chocolate lab, not a cat.

[@basedeltazero714]

... name cats after railroads. Brilliant!

[@thehaprust6312]

@@basedeltazero714 Trains good. Cats better.

[@kyleshape8645]

That's it, I'm naming my future cat "Dmir."

[@JM-fi7uc]

Roz is great because his monotone delivery makes me think I'm back in school and need to take notes.

[@adams3627]

He actually sounds EXACTLY like my old humanities professor.

[@tabula_rosa]

@@adams3627 he has big humanities teacher energy

[@OriginalPineapplesFoster]

But then he giggles, and somehow it's entirely disconnected from whatever he's just said in that humanities-teacher voice. Truly a marvel. 🤔🍍

[@bobsmith2637]

The biggest and best railcar theft scheme from this time was perpetrated by an Illinois short line called the LaSalle & Bureau County. Their reporting mark was LSBC, or "Let's Steal Boxcars".

[@sammosaurusrex]

Alice you have a beautiful podcasting voice, don’t let pesky internalized negative thoughts bring you down, we all love you. Yay Liam and also Yay Alice

[@lyndonwesthaven6623]

I and Fruitymilktoast heartily endorse this statement. Alice's voice has drawn me across three podcasts, and I'm not about to pretend it's only about her personality.

[@artstsym]

Alice you have a beautiful podcasting voice, and also you cheered for the Rams so we're mortal enemies now.

[@Synthetica9]

Alice's "hmm" is the stuff of legends

[@radicalrazel9156]

@@Synthetica9 Alice's "hmm" is managing to keep my shattered attentionspan focused on this absolute gem of a podcast for this 10-hour Penn Central bit

[@25usd94]

Agree

[@ciceronincheese7195]

As a Southwest Ohioan, WTYP slamming the blatant ref interference in favor of the Rams is validating AF, and I agree, it is in many ways Middle America's 9/11. The Bengals winning the superbowl could have cured Ohio's depression for like a year at least.

[@ciceronincheese7195]

@@EmeraldLavigne The weak will perish

[@AsbestosMuffins]

@@EmeraldLavigne Counterpoint: How's the climate change going? Ohio is pretty safe from forest fires, hurricanes, massive floods, though we get the baking heat and occasional tornado

[@xmlthegreat]

Alice's "I do speak German!" was a satisfying conclusion to the Liam character arc. She will now be marched in front of a ZSU-23-4 after Jay. But the gun crew set the convergence so far that all four streams of 23mm Cannon shells miss Jay and Alice and somehow hit Penn Station.

[@treyandoss3056]

I really wished Liam had re-retorted with "ok but you don't HAVE to!" as that would have been perfection.

[@xmlthegreat]

@@treyandoss3056 nah. That sounds more like cope/seethe/mald

[@MeonLights]

Alice's comment about the Railroad Marriage being a marriage you'd have a Mountain Goats song about is a thing of beauty. What a galaxy brain thought.

[@DiamondKingStudios]

High on a hump yard lived a lonely switchman …

[@himoffthequakeroatbox4320]

The podcast where they don't drift off topic, they drift onto it.

[@fern5505]

Yeah, with their salvage dinghy

[@TrashHeapCustodian]

Something I'll throw out Re: Matt Farah and his burnt Porsche (lol) is that on his pod he has talked about it a little, he's basically bummed he has to wait even longer for it (he's been waiting since like August or some shit) and is just happy nobody got hurt cuz cars are replaceable. He's a pretty good dude tbh, probably one of the most left leaning car journos out there today which is a fuckin miracle in that field lol I also wanna go raid that boat for some fucking engines holy shit

[@porschelover04]

My dad was looking into ordering a 6-speed 718 Spyder... looks like it's time to look to the used market lmao

[@TrashHeapCustodian]

@@porschelover04 watch out for slight smoke and salt water damage lmao

[@joshuanishanthchristian5217]

Maybe it's just the channels I watch but somehow most of the Car Enthusiasts/Journos I follow online are left-leaning. Several are even quite pro-public transport.

[@marianeptune7321]

@@joshuanishanthchristian5217 yeah being pro public transport makes sense since commuting in a V8 mustang kinda means you just waste money and never have fun

[@saber1105]

Roz waking up: *Slaps roof of podcast* "This baby can handle 3 hour episodes like a champ."

[@tomhsia4354]

Hoo boy, are you in for a surprise. This isn't merely a two-parter...

[@deeznoots6241]

Only this podcast can reduce a viewers brain to a soup-like homogenate in 3 hours

[@KrakenEggs]

love it when the 3 hour episode is part 1

[@JulianSildenLanglo]

It's a three parter!

[@joearnold6881]

Liam flushing his toilet at us should become a recurring segment.

[@capsjukebox]

It should be clipped to replace the bleep used for Liam’s actionable threats

[@moshedayl3064]

Call RM Brown because Liam be flushing Toilets

[@jonathanveach369]

Steamed ham!

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

It wouldn't be a podcast with Liam unless he made sure everyone paid some attention to his bowel/bladder movements. These bits pop up with surprising regularity for someone who seems to have an otherwise chaotic bathroom experience.

[@DiamondKingStudios]

@@jonathanveach369[twangy guitar riff] “Shake hands with danger!”

[@marinary1326]

When Alice said "I'm not gonna make that joke," I thought to myself, "but Liam probably would". All members of the podcast are vital! Anyways, more planes than I thought there would be in this train company episode.

[@whoever6458]

I'm with you all about not being in a great mood. I have COVID for the fucking second time and it's going nearly as poorly as before despite the vaccine (although I'm hoping I'll at least either get better more quickly or die quickly this time) and I have my goddamn period on top of that (which would explain why my immune system was lowered enough for me to actually get sick). I also agree with Liam that Alice is gorgeous! Hope you can get the pain in your tooth taken care of. Something that my dentist told me when I was a physic fail kid and accidentally dropped a giant jawbreaker from Disneyland on my front teeth was that you can crush up pain killer, sprinkle it on a piece of gum, and use the gum to stick the powdered pain reliever directly to your broken tooth. He had no way to taking care of my broken tooth for two days and this method worked really well for that time. Anyway, hope you feel better soon.

[@minikawildflower]

alice is bae (as the youth say)

[@MrJimheeren]

I hope you feel better soon

[@SolarFlareAmerica]

get well soon homie

[@BrownEyePinch]

Thanks for sharing

[@revolutionaryatheart3831]

wait what how come the first corroboration that the immune system is lowered during your period comes in the comments of this of all things I can literally demonstrate that when I get sick it’s always during my period and people were like “no that’s not a thing just a coincidence” well thank you for confirming that I’m not insane and also hope you indeed got better in the elapsed 3 months

[@John73John]

Talking about trains? Over 3 hours long and it’s only part 1? Did I die in that tunnel fire last week, and this is heaven?

[@jeffh5077]

Welcome to Valhalla

[@robswan4170]

This is the best engineering podcast with slides on KZbin by far

[@MrThehoyce]

"No one wants to fight a pitched battle over a failing not-airline" has me laughing so hard I'm crying...

[@TaylorAlexander]

Regarding business school: I simultaneously studied mechanical engineering and business in school (don't worry, I dropped out of all of it) but I remember taking differential equations at the same time I took some business classes and at one point the business class teacher was like "okay we're going to do some equations but don't freak out", and then proceeded to write "Revenue - Cost = Profit" and all the students are either moaning or diligently taking notes. And I was thinking "That's not an equation, that's arithmetic." Anyway, fake school for joke people is right.

[@AbsolXGuardian]

35:00 dah fuck, APUSH just skipped Tom Scott's involvement in the end of Reconstruction, probably because it comes very out of left field and that aspect is limited in scope. But it's insane to think that the end of reconstruction was the result of a scheme set in motion by a train guy

[@OriginalPineapplesFoster]

Wait, is there more than one Tom Scott or did I somehow completely miss this achievement? 😕🍍

[@OriginalPineapplesFoster]

Okay I should have just waited and listened. Carry on. 😝🍍

[@riinak7212]

1:33:55 That's the one thing you *need* to have to run a railway: A great track record.

[@wavesnbikes]

Conrail Disptacher and CSX Locomotive Engineer Rodney Kantorski, would be an excellent guest for Part Three. He's the GREATEST FAN of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

[@doimoi958]

I think bsquicklehausen mentioned him in this episode

[@grabenkumpel9317]

A small part of me hopes one of yous guys might actually read this unimportant comment Finally a new episode of my favourite podcast dropped. what with me recently realizing that i have severe depression you guys are among the things that keep me from loosing my mind. i know i shouldnt do a parasocial, but you guys and this podcast have me looking forward to something between periods of feeling miserable. Be it Rocz being chill and just wanting to talk about interesting stuff, Alice derrailing the conversation and being funny, and Liam (yay liam!) going on those rants every now and then, you guys not only keep me from going off the deep end, but your podcast also is what turned me into a full blown leftist and made me learn to reflect on major social issues that prior to that would just have blown past me. I almost never leave a review to anything so the fact that your Pod managed to get me to write this novel of a text means a lot and i wish every one of you, despite how shitty things are at the moment, a wonderfull day and salutations. Rock on you wonderfull people!

[@douglasboyle6544]

I'm not going to say "Cheer up" or dumb shit like that since I too suffer from serious depression and know that shit like that is meaningless, but what I will say is you're not alone and there's no reason to hate yourself when you've got "The Podcast That Hate's You Back!" 😉

[@grmpEqweer]

Depression sucks. You don't. It'll pass, even if it feels momentarily permanent. ❤️

[@joearnold6881]

I have ADHD plus treatment resistant depression, both combined make it _very_ hard to accomplish anything, including getting f proper treatment. So I mean it when I say, Solidarity, comrade!

[@grabenkumpel9317]

​@@joearnold6881 ay man thanks. also got ADHD here so i know how fucked of a combination that can be. nothing like telling yourself "Im gonna clean the room prim and proper today" or something like that only to not be able to get yourself to do it and then put yourself down massively for it. only thing i really managed to quit is smoking a pack a day (working for a year as a geriatric nurse student during a pandemic is surprisingly depressing/stressfull, who would have thought), even if the flipside is that i have to use a vape to resist going back to cigs. but just knowing that im not alone and the general sense of solidarity is helping a lot. thanks comrades!

[@sakurakiyori]

Whatever keeps you above the ground, and out of grippy socks, is good.

[@synthmage00]

"swashbucklers on my dinghy" sounds **very** suggestive

[@huntermorgan4201]

I know a lot of stuff and I'm good at a lot of things. Still, I don't know if I'll ever reach the level of Justin around 1:40:00 explaining how moving goods by train works in the US by sketching train routes over, not a US map, but a still of a cartoon train yard. I love this podcast.

[@eleSDSU]

I love how we can have nice things, like this podcast, not Penn Central.

[@ThugShakers4Christ]

When I was 19, living in a state that wasn't too keen on workers comp, I was hammering stakes for horse stalls. I misaimed my swing, tore the flesh on the knuckles down to the tendon sheeth. I showed my supervisor, and he gave me a leather glove filled with tissues. He then showed me how to drives stakes with one hand and had me finish my shift.

[@thehaprust6312]

"The law of salvage is a principle of maritime law whereby any person who helps recover another person's ship or cargo in peril at sea is entitled to a reward commensurate with the value of the property salved." In practice such things are a little more complicated that just "FRIST!"

[@thehaprust6312]

@@BravoCharleses I think you missed.

[@drjustin84]

someone’s getting pinned

[@ZealothPL]

By the ancient rite of "dibs", it is mine now.

[@ThePlayerOfGames]

@@ZealothPL I have licked it (the boat), it is mine now!

[@DeadWhiteButterflies]

The storm destroyed our local big tree in Bude, in the town square. Came right down. That tree was 150 years old. Practically a landmark. Everyone in the area's been heartbroken by it. Used to hang Christmas decorations from it every year. There's talk of making a bench to put there in memory of it, presumably from the poor thing's corpse.

[@ssgtmole8610]

"Pennsylvania goes all the way to Nebraska," makes sense if you side with the original state borders that claimed some of the western borders of those states went all the way to the Pacific Ocean. The people in NYC being pissy about Upstaters in Albany being clueless, would have nothing on people in San Francisco being pissy about Eaststaters in Richmond.

[@neptunium7121]

Well, its wednesday 8.15 pm just finished a Dostojevski book which makes me feel like a 19th century anarchist ready to blow up a factory, its wtyppod to the rescue. Oh wait its 3 hrs long and dear Alice is not in a great mood. *proceeds to listen*

[@TheLolzKnight]

Every podcast host here has a voice I find enjoyable and appealing. No more, no less. Pissed is also a mood right now for me, so take that as reinforcement. Good day

[@sammosaurusrex]

@1:57:48 I have long dreamed of a mod called “Capitalist Kings II” about American industry in the gilded age for exactly this reason, I’m glad you share my fantasy

[@falloutghoul1]

A 10-hour session about three guys and their obsession with Pennsylvania railroad system. And Alice.

[@sirrliv]

This is just beautiful. It's bringing together aspects for all of the past 97 episodes. This is the Avengers Endgame of WTYP. And though I of course hope the series continues for many more episodes, if this really is the grand finale, I couldn't think of a better way to say farewell.

[@MrJimheeren]

I’m going to be pretty depressed if this is the end of my favorite podcast of all time. I give these guys 10$ per month. Every week when I see them in my feed I feel a happy. There are so many more disasters in this world that need to be discussed. I’m sorry WTYP can’t stop for the foreseeable future

[@sirrliv]

@@MrJimheeren Same here. And I doubt it actually is the end. But if they gotta go, this is certainly going out in style.

[@sarapocorn]

The idea of this pod ending has me unlock a new fear. oh no

[@Aquatarkus96]

The have explicitly denied that on twitter thankfully!

[@josephmiele2277]

Um watcha got there? Pennsylvania Railroad: (stocks guns in train station) a smoothie

[@BlarryOfficial]

Oh God, please don't end the podcast on the 100th episode. I'm scared. :(

[@hpwb]

The Boston Molasses flood will be after this one I assume so at least 101 episodes :)

[@whatsoperadoc7050]

They won’t quit. They need the money for beer. Speaking of which, be sure to pay your $2 so you can listen to the bonus episode about beer.

[@sirrliv]

I hope they don't too. I doubt they will. But if they do, this is the way to go. This is their Avengers Endgame.

[@BlarryOfficial]

I mean, making a nine-hour three-part episode, to end at 100, feels threateningly like a swansong :/

[@jaysea5939]

I really want that episode about stadiums

[@alaeriia01]

The Unofficial Playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLyXq6Z6VI4euOOJBXOKC4bT6665OsTsX6 Contains every WTYP in order.

[@dorianhinkle5595]

Thank you so much!

[@ReganSmash33]

2:49:25 Quick aside but in regards to Linda Vaughn and Hurst Performance, whose legacy has had a impact on the motorsports and our society as a whole. First off, Hurst Performance is known of two different products, the first being their brand of gear shifters, the hurst shifter which have became a classic mainstay design in the world of muscle cars. As well of a inotivate hydraulic-extrication rescue tool which would become a mainstay in use by firefighters and rescue personally worldwide, the "Jaws of Life". In addition, Linda Vaughn herself is a significant figure in the world of Motorsports as the "First Lady of Motorsports" and is one of the few women to leave a impact on the world of motorsports.

[@johncolbert]

As much as I hate to use the term, it is hard to overstate just what an "alpha" move it was that Lassiter had Linda Vaughn for girlfriend/mistress. Anybody who was around and half-way into just about any form of racing at that time still remembers Linda Vaughn.

[@scaredyfish]

Welcome to ‘Well there’s your problem’ a podcast about engineering disasters, with slides. I’m Justin Roczniak, the person who’s talking right now; my pronouns are he and him. Okay go! I’m Alice Caldwell-Kelly, the person who is talking now; my pronouns are she/ her. Yay Liam! Yay Liam! I’m Liam Anderson, the person who is talking now. My pronouns are he/him.

[@ClaudiaNW]

Every time

[@RebMightyMouse]

I love Liam's "That's 1200-1500 miles, right?" in the background at 28:16 - good job flexing the fact you just learned on the DonkCast.

[@steemlenn8797]

3:11 PART 1 That's what I am here for. Ranting of train fans about a train company for half a day. Let's go!

[@sidexrulz2006]

56:28 Cairo, IL wikipedia: 1 History 1.1 Beginnings 1.2 Post-war prosperity 1.3 Lynchings 1.4 Economic decline 1.5 Racial tensions and further decline 1.6 Current status Sounds fun.

[@shindenfighter3303]

W-w-why does lynchings go AFTER the wwii?

[@sidexrulz2006]

@@shindenfighter3303 nah, post war as in the Civil War

[@shindenfighter3303]

@@sidexrulz2006 aaaah okay. Ooof, thanks haha Guess my euromind got me again and i defaulted to wwii. But as shitty it is, at least ot fots the era

[@dkbmaestrorules]

THREE parts? Finally, the WTYP full-body experience we've been waiting for 👌

[@Cptn.Viridian]

Ah yes, Bsquiklehausen, the only person with an equally impressive cities skylines upload schedule as Donoteat!

[@grmpEqweer]

Toothache treatment: Brush teeth with salt paste. Wash out salty mouth and spit with choice of grain alcohol, 80 proof. (Extra alcohol taken internally, optional) Then get anti-sensitivity toothpaste and go see a dentist asap. Feel better, Alice ❤️

[@Sir.Craze-]

Just some good old fashioned mouthwash will do wonders at a chemistry level IF it's not gone fully absesed. We've made a lot of progress since salt paste and alcohol. BUT, a pure cleaner like alcohol will work in an emergency, and may be better at pure cleaning alone. It's just that it's not going to remineralize your teeth or protect against future cavities like a fluoride mouthwash

[@grmpEqweer]

@@Sir.Craze- Oh, for regular use I use a fluoride, whitening, sensitive-teeth toothpaste. The above is just for toothache. It tastes horrible.

[@Crobisaur]

"I'm not in a great mood" big friggin same, Alice

[@Crobisaur]

Also, why does the Penn Central logo look like the OCP logo from Robocop!?

[@Full_Otto_Bismarck]

"England got it worse than Scotland" About fookin time.

[@iMacThere4iAm]

Excuse me, a THREE PART EPISODE? It's already 3 hours and that's just PART ONE! Amazing.

[@fern5505]

Welcome to Well There’s Your Problem, it’s a podcast about American football, with slides

[@Bureaucromancer]

Does anyone else unironically think that a Paradox style railroad grand strategy game would actually be incredible? Railroad tycoon with heavy doses of Rails Across America and Crusader Kings in other words...

[@robsox1701]

Man, a The Smoking Tire/WTYPP is the crossover I didn’t know I needed, but now want.

[@charlesbradley9166]

Need a 10hr loop of Liam saying "Sieze It"

[@400islands9]

It’s MY sleepover and I get to decide what series we watch…

[@discoj7112]

When Alice starts talking about sexy voices and I suddenly realize how sexy her voice is... Why did you do this to me?

[@ClaudiaNW]

Her voice is definitely very sexy. I've always thought so! And speaking as another British trans girl with a mildly posh accent, I also feel validated

[@georgeadams5390]

Is everyone related to this show trans

[@grantus_pax]

@@georgeadams5390 damn, i've been clocked >.>

[@marinary1326]

Glad you have joined the enlightened listeners who have a great appreciation for Alice's voice. Feel free to also join the Yay Liam's Voice and Well There's Your Roz's Voice fanclubs!

[@MrJimheeren]

Alice is awesome don’t get me wrong. But I wouldn’t say she has a sexy voice, her accent is all over the place, and because she didn’t do any voice training well, she sounds like a transwomen

[@KerbalRocketry]

no speedometers because if you don't know how fast you're going you can't be fined for speeding

[@platedlizard]

Alice has a face for video and a voice for podcasting, best of both worlds imo.

[@kv4302]

Alice, we have to talk. Do not ever feel bad for marketing guys. If they made a logo that no one gets, they get sent to the gulag on the edge of the habitable zone, gluing rocks back together using water they're not allowed to drink, until the end of their days.

[@unistrut]

In my high school shop class for our final exam we watched the Stallone classic "Over The Top" as my shop teacher had a brief appearance in it as an extra.

[@liaevans4483]

Yess, 3 hours, part one, I'm ready for the (good) torture

[@Brusselpicker]

9:50 They're not smoke machines, it's just 5 people vaping on the bridge and blowing it out the windows.

[@_curcan1109]

Based and Railpilled

[@DED_MEEM]

The Goddamn News on the next one is gonna be fukken WILD.

[@edwardzita3479]

2:55:40 Bevin logic is actually genius so that he won't let anyone blackmail him except himself.

[@MAnthony8586]

When you start the video and immediately hit like cuz your real friends are finally visiting again 🙃

[@atn_holdings]

oh yeah heck yeah can't wait to get into this one I've been super interested in Penn Central/Conrail for a while and ended up reading two books about it to explore the counterfactuals and the conclusion I got was: Within a market that was fundamentally shrinking outside the control of Penn Central, they were actually stuck between a rock and a hard place as inflation pushed their costs up and a politicized ICC refused to let them cut services and raise rates proportionately to the shrinking of the market and the cost augmentations. Massive mismanagement and corruption didn't help either, and it's arguably what's responsible for a massive initial overbuilding and duplication of services between the parent lines. The nationalization gave the excuse to bypass the ICC and cut the massively overduplicated network down to the demand that was remaining after the flight of the industry to the south and the rising market share of the unfairly subsidized highways. A process that, lacking a cogent industrial transpo policy on the national stage, proved to be the only playbook that could salvage railroads within a managed decline that is broadly speaking not really their fault. For all I know that could be a bunch of neolib propaganda. I don't have time to listen just now, leaving it here for now and very interested to see how the pod lays it out!

[@michaelpineiro533]

I was taught that Safety Third by a man who had just one thumb.

[@Eric_Hunt194]

First slide: love how in the painting of the riot, there's just some dude walking his dog seemingly oblivious to the chaos around him.

[@slytown]

I had a similar experience in shop class. I was sanding a box top on a belt sander. When my top slipped through the crack between the belt and the platform I suddenly saw red stuff on the ground. The shop teacher wasn't happy. Luckily I only got a deep abrasion and small scar.

[@ESToomere]

My obscure knowledge is finally paying dividends. Vehicles are generally declared hazardous as per UN3166 (fuel/gas-powered) or UN3171 (battery-powered), except when declared as SP961 in which case the batteries are disconnected and engines ran until the vehicle stalls. In both cases the batteries will still remain in the vehicle.

[@robk7266]

It's my sleepover, so I get to pick the movie

[@bobsmith2637]

Penn Central baby! Greatest railroad in the world for 55 years straight. Empties east empties west and there ain't nothin wrong with that!!!

[@callmeprettybaby]

Alice, don’t feel bad. As a fellow trans woman, I actually ADORE your voice.

[@ClaudiaNW]

Same

[@callmeprettybaby]

@@ClaudiaNW *hugs* didn’t realize that had been the second time you’d replied to meeee. 🏳️‍⚧️

[@ClaudiaNW]

@@callmeprettybaby In fact I'm a British trans girl who's still closeted irl from everyone but a few family/close friends (and somewhat well known in my professional field under my male deadname) and my voice is somewhat like Alice's. Also I'm older than any of the WTYP hosts by a couple of years. Yay for very late transition

[@ClaudiaNW]

Btw I hope my comment on the other thread wasn't weird or inappropriate. I'm sorry if it was

[@callmeprettybaby]

@@ClaudiaNW girl, you are SO fine!! Not weird or inappropriate to me at all, and I’ll freely admit my pursuit of Rocz and his chili is at least half earnest… as long as he wouldn’t mind two women, as I come with a +1. 😉 Regarding Alice’s voice, even though her range goes down pretty far, the way she speaks is quite musical to my ear, with lots of pitch and amplitude dynamism and changes in inflection. So, her voice doesn’t hit my ear as “masculine” at all, and I doubt yours would either 😊. I take inspiration from her, for sure. As for late transition, imho that just makes me think you’re incredible. I came out a few months after my 30th birthday, and then I started my transition a few months before my 31st. I just turned 32 last month. I spent my 20s trying to suppress myself or die trying. You’re a queen for having made it, and you deserve to be who you feel you are. As far as I’m concerned, make inappropriate comments on my comments all the time; I think it puts me in great company ♥️😁.

[@stmisbehavin662]

If you go to the Felicity Ace Wikipedia page, its status is listed as "Burning, February 2022"

[@nicholasbulgarino567]

As a B&O fan, I'm surprised you guys didn't touch on how the state of PA screwed over the B&O since they wanted to build to Pittsburgh first. The original B&O mainline was to go to Pittsburgh, but was rerouted to go to Wheeling because the state of PA didn't want to have Baltimore become a more important port than Philadelphia. The state of PA blocked the B&O from building into Pittsburgh but not allowing them to build in PA.

[@zeroone8800]

Maryland blocked the Pennsylvania from building to Washington. They had to find a loophole to build what is now the NEC from Baltimore to Washington and why it is not straight.

[@nicholasbulgarino567]

@@zeroone8800 that was retaliatory.

[@BrandonJudy]

by the end, if there wasn't a giant railroad logo i would've forgotten that this was about trains

[@bigzonks4393]

If I couldn’t see the length before clicking on the video, I think I could still guess its runtime reasonably well based on whether or not it starts with one of the hosts saying they’re in an awful mood and not ready to spend the next several hours talking.

[@robk7266]

I want to see Tom Scott's video on the least used station on the Pennsylvania Railroad

[@Pheonixco]

2:53:08 The more things change the more they stay the same. Reminds me of Pitchford of Gearbox infamy losing a usb drive of questionable porn+gearbox company (on the same drive!) info at a "Medieval Time" family buffet.

[@angusmillerable]

The deeply problematic teacher sticker wouldn't be a punisher logo, it would be a Mr. Terrific FAIRPLAY sticker.