Triforce! Mailbag Special #31 - The Shocking State of Trains

[@fuchsia_alone]

Pyrions spot on impression of Aussie border patrol tv shows is GOLDEN 😂

[@ViktorPradley]

Its really good isn’t it

[@asbestosispoison]

7:25 for context

[@durpanda123]

Pyrion's impressions are always the funniest sh*t. I love him sm.

[@emilyc8958]

It was brilliant

[@Khy._]

Oh man that Australia customs bit was so good and also accurate 😂😂 "when they opened up the sandwich, it was stuffed with cocaine" 😂 absolute gold

[@loucanscale1570]

I can't tell you how happy I am that they left there theme song in at the end.

[@Reik483]

Very excited for Triforce! Mailbag Special #32 - Das Kapital

[@adamjohnston529]

I wish triforce went for 2 to 3 hrs

[@serenno6045]

The outro theme reminds me of the Yogpod!

[@MichaelBrachais]

I gotta get the balls to send them an email of something just to possibly hear them ridicule me

[@Tarvi]

I laughed so hard at this episode. Between Pyrion’s accents and Louis faux pas - golden! Keep it up lads, loving the chatter as always.

[@TheMetallicBurrito]

Needed more of Pyrion's accents in my life

[@StealthNinjaBob]

The food cart story is the key and peele sketch about pushing the button at a crosswalk

[@WildWestRaider]

🎶Mailbag, its the Mailbag, it's the mothaf***in' Triforce Mailbaaaaag!🎶

[@levonleban6252]

Privatization of public services often yield more costly and less costumer friendly results.

[@cameronwilsey9334]

gasp

[@RedSntDK]

Especially when there's no competition. How on earth would one change water provider as an example? Here in Denmark we can change electricity provider, but it's so comical, like sure, some place 200 km from here, two islands away, is producing the power I'm using rn, riiight..

[@JurijsPastnieks]

​@@RedSntDK They just dump it in the collective grid and receive some quotas based on the amount generated and then sell you quotas based on your consumption.

[@svenrio8521]

29:00 kidnapped? Now they really are old men yelling at trains

[@iplaylol25]

Aww play the mailbag theme!? I loved it

[@aleksi2517]

Its the outro

[@iplaylol25]

​@@aleksi2517I wish it was intro I love that little tune makes me happy

[@Wolfencreek]

All glory to our benevolent leader He Who Makes The Sun Rise PyrionFlax

[@devinblox]

Nothing better than waking up to a new Triforce episode

[@Terinije]

Lewis: don't worry, Pyrion. You're one of the good balds.

[@LiamFuzzyBear]

I cannot believe the Dildonians are real

[@TheSofaBearKing1]

Gosh this was a banger of an episode, it's a shame it was so short

[@highvoltage7797]

Nationalise the trains along with everything else. Got to return to the post war consensus. Thatcher screwed this country over.

[@CaptainMainwaring-zv5iz]

That won't help. The number of rail passengers has doubled over the last 20 years. If you think nationalisation will solve anything, just take a look at the NHS. The problem is mass immigration.

[@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas]

@@CaptainMainwaring-zv5iz NHS issue is funding which Tories are responsible for under funding the NHS. And that is typically a conservative tactic under fund some government program say it does work to be able to build a case to privatize it. Which is what the Tories did with the rail system. Then they also give you scapegoat to blame all your problems on which is often people who don't look like you aka immigrants.

[@kdg8076]

only 46 min but LMAO this was gold. Keep it up lads

[@GalianMode]

Imagine living in a post-industrial society, but one wherein the service sector does not reinvest in itself. Collapse long overdue.

[@JohnReiher]

Did a check, British Airways is highly subsidized, so I'd expect the rest to be subsidized as well.

[@davidmarden4789]

I'm planning on going to the UK next year and there's no way I'm not renting a car to get around.

[@Senshify]

For someone who HATES Australia he sure does a good accent

[@Terinije]

It's vital for investors, who make increasing profits a part of c-suite exec bonus packages, who push for short-term good at the risk of longterm harm. They don't care if a business goes belly up in a decade if their plan is to cash out or get a golden parachute in five years.

[@ashton7981]

As a Canadian I'm surprised Sips didn't murder Pyrion on the spot for his pronunciation of Newfoundland

[@joelmiller1079]

please someone animate the australian border patrol sandwich interaction

[@XMysticHerox]

Rail in the UK has been an absolute mess since the privatization wave. Sure it has since been partially nationalized but the patchwork mess of different services in the UK makes no sense. Private rail can work if heavily regulated like in Japan of course. But what you always see in good rail networks is strong local monopolies whether they are public or private. the solution here is certainly not to spend less on it. Thats also part of the issue in fact. The UK has seen a lot more people using rail in the past 2 decades without any significant increase in service. Obviously the HSR projects exist but we all know how that is going. As for the whole cheaper for more. This is hardly the first time. Happens everytime when an industry runs out of things to improve in the immediate term. You often see a contraction of that industry afterwards as a sort of reset. Not to say this will work forever but it is not completely new. Though Pyrion is right in that things are changing over time. Certainly in terms of capital accumulation. And for the endless profit. Well what investors care about is the stock price increasing and nothing else for most. And the only way for is growth. As long as they can sell for a profit it doesn't really matter to them if things fall apart eventually.

[@Jasper_Hill]

36:10 rip Pyrion

[@Eiko286]

Depressing and funny. Thanks !!!!

[@aripocki]

I might be wrong, but a company's promise of increasing profits is what motivates investors to give them money to start in the first place.

[@captainbloodloss1]

id expect the xray machine to kill the flies

[@ShadyPNW]

Perfect timing for college 😂

[@BILLYH0LLIDAY]

Guys what’s the email for the mailbag ?

[@fudgedonkey]

Here here!

[@drayzorn]

Next mailbag... Hi my name is Leo and I've got a terrible train story for you. In 1942 I was made to take a train from Berlin....

[@Pratalax]

"indian rail service will make them look like the japanese in comparison" spoken like someone who hasn't set foot on a rush hour train in japan! waiting 25 hours does sound like utter bullshit though, holy crap.

[@emilyc8958]

Please can we never speak about train nightmares again, this was so stressful

[@varflane]

If a train driver (a person who sits on a seat and occasionally moves a lever backwards and forwards) earns more than a specialist doctor or high court judge - then train journeys will cost silly money. Ban unions and employ normal sensible staff - costs will drop. It's so simple. I drive or walk everywhere.

[@paulg6761]

CAPITALISM! STOCK MARKET!

[@fatseaturtle]

I love listening to this podcast. ❤ As a Christian I love hearing updates from the Brits! Ai so spooky, Capitalism, Trains?! 😂

[@carlhilber2275]

In response to Flax believing that businesses have not always been as cheap/exploitative as they are nowadays: In some ways I think he is right. If you consider how things were produced in the past, making just about anything was an ordeal. Before fully automated production, regardless of what you wanted to purchase there was going to be a substantial labor cost factored into the price, as well as a craftsman/ worker whom had devoted a substantial amount of time and their reputation into the items production. In the past because everything required substantial labor to produce, just about everything was large purchase, people only owned a few sets of cloths, so those cloths needed to last, if they didn't, well then the tailor was going to get stabbed by one of their scammed customers. That said, since the birth of modern capitalism and the industrial revolution businesses have always been exploitative. Think about child workers, homeless/prison work camps, slavery, exploitative colonial trade (east India company), modern production outsourcing. Sometimes the people getting screwed aren't the consumers, and until recently the lower classes haven't really had any consumer buying power to exploit. Nowadays it's easier to obfuscate dodgy products, planned obsolescence in tech, synthetic materials that look put together, but break down quickly, corporations without faces or members of your local community to hold accountable, politicians like Nixon and thatcher that make dodgy business practices far easier than they already were. Its all just easier these days.

[@jordannissen4772]

Lewis getting boned in the thumbnail

[@Aixyoxhox]

6 mins ago.. Wow

[@mooncat7009]

stop deleting my comments just because you don’t agree with them…

[@FatherDraven]

As your resident communist listener I'd like to welcome Comrade Pyrion to the revolution. ☭🫡☭🚩☭

[@JurijsPastnieks]

Good luck with that, lol.

[@Einomar]

​@JurijsPastnieks oh the future my friend is fully automated gay space communism.

[@highvoltage7797]

Communism is probably the most misunderstood and purposely misrepresented system. Join us Pyrion 🚩

[@vrrrrrr-uwu]

it’s possible to hate the evil, purely greed driven, ultra-corrupt version of capitalism that has taken over the world- without wanting anything like communism.

[@danbilzerian2052]

Only way is facism