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

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Komentáře • 711

  • @FreeRadicalX
    @FreeRadicalX Před 2 lety +618

    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
      @marcuswalters8093 Před rokem +43

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

    • @-Cece
      @-Cece Před rokem +26

      Luv her voice, it's ASMR to me

    • @alexmuller6752
      @alexmuller6752 Před rokem +46

      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
      @PMickeyDee Před 6 měsíci

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

    • @cfredrics
      @cfredrics Před 4 měsíci +2

      She’s Scottish. Not English.

  • @NotJustBikes
    @NotJustBikes Před 2 lety +260

    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
      @AllenSJ5 Před 2 lety +6

      Yes

    • @tjbarke6086
      @tjbarke6086 Před 2 lety +12

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

    • @ClaudiaNW
      @ClaudiaNW Před 2 lety +5

      @@tjbarke6086 *whispers* Squareheads

    • @tjbarke6086
      @tjbarke6086 Před 2 lety +3

      @@ClaudiaNW That's OUR word!

    • @CABOOSEBOB
      @CABOOSEBOB Před 11 měsíci

      What episode were you on

  • @dmrr7739
    @dmrr7739 Před 2 lety +416

    “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
      @rhiannahmunjic8036 Před 2 lety +17

      Oh my god, get outta here! (delighted)

    • @DiamondKingStudios
      @DiamondKingStudios Před 6 měsíci

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

    • @geoffreyentwistle8176
      @geoffreyentwistle8176 Před 2 měsíci +1

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

  • @LordMangudai
    @LordMangudai Před 2 lety +463

    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

  • @thearto
    @thearto Před 2 lety +431

    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
      @Pheonixco Před 2 lety +16

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

    • @Altoclarinets
      @Altoclarinets Před 2 lety +26

      @@Pheonixco Ollie bins

    • @Alevuss92
      @Alevuss92 Před 2 lety +10

      speech act theory

    • @ClaudiaNW
      @ClaudiaNW Před 2 lety +13

      We are a very bin-oriented country in general

    • @jackhanson1274
      @jackhanson1274 Před 2 lety +12

      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.

  • @Kingsleyrulz
    @Kingsleyrulz Před 2 lety +672

    "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
      @cranktherider4302 Před 2 lety +221

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

    • @mikestanley2937
      @mikestanley2937 Před 2 lety +162

      They said 10 hours over 3 parts on twitter

    • @cts006
      @cts006 Před 2 lety +71

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

    • @R4baDader
      @R4baDader Před 2 lety +3

      ten

    • @SyntheticParanoia
      @SyntheticParanoia Před 2 lety +27

      @@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.

  • @Baumgardener
    @Baumgardener Před 2 lety +429

    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
      @elfappo9330 Před 2 lety +41

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

    • @tabula_rosa
      @tabula_rosa Před 2 lety +49

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

    • @cookies23z
      @cookies23z Před 2 lety +13

      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
      @excitableboy7031 Před 2 lety +25

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

    • @caitlinblt7446
      @caitlinblt7446 Před 2 lety +13

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

  • @randythetool
    @randythetool Před 2 lety +505

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

    • @thomasgiles2876
      @thomasgiles2876 Před 2 lety +58

      Penn Central: Endgame

    • @flametitan100
      @flametitan100 Před 2 lety +28

      And it's only part _1_

    • @eleSDSU
      @eleSDSU Před 2 lety +25

      @@flametitan100 Penn Central: Inifinity war

    • @sc149
      @sc149 Před 2 lety +24

      more consistantly enjoyable than any marvel movie thus far also.

    • @lasschesteven
      @lasschesteven Před 2 lety +10

      The Nate Bethea extended universe is the superior extended universe

  • @25usd94
    @25usd94 Před 2 lety +40

    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

  • @JulianSildenLanglo
    @JulianSildenLanglo Před 2 lety +241

    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
      @grmpEqweer Před 2 lety +12

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

    • @ThePadawan3
      @ThePadawan3 Před 2 lety +7

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

  • @nickduma3049
    @nickduma3049 Před 2 lety +46

    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

  • @franksonjohnson
    @franksonjohnson Před 2 lety +124

    "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
      @MyChannel773 Před 2 lety +7

      wonderful, no notes

    • @platedlizard
      @platedlizard Před 2 lety +4

      i grew up reading TJIR and that's a classic

    • @Derpy-qg9hn
      @Derpy-qg9hn Před rokem +5

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

    • @emilyadams3228
      @emilyadams3228 Před rokem +6

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

    • @DiamondKingStudios
      @DiamondKingStudios Před 6 měsíci +2

      @@emilyadams3228So we make I-80 redundant.

  • @thomaspalazzolo5902
    @thomaspalazzolo5902 Před 2 lety +58

    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."

  • @georgemachappy
    @georgemachappy Před 2 lety +40

    "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

  • @LostSnowdrift
    @LostSnowdrift Před 2 lety +59

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

  • @robspecht9550
    @robspecht9550 Před 2 lety +115

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

  • @lukewest7216
    @lukewest7216 Před 2 lety +85

    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
      @lrminer2024 Před 2 lety +13

      In which the pinkertons are somehow on the good side

    • @lukewest7216
      @lukewest7216 Před 2 lety +8

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

  • @ididthisonpulpous6526
    @ididthisonpulpous6526 Před 2 lety +70

    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...

  • @effluviah7544
    @effluviah7544 Před 2 lety +68

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

  • @themroc8231
    @themroc8231 Před 2 lety +20

    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.

  • @ewanhogg3068
    @ewanhogg3068 Před 2 lety +45

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

  • @sammosaurusrex
    @sammosaurusrex Před 2 lety +286

    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
      @lyndonwesthaven6623 Před 2 lety +23

      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
      @artstsym Před 2 lety +13

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

    • @Synthetica9
      @Synthetica9 Před 2 lety +14

      Alice's "hmm" is the stuff of legends

    • @radicalrazel9156
      @radicalrazel9156 Před 2 lety +9

      @@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
      @25usd94 Před 2 lety +1

      Agree

  • @JM-fi7uc
    @JM-fi7uc Před 2 lety +122

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

    • @adams3627
      @adams3627 Před 2 lety +14

      He actually sounds EXACTLY like my old humanities professor.

    • @tabula_rosa
      @tabula_rosa Před 2 lety +14

      @@adams3627 he has big humanities teacher energy

    • @OriginalPineapplesFoster
      @OriginalPineapplesFoster Před rokem +6

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

  • @MeonLights
    @MeonLights Před 2 lety +28

    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.

  • @bobsmith2637
    @bobsmith2637 Před 2 lety +31

    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".

  • @xmlthegreat
    @xmlthegreat Před 2 lety +76

    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
      @treyandoss3056 Před 2 lety +3

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

    • @xmlthegreat
      @xmlthegreat Před 2 lety +3

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

  • @ciceronincheese7195
    @ciceronincheese7195 Před 2 lety +103

    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
      @ciceronincheese7195 Před 2 lety +1

      @@EmeraldLavigne The weak will perish

    • @AsbestosMuffins
      @AsbestosMuffins Před 2 lety +3

      @@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

  • @himoffthequakeroatbox4320
    @himoffthequakeroatbox4320 Před 2 lety +15

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

    • @fern5505
      @fern5505 Před rokem +4

      Yeah, with their salvage dinghy

  • @thehaprust6312
    @thehaprust6312 Před 2 lety +70

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

    • @tombirkland
      @tombirkland Před 2 lety +10

      I had a cat named Chessie for the same reason.

    • @joshuagreen3185
      @joshuagreen3185 Před 2 lety +7

      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
      @basedeltazero714 Před 2 lety +4

      ... name cats after railroads. Brilliant!

    • @thehaprust6312
      @thehaprust6312 Před 2 lety +5

      @@basedeltazero714 Trains good. Cats better.

    • @kyleshape8645
      @kyleshape8645 Před 3 měsíci

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

  • @saber1105
    @saber1105 Před 2 lety +110

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

    • @tomhsia4354
      @tomhsia4354 Před 2 lety +9

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

    • @deeznoots6241
      @deeznoots6241 Před 2 lety +13

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

  • @robswan4170
    @robswan4170 Před 2 lety +44

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

  • @marinary1326
    @marinary1326 Před 2 lety +38

    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.

  • @joearnold6881
    @joearnold6881 Před 2 lety +115

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

    • @capsjukebox
      @capsjukebox Před 2 lety +37

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

    • @moshedayl3064
      @moshedayl3064 Před 2 lety +6

      Call RM Brown because Liam be flushing Toilets

    • @jonathanveach369
      @jonathanveach369 Před 2 lety +9

      Steamed ham!

    • @fuzzydunlop7928
      @fuzzydunlop7928 Před 2 lety +5

      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
      @DiamondKingStudios Před 6 měsíci

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

  • @KrakenEggs
    @KrakenEggs Před 2 lety +136

    love it when the 3 hour episode is part 1

  • @MrThehoyce
    @MrThehoyce Před 2 lety +10

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

  • @whoever6458
    @whoever6458 Před 2 lety +105

    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
      @minikawildflower Před 2 lety +12

      alice is bae (as the youth say)

    • @MrJimheeren
      @MrJimheeren Před 2 lety +7

      I hope you feel better soon

    • @SolarFlareAmerica
      @SolarFlareAmerica Před 2 lety +3

      get well soon homie

    • @BrownEyePinch
      @BrownEyePinch Před 2 lety +3

      Thanks for sharing

    • @revolutionaryatheart3831
      @revolutionaryatheart3831 Před 2 lety +3

      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
    @John73John Před 2 lety +38

    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?

  • @TrashHeapCustodian
    @TrashHeapCustodian Před 2 lety +101

    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
      @porschelover04 Před 2 lety +6

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

    • @TrashHeapCustodian
      @TrashHeapCustodian Před 2 lety +3

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

    • @joshuanishanthchristian5217
      @joshuanishanthchristian5217 Před rokem +3

      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
      @marianeptune7321 Před rokem +4

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

  • @TaylorAlexander
    @TaylorAlexander Před rokem +3

    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.

  • @grabenkumpel9317
    @grabenkumpel9317 Před 2 lety +97

    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
      @douglasboyle6544 Před 2 lety +23

      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
      @grmpEqweer Před 2 lety +12

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

    • @joearnold6881
      @joearnold6881 Před 2 lety +17

      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
      @grabenkumpel9317 Před 2 lety +16

      ​@@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
      @sakurakiyori Před 2 lety +6

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

  • @wavesnbikes
    @wavesnbikes Před 2 lety +10

    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
      @doimoi958 Před 2 lety +2

      I think bsquicklehausen mentioned him in this episode

  • @AbsolXGuardian
    @AbsolXGuardian Před 2 lety +22

    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

  • @huntermorgan4201
    @huntermorgan4201 Před rokem +5

    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.

  • @ThugShakers4Christ
    @ThugShakers4Christ Před 2 lety +10

    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.

  • @riinak7212
    @riinak7212 Před 2 lety +15

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

  • @ssgtmole8610
    @ssgtmole8610 Před 2 lety +6

    "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.

  • @DeadWhiteButterflies
    @DeadWhiteButterflies Před 2 lety +6

    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.

  • @synthmage00
    @synthmage00 Před 2 lety +7

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

  • @thehaprust6312
    @thehaprust6312 Před 2 lety +54

    "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
      @thehaprust6312 Před 2 lety +1

      @@BravoCharleses I think you missed.

    • @drjustin84
      @drjustin84 Před 2 lety +1

      someone’s getting pinned

    • @ZealothPL
      @ZealothPL Před 2 lety +5

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

    • @ThePlayerOfGames
      @ThePlayerOfGames Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @sammosaurusrex
    @sammosaurusrex Před 2 lety +4

    @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

  • @neptunium7121
    @neptunium7121 Před 2 lety +26

    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*

  • @falloutghoul1
    @falloutghoul1 Před 2 lety +10

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

  • @eleSDSU
    @eleSDSU Před 2 lety +37

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

  • @sirrliv
    @sirrliv Před 2 lety +17

    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
      @MrJimheeren Před 2 lety +5

      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
      @sirrliv Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @sarapocorn
      @sarapocorn Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @Aquatarkus96
      @Aquatarkus96 Před 2 lety +2

      The have explicitly denied that on twitter thankfully!

  • @TheLolzKnight
    @TheLolzKnight Před 2 lety +28

    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

  • @josephmiele2277
    @josephmiele2277 Před 2 lety +3

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

  • @ReganSmash33
    @ReganSmash33 Před 2 lety +12

    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
      @johncolbert Před rokem +2

      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.

  • @RebMightyMouse
    @RebMightyMouse Před 2 lety +11

    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.

  • @sidexrulz2006
    @sidexrulz2006 Před 2 lety +5

    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
      @shindenfighter3303 Před 2 lety

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

    • @sidexrulz2006
      @sidexrulz2006 Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @shindenfighter3303
      @shindenfighter3303 Před 2 lety +1

      @@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
    @dkbmaestrorules Před 2 lety +7

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

  • @scaredyfish
    @scaredyfish Před 2 lety +6

    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.

  • @steemlenn8797
    @steemlenn8797 Před 2 lety +20

    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!

  • @BlarryOfficial
    @BlarryOfficial Před 2 lety +89

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

    • @hpwb
      @hpwb Před 2 lety +24

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

    • @whatsoperadoc7050
      @whatsoperadoc7050 Před 2 lety +40

      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
      @sirrliv Před 2 lety +3

      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
      @BlarryOfficial Před 2 lety +4

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

    • @jaysea5939
      @jaysea5939 Před 2 lety +3

      I really want that episode about stadiums

  • @Cptn.Viridian
    @Cptn.Viridian Před 2 lety +8

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

  • @iMacThere4iAm
    @iMacThere4iAm Před 2 lety +6

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

  • @fern5505
    @fern5505 Před rokem +3

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

  • @grmpEqweer
    @grmpEqweer Před 2 lety +13

    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-
      @Sir.Craze- Před 2 lety +3

      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
      @grmpEqweer Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @Full_Otto_Bismarck
    @Full_Otto_Bismarck Před 2 lety +7

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

  • @robsox1701
    @robsox1701 Před 2 lety +4

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

  • @platedlizard
    @platedlizard Před 2 lety +3

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

  • @Crobisaur
    @Crobisaur Před 2 lety +12

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

    • @Crobisaur
      @Crobisaur Před 2 lety +2

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

  • @Bureaucromancer
    @Bureaucromancer Před 2 lety +3

    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...

  • @xrunxnowx
    @xrunxnowx Před 2 lety +7

    >3 hours
    >part 1
    this is why i love this podcast

  • @discoj7112
    @discoj7112 Před 2 lety +48

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

    • @ClaudiaNW
      @ClaudiaNW Před 2 lety +6

      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
      @georgeadams5390 Před 2 lety +1

      Is everyone related to this show trans

    • @grantus_pax
      @grantus_pax Před 2 lety +6

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

    • @marinary1326
      @marinary1326 Před 2 lety +11

      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
      @MrJimheeren Před 2 lety +1

      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

  • @charlesbradley9166
    @charlesbradley9166 Před 2 lety +9

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

  • @KerbalRocketry
    @KerbalRocketry Před 2 lety +2

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

  • @unistrut
    @unistrut Před 2 lety +2

    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.

  • @Brusselpicker
    @Brusselpicker Před 2 lety +2

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

  • @DED_MEEM
    @DED_MEEM Před 2 lety +4

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

  • @edwardzita3479
    @edwardzita3479 Před 2 lety +4

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

  • @kv4302
    @kv4302 Před 2 lety +3

    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.

  • @Eric_Hunt194
    @Eric_Hunt194 Před 2 lety +1

    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.

  • @ESToomere
    @ESToomere Před 2 lety +1

    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.

  • @bobsmith2637
    @bobsmith2637 Před 2 lety +3

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

  • @400islands9
    @400islands9 Před 2 lety +5

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

  • @michaelpineiro533
    @michaelpineiro533 Před 2 lety +2

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

  • @nicholasbulgarino567
    @nicholasbulgarino567 Před 2 lety +5

    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
      @zeroone8800 Před 2 lety +1

      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
      @nicholasbulgarino567 Před 2 lety

      @@zeroone8800 that was retaliatory.

  • @atn_holdings
    @atn_holdings Před 2 lety +6

    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!

  • @ClaudiaNW
    @ClaudiaNW Před 2 lety +2

    I wonder if Liam's "the railroad can't mess up baptisms" comment was a reference to the recent scandals involving Catholic baptisms that were held to be invalid because the priest/deacon said "We baptise you" instead of "I baptise you". In fact, in 2020 there was a priest in Michigan, Father Matthew Hood, who was watching a video of his baptism as a baby and learned that it was invalid because of this - which meant that his ordination was also invalid, which meant that the Masses, confessions and weddings he'd celebrated as a priest were all also invalid! It was a complete mess. All because of one wrong word.

  • @liaevans4483
    @liaevans4483 Před 2 lety +19

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

  • @slytown
    @slytown Před 2 lety +1

    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.

  • @stelo2792
    @stelo2792 Před 2 lety +1

    Cheers guys, nice little pause during the cast to listen to Paul Simon. 3 hours of Liam being chipper, Alice in a bad mood, Ros just makes me smile no matter what and a handsome sounding guest! A good day was had by all.

  • @angusmillerable
    @angusmillerable Před 2 lety +2

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

  • @hrani
    @hrani Před 2 lety +1

    Laughter over "Uncovering such a rich vein of Weird Guys!" healed my soul XD

  • @Akutabai5
    @Akutabai5 Před rokem +2

    Good to see that John Mulaney took up the train hobby

  • @_curcan1109
    @_curcan1109 Před 2 lety +6

    Based and Railpilled

  • @Pheonixco
    @Pheonixco Před 2 lety +4

    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.

  • @stmisbehavin662
    @stmisbehavin662 Před 2 lety +5

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

  • @MAnthony8586
    @MAnthony8586 Před 2 lety +12

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

  • @callmeprettybaby
    @callmeprettybaby Před 2 lety +5

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

    • @ClaudiaNW
      @ClaudiaNW Před 2 lety +1

      Same

    • @callmeprettybaby
      @callmeprettybaby Před 2 lety +2

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

    • @ClaudiaNW
      @ClaudiaNW Před 2 lety +1

      @@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
      @ClaudiaNW Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @callmeprettybaby
      @callmeprettybaby Před 2 lety +2

      @@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 ♥️😁.