“I’m actively editing images of myself into the podcast” Ok but if they aren’t already Devon should totally insert one tiny image of themselves into every slideshow like a Where’s Waldo
24:00 Per BBC News: Vida, the white horse soaked in blood, was injured after hitting (being hit by?) a double-decker bus. Vida "continues to make progress 'under close and careful' veterinary observation as his wounds heal." Supposedly they were spooked by the sound of falling rubble at a construction site. No word on whether the British Army is bringing in known veterinary expert Kristi Noem for further assistance.
"The Manhole at Lombard St." sounds like the dive bar next to a bath house. Like one that serves cheap, strong Long Islands and hasn't had on-duty cops on the premises since 1981.
On a tangential note, it's extremely annoying to see AI bros be like "the future will inevitably be X, Y, and Z, and this is 100% certain and only a matter of time" when they really mean "this is a stupid idea I had last night while high lmao". They really really love taking some DMT or whatever, imagining the stupidest fucking scenario they can, and then deciding that that is completely inevitable and the future can not in any way deviate from this.
So here's a funny story about a psychiatric evaluation: I have a friend who is schizophrenic so she had to go to the psychiatrist for her regular appointment. One of the questions he asked was, "Do you hear voices that aren't there?" So she answered, "If I hear them, how would I be able to tell that they're not there?" lol
Those evaluations are always so beside the point. The adhd ones are awful too. Because like, my symptoms are all "Yes, but actually no, the complete opposite." "I can't concentrate. But also I hyperfocus on one thing and forget to eat or sleep. I get so low energy and drained I can't move or do anything for a whole day, or I dash from one interest or activity to another like a crazed housekeeper. I can't clean a thing, or I can to to bottom scour and organize the entire house. I can't learn about a subject, or I can become an expert overnight. And no, it's not bipolar, because these wild occelations can happen over the course of a few hours, or even minutes. 😂" "Do you ever want to hurt someone?" "Well yeah, I work retail, and also have driven a car, and also been on the internet. Some people are idiots and frustrating and it would be weird if I didn't. But I'm not antisocial personality disorder, I'm just angry."
This is the serious answer not the funny answer, but I have had episodes of hearing voices that are not there, and it's a distinct thing from hearing voices that you think are there. It's like you know they aren't real but you hear them anyway, sometimes inside your head instead of through your ears. However to get around the other situation, often they'll ask if you hear or see things that other people don't seem to rather than things that aren't there.
@elelem358 there's an issue with that though; people with autism often "hear things other people dont", like they complain of hearing electricity in the cables or small tapping or the sound of fabric rubbing together, and then end up misdiagnosed because while it's true, it wasn't what the question meant.
Can't believe Liam left the Activate Windows watermark off his list of best friends, given that its been there for not just him but for all of us for so long.
Visiting Hog-scientist here, (admittedly life sciences but I do have a pharmacology background) tripropylene is an oligomer of propene that's popular along with it's isomers for adding alkyl groups to things. It's almost entirely a chemical intermediate that goes on to just about any type of chemical manufacturing where you need carbon groups. Not really exciting but it's probably chosen as propene monomer likely has greater shipping concerns.
From what I've read on it, burning this stuff is terrible. Toxic, irritating, corrosive fumes, and the vapors can asphyxiate people. Oh and the liquid version of the stuff floats on water, and the fumes sink below normal air. Oh and the flash point was only 75 degrees F which means it can catch on fire basically damn near at room temp with an ignition source.
@@shawnmurphy672 Chemist here. Pretty dead on to the best of my knowledge. The C=C bond (the -ene part in the name) is where the reaction to add it to your other reagent(s) would occur.
@@discoj7112 Because it's an intermediate, my understanding is you wouldn't really use the whole molecule as is, but rather split it into propene (propylene is the same thing), which is even more reactive to get your end product. Propene is the monomer base for polypropylene, the plastic. You can also react it with benzene and oxygen to get acetone and phenol, which was the hazardous chemical in the Crazy 8's Incident.
dont get to used to it. i guarantee you were about to hit a dry patch for a few weeks soon. they tend to record a whole batch of episodes and then send em off to devon for editing and upload. they tend to go up as devon finishes them and i bet this drenching of content is the most recent bulk of recordings and they are gonna take a break for a few weeks and then record another batch for next month. at least thats what i can gleam from overhearing them talk about production on individual episodes and people talking on the podcasts discord server. so i could be wrong. as they might have changed how their production pipeline works and stuff. dont get me wrong here i want more content more often. this glut of episodes heckin rocks and i dont want it to stop. but i also know how they work/worked on these and know the gravy trains about to stop for a while again ;w;
@@Claire-xk5bb I don't intend to. I know the cycle as well. I suspect the lag comes on Nova's end. Between WTYP, KJB and TF, she's busy. Plus the time difference is crushing when you've recorded other content prior to doing WTYP. I'm sure there are times she has had to say break to the two jerks, I kid Liam and Rocz are okay.
A university near where I live has a massive student protest going on right now, and tbh the response to it has been insane. They're not even being rowdy and I've seen an immense police presence in the area. I respect the living hell out of these kids even if it doesn't amount to anything.
most of these protests haven't even been where they bother anyone but a few students, like these are in the middle of college campuses which will be empty in just a couple weeks
Ngl im skipping the goddamn news not because i disagree but because as a teacher i am terrified for but also so proud of the students on these campuses, some of whom are right in front of where i work. Solidarity and support
Horses are actually concerningly smart, but they come across as stupid because they care not for the laws of man or god; they know their place in the Universe, but they gleefully taunt the natural order regardless.
If you don't end up doing an asbestos in general episode, you should absolutely do one specifically about Wittenoom. If it's not already on the docket obv
In the first half of the 70's in argentina it was common practice (or praxis, dare i say) to bring a bag of ground pepper so if the mounted cops were to charge you would trow pepper to it's snout and it would dismount the cop and run away. Just saying.
@@grmpEqweeris the horse capable of filling out its own paperwork? Is the horse capable of testifying in court? Neither are the dogs. Both are used for state sanctioned violence. It's animal cruelty
A Donnybrook broke out at shul with resultant fisticuffs. One participant, Liam Anderson, was heard to shout “kum tsu mir ir pansyes!” as he threw stars of David at pro-Israeli protestors.
@@QuarrelsomeLocalOaf I ordered a bunch of brain pills from alex jones. That and your inspirational words are more than enough to conquer this beast. Thank you
Picture a pair of cubes. The two cubes are connected by a bar through their middle, like a dumbbell. Imagine that the dumbbell object is floating in front of you, one cube close to you, the other directly away from you. Now, imagine that the cube nearest you is red, and the cube furthest from you is blue.
I live near a double track main line and one of my favorite places to hike is on the other side. One time, I waited for more than 10 minutes at the crossing for this HUGE train to pass and it was going pretty fast too. I could have technically walked down the track until I came to the bridge but it would be nearly doubled my hike and I was already tired so I just sat down and smoked a joint while I watched the rolling art gallery go by.
The art gallery going by ❤️ I've said of these long ass PSR-length trains at RR Xings "it's like a commercial break to interrupt your driving experience" Id still rather be on the train. Train good car bad
I'm trained for confined space rescue, and I'm trained for firefighting, but I can't say I'm trained for confined space firefighting. I'm also imagining most of the other firefighters in my department trying to fit through a manhole with SCBA on and I don't think it would go well. But I'm not sure the lines for supplied air could handle the heat. Whoever the IC was probably had to do some creative problem solving
You guys talking about hazmat and putting it underground reminded me of a great topic for an episode: The K+S Mining company and the shit they get up to in their plants along the Werra river, and the towns of Unterbreitzbach, Heringen and others. Fun features include: -Germans -nuclear waste -other incredibly dangerous chemicals -insane amounts of enviromental polution (some genuine 1970s burning river tier shenanigans) -lying -bribing -abuse of corporate power and many other hits. Genuinely look it up, they are turning an area in the middle of Germany into one of the most toxic areas on earth.
re: baseball stadia - AT&T Park in San Francisco is great because home runs go straight out into the Bay, so every game there will be lunatics out there in kayaks waiting to catch a ball
Dont worry Liam, I don't have a webcam either. Instead, I rig up my DSLR whenever I need to do webcam things, thereby flexing on everyone else because my picture quality is *astonishing* compared to normal webcams 😎
Lol reminds me of the time I set up multi-cam in OBS with a DSLR and a point and shoot for a job interview (this was the height of covid) and they cancelled the call entirely.
@@loadeddice4696 My laptop actually came with a physical, manually-operated shutter that covers the camera lens when not in use...which is helpful until I actually need to use the webcam and I spend ten minutes trying to troubleshoot an empty black camera feed. 😅
my old webcam setup involved putting my phone on a giant stack of books with the front camera facing me then connected to my PC via USB and a really shit app that just turned off the camera at random
Devon, please bring back the hit sounds, I miss them. I need them to tell me when to look away from my primary monitor to see your messages. The hit sounds are as much as part of this podcast as the Activate Windows logo.
Oh boy, new WTYP! Twenty minutes till the meeting. I can probably get through the goddamn news! Well. To the goddamn news. Well, maybe to the goddamn news? Either way, let's GOOOO
14:50 I appreciate that you can just barely tell what word was used here in this bleep. I can just barely hear the "e" at the start. Plus, the fact that Devon left the next one in. And I wholeheartedly agree.
0:00 - 2 Baltimore Episodes! 0:01 - Oh no, I know where this is. 2:58 - Fuck you - we're not in Baltimore County. And we're the Greatest City in America. 3:55 - NGL. This is true. Cardinals are better. 27:29 - There is a monument to this battle at the corner of Baltimore St and Pulaski. 30:41 - First fight in Baltimore during the Civil War happened along this stretch when a bunch of traitors attacked Union Soldiers making the same trip. This resulted in Lincoln dispatching cannons to Federal Hill and pointing them at downtown. It also started a series of events that got the Maryland governor imprisoned. 34:42 - Chesapeake Fries! 36:15 - If the Engineering Disaster isn't that we got a surface light rail along this instead of metro like we deserve, you guys missed. 39:02 - Oh hell no. That's scary. 56:45 - Hey, hey, hey... hey... hey 1:01:08 - He's not the children's book mayor. 1:07:20 - Insane BCFD. More of this, less opposing bike lanes. 1:15:08 - And we have never recovered that old time speed 1:19:40 - Mayor Pete - I demand a cog railway on the Key Bridge replacement. 1:21:05 - I don't like that game. 1:28:25 - Yeah. I've done enough work on vehicles to know "simple" means it takes forever.
For a split second, I though the title read, "Howard Stern Tunnel Fire," which made me wonder if Baba Booey was gonna be blamed for screwing things up yet again, leading to Stern berating him on air for an hour and a half before interviewing Beetlejuice and Hi-Pitch Erik. 3:46 I agree with this sentiment, as do all fans of the #1 bird-named NFL team, the Seattle Seahawks.
Why would anyone consume fictional horror stories when Well There's Your Problem shows us all the real horror is all around us every day? And I'm not saying this because CSX exists, but that is a huge factor, here.
Was on my way from NoVA to Baltimore with my father for an Orioles game when we heard the news over the radio. Switched over a Bowie Baysox game instead. Boy, was I glad that no other catastrophic events would happen in the region that year!
Angle grinders are f*kin scary things. A friend was using one with a wire brush wheel on it to clean rust off a car. The wire wheel caught, throwing the grinder at his face. By good fortune he was wearing a full face shield, and the wire wheel bounced off. Afterwards the shield showed a perfect 3 inch circle of scratches right in front of his eyes.
I am a plumber and pipe fitter. I tell my apprentices that there are two kinds of tradesmen: Those who fear the grinder, and morons. It thirsts in it's heart for the eyeballs and blood of it's master, like a demon poorly bound by a semi competent wizard.
Considering the number of times someone has said something to the effect of “fuck that” in regards to what the firefighters had to do all I can say is firefighters are badass. There’s a reason there’s only a parody song called “fuck the fire department.”
Tripropylene is a precursor to nonylphenols which are used for "manufacturing antioxidants, lubricating oil additives, laundry and dish detergents, emulsifiers, and solubilizers."
That's not too bad. Kinda small state anyway. But down in the south in the town I grew up in, there's like four neighborhoods with the name Plantation being part of the name. Plantation Drive, Plantation Way, Plantation Place, Lost Plantation, Plantation Circle... Feel like I'm missing one 🤔
Prague metro has a third rail system along the side of tunnels, it's a third rail upsidedown near bottom on the side of tunnels respectively and it works great 🤗👍😎
I met Elon Musk last week (he dropped by my workplace, against my wishes) and I was listening to your podcast when it happened. Fun fact: whenever I mention this event, there's about a 1 in 5 chance that people will reply "AND HE STILL LIVES?". Sorry, everyone
If you do the asbestos episode you need to talk about the Australian asbestos mining town of Wittenoom and the evil soulless ghouls that are the CSR Sugar company.
My guess is that this chemical is a good reactant for various chemical processes because the double bond makes it reactive in a variety of organic chemistry reactions. That would explain why it was hard to find just a few things it's used for as it is probably a pretty common reactant.
Oh god that steam siren, after having played HoI4 is traumatising, how could you XD. For those not in the know, a close enough variant of it plays a lot in the game, a lot more than you think it should.
My problems with equestrianizing our neighborhoods are: 1) the stink that would be produced by every city block having multiple stables. 2) they need food daily even if you don't use them, I don't want to be responsible for that. My solution is twofold: 1) teach the horses to use our modern waste processing infrastructure. 2) teach the horses how to use public transit and buy their own food.
Some horses are sort of potty trained. Not by humans (mostly) but seems to be a behavior they learn from other horses as a foal. I know a couple who prefer to go in corners and one who lived in a partially wooded field and preferred to go in the wooded section. Some of them get really upset if they have to go and aren't allowed to use their preferred spots. They only really apply that to #2, but race horses get drug tested after every race...as in they get sent to a stall after the race and no one gets to leave until a urine sample is collected...and by reports some of them have learned to respond to a specific whistle.
@@kray3883 the plan is already coming together, but to really work we either need constantly flowing water through the stalls to wash excrement into the sewage or they need to learn to flush. It's not a huge leap I think if they're already conditioned to go in the corner to also kick a button or something
I live in baltimore and have been watching the podcast since it was posted in donoteat or something - I am more than willing to be your baltimore contact, or help with research, or whataver. Also have a couch and an extra room if anyone of your team finds itself here.
Hello from St. Mary's county, I need to explore Baltimore more...just hate having to drive there. (Only been to the inner harbor so far for a convention once)
As a British person who flew across the Atlantic to explicitly visit Baltimore, I wish to mount a defense of my actions: It was to attend an Anime Convention.
Those horses would be very welcome with the wild horses on Fort Johnson (formerly known as Fort Polk). There are groups of wild horses on the base that just hang around.
RIP Tal's Hill, baseball needs more goofy field features. The Albuquerque Isotopes' field used to have a similar hill in deep center but they got rid of it too.
12:50 "My most lib opinion is 'academia good, actually'". As a practicing academic, I must respectfully disagree, Liam. It _should_ be good, but we need to save it from the academics, first.
BAhahahahaha Smoke hoppers! That's a good one! I don't think I'd want to go down a man hole in an SCBA either. Also keep in mind that the air in those bottles doesn't last long. In our training, we had to complete a maze with a partner in the pitch darkness in our SCBAs. The only two people who make it all the way through the maze with air left was me and the only other woman in my fire academy. All of the males ran out of air before getting through.
i have a conspiracy theory that the trains keep derailing BECAUSE theyre too long, its like running a toy train through a curve and up a hill and all the sudden the friction of the back half of the train is fighting the pulling force at the front and the lightest middle car nopes right out. the cars are fine, the rails are fine, but the train as a whole is experiencing forces its not designed for
