39:04 Indycar. Indycar used to use Methanol as their fuel. When Methanol catches fire, its nearly invisible. There are a lot of examples of what looks like nothing going on, and then suddenly people are on the ground on fire with other people throwing water buckets at them
The good thing about methanol is that water dilutes it below it's flashpoint. In other words; you can put a methanol fire out with water, which you should not do with a gasoline fire.
38:40 Some added knowledge here from a sailor. During bootcamp, we all go through basic firefighting training, which of course involves learning the four categories of fire; Class A: Wood, cloth, other solids, your standard fire. Fight using water, any other available extinguishers. Class B: Oil, grease, other liquids. Fight by smothering it, using either built in devices (IE kitchens have built in metal hoods, that swing down and cut off air), certain gasses or AFFF (aqueous film forming foam). Don't use water, you'll just spread burning liquid everywhere, which is bad. Class C: Electrical. Use CO2 or PKP extinguishers (water will get on the floor, to your feet, and electricity likes to arc). And finally, and most applicable to this part of the video; Class D: Magnesium/other metals (usually certain aircraft parts). Don't use water, or any other system, just push whatever's burning over the side of the ship. No other option.
19:05 Drivers refusing to wear safety harnesses at the time was a conscious decision based on their preference to be thrown clear of their wreckage in the event of an accident. They were more scared of burning to death whilst trying to get unstrapped from their highly flammable vehicles.
That's fair, if I had the choice between burning to death and having by brains instantly smeared across five meters of asphalt I'd definitely pick the latter.
Reminds me of when an a-arm on my RC car broke. Looked at parts manual, didn't mention magnesium, and it LOOKED like cast steel and is a tiny 2" long piece, so I'll just do a little tiny tack weld on it and it'll be good as new! After the first spark from a tiny 1/16 rod, the goddamn thing caught fire and flared like the sun. Threw it into my water bucket I used for dipping stuff in to cool down from grinding. Burns through bottom of bucket water sizzling like mad, hits the concrete and burns a pock mark into the concrete floor as the bucket empties onto it on the floor.
I remember buying some bootleg fireworks from a dude in a tent that was, in retrospect, clearly just magnesium powder in a little cardboard cartridge. It burned a divot into the steel plate we set it on, it was cool as shit but insanely dangerous to just leave lying around
Magnesium is a Pain in the Ass to weld it's just reactive Enough to Burn Vigorously but not enough that it forms a Patina in minutes like aluminum does
1:03:51 about that, NASCAR used to have a union run by Curtis Turner, the first superstar the sport ever had. It lasted a couple months, and ended when Bill France Sr. banned him and anyone still in the union for life. Another attempt was made later on, but it didnt last long.
>Another attempt was made later on, but it didnt last long. It didn't last simply because when they had every card they needed in their hand when things were going to shit approaching the very first Talladega race (Goodyear was having lots of problems trying to get a tire that wouldn't shred after only a couple laps), and they didn't take advantage of it.
Slaphoes does some excellent videos on Nascar unions during the first race of Talladega and the Tire Wars. One of my fav channels on YT and deserves more recognition.
It actually needs to be at least 8. You have the driver, 3 in vehicle watchers, someone not in the vehicle to watch the vehicle drive around, and then 3 guys to watch the guy watch the vehicle.
I want a 24h race in which you have to carry everything but fuel. All drivers, tyres etc. kinda like when you go on holiday. Youre allowed to drop used stuff and drivers at your box
As a motorsports fan I knew this was gonna be interesting as soon as I saw the title. The 1950s and 1960s was an absolute meat grinder in the world of racing, and while i undrstand people who appreciate the beauty and the raw mechanical nature of the racecars from this period, the romanticism some people hold about this period is absolutely ridiculous.
Yep, as a motorsports fan who grew up just nearby where Langhorne Speedway used to be, reading the stories and watching the videos of races at that track alone are insane. Case in point, is this classic from the 1951 Langhorne Grand National. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z3bvi4ZID4w.html
One can appreciate the beauty of the machines, while acknowledging the tragedy that they killed many people. The good news is, because of that era, we have race cars and race tracks that are far safer than what was "acceptable" in the day.
Liam the reason why Jacksonville smelled bad is because there’s a paper mill that doesn’t like to follow environmental regulations and makes us all miserable.
When I was a child, Thomas the Tank Engine warned me that "coughs and sneezles spread diseasels". Now those fears are realised, as Justin has been on a real-life diseasel train.
I used to live in a town called Beppu in Japan, whole place is full of volcanic vents and smells of sulphur. You do get used to it though, and its fun to watch people get off the train, come out of the airconditioned cabin and straight into a wall of humid rotten egg stench.
Audio, visual, and now smell. This truly is the most all encompassing podcast with slides (and smells) in history. I'm so glad I was here to experience it!
I can recommend the film "Grand Prix: The Killer Years" about what it took for safety to be taken seriously. Drivers pushing for safety were regarded as beta cucks by public and press. Strangely, commercial interests and advertising helped (I know rite?). As someone says "If you've got your logo on a car, you don't very much want to see a young man burn to death in it." Which was a thing that kept happening. Lots of scary stories, like drivers pooling their own money to pay to have EMTs and firefighters on standby because that wasn't a thing. Or just having non-flammable clothing. And of course, the races never being stopped, no matter the death toll.
There was a reason for not stopping the races in some cases though. The sudden rush of people leaving could cause a crush at the exit, and the traffic of people all leaving the stadium at once could cause difficulty for rescue vehicles trying to get to the scene, and from the scene to hospitals. Stopping the race didn't help those injured already, and could actively hurt them.
@@danielled8665 that sort of concern would imply a level of organization that just wasn’t there early on. There were no rescue vehicles let alone safety personnel. Fire extinguishers weren’t required. Cars ended up in houses or deep in forests since there were few barriers. Spectators weren’t all in the stands, but all along the track. Injured drivers - presuming they weren’t dead outright - were at best loaded into random people’s cars by spectators. In one case an actual ambulance was actually called but didn’t know the way to the hospital. It was, in a word, a sh*tshow. So it’s not that races were allowed to continue for safety reasons; stopping them just wasn’t considered at all and there was no mechanism for doing so. Some races shouldn’t even have *started* due to insane track conditions, but did anyway because there was no way not to start. Even in the more modern era thing were a mess. Look up David Purley trying desperately to save Roger Williamson at the 1973 Dutch Grand Prix as Williamson is literally burning to death. Purley stopped his own car, tried in vain to extinguish the fire and flip the wrecked car by himself, stop the race - *anything*. The few marshals present aren’t in fire retardant clothes and have one fire extinguisher between them. Purley is the only one doing anything. It’s horrible to watch. And the race continued. Took 8 minutes for firefighters to get there via the track where cars continued racing at full speed.
I like how they're easing Liam into helping out with this podcast. They're like, okay Liam your turn, and he's like, oh shit, hold on, my notes, oh wait, got it, okay there we are, oh wait. We've all had presentations like this in school. 😂
He’s simultaneously the weakest link of this podcast and indispensably endearing as a result. He’s a load-bearing Liam. Ngl though I really miss Nick on Lions Led by Donkeys.
19:33 - "Lucas Electrique" is a French advert for Lucas Electrical, a company in Birmingham (UK) that supplied a huge amount of the electrical equipment in British cars in the 1960s, especially light fittings and headlamps. Their reputation for quality and reliability was so renowned that they were (and continue to be) called "Lucas, Prince of Darkness." Their revenue was excellent because you had to buy three spares with every part.
A lot of reactions do have invisible fires, but only because fire is a social construct, and you should support chemical exothermic reactions that don't want to be as colorful as a bright flame
Putting a plug in for Kaukauna, Wisconsin. It has more paper mills per capita than anywhere else on the planet & a pork rendering plant. Smells absolutely vile in the humid midwestern summers.
Lastly, that fuel was methanol. CART (among others) was infamous for this, there's too many instances to list...but here's a few. Robby Gordon, 199 Indy 500, hen your fireproof suit gets burned...it's bad. Rick Mears, 1978-79 Indy 500, Sam Hornish, 2004 Nazareth IRL, did a whole lap of a mile oval IIRC with the car on fire, any CART or IRL pitstop where they blast the car with water, 1998 CART Laguna Seca, major pit fire, cue every crew member hurling buckets of water. It was seemingly mentioned every pit cycle by the anouncers that methanol burned with an invisble flame. Oh and the one that sticks out most to me? Cleveland 1990, Al Unser Jr's infamous pit fire. When you hear people screaming...yeeeah. Also CART did race at Cleveland, which actualy produced some incredibly wild races. The other famous one is from Surfer's Paradise and has AJ Almendinger on fire after apitstop went wrong, circa 2003-2004. So anser, methanol.
The good thing about methanol is that water can extinguish a methanol fire, which is something you absolutely should not do with a gasoline fire. But yeah, as a long-time CART fan, it was neat to hear the announcers talk about how the fuel behaved.
Man I miss the CART days. You want to try a drinking game. Go from 1979 to CART's demise in 2002, and take a shot every single time methanol or water being used or an invisible flame is mentioned. I'm not responsible if you black out drunk by 2000 however. Was it just me or did it seem like every single race from the 80s onwards methanol fires were discussed at some point? Though on that note, read Steve Olvey's books about being on the safey team, it..yes....mentions methanol fires quite a few times.
In the navy we're taught the best way to deal with a metal fire, is to lightly mist it with water to cool it down and if that fails dump into the fucking ocean.
Lessons about magnesium race cars took a long time to learn, Jo Schlesser paid the price 13 years later, driving the Honda RA302, on the second lap of the 1968 French Grand Prix. They didn't stop the race that day either.
My grandfather got stopped for jaywalking in New York City when he was a young man. The cop (I assume one of those old-timey Irish stereotype cops) gave my grandfather a hard time when he said he didn't know what jaywalking was, and asked, incredulously, "don't know what it is? Where are you from?" My grandfather responded, "Baltimore." Which made the cop stop because, apparently, Baltimore was one of the few cities at the time with no jaywalking law at the time. So, he let my grandfather go with a warning. Also, my grandfather is white, so, you know, that probably helped. My grandfather turns 102 this month. This probably happened in fucking 1939. Nobody should be making an issue of someone "jaywalking" anymore, and besides, it was invented in the first place by the auto industry in the 1920s as a bunch of bullshit.
And to think that after this nothing changed and it took nearly 15 years and a very determined Jackie Stewart (after his car ended up in someone's shed) to finally conclude that actually, hay bales and hand signals weren't appropriate in terms of safety. Mercedes were the only ones that day to quit the race (and racing), which just goes to show how much times have changed. Such a large loss of life should have been a wake up call, yet it wasn't. May the spectators and racing drivers who perished that day rest in peace.
You can argue about whether it was what needed to be done, but the next year the entire main straight, pit area and first corner had been changed at Le Mans.
If anything, the most shocking thing was that this type of thing wasn't more common given the atrocious safety standards. Given the lack of any pit boundary, proper storage of highly flammable material, or crowd safety, the fact that Monza 1961 is the only other comparable incident is kind of remarkable in a horrendously gruesome way
Oh boy! Well There's Your Problem tackling motorsport! I've seen the odd documentary on this disaster and there's one thing that I've heard mentioned a few times that I would like to add: allegedly, part of the reason that the race wasn't shut down was that, if the race was shut down, the spectators might leave en masse and clog up all the surrounding roads in the process, which would keep emergency services from being able to get to the scene. I don't know how true that is, but even if that was the case, it just goes to show how ill-prepared the organizers were for just about anything bad that could have happened...
What I love about the story of the Mercedes CLR flipping in 1999 was that the main car it was racing at the time (the red Toyota) that was in the video of it flipping actually had the aerodynamic development in place to prevent the big flipple from happening. They just made some big honking holes (scientific term) on the inside of the front tires to prevent that massive pressure area in the fenders, which modern Le Mans prototypes are mandated to have now.
Group B was complete insanity. But after they put a stop to it and seriously revised rally rules, the fatalities in rally racing have dropped massively. The World Rally Championship had 13 deaths in the 80s, and only four in the three decades since, with the last one in 2006.
@@slaughterround643 like it wasn't like people like dying like that drew like massive crowds to those like races it was like the pure like unrestricted pursuit of speed and the like superhuman abilities like the drivers like had to have to like drive those like cars like bruh
benzene is mostly bad because it's like the MOST carcinogenic compound people are commonly exposed to, plus its suuuper flammable lol, it also persists in the environment and accumulates which is not good either
The old Nascar rules required a company to sell a certain number of engines to the public before they could put it in a car on the track. The Plymouth Superbird was specifically sold to make it Nascar legal.
The Lancia Stratos was forced to race as a Group 5 prototype in '72 and '73 rather than the more prestigious Group 4 while they built the required 500 vehicles over 12 months. In October 73, they showed FIA delegate 250 of them, then took him for lunch. The Stratos took the manufacturers championship in '74, '75 and '76. In 76, the production requirement was reduced to 400 in 24 months. Production of the Stratos ended in 75 with 492 built.
I wonder if Alice remembers the smell during the BSE epidemic here in the UK, back when they burned 4 million cows to try and get it under control. That stench hung over some of the towns around where I grew up for a while...
Lol. They don't smell as bad if you make sure they're dead first. They avoided using the bolt-gun on them as much as possible since creating pink-mist of the brains of CJD. Dunno why people say "BSE" since that was a symptom not the actual infection.
@@prjndigo Probably the same reason people say "covid" (the disease) instead of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus). We think of epidemics and infected populations in terms of disease.
It wasn't until I read this that the smell of the foot and mouth epidemic came back to me, a mixture of chemical disinfect boot washers at every footpath and looming smoke clouds of burning animal piles.
Racing has actually had a long history of unionization within driving groups because withholding labor to get safety improvements is the only way to drive change. Most racing series have drivers associations that have to sign off on each track pre-race weekend and can request or require changes to the track before a race. Pit crews often form union groups as well to protect their much different safety concerns. NASCAR really is the one exception due to a long history of union busting on behalf of the organizing body. Look into the history of the first race at Talladega and the 1969 Drivers Strike where the race was ran with 3 actual NASCAR cars and a field of lower-series scabs.
Can't help but feel bad about all the people who witnessed this crash. Must suck to be horrifically traumatized in a time before mental health awareness.
A note on the flying Mercedes AMG's: They lifted off because the bodywork of the Merc was very streamlined to a fault. The Mulsanne straight is bumpy, allowing for air to sneak under the car. Providing you're not following someone, that's fine. Unfortunately, it's Le Mans and there will be traffic. On three occasions (Mark Webber twice, Peter Dornbreck once), the car lifted off whilst following in another car's slipstream.
Mark Webber is probably the driver that has been through the most shit without winning anything to show for it. He lift off with the C11 2x and only got shafted by VET at RBR.
The Mercedes engine ploughed through the seats where my dad's friend's parents would have been seated had the mother not been ill that day. A case of bad luck turning out to be incredibly good.
Way back when I was at school in the early 70s I had a (rare) cool Chemistry teacher who used to reward our (rare) good behaviour by dropping a smidge of magnesium into a flask of water. Always spectacular.
I got a similar demo in physics (the phy teacher was much cooler than the chem guy), and we got a 3 metal series: Li, Na, then K. It was only the K that he put behind a poly shield.
Yeah, that's what I remember, though our teacher put it in a clear tank & let it just do a wild barrel roll across the surface. I was bit baffled when Roz was like, "so they made the car chassis out of magnesium". Which led to me thinking, "Well this won't end well 😮".
I had a science teacher in my first year of high school (no specialist science subjects until final two years of high school, when science becomes elective subjects), who loved doing anything that explodes etc.
My chemistry teacher (while teaching another class) Burnt his eyebrows off when he didn't notice a blob of sodium/potassium on the spatula he was cleaning under a tap
In 1863, Nadar took the first underground photos in the Paris sewers, when a construction crew digging the tunnel ran into an early Christian catacomb. He set up the camera by the usual candlelight, and for the esposure, unrolled magnesium wire down the whole length of the area in frame, and lit it. Keep in mind, the speed of a wet collodion plate was about ASA 2 in modern terms, if exposed while still wet. So the sewer tunnel doubled as a darkroom, as wet plates were normally prepared by candlelight. So if thin magnesium wire burns hot and bright enough to light up a cave full of bones on a plate so slow you can see it while coating it and still not ruin it, imagine a burning magnesium Mercedes.
"oh, we'll get to that" is my favourite quote from this podcast. love the show first time long time blah blah blah, you guys help me get through my shifts at a recycling plant that refuses to operate like it should.
Le Mans has also inspired a parody race called "24 Hours of Lemons" using beater cars with a $500 price limit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Hours_of_LeMons
39:30 I believe it was an episode of CSI Miami. A guy in a pit crew gets murdered by his suit being deliberately doused in a chemical which reacts with some other chemicals, basically burning to death without flames
This episode has certainly answered a question I've had for a while. In the Swedish military, there's a high temperature incendiary charge called an "electron bomb." I'd always assumed its name had been the result of some sort of misunderstanding, but, no, the device's *actual reactive component* is apparently used as a structural material for madmen's race cars.
You've obviously not been North of Valdosta GA towards the end of summer. It smells like everybody tried to clear their open sewer toilets with cheap bowl cleaner.
Middlesbrough. Admittedly, it was 20 years ago so the chemical plants might've died down. Also, I walked behind a brewery in Newcastle once and that was .... troubling.
I don't recall many calories being terrible from what I remember if driving across the US and Canada (just the usual urine/effluent/exhaust/steel/concrete smell most cities have). Chilliwack BC Canada was the worst in the summer for cow feed lots mixed with rotting cabbage in the summer. Though I'm sure there's someplace in the US with a massive pig farm that's worse than anywhere mentioned yet. Tons of paper and pulp mills, strangely I kinda like the smell.
There's a feed lot in the middle of the central valley of California that can make you pass out if you breath in enough of the stench as you pass by. I can not imagine working/living there at all. Shit, maybe no one does, and the cows have merely stumbled upon a closed system that will be running for rest of all time. IDK
Just to clarify - the Mercedes that Liam talks about at around the 24:45 mark wasn't the Mercedes CLK-GTR, it was the similarly named but entirely unrelated Mercedes _CLR._ The CLK-GTR/LM was built to FIA GT1 spec, while the CLR was built to LMGTP (Le Mans GT Prototype) spec. The CLK, as far as we're aware, wasn't attending tryouts for the Luftwaffe in '97-'98.
The magnesium thing just reminds me of the one time I tried cooking in my freshman year of college in upstate Pennsylvania and the pasta water literally started sparking. Sadly not a workplace failure so not a real safety third worthy story.
I was using a micro to heat water to pour down a towel for humidity in my dorm room in Valdosta in 1991/'92 and after a while the towel became very dirty and crusty. Turns out the water there is some of the worst in the US.
I row on the cuyahoga river in Cleveland. It's not the cleanest river on good days, the steel mill is a good place to stop for a rest because the steel mill warms up the water especially nice on cold March mornings. It's not super polluted but still not great. Just like Roz we got to experience combined sewer overflow events. The most dangerous thing is the great lake freighters going up the river to the steel mill. Think the edmund fitzgerald, but the river is only 20 ft wider than the freighters so so have to hug the bank and hope you don't get caught in the turbulence of the propellers. They also kick up crap from the bottom of the river making it all the more gross. The worst is when the people around mess up and splash water on you especially when you're breathing hard and water lands in your mouth but you can't stop to rinse it out.
Phoenix smells amazing whenever it rains, because you get that awesome post-rain desert smell. You know that smell when you open a really old book that hasn't been opened for years? Its kind of like that, but even better. Granted, outside of monsoon season it rains like once every 3 months, so it doesn't smell great beyond that.
The US Navy's firefighting training for dealing with aircraft on fire (so burning magnesium and aluminum) is pretty much "use whatever means are available to push the affected aircraft off the side of the ship and move away from it" which really tells you a lot about how ridiculously difficult to put out those fires are.
I'm poor. My cars engine got completely fucked today. I can't afford an engine or a new car rn. Really down today. Then I saw this in my feed. Thank you, guys and gal.
Buffalo has a pretty rad smell profile: a General Mills plant just south of downtown ensures that nostalgic gusts of Lucky Charms intermittently punctuate the lingering, rancid default of rust, grease, and bleu cheese :D
I used to live in the Texas panhandle and there was a cow plant in a town called Hereford. The shit wind from that town carried like 50 miles over to ours every once in while, and every time someone would smell it they would say “well there’s Hereford”
39:37 a year later and probably been addressed but Alice is thinking of methanol, which was deemed preferable to gasoline as a racing fuel in the US because you can extinguish a methanol fire with water, and the lack of visible smoke and flame made it easier for rescuers to see what was happening and easier for other drivers to avoid hitting whatever was burning. The tradeoff, though, was that it doesn’t burn bright enough to see the flame in daylight, so you sometimes see footage from the Indy 500 or other Indy car races where buckets of water are flying on the pits and guys are freaking out like they’re on fire but it also looks like they’re not. This started in the 1960s and continued until the 2000s when “ethanol is going to solve our energy problems” interests got involved as sponsors and they switched to ethanol with just enough methanol to make it undrinkable for tax purposes. Eventually that got replaced with E85 because neither of those alcohols had enough oil in them.
You should smell Krakow in the winter when all coal and wood burning stoves are running. For me the worst smelling city was New York, nothing beats the smell of a million diesel exhaust pipes mixed with as many fried chicken places and delivered to your nose when it's 100 F with 85% humidity.
Fun fact on the Le Mans Start- It's widely considered to have ended after Jacky Ickx won after calmly walking to his car and doing up his harness in prostest, the same race a driver died from not doing that. Jacky Ickx was also in the "Jackie Stewart is a fucking Pussy" crowd on F1 safety. Even he thought the Le Mans start was bullshit.
My grandfather with my great-grandfather were there, luckily they were on the other side, on the safe side of the racetrack. Needless to say, it’s not something they talk(ed) much about.
56:05 Alice mentioned the distraction of the magnesium fire burning while the race continued. When Jo Schlesser died in a magnesium bodied F1 car (1968) drivers reported the smell of burnt flesh/meat lingered on that corner for several laps.
I can actually legit imagine a wacky Indiana Jones sequence, where he's chasing a guy who has info on an artifact, but accidentally ends up participating in the Le Man's race & wins unwittingly. Would be kinda tight, I think.
Learn geography through Europa Universalis! The province of Maine is the start of a war between England and France when you start a game through the "Surrender of Maine" event.
So, a quite a few years ago now I volunteered to do pit lane fire safety for a major historic car race. I had done pit lane work for modern cars but historics had some extra instructions. The head fire marshal game me the following instructions. Instruction #1, the cars with a A next to to their numbers were methanol cars. Methanol burns clear so if you walk up to the car and suddenly feel burning pain, you're on fire, act accordingly. Also, you better have a water extinguisher because CO2 won't do shit on a methanol fire. Instruction #2, the bright silver cars, which are called out on the radio are magnesium. Use powder to get the driver out, but otherwise stand back. This is when the head fire marshal pointed to a bright silver car with a A on it. That's a magnesium car running methanol. You need a purple K fire extinguisher for that one. We don't have one, so if that car catches fire, run away.
Chicago's name in the local Native America tribe's language is literally "stinking cabbage". I've been there many many times , downtown smells like if you could imagine a lightly roasted garbage dumpster. Also I'd totally love to guest for Safety Thirds that involve UPS and other places I've worked.
Meanwhile, the suburbs (where I'm from) smell like skunk, on account of all the skunks being hit by cars out here. Also, speaking of etymology, I read somewhere that the original native Algonquian word was "skwunk", which might be one of my favorite words in any language.
I'm sure it's already been pointed out, but the scary invisible fire Alice is thinking of is a methanol fire. One of the reasons methanol is banned in most motorsports, the other probably being that "hey, it's alcohol and let's drink it! Hey, where'd you go?!? Oh no, I'm blind!"
Benzene used to be added to petrol/gasoline quite often in the old days. It's one of the "aromatics". Those are added to the petrol to increase its octane rating, allowing the engine to use higher compression ratios without detonation occuring.
Speaking of harnesses, the story goes Jackie Oliver (I believe it was him anyhow) was steering with his knees doing up his safety harnesses. Yes, Pierre Levegh nearly won Le Mans in 52 driving on his own for 23 hours which led to Mercdes getting interested in him as well.
*10 years from now* Welcome to Well There’s your Problem, a podcast about engineering disasters. With slides. That is recorded in a convoy of tour cars. Today we’re covering the Tacoma Narrow Bridge Disaster.
You keep saying that Alice's other podcast is called "trash future", when it's called "trashfuture". Not the same thing at all. I almost didn't find it because of this.
I would like to correct the record about Greely, CO. It does not smell like cow shit. It smells like rotting cow carcus from the JBS meet processing facility in the town. While the two smells are similar, they are not the same.
31:27 While Liam's doing his armchair general thing I'm just gonna say check the ratio: No. of German POWs captured: UK: 3,600,000 USA: 3,000,000 No. of German POWs killed: UK: 21,000 USA: 22,000 No. of military deaths: UK: 383,700 USA: 407,000 But yeah thanks for the help though, glad you guys were able to actually play a significant role in that world war.
I've a 16lbs pick axe that strongly disagrees. Professional advice; If I don't think it's safe for me to pull out into traffic yet don't sit behind me honking the horn of a ricer. Almost made the news that day, not like back in 1995 when I got an anchorperson fired for calling me a 'hitman'.
@1:30 - holy shit, thank you! i lived in phoenix for ten years, and the place is a shithole. "but it's a dry heat!" - doesn't matter, it's 110+F for six months of the year, being dry just means it kills you faster. "but desert flora is so pretty!" okay, and that desert fauna also primarily pollinates by means of "fill the air with yellow dust", because there is not enough mobile insect life for most of it to reliably pollinate via other means. Then, because it is so dry, that pollen stays in the air year-round, so it's always allergy season. There's nothing you can do in Phoenix that you can't do in any other US city. The only differences are that water costs more, the climate is always trying to kill you, and there are millions of people who've never lived there who want to tell you how amazing it is.
OMG what an appropriate topic! Something flies off track, crashes and explodes and y'all just keep on going like nothing happened! It's like a metaphor, allegory, simile for Liam's driving! XD
I thought this was going to be a generic morning show discussion. To my surprise and delight you actually went into the chemistry and provided the best explanation to this disaster I’ve seen! Great job, boys!
