Ships typically float on top of the ocean and don't travel underwater. A proper airship thus should float at the very top of the atmosphere, with its superstructure in the vacuum of space. A more proper name for these things is "air submarines."
More gently presses into the tower, crumples and bursts before sliding sadly down the entire length of the building. Then either catching fire or being taken by the wind.
I know we make fun of the "Oh the humanity" thing, but those radio reporters around that time were HEAVILY trained to stay calm and neutral and with that midatlantic accent. The fact that he panicked so much and even began to drop his accent really makes it hit how horrible of a thing it was to watch.
The recording that everyone has heard of it has recently been discovered to have been sped up. In the real speed of the recording he sounds much less panicked.
The Germans never gave up their sequentially numbered gas ball based strategy of conquering Europe, and found some success in 1983 with the hit single _99 Luftballons._
Some years ago my father who is now 99, told me he and a friend, (I'll have to find the name) were rabbit hunting in the marshland west of south ave on Staten Island. They were both carrying 22 cal rifles, when the Hindenburg passed over head on its way to New Jersey. His friend was of Polish decent and according to my dad took a potshot at it cursing the Nazis as he did. Now my dad said the Hindenburg looked to be about 8 foot long from the ground which would have put it well within the range of the 22 rifle. I doubt it had any effect but it's a bit of info most people do not have.
There are a few stories of people taking potshots at the Hindenburg, although you’re right to suggest that they never had any effect (shooting at an airship, even one filled with hydrogen, *even with incendiary bullets* won’t really do all that much). A small note - there’s no way the ship was that low at that point in its flight - it’d only go that low Immediately before landing, so there’s a good chance that LZ-129’s massive size played a bit of an optical trick on your father and his friend.
@@hendrickstoops3591 The Hastings Historical society has pictures and reports that the Hindenburg was at 700 feet when it cruised over Yonkers and may have been lower when it passed over Staten Island. I understand that the Captain ordered her lower so the passengers could better view the city as they went by.
During WW1 special machineguns chambered in 11mm Gras firing incendiary bullets were used to pop balloons because the ordinary 7mm ones didn't do a good enough job. A single .22 probably won't do much.
Quick suggestion: The Dyck Memorial Bridge collapse in Clayton, Saskatchewan, in 2018. No injuries, not a particularly big bridge, but 1) you can make tons of Dyck jokes, and 2) the freaking bridge only stayed up for *six hours.*
Are you saying the Dyck memorial bridge had erectile dysfunction? Sounds like a giant tablet of viagra was needed, maybe a giant movie screen with pr0n playing.
Sad story about Charles Goodyear. The guy died while going to visit his daughter who was herself, dying. He arrived in New York only to be informed she had already passed and the shock caused him to collapse and die.
@@botchamaniajeezus is that more like 2 pee^2 poo^2 or pee^2 poo^2 pee^2 poo^2? My Elon math is a little lacking, sadly, and I'm unsure which one it is!! 🙈
Let's all tell the truth here: WTYP is the one true successor to CarTalk. I can't decide whether I watch this podcast for the 45 minutes of fascinating engineering discussion or two and a half hilarious hours of the hosts talking random.
I have auditory processing disorder so I appreciate you introducing yourselves in every episode so I can get used to your voices, especially since you have guests.
Auditory processing disorder solidarity! There's two of us here, and that's basically enough to form a union. Also, (and I know this is a four month old comment so this advice may be outdated) but for me, watching the Tacoma Narrows Bridge episode and being able to watch who was talking was the point when I started to be able to tell Liam and Roz apart. (I had already listened to a BUNCH of WTYP and still couldn't keep the disembodied voices apart except for Alice. I listened to one of Alice's introductions and kept replaying it for like 5 minutes solid until I was able to reliably identify her voice, cuz I didn't want to be misgendering her in my head lol) If you don't have the Patreon already, they've said on some episodes that they're willing to make exceptions so you might be able to ask them for access.
@@Katherine-wt1oh Also auditory processing issues! Hooray! I feel a little ashamed that it took seeing Alice in that live episode to hear her as a woman (ironic considering the audio issues), but since then I hear her no other way.
@@PFMediaServices 😅 yeah, that's auditory processing disorder for yah. It's crazy, especially since now I can hear how all of their voices and manners of speech sound *so distinct*, but when I first started listening to the pod I literally could not tell you who was talking when, they just all blended together. It's like when you hear the same lyric 20 times in a row, and it's garbled nonsense. Then it just *click* locks into place, and your like "Oh, duh, OBVIOUSLY they're saying 'I'm still tryin to find my identity' and can only hear it the correct way from then on.
One thing I do know about the WW1 Zeppelins: they knew the allies were reading the LZ numbers, so they skipped out thirty or forty to give the impression they had a lot more airships than they really had.
I just imagine Ben Franklin looking up to the sky and seeing a kite shaped Batman signal and saying "I must go now. Something that will some day be historically noteworthy is happening over there."
Guess at the three things in the first 20 minutes that will get WTYP cancelled: 1. doing racism to Norwegians; 2. doing transphobia to Pete Buttigieg; 3. missing Trump.
@@thewingedporpoise that said, I think we should perhaps consider the bizarre preparation of fish done by the people of Norway to be intended as a grievous insult against fish, in which case, maybe Norway isn’t that bad after all.
@@JamLeGull is it a crime to like lutefisk tho, also, they have decent things with exorbitant amounts of dairy/the ability to slather them with immense amounts of dairy
"Really, it's-it's like the Hindenburg footage. Ya-ya ever see that? Just, absolutely breathtaking... until you realize everyone's screwed." - Felix from Red vs Blue
@@penta5698 Wos host Du grod von mia gsog du gstunkana klana Saupreiß? Du woast holt schu dass I schu bam Bundeshea ois besta Gfreita aussigaungen bin, I war in am Haufn urgeila Saufnochtl und hob über 300 Stiegl gsoffn, oida. I bin a drainierta Pinzgaua Fohra und da besta a noch dazua. Du bist nix für mi ois a kloana gschissena Viutrottl, I gabat da so a Wotschn wirs di Wölt no net gsegn hog, host me? Du glabst du kummst jetz davon nochdemst dei pappn so deppat aufgrissn host? Do denkst noamol driaba noch, Oarschgfriss. Hiatza grod während du mit mir so deppat umanadaredst hul i schu meine Komarodn vom Blosmusiverein, und dei IP wird grod im moment zruckverfulgt, olso richt di schuamol her, wal wir richtln da di Wadln glei, du blede sau. Wemma daumit fertig san wast a nemma wo obn und untn is. Du bist am oasch. Klana. I kon iwaroll sei, ollawei, und i hau da auf iwa 700 ortn dei gfriss ei, und des netamol mit meiner Steyr AUG. I bin net nur da beste im Zöltfestsaufn, soudern i hob a an Zugriff auf des gaunze Arsenal vom Musiverein Leibnitz! Wenn Du gwusst häst wos dei klana "gscheita" Kommentar dir eibrockt, dann häst wahrscheinlich dei deppate Goschn gholtn. Aba du hosts ned tau, du host dei schiaches Gfriss aufmochn miasn, und jetzt zoist, du Saubua. I scheiss an grant üwa dir aus. Du bist komplett hi, Klana.
My mental health is suffering... suffering like a poorly designed bridge... a poorly designed bridge that has caught the wind... caught the wind and starts undulating violently...
First time I've come across a "suicide or self-harm" warning pre-screen on a WTYP vid and it's for....this? I imagine there are more useful places for such a trigger warning to exist, but you do you-Tube.
It's because of the reference to Jacques Giffard awfing himself in 1882. Cos ya know, the globalist overlords have to protect us from the bad things. Tell about a guy awfing himself 140 years ago = Bad, must keep you safe Turning the world into a worse place than hell, that makes you want to awf yourself = Perfectly right, enforce it on everyone There's one on the Oldsmobile Diesels episode, too, cos Rudolph Diesel awfed himself. Yeah, I read that when I was 13, and I didn't awf myself, but at 58, I need power-mad demons to treat me like I'm three. Press F for the world.
That warning is still being shown today (Jan 2024) and, yeah, it seems a little unnecessary to me… I'm guessing it's due to this, at 36:14: *“… and in 1882 [Baptiste Jules Henri Jacques Giffard] killed himself.”* In context, that seemed completely fine and unlikely to be problematic (it wasn't _glorifying_ or _encouraging_ it), but I'm thankfully not triggered by that subject - despite my various mental health issues - so it's not really my place to judge the merit of that warning's placement… (Gods, Internet culture has totally ruined “triggered”, hasn't it? I feel kinda gross using that term _correctly, sincerely,_ and _in its proper context_ 😣) … … oh, there's also mention of self-harm in _the last 3 minutes_ (or ~1.6%) - at 3:00:05. Given that, I suppose the warning is slightly more justified 🤷♀️
0:00 - Alice the Second 5:06 - Shall we invade Norway today, sir? 8:44 - Reject the Airship Gender Binary 13:00 - Liam actually knows what the Nuclear Triad is. 18:10 - Make Love, not War - or - Make War into Love. 21:17 - Inflamable Air, can or cannot be lit afire? 34:15 - F the Yankees 36:28 - Ben Franklin was not around to offer some French guy a pair of bifocals 39:25 - Prussia = Learning from the American War of Unification 46:40 - Alice preempts a God-awful mispronounciation of der Deustch by the Swedish Chef - who has not invaded Norway. 55:34 - Zepplin is a member of the Prussian Secret Service 59:40 - Roz forgets about the Army blimp that Maryland "lost" and which invaded Pennsylvania - which the Pennsylvania State Police shot down. 1:05:25 - Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam 1:19:20 - We miss a chance to ask why there is not an EV called the Musk Model 3 and why it is instead named after someone not related to the company. 1:32:46 - Polandball Blitzkrieg with Airships 1:39:30 - Literally Hitler 1:55:16 - I feel attacked. 1:57:35 - Liam's van makes an introduction - again 2:04:10 - Is the Sheetz' Beer Cave a bar? 2:07:05 - One day I will make it the whole way through Der Ring des Nibelungen 2:23:25 - It's Hardcore History 2:36:05 - Rutter's Egg Nog is Best Egg Nog 2:37:12 - Sheetz' knows their tobacco 2:37:13 - Can Royal Farms attack York? 2:49:02 - Justice John Roberts Dies
Another random fact about the telescope. Losing it also lost the biggest active telescope. most telescopes are "passive", meaning you point the thing at what you want to look at and collect light from it. Active telescopes are like radar and "ping" EM waves off of what you point it at. Not useful for interstellar things, with lightyears getting in the way, but great for things in the solar system. THis one was 420 kilowatts, which for radar is a lot. Losing this makes asteroids more difficult to learn about, as we cannot shine a light on them to look at it, relying on incident from it instead, and unlike movies, asteroids are dark. They range in shades, but still fall in the "concrete to asphalt" scale of colours, compared to paper white.
@@izzystar5904 Wanted to check out the podcast but I noticed only 3 episodes are up (the last 3, specifically). Do you know where there's an archive? EDIT: found their discord, am talking to the hosts rn about it.
@@izzystar5904 Hi Izzy. This is Fio (formerly Lily). Per your comment, @NarnKar tracked me down asking about REFE. I wanted to thank you for recommending my podcast. Also, seeing as how the podcast ended 2 years ago and has no plans of continuing in its old form, I stopped paying the hosting fee. Thus, the upload cap came back, and only 3 episodes are publicly available. HOWEVER, seeing this recommendation has pushed me to create a GOOGLE DRIVE link with all the episodes. Soon to follow.
About Arecibo: The telescope wasn't in great shape because of the hurricane, some earthquakes, and it being difficult to get supplies and trained people out to Arecibo to do the actual repairs. (also repairs usually mean shutting down the telescope which means no one is paying for observing time which means the telescope has less funding to do repairs). It was still managing with some abilities off line waiting for repairs and one of the auxiliary cables snapped and put a hole through the dish (I believe that's the smaller break at the bottom of the picture you have on the slides). People went out, looked at the damage, said it was repairable but it'd take a bit. Then another cable snapped and people went "okay we're going to do a controlled demolition". Then a third cable snapped and the whole thing collapsed into the dish and they went "Well I guess it's done that itself". Arecibo's been up for a long time and it's not the first radio telescope collapse to happen (the 300ft at Green Bank collapsed in 1993 I believe and in fact, collapsed on to the building where the telescope operator was) but it really sucks. The VLA is also made up of old telescopes but ALMA, the GBT, and FAST are pretty new in that they've been up for fewer than 20 years so I've got my fingers crossed for preemptive maintenance and no more collapses for a while.
It's kind of a shame seeing a real iconic piece of scientific equipment fall to pieces like that. Can't think of a more obvious metaphor for science needing better funding in general.
I used to live near the crash site. The infrastructure left is pretty rad. Also there's a bunch of territorial turkeys in the woods nearby that chased my father when he tried to photograph them.
@@fuzzydunlop7928 I mean they were literal turkeys like "gobble gobble". They're rather big and intimidating when five of them take issue with your presence. Kinda like geese.
i love not ever going on twitter and piecing together the latest wtyp "drama" via context clues its a fun little brain exercise at the beginning of every episode
Trans: the country all the cute people come from. Portation: the carrying of an object Transportation is the carrying of the trans nation, towards its manifest destiny.
"That's where we went to that AWFUL bar." silence "We went to the Wawa." I choose to interpret Liam as mistaking a Wawa for a bar and having gotten pissed at their refusal to serve him alcohol.
Fun fact: they still have a monument in the middle of the town where the 1908 Zeppelin crashed, because that's the most exciting thing that has ever happened there...
12:40 - To be fair, losing Trump means we here in the UK no longer have the one thing we could point and laugh at the US over, shouting "We're number 194! We're number 194!"
I've flown in a Zeppelin NT, when they used to fly sightseeing tours out of Moffett Field in the bay area (the operating company has since gone under and sent the zeppelin back to Germany). It was a neat little novelty, and probably safer and quieter than a similar helicopter tour, but clearly not meant as a practical mode of transport, given that it only seated like twelve people.
I never thought of the Puerto Rico angle. That's a really interesting point. It almost certainly complicated the NSF's already limited ability to allocate the funds to maintain the telescope at the very least.
@@William-Morey-Baker Helps that it was close to the ground to start with, didn't fall very quickly, and the passenger compartment being on the underside meant it would be the last thing the fire reached while also the easiest place to escape from.
Pittsburgh and Glasgow are apparently sister cities now, so if the Proud Boys invade us from Pennsyltucky, I shall be expecting aid in the form of an entire battalion of burly Scotsmen. But they have to help us before they help Philadelphia.
God, I'm so basic. "WHY FOOTBALL MAN DON'T STAND UP" still makes me laugh. Just the switch to caveman speak is really funny to me for some reason. This has to be the most giggle-filled episode yet, right?
I've heard that Herbert Morrison's recorder was running slow on the day on the Hindenburg crash, resulting in his voice sounding like he was on helium. There is a corrected version on TH-cam that is much more comprehensible, IMO.
This upload couldn't have been timed more perfectly. I am literally on an Amtrak train while writing this comment. There's no wifi and cell service is spotty but I am determined to watch this whole thing before I get off. I've got like 5 hours to go.
I wish I could go on a train again. I used to go on a train nearly every day. Unfortunately I live in the epicenter of the new virulent covid strain on Plague Island and I can't even see my family at Christmas. What a garbage fucking excuse for a country
@@ClaudiaNW oh yeah the COVID cases were really bad near me, too. But I had to travel home from my college cause they were kicking us out for our winter break lol. Amtrak was definitely way safer than flying. Was a very weird experience compared to usual. I had booked a roomette (so I didn’t have to worry about being exposed to other people in coach) and I wound up in the crew transition sleeper car, which wasn’t even in the platform at the station where I was getting off so they made me drag all my luggage upstairs, down to the next car, and back downstairs for me to get off at my stop. Overall a very strange experience riding Amtrak in the pandemic with that being only one of several weird and inconvenient things about it.
this episode now has a big warning that pops up and you have to click through that says "this video may contain suicide or self-harm topics" which is the first time in my life i've ever seen that on youtube, wild
I'm still catching up to old episodes (being a recent subscriber), but I saw this go up and had to say: we have a piece of the hindenburg's molten aluminum encased in lucite because my grandfather just happened to be on a cross-country trip to visit family in New Jersey, and was just a few miles from the crash site when it happened; he and his family went the next morning and picked up some pieces, one of which we still have in our possession!
We’re all mentally ill to some degree. It’s a very wide range. From almost 100% well-adjusted (whatever that means), to completely fucking off the rails incapacitated. You’re welcome for the train metaphor. (Train = good.)
> deliciously enjoyable hot mess Thank you for, in 4 words, perfectly encapsulating both this podcast and my life when I can afford drugs and I'm not seperated from the family cats due to The Tasteless Terror
I've worn glasses since I was 5 years old. I've tried contacts and couldn't stand them - they changed my morning routine from rolling out of bed, brushing my hair, and getting dressed within 10 minutes to adding an additional 10-15 min to put the contacts in. This is the same reason I thanked all the gods that my skin allergies prevent me from wearing makeup - I just don't have time for that shit.
Having watched it all, this episode is up there with the best, like one of those pictures or artworks where every view of it reveals a new detail you have missed. I only just heard the "steamed hams" drop for the News and my drink is now all over the wall, thank you all so much for this 3 hour master work
Ships typically float on top of the ocean and don't travel underwater. A proper airship thus should float at the very top of the atmosphere, with its superstructure in the vacuum of space. A more proper name for these things is "air submarines."
Subairines
@@gabes1733 GIVE THIS MAN A FUCKING MEDAL
A supermarine, if you will.
@@nsnick199 that's a hydrofoil
counterpoint: airship sounds cooler
Imagine trying to do 9/11 with a blimp and it just gently presses up against the tower then bounces off
BOOP
More gently presses into the tower, crumples and bursts before sliding sadly down the entire length of the building. Then either catching fire or being taken by the wind.
If only
It deforms like that clip of the guy punching a water balloon
AHAHHAHAHAHAH
“GoFundReich” was hilarious; we would also have accepted “Kriegstarter”
Funduswehr
@@insertnamehere8715
Amazing.
Krautfunding
Is its main competitor FegelGoGo?
PayPosen.
This was so much fun, wanna buy some steel?
I did not quite know how much I needed to hear you say gummi.
Was super cool seeing you on my fave podcast! Collab made complete sense, but I hadn't expected it. Good shit, Mia
Can I pour sulferic acid on it?
I was introduced to your channel yesterday when the collaboration was announced, and I was already super excited by the time this episode came out!
69th like
nice.
"owner of a zeppelin company and a pornography company" so THAT'S who we have to blame for inflation fetish
omfg bro stoooop 🤣
*badumtish*
I know we make fun of the "Oh the humanity" thing, but those radio reporters around that time were HEAVILY trained to stay calm and neutral and with that midatlantic accent. The fact that he panicked so much and even began to drop his accent really makes it hit how horrible of a thing it was to watch.
It is quite jarring to hear the "Oh the humanity" monologue synced up to the actual disaster. Really puts it in context.
He doesn't stutter or stop even, he just keeps telling the news at 60mph. Describing every detail he can think of
A little bit like the ~audible mild anxiety~ on the BBC world service the night of the Brexit vote
The recording that everyone has heard of it has recently been discovered to have been sped up. In the real speed of the recording he sounds much less panicked.
Yeah I felt pretty bad for the guy, just the depth of horror in his voice. He sounded like he would cry
The Germans never gave up their sequentially numbered gas ball based strategy of conquering Europe, and found some success in 1983 with the hit single _99 Luftballons._
Some years ago my father who is now 99, told me he and a friend, (I'll have to find the name) were rabbit hunting in the marshland west of south ave on Staten Island. They were both carrying 22 cal rifles, when the Hindenburg passed over head on its way to New Jersey. His friend was of Polish decent and according to my dad took a potshot at it cursing the Nazis as he did. Now my dad said the Hindenburg looked to be about 8 foot long from the ground which would have put it well within the range of the 22 rifle. I doubt it had any effect but it's a bit of info most people do not have.
There are a few stories of people taking potshots at the Hindenburg, although you’re right to suggest that they never had any effect (shooting at an airship, even one filled with hydrogen, *even with incendiary bullets* won’t really do all that much). A small note - there’s no way the ship was that low at that point in its flight - it’d only go that low Immediately before landing, so there’s a good chance that LZ-129’s massive size played a bit of an optical trick on your father and his friend.
@@hendrickstoops3591 The Hastings Historical society has pictures and reports that the Hindenburg was at 700 feet when it cruised over Yonkers and may have been lower when it passed over Staten Island. I understand that the Captain ordered her lower so the passengers could better view the city as they went by.
Of course it's a piotr!
During WW1 special machineguns chambered in 11mm Gras firing incendiary bullets were used to pop balloons because the ordinary 7mm ones didn't do a good enough job.
A single .22 probably won't do much.
A true American hero.
Quick suggestion: The Dyck Memorial Bridge collapse in Clayton, Saskatchewan, in 2018. No injuries, not a particularly big bridge, but 1) you can make tons of Dyck jokes, and 2) the freaking bridge only stayed up for *six hours.*
Please tell me they replaced it with the Dyck Memorial Bridge Memorial Bridge
It stayed up longer than 4 hours. They needed to contact a doctor.
Are you saying the Dyck memorial bridge had erectile dysfunction?
Sounds like a giant tablet of viagra was needed, maybe a giant movie screen with pr0n playing.
@@grmpEqweer @falloutghoul1 and here we see equal but opposite jokes
My grandfather actually saw zeppelins bombing London. He said the scariest part was how quiet they were.
Sad story about Charles Goodyear. The guy died while going to visit his daughter who was herself, dying. He arrived in New York only to be informed she had already passed and the shock caused him to collapse and die.
:(
That is a horribly sad story
Charles Goodyear never died, that was his Wario: Chuck Badday
I think it's worth pointing out that this 3 hour podcast about the hindenberg disaster reaches the construction of the hindenburg at the 2 hour mark.
I know, isn't it great?
Honestly, this whole podcast could've been titled "Zeppelins".
How is that as bad thing? I live for these 3 hour podcasts... with slides!
Worth it for the GoFundReich joke.
Another ep that doesn't even come CLOSE to hitting the 16 hour mark. How lazy can you get?
30:41 "I really need to see photos of Shrek in the process of being inflated" -Alice, 2020, taken very much out of context
You just _know_ there's a DeviantArt page specialising in this...
i wanna see it with gummi
@@KenKeenan1973 You think there's only one??
I don't think including context makes it less weird tbh
th-cam.com/video/R-cKYsYxhJM/w-d-xo.html
Its time for
M I A M U L D E R
> "Let's record a 3 hour podcast about the dumbest mode of transportation invented since the Hyperloop"
> 3:02:50
Fucking nailed it there, Liam
blimps are atleast cool. elon musk is double peepeepoopoo
@@botchamaniajeezus is that more like 2 pee^2 poo^2 or pee^2 poo^2 pee^2 poo^2? My Elon math is a little lacking, sadly, and I'm unsure which one it is!! 🙈
@@sweetpeabee4983 sadly, it’s only 2(pee^2 poo^2) though more degrees in that expression would be much cooler
@@eleo513 °°°°°°° Harvard Graduate °°°°° here are some
@@PanAndScanBuddy Thank.
Welcome to WTYP. A lifestyle, with slides.
Famously a postcast about engineering slides, with disasters
Let's all tell the truth here: WTYP is the one true successor to CarTalk.
I can't decide whether I watch this podcast for the 45 minutes of fascinating engineering discussion or two and a half hilarious hours of the hosts talking random.
"don't drive like my brother" RIP
Are we all the children of NPR
Your insight is spot-on, thank you for pointing that out.
@@zombieraddish and don't drive like my brother
Literally what I've been thinking doing a binge!! :D
I have auditory processing disorder so I appreciate you introducing yourselves in every episode so I can get used to your voices, especially since you have guests.
Auditory processing disorder solidarity! There's two of us here, and that's basically enough to form a union.
Also, (and I know this is a four month old comment so this advice may be outdated) but for me, watching the Tacoma Narrows Bridge episode and being able to watch who was talking was the point when I started to be able to tell Liam and Roz apart. (I had already listened to a BUNCH of WTYP and still couldn't keep the disembodied voices apart except for Alice. I listened to one of Alice's introductions and kept replaying it for like 5 minutes solid until I was able to reliably identify her voice, cuz I didn't want to be misgendering her in my head lol)
If you don't have the Patreon already, they've said on some episodes that they're willing to make exceptions so you might be able to ask them for access.
@@Katherine-wt1oh Also auditory processing issues! Hooray!
I feel a little ashamed that it took seeing Alice in that live episode to hear her as a woman (ironic considering the audio issues), but since then I hear her no other way.
@@PFMediaServices 😅 yeah, that's auditory processing disorder for yah. It's crazy, especially since now I can hear how all of their voices and manners of speech sound *so distinct*, but when I first started listening to the pod I literally could not tell you who was talking when, they just all blended together.
It's like when you hear the same lyric 20 times in a row, and it's garbled nonsense. Then it just *click* locks into place, and your like "Oh, duh, OBVIOUSLY they're saying 'I'm still tryin to find my identity' and can only hear it the correct way from then on.
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
One thing I do know about the WW1 Zeppelins: they knew the allies were reading the LZ numbers, so they skipped out thirty or forty to give the impression they had a lot more airships than they really had.
o.0
I think there’s a similar story behind the numbering of the SAS and Seal Team SIX also
Doing that probably gave at least a few Germans legit anxiety attacks.
2:56:36 "I went home, I kissed my wife, and I called OSHA" that's the dream right there
I just imagine Ben Franklin looking up to the sky and seeing a kite shaped Batman signal and saying "I must go now. Something that will some day be historically noteworthy is happening over there."
"...or milfs."
Accurate timelord
Guess at the three things in the first 20 minutes that will get WTYP cancelled:
1. doing racism to Norwegians;
2. doing transphobia to Pete Buttigieg;
3. missing Trump.
The important part of this is that it ignores the Dutch. All my homies hat the Netherlands.
Norway has already done crimes against food, I'm assuming this will not be as bad as various preserved fishes
@@thewingedporpoise that said, I think we should perhaps consider the bizarre preparation of fish done by the people of Norway to be intended as a grievous insult against fish, in which case, maybe Norway isn’t that bad after all.
@@JamLeGull is it a crime to like lutefisk tho, also, they have decent things with exorbitant amounts of dairy/the ability to slather them with immense amounts of dairy
I see no problem here whatsoever.
Fun story: my grandfather was Australia's first and only airship salesman. There was not a large market.
Bill Shorten, rack off me fuckin airship
@@postoctobrist Do you think the Australians referred to them as "zeppos"?
The forced femme jokes made me spit coffee. This is the kind of relatable trans content I need!
same tbh
I'm a fan of trains as well.
“Sir please look into the light….thank you maam”
"Really, it's-it's like the Hindenburg footage. Ya-ya ever see that? Just, absolutely breathtaking... until you realize everyone's screwed."
- Felix from Red vs Blue
Alice reads German pretty well, but apparently with an Austrian accent.
My German professor was an Austrian lady, so I probably do that a bit as well.
Mein Lehrer war Österreicher und es hat meine Fähigkeit die Sprache zu sprechen ruiniert
@@postoctobrist Oida Oida Waldmann Oida Fritzl Oida.
@@penta5698 Wos host Du grod von mia gsog du gstunkana klana Saupreiß? Du woast holt schu dass I schu bam Bundeshea ois besta Gfreita aussigaungen bin, I war in am Haufn urgeila Saufnochtl und hob über 300 Stiegl gsoffn, oida. I bin a drainierta Pinzgaua Fohra und da besta a noch dazua. Du bist nix für mi ois a kloana gschissena Viutrottl, I gabat da so a Wotschn wirs di Wölt no net gsegn hog, host me? Du glabst du kummst jetz davon nochdemst dei pappn so deppat aufgrissn host? Do denkst noamol driaba noch, Oarschgfriss. Hiatza grod während du mit mir so deppat umanadaredst hul i schu meine Komarodn vom Blosmusiverein, und dei IP wird grod im moment zruckverfulgt, olso richt di schuamol her, wal wir richtln da di Wadln glei, du blede sau. Wemma daumit fertig san wast a nemma wo obn und untn is. Du bist am oasch. Klana. I kon iwaroll sei, ollawei, und i hau da auf iwa 700 ortn dei gfriss ei, und des netamol mit meiner Steyr AUG. I bin net nur da beste im Zöltfestsaufn, soudern i hob a an Zugriff auf des gaunze Arsenal vom Musiverein Leibnitz! Wenn Du gwusst häst wos dei klana "gscheita" Kommentar dir eibrockt, dann häst wahrscheinlich dei deppate Goschn gholtn. Aba du hosts ned tau, du host dei schiaches Gfriss aufmochn miasn, und jetzt zoist, du Saubua. I scheiss an grant üwa dir aus. Du bist komplett hi, Klana.
The steamed ham drop was perfect.
I wish airships were still a thing for pr0n. Can you imagine if some airship commander went around picking up stranded socialites in the Bang Blimp?
Plexiglass floor, for the exhibitionists.
I don't remember writing this comment but it is very good lol
Fake Zeppelin
Wait good idea actually hold on@@joshuahadams
My mental health is suffering... suffering like a poorly designed bridge... a poorly designed bridge that has caught the wind... caught the wind and starts undulating violently...
First time I've come across a "suicide or self-harm" warning pre-screen on a WTYP vid and it's for....this? I imagine there are more useful places for such a trigger warning to exist, but you do you-Tube.
It's because of the reference to Jacques Giffard awfing himself in 1882. Cos ya know, the globalist overlords have to protect us from the bad things.
Tell about a guy awfing himself 140 years ago = Bad, must keep you safe
Turning the world into a worse place than hell, that makes you want to awf yourself = Perfectly right, enforce it on everyone
There's one on the Oldsmobile Diesels episode, too, cos Rudolph Diesel awfed himself. Yeah, I read that when I was 13, and I didn't awf myself, but at 58, I need power-mad demons to treat me like I'm three. Press F for the world.
Dangerous lefties, ain't they dangerous?
The NSA will record your response.
It's cause the Hindenburg committed suicide.
That warning is still being shown today (Jan 2024) and, yeah, it seems a little unnecessary to me…
I'm guessing it's due to this, at 36:14:
*“… and in 1882 [Baptiste Jules Henri Jacques Giffard] killed himself.”*
In context, that seemed completely fine and unlikely to be problematic (it wasn't _glorifying_ or _encouraging_ it), but I'm thankfully not triggered by that subject - despite my various mental health issues - so it's not really my place to judge the merit of that warning's placement…
(Gods, Internet culture has totally ruined “triggered”, hasn't it? I feel kinda gross using that term _correctly, sincerely,_ and _in its proper context_ 😣)
…
… oh, there's also mention of self-harm in _the last 3 minutes_ (or ~1.6%) - at 3:00:05. Given that, I suppose the warning is slightly more justified 🤷♀️
0:00 - Alice the Second
5:06 - Shall we invade Norway today, sir?
8:44 - Reject the Airship Gender Binary
13:00 - Liam actually knows what the Nuclear Triad is.
18:10 - Make Love, not War - or - Make War into Love.
21:17 - Inflamable Air, can or cannot be lit afire?
34:15 - F the Yankees
36:28 - Ben Franklin was not around to offer some French guy a pair of bifocals
39:25 - Prussia = Learning from the American War of Unification
46:40 - Alice preempts a God-awful mispronounciation of der Deustch by the Swedish Chef - who has not invaded Norway.
55:34 - Zepplin is a member of the Prussian Secret Service
59:40 - Roz forgets about the Army blimp that Maryland "lost" and which invaded Pennsylvania - which the Pennsylvania State Police shot down.
1:05:25 - Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
1:19:20 - We miss a chance to ask why there is not an EV called the Musk Model 3 and why it is instead named after someone not related to the company.
1:32:46 - Polandball Blitzkrieg with Airships
1:39:30 - Literally Hitler
1:55:16 - I feel attacked.
1:57:35 - Liam's van makes an introduction - again
2:04:10 - Is the Sheetz' Beer Cave a bar?
2:07:05 - One day I will make it the whole way through Der Ring des Nibelungen
2:23:25 - It's Hardcore History
2:36:05 - Rutter's Egg Nog is Best Egg Nog
2:37:12 - Sheetz' knows their tobacco
2:37:13 - Can Royal Farms attack York?
2:49:02 - Justice John Roberts Dies
41:20
"SERGEANT. DO YOU SEE THEM PICNIC GOERS?"
"YES SIR!"
"I DON'T WANNA."
"Why would anyone want to go on an airship powered by something called an inflammable air?", I mused, taking a sip of fire water.
Sipping gasoline I see
@@diegodoumecq5144 no, fire water is alcohol
Well yes but no. Real men sip gasoline while smoking
@@diegodoumecq5144 Hello, Trevor from GTA V.
Another random fact about the telescope. Losing it also lost the biggest active telescope. most telescopes are "passive", meaning you point the thing at what you want to look at and collect light from it. Active telescopes are like radar and "ping" EM waves off of what you point it at. Not useful for interstellar things, with lightyears getting in the way, but great for things in the solar system. THis one was 420 kilowatts, which for radar is a lot. Losing this makes asteroids more difficult to learn about, as we cannot shine a light on them to look at it, relying on incident from it instead, and unlike movies, asteroids are dark. They range in shades, but still fall in the "concrete to asphalt" scale of colours, compared to paper white.
Smoke Blimpz EVERY DAY
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No great loss; they stopped taking SETI data off it over a year ago!
@@richardscathouse telescopes have other uses than SETI
One more piece when the meteor falls _unnoticed._
"I'm sorry this is what happens when you get two trans women on your podcast"
Proof I need more podcasts with two or more trans women
Kinda like watching two hindenburgs
Have you checked out kill James bond?
@@izzystar5904 Wanted to check out the podcast but I noticed only 3 episodes are up (the last 3, specifically). Do you know where there's an archive?
EDIT: found their discord, am talking to the hosts rn about it.
@@izzystar5904 Hi Izzy. This is Fio (formerly Lily). Per your comment, @NarnKar tracked me down asking about REFE. I wanted to thank you for recommending my podcast. Also, seeing as how the podcast ended 2 years ago and has no plans of continuing in its old form, I stopped paying the hosting fee. Thus, the upload cap came back, and only 3 episodes are publicly available. HOWEVER, seeing this recommendation has pushed me to create a GOOGLE DRIVE link with all the episodes. Soon to follow.
I wanna be a guest on WTYP! But I doubt it will ever happen
About Arecibo:
The telescope wasn't in great shape because of the hurricane, some earthquakes, and it being difficult to get supplies and trained people out to Arecibo to do the actual repairs. (also repairs usually mean shutting down the telescope which means no one is paying for observing time which means the telescope has less funding to do repairs). It was still managing with some abilities off line waiting for repairs and one of the auxiliary cables snapped and put a hole through the dish (I believe that's the smaller break at the bottom of the picture you have on the slides).
People went out, looked at the damage, said it was repairable but it'd take a bit. Then another cable snapped and people went "okay we're going to do a controlled demolition". Then a third cable snapped and the whole thing collapsed into the dish and they went "Well I guess it's done that itself".
Arecibo's been up for a long time and it's not the first radio telescope collapse to happen (the 300ft at Green Bank collapsed in 1993 I believe and in fact, collapsed on to the building where the telescope operator was) but it really sucks.
The VLA is also made up of old telescopes but ALMA, the GBT, and FAST are pretty new in that they've been up for fewer than 20 years so I've got my fingers crossed for preemptive maintenance and no more collapses for a while.
Scott Manley did a very good video on it.
And the Chinese one can’t see all that Arecibo could
:(
It's kind of a shame seeing a real iconic piece of scientific equipment fall to pieces like that. Can't think of a more obvious metaphor for science needing better funding in general.
It looks like they didn't do maintenance ever.. #SafetyThird
I used to live near the crash site. The infrastructure left is pretty rad. Also there's a bunch of territorial turkeys in the woods nearby that chased my father when he tried to photograph them.
That's how New Jersey residents usually treat people who wander too far from the parkway.
@@fuzzydunlop7928 I mean they were literal turkeys like "gobble gobble". They're rather big and intimidating when five of them take issue with your presence. Kinda like geese.
@@russianbear0027 That left over dinosaur DNA
@@russianbear0027 turkeys have spurs for defence too. They’ll try to scratch the shit out of you
Thanks for normalizing psych meds, all! I’m also on meds
Getting the right meds is a hell of a drug
@@wormxdream true that.
Every woman I ever dated, normalizing psych meds
This is a healthy and stable audience. No
@@georgeadams5390 medicine famous for making people unstable and unhealthy on purpose
i love not ever going on twitter and piecing together the latest wtyp "drama" via context clues its a fun little brain exercise at the beginning of every episode
Trans: the country all the cute people come from.
Portation: the carrying of an object
Transportation is the carrying of the trans nation, towards its manifest destiny.
The trans empire will reign supreme
Rocky Horror Railway Show
Etymology is cool.
@@tibbygaycat Call it Transylvania.
"That's where we went to that AWFUL bar."
silence
"We went to the Wawa."
I choose to interpret Liam as mistaking a Wawa for a bar and having gotten pissed at their refusal to serve him alcohol.
Fun fact: they still have a monument in the middle of the town where the 1908 Zeppelin crashed, because that's the most exciting thing that has ever happened there...
I was here for engineering disasters, but now I’m just here for Mia Mulder. This was a great collab.
This needs to happen again
@@OpreRoma she should be at least semi- regular. Her history knowledge evens out Alice (sp?) and Liam’s wild guessing.
@@snakesnoteyes the chemistry just works as well
@@OpreRoma definitely. She immediately felt like part of the gang.
Yeah this was phenomenal, please bring her back in the future
The friendship on display in this episode disgusts me. Shameful.
Imagine having friends 🤮
Go cry to Beyonzé about it!
Ok, princess, let's get you back to your moon prison
LETS DO THE NEWS!
*steamed hams*
I was trying to doze off, then that made me laugh so hard I fell out of my bed.
"I thought we were having the goddamn news."
i genuinely laughed so hard i couldnt breathe
"Oh shit, oh fuck."
Ignition source: Aurora Borealis
Tbf steamed hams would be a less dangerous method of transportation than a grampa-aged blimp
12:40 - To be fair, losing Trump means we here in the UK no longer have the one thing we could point and laugh at the US over, shouting "We're number 194! We're number 194!"
No problem, his replacement is even easier to point and laugh at! 😉🙀🙀🙀
Our politics will always be a dumpster fire for your entertainment. Keep the popcorn handy.
*Liam staring at the comments* "Oh the humanity"
"I need to see Shrek... being inflated" - Alice, 2020
that's right
the whole bit after "it seems to me it is missing ze bayonet" is still one of the all time best riffs
"Zeppelin't" is the funniest fucking thing I've ever heard and I've heard two things.
I've flown in a Zeppelin NT, when they used to fly sightseeing tours out of Moffett Field in the bay area (the operating company has since gone under and sent the zeppelin back to Germany). It was a neat little novelty, and probably safer and quieter than a similar helicopter tour, but clearly not meant as a practical mode of transport, given that it only seated like twelve people.
loved how that Zepplin logo appears in every single thing that a zepplin made airship appears in.
Imagine joining the german army and getting issued a prototype numbered LZ 971 and wondering what happened to 970 before it.
I mean, per capita, Zeppelins suffered the worst losses of the war behind only U-Boats, which is saying something : P
I never thought of the Puerto Rico angle. That's a really interesting point. It almost certainly complicated the NSF's already limited ability to allocate the funds to maintain the telescope at the very least.
Ah yes, just the video to put me in the holiday spirit. A 3 hour special on tons of people dying in a hydrogen explosion.
Never change.
A lot of people on the Hindenburg actually survived... Quite a few...
@@William-Morey-Baker Helps that it was close to the ground to start with, didn't fall very quickly, and the passenger compartment being on the underside meant it would be the last thing the fire reached while also the easiest place to escape from.
This is the horniest episode yet and it's all Alice's fault.
It's wonderful.
GUMMI~
Pittsburgh and Glasgow are apparently sister cities now, so if the Proud Boys invade us from Pennsyltucky, I shall be expecting aid in the form of an entire battalion of burly Scotsmen. But they have to help us before they help Philadelphia.
PSA: blimp is not train
*Ahem* You mean the rail zeppelins?
Kink was invented in 1956 by Humboldt Kink. Before that it was all vanilla
You can only call it kink if it's from the Kink region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling sexual deviancy.
Liam's right: the fact that people died makes it a dirge-able
“And then that one fell over into the swamp!”
Damnit Alice I was drinking something.
wait a minute...this isnt the tacoma narrows disaster!!
no that's next episode.
Next Time!
I'm looking forward to it.
“I heard Fat Dom Gameillo was last seen in Jersey”
“Yeah, so was the Hindenburg. Maybe you wanna look into that?”
Great stuff to listen to when you lock yourself outside a house
Edit: got the key and I’m back in
Glad you're back in! It's also nice to listen to while locked inside a house.
God, I'm so basic. "WHY FOOTBALL MAN DON'T STAND UP" still makes me laugh. Just the switch to caveman speak is really funny to me for some reason.
This has to be the most giggle-filled episode yet, right?
The sheer plump of the blimp in the top panel does incredible things to the text
I've heard that Herbert Morrison's recorder was running slow on the day on the Hindenburg crash, resulting in his voice sounding like he was on helium. There is a corrected version on TH-cam that is much more comprehensible, IMO.
This upload couldn't have been timed more perfectly. I am literally on an Amtrak train while writing this comment. There's no wifi and cell service is spotty but I am determined to watch this whole thing before I get off. I've got like 5 hours to go.
did you do it?
@@kazmark_gl8652 I had to stop just before Safety 3rd because my connection was spotty and I had to get off at my stop lol
I wish I could go on a train again. I used to go on a train nearly every day. Unfortunately I live in the epicenter of the new virulent covid strain on Plague Island and I can't even see my family at Christmas. What a garbage fucking excuse for a country
@@ClaudiaNW oh yeah the COVID cases were really bad near me, too. But I had to travel home from my college cause they were kicking us out for our winter break lol. Amtrak was definitely way safer than flying. Was a very weird experience compared to usual. I had booked a roomette (so I didn’t have to worry about being exposed to other people in coach) and I wound up in the crew transition sleeper car, which wasn’t even in the platform at the station where I was getting off so they made me drag all my luggage upstairs, down to the next car, and back downstairs for me to get off at my stop. Overall a very strange experience riding Amtrak in the pandemic with that being only one of several weird and inconvenient things about it.
Wild, I was watching this on my 5hr train ride today. Really got me through it
Ten minutes in and the whole podcast is laughing to the point of weeping.
Steamed hams!
I'm 3 minutes in and I can't wait
Ten minutes from the end and they're all laughing to the point of wheezing
@@jclementine3371 "Oh, Shit! Oh, Fuck! That's not the right drop!" 😂😂😂
Alice’s “I don’t know how to make FOOD” had me dying
She's British. It goes without saying.
Alice's German is pretty on point and with one of our dumb composite nouns too!
This episode is actually secretly sponsored by the Zeppelin Corporation - why else would their logo be on damn near every slide?
This is the first time I have ever heard the full clip from the reporter. Hearing him break down like that was haunting.
Ben Franklin was again in attendance at the recording, said the be very impressed.
atomicthumbs was notably the furry who dunked Notch so hard that he disappeared from twitter for like 3 days
A name mentioning thumbs instead of claws is already terrifying enough
let's take a moment to mourn the loss of Activate Windows
we haven't seen the last of them
Sad day
You know your dealing with socialists, when they won't even activate windows. 🤭🤭🤭
Maybe it activated itself in disgust.
3 hour wtyp let’s goooooooooo comrades
this episode now has a big warning that pops up and you have to click through that says "this video may contain suicide or self-harm topics" which is the first time in my life i've ever seen that on youtube, wild
is it bad that I want a super cut of all the times Alice and Mia say "MEIN GUMMI" ?
Thanks for doing shorter episodes. I finished this walking my dog.
Agree, dogs are lousy at conversation! 👌
3 hours? Oh the humanity!
Gallows humor already. I like it!
Nooooo you cant do humuorino on a serious engineering podcast
Not at 2 times speed
@@Meatloaf_TV True comrades listen at half speed.
@@alecward895 lol
I'm still catching up to old episodes (being a recent subscriber), but I saw this go up and had to say: we have a piece of the hindenburg's molten aluminum encased in lucite because my grandfather just happened to be on a cross-country trip to visit family in New Jersey, and was just a few miles from the crash site when it happened; he and his family went the next morning and picked up some pieces, one of which we still have in our possession!
I don't know who this Mia person is but she seems really chill. I would definitely buy steel from her.
She is a TH-camr. Check her videos.
*remnants of a receipt, documenting a transaction of poor-quality steel*
How the hell can ya talk THREE HOURS about hydrogen going boom? Now I'm intrigued.
With a lot of pee jokes.
Wow i’m really enjoying this fun podc- *harrowing audio of someone witnessing a tragedy*
"Goodyear guide, restaurants aspire to it" underappreciated gag there Alice.
We’re all mentally ill to some degree. It’s a very wide range. From almost 100% well-adjusted (whatever that means), to completely fucking off the rails incapacitated. You’re welcome for the train metaphor. (Train = good.)
I guess you could say someone who is well-adjusted has their life... On track.
"well-adjusted" in the context of our world tends to include weird, unhinged sadism ime
A man from Birmingham, England sung about going off the rails...because it was a 'Crazy' train.
@@ckorp666uncalibrated and loving it
3-day flight isn't long enough to finish anything by Wagner.
RIP Activate Windows. Died at the hands of the immense professionalism of this podcast.
sorry to hear alice was dealing with mental health stuff, but glad she had a support network!
Can't imagine that "Alice",
would be having mental trouble....
He seems so balanced
@@georgeadams5390ok, "George"
This channel is a deliciously enjoyable hot mess. Can never get tired of shenanigans!
> deliciously enjoyable hot mess
Thank you for, in 4 words, perfectly encapsulating both this podcast and my life when I can afford drugs and I'm not seperated from the family cats due to The Tasteless Terror
its really refreshing, so much of this website is so overproduced these days
The Hindenburg could also be considered a dirge-able
2:48:50: uncontrollable laughing amid Liam's deafening keyboard is the single perfect summation of WTYP
To add to the hilarity of "Gummi", it is also slang for "condom".
This episode had the perfect amount of Chaos, all it was missing was just a wee bit more accordion obviously
10:37
"For England, James?"
"No, for the podcast."
I've worn glasses since I was 5 years old. I've tried contacts and couldn't stand them - they changed my morning routine from rolling out of bed, brushing my hair, and getting dressed within 10 minutes to adding an additional 10-15 min to put the contacts in. This is the same reason I thanked all the gods that my skin allergies prevent me from wearing makeup - I just don't have time for that shit.
Based fellow omniallergic
Oooh fancy font on the thumbnail? They’re going all out on the production values
Having watched it all, this episode is up there with the best, like one of those pictures or artworks where every view of it reveals a new detail you have missed. I only just heard the "steamed hams" drop for the News and my drink is now all over the wall, thank you all so much for this 3 hour master work
Making another request for the first ever race at the Talladaga Superspeedway, featuring striking _and_ scabbing racing car drivers!
They really should. I wish I could guest star on that.