the arch

Your first pronunciation of Vincennes was correct.

Provel is a mix of Provolone, Cheddar, and Swiss. I'd love to meet some other Stl WTYP fans.

Oh, also the stench from the dump can be smelt every morning. The marching band kids had it *rough*

That highschool was my highschool!!! Pattonville alum! I got the hell out of STL. Berlin is pretty cool. Thanks a lot for this episode, it gave me grim homesickness. After I'm a German citizen and no longer a US citizen I'll come visit again

If there was singing in Firesign Theater albums, it was usually credited to The St. Louis Aquarium Choir.

Listening to this ep while diving past the arch was a little freaky. Was hoping for a Cement Land mention. I love the handle of god that will someday take Missouri out of this mortal coil, good ep

Looking forward to your episode on Debian

I need to go there now.

This is your customary "TORILLA", from a person with a last name ending with "nen", as there is another person with a last name ending with "nen".

Assume a perfectly spherical arch…

Finally, the sequel to the cube. Can't wait for the sphere.

"nobodies thought of anything better"? may i introduce you to REFREEZE THE PREMAFROST! https://www.gov.nt.ca/ecc/en/services/giant-mine-remediation-project

The first WTYP episode i've been in

so there is a Carhenge in Alliance, Nebraska. Last time I went they had hidden a vial for signatures in one of the cars. Not quite Bushenge.....

Oh hell yeah, time to learn about my structural engineering prof's most hated structure.

Sorry Rocz, you're gonna have to explain yourself about the Tribune Buliding. You really upset my Chicagoan.

I rarely criticize people for doing good work, but folks, you famously have slides. If you talk about flags, would you please include them in those slides?

TY Francis for unlocking Twisted Ranch for me. That's last-meal level shit. Love that there's a ranch menu and a food menu separately.

Holy Crap St. Louis City Museum sounds so good. Union stations has an aquarium where children can die in them? That's so cool! I feel bad for having never discovered how cool St Louis was while I lived in the US.

WTYP architecture: Rule #1 - Make it more rigid Rule #2 - Engrave dicks into surface for improved traction

I've parked near the Helicopter Tours barge twice now, both times I've gone to St. Louis as an adult, and my dad swears we parked there both times we went as a kid. It's an absolutely insane place to park, you're at a good 15 degree angle and right up on the water.

If you're doing a Midwest tour hmu at the Kent State shooting memorial and/or Grandpa's Cheesebarn (equal importance to Ohio culture)

So…. Where’s the problem?

The funniest bit about him being a nepo baby is that his father had also entered a design for the contest and Eero was still working at his father's firm, so the award for winning the contest was sent to the firm's address and they all originally assumed it was for Eliel's design until they opened it and realized it was for Eero's design.

My favorite Lewis & Clark story is their Newfoundland dog said to have swam into a river to kill an antelope. He made the whole trip too.

The laxative pill November is talking about was actually antimony, not mercury. It's also mentioned in one f the Aubrey/maturin books where the fact that it can be used over and over is also brought up. EDIT EDIT EDIT Okay so I have to edit this. What we have here is a confusion of two different horrific victorian medical 'treatments'. Antimony pills are the reusable ones. they are simply a chunk of antimony, you swallow it, it passes through whole and you can wash it off and adminster it again. But that is NOT the pill that the lewis and clark expidion was using, or at least not the one mentioned. That one was mercury chloride, mixed with a paste called jalap. They were made by a company called 'rush's' and there are some horrific artiicles about these pills. These pills did NOT stay whole through the digestive tract, rather resulting in a spray of feces and mercury chloride exiting the expedition members frequently, and yes indeedy this has been confirmed by analysis of the soil at ther capmsites. Mercury Chloride was also used to treat syphilis, it was rubbed on the dick and aminstered orally. It had absolutely no therapeutic effect, although it did sometimes burn and destroy so much penile tissue that it had to be amputated. Unfortunaelty this did not actually even prevent transmission, because you can literally spread syphlis by skin contact at all three stages of the disease. You can even get it from a toilet seat or by sharing towels or bedding. It's far less contagious nowadays than it used to be, and it is treatable with antibiotics, although second and third stage syphilis causes irreversiable nerve and organ damage the longer it is left untreated. Syphilis is a new world disease, and is believed to be the only dangerous disease that travelled from north america to europe. Not as deadly as smallpox, but it has it's charms from a bacteriological warfare point of view until the invention of antibiotics. Syphlis is also extremey sneaky. While initial infection causes a small lesion, that lesion is comletely painless, and most people never notice it. a while later, you might get some red maraks on the palms of your hands or the soles of your feet, also painless and very easy to ignore, and sometimes they don't show up at all. At that point, you eneter teritiary syphilis which is a nightmare that cause extensive nerve and permanent organ damage, and can cuase disfiguring growths on the body, make your nose and ears fall off, and will eventually lead to insanity enormous pain and death. So get tested if you're sexually active.

STL REPRESENT! We have to keep moving in the positive direction of t-ravs and cool architecture, and away from the long history of segregation and urban disinvestment - therefore I propose a WTYP live show in St. Louis to bless us with prosperity and train particles.

Missouri does indeed mangle french. We've got a county called Moniteau and a city called Versailles. They are respectively pronounced Mon-it-aw, and Ver-say-els.

If you think that’s cursed there is a house made out of the bottom halves of union tombstones in Petersburg, Va. during the depression they cut the tombstones in half to save money on lawn care and laid the top halves flat. Look up the Tombstone house.

What you have to do is put a series of suction cups on a track vehicle and drive up the arch that way.

It's just an arch.

I’m I missing something here? It cut off and ended at about 42 minutes?

Arch good symbology of westward expansion bad. But we can assign whatever meaning we want to it, cuz it's cool and good.

The show that Francis can't remember is named Defiance.

Nova is mixing up the mercury laxative with the antimony forever pill

love the big arch

i went down to the arch grounds the other night when we had a crazy amount of fog in stl and standing directly under it could only see abt a third of the way up. it was fucking terrifying

God damnit Google. What is this sign into my account shit! I wanna get arch pulled.

Archpilled

Hoosier here: 'Vin-sens', phonetically.

the city museum fucking rules

Can someone please post the direct youtube link? patreon / yt are blocking the video for whatever reason when embedded.

Make it more rigid.

Hell yeah I love Linux, can't wait to watch this one.

Yessss!!! Also first time I've watched WTYP out loud around my dog, and apparently she hates y'all. Will resume headphones next time. (Other things she hates: the Skyrim soundtrack, the German language, dancing, the garbage truck, and UPS only other delivery vehicles are okay. You're in interesting company at least)

I went to college in St. Louis. In the 3 years I lived there, I never left campus long enough to go see the Arch in person, until right before graduation. And when I finally did go, my phone battery died the moment I went to snap a photo. So I still never got a photo of St. Louis's number 1 monument, at least from ground level.

Thank u 4 my life autism crew

a catenary curve with a disappointing lack of cats

Good ol Shit Louis, a town so many people couldn't wait to leave they built a monument for them.

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THANK GOD... Been a while since I heard a good podcast. With slides.

Rocz wanders between worlds at the city museum

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