plane what that disappeared

The Goldsboro Broken Arrow would be an amazing episode. If you read Jack ReVelle's story, it's basically a Safety Third story that could have lead to the nuclear destruction of Eastern North Carolina.

Since listening to this I have now visited Philadelphia and my first thought during the final approach into the airport was "oh shit that's the plane what disappeared river."

joyfully listens to your guest pronounce all the cool names in Pittsburgh correctly and then absolutely murder the word Cuyahoga (love from Cleveland to our rival city!)

“The bus coming out of its sinkhole to shame Pittsburgh” is brilliant and I don’t know how I haven’t heard it before (I live in sinkhole city)

I got some friends to go to the Duquesne Incline once when we were going to a drive-in in Vandergrift to watch eight horror movies over two nights, and everyone was kinda nonplussed that you literally just go up the incline and then back down it, and there's not really anything to do at the top OR bottom of it.

A shady maple reference! Some day I’m going to take my kid to his monthly visit to strasburg, the PA railroad museum, and shady maple and I’m going to run into Liam. I know it

Lads and Lady. Whiddy island disaster. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiddy_Island_disaster. An oil tanker explosion due to corporate greed and poor regulatory oversight. My grandfather was a volunteer firefighter in Bantry at the time. Luckily he was awake for three days after the explosion, so he was too tired to remember the horrors of the burnt corpses that he helped pull on to the inshore fishing boat that was borrowed for the rescue mission. I haven't checked in for a while now, but I was always told that it was the largest single loss of life in Irish labour history. If James Connolly was around at the time, I maintain that Ireland would be another Norway by now.

I'm a little surprised Alice hasn't heard of Igor Gouzenko, mostly because it seems like the kind of story she'd love: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Gouzenko Gouzenko was the first big soviet defector after the end of WWII and the entire things is a ridiculous deadly comedy of errors where he's trying to defect and he can't get anyone to believe him, except for the Soviets who are trying to kill him while he tries to convince the police he's in need of protection. I know the story only because the building the guy lived in in Ottawa is still there and in my neighbourhood. There's a little plaque and everything.

I would like to see Roz, Liam, and Alice do an episode on American prohibition, and all the crazy antics around rum running/bootlegging, the health outcomes of bootlegged liquor enjoyers, and the hilarity and tragedy during those cursed times.

Would pay extra for a videos of Roz and Liam trying to build something. That would be the funniest shit ever. And almost certainly a disaster, but probably not even would that would rise to the level of actual engineering. Build a house guys. I wanna see y'all form up and pour a foundation.

Cambridge, MA pretty randomly ended up home of the 1st and 3rd best Universities in the Boston area.

It's so ironic that they replaced their landing gear, and then ended up not even needing it :-D

My 1932-built house in Minneapolis also has a toilet in the basement for some strange reason. Never used it but I flush it once in a while.

~22:20 does anyone know the name of the Minneapolis bridge Min mentions where Carnegie Steel dumped a bunch of beams and an instruction booklet and FRO'd?

I remember the smell of Pittsburgh in the 70s. The mills would run all night, you could see the flames and steam and everything, all right up between the highway and the river. It was pretty much cleaned up by the 90s, the smell was gone.

I mean, PNC Park might be the most universally beloved ballpark in the Majors, since there's only two real "classic" ballparks left (and even then, the experience at Wrigley and Fenway isn't always the most enjoyable). I figure the only "modern" park that really comes close to it acclaim-wise is probably Camden Yards in Baltimore.

Pittsburgh is ass! Yay Liam

Alice, please stay away from Eintracht Frankfurt. We have already enough problems.

I really liked the guest and the intercity beef. Sorry you had to deal with the technical difficulties, but it is endearing at this point. I like my podcast like i like my podcast subjects, a complete engineering disaster.

Since we're talking about contributions to the war effort: "By 1945, Pennsylvania produced as much steel as all the Axis powers combined.”

in terms of pittsburgh-based bonus episodes, do you think there's any chance of doing the bunny cafe

If you think the Pittsburgh toilet is wild, you should see my Shamokin toilet at my sister's house. This house is built like a weird tower into the side of the hill B2: Garage, B1: Basement, "Ground Floor": Kitchen/Living Room, 2nd Level: Bedrooms, 3rd Floor Attic. Anyway, there's an exterior door for B1 and on the immediate right as soon as you walk in there's a toilet with about 1ft of leg room in front. There's also a miner's shower in the corner of the basement that looks like something out of Dachau.

How do we pin a comment here? Vaultbreaker needs a pin of shame

Yo! Meetup at Shady Maple! Slippery pot pie for life!

Which is fancier: No basement toilet, or two basement toilets?

The static pop as a signifier that the editor is chiming in makes it really hard to listen to these nowadays. I like their commentary, I just wish they would use a different noise.

only the Monongahela River reduces a B-25 Mitchel to a soup like homogenate

And it's the reason why Minneapolis can only have the current St. Anthony Falls Dam and why moving it would restart the sinkhole like great Cthulhu rising out of the depths without diverting the entire Mississippi over a chunk of downtown

It's a huge engineering disaster because it was caused by the milling industry digging too greedily and too deep and undermined the limestone riverbed with tunnels to power the mills until the whole mess collapsed and almost sucked an island and the entire opposite shores of the river where a whole mess of industry was.

I'd like to 2nd the St. Anthony sinkhole disaster of 1869 as a future episode. https://www.mnopedia.org/event/st-anthony-falls-tunnel-collapse-october-5-1869

Is this AI generated?

I grew up down river in Clairton an heard this story a bunch. Im so happy to hear you cover it . Go Birds " But Pittsburgh "

I must say. I agree with Ross on the Bavarian Issue. A day a Bavarian get's hurt is a day I am happy.

I didn't hear the guest's name :<

Remember when Fallout 3 did the only interesting thing Bethesda ever did with the franchise by reversing the usual post-apocalyptic trend and making a version of Pittsburgh far nicer than it is now?

When I saw "WTYP has uploaded 'plane what that dissappeared' to Patreon" in my notifications with no description or thumbnail, there was a brief moment where I had to brace myself for the possibility of the WTYP Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 episode, an event which biblical scholars predict will somehow be both the first 24 hour WTYP episode and the last sign before Judgement Day

~26:00 : pa dutch pot pie, the "noodles" are mostly pastry, just not baked. And it's mostly pie: the chicken is a "seasoning". noodles: flour and egg and sometimes a "splash of" oil, pastry: flour and butter, "mostly pastry": flour and butter with a bit of egg And there is also the Philly / South Jersey "pot pie", that many would call "chicken and dumplings", but really it's puff pastry boiled (like bagels) rather than baked. But that might not exist anymore.

if you want to read about that weird confrontation with John Block at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette office the reporting is in the Philadelphia Inquirer ;) https://www.inquirer.com/news/pittsburgh-post-gazette-john-block-publisher-20190214.html

My joy about the activate windows logo returning cannot be described

It couldn't have been aliens. Everybody knows the USAF keeps the aliens at Wright-Patt AFB.

~6:50 Thank You Devon for letting me know I need to start paying more attention (I'm from PA, btw) Don't know if I'll love it or not.

amish chicken pot pie is conceptually fucked but it is very good

17:18 I was so confused about no one questioning why Steven Gerrard would be God Emperor of french Pittsburg, I started thinking Liam somehow got Steven Gerrard and Gerard Depardieu mixed up. After a quick google search, I feel like an uncultured idiot.

I had a vivid nightmare the other night that I was on a sinking cruise ship but I already knew how it would happen and the death toll bc I had already watched the wtyp episode on it

i thought the guest was going to be Activate Windows

It's only the Mississippi River if it's flowing through the Mississippi region. Otherwise it's just the Big Sparkling Muddy.

I hope the podcast gang solves the mystery

I'd love to see an episode take on healthcare or drug prices. The first is one of the biggest structural disasters in the US, and the second is one of the biggest of the whole planet.

Pittsburgh is number 4 in bridges behind Hamburg, Amsterdam and New York.

Ghost trains when

LazerPig needs to be a guest soon