Well There‘s Your Problem - Bonus Episode 32 PREVIEW: The Monongahela Ghost Bomber

Episode Date: May 31, 2023

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What is what is what's Pittsburgh now? What's it for now now that no one builds everything out of steel? Everything's right. Right. It's all apps now. You you PMC. It's just for you PMC. It's where you go. Is where you go to see buses and comical situations. Yes. We do have a lot of singles. That is a fun thing about Pittsburgh.

And this was my favorite single moment, I think, was this bus getting caught in here. We also had a bridge fall down and then Joe Biden had to come and promise that he was going to make the bridge go back up. There was a bus that was dangling off the side of that too. Yeah, yeah, they rescued it. They rescued this bus too. They were both rescue. Like this was like, I was worried about the bus. Rearing up from the sinkhole in order to like bus coming out of its sinkhole to shame Pittsburgh. Also, what the fuck is this?

I just I just I just do stealers football. And the first result I found was this, this, this, this snapchat from Heinzfield where it says, I've never been happier. Dude pooped his pants and is washing them in the sink. Steeler football is back. Washing them. Washing them. I want to point out that it says washing them in the sink,

which is how you would write it in Pittsburghies, because in Pittsburgh, there is its own dialects and like zero facts. It's a really fucked up way to speak. I will not. It's not, no, it's beautiful. It's beautiful. It comes from the very first, you know, Scotch, Irish immigrants who came over and it's also got a little bit of Southern in it. And, you know, there's a zone. We've got our own sort of vocabulary

for things. And, uh, is, you know, so if you're to read this and you answer be I've never been happier. They've taped his pants and his wash washing them out and the sink. Still her football is back baby. How does that not make you want to kill yourself? I think it's beautiful. To me, it sounds like home. Doesn't it warm your heart? I'm for the. I'm just think on this. That's the humor.

That's what it is. I'm for the fuck up part of Pennsylvania where we get we get half Pittsburgh, half Philly, half Baltimore. I know that's three halves just like there's three rivers somehow. Just like you ever heard of watching if I say Ruchin, do you know what I mean? No, the fuck. I don't think I've ever Yeah, that's real fucked up. Okay, moving on. Let me ask you a question. Yeah, let me ask you a question man. How many kinds of chicken pot pie are there?

Is the correct answer is the correct answer How many kinds of chicken pot pie are there? Like, I don't know. It is still because there's the fucked up armist chicken pot pie, which is just soup. And then there's actual chicken pot pie. Okay, I just wanted to make sure we all knew that there are two kinds of chicken pot pie. Why really? What is I don't want to try it, but I do want to see it.

The fucked up armist pot pie that is basically soup. It's just soup Well I told you when you get off calling that a pie The Amish, you know, you hit enough animals. You get some renamed shit. Whatever you want But it's not a pie because it doesn't have any pastry. Like, you know, I know this is what I had to endure for 18 years. Yeah, I'm a foods were like Pennsylvania Dutch foods were weird. I don't I mean, I don't know a lot about it, but anytime I like you

ever heard a scrap. Yeah, we do scrap a lot of ideas. I cast. Yeah, that's the stressing I find. There's not my thing. She fly pie. What if we just molasses? Fuck you. Yes.

I think it's. I will say one. We should have a meetup at Shady Maple, Roz. Oh, no. Oh, okay. All right. No, I. It's fun to go there once.

And then once you've gone, you never have to go again. I have to go for myself. No, I, I, it's, it's, it's, it's fun to go there once. And then once you've gone, you never have to go again. I have to make my pilgrimage. It's like getting maple donuts, man. I just sort of hurt my eyes in order. Two dozen donuts and hope nobody notices me. One thing I will say about like the Amish, like in Western Pennsylvania and stuff is like, it is kind of wild. You know, I used to live near the hospital in pits or one of the big hospitals in

pits where the children's hospital and there would just be like, homage to it's like out like smoking a pipe and there are suspenders. And it was like kind of a hipster neighborhood, but they were like fully outhips during the hipsters and I respect them so much for that. Like, yeah, how do you know? They don't smell amazing though. If you've ever been on a train, if you ever expect them so much for that. Like, yeah. Yeah. They don't smell amazing though. If you've ever been on a train, if you ever end up on a train car with a bunch of Amish, we know Justin's prejudice.

I have prejudiced against the Amish. Yes. Oh, yeah. I don't know about this. This is the one group against whom Justin is rice. Yeah, exactly. And God's not real by a car. So what you're saying is you're cool with the metanites, because they will drive.

Yeah, metanites are fun. Metanites are fun. Yeah, you have like that. That talks at car culture in one respect only. And it's seeing a goat, like a chin strap, beard, like driving a horse and buggy. And it just infuriates you. Um, you should maybe go to the next slide. I'll just tell you the one the one thing that people

in Pittsburgh do that I want to draw out. Shit in the basement. Yeah. Yeah. Well, so it's just yeah. I mean, so I will say, like people I know who still have this quote unquote Pittsburgh toilet by this usually have built, like, you know, walls around them at this point. No, no, no, I don't believe you. I think you're, I think you've been shissing in like a wide open, like,

hundred, like, 360 degrees sightline shissing in the middle of your basement. And I don't understand what's your problem with it. Well, this is a sick, sick, sick man. You work in the minds, you get dirty, you get covered in God knows what. And you deserve to come back and take a nice hot steamer, scare your family in the face, crowd your family into the face. Yeah. Crowd your family into the base. Look out.

Linda Johnson look like a pussy. Yes. Well, I will say it is kind of because of the minds and stuff and then still work because basically, like, you would be really dirty and you wouldn't want to track all of that, you know, schmutz through the house. And so you would go in through the basement and then you could have, like, you could wash up in the basement.

I get that. I get having like a boot room. I get having a basement. I get having like a basin in there. The toilet aspect of it. Yeah. So another, another theory as to why these exist is that they would sort of if there was a sewage back up the sewage would pour out of the toilet into the basement as opposed to in the main living area. Oh, yeah, but there is another crucial toilet.

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I will say Pittsburgh has like a lot of like because all the houses are built like into the sides of hills like there's mud, slides and flooding and you know it can get a little Bapocalyptic sometimes but it's a beautiful place and everyone should go visit and I don't Like turn every one should go visit The slide here is of a toilet and an unfinished concrete basement I'm just imagining you can get a really bad backup because let's say the sewage backs up

at the top of the escarpment and you're at a house at the bottom. You've got 80 or 90 feet of a head on that sewage backup that's going to the roof of the house. I like it. I shudder to think if that's ever actually, like I'm sure it has. It must have happened at some point. That's terrifying. I mean, I've nightmares about that. Good idea. Good idea to live on the top of the hill. You avoid problems like this. I did. I did. I did. I live on the top of the hill. You avoid problems like this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A hundred percent. I mean, it was kind of like that where like, you know, wealthier people like would live on the higher ground, basically more or less. So you have like Highland Park, which is on Highland. And as, you know, a little less prone to flooding.

And those are slightly nicer houses. Yeah, so fancy. Don't even need a basement toilet. Not need to. Wait, hold on. I think you deserve one Alice. Hmm. I really, I really don't. You deserve to have Chris stereo in the face as he takes a nice warm steward.

Horrifying. Horrifying. Can you guys hear me? Yes, yeah, he dropped out a bit on the Zencastib. I think that's probably fine, so long as you're local. Still got. Cool, I just want to make sure because I was getting a little notification. Okay, cool. Yeah, so there make sure because I was getting a little notification. Okay.

Cool. Yeah. So there was something else I was going to say about Pittsburgh. Oh, I will say that like it kind of has, you know, a bad rock for being kind of dirty and polluted, which you can sort of see in the next slide. But it's cleanup a lot since. It's clean up a lot since but clean up a lot. Oh yeah that is a beautiful color. I mean it is one of the most overcast cities in the United States. I think they get like it typically holds a record for like fewest days

of sunshine year. What is the river greasy? But it's cleaner than it used to be. This is bad. God, it doesn't look bad. It's not, this isn't Cleveland. Like it's not, this isn't the guy you go or whatever. It's not going to catch on fire. So it's got a, it's got a sheen. It's got like a sheen on it.

Right. It says, this is just what a river looks like when it has sediment in it because it's got a sheen. It's got like a sheen on it. Right. It says this is just what of river looks like when it has sediment in it because it's raining. It's just like a this is very like um I already saw one of the divers describe it as like brown water. It's just because it's like an old river and it's very silty bottom. So it does look quite brown, but it's not it's not as dirty as it used to be. My math future one told us a story about how when he was a kid, he used to have to sweep the like steps every single day because of how dirty and polluted it was. And that is not the case anymore. So you know, you have that going for us.

Hi, I used to, there's small pictures out there of like one of the old, uh, the old Wabash bridge over the Monangahila. And there's like, uh, uh, uh, you know, you can barrel, you can't even see the other end of this relatively short bridge for all the smog from all the mills. Yeah, yeah, I actually have actually maybe I'll go ahead and hold on. I have like a little poem that I that I found from an old newspaper and like 1914 about this wait, I'm just gonna have like really quickly. The 17th most polluted river in the country according to the EPI. I'm not even top 10, you know. What's the most polluted river? That's great question.

I'm just defaulting to the kaya huger. It's probably not the kaya huger. They lost so much industry. Yeah, it used to be maybe. All right, it's like that's the Ohio apparently. Oh, well, that's that's touching. That isn't Pittsburgh. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Um, okay, so here's yeah, it probably doesn't get really polluted until like the conno joins it or something, you know. Yeah, so OK, so here's this poem. It's from 1907 that I bought because I thought it was hilarious. It's just called Pittsburgh. It says, here's to Grim Pittsburgh, the city of smoke, where the skies, but a memory, and sunshine, a joke, for the incense of Stogi's perfume, fume of the air,

but in spite of her faults, we all love to be there. And on this edition that I purchased, somebody in pencil has inserted the word, don't between all in love. So it says, we all don't love to be there. So, you know, but that was 1907. It's much nicer now. Just a rather record.

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