it's a little one on a fireworks display

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Dylan Hackbarth

if it's the fifth november, where are the other four novembers? what are they up to?

Andy

Annatto is the dye for red Leicester and it's a nut/seed extract and it's non toxic but you can have an allergy

Maz

the view is great, the heating really isn’t unfortunately. (my friend had his office up on floor 11 during his PhD and there was a an ancient looking thermostat and a lot of draught 😂)

Nina

I always liked DHT!

Gareth Dennis

i can finally put some faces to names

Sami

Mormon missionary (gross) as opposed to Mormon reverse cowgirl (cool)

Nat

What a treat, we got to see Nova, Activate Windows, Gareth, and Liam! I assume there was no Rocz because camera equipment doesn’t fare well in the face of nuclear weapons and or reactors built in one’s basement.

Ryan

First time seeing high res crew, and dang, cutie patooties all

Nicki Kaye

I watched this in person, from a party on a friend's rooftop in Banker's Hill. The thing with the big bay boom is that they don't just have one display. They have 5 displays, on 5 different barges, spaced out along the harbor. I was really psyched that year because from our vantage point, we'd be able to see all five at once. Instead we watched all five shoot their load all at once in 15 seconds. At first, we were all just really confused, bewildered, and partially deafened. I'm bummed I was primed for what was about to happen, because then I could've enjoyed the spectacle. (No one was hurt, btw, because everything was automated / barges did not have people on them)

Chonto the Destroyer

Bless you.

Cate Kneale

Well, he was always on the nox, wasn't he? I heard that he constructed a special box so that he could sit in there and fill it with nitrous oxide. Early chemists rock.

Cate Kneale

One thing I'm curious about though, if we double the amount of fireworks every year and halve the amount of time, then do we destroy the Earth first or become unable to experience the event in real time first?

Cate Kneale

Oh, I'd forgotten about Roxie. I'm sorry, Roxie. Although I am fairly sure that if I'd been there then I could have reassured her.

Cate Kneale

I live in the north of Melbourne where they go off every 20 mins on NYE, where are they getting them from? Canberra? And don't even start me on the fire risk, it's almost like NYE is smack bang in the hottest driest part of the year in the Southern Hemisphere. I get it they are really nice to look but it's not worth it

mumbles march

Well, that was fun, but I'm a bit disappointed it wasn't 3.5 hours long. Oh, well, don't want to kill Roz, Nova, Liam and Gareth so we can get more cracking entertainment. BTW, Roz and Liam, don't worry, Trump will not do a second lockdown no matter what. He got an extra half million Americans killed with covid-19 and will blow right throught that mark next time. He and RFKjr won't listen to anyone but each other and Joe Rogan and the economy will come first. Hell, they'll brag about all the jobs they're creating bringing back the dead cart industry. Elon, of course, will be arguing the bodies should just lie there because he'll soon have the new self-driving Cyberdeadcart which has the handy feature of being able to pick up the corpses of the people it drives over.

Mike Traynor

4th of July is an audience participation event in Wyoming, despite almost the whole state constantly being in some upper level of fire warning during the summer. we used to count the brush fires out under the city's setup and some of the bigger houses. once thought I saw a kid standing in his backyard, bare chested and in swim trunks, lit only by a roman candle firing off in one hand

Elizabeth Wynn

Gareth being not THAT far off with "cybertruck fire" is so good

Pat Biss

Years ago back in York, PA, my cousin and I were setting off some mortar fireworks in my lawn for the 4th of July. The kind where you light the fuse, drop it down the tube and run. About half way through the night one of the mortars detonated on the ground in the tube, and the explosion was big enough to blind and deafen everyone and leave steaming shrapnel all over the lawn. We found the remains of the mortar tube banana peeled apart like those pictures of WWII tank barrels that exploded.

Rex Coolguy

The same thing happened during the Independence Day fireworks in San Diego in 2012. 17 minutes worth of fireworks went off in 15 seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndVhgq1yHdA

Something

I will say nova is an irish ally for giving us the option to reject him from our culture. Nova is gifted irish citizenship from me, personally

Bustnar

Same

Bustnar

same

Celly the anarchist

Saints Row 3 and later 4 helped me realize I was trans

iron 13

Huh I thought "baz" (bas?) Was short for "basil" like basil exposition or basil fawlty. The more you know!

Maurice Frank

i miss the xbox index for large sums of old money lol

Jake

Nova deadpanning "remember, remember the 5th of me"

E Lyons

my dad was a mormon missionary (gross) in scotland and as a result did name my sister after one of the towns he solicited in (which has caused no end of grief over her life because americans' brains leak out their ears when they see or hear a slightly unusual name) and *almost* named me Oban. and i graduated high school in 2011 so, near miss on a mildly amusing coincidence that i wouldn't have known about until 14 years later also gareth is right, fuck a consumer firework, my climate-change-related death will absolutely come when a neighbor accidentally lights up the massive increasingly-bone-dry brown grassy field directly across the street from us because people here don't understand what "living in a desert" means

mira_drgn

In a grave somewhere, the fetid corpse of Ian Paisley is vibrating at 1,690Hz

drewb

Every other time an Irish celebrity gets described as 'British': much rabble-rabbling and gnashing of teeth. Glinner gets described as 'British': ehhh... y'know what? That's okay; you guys can have him.

Jack Fennell

As a former Oban resident and long time listener, i had to fork over the cash to hear about an event i was present for

Ethan Sharp

I live in Australia where we have a nearly blanket ban on fireworks. I remember when it was introduced and the people who got really upset with it. Having seen all the posts about distressed pets on NYE, i'm gonna be a boomer like Gareth and say they should be banned for general use. We still have idiots who let illegal fireworks off and wind up in hospital though.

LeobaL

On the subject of poorly managed pyrotechics, it might be too hard to get info, but the Wanggongchang Explosion of 1626 would be in WTYP's wheelhouse. The Ming Dynasty found out that keeping your gunpowder store near your palace because you don't trust your army commanders not to rebel had potential negative consequences. The spontaneous re-landscaping of Beijing took out the Crown Prince, various ministers, and umpteen thousand happy workers, and reinforced the already strong sense that the Ming had well and truly lost the Mandate of Heaven. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanggongchang_Explosion

Elizabeth MacDonald

Looks like everyone had fun regardless!

LeobaL

Gareth jokingly saying “cybertruck fire” when predicting the new year is proof that Apollo’s gifting of the spirit of prophecy is truly random.

Scott Johnson

mfw when an episode is less than 3 hours: :(

Patricius Hibernius, Magister Militum

*points at the Russia episodes* *Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin would have liked this post except for being carbonized across a tarmac in Baikonur many years ago*

Matt

https://youtu.be/PhzmHwVI9gk?feature=shared view from the ground

-Kris-

A fireworks explosion being the subject is extremely funny with recent news in mind

Will Halle

bonus faces for the new year, glory to the venerable leaders of the noble People's Republic of Pennsylvania

ayden

Portal is the best series of games with lesbian breakup songs over the credits.

Relkia

Just staaring at the top left corner when Cars 2 came up

Cosm Sauce

I cannot believe that Gareth said "cybertruck fire" would happen on January 1st. Didn't happen in the way he thought, but humorously accurate.

totaltrepidation

Did Nova learn about antimony first from the Aubrey/Maturin novels like I did?

Josh Anderson

Gareth with the seafood tips! When/If I manage to get to Oban, oysters and Scotch!

Philipp Conner

Co-60 enriched vitamin B12 is how I get my glow.

Athena Von Tharsis

Look at those faces

Cholula Hot Sauce

“Catholicism is coming” seems weirdly ominous and threatening

Jesse Eldridge

Dev, until very recently I absolutely pronounced Antimony to rhyme with Matrimony.

-Kris-

lol, I was Edinburgh for bonfire night 2024 and my NYC resident ass barely noticed any fireworks.

Man, I Got Nothing

It's legal to buy aerial cakes in Iceland.

Great Joe

La Legion could potentially be an episode.

Matt

Acting with reckless abandon for one's personal safety didn't die out when alchemists became chemists– Sir Humphrey Davy, IIRC, was notorious for tasting and inhaling all the compounds he isolated. And the process of isolating elemental fluorine is littered with assorted chemists' body parts

Cat Mara

Belgrade mentioned!!!!!!!!

Lain of the Wired

Nice.

Sean Daily

Glasgow Garden Festival where the guy got his leg blown to bits.

Justin Kase

69 th 😘 Nice😏

Baily McDaniel

Hi cuties 🥰

Baily McDaniel

So who was the alchemist with a nuclear reactor? Rocz was that one of your ancestors? 🙃I take cobalt every day in my vitamins.

km

seconded!! As someone who transitioned in no small part due to realizing it COULD be done thanks to Nova and Abbi, I love seeing Nova's journey, it's something that gives me real hope as someone who doesn't even pass enough for people to realize I don't pass.

Ariane Signalis is the Elster Signalis Fan Club and challenges you to play SIGNALIS without pointing at any of the characters an

In some reservations you can absolutely still buy a quarter stick

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Oh, also Nova you look great and I think I first heard about your shirt on Worst of All Possible Worlds and I love that it's still in rotation.

Loquin Britton-Herndon

Looking forward to Catholicism, Sandstorm was much earlier than 2011 but it will be eternal. I actually had an incredibly wretched 2011 so glad to look back on it with humor. Please don't Station Nightclub the DC show.

Loquin Britton-Herndon

short episode.... still an hour.... thats the WTYP difference baybee!! <3

Micky K

i don’t know what it says about my very normal parasocial crush on nova that i still laugh when she tells the chernobyl joke even though i have heard her tell it on like 7 episodes of this podcast (happy new year pals, big love)

Nina

November keeps saying she doesn't pass, but I mean this very sincerely, she just looks like a lady, just a normal woman.

CulVols

Hey, Fast Five is on the list of top grossing movies of 2011. Which should be on the list for heist season for KJB.

Doug King

Obon is also a Japanese celebration which often includes massive fireworks so I had a very confusing couple minutes

Emilio Porras Vergara

Oh boy a trade I have personal experience with

I have nothing BUT contempt for this court

The webcams at the beginning were unexpected, but very much appreciated.

TitaniaBird

Squibbing mentioned! There's a great Tom Scott video about what is quite a ridiculous tradition, but it's also pretty damn impressive in person.

Adam Shepherd

My dad's friend got a hold of 10,000-piece rolls of black cat firecrackers. It wasn't flashy, but I'm fairly certain there have been wars less loud than that.

Jody Adams

Nova, Isaac Newton would like to have a word with you alchemy and short lifespans.

Doug King

Rocz, 9:49: Nothing is earlier than Joe Biden.

AngryOldManYaddaYadda

I'm looking at a photo of the Boyd Orr building, and I think it's rather pretty?

AkselA

I'll definitely agree that the Tsar had it coming, but the rest of the family I'm more conflicted about.

Devin Faux

I always appreciate when Nova brings up Disco Elysium because I too have been permanently changed by that game and cannot stop telling people about it

Mar Nikiforova

heroic dedication to the bit (hope you're better soon)

Helena McCoy

Cybertruck fire mentioned, Gareth is a prophet

Daniel Andrew

did not expect an appleton tower reference but will say now that that’s refurbished david hume tower (sorry 40 george sq) is the worst building

Nina

Dropped an episode on fireworks the day Jean Marie dies ? That's very adequate thanks

Ilian Petit

Yay

Ryan Contento

your "little ones" are longer than most other podcasts, especially considering you don't run ads. god bless 🫡

August1612

So I ended up in hospital over the last week. My mum brought me a few cloths from my house.....there's me in a cardio unit with the " You're Boeing to die" shirt

Callum Stuart

compressed down to be really rigid

Kelvin

Aw i was hoping it was on the enschede fireworks disaster when i saw the thumbnail pop up. I wanted to hear you guys rip into the dutch more.

Clogsman

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