EARLY EPISODE: The Great Panjandrum
Added 2024-11-17 10:57:31 +0000 UTCCheck out the merch store:
A British engineer attempts to create a weapon for breaching the Atlantic wall. He does not succeed.
Sources:
Brian Johnson. The Secret War.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/panjandrum
Comments
The boys would love goon of fortune
sasquatch6197
2024-12-13 06:43:07 +0000 UTCHonestly this is less of an Ork weapon and more of a Skaven weapon
Noblesse Oblahaj
2024-12-07 14:37:40 +0000 UTCRefueling my MRAP with a giant gas Juicero
Noblesse Oblahaj
2024-12-07 13:54:46 +0000 UTCAlso author of A Town Called Alice, but not the similarly titled song by The Jam.
Jeff Walker
2024-12-01 19:07:56 +0000 UTCThis is because of the beyblade bit, isn't it
Noblesse Oblahaj
2024-11-30 15:50:32 +0000 UTCme, listening to this episode on the way into my engineering job: 🧍 👁️👄👁️
Robert Heilman
2024-11-26 18:15:15 +0000 UTCJoe is playing video games for a podcast?
Tog
2024-11-25 18:46:30 +0000 UTCOne of the greatest rewards of listening to this podcast for going on 5 years is the subtle increase in queer content, to the point that I now recommend y'all as "the history podcast that's really gay bro-coded." Truly, thank you for twink discourse.
Andy Sullivan
2024-11-25 17:42:23 +0000 UTCI really did not expect this amount of twink discussion
APTerminator
2024-11-24 20:59:12 +0000 UTCAs someone who listens to this podcast on the way to their engineering job; I'm here for the gay shit too.
Hannah Oberhardt
2024-11-23 21:09:36 +0000 UTCI made my wife listen to this on a road trip. She said it was somehow the gayest and straightest podcast she ever listened to.
K W
2024-11-23 17:51:10 +0000 UTCWe use blivets for water when fighting wildfire in remote areas.
Kyle Lumsden
2024-11-22 17:44:17 +0000 UTCMaybe I missed it while listening, but Nevil Shute also deserves a mention as the author of one of the great early nuclear apocalyptic fiction novels with "On The Beach". Not only is it a good (CN: and very bleak) read, but in its 20 minutes into the future (from the mid-fifties) setting, WW3 was started by Albania of all places. Yes, Enver Hoxha launched the first nuke!
Der Dackel
2024-11-21 10:32:41 +0000 UTCMy Truth or Consequences, NM memory is that time my sister caused my mom to have a seizure there when I was a teenager.
Jamie Evenstar
2024-11-20 17:32:14 +0000 UTCI'm listening to this at my engineering job and i appreciate the bear/twink discussion
Nermish
2024-11-20 15:46:17 +0000 UTCTom, you inspired me to make a poll for gay people to tell me what kind of ships they are: https://the-golden-vanity.tumblr.com/post/767643130242727936/in-the-most-recent-episode-of-a-history-podcast-i
Paloma Alcala
2024-11-20 14:40:00 +0000 UTCNever
Jonathan Grafton
2024-11-20 00:48:09 +0000 UTC"This isn't a democracy, this is a dictatorship; and I rule it with an iron dick!"
Jonathan Grafton
2024-11-19 20:23:15 +0000 UTCAnd it is called "You are going to need animal facts."
Till Wer Sonst
2024-11-19 15:49:39 +0000 UTCWow, things have changed since I lived there a decade ago. I bike commuted and felt more or less safe. Then again, I lived close to Ladd's Addition and commuted to the Pearl District, so most of my commute was on either Hawthorne or Belmont then along the waterfront bike path.
Page Chase
2024-11-19 10:54:06 +0000 UTCCan't remember if they said that on the Well There's Your Problem episode about the osprey, but I'm always up for a relisten anyway.
Page Chase
2024-11-19 10:48:45 +0000 UTCNgl, Tom's Steve-O accent sort of sounded like Robert Evans's Boston accent.
Monty M
2024-11-19 04:18:40 +0000 UTCA weird British idea that DID work out is Operation Mincemeat—Maybe my favourite WW2 operation.
Markus D
2024-11-18 23:25:50 +0000 UTCI'm a delivery driver in mostly suburban San Diego and Fat Bikes are the bane of my existence. There's like 10- 13 year old kids riding around super dangerously at like 40 mph like idiots, not a license in sight. Like if you have to get a separate motorcycle license, why can people ride these who don't have any license? It's ridiculous. It's only a matter of time til a lot of kids start getting hurt.
P Unit
2024-11-18 23:25:13 +0000 UTCDammit, Nate! The British couldn't get Ryu; he's Japanese! They would get Fei Long from Hong Kong!
Markus D
2024-11-18 23:24:38 +0000 UTCI would consider Joe to be an otter if anything
Sebastian McElroy
2024-11-18 23:18:28 +0000 UTCPNW drivers are the worst I've ever seen, and I've lived/driven all over.
Major Dork Thorklestein, HonFRS
2024-11-18 20:32:50 +0000 UTCCan you guys put out one podcast of random nonsense and one where Joe reads his script without 5 minute twink tangents?
DR
2024-11-18 20:07:50 +0000 UTCI think that's a very justified thought, though I can't speak on the sparkliness of twinks.
Markus D
2024-11-18 19:29:58 +0000 UTCNevil Shute wrote "On the Beach!"
Major Dork Thorklestein, HonFRS
2024-11-18 19:04:41 +0000 UTCReal ones know
Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
2024-11-18 17:12:16 +0000 UTCThe skaven in warhammer fantasy have a weapon just like this, but I don't think it intentionally explodes. Have the British outdone the Skaven in terms of wacky weapons?
dogman
2024-11-18 16:29:27 +0000 UTCJapanese mosh style 2 is an important historical document.
Will
2024-11-18 14:16:57 +0000 UTCHi, I'm on my way to my engineering job and love the gay shit chat.
Hot dog day No 69
2024-11-18 13:55:09 +0000 UTCEurope is mid west coded?
Nadie Southpaw
2024-11-18 13:27:08 +0000 UTCLaughing my ass off on the way to my engineering job at beating the brakes off of Santa Claus
ConkedCrete
2024-11-18 13:14:57 +0000 UTCThis episode was as dumb as the weapon discussed in it.
Puttoto
2024-11-18 12:50:56 +0000 UTCDid anyone else feel like Thom‘s Steve-O accent sounds more like Miss Roz from Monsters Inc. I love your accent, Thom. I just happen to notice
William Shackelford
2024-11-18 11:56:37 +0000 UTCJoe‘s limit break would just be pulling out a 24 page script about a time something horrible that happened in history and traumatizing the enemy. It’s more like poison damage or a debuff to morale or attack stats but if you have a long boss fight, it’s highly effective.
Nys
2024-11-18 10:51:31 +0000 UTCAs a environmental engineer who listens to this while driving to work, I had never questioned the origin of the term twink
Alex Bollinger
2024-11-18 10:29:27 +0000 UTCIdk why but the word twink always makes me think of that Dead Kennedys' cover of I Fought the Law, "The law don’t mean shit if you’ve got the right friends That’s how this country’s run, Twinkies are the best friend I ever had, I fought the law and the law one".
Brandon P
2024-11-18 09:25:37 +0000 UTCIf I'm not mistaken, don't helicopters have an equivalent to "gliding" as long as the rotors can still spin freely to generate lift? I thought that's why Osprey can be such deathtraps because they're not aerodynamic enough to glide and the rotors aren't big enough to create lift unpowered. I could totally be wrong about that.
Brandon P
2024-11-18 09:13:24 +0000 UTCI beg your unbelievable pardon….did I hear the words “tactical sounding”?... I audibly gasped 🤣
mumbles march
2024-11-18 08:29:23 +0000 UTCOn The Beach (is where I test my silly rocket wheel)
Pat D
2024-11-18 06:26:16 +0000 UTCMy grandpa rode on the skids of one of those erector set helicopters in Korea as ballast to even it out with a guy who was more injured on there other side. He said it was terrifying lying on his front going over all those mountains and trees. His supply truck was mortared out from under him while going through some rice patties. He ended up breaking his rib on "the only damn rock in that rice patty" when he dove in after the first mortar missed his truck.
Maladapted
2024-11-18 04:45:41 +0000 UTCAlso applies to kids in Michigan in the ‘90s building nuclear reactors
Matt
2024-11-18 03:39:01 +0000 UTCI bought my escooter for $499 directly from the Chinese manufacturer because I couldn’t afford a car or an e-bike. Intro prebuilt e-bikes cost at least $1000. Rode that thing into the ground from Jan 2021 to Nov 2023 when I FINALLY had a decent enough credit score to get a used car. Yes the scooter sucked. Yes I felt like a dipshit riding it. But was it better than walking and within my price range? 1000% and I’d do it again. Better than nothing but I was convinced I was gonna die eventually if I didn’t get a car. The number of times I nearly died trying to ride in my city were too many to count. Portland Oregon. The drivers here have a vendetta on bikes and pedestrians and/or are extremely stupid non aware drivers. Yes we have bike lanes but I’ve been side swiped twice in those bike lanes by cars that can’t maintain there lanes. Ps all the bike shops I’ve been to WILL NOT work on e-bikes that have broken there governor and go faster than 25mph. Seems to be the only deterrent to making them go as fast as cars
Thomas Cain
2024-11-18 02:56:53 +0000 UTCI remember seeing this contraption on a infomercial for ww2 world at war vhs/dvd set
Thomas
2024-11-18 01:11:26 +0000 UTCWW2 the best time to be alive, if your are a guy with a shed in the back garden
Mackenzie Toscan
2024-11-17 22:43:00 +0000 UTCI need Nate’s Atlantic Wall Beach Boys song to be titled “Calais-fornia Girls”
Nate
2024-11-17 22:02:35 +0000 UTCI feel attacked by Nate. I’m an engineer on my way to work, and I don’t know the origin of the word twink but I know what it means.
Something
2024-11-17 21:34:50 +0000 UTCThere are also a bunch in the Netherlands as well
Jim Heeren
2024-11-17 21:27:58 +0000 UTCApostrophe gang, rise up!
Brandon O'Hara
2024-11-17 20:54:30 +0000 UTCOh yes we do have racoons in Europe. There's a whole bunch of them in Germany.
Warpwaffel
2024-11-17 19:14:53 +0000 UTCDa Vinci would’ve been the dude to photograph Kim Kardashian popping the champagne bottle while a glass is balanced on her yams.
William Shackelford
2024-11-17 18:44:32 +0000 UTCAny chance you fine fellows would/will be covering Hobart’s Funnies?
Chris Albanese
2024-11-17 18:04:23 +0000 UTCI feel like the "full of cream" etymology of twink is just a joke made after the term already caught on. Twinks are glittery little guys, they twinkle in the bars like stars.
Ben Schwabe
2024-11-17 17:24:09 +0000 UTCThere was a ye olde YouTube video of a dog that grabbed a lit Roman candle like a stick and was running around the yard. The sparks and lights were spewing everywhere and the humans were frantically chasing the dog. The dog seemed like he was having a great time.
Erin Parnell
2024-11-17 16:56:02 +0000 UTCTwinktical
Matt
2024-11-17 16:29:59 +0000 UTCBritish People [Comical] [Mad Science] [Dude Fucking What?]
Matt
2024-11-17 16:29:40 +0000 UTC“Oh my god we love your playlist” they said as the fatal clot made itself known. “It’s so cool and retro!” *thud*
Matt
2024-11-17 16:28:54 +0000 UTCAs someone listening to this on the way to my engineering job, we need to figure out a way to deploy the tactical twink.
Double_Time
2024-11-17 16:05:49 +0000 UTCAs a mid-40s geotechnical engineer who finished his drive to the office with the twink discussion; no, I had not looked up the etymology of twink, but the folk etymology in my brain linked the two. Just imagine post-stroke President Trump slurring, demanding his twinkies, and the young aides are like 'wtf' and start bringing him nubile young men which makes him even more enraged until the fatal brain aneurysm.
Marc Bosse
2024-11-17 15:48:13 +0000 UTCSpeaking of insane bicycles that guy who built a pulse jet engine on the back of his bike.
Mutual Aid Miniatures
2024-11-17 15:46:05 +0000 UTCBell H-13 Sioux is the Korean War glass bubble skeleton helicopter, compliments of MASH.
Matt Schubert
2024-11-17 15:31:53 +0000 UTCI need to see Daedalus and Icarus jousting in their wing suits
Mitch Guerrerio
2024-11-17 15:29:31 +0000 UTCBring back the cold open!
Ben Piche
2024-11-17 14:44:02 +0000 UTCSince it obviously wasn’t Schengen, Anyone know what visa did Nate use to move to Switzerland? I assume it was for being a business owner / producer like what Joe did in DAFT
Jason Machacek
2024-11-17 14:09:02 +0000 UTCHad no idea the acclaimed author Nevil Shute was involved in this wacky stuff during the war. Surprised it wasn’t brought up in the episode given the military subjects in his novels. His best known one, ‘On The Beach’ is a rather grim look at post-WW3 remnants of society and the US Navy hanging out in Melbourne awaiting radiation clouds and inevitable death
Lex
2024-11-17 13:44:41 +0000 UTCBeen waiting for this episode for years.
Peter Lubin
2024-11-17 12:22:22 +0000 UTCYes. YES. I have been hoping you would cover this!
Rosemary S Callahan Gray
2024-11-17 12:12:59 +0000 UTCYeah as a guy living in Zürich but who also travel's a lot to Lausanne to visit friends I've also noticed the scooters Nate was talking about. It's definitely more of a thing in the french speaking part. You see them very rarely in Zürich
Haiko Sibi
2024-11-17 11:07:59 +0000 UTC
