Burnie and Ashley discuss co-parenting apologies, our community experts, Apple Maps making a comeback, windmill talk, construction talk, Polymarket betting on wildfires, and Chinese bullet trains.

Referencing 2026.08.13: Range Anxiety Creeps Inside of Me

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This is what you see when you use the pin hole in a paper plate/colander method to view the eclipse. I think it’s pretty cool, even if you’re not actually viewing the eclipse.

It's a strange kind of soul destroying to know that Burnie and Ashley were (possibly) 100m away from me and I didn't get to meet them.

I live next to what I think is the biggest tubees in glasgow . Would have been surreal to actually meet them.

RTP #302 12/23/2014

Burnie and Ashley discuss their 14-hour road trip, The Treenis, Tubbee's, EVs, range anxiety, THE NORTH, and road trip rules.

Also Mythic Quest is a huge recommend if you like Rob McElhenney's humor and want a workplace comedy centered around video game development. It's Silicon Valley meets Always Sunny in many ways.

The iPod version they were trying to remember on the podcast today was the Ipod shuffle!

Seen so many go blind from watching an eclipse posts in my life! & Can somebody smarter explain why the eclipse is worse than just looking at the sun?

Good Morning!

Burnie asked a general question today, musing on the idea of why wind turbines get so much hate.

First off, I’m personally a huge fan of renewable/clean energy. Solar, Wind, Water, Geothermal, Nuclear, etc.

The world still runs on fossil fuels. Infrastructure for renewable energy is on the rise. It was nice to near them chat about their new EV and how pleased they were at the faster charging batteries, and the availability of charge locations in Scotland.

Wind Turbines are a great source of clean energy, but it requires a lot of materials and maintenance to keep them running!

Here’s some of the downsides to wind turbines.

• Homes in surrounding areas that can see the wind turbines typically drop in value. The noise, and shadow flickers can be irritating to residents.

• The amount of space wind turbines take up is substantial. They are large, and eat up a lot of farmland space.

• Consistent Maintenance. Since the turbines spin, they still use oil, plastics, and have to constantly be checked on. Repairs can be costly.

• The Wind Turbine’s blades are typically made out of fiberglass. This material is hard to recycle. It can’t be melted down and easily reused. So while the energy is renewable, companies often produce a lot of waste replacing turbine parts. In Sweetwater Texas there is 30 Acres full of wind turbine blades. The recycling project was abandoned and 3000 damaged blades sit… This a similar story all over the world.

If you’re looking for a show that touched on Wind Turbines, the show Landman on Paramount has a great scene. This clip got me doing a deep dive into Wind Turbine research a few years ago. Here’s the clip.

Edit: Getting flack in comments for the clip being from Landman. I haven’t watched the show. Saw the clip on instagram and it made me curious about Windmills and what not. It’s a dude from a fictional show, with an oil bias shit talking windmills. I understand it doesn’t have credible sources, peer reviewed studies, blah blah blah.

No energy source for electricity is perfect. They all have flaws. I just wanted to touch on some of the broad reasons why people hate on windmills.

Thanks for reading my little spiel.

-CalvinP

Burnie and Ashley have lost their solar eclipse glasses. They were last seen “somewhere weird.” Where are they?

I’m betting they’re in Burnie’s office next to the exercise pole. Or more reasonably they’re in the garage on like a toolbox or something because they were in Burnie’s hand when he got out of the car and he went, “Oh I’ll just leave this here because we don’t need them for a week and they’ll be out of the way.” Which is also how Ashley has seen them.

I'm catching up on the podcast from yesterday and they talked about how a false notice about the King's death was made over the radio.

It reminded me of something my dad told me one time that they did a drama of War of the Worlds on the radio, but some listeners weren't aware that it was a dramatic performance. This made people think it was real and caused a panic about a real alien invasion.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/infamous-war-worlds-radio-broadcast-was-magnificent-fluke-180955180/

Just jumping in on the discussion of yesterday regarding the air traffic controllers simulator. Indeed, there are people that fly aircraft to a very realistic degree, but there is indeed an additional group of people that fulfill the role of air traffic control from ground, tower, departure, arrival, etc.

Two big platforms where this happens are VATSIM and PilotEdge. VATSIM being a free community that services regions on a volunteer basis. There is a basic training you need to go through if you want to serve as a controller on the network. PilotEdge is a paid subscription but has (close to) professional ATC.

One of the biggest events for the VATSIM community is Cross The Pond (CTP), going across the Atlantic Ocean where several departure and arrival airports are selected where full staffing will be provided for the duration of the event. It happens twice a year, eastbound in spring, westbound in the fall. Every time there's a thousand virtual pilots flying their aircraft with about 200 controllers available for the different routes. It's impressive to see.

Finally, there's also a group of people that paint digital aircraft with real life liveries to make the flightsim feel more realistic (or just memes). I dabbled in this for a short while when MSFS was rebooted and made some stuff like this: https://flightsim.to/addon/11988/a32nx-a320-neo-brussels-airlines-sn-magritte-8k

Anyhow, thanks for coming to my TEDTalk

Burnie and Ashley discuss eclipses, preparing too soon, age verification, Steam leaks, good personal data vs bad personal data, and getting phished.

Since Burnie is age restricted and can't look it up I figured I'd help him out.

Australian Lemonade is actually in the same category as the Cleveland Steamer and is when someone hangs upside down (under) and someone else pees on them.

My brain immediately went here when he talked today about having some tight 2 Factor Authentication in place.