Youtube hearted comments of Joe R M (@joermnyc).

  1. The tow truck repo man video: the truck owner came out and STOLE the tow truck and his pickup… they did not get far.
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  2. Gazelle: “I’m-a give that cheetah a head start, make him think he has a chance”
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  3. The rest of the X-Men seeing Wade and shutting the door on him before he noticed them was hilarious.
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  4. “Don’t shoot him... you’ll just make him mad.”
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  5. Cats on the table: “She’s here… quick attack me as a diversion so she doesn’t figure out what we’re plotting.”
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  6. “Put them in the Iron Maiden.” “Iron Maiden? EXCELLENT!” “EXECUTE THEM!” “Bogus.”
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  7. The sack of Baghdad is right up there with the loss of the library of Alexandria, so much written knowledge was lost, possibly forever.
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  8. He’s not really dead, he’s just hiding under a table until we all leave.
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  9. Old cars: “It’s too floaty.” Today’s cars: “You can feel the road, without the road-rash.” Tomorrow’s flying cars: “it’s too floaty.”
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  10. “Eww!” “Change the damn station!”
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  11. The good news is he recorded his dialogue for the 3rd season of The Orville, so he will live on as Lieutenant Yaphit the gelatinous blob crew member.
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  12. For that much I was expecting a kitchen that wasn’t just one wall, something with an island or peninsula with a breakfast bar.
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  13. Actually while filming the Bottle Deposit scene where he’s running from the angry farmer, Wayne Knight was really struggling. It made him commit to losing a lot of weight and living healthier.
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  14. That’s more a ladder than a staircase, less you’ve been in the Navy then you’re used to stairs that steep.
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  15. Health care should be a right, but because we made it “for profit” without proper regulation and price controls we kind of screwed ourselves.
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  16. The Tower of London has a small garden where they estimate the executions were done. My wife got really creeped out by it when we found it… the rest of the grounds and the tower didn’t bother her at all. Well, Henry the VIII’s suit of armor with the outrageously large codpiece creeped us all out…
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  17. My father’s cousin’s college age daughter is named Alexa, being in a house with an Amazon smart device gets very confusing for her and it.
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  18. RIP Carrie Fisher, the show's tribute to her was beautiful, even though Peter was at the wrong funeral.
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  19. Actually the Queen Mother wasn't the only Royal family member to pass in 2002, her other daughter, Princess Margaret, died a few weeks earlier.
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  20. Back when I was in college in 1998 after a college radio conference in the city we all piled into in car and drove to Alphabet City. Next to this great little independent record shop on Avenue A (that’s not there anymore) was this place selling lots of oddball stuff (also not there anymore). Including this brand of scents called Demeter, which had some …interesting odor choices like Grass, Dirt, Rain, Sea, etc. Dirt actually not that bad, a subtle musk, earthy, and it wasn’t too pricey for a poor college student like me. But the brand disappeared after a few years. Man everything I m remember from those days just vanished over the years, but I’m still here.
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  21. “Oh, they seem to be doin’ okay” 😂
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  22. RIP Stan the Man Lee. "Nuff said."
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  23. As a native New Yorker, Times Square is pretty bad, most of us avoid it (the last time I was there was due to a subway issue where I needed to get out and walk over to another line to get to work, and because it was a rainy morning Times Square was pretty empty. Most underated: the Sydney Opera House, I had no idea just how big it was until I stood next to it (even from the other side of Circular Quay in the Rocks, or walking over the Harbor Bridge it doesn’t seem that big), and I never knew it had tiles like the space shuttle on the “sails”. Amazing architecture.)
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  24. That’s a crazy price for a studio in Bushwick (?), we pay less than that for 2-bedrooms in Forest hills, though our building has zero amenities (honestly, how often will you use all that stuff if you’re working full time) and the laundry is in the basement.
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  25. Being an active mine for 361 days means every year the mine has changed, and the course has to change.
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  26. I always laugh at the Jackie Chan film “Rumble in the Bronx” that featured mountains in some of the backdrops, (because it wasn’t filmed in the Bronx, it was filmed in Vancouver 😂).
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  27. I’ve mentioned it before, Bulgaria (where we adopted our daughter from) has so much natural mineral water sources that you can just fill up for free from public taps. Some sources are actually naturally carbonated as well.
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  28. They could have just used Trevor Noah for all of these, his ability to mimic accents is just dead perfect.
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  29. That poor film crew on Good Will Hunting. They’ll never be forgotten for shaking the cameras during the “Farts in her sleep” scene.
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  30. My old neighborhood! (My parents still live there, but on the other side of the train). Those were fold away stairs, not ladders (makes laundry a little easier.)
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  31. Fun fact: the flag of Dominica has an Imperial Amazon Parrot on it… these birds have violet plumage, so Dominica has the ONLY national flag in the world with violet in the color palette.
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  32. Wait, is that an entrance, or a tiny patio… is that a gate, or just a fence?
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  33. Infamous Second Son, get all the abilities maxed out on the evil track and you are basically a walking nightmare.
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  34. That overhead storage with the ladder… I’m guessing it’s open to the bedroom so it has some light coming into it… but it kind of makes for a privacy issue since even with the door closed, your roommate would probably hear you if they were in the kitchen.
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  35. Fun fact: “Youppi!” Is the only mascot to switch professional leagues, he started as the mascot for the Expos (and once was ejected from a game by the umpire after he annoyed Tommy LaSorda), but when they moved to DC, he wound up staying in Montreal and got a job with the Canadiens (though he still sometimes wears his Expos jersey instead of his hockey sweater.)
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  36. That front hatch is likely locked from the inside so random people don’t sneak into your basement.
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  37. Sidious might have been taken down if Windu didn’t bring 3 redshirt Jedi with him.
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  38. Glad to see Jess was okay with trying the paragliding, mostly. Glass floors are able to hold up a lot of weight (the CN tower glass floor claimed it could hold up several rhinos), so there’s no worries walking on them.
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  39. One issue, the air conditioner looked like it was in the window for the fire escape, that’s actually illegal (unless there’s a second window next to it. Also it can’t be too big or it could block people upstairs from getting by. I know because I had to figure out if we could put one in our daughter’s room or not, thankfully we could because there’s two windows and we’re the top floor with no roof access.)
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  40. Great for short trips, but I’d probably pass out at the cost if they offered trans-Atlantic or trans-pacific flights.
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  41. The National Ignition Facility is so advanced, they used it as the Warp Core of the Enterprise in the 2nd JJ Abrams Star Trek movie.
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  42. Depending on the writers, the replicators in Star Trek are actually tied into a waste reclamation system, but it’s at the molecular level and very sanitary. Basically it’s an instant 3d printer tied into the garbage (sometimes they’d show someone putting empty plates and cups back in the replicator and hitting a button and the replicator takes it back) and sewage system on the ship in a probably closed system. Definitely still Sci-fi compared to today’s tech… unless you live on a submarine, or the space station.
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  43. There are fire tankers that can reload water from local lakes by skimming along the surface… but yeah not many lakes in Palm Springs.
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  44. Really awesome idea, but, that’s a public transit dead zone (it’s a long hike to the 7 train past the entrance to the midtown tunnel, and there’s no bus service down there yet.)
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  45. No closets at all is really weird, sure it maximizes the space, but then you need to take up space with standing wardrobes and other storage furniture.
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  46. Of the four subway lines that go to Coney Island in Brooklyn, two started out as street level railroads, then electric street cars, and finally elevated subways. When the potholes get bad enough under those subway lines the old rails can still be seen (McDonald Ave/Shell Road and New Utrecht Ave/86th Street/Stillwell Avenue (which is oddly paved with cement.) Shell Road is confusing though because there’s a major subway repair shop that has tracks that go out into the street to move subway cars in and out of the system via large load special trailers.
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  47. If you work in midtown on the east side, there’s an east river ferry terminal nearby so you can use that instead of the subway.
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  48. Have you ever forgotten something in a place you looked at, like your drink in the fridge?
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  49. My wife was interested in one of those European river cruise trips… yeah we read the itinerary… It’s like they rush you around the city they’ve stopped at because if the boat isn’t out of there by sundown it turns into a pumpkin. 😂 No thanks we’d rather explore at our own pace and just use rail to get between places (and maybe a ferry).
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  50. These always remind me of my last year in high school in 1998, when those “toe socks” came around, because on our senior trip to Virginia one of the more popular girls wore rainbow toe socks (she took her shoes off on the long bus ride). Yes we went to Richmond, VA to see Kings Dominion and Six Flags… Yeah I voted to go to Montreal, but I guess extreme roller coasters beat getting to experience a new culture, and country to dumb teenagers 🤦‍♂️. Though honestly Virginia was about as far from NYC as I felt we could get as we were treated like we were from outer space by the locals!)
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  51. Cosmo Kramer finally put in levels?
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  52. Here in New York, we had all kinds of street rail, from horse drawn “omnibuses” to cable cars, and electric street cars, In fact each borough had their own ideas, and in Brooklyn the lines were so famous, that the historic fleet in San Francisco has PCC car (from the era after the old wooden/wood and steel sided cars you’re following here) painted in the Brooklyn colors (light green on the bottom at at the “standee window” level and silver around the larger windows and on the roof). For a really long time a group tried to put in a new line in Brooklyn, but over the years the city resisted, they lost their warehouse and most of the cars vanished, except for a few old Boston Green Line PCC cars which were parked out on the Red Hook waterfront… until Hurricane Sandy flooded most of them, and they had to be donated to rail museums that could restore them. There’s now only one left, the sun and salty air has turned the green paint blue, and it’s not doing so great. https://untappedcities.com/2019/10/15/the-last-abandoned-trolley-in-red-hook-from-the-boston-green-line/
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  53. Saw one of these (full grown) in a zoo, and even then it was awesome. The only even larger animal we saw, was a big old croc that was massive, and apparently loved music. We missed out on seeing a wombat because they are crepuscular and it was sleeping away the day, though we did read about one being cared for because it’s mom was hit by a car and the zoo was hand rearing the poor fellow and keeping him in a special pouch.
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  54. That first place was a 2 bedroom with a spare room… there were no windows in there, legally that’s not a bedroom.
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  55. This would be great if it wasn’t a walk up… also no laundry?
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  56. That much rent and no bathtub?
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  57. I may be wrong, but if the “green” is black, it’s probably coated in oil or tar to stop the wind from picking up the soil.
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  58. Gave off vibes of Vegas, but much more over the top and you got above 5-star treatment the whole time… other than that hot dog. (If you’re ever in Copenhagen try Pølse, it’s a bit like a hot dog and a sausage in one, pretty unique and I’d recommend the Danish Remoulade.)
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  59. It looked like they spaced the new seedlings out more in that last clear cut, I hope they are learning to not pack so many trees into the second growth so that the forest floor in that area can regenerate.
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  60. Really cool, but wish it had less of a stoop out front since that’s not going to be fun carrying a stroller up and down, especially in winter when it gets icy.
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  61. Pikes Peak is also famous for the hill climb (and descent) races, which are pretty dangerous since it’s the same road, just with cars going well past the speed limit. An all electric VW has the fastest time up the mountain (just under 8 minutes!)
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  62. I haven’t seen padded toilet seats in years! (My grandmother’s old house in Marine Park had one.)
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  63. Italy (and maybe Spain) actually paint the rails white to try to prevent rail warping in the summer sun. It’s a serious problem as if a train comes up on a curve and can’t see the warped rails, that’s a derailment.
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  64. The original part of DC Union station is so beautiful, Milano Centrale basically copied it! You know you did something right if Milan copies you.
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  65. The downtown Monorail station used to be about a block further south. When they built the mall the current station is attached to, they knocked the original station down and built Westlake Park. That’s why only one train at a time can board there.
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  66. Hey now that you’re based in Hong Kong might we see you at the Australian, Shanghai (it’s finally back on the calendar!), Singapore or Japan GP this year?
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  67. The blue on the dial is nice, and the comparison to the old dirty and discolored face next to it is stunning.
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  68. It’s like traveling in a camper (or caravan as they say in the UK) only it’s narrower and floating.
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  69. Agree with the Sydney ferries, a wonderful and relaxing way to travel around Sydney during the “part 2” of our honeymoon (totally unplanned, but it was a great place to visit and cheaper because it was winter there), and while the bridge walk is cool, another hidden gem is the museum inside the stone pillar at the city end of the bridge facing the opera house (you can access it from a door on the pedestrian walkway that goes over the bridge.) It’s good cardio as there’s a lot of stairs inside, many stories about the building of the bridge, and the men that died in accidents. At the very top of all the stairs is an outdoor observation deck that has some unique views of the surrounding area. Another great day trip with the ferries is the Taronga zoo, you can buy your zoo tickets at the ferry terminal in Circular Quay to save a little money (definitely get the gondola ride ticket as well, so you can start at the top of the zoo and walk your way back down to the ferry slip as you go). Only disappointment was we flew all the way from New York to see kangaroos, and they were sleeping when we got to the zoo! (And then we found out that the Staten Island zoo here has kangaroos! (Another hidden gem, great little zoo to bring kids too as well.)
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  70. Double suite bedrooms (walk in/through closets to a bathroom)? Don’t see that very often.
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  71. I never had maple syrup until I visited Toronto, only “pancake syrup” (aka corn syrup with imitation maple “flavor”)... I was like “why have I been missing this?” 😂 My dad always said the only cocktail he liked was 7 & 7, Seagrams 7 (American blended whisky) and 7-up.
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  72. I know places like Deadhorse, AK their groceries are very expensive, because everything must be flown in. There’s no rail connection, and trucks can only travel in and out for part of the year. But, most of the people working up there are well paid for the inconvenience.
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  73. The standing room only sides of the cable cars are fun, until you run into cars and trucks that are parked just a little too far from the curb. Then it’s time to become a contortionist, especially around side view mirrors.
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  74. Kid behind you = future YouTuber Kind of like a Peter Parker - Miles Morales thing.
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  75. Extremely large and astoundingly heavy mining vehicles also "walk" (e.g. a Dragline) and they require so much power they are hooked directly into the power grid)
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  76. LAX is confusing, we wound up having to get out and walk along the road to switch terminals once (Qantas to Virgin America), though I think they’re finally working on connections between the terminals. Not too long ago, there was really not much connecting aside from busses that ran between the planes, and I had to change busses in the middle of nowhere next to really loud regional turboprop planes (I was going from a very delayed American flight to an Alaska Airlines flight (which had left by the time I got there… I had an hour long connecting time to do this… on paper… thanks American, Alaska was able to switch me to a later, but stuffed to the gills, flight) That little bus area was demolished to expand the international terminal.)
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  77. So not used to side-loading trucks, here in NYC it’s all dropped in the back, and scooped inside, where rams compact everything down so the truck can carry a surprising amount of waste. (We have split trucks one side takes paper, the other glass, metal and plastics (those are separated later). Of course being a major city there’s also a lot of trucks that take only “garbage” (everything else, it’s either sent to landfills, or burned in a high efficiency incinerator over in New Jersey to generate electricity), they are working on making NYC zero trash at some point in the future (all recycling, and composting (they tried a program for composting, but only in single family homes… it didn’t last long, I guess they’ll see what happened and try a better version in the future.)
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  78. Guessing someone else is loading the 9 o’clock gun since the training would take too long?
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  79. $6 for hotel water… try $8 for a smaller bottle of Voss in Boston, yeah, we went out and bought water instead. Meanwhile in London, UK they had free bottled water, AND sparkling water, kept cold in a mini fridge under the TV, and they happily refilled it every day.
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  80. I was wondering what the next series would be, and figured Europe (or Australia), but didn’t guess it would be the canals in the UK! Never disappointed with your content Mike!
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  81. Talk about finding the “notes” in a wine!
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  82. We have plenty of Cherry Blossoms and other flowering trees in Chinatown here in NYC, and yet people here obsess over going to Washington DC to see them instead. 🤷‍♂️
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  83. Really nice layout for the space, odd to have doors between the main hallway and the bathroom hallway. Where are all the people? They seemed to be between 52nd and 42nd between 5th and 6th, at least on Friday when I took my daughter to see the tree and the Christmas market in Bryant Park.
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  84. There’s a swing through the US (Austin, then Vegas), Mexico and Brazil coming up. The ticket prices being talked about for Vegas are very high, and I’m sure finding a hotel isn’t going to be a problem, but finding one that isn’t charging a lot of money will be.
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  85. Too bad there doesn’t seem to be passenger trains in the territories (Nunavut, Northwest and Yukon) because I’d love to see more of this series!
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  86. I think it leaves around 3pm so the passengers get good views of the Rockies the next day. 🏔
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  87. The ammonia is used as an industrial refrigerant, it’s highly efficient and low cost, but it’s toxicity and corrosive tendencies on certain materials limit where it can be used… but the International Space Station uses it to keep the station comfortable (it’s designed so any leaks vent out into space.)
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  88. Saw sea lions in California… best to give them some space, they are heavy, they bite and they can crush CARS.
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  89. VIsiting Copenhagen, they also have a driverless Metro, I believe they just opened up one or two new lines since we were there. It was cool because there two bench seats at the front window, so you can sit and pretend you’re “driving” the train. 😆
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  90. Star Trek VI, the peaceful calm of space gets quickly interrupted when a moon of Praxis explodes… and then it cuts to Captain Sulu on the Excelsior as if nothing happened for a minute or so, until the shockwave hit’s the ship. (That effect of the exploding moon got copied by everyone, to the point that the effect is named Praxis).
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  91. 2nd unit is slightly bigger, and updated, no brainer. Our current place they showed us this unit, and one 2 floors down that had an older kitchen and bath, but they wanted the same price for both… which I thought was ridiculous. (Same size as it’s the same unit number (all the floors above the ground floor are the same here.)
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  92. Really cool you rode from Vancouver, so many videos for the Canadian start in Toronto.
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  93. If you can, go find the Union Pacific Big Boy, the largest steam locomotive ever. I believe it does runs like this in Wyoming. The steam whistle is LOUD, but low pitched.
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  94. Ouch… for the price… cool idea for a breakfast bar.
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