
Well There‘s Your Problem
This is a podcast about engineering disasters and systemic failures, from a leftist perspective, with jokes
Latest episodes

Mar 31, 2020 • 1h 20min
Episode 21: 1953 Federal Express Wreck
In this episode we talk about the northernmost Bojangles franchise
with Gareth Dennis (@GarethDennis)
whose youtube project can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/garethdennistv
slides are here when they finish uploading: https://youtu.be/38-MKEap0AQ

Mar 30, 2020 • 4min
Bonus Episode 4 PREVIEW: Protestantism
A Catholic, a Muslim, and a Jew walk into a podcast to rag on Protestantism.
Here is the link to the real thing: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35433585

Mar 22, 2020 • 1h 10min
Episode 20: 1918 Philadelphia War Bond Parade
Today @donoteat01, @aliceavizandum, and @oldmananders0n talk about the deadliest parade in US history. Dont spit.
Here are the slides: https://youtu.be/oifinZTKxKo
Here is the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wtyppod

Mar 8, 2020 • 1h 11min
Episode 19: Lake Peigneur
Today we talk about fish.
Here is the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wtyppod
Here are the slides (still uploading at publishing time): https://youtu.be/dgKU0zu6KB8
Mostly sourced from the MSHA report: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822029061140&view=1up&seq=13

Feb 29, 2020 • 6min
Well There's Your Problem | Bonus Episode 3 PREVIEW: The SA80
This is the episode where we talk about gun
watch the whole episode about gun here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/34445532

Feb 26, 2020 • 1h 14min
Episode 18: Texas City Disaster
Today @oldmananders0n, @aliceavizandum, and @donoteat01 test the limits of what we can say about fertilizer-derived explosives on the internet.
here are the slides: https://youtu.be/AxA1vb6P2lU
here is the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wtyppod
vast majority of the info and images from the original report: http://www.local1259iaff.org/report.htm
other images:
john w. brown
By Project Liberty Ship, Attribution, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3264194
ammonium nitrate
By Teravolt at en.wikipedia - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14151598
wilson b. keene
By http://digital.lib.uh.edu/u?/p15195coll4,8, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11834216
burned-out cars
By University of Houston Digital Library - University of Houston Digital Library, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11834231
oil refinery on fire
By Chemical safety and hazards investigation board - http://www.csb.gov/assets/news/image/BP_PLANT_EXPLOSION-1_lowres2.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19192207

Feb 20, 2020 • 1h 28min
Episode 17: The Atmospheric Railway
Today @oldmananders0n, @aliceavizandum, and @donoteat01 talk about the succ, and various ways succ has been applied to railway traction in the past, present, and future, and also elon musk can suck it
here be the slides: https://youtu.be/JaRVy31lTlQ
here is the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wtyppod
here is @bigmoodenergy's youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlfGQZD9OW4
slide 1: pipe
By Rosser1954 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80604884
slide 2: locomotive
By Victor H. Rawstron (1919-1997), photographer - The Cooper Collection of U.S. Railroad History (Uploader's private collection and the image's rightsholder); BMLRR.com (Uploader's domain & website)., GFDL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17271331
slide 4: dalkey
By Illustrated London News - Illustrated London News, 6 January 1844, page 16, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60822048
slide 5: croydon
By not credited - Illustration in "The Pictorial Times", Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1892927
slide 6: south devon
By Geof Sheppard - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3693263
slide 7:
By Unknown - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Oxyman using CommonsHelper., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4543867
slide 8: beach pneumatic
By Unknown photographer - New York Historical Society, Bildnummer 70265, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39604103
slide 11:
By Gunawan Kartapranata - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11340341

Feb 8, 2020 • 1h 14min
Episode 16: The Iowa Caucuses
In this episode which we put together in about 6 hours @aliceavizandum, @oldmananders0n, @donoteat01 (deceased on twitter) are joined by @zachsimonsonIA to talk about the catastrophe that is the ongoing Iowa Caucuses, and are also sabotaged by the pete buttchug campaign along the way
slides: https://youtu.be/MjSyYRyokPo
check out Zach in the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/02/04/my-chaotic-infuriating-night-running-an-iowa-caucus/
some sources:
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/5/21123009/acronym-tara-mcgowan-shadow-app-iowa-caucus-results
https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/feb/04/what-we-know-about-shadow-acronym-and-iowa-caucuse/
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3a8ajj/an-off-the-shelf-skeleton-project-experts-analyze-the-app-that-broke-iowa
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/us/politics/iowa-caucus-app.html

Feb 5, 2020 • 1h 44min
Episode 15: The Advanced Passenger Train
In this video, @aliceavizandum, @oldmananders0n, @donoteat01 and guest @rilaah take a butcher's at the ill-fated Advanced Passenger John.
The referenced video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP001LboM4Q&
The slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G77GkxZrxIs

Jan 29, 2020 • 1h 5min
Episode 14: The Quebec Bridge
In this episode, @donoteat1, @oldmananders0n, and @aliceavizandum talk about the Quebec Bridge, a bridge so nice they built it thrice.
here are the slides: https://youtu.be/SjOduiPSF1Q
here is the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wtyppod
Info sources:
https://www.structuremag.org/?p=9300
https://www.structuremag.org/?p=9399
https://www.structuremag.org/?p=9491
https://www.gandhieng.com/RESOURCES/MEDIA/FINAL%20-%20The%20Failure%20and%20Reconstruction%20of%20the%20Quebec%20Bridge%20-%20K%20Gandhi%202017.pdf
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1020&context=encee_facpub
Image Sources:
slide 1 (quebec bridge) By GBoivinT - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21845932
slide 2 (forth bridge) By Andrew Shiva / Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51291330
slide 3 (public domain) By Unknown photographer for Benjamin Baker. - http://www.sbe.hw.ac.uk/staff/arthur/frbpc/ForthBridgePostCards.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=415051
commodore barry
By Jim Dietrich - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Commodore_Barry_Bridge_From_Ferry_Rd.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=988454
tokyo gate By Aimaimyi - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18740198
hart bridge: Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39943
quebec bridge eyebars - google maps
grand trunk pacific: toronto public library https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-912-71-M12-1-SMALL&R=DC-912-71-M12-1-SMALL
site: google maps
cooper: stolen from Structure article
phoenix columns: historic american building survey https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.pa3994.photos/?sp=8
historical society of the phoenixville area https://www.hspa-pa.org/phoenix_bridge.html
bridge of the week http://www.bridgeofweek.com/2015/08/phoenix-bridge-company.html
assorted public domain photos
last slide By Jean-Philippe Bourgoin, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19949187