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**Well There‘s Your Problem**

This is a podcast about engineering disasters and systemic failures, from a leftist perspective, with jokes

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Bonus Episode 4 PREVIEW: Protestantism Mar 30, 2020

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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

Episode 20: 1918 Philadelphia War Bond Parade Mar 21, 2020

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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

Episode 19: Lake Peigneur Mar 07, 2020

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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

Well There's Your Problem | Bonus Episode 3 PREVIEW: The SA80 Feb 29, 2020

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This is the episode where we talk about gun

watch the whole episode about gun here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/34445532

Episode 18: Texas City Disaster Feb 26, 2020

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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

Episode 17: The Atmospheric Railway Feb 20, 2020

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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

Episode 16: The Iowa Caucuses Feb 08, 2020

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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

Episode 15: The Advanced Passenger Train Feb 05, 2020

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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

Episode 14: The Quebec Bridge Jan 29, 2020

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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

Bonus Episode 2 PREVIEW: Liam's Van Jan 28, 2020

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the veil is off, this is entirely a personality-driven podcast