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** Discussed in a non-engineering context in Episode 109, with Rhodesian and Zimbabwean soldiers both wearing sneakers in battle. Alice argues that wearing sneakers for insurgency and counter-insurgency are more effective than combat boots, which are flashy and impressive but difficult to run in
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''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPxHg4192hLDpTI2w7F9rPg Well There's Your Problem]]'' is an engineering/politics/dark comedy podcast that covers the background, events and fallout of engineering disasters throughout the ages, in particular what faults directly led to the disaster. Originally a side-project of structural engineer Justin "Roz" Roczniak on his [=YouTube=] channel donoteat01 (which uses ''VideoGame/CitiesSkylines'' to showcase urban planning), the podcast features Justin, his former roommate and systems analyst Liam Anderson[[note]]"Yay, Liam!"[[/note]], pessimistic futurist Alice Caldwell-Kelly (educated in law and coal engineering, from the ''Podcast/TrashFuture'' podcast) [[AndZoidberg and the 'Activate Windows' alert on Justin's PC]] (and sometimes Guest) as they pick apart, contextualize and make a ''lot'' of risque jokes about historical failures of engineering from a leftist perspective.
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''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPxHg4192hLDpTI2w7F9rPg Well There's Your Problem]]'' is an engineering/politics/dark comedy podcast that covers the background, events and fallout of engineering disasters throughout the ages, in particular what faults directly led to the disaster. Originally a side-project of structural engineer Justin "Roz" Roczniak on his [=YouTube=] channel donoteat01 (which uses ''VideoGame/CitiesSkylines'' to showcase urban planning), the podcast features Justin, his former roommate and systems analyst Liam Anderson[[note]]"Yay, Liam!"[[/note]], pessimistic futurist Alice Caldwell-Kelly (educated in law and coal engineering, from the ''Podcast/TrashFuture'' podcast) [[AndZoidberg and the 'Activate Windows' alert on Justin's PC]] (and PC]](and sometimes Guest) as they pick apart, contextualize and make a ''lot'' of risque jokes about historical failures of engineering from a leftist perspective.
*** However, 'Activate Windows' is back as of episode 133. Liam attributes it to Roz being some form of a WalkingTechbane
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** [[OnceAnEpisode Every episode]] begins with a pronoun check of the three hosts and any eventual guests. [[note]]Justin is 'he/him', Liam is 'he/him' and Alice is 'she/her'[[/note]]
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** [[OnceAnEpisode Every episode]] begins with a pronoun check of the three hosts and any eventual guests. [[note]]Justin is 'he/him', Liam is 'he/him' and 'he/him', Alice is 'she/her'[[/note]]'she/her', and editor Devon is they/them.[[/note]]
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* SilentSnarker: Devon, who started editing the podcast around episode 100, adds their own commentary text on occasion.
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* TheFoodPoisoningIncident: The focus of the bonus episode on the JAL flight where 197 people fell ill after eating contaminated omelets.
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* [[YoungerThanTheyLook Younger Than They Sound]]: About half the comments on the New London, Texas School Explosion are people commenting their shock that the hosts are all only in their late 20s, with most of them seeming to think Rocz in particular was at least 40.
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** From Episode 88: Titanic Part 1, Liam declaring everything “cursed by [its] own hubris” and all hosts declaring the Titanic hungry for the blood of smaller ships.
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* ReassignedToAntarctica: The fate of the regional manager in the "Safety Third" segment of Episode 48, who is sent to Suffolk County, NY, which is stated to be a place where the company in question sends its most useless employees.
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** Liam, when angry, frequently offers to drive to someone’s house and beat someone to death with their own shoes.
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* DeadlyEuphemism: “I very much hope that this elected official <I>has a nice time.</I>
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* DeadlyEuphemism: “I very much hope that this elected official <I>has has a nice time.</I>”
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** For Liam (yet again), callousness towards the unhoused is a quick way to incur some bleeped actionable threats.
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** Liam, when angry, frequently offers to drive to someone’s house and beat someone to death with their own shoes.
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** Episode 097, when discussing what was made in Turin: shrouds, Fiats, and shrouds for Fiats.
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** In the Le Mans episode (Episode 45), Alice gets quite the kick out of "berms."
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* BreatherEpisode: The hosts like to throw in one of these, usually about a poorly-designed system or at least an accident with no fatalities, after a particularly dark one, for instance following Lac-Magentic with Three Mile Island and following Grenfell Tower with the Newfoundland railway.
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* UglyCute: Alice describes the Morgantown personal transit system with such terms in the "Las Vegas Loop" episode.
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* RecklessGunUsage: The Safety Third segment from Episode 95 features a pair of these stories, to the great amusement of the crew (especially Alice, who had gone to Cadet school).
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* RecklessGunUsage: The Safety Third segment from Episode 95 features a pair of these stories, to the great amusement of the crew (especially Alice, who had gone to Cadet been in the Cadets at school).
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* VerbalTic: Justin has a tendency to refer to times early in the day as "[time] AM in the morning," much to Liam's chagrin.
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* MedalOfDishonor: With rare exceptions, the pinned comment in each episode goes to the dumbest or most overly critical comment.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Episode 21 crashes to a halt for a solid minute while everyone drools over how nice the GG-1 locomotive looks.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Episode 21 crashes to a halt for a solid minute while everyone drools over how nice [[CoolTrain the Pennsylvania GG-1 locomotive locomotive]] looks.
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** Introducing a photo of that episode's disaster and explaining "it's not supposed to look like that."
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** Every OnTheNext segment at the end promises that the show's next episode will cover the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse. Which it never does. [[spoiler:This turned out to be the topic of the 2021 live show.]] They have since switched to the Boston Molasses Disaster.
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** Every The OnTheNext segment at the end of every episode promises that the show's next episode will cover same topic, which never actually comes. This was the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse. Which collapse until it never does. [[spoiler:This turned out to be the topic of was covered in the 2021 live show.]] They have since switched to show, then the Boston Molasses Disaster.Disaster until the 2022 live shows. Since then, they've promised an episode on Chernobyl.
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** Grenfell Tower had one stairwell and no sprinkler system in ''2017,'' which both of the American presenters found genuinely shocking, only compounded with Alice noting that in the UK sprinkler systems are almost non-existent.
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* FunWithSubtitles: Enabling the closed captioning on the YouTube videos gives subtitles complete with a humorous running commentary on the episode itself.
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* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: In the MS Estonia episode, Justin had drawn a course for the ship with a ridiculously squiggly line complete with an unnecessary loop as a joke, only for Alice to inform him that ship courses are surprisingly close to that in real life.
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* CatchPhrase: Roz has a few. Notably, "It's not supposed to be like that" when introducing the episode, or "This is true" in response to some insightful insight from his cohosts.
** Roz: "I was about to say..." when agreeing with someone else's crazy idea.
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** Roz has a few. Notably, "It's not supposed to be like that" when introducing the episode, or "This is true" in response to some insightful insight from hiscohosts.
** Roz:cohosts. He also has "I was about to say..." when agreeing with someone else's crazy idea.
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* CreatorProvincialism: Both Justin and Liam live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the show has a disproportionate number of episodes dedicated to events that occurred in or around Philadelphia.
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** In the SEPTA episode (Episode 3), all the hosts get quite a kick out of a neighborhood near Philadelphia called "Swampoodle."
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** Id: Liam. Most likely to cut through the politesse and go on a rant or deliver a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech]].
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** Id: Liam. Most likely to cut through the politesse and go on a rant or deliver a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech]].[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech The Reason You Suck Speech]].
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** Ego: Alice. [[DeadpanSnarker]]. A bit more emotionally charged than Justin but much less than...
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** Superego: Justin. Calm, analytical, keeps the show on track.
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** Ego: Alice. [[DeadpanSnarker]]. A bit more emotionally charged than Justin but much less than...
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* TheAllegedCar: Liam's van, which merited a bonus episode.
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* CatchPhrase: Roz has a few. Notably, "It's not supposed to be like that" when introducing the episode, or "This is true" in response to some insightful incite insight from his cohosts.
