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* CloneDegeneration: In episode 31, Alice notices that the logo for ''The God Damn News'' seems to be getting blurrier with every episode. Justin confirms that he has been in fact copying it from the previous episode since the beginning of the show and would probably decay until it reaches a single pixel of resolution.
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* CloneDegeneration: In episode 31, Alice notices that the logo for ''The God Damn News'' seems to be getting blurrier with every episode. Justin confirms that he has been in fact copying it from the previous episode since the beginning introduction of the show segment and would probably decay until it reaches a single pixel of resolution.
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* CloneDegeneration: In episode 32, 31, Alice notices that the logo for ''The God Damn News'' seems to be getting blurrier with every episode. Justin confirms that he has been in fact copying it from the previous episode since the beginning of the show and would probably decay until it reaches a single pixel of resolution.
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*AmericaWonWorldWarII: Frequently invoked by Liam, usually towards Alice or any non-American guest.
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* SarcasmFailure: It takes a ''lot'' to get the showrunners to stop snarking, but the MS Estonia and Grenfell Tower Fire episodes got to that point during the end segment.
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* SarcasmFailure: It takes a ''lot'' to get the showrunners to stop snarking, but the MS Estonia and Grenfell Tower Fire episodes got to that point during the end segment.segment, as well as throughout the Bhopal two-part episode.
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* ConspiracyTheorist: PlayedForLaughs. The hosts occasionally blame the engineering failure of the week on conspiracy theories and cryptids, like Mothman. They have also claimed that the podcast is a UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} front.
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** Liam (again) is really quite vitreolic towards the Dutch as a nation, at least in part because they lost to Spain in the World Cup, a game he had placed money on.
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* SarcasmFailure: It takes a ''lot'' to get the showrunners to stop snarking, but the MS Estonia and Grenfell Tower Fireepisode episodes got to that point during the end segment.
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* CapitalismIsBad: The show tends to be harshly critical of both free-market and state capitalism (not that Soviet-style Communism gets off much better), perhaps unsurprisingly coming from self-described socialists of the 'weird left'.
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** Averted at the Lake Peignoir salt mine where the emergency evacuation of all salt miners before the lakebed collapse prevented any human casualties. "Sometimes safety procedures just *work.*"
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*** In episode 19, [[AbsenteeActor it is nowhere to be found]] but Justin doesn't understand why as he has still not found out how to enter his activation key into his system. It is briefly replaced by a "Discord wants to share your screen" warning.
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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 Roczniak on his youtube channel donoteat01 (which uses ''VideoGame/CitiesSkylines'' to showcase urban planning), the podcast features Justin, his roommate and systems analyst Liam Anderson, pessimistic futurist Alice Caldwell-Kelly (from the ''Trash Future'' podcast) [[AndZoidberg and the 'Register Windows' alert on Justin's PC]] 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 Roczniak on his youtube channel donoteat01 (which uses ''VideoGame/CitiesSkylines'' to showcase urban planning), the podcast features Justin, his roommate and systems analyst Liam Anderson, pessimistic futurist Alice Caldwell-Kelly (from the ''Trash Future'' podcast) [[AndZoidberg and the 'Register 'Activate Windows' alert on Justin's PC]] 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 civil structural engineer Justin Roczniak on his youtube channel donoteat01 (which uses ''VideoGame/CitiesSkylines'' to showcase urban planning), the podcast features Justin, his roommate and systems analyst Liam Anderson, pessimistic futurist Alice Caldwell-Kelly (from the ''Trash Future'' podcast) [[AndZoidberg and the 'Register Windows' alert on Justin's PC]] 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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* CruelTwistEnding: The bonus episode on 'Groverhaus' turns to this [[spoiler:when the hosts explain that the DoomItYourself project of the titual Grover not only adhered mostly to U.S. Building Code, but adhered to it ''better'' than many 'professionally' built buildings constructed during that time period. Including much of America's social housing.]]
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* MeanBrit: Alice leans into this role with gusto, being the snarkiest commentator by far.
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* SouthernFriedGenius: Justin [[DownplayedTrope is from the Appalacians]], and tends to lean into his accent to contrast his engineering-speak.
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* SouthernFriedGenius: Justin [[DownplayedTrope is from the Appalacians]], and Justin, who tends to lean into his accent and a lot of LaymansTerms to contrast his engineering-speak.explain engineering terms.
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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 civil engineer Justin Roczniak on his youtube channel donoteat (which uses ''VideoGame/CitiesSkylines'' to showcase urban planning), the podcast features Justin, his roommate and systems analyst Liam Anderson, pessimistic futurist Alice Caldwell-Kelly (from the ''Trash Future'' podcast) [[AndZoidberg and the 'Register Windows' alert on Justin's PC]] 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 civil engineer Justin Roczniak on his youtube channel donoteat donoteat01 (which uses ''VideoGame/CitiesSkylines'' to showcase urban planning), the podcast features Justin, his roommate and systems analyst Liam Anderson, pessimistic futurist Alice Caldwell-Kelly (from the ''Trash Future'' podcast) [[AndZoidberg and the 'Register Windows' alert on Justin's PC]] as they pick apart, contextualize and make a ''lot'' of risque jokes about historical failures of engineering from a leftist perspective.
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: DiscussedTrope as it pertains to engineers, with Justin noting that some constructions intentionally avoid using the number '13' for floor numbers, terminal numbers, etc. [[SelfDeprecation The show's thirteenth episode was labelled 'episode 12A']], and the hosts have continued to make references to an episode 13 (covering the Tacoma RunningGag) that doesn't exist.
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* SouthernFriedGenius: Justin has an accent which evokes the rural Rust Belt or the Canadian midwest, and tends to lean into it to contrast his engineering-speak.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: The showrunners definitively do thorough research and don't just copy the episode texts wholesale from ''Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}''. ([[ImmediateSelfContradiction For one, Wikipedia articles on engineering aren't padded out with seven hours of dick jokes.]])
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: DiscussedTrope as it pertains to engineers, with Justin noting that some constructions intentionally avoid using the number '13' for floor numbers, terminal numbers, etc. [[SelfDeprecation The show's thirteenth episode was labelled 'episode 12A']], and the hosts have continued to make references to an episode 13 (covering the Tacoma RunningGag) that doesn't exist.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: The showrunners definitively do thorough research and don't just copy the episode texts wholesale from ''Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}''. ([[ImmediateSelfContradiction For one, Wikipedia articles on engineering aren't padded out with seven hours of dick jokes.]])
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: DiscussedTrope as it pertains to engineers, with Justin noting that some constructions intentionally avoid using the number '13' for floor numbers, terminal numbers, etc. [[SelfDeprecation The show's thirteenth episode was labelled 'episode 12A']], and the hosts have continued to make references to an episode 13 (covering the Tacoma RunningGag) that doesn't exist.
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* SouthernFriedGenius: Justin has an accent which evokes [[DownplayedTrope is from the rural Rust Belt or the Canadian midwest, Appalacians]], and tends to lean into it his accent to contrast his engineering-speak.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: The showrunners definitively do thorough research and don't just copy the episode texts wholesale from ''Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}''. ([[ImmediateSelfContradiction For one, Wikipedia articles on engineering aren't padded out with seven hours of dick jokes.]])
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: DiscussedTrope as it pertains to engineers, with Justin noting that some constructions intentionally avoid using the number '13' for floor numbers, terminal numbers, etc. [[SelfDeprecation The show's thirteenth episode was labelled 'episode 12A']], and the hosts have continued to make references to an episode 13 (covering the Tacoma RunningGag) that doesn't exist.]])
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: The showrunners definitively do thorough research and don't just copy the episode texts wholesale from ''Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}''. ([[ImmediateSelfContradiction For one, Wikipedia articles on engineering aren't padded out with seven hours of dick jokes.
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: DiscussedTrope as it pertains to engineers, with Justin noting that some constructions intentionally avoid using the number '13' for floor numbers, terminal numbers, etc. [[SelfDeprecation The show's thirteenth episode was labelled 'episode 12A']], and the hosts have continued to make references to an episode 13 (covering the Tacoma RunningGag) that doesn't exist.
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->''Trains good. Cars bad. Horses Chaotic Neutral.''
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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 civil engineer Justin Roczniak on his youtube channel donoteat (which uses ''VideoGame/CitiesSkylines'' to showcase urban planning), the podcast features Justin, his roommate and systems analyst Liam Anderson, pessimistic futurist Alice Caldwell-Kelly (from the ''Trash Future'' podcast) [[AndZoidberg and the 'Register Windows' alert on Justin's PC]] as they pick apart, contextualize and make a ''lot'' of risque jokes about historical failures of engineering from a leftist perspective.
* BerserkButton: [=TERF=]s for Liam, by his own admission.
* ExpospeakGag: Used by Justin repeatedly, when he starts out using engineering terms and then simplifies the language several degrees using silly but descriptive words that are much easier to grasp by laymen.
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* NoOSHACompliance: Justin tends to bring up U.S. building and safety codes as CulturalPosturing whenever the incident of the week happens outside the U.S., and points out how the construction in question would be illegal under current U.S. law.
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* CoolButInefficient: Frequently discussed. The hosts dislike this trope, and will usually advocate BoringButPractical solutions whenever it's brought up that 'technological advances' or 'future engineering' will allow for solutions that ignore basic realities of cost or scale.
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** Every OnTheNext segment at the end promises that the show's next episode will cover the Tacomba Narrows Bridge collapse. Which it never does.
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The sinking of the MS ''Estonia''. The Bhopal chemical disaster. Three Mile Island. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse. The history of mankind is filled with its own history of faulty construction, engineering or planning that ends up costing human lives and requiring updates (or outright creation) of safety codes due to bad design, cost-cutting or failsafes going horribly wrong.
''[[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 civil engineer Justin Roczniak on his youtube channel donoteat (which uses ''VideoGame/CitiesSkylines'' to showcase urban planning), the podcast features Justin, his roommate Liam Anderson, pessimistic futurist Alice Caldwell-Kelly (from the ''Trash Future'' podcast) [[AndZoidberg and the 'Register Windows' alert on Justin's PC]] as they pick apart, contextualize and make a ''lot'' of risque jokes about historical failures of engineering from a leftist perspective.
New episodes are released weekly on the show's youtube channel, with monthly episodes exclusive to patreon backers.
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!! This show provides examples of:
* AuthorAppeal: The hosts are self-professed fans of trains, and nuclear power.
* AuthorTract: Half the point of the show, being a fusion of engineering history and leftist historical and material analysis (cushioned in a lot of jokes). The show doesn't so much 'turn political' as 'occasionally forgetting to be when going into engineering detail'.
* BlackComedy: The parts of the show that isn't VulgarHumor leans in this direction.
* CapitalismIsBad: The show tends to be harshly critical of both free-market and state capitalism (not that Soviet-style Communism gets off much better), perhaps unsurprisingly coming from self-described socialists of the 'weird left'.
* CruelTwistEnding: The bonus episode on 'Groverhaus' turns to this [[spoiler:when the hosts explain that the DoomItYourself project of the titual Grover not only adhered mostly to U.S. Building Code, but adhered to it ''better'' than many 'professionally' built buildings constructed during that time period. Including much of America's social housing.]]
* CulturalPosturing: A frequent part of the show is Justin and Alice good-naturedly sniping at each other over their respective cultures.
* CuttingCorners: The show's main BerserkButton, and all too frequently the cause of the disaster of the week.
* DeadpanSnarker: All three hosts do this whenever they're not outright explaining things.
* DoomItYourself: Tends to be the target of bonus episodes.
* FailsafeFailure: The engineering disasters are occasionally caused by this. The episode on the Boeing 737 Max mentioned that one reason for the model's crashing tendencies is because of an anti-stall system that would occasionally pull the plane's nose down even when the plane wasn't stalling. Worse, it was an undocumented feature, meaning that the pilots weren't aware that trying to pull the plane up would only cause the system to compensate ''more'' in return.
* LaymansTerms: Tend to come up a lot, with {{technobabble}} being generally frowned upon.
* LighterAndSofter: The bonus episodes fall into this as DoomItYourself projects tend not to hurt many people beyond the builder's pride. There's also the episode on the Atmospheric Railway, which Alice described as a 'palette cleanser' after realizing its AwesomeButImpractical nature meant it never left the pilot project stage and thus never had a chance to hurt anyone, beyond a hypothetical horde of rats that got sucked into its pipes.
* MeanBrit: Alice leans into this role with gusto, being the snarkiest commentator by far.
* RunningGag:
** The 'register Windows' alert visible on Justin's slides. [[InsistentTerminology He has a license, he just can't find out where to enter his code.]]
** The sentence 'shake hands with danger' is always accompanied by the guitar riff from Jim Stringer's song of the same name.
** Every episode begins with a pronoun check of the three hosts and any eventual guests. [[note]]Justin is 'him/he', Liam is 'him/he' and Alice is 'her/she'[[/note]]
** Every OnTheNext segment at the end promises that the show's next episode will cover the Tacomba Narrows Bridge collapse. Which it never does.
** Justin's terrible, ''terrible'' MSPaint drawings whenever the hosts can't find a suitable diagram.
** Liam unleashing a prolongued 'boo!' whenever a new character is introduced to the story. Doubly so if that person is UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher.
* SarcasmFailure: It takes a ''lot'' to get the showrunners to stop snarking, but the Grenfell Tower Fire episode got to that point during the end segment.
* SouthernFriedGenius: Justin has a notable southern accent and tends to lean into it to contrast his engineering-speak.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: The showrunners definitively do thorough research and don't just copy the episode texts wholesale from ''Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}''. ([[ImmediateSelfContradiction For one, Wikipedia articles on engineering aren't padded out with seven hours of dick jokes.]])
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: DiscussedTrope as it pertains to engineers, with Justin noting that some constructions intentionally avoid using the number '13' for floor numbers, terminal numbers, etc. [[SelfDeprecation The show's thirteenth episode was labelled 'episode 12A']], and the hosts have continued to make references to an episode 13 (covering the Tacoma RunningGag) that doesn't exist.
''[[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 civil engineer Justin Roczniak on his youtube channel donoteat (which uses ''VideoGame/CitiesSkylines'' to showcase urban planning), the podcast features Justin, his roommate Liam Anderson, pessimistic futurist Alice Caldwell-Kelly (from the ''Trash Future'' podcast) [[AndZoidberg and the 'Register Windows' alert on Justin's PC]] as they pick apart, contextualize and make a ''lot'' of risque jokes about historical failures of engineering from a leftist perspective.
New episodes are released weekly on the show's youtube channel, with monthly episodes exclusive to patreon backers.
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!! This show provides examples of:
* AuthorAppeal: The hosts are self-professed fans of trains, and nuclear power.
* AuthorTract: Half the point of the show, being a fusion of engineering history and leftist historical and material analysis (cushioned in a lot of jokes). The show doesn't so much 'turn political' as 'occasionally forgetting to be when going into engineering detail'.
* BlackComedy: The parts of the show that isn't VulgarHumor leans in this direction.
* CapitalismIsBad: The show tends to be harshly critical of both free-market and state capitalism (not that Soviet-style Communism gets off much better), perhaps unsurprisingly coming from self-described socialists of the 'weird left'.
* CruelTwistEnding: The bonus episode on 'Groverhaus' turns to this [[spoiler:when the hosts explain that the DoomItYourself project of the titual Grover not only adhered mostly to U.S. Building Code, but adhered to it ''better'' than many 'professionally' built buildings constructed during that time period. Including much of America's social housing.]]
* CulturalPosturing: A frequent part of the show is Justin and Alice good-naturedly sniping at each other over their respective cultures.
* CuttingCorners: The show's main BerserkButton, and all too frequently the cause of the disaster of the week.
* DeadpanSnarker: All three hosts do this whenever they're not outright explaining things.
* DoomItYourself: Tends to be the target of bonus episodes.
* FailsafeFailure: The engineering disasters are occasionally caused by this. The episode on the Boeing 737 Max mentioned that one reason for the model's crashing tendencies is because of an anti-stall system that would occasionally pull the plane's nose down even when the plane wasn't stalling. Worse, it was an undocumented feature, meaning that the pilots weren't aware that trying to pull the plane up would only cause the system to compensate ''more'' in return.
* LaymansTerms: Tend to come up a lot, with {{technobabble}} being generally frowned upon.
* LighterAndSofter: The bonus episodes fall into this as DoomItYourself projects tend not to hurt many people beyond the builder's pride. There's also the episode on the Atmospheric Railway, which Alice described as a 'palette cleanser' after realizing its AwesomeButImpractical nature meant it never left the pilot project stage and thus never had a chance to hurt anyone, beyond a hypothetical horde of rats that got sucked into its pipes.
* MeanBrit: Alice leans into this role with gusto, being the snarkiest commentator by far.
* RunningGag:
** The 'register Windows' alert visible on Justin's slides. [[InsistentTerminology He has a license, he just can't find out where to enter his code.]]
** The sentence 'shake hands with danger' is always accompanied by the guitar riff from Jim Stringer's song of the same name.
** Every episode begins with a pronoun check of the three hosts and any eventual guests. [[note]]Justin is 'him/he', Liam is 'him/he' and Alice is 'her/she'[[/note]]
** Every OnTheNext segment at the end promises that the show's next episode will cover the Tacomba Narrows Bridge collapse. Which it never does.
** Justin's terrible, ''terrible'' MSPaint drawings whenever the hosts can't find a suitable diagram.
** Liam unleashing a prolongued 'boo!' whenever a new character is introduced to the story. Doubly so if that person is UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher.
* SarcasmFailure: It takes a ''lot'' to get the showrunners to stop snarking, but the Grenfell Tower Fire episode got to that point during the end segment.
* SouthernFriedGenius: Justin has a notable southern accent and tends to lean into it to contrast his engineering-speak.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: The showrunners definitively do thorough research and don't just copy the episode texts wholesale from ''Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}''. ([[ImmediateSelfContradiction For one, Wikipedia articles on engineering aren't padded out with seven hours of dick jokes.]])
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: DiscussedTrope as it pertains to engineers, with Justin noting that some constructions intentionally avoid using the number '13' for floor numbers, terminal numbers, etc. [[SelfDeprecation The show's thirteenth episode was labelled 'episode 12A']], and the hosts have continued to make references to an episode 13 (covering the Tacoma RunningGag) that doesn't exist.
