Popular Reviews of Well There‘s Your Problem

Roz is knowledgeable, Alice is funny, and Liam is tolerable if you do your best to skip over him yelling at listeners and interrupting the other hosts.

I couldn't get into this one - it wasn't exactly what I thought it was going to be. Very long winded and conversational whereas I wanted more of a concise dive into why things didn't work.

Love the show except for Liam. Please replace him, it would make for a much more enjoyable show.

really good podcast about engineering disasters, appreciate anything from left wing perspective that goes after the structures that enable these disasters

"The podcast that hates you back." It's a video podcast. One of the host historically has garbage audio and gets verbally violent at the fanbase on occasion. There are so many initial red flags that I, someone with 300+ subscriptions and covers podcasts as a part-time job, should have bounced off immediately. But goddamn does WTYP quietly make the best podcast about disasters, a podcast unafraid to say the quiet part out loud: most disasters are caused by capitalistic greed. It's unabashedly leftist. It openly insults dirtbag leftists. The episode on Titanic is damn near six hours. It's messy, it's imperfect, it's human. This might be one of the best podcasts.

Very much in the 'love it or hate it' category, this podcast covers both disasters you've certainly heard of (9/11, Titanic etc) and ones you probably haven't (The Vulcan Bridge, Air Mail Scandal of 1934) with the same attention to systemic, historic, and political impacts on whatever happened. Take for example the Hindenburg episode. Despite the title, as a comment on youtube points out, "this 3 hour podcast about the Hindenburg disaster reaches the construction of the Hindenburg at the 2 hour mark." Yet those first 2 hours, while filled with riffs and digressions, also include an incredible amount of history, following the development of lighter than air travel alongside the evolution of Germany, all the way to the rise of the Nazis, and sheer absurdity of how every single zeppelin crashed, and yet they kept building them anyway. For those who think the flippancy and dark jokes are in poor taste or are dismissive, I invite you to listen to the Bhopal Disaster, Grenfell Tower Fire, and Piper Alpha episodes. Frankly, listening to (yay!) Liam breaking off to go on a 5+ minute rant comparing the lack of COVID protections killing people in 2020 because companies would lose money, and bridge workers dying of the bends in 1873 because…companies would lose money, hit particularly hard as someone who witnessed crowds of people flooding the store I worked in while our local hospital had no space left in the ICU. Overall, this podcast fills a vital niche, and has gotten me through a terrible few years, despite being about disasters. And lastly, anyone saying Liam is annoying and interrupts too much is bad and wrong and Liam should actually interrupt more and derail the podcast at least every 2 minutes. Yay Liam!

This isn't a podcast to check if you're looking for an unbiased, professional, objective look at disasters. The jokes are plentiful, there's an accompanying YouTube video (with slides!) for every episode, and the hosts aren't shy about their politics. It's a podcast with three friends drinking and messing around while they talk about engineering disasters (one is an engineer who gives info about the lead up to the disaster (which may be the early days of building skyscrapers, in the case of the WTC towers), what happened before and during the disaster, and who pointed fingers and/or passed new regulations after. If you're expecting more than that, you'll probably be disappointed. It's informative but not serious, and the hosts are open to clapping back at annoying comments.

Alice Caldwell Skelly, Justin de Roczniak, and Yay Liam, and Devon "They/Them" Editor tell you one episode at a time that unchecked capitalism is fucking stupid and that unions are important. They will tell you what ya likely don't want to hear, and the God Damn News is one of the few news things I will listen to.Join the Pennsylvania Secret Service today, and become more educated (sorta).Apologies in advance if I fuck up spelling I never claim to be smart.

liam does not interrupt enough