Well There's Your Problem

Justin Roczniak is a structural engineer, and that professional background gives real weight to the engineering disaster breakdowns at the center of this podcast. Alongside co-hosts November Kelly and Liam McAnderson, the show takes apart major engineering failures one episode at a time -- the sinking of the MS Estonia, the Grenfell Tower fire, the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse, the Goiania radioactive contamination incident, and dozens more. Roczniak originally built an audience through his YouTube channel donoteat01, where he used Cities: Skylines to explain urban planning concepts, and the podcast grew out of that same impulse to make technical analysis accessible and entertaining. The show uses a slideshow format on the video version, walking through diagrams, photos, and technical details while the hosts narrate. What sets it apart from other disaster-analysis content is the hosts' consistent focus on systemic causes rather than individual blame. They trace failures back to regulatory gaps, cost-cutting decisions, institutional negligence, and political pressures, bringing a left-leaning analytical framework to each case. Episodes are long -- often two hours or more -- and the hosts keep things conversational with frequent jokes and tangents that prevent the heavy subject matter from becoming a slog. New episodes release roughly every two weeks. The show has built a dedicated following among engineers, urban planners, and anyone interested in understanding how large systems fail. It is funny, it is thorough, and it will change how you look at the built environment.