Wish there were more episodes because I’m addicted. This podcast is an exercise in disaster podcast excellence. Love the voice, love the thoroughness and love his smooth voice. Simply genius

Deeply researched does not begin to describe how outstanding these episodes are - highly recommended, ideal pace of information delivery, well produced, A+++

I’m not an engineer and I still enjoy these episodes. He breaks things down in layperson’s terms and does a great job of explaining various types of failure, and more importantly identifying opportunities missed to prevent the outcome. I listen with my now 15 year old son because it provides some fantastic examples of smart people doing not-smart things for perfectly human reasons. My father is a retired submarine commander, maybe you could do one on the USS Thresher or the USS Scorpion? He talked about them a little today and it was fascinating!

Reading “Midnight in Chernobyl” book right now. This Chernobyl episode is a great addition to augment the book. Getting a handle on the incident in 3D perspective at this point. Very professional & well-presented. Looking forward to hearing the other topics in this pod now. Thank you for this stellar level of quality. . . Update: Please cover the Titan submarine implosion tragedy, once you have the adequate info available to analyze it. Best wishes to you & thank you for your thorough work

I’m not even an engineer but this is the first podcast I’ve ever financially supported - it’s so well done! I haven’t seen as many new episodes recently; hope all is well.

The disasters covered aren’t overly dramatized and are presented factually with an aspect I think many shows are missing: what was learned and what could be done differently. This is one of my new favorite podcasts

The latest episode is only available through a subscription. Lame.

There is no better researched podcast than this one. Amazing telling of disasters with emphasis on engineering and science.

Wish episodes came out more often! This is a real gem. Someone on another podcast mentioned it off the cuff and I’m glad I found it and subscribed. It’s hard to find good podcasts with so many bad shows out there and half of them aren’t even still running but still show up in the podcast directory. To the host/creator, please market this more and get the word out! I think it has a broader appeal than just nerds like me (us?)!

I am entirely fixated on disasters, and this is by far my favorite source. Clean covering, professional with a well of barely hidden rage at the powers that be that allowed these disasters to come to fruition, and a nice voice to boot. If I could give more stars I really really would.

This is one of the few podcasts where the podcaster understands what the word thorough means. No useless information is ever added. The subjects are interesting, heavy, and important. Sometimes it is dry, in the sense he is not making jokes, but that is a positive thing for this podcast but does mean it is not always the most accessible. I’m sure the podcaster knows this as he (to my glee) includes undiluted technical information to help explain the event.

This is a great podcast for me when I need a break from true crime. He talks about cataclysmic events not simply for the morbid entertainment, but to think about the “HOW” and “WHY” factors from the perspective of an engineer. Also, the dreamy Australian voice and calming tone of the narrator is everything. It’s oddly a compliment, but when I need to fall asleep to something that won’t give me nightmares in the way many others of the same genre might— he’s my guy!

As a teacher, I’ve found this podcast extremely valuable in learning great examples of why physics is important in our daily lives. He’s done a wonderful job in the recap of events and then the breakdown of where things went wrong. I highly recommend this podcast!

I enjoy having someone with a more analytical brain talk about what went wrong and why. Too many podcasts focus on the horror of what happened in disasters, as opposed to the causes beneath it. Or they focus on being entertaining and witty. I’d much rather hear someone with a background in science go through cause and effect, and what happens when people and systems fail. For a non scientist such as myself, it’s lovely learning how someone with, I assume, education and training in engineering, perceives man made disaster Great job to everyone involved in this podcast!

Great analysis of various disasters. Fascinating how greed has become one of the main villians in these disasters.

I am a maintenance electrician and it is so interesting how incorrect procedures or “tribal learning” leads to dangerous outcomes

A podcast for those with a brain

This podcast is awesome. Really interesting details explaining disasters from an engineering point of view.

And incredibly well researched program. Covers all kinds of interesting historical events from a technical, risk, and practical viewpoint.I only wish it came out more often!

John explains the causes of disasters in great detail—many of them about incredibly interesting events that I did’t even know about.

Fascinating take on the world.