Episode 9: Grenfell Tower Fire

Well There‘s Your Problem

WTYP is Justin Roczniak, November Kelly, Liam McAnderson, and friends.

Technology

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2019

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Today @donoteat01, @aliceavizandum, and @oldmananders0n talk about the events leading up to the Grenfell Tower Fire, and its repercussions. Vote Labour on December 12! Here are the slides: https://youtu.be/epkCrB8aKXA listen to trashfuture: https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/ Here's the Patreon link so you can watch the Groverhaus episode: https://www.patreon.com/wtyppod

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0:00.0	And anyway, on that note, we should start talking about, hey, welcome to, well, there's your problem.
0:10.7	You sound.
0:11.7	A podcast about engineering disasters.
0:14.4	Yeah, maybe I am starting to get sick at this point.
0:17.0	I don't know.
0:18.0	Yeah, we're all fucking decrepit.
0:20.0	Uh, just falling apart, this is awesome awesome I love to talk about social murder and I just I feel like
0:27.9	shit so I'm in the right head space for it people in the comments were saying we were gonna to do Bo-Pal and that was going to be depressing.
0:35.4	Well, jokes on you, motherfuckers, because this is the sad one first.
0:39.0	Yes.
0:40.0	Yes, and that's what we're here to talk about is one of the worst disasters, which was basically directly caused by, you know, politics, which we can think of. You notice this large tower block in front of us is on fire.
0:58.0	Yeah, shouldn't do that.
0:59.0	Yeah, it's not good for it.
1:00.0	No.
1:01.0	You'll notice all of the other tower blocks in this picture are not on fire. That's what you want.
1:08.0	Less on fire, they are. There is another fire truck in the background.
1:13.4	Hopefully not on the way to a tower block fire, although I suppose that would be nicely symmetrical.
1:18.8	In the United States, we have fire codes that work most of the time.
1:24.0	Yeah, this is, we'll get into this, but this isn't the case where we talk about something
1:32.4	being political and someone in the comments goes,
1:34.8	duh, how do you bring politics into engineering?
1:37.1	No, this is transparently political, like it involves politicians and involves laws directly. It involves
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