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This show is one of my absolute favorites! I listen to the podcast as well as watch the YouTube version because I love the show so much. The episode are dense with information and filled with laughs. The hosts always find a way to make the topics engaging and entertaining! I would definitely recommend this to anyone who is looking for a cool show about engineering!
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Entertaining, educational, and hilariously profane. They host play off each other well and are knowledgeable. The addition stories from listeners called Safety Third are also great. These folks clearly put in a lot of research and effort. History and engineering - I’m learning a lot.
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This is one of my favorite podcasts. It’s consistently at least “appreciative grin” funny and quite frequently veers into “piss yourself laughing” territory (see the atmospheric railway episode). They usually have an expert guest for technical detail and are generally accurate in their facts. They are very transparent about the fact they are not experts and are occasionally wrong. They cop to it when they are, so I’m not worried about it. In general very funny, very irrelevant, good educational entertainment. I recommend.
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I love the engineering info and the way the hosts riff off each other and clearly care for one another. I was inspired to leave a review because the Seige Engines episode was so fun! I also adore Safety Third.
Overall, while nothing annoys a leftist like listening to other leftists with opinions 0.01% different from theirs, I appreciate the sincerity of the frustrations expressed. Sometimes I’m not in the mood for whatever the particular flavor of rant is, but it is clearly baked into this podcast’s concept so it’s kind of silly to complain about it.
The news-heavy portions or episodes are less interesting to me (especially since I’m not listening in real-time, I don’t really want to relive the early pandemic days and the Trump presidency) but they’re at the beginning of the episode or in one-off episodes so they are easy to skip if you choose.
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