EARLY: The USS Iowa Explosion
Joe is joined by Alice Caldwell-Kelly to talk about the time the Navy blamed gay people for their own institutional incompetence that ended in the deaths of 47 people
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I'm coming back to this episode in the year of our lord 2026 and November now has FIVE podcasts, so many that she was too exhausted to be in the WTYP episode on this very topic.
This is like a gay version of the Dreyfus affair, except the guys aren't even gay.
Carriers are forbidden from entering the blacksea, so the USSR built the 'totally not carriers'
When a 16" inch fires you don't feel it in your chest, you feel it in your grandparents.
Great episode. This was one of the incidents that lead to the first fleet-wide "safety stand-down" after a slew of really banging accidents that included this, an F-18 accidentally hitting an Indian Fishing vessel with an anti-ship missile, another plane dropping a bomb on a US cruiser, a picnic area getting bombed in California, and others I can't remember.
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Yay Alice
If you think Iowas are smaller than you'd think, you should see USS Alabama. She looks downright diminutive
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Alice rules, gotta have her on with Nick for more uniform chat tho
Yay for Alice on Lions... I've just finished listening to every main enty Kill James Bond
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The barrier to starting a podcast is so low I once had one going(only lasted a couple episodes). Like do you have a friend who can edit and some friends who can make bits at each other for an hour? If so, you too can yell into the void for an hour a week.
Yay Alice! I'm always amazed at the various subjects Alice knows quite a bit about.
It feels like we're ramping up to an Avengers level event in the Betheaverse
I feel like that was John Taliban, wasn鈥檛 it?
More Alice!
The There's your problemification of lions continues....
Funny enough, Well There's Your Problem podcast (which November is usually on), did an episode on this exact topic a couple of weeks ago (September or October 2026).
HELL YEAH!
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