The Taradiddles

In this episode of The Taradiddle. Kyle and Scotty go over a unique story of the two brothers who started as business partners but during or after World War II the relationship splintered for reasons we may never know.

The town in Germany that both of these companies (Adidas and Puma) call home people would look at your shoes before they would speak to you. This may be some of the early to mid 1900's rubber necking.

The story of Adolf and Rudolph Dassler are both very similar but also strongly different. One becoming a Nazi officer while the other stayed back and committed to the brand we now know as Adidas.

Jessie Owens may be the biggest publicity for the brand/brothers. He may be the first Jordan when we won multiple golds at the Olympics and everyone had to have a pair of the athletic shoes.

In Episode of the Taradiddles, Kyle and Scotty go over a crazy American story where one man gets pushed over the edge. What he does after making it to the edge is now a holiday for some celebrated every June 4th. A modified bulldozer that became a make shift tank that demolished 13 buildings. The creator of the Killdozer, Marvin Heemeyer, could be described as someone down at his luck. No one can deny his passion in his special project that took more than a year to build. More impressive he had a diary of his project that no one found before the event.

This amateur engineering marvel may still be going today if he would of thought about the toll of the protective shell took on the rest of the dozer. The weight was ungodly and lead him being blind while he drove the dozer through Granby, Colorado.

In the end some will say he is a hero while others would call him a maniac, but what we do know that on June 4, 2014 a crazy story was told that rolled into Granby, Colorado destroying 13 buildings and $7 million of damage.

In this episode Scotty and Kyle first start with a little world news with some news that hit in Chennai, India with a water shortage, but the real question is are there elephants or camels in India or maybe both.

Once the discussion on India moves on we move back to United States to hear to an American story on water infrastructure. Los Angeles at the turn of the century was on the verge of an infrastructure decision in investing into the city for growth or to let the water consumption hinder growth.

Los Angeles first started with the aqueduct and then reservoirs and dams to supply the city of roughly 100,000 to what we say today. The story of a former ditch digger to self-trained civil engineer William Muhlolland who fell in love with the city of Los Angeles and do what ever it takes to supply the city he fell in love with the water it demanded.

Kyle and Scotty go a little further into the this arch concrete dam was constructed and eventually to its failure. Kyle tries to explain to Scotty how things were built and what ended happening to the dam. This failure may be one of the reasons today that every state in the United States has some board for engineering to protect the general public. But the cost of a dam failure and the engineering disaster and failure is not at all a joke and hope we can learn from our future mistakes to make the world a little safer that we believe William Muhlolland would agree with.

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Episode 0 of a a brand new semi factual podcast hosted in Southwest Louisiana that should also entertain you. Your nerd of a host Kyle Renevier and his friend Scotty Schadler. (WARNING FOR LANGUAGE) In Episode 0 Kyle introduces himself by telling a story of shells equivalent to snow and leave Scotty speechless.

This episode is for you if you have some nerd in you or if you are just curious on one part of designing a building was developed.

We look forward to produce more content with you with topics including engineering related, world stories, american stories, battle of shoe brands of Adidas and Puma, St. Francis Dam and Dam Failure, killdozer , and Aliens to come.

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