I just want to say all aboard for today's free for all Friday though you probably don't want to get on this train

Welcome to the Council Trent podcast I'm your host Trent Horn Mondays and Wednesdays we talk apologetics and theology

But on Friday we talk about whatever I really want to talk about be all sorts of things. And today what I want to talk about are trains.

Specifically I want to talk about train disasters.

Now, years ago here on the podcast,

and I think it's time I could probably return to it.

I was fixated on plane disasters.

I know I covered a fair amount of those on Free Forall Friday years ago. I haven't been back to them since. I haven't been back to disasters in general. That's one of my side hobbies that I love learning about. I can get lost on YouTube for hours and hours watching

disaster documentaries about ship sinking plane crashes crashes, train crashes, building collapses.

I don't know exactly why I'm interested in it.

I think what fascinates me about disasters is that it's usually a sequence of events.

It's not, it's usually not one failure.

It's a sequence of events.

It's like a Rube Goldberg machine,

or I guess to put it into more colloquial parlance here played the game of

Mouse Trap you know all the little pieces all comes together and the cage drops

on that that would be an old millennial game right there to play Mouse Trap.

But it's fascinating when you look at a disaster in hindsight to see what went wrong.

It's sort of like watching the fuse on a bomb slowly burn and it's like oh and that's why one of my favorite

disaster shows actually is called seconds from disaster.

Disasters don't just happen they're a chain of critical events.

Unravelled the clues and count down those final seconds from disasters.

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