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Stuff You Missed in History Class

Behind the Scenes Minis: Stairs and Trains

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.224.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Tracy talks about her visit to the Bunker Hill monument. She then describes a very early morning start when she went to visit Oxford on her recent trip to England.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:05.4

Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio.

0:16.0

Hello and happy Friday. I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

0:19.0

And I'm Holly Fry.

0:20.6

This week we talked about the Bunker Hill Monument

0:22.7

because I had a little field trip.

0:25.3

I told you I had a question about the field trip.

0:28.0

Please tell me.

0:29.1

Did you do the steps?

0:30.6

I did do the steps.

0:32.3

I walked up all of those steps.

0:34.8

I walked...

0:35.9

It was not that bad,

0:43.1

but I also walked more slowly than anyone else. I several times moved over to let somebody else go past me. And some of the people that were

0:48.5

pushing themselves past me, I then got to the top and they were ready to collapse. So I did do it, but I did it

0:56.2

slowly. And then I spent some time up there taking pictures of the view from the top of it. It was

1:01.7

a clear but overcast day. So there was a, you could see a long way, which is very nice.

1:08.1

There's also just a terrifying grate in the floor that I refuse to step on because I was like,

1:14.1

I don't know if that goes all the way to the bottom, but I feel like it does.

1:17.5

Yeah.

1:17.9

And so I just don't want to mess with that.

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