Welcome back to the show, Ridiculous Historians.

We return to you with a classic episode that's been on our mind as we recorded an exploration of the world's fairs.

We mentioned this briefly, and we'd love to share it with you in full.

Over in St. Louis, Missouri, during the 1904 World's Fair, people also held the Summer Olympics.

And got to be honest with you, it was ridiculous.

Yeah, ridiculously offensive and terrible.

And I'm so glad, though, that we hit upon this classic episode right around our current conversations about some of the worst examples of things that happened at world's fairs.

So strap in, there's going to be some stuff that's going to make you cringe a little bit in this episode.

But it's all, you know, it's all in the service of ridiculous history.

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