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🗓️ 9 October 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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On this week's episode, we discuss several failed publicity stunts, like the one in "Crush, Texas."
Crush, Texas was a temporary "city" established as the site of a one-day publicity stunt in the U.S. state of Texas in 1896. William George Crush, general passenger agent of the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad (popularly known as the "Katy", from its "Em-Kay-Tee" initials), conceived the idea in order to demonstrate a staged train wreck as a public spectacle. No admission was charged, and train fares to the crash site were offered at the reduced rate of US$2 from any location in Texas.
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0:00.0 | And so I said fine if you're not gonna let me make change then I don't want to leave a penny at all |
0:06.9 | I'm not doing trying to make change for a penny though the Constitution cost for all legal tender to be honored |
0:12.4 | See so this is America's |
0:14.4 | Okay, rolling we don't need to be in gentlemen. Okay. What is it this time? What is it? Um well? |
0:21.3 | Come on E-Lat this week's episode is about crush taxes and other failed publicity sun |
0:28.0 | So I mean did you kill all the other podcasters again that that's possible you know what I bet he like |
0:35.6 | Move this on to a train track or something now. Is that what you did Eli look at me look at me guys out what you did |
0:40.9 | Oh, wait wait wait wait wait cause explosion so here's what I did I bet I bet the studio somehow is the train now and then he's like |
0:49.4 | Running us toward the podcasters. Yeah, maybe we'll have to make a moral decision about it. I yeah, that is a good one |
0:56.8 | Eli did did you do that? |
0:58.8 | What don't know guys guys this needs to be epic a train crash a suitcase bomb |
1:05.4 | No, if we're gonna start this show off right we're gonna need a full blown disaster and |
1:12.6 | That's her now |
1:14.1 | That's who now. Oh, that's Tom's ex-wife. No, is it too late for the train thing? Can we do the two votes? Please the train thing |
1:26.7 | You |
1:44.4 | Hello and welcome the citation needed the podcast where we choose a subject read a single article about it on Wikipedia and pretend we're experts |
1:52.1 | Because this is the internet and that's how it works now. I'm Eli Bosnick and I'll be desperately seeking your validation tonight and |
1:59.8 | All nights, but I'll need four fellows who got hug too much or too little to join me first up |
2:05.4 | Reporting firmly from the diaper changes are for closers parenting camp Tom and Cecil |
2:10.7 | Okay, I'll have my diaper changed when it reaches critical mass and not a moment sooner. God damn it |
2:15.8 | I probably would have been better off. I was raised by wolves at least wolves aren't alcoholics |
2:22.1 | now is there |
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