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History of Everything

Hey Kids, Do You Want To Crash A Train?

History of Everything

History of Everything

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.7758 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Today, people use the phrase "train wreck" to describe a disaster from which you cannot tear your eyes. More than a century ago, clever hucksters spotted the potential for profit in getting two steam locomotives to smash into each other and charging people to watch the spectacle. Travel to Greece with me ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Travel to Thailand with me ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out our sister podcast the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mystery of Everything⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Coffee Collab With The Lore Lodge ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠COFFEE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Bonus episodes as well as ad-free episodes on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Find us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Join us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Submit your relatives on our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Podcast ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Offer valid first to the 28th of November first time shoppers only T's and C's supply. T's only T's supply. Hello, my friends Hello, my friends, Takui here, and welcome back to the History of Everything podcast.

1:17.9

Hello, my friends. I'm actually doing this here by myself because my wife is currently in the restroom taking care of a thing with her hair.

1:24.5

And we are getting ready to go out to Akiabara because I'm actually in Japan right now at the time that I'm recording this. Yeah, it is the first day of our group

1:33.4

trip that we are leading here to Japan. In fact, we have two group trips that we were leading

1:37.0

to Japan. So this is the start of it and I'm going to be here in the Land of the Rising Sun

1:41.8

for the next month. Like literally from the beginning of November here, all the way until December 1st, I'm going to be in Japan. So it's fun, but oh dear God, the sheer amount of things that we have in front of us is a lot. And actually, on that note, I am leading to group trips here, but there are a couple other group trips. There is the group trip that we're leading to Thailand, which is in January, which there are still a couple spots for if you want to sign up to that. Simultaneously, we are leading a trip to Greece this summer and the one that is getting ready to launch, which actually the time of this episode going out will be in a couple of days, we're going to be launching a trip to Croatia as well. So if you want to join us on any of

2:18.4

these trips, by all means, go ahead and click the links that you see down in the description.

2:22.6

It is going to be an absolute blast. But that all being said, the story that we're going to be

2:28.3

talking about here today, this is, I mean, I'll be blunt, this is the kind of thing that this

2:33.3

podcast was born out of.

2:34.9

This is the exact reason why it is that we started doing the stuff. And my personal favorite

2:40.7

part of history, the wild, the weird, the wacky, all those different kinds of events in history

2:46.5

is just so much fun. And since our YouTube content tends to mostly cover, you know,

2:51.4

historical geopolitics and how history has shaped everything leading up to the present,

2:56.0

we don't really get to cover those kinds of stories as often as we would like to,

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