Let's All Go to the World's Fair
Stuff You Should Know
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 82.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Before the internet could show you anything in the universe - including stuff it made up - people had few opportunities to have their minds blown. But every few years, somewhere in the world nations would gather and show off the cool stuff they invented.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:15.2 | Hey and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh and there's Chuck. |
| 0:18.7 | And it's just us today. |
| 0:20.1 | Jerry's out on vacation. I mean, she's at a conference. And this is stuff you should know. That's right. This was your idea. And something about it just smacks of kind of classic stuff you should know where we talk about a bygone era in a way. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. |
| 0:38.3 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:39.3 | And so, yeah, we're talking about world's fairs today. |
| 0:40.3 | Depending on where you are in the world, you might call them international expositions, universal |
| 0:45.3 | expositions. |
| 0:46.3 | You might just call them expos if you're pressed for time. |
| 0:49.3 | Sure. |
| 0:50.3 | And I thought maybe Chuck, we would just do this entire episode in gibberish that only you and I can understand. |
| 0:55.3 | Yeah, that's a great idea. |
| 0:57.4 | This is the one. We're finally going to do it. |
| 1:00.3 | All right. Let's do it. |
| 1:02.6 | On second thought, let's not do it. |
| 1:04.3 | No, let's not do it. |
| 1:06.2 | All right. So, well, let's set the stage then in plain English. |
| 1:11.6 | It's hard to kind of understand now because we live in a world and generally grew up in a world that if we didn't have Internet when we were kids, we still had television, cable television, no less. |
| 1:23.7 | Before that, generations had radio. |
| 1:26.5 | And then, yes, now today we can basically go anywhere, see anything, even stuff you don't want to see. |
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