S6 Ep2: Hold Your Horses

The Midnight Library

Scott Philbrook

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Welcome Spooky Lovelies, we advise you to watch where you step on the grounds this evening, Dear Guest, and we politely ask that you not inadvertently carry in any muck your shoes may have gathered as you find your way to your seat in the Reading Room. You’ll find mini hay bales & sugar cubes on the Hospitality Tray… and a healthy dose of cautionary warnings and old-timey tales of dark horses! Please, Hold Your Horses, as we meet some delightfully-devilish demon steeds… and - a mysterious stranger…

Special Thanks to Sounds Like an Earful Music Supply for the amazing music AND sound design during this episode.

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0:00.0	The following is intended for bizarre audiences only.
0:08.6	Welcome to the Midnight Library.
0:28.3	Before we begin tonight's reading dear guests, we are beyond pleased to take just a moment
0:34.6	to introduce you to our friends from the UK, cautionary tales with Tim Harper.
0:53.9	The nights of France had every reason to feel confident, resplendent in their fine
0:59.7	armour, astride their great steeds, they belonged to the greatest army in medieval
1:05.1	Europe.
1:06.1	They had crushed every enemy they had met on the field of battle, so an upstart band of
1:11.5	English invaders stood little chance.
1:14.6	Except those French noblemen ended the day defeated.
1:18.8	Their horses shot out from under them, drowning in mud and their own mud.
1:27.4	History is littered with tragic stories such as this.
1:30.8	Stories we could all learn from and apply to our daily lives.
1:35.8	I'm Tim Hartford, and on March the 25th I'll be returning with all new cautionary tales,
1:42.7	drawing out valuable lessons from the greatest mistakes, disasters and fiascos of the past.
1:49.4	Every other Friday I'll transport you back in time.
1:52.9	Together we'll find out why a tiny change in a hotel's blueprints went unnoticed, sending
1:58.7	tons of concrete, steel and glass crashing down on guests.
2:03.6	We'll watch as an airline captain lets his child play with the controls of a packed passenger
2:09.6	jet, gambling that the autopilot will save them all from doom.
2:15.5	And we'll have a front row seat as an award-winning choreographer and a rock music mega star come
2:21.5	close to opening the worst Broadway musical of all time.
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