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Stuff You Missed in History Class

SYMHC Classics: Crash at Crush

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, History

4.224.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This 2017 episode covers a window from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, people in the United States were watching train wrecks for fun. These staged spectacles would draw thousands and thousands of paying onlookers, but why exactly were they so popular?

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0:00.0

America loves its founding fathers, but that's a tough act to follow as a founding son.

0:05.7

I'm Bob Crawford. Join me, Patrick Warburton, and Nick Offerman, as we bring the sixth

0:11.1

president to life. Was there ever witnessed such a bare-faced corruption in any country before?

0:16.8

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall!

0:21.2

Listen to Founding Son, a curiosity podcast on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts,

0:27.9

or wherever you get your podcasts. Horrifying monsters, dangerous gods, and heroes,

0:33.8

and incredible underrepresented women. From the truth about Medusa, she never actually heard

0:39.7

anyone, to the horrors of theseus. He was basically a serial predator. I am Liv Albert,

0:45.8

and let's talk about Mids Baby is the Greek and Roman mythology podcast here with all the dirty

0:51.2

details and then some. Listen to Let's Talk About Mids Baby on the I Heart Radio app,

0:57.1

Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:01.7

The biggest black market you've never heard of might be blooming right under your nose.

1:06.1

This plant could sell for between ten and fifteen thousand dollars on the open market.

1:10.1

And where there's big money, there are bigger risks.

1:13.7

We would just tie up these big M16s, stuck to our heads.

1:17.0

I'm Summer Rain Oaks. I'm a plant expert and author.

1:20.0

On the Bad Seeds Podcast, we explore why your favorite houseplants might have a criminal record.

1:26.0

Listen to Bad Seeds on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:34.3

Happy Saturday! In our recent episode on Scott Joblin, we mentioned his great

1:38.6

Crush Collision March, written after the Crash at Crush. So we're bringing out our episode

1:43.8

on the Crash at Crush as today's Saturday Classic. This originally came out September 25th, 2017.

1:50.6

We also played this as part of a playlist of offbeat history episodes back at the start of the

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