The Pleasant Hill School Bus Tragedy - UI Podcast #061

Useless Information Podcast

Airwave Media Podcast Network

History, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2013

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The heart-wrenching tale of the Pleasant Hill School Bus Tragedy, in which a freak snowstorm and a series of unfortunate decisions led to the tragic deaths of five children and their bus driver in 1931. Also learn about the world's second richest charity, topless male swimming, capturing an island, and the blood-sucking boarder. Retrosponsor: Ovaltine Images, links, and transcripts for this podcast can be found at https://uselessinformation.org/the-pleasant-hill-school-bus-tragedy/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.3	As a long time foreign correspondent, I've worked in lots of places, but nowhere is important to the world as China.
0:43.5	I'm Jane Perlase, former Beijing Bureau Chief for the New York Times.
0:47.7	On face-off, the U.S. versus China will explore what's critical to this important global relationship.
0:54.2	Trump and Xi Jinping, AI, TikTok, and Twitter. will explore what's critical to this important global relationship.
0:59.4	Trump and Xi Jinping, AI, TikTok, and even Hollywood.
1:11.2	New episodes of Face Off are availableman, and you're listening to a classic episode of the
1:18.4	Useless Information podcast.
1:21.1	Now, this story, the Pleasant Hill School Bus tragedy was first released on March 23rd
1:25.8	of 2013.
1:28.2	That was only a few months after the tragic mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School
1:32.6	in Newtown, Connecticut, which took the lives of 20 children and six adults.
1:38.5	Now, I truly don't have any recollection of whether I chose to record the story because of
1:42.7	the tragic Sandy Hook shootings, or, you know, if it was just pure coincidence that I was already to record the story because of the tragic, Sandy Hook shootings,
1:48.2	or, you know, if it was just pure coincidence that I was already working on this story,
1:53.8	and I recorded it shortly after. But one major difference is that this story doesn't involve violence at all. It's just a situation in which poverty, bad weather, some bad decisions,
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