The Ridiculously Ambitious History of the World's Fair, Part Two: Things Don't Always Work Out

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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On paper -- and, often, in practice -- the world's fair is an astonishing global showcase of groundbreaking innovations. However, as Ben, Noel and Max discover in the second part of this two-part series, not every world's fair has been a success. Tune in as the guys explore several ill-fated examples of expositions gone wrong in California and Louisiana.

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0:00.0	Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show.
0:28.0	Ridiculous historians.
0:29.1	Thank you, as always so much for tuning in.
0:32.3	Let's hear it for The Man, The Myth, the super producer, Mr. Max Williams.
0:37.4	Ooh-la, la.
0:40.0	There goes, Max.
0:42.0	He looks so fly.
0:44.4	With his amazing, like, you know, like deep smoker voice today.
0:49.1	Oh, really?
0:50.0	Yeah, the weather's on top of all of us right now.
0:52.4	Right, right, right.
0:53.1	Yeah.
0:53.6	And don't worry, Max is not
0:54.8	taking up a trendy smoking habit. Max, what does your shirt say? What's on that shirt?
1:01.4	Oh, oh, oh, it's the newest shirt from my Michigan blog. I follow MGo blog. It says they have to learn
1:07.8	how to lose, which is what Khalil Molling said to reporters on the field
1:13.9	in Columbus a couple weeks back when Michigan pulled a massive upset.
1:18.6	And Ohio State's players response to losing the football game was, we're going to assault
1:24.0	those people and rip their flag up and then get the flag stolen from us.
1:27.8	And then it has a score of all four games in a row that they've lost because they don't know
1:31.9	how to lose.
1:32.6	Ben, this is what she get for asking questions.
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