UI #115 - The Monster Crash at Crush

Useless Information Podcast

Airwave Media Podcast Network

History, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

During the late 1800's and early 1900's, people around the United States gathered to watch two trains being smashed together. As a PR stunt, W.G. Crush organized one of these crashes for the Kay Railroad near West, Texas. More than 20,000 spectators were in the audience when it all went horribly wrong. Also learn about the first state to adopt Labor Day as an official holiday, a 6-year-old who purchased a lot of candy and toys, a railway clerk who had 70-lb package of ants sitting on his desk, and a fight for a parking spot in Kansas City. Retrosponsor: Chicago Motor Club Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.0	Steve Silverman.
0:31.0	Useless information.
0:36.2	So a few weeks ago my wife and I returned from a trip to Paris.
0:40.5	Anyone who knows me knows that I am not a world traveler.
0:44.0	It's actually kind of unusual that this year I've been to Costa Rica on a school trip
0:48.0	and now I've been to Paris.
0:50.0	But I've known my wife for 14 years and she's been begging me to go and finally she got me to go to Paris
0:57.0	And I have to say it's a wonderful city and I really enjoyed being there
1:01.5	We rented an air b an Airbnb about 25 minutes by train outside of the city. It
1:06.8	was wonderful. It was in a small quaint town and it was right on the scene. We woke up every morning and there was the beautiful
1:16.7	river. But the one thing that we didn't anticipate was that it was August.
1:23.0	And in August many people go on vacation.
1:26.2	And because a lot of people go on vacation,
1:29.5	that was when the train system decided to work on the tracks. It seemed like each day
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