UI Bonus Episode #2 - Salem Trade School Interview

Useless Information Podcast

Airwave Media Podcast Network

History, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Bonus episode is an interview with John Murphy. His dad was a member of the Salem Trade School, which was the subject of Useless Information Podcast #90 in January 2016. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
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0:34.0	This is the Useless Information Podcast.
0:37.0	I am Steve Silverman.
0:39.0	Useless Information. information.
0:49.0	About three years ago recorded a podcast on the Salem Trade School. It's a fantastic story, one of my favorites.
0:53.4	If you've never heard about the Salem Trade School before,
0:57.3	I strongly encourage you to go back and listen to it.
1:00.9	It's podcast number 90.
1:04.0	Briefly, in the late 1920s, the Salem Trade School played football against many of the high schools around Salem Massachusetts.
1:12.0	Where else?
1:13.0	They were awful. They lost game after game year after year.
1:19.0	Then, they surprisingly won one game, and that's when it was discovered that the
1:25.2	Salem Trade School was completely fictional. Crazy as it sounds the school
1:32.0	really didn't exist.
1:35.0	It was soon learned that the team was basically a money-making scheme
1:39.0	that had been put together by a man named Harold Burgess.
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