The Happy Valley Race Disaster of 1926 | Episode 39

If you hate the idea of horses being injured as I do, then let me say right off the bat that there will not be a single horse injured during this episode. I promise they are pretty much the only things NOT getting hurt in this episode. Welcome to the Happy Valley Race Course. The unhappiest Happy Valley in the world. 



On this episode: we’ll discuss Britain’s atrocious people skills; you’ll hear “Occam’s Razor” used as a verb; you’ll hear about people Tetrised into debris, and what happens when your arms become a Halloween prop. 



how a simple day of gambling turned into one of the deadliest fires in Hong Kong’s history, all because someone decided it was okay for a prestigious, upper-class racing venue to have worse stands than the correlejas stands from our third episode. You know your concessions stands are awful when they kill people. I normally wouldn’t do stories where animals get hurt, and I still didn’t. Thankfully, no horses were killed or seriously injured in this episode – just hundreds and hundreds of people. Still, it’s nice that we got to finally visit Hong Kong.


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