Man the people back in the 1900s were so chill af. Mucking around, eating apples, getting taxis, drinking on the course, pranking spectators. I like to think they had a huge party afterwards and laughed the whole Olympics off.
Just recently Joasia Zakrzewski was caught using a vehicle during the 2023 GB Ultras Manchester to Liverpool run after tracking data showed she was not running for 2.5 miles of the event.
have to admit this marathon may have been the closest at emulating the original Marathon legend (you know, where Phidippides died of exhaustion upon arrival)
Oh man, what an insane race!!! Thanks for covering. How can they think water is a bad thing?!? I think they had like 4 stations for the 5k they do in my neighborhood. I can't imagine running a marathon, regardless the weather, with TWO water stations!!! On a hot dusty day when they also had to dodge traffic?! Insane!
"... banned for life from marathon events" *picture fades to black* *picture pops back up* "Except that... no, he wasn't." It was at this point that I nearly snorted my tea.
It's strange to hear this voice without the notorious Fascinating Horror music, although it was pretty much playing in the background of my brain anyway.. But damn, people back then were hardcore!
I haven't said it before, but I always love seeing Emma Galloway's art in these videos, she's such an expressive and fun artist which suits these videos perfectly!
They have all of these sports movies that are based on a true story and are usually inspirational, like Rudy. This isn't one of them, but they need to make this into a movie. Lol
Hell no!!!! They need to bring this back!! What an event!! Wild dogs, poisoning the athletes till they hallucinate! What a race to watch. Man maybe we could get the runners to all eat magic mushrooms before hand!
You're forgetting the story of the two South African runners who happened to be in St. Louis to make a reenactment of the Boer War for the World's Fair. Somehow they ended up in the marathon and became the first black Africans to compete at the Olympics. One of the two was the man who got chased off course by dogs.
As someone with a science degree who has had to actually do experiments with actual people, the fact that that was an experiment floors me. Participants actually have to sign a paper stating all the possible risks of these experiments even if it is just reading words off a paper to ensure that they are willing Participants...my how things have changed...
@@Rose-yt5hi I know! That made me laugh. As did the pronunciation. To be fair, it was named after the king of France and you’d pronounce his name that way, but we def don’t say it like that in STL
And people wonder why the 1936 Olympics had so many rules. And as Jessie Owens wrote, So Much Food! Forget 3 squares a day, I have eaten from morning to night, and been asked if I wanted more!
Watched so many videos about this and will watch so many more always interesting and I swear I always learn some new hijinks they pulled :) can't wait to hear your take :)
So hysterical! This is one heck of a farce I never heard of. Excellent presentation and love your wit! This is a wonderful companion to your other channel which still benefits from your marvelous wit though toned down due to tragedy. So glad I found your channel!! Thank you very much!!
Hearing you pronounce it “sintlouEE” makes me laugh and wince at the same time. Yanks always eschew the French pronunciation and say “SAYnt Lou-ISSS” 😂
I just found this other channel of yours! I’ve been watching Fascinating Horror for awhile and just today this popped up. I’m really enjoying it so thanks much for two such interesting channels!
One fun fact that I learned recently about the 1904 Olympics that may interest fellow fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000: One of the participants was none other than Henry Jamison "Jam" Handy. Yes, the man who swatted imaginary elves in "Hired!" and introduced us to Coily the Spring Sprite was an Olympic swimmer.
No wonder it's never brought up lol. It would have made more sense to drive behind the runners, but let's just be glad they didn't. Nobody would have finished. Except the man who came in fourth of course lol. Seriously absolutely hilarious.
Nowadays, there are such stringent rules. The worse it could get is an athlete being tested positive for steroids. I assume rat poison isn't even on the radar anymore.😄 Well, Mr Cheat got his due rewards when, after a race where he was able to pull off such shameful cheating, at the next one he barely survived. Oh well.🤷🏼♀️ This is a highly entertaining story! Love your sarcasm - makes it even better.😁
Dorando Pietri was disqualified the next Olympic Game for crossing the line with the help of the judges... And of course it was an American who got the Pietri's gold.
So, about the dehydration experiment. When people are dehydrated, their skin tightens - making their muscles stand out more (some bodybuilders actually purposely dehydrate themselves before show day for that reason). And I would bet that at the time, more than a few people - even scientists - believed that this was an actual *boosting* of the muscles rather than simply highlighting them. A lot of poisons do also act as stimulants (in fact, some things we use as stimulants - like caffeine - technically _are_ poisons and we just get away with it because they'd take extreme doses to be poisonous to _us_ ). But using strong ones like strychnine for that purpose is bloody stupid. It's hard to be too mad at Lorz, given that he _was_ a genuinely good runner and the whole thing was a shitshow anyway. The latter was undoubtedly a factor in his ban being overturned.
The most absurd thing I've heard. like a perfectly scripted episode from "it's always sunny in Philadelphia". Also reminds me of an episode from "aqua teen hunger force" when Master shake was going to host the Olympics. This is exactly how that would have gone
Cheers, that was fun. Love your work ever since I found that video which really blew up. Apart from subject I'm not sure why it's different? Maybe putting "Fascinating Failures | " etc as an ongoing series title first, yt optimisation, most likely searches etc? Add #epicfail lol? I dunno! =) Just my 2c, but the vocab in titles & thumbs is for quite an educated audience [by yt standards.] Hoping your impressions remain high for your work & all the very best from Canberra AU. Thank-you.
We have some crazy pronunciations in this country. There's probably 10 ways to pronounce Des Moines for some reason (and there are several). We have a street where I like called Tanque Verde... Not pronounced how it looks. Tank-EE Vur-DEE. So weird. And I'm an American 😂 I don't know what to say, except we're a country full of hundreds of different types of people 🤷♀️
@gohawks3571 I think the correct way is how the locals pronounce it. It always amuses me when a tourist tries to teach the locals how to pronounce something. I once worked with a guy who was transferred to a town with a different pronunciation than the spelling. Every time the subject came up before he left he would correct everyone on the " correct " way to say it. My parting words were " Boy you sure are going to be popular there" 😂😂😂
@@stanleyhape8427 Totally agree. I grew up in the military, so all the changing pronunciations make my head spin sometimes 😂 It's one thing to be used to a locality, but when you experience so many cross sections of society so relatively fast, it's interesting but also confusing 🤷♀️
It depends on which St Louis you’re referring to. He didn’t know which is pronounced which way, he’s not American. Before he was corrected for pronouncing the ‘S’ when referring to a different city, so it’s understandable he would pronounce it this way. There are several different communities and cities and townships and counties in the States all named St. Louis/St. Luis
Re: all the people pointing out pronunciation...as someone who has, for literally their entire life, had their name mispronounced and who lives in a European country frequently flooded by American tourists who can't pronounce our stuff for bollocks...it's not that big of a deal. Carry on. 🚶
@@diangansen8482 Doesn't bother me. On the off chance I correct them and they _continue_ to mispronounce it, then that's just rude and disrespectful at that point. Obviously I can't speak for everyone online, but there's a huge difference in attitude between Americans commenting on how something is pronounced, compared to Europeans - Americans often get huffy and offended; Europeans will still point it out, but clearly think it's funny (in a positive way) or sweet that the video-creator is at least trying. It's really interesting, to be honest.
@@RoundSealI prefer to pronounce a person's name properly. I hate the idea of calling them the wrong thing. If we ever meet, please tell me how your name is pronounced, and I will do my best to get it right! 😊
@@KarenAlexandrite-aka-PinkRose That's definitely kind! While I don't mind people mispronouncing my own name, I do also prefer to pronounce others' correctly when I can, or at least try. I live in a very multicultural country so sometimes, it's small efforts like that that can cheer someone up a little in their day.
@@foofersgod I thought they were the same person? Fascinating Failures is on Fascinating Horrors Community Page, complete with a post recommending this video by Fascinating Horror. The videos on Fascinating Failures don’t quite fit in with the video style of Fascinating Horror so I figured it was just a sub-channel,
@@foofersgod "My name is Kristian - though I'm better known as the voice of Fascinating Horror. " Perhaps read channel description first before making accusation. This channel and Fascinating Horrors owned by the same person
1:16 OH MY FINKING GOD!!!!!!!!!! STOP SAYING "SAINT LOO-EE"!!!!!!!!!!!! How can anyone trust information from someone who can't even pronounce the city correctly! It is one of the US's most well-known cities, but he either didn't do a smidge of research or he is being rude on purpose! Either way, can't trust him! I'm unsubscribing. No more of this ignorance!
Man the people back in the 1900s were so chill af. Mucking around, eating apples, getting taxis, drinking on the course, pranking spectators. I like to think they had a huge party afterwards and laughed the whole Olympics off.
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"There are.... far fewer packs of wild dogs."
Slap that shit on the advertisements 😎
"There are...far fewer packs of wild dogs"
Golden Corral's New Slogan!
I couldn't stop laughing about the rat poison. What in the world were they thinking. 😅
The whole thing was just one hilarious escapade.
“Far fewer packs of wild dogs” 😂
Just recently Joasia Zakrzewski was caught using a vehicle during the 2023 GB Ultras Manchester to Liverpool run after tracking data showed she was not running for 2.5 miles of the event.
have to admit this marathon may have been the closest at emulating the original Marathon legend
(you know, where Phidippides died of exhaustion upon arrival)
I was just thinking this.
"out of his mind on rat poison" could be a line from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Your sarcasm is so elegant, aways takes me a moment to catch it
Oh man, what an insane race!!! Thanks for covering. How can they think water is a bad thing?!? I think they had like 4 stations for the 5k they do in my neighborhood. I can't imagine running a marathon, regardless the weather, with TWO water stations!!! On a hot dusty day when they also had to dodge traffic?! Insane!
He wasn't kidding when he brought up the keystone cops. Must be where they got their routines from. Just insane idea after insane idea.
"... banned for life from marathon events" *picture fades to black*
*picture pops back up* "Except that... no, he wasn't."
It was at this point that I nearly snorted my tea.
I liked that, too.😁
“Chased off by a pack of wild dogs” Bruh
They should make a movie out of this
That should be a new category: marathon vs dogs
@@polygonvvitchLike a reverse Iditarod😂
They should bring back the wild dogs for the next Olympics.
Though I'd probably skip the spiked water, thanks.
"Bruh" is not a word. It's the sound made by someone who is puking.
@@WhatDoesMyChannelNameMean Fascinating.
So fascinating, in fact, that I'm going to ask if the channel can do a video on your reply.
This sounds like something Monty Python would make.
It's strange to hear this voice without the notorious Fascinating Horror music, although it was pretty much playing in the background of my brain anyway..
But damn, people back then were hardcore!
I love this story. It's... pretty good.
I haven't said it before, but I always love seeing Emma Galloway's art in these videos, she's such an expressive and fun artist which suits these videos perfectly!
I always wondered about the artwork! Great illustrations🎉
Does she do work for other channels as well? Her style feels very familiar.
Fred Lorz must have been the inspiration for Rosie Ruiz to take the subway during the 1980 Boston Marathon.
They have all of these sports movies that are based on a true story and are usually inspirational, like Rudy. This isn't one of them, but they need to make this into a movie. Lol
We need to re-normalize the casual wreckless behavior that was so perfectly acceptable back then.
Put his trousers into sports mode 😂😂😂😂
You had me at shenanigans! The truth is infinitely more fascinating than fiction.
I stumbled across this Wikipedia article once and thought it was a joke lol
Shenanigans is my favourite word. 😂
Hell no!!!! They need to bring this back!!
What an event!! Wild dogs, poisoning the athletes till they hallucinate! What a race to watch. Man maybe we could get the runners to all eat magic mushrooms before hand!
You're forgetting the story of the two South African runners who happened to be in St. Louis to make a reenactment of the Boer War for the World's Fair. Somehow they ended up in the marathon and became the first black Africans to compete at the Olympics. One of the two was the man who got chased off course by dogs.
As someone with a science degree who has had to actually do experiments with actual people, the fact that that was an experiment floors me. Participants actually have to sign a paper stating all the possible risks of these experiments even if it is just reading words off a paper to ensure that they are willing Participants...my how things have changed...
Ahhhh, my hometown. Never change, STL.
Imagine a time St. Louis had enough clout to demand Chicago hand over the Olympics. 😂
Also, Saint Louie. 🤣🤣🤣
@@Rose-yt5hi I know! That made me laugh.
As did the pronunciation. To be fair, it was named after the king of France and you’d pronounce his name that way, but we def don’t say it like that in STL
Loved this one - interesting and very amusing - "far fewer packs of wild dogs" lol
Hysterical😂😂😂 I can only imagine the shenanigans that would have played out had the race been run in Chicago🎉🎉
This is interesting. I have never heard of this before. I can’t believe the one guy who took a nap won 4th…this whole story was crazy!
And people wonder why the 1936 Olympics had so many rules.
And as Jessie Owens wrote, So Much Food!
Forget 3 squares a day, I have eaten from morning to night, and been asked if I wanted more!
Being from St Louis I knew some of this but some of it was new to me as well. A great topic to cover!
This Felix guy was unbelivably based holy shit
Watched so many videos about this and will watch so many more always interesting and I swear I always learn some new hijinks they pulled :) can't wait to hear your take :)
So hysterical! This is one heck of a farce I never heard of. Excellent presentation and love your wit! This is a wonderful companion to your other channel which still benefits from your marvelous wit though toned down due to tragedy. So glad I found your channel!! Thank you very much!!
As you said, this sounds like the origins of the hunger games...this was WILD
Hearing you pronounce it “sintlouEE” makes me laugh and wince at the same time. Yanks always eschew the French pronunciation and say “SAYnt Lou-ISSS” 😂
I just found this other channel of yours! I’ve been watching Fascinating Horror for awhile and just today this popped up. I’m really enjoying it so thanks much for two such interesting channels!
I am here for the dry wit that has been held from the other channel?? Makes it all the more impressive
There are glimpses of it on the other channel, but it’s held down a bit by the gravity of the material I think.
Loved this! Definitely my favorite, of all the fabulous content, you produce.
Hilarious story! Can you please do one about the 1993 Grand National Steeplechase?
Great work as always, Kristian! Thank you for yet another well made and enjoyable video.
Love this latest entry. What a wild thing to do
Yay! So glad I found this channel 😊
He's awesome.
Ditto!!
I love me some Fascinating Horror, and Fascinating Failures is a great palate cleanser if the former is extra depressing. Great job!
This was really funny😂
I've heard this story like a bajillion times but I utterly love Felix. He's the underdog that didn't even win first but you still love him.
Love this story😂. More similar please.
What a story. I can't believe this even happened! Unbelievable
Fewer packs of wild dogs....lol.
One fun fact that I learned recently about the 1904 Olympics that may interest fellow fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000: One of the participants was none other than Henry Jamison "Jam" Handy. Yes, the man who swatted imaginary elves in "Hired!" and introduced us to Coily the Spring Sprite was an Olympic swimmer.
You should do an episode on the 1968 Sunday times golden globe race
No wonder it's never brought up lol. It would have made more sense to drive behind the runners, but let's just be glad they didn't. Nobody would have finished. Except the man who came in fourth of course lol. Seriously absolutely hilarious.
And course nowadays, that is how its done. Ambulances and/or officials drive at the end following the slowest runner.
The more things change, the more they stay the same...cheating, ethics violations and crazy shenanigans.
This had to have inspired at least a few episodes of various show across media over the years.
I love Britain. Two of my favorite cities are Glue-sester and Green-witch.
The actual gold medal winner was helped to the finish line, and judges were fine with that? Poor runner wasn’t the only one on brandy and rat poison.
Nowadays, there are such stringent rules. The worse it could get is an athlete being tested positive for steroids. I assume rat poison isn't even on the radar anymore.😄
Well, Mr Cheat got his due rewards when, after a race where he was able to pull off such shameful cheating, at the next one he barely survived. Oh well.🤷🏼♀️
This is a highly entertaining story! Love your sarcasm - makes it even better.😁
This story sounds Pretty Good.
😃
Kind of want to turn it into a board game, complete with some raw eggs, brandy and rat poison.
How can you win gold if you're carried across the finish line - ??
Dorando Pietri was disqualified the next Olympic Game for crossing the line with the help of the judges... And of course it was an American who got the Pietri's gold.
The 1904 Summer Olympics can barely be considered to be canon.
There wouldn't be another marathon that poorly planned until the one Michael Scott had for Dunder-Mifflin.
Heading St Louis pronounced without the "s" is weird
So, about the dehydration experiment. When people are dehydrated, their skin tightens - making their muscles stand out more (some bodybuilders actually purposely dehydrate themselves before show day for that reason). And I would bet that at the time, more than a few people - even scientists - believed that this was an actual *boosting* of the muscles rather than simply highlighting them.
A lot of poisons do also act as stimulants (in fact, some things we use as stimulants - like caffeine - technically _are_ poisons and we just get away with it because they'd take extreme doses to be poisonous to _us_ ). But using strong ones like strychnine for that purpose is bloody stupid.
It's hard to be too mad at Lorz, given that he _was_ a genuinely good runner and the whole thing was a shitshow anyway. The latter was undoubtedly a factor in his ban being overturned.
Good morning!!!! 🌞
Wait…. Far FEWER? There’s another video here somewhere
Ban marathons? Wow! I ran two in 2014: Boston and Marine Corps. I won't try it again. I earned my medals.
The "s" at the end of "St. Louis" is not silent, and it's it's pronounced like "Roh"/"Roe" , not "Roo" for "Roosevelt"
haven't you heard the song Meet Me In St. Louis? Back in 1904 the s was silent, but I agree in current times we pronounce it.
what
Rosy Ruiz. Wants to know if she, at least deserved a mention, because, she exploited many of the tricks you mentioned. .???
Ha, we pronounce it "Saint Lewis" here. Zero Americans say "Saint Lewy".
The most absurd thing I've heard. like a perfectly scripted episode from "it's always sunny in Philadelphia". Also reminds me of an episode from "aqua teen hunger force" when Master shake was going to host the Olympics. This is exactly how that would have gone
Not "Saint LOO-EE" but "Saint LOO-ISS".
WHY SINAIDE???!
Smoking on that fascinating crow pack
Lorz didnt exactly try to hide his cheating. Waving to spectators isn't really incognito. 🤣
Cheating is becoming popular again
St. Louis, with Louis pronounced as "Lewis," not the French pronunciation.
Cheers, that was fun. Love your work ever since I found that video which really blew up. Apart from subject I'm not sure why it's different? Maybe putting "Fascinating Failures | " etc as an ongoing series title first, yt optimisation, most likely searches etc? Add #epicfail lol? I dunno! =) Just my 2c, but the vocab in titles & thumbs is for quite an educated audience [by yt standards.] Hoping your impressions remain high for your work & all the very best from Canberra AU. Thank-you.
People still cheat even now. From pairs of twins to cutting the course and using cars. People are people and some just don't want to do things fairly.
For future reference, it's pronounced like "Saint Lewis"
I think this marathon was a well hidden attempt at a mass murder. 😂
This is the most St Louis thing ever. It's said Louis, though, not Louie.
Hearing "Saint Louie" is particularly interesting when it comes from his accent.
These people concerned about pronunciation are the same one murdering the pronunciation on ANYTHING with their dreadful midwestern accent
We have some crazy pronunciations in this country. There's probably 10 ways to pronounce Des Moines for some reason (and there are several). We have a street where I like called Tanque Verde... Not pronounced how it looks. Tank-EE Vur-DEE. So weird. And I'm an American 😂 I don't know what to say, except we're a country full of hundreds of different types of people 🤷♀️
No accent is dreadful that’s just the way they talk
@gohawks3571
I think the correct way is how the locals pronounce it. It always amuses me when a tourist tries to teach the locals how to pronounce something.
I once worked with a guy who was transferred to a town with a different pronunciation than the spelling. Every time the subject came up before he left he would correct everyone on the " correct " way to say it. My parting words were " Boy you sure are going to be popular there" 😂😂😂
@@stanleyhape8427 Totally agree. I grew up in the military, so all the changing pronunciations make my head spin sometimes 😂 It's one thing to be used to a locality, but when you experience so many cross sections of society so relatively fast, it's interesting but also confusing 🤷♀️
y'all dun said Missouruh wrong 😂
St. Louie? The 's' in St. Louis is NOT silent!
You’ll get over it.
@@TheRealAsteria
What a retarded thing to say.
I'm guessing it's a British pronunciation?
@@numbuh1507 No, that would be the French pronunciation. But, it doesn't matter either way, because it's an American city.
It depends on which St Louis you’re referring to. He didn’t know which is pronounced which way, he’s not American. Before he was corrected for pronouncing the ‘S’ when referring to a different city, so it’s understandable he would pronounce it this way. There are several different communities and cities and townships and counties in the States all named St. Louis/St. Luis
What the hell?
Re: all the people pointing out pronunciation...as someone who has, for literally their entire life, had their name mispronounced and who lives in a European country frequently flooded by American tourists who can't pronounce our stuff for bollocks...it's not that big of a deal. Carry on. 🚶
Wouldn’t you prefer they pronounced it correctly?
@@diangansen8482 Doesn't bother me. On the off chance I correct them and they _continue_ to mispronounce it, then that's just rude and disrespectful at that point.
Obviously I can't speak for everyone online, but there's a huge difference in attitude between Americans commenting on how something is pronounced, compared to Europeans - Americans often get huffy and offended; Europeans will still point it out, but clearly think it's funny (in a positive way) or sweet that the video-creator is at least trying. It's really interesting, to be honest.
Still looking for those comments.
@@RoundSealI prefer to pronounce a person's name properly. I hate the idea of calling them the wrong thing. If we ever meet, please tell me how your name is pronounced, and I will do my best to get it right! 😊
@@KarenAlexandrite-aka-PinkRose That's definitely kind! While I don't mind people mispronouncing my own name, I do also prefer to pronounce others' correctly when I can, or at least try. I live in a very multicultural country so sometimes, it's small efforts like that that can cheer someone up a little in their day.
Sounds like another case of time traveling trolls.
A copy of fascinating Horror channel
The same guy owns and does both channels.
You uploaded this from another creator? Why? That's really rude
Whose upload was this first?
@@catcando1131 @facinatinghorrors is the original channel. This channel literally uploaded almost everything he made. His were all uploaded before.
@@foofersgod I thought they were the same person? Fascinating Failures is on Fascinating Horrors Community Page, complete with a post recommending this video by Fascinating Horror. The videos on Fascinating Failures don’t quite fit in with the video style of Fascinating Horror so I figured it was just a sub-channel,
@@foofersgod "My name is Kristian - though I'm better known as the voice of Fascinating Horror. " Perhaps read channel description first before making accusation. This channel and Fascinating Horrors owned by the same person
Your channel and pic look like a rip off of fascinating horror, thumbs down
Is this supposed to be a joke? This is literally the same person's second channel.
He called it "Saint LOO-EE". 🤦♂
He actually said "Saint LOO-EE". 🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂
It is pronounced "Saint Lewis".... I fear you have now taught your fans to mispronounce one of our major cities ... Do love you, though!
Eh it's fine, Missourians can't even pronounce their own state
That's what he said, "Lewis" rhymes with Stewie 😅
Don't tell him about Pierre South Dakota...
@@adamellsworth3732 Or Versailles, KY.
If the biden administration held the Olympics
Let me guess, flat Earther?
At least pronounce the city correctly 😂 you can search how to sound out words on Google, ya know
1:16 OH MY FINKING GOD!!!!!!!!!! STOP SAYING "SAINT LOO-EE"!!!!!!!!!!!! How can anyone trust information from someone who can't even pronounce the city correctly! It is one of the US's most well-known cities, but he either didn't do a smidge of research or he is being rude on purpose! Either way, can't trust him! I'm unsubscribing. No more of this ignorance!
SAINT LOOEE SAINT LOOEE SAINT LOOEE 👻👻👻
No one cares except you.
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I feel better about your psychological health because of this channel 🫂