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Speaker 1: Hey, and welcome to the short stuff. I'm Josh, and

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Speaker 1: there's Chuck. And I can say with one hundred percent

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Speaker 1: certainty that neither one of us went down with the Titanic, Right,

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Speaker 1: that's true. Try to dispute that fact, you can't do it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're talking a little bit. I know we did

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Speaker 2: an episode on the Titanic, but I don't know that

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Speaker 2: we really dug into the data of survivors. And I

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Speaker 2: can't remember why I was looking at this, but I

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Speaker 2: just it might've just been a story that came my way,

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Speaker 2: but I just thought it was kind of interesting to

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Speaker 2: look a little bit about, like not the ones who perish,

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Speaker 2: but the people who survived, and like who were these people?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always about the ones that perished.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Leo slipping under the cold, murky depths, even though

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Speaker 2: he could have fit on that door.

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Speaker 1: Totally. Yeah, it was kind of ridiculous, but still it

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Speaker 1: was a great ending. Yeah, So well, just kind of

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Speaker 1: go over the basic facts here, right. Titanic at left Southampton,

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Speaker 1: England for New York City on April tenth, nineteen twelve

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Speaker 1: four days later April fourteenth, maybe three days, I can't

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Speaker 1: before the fifteenth. I really kind of meandered, there.

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Speaker 2: Is the night of the fourteenth, so it went into

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Speaker 1: Okay, so we got that wrong.

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Speaker 2: I feel dumb.

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Speaker 1: Four days into this cruise aboard. Seriously, what was the

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Speaker 1: most luxurious luxury liner, And there are plenty of luxury lines,

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Speaker 1: this was the cream of the crop. With twenty two

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Speaker 1: hundred and forty people on board, nine hundred of which

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Speaker 1: were crew. It struck an iceberg and within less than

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Speaker 1: three hours the whole ship, massive ship, had completely submerged sunk.

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Speaker 2: That's right. If you're looking at the overall survival rates,

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Speaker 2: women survived obviously more than men, pretty significantly, seventy four

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Speaker 2: percent of the female passenger survived twenty percent of the

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Speaker 2: male passengers obviously because of the notion of women and

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Speaker 2: children first, which has always sort of been the calling

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Speaker 2: card of any situation, disaster, situation, and not only the

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Speaker 2: literally Captain Edward john Smith, you know, making that an

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Speaker 2: order in the evac process, but just the general idea

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Speaker 2: that you know, you're going to prioritize the women and children. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and they actually did instinctively.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's nice to see, like you can say, just

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Speaker 1: statistically speaking, they definitely did. Seventy four percent of female

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Speaker 1: passengers did survive, but only twenty percent of male passengers survived.

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Speaker 1: You're like, oh, great, let's call it. Ah, it ended

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Speaker 2: Those things are, Oh call it a day.

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Speaker 1: The thing is is, if you start digging into the classes,

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Speaker 1: there's some disparities that emerge that are a little disturbing,

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Speaker 1: and by a little, I mean pretty disturbing and sad.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So there were three classes aboard first, second, and third,

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Speaker 2: and then the crew members, and they go as follows.

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Speaker 2: Sixty two percent of the first class passenger survived. For

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Speaker 2: a couple of reasons. Obviously, they were prioritized just because

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Speaker 2: unfortunately that's how it worked back then, maybe still how

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Speaker 2: it works a little bit. You're given priority on those lifeboats.

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Speaker 2: But also just because of the sheer fact that when

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Speaker 2: you're up on a higher floor you're going to be

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Speaker 2: closer to those life boats, you're gonna be able to

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Speaker 1: Yes, Plus all of them were automatically enrolled in the

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Speaker 1: Titanic's VIP Life Saving Members Club policy. Yeah, so the

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Speaker 1: second class passengers. They didn't fare quite as well, but

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Speaker 1: still not that bad. Forty three percent of them survived.

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Speaker 1: Actually it's pretty bad. The reason why is for the

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Speaker 1: opposite reasons of what you just said. They were further

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Speaker 1: they actually had little cabins that were nicer than second

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Speaker 1: class accommodations on other liners. Oh yeah, but that the

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Speaker 2: I wonder if they were that's remarkable. First of all,

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Speaker 1: Man, I was on a flight, you mean, I went

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Speaker 1: And so people had no idea which door to go up,

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Speaker 1: It was the dumbest boarding I've ever seen in my life.

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Speaker 2: You knew who also? I wonder if I should name

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Speaker 2: this person? Is that bad to say that someone had

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Speaker 1: Is this about Hodgman?

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Speaker 2: It has to be no usher?

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, what about them?

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Speaker 2: When I got on my flight coming home from our

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Speaker 2: step onto the plane literally, and the airline employees were like, well, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,

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Speaker 2: Interesting thought about it a little bit on the flight.

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Speaker 2: And then when we get to Atlanta, Usher's up in

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Speaker 2: out of that door where you like put your baby

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Speaker 2: and there were probably fifteen Matt Black BMW sitting on

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Speaker 1: Oh.

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Speaker 2: I was like, Oh, Usher doesn't even have to walk

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure. I'm doog that he even flew commercial.

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Speaker 1: If you're doing that kind of stuff, why wouldn't you

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Speaker 2: We asked ourselves that same question. If he, I mean,

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Speaker 2: he clearly is paying for like a lot of his

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Speaker 2: family and extended family to take this awesome vacation. Okay,

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Speaker 2: there were so many people, it seems like it would

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Speaker 2: have been more cost effective to probably rent a plane.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you'd think, so, come on, not sure, let's get

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Speaker 2: But they weren't sitting in first class, and he had

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Speaker 2: I think I saw a few in delta comfort, but

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Speaker 2: there you go. You know, he was up there with

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Speaker 1: He didn't fly private because he was sacrificing for his

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't be graduated. Good for him if he

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Speaker 1: Man who thought Usher was going to make an appearance

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Speaker 2: Not me at all. So maybe and Usher, but not

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Speaker 1: Sure, So let's real quick before we take a break

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Speaker 2: So third class, Oh geez, is that where we were?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they were the worst off of all. Only twenty

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Speaker 1: seventy four out of seven hundred and nine passengers survived.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I just should point out that that's obviously

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Speaker 2: them what to do. Basically, they were like, figure it

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Speaker 2: Titanic movie. Can't remember his name, Billy Zane Leo's Italian buddy.

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Speaker 1: Giuseppe, was that his name? I don't remember he had that.

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Speaker 2: I don't think the guy was really Italian, but he

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Speaker 2: You know, a lot of times those third class passengers

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Speaker 2: was a language barrier on top of everything, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Ironically that actor was native American playing in a how

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Speaker 2: And he cried when he saw trash in the ocean.

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Speaker 1: So you said one more thing though, that they're in

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Speaker 2: Let's do it, jaw all right, we promise talk of

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Speaker 2: notable survivors. We have a good list here, but we're

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Speaker 2: The first person I'm gonna pick is a little bebie,

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Speaker 2: a nine week old baby named Milvina Dean, the youngest

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Speaker 2: research on Milvina. Milvina was from England. Her parents ran

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Speaker 2: when the iceberg was struck, Dad instructed the family to

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Speaker 2: They went back to England afterward because they didn't really

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, crazy, that's a good one, Chuck, I

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Speaker 2: What you got?

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Speaker 1: There was a very famous survivor, a woman named Margaret

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Speaker 2: Oh wow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. The other notable thing about her, and there's plenty

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Speaker 2: Is that I didn't know that was even a nickname.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the unsinkable Oh Molly for Margaret. Yeah, I didn't

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Speaker 2: I've got a couple here that are linked. A gentleman

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Speaker 2: No, they were engaged and he did help her onto

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Speaker 2: on a different lifeboat. Richard Norris Williams, the second, was

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Speaker 2: traveling with his father. They were separated, but he was rescued.

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Speaker 2: I didn't see about his father.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't either.

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Speaker 2: But Williams was rescued. And again I mentioned them together

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Speaker 2: because they ended up competing against one another post Titanic.

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Speaker 1: On the tennis courts.

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Speaker 2: Pretty crazy, and I'm sure some Wiseacre said something about

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, I've got one more. Then how

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Speaker 1: about you do one more?

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Speaker 2: No, let just let's just finish up with yours.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, this is well, Now I have to choose.

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Speaker 1: So there's a woman named Edith Rosenbaum Russell. At the time,

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Speaker 1: So she carried this toy pig with her everywhere. Edith did,

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Speaker 2: That's right, you know what, I am going to mention

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Speaker 2: women and children are perishing and the guy who runs

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Speaker 2: should have prioritized other people's safety. So he didn't have

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Speaker 1: But you know what that means.

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