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Speaker 1: This is as great as Escapes, a show bringing you

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Speaker 1: the wildest true escape stories of all time. In this episode,

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Speaker 1: we set sale into the story of Miss Unsinkable and

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Speaker 1: it brings us up close and personal with an infamous

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Speaker 1: historic disaster. And yes, I am talking about my former relationship.

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Speaker 1: I'm Arthur Castro, and I'm joined by the incredible writer

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Speaker 1: and actress for stage and screen, Zowe Chow. Hello, everybody.

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Speaker 1: I am so excited to have with us the incredibly talented,

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Speaker 1: very funny and all around good person and also Hawaii connoisseur.

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Speaker 1: Zoe is how aloha? That's about the two things that

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Speaker 1: you know about Hawaii? Correct?

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Speaker 2: Yep, Aloha and aloha.

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Speaker 1: Wow. In the way you say it, I can tell

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Speaker 1: the difference.

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Speaker 2: She's bilingual.

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Speaker 1: I know. Hey, Zoe, thank you so much for being

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Speaker 1: with us. I'm long time I did. Do you have

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Speaker 1: anything that you consider greatest escape?

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Speaker 3: This is not an escape, but I remember being stuck

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Speaker 3: at the movie theater with some friends and we were

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Speaker 3: waiting to be picked up, and I was like, let's

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Speaker 3: call people and say we're from Jenny Craig.

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Speaker 1: And I This was nineteen ninety four, where Jenny Craig

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Speaker 1: was all the rage.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, although is she maybe? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: So I called my dad, I think from a pay phone,

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Speaker 3: and I said I left a message, and I think

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Speaker 3: he was so confused he got really when he finally

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Speaker 3: figured out it was me, he was I would say,

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Speaker 3: disproportionately angry because I think it took him a while

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Speaker 3: to figure it out. But I was like, don't be

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Speaker 3: late to pick me up.

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Speaker 1: Then, right, And he's like, well, now you have to

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Speaker 1: walk home and you're still waiting at the movie theater

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Speaker 1: as we speak.

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Speaker 2: I am.

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Speaker 1: Don't you feel that Like in the nineties or whatever,

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Speaker 1: like people were just like way more willing to stay

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Speaker 1: on the phone to figure out what the fuck was up?

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Speaker 1: You know what I say, Like right now, if you

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Speaker 1: get called, I was like, this is Jenny greg You're like,

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Speaker 1: all right, fuck you, like whatever. Back in the day,

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Speaker 1: it's like, tell me more, how do how do you

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Speaker 1: know about me? What?

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Speaker 2: I think?

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Speaker 3: He tried to write down the number over and over

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Speaker 3: again that I had left to be like call us back.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. You know. The last thing I'll say about telephones

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Speaker 1: in the nineties or like early two thousands or whatever,

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Speaker 1: is that my kids when I have if I ever

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Speaker 1: do we'll never know the fear it was to call

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Speaker 1: to ge and Watemala like dads were so like kind

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Speaker 1: of cliche, asked how fucking mean? They were like they

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Speaker 1: would like literally, like you know, and Spanish is such

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Speaker 1: a much more flourishy language when you when you're trying

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Speaker 1: to be polite, right, you're like like, hello, I don't

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Speaker 1: mean to bother you in this finny evening by bah,

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Speaker 1: you know that sort of shit, And and you'd like

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Speaker 1: call at like five thirty pm and you'd be like hello, Hello, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: who the fuck is this? You know? And oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: sir sir, but the pardon a pleasure? You're quite sir,

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Speaker 1: how are they?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, ye Yonder is I a daughter of this? And

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Speaker 1: he's like, I remember this was a classic line. They

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Speaker 1: were like it's pretty late to be calling, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: And you're like, well, it's fucking five thirty pm or whatever,

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Speaker 1: you know. So you go through this fucking like, you know,

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Speaker 1: like Hi, Hi, what do you what do you do? Nothing? Oh,

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Speaker 2: You know it's for dinner.

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Speaker 1: Anyway. I have this like little device on my neck

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Speaker 1: that I get electro shocked when I'm not being entertaining

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Speaker 1: for my overlords, over nations. That's my fault. Probably I

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Speaker 1: thought that wasn't working. I'm glad to hear it's getting through.

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Speaker 1: It is, it is, it is, Carl, Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much I felt that. So let's get ready to actually escape. Okay, Zoe,

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Speaker 1: Today we have not one, not two, but three harrowing

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Speaker 1: death defying escapes, and all by one woman. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: so to start her story, we go back all the

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Speaker 1: way to the eighteen nineties where telephone payphone still existed,

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Speaker 1: where we meet her as a little girl named Violet

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Speaker 1: jessup Right. She would spend her days standing at the

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Speaker 2: As one does.

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Speaker 1: Yes, who hasn't been to write a poem? So Violet

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Speaker 1: Stad worked for the port authority there, so when a

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Speaker 1: of marmalades and boxes of chocolates brought to her from

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Speaker 1: far away places, and the day that her little brother

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Speaker 1: was born, sailors gathered to sing Irish songs. Do you

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Speaker 2: Oh me, lad, No, but I saw Ben.

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Speaker 1: She's a Venish. She is that Scott. That's Irish that

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Speaker 1: we You know, we actually have an Irish song expert

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Speaker 1: on our team. This is no joke, Carl, Carl Nolas,

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Speaker 1: one of our main producers, is actually what are you

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Speaker 1: an expert in Irish folk songs? Is something like that? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I performed for a long time in a band called

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Speaker 4: Sea Song Freedom Song.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Can you give us a little taste? Can you give

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Speaker 5: Let's do a here we go two three? What do

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Speaker 5: you do with a drunken sailor? What do you do

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Speaker 1: To be honest, thank you, Carl. That was awesome, But

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Speaker 1: I would have expected something a little late, less mainstream.

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Speaker 1: That's okay. You know we all knew that song, just

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Speaker 1: like you have a long episode. Let's think of any one, Okay.

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Speaker 1: So you see, Violet's family was far from home. Right.

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Speaker 1: I always thought it was weird that this was a

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Speaker 1: girl in Argentina named Violet Jessup. But they were Irish,

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Speaker 1: you know, and they were living in Argentina. So they

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Speaker 1: Steak. Do you like steak so? Which is Spanish for

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Speaker 1: I have steak, tango steak. So. When Violet's father died,

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Speaker 1: She had the humors. The ship was carrying this cattle

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Speaker 1: so such an unfortunate sound effect. How do you do

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Speaker 3: If you if one can feel seasick on a boat,

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Speaker 3: I'm going to be feeling seasick.

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Speaker 2: I have a big scar.

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Speaker 3: On my knee, my right knee from going scuba diving

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Speaker 3: and getting really sick when I came up from my

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Speaker 1: Yes, I remember that story. The Bahamas is still talking

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Speaker 2: I puked and then all the Swedish people puked.

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Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, I don't like this and this does

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Speaker 2: Sure, sure, Jessup missed Jessup.

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Speaker 1: So Violet's first trip should have been a no omen

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Speaker 1: take it that way right, And there was one magical

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: Violet says that for the first time she saw a

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Speaker 1: swarm of flying fish skimming over the ocean, and that's

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Speaker 1: really cool. I don't know if you've ever seen something,

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Speaker 2: But a YouTube.

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Speaker 1: Yeah for YouTube. It. So when they reached London, relatives

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Speaker 1: took them in. You know, Violet was sixteen and the

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Speaker 1: the Royal main Line, and they sponsored this show, so

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Speaker 1: But five years later, though, Violet's mom got sick, too

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Speaker 1: up and she took her mother's place. There was one problem, though, Zoe,

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Speaker 1: you want me to tell you about it? Yeah, they

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Speaker 1: said that Violent was too young and too pretty to

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Speaker 1: is that about? Like what are you supposed like, what

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Speaker 3: Also, what does that look like? What is too hot

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Speaker 1: Looks like her ankles were gleaming. They were gleaming, glistening

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Speaker 1: Violet was the determined, right so she One account says

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Speaker 1: that she made herself more plain for interviews by wearing

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Speaker 1: I'm just like I just can't make myself look ugly like.

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Speaker 2: These, I look less snatched.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I love the word snatch. Thank you crazy. If

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Speaker 1: you ever had a job that you wanted so badly

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Speaker 1: that you would have done anything or said anything.

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Speaker 3: To get it, yeah, I mean when I first moved

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Speaker 3: headshot and hit the sunset strip, went to Cabo Cantina,

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Speaker 3: was like can I work here? And They're like no,

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Speaker 3: And then I somehow wound up at Chateau Marmont at Barmarmont, right,

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Speaker 3: and like lied my way into a job there that

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Speaker 3: I worked for four and a half years. No, we

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Speaker 3: had to wear like silk red chiapows with frog buttons.

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Speaker 2: They're like I did.

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Speaker 1: Bellboy stuff for not even close.

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Speaker 6: But this was a This was like a dress that

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Speaker 6: had like opium den vies to Barbarmont and so he

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Speaker 6: had to wear thigh highs and garter belt.

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Speaker 1: Whoa. So back to Violet. So let's talk about our

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Speaker 1: girl Violet. Violet set sail in nineteen oh eight. She

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Speaker 1: was twenty one years old and the breadwinner form and

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Speaker 1: working for the Royal Mainline. She was about to see

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Speaker 1: the world. She was a lucky, plucky savvy heard the

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Speaker 1: working Irish lass. So she did alright working on the ocean.

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Speaker 1: That's the last time I'm going to do an Irish axon.

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Speaker 1: I apologize to all my Irish friends, of which I

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Speaker 1: have none. But her first journeys took her to Panama

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Speaker 1: and Jamaica and New York and she loved every single

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Speaker 1: it took months to repair the ship. Luckily, the White

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Speaker 1: The one thing that Violet that realized by this point

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Speaker 1: What about your relationship? I had in like my high

435
00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,359
Speaker 1: school years. I was like, this is you look like

436
00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:31,440
Speaker 1: you're gonna hurt me. Let's do this red flex. I

437
00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 1: didn't fix this. So once the ship was underway, it

438
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:39,240
Speaker 1: was just as luxurious as you might think, right, at

439
00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:42,200
Speaker 1: least for the wealthiest of passengers. It was the world's

440
00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:44,720
Speaker 1: largest ocean liner, and it was kind of like the Olympic,

441
00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:48,240
Speaker 1: but if this time they pulled out literally all the stops, right,

442
00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:49,280
Speaker 1: Violet called it.

443
00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 2: Keep That means, by the way, sorry, pulling out.

444
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:53,639
Speaker 1: All the stops. No, I don't do you know that,

445
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 1: Merchand no you don't.

446
00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:57,040
Speaker 2: It's pulling out all the stops in an organ.

447
00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:59,840
Speaker 1: In an organ, isn't it a playing organ? Yeah?

448
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 3: Okay, So they're like the keys, they are the they're

449
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:04,880
Speaker 3: like the floor pedals, and then there are these stops,

450
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 3: and I think when you.

451
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:09,119
Speaker 2: Pull them all out, it just makes a massive amount

452
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 2: of sound.

453
00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 1: I see what you're saying, going off.

454
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:15,920
Speaker 2: Piece here, yea my specialty. But so is so correct,

455
00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 2: Thank you God.

456
00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,080
Speaker 1: They pulled out all the stops, which, Zoe, did you

457
00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:23,760
Speaker 1: know that that's in reference to an organ. That's the

458
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:24,400
Speaker 1: only thing that's.

459
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Speaker 5: So.

460
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:30,199
Speaker 1: I called it grander in every way, or like extremely baller.

461
00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:30,480
Speaker 4: Right.

462
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 1: It was literally supposed to be a floating Chateau Marmont.

463
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:39,320
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't think I would farewell on a big,

464
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,440
Speaker 3: big boat, like trapped for weeks.

465
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest with you, The big big cruises

466
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Speaker 1: kind of freak me out because you can't leave.

467
00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, and also you're stuck with people you did not

468
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:49,680
Speaker 3: choose exactly.

469
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, Like it's a hotel that you

470
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:53,639
Speaker 1: cannot like you just can't take a break for I

471
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:55,280
Speaker 1: guess you can go to port and whatever. But it's

472
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 1: just like the activities of all I've grown up going

473
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Speaker 1: to all inclusive hotels up until like my teenage years.

474
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,480
Speaker 1: God bless my family. That's so lovely that you did

475
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 1: that for us. We're bawling on a budget, but my god,

476
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,000
Speaker 1: it gives you such crippling anxiety, like having to like

477
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 1: fight over like the buffet with like Bob from fucking Florida.

478
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,920
Speaker 2: From Florida needs what top Hispanic and you.

479
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'm like, I don't fucking know, Bob.

480
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 2: Yeah.

481
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Speaker 1: And that's how I met my girl. God, yeah, you

482
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 1: was so caught of brown Angel and that's how I

483
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:30,399
Speaker 1: met my second husband. So cruises freaked me out. But

484
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:34,720
Speaker 1: for the Titanic, it was all like beautiful mahogany furniture

485
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:38,560
Speaker 1: and baroque molding and scull through o'clocks and young whipper

486
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 1: snappers coming up from steerage to woo society. Girl's named

487
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 1: Rose stuff like that, you know. And after all that,

488
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,359
Speaker 1: they after all they had John Jacob Astro on board,

489
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:50,439
Speaker 1: and he was the wealthiest man in the world at

490
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Speaker 1: the time, and he brought along, oh so sweet, his

491
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:58,040
Speaker 1: nineteen year old wife. You fucking creep. So the ballrooms

492
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,720
Speaker 1: and dining rooms, it's so stupid to know that, like

493
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:05,800
Speaker 1: throughout history, we made such society, has made such loopholes

494
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:10,160
Speaker 1: for rich men. You know, it stops today with this podcast.

495
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 1: It stops today.

496
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:16,159
Speaker 3: I knew it was an important move to do this podcast.

497
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,960
Speaker 1: The bottoms and dining rooms and everything were supposed to

498
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,760
Speaker 1: be at the height of luxury. The biggest problem for

499
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 1: Violet was that she wasn't there to enjoy the luxury, right,

500
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 1: She was the one providing the luxury, and she was

501
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:32,520
Speaker 1: running between the private rooms, arranging lace bed spreads, running

502
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:34,920
Speaker 1: to the kitchen to carve meat and serve food, running

503
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,199
Speaker 1: to help the wealthy passengers go to the bathroom, you know,

504
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,920
Speaker 1: all this stuff. So basically there's just a lot of running, right,

505
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,720
Speaker 1: and then came the night. They were in the middle

506
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Speaker 1: of the journey and Violet was lying awake when suddenly

507
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 1: she heard a low, crunching, ripping sound, and the whole

508
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 1: ship shivered under her. The strangest part, though, was that

509
00:25:55,160 --> 00:26:01,400
Speaker 1: when the engines quit suddenly everything was quiet for only

510
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,360
Speaker 1: a minute, though, but then Violets started to hear low

511
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 1: voices in the passage way outside, you know, a lot

512
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 1: of frantic footsteps passing the door, violently, still hoping that

513
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 1: she was wrong about what was happening, just hoping against logic,

514
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 1: you know. But the crash had woken up the stewardess

515
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:20,639
Speaker 1: who shared Violet's room, and she said, sounds like something

516
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 1: bad has happened. The two of them realized that they

517
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 1: now had to assist the passengers, to which the entire

518
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 1: world replied, no fucking shit, buddy, you.

519
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 2: Know, oh they did it, you know, Oh my god.

520
00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:34,399
Speaker 1: So the two of them realized that they had a

521
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,640
Speaker 1: responsibility to manage the passengers. They were still pulling their

522
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,679
Speaker 1: clothes on when another stewards knocked under door. They opened

523
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:42,960
Speaker 1: it and he said, have you heard the ship is sinking?

524
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine the fucking feeling?

525
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,360
Speaker 2: I mean to be on a sinking ship.

526
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 1: No, no, sorry, think you're going.

527
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Speaker 3: Amore, Just like the amount of times you use that

528
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Speaker 3: as a say, you know, actually.

529
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 1: One at least one person yelling we're in a metaphor, right, No,

530
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:10,919
Speaker 1: but imagine the panic knowing that there's just nothing you

531
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 1: can fucking do, I know.

532
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,679
Speaker 2: And it's like that long it was.

533
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 3: I imagine time was really weird. Get like sped up

534
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:20,160
Speaker 3: but also slowed down and.

535
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so there is a sense of urgency, right

536
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 1: like a Violet rushed to her passengers and she started

537
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 1: helping children strap on life jackets. But suddenly the order

538
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:32,119
Speaker 1: came down. Everybody to the lifeboats. Right. Most of the

539
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 1: people in violet section have been asleep, and they fumbled

540
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,040
Speaker 1: with their valuable struggle to put on thick coats before

541
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:40,160
Speaker 1: Violet let them up the gangways. Before the stewardess could

542
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 1: go back for their things, they had to make sure

543
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 1: that every guest from their section had evacuated. Violet had

544
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:49,159
Speaker 1: her own panic moment digging through her wardrobe when she

545
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 1: realized that she didn't bring a coat. You know, it's

546
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 1: going to be a bone chilling cold once you're off

547
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,160
Speaker 1: that ship, right, what would you do? If you don't

548
00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:01,880
Speaker 1: have a coat. Oh my god, I mean, ah, that's

549
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:02,400
Speaker 1: what I thought.

550
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 2: Would you do?

551
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 3: I mean I would I would ask if someone had

552
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:08,439
Speaker 3: an extra coat.

553
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 2: Excuse me a second.

554
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 1: Sorry, Yeah, I know you guys are all in survival mode,

555
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: but like, what's some hmm, yeah, this is not really

556
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 1: my color?

557
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:18,920
Speaker 2: Size medium.

558
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:20,239
Speaker 1: I don't know what the fuck I would have done.

559
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: I probably would have panicked and been like, I just

560
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,359
Speaker 1: want to dance, you know. And Violet was more resourceful

561
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 1: than either of us. She grabbed the silk bed cover

562
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 1: on her way back to the lifeboats.

563
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:29,879
Speaker 2: Wow.

564
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:32,199
Speaker 1: And one of the most super surreal details that she

565
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 1: remembered was that she passed a group of officers who

566
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 1: were still in their dress uniforms with their hands in

567
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 1: their pockets, just kind of chatting quietly, and they smiled

568
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 1: at her as she went by. So weird, like you

569
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 1: don't never know how panic is going to strike you, right.

570
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: She also passed some of the pantry boys who were

571
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 1: trying to carry a huge load of bread. They tripped

572
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 1: on something hard and everybody looked down to realize that

573
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: it was a suitcase that it burst open filled with

574
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 1: gold coins. Oh got it? So by the time Violet

575
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 1: got to the boats, the arguments had already started, like

576
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: who would get left behind to go down with a ship,

577
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: and who would be allowed to board one of the

578
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 1: remaining lifeboats and live. Violet watched as John Jacob asked her,

579
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Speaker 1: handed his wife into a boat and waved through goodbye.

580
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: Then with a roar, white distress, rockets were fired up

581
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 1: into the sky. Families arrived at the lifeboats together, and

582
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: then they cried as they split up. The women climbed

583
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: onto the boats and the men faded back into a

584
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 1: growing crowd. Some guys nearby started throwing things over the side,

585
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 1: like wooden chairs and anything that would float. They were

586
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 1: hoping that there would be things to hold onto in

587
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 1: the water when the lifeboats were gone. And then someone

588
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: grabbed Violet's arm. It was a deck officer who was

589
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 1: filling the lifeboat. It was Violet's turn. Violet. Another steward

590
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 1: is clambered on top of the side of the boat,

591
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: and the officer held something up towards Violet and said,

592
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: look after this. And so when Violet reached down and

593
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 1: he tossed it to her, and she made the catch.

594
00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 1: It was somebody's baby. It was a freaking baby.

595
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 2: My gosh, yeah to a story.

596
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 5: I know.

597
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 1: How desperate do you have to feel. Imagine how desperate

598
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 1: you have to feel to be like give somebody your baby?

599
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, totally, Oh my god, we're joking, but this is

600
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 3: so harrowing.

601
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: I know. So so then the LFE boat dropped and

602
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 1: it was such a long way down, and the lights

603
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: of the decks like flashed past them, and then they

604
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 1: hit the water right finally, remember that the impact was

605
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: bone cracking, and the baby started to scream. A few

606
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 1: members of the crew were in the boats had the

607
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 1: oars and they started to pull right. The lifeboat moved

608
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 1: into the darkness, away from the Titanic, but it was

609
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: the Titanic was still things so badly now. One of

610
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 1: the men rowing the boat had come from the firing

611
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: rooms and violets said that his face was still blackened

612
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 1: by cold dust and his eyes were super bloodshot. He

613
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 1: was only wearing his thin shirt from the engine room,

614
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 1: and there was nothing to protect them from the cold.

615
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: Everyone of the lfeboat watched the lights of the Titanic

616
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 1: go out. There were six rows of deck lights, than five,

617
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:01,959
Speaker 1: then four, then three, then the split in half and

618
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 1: it started going down now. Violet, a good Catholic, closed

619
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 1: her eyes and she prayed for the rest of the night.

620
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 1: It was mostly the extreme cold, the Violet remembered. She

621
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 1: wrapped the silk oiled around the baby and worried that

622
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: it's crying was getting weaker and quieter. But don't worry, okay,

623
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: I was just gonna spoil it for you. The baby survived,

624
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 1: so don't forget. The water was chopping around them, and

625
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 1: the boat was thrown between the waves, and Violet was

626
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 1: ferociously determined that the baby was not going to die

627
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: in her arms. As the sun came up, the survivors

628
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 1: in the lifeboil were able to see tons of ice

629
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: mountains floating around them. How crazy is that sight?

630
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 2: That's nuts, so nuts.

631
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 1: And finally, in the light of day, they also spotted

632
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 1: a speck in the horizon. It was the ocean liner Karpathia.

633
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: They had received the Titanic's distress called the night before,

634
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: and they had arrived in time to pick up the lifeboats.

635
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 2: Oh my god.

636
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: That's also I mean, I know they're not we can't

637
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 1: consider them lucky because of the sinking Titanic, but what

638
00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: a blessing that it only took them a.

639
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 2: Night, you know, yeah, truly, truly.

640
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 3: Also something I thought I have thought about whenever I

641
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 3: think about the Titanic, which is kind often quite often, yeah,

642
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 3: is when the boat went in the pull of the yeah,

643
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:19,959
Speaker 3: the water and just trying to clear the it's that that.

644
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.

645
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,479
Speaker 1: And also just like the sound that I like both too,

646
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 1: must make right.

647
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 3: Gotten into three car accidents. That's why I don't live

648
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 3: in LA anymore. Total three cars in five years.

649
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 1: Thank god, you're okay, Yeah, thank you.

650
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 3: Two of the cars were pet cruisers and one was

651
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 3: a rental car on the way to pick up the

652
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 3: second PT cruiser.

653
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 1: Well, just because it was a life threatening car crash,

654
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: I will make no comment. But no than in any

655
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 1: of the circumstances, I would just have so many questions.

656
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 1: But go on.

657
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 3: But the reason I bring this up is I can

658
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 3: conjure the sound of a car crash so easily.

659
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 2: The stick, the well, the crinkling. Oh and the smell.

660
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it smells like burn to burn, rubber burnt. Yeah.

661
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's very it's singular, like I I God,

662
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 3: if you smell that smell not good.

663
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: Back to Violet, back to Violet and just so Alredie

664
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 1: just knows, like we understand the tragedy of the Titanic.

665
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 1: It's just like there is I don't know about Uzoe,

666
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: but whenever I get nervous or there's anything tragic, I

667
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 1: have to like find some lightness around it, because otherwise

668
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: it's just too dark, you know. Yeah, So I left

669
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: at funerals, is what I'm saying. So hire me as

670
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 1: a stand up comedian for your funeral. Come to my funeral.

671
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 1: Please come to my funeral. So the men in Violet's

672
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 1: vote pulled hard on the yours, and they were the

673
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: last to reach the rescue ship. When Violet and the

674
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: others climbed out to the deck, the first thing that

675
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: they were given was a glass of brandy. I mean,

676
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: to be honest, that sounds pretty fantastic. Like what, I

677
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: don't know, what would you want? It's your first thing

678
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: after being rescued. Hmmm, kanji kanji? What's conch kanji is?

679
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 3: It's it's like a kind of a warm rice porridge.

680
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: Fuck yeah, I would want some college. I would like

681
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 1: a soluble? Am I just being weird? Like I was

682
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: just like, no, I don't know, but maybe that's I

683
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: don't know, but also nutritious and dele warm, like I

684
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 1: want superfood and I want to remain true to I

685
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 1: want to remain true to my fitness goals, is what

686
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: I want. So Violet was standing on the deck feeling

687
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 1: days when suddenly a woman rushed up and grabbed the

688
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:30,919
Speaker 1: baby out of her arms. She turned and ran away

689
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 1: into the crowd. We can only speculate and hope to

690
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:37,840
Speaker 1: God that that was the baby's mom, right, because I

691
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 1: don't know, that was definitely the baby's mom, right, Please? Yeah, please,

692
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 1: So the Titanic was the deadliest sinking of a ship

693
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,359
Speaker 1: in history up to that point. By the time it

694
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 1: was over, sixty percent of the first class passenger survived.

695
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,800
Speaker 1: Fuck in the se in class, less than half managed

696
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 1: to make it. Overall, thirteen hundred people died. Seven hundred

697
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 1: of those were third class passengers. So fucking unfair. And

698
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 1: you might think that the escaping of the record the

699
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,439
Speaker 1: Titanic and living to tell the tale would be enough

700
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: to keep Violet Jessa from ever going to see again.

701
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 1: But that's wrong. No, No, it's an abusive it's like

702
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: a terrible relationship. It's a red flag. She just can't.

703
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 1: She's gonna fix it, ye, viol Wood Banks ocean. Yeah,

704
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: I'm going to fix the ocean, you guys. That is

705
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:35,919
Speaker 1: the confidence. Yeah, I love that confidence. She even said

706
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 1: that she knew that she had to go back right

707
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 1: away otherwise she would lose her nerve, and to be honest,

708
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: fair enough, that makes sense to me. So just two

709
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,839
Speaker 1: weeks after she was finished giving her testimony about the wreck,

710
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: she was back at it again. Well like, if you

711
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 1: literally just survived the wreck of the Olympic Escape number

712
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 1: one and then the Titanic escape, are you going back

713
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:54,400
Speaker 1: to sea or.

714
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 2: Are you finally I'm taking two years at least.

715
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:58,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna go to Long

716
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 1: Island and just on the ground it all good time,

717
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: and look up at the stars and that's just going

718
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 1: to be my job. What's even crazier, though, is that

719
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixteen, for your birthday, she even had the gun.

720
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:13,319
Speaker 1: She even had the guts to join the crew of

721
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,479
Speaker 1: the third replica model of the White star Line fleet,

722
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: the Britannic. Can you believe she's just like, no, no, no,

723
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: I'm going to get this right. She's the thing hard Yeah, well,

724
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 1: the thing was basically no one in the world knew

725
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,800
Speaker 1: how to cruly ships like Violet did. Plus, the Britannic

726
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: was commissioned as a wartime hospital ship because, of course,

727
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 1: nineteen sixteen was in the middle of World War One,

728
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:36,239
Speaker 1: so Violet felt her own kind of patriotic duty to

729
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: serve in the war, and that meant overcoming her fears

730
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: and going back to sea to serve as a Red

731
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:44,319
Speaker 1: Cross nurse. On the latest copy of The Titanic, She's

732
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: a fucking badass.

733
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:46,800
Speaker 2: She really is so brave.

734
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 1: So when they went to see in nineteen sixteen, the

735
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: crew of the hospital ship didn't realize how extremely dangerous

736
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:56,479
Speaker 1: their job was, and that brings us to escape number three.

737
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 1: So in November that year, the Britannic was cruising the

738
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: Agency to pick up a load of wounded soldiers. Violet

739
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: was sitting down to breakfast with a crew. She says

740
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: that she had a hot pot of tea in one

741
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 1: hand and some butter in the other, when suddenly an

742
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 1: explosion rocked the ship. That is a very tiny explosure.

743
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:16,839
Speaker 1: That was explosion rocked the ship. But to be honest,

744
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: it was such a tiny little explosion that they were

745
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: all fine in the quo. Just imagine she was like,

746
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 1: excuse me, yeah, sorry, yeah, but part of me, the

747
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 1: butter helps with my guys. I just imagine Violet being like,

748
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:31,839
Speaker 1: you gotta be fucking kidding me, like again, truly tru again. Yeah, yeah,

749
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 1: the nurses brought today, not today, I'm gonna tame your

750
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:40,240
Speaker 1: fucking sea. Yeah, I can fix it. So the nurses

751
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,760
Speaker 1: rushed to gather their life for servers, but Violets started

752
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,880
Speaker 1: by helping a few of the others, and while everybody

753
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,280
Speaker 1: went to their lifeboats, Violet went back to her cabin.

754
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 1: So you know, this wasn't Violet's first rodeo, so by

755
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: now the sense of panic wasn't going to overwhelm her,

756
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: and she was determined to take a few things with her.

757
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 1: She grabbed her ring, a bible, her alarm clock, and

758
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: a toothbrush. If your ship's going down, what are the

759
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:02,720
Speaker 1: things that you're gonna grab?

760
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:06,399
Speaker 3: Well, that's a silk duvet, a silk dovey of course.

761
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:08,399
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she's learned from you, learned from others.

762
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 2: Very well done, I think leave it all.

763
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: Why is grabbing a fucking alarm clock? Though? What are

764
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: you like? She's like just doothbrush. Yeah, she's like reminding

765
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 1: me to brush my teeth if we're in long enough.

766
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 2: I know, Ring, I guess maybe yeah, special ring.

767
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's like, this is my invisibility ring. Violet, you're

768
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 1: reading too much h J R R. Tolken, which is

769
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 1: not the time because Jerr Token was fighting in the

770
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 1: war and I knew that. So Violet said that she

771
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 1: made sure to get the toothbrush because of how much

772
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,320
Speaker 1: people made fun of her for not having one after

773
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 1: the Titanic went down. I guess that's what happens to

774
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 1: you when you're mostly surrounded by first class fucking assholes,

775
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: you know.

776
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 3: So they were making they were like nagging her about yeah.

777
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 2: On the tugboat.

778
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 1: On the tugboat day, there was a bigger ship, the

779
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 1: Maker ship that rescue them from the right. So this

780
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 1: is what happens, right, You're getting made fun of for

781
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: not having toothrush when you're surrounded by assholes, and what

782
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 1: a fucking weird thing to do. But she grabbed the toothbrush,

783
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 1: which is kind of endearing.

784
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:13,840
Speaker 2: Shame, you know.

785
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, So by the time she reached the deck, Violet

786
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,799
Speaker 1: was the last one on board, and the officer there

787
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 1: was surprised to see you, or because he thought that

788
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 1: all the nurses had already been loaded into the lifeboats.

789
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 1: What Violet was finally in lifeboats. She remembered that it

790
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 1: dropped so fast that it was smashing lights and bouncing

791
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 1: off the brass rims into portholes as it went down,

792
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: and then it finally hit the water so hard that

793
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 1: it knocked everyone dizzy. I'm just going to suggest that

794
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 1: people start taking courses of how to lower lightboats and

795
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 1: then not like such a greasy way. I'm just like,

796
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 1: if it's me reading the signs, I mean, guys, you know,

797
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 1: save yourselves, of course, but like you don't want to

798
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 1: kill them on the way down. You know, I've seen

799
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:52,399
Speaker 1: Why Loadus season two. You know, getting off of boats

800
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 1: is dangerous. But that still wasn't the worst thing that happened,

801
00:39:55,960 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: you know, because by now, okay, this is really fucked up.

802
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:03,719
Speaker 1: By now, the front of the ship was dipping down,

803
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 1: and that meant that the huge propeller was now lifting

804
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: out of the water. At the back the ship was

805
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 1: still moving forward too, so the propeller was now swinging

806
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 1: forward toward the lifeboats and chopping the water, pulling them

807
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 1: towards it. No, no, no, that's what you were saying.

808
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:22,319
Speaker 1: So she says that she looked back and saw other

809
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 1: lifeboats and the people in them sucked into the propeller, and,

810
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 1: in her words, minced so violently jumped out of the

811
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,800
Speaker 1: lifeboat into the water. She held her breath, she closed

812
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: her eyes, and she felt herself get whipped into the

813
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:41,359
Speaker 1: propeller's spin. Twice, something hard crashed into her head. She

814
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: had a life jacket on, but it was too small

815
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 1: to carry her weight. The only thing that actually saved

816
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 1: her was grabbing a second life jacket that went floating by.

817
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 1: Once she was floating on the surface, Violet opened her eyes,

818
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:54,320
Speaker 1: but she says that she closed them again to block

819
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:57,239
Speaker 1: out the site of the ship sinking away. Eventually, she

820
00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 1: opened her eyes in time to see that the Britannic

821
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 1: finally dove into the waves with a stern flying upward

822
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:06,799
Speaker 1: into the air, before the whole ship sank straight down.

823
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 1: One crazy fucking thing here, She says that she never

824
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: learned to swim, so you would think, sorry, are you okay?

825
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: So let me bive check you're I'm.

826
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 3: Just disturbed by this. This is a bomber. When you

827
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 3: said they were minced. Yeah, did we need to use

828
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:25,840
Speaker 3: that burb?

829
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: Listen? I didn't write her memoir, Okay, I knows now.

830
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 2: It's just so crazy.

831
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 3: I don't know if I would have known to jump

832
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 3: out of the boat.

833
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:42,319
Speaker 1: My fory is that by the time she she swam

834
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 1: far enough that by the time that the propeller was

835
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: even pulling at them, that it was going more vertical.

836
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 2: Wow.

837
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 1: Also that you're never going to forget fucking seeing people

838
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,440
Speaker 1: get absolutely ravaged by It's.

839
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 2: So crazy, like they thought that they were safe.

840
00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 1: Too, exactly. And you know when you were talking about

841
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: the boats sinking and how that would pull you under, Yeah,

842
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 1: I was also thinking that, But I was like, I'd

843
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 1: never even thought about like a propeller also pulling you

844
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 1: towards it. Like fuck, Like, how many fucking things do

845
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 1: I have to worry about?

846
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:12,280
Speaker 2: Totally?

847
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 3: I also like trying to like catch a wave on

848
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 3: like a you know, like swimming out on a surfboard,

849
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 3: and like I'm always humbled by how much exertion.

850
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 2: You need to Oh my god, you know how much

851
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:25,319
Speaker 2: energy you need to exert to.

852
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,280
Speaker 1: Swim back out to the surfing. It's just like, yeah,

853
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 1: I'm so inove and also surfing is one of those

854
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:33,279
Speaker 1: things that like really makes you respect the sea because like,

855
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 1: no matter how good you are at it, like it's

856
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 1: going to make you feel like a dumbass, you.

857
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 2: Know, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

858
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:39,960
Speaker 1: So she floating on the water until the rescue boats

859
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:41,799
Speaker 1: reached her, and they brought her back to shore on

860
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 1: a Greek island, and Violet learned that they had sailed

861
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: into a string of underwater mines dropped by a German

862
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:52,799
Speaker 1: submarine the day before. Somehow, only twenty people were killed

863
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: as the ship went down, and most of them were

864
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:57,319
Speaker 1: not killed by a mine. They were actually killed by

865
00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 1: the propellers. Violet had a frack skull. I'm sorry to

866
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 1: do this to you, so, but I just need to

867
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: tell you a story. I wish I could change the facts.

868
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 2: I thought the escapes were gonna be like fun.

869
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 1: You're like, so I escaped like this really weird relationship

870
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:12,400
Speaker 1: in Tabo. No, ma'am.

871
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 2: She ractured skull. Do you think? What do you think?

872
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 1: She hit probably a piece of the lifeboats, a piece

873
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: of the boat really anything, and it hit her twice

874
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:24,840
Speaker 1: right and her leg was cut open to the bone.

875
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 1: So it took her three full years to heal. Now.

876
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 1: Fortunately for her, she had again escaped the White Star

877
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: Line with her life. So listen, we're coming to the

878
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 1: end of violet story here. And if you escape three

879
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 1: second ship, would you ever, like, please let me out

880
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 1: of this? Would you ever travel by sea again? No?

881
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:44,799
Speaker 2: But this bitch be crazy.

882
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 1: She's like, like, let me get out back out there.

883
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:49,959
Speaker 1: She's like, she's like, I was close this time. Put

884
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 1: me in coach. When it was finally time to go home,

885
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 1: Violet decided to travel to London by land. Thank god.

886
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 1: So in London, Violet took a job a bank and

887
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 1: for a while she would at least she stopped tempting faate.

888
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,319
Speaker 1: Violet published a memoir in the nineteen thirties, when her

889
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 1: memories of the White Star Line were still fresh now

890
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:11,320
Speaker 1: for a while, though her book didn't really get much attention.

891
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 1: There are people interested in the Titanic, sure, but not

892
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 1: very many of them were paying attention to the story

893
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 1: of a stewardist. They are all about guys like John

894
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 1: Jacob Astor and all the other fancy pants in the

895
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: first class people. Oh, one crazy thing. Even after JJ

896
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: died on the Titanic, we're that close that I just

897
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 1: call him JJ. His family kept investing in the White

898
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,760
Speaker 1: Star line. His son was collecting stock certificates in nineteen

899
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 1: thirty one, like the company killed him with their terrible

900
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: fucking boat, and there was still money to be made.

901
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 3: People are making crazy decisions, insane.

902
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 1: The early nineteen hundreds was just fucking nuts.

903
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 2: I know.

904
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 3: It's maybe just the takeaways, like people have been crazy forever.

905
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I don't find comfort in that, but I

906
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,839
Speaker 1: find comfort in I find a comfort in the fact

907
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:02,400
Speaker 1: that people have been the same throughout history and in

908
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:05,200
Speaker 1: the sense of, like, not to get too deep on this,

909
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 1: but like, my dad died when I was seventeen, and

910
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 1: one of the things that helped me was that my

911
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,400
Speaker 1: teacher gave me this the Hamlet monologue to be or

912
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 1: not to be right, And at first it made no

913
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 1: fucking sense to me because it was Greek to me,

914
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: and I'm like, wearing water, Mala, why the fuck are

915
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,919
Speaker 1: you giving me like old English books? But then once

916
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,440
Speaker 1: I started really paying attention to it, after a brief

917
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: moment of mourning, I realized that this guy was talking

918
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:27,320
Speaker 1: about exactly what I was going through right five hundred

919
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:30,399
Speaker 1: years before me, and I found there's a certain sense

920
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 1: of comfort in knowing that the human existence is not

921
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 1: that different, you know, so that I'm not alone in

922
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 1: this experience. And it was actually, incidentally what made me

923
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:39,439
Speaker 1: take acting seriously and moved to New York and study acting.

924
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 1: Why we have a podcast? Oh my god, there we go.

925
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 2: That's a very moving story.

926
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 1: So Violet finally retired in nineteen fifty and moved herself

927
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 1: into a little English college on the east coast of England.

928
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 1: I love that for her. Do you have a retirement

929
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 1: destination in mind? Oh?

930
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 2: Man, I don't know. We've been talking about Ireland so much.

931
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:00,239
Speaker 6: Love.

932
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 1: So now you're moving til we'll see, Like we'll check

933
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:05,840
Speaker 1: in next week. We're telling you about about the Caribbean.

934
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 1: You're like, yeah, I just always felt like Jamaica was

935
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 1: calling to me. What about like the Caribbean speaking It's

936
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:13,279
Speaker 1: just like calling to me anybody else see it. So

937
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:15,759
Speaker 1: if you survived the death traps made by the White

938
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 1: Star Line enough times, I feel like you deserve a

939
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,759
Speaker 1: little seaside cottage. You know, the should just give it

940
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 1: to you. Honestly, the White Star Line should have paid

941
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 1: for it, you know, and maybe huh they would have,

942
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:29,399
Speaker 1: except they went bankrupt in nineteen thirty four on say

943
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 1: it with me you birthday, that's right. So anyway, Violently

944
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 1: finally gave herself permission to just, you know, just raise

945
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 1: some chickens and put up her feet. And she lived

946
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:42,799
Speaker 1: there for almost twenty years, all the way into her eighties. Oh.

947
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:46,800
Speaker 1: In one little last little tidbit, one day, this is nuts.

948
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 1: One day, a little while before she died, Violet got

949
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 1: a phone call super late at night. That's the sound

950
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:54,320
Speaker 1: of a phone, in case you didn't know, and Violent

951
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 1: Violet gets out of bad and answers it, and it

952
00:46:56,680 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 1: was somebody saying they were from Jenny fucking Craig. Just no,

953
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:04,240
Speaker 1: so what are you really?

954
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:05,359
Speaker 2: I was with you?

955
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 1: So Violet gets out of bed, she answers the phone.

956
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 1: Right she hears the voice of a lady on the

957
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: other end of the line who asked if she was

958
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:14,840
Speaker 1: Violet Jessep who had been on the Titanic, and Violin

959
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 1: was like, yes, that was me. Who is this? The

960
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: person on the other end of the phone was like,

961
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:22,799
Speaker 1: I am the baby you rescued, oh my, And then

962
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:26,839
Speaker 1: they just hung up and she never called again. Isn't

963
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 1: that crazy? Is that all? She said, that's all she

964
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:33,880
Speaker 1: said and investing. Yahoo, I guess I don't fucking know.

965
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:35,720
Speaker 1: But isn't that wild?

966
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I guess maybe.

967
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:41,840
Speaker 3: Well I wish that Violet had been like, was the

968
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:43,839
Speaker 3: woman who grabs you out of my arms? Your mom?

969
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:47,240
Speaker 1: Yeah? Who is your mother? What does she look like? Yeah?

970
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 1: And it's this crazy story and I really hope that

971
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 1: it wasn't just somebody crane calling her.

972
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.

973
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 1: So the wreck of the Titanic was found on the

974
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 1: ocean floor almost fifteen years after Violet died. The discovery

975
00:47:57,480 --> 00:47:59,400
Speaker 1: of the wreck kicked off a new wave of interest

976
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: in the ship what it was really like during the voyage,

977
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:04,280
Speaker 1: So that finally brought violet story the attention it deserved.

978
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:06,880
Speaker 1: Her book was published in nineteen eighty seven, and this

979
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:09,360
Speaker 1: time it became one of the defining stories of the

980
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:12,640
Speaker 1: Titanic by including what it was really like for normal

981
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:15,680
Speaker 1: people working there to survive. And so that's when Violet

982
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 1: finally got her nickname, Miss Unsinkable. Miss Unsinkable, that's sexually

983
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 1: her nickname. Now, anyway, that's our story. What do you think?

984
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 3: Oh my god, the twists and turns so crazy.

985
00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:34,279
Speaker 1: Right, Wow, we're like last one minute and I'm like

986
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:36,359
Speaker 1: fucking like so disturbed, and then I'm also like kind

987
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:39,359
Speaker 1: of hungry, Like just a lot went on. So you're

988
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:42,440
Speaker 1: fucking amazing, dude. And you're in so many different projects

989
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:45,319
Speaker 1: like The after Party Night Bitch and your Voice a

990
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 1: Mermaid scientists are on Creature Commandos. So wow, yeah, listeners,

991
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:52,640
Speaker 1: go find her work asap. I want to go back

992
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 1: to our producer, call Knillis, because he's had an entire

993
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:57,799
Speaker 1: episode to think about a New Sea shanty or an

994
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:00,920
Speaker 1: Irish song, an Irish song of any kind. So Carl,

995
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 1: do you have something for me? Yes?

996
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 4: I do, and here we go. Zoey Child was the

997
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 4: Queen of podcast. Zoe Child is the Queen no Podcast.

998
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:12,560
Speaker 4: Zoe Child is the Queen no Podcast. There lying in

999
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 4: the morning. Way hey enops? She rises way, hey enop,

1000
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 4: she rises way Hey enough she rises in the morning.

1001
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 1: Hey. Thank you, Carl, Thank you everybody. Zoe, thank you

1002
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:26,799
Speaker 1: so much for being in this. You were such a

1003
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 1: wonderful guest.

1004
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 3: You are such a great storyteller and so fun to

1005
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:31,400
Speaker 3: hang out with.

1006
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 1: Oh, thanks so much, See you later. Banana A. Bo

1007
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 1: Brady's Escapes is a production of iHeartRadio and Film Nation

1008
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 1: Entertainment in association with Gilded Audio. Our executive producers from

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00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 1: me or Turo Castro, Alyssa Martino and Milan Popelka from

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Speaker 1: our research overlord and music overlord. Our associate producer is

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Speaker 1: Tory Smith, who's our other overlord. Nick Dooley is our

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Speaker 1: technical director. Additional editing by Whitney Donaldson. Special thanks to

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Speaker 1: Alison Cohen, Dan Welsh, Ben Riiseek, Sarah Joyner, Nicki Stein,

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Speaker 1: for listening, and if you're enjoying the show, please drop

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Speaker 1: a rating or review. My mom will call you each

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Speaker 1: personally and thank you, and we'll see you all next week.