WEBVTT - Miss Unsinkable with Zoë Chao 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:04.400 This is as great as Escapes, a show bringing you 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:08.200 the wildest true escape stories of all time. In this episode, 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:11.440 we set sale into the story of Miss Unsinkable and 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:14.160 it brings us up close and personal with an infamous 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:18.480 historic disaster. And yes, I am talking about my former relationship. 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:21.960 I'm Arthur Castro, and I'm joined by the incredible writer 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:57.080 and actress for stage and screen, Zowe Chow. Hello, everybody. 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:02.080 I am so excited to have with us the incredibly talented, 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:05.880 very funny and all around good person and also Hawaii connoisseur. 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:10.800 Zoe is how aloha? That's about the two things that 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:12.000 you know about Hawaii? Correct? 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:14.280 Yep, Aloha and aloha. 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:16.959 Wow. In the way you say it, I can tell 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:17.759 the difference. 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:19.440 She's bilingual. 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:23.240 I know. Hey, Zoe, thank you so much for being 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:27.800 with us. I'm long time I did. Do you have 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:29.880 anything that you consider greatest escape? 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.880 This is not an escape, but I remember being stuck 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:38.920 at the movie theater with some friends and we were 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.200 waiting to be picked up, and I was like, let's 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.320 call people and say we're from Jenny Craig. 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:49.160 And I This was nineteen ninety four, where Jenny Craig 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:50.280 was all the rage. 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:56.200 Yeah, all right, although is she maybe? Yeah? 0:01:56.440 --> 0:02:00.800 So I called my dad, I think from a pay phone, 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:04.880 and I said I left a message, and I think 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:10.280 he was so confused he got really when he finally 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.679 figured out it was me, he was I would say, 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:18.240 disproportionately angry because I think it took him a while 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.200 to figure it out. But I was like, don't be 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:22.320 late to pick me up. 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.280 Then, right, And he's like, well, now you have to 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.440 walk home and you're still waiting at the movie theater 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:28.200 as we speak. 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:28.799 I am. 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.320 Don't you feel that Like in the nineties or whatever, 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.680 like people were just like way more willing to stay 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:35.440 on the phone to figure out what the fuck was up? 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.000 You know what I say, Like right now, if you 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:38.919 get called, I was like, this is Jenny greg You're like, 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:40.960 all right, fuck you, like whatever. Back in the day, 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:42.680 it's like, tell me more, how do how do you 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:43.840 know about me? What? 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:44.639 I think? 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.680 He tried to write down the number over and over 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.240 again that I had left to be like call us back. 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:54.760 Yeah. You know. The last thing I'll say about telephones 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.200 in the nineties or like early two thousands or whatever, 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.679 is that my kids when I have if I ever 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.840 do we'll never know the fear it was to call 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:07.200 a person you liked to ask to speak to them, 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:12.200 to ge and Watemala like dads were so like kind 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:15.480 of cliche, asked how fucking mean? They were like they 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.480 would like literally, like you know, and Spanish is such 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:21.480 a much more flourishy language when you when you're trying 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.800 to be polite, right, you're like like, hello, I don't 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:25.519 mean to bother you in this finny evening by bah, 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.280 you know that sort of shit, And and you'd like 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:32.399 call at like five thirty pm and you'd be like hello, Hello, Yeah, 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.200 who the fuck is this? You know? And oh, yeah, 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:38.320 sir sir, but the pardon a pleasure? You're quite sir, 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:38.960 how are they? 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:39.240 Yes? 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:43.120 Yeah, ye Yonder is I a daughter of this? And 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.840 he's like, I remember this was a classic line. They 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.000 were like it's pretty late to be calling, isn't it. 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.119 And you're like, well, it's fucking five thirty pm or whatever, 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.880 you know. So you go through this fucking like, you know, 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.800 like this mote of angry father theom and then you 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:57.080 like get on the phone with a girl and be 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:00.880 like Hi, Hi, what do you what do you do? Nothing? Oh, 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:01.400 that's cool. 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:03.200 You know it's for dinner. 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.600 Anyway. I have this like little device on my neck 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:08.480 that I get electro shocked when I'm not being entertaining 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:12.200 for my overlords, over nations. That's my fault. Probably I 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.880 thought that wasn't working. I'm glad to hear it's getting through. 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.080 It is, it is, it is, Carl, Thank you so 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:24.720 much I felt that. So let's get ready to actually escape. Okay, Zoe, 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:28.719 Today we have not one, not two, but three harrowing 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:33.479 death defying escapes, and all by one woman. Yeah, and 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:35.400 so to start her story, we go back all the 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:40.200 way to the eighteen nineties where telephone payphone still existed, 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:42.640 where we meet her as a little girl named Violet 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.279 jessup Right. She would spend her days standing at the 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:49.320 seaside watching big ships sail into the port of Bayeavlanka 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:50.680 and Argentina. 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:51.760 As one does. 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:56.960 Yes, who hasn't been to write a poem? So Violet 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.400 Stad worked for the port authority there, so when a 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:02.120 ship came in and sailors would stop by her family's 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:07.160 house and bring presents, bribes, presents, and she remembered tins 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:11.040 of marmalades and boxes of chocolates brought to her from 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.840 far away places, and the day that her little brother 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:19.279 was born, sailors gathered to sing Irish songs. Do you 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:21.080 know any Irish sea shanties? 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:29.000 Oh me, lad, No, but I saw Ben. 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:32.840 She's a Venish. She is that Scott. That's Irish that 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.839 we You know, we actually have an Irish song expert 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:38.720 on our team. This is no joke, Carl, Carl Nolas, 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:42.320 one of our main producers, is actually what are you 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:46.760 an expert in Irish folk songs? Is something like that? Yeah? 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:49.200 I performed for a long time in a band called 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.200 Sea Song Freedom Song. 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:51.640 Yeah. 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:53.240 Can you give us a little taste? Can you give 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:54.159 us a little taste? 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:58.200 Let's do a here we go two three? What do 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:00.279 you do with a drunken sailor? What do you do 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.240 with a drunken sailor? What do you do with a 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.719 drunken swiler in the morning? 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.320 To be honest, thank you, Carl. That was awesome, But 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:09.640 I would have expected something a little late, less mainstream. 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:11.800 That's okay. You know we all knew that song, just 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:15.120 like you have a long episode. Let's think of any one, Okay. 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.560 So you see, Violet's family was far from home. Right. 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.520 I always thought it was weird that this was a 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.359 girl in Argentina named Violet Jessup. But they were Irish, 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.760 you know, and they were living in Argentina. So they 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.680 loved drinking heavily and gesturing wildly around them. You know, 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.240 that's what Argentinas do. They're just like I can do it. 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.839 So sorry to Argentina family. 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:35.440 Hit meat. 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:44.400 Steak. Do you like steak so? Which is Spanish for 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:48.799 I have steak, tango steak. So. When Violet's father died, 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.919 her mom decided to seal them back across the Atlantic 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:55.160 to raise them in London. So Violet's first trip across 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:58.600 the Atlantic was a pretty fucking terrible one, right, So 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:01.560 she spent a lot of the time sick. Plus the 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:05.320 ship was carrying cattle below well what they usually call illness. 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.680 It's all sort of things, right. She had the humors, 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.960 She had the humors. The ship was carrying this cattle 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.120 below the decks, and Violet mostly remember watching the sailors 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:19.040 throw dead cow carcasses overboard as they died. Oh god, 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.840 so such an unfortunate sound effect. How do you do 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:24.440 on boats? Are you good on boats? Have you ever 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:25.160 had a sea no, no. 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.360 If you if one can feel seasick on a boat, 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:29.640 I'm going to be feeling seasick. 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:30.680 I have a big scar. 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.920 On my knee, my right knee from going scuba diving 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:37.480 and getting really sick when I came up from my 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:42.120 first swim and then sliced my knee vomiting out the boat. 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:44.880 Yes, I remember that story. The Bahamas is still talking 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:45.320 about it. 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:48.320 I puked and then all the Swedish people puked. 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:50.960 They're like, yeah, I don't like this and this does 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:56.400 not feel good. Tuck. So back to Violet. 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:58.560 Sure, sure, Jessup missed Jessup. 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.400 So Violet's first trip should have been a no omen 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:03.360 of what was coming for her, but she didn't really 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.800 take it that way right, And there was one magical 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:06.600 part of the journey. 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:06.800 You know. 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.320 Violet says that for the first time she saw a 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.560 swarm of flying fish skimming over the ocean, and that's 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:14.400 really cool. I don't know if you've ever seen something, 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.840 but it's like, I haven't, but I've heard. 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:19.200 But a YouTube. 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.520 Yeah for YouTube. It. So when they reached London, relatives 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:24.920 took them in. You know, Violet was sixteen and the 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.840 oldest of the kids. So she helped raise the others 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.040 while their mother worked. Right, she took a job as 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.440 a stewardess for the biggest shipping company in the world, 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:37.120 the Royal main Line, and they sponsored this show, so 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.839 I have to say that their name like Royal main Line. 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:44.640 But five years later, though, Violet's mom got sick, too 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:47.400 sick to go to sea, so Violet decided to step 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.600 up and she took her mother's place. There was one problem, though, Zoe, 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:52.920 you want me to tell you about it? Yeah, they 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.640 said that Violent was too young and too pretty to 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:59.160 work as a royal male stewardess. Like what the fuck 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.360 is that about? Like what are you supposed like, what 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:05.160 are you supposed to whatever? To me? I mean, I 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.679 was gonna say, like every day I am too hot 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:09.480 to do a job. You know what I'm saying? What 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:11.360 are you supposed to do if you're too hot? An 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:13.679 Irish person in nineteenth century? Like, imagine that? 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.079 Also, what does that look like? What is too hot 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:17.240 at the turn of the century. 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:21.720 Looks like her ankles were gleaming. They were gleaming, glistening 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:25.520 in the sun, gleaming ankles cleaning. You know, I guess 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:27.920 this is not Victorian age. But I just always imagine 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:31.520 people getting really wrapped up for like bare ankles. But 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.160 Violet was the determined, right so she One account says 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:37.160 that she made herself more plain for interviews by wearing 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:40.959 her worst clothes, and eventually she succeeded. She was beginning 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.320 to I imagine her talking to her friends like, yeah, 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:49.079 I'm just like I just can't make myself look ugly like. 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.160 These, I look less snatched. 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:55.000 Yeah, I love the word snatch. Thank you crazy. If 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:56.760 you ever had a job that you wanted so badly 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:58.960 that you would have done anything or said anything. 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:00.720 To get it, yeah, I mean when I first moved 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:05.120 to La I took a fake resume and my real 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:10.439 headshot and hit the sunset strip, went to Cabo Cantina, 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:12.559 was like can I work here? And They're like no, 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:17.440 And then I somehow wound up at Chateau Marmont at Barmarmont, right, 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:22.200 and like lied my way into a job there that 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.839 I worked for four and a half years. No, we 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:30.200 had to wear like silk red chiapows with frog buttons. 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:32.720 They're like I did. 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:35.600 Bellboy stuff for not even close. 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:40.400 But this was a This was like a dress that 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:45.520 had like opium den vies to Barbarmont and so he 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:49.000 had to wear thigh highs and garter belt. 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:54.360 Whoa. So back to Violet. So let's talk about our 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:57.640 girl Violet. Violet set sail in nineteen oh eight. She 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.840 was twenty one years old and the breadwinner form and 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:04.360 working for the Royal Mainline. She was about to see 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.240 the world. She was a lucky, plucky savvy heard the 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:10.120 working Irish lass. So she did alright working on the ocean. 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:11.920 That's the last time I'm going to do an Irish axon. 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.920 I apologize to all my Irish friends, of which I 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:18.560 have none. But her first journeys took her to Panama 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:22.000 and Jamaica and New York and she loved every single 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.200 second of it. For instance, when she was in Panama, 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:25.959 she says it was the first time that she had 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.000 food and wine as good as her childhood memories of Argentina. 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:31.640 It reassured her that she had made the right choice 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.000 and she would have a life at sea. There was 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.439 no way that she could have known what stormy waters 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:46.520 lay ahead. So violate okay, oh we're transported. Violent word 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:50.080 is a stewardess doing cabin service. She was cleaning rooms 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:53.080 and making beds, and delivering meals, running errands, and even 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:57.000 taking care of seak passengers. She started in second class, 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.200 but soon she was reassigned to work in the first 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:05.640 class cabins. So, yeah, go off cavin, queen, I apologize 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:09.720 to everybody. Was that written? No, no, none of this 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:10.240 is right now. 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.040 No off cabin, queen. 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:16.080 That's the title of my memoir. So Kevin's Service Steward 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.520 has typically had a dozen rooms out there to care, 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.280 which doesn't sound too bad at first glance, but the 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:23.680 work was in violence words, soul grinding. 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:24.679 Twelve rooms. 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:30.000 That's too many, really, Yeah, to to wait on twelve 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.440 rooms because like the rooms are massive, and it could 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:34.400 be like waiting on entire families, that's right. I just 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:36.439 guess at first clients, I was like, I figured that 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:38.160 the second class cabin would be like kind of the 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:39.920 thirty rooms, and now you have twelve rooms. 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.360 But right, I think twelve rooms is a lot. Have 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:46.520 you ever done work twelve tables? I guess it was 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:48.600 a terrible. I was a waiter for about two weeks 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:50.720 and I was pretty terrible at it. Not because I 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.360 mean I got great tips and shit, but I kept 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:56.200 forgetting orders, because you couldn't punch in the thing. 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.199 You had to like run into the kitchen and yell 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:00.760 ordering fu blah blah blah blahlah blah blah, and then 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:02.960 like hang the little piece. So I keep sucking up 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.120 people's orders and gave everybody a free salad, you know, 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:06.640 because I was like, I'm sorry, he's a free salad. 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.040 And then my manager yelled at me once and I 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.280 was like, you know what, fuck this, Like I'm broke 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.280 as shit, but I can't. I'm just too clumsy for this. 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.440 So so yes, I have waited till twelve tables, and 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:20.520 I fucking sucked at it. Okay, thank you for bringing 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:24.120 up So Violet seems like she especially hated working for 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:28.640 American passengers who had, she said, a streak of selfishness. 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:30.959 They were like Karens of the Sea, you know, or 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:37.679 Seafaring Sea Karens. So I wrote that one. It's terrible. 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.520 Thank you, thank you so much. English has my second language, everybody, 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.360 so please take note. So she remember, once said an 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:48.600 American passenger demanded that Violet bring her a lamb cutlet 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:52.960 and fresh green peas for a Pecanese dog. She commanded 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.880 that the peace should be freshly picked and finally mashed like, 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.600 oh oh good. So rich people have been terrible for 0:13:58.679 --> 0:13:59.480 like fucking forever. 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.720 Ye, well, this is the hottest steak I have in life. 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:06.040 Dogs are constantly being treated better than I am being treated. 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.000 Yeah, if you're like walking in the same path as 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.760 like fucking little shits or whatever, and the and the 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.760 owner's like, no, no, Caroline doesn't like that. Caroline doesn't 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.280 like that. She does. I'm like, lady, what the fuck? 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:17.600 You know? 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:20.800 Yeah, I'm fine, Just like treat me as well as your. 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:25.040 Dog, that's it. Yeah, freshly picked feet. Also, like, how 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:28.280 are you gonna get freshly picked peas on fucking on 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:29.720 an ocean? You know what I'm saying? 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.360 Yeah, yourself, go fuck yourself. 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:35.560 Lading. So the hell job got even worse when the 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:37.440 captain of a ship she worked on made it pass 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.360 at her right. So so when Violet refused him, he 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:44.160 reported her to the company for flirting with his officers 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.600 he fucking believed, so she was dismissed from the Royal 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:48.480 La main line. 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:49.480 They blamed her. 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:51.760 Yeah, I mean, it's such a cliche, isn't it. Men 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:56.920 in power have always been such cartoons of themselves, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:59.320 so we so if they were alive, we would fucking 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.840 cancel them just but friend, that's right, I still need 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:05.000 names and addresses so we can cancel their kin. So 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.800 in nineteen ten, Violet was back in England and once 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:10.640 again she was looking for work. Right, but now she 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.440 started applying to a company that was shipping between England 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:17.600 and America, the White Star Line. Right, so the North 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:21.480 Atlantic was notoriously rough, and the number of Americans traveling 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:23.560 under her care would be even higher. She's like, I 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:25.920 don't like these Americans, and we're like, we got a 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:30.560 name fame. So Violet applied, almost hoping that she would 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.240 get rejected. But the White Star Line was working hard 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.840 to hire a massive cruise as they launched the largest 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:40.640 passenger ship ever built. Do you know where this is going? Titanic? 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.800 There you go? So the White star Line, yea, back 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.840 to the Titanic. All goes back to nineteen ninety eight, 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.120 which was a great year for cinema, or nineteen eighty 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.600 six brandther the fuck it was. So the White Star 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:57.680 Line launched the Olympic in June nineteen eleven, and Violet 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.720 was selected for the hand picked crew and was incredible, 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:02.920 but the passengers were about the same shitty as ever. 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.520 But Violet says that as soon as they were bored, 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:07.840 there were There was a wealthy woman who started listing 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:11.240 off her various demands. For example, she she started giving 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:13.200 Violet orders about how to help her out when she 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:16.160 was going to the bathroom. Gross, what what does this mean? 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.880 Help with the going into the bathroom, like holding hands, 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:23.120 lifting up the skirt. Maybe you know what, Maybe you're right, 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.160 maybe it was really hard to get in and out. 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:28.120 Of the garments. Yeah, I don't know. 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.600 Man. So to make sure that Violet would obey her orders, 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:33.880 this lady that wanted help going to the bathroom, she 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:35.520 said that she was friends with the president of the 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.720 White Starling, and obviously Violet was supposed to be sympathetic 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:40.440 and agree to all this stuff. But have you ever 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:42.560 been in a situation where somebody's throwing their cloud around, 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:44.480 like how do you How would you respond? Yeah? 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:45.680 I mean I worked up Armama. 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:50.440 Someone right asked me if I would make them a 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:54.880 mango smoothie, and I said, ma'am, it's. 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:58.040 Two am in the morning. Yeah, there's the top. 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.560 We don't we have mangos and we don't have a 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:06.119 smoothie maker, or and we don't have yogurt, and we 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.119 don't She was like, but it's my birthday. 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:12.880 I was like, but we still don't have yeah. 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:18.440 Yeah. So apparently, like Violet said that, every other passenger 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.440 would say the same thing, that the president was their friend. 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:25.520 Apparently he was very popular, go off friendship King, so 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:31.399 at least he had friends, you know, until September nineteen eleven. 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.920 When the Olympic was leaving Southampton on September nineteen, did 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:36.320 you say nineteen eleven? 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:39.080 Oh sorry, okay, yes, my birthday September nineteen. 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:44.000 It was your birthday. For some coincidence, I think not. 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.560 When the Olympic was leaving Southampton on its fifth trip 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:51.240 to New York, it was carrying over a thousand passengers 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:53.919 and Violet was on board, and it's a ship steen 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.359 out towards sea. It had to pass to a channel 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.000 around the Isle of Wight, which is actually where my 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:01.840 trainer is from. True story. He's from the Yellow White, 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:05.760 which incidentally, he's very very white, you know, So it's 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:08.280 like me being from like the Peninsula of Brown, you 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:09.879 know what I mean? I just say, okay, but I 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.520 digress it back to the story, I guess, so let's 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:16.240 put some ominous music. A Spileace ship was leaving on 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:20.359 its journey. An English naval cruiser named the Hawk was 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:23.199 speeding through the channel at the same time. When the 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.360 Hawk tried to turn and avoid the Olympic, It's steering jammed. 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.040 It couldn't change the course and avoid the passenger ship, 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:32.719 so the Hawk rammed into the star Wars side of 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:36.639 the Olympic. That's right, that's the right side for us landlovers. 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:42.080 Give me a pirate sound, thank you, Yeah, go ahead 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:49.919 mine as I arah. My pirate was really feeling himself, 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:55.680 so miraculously, no pirates, fucking not no pirates, no passengers, sorry, 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.560 but also no pirates. We're in the rooms on that 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:00.840 part of the ship at that time, so one crew 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:03.320 member was there though, so he was working to fire 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:05.639 the steam engines when suddenly the ram on the front 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.480 of the Navy cruisers smashed through the bulkhead and through 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:11.480 the room, so water rushed in. Imagine being that dude, 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:13.680 like you're going about your words, just getting the boys started, 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.320 and suddenly the room splits in the half that you know, 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:19.880 stressful and then when like when you tell, like if 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:23.880 what if? Like when you tell everybody nobody believes you, like, bro, 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:26.080 I swear good guy. It was like fucking this high, bro. 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:29.040 Yeah yeah, okay, Bob, let's let's send you down, buddy. 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:29.720 You're drugging. 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:31.400 Is that work? 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:33.720 Yeah? Yeah, go back. So the man pulled the emergency 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:36.280 lever to slam shut the water tight doors, and the 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:38.280 rest of the crew rushed to seal up the other 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.080 cabins that were split open. So he's a hero. He 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:44.280 is a hero. Apparently the Olympic was so big that 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:46.720 it sent the navy cruisers spinning away like a top. 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:49.600 And some people that's a top sound, by the way, 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:51.960 and they didn't know what that. Oh that's you without 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:55.359 you making it. Oh my god, that was mimicking. I 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:57.879 know yours was more like a top actually, So ben Chug, 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:00.439 you're getting replaced, buddy. We need to stay it up. 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:03.240 Some of the people on board didn't even feel the crash, 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:05.959 that's how big the ship was. Wow. So the Olympic 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:07.840 was able to turn around and sail back to port, 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:11.680 canceling the voyage, but without a single injury. I'm sure 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:13.840 that there was at least one seafaring carry and being 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:16.600 like I got a whiplash. I felt it. I actually 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:20.600 did feel it, So yeah my spine, guys, I need 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:23.680 help with the bathroom lady. Fuck off. The Olympic was 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:27.000 badly damaged, so it limped back to port. Violet obviously 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:29.800 survived the wreck along with everyone else on board, and 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:32.440 it was to be her first escape from a disaster 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:38.479 at sea. The problem was the damage was so massive 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:40.240 that she was going to be out of work while 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:43.400 it took months to repair the ship. Luckily, the White 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:45.560 Star Line had a new ship that was ready to 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:48.399 launch the next year, and this one say it with 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:54.240 me now, was unsinkable. They wanted experienced crew members because 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:56.639 the new one was built like the Olympic, only bigger. 0:20:57.000 --> 0:21:00.159 So the company made the Violet a stewardess on and 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:13.480 you know the ship Zoe the Titanic. So ifvi ilead 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:16.960 jests sail out on the Titanic in nineteen twelve, again 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:20.240 not your birthday. There were fluttering flags and handkerchiefs when 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:23.000 the Titanic slipped away from Doc and the tugboats were 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:27.760 tooting farewell and all that stuff. Right, yeah, woo, that's right. 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:32.520 Shooting yeah, tooting. I love, that's what tugboats do. It's 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:37.600 so cute, Like I'm so the journey was It's apparently 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:41.199 a train in my mind. So the journey was supposed 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:43.160 to be a simple one, right. The ship would leave 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:45.320 from the port in England and make a quick little 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:48.440 pitstop in Ireland and then puff merrily crossed the Atlantic 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:51.199 to New York. In fact, the Titanic almost had its 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:54.040 own collision with another passenger ship as it launched. When 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:56.800 they escaped with only a near miss, the crew thought 0:21:56.840 --> 0:21:59.480 that they had avoided the misfortune for the journey. They 0:21:59.520 --> 0:21:59.960 were wrong. 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:00.879 Little did I know. 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:03.439 The one thing that Violet that realized by this point 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:05.840 was that she was uneasy on big ships, you know, 0:22:05.880 --> 0:22:08.600 becauseaid the Olympic and all that. What would have happened 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:11.360 if she followed her intuition? Was there ever a time 0:22:11.440 --> 0:22:13.600 where you ignored the signs and kept doing something that 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:14.880 was doomed to fail? Ever? 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:21.000 I mean every day, my whole life, my memoir doomed 0:22:21.119 --> 0:22:21.600 to fail. 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:25.200 What about your relationship? I had in like my high 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:27.359 school years. I was like, this is you look like 0:22:27.359 --> 0:22:31.440 you're gonna hurt me. Let's do this red flex. I 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:37.040 didn't fix this. So once the ship was underway, it 0:22:37.119 --> 0:22:39.240 was just as luxurious as you might think, right, at 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:42.200 least for the wealthiest of passengers. It was the world's 0:22:42.280 --> 0:22:44.720 largest ocean liner, and it was kind of like the Olympic, 0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:48.240 but if this time they pulled out literally all the stops, right, 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:49.280 Violet called it. 0:22:49.320 --> 0:22:51.720 Keep That means, by the way, sorry, pulling out. 0:22:52.119 --> 0:22:53.639 All the stops. No, I don't do you know that, 0:22:53.800 --> 0:22:55.080 Merchand no you don't. 0:22:55.160 --> 0:22:57.040 It's pulling out all the stops in an organ. 0:22:57.480 --> 0:22:59.840 In an organ, isn't it a playing organ? Yeah? 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:02.520 Okay, So they're like the keys, they are the they're 0:23:02.560 --> 0:23:04.880 like the floor pedals, and then there are these stops, 0:23:04.920 --> 0:23:05.560 and I think when you. 0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:09.119 Pull them all out, it just makes a massive amount 0:23:09.119 --> 0:23:09.600 of sound. 0:23:09.920 --> 0:23:11.520 I see what you're saying, going off. 0:23:11.440 --> 0:23:15.920 Piece here, yea my specialty. But so is so correct, 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:17.040 Thank you God. 0:23:18.800 --> 0:23:21.080 They pulled out all the stops, which, Zoe, did you 0:23:21.119 --> 0:23:23.760 know that that's in reference to an organ. That's the 0:23:23.800 --> 0:23:24.400 only thing that's. 0:23:26.080 --> 0:23:26.199 So. 0:23:26.720 --> 0:23:30.199 I called it grander in every way, or like extremely baller. 0:23:30.320 --> 0:23:30.480 Right. 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:34.320 It was literally supposed to be a floating Chateau Marmont. 0:23:34.680 --> 0:23:39.320 Oh, I don't think I would farewell on a big, 0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:42.440 big boat, like trapped for weeks. 0:23:42.840 --> 0:23:44.760 I'm gonna be honest with you, The big big cruises 0:23:44.840 --> 0:23:46.200 kind of freak me out because you can't leave. 0:23:46.640 --> 0:23:48.600 Yeah, and also you're stuck with people you did not 0:23:48.680 --> 0:23:49.680 choose exactly. 0:23:49.680 --> 0:23:51.280 That's what I'm saying, Like it's a hotel that you 0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:53.639 cannot like you just can't take a break for I 0:23:53.680 --> 0:23:55.280 guess you can go to port and whatever. But it's 0:23:55.320 --> 0:23:58.760 just like the activities of all I've grown up going 0:23:58.800 --> 0:24:01.960 to all inclusive hotels up until like my teenage years. 0:24:02.480 --> 0:24:04.480 God bless my family. That's so lovely that you did 0:24:04.480 --> 0:24:07.520 that for us. We're bawling on a budget, but my god, 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:10.000 it gives you such crippling anxiety, like having to like 0:24:10.080 --> 0:24:13.520 fight over like the buffet with like Bob from fucking Florida. 0:24:13.960 --> 0:24:16.920 From Florida needs what top Hispanic and you. 0:24:17.400 --> 0:24:19.160 Yeah, And I'm like, I don't fucking know, Bob. 0:24:19.560 --> 0:24:19.760 Yeah. 0:24:19.760 --> 0:24:23.800 And that's how I met my girl. God, yeah, you 0:24:23.840 --> 0:24:26.840 was so caught of brown Angel and that's how I 0:24:26.880 --> 0:24:30.399 met my second husband. So cruises freaked me out. But 0:24:30.520 --> 0:24:34.720 for the Titanic, it was all like beautiful mahogany furniture 0:24:35.080 --> 0:24:38.560 and baroque molding and scull through o'clocks and young whipper 0:24:38.600 --> 0:24:41.720 snappers coming up from steerage to woo society. Girl's named 0:24:41.800 --> 0:24:45.000 Rose stuff like that, you know. And after all that, 0:24:45.520 --> 0:24:48.359 they after all they had John Jacob Astro on board, 0:24:48.480 --> 0:24:50.439 and he was the wealthiest man in the world at 0:24:50.480 --> 0:24:53.399 the time, and he brought along, oh so sweet, his 0:24:53.520 --> 0:24:58.040 nineteen year old wife. You fucking creep. So the ballrooms 0:24:58.080 --> 0:25:00.720 and dining rooms, it's so stupid to know that, like 0:25:01.680 --> 0:25:05.800 throughout history, we made such society, has made such loopholes 0:25:05.800 --> 0:25:10.160 for rich men. You know, it stops today with this podcast. 0:25:10.240 --> 0:25:11.000 It stops today. 0:25:13.040 --> 0:25:16.159 I knew it was an important move to do this podcast. 0:25:17.200 --> 0:25:19.960 The bottoms and dining rooms and everything were supposed to 0:25:19.960 --> 0:25:22.760 be at the height of luxury. The biggest problem for 0:25:22.880 --> 0:25:25.760 Violet was that she wasn't there to enjoy the luxury, right, 0:25:25.840 --> 0:25:28.800 She was the one providing the luxury, and she was 0:25:28.880 --> 0:25:32.520 running between the private rooms, arranging lace bed spreads, running 0:25:32.520 --> 0:25:34.920 to the kitchen to carve meat and serve food, running 0:25:34.920 --> 0:25:37.199 to help the wealthy passengers go to the bathroom, you know, 0:25:37.240 --> 0:25:39.920 all this stuff. So basically there's just a lot of running, right, 0:25:39.960 --> 0:25:43.720 and then came the night. They were in the middle 0:25:43.720 --> 0:25:46.840 of the journey and Violet was lying awake when suddenly 0:25:46.880 --> 0:25:51.399 she heard a low, crunching, ripping sound, and the whole 0:25:51.440 --> 0:25:55.040 ship shivered under her. The strangest part, though, was that 0:25:55.160 --> 0:26:01.400 when the engines quit suddenly everything was quiet for only 0:26:01.400 --> 0:26:04.360 a minute, though, but then Violets started to hear low 0:26:04.480 --> 0:26:07.000 voices in the passage way outside, you know, a lot 0:26:07.040 --> 0:26:11.000 of frantic footsteps passing the door, violently, still hoping that 0:26:11.040 --> 0:26:14.399 she was wrong about what was happening, just hoping against logic, 0:26:14.440 --> 0:26:17.080 you know. But the crash had woken up the stewardess 0:26:17.119 --> 0:26:20.639 who shared Violet's room, and she said, sounds like something 0:26:20.680 --> 0:26:23.359 bad has happened. The two of them realized that they 0:26:23.440 --> 0:26:26.320 now had to assist the passengers, to which the entire 0:26:26.320 --> 0:26:28.600 world replied, no fucking shit, buddy, you. 0:26:28.560 --> 0:26:32.040 Know, oh they did it, you know, Oh my god. 0:26:32.880 --> 0:26:34.399 So the two of them realized that they had a 0:26:34.440 --> 0:26:37.640 responsibility to manage the passengers. They were still pulling their 0:26:37.680 --> 0:26:40.679 clothes on when another stewards knocked under door. They opened 0:26:40.680 --> 0:26:42.960 it and he said, have you heard the ship is sinking? 0:26:44.840 --> 0:26:46.199 Can you imagine the fucking feeling? 0:26:46.960 --> 0:26:49.360 I mean to be on a sinking ship. 0:26:51.400 --> 0:26:52.840 No, no, sorry, think you're going. 0:26:54.280 --> 0:26:58.639 Amore, Just like the amount of times you use that 0:26:58.760 --> 0:27:01.600 as a say, you know, actually. 0:27:01.560 --> 0:27:08.800 One at least one person yelling we're in a metaphor, right, No, 0:27:08.840 --> 0:27:10.919 but imagine the panic knowing that there's just nothing you 0:27:10.920 --> 0:27:12.280 can fucking do, I know. 0:27:12.320 --> 0:27:14.679 And it's like that long it was. 0:27:15.240 --> 0:27:18.760 I imagine time was really weird. Get like sped up 0:27:18.760 --> 0:27:20.160 but also slowed down and. 0:27:20.160 --> 0:27:22.800 Yeah, yeah, so there is a sense of urgency, right 0:27:22.880 --> 0:27:25.520 like a Violet rushed to her passengers and she started 0:27:25.520 --> 0:27:28.560 helping children strap on life jackets. But suddenly the order 0:27:28.600 --> 0:27:32.119 came down. Everybody to the lifeboats. Right. Most of the 0:27:32.160 --> 0:27:34.560 people in violet section have been asleep, and they fumbled 0:27:34.560 --> 0:27:37.040 with their valuable struggle to put on thick coats before 0:27:37.119 --> 0:27:40.160 Violet let them up the gangways. Before the stewardess could 0:27:40.240 --> 0:27:42.440 go back for their things, they had to make sure 0:27:42.720 --> 0:27:46.080 that every guest from their section had evacuated. Violet had 0:27:46.080 --> 0:27:49.159 her own panic moment digging through her wardrobe when she 0:27:49.320 --> 0:27:52.680 realized that she didn't bring a coat. You know, it's 0:27:52.680 --> 0:27:54.920 going to be a bone chilling cold once you're off 0:27:54.960 --> 0:27:57.160 that ship, right, what would you do? If you don't 0:27:57.200 --> 0:28:01.880 have a coat. Oh my god, I mean, ah, that's 0:28:01.920 --> 0:28:02.400 what I thought. 0:28:03.840 --> 0:28:04.480 Would you do? 0:28:04.640 --> 0:28:07.560 I mean I would I would ask if someone had 0:28:07.600 --> 0:28:08.439 an extra coat. 0:28:10.080 --> 0:28:11.240 Excuse me a second. 0:28:11.480 --> 0:28:13.680 Sorry, Yeah, I know you guys are all in survival mode, 0:28:13.720 --> 0:28:16.280 but like, what's some hmm, yeah, this is not really 0:28:16.320 --> 0:28:16.760 my color? 0:28:17.760 --> 0:28:18.920 Size medium. 0:28:19.040 --> 0:28:20.239 I don't know what the fuck I would have done. 0:28:20.240 --> 0:28:22.280 I probably would have panicked and been like, I just 0:28:22.320 --> 0:28:25.359 want to dance, you know. And Violet was more resourceful 0:28:25.400 --> 0:28:27.600 than either of us. She grabbed the silk bed cover 0:28:27.720 --> 0:28:29.280 on her way back to the lifeboats. 0:28:29.520 --> 0:28:29.879 Wow. 0:28:29.920 --> 0:28:32.199 And one of the most super surreal details that she 0:28:32.240 --> 0:28:34.600 remembered was that she passed a group of officers who 0:28:34.640 --> 0:28:37.320 were still in their dress uniforms with their hands in 0:28:37.359 --> 0:28:39.840 their pockets, just kind of chatting quietly, and they smiled 0:28:39.880 --> 0:28:41.960 at her as she went by. So weird, like you 0:28:41.960 --> 0:28:44.440 don't never know how panic is going to strike you, right. 0:28:44.520 --> 0:28:46.560 She also passed some of the pantry boys who were 0:28:46.600 --> 0:28:49.080 trying to carry a huge load of bread. They tripped 0:28:49.120 --> 0:28:51.720 on something hard and everybody looked down to realize that 0:28:51.760 --> 0:28:54.400 it was a suitcase that it burst open filled with 0:28:54.440 --> 0:28:58.240 gold coins. Oh got it? So by the time Violet 0:28:58.280 --> 0:29:00.640 got to the boats, the arguments had already started, like 0:29:00.680 --> 0:29:02.760 who would get left behind to go down with a ship, 0:29:03.000 --> 0:29:04.800 and who would be allowed to board one of the 0:29:04.840 --> 0:29:12.280 remaining lifeboats and live. Violet watched as John Jacob asked her, 0:29:12.360 --> 0:29:15.120 handed his wife into a boat and waved through goodbye. 0:29:15.640 --> 0:29:18.760 Then with a roar, white distress, rockets were fired up 0:29:18.800 --> 0:29:22.360 into the sky. Families arrived at the lifeboats together, and 0:29:22.400 --> 0:29:25.360 then they cried as they split up. The women climbed 0:29:25.400 --> 0:29:28.240 onto the boats and the men faded back into a 0:29:28.280 --> 0:29:32.360 growing crowd. Some guys nearby started throwing things over the side, 0:29:32.480 --> 0:29:35.360 like wooden chairs and anything that would float. They were 0:29:35.400 --> 0:29:37.240 hoping that there would be things to hold onto in 0:29:37.280 --> 0:29:40.320 the water when the lifeboats were gone. And then someone 0:29:40.360 --> 0:29:43.320 grabbed Violet's arm. It was a deck officer who was 0:29:43.320 --> 0:29:47.040 filling the lifeboat. It was Violet's turn. Violet. Another steward 0:29:47.120 --> 0:29:49.000 is clambered on top of the side of the boat, 0:29:49.120 --> 0:29:51.800 and the officer held something up towards Violet and said, 0:29:51.840 --> 0:29:54.440 look after this. And so when Violet reached down and 0:29:54.440 --> 0:29:56.800 he tossed it to her, and she made the catch. 0:29:57.280 --> 0:30:00.000 It was somebody's baby. It was a freaking baby. 0:30:01.160 --> 0:30:03.840 My gosh, yeah to a story. 0:30:04.320 --> 0:30:04.600 I know. 0:30:04.800 --> 0:30:06.800 How desperate do you have to feel. Imagine how desperate 0:30:06.840 --> 0:30:08.600 you have to feel to be like give somebody your baby? 0:30:08.920 --> 0:30:12.520 Yeah, totally, Oh my god, we're joking, but this is 0:30:12.600 --> 0:30:14.200 so harrowing. 0:30:13.920 --> 0:30:16.560 I know. So so then the LFE boat dropped and 0:30:16.600 --> 0:30:18.480 it was such a long way down, and the lights 0:30:18.480 --> 0:30:20.760 of the decks like flashed past them, and then they 0:30:20.840 --> 0:30:23.640 hit the water right finally, remember that the impact was 0:30:23.680 --> 0:30:27.040 bone cracking, and the baby started to scream. A few 0:30:27.080 --> 0:30:30.040 members of the crew were in the boats had the 0:30:30.040 --> 0:30:33.120 oars and they started to pull right. The lifeboat moved 0:30:33.120 --> 0:30:35.800 into the darkness, away from the Titanic, but it was 0:30:35.840 --> 0:30:38.960 the Titanic was still things so badly now. One of 0:30:38.960 --> 0:30:41.040 the men rowing the boat had come from the firing 0:30:41.120 --> 0:30:43.520 rooms and violets said that his face was still blackened 0:30:43.560 --> 0:30:46.360 by cold dust and his eyes were super bloodshot. He 0:30:46.480 --> 0:30:48.680 was only wearing his thin shirt from the engine room, 0:30:48.840 --> 0:30:50.600 and there was nothing to protect them from the cold. 0:30:51.400 --> 0:30:54.080 Everyone of the lfeboat watched the lights of the Titanic 0:30:54.120 --> 0:30:57.040 go out. There were six rows of deck lights, than five, 0:30:57.400 --> 0:31:01.959 then four, then three, then the split in half and 0:31:02.000 --> 0:31:05.480 it started going down now. Violet, a good Catholic, closed 0:31:05.520 --> 0:31:07.760 her eyes and she prayed for the rest of the night. 0:31:07.840 --> 0:31:11.760 It was mostly the extreme cold, the Violet remembered. She 0:31:11.840 --> 0:31:14.400 wrapped the silk oiled around the baby and worried that 0:31:14.480 --> 0:31:19.120 it's crying was getting weaker and quieter. But don't worry, okay, 0:31:19.240 --> 0:31:21.240 I was just gonna spoil it for you. The baby survived, 0:31:21.280 --> 0:31:24.720 so don't forget. The water was chopping around them, and 0:31:24.760 --> 0:31:27.400 the boat was thrown between the waves, and Violet was 0:31:27.440 --> 0:31:29.800 ferociously determined that the baby was not going to die 0:31:29.840 --> 0:31:32.200 in her arms. As the sun came up, the survivors 0:31:32.200 --> 0:31:34.120 in the lifeboil were able to see tons of ice 0:31:34.160 --> 0:31:36.640 mountains floating around them. How crazy is that sight? 0:31:37.120 --> 0:31:39.120 That's nuts, so nuts. 0:31:39.160 --> 0:31:41.720 And finally, in the light of day, they also spotted 0:31:41.760 --> 0:31:45.440 a speck in the horizon. It was the ocean liner Karpathia. 0:31:46.120 --> 0:31:48.600 They had received the Titanic's distress called the night before, 0:31:48.680 --> 0:31:51.000 and they had arrived in time to pick up the lifeboats. 0:31:51.160 --> 0:31:52.480 Oh my god. 0:31:52.320 --> 0:31:54.160 That's also I mean, I know they're not we can't 0:31:54.160 --> 0:31:57.160 consider them lucky because of the sinking Titanic, but what 0:31:57.240 --> 0:31:58.840 a blessing that it only took them a. 0:31:58.920 --> 0:32:01.160 Night, you know, yeah, truly, truly. 0:32:01.800 --> 0:32:05.440 Also something I thought I have thought about whenever I 0:32:05.440 --> 0:32:09.160 think about the Titanic, which is kind often quite often, yeah, 0:32:09.400 --> 0:32:15.480 is when the boat went in the pull of the yeah, 0:32:15.520 --> 0:32:19.959 the water and just trying to clear the it's that that. 0:32:20.160 --> 0:32:20.800 Yeah, I don't know. 0:32:21.000 --> 0:32:24.479 And also just like the sound that I like both too, 0:32:24.600 --> 0:32:25.360 must make right. 0:32:26.120 --> 0:32:28.920 Gotten into three car accidents. That's why I don't live 0:32:28.920 --> 0:32:32.520 in LA anymore. Total three cars in five years. 0:32:32.680 --> 0:32:34.320 Thank god, you're okay, Yeah, thank you. 0:32:35.360 --> 0:32:37.600 Two of the cars were pet cruisers and one was 0:32:37.720 --> 0:32:39.680 a rental car on the way to pick up the 0:32:39.720 --> 0:32:40.800 second PT cruiser. 0:32:42.240 --> 0:32:45.040 Well, just because it was a life threatening car crash, 0:32:45.080 --> 0:32:47.400 I will make no comment. But no than in any 0:32:47.440 --> 0:32:50.560 of the circumstances, I would just have so many questions. 0:32:50.680 --> 0:32:51.160 But go on. 0:32:51.520 --> 0:32:54.520 But the reason I bring this up is I can 0:32:54.640 --> 0:32:59.320 conjure the sound of a car crash so easily. 0:32:59.480 --> 0:33:03.680 The stick, the well, the crinkling. Oh and the smell. 0:33:03.920 --> 0:33:07.200 Oh my god, it smells like burn to burn, rubber burnt. Yeah. 0:33:07.280 --> 0:33:11.000 Yeah, it's it's very it's singular, like I I God, 0:33:11.080 --> 0:33:12.720 if you smell that smell not good. 0:33:13.120 --> 0:33:17.080 Back to Violet, back to Violet and just so Alredie 0:33:17.120 --> 0:33:19.880 just knows, like we understand the tragedy of the Titanic. 0:33:19.920 --> 0:33:21.880 It's just like there is I don't know about Uzoe, 0:33:22.000 --> 0:33:24.120 but whenever I get nervous or there's anything tragic, I 0:33:24.160 --> 0:33:27.160 have to like find some lightness around it, because otherwise 0:33:27.160 --> 0:33:30.680 it's just too dark, you know. Yeah, So I left 0:33:30.680 --> 0:33:33.440 at funerals, is what I'm saying. So hire me as 0:33:33.480 --> 0:33:36.240 a stand up comedian for your funeral. Come to my funeral. 0:33:36.240 --> 0:33:39.200 Please come to my funeral. So the men in Violet's 0:33:39.240 --> 0:33:41.520 vote pulled hard on the yours, and they were the 0:33:41.640 --> 0:33:44.360 last to reach the rescue ship. When Violet and the 0:33:44.360 --> 0:33:46.320 others climbed out to the deck, the first thing that 0:33:46.360 --> 0:33:48.960 they were given was a glass of brandy. I mean, 0:33:49.120 --> 0:33:51.360 to be honest, that sounds pretty fantastic. Like what, I 0:33:51.360 --> 0:33:53.120 don't know, what would you want? It's your first thing 0:33:53.160 --> 0:33:58.480 after being rescued. Hmmm, kanji kanji? What's conch kanji is? 0:33:58.560 --> 0:34:04.440 It's it's like a kind of a warm rice porridge. 0:34:04.680 --> 0:34:06.320 Fuck yeah, I would want some college. I would like 0:34:06.320 --> 0:34:08.440 a soluble? Am I just being weird? Like I was 0:34:08.520 --> 0:34:11.920 just like, no, I don't know, but maybe that's I 0:34:11.960 --> 0:34:15.880 don't know, but also nutritious and dele warm, like I 0:34:15.920 --> 0:34:20.200 want superfood and I want to remain true to I 0:34:20.239 --> 0:34:22.319 want to remain true to my fitness goals, is what 0:34:22.400 --> 0:34:26.160 I want. So Violet was standing on the deck feeling 0:34:26.239 --> 0:34:28.560 days when suddenly a woman rushed up and grabbed the 0:34:28.600 --> 0:34:30.919 baby out of her arms. She turned and ran away 0:34:30.960 --> 0:34:33.480 into the crowd. We can only speculate and hope to 0:34:33.520 --> 0:34:37.840 God that that was the baby's mom, right, because I 0:34:37.880 --> 0:34:41.400 don't know, that was definitely the baby's mom, right, Please? Yeah, please, 0:34:51.040 --> 0:34:53.239 So the Titanic was the deadliest sinking of a ship 0:34:53.239 --> 0:34:55.359 in history up to that point. By the time it 0:34:55.440 --> 0:34:58.600 was over, sixty percent of the first class passenger survived. 0:34:58.960 --> 0:35:01.800 Fuck in the se in class, less than half managed 0:35:01.800 --> 0:35:05.880 to make it. Overall, thirteen hundred people died. Seven hundred 0:35:05.920 --> 0:35:10.160 of those were third class passengers. So fucking unfair. And 0:35:10.200 --> 0:35:11.880 you might think that the escaping of the record the 0:35:11.880 --> 0:35:14.439 Titanic and living to tell the tale would be enough 0:35:14.480 --> 0:35:16.960 to keep Violet Jessa from ever going to see again. 0:35:17.040 --> 0:35:21.000 But that's wrong. No, No, it's an abusive it's like 0:35:21.440 --> 0:35:23.640 a terrible relationship. It's a red flag. She just can't. 0:35:23.760 --> 0:35:28.279 She's gonna fix it, ye, viol Wood Banks ocean. Yeah, 0:35:28.440 --> 0:35:31.560 I'm going to fix the ocean, you guys. That is 0:35:31.600 --> 0:35:35.919 the confidence. Yeah, I love that confidence. She even said 0:35:35.920 --> 0:35:38.000 that she knew that she had to go back right 0:35:38.040 --> 0:35:40.239 away otherwise she would lose her nerve, and to be honest, 0:35:40.239 --> 0:35:43.120 fair enough, that makes sense to me. So just two 0:35:43.160 --> 0:35:45.839 weeks after she was finished giving her testimony about the wreck, 0:35:45.960 --> 0:35:48.520 she was back at it again. Well like, if you 0:35:48.640 --> 0:35:51.279 literally just survived the wreck of the Olympic Escape number 0:35:51.280 --> 0:35:53.799 one and then the Titanic escape, are you going back 0:35:53.840 --> 0:35:54.400 to sea or. 0:35:54.360 --> 0:35:56.640 Are you finally I'm taking two years at least. 0:35:56.880 --> 0:35:58.759 Yeah, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna go to Long 0:35:58.760 --> 0:36:02.239 Island and just on the ground it all good time, 0:36:02.719 --> 0:36:04.640 and look up at the stars and that's just going 0:36:04.680 --> 0:36:07.319 to be my job. What's even crazier, though, is that 0:36:07.400 --> 0:36:10.759 in nineteen sixteen, for your birthday, she even had the gun. 0:36:11.440 --> 0:36:13.319 She even had the guts to join the crew of 0:36:13.400 --> 0:36:16.479 the third replica model of the White star Line fleet, 0:36:16.760 --> 0:36:20.120 the Britannic. Can you believe she's just like, no, no, no, 0:36:20.160 --> 0:36:23.239 I'm going to get this right. She's the thing hard Yeah, well, 0:36:23.280 --> 0:36:24.960 the thing was basically no one in the world knew 0:36:24.960 --> 0:36:27.800 how to cruly ships like Violet did. Plus, the Britannic 0:36:27.880 --> 0:36:30.960 was commissioned as a wartime hospital ship because, of course, 0:36:31.080 --> 0:36:33.160 nineteen sixteen was in the middle of World War One, 0:36:33.400 --> 0:36:36.239 so Violet felt her own kind of patriotic duty to 0:36:36.239 --> 0:36:38.920 serve in the war, and that meant overcoming her fears 0:36:38.920 --> 0:36:41.120 and going back to sea to serve as a Red 0:36:41.160 --> 0:36:44.319 Cross nurse. On the latest copy of The Titanic, She's 0:36:44.360 --> 0:36:45.120 a fucking badass. 0:36:45.520 --> 0:36:46.800 She really is so brave. 0:36:47.000 --> 0:36:49.160 So when they went to see in nineteen sixteen, the 0:36:49.200 --> 0:36:52.400 crew of the hospital ship didn't realize how extremely dangerous 0:36:52.400 --> 0:36:56.479 their job was, and that brings us to escape number three. 0:36:57.719 --> 0:37:00.480 So in November that year, the Britannic was cruising the 0:37:00.520 --> 0:37:04.080 Agency to pick up a load of wounded soldiers. Violet 0:37:04.160 --> 0:37:06.520 was sitting down to breakfast with a crew. She says 0:37:06.520 --> 0:37:08.120 that she had a hot pot of tea in one 0:37:08.160 --> 0:37:10.799 hand and some butter in the other, when suddenly an 0:37:10.880 --> 0:37:14.600 explosion rocked the ship. That is a very tiny explosure. 0:37:14.640 --> 0:37:16.839 That was explosion rocked the ship. But to be honest, 0:37:16.840 --> 0:37:18.759 it was such a tiny little explosion that they were 0:37:18.760 --> 0:37:21.480 all fine in the quo. Just imagine she was like, 0:37:21.520 --> 0:37:24.440 excuse me, yeah, sorry, yeah, but part of me, the 0:37:24.480 --> 0:37:27.759 butter helps with my guys. I just imagine Violet being like, 0:37:27.880 --> 0:37:31.839 you gotta be fucking kidding me, like again, truly tru again. Yeah, yeah, 0:37:31.880 --> 0:37:35.000 the nurses brought today, not today, I'm gonna tame your 0:37:35.080 --> 0:37:40.240 fucking sea. Yeah, I can fix it. So the nurses 0:37:40.320 --> 0:37:42.760 rushed to gather their life for servers, but Violets started 0:37:42.760 --> 0:37:45.880 by helping a few of the others, and while everybody 0:37:45.920 --> 0:37:48.280 went to their lifeboats, Violet went back to her cabin. 0:37:48.520 --> 0:37:50.719 So you know, this wasn't Violet's first rodeo, so by 0:37:50.760 --> 0:37:53.120 now the sense of panic wasn't going to overwhelm her, 0:37:53.239 --> 0:37:55.200 and she was determined to take a few things with her. 0:37:55.400 --> 0:37:58.400 She grabbed her ring, a bible, her alarm clock, and 0:37:58.400 --> 0:38:01.600 a toothbrush. If your ship's going down, what are the 0:38:01.600 --> 0:38:02.720 things that you're gonna grab? 0:38:03.320 --> 0:38:06.399 Well, that's a silk duvet, a silk dovey of course. 0:38:06.400 --> 0:38:08.399 Oh yeah, she's learned from you, learned from others. 0:38:08.440 --> 0:38:12.640 Very well done, I think leave it all. 0:38:12.760 --> 0:38:15.520 Why is grabbing a fucking alarm clock? Though? What are 0:38:15.520 --> 0:38:18.960 you like? She's like just doothbrush. Yeah, she's like reminding 0:38:19.000 --> 0:38:20.920 me to brush my teeth if we're in long enough. 0:38:21.239 --> 0:38:24.960 I know, Ring, I guess maybe yeah, special ring. 0:38:25.040 --> 0:38:28.480 Yeah, she's like, this is my invisibility ring. Violet, you're 0:38:28.520 --> 0:38:31.120 reading too much h J R R. Tolken, which is 0:38:31.160 --> 0:38:32.759 not the time because Jerr Token was fighting in the 0:38:32.800 --> 0:38:36.640 war and I knew that. So Violet said that she 0:38:36.680 --> 0:38:39.000 made sure to get the toothbrush because of how much 0:38:39.000 --> 0:38:41.320 people made fun of her for not having one after 0:38:41.360 --> 0:38:44.279 the Titanic went down. I guess that's what happens to 0:38:44.280 --> 0:38:46.960 you when you're mostly surrounded by first class fucking assholes, 0:38:47.000 --> 0:38:47.160 you know. 0:38:47.840 --> 0:38:54.480 So they were making they were like nagging her about yeah. 0:38:54.080 --> 0:38:56.120 On the tugboat. 0:38:56.640 --> 0:38:59.920 On the tugboat day, there was a bigger ship, the 0:39:00.000 --> 0:39:04.840 Maker ship that rescue them from the right. So this 0:39:04.920 --> 0:39:07.120 is what happens, right, You're getting made fun of for 0:39:07.200 --> 0:39:09.560 not having toothrush when you're surrounded by assholes, and what 0:39:09.640 --> 0:39:11.680 a fucking weird thing to do. But she grabbed the toothbrush, 0:39:11.880 --> 0:39:13.239 which is kind of endearing. 0:39:13.200 --> 0:39:13.840 Shame, you know. 0:39:14.080 --> 0:39:16.760 Yeah, So by the time she reached the deck, Violet 0:39:16.800 --> 0:39:19.799 was the last one on board, and the officer there 0:39:19.920 --> 0:39:21.480 was surprised to see you, or because he thought that 0:39:21.520 --> 0:39:23.920 all the nurses had already been loaded into the lifeboats. 0:39:24.120 --> 0:39:26.799 What Violet was finally in lifeboats. She remembered that it 0:39:26.880 --> 0:39:30.239 dropped so fast that it was smashing lights and bouncing 0:39:30.280 --> 0:39:33.239 off the brass rims into portholes as it went down, 0:39:33.680 --> 0:39:35.680 and then it finally hit the water so hard that 0:39:35.719 --> 0:39:39.120 it knocked everyone dizzy. I'm just going to suggest that 0:39:39.120 --> 0:39:42.080 people start taking courses of how to lower lightboats and 0:39:42.120 --> 0:39:43.920 then not like such a greasy way. I'm just like, 0:39:44.320 --> 0:39:46.279 if it's me reading the signs, I mean, guys, you know, 0:39:46.320 --> 0:39:48.200 save yourselves, of course, but like you don't want to 0:39:48.280 --> 0:39:49.640 kill them on the way down. You know, I've seen 0:39:49.640 --> 0:39:52.399 Why Loadus season two. You know, getting off of boats 0:39:52.440 --> 0:39:55.920 is dangerous. But that still wasn't the worst thing that happened, 0:39:55.960 --> 0:40:01.000 you know, because by now, okay, this is really fucked up. 0:40:01.640 --> 0:40:03.719 By now, the front of the ship was dipping down, 0:40:04.040 --> 0:40:06.600 and that meant that the huge propeller was now lifting 0:40:06.680 --> 0:40:09.120 out of the water. At the back the ship was 0:40:09.160 --> 0:40:12.560 still moving forward too, so the propeller was now swinging 0:40:12.640 --> 0:40:16.279 forward toward the lifeboats and chopping the water, pulling them 0:40:16.360 --> 0:40:20.120 towards it. No, no, no, that's what you were saying. 0:40:20.320 --> 0:40:22.319 So she says that she looked back and saw other 0:40:22.360 --> 0:40:25.680 lifeboats and the people in them sucked into the propeller, and, 0:40:25.719 --> 0:40:30.880 in her words, minced so violently jumped out of the 0:40:30.920 --> 0:40:33.800 lifeboat into the water. She held her breath, she closed 0:40:33.800 --> 0:40:36.640 her eyes, and she felt herself get whipped into the 0:40:36.640 --> 0:40:41.359 propeller's spin. Twice, something hard crashed into her head. She 0:40:41.400 --> 0:40:43.160 had a life jacket on, but it was too small 0:40:43.200 --> 0:40:45.680 to carry her weight. The only thing that actually saved 0:40:45.719 --> 0:40:48.600 her was grabbing a second life jacket that went floating by. 0:40:49.480 --> 0:40:52.080 Once she was floating on the surface, Violet opened her eyes, 0:40:52.120 --> 0:40:54.320 but she says that she closed them again to block 0:40:54.320 --> 0:40:57.239 out the site of the ship sinking away. Eventually, she 0:40:57.280 --> 0:40:59.279 opened her eyes in time to see that the Britannic 0:40:59.400 --> 0:41:03.200 finally dove into the waves with a stern flying upward 0:41:03.280 --> 0:41:06.799 into the air, before the whole ship sank straight down. 0:41:08.400 --> 0:41:11.200 One crazy fucking thing here, She says that she never 0:41:11.320 --> 0:41:15.200 learned to swim, so you would think, sorry, are you okay? 0:41:15.200 --> 0:41:18.160 So let me bive check you're I'm. 0:41:17.960 --> 0:41:22.040 Just disturbed by this. This is a bomber. When you 0:41:22.120 --> 0:41:25.080 said they were minced. Yeah, did we need to use 0:41:25.160 --> 0:41:25.840 that burb? 0:41:27.600 --> 0:41:32.120 Listen? I didn't write her memoir, Okay, I knows now. 0:41:32.719 --> 0:41:34.000 It's just so crazy. 0:41:34.080 --> 0:41:36.040 I don't know if I would have known to jump 0:41:36.120 --> 0:41:38.080 out of the boat. 0:41:39.760 --> 0:41:42.319 My fory is that by the time she she swam 0:41:42.360 --> 0:41:45.000 far enough that by the time that the propeller was 0:41:45.040 --> 0:41:48.520 even pulling at them, that it was going more vertical. 0:41:49.040 --> 0:41:49.440 Wow. 0:41:49.600 --> 0:41:51.680 Also that you're never going to forget fucking seeing people 0:41:52.000 --> 0:41:55.440 get absolutely ravaged by It's. 0:41:55.320 --> 0:41:57.680 So crazy, like they thought that they were safe. 0:41:57.360 --> 0:42:01.640 Too, exactly. And you know when you were talking about 0:42:01.680 --> 0:42:04.279 the boats sinking and how that would pull you under, Yeah, 0:42:04.320 --> 0:42:06.120 I was also thinking that, But I was like, I'd 0:42:06.160 --> 0:42:08.640 never even thought about like a propeller also pulling you 0:42:08.680 --> 0:42:10.719 towards it. Like fuck, Like, how many fucking things do 0:42:10.760 --> 0:42:11.600 I have to worry about? 0:42:11.880 --> 0:42:12.280 Totally? 0:42:12.320 --> 0:42:15.239 I also like trying to like catch a wave on 0:42:15.320 --> 0:42:17.640 like a you know, like swimming out on a surfboard, 0:42:17.719 --> 0:42:21.960 and like I'm always humbled by how much exertion. 0:42:21.920 --> 0:42:24.160 You need to Oh my god, you know how much 0:42:24.280 --> 0:42:25.319 energy you need to exert to. 0:42:25.440 --> 0:42:28.280 Swim back out to the surfing. It's just like, yeah, 0:42:28.800 --> 0:42:31.080 I'm so inove and also surfing is one of those 0:42:31.120 --> 0:42:33.279 things that like really makes you respect the sea because like, 0:42:33.320 --> 0:42:35.279 no matter how good you are at it, like it's 0:42:35.320 --> 0:42:36.680 going to make you feel like a dumbass, you. 0:42:36.680 --> 0:42:37.880 Know, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 0:42:37.880 --> 0:42:39.960 So she floating on the water until the rescue boats 0:42:40.000 --> 0:42:41.799 reached her, and they brought her back to shore on 0:42:41.840 --> 0:42:44.560 a Greek island, and Violet learned that they had sailed 0:42:44.560 --> 0:42:48.000 into a string of underwater mines dropped by a German 0:42:48.080 --> 0:42:52.799 submarine the day before. Somehow, only twenty people were killed 0:42:52.840 --> 0:42:54.640 as the ship went down, and most of them were 0:42:54.680 --> 0:42:57.319 not killed by a mine. They were actually killed by 0:42:57.360 --> 0:43:01.520 the propellers. Violet had a frack skull. I'm sorry to 0:43:01.560 --> 0:43:02.960 do this to you, so, but I just need to 0:43:02.960 --> 0:43:05.480 tell you a story. I wish I could change the facts. 0:43:05.760 --> 0:43:08.040 I thought the escapes were gonna be like fun. 0:43:08.040 --> 0:43:10.920 You're like, so I escaped like this really weird relationship 0:43:10.920 --> 0:43:12.400 in Tabo. No, ma'am. 0:43:13.120 --> 0:43:15.560 She ractured skull. Do you think? What do you think? 0:43:15.600 --> 0:43:18.560 She hit probably a piece of the lifeboats, a piece 0:43:18.560 --> 0:43:22.440 of the boat really anything, and it hit her twice 0:43:22.520 --> 0:43:24.840 right and her leg was cut open to the bone. 0:43:25.040 --> 0:43:28.279 So it took her three full years to heal. Now. 0:43:28.320 --> 0:43:31.480 Fortunately for her, she had again escaped the White Star 0:43:31.600 --> 0:43:34.120 Line with her life. So listen, we're coming to the 0:43:34.200 --> 0:43:36.319 end of violet story here. And if you escape three 0:43:36.400 --> 0:43:39.000 second ship, would you ever, like, please let me out 0:43:39.040 --> 0:43:43.120 of this? Would you ever travel by sea again? No? 0:43:43.200 --> 0:43:44.799 But this bitch be crazy. 0:43:45.080 --> 0:43:47.120 She's like, like, let me get out back out there. 0:43:47.600 --> 0:43:49.959 She's like, she's like, I was close this time. Put 0:43:50.000 --> 0:43:53.680 me in coach. When it was finally time to go home, 0:43:54.000 --> 0:43:57.600 Violet decided to travel to London by land. Thank god. 0:43:58.440 --> 0:44:00.600 So in London, Violet took a job a bank and 0:44:00.680 --> 0:44:03.200 for a while she would at least she stopped tempting faate. 0:44:03.760 --> 0:44:06.319 Violet published a memoir in the nineteen thirties, when her 0:44:06.360 --> 0:44:09.040 memories of the White Star Line were still fresh now 0:44:09.080 --> 0:44:11.320 for a while, though her book didn't really get much attention. 0:44:11.800 --> 0:44:14.120 There are people interested in the Titanic, sure, but not 0:44:14.280 --> 0:44:16.600 very many of them were paying attention to the story 0:44:16.680 --> 0:44:19.200 of a stewardist. They are all about guys like John 0:44:19.280 --> 0:44:21.719 Jacob Astor and all the other fancy pants in the 0:44:21.719 --> 0:44:26.560 first class people. Oh, one crazy thing. Even after JJ 0:44:26.760 --> 0:44:28.680 died on the Titanic, we're that close that I just 0:44:28.680 --> 0:44:32.440 call him JJ. His family kept investing in the White 0:44:32.440 --> 0:44:35.760 Star line. His son was collecting stock certificates in nineteen 0:44:35.800 --> 0:44:38.920 thirty one, like the company killed him with their terrible 0:44:38.920 --> 0:44:41.120 fucking boat, and there was still money to be made. 0:44:41.239 --> 0:44:44.759 People are making crazy decisions, insane. 0:44:45.160 --> 0:44:48.160 The early nineteen hundreds was just fucking nuts. 0:44:48.320 --> 0:44:48.640 I know. 0:44:49.040 --> 0:44:53.520 It's maybe just the takeaways, like people have been crazy forever. 0:44:53.480 --> 0:44:56.239 Yeah, And I don't find comfort in that, but I 0:44:56.280 --> 0:44:58.839 find comfort in I find a comfort in the fact 0:44:58.880 --> 0:45:02.400 that people have been the same throughout history and in 0:45:02.440 --> 0:45:05.200 the sense of, like, not to get too deep on this, 0:45:05.239 --> 0:45:07.440 but like, my dad died when I was seventeen, and 0:45:07.480 --> 0:45:09.040 one of the things that helped me was that my 0:45:09.080 --> 0:45:11.400 teacher gave me this the Hamlet monologue to be or 0:45:11.440 --> 0:45:13.080 not to be right, And at first it made no 0:45:13.120 --> 0:45:14.400 fucking sense to me because it was Greek to me, 0:45:14.440 --> 0:45:16.000 and I'm like, wearing water, Mala, why the fuck are 0:45:16.000 --> 0:45:18.919 you giving me like old English books? But then once 0:45:18.960 --> 0:45:21.440 I started really paying attention to it, after a brief 0:45:21.440 --> 0:45:24.600 moment of mourning, I realized that this guy was talking 0:45:24.600 --> 0:45:27.320 about exactly what I was going through right five hundred 0:45:27.360 --> 0:45:30.399 years before me, and I found there's a certain sense 0:45:30.440 --> 0:45:32.560 of comfort in knowing that the human existence is not 0:45:32.600 --> 0:45:34.719 that different, you know, so that I'm not alone in 0:45:34.760 --> 0:45:37.200 this experience. And it was actually, incidentally what made me 0:45:37.239 --> 0:45:39.439 take acting seriously and moved to New York and study acting. 0:45:39.680 --> 0:45:41.960 Why we have a podcast? Oh my god, there we go. 0:45:42.200 --> 0:45:43.920 That's a very moving story. 0:45:44.560 --> 0:45:47.920 So Violet finally retired in nineteen fifty and moved herself 0:45:47.920 --> 0:45:50.400 into a little English college on the east coast of England. 0:45:50.640 --> 0:45:53.120 I love that for her. Do you have a retirement 0:45:53.320 --> 0:45:55.080 destination in mind? Oh? 0:45:55.160 --> 0:45:59.680 Man, I don't know. We've been talking about Ireland so much. 0:46:00.080 --> 0:46:00.239 Love. 0:46:00.800 --> 0:46:02.799 So now you're moving til we'll see, Like we'll check 0:46:02.840 --> 0:46:05.840 in next week. We're telling you about about the Caribbean. 0:46:05.880 --> 0:46:07.920 You're like, yeah, I just always felt like Jamaica was 0:46:07.960 --> 0:46:10.520 calling to me. What about like the Caribbean speaking It's 0:46:10.560 --> 0:46:13.279 just like calling to me anybody else see it. So 0:46:13.480 --> 0:46:15.759 if you survived the death traps made by the White 0:46:15.760 --> 0:46:18.319 Star Line enough times, I feel like you deserve a 0:46:18.320 --> 0:46:20.759 little seaside cottage. You know, the should just give it 0:46:20.800 --> 0:46:23.279 to you. Honestly, the White Star Line should have paid 0:46:23.280 --> 0:46:25.200 for it, you know, and maybe huh they would have, 0:46:25.440 --> 0:46:29.399 except they went bankrupt in nineteen thirty four on say 0:46:29.440 --> 0:46:35.080 it with me you birthday, that's right. So anyway, Violently 0:46:35.760 --> 0:46:38.000 finally gave herself permission to just, you know, just raise 0:46:38.000 --> 0:46:40.120 some chickens and put up her feet. And she lived 0:46:40.120 --> 0:46:42.799 there for almost twenty years, all the way into her eighties. Oh. 0:46:42.840 --> 0:46:46.800 In one little last little tidbit, one day, this is nuts. 0:46:47.080 --> 0:46:49.480 One day, a little while before she died, Violet got 0:46:49.480 --> 0:46:51.560 a phone call super late at night. That's the sound 0:46:51.560 --> 0:46:54.320 of a phone, in case you didn't know, and Violent 0:46:54.560 --> 0:46:56.600 Violet gets out of bad and answers it, and it 0:46:56.680 --> 0:47:01.600 was somebody saying they were from Jenny fucking Craig. Just no, 0:47:03.400 --> 0:47:04.240 so what are you really? 0:47:04.520 --> 0:47:05.359 I was with you? 0:47:05.840 --> 0:47:08.400 So Violet gets out of bed, she answers the phone. 0:47:08.480 --> 0:47:10.400 Right she hears the voice of a lady on the 0:47:10.400 --> 0:47:12.120 other end of the line who asked if she was 0:47:12.160 --> 0:47:14.840 Violet Jessep who had been on the Titanic, and Violin 0:47:14.960 --> 0:47:17.080 was like, yes, that was me. Who is this? The 0:47:17.120 --> 0:47:18.960 person on the other end of the phone was like, 0:47:19.440 --> 0:47:22.799 I am the baby you rescued, oh my, And then 0:47:22.840 --> 0:47:26.839 they just hung up and she never called again. Isn't 0:47:26.840 --> 0:47:30.640 that crazy? Is that all? She said, that's all she 0:47:30.719 --> 0:47:33.880 said and investing. Yahoo, I guess I don't fucking know. 0:47:34.800 --> 0:47:35.720 But isn't that wild? 0:47:36.640 --> 0:47:38.000 Yeah, so I guess maybe. 0:47:38.000 --> 0:47:41.840 Well I wish that Violet had been like, was the 0:47:41.880 --> 0:47:43.839 woman who grabs you out of my arms? Your mom? 0:47:44.080 --> 0:47:47.240 Yeah? Who is your mother? What does she look like? Yeah? 0:47:47.600 --> 0:47:49.440 And it's this crazy story and I really hope that 0:47:49.480 --> 0:47:50.960 it wasn't just somebody crane calling her. 0:47:51.160 --> 0:47:52.120 Yeah, me too. 0:47:52.239 --> 0:47:53.880 So the wreck of the Titanic was found on the 0:47:53.920 --> 0:47:57.480 ocean floor almost fifteen years after Violet died. The discovery 0:47:57.480 --> 0:47:59.400 of the wreck kicked off a new wave of interest 0:47:59.400 --> 0:48:01.680 in the ship what it was really like during the voyage, 0:48:01.760 --> 0:48:04.280 So that finally brought violet story the attention it deserved. 0:48:04.440 --> 0:48:06.880 Her book was published in nineteen eighty seven, and this 0:48:07.000 --> 0:48:09.360 time it became one of the defining stories of the 0:48:09.360 --> 0:48:12.640 Titanic by including what it was really like for normal 0:48:12.640 --> 0:48:15.680 people working there to survive. And so that's when Violet 0:48:15.760 --> 0:48:22.719 finally got her nickname, Miss Unsinkable. Miss Unsinkable, that's sexually 0:48:22.960 --> 0:48:28.160 her nickname. Now, anyway, that's our story. What do you think? 0:48:28.640 --> 0:48:32.080 Oh my god, the twists and turns so crazy. 0:48:32.160 --> 0:48:34.279 Right, Wow, we're like last one minute and I'm like 0:48:34.320 --> 0:48:36.359 fucking like so disturbed, and then I'm also like kind 0:48:36.360 --> 0:48:39.359 of hungry, Like just a lot went on. So you're 0:48:39.560 --> 0:48:42.440 fucking amazing, dude. And you're in so many different projects 0:48:42.480 --> 0:48:45.319 like The after Party Night Bitch and your Voice a 0:48:45.360 --> 0:48:49.000 Mermaid scientists are on Creature Commandos. So wow, yeah, listeners, 0:48:49.000 --> 0:48:52.640 go find her work asap. I want to go back 0:48:52.640 --> 0:48:55.080 to our producer, call Knillis, because he's had an entire 0:48:55.560 --> 0:48:57.799 episode to think about a New Sea shanty or an 0:48:57.840 --> 0:49:00.920 Irish song, an Irish song of any kind. So Carl, 0:49:01.239 --> 0:49:03.000 do you have something for me? Yes? 0:49:03.040 --> 0:49:07.239 I do, and here we go. Zoey Child was the 0:49:07.320 --> 0:49:09.960 Queen of podcast. Zoe Child is the Queen no Podcast. 0:49:10.040 --> 0:49:12.560 Zoe Child is the Queen no Podcast. There lying in 0:49:12.600 --> 0:49:16.680 the morning. Way hey enops? She rises way, hey enop, 0:49:16.760 --> 0:49:20.600 she rises way Hey enough she rises in the morning. 0:49:21.440 --> 0:49:25.160 Hey. Thank you, Carl, Thank you everybody. Zoe, thank you 0:49:25.200 --> 0:49:26.799 so much for being in this. 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