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hey weirdos I'm Ash and I'm Elina and this right here this little thing you're listening to
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[Music] morbid this is morbid I was trying to sound like Victoria White Lotus thank
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you there you go I think that's her name Parker Posey's character I have no idea
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I haven't watched that yet oh I know I don't you trying it takes me a long time for I don't know if it's your bag I
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don't every time someone mentions it I'm like maybe yeah I don't know why it doesn't I love it and I it's like a
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great show I would rem recommend I would recommend it to most I going to say I don't know if I don't know if you would
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love it you don't know if I like it no I mean maybe I'll give it a shot and see I
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mean go for it you like do it you're your own person you're allowed live your best life [ __ ] but I love I'm liking
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this season and I was just playing Alina a clip of uh Parker posies interview where she does all her weird voices her
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southern accent Tsunami Tsunami oh that was a good one that was really good thank you I liked that thank you so much
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uh no Ash has just gotten me into Yellow Jackets so I'm almost done with the first season and I dig it she's not yeah
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she's not current so don't give her any spoilers because I will come for you yeah don't give me spoilers I'm trying
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to I'm current yeah guys we're in the [ __ ] trenches the thick of it I'm trying to get there it takes us a long
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time to get through a show John and I so they're coming up on episode seven of the first season so we are there's so
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many things I want to say I was going to it's really good though I was going to signify something to the listeners but I
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can't I love Christina RI the fire of a thousand Sons I would lay down my life for yeah I love her so
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much that's that's all I can say about it but um also um I'm sure we're weeks out at this point but uh probably pretty
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cool that Tobias Forge was on the show huh do you guys understand how hard it was for both of us to keep that from you
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so hard she right now you're glowing I'm glowing it was so fun it was so fun he's
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always a fun guest he's delightful he's a very very nice man he is delightful and we got to have Doug Bradley on I
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love Doug congratulated me cuz he congratulated Tobias on his success he congratulated Elena on her book and he
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said I didn't congratulate you on anything Ash I said that's fine I just exist and he congratulated me on being
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wonderful wonderful he said thank you so much Doug Bradley forever I'll remember
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that for the rest of my life Doug and his wife Steph are two of my favorite people they they're just delightful
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people yeah uh but yeah that was a fun little like surprise we had cuz Tobias and Doug are are there so cuz he called
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him Toby through the whole thing Toby it was amazing Bradley's voice is the most
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calming voice heard in my life very soothing if I I I need to be like like can I call him when I'm having a panic
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attack you should be like Doug why not just like calm me down he reads books on YouTube oh yeah so if you ever want to
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hear Doug Bradley read a book boom you know you next time I have a panic attack just he can just read you a story there
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you go uh but it was a lot of fun we got to talk about the new album which has finally been announc skeleta um very
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cool and I got to hear it hear a little bit of a flex real early that's a big Flex I'm excited
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about you guys are going to love it and I can't wait to see everybody at the shows this year so we can all freak out
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together it's got a different vibe but it does but it's so [ __ ] it's cool I think it's a really cool Vibe it is so
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[ __ ] good and you guys have heard satanized so fun uh music video for that is awesome we got to see papa papa
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perpetua and we got some inside scoop on that music video so if you haven't listened to that episode you got to go
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listen yeah you got to listen little there's a cool fun fact in there there is Toby confirmed Toby confirmed if I
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may it was really cool though and you guys have been so sweet the comments on that video so far you guys are just
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really sweet cuz you know how excited I am about it everybody's just been really
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kind and I appreciate that as they should be Queen this is a win for all of us so and you're all going to [ __ ]
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love the new album and I can't wait to see you and hang out with you at the ghost shows cuz I love running into
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people who listen to the show at those as Ador says party party let's go so that's really fun we hope you dug it um
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2025 has been pretty sweet uh outside of the entire world's crumbling well you just I think it makes you in my own
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little bubble it's been it makes you cling harder to the things that are that are good that's the thing it's like the
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winds you got to celebrate the winds right now because like cuz they're few and [ __ ] far between outside of
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those it's it's it's rough so celebrate your wins yes and also be excited about the things you want to be excited about
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exactly I saw Elise Meyers who like again who doesn't love Elise Meers uh I saw her say something about how she
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almost got embarrassed because she got very excited about something and someone told her to like calm it down [ __ ] that
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she was like I almost got embarrassed and then I said [ __ ] that like I am very
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lucky to be excited about things so I'm going to continue to and why the [ __ ] are you on the planet like what does all
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of this even mean you're not excited so just like about things not all the time excited about things if if something
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excites you and gets you going and makes you excited be as excited as you want to
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be and don't feel embarrassed about it and don't make because if especially if other adults are trying to be like
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you're so weird you're so cringy that means that they've never had something to be that excited about and what we
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should feel is pity for them and sure that you are excited about the things you should be because you have earned
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your excitement what are we all everybody's just looking for something to be excited about what are we on this
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planet for if you can't get excited about [ __ ] I thought you know like get excited and get excited about whatever
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the [ __ ] you want to I'm excited and I hope you all have [ __ ] to be excited for
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yes I hope you do big small medium in between doesn't matter be I'm manifesting that for all of y'all yeah I
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got a new couch and I am [ __ ] stoked about it get excited about it go crazy I just start jumping on the couch Tom Cruz
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celebrate that you just slide through the living room in your underwear I just might I just
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might I love it was that Risky Business yeah risky business all all the Tom Cruz
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you know what's so funny I'm of the age that that just makes me think of um Rob's character and Never Been Kissed oh
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my God yeah that's also a great one a great movie but wow don't ever think too deeply about it no definitely don't um
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take it for what it is it's pretty horrifying when you think about it at SC yeah watching that as an adult for the
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first time you're like oh oh my God romance in love that's so cool and then I watched it as an adult for
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the first time like a few years ago and I was like this movie is dark as [ __ ] it
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is it's dark it's a horror movie at its core it's a horror movie that scene at the prom when they're
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dancing to the it's um it's Rasin Erase and Rewind I have been obsessed with that song
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since I was like 6 years old because of that movie that's a DI diabolical scene diabolic the thing that's the thing it's
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rough it's different but you know what some I'm going to talk about something pretty terrible right now well it is
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morbid um so coming off of a really um sneakily horrifying movie We're G to we're going to go into something that is
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equally sneakily as horrifying oh is it molasses what yep like gingerbread cooking masses like straight up molasses
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we're going to talk about Boston's great molass Fest flood of 1919 if you've ever
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been on a duck tour you know they mention it come on to Boston we'll tell you all about it we will oh my God and
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do a duck tour it's so fun do a duck tour if you come to Boston it's it's a lot of fun it you get a lot of nifty
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little history facts you learn a lot you do also do some of the W I'm not try we're not being paid by like the city of
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Boston to do this I'm just like if you're those walking tours too my gosh I love those a lot of them are fun they
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dress up like you know like they're from the period you know we about the yeah you know the revolution all the fun
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stuff do it it's fun study the revolution this was not great at all uh and it's like one of it's remembered and
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it's mentioned but I feel like it's lesser remembered and mentioned as we go on I didn't learn about this in school
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which is pretty Terri actually the first time I ever learned about this was on a
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duck tour yeah see and that's crazy the fact that we don't talk about this like it's a it's a wild story and it had a
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high death toll this was a tragic tragic event that happened in I don't know a lot about it yeah it was it caused an
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unbelievable damage to one of the city's oldest neighborhoods and it injured more
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than 150 people damn and 21 people died including children there were children that died and I mean not you know like
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in one life over the other but like it's awful yeah and again for for an event that's that was so like remarkable and
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very strange like it's a strange event a Molasses Flood like that's weird it's still kind of unknown exactly what
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caused it to happen it happened at the Purity uh the Purity Distilling Company um their molasses storage tank was the
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one that burst and dumped its contents across the North End and it really is one of Boston's most bizarre pieces of
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oh absolutely history and folklore to this day like it's so tragic and so bizarre Boston has like a lot of bizarre
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history actually we're pretty bizarre we're bizarre Boston we're bizar kid so by the final months of 1918 Boston like
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many other cities around the United States had been through it been through it that summer the influenza pandemic
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hit the city really hard and there were more than 200 deaths by the end of the season um thousands more were going to
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be lost before things were even under control it was really bad the pandemic had forced a lot of the theaters night
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clubs and restaurants to close down we've seen that before we've seen that repeat Y and the city's cemeteries had
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been forced to erect like circus tents essentially on the grounds in order to hide the backlog of unburied coffins
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from public view yeah that's brutal yeah it was it was as though there was nowhere in the city that somebody could
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go to just avoid reminders of tragedy loss and hardship it was not a good time yeah now in addition to the Calamity
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caused by the flu the end of World War I presented a lot of challenges to those whose businesses had been forced to kind
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of like pivot and reorient themselves to accommodate increased manufacturing needs of the military the United States
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industrial alcohol company the usia is what I'll call them um for example they had been one of the nation's largest
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producers of industrial alcohol for the military during the War years but with the demand for Munitions kind of
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dropping in the final months of the war the usia kind of found themselves in a position of having to again pivot the
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other way and develop new products and strategies just to remain in business now before the war a certain percentage
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of USA's output was grain alcohol and many on the company's board felt that the shift back to producing grain
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alcohol was precisely the type of quick pivot necessary to keep this company going at least for a short term yeah the
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problem though was that ret tooling the Cambridge plant to produce grain alcohol
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was going to take a lot of time and the production of the liquor itself took time and time was not something that a
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lot of people had it was not of the essence yeah it was in short supply at that time the Constitutional Amendment
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Banning the manufacturer and sales of alcohol in the US had passed both houses the previous December and was set to go
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into effect in January 1920 oh no that meant usia would have just a little more than a year of production
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before ceasing operations completely so they needed to get out all they could yeah they got to get out but the company
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you know determined that if they could distill a sufficient amount of alcohol in the first quarter they would have
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enough time to get it bottled and shipped out before prohibition went into effect thereby saving the company that
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November USA's company secretary Arthur gel placed a large order for molasses from Cuba um this was going to be
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scheduled to be delivered in mid janary anuary 1919 that gave gel and the company
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enough time to retrofit the Cambridge plant you know like get it ready to do this kind of production to [ __ ] the
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massive storage tank on Commercial Street which was on Boston's Warf and develop a schedule for round the-clock
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production once the Molasses actually arrived now gel had been integral to the the operations and really all the
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strategic planning of the company and had also been instrumental in guiding them through what was really like
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uncertain in the war years like he helped them kind of stay the course so if anyone could pull off the temporary
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re orientation of this plant it was going to be Jael maybe now to those who'd lost their jobs to the pandemic
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closures or you know so weird to hear that it really is like history really does repeat itself it surely does and so
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they either lost it to the the pandemic closures or they lost it for you know in
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the downturn of demand for manufacturing the USA's new production strategy even if it was temporary was a welcome piece
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of news to them because they were like I'll take anything at this point the retrofit of The Distillery and the
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resealing of the tank meant dozens if not hundreds of new job opportunities were now arising which is great and
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these were job opportunities for metal workers machine operators and plant hands all of whom were going to be
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working like Round the Clock over time to get everything done on this like really tight turnaround timeline still
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filling these positions wouldn't be as easy as it would be under normal circumstances because again the outbreak
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of the pandemic had kind of Knocked Out countless ordinary able-bodied workers so it's not like everybody was ready to
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jump back to work so gel was going to have to take what he could if he was going to have everything ready on time
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he just had to work with it so already we're seeing like uhoh yeah not great to start out like that and I'm sure this
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isn't shocking but unfortunately significant problems presented themselves almost immediately oh goody
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the North End tank which was to hold the Molasses when it arrived had been pretty
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hastily built in 1915 to meet the unexpected demands of War I feel like you don't want to hastily build a t a
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giant tank yeah any kind of tank really no because of this when the metal workers from Walter fields and Suns
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began cocking the seams of the steel tank the flaws were pretty apparent immediately according to author Steven
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um poo I believe it's poo I hope I'm saying his name correctly sounded like you said his good name his good name I
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don't want to ruin his good name Stephen I hope I'm saying your good name correctly uh so according to stevenh he
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said quote molasses leaked from several different seams squeezing through the rivets and sliding down the steel walls
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like lazy brown Rivers plopping onto the pl pavement below and spreading slowly into thick pools fun whenever the men
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would hose off the Tank's exterior be of dark molasses would just reappear almost
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immediately at the seams oh no we should probably empty that tank y'all yeah the
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job was frustrating and pretty arduous as well but finally just one day before Christmas the tank was finished and it
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was deemed ready for the Molasses shipment it's a Christmas miracle it's a Christmas miracle we can fill it with
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molasses on January 12th 1919 the ship which was called the uh Malo arrived in Boston Harbor from Cuba carrying one .3
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million gallons 600,000 gallons of which was going to be pumped into the USA's tank in the North
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End of molass blink blink blink 1.3 million gallons came over on that ship damn 600,000 gallons was going into that tank
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I don't think there's any way for me to actually appropriately conceive of that yeah I
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just can't my brain won't conceive of it no it's a lot of classes oh on one boat
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that came one ship it was like a big cargo ship Ian yeah of course but damn I know it's crazy uh so despite the
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freezing temperatures and even colder windchill cuz remember we're in Baston in January honey it's cold the Molasses
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which had been warmed in advance moved smoothly through the pump into the tank and by the following morning the
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shipment was completed probably smelled so good in there oh so good like gingerbread cookies yeah exactly with
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their job done the the ship left the docks headed for Brooklyn where they were going to deliver the remainder of
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the Molasses now not long after the ship had left the Haba the Haba residents and
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workers in the area of the warf began to hear some sounds they heard some loud cracking and pinging sounds that's never
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a sound you really want to hear so this was a sound the warm molasses was mixing
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with the cold thick molasses that was already in the tank oh now this was not entirely foreign to hear these kinds of
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sounds because since being built several years ear earlier locals had grown accustomed to like some metallic groans
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emanating from the tank as like different liquids settled yeah cuz it is a cold tank it's like you know you're
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going to hear some sound yeah and especially mixing the warm with the cold exactly what the locals didn't know
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though at this time was that the mix of old and new molasses increased the temperature inside the tank which set
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off the fermentation process and produced gases in that process oh [ __ ] with the tank now holding a whopping
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2.3 million gallons of molasses holy [ __ ] it was nearly at nearly at full capacity not even completely leaving
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very little room for expansion and it couldn't TR it was just trapping the gases in this small amount of head space
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remaining in the tank which is not good that's not good sometimes that happens with my sourdough starter and it sounds
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like there's a gas leak in my house there you go Drew and I were literally sitting on the couch one night and it
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was like I was like what the [ __ ] we literally searched everywhere we were like oh my God and it was my [ __ ]
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sour day starter damn yeah that's scary that was very scary that's why I can't do sourdough I'm too scared there's so
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many reasons you can't sourdough freaks it's feeding it it's the alen thinks it's too human it's that thing telling
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you it's hungry and I just I can't I can't do it man so the first few weeks of January in Boston like normal had
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been frigidly cold yep uh temperatures were as low as 2° but on the morning of the 15th as often happens we got a heat
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wave they awoke to find an unseasonably warm day it's just suddenly like oh we're in spring now and unseasonably
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warm for Boston in that time is like 48° we're like [ __ ] on flipflops babe holy
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[ __ ] uh and oh and it eventually reached into the 40s I called it we were there a
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true Bostonian that's it oh when it hits the 40s you're like you don't have to wear a jacket we're fine no I literally
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stopped wearing my jacket sweatshirt yes we're just we're here for a light sweater day I don't know how warm it is
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today but I've been rolling without a jacket it's gorgeous today gorgeous what let me I was just going to say we have
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43 degrees it's 43 Dees and I'm like it's gorgeous I'm like oh my God it's also so [ __ ] windy out today it is
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it's literally got like 90° 90 m per hour winds and we're like it's beautiful out yeah the wind gusts right now are 23
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M an hour sorry 45 but we saw the Sun so there's that yeah we always look for that so yeah it's it's it's been
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freezing in Boston but on this day the 15th of January it was unseasonably warm in the 40s
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everybody wanted to go out huh everyone's outside because it's gorgeous and you got to get some air on the warf
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the workers from usia the workers there began preparing for the days to come when the giant molasses tank would be
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emptied onto railroad cars and taken to Cambridge where it was going to be fermented in process this was going to
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be a big job so they were getting ready for it all right a little past 12:30 p.m. everyone on the warf was going
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about the usual business loading unloading cargo Milling about on lunch breaks normal thing after such a long
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period of freezing temperatures the warm weather you know like like we always say
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it it's the 40s it's early spring here so like let's go and many of the residents and workers like we were
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saying didn't want to miss a chance to be outside on such a lovely spring day CU you get so [ __ ] cooped up and
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everything's dry and you feel like you just you get Cabin Fever that's what everyone's outside yeah like you like we
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were saying everybody's outside it's a beautiful day then they heard the sounds oh God I can't The Sounds would freak me
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the [ __ ] out these are loud scary sounds sounds it's like apocalyptic sound it's
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awful and it was unlike anything they'd ever heard coming from the direction of the giant molasses tank later Boston
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police officer Frank mcmanis would descri that is I'm I could not let that go Frank oh Frank
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that's like yeah that's you know Frankie McMahon Ah that's my guy that's my gold
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boy you know Frankie mcmanis obsessed you know he would describe it as quote a machine gun likee rat tatat sound and an
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unearthly grinding and scraping a bleeding that sounded like the whale of a wounded Beast he should probably write
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something Frankie McManus if you don't write a book Frankie McManus is a goddamn um that's [ __ ] terrifying
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though cuz you're probably sitting there like what the [ __ ] is that did the side of
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the earth just get cracked I just scared the apocal like the The Four Horsemen were on their way and they like what's
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going on you hear the trumpets yeah oh I'm still waiting that idea scares the [ __ ] out of me that like happen
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sometimes though the trumpeting yeah like people hear that [ __ ] I think it's all fake personally but I but I
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appreciate it because it scares the [ __ ] out of me it's fake because otherwise
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the end of the world would have happened like it's definitely fake but like the videos whenever they used
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it was like we're hearing trumpeting in the sometimes people hear other things though that sound like it and it's still
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scary as [ __ ] yeah no matter what appreciate how terrifying it is I don't want to hear [ __ ] like that no I don't
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want that I don't that away from me uh Royal Albert Leman a Breakman for the Boston elevated railroad was driving the
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train when quote his ears filled with the scream of tearing steel oh God Northend resident Martin clowery heard a
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deep Rumble that woke him from his sleep Joseph Hiller was on his way back to work on the docks when he heard it and
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he felt the rumble when he looked in the direction of the harbor he quote saw the
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big tank open up and fall apart holy [ __ ] while the wall of molasses 50 ft high in the front rolled out over the
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ground with a seething hissing sound 50 feet high and if you've ever baked with molasses goo just a jar of molasses it
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is so viscous think of that and now think of like what that can do in it's like the blob it's literally
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like a horror movie well and I assume like I mean it's rushing at you first of all oh yeah it's going to asfixiate you
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a second you can't move and like you're it's like quicksand oh yeah you're stuck
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in it think of how sticky that is and thick oh my God how I don't how did they even clean that up I know so later that
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day the Boston Globe reported once the low rumbling sound was heard no one had a chance to escape oh that's horrifying
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the scene on the docks which was very calm very Serene a few minut minutes earlier had been thrown into total chaos
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and panic from his train car on the elevated tracks lhan who we talked about before looked out the window and saw
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quote a black mass bearing down on him darkening the sky Jesus Christ just before he felt the tracks buckle and the
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train begin to tip oh God in his bedroom on the third floor Martin clowy came to
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to several feet of molasses and he said it didn't dawn on me that it was molasses I was in but it was already all
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around me Martin he's in his apartment his broke through his [ __ ] oh my God Martin told a reporter from the globe I
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thought I was overboard a pile of wreckage was holding me down and a little way from me I saw my sister oh my
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God now the cloward's house had been hit by the Giant Wave of molasses and knocked from its
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foundation oh take that in it had been knocked a house was knocked from its foundation so he like he came to where
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like he was he was the whole house was sent into the elevated train line oh my God yeah Martin said it seemed as if the
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house had split in two when it hit the elevated structure and I was in one side and my people in the other what the [ __ ]
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the clar's house was just one of the many structures in the neighborhood that was completely demolished by the wave of
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molasses according to the globe the buildings seemed to cringe up as though they were made of
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pasteboard as Mary musco looked out her window and across the street to the clow's house she said she saw the entire
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building quote fly into the air oh my God yeah you can't even conceive of that you can't conceive of it no like it's so
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it's so gnarly what happened here moving as fast as 35 mph the wave of molasses that flooded
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the North End devast stated everything in its path of course it did six buildings in the immediate vicinity of
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the tank were completely gone just totally demolished flattened within seconds and one of the steel beams
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supporting the elevated Line train line was knocked down a steel beam the Public
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Public Works horses who were kept in the Stalls near the warf were either smothered in the flood or quote so
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severely injured as their Stables collapsed that they were shot by policemen to end their suffering oh that
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breaks my heart yeah oh I hate that on Commercial Street a man walking underneath the elevated train line was
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thrown from his feet and sent several feet into the air before landing hard on his face and hands oh God nearby Charles
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Whitby was driving his wagon down Commercial Street when he was struck by the wave he was thrown from the cart as
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he had flipped and it sent him into the break wall and killed his horse oh my God a few yards from him two train cars
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had been knocked from the tracks and thrown into nearby lamp post knocking them free from the ground so
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the lamp posts are flying like this is literally catastrophic disaster apocalyptic just things F houses trains
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cars flying everywh and it's probably not occurring to anyone in the moment that it's so they're probably just like
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what the [ __ ] is this seriously like how it would never occur to you that that's
00:27:49
molasses what the [ __ ] is this right at the diner on Commercial Street across from the warf Robert brunette was eating
00:27:56
lunch with his with his family when the tank burst he said there was a rumble no
00:28:01
roar or explosion that's what he told the Boston Post and he said I thought it was an elevated train until I heard a
00:28:06
swish as if a wind was rushing then it became dark I looked out the window and saw this great Black Wave coming it
00:28:14
didn't rush it just rolled slowly it seemed like the side of a mountain falling into space Oh god of course it
00:28:22
came quickly but we all had a chance to jump and run before the windows began to
00:28:27
crack then it poured molasses holy [ __ ] like what how do you even like look at that
00:28:36
and what do you how do you even do anything I'd be like what is happening right now be Frozen with fear yeah he
00:28:42
grabbed his family and they fled the restaurant but by the time they'd reached the front door the Molasses had
00:28:46
reached the top of the 14-step flight of stairs blocking the only exit oh no instead the brettes rushed up to the
00:28:54
roof where they watched in absolute horror as the entire neighborhood was overtaken by this flood just watched
00:29:02
from a roof now naturally those closest to the tanks suffered the worst of the damage a freight agent at the Boston and
00:29:10
Worcester Street Railway company hm dorly was working in one of the sheds about 15 ft from the tank when he heard
00:29:16
the giant loud massive crack and the ground shook he told Weir as you're saying that the wind is going and
00:29:23
shaking the house did dorly told the post the broken parts the tank missed our shed only by a matter of inches if
00:29:31
they had stuck it well I wouldn't be talking with you parts of the tank struck other houses and they crumpled
00:29:37
like eggs how we escaped I'm at a loss to explain little short of a miracle to say a house cracked like an crumbled
00:29:46
like an egg oh my God be Kingsley who was a worker at the base State Railway was equally as close to the tank when it
00:29:54
broke um he said where the tank stood there was no tank instead was a mighty wall of some kind a giant wave of
00:30:01
molasses and it was sweeping rapidly down upon the office gaining momentum every second I turned and ran into the
00:30:08
outer office calling a warning into the clerks there so he and his co-workers ran for the exit but it was too late
00:30:15
because a 15t wave of molasses hit the building and sent everyone and everything inside flying as the building
00:30:22
collapsed around them Jesus it wasn't just those working under the tank or near the tank that suffered though as
00:30:29
more than 2 million gallons of molasses was tearing through the very narrow streets it swept up everything people
00:30:38
animals everything hurling them several feet into the air just sucking them down
00:30:43
those not in the direct path of the flood still risked being hit by heavy Timbers and other debris that was flying
00:30:49
out of this flood when the cloward's house was toppled by the wave Martin's mother 65-year-old Bridget clowy was
00:30:57
picked up by the wave and thrown across the street oh my God Bridget landed hard
00:31:01
on the ground and then a large piece of the homes roof fell on top of her and crushed her to death oh my God it's
00:31:08
Unthinkable you live 64 years and that's how you go out yeah Jesus the other so violent oh it's awful it's brutal that's
00:31:17
the thing it's violent and what's crazy is this is sometimes looked at especially from like out people outside
00:31:23
of like Massachusetts or Boston as like oh the cre Mass like silly it used to smell like molasses in Boston afterwards
00:31:29
on hot days and it's like that's horrible cuz it's just you don't but nobody teaches anybody about it so it's
00:31:35
like you of course it sounds it sounds hilarious sounds hyperbolic the name the great Molasses Flood sounds hilarious it
00:31:41
sounds like it would be Whimsical and smell like ginger bread it sounds like it sounds like something that would
00:31:45
happen on [ __ ] Phineas and fur it does it just sounds silly yeah it wasn't it was very very very brutal it really
00:31:53
lost people people lost people that they loved and in horrible ways yeah the Other M of the clarity family made it
00:31:59
out of their house but it would be several hours before they learned the fate of their mother oh yeah the wave of
00:32:05
molasses struck the area hard but an equally serious problem was getting into the area to help those that were
00:32:12
affected by all of this people are just trapped because it's also just like it doesn't it Harden after a while too yeah
00:32:18
get like crusty and [ __ ] office our guy Frankie McManus he was he was working his usual beat you know Frankie's beat
00:32:25
of course I know Frank beats in the North End and was working there when the tank collapsed and he was the first to
00:32:31
report the disaster uh he made the report from an emergency call box 1 2 3 4 uh mcmanis reported an explosion on
00:32:39
the warf and requested fire Crews to be sent to the scene immediately roughly 15
00:32:44
minutes later mcmanis placed a second call this time from a different call box clarifying that the explosion had
00:32:51
destroyed the masses tank and released the entire contents into the street there were apparently 35 people injured
00:32:57
taking Tak to the relief Hospital in the ambulances of the police department wow
00:33:01
and mcmanis reported at the time that a onean 67-year-old John cerick was killed
00:33:07
at the time uh it would turn out that this was just the beginning of a very much larger uh death toll yeah in a
00:33:14
matter of just 5 minutes the entire five minutes the entire North End Waterfront
00:33:19
had been destroyed so much properly demolished and so much lives lost like it's so
00:33:28
tragic now that evening after everything had kind of settled a relief station for
00:33:34
those directly affected by the disaster was set up by in Hay Market Square MH rather than waste time taking the
00:33:40
injured across town to those ambulances ambulances and other vehicles were brought brought the injured to Hay
00:33:47
Market where you know they could just try to set up like some kind of field Hospital essentially um basically and
00:33:54
how they described it was struggling men covered from head to foot eyes and ears
00:33:58
and mouth with black molasses oh my God they received treatment there for various injuries in at least three cases
00:34:06
the victims were so heavily Co in molasses that it took some time in cleaning before emergency providers
00:34:12
realized they were already dead oh God cuz they were just so heavily coated now further complicating matters was the
00:34:20
large crowd that had gathered at the relief station in the hours after the tank collapse as soon as the news of the
00:34:25
disaster started making its way around the city City concerned residents many with friends and loved ones who worked
00:34:31
on the warf showed up at Hay Market looking for confirmation that they were safe right one report said some of these
00:34:38
remained throughout the afternoon waiting for definite news and long into the night these relatives continued to
00:34:43
come into the station for information oh that's so sad to think that people went
00:34:47
that long without knowing what happened yeah now this is really sad this next one among those who were seeking hor
00:34:55
horrific answers was the family of and Antonio distasio two North End kids who had been out on the warf on their school
00:35:03
lunch break to collect firewood for their father oh my God just before the tank collapsed Antonio was crouched
00:35:09
behind the tank watching as his sister was reprimanded by two railroad workers for playing near the docks the last
00:35:16
thing Antonio remembered was seeing the horrified looks on the men's faces as from behind Maria distasio they watched
00:35:24
the support beams under the Molasses tank Buckle oh God Antonio recalled seeing something large moving out of the
00:35:31
corner of his eye and then everything went black now the children's parents learned that Antonio had been at the
00:35:37
relief station but had since been taken to City hospital for treatment no one at
00:35:42
the relief station had seen or heard from Maria oh later they would learn the horrific fate of their daughter when the
00:35:50
tank broke open Maria had been standing directly in the path of the giant wave and was engulfed
00:35:56
immediately she was 10 years old oh my God 10 years old and she was immediately asphyxiated by the Molasses the only
00:36:05
thing that you can say there is at least it was immediate thank goodness but that
00:36:09
she didn't suffer at all I just can't even 10 years old and what's even even sadder a few hours later a firefighter
00:36:17
spotted Maria's quote tangled hair swirling in a sea of dark molasses and he pulled her from the liquid it was
00:36:25
immediately apparent that they could not save her right um Antonio on the other hand
00:36:31
was the least bit more fortunate he his injuries were severe he had a fractured skull and a concussion my god um but a
00:36:38
firefighter managed to grab him and pull him out of the Molasses before he was completely consumed by it so like thank
00:36:46
goodness for those firefighters seriously straight up Heroes yeah police and fire officials arrived to the scene
00:36:51
quickly following the call from officer mcmanis and having heard reports of an explosion were immediately confused by
00:36:58
like a lack of fire right um but they immediately began combing the neighborhood looking for survivors
00:37:04
pulling people from you know the Molasses from ruins of houses businesses warehouses anywhere they were just
00:37:09
trying to find anyone that survived this meanwhile the fire department began blasting the streets with water hoping
00:37:15
to wash the Molasses into the drains but the sheer quantity of this sugary thick
00:37:21
syrup yeah you're not just going to wash it away yeah it just wasn't working they
00:37:24
got a little bit but it's like it's going to be tedious and it's going to take a lot of time right while emergency
00:37:29
responders worked to pull people to safety and removed all the you know dangerous debris from the streets
00:37:35
medical workers soon arrived at the scene to provide emergency treatment Parker Hill hospital for example sent a
00:37:41
full surgical staff and more than 80 medical privates and 10 ambulances to provide first aid wow in another place
00:37:49
near the North End the nurses from the Metropolitan chapter of the Red Cross wasted no time waiting into kneee
00:37:56
molasses to reach injured survivors they just [ __ ] incredible yeah and they would carry them out on stretchers to
00:38:04
the Relief Center or nearby hospitals for treatment led by Mrs Carlile Emery within a half hour of the collapse
00:38:11
emer's team of Red Cross volunteers had mobilized more than a dozen ambulances wow and those who weren't involved in
00:38:18
the transport or treatment of injured people still stayed at the scene to provide information and just Comfort
00:38:23
victims or to serve coffee and meals to Firefighters and police officials Community came together in a
00:38:30
big way um these those working in the areas nearest to the tank were obviously likely the most in danger both during
00:38:38
and after the collapse and after the initial wave of the Molasses had moved inward from the docks the men working in
00:38:44
the freight houses of the base State Street Railway company they they had been hit really hard the flood had hit
00:38:51
the buildings even harder they had Knocked Down the Walls they' buried several workers under the debris I mean
00:38:57
it was like the the closer you got in the worse this this became right those who weren't pinned down by debris were
00:39:05
stranded they just couldn't get out I mean there's like a whole river of molasses you can't go swimming in it and
00:39:11
they could really do little to help their more seriously hurt co-workers so they were just kind of stranded and
00:39:17
helpless right um according to HP Palmer who was an accountant with Bay State tides of molasses were rushing in all
00:39:24
directions and people who heard the cries of the injured and dying were prevented from going to their aid by the
00:39:30
Molasses ultimately axmen would spend hours cutting away debris to reach the injured just to think that there was
00:39:37
Tides tides of molass tides of molasses going everywhere and they're hearing screams of people dying and injured and
00:39:44
like they can't help anybody they're just all you're like being stranded in like a the middle of the sea surrounded
00:39:50
by sharks yeah you just can't do anything yeah although the wave of molasses had subsided at this point
00:39:57
Rescuers had come to the scene many people were still in danger of being discovered Too Late by surv by uh
00:40:04
workers rescue workers the firemen of engine 31 for example were trapped inside the station when the wave hit my
00:40:11
God it knocked the building in on itself and trapped the firemen inside oh yeah while several were able to pull
00:40:18
themselves out of the rubble several others remained pinned down by debris with the tide of molasses slowly Rising
00:40:25
around them oh my God that's [ __ ] yeah that's horrific you can't oh my God the the building had collapsed in such a
00:40:35
way and at such an angle that the Molasses was able to just flow in you couldn't even write that in a movie it's
00:40:42
crazy so the Molasses can flow into this building that's collapsed on itself but
00:40:46
the only means of it flowing out was a small hole in the side of the building and as a result the men inside face the
00:40:53
very real possibility of just drowning and M being smothered which is what would happen
00:41:00
unal as one of the few who had freed himself firefighter Bill Conor worked tirelessly to keep the others calm as
00:41:08
the sticky molasses is just crawling over every inch of their bodies and threatening to kill them yeah and he's
00:41:13
staying there trying to calm his co-workers and trying to help at the relief center suffk County Medical
00:41:20
Examiner Dr George McGrath worked slowly and methodically to provide whatever support he could later he would describe
00:41:28
the injured bodies saying quote they looked as though they were covered in heavy oil skins their face of course
00:41:34
their faces of course were covered with molasses eyes and ears mouths and nose filled with it like God that's so awful
00:41:43
when they say smother they mean you smother yeah McGrath and the other medical providers spent much of their
00:41:49
time just washing the injured with sodium bicarbonate and hot water eventually revealing their identity and
00:41:56
the extent of their their injuries cuz like people would come in and they wouldn't even know what they were
00:42:00
injured with because they couldn't see it cuz they're cated yeah the extent of the damage caused by the collapse of the
00:42:05
Molasses vet was far-reaching and honestly difficult to articulate at this point the collapse of many buildings and
00:42:12
the destabilization of the warf was a very real danger to everyone on the scene everything was destabilized you
00:42:19
didn't know if you were standing on something that was going to collapse but that was really only one piece of the
00:42:25
whole Devastation larger pieces of infrastructure like the girds of the elevated train line had also collapsed
00:42:32
serving as an impediment to the cleanup efforts yeah in the days that followed huge teams of men worked slowly carrying
00:42:39
debris away or pulling the larger pieces away with trucks but it was slow going once the debris had been moved a second
00:42:46
team came in behind the first to just look for more injured survivors in some cases Rescuers ared just in time to
00:42:54
prevent somebody from being overtaken by the m like literally their head and face
00:43:00
barely in the surface and they would just get to them in time and this would be like days of somebody sitting in
00:43:06
molasses oh my God waiting to be either smothered to death or rescued and just sitting there being cognizant about the
00:43:12
entire time that this could be it oh in the days after the flood the men working
00:43:18
to clear the area would continue to find bodies among the ref wreckage as well by
00:43:22
the 18th the death toll had risen to 13 as those who are the most injured in the
00:43:27
flood succumbed to their injuries as well a day later two more bodies were discovered among the wreckage and they
00:43:33
said they were so battered and glazed over by the Molasses that identification was difficult oh that's awful among the
00:43:40
last to be discovered was 17-year-old Eric lared who was a Teamster from Charlestown who was working on the docks
00:43:47
when the tank collapsed lar had been working in one of the freight houses when the flood hit and his body was
00:43:52
wedged so tightly under the front axle of a car that workers had to jack up the truck and saw pieces of the wreckage
00:44:00
before they could retrieve the body Jesus Christ 17 years old it's really sad now ultimately it would take nearly
00:44:09
a week a full week to clear away most of the large debris with men working around
00:44:14
the clock spraying down the neighborhood with jets of water from fire trucks and
00:44:19
nearly every hydrant in the north and was being used I mean it was just like the Molasses had covered several blocks
00:44:25
of the city in depths of 2 to 3 fet so once the syrup had been washed away large teams of men would follow behind
00:44:32
scrubbing every surface with stiff bristle brushes to try to get it all CU it's just sticky [ __ ]
00:44:38
now by the time everything had been cleared away the flood was determined to have caused millions of dollars in
00:44:45
property and infrastructure damage imagine injured more than 150 people and killed the following 21 people 21 People
00:44:54
Patrick Breen William Brogan Bridget CL clowy Steven clowery John Callahan Maria
00:45:00
destasio William Duffy Peter Francis flamino gallerani Pascal lenosa Michael cinate James Kennedy Eric leair George
00:45:11
Ley James Lennon Ralph Martin James McMullen Caesar Nicolo Thomas Nunan Peter shaunessy and John cerick it's so
00:45:21
sad we have I mean from we have people in their 60s we have a 10-year-old we have a 17-year-old we
00:45:30
have some 20year olds we have or we have two 10-year-olds Pascal lenosa is also a
00:45:35
10-year-old uh Peter shaunessy is 18 years old Peter Cate is 78 years old oh my God yeah it's just it's devastating
00:45:43
it is it's tragic now once the initial shock and Trauma of the event had subsided and this you know they could
00:45:49
survey the damage what everyone wanted to know was what the fu how the [ __ ] did
00:45:55
this happen what happened like it was it sounds like it was just built too quickly and they didn't know
00:46:01
that so everybody's like what the [ __ ] happened did an explosion happened Looking Back Now yeah when he visited
00:46:06
the disaster Zone in the North End the day the tank collapsed mayor Andrew Peters told the Press quote Boston is
00:46:13
appalled at the terrible accident that occurred today in the North End on behalf of her citizens I extend to the
00:46:18
families of those who were injured and of those who lost their lives are most heartfelt sympathy An Occurrence of this
00:46:24
kind must not and cannot pass without AIG investigation to determine the cause of the explosion not only to prevent a
00:46:31
reoccurrence of such a frightful accident but to place the responsibility where it belongs yeah now Peter's
00:46:36
statement was exactly what one would have expected from a politician in the wake of a tragedy absolutely but it
00:46:42
turned out that determining the cause of the collapse and identifying a responsible party was going to be a
00:46:47
little more challenging than anyone had anticipated by the following day the Massachusetts District police's
00:46:54
explosive expert Walter wedger stated he was quote strongly inclined to the belief that there was an explosion
00:47:01
rather than just a collapse okay according to wedger quote if there was only a collapse fra fragments of the
00:47:07
tank would not have been hurled against the elevated structure and caused such wreckage there nor would the vehicle on
00:47:14
Commercial Street have been blown to atams I guess that makes sense while the Boston police conducted their
00:47:20
investigation the usia announced they would be conducting their own investigation under the direction of
00:47:26
Arthur gel and led by professors Arthur Arthur Gil and Arthur Miller so many Arthur I love that it's just a committee
00:47:34
of arth Arthurs and they were professors of Harvard and MIT respectively I mean I
00:47:39
believe them uh yeah so uh a representative from usia told the Press we feel sure there was no explosion and
00:47:46
if there was it was caused by some out outside force and not from within the tank well it could have been within the
00:47:52
tank because the tank is so pressurized exactly that's the thing like it I don't
00:47:56
think there has to be an outside explosion no in the weeks after that the USA's investigation focused on their
00:48:02
theory that quote an anarchist climbed a ladder and dropped a pipe bomb into the
00:48:07
fermentation vent and that's what caused the tank to explode that's quite the leap just an anarchist like what kind of
00:48:14
anarchist gets that I don't think I don't think most people would say you know what I'm going to do today I think
00:48:20
I'm going to explode the Molasses tank down the street strange like I don't know how that would occur to you even a
00:48:24
strange message to send exactly are you trying to say now the thing is as we can
00:48:30
make we can be like that's silly business but it wasn't totally out of the realm of possibility okay because in
00:48:36
the early Decades of the 20th century anarchists around the United States did use bombings or the threat of bombings
00:48:42
to take a stand against anti-immigration politicians and corporations they believed were exploiting
00:48:48
workers so like we it's silly to like think about like somebody climbing a l his tank and throwing a pipe bomb but
00:48:56
you can see why they at least threw the theory out there yeah yeah because also they just don't understand how this is
00:49:02
all working well you got to start somewhere exactly um so usia attorney Henry Dolan said we know beyond question
00:49:10
that the tank was not weak and you have to remember they're saving their own ass
00:49:14
yeah cuz that's a whole they lie maybe it just broke and burst they have to blame it on something like an anarchist
00:49:21
cling thing he said we know that an examination was made of the outside of the base of the structure a few minutes
00:49:27
before its collapse and he insisted that whatever happened it was not the company's fault despite usia certainty
00:49:35
that they were not to blame district attorney Joseph Peltier took the Cur the case to the grand jury seeking an
00:49:41
indictment against usia for 19 counts of manslaughter clearly believing they were
00:49:47
to blame for the disaster I kind of get it on February 13th the grand jury reviewed the case and found that while
00:49:53
the tank did not completely comply with the law fixing a minimum factor of safety there was insufficient evidence
00:50:00
to justify the indictment um yeah okay simply put the court and the states investigators
00:50:07
rejected USA's bomb theory and believed that shoddy craftsmanship was at least partially to blame for the tank collapse
00:50:14
but that there wasn't enough evidence to prove it so they said no we don't think
00:50:18
somebody threw a bomb into the thing we do think there was some structural issues but we don't think there was
00:50:24
enough to prove that I would feel I feel like the um entire Molasses Flood should
00:50:30
be enough evidence to prove that some of those faulty bits there had uh like that that's all you really need
00:50:38
well and in the months and years that followed the courts would rule against the company in civil cases ordering them
00:50:44
to pay millions in Damages yeah so they basically yeah the biggest problem investigators had when it came to
00:50:51
identifying the party or parties responsible for the collapse was that it was impossible to say with certain what
00:50:57
had caused the tank to explode right in fact to this day it's still pretty unclear what precisely happened to
00:51:03
unleash that giant of an explosion though there were several plausible theories the most prominent and most
00:51:10
likely scenario and the one that investigators had considered in their early investigation is that the dramatic
00:51:16
increase in warm weather triggered the fermentation process causing a buildup of carbon dioxide inside the small head
00:51:22
space of the tank yeah and if the tank had been properly constructed and held to high standards of safety it likely
00:51:29
could have withstood that buildup of gases but in gel's race to beat prohibition he had allowed the tank to B
00:51:37
build pretty quickly and kind of poorly and under the circumstances the tank walls were unable to withstand that
00:51:43
pressure build yeah and when it became too much the entire structure just exploded I mean that's what pressure
00:51:48
does that makes the most sense pressure cooker there's two million 2 million right 2.3 million 2.3 million gallons
00:51:57
gallons of [ __ ] molasses in there so it's not like it just exploded and like some molasses oozed out it makes sense
00:52:03
that that much chaos exactly that that much like tragedy fell cuz molasses is also a thick viscous liquid if it's
00:52:11
exploding it's taken out everything cuz it's thick it's got some Mass behind it it's not like this is just something
00:52:18
with nothing behind it it's not like a water tank yeah like even and even that would cause damage like and you look at
00:52:24
how thick molasses is in comparison to yeah of course and heavy exactly and just think of a pressure cooker how much
00:52:32
damages those can do I mean think of it that's essentially what it was it was a pressor cooker I was just going to say
00:52:38
now when considering the entire scenario author Steven poo wrote my his good name
00:52:45
good name author Steven with his good name I don't want to mess up his good name no he wrote the substance itself
00:52:51
gives the entire event an unusual Whimsical quality yes allowing for it to easily fall into the category of
00:52:57
folklore that's you know like half told half seriously year to year uh in fact one of the more light-hearted facts of
00:53:05
the story is that for decades After the flood the North End still smelled of molasses on warm days and people will
00:53:11
say even now they'll be like oh even now on warm days you can just smell molasses
00:53:15
and it's like also you can't um but imagine how triggering that was for people who had
00:53:22
lost a loved one or like themselves been injured yeah yeah and that's the thing and it's like so
00:53:29
that was always like the thing that was like a funny thing like oh on warm days you can still smell the ELA so much
00:53:34
leaked into the landscape but like the reality of the flood was anything but humorous or whimsical it just wasn't no
00:53:41
uh because of its chemical makeup molasses like we said is real thick real goopy and given the right amount of
00:53:48
stress stress and pressure it can pick up momentum very quickly and move at insane speeds M 35 M an hour like you
00:53:56
you drive in your car at that [ __ ] speed Ferris Jaber wrote in Scientific American because of this physical
00:54:03
property a wave of molasses is even more devastating than a typical tsunami wow yeah wow yep like we said moving at
00:54:12
speeds 35 like nearly 35 miles hour the flood grabbed everything in its path because it was also sticky could grab
00:54:19
onto things Y and it would toss it into the air or crush it under the immense weight of the liquid itself and once
00:54:26
it's settled the liquid return to a more gelatinous state which would trap people
00:54:30
animals and property in like an iron vice grip oh even more terrifying is the fact that because of its viscosity it's
00:54:38
almost impossible to move much less swim in molasses right so if you found yourself dragged under the wave you
00:54:45
would have died a terrible death cuz you couldn't move exactly you were just being eaten by it essentially it is only
00:54:53
due to the incline of cops Hill that the flood slowed down at all like thank goodness there was an incline because if
00:55:00
the landscape had been a downhill slope the death toll would have been considerably higher it would have taken
00:55:05
out hundreds of people despite the horror of this whole thing there was some good that came out of it at the
00:55:12
time of the flood Americans were pretty accustomed to courts ruling in favor of corporate interests over those of the
00:55:17
people and as such most people likely assumed no one would be held accountable for the disaster even though the
00:55:24
evidence was strongly suggesting lack safety protocols and sloppy work but to everyone's great surprise bostonians
00:55:31
soon learn that sometimes the courts will do the right thing all right in the yearslong civil suits that followed
00:55:37
judge hi Ogden repeatedly ruled in favor of victims over the usia hell yeah frequently awarding more to those
00:55:45
victims whose suffering had been substantial too Ogden basically awarded $6,000 or nearly 600,000 today wow to
00:55:55
people who were killed immediately like 10-year-old Maria Daio cuz she was killed instantly so he would award that
00:56:01
to her family they deserve um and according to my my my good man Steven good man good name he said then he gave
00:56:10
$7,500 to people who suffered before they died like George Ley he was trapped in the basement of a firehouse in this
00:56:17
little 18inch crawl space and tried to keep his head above Molasses for 4 hours before he was expiated oh
00:56:26
my God what a horrific way to die horrific horrific you can't put like a price on that oh no you can't but the
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disaster also had a significant influence on the realm of Public Safety both in Massachusetts and around the
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country uh following the flood new regulations were put in place that you know a lot it did a lot but it would
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also require Architects and Engineers to show their work and get their plans signed off on by building inspectors and
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safety regul that's crazy that that wasn't already a thing that was happening my good man Steven said The
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Great Boston Molasses Flood did for building construction standards what the Coconut Grove Fire did for fire
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standards it's so wild because the entire time we've been talking about the Molasses blood I've been thinking about
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the Coconut Grove CU that was also a devastating event that changed the history of Boston of course yeah now all
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those who experienced the Molasses Flood firsthand have since died in these days
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the story kind of rare comes up in discussion of Boston's history it really doesn't but thanks to my good men Steven
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poo and local journalists those who lost their lives in the great Molasses Flood
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of 1919 remain remembered today thankfully because they won't let them forget no
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that's an important story to tell and it's um Steph P pello I think it is I believe it is I think that's what you
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had said I I said it around I apologize if I said it wrong my good man stevenh wow we we're linking all his sources in
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the show notes so you can definitely go go take a look at what he has to say go support my good man Steven with his good
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name wow that is a tragic [ __ ] tale D it's a very tragic tale and it really is
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interesting though wild that they don't there should be in Massachusetts at the very least it should be a whole section
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in history I mean think of how much time which again we should we spend on the Salem Witch Trials because we're in the
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area and I never ever learned about this teach people about this because it's also it's a good lesson in how doing
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things quickly and cutting Corners yeah can lead to Absolute catastrophe yeah disastrous events yeah wow so that is
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the tale of the great Molasses Flood in Boston well thank you so much for that as tragic as it was it was definitely
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fascinating tale little yeah you can read up more about it yeah a little deviation from like murder which is
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always nice yeah it's just it's it's a different kind of tragedy one that is interesting and needs to be talked about
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more yeah cuz those people need to be yeah for sure but as always we hope you continue no what we hope you keep
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listening and we hope you keep it weird you know how weird to keep it yeah just don't cut Corners no don't H whole
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ass everything don't half ass things yeah [Music] [Music] [Music]