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This is an American history podcast where each week I read a story from American history.

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to the part one.

Gareth Reynolds, who knows what the topic is going to be about.

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Each week,

I read a story from American history.

Well, this week, to my friend and my best friend, Dave Anthony.

Hey.

Okay.

All right, let's just jump in.

Well, it's the same date.

It's May 30th.

May 31st,

1889.

Year

of Indiana Jones's dad, probably.

Wow.

Oh.

Wow.

That's intense.

Yeah, and I thought about saying that for years.

Yeah.

Yep.

Yep.

Okay.

So do you remember where we left off, Dave?

Do you remember what was happening?

The dam problem.

The dam has gone.

Yeah.

So the dam at the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club just fucking.

The shit dam, anyway.

Well,

excuse me.

The sluice is loose.

Okay, so look.

It was absolute fucking bedlam.

The impact of the flood was so much worse because of all the things the flood was kind of picking up along the way.

Sometimes there was so much debris that the flood would actually stop

only to build up bigger because of the kind of debris bulge.

So it was making dams as it went down.

It was kind of self-damning.

Self-damning.

And then it would like projectile itself out, picking up steam, making the flood bigger.

So, and then, and then that would just mean that the flood would go and then it would pick up more debris because it was moving faster.

That's cool.

And, you know, for the most part, it's going down the Conama riverbed.

So it's kind of just like, you know, shredding all these places down the riverbed, but it's super over.

people.

I don't know.

We'll see.

You could see the trees and the telegraph poles flying through it.

Bridges, if it were to hit one, would hold it for about 10 minutes sometimes, but then eventually would give out.

And then the flood would have nice big chunks of bridge in it too.

Mineral Point was a small city with about 30 houses along a single street.

It was parallel with the river and got absolutely hammered first.

By the time the flood had gone through, it didn't look like there was ever a city there at all.

That's kind of weak.

Yeah.

I mean, it's...

Make a stand.

Are you talking to the property?

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

That's interesting.

That's a take.

This is a podcast about property.

This episode or this show?

Just in general, it's about property and property rights and

good property.

I do feel like you kind of keep saying what this podcast, like this is...

It's a real estate podcast.

Okay.

Anyway, the telegram that we discussed in episode ⁇ in episode ⁇ in episode 1 that was sent to Mineral Point.

Let me just say, what was the name of the city that just got wiped out?

Mineral Point.

Mineral Point.

Right now,

right after this flood passes, there's a lot of good land up for grabs and sale.

And you you can move in and you can get some really good deals right okay that just seems I don't okay

so so there was a telegram sent by Emma Ehrenfeld if you remember in episode one she finally sent the telegram but the operator in Mineral Point never got it I mean he was forced to leave his tower he said the first warning he received was seeing people floating by in their houses which is a bad

that's late it's better than a telegram

because it kind of lets lets you you go oh okay then there's something bad this there might be a flood yeah you're keyed into it at that point

what time is it it's the middle of the night right no no it's it's like it's like early afternoon right now it's like maybe three two three something like that

um

so it was all gone uh 16 people died also

um Emma Ehrenfeld, who had sent the telegraph to Mineral Point and other places, also didn't survive the flood.

She didn't.

And how many lots are we talking about?

Lots?

Like housing lots.

I'm not going to get into the property stuff.

I just.

It's just, it's a property podcast.

It really isn't.

And you just, I mean, we did a first episode and it wasn't a property.

So it feels like you're just saying that

now.

So

in the recounts, after Mineral Point was gone, one man explained a conversation between him and another resident.

So this guy says, quote, he says Mineral Point is all swept away and the people swept away and my whole family is gone, end quote.

I says, quote, is is that so?

End quote.

And I says, do you know anything of my family?

And he says, quote, no, I don't.

I think they were all drowned.

End quote.

So that's a

catch-up.

It's a very brief conversation.

I think that's why it ended up in here.

It seemed very

conversational.

Like, did you see the game last night?

Yeah.

See the game?

Wow, it was down to a field goal in overtime.

That was close, huh?

Oh, okay.

All right.

I guess

we're going to get a new wife.

See you later.

So next was East Kahnema, where the rail yard was located.

There were nine locomotives that were stored there on that day, and then there were an additional 20 that were waiting on the tracks for the weather to pass.

So now we're talking about property.

If you want to get into it, we are talking, yeah, this is rich guy stuff.

This is, there you go.

So many of the stranded passengers had left the trains due to the delay, but some of them just stayed on the trains to wait it out.

I would have 100% been a stay-on-train, wait it out kind of guy.

Engineer John Hess was pulling seven cars into town on the Bellest train when he was stopped by a flagman who told him.

Hess said, quote, I don't suppose we have laid there more than 20 minutes until we heard the flood coming.

We didn't see it, but we heard the noise of it coming.

It was like a hurricane through wooded country.

Which is a lot of it is about how people heard it first.

People heard, is that regular?

Sure.

Okay.

The first thing he could see were trees on the move more than a flood.

So they were all very confused when they would first see it because it did just look like a forest was attacking.

Sure.

And then the water, they would eventually see the water chaser.

There was also a

something they like.

The first sign of water they saw was actually a mist.

They called it, I think, the black mist.

So the first thing they saw was like a Tim Burton movie kind of coming at them, like a sleepy hollow cool.

Yeah, very cool.

Very cool at first, but then you go, go oh what the you know and then then you well then you're talking to a guy and you're going uh you know hey uh

do you know anything of my family and he's going oh no there's it's over missed first the here's me telling the story first the mist came

and then

i said i said whoa and then uh your family was gone yeah i hears me you be him okay

I hears me.

No, you go, did you hear anything of my family?

No, no, no.

Did you hear anything about my family?

No, they'll be fine.

Oh, and then I go home.

I oh man, I hope he fuck someone else tells him.

Okay, so all right.

So the first thing he sees are these trees on the move.

The water at this point is coming in at 75 feet high.

That's very high.

It's very high, and it really fluctuates throughout this.

So it's hard to fully know.

I think it was changing in heights again based on where it was sort of stopping, where it was like kind of hitting into a bridge and shit like that.

So there were,

it fluctuates in height.

For people in other countries, it's like 23 meters.

Yeah.

And for people in England, it's noin twiggies.

Don't ever say that again.

Okay.

So

Hess sees this coming.

It's hot.

It's hot, right?

I'm okay.

You're hot?

Yeah, but I might.

Lose the shirt.

I might have.

Where's the shirt?

I have a tropical disease of some sort.

A loop bit you.

Yeah.

Yeah, okay.

So, okay, so the trees are moving.

He sees it coming.

And Hess sees this.

And remember, he's on his train still.

And like an action hero, Hess turns to another engineer and said, quote, the leg's broke.

That's, he's right.

He's right.

And Hess jumped into action and shouted that all the men and women around needed to run, but he stayed on the train.

Why?

Because you don't abandon your train.

Because Hess was on a mission.

A whistle mission.

Oh, he's going to whistle the...

A wishing.

So

he's going to whistle

to warn people, but is he going to drive the train?

Is he going to take off while whistling?

Do we have a Paul Revere situation happening?

Buddy.

And let's just also add that it wasn't really Paul Revere.

There was someone else on that.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

Hey, no, no, no, no, no, I'm teaching.

I'm teaching.

I'm teaching.

Stop.

Stop, stop, stop.

Some context.

The train whistle was actually very important to an engineer.

Engineers would play around with their tune, their tone, their tenor to make sure it sounded just right right for them.

It was like a logo, but you know, a whistle.

The whistle was part of the man, the job, the passion.

Why, gosh, it mattered as much as the train he conducted.

Okay?

So anyways...

Here comes Dave Anthony.

So anyways, Hess gets on the train and he gets the train steaming and moving.

And not only was he holding his whistle down physically, but he eventually tied it down with rope.

And what Hess was doing was exactly what you said.

He was trying to Paul Revere even though he's a fake trying to warn as many people

train moves slow the train moves slow I mean it's a jug good juggernaut

well he doesn't have much time so it's not like he's you know I don't know how many people he saved necessarily but yes it's you know it's not like it's like he's not flooring a like a Tesla or something.

It's on fire.

So what he was doing was trying to warn as many people as possible that could hear it.

He said, quote, I didn't know what else to do.

I didn't see what else I could do, end quote.

And by net it worked.

The Hess whistle kept going as he got closer to Kahnema, where he lived, and people heard it and ran for higher elevation and somewhere sighted.

How did they know just hearing the whistle that they had to run for higher ground?

So they are so familiar with what a train whistle does.

So if a train whistle is doing...

Like you hear like a chi-chi.

Yeah, but if this one's going, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

Well, it's really going like,

and like there's a flood.

Like they, like, they're,

there's a huge storm.

So people, like, freak out.

So people.

So these people are fucking weirdos.

These people are train weirdos.

I don't know what to tell you.

And

then so he takes the train all the way to where he lives.

Yeah, at his house.

And literally, and he just jumps off it.

And he gets to his house just in the nick of time.

He saved countless lives there in Kahnema and in Woodvale.

This is like the guy who saved all his people's lives in Alphadena a couple months ago.

Never heard of him.

What did he do?

He's this random he's just he's this dude who graduated from uh like a

uh a

climate some sort of climate you know degree and he and i've always followed him and he's just talks about going up in the park and altadena and stuff and in the middle of the night he put out on a facebook group he said everybody get out

and that was like two hours before the fire hit he saved like

many lives.

It's like his Facebook's a train whistle.

Right.

And he apparently on Facebook he he typed in

That's why because people hear that and they know yeah, and so it was just T O O

O T on lag train.

I'm gonna turn on the AC.

You keep okay.

All right, okay, all right.

So full trains

and pretzel track were now in the floodwaters ahead.

So the the you know, the train station gets pretty much demolished.

Some survive.

Some of the people on the trains obviously don't make it.

Some do.

Now,

there's a pretty big lot there.

So I think, you know, get in there.

Sears or larger company.

It's a good location.

This is a long time ago.

And this is a while ago.

Maybe a movie theater.

This is a while ago.

I don't think they had that.

Yeah, but it's a good piece of land.

Okay.

Some of the trains were Pullman's, just so you know, just for a callback.

Okay, so now it's 4:07.

It's been an hour.

Yeah.

No, it's been a little longer.

Okay.

And now.

There's two towns in an hour.

No, more than a few.

There's a few towns, but those are the main ones.

So

at 407, I mean, it's a river.

So it's like it is going for a while going down.

It's kind of like, I think they call it.

A river.

That's what it is.

Yeah.

It's a river.

I can't remember what they call it.

It's not horseshoeing, but something like that where like as it would get to the...

Sure, it sloshes.

Okay, so at 4.07,

it was time for Johnstown.

All right.

Oh, no, Wade, that's bad.

It's all bad.

The flood hit in three different directions through the city.

About 40 miles per hour at this point.

How many people are living there in Johnstown?

There's quite a lot.

I mean, thousands.

Okay.

Yeah.

So 40 miles per hour, truly a wall of water consuming everything it got near.

Cambria Iron from, remember Daniel Morrell, his company,

whatever.

There we go.

So Cambria Iron, the Daniel Morrell company we talked about in the first one, the guy with the neck beard that people really enjoyed.

Yeah, the

visual.

He's a great guy.

Cambrie Iron had been fulfilling some orders for barbed wire at the time that it got totally leveled by the flood.

I don't like this.

So the flood now had barbed wire in it, too.

Oh, my God.

Which is good because you want barbed wire, you want trains, you want all that stuff in your flood, you want bridges.

So, like we said, so now there's barbed wire, trains, parts of the bridge, and the flood.

It's great.

It's a lot of stuff.

It's a lot of stuff.

It's like a Pier 1 imports.

Like if I'm downstream, I'm just going to probably not get in it.

I also would think about the people who could kind of dig in there for stuff they've wanted.

Yeah.

Like if you want barbed wire, This could be great for you.

Or a train.

Or a train.

I mean, if your guy was, I mean, most of us pine for trains, especially back then.

It's all up for grabs.

Yeah, no, you could just be a melon real quick.

The waters were also picking up houses.

In Johnstown, the waters, so like they were they were like demolishing houses before, but in Johnstown the waters hit a wooden house with a woman who was baking.

The house was ripped from its foundation and flipped on its side and the oven for baking fell over and then so the house caught on fire.

So a fire house is now being moved by the rush of water.

Did-huh.

And now you've got a fire flood.

So so now you got a flood with fire.

Well, that's on her.

I agree.

And that we've just, that's something we've just started to get into in America again when we're lighting fires on oceans and stuff.

But you, but look, if you hear the rumble of a flood, you turn off the stove.

I agree.

And that's how it worked back then.

Known staples of the city were gone or destroyed or burned.

All of the above, roofs, trees, telegraph poles, pieces of bridge box, train cars, and like we said, that's sweet ass barbed wire.

Also a ton of dead animals and people.

As the flood crossed through town, it hit a bridge at the end of the city and was kind of stopped.

It was sort of halted.

At this point, it was covering approximately 30 acres.

There were 1,600 wood structures in it.

It was like a makeshift dam due to all the solid waste that had kind of accumulated, which is good.

Well.

Well, good, you know, that it like

self-stopped kind of.

Yeah, stopping is good.

There's none of this

world.

But you can get some night and get some fishing ins, a little recreation.

Well, hold but well but hold on because with all the debris with all the debris um there's people trapped in it and they can't get out no they can't and the worst thing that could possibly happen happened um which is then that debris uh caught fire

jesus christ it's hard to know exactly what happened how a massive dam of debris was now smoking on fire no maybe it was but i that what they think is that it was a derailed train tank car that was in the mix and some coals had spilled from the train car.

Classic.

And then so, you know, like 80 more people died from there, from the fire.

Now, I also think...

Imagine being stuck in a flame.

Oh, dude.

Honestly, I'm trying not to go too dark because,

you know, it's not funny.

But the accounts of...

It's insane.

The accounts of what people were hearing are just...

horrific.

I mean, they're just like, you know, and like people are trying to help people.

All right, so the total death toll was 2,209.

Now,

I think what also happened was, like, when it kind of stopped its momentum here, a lot of it like rushed back and like did another pass through Johnstown, too.

So Johnstown completely gets fucked.

Yeah.

Like it, of all of them, is the one that just completely gets fucked.

So look, David, obviously there is a tremendous amount of darkness darkness in this event.

Dave, we don't need the formal.

I'm teaching you.

I'm your professor today.

And I'm pretty cool.

It makes it a little stale.

Hey, I'm pretty cool, but I'm not going to be that cool.

But how about this?

Maybe after class, we can go to the common and you and I can smoke a J-bone, play a little Frolf.

Don't tell your mama.

Frulf?

Mm-hmm.

What is Frulf?

Frisbee Golf?

Okay, just read your story.

Hey.

I want to talk to you about this.

You're not cool.

You seem pretty down lately.

Talk to your teacher.

Who's also cool?

You, I'm down.

Hey, teach.

You're not my teacher.

Hey, teach.

You're a guy reading a fucking story.

Buddy, you didn't know any of this.

I knew it.

Get back to the.

I read over one and a half books.

Maybe.

I'm really uncomfortable.

Hey.

No.

Hey.

Maybe after class we can go do some milkshakes.

Try to.

You look so mad.

What's going on at all?

Yeah, no, you know what I'm saying?

What's going on?

We're going to go do milkshakes after you.

What's wrong?

Is your dad finished?

Is your dad doing something?

He's dead.

What did he die from?

He died in a fucking fire after a dam crashed through the town.

Damn.

Yeah, Dam is right.

That's where the phrase came from.

That's tough, man.

Yeah.

Maybe you come over to my house later tonight and we can watch

the never-ending story.

Okay.

Why don't you just finish this and we'll get on with this is an ending story uh-huh well we'll watch tonight it'll be a little

hey

all right chill man

all right obviously there's a tremendous amount of darkness in this event um

so

rather than focus on all the deaths because they're very dark i'm gonna tell you some amazing stories of survival and heroism

like when victor heiser

went to go check on his family's horses in the barn when the epic storm was going on and then the flood hits and it hit the barn and the barn was lifted up like a lot of the other places was fully lifted up so his dad and he had just built like a trap door from the barn to like the roof sure so victor quickly ran to the roof through the trapdoor in the barn and then he was up on the house so while the house is moving down the flood waters he's made his way to the top to the roof he's kind of barn surfing sure um as he took off he sees that one of his neighbor's houses is still actually standing so he kind of walks to the edge of his roof and he jackie chan jumped off of the barn roof is he at any time during this is he yelling yo

i don't they don't have that i think i don't think these people were celebrating it as much as maybe you what about cowabunga that he did yell yeah other people yelled that too okay um

so uh so he jackie Chands off of that barn of his family's barn roof onto the neighbor's house and then he gets onto their roof and as soon as he gets onto their roof,

that caves in.

And so that caves in and he falls and he kind of is hanging on the edge on one of the eaves of the building.

But the water is rushing beneath him and he's trying to get his foot up, but he can't get a foothold.

And eventually he's so tired, his fingers gave in and he falls off the building onto a piece of debris.

It's someone else's roof.

So he lands on this roof debris and now he's rushing down the flood water on the roof.

So

he's roof boarding, they call it.

And it became a huge thing in the X Games.

As he cruised down the flood,

he was passing other people from the neighborhood who are also debris kayaking.

Hey, Larry.

Literally, he sees these people who run a fruit stand.

And he's like, hey, what's going on?

You know, and they're like, I mean, he's not like that, but he's like, hey, looking

crazy.

Did you see the new strawberries coming?

And

so

he holds on.

He surfs down the water.

Trees are passing over him.

Like he's ducking trees,

dodging them.

And then a train car literally kind of just goes over him.

And now the roof splits apart.

And he gets on a half of it.

And that half, because of what the train did, just kind of gave him momentum.

and he said quote that he shot out from beneath the freight car like a bullet from a gun and now he's headed towards this brick building that's still in place and he jumped off of the wood ski to the roof where he was now with others who were surviving this ordeal none of them like him but still quote i was able to hop to the roof and join a small group of people already stranded there end quote and he checked his pocket watch right before the barn took off and right after he got to safety and the whole thing took 10 minutes.

I mean, it's all right.

He should have had his

video going on his phone.

Like, that would be a great TikTok.

This would be good for GoPros, but he didn't even have one.

Yeah, I guess it would be great to have like a head.

Yeah, that would have been smart to have some sort of head out of it.

So it sounds like he blew it a little bit.

When you read back, a lot of people like this story.

So I don't think they thought he blew it.

Yeah.

But it's good to get fresh eyes on stuff like that.

I think think you're kind of providing something that is helpful.

And maybe that'll be fun tonight when we go get some pizza.

Keep on with the story.

Teaching David.

Hey,

that would be so whack, Jack.

Off.

Okay.

There's also a story of two men who were leaning out of opposite windows, like across from the flood, and of small white buildings, and they were using long sticks to try to rescue as many people as they could.

And as the floodwaters are gaining, one of them had a baby.

One of them had a baby.

Huh?

In the water, someone's got a baby.

I don't think it was a baby they saved from the water.

I think there was a it might have been.

I mean, look, shit.

There were a lot of accounts of people pulling a lot of people out of this shit.

So there, I mean, there is.

Well, anyway, so one of them has a baby and shouts to the other person across the way, and they said, quote, throw that baby over here, end quote.

And the other one shouted, quote, do you think you could catch her?

End quote.

And the other guy says, no, quote, we could could try.

Yeah, give it, we'll give it a shot.

So he, the other guy tosses the baby 15 feet over the water into the arms of another guy, and that guy caught it and the baby survived.

But the baby broke.

No, no, the baby survived.

Because when you throw a baby that far, I mean, they say don't throw a baby 20 feet because that's definitely going to break.

But like a 15-foot, you got like a 75% chance of just snapping it.

Well, this is why when people see them, people throw their kids into pools and stuff like that.

There's a lot of people like, hey, take this is why you do it.

Yeah.

You train in the offseason for the event.

Yeah.

So it's really about, you know, how you've got to know,

look, a baby will fly.

They fly.

I mean, you know what I mean?

It's like two footballs.

Especially if you have someone who's good at baby throwing.

And that's why I think we should bring this back to the Olympics.

Yeah.

In LA, which we're all excited about.

Absolutely.

Yeah, that's going to be good.

Another guy just surfed the whole time on a mattress for four miles and survived.

I mean, that's, yeah.

Yeah, I would do that.

That'd be me.

There's kind of been, that guy was definitely at the end like, hey.

I can't believe it floated that long without sinking, but okay.

Well, another family stayed in their house all night and just floated on their bed the whole night.

I'm guessing

it probably had a wood base, but they just floated.

Again, mixed in here are a lot of stories that are not anywhere like this.

Well, I want to just say, as far as the floating in the house story, their story sucks.

Yeah, it's not great.

I think you'll like this one.

One guy named Leroy Temple was counted as dead, but was was actually very much alive.

After the flood carried him away from his home, he hit the stone bridge, got out, climbed this embankment, and immediately walked to Massachusetts where he was from originally.

So he literally went...

How far of a walk is that?

I mean.

It's a distance.

It's maybe under a thousand.

It's still fucking...

It's crazy to go from bridge to Boston.

Hundreds of miles.

Hundreds of miles.

But look, you get out and you're like, well,

nothing here.

Yeah.

Or you're just like, well, fuck that.

That's what I would do after, like, climbing.

You know what I mean?

That's like what you feel like doing.

People in Johnstown thought it was a myth, thought his story was made up, because there were a lot of made-up stories.

Thought his story was a myth.

But 10 years later, he returned and everyone was like, holy shit.

There you are.

Yeah.

He's like, cool.

I'm alive.

I just went to Massachusetts for a while.

Yeah, I took a break.

This place is a bummer.

Yeah.

It's also good to get out of the place you were born in.

Well, he was born in Massachusetts.

Oh, never mind.

So,

you know, it's not.

I'd say it's it's just good to get out of the places that are flooding with places under 75.

The train flood.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

So

the destruction was still unfathomable, incomparable.

It was and remains to be the deadliest flood in the history of the United States.

Okay, so let me ask you this.

We'll get into this.

Now, who didn't pay?

Go ahead.

Who didn't pay?

Who didn't pay for the crime?

Well, I don't know.

What do you mean?

I don't get into that.

This is.

You're not going to talk about how

no one was held accountable?

Come on.

You think that's what this is all about?

Yeah.

One out of every three bodies was unidentified.

What?

Basically, one person out of every 10 that was around died.

And Johnstown got it worse.

There was more like, you know,

nine out of every nine.

But America, you know us.

We love fucking tragedy porn.

We do.

So America couldn't stop reading about the flood as estimates were all over the map as how many people had passed away.

Some papers were estimating 10,000 and higher.

I agree with that.

The Pittsburgh, I don't think that's right.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was so sought after that it had to shrink its page size so that it could print enough editions.

I've done that.

It was called

the Great Calamity, or the Nation's Greatest Calamity, or the Historic Catastrophe.

The papers kept printing the names of all the dead.

It was kind of one of those morbid press fascinations fueled by people unable to get enough.

Right.

So, not knowing where, and that also is is like, we do that now,

but

back then.

So that's the thing.

Like we are so into that now, like reading about the awful stuff.

But back then, I mean, this just had to be like as good as it.

It does itch that.

Yeah, people like it.

People like a disaster story.

Yeah, and then, but what is this one is obviously a huge disaster.

So you should be have some sort of interest or intrigue.

but the, you know, it's like now we'll go like a hiker got stabbed.

Right.

We got to kick out every, you know.

The thing's called a hickor.

Nice.

So not knowing where the interest pieces should stop, the Philadelphia press had a story on June 5th about the Undertakers in the area.

So this is where they're kind of finding the bottom.

They're busy.

They're busy.

They're busy.

Well, that's what this story really is about.

Undertakers in the area read, quote, one of the most ghastly and nauseous sights to those unaccustomed to scenes of death is the launching arrangement for the undertakers.

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With dripping hands, he eats his lunch with relish, setting his cup occasionally beside the hideous face of a decomposing corpse and totally oblivious to his horrible surroundings.

the sandwich have relish on it or is he relishing the sandwich?

I think, well,

he eats his lunch with relish.

I think he's having a side of relish.

Now, I want to point out, that's a wild first question.

That's a wild follow-up.

Let's get the basic sandwich.

I don't think the first, like, they're talking about how this guy, he's not washing his hands.

Right, but he's, like, I think the important thing here is what's he eating?

Like, let's.

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So, if I'm surrounded by bodies and I'm wipe, but I'm down, I'm doing this.

I'm probably famished after a while.

I'm going to eat.

Sure.

And

you just eat.

You eat on your job site.

It's no different than a guy who's on a construction site.

You see him, the picture, and they're up on the steel beam and they're eating their sandwich.

Well, they're eating at work.

It's different.

So you're just vastly different.

So you're just eating.

It's vastly different.

It's vastly different.

Are you saying that he should have like a break room?

I think that's better because I do think you're the odds go up that some guy is going to forget and just start eating a guy's hand and and then start like, you know, performing whatever autopsy stuff he has to or post-mortem stuff he has to on

a sandwich.

That he wipes his mouth and then he's hand and then he wipes the corpse's mouth.

Yeah, he's not thinking.

Well, he's just eating brain.

Yeah.

You know, because he thinks it's the relish, which is actually a good point about the relish.

This is how the next part of the story, which is the zombie outbreak.

No, I'll handle, again, I'll handle, don't talk about what's coming up or where you think this is going.

And let's not forget to get swim lessons.

It's not a bad, not a bad point at all.

My camera's off.

Okay,

so

the funniest piece of journalism, well, also.

It's interesting that you framed it that way.

I also

took out the thing about a fake Paul Revere that they made up.

Oh, yeah.

They made up their own fake Paul Revere, and he was this guy named, I can't remember what his name was.

Twitch the horn.

He's the guy who came and he was telling everybody.

Let's go, there's a flood of a flat.

Yeah, so he existed in the papers for like three years or two years.

And it wasn't real.

It was not real.

Okay, so the funniest bit of journalism, I think, was this Johnstown woman who was called a bride.

She wasn't even called a woman.

They were like, a Johnstown bride, who was quoted as saying, quote, today they took five little children out of the water who had been playing ring around the rosie.

Their hands were clasped in a clap, which even in death did not loosen.

And their faces were were still smiling.

So they're having a good time.

I just, they immediately, people were like, that's not, no, that wouldn't happen.

They weren't frozen like

in demolition.

Once the water hits, you seems up.

No, no.

Once the water hits, you go like, they were probably freaked out.

If they existed.

You be the water.

I'll be the kid.

Okay, water coming, coming, coming, coming, coming.

Okay, so the second it touches you.

So it is a little terminatory.

Yeah, you grab it.

You grab and then the smile goes up and you're.

I just don't believe the smile would hang.

I i think i think that looks drowning 1889 called bullshit

1889 called bullshit drowning takes a couple minutes and how long does it take to lose a smile three a lifetime

okay another hero um was ms clara barton who was brought in from the recently started american red cross she was 67 years old and set up headquarters in a railroad car that was not being used

She made herself a makeshift desk and she started sending out orders immediately.

She got construction underway for temporary houses for those who'd lost their homes and had surveys to see how many people in the area needed any attention.

She and the Red Cross did an amazing job and she was promised they would stay as long as there was work to do.

Quote,

We are always the last to leave the field, end quote.

And she meant it.

She stayed a full five months, never leaving once.

David, she's a reminder of what can be done when funding goes to organizations to help people in disasters.

So she just, without permission, took over a rail car?

No.

That's not, you're framing her as a villain.

That's what I heard.

This is a person who helped.

Well, it sounds like she just went in and commandeered someone else's property.

No.

No.

Okay.

She's helped.

She set up a fucking office in a train.

I mean, that's what you're mad about?

Everybody has.

No.

Like.

She's a hero.

I just think he got.

Nobody has poured water on her.

It just at some point you gotta ask like

who's taking the breeze.

All right, so excuse me.

Who said you could be here?

You're coming to need to see some identification, please.

This is not okay.

You work for the railroads.

The Red Cross.

The fuck is it?

I never heard of that.

Get out of here, you fucking deadbeat.

Well, that's what I love now, too.

Like when you see, like, that's why I just don't fucking, we're so accustomed now to when there's a natural disaster, everything being like, will you donate to the American Red Cross?

It's like, we

should, we have the fucking money, like, get, put it, why don't you take some of that bomb money?

Yeah, why don't you take the bomb money and just go to like, but instead, they're just like, these people, I mean, again, it's not, it's not a lack of sympathy for those who are in disasters.

It's just like, you fucking you do it.

You have all the shit.

Yeah.

You took all of our money.

Yeah.

Okay.

But for all the people like Clara, there were also a bunch of idiots

who also, I should say Colonel Unger and John Park, or sorry, John Park and

Hess were also viewed as heroes.

Hess, the whistle guy, John Park, the guy who went down and told them all.

Anyway, for all the people like Clara, there were also a bunch of idiots who showed up for the wrong reasons.

These guys I love.

These guys, you're going to like this guy.

These are the best guys.

Like the religious lunatic who went by the name Lewis the Light, who wore nothing but long red underwear and handed out handbills with dumb shit written on them like, quote, death is man's last and only enemy.

Extinction of death in his only hope.

Your soul, your breath ends by death.

We whoop, we're all in the soup.

Who's all right?

Louis the Light.

I mean, is any of that wrong?

No.

Is any of it right?

Yeah.

Okay.

Phil's.

Louis the Light.

Yeah.

I don't know.

He's...

Red, long underwear, walking around town.

I mean, you're now mad at a guy who's basically like a flood Santa Claus.

First of all, you're the one who was getting mad at Clara for just taking a...

She's a freeloader.

It doesn't sound like this guy's taking over any property.

No, but he's

okay.

I mean, there's always a crazy guy.

The crazy religious guys are always there.

Well, and also, I took this out for time, but there's a lot of

xenophobia, too.

A lot of stuff about the hunkies, the Hungarians.

Every immigrant was called a hunky now, and anyone who wasn't just like a traditional American was called a hunky.

They were being blamed for a lot of shit.

There's a lot of disgusting, like, cartoons of like, you know, these kind of dingy dudes trying to take advantage.

There were a lot of people taking advantage of the situation.

There were even people showing up at the Red Cross and getting free handouts and shit like that.

But a lot of it for a while was obviously blamed on immigrants because America's going to America.

Let's remember this land was.

Okay.

So donations did pour in from everywhere.

Trains with first aid supplies kept coming in.

Tons of lumber, furniture, barrels of embalming fluid or pine tar.

Minneapolis sent a lot of flour.

Walla Walla gave a carload of potatoes.

Cincinnati was generous enough to give 20,000 pounds of ham.

Oh,

that's kept coming.

Classic Cincinnati.

They still do that today.

They did.

Cincinnati always makes it ham ring.

Yeah.

They're like, who needs ham?

Yeah.

And you're like, not now.

We're good.

We need another disaster.

We have too much ham.

Okay, we need, we're going to blow up.

That was government building.

I mean, that's the thing is, when they start blowing shit up just to get them

out, it's really not good.

Well, because when you give them, when you grant the ham budget, it's like they need to spend it to get it re-upped.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right, but Dave, you were alluding to this before, jumping ahead.

But what about South Fork?

Well, Davey boy, David, sweet Dan.

There were now more and more rumblings about the responsibility that they had in the event.

You know what?

Pointing fingers is dumb, but okay.

Okay.

Colonel Unger, remember him?

He's running the place now because

Rough died.

So Colonel Unger and John Park were finally reached for comment, and they both spoke.

Unger told the Pittsburgh Post that they did everything they could to prevent the disaster

and he kind of lamented the fact that the club was about a hundred fifty thousand dollars in the hole but he didn't really do everything he could because like he didn't let them clean off the drain in time and uh well it wasn't even really a drain at this point but yeah yeah you're right you didn't let him to remove the fish the fish uh gate thing yeah um

still

you know what i mean yeah again you're forgetting that it was a buck of fish also he's a colonel so he's a colonel

they said that when he went back to his place after all this he collapsed like he had a dramatic collapse like and the victim

um John Park, again, still considered a hero, told the New York Sun, quote, No blame can be attached to anyone for this greatest of horrors.

It was a calamity that could not be avoided.

Why is John Park considered a hero?

Because he was the one who, when the dam was, he thought it was about to fail.

He saw it kind of cresting.

He took his horse and got to town in 10 minutes

to tell them to send the telegram off.

He was shouting to everybody.

So

he told the Sun that the problem was, quote, storm after storm.

And he said, quote, by 12 o'clock, everybody in the Kahnema region did know or should have known of their danger.

That's right.

End quote.

That's right.

It's not right.

It's on the individual.

So America.

Well, I don't know.

One member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club named James McGregor said there was no problem with South Fark.

South Fark?

Fark.

South Fark.

South Fork.

He said he thought the whole thing was just a big misunderstanding.

He even boasted,

quote, he even boasted, quote, I am going there to fish the latter part of this month.

As for the idea of the dam ever being condemned, it is nonsense.

We have been putting in from $20,000 to $15,000 a year at South Fork.

We have all been shaking hands with ourselves for some years.

And being pretty clever businessmen, we should not be likely to drop that much money in a place that we thought was unsafe.

No, sir, the dam is just as safe as it ever was, and any other reports are simply wild notions.

And

okay, I mean, there's no proof of that ever being wrong.

Well, it's also so much like today where he does, you know, what we always do, which is just equate money with...

intelligence or capability.

Look, I'm successful, so I do think

I have money, so you can

let me fix everything.

History is littered with rich idiots.

Yeah.

And I mean, it really does bring you to now, now, like where you're just like, what the fuck?

And the amount of people are just like, he has so much money.

How do you think he got it?

On the back of fucking everybody around him.

Of course, we're talking about Jesse the Body Ventura.

Lewis Clark, who was a club member, told the New York Herald that after talking to some engineers,

he wasn't even sure if the dam was the issue at all.

Right.

Very Republican.

It was parts around the dam.

Well, he's saying it could have been another dam entirely.

Thank you.

James Reed, another member, echoed that and said, In the absence of any positive statement, I will continue to doubt, as do many others familiar with the place, that it really let go.

It might have been a different dam.

Yep, double dam second dam.

Now we're doing the double dam theory.

Well, have you heard, and this is a grassy dam.

Well, this is a pretty common thing that happens in this situation.

But have you heard of a ghost dam?

Is that with Bill Cosby?

Yeah, so the ghost dam will let go, and that will cause other dams to then.

So

it's not in necessarily in the material world,

but often a ghost dam is at fault.

Well, that's what it is pretty.

It does show you how up their own asses they are to be like, we got to figure out which damn did this when they have no damn.

They have no damn left and they are just like, all right, there's definitely a damn.

Yeah, who's a damn?

We got to figure out which damn did it.

Who fucked up our dam?

So, as you would imagine, people are now getting pissed.

On June 3rd, reporters from Johnstown went to the dam and started reporting back and kind of ended a lot of the speculation that the dam had not done the damage.

How many days after was that?

This is a few days.

Okay.

This is pretty quick after.

They then also began tracing the history of the dam back, which was bad news for the club.

Like we said, he took the sluices out.

There's just bad news.

There's swelling in the middle.

There's the cresting issue.

There's the dip.

That Monday night, a group of furious men from Johnstown went to the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club looking for any members who may have been hanging around.

Hanging.

Hanging.

Well, that'd be great.

When they couldn't find anybody, they just broke into some of the cottages by smashing the windows and destroyed the furniture, which is a letdown.

But so you come all that way.

You want to do something.

Make love and have a nice weekend.

I would definitely be banging.

Yeah.

There's no doubt.

You just definitely.

Whoever, too.

I'm not.

No, I mean, I think it's this about romance.

I just, you know what I'd do?

I'd bang the bearskin rug.

Okay.

I'd just toss it over a chair

with some of your other buddies.

I'd take one of those sluices right there.

What?

Yeah, got a bear hole.

Fucking, you know what I mean?

Right there in front of your friends.

You're just going like, we're going to show these guys who's boss.

Oh, man.

This is 100% worse than the flood.

No, come on.

I'm about to flood.

No.

Oh, my damn.

My damn.

None of that?

No.

Okay.

You're looking out the window.

I'm forlorn.

You're forlorn, yeah.

You're forlorn.

So

it seems like they were genuinely going to go kill Colonel Lunger, but he could not be found.

They should have.

People were pissed.

A lawyer in Allegheny County, which is right there, said, quote, I predict there will be legal suits with possible criminal indictments as a result of this catastrophe.

I predict there won't.

I am told that the South Fork Club has been repeatedly warned of the safety of its dam, and it comes from good authority, end quote.

But it wasn't helping.

The optics were terrible.

All the members, as soon as the storm lifted, just left.

None of them stuck around to help the people who'd been affected so greatly.

And once the specifics were getting out about Ruff and how he'd, quote, rebuilt the dam, people were furious.

Then H.W.

Brinkenhoff, a renowned engineer, and M.

Wellington, and F.

B.

Burt,

and P.

B.

Acronym.

Come on.

That one's fake.

But all the others are real.

All from engineering news

showed up.

And on June 5th, they had rendered their own verdict to the New York Sun with a headline that read, quote, cause of calamity, cause of the calamity, the Pittsburgh Fishing Club chiefly responsible, the waste gates closed when the club took possession, end quote.

So the club was on the hook in their opinion.

Quote, there was no massive masonry nor any tremendous exhibition of engineering skill and designing the structure, putting it up.

There was no masonry at all, in fact, not any engineering worthy of the name.

The dam was simply a gigantic heap of earth dumped across the course of a mountain stream between two low hills.

End quote.

That works.

It does not.

It does.

It doesn't.

Oh, okay.

What are you, a beaver now?

No, that would be way more helpful.

But more and more people are coming out talking about how terrible the dam was,

how even when it got rebuilt, they were scared.

Well, people were talking about it.

People were like, for a long time, were like, that's not good.

Like, people would even go, like, even you, like Daniel Morell in the first episode, he's going like, hey, what the fuck?

Like, there's, so there's definitely people down there.

But it is one of those things where it's like,

it is like the wildfires.

It's like you...

are very accustomed to like they were accustomed to flooding because there was a lot of rain and stuff or you know however it was happening but the full-on tragedy you don't you can't even if you know it's coming like you're like well what the fuck am I gonna do they're not gonna do shit right so you're just gonna sitting down there waiting finally a jury of coroners said quote from the testimony and what we saw on the ground that was there was it was not sufficient water, nor was the dam constructed sufficiently strong, nor of the proper material to stand the overflow.

And hence, we find the owners of the dam dam were culpable and not making it as secure as it should have been, especially in view of the fact that a population of many thousands were in the valley below.

And we hold that the owners are responsible for the fearful loss of life and property resulting from a breaking of the dam.

End quote.

Over.

So now the story goes viral.

All the websites are snagging it, picking it up.

It's on Perez,

it's on Drudge, it's Breitbarted,

CNN, Daily Wire, Daily Wire, all the great ones, all the goats,

slate, slate, which is still awesome.

The headlines like, quote, the club is guilty, quote, neglect caused the break, quote, shall the officers of the fishing club answer to the terrible results?

A week later, the New York Times had a headline that read, quote, an engineering crime, the dam of inferior construction, according to the experts.

No,

what's an expert?

Well, an engineer.

Someone who was

like, it's debatable.

No, no, no.

No, it's 100% not.

It truly.

Is it okay to

ask questions about it?

Can I be the teach?

And then you're dating.

Well, I like...

If you want to ask questions.

Okay, shut me down.

I'm just saying it's okay to like, not everybody knows everything.

And it's okay to like be like, maybe the engineers weren't right here.

Like, it's okay to ask questions.

Look, it is.

I'm with you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I just think it's when those people are in power.

Uh-huh.

You know what I mean?

You can't doge a damn.

Well, it sounds like maybe the engineers

who's paying them, you know, where are they getting their engineering materials.

So are you, are you, you're doing the thing where you're just sort of saying like empty thoughts just to kind of just ask them questions.

Okay.

Bad questions.

This is free speech.

Okay.

So.

Science is about asking questions.

And it's not science.

It truly appeared that no actual engineers, this will help, were brought in to take a look at what they were doing.

The dam also never appeared to have actually been inspected by anyone, quote, who, by any stretch of charity, could be regarded as an expert.

Why would you inspect it if it's working well?

It's holding the water, it's working well, so you don't need an inspection.

Till now, it was just rich men doing whatever they wanted as quickly and as cheaply as they wanted, and they didn't care.

But maybe it wasn't even beyond what happened at the club.

A great paragraph, again, most of this is from the book, The Johnstown Flood, by David McCullough.

This is a great passage from the book.

Quote, for despite the progress being made everywhere, despite the growing prosperity and the prospect of even more of an abundant future, there were strong feelings that perhaps not always right with the Republic.

And if the poor Hungarians of Johnstown were signs of a time to come when a, quote, hunky could get a job quicker than a, quote, real American, then the gentlemen of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club were signs of something else that was perhaps even worse.

Was it not the likes of them?

Was it for not for the likes of them that were bringing in the hunkies, buying legislatures, cutting wages, and getting a great deal richer than was right or good for any mortal man in a free democratic country?

People were beginning to think a little more about just what it was they might be losing, and to whom.

And the more they thought about it, and especially the working working men, the less they liked them.

Blah, blah, blah.

You know what I mean?

Like, whatever.

I mean, it sounds like

these guys don't want jobs.

Is that what I'm hearing?

No, they want jobs.

Well, they're just, you know, it's the same shit.

Yeah, it's never stopped.

It's never stopped.

Yeah, that's what this country is.

That's what this podcast is about.

It never has stopped.

No, I don't think so.

Yeah, because it's not a, whatever you called it at the beginning, a property podcast.

It's a property podcast.

Nope.

But it is.

It's just like,

I don't know.

When I first heard about this, I was like, oh, for fuck's sake.

It just,

they just don't.

Okay, well, anyway.

They don't care.

They don't care.

I mean,

they're not going to be held accountable.

I know.

But even then, most of us, don't you think like most of us would be like

the right thing to do factors into your thinking?

Well, yeah, but they're not that.

But they get there because they don't have that part of their brain.

Well, that, and the richer, there's tons of studies.

The richer you get, the less empathy you have.

Go, you put your hand there.

Thank you.

Among all the failings of the dam, it was becoming clear that if they had just removed the fucking fish guards, it would have made a huge difference.

And maybe it wouldn't have stopped it, but it would have helped prevent it a little bit.

So you just pull on the fish sentries.

You're like, hey, you guys, drop your guns.

You don't need to be there.

We don't need fish guards right now.

No, no.

They were the, like the greats that were on

any name you want for them, but yeah guards.

Okay, yeah, they weren't there's and we're not talking like a fish army.

Well,

it's the fish guard that we're talking about.

Okay,

they're keeping an eye on things.

Okay, okay.

Quote, to preserve game for some Pittsburgh swells, the lives of 15,000 were sacrificed.

Again, the numbers.

That's a lot.

That's not what it was.

Well, like 70,000.

So feeling the heat, the club members started to pony up a little bit of money.

Oh.

Yeah, they started to try to buy their way out of it.

Henry Clay Frick gave $5,000, which would be around $170,000 a day.

Jesus.

The Mellon family, who was involved, I didn't even get into them, but the Mellon family gave $1,000.

Andrew Carnegie gave $10,000.

You think that's nothing?

One asshole gave $15,

which would be $500 in today's money.

It cost $800 to join.

What the fuck?

$800 to join.

He gave $500.

In today's money.

He gave $15.

That's like a dude at the strip club like throwing pennies on stuff.

Hank, Hank, can we talk to you over here, Hanky?

Okay, so when litigation was finally brought, though, it pretty much stalled out.

They couldn't bring any criminal cases for a couple of reasons.

One, because Ruff, who had made a lot of those decisions, was dead.

And they didn't think that the club as an entity could be at fault.

It was made up of a bunch of members, but the club itself was, again, again,

there's obviously going to be some lawyering around the edges because these are very rich people.

You sue the club and then everyone who's part of the club.

But it's like Enron.

Like, you can't blame Enron.

Yeah, I can.

Enron didn't do anything.

Enron's a class organization.

No, so, but Enron.

There was a couple of oopsie

who ran the club.

There were a couple of,

if you're listening, there were a couple of oopsie poopsies in the club.

But the club was healthy.

Plus,

there were a lot of points being made that

this flood was so unique that they couldn't have prepared for it.

They had not seen anything like it.

You know why it was unique?

Because they did a dam without any engineers.

Well, the flood, the amount of rain was, like I said, we don't know exactly how much it was because the guy who was supposed to like

in that case scenario, which is what you make a dam for.

Yes.

It's like the levees in New Orleans.

It's like you go, you go, yeah, well, okay, what if

the worst thing happens?

What are you going to do?

Again,

these are very rich guys influencing this area.

So the American Society of Civil Engineers dragged their feet in investigating because of who they were investigating.

And when the findings finally came out, it favored the club.

They basically said that you can't prove it was negligence and the flood was so bad, even with the drain pipe issue,

even with drain pipes, it still might have failed, you know.

Plus,

what year is this again?

This is 1889.

So, it is true.

Also, like, when this is going on, like, Carnegie is

in Paris, then he goes to Scotland to golf.

Yeah.

And, like, all these people are dead and their lives are completely ruined, their businesses, all that stuff.

And they, one guy offered $15.

They don't give a shit.

They have, they are our worst.

Yeah.

Okay, so

these are the richest men of the era.

So, you know, they were rich, and the rich people always win.

So, who gives a shit?

The only way to do it was with individual lawsuits instead of one big criminal one.

So, individual lawsuits were brought.

But when a suit was brought, they would move it around a lot

to kind of delay it.

And then, when it was finally going,

it would be in the area.

And still, so much of the the area was still a steel town.

Like Cambria Steel, like still stayed open after this.

They need money and jobs more than ever.

So like you'd get a couple of those guys on a jury and you know, whatever.

So nothing happened.

Arguably, the saddest lawsuit of the lot was brought from the club.

to the club from a guy named Jacob Strayer, who was a lumber dealer.

He sued the club for $80,000 in lost goods.

And they did the thing, the case was kind of bouncing around from court to court.

Like I said, the club was always changing the venue.

Then, five years into the lawsuit, Strayer figured out that his lawyer, without his knowledge, had actually already settled the case out of court for $500

and died shortly thereafter.

And Strayer went bankrupt, and that was the end of it.

Well,

I mean, that's

awful.

It's illegal.

It's a story of a lawyer.

No, but that's illegal.

You can't, you gotta.

Well, that's why he died right after.

I'm fucking.

Yeah, he was going to die.

I got to get out of here.

He spent $500 and then he took off.

So, in other words, the club just completely, fully

with no accountability, got away.

That's what happens to rich people in this country.

That's why we are where we are, because for years and years, there's no laws for the rich.

No, because they influence, I mean, they, again, it comes down to the thing we always talk about, which is just

you can't have this system where money is literally everything.

If money is literally everything, then people are going to do everything to get it.

And the sick people will get all of it, and they'll do anything to get it, and they'll treat the regular people like shit to get it.

And so they just ruin everything.

And it's just like, on this scale now,

I mean, and this was a poor town.

This was not like, this was like a small working class poor town.

And they were doing all right, and then everything got fucking taken away from them.

The difference from then till now is that, you know, they actually, there was work, like there was an outpour, there was like help coming, the government was assisting, there was stuff going on.

Now, I mean, what is it?

It's West Virginia, right?

Where it's just like, they still have not, like, Trump has not addressed the floods there.

And, you know, that's just kind of how it goes.

all right, so in August 1889, the North American Review had an article called The Lesson of Kahnema.

In it, Major John Wesley Powell, when writing about the dam, said it had not, quote, properly related to the natural conditions, end quote.

And at the end of the article, he stated, quote, modern industries are handling the forces of nature on a stupendous scale.

Woe to the people who trust these powers to the hands of fools.

End quote.

That's the story of this fork fishing and hunting club and how they killed thousands of people.

So it's a happy, good, they had a good ending, it's a good story.

It's a good story.

It's a fun story.

It's cool.

It's just,

it's cool.

So it's up.

It's good.

It's good.

It's good.

This, like I said, the Johnstown Flood by David McCullough.

I was there on the history channel

on YouTube, flood destruction, flood, fire destruction, the great Johnstown flood, and some stuff from npshistory.com.

And that's it.

That's that goddamn nightmare.

So

yay.

You want to go out with your teach for maybe some pizza?

Yeah, we'll get some pizza and maybe do some sluice pipes, put them on a bear rug.

Do the leapfrog thing you were talking about?

Mm-hmm.

Absolutely.

Do all that stuff.

Will it ever change, Dave?

Nope.

Do you think the worst it's getting now, we might be

getting close to some breaking?

I mean it could totally will the dam break so to speak?

Oh yeah the dam's gonna break in some way but

they just have so much.

They do they have a lot.

And now they're gonna have robot dogs with flamethrower

that are not gonna be capable.

I mean that's the good news.

We will be living in like the stupid version of well yeah the first time they set out robots to keep control of everybody, it's just gonna be a like you saw that robot like beating the shit out of like someone in China, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's pretty cool.

All right.

Well, there you go.

That's

that.

So, shout out to the rich people.

Yeah.

Thank you.

No, thank you.

Thank you.

Thank me.

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