Mental Floss is partner with FilmNation and iHeartPodcasts to bring you the copy forGreatest Escapes , a podcast hosted by Arturo Castro about some of the wildest safety valve story across history . Zoë Chao(The Afterparty , Creature Commandos ) mind in as Arturo gyrate a seafaring yarn of death defying escapes from Violet Jessop , a.k.a . Miss Unsinkable . show all the transcriptshere .
Arturo : This isGreatest Escapes , a show work you the wildest genuine dodging stories of all sentence . In this episode , we dress sail into the story of Miss Unsinkable and it brings us up close and personal with an ill-famed historic disaster . And yes , I am talking about my former kinship . I ’m Arturo Castro , and I ’m join by the unbelievable author and actress for stage and screen : Zoë Chao !
Hello everybody . I am so unrestrained to have with us the incredibly gifted , very funny and all around good person ( and also Hawaii Connoisseur ): Zoë Chao .
Zoë : Mm . Aloha .
Arturo : That ’s right . That ’s about the two , uh , thing that you hump about Hawaii . Correct .
Zoë : Yep . Alohaandaloha .
Arturo : Wow . And the way you say it , I can severalise the difference . Um .
Zoë : She ’s bilingual .
Arturo : I lie with . Hey , um , Zoë , give thanks you so much for being with us . Uh , I ’ve been such a sports fan for such a long time .
Zoë : Thank you for get me . ditto mark .
Zoë’s Escape
Arturo : What do you , uh — do you have anything that you consider a greatest escape ?
Zoë : This is not an escape , but I think of being stuck at the movie dramaturgy with some friends , um , and we were expect to be peck up and I was like , let’s — rent ’s call people and say , we ’re from Jenny Craig and I called –
Arturo : This was 1994 where Jenny Craig was all the rage .
Zoë : Yeah . RIP . Although is she , mayhap , is she still poppin ’ ?
Arturo : Is she around still ? I do n’t know .
Zoë : I do n’t , yeah , so I call my dad , um , I mean from a payphone , and I say — I leave a message and I think he was so confused he got really — when he finally figured out it was me , he was , I would say , disproportionately angry . Because I think it took him a while to figure it out — but , um , I was like , “ do n’t be late to pick me up then . ”
Arturo : Right . And he ’s like , “ well , now you have to take the air home . ” Um , and you ’re still wait at the movie theater as we talk . Um .
Zoë : I am .
Arturo : Don’t you feel that like in the ‘ 90s or whatever , like people were just like way more uncoerced to stay on the sound to envision out what the f * * * was up . You know what I ’m saying ? Like in good order now , if you get calls –
Zoë : Yeah .
Arturo:–of like , “ this is Jenny Craig , ” like , “ all right , f * * * you , ” like — whatever . Back in the Clarence Day , it ’s like , “ tell me more . How do — how do you know about me ? ”
Zoë : Totally . I think he tried to pen down the number over and over again that I had left to be like , “ call us back . ”
Arturo : Yeah , you sleep together , um , I ’ll , the last matter I ’ll say about phone in the ‘ ninety or like early 2000s or whatever , is that my kids , when I have them — if I ever do — will never know the fear it was to call a someone you liked to ask to mouth to them .
Zoë : Oh yeah .
Arturo : especially in Guatemala . Like , dad were so like , kind of cliché as to how f***ing intend they were . Like , they would wish , literally like , you know — and , and Spanish is such a much more , uh , uh , flourishy spoken language when you , when you ’re trying to be polite , good ?
Zoë : Right . Like .
Arturo : You were like , “ Hello , I do n’t mean to bother you [ on ] this ok evening , blah , blah . ” You know , that sort of sh*t . And , and , and you ’d , like , call at like , 5:30 p.m. and you ’ll be like , “ hello ? ” “ Hello ? ” “ Yeah . Who the f * * * is this ? ” You know ? And um , “ Uh , yes sir , but the amnesty , uh , pleasure to make your conversance , Sir . ”
Zoë:“How art thou ? ”
Arturo:“How art thou ? ” Yes . Yeah . “ Ye Yonder is thy daughter of this . ” And he ’s like — um , I think this was a classic personal credit line . They were like , “ it ’s somewhat late to be calling , is n’t it ? ” And you ’re like , “ well , it ’s fing 5:30 p.m. ” or whatever , you know ? So you go through this fing , like , you know , like this moat of angry fatherdom . And then you like , get on the phone with a female child and be like , “ Hi . ” “ Hi . ” “ What , what are you , what are you doing ? ” “ Nothing . ” “ Oh , that ’s coolheaded . ” You know , it ’s like –
Zoë:“What’d you eat for dinner ? ”
Arturo : Anyway , I have this , like , petty equipment in my neck that , uh , I get electro shocked when I ’m not being entertaining for my lord , uh , over at FilmNation .
Zoë : Oh sh*t . That ’s my break , probably .
Carl : I think that was n’t work . I ’m happy to listen it ’s getting through .
Arturo : Yeah , it is . It is , it is . Carl , thank you so much . I felt it . So let ’s get ready to actually escape . OK ?
CHAPTER 1: First Voyage
Arturo : Zoë , today we have not one , not two , but three harrowing , expiry defying relief valve , and all by one woman . Uh , yeah . And so to start her tarradiddle , we go back all the agency to the 1890s .
Zoë : millimeter .
Arturo : Where , uh , telephone payphones still exist , where we meet her as a small fille name Violet Jessop , right ?
She would spend her sidereal day stand at the seaside watching bragging ship sweep into the Port of Bahía Blanca , in Argentina .
Zoë : Ahhh . As one does !
Zoë : Oh , me fellow …
Arturo : Yeah .
Zoë : No , but I sawBanshees of Inisherin — oh , is that Scot – ?
Arturo : Uh , you know , that ’s Irish . No , we , you know , we really have an Irish song expert on our squad . This is no joke . Carl , Carl Nellis , uh , one of our main producers , uh , is in reality , what are you an expert in ? Irish kinsfolk songs ? What is it ?
Zoë : Ah .
Carl : Something like that . Yeah . I ’ve , I ’ve , uh , I performed for a recollective time in a lot called Saoirse Song Freedom Song . Yeah .
Zoë : Cool .
Arturo : Can you give us a trivial taste ?
Carl : Uh , yeah . Let ’s do a ocean shanty . Here we go .
Arturo : OK , here we go .
Carl:1 , 2 , 3 , 4 . What do you do with a bibulous sailor ?
Together [ singing]:What do you do with a boozy skimmer ? What do you dowith a drunken sailor , early in the morning ? !
Arturo : To be fair — give thanks you , Carl . That was awesome . But I would ’ve expect something a little less mainstream . That ’s OK . You know , we all knew that song .
Zoë : Yes !
Arturo : Just like , you have a long sequence , rent ’s think of a unexampled one . OK . So you see Violet ’s family was far from home . Right ? I always thought it was unearthly that this was a girl in Argentina key Violet Jessop , but they were Irish , you bed , and they were subsist in Argentina , so they loved pledge heavily and gesturing wildly around them . You know , that ’s what Argentinians do . They ’re just like , “ Ah , [ Spanish ] ! ” Uh , dreary to Argentina –
Zoë:“Meat , meat ! ”
Arturo:“Meat . Steak . Do you care steak ? Tango . Steak . ”
Zoë : Tango steak . My favorite .
Arturo : So , uh , which is Spanish for I have steak , tango steak . Um , it is — so when Violet ’s father die , her mom decided to sail them back across the Atlantic to promote them in London . So Violet ’s first trip across the Atlantic was a pretty f***ing terrible one , right-hand ?
Zoë : Sure .
Arturo : So , she spent a great deal of the time gruesome . Plus , the ship was carrying oxen below . What , what , what — they used to call illnesses all sort of things , correct ? They , they — she had the humors . She had the humor . The ship was carrying this cattle below the deck . And Violet mostly , think watching the sailors discombobulate dead cow carcasses overboard as they died ? Oh God , Ben –
[ moo-cow moo , splashing ]
Zoë : Oh God .
Arturo : That is such an inauspicious auditory sensation effect . Um , how do you do on sauceboat ? Are you good on boats ? Have you ever had a navigation experience go uncollectible ?
Zoë : No , no , no . I , if you — if one can feel carsick on a boat , I ’m gon na be feel seasick . I have a big scar on my stifle , my right human knee , from going scuba diving and getting really sick when I came up from my first swim and then sliced my articulatio genus — while vomiting out the sauceboat .
Arturo : Yes , I remember that storey . The Bahamas is still peach about it .
Zoë : I upchuck , and then all the Swedish people chuck –
Arturo : And they ’re like , “ Ah , yeah , I do n’t wish this . ”
Zoë:“Tak , tak , tak ! Bleghhh . ”
Arturo : Um , so back to Violet .
Zoë : Sure , sure , indisputable . Jessop . Miss Jessop .
Arturo : So Violet ’s first trip should have been an presage of what was coming for her , but she did n’t really take it that way . Right . And there was one magical part of the journey . You bang , Violet aver that for the first time she view a swarm of take flight fish skimming over the ocean . And that ’s really coolheaded . I do n’t have sex if you ’ve ever seen some , but it ’s like — I have n’t , but I ’ve heard of them .
Zoë : But I ’ve YouTubed it .
Zoë : Yeah , please .
Arturo : They sound out that Violet was too young and too pretty to work as a Royal Mail stewardess . Like , what the f * * * is that theorize to mean ? Like , what are you supposed — like , what are you imagine to , what is one supposed to do ?
Zoë : No one ’s ever say that to me .
Arturo : I have in mind , I — I was gon na say , like , every day I am too hot to do a line of work . You do it what I ’m say ? No , but what are you supposed to do if you ’re too hot as an Irish person ? Nineteenth century . Like –
Zoë : And also what does that look like ? What does too raging at the turn of the C see like ? Sickly !
Arturo : Her ankles were gleam . They were shine , glistening in the sun .
Zoë : Gleaming ankles ?
Arturo : Gleaming , you have it off , I , I guess this is not prim geezerhood , but I just always conceive of people getting really revved up for , like , au naturel ankles . But Violet was determine , right-hand ? So she — one account statement state that she made herself more unvarnished for interviews by wearing her bad clothes and eventually , she come through . She was beginning to — I , I imagine her talking to her friends like , “ I just ca n’t make myself look despicable . ” Like , dude , everybody ’s like –
Zoë : Loosen the stays , so I look less snatch .
Arturo : That’s — I love the wordsnatch .
Zoë : I do too .
Arturo : Thank you for using it . Have you ever had a line that you want so badly that you would ’ve done anything or said anything to get it .
Zoë : Yeah , I have in mind , when I first moved to LA , I , um , take a fake resume and my real headshot and hit the Sunset Strip . Went to Cabo Cantina , was like , “ can I work here ? ” And they ’re like , “ no . ” And then I somehow spite up at Chateau Marmont , at Bar Marmont –
Arturo : Right !
Zoë:–and like lied my fashion into a job there that I work for four and a half old age , and –
Arturo : No way !
Zoë:–we had to wear , like , silk , red , qipaos with frog clit and thigh heights . They ’re like , um , uh –
Arturo : Bellboy . Bellboy material ? Or –
Zoë : Not even close , but , um , this , this was a dr — this was like a dress that , um , had like , uh , opium lair vibe , uh , to Bar Marmont . And so we had to fag out thigh heights and supporter belts .
Arturo : Whoa .
Um , anyway , so back to Violet . So let ’s spill the beans about our young lady Violet . Violet set cruise in 1908 . She was 21 years honest-to-goodness and the breadwinner for her category and shape for the Royal Main Line . She was about to see the world . Ah , she was a golden , plucky , savvy , hardworking Irish lass . So she did all mightily do work on the sea . That ’s the last time I ’m gon na do an Irish accent . I apologize to all my , uh , Irish friends , of which I have none . But , um , her first journey took her to Panama and Jamaica and New York , and she love every unmarried second of it . For case , when she was in Panama , she says it was the first time that she had solid food and wine as practiced as her puerility memories of Argentina . It reassured her that she had made the right choice and she would have a life at sea . There was no way that she could have known what tempestuous waters lay ahead .
Zoë : Huh !
[ Stinger into waltz ]
CHAPTER 2: Escape #1
Arturo : So Violet … oh … we ’re transported !
Zoë : Oh … the walk-in !
Arturo : Violet worked as a stewardess doing cabin service . She was cleaning rooms and make beds and bear meal , running errand , and even take care of ill rider . She set out in second year , but shortly she was transfer to work in the first class cabin . So , yeah : Go off , Cabin Queen ! Um , I justify –
Zoë : Did you — was that write or did you add that ?
Arturo : Nope , none of this is write .
Zoë [ dryly]:Go off , Cabin Queen …
Arturo : That ’s the title of my memoir . So , cabin service stewardesses typically had a twelve room under their fear , which does n’t vocalize too regretful at first glance , but the work was in Violet ’s words : “ Soul grinding . ”
Zoë : Twelve rooms ? That ’s too many !
Arturo : Really ? Yeah . To , to — to wait on 12 rooms of , uh , because like the rooms are monumental and it could be like hold back on entire sept ? That ’s proper . I just guess at first glance I was like , I figure that the second form cabin would be like , I do n’t know , 30 way , and now you have 12 room , but –
Zoë : Right . I suppose 12 rooms is a lot . Have you ever done — worked 12 tables ? I guess . I do n’t know . It ’s a destiny !
Arturo : I was a terrible — I , I was a waiter for about two week and I was pretty terrible at it . Not because I , I mean , I got great steer and sht , but , but I , I kept block orders make you could n’t punch in the thing . You had to like , run into the kitchen and yell , “ order , f * * * uh , blah blah . Blah , blah , blah . ” And then like , advert the little piece . So I keep fing up citizenry ’s order and gave everybody a free salad , you know ? Cause I was like , “ I ’m sorry , here ’s a free salad . ” And then my managing director yelled at me once and I was like , “ you recognise what ? F * * * this . ” Like , I ’m fall apart as sht , but I can’t — I’m just too clumsy for this . Um , so — so yes , I have waited to 12 tables and I f**ing sop up at it . OK ? give thanks you for bringing it up .
So Violet seems like she especially hate working for American passengers , who had , she said “ a stripe of selfishness . ” They were like Karens of the sea , you love , or uh , or ocean - faring ocean - Karens — oh , I wrote that one and it ’s severe .
Zoë : You wordsmith !
Arturo : Thank you . Thank you so much . Um , English is my second speech communication everybody , so please take note . So she remembered once that an American rider demand that Violet bring her a lamb cutlet and fresh green peas for a Pekingese hotdog . Like she commanded that the peas should be pertly - picked and delicately mashed , like — oh . Oh , good . So rich mass have been severe for like f***ing forever .
Zoë : Yeah , well , this is the hot take I have in life … dogs are constantly being treated advantageously than I am being treat .
Arturo : Yeah . If you were like walk in the same path as a like f***ing little shih tzu or whatever , and the — and , and the owner ’s like , “ no , no . Caroline does n’t like that . Caroline does n’t like that . She has — ” I ’m like , “ dame , what the f * * * ? ” You know ?
Zoë : Yeah , I ’m hunky-dory . Just like treat me as well as your frump ,
Arturo : That ’s it !
Zoë : You know , just , not bad .
Arturo : Also , like , how are you gon na get freshly picked peas on f***ing — on an ocean ? You know what I ’m saying ?
Zoë : Yeah . Go f * * * yourself , sir .
Arturo : Go f * * * yourself , lady . Uh , so — the hellhole occupation father even worse when the skipper of a ship she worked on made a pass at her , right ? So — so when Violet pass up him , he reported her to the company for flirting with his military officer . Can you f***ing believe ? So she was dismissed from the Royal Main Line .
Zoë : hold off — they blamed her ?
Arturo : Yeah , I intend , it ’s such a cliché , is n’t it ?
Zoë : Misogyny , yeah .
Arturo : hands in major power have always been such toon of themselves , you jazz ?
Zoë : Yeah , yeah , yeah .
Arturo : Um , so we had , so if they were live , we would f***ing scratch them .
Zoë : That ’s right . That ’s veracious .
Arturo : I still demand names and addresses so we can cancel their — their kin . Um , so — in 1910 , Violet was back in England and once again , she was look for oeuvre . Right ? But now she start applying to a fellowship that was shipping between England and America , the White Star Line , right ? So the North Atlantic was notoriously rough and the number of Americans move around under her tending would be even higher . She ’s like , “ I do n’t like these Americans . ” Um , and we ’re like , “ we get it ! ”
Zoë : Same female child , same .
Arturo : So Violet implement , almost hope that she would get reject , but the White Star Line was working intemperately to hire massive crews as they launch the largest rider ship ever build up . Do you know where this is going ?
Zoë : Titanic ?
Arturo : There we go . So the White Star Line –
Zoë : It all goes back to theTitanic …
Arturo : All , all goes back to 1998 . fluorine * * * . Which was a great year for picture palace . Or 1996 , whatever the f * * * it was . Um , so the White Star Line launch theOlympicin June 1911 , and Violet was selected for the handpicked crew , and the ship was unbelievable , but the rider were about the same , sh*tty as ever . But Violet pronounce that as soon as they were aboard , there was a moneyed cleaning woman who started listing off her various demands .
For example , she — she started move over Violet orders about how to help oneself her out when she was going to the bathroom . rank . What is — what does this think ? aid with going to the bathroom , like holding hands ?
Zoë : Lifting up the dame ?
Arturo : Maybe , you know what , perchance you ’re right . Maybe it was really hard to get in and out of –
Zoë : The garments ? Yeah . I do n’t know , man .
Arturo : So to make indisputable that Violet would obey her orders , this gentlewoman that want help going to the bathroom , she say that she was ally with the president of the White Star Line , and evidently Violet was supposed to be charitable and harmonise to all this stuff , but have you ever been in a state of affairs where somebody ’s throw their clout around ? Like , like how do you — how would you reply ?
Zoë : Well , yeah , I intend , I worked at Bar Marmont . I — someone , right , asked me if I would make them a Mango smoothie . And I said , “ ma’am – ”
Arturo : It ’s 2:00 a.m. in the morning .
Zoë : On a Friday !
Arturo : There ’s cocain on the bartop !
Zoë : Yeah . I was like , “ we do n’t have mango and we do n’t have a smoothie maker , or , and we do n’t have yogurt and we do n’t – ” She was like , “ but it ’s my birthday . ” And I was like , “ but we still do n’t have your , your — a mango . ”
Arturo : Yeah . Um , so , uh , uh , evidently , like Violet order that every other passenger would say the same thing , that the prexy was her friend . Apparently he was very democratic . Go off , Friendship King . Um , so at , at least — at least he had friends , you know , until September 1911 when theOlympicwas leaving Southampton on its –
Zoë : Wait , September 19 , did you say ?
Arturo:1911 .
Zoë : Oh , sorry . OK . My birthday is September 19 .
Arturo : It was your natal day . Um , for some reason — coincidence ? I think not . When theOlympicwas leaving Southampton on its fifth trip to New York , it was carrying over a thousand passenger and Violet was on board , and as the ship steamed out towards sea , it had to pass through a channel around the Isle of Wight , which is actually where my trainer is from .
Like , true tale . He’s — he ’s from the Isle of Wight , which by the bye , he ’s very , very white , you know ? So it ’s like me being from like , the peninsula of brown , you recognize what I signify ? I just like , OK , but I digress . It ’s back to the story . OK , so permit ’s put [ on ] some minacious music .
[ OMINOUS MUSIC ]
Zoë : Ooh .
Arturo : As Violet ’s ship was leave on its journeying , an English naval cruiser discover theHawkewas race through the duct at the same time . When the Hawk endeavor to turn and avoid theOlympic , its steering ram , it could n’t transfer its course and annul the passenger ship . So theHawkerammed into the starboard side of theOlympic . That ’s right . That ’s the right side for us landlubbers . Give me a pirate speech sound .
[ PIRATE auditory sensation ]
Arturo : give thanks you .
Zoë : Can I do one too ?
Arturo : Yeah , go ahead .
Zoë : Arrrrr !
Arturo : Mine is likerawr , um , my — my pirate was really feel himself . Um , so miraculously , no pirates , f***ing — not , no plagiariser , no passengers , drear . But also no buccaneer [ were ] in the room on that part of the ship at that meter . So one crew phallus was there , though .
So he was working to fire the steam engines when all of a sudden the ram on the front of the Navy cruiser smashed through the bulkhead and through the way . So water rushed in . Imagine being that dude , like you ’re going about your piece of work , just getting the boys begin , and suddenly the way splits in one-half , you have a go at it ?
Zoë : That ’s stressful .
Arturo : And , and then when — no , like when you tell , like , if — what if like , when you tell everybody , nobody believes you , like , “ bro , bro , I swear , good god . It was like f***ing this high , bro ! ” “ Yeah . OK , Bob , let’s — let ’s sit you down , buddy . You ’re intoxicated . ”
Zoë:“Go back to work . ”
Arturo : Yeah , yeah . “ Go back . ” So the valet de chambre pull the emergency lever to slam shut the water wet doors , and the repose of the crew hasten the seal up the other cabins that were split unfastened . So he ’s a Cuban sandwich . He is a hero . obviously theOlympicwas so large that it post the Navy cruisers spinning out like a top .
[ WHIRLING SFX ]
And some hoi polloi — that ’s a top sound by the way . We did n’t bed what that was . Oh , that ’s you ? Was that you making –
Zoë : No , it was n’t . It –
Arturo : Oh my God ,
Zoë:–was me mimicking .
Arturo : I have it off . Yours was more like a top , in reality . So Ben Chugg , you ’re getting replaced buddy . Need to step it up .
Um , some other citizenry on display panel did n’t even find the crash . That ’s how big the ship was .
Zoë : Woah .
Arturo : So theOlympicwas able to turn around and navigate back to board cancel the voyage , but without a single injury — I , I ’m indisputable that there was at least one seafaring Karen , being like , “ I got a whiplash . I felt it . I in reality did feel it . ”
Zoë:“My vertebral column . ”
Arturo:“Yeah , my spine guys , it’s — yeah , I need help with the bathroom . ” Lady , f * * * off . TheOlympicwas disadvantageously damaged , so it limped back to port . Violet apparently live on the wreck along with everyone else on dining table . It was her first escape from a disaster at sea .
The problem was the terms was so monolithic that she was pop off to be outta work while it took months to revive the ship . Luckily , the [ White ] Star Line had a unexampled ship that was ready to launch the next year . And this one , say it with me now , was … unsinkable . millimetre ?
Zoë : Oh no …
Arturo : They wanted experienced work party member because the raw one was built like theOlympiconly big , so the company made the Violet a hostess on , you know the ship Zoë –
Zoë and Arturo[in unison ] : theTitanic .
CHAPTER 3: To the Lifeboats
Arturo : So Violet Jessop sail out on theTitanicin 1912 , again , not your birthday . There were flitter flagstone in hankie when theTitanicslipped away from dock and the tugboats were tooting , farewell and all that material , right ? Uh , yeah . Woo . That ’s right .
Zoë : Tooting .
Arturo : Yeah . beep . I hump — I have intercourse that that ’s what tugboat do . It ’s so cute . They ’re like , “ I ’m just gonnachoo choo . ” Um , so the journey was — it ’s , it ’s seemingly a train , uh , in my judgement . So the journey was suppose to be a simple one , right-hand ? [ The ] ship would leave from the porthole in England and make a immediate little orchestra pit stop in Ireland , and then puff merrily cross the Atlantic to New York .
In fact , theTitanicalmost had its own collision with another rider ship as it launched . When they escaped with only a nigh miss , the gang call up that they had avoided the misfortune for the journey . They were wrong .
Zoë : fiddling do they know .
Arturo : The one affair that Violet did realize by this spot was that she was uneasy on big ships — you know , theOlympicand all that . What would have happened if she followed that suspicion ? Was there ever a meter when you ignored the signboard and keep doing something that was doomed to fail , ever , or … ?
Zoë : I think of , every day . My whole life . My memoir : sentence to Fail . What about you ?
Arturo : Every human relationship I had , like , in like , my high school days , I was like , “ God , this is — you look like you ’re gon na smart me . Let ’s do this ! ”
Zoë : Seventy - five red-faced iris ! Sign me up .
Arturo : I can desexualize this ! Um , so once the ship was underway , it was just as luxuriant as you might imagine , right ? At least for the flush of rider . It — it was the world ’s largest ocean lining , and it was kind of like theOlympic , but if this metre they pull out literally all the Michigan , correct ? Violet telephone it …
Zoë : Do you jazz what that mean by the means ? Sorry . pull out the stops ?
Arturo : deplumate out all the stops ? No , I do n’t .
Zoë : Do you know the origin ?
Arturo : No . Can you tell me ?
Zoë : It ’s pulling out all the stop in an reed organ .
Arturo : In an Hammond organ — as in a acting organ ?
Zoë : OK . So they ’re like the keys . They ’re the — they’re like the floor pedals . And then there are these halt . And I think when you pull them all out , it just makes a massive amount of sound .
Arturo : I see what you ’re enunciate .
Zoë : I’m going off piece here . This is not my specialty , but , but –
Carl : Zoë is so correct .
Zoë : give thanks you God .
Arturo : They take out out all the stops . Which , Zoë — did you recognise that that ’s in extension to an electronic organ ? That ’s the only matter that ’s gon na be put in .
Zoë : Damn .
Arturo : Violet — Violet called it “ grander in every way . ” Or like , passing baller , correct ? It was literally supposed to be a drift Chateau Marmont .
Zoë : Oh , mon dieu . I do n’t think I would fare well on a heavy , swelled gravy boat , like , trapped for hebdomad .
Arturo : I’m gon na be honest with you — the grownup , big cruises kind of freak out me out because you ca n’t leave .
Zoë : Yeah . And also you ’re stuck with mass you did not pick out to be stuck with .
Arturo : Exactly , that ’s what I ’m saying . Like it ’s a hotel that you may not , like — you just ca n’t take a breakout from . I reckon you may go to porthole and whatever , but it ’s just like the activity of all inclu — I have — having grown up , going to all inclusive hotel up until like my adolescent age , I , I — God bless my mob . That ’s so lovely that you did that for us .
Zoë : Yeah . Yeah .
Arturo : We were balling on a budget , but my God , it give me such crippling anxiousness , like having to like oppose over like the buffet with like Bob from f***ing Florida in the ‘ 70s .
Zoë : Oh . Bob from f***ing Florida needs to break off verbalize .
Arturo:“What , what case of Hispanic are you at ? ” Yeah . And I ’m like , “ I do n’t f***ing know , Bob . ” And that ’s how I met my girl –
Zoë : And you look alien ! You ’re like a hybrid .
Arturo : Yeah . “ You , you was some kind of brown , ainchya ? ” Um , “ and that ’s how I met my second married man . ” So cruises freaked me out , but for theTitanicit was all , like , beautiful reddish brown article of furniture and baroque molding and sculptural clocks and vernal whipper snappers coming up from steerage to woo society girls describe Rose .
material like that , you know ? And after all that , they — after all they , they had John Jacob Astor on board and he was the wealthiest human beings in the earth at the time , and he brought along , ah , so sweet … his 19 - year - old wife . You f***ing crawling . So the ballroom and dining elbow room — it ’s so stupefied to have intercourse that like throughout history , we ’ve made such , um — society has made such loopholes for fat serviceman . You know , it stop today with this podcast . It stops today .
Zoë : I get laid it was an important move to do this podcast .
Arturo : The ballrooms and dining rooms and everything were supposed to be at the meridian of luxury . The heavy problem for Violet is that she was n’t there to revel the luxury . She was the one providing the lavishness .
As she was endure between the private rooms , arranging lace bed covering , persist to the kitchen to cut up essence and serve intellectual nourishment , pass to aid the loaded rider go to the bathroom , you lie with , all this stuff . So basically there was just a bunch of running , right ? And then came the night .
They were in the middle of the journeying , and Violet was lie alert when suddenly she listen a low crunching , rip auditory sensation and the whole ship shivered under her . The strangest part though , was that when the engine drop out , suddenly everything was still .
For only a moment though . But then Violet start to hear scummy voices in the passage alfresco , you live , a lot of frenetic footsteps lead the doorway .
Violet lie still , hope that she was wrong about what was happening . Just hop against logic , you know . But the clangour had woken up the stewardess who portion out Violet ’s room . And she said , “ Sounds like something bad has happened . ” The two of them earn they had to wait on the passenger .
To which the entire earth reply , “ no f**ing sht buddy . ” You know , like , “ oh , that — did it ? ” You know ? Um –
Zoë : Oh my God .
Arturo : Yeah . So the two of them realized that they had a responsibility to manage the passengers . They were still pulling their dress on when another stewardess knocked on their door , they afford it and he say , “ Have you get word the ship is sinking ? ”
Uh , can you guess the f***ing feel ?
Zoë : I mean to be on a sink ship .
Arturo : Yes , Zoë ? Yes . Thank you . Go with that .
Zoë : No , no .
Arturo : Tell me more .
Zoë : Well , it ’s just like the amount of times you use that as a expression , you know –
Arturo : And to actually be one , like –
Zoë : Take me off this sinking feeling — yeah .
Arturo:–at least one individual holler “ We ’re in a metaphor ! ” Uh , no . But reckon the panic know that there ’s just nothing you may f***ing do .
Zoë : I know , and it ’s like that long , [ it ] was — I conceive of time was really eldritch , because it , like , step on it up but also slow down down and , ugh .
Arturo : Yeah , yeah , yeah . So — so there is a mother wit of urgency , proper ? Like Violet rushed to her passengers and she started assist children strap on animation jackets , but suddenly the parliamentary law number down everybody to the lifeboat , right ? Most of the people in Violet ’s discussion section have been asleep and they fumbled with their valuable conflict to put on thick coating before Violet lead ‘ em up the gangways .
Before the stewardess could go back for their thing , they had to make indisputable that every invitee from their section had evacuate . Violet had her own panicked minute digging through her wardrobe , when she realized that she did n’t bring a pelage .
Zoë : Oh God !
You know it ’s gon na be a os chilling frigidness once you ’re off that ship . Right ? What ? What would you do if you do n’t have a coating ?
Zoë : Oh my God . I signify , aahhhhh –
Arturo : That ’s what I call back . I would also –
Zoë : What would you do ? I mean , [ I ] would — I would demand if someone had an spare coat –
Arturo : I –
Zoë:“Hey , excuse me , do you have a second ? ”
Arturo:“Sorry . Yeah . I make out you guys are all in survival style , but like what ’s some Mm . Yeah . This is not really my colour . ”
Zoë:“Do you have , uh , size spiritualist ? ”
Arturo : I do n’t know what the f * * * I would ’ve done . I belike would ’ve panicked and be like , “ just — I just wanna dance , ” you know ?
Violet was right smart more resourceful than either of us . She snap up a silk bedcover on her way of life back to the living boats .
Zoë : Wow .
Arturo : One of the most super surreal item that she remembered was that she lead a group of officers who were still in their medical dressing uniform with their hand in their pockets , just kind of confab restfully , and they smiled at her as she went by . So eldritch . Like you do n’t never acknowledge how scare is gon na assume you , right ?
She also passed some of the buttery boy who were trying to carry a huge encumbrance of clams . They tripped on something firmly and everybody attend down to realize that it was a suitcase that had erupt open , filled with gilded coins .
Zoë : Oh .
Arturo : stupefy it ! So by the time Violet got to the gravy boat , the contention had already begin . Like who would get lead behind to go down with a ship and who would be allowed to board one of the stay on lifeboats and live .
CHAPTER 4: Escape #2
Arturo : Violet watched as John Jacob Astor turn over his wife into a sauceboat and waved her au revoir . Then with a roar , bloodless hurt skyrocket were fired up into the sky . home arrived at the lifeboat together , and they cried as they break open up . The cleaning woman climbed onto the boats , and the men faded back into a grow bunch . Some guys nearby go throwing things over the side , like wooden chairs and anything that would float . They were hope that there would be things to hold onto in the water system when the lifeboats were gone . Then someone grabbed Violet ’s arm .
It was a pack of cards officer who was filling the life boat . It was Violet ’s turn . Violet and another hostess clambered on top of the side of the gravy holder , and the officeholder harbor something up towards Violet and say , “ Look after this ! ”
So when Violet give down and he tossed it to her and she made the catch , it was somebody ’s baby . It was a freaking babe .
Zoë : Oh my gosh .
Arturo : Yeah …
Zoë : This floor .
Arturo : I know . How desperate do you have to feel ? guess how do-or-die you have to sense to be like , give somebody your baby .
Zoë : Yeah , whole . Oh my God . We ’re joking , but this is so harrowing .
Arturo : I know . So — so then , the life boat strike down and it was such a long way down , and the lighter of the decks , like , flashed past them and then they dispatch the piddle , ripe ? Violet remembered that the shock was bone crack and the baby pop to scream . A few members , uh , of the crew were in the boat at the oar and they start up to pull , right .
The lifeboat moved into the swarthiness aside from theTitanic , but it was — theTitanicwas tilt so badly now . One of the human beings row the boat had come from the firing suite , and Violet tell that his aspect was still melanize by ember dust , and his eye were topnotch bloodshot . He was only don his thin shirt from the engine room , and there was nothing to protect him from the cold .
Arturo : Everyone on the light boat ascertain the lights of theTitanicgo out . There were six rows of deck lighter , then five , then four , then three . Then the ship cleave in half and it started run low down . Now Violet , a good Catholic , close her eyes and she prayed for the residual of the nighttime . It was mostly the uttermost cold that Violet think of . She was — she envelop the silk quilt around the baby and worried that its crying was getting weaker and quieter , but do n’t interest , OK , I ’m just gon na spoil it for you . The baby survives , so do n’t freak out , all right ?
Zoë : Oh my God . OK , groovy .
Arturo : The water is jerky around them and the sauceboat was throw between the waves and Violet was ferociously determine that the infant was not gon na decease in her arm . As the sunlight came up , the survivors in the lifeboat were able to see stacks of Ice peck floating around them . How crazy is that sight ?
Zoë : That ’s nuts . Ugh .
Arturo : So nut . And finally the — in the illumination of day , they also spotted a speck in the apparent horizon . It was the sea ocean liner : Carpathia . They had received theTitanic ’s distress call the night before , and they had arrived in prison term to pick up the lifeboat . How ?
Arturo : That ’s also , I stand for , I know they ’re not , we ca n’t consider them lucky because of the sinkingTitanic , but what a blessing that it only take them a Nox . You have sex ?
Zoë : Yeah , truly , rightfully . Uh , also something I think — have think about whenever I think about thatTitanic , which is kind of –
Arturo : reasonably often .
Zoë : Quite often , yeah . Um , is when the boat plump in the — the pulling of the , you experience , the — the water and , and just attempt to unclutter the , that — that , yeah , I do n’t know –
Arturo : And also just like the sound that a like , boat cracking –
Zoë : Oh yeah !
Arturo:–in two must make , good ?
Zoë : I’ve gotten into three railway car accidents .
Arturo : Oh my god !
Zoë : That ’s why I do n’t live in LA anymore . I sum three cars in five years .
Arturo : give thanks God you ’re OK .
Zoë : Yeah , thank you . Two of the motorcar were PT Cruisers and one was a , uh , rental motorcar on the way to pick up the 2d PT cruiser . Um , and then –
Arturo : Just because it was a — a life threatening car crash . I will make no comment . But know that in any other circumstances , I would just have so many questions , but go on .
Zoë : But the reason I bring this up is I can conjure the sound of a motorcar crash so well . The plastic , the , the — well , the crinkling . Oh , and the smell .
Arturo : It sense like bite arctic .
Zoë : Totally .
Arturo : Because otherwise it ’s just too disconsolate , you know ? Um , so … I express mirth at funerals , is what I ’m saying . So hire me as a standup comedian for your funeral .
Zoë : Please come to mine .
Arturo : Come to my funeral . Please follow to my funeral . Um , so the men in Violet ’s sauceboat force severely on the oars , and they were the last to reach out the rescue ship . When Violet and the others climb up to the deck , the first affair that they were given was a glassful of brandy . I mean , to be fair , that sounds somewhat fantastic . Like what ? I do n’t roll in the hay . What would you want as your first affair after being deliver ?
Zoë : Mm . Congee .
Arturo : Congee ? What ’s conge ?
Zoë : Do you bang what congee is ?
Arturo : No .
Zoë : It ’s , it ’s , um — it ’s like a kind of [ a ] warm Sir Tim Rice , um , porridge .
Arturo : F * * * . Yeah . I would require some conge , I would like an acai bowl . Am I just being weird ? Like –
Zoë : Cold . Cold . Too cold .
Arturo : I do n’t jazz , but maybe that’s — I do n’t know . But I — but also , nutritive and delicious .
Zoë : You do n’t want something fond , like –
Arturo : I desire topnotch food , and I want to remain straight to my –
Zoë : Antioxidants !
Arturo : I — I wanna stay on-key to my fitness goals , is what I desire . Um , so Violet was standing on the deck feel dazed , when suddenly a woman rushed up and grabbed the baby out of her arms , she turned and persist off into the crew . We can only speculate and hope to God that that was the sister ’s mum , right ? Because it — I do n’t know . That was unquestionably the baby ’s mom , right , please ?
Arturo : Please ?
CHAPTER 5: Escape #3
Arturo : So theTitanicwas the deadliest sinking of a ship in story up to that point . By the time it was over , 60 pct of the first social class passengers survived . F * * * .
In the 2d class , less than half cope to make it . Overall , 1300 people go . Seven hundred of those were third family passenger . It ’s so f***ing unjust .
And you might think that the escaping of the crash of theTitanicand living to tell the tale would be enough to keep Violet Jessop from ever pass to sea again , but that ’s where –
Zoë : Oh no , she go back ?
Arturo:–you would be untimely . No , no . It ’s an abusive — it ’s like , [ a ] terrible kinship . It ’s a carmine flag . She just ca n’t , she ’s gon na cook it .
Arturo : Um , Violet went back !
Zoë : She ’s gon na fix the ocean !
Arturo : She — yeah , “ I ’m gon na fix the ocean , you guy cable . ” Um , that is the confidence that , oh yeah , I love that confidence . She even — she even say that she knew that she had to go back right away , otherwise she would drop off her nerve .
And to be honest , middling enough . Uh , that make sense to me . So just two hebdomad after she was finish present her testimonial about the crash , she was back at it again . Well , like , if you literally just live on the shipwreck of theOlympic , escape number one , and then theTitanicescape , are you lead back to ocean or are you finding another –
Zoë : No , I ’m take two years at least .
Arturo : Yeah . I ’m just gon na , I ’m just gon na go to Long Island and just chill .
Zoë : I’m gon na dwell on the priming . All the meter .
Arturo : And seem up at the maven .
Arturo : And that ’s just gon na be my problem . What ’s even crazier though , is that in 1916 for your birthday , she even had the guts — she even had the sand to unite the crew of the third replica model of the White Star Line fleet , theBritannic . Can you consider she is just like , “ no , no , no . I ’m gon na get this rightfulness . ”
Zoë : Wow , she ’s a die hard .
Arturo : Yeah ! Well , the thing was basically no one in the world knew how to crew these ship like Violet did . Plus theBritannicwas commissioned as a wartime infirmary ship because of course , 1916 was in the midsection of World War I. So Violet felt her own variety of loyal duty to serve in the state of war , and that mean overcoming her fears and going back to sea to wait on as a Red Cross nurse on the latest copy of theTitanic . She ’s a f***ing badass , is what she is .
Zoë : She really is so brave .
Arturo : When they went to sea in 1916 , the crew of the hospital ship did n’t realize how extremely dangerous their job was . And that wreak us to escape number three .
So , in November that class , theBritannicwas cruising the Aegean Sea to clean up a load of wounded soldiers . Violet was sitting down to breakfast with the gang . She tell that she had a hot pot of tea in one handwriting and some butter in the other … when an burst rocked the ship .
That is a very diminutive explosion there . That was — so the explosion rocked the ship , but to be fair , it was such a tiny little detonation that they were all o.k. in the crew . Just imagine .
Zoë : She was like , “ excuse me . ”
Arturo : Yeah . “ Sorry . Ooh . Yeah . But excuse me ! Butter helps with my accelerator . ” Um , I just envisage Violet being like , “ you got ta be f***ing kidding me , ” like , “ Again ? Truly , truly , again ? ”
Zoë : Yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah .
Arturo : The nurses rush –
Zoë : Not today , Satan .
Arturo : Not today . “ I ’m gon na tame you , f***ing sea , ” um . “ I can prepare him ! ” Um , so the nurses festinate to gather their life preservers , but Violet started by help a few of the others . And while everybody run to their lifeboats , Violet give out back to her cabin . So , you know , this was n’t Violet ’s first rodeo , so by now the sense of terror was n’t go to overwhelm her , and she was determined to take a few matter with her . She grabbed her pack , a Bible , her alarm system clock , and a toothbrush .
If your ship ’s going down , what are the things that you ’re gon na grab ?
Zoë : Well that silk duvet .
Arturo : A silk eiderdown ? Of course . Oh yes . You ’ve find out from , you con from others . Very well done .
Zoë : Yeah , yeah , yeah . Um , I think — leave it all .
Arturo : Why is she grabbing a f***ing alarm clock clock though ? What are you like ?
Zoë : Or a toothbrush ?
Arturo : She ’s like , “ remind me to brush my teeth if we ’re in long enough . ”
Zoë : And a ring , I imagine ? perchance . I do n’t , yeah . I would depart everything .
Arturo : Is this a special ring ? You eff , she ’s like , this is my invisibility ring . Um , Violet , you ’re reading too much . Uh uh JRR Tolkien … which is not the time cause JRR Tolkien was fighting in the war and I know that .
Um , so Violet said that she made indisputable to get the soup-strainer because of how much people made fun of her for not experience one after theTitanicwent down . I guess that ’s what occur to you when you ’re mostly surrounded by first class f*ing aholes , you fuck ? So , Violet –
Zoë : Wait , they were making , they were like peck her about –
Arturo : Sh — yeah .
Zoë : On the toot toot tug ?
Arturo : On the — not at the tugboat . It was a bountiful ship .
Zoë : Not that dissimilar –
Arturo:–the grown ship that rescued them from the –
Carl : Carpathia .
Arturo : Carpathia .
Zoë : Right , theCarpathia …
Arturo : So this is what happens , right ? You ’re getting made fun of for not deliver [ a ] toothbrush when you ’re surrounded by aholes . And what a f*ing weird affair to do . But she grab a toothbrush , which is kind of endearing .
Zoë : Shame , you know …
Arturo : Yeah , so by the fourth dimension she make the deck , Violet was the last cleaning lady on plank , and the officer there was surprised to see her because he intend that all the nurses had already been load into the lifeboats . When Violet was at long last in the lifeboats , she remember that it dropped so fast that it was bankrupt light and bouncing off the face rim into port fix as it went down , and then it finally hit the pee so hard that it knocked everyone dizzy .
I just — I’m just gon na suggest that citizenry start taking course in how to lower lifeboats in a — not like such [ an ] strong-growing room . I ’m just like , if it ’s me learn the signboard , I stand for , guys , you know , save yourselves of course , but like you do n’t wanna stamp out them on the fashion down . You know , I ’ve seenWhite Lotusseason two , you hump , getting off of boat is grievous –
Arturo:–but that still was n’t the bad matter that happened , you know , because by now , OK , this is really f***ed up .
By now , the front of the ship was dip down and that meant that the immense propellor was now lifting out of the water at the back . The ship was still moving forward too , so the propeller was now singe onwards toward the lifeboats and chopping the piddle . Pulling them towards it .
Zoë : No , no , no . That ’s what I ’m state , no !
Arturo : Violet could n’t escape . That ’s what you were say . So she say that she looked back and saw other lifeboats and the people in them sucked into the propellor , and in her words , “ minced . ” Oof . So Violet jumped out of the lifeboat into the water system . She hold her breathing time , she come together her eyes , and she felt herself get whipped into the propellor ’s spin double . Something intemperately crash into her chief . She had a life cap on , but it was too small to carry her weight . The only affair that in reality saved her was take hold of a 2nd life cap that went floating by .
Once she was swim on the surface , Violet opened her eyes , but she enjoin that she closed them again to block out the sight of the ship sinking away . Eventually she open her eyes in time to see that theBritannicfinally dove into the wave with its Isaac Stern fly upwards into the gentle wind before the whole ship sank straight down . One crazy f***ing thing here , she order that she never learned to float . So you would conceive — sorry . Are you OK , Zoë ? Vibe check . You OK ?
Zoë : I am , I ’m just trouble by this . This is a bummer . When you said they were minced , did we need to use that verb ?
Arturo : hear , I did n’t drop a line her memoir , OK ?
Zoë : I know , I have it away . But , Arturo …
Arturo : I’m just learn the words now .
Zoë : It ’s just so unbalanced . I do n’t know if I would ’ve know to jump out of the boat if –
Arturo : The — my hypothesis is that by the clip she — that she swim far enough that by the sentence the — that the propeller was even pulling at them , that it — it was extend more vertical .
Arturo : Also you ’re never gon na forget f***ing catch masses get absolutely ravaged by a gravy boat propeller .
Zoë : No , it ’s so dotty . Like they remember that they were safe too .
Arturo : Exactly . And you know , when you were talk about the gravy holder slide down and how that would pull you under , I was also think that , but I was like , I never even thought about like a propeller also pulling you towards it ?
Zoë : Right .
Arturo : Like , f * * * ! How many f***ing thing do I have to worry about ?
Zoë : Totally . I also like attempt to care catch a wave on like , a — you screw , like swimming out on a surfboard and like I ’m always humiliate by how much travail you need to –
Arturo : Oh my God .
Zoë : You know , how much energy you postulate to maintain to –
Arturo:–to swimming back out to the surf line is just like — yeah , I ’m so , I ’m so in awe of it . And also , surfriding is one of those thing that like , really makes you respect the sea because like no matter how good at it — you are at it , like it ’s gon na make you find like a slow ass , you be intimate ?
Zoë : Yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah .
Arturo : So — so she floated on the water until rescue gravy holder reached her and they bring her back to shoring on a Greek island . And Violet learned that they had sail into a bowed stringed instrument of underwater mines send away by a German submarine the daytime before . Somehow only 28 masses were kill as the ship cash in one’s chips down and most of them were not killed by a mine . They were in reality killed by the propellor .
Arturo : Violet had a fractured skull . I ’m sorry to do this to you , Zoë , but I just need to tell you the tale . I , I don’t — I , I wish I could change the facts .
Zoë : I thought the escape were gon na be like –
Arturo : Fun ? You ’re like , “ so I escape , like , this really weird human relationship in Cabo . ” No , ma’am . This is not the type of –
Zoë : She had a fractured skull , do you retrieve ? What do you think she hit ?
Arturo : in all probability a piece of the lifeboats , a patch of the sauceboat , really anything . Um , um — and it stumble her twice , right ? And her leg was cut assailable to the pearl , so it select her three full year to heal . Now , fortunately for her , she had again escaped the White Star Line with her life . So — so heed , we ’re coming to the end of Violet ’s narrative here , and if you escaped three sinking ships , would you ever –
Zoë : give thanks god .
Arturo : You’re like , “ please permit me out of this . ” Would you ever travel by sea again ?
Zoë : No , but this b*tch be crazy .
Arturo : She ’s like , she ’s like , “ let me get out — back out there . ” She ’s like , she ’s like , “ I was penny-pinching this time . ”
Zoë : Put me in , coach !
Arturo : So when it was finally time to go home , Volet decide to go to London — by land , give thanks God .
CHAPTER 6: Old Reliable
Arturo : So in London , Violet engage a job at a bank and for a while she — at least — she stopped tempting fate . Violet published a memoir in the 1930s when her memories of the White Star Line were still fresh . Now , for a while though , her Bible did n’t really get much attention . There were people interested in theTitanic . certain , but not very many of them were pay attention to the taradiddle of a stewardess .
They ’re all about guy rope like John Jacob Astor , and all the other fancy pants in the first form . Oh , one — one gaga matter , even after JJ died on theTitanic — we’re that close that I just call him JJ — his kin kept investing , investing in the White Star Line . His Logos was collecting stock credentials in 1931 . Like , the company killed him with a terrible f***ing boat , and there was still money to be made .
Zoë : People are making crazy decisions .
Arturo : Insane . The , the — the early 1900s was just f***ing nuts .
Zoë : I love it . It ’s perchance just the takeaway , like hoi polloi have been crazy forever .
Arturo : Yeah , and I do n’t find consolation in that , but I incur comfort in , I find comfort in the fact that people have been the same throughout history , in the same — in the sense of like , when I — not to get too cryptic on this — but like , [ when ] my pa exit when I was 17 , and one of the thing that aid me was that , uh , my teacher gave me this — the Hamlet soliloquy of “ to be or not to be , ” veracious ? And at first it made no f***ing sense to me , cause it was Hellenic to me . And I ’m like , “ we ’re in Guatemala . Why the f * * * are you return me , like , old English books ? ” But then I — once I started really paying attending to it , after a abbreviated second of uh , mourning , I realized that this guy wire was let the cat out of the bag about exactly what I was going through .
Arturo : Five hundred years before me . And I discover there ’s a certain sensation of comfort in knowing that the human existence is not that different , you know , so that I ’m not alone in this experience . And it was actually by the bye what made me take act seriously and move to New York and study acting … now why we have a podcast .
Zoë : Oh my God , that ’s a very moving level .
Arturo : So Violet finally retired in 1950 and moved herself into a fiddling English cottage on the east coast of England . I love that for her . Do you — do you have a retirement name and address in thinker ?
Zoë : Oh man . I do n’t know . I — we’ve been peach about Ireland so much . I love Ireland . It ’s so beautiful .
Arturo : So now you ’re moving to Ireland . rent ’s see , like we ’ll learn in next week when — when we ’re telling you about , uh , about the Caribbean , you ’re like , “ yeah , I just always felt like Jamaica was calling to me . ”
Zoë : I do n’t know why , but like the Caribbean is speak to me .
Arturo : It ’s just like , calling to me . Anybody else feel that ? So if you survived the end traps made by the White Star Line enough time , I feel like you merit a small seaboard cottage .
Zoë : Yeah
Arturo : You cognize , they should just give it to you . frankly , the — the White Star Line should have paid for it , you know , and peradventure they would ’ve , except they went bankrupt in 1934 on — say it with me — your natal day .
Zoë : My natal day .
Arturo : That ’s right-hand . So . Anyway , Violet at long last gave herself permission to just , you know , just conjure up some chicken and put up her animal foot . And she lived there for almost 20 geezerhood , all the way into her eighties . Oh , in one little last little tidbit , one day — this is nuts . One day , a little while before she die , Violet got a phone call extremely late at Nox . [ telephone rings ] That ’s the sound of a phone in case you did n’t screw . And Violet — Violet gets outta seam and answers it and it was somebody say they were from Jenny f***ing Craig . No , I ’m joke . No .
Zoë [ laughs]:God , you really ha — I was with you .
Arturo : So Violet arrive outta bed , she answers the headphone , veracious ? And she hears the voice of a gentlewoman on the other goal of the line who enquire if she was Violet Jessop who had been on theTitanic . And Violet was like , “ Yes , that was me . Who is this ? ” The someone on the other end of the sound was like : “ I am the child you rescued . ”
Arturo : And then they just hung up and she never called again . Is n’t that crazy ?
Zoë : Is that all she read ?
Arturo : That ’s all she said — and invest in Yahoo . I guess . I do n’t f***ing know . Uh , but is n’t that barbaric ?
Zoë : Wow . So , so I guess maybe , well , I — I wish that , um , Violet had been like , “ was the woman who grabbed you out of my implements of war your mommy ? ”
Arturo : Yeah . “ Who ’s your mother ? What does she reckon like ? ” Yeah . Anyway , it ’s this softheaded chronicle and I really desire that it was n’t just somebody prank calling her , you have it away ?
Zoë : Yeah , me too .
Arturo : So the wreck of theTitanicwas happen on the ocean trading floor almost 15 class after Violet die . The discovery of the shipwreck kicked off a young waving of sake in the ship and what it was really like during the ocean trip . So that finally brought Violet ’s story the attending it merit . Her book was bring out in 1997 and this time it became one of the defining tale of theTitanicby including what it was really like for normal hoi polloi working there to come through . And so that ’s when Violet finally got her nickname : Miss Unsinkable . Miss Unsinkable . That ’s really her moniker now .
Outro
Arturo : Anyway , that ’s our story . What ’d you call back ?
Zoë : Oh my God . The twists and turn .
Arturo : So crazy , right ? We ’re like laughing one hour and then I ’m like f***ing so disturbed and then I ’m also , like , kind of hungry . Like , just a lot went on .
Zoë , you ’re f***ing awful , dude . And you ’re in so many unlike task , likeThe Afterparty , Nightbitch , and you voice a Mermaid scientist onCreature Commandos , wow . listener , go find her body of work ASAP !
rattling quick — I require to go back to our producer Carl , cuz he ’s had an entire sequence to think about a new ocean shack or an Irish Sung . So Carl , do you have something for me ?
Carl : Yes , I do .
Arturo : Here we go .
Carl [ singing]:Zoë Chao is the world-beater of podcasts . Zoë Chao is the queen of podcasts . Zoë Chao is the queen of podcasts , early in the first light . way of life hey and up she arise way , hey , and up she rises . Way , hey , and up she ascend early in the morning time !
Arturo : betimes in the morning . Hey , give thanks you Carl . give thanks you everybody . Zoë ! Thank you so much for being in this . You were such a marvellous guest .
Zoë : You are such a great storyteller and so fun to string up out with .
Arturo : Oh , thanks so much . See you afterward . But not on a boat ! “ Brah - bah - bah - powww . ”
Zoë:“Beuh beuh beuh ! ”
CREDITS
Arturo : Greatest Escapesis a production of iHeartRadio and FilmNation Entertainment , in association with Gilded Audio . Our executive producers are me , Arturo Castro , Alyssa Martino and Milan Popelka from FilmNation Entertainment , Andrew Chugg and Whitney Donaldson from Gilded Audio , and Dylan Fagan from iHeartRadio .
The show is produced and edited by Carl Nellis and Ben Chugg , who are also , respectively , our research overlord and music overlord . Our associate manufacturer is Tory Smith , who is our other overlord .
Nick Dooley is our technical film director . extra editing by Whitney Donaldson . Special thanks to Alison Cohen , Dan Welsh , Ben Ryzack , Sara Joyner , Nicki Stein , Olivia Canny , and Kelsey Albright .
Hey , give thanks you so much for listening , and if you ’re savour the show , please leave a rating or review . My mammy will call you each in person and thank you , and we ’ll see you all next week .
