Move Your Asses It's Molasses

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Dave & Chuck the Freak research the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 after a listener mentioned it while they were discussing the worst hot food to have thrown on you.

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00:00In Tampa

00:06Actually a St. Petersburg woman

00:08Arrested for battery

00:09Ooh

00:11Hot grits

00:14That sounds painful

00:16She bashed her boyfriend

00:18Over the head

00:19With a pan and then

00:22Covered him in hot grits

00:24That's

00:24Gotta be like napalm

00:26That's what I was gonna say

00:27Hot grits is one of the worst hot foods

00:29Cause it's gonna stick to you right

00:31It's like cream of wheat

00:32Yeah I'm not a fan of grits

00:35In any way

00:36Think of a worse hot food

00:39To be thrown on you

00:40What's worse

00:42I don't think much

00:45Because it's got that sticky

00:46Hot caramel

00:47Like really hot caramel

00:51Yeah like scalding hot caramel

00:53Being poured over your head

00:55Someone said

00:57Is this true?

00:58Lots of people died in Boston

00:59From a molasses flood

01:00I remember that

01:02There is a

01:03There is a

01:03There was like a big

01:04A molasses

01:05There's like a molasses factory there

01:07That had a problem

01:08That's a bad one

01:09There it is

01:10The great Boston molasses flood

01:12Of 1919

01:13What?

01:14Oh my goodness

01:15How horrible

01:17You're

01:17Sticky to death

01:18Look at how much there was

01:20Oh my god

01:21It's like a river's worth

01:22Of molasses

01:23It occurred on January 15th

01:251919

01:26In the north end of Boston

01:28The great molasses flood

01:29Also known as the

01:30Boston molasses disaster

01:31Oh my god

01:32People ask

01:33Can you still smell molasses

01:35In Boston?

01:35How many died?

01:36A 40 foot wave of molasses

01:39Buckled the railroad tracks

01:41Crushed buildings

01:42And inundated the neighborhood

01:44Local legend has it

01:46On particularly warm days

01:47You can still smell the faint aroma

01:50Of molasses

01:50Seeping up from the streets

01:52Of the old north end

01:53All I can think of

01:54It's a tragedy

01:55So it's not funny

01:56But it's all I can think of

01:57Is move your ass

01:57It's molasses

01:58Can you imagine a 40

02:02Move your ass

02:03It's molasses

02:04I don't know why

02:05I feel like the slowest

02:0740 foot wave

02:08Is coming at me

02:09Ah

02:10Molasses wave

02:13Ah

02:14Run

02:15Run

02:15I think we got some time

02:17Right

02:17Is it coming?

02:18It's huge

02:19It's huge

02:19It's 40 feet high

02:21Oh my god

02:22It's taken a long time

02:23It's so slow

02:24It's unstoppable though

02:25We can't stop it

02:25But it's huge

02:26Oh wait

02:27There go the train tracks

02:28It's gonna knock the train over

02:29Is it molasses

02:30You think?

02:31It has to be

02:32It smells like it

02:33Save your asses

02:34He keeps yelling it

02:37He's like

02:37I'm going to be here

02:38Yeah

02:39He's like

02:40Save your asses

02:42Molasses

02:42Thank you Paul

02:44Thank you Paul

02:48That man saved our life

02:50That day

02:51That's a crazy disaster

02:53That is nice

02:5321 people died

02:5521 people

02:55How did they die though

02:57And a bunch of people

02:58Are saying

02:58Yes you can still smell it

03:00I bet you can

03:01You can't get rid of molasses

03:02On hot days

03:02Absolutely

03:03You can't get rid of molasses

03:06That smell

03:08Wow

03:10Cylinder stress failure caused it

03:15So it was a gigantic

03:17A 40 foot wave

03:18No I know

03:19But how big was this

03:21Oil drum

03:21Look at the pictures

03:22Of it

03:22It's devastating

03:23It was

03:24Of molasses

03:25These people didn't stand a chance

03:28Against this molasses

03:29No they didn't

03:30What a crazy disaster

03:31Like honestly

03:33One of the weirdest disasters

03:34In American history right

03:35Yes

03:35The Boston molasses flood

03:36Was it hot though

03:38I wonder if it was hot

03:40Or

03:41Is molasses just like

03:42Brown sugar

03:43And butter

03:44Or something

03:45People said it was boiling hot

03:46At the time

03:47Oh my god

03:47So it cooked some people

03:49Jesus on earth

03:50Move your asses

03:51It's hot molasses

03:52It's hot molasses

03:53Well

03:55Save your own asses

03:56Yeah

03:56Hopefully these people

03:59Hopefully it was just over quick

04:00Right

04:01Because I don't want

04:02A hot sticky bubbly death

04:03Was there survivors

04:05Of the molasses disaster

04:06Oh sure

04:06Absolutely

04:07That like ever did an interview

04:08There's books written about it

04:09How do you clean that up

04:11What a mess

04:12I think you just

04:13Turn the water on

04:14150 injured

04:17Oh my

04:18So 150

04:18Around lunchtime

04:19A giant tank of molasses

04:21Burst open in Boston's

04:22North End

04:22More than 2 million gallons

04:24Of thick liquid

04:25Poured out like a tsunami wave

04:27Reaching speeds

04:29Of up to 35 miles an hour

04:30It flooded streets

04:31Crushed buildings

04:32Trapped horses

04:33In an event

04:34That ultimately killed

04:3521 people

04:35And injured 150

04:36The smell of molasses

04:38Lingered for decades

04:39And some people saying

04:40They can still smell it

04:42You wouldn't think molasses

04:44Would move that quickly

04:45No you wouldn't

04:46Yeah no

04:46But just the

04:47The amount of it

04:49The sheer amount

04:50Like a tsunami

04:52Of sweet

04:53Brown sticky

04:54Molasses

04:55It's crazy

04:56I think we got that

04:57Figured out

04:57I know

04:58To the bottom of it

04:59Never let that happen again

05:01Yeah there's probably

05:03Like a limit

05:04On how big

05:04Your molasses tanks

05:05Can be

05:06Also

05:06Is there anything

05:07Used less now

05:08Than molasses

05:09Someone said

05:10Walk for your lives

05:12Walk for your lives

05:14It's slowly coming

05:17Yeah

05:19I love the idea

05:22Of slow molasses

05:23I mean we realize

05:24It was not slow

05:25Yes but

05:26It seems like

05:26It would be slow

05:27Slow molasses

05:28Seems like it should be

05:29In the American history books

05:31Absolutely

05:31We know about the tea party

05:33And that was barely anything

05:34Yeah

05:35Compared to this

05:36Didn't I mean

05:36The tea party

05:37I believe it started it all

05:39But

05:39You talk about the

05:40Boston Massacre Dave

05:41Yes

05:42Yes

05:42That's what I meant

05:43Sorry

05:43Amber was so disappointed

05:47They call it a massacre

05:48And only

05:48You know

05:49Oh yeah yeah

05:50This could have been

05:50The molasses massacre

05:51Yeah

05:52To me that's a bigger deal

05:53Oh sure

05:54She'll love the carnage

05:55That's true

05:57Deserving

05:58Yeah no it's not good

05:59So there you go

06:00A little history lesson

06:01For you here

06:02On the Dave and Chuck

06:03The Freak show today

06:04What did it all say

06:05When we know

06:06What did it all say

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