Do Go On - 203 - The Halifax Explosion

Episode Date: September 11, 2019

Surpassed only by the atomic bomb, The Halifax Explosion was the largest man made explosion in history... and it was an accident. On December 6, 1917 two boats collided in Halifax Harbour, resulting in nearly 2,000 deaths and an unbelievable amount of destruction. But what chain of events was needed for everything to go this wrong?Buy tickets to our live shows here: https://dogoonpod.com/events/Buy tickets to see Matt and Jess live:https://mattstewartcomedy.com/gigshttps://www.jessperkins.com.au/showsOur website: dogoonpod.comSupport the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/Submit-a-Topic Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasREFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:https://nsc.nasa.gov/docs/default-source/system-failure-case-studies/sfcs-2013-01-07-halifax.pdf?sfvrsn=7d45ecf8_2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKcXSCzcSZ4https://www.britannica.com/event/Halifax-explosionhttp://exhibits.hsl.virginia.edu/halifax/collision/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/12/06/two-ships-collided-in-halifax-harbor-one-of-them-was-a-3000-ton-floating-bomb/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion#Investigationhttps://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-great-halifax-explosionhttps://allthatsinteresting.com/halifax-explosionhttps://novascotia.ca/archives/explosion/narratives.asp?ID=10 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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We're in, we're out. We're bang, bada-bam. Now I'm with the show. I used to work in sales. I think it's pretty clear. And welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Dave Warnocky, and I'm sitting here with Matt Stewart,

Jess Perkins, and myself. Oh, you're sitting here with yourself. You sit with yourself. I started a list, and I stopped. I should have stopped after two. And you know the comedy rule of three. That's right. And it was hilarious.

I followed every rule except that things should be funny. Can I quickly just say something from the heart? No. Okay. Matt, leave being vulnerable and authentic to me. That is your thing. But this is about you. I wanted to welcome you into the 200 Club.

Thank you so much. Yes, thank you. 200 great episodes. That's from my heart to you. Thank you. To my heart as well. Yeah, heart to heart. Oh.

Two strong hearts. We stick together. Like honey in the bee. You and me. Now, I don't want to interrupt this beautiful, what was going on there, whatever that was. John Farnham, how deep? Whatever that was. Zoned out for a second.

But I'm zoning back in to bring some good news to the podcast. Yes. I love good news. I don't know if you're aware of this, but I'm not sitting here with just Matt Stewart and Jess Perkins anymore. I'm now sitting here with Baron von Matt Stewart and Count Jess Perkins of. Sealand. Yes! I am here to tell you and the good people that listened to this show

that last month I entered a competition called the Search for Australia's Gourmet Pie Guy, run by a bakery chain here called Brumbies, and basically you had to tell them why you should be voted, the Gourmet Pie Guy, put a photo up and then people vote for you. And this whole month, I've been doing quite well. A lot of people voted for me. Appreciate that so much. But I was always third.

Yes. Could never reel in two other gentlemen. that had thousands and thousands of more votes than I did. Which is crazy. They didn't even have podcasts. No, they... Literally... You don't know any sense.

Like, how do you... You don't know that many people. Yeah, the person who had the most votes was 16,000. You don't know that many people. No. If you had that many Facebook friends. He ran a good campaign. Yes.

Well, did he? He was on the hustings. Because I got a call on Friday from Brumby's themselves telling me that I have won the competition. Yes! Thank you so much. You're the pie guy. They spent a week with their IT department taking away any, they classified as fraudulent votes.

They didn't say what that meant. But they said after the fraudulent votes were taken away, I had the most votes. A lot of those were cast in Florida. Is that a US politics joke that you don't quite get? Well, I got it. Did you? Can you explain it then?

Because I did it. When Bush won the second election, there were anomalies in Florida. And people wanted there to be. a recount. A recount. They wanted them to go through those votes. But there was a bit of political,

the sort of like courtroom mumbo-jumbo. Right. Malaki. Which I am assuming will happen to me. This all happened a while ago. I'm going off pretty vague memories. Oh, Bush. Was that a while ago, was it?

George's senior. Everyone remembers their kindergarten president. But Dave, you won. It was honestly the most surprising phone call of my entire life. What about the time you won that Taco Bell? Tucker Bill? When I won the trip to Mexico Yeah, that was also a quiz.

You've lived a blessed life. No, he just enters the competitions. You've got to be in them to win them. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. You've got to enter your silver spoon into your mouth to win it. One of my friends like that too, she wins so much stuff

because she enters like every competition. Is she one of those friends where you wouldn't swap last with them? I mean, she's my friend's sister, to be fair. She's sitting there cutting out coupons all day. Yeah. Get a friend. Get a life. Look at your sister.

She's got friends. Me? I'm cool. Yeah. Dave. Think about it. Am I cool? Get some friends.

I'd rather have the prizes. Sweet, sweet prizes. The prizes will be my friends. Thanks for everyone that voted me genuinely. I am surprised by it. Thank you so much. Appreciate your support. Jess and Matt.

I will be getting you those titles from Sealand. If you have no idea when we're talking about, listen to the Sealand episode. One of my favorite episodes we've had for a long time. I love that episode. And also, I feel I'm a bit surprised by winning. So I've won $10,000. I will be donating some money to charity. Whoa.

A pie charity? No, I've decided to donate some money to the Fred Hollow's Foundation. Oh, the eye charity. That's right. Restoring eyesight around the world. And also medicine, sans frontiers, which is MSF, Doctors Without Borders is the English name for that one. And would you be donating to your friends and colleagues? Yes, I'll be donating two titles and two pies.

Great. I can't wait. I think I'm going to go on Apple Pie in Gary, Indiana. Can you send me there? I want flights. Accommodation. Yeah, absolutely. And unlimited pies.

Is it just a cash prize or do you get like pies for a year as well or something? No, sadly it is just the cash. So what's it got to do with pies? Well, it's, I know, I assume they think I'll spend the cash on pies, which honestly a lot of it will be spent on pies. No, my pledge was that I would fly to Africa to eat a pie there because it's, uh, my dream. Where are you going to find a pie? Well, it's my dream to eat a pie on every continent.

A tiger in Africa? Something about that. I'm going to start, you know how you guys get a Simpsons reference in every episode. I'm going to start getting Monty Python references. No, I can't bother doing that. Oh, that's pretty good. That was my first one. And a pretty good source, because they have so many situations.

Exactly. Like the Simpsons, they've covered so much ground. I reckon you can do it. All right. All right. Well, that's my pie related news. Anyone else have any pie related news? No.

No, no pie related news. Oh, I just made a shepherd's pie just before this. What? Yeah. And pie in the sky reruns are happening on UK TV. So please check them out. We did have pie news. I'm assuming UK TV is a real channel and that those reruns will be happening.

Yes. All righty then. Dave, let's start the bloody show. Let's start the pod. Now, Jess, if people haven't heard the show before, what are we about to do? What we're about to do is what we do every week and have done for four-ish years. and that is we take turns reporting on a topic usually suggested by a listener and we present it to you and to the other two who are in this case Matt and Jess

and Dave is going to do a report and he's going to get us onto the topic with a question all right guys question time that was really good can we just chop that out and put it in all episodes now copy and paste fantastic all right question for you clap clap oh it's not a clapper anyway I looked at the light. Why do you want it to turn off? Well, because it's a spooky. That's not a spooky to talk.

Potting up to die. Here we go. Before the atomic bombs were dropped in World War II, what was the largest man-made explosion in history? No. Have you seen this one pop up in the hat at all? No. Well, I don't know what it is yet,

so I don't know how to answer that. It's hard for me to know. It's the something explosion. Okay, the pants explosion. Was it pants explosion? Yeah. Euphoria in my pants explosion. Catchy.

No, there's something explosion. Yeah, the John Spencer Blues explosion. Can you start to say it slowly and I'll figure it out? Yeah, here we go. Here we go. The how. Fax. FACFX.

FBSOFRIZ. FBI. I got it. I'm afraid the first person to say it in its entirety was Matt. Oh, fuck off. You know why I said that? Because I knew if I'd go on with you, Matt couldn't give a shit. But I went with Matt because I'll get a reaction out.

Well played. Today I'm going to tell you about the Halifax explosion. Now I've said it. Have you heard of that or seen it in the hat at all? No. It's been suggested by a few people. all I know is this is so irrelevant

one time when we're out on road show driving incredibly long distances in Western Australia we were playing a game where I had to try and guess everyone's middle name there's four people in the car myself included already knew that one sorry to brag and so I had to guess everyone else's middle names

and I eventually after a very long time found out that Guy Montgomery's middle names he's Guy Alexander Halifax Montgomery. Really? Did you get Halifax? Or did he have to tell you? No, no.

I got Alexander, but then he... He's a fancy man. He's a fancy man. Halifax. Yeah, and then he gave me a few clues and we got to Halifax. There was a crime show in Australia called Halifax P.I. Or Halifax something with the mum from Pack to the Rafters, maybe in the 90s. I can't quite think of what it was, but it was Halifax something.

What does Halifax mean? It's just a name. As far as I'm aware, I didn't look into the entomology of it. I think it's also a place. Yeah. Whoa.

Oh, sorry. Halifax is the place where this happened. And that is in Canada. This is a Canadian topic. Ah, Canada. Which we will get to in a second. But first of all, a shout out to the people that suggested this, including Kayla M. Hodkowitz from Tom's River, New Jersey.

New Jersey. Eric Wier from Ontario, Canada. Bryson Sullivan from Urbana, Illinois. USA. Nate Price, also from Illinois, this time St. Joseph, Fraser Green from New Glasgow in Canada. And finally, Kelly Murray, who is from Halifax itself. There you go. Suggested by a local. There's a few suggestions. Yeah, thanks for all those people. Appreciate that. And if you want to suggest a topic, you can do that at any time on our website, do go onpod.com. And you click suggest a topic. This is that interesting point of the episode where we don't know if this is a horrific

tragedy or not. Yeah. Is it? all guess. I'm going to say no, just based on Dave's temperament today. I'm going to say yes, just for a point of difference. Well, your point of difference gets you the point. Yay! It's a horrible one. It's awful.

I said a horrific. Would you say an horrific? I think you're... But I would say a hotel, not an hotel. Yeah, it's tough. I think H.O. It feels like one of those ones where either should be fine. Yeah.

Stop jumping down. And horrific sounds a bit weird. Sorry about that, Matt. Sorry. I hate to get pedantic. All right, so the Halifax explosion. Yes, it is the largest man-made explosion until the atomic bombs were dropped in World War II. And it's a big one.

Yeah, well, they were big. They were very, very big. So let's do this. Halifax, for those that don't know, was located on the very far east of Canada. And there's the provincial capital of Nova Scotia. And east is right. If you're looking at a map. Nova Scotia, of course, meaning New Scotia.

Yes. My goodness, I didn't realize we had a linguistics professor here. Yeah, I am. And a geography professor, thanks. I'm here. Baroness von Linguistonstein is my new name. Middle name and hotel. It's a port city based around one of the deepest harbours in the world,

and it has a strong maritime history. In the 18th century, Nova Scotia was one of the British Empire's most important and powerful naval bases in all of North America. But then in the late 18th century, the city took a real economic hit when its factories were superseded by those in central Canada. The British Navy left in 1905 and the population dwindled for a time.

But Halifax was put back on the map after World War I broke out. Yay! Finally, a reason for us to exist again. War! Canada quickly invested in Halifax, developing its harbour and waterfront and built a new military hospital.

It became quite strategic for the Allies, being the closest major port to Europe, and many ships stopped there or dropped wounded soldiers off to recover before getting supplies and heading back to the European theatres of war. Because of this, the economy and the population of Halifax greatly increased,

as it became one of the busiest ports in all of North America during this time. I had no idea about any of this. Probably couldn't have pointed to Halifax on a map, but now I can. Further east. Just to the right. Yeah, just to the right.

You look to the right of the middle, and it'll be around there, I reckon. Yeah, that is spot on. Yep. Couldn't say it better myself. Thank you. I've got here written. So Novuscoa juts out east into the Atlantic Ocean.

Yeah. East being right if you're looking. Yeah, but if you're looking like smack bang in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, then you actually need to go left. Yeah, you've missed it. Yeah. If you're wet, you're going too far. Do a U-turn.

If you're wet, you've gone too far. That's beautiful. I mean, I've been able to use that phrase in, you know, many different scenarios. Like? Well, they're mainly, you know, boating. Boating and warfing, which is when you walk on wharfs. Yes. You can walk on wharfs.

Can't walk on water. Puppy always told that to me. Puppie? Do you have a talking dog? I got a talking dog. I got a talking dog. I should have brought that up before now. I felt like it was big news at the time and it slipped me mind.

No, it's because Dave stole the limelight with, oh, I won all this money. Oh, yeah, pie boy. Yeah. Pipey over there. Puppie over here. Popey here. Yeah, I've got diarrhea. Pipe on the sheets.

Puppie in the streets. Well, using the toilet, if you wet, you've gone too far. Yeah, that's true. Into the bowl. Falling in, bro. Call for help. Does that ever happen to you, little day? Oh, yeah.

Feet touching your chin. Oh, no, it's happening again. This is going to get worse before it gets any better. Puppie, come and talk me out of this. I know you don't have any opposable thumbs, but could you maybe make a call? So we're looking at the map. It's on the right. The Halifax Harbour is built around a little bay called the Bedford Basin,

which is connected to the open ocean by a thin passage. called the narrows, which generally is very narrow. It's only about 500 metres or 1,500 feet across. Oh. So to get into the harbour, you have to travel along this thin passage before it opens up at the end. Imagine like a lollipop, if you will. Got it. You drive along the stick and then you get to that big lollipop, sugary bit at the end.

What flavour? Strawberry. Yeah, good choice. Thank you. Like the strawberries and cream? We're talking to harps, aren't we? Yeah, but not strawberries and cream. Hate that one.

Do you. I hate it to them. Fruit. Over creams any day. Yeah, I like the ones that lollipops that are like glossy. Oh, that makes sense. I don't like the glossy ones. I like the see-throughy ones.

Yeah, sorry, that's what I'm talking about. Oh, okay, yeah. Not the opaque ones. Yeah, and I hate my, the one that always used to come up as a kid, they'd be like, everyone, if you got a lollipop or whatever, they'd somehow would always get chock banana. No, good. The dud. The worst flavor. Yuck.

And like real ice cream, I'd be happy. with chocked banana. Yeah, but in the lollipop. No. No. Number one, lemon, number two, strawberry for me. I'd flip those,

but they're still great. Keep it fruity. Keep it fruity. That's right. So we're in a ship traveling along the lollipop. Because of the tight passage and the many, many ships

that needed to travel through it, some rules were set up and ships had to stay in their lane. Heading into the harbour, they stayed on the eastern side of that starboard side of the channel. Right hand side.

The right hand side. And on the way back out, they stuck to the west. Basically, keep in the right lane. Pretty simple stuff. But ships didn't always do this. Oh, no. And that brings us to today's story. A lot of Cowboys on the sea.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. They got to reel it in. Yeah. It's a bloody wild west out here. In the east. Stick east. On the way back out, you can go west.

It's the wild east out here. Not the same ring. No. It's the alliteration that's good. Yeah. It's the evil east. That's great. Evil East.

That's good. The evil witch. No, wicked witch. That's better. Better. Now we're getting it. Thank you. The SS emo.

Sorry. Emo? Spelled IMO, but I have heard of pronounce emo. Emo. Emo. She's got bangs. Sharp mom. Got a broody hull.

I want to swap their poop deck. Swab your own poop deck, mom. Are we swobbing poop decks this era? Swobbing? I mean, every ship has a poop deck. Yeah. You want to clean that thing? I still don't remember what a poop deck is.

Come on. Or what its purpose is. Just no dumb questions, please. That's literally my purpose here. Is dumb questions. You're the every man. Yeah. I thought I was the every man.

I've got two every man. Asking dumb question. Just let me get the facts out, all right? Poop deck, yes. In summary, I don't know. The SS emo. Three, every man. We need to get an expert in.

I'd love that. The SS emo was a Norwegian ship that had sailed from the Netherlands and had stopped at Halifax on its way to New York, where it would pick up war supplies to be taken to Belgium. It was a long and narrow ship. Imagine a lollipop if you meant. 430 feet long, 45 feet wide. So not very wide.

She had a crew of 39 on board and was captained by Hacken from. Hacken. Fantastic name. H-A-K-O-N. Harkin, Harkin, H-O-N, Harkin from. Which I like. 45 feet wide. And 430 feet long.

That's 45 foot long subs. Oh, why? By four. Roughly 500 foot long subs. Rounding up. Yeah. Yeah. I forgot the number.

Just to let you know, just to give that. Yeah, I think it helps people visualize. Especially in Australia when we don't use feet for anything except foot long subs. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, what? How big is it? I still don't know.

Are there anything else we do? High. High and basketball rings. Yeah. No, that's 10 foot. That's... Is that cool? 10 foot long stuff.

The email arrived in Halifax Harbor on December 3rd, 1917. A good year. And stayed two days for inspections and also pick up some supplies. She was delayed in leaving because the coal used to power her arrived late. I like that chips are ladies. Yeah, I like it. Yeah, why is that? I don't know, but it's nice for us to finally have something.

You get something. You know? Back there. Now we have everything. Yeah. Now, if anything, we have too much power. But back then... Don't you yearn for the patriarchy?

Oh, I miss it. I just want to be able to stay inside. Yeah. You have to go outside. I'm going to go earn money. I'm pretty happy. I love being a stay-at-home. Man.

Just got to stay at home. It's weird that we get paid for that now, but we just stay at home. Get an alley, right? I was like, I'll pop out for a walk. Well, we're docking you. Yeah. What's her love that you paused? I was too embarrassed to call yourself a man.

You know, I'm like, that doesn't feel right. Man. I guess that's what I am. Yeah. I still don't like being called a woman. I'm like, ew, what? You were just singing you were. Oh, I didn't write that song.

Okay. I did. And Dave feels comfortable calling me a woman. Anyway, sorry, the ship was delayed. It arrived on December the 3rd, but it was ready for departure on December the 5th. Yes. Meanwhile, pause that thought. There's a long, long thin ship ready to go.

Meanwhile, coming into... Long, thin shit. Ready to go. Ready to go. Ready to go. That narrow lollipop. But remember, if you're wet, you've gone too far. Meanwhile, coming into the bay on that very same day was a French cargo ship.

Coming into the bay on the very same day. A French cargo ship named the Mont Blanc. Oh. That ruined it. Oh, we, wee, we, we. The ship captained... You've gone too far. The ship was captained by Amy LeMedic.

Oh, which is French. Four. For. I'm E. The medic. Oh. Oh my God. That's true.

I'm just put into Google Translate here and that's true. Yeah. Thank you so much. I speak multi-languages. Multi-languages? On Francai. The SS Montblanc, as I will hear by refer to it as, had come from Brooklyn and was going to join a convoy to Europe. Pardon?

White Mountain. Is that actually true with that one? That feels right. Oh, right. Don't I reckon? What? Mont Blanc? Oh my God.

I thought he meant Brooklyn. I had no fucking idea what he was talking about. I thought you meant to know that. Brooklyn means a small brook. But Mont Blanc, White Mountain. Sure. It was a theme park in France in the 1600s. A theme park in the 1600s.

Woo! We go to Montblanc. Woo! Guilatine simulator. Woo! Chop me it off and let it roll down the slide. then somebody else has to catch it. All right, guys, that was the next century.

All right. Let's just fact check. And anyway, come from Brooklyn, was going to join a convoy to Europe. She's been described as a slow-moving, quote, common tramp steamer. That's me. Slow-moving.

Slow-moving and a common tramp. And a steamer. It's another word for a hot shit. Let's not forget, Jesse. I'm a slow-moving hot shit. If your weather's gone too far. What? Don't shame me.

I know who I am. And I am a slow-moving hot shit. God damn right. This ship was carrying a different kind of cargo. Oh, can we guess? What do you reckon? Cows. No, people.

Prisoners. So this is the French one? Yep. On the way in this one. Prisoners. So what do they need to take to Canada? Oh, what does Canada need? What do they need?

Guns! And when do we want them? No. So the guns are going back to Europe. So what are they bringing back? Empty guns? Empty guns for ring gunning. In its ship, or in its hold rather, the ship carried 2,900 and 25.

Metric tons of explosives. Explosives. Explosives, I'm guessing. 2,925, which is equal, exactly equal to one shit ton of explosives. Wow. The explosives included 62 metric tons of gun cotton, 250 tons of TNT, 2,367 tons of the highly-farmable, highly poisonous pick-crick acid,

and 246 tons of high-octane benzol, which were stored in 2,000 barrels, crammed on the deck of the ship. On the deck. I now remember this is an explosive episode. Oh yeah, I didn't think of that. You were like explosions. I don't know.

The cows weren't going to ignite, were they? Maybe. Oh, they are very flammable gases. What was my guess? Empty ammunition. That's pretty explosive. Yeah. Well, also on board...

I said prisoners. Oh, yeah. I fucked it. Also on board was 300 rounds of ammunition for the vessel's defensive guns. All this stuff was very explosive and destined for the French war effort. Basically, it was a giant floating bomb. I wouldn't feel comfortable on that boat. I'd say, refund on my ticket, please.

This is not the cruise I signed up for. Where's the pool? All I see is a lot of acid. And then you flick your cigarette butt behind you. I'm going to take a different boat. Good day. Oh, is that an explosion? Yeah.

That's a good sound. That was the beginning of it. You're dead. You don't hear the big part. Oh, if a boat explodes but you're already dead, does it bang? No, you must bang. But almost, you say that people, you wouldn't want to be on the ship, but almost no one knew of the deadly contents of the ship was carrying.

Only a couple of local officers and the crew. But apart from that, no one else knew what the ship had on board. before the war, they would have flown a red flag that let people know that they had explosives on board and that people should stay clear or act cautiously around it. But during wartime, this made them a target for submarine attacks. So ship started to try and go under the radar.

But why are they, okay, so submarine can see them, can see the flag. So why are you flying a flag underneath your boat? Yeah. Think about it, Dave. You said some pretty stupid, Ben. Thanks for calling them out of that, Jess. Thank you so much. I like that they're undercover.

I would like to think that their undercover thing is just a big ice cream cone paint on the sign and the misty whippy sound. Well, just a big old ice cream ship. Down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down. Like side-to-side eye movements of the cabin. Hold on. You want a double scoop? We're all out of that flavor.

We've only got acid left. High octane. It was also because of enemy German submarines or U-boats. that the Mont Blanc wasn't able to make it into the harbour as planned. They arrived late on December 5th and the port was closed for the night as an anti-submarine net placed at the entrance of the bay was up. Okay. Literally held like it was a chain net to stop the submarines going in at night.

It was such a deep. You were saying it was a deep port? Yeah, it's super, super deep. It's like a sneak in under nightfall. So they had to wait until the next day on board the ship. So we have the SS Emo Inside the Bay preparing to leave And the SS Mont Blanc

Laidin with explosives Preparing to enter the Bay Both of them have been delayed So both want to get in or out As soon as they can They're in a rush Never rush Oh dear

These disasters always start with someone Being a bit rushy You know what I mean? Yeah They're either rushy or a little bit grabby Yeah And when you're both Oh my God

No one's enjoying that. No. You're a nightmare. Grabbing in a rush. Like, buddy, no one's enjoying this. Come on. Like, think through you're grabbing. Yeah.

It's not a race, mate. Come on. Come on. Come on. The next morning, December 6th, 1917, both ships resumed their journeys. Each had a local experienced pilot on board. I don't know if you know about this.

Pilots are local experts who take control of the ships to guide them through treacherous waters? Yeah. Dave, we know. I didn't know. Right. Yeah, Dave. Duh.

In Melbourne, because Port Phillip Bay is actually quite treacherous, especially the opening the rip. They are. They have, the pilot boat comes out. And the way we do it is a little boat will come out, drive alongside a big boat, and then they'll go up the, like the cargo ship. And for that, just that little bit,

because the pilot's an expert on the area, they'll steer the ship for a bit. Because they know every little channel, They're an expert on the area. So that's what these guys are doing. What a nerd. Who these? Me or them?

Pilots. Yeah. They're real nerds. Let me show you how to steer your boat. You'd be like, I built this boat with my bare hair. They built their own boat. You got a bird. Yeah.

The pilot boat, of course, helped Noah from Noah's ark steer his ship to safety. I built this boat. I captured all these zebras, two of them to be specific. All of them. All two of them. Grammar Nazi. Technically, you should have. I said both, not all.

All right. Looking at you, Matt. Come on. No, you're right. I just feel like these pilots have got a real, um, actually, tone about them. But they still wear aviatic glasses.

Yeah, all the time. And they call each other ace and mongoose. Because they get a little bit wrong. Yeah, Dave. Ace and mongoose. I hope mongoose pilots my boat. It's a sound of a mongoose. Wow.

I guess. The emo was piloted by Willie. William Hayes, aka Ace. Willie Hayes. Whilst the Montblanc had Francis Mackey at the helm, aka Mongo's. Frankie Mac. A couple of great names. Frankie...

Frankie Mac on the Montblok, an experienced pilot who at that point had had a 24-year accident-free record. Oh, that feels weird that you note that. At that point, I mean, at that point, I mean, it's still... That's a great record. To this day, still could be... Yeah. Unbeaten. Does he?

Was he up that morning changing the song? sign over. Yeah. 24 years. 24 years without an accident. That's as long as I've been alive. I'm trying to pass for 24 now. Oh, that's my nice one.

Do you reckon I can? Yeah. He just puts up a sign that says 24 years without causing the largest explosion ever. Oh, today's my lucky day. See you, Marion. I'm off to work. I reckon I've gone 29 years. Without causing the largest man-made explosion in history.

Yeah. Well, you've beaten this record. And I've had some diaries. Maria. The largest woman made explosion. Oh, okay. Hey, you want the record? You just gave up your 24-year age pretty quickly as well.

Give it, yeah. The name of a record. Yeah. The name of the truth. Okay. You're a journalist after all by trade. Mackie, our 24-year veteran, had reportedly been cautious about the explosive cargo on board when he found out what was on, you know, what he was piloting.

And he even inquired about getting a... special escort to guide the boat. So this guy sounds like he switched on. He was ignored. Oops, oops, oops. The emo, which is the one leaving, took off at a speed above the... I'm leaving. What's the emo?

That's funny. Thank you. Well, it took off at a speed above the harbour limit to try and make up for lost time. So they're speeding. I mean, you're already two days behind. You think speed. out of the harbour is going to save you. You know?

Yeah. Wait till you're out in the open sea. Save you a couple of minutes. On its way out of the bay, the emo first met the SS Clara, an American steamer that was on the wrong side of the bay. Classic Clara. So the two captains agreed to both stay left and pass each other the wrong way. The worst thing you want to see when you're trying to leave the Halifax Bay is a big old steamer. Floating there, bobbing in the ocean.

In your lane. Yuck. That's not nice. Just going for a swim. So they've gone round each other in the wrong line. But before the emo could get back into its proper lane, it's crew spotted a tugboat up ahead called the Stella Maris that was pulling along two ships.

Tug boats where you masturbate. How? The poop tank is the tugboat. Now I don't want to ask this question. Steam is everything in this is... Poop related, which is your least favorite. I know. It just feels like the naval world was...

Seamen, everything about. Yeah. The ocean. The Dunny Dungeon. You've got to be more mature for this stuff than we are. Yeah. Can't handle it. That's the first test if you're ready for the open ocean.

How on earth do tugboats work? They're so little. It's like when you see a man pulling a train. Yeah, it is like that, which is how trains start. And you think he's so little. How do they work? They just have a sweet engine. How are they so strong?

Sweet engine. You already answered the question. I kind of wanted it to remain a mystery forever. I mean, I'm guessing here. I'm not an expert. I don't know what a poop deck is. Yeah, true. But they're just like, they're comparatively so little, and they're like,

don't worry, I'll get you out here. I'm a little tugboat, tug, tug. Your picture and a cartoon, aren't you? Yeah. Yeah. Does your tugboat have a face? Obviously. Do they all do?

Do they all have little faces? I'm asking you because I am. I'm imagining the little boat that I used to play with in the bath as a child. Yeah. Is that not what they look like? I'm imagining that. Only it's animated. Yeah.

And his name's Tugger. Oh, come on. And he's like super happy. And then they're like, all right, Tugger, you got to go get a boat. And he's like, oh, all right. I'm going to do it. I think my tugboat's smoking a pipe. Okay.

Is that okay? Yeah, that's allowed. Yeah, it's allowed. It's not okay. Not good for it. No. Anyway, just imagining little tugboats. Well, so what's happened here is the emo has gone around the SS

Clara, it's trying to get back into the right-hand lane, but then the tugboats in the right-hand lane, even further across. To avoid hitting it into the, in the narrow section of the channel, the email had to veer even further to its left and even further into what is supposed to be the oncoming lane. So if you imagine if this is a car, they're now fully on the wrong side of the road. Wait, so the tugboat was also on the wrong side? Yeah. Right. Okay. Meaning the, the, the, uh, the email had to be like, all right. I got to go first. Yeah, okay. It feels like they're being set up, right? It feels like they're trying to line up an explosion here.

Well, here come with the explosives. Meanwhile, the Mont Blanc, the ship with all the explosives, had just entered the harbour at this point. It was in the correct lane, staying right, but it was now directly in the path of the oncoming emo. The two ships spotted each other when they were three quarters of a mile

or about 1.2 kilometres apart. Mackie, our 24-year veteran. It feels like so much space. to avoid each other. Mackey, who was piloting the incoming Montblanc that was in the correct lane, blasted on his ship's horn, a signal to the emo that it should get back in its lane,

but the emo fired back with two blasts, a toot-toot, indicating that they had no intention of moving. Oh my God, you dumb shit. Why? So the Montblanc slowed down along the edge of the thin channel and again blasted its horn, asking the emo to yield and to move. The emo again responded with a double tuttoot.

Why? Saying, I will not move. You've got no reason not to. The emo's saying, go round. Go around. But it's like driving on the wrong side of the road and being like, nah, fuck you. And no, fuck you. A toot toot.

Is it? A no toot you. It wasn't like, there wasn't any confusion like they were from a different place where they'd be on the other side or something. Well, they both being piloted. No, they're both being piloted by experts in this area. Yeah, so the pilot. It's his job. The pilot's been like, well, I had to go into the wrong lane because of these other two ships.

Now you just go around. This is sort of what's happening. No, just get back in the right fucking lane. I'm guessing he still can't because the tugboat's still there or something. No, they just got closer and closer. And as it became apparent that they were going to collide, at one of the last possible moments, the Montblanc attempted to steer around the emo. That's the one that knows it's explosive.

Yeah, yeah. Meanwhile, the emo also tried to avoid collision. by attempting to blast its engines into reverse. So at the last possible second, they both went, oh shit, I've got to do something. So stubborn. So I played chicken with each other and both lost. And they're about to both loose because this just meant,

by putting it into reverse, that just meant that it swung around in front of the Mont Blanc that was trying to go around it. So it basically pushed itself in the path of it. The two ships collided and ran along each other. They kind of doing that classic awkward thing in the street. Yeah, they both moved right. They both moved right.

They collided and ran along each other. at 8.45 a.m. They didn't hit hard, but they're more, they just scraped alongside each other. Excuse me. Which if you remember, it's basically what happened with the iceberg and the Titanic. True. And that wasn't good if I remember correctly. I did not go well. It was one of my first reports. But that was a slow leak. Surely a slow leak doesn't lead to an ignition of ammunition. Well, historian Roger Masters told the Washington Post in an article that I'll link to, quote, in maritime terms, what happened was a fender bender. It was a, it was a fendar. It was only the character of the cargo that made it what it was.

So if they'd been two normal ships, they both would have swapped details, probably sworn at each other and everything would have been fine. So dumb. But the force of even a minor collision made the benzol in the barrels on the top deck of the Montblanc topple over, pouring flammable liquid all over the deck. Then the grinding metal hulls showered the benzol with sparks, igniting the Montblanc's forward deck. and then everything else possible on that ship is explosive.

Yeah, so they've just, yeah, they've just lit a fuse, basically. They were also transporting fireworks. Get out of my head. That's true, I'm sorry. And also, letters to Santa. Oh, Dave, why? There'll be no little truck this year. It was so unnecessarily bleak, day.

Also, Santa. The letters weren't flammable, were they? Yes, and. Santa was on board. Why? Why was he there? His beard's very flammable. Kids always write your letters to Santa on non-flammable paper.

Just text him. Yeah. Email if you want to go old school. Santa at Santa.com. Yeah. He'll get it. He's based in Australia for legal reasons. Yeah. It's cheaper.

So flames and smoke started to billow on the deck and many spectators gathered on the shore to watch the ship burn. Remember that only the crew knew what the cargo was. The people on the shore had no idea that they were watching, what is metaphorically, the world's largest stick of dynamite. They're all going, oh, ships on fire. This is interesting. What is happening here?

Are the crew jumping overboard? Yeah, the crew on board, because they know what it is, immediately recognized how dangerous it was, and everyone around them is in such danger. So the captain ordered them to abandon ship. They jumped into lifeboats and rode like crazy to shore. Probably set a world record. And they made it?

They made it. Oh, that's so good. Once ashore, they tried to shout warnings to locals, but the crew only spoke French. According to the Washington Post, very few people in Halifax spoke French at this time, so their warnings essentially fell on deaf ears. Listen to the tone.

Yeah, I reckon you can tell from gestures and their panicked looks. They actually follow them if they're running. But what about the other ship? Have they also abandoned ship? Or are they like, Uh, go round. No. So they've, they, the Emos attempted to move forward towards the ocean because it can't move

backwards into port at this point. So it's started to float away, floating away. Also not knowing that the other shit that they've run into is full of explosives. The, uh, the Mont Blanc itself continued to burn and floated along now abandoned. And eventually it crashed into a pier and breached itself. So it was stuck on a pier. And then everyone's watching, oh, look, the pier's on fire as well. It's pretty crazy.

Lots of spectators gathering on the shore to watch the fire ravaged the ship. I mean, you forget this is pre-TV. Oh, let's go watch a fire. Let's watch us appear on fire. It's like in Chernobyl. Did you see the series at all? When the fire first starts, people just sort of gather on a nearby bridge to watch it because it lights up the sky.

I would watch it. Oh, at work. Oh, true. Wind blew a flag on top of a French restaurant off. the top of the second story and it landed on the car in front of it. I only watched for about 20 minutes waiting for the person to come back. It was just, it was just, you know, and then police arrived. No one was injured.

But then, you know, firefighters came. I might have thought their car was getting a French state funeral. Yeah, because the flag is just on there. It was, yeah. A lot of damage? Oh, yeah. That was the most interesting part. This windscreen was smashed in.

Oh. By a flag. By a flag, yeah. Well, I mean, the full pole. Okay. I mean, you do not mess with the French. They did not mock around. Wow.

But back to the fire. The fire burnt for just under 20 minutes. And then at 904 and 35 seconds, the inevitable happened. The ship exploded. Whoa. But again, no fireworks, right? No fireworks. So it wasn't even a pretty explosion.

Well, it was a big explosion. Yeah, but that doesn't make it pretty. To be honest, the force of the explosion is hard to imagine and just as hard for me to describe. But I'm going to try. The ship immediately completely disintegrated, and a blast wave radiated away from the explosion at more than 1,500 meters on nearly 5,000 feet per second, pushed by a shock wave that is the equivalent of nearly 3,000 tons of T&T expanding. It smashed through the earth at 23 times the speed of sound.

Whoa. Whatever was close by, it just went, Wait, does that include people? I'm afraid so They just fell over right Yeah The heat of the explosion Was more than 9,000 degrees Fahrenheit

Of 5,000 degrees Celsius What It was at that How As I said at the top of the episode It was at that time The largest man-man explosion of all time Would only be beaten by the atomic bombs

Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Whoa The pressure was immense And the explosion pushed a fireball of hot gas and debris into the sky, sucking up shrapnel and debris that then rained down across the city. This is how, this blew my mind.

A half-ton part of the Montblunk's anchor landed 3.2 kilometres away. Holy shit. A ton of metal was blasted 3. And stuff like that, some of that debris is like flaming, isn't it? So is that starting fires elsewhere? Oh, yes. There was a lot of fires after this.

Windows were reportedly shattered over 50,000. miles away. What? It is unbelievable. An area. How many kilometers is that? Oh, let me answer that. I know it's pretty far.

Almost. Dave, do you know the answer? Wait, wait, wait, wait. No, let that get it. 80. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. How many? It was 50 kilometers?

50 miles. 50 miles, okay. Yes, okay, so that's. My guess is 85. Damn it. It was his guess. Well, I'm wrong. It's 80.5.

So you are closer than I am. Yes. Well done. I was sick because it's 1.6-ish kilometers is a mile. Right. So 50. Anyway, whatever. 80 kilometers away windows broke.

And an area of... Holy shit. An area of 160 hectares was completely destroyed by the explosion. Whoa! Then there came a tsunami. Of course. The powerful shockwave forced the water to serve. surge. Actually, the water around it was actually vaporized because it was so hot.

Of course, because it was like 5,000. Yeah, which is crazy. Just sea water just gone because it's so hot. But then the powerful shockwave forced the water to surge approximately 18 meters or 60 feet above the usual high water mark. So as high as it ever gets, it was 18 meters on top of that. And the wave smashed three blocks into the city. More than 1,600 buildings were destroyed by the wave alone. and this further scattered debris. And this is because the emo wouldn't get out of the way.

Wouldn't get out of the way. Would it move back to where it was supposed to be? Just one guy. One guy whose whole job was to get those ships in and out safely. No, you go around me. No. Double tooting. A toot toot toot to you.

And then this happened. The damage was frankly unbelievable. Every building within a 2.6 kilometre or 1.6 mile radius. which is over 12,000 in total, were destroyed or badly damaged by either the blast itself, the tsunami, or the fires that started and quickly spread across the city. And you'd have no idea what was happening out there, just all of a sudden, gone.

Bang. And the casualties, I'm afraid to say, were immense, possibly the most we've ever had on this show. Approximately 1,600 people died instantly in the explosion. And a further 9,000 were wounded, 300 of those would later die. So nearly 2,000 people lost their lives because of this explosion, which is equivalent to 20% of the entire city being injured or killed at that time.

Shit. So one in five people. It's incredible. It's like just unbelievable. But it was so avoidable. It's so frustrating. Do you know what I mean? Like you went into the details, not to compare to Chernobyl again, but like that was probably avoidable.

And there was, right? There was very avoidable. Very avoidable. They took out the safety rods. Yeah. Okay, never mind. But I think nearly always these accidents are very avoidable. That's all we'll learn on the show of it.

It's just like a bunch of things. It's a chain going, this happened, then this, like, both of them. And just one of these things, like, just one of those two had to yield. Or even as simple as if one had, the Montblanc had arrived earlier in the day, it wouldn't have been locked out of the harbour. So it would never be in that position? Or if the barrels with the liquid explosion. were better fastened that a bump wouldn't knock them over and spill them.

Yeah. Or maybe they weren't on the top. Maybe there would be a smarter way of stacking it so they're at the bottom. Or if they had that flag that said, I've got explosives, the email might have gone, all right, there's explosives, I'm not going to mark around with this. Especially when they arrive at the neutral. Yeah. So when you're in the harbour.

So imagine that captain of that's gone, this is just some annoying steamer. I'm not getting out of the way of a steamer. Go around. Yeah. And then, you know, it had a bomb on board, basically. unbelievably the casualties could have been even worse if it wasn't for a quick thinking an extremely brave railway dispatcher named Vince Coleman

Coleman was stationed just 230 meters from the pier where the burning Mont Blanc came to rest a sailor believed to have been sent ashore by a naval officer warned Coleman and a colleague of the Montblanc's cargo of high explosives so he knew about it at first Coleman and his colleague fled

because they're like oh shit we've got to get out of here but then he remembered that a train full of passengers was due to arrive any minute. So he ran back to his post all alone and began sending out stress messages telling drivers to avoid the area. The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic reports his last message as being, quote,

hold up the train. Ammunition ship a fire in harbour making for pier six and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Goodbye, boys. Oh my God. Yeah. Crazy last words.

Is he also doing that through Morse code, by the way? Goodbye boys. Because that was a long message. Because that's the thing. If you had radios and the ships could talk to each other. Sorry, Jess. I know, but it's just like it's crazy. Toot Toot, fuck you.

That's all. Vince Coleman was sadly killed in the blast. But his bravery and quick thinking is credited with saving over 300 lives. Wow. His heroism is still remembered today by Halegonians or Halegonians. That's what people from Halifax are called. Cool word, right? Yeah.

Helegonian. I'd be a halifaxian. That is such a badass thing. So many people, I imagine, you'd be like, oh, I'm about to die. I can't think of anything else. He goes, I can save these people's lives. And then he basically says cheerio at the end. Yeah, goodbye, boys.

What a mad dog. That's amazing. He was inducted into the Canadian Railway Hall of Fame in 2004. He also released a single. So that was the... A Halifax Ferry was named. named after him in 2018. So he's still a local hero.

Oh, that's very nice. That's cool. So that was some, you know, tragic but also heroic news. Yeah. Good thing. Quick thinking. The cleanup for the city was long and hard, with over 6,000 people being left homeless by the blast.

Long and hard. I'd only written long here, but I added it in hard. Sorry. Just imagine it's like a lollipop. The cities, hospitals and morgues were overrun, many bodies being quite difficult to identify. I did read it some. articles describe some pretty gruesome stuff, which you can probably, I'll leave to your imagination.

I won't include in here, but yeah, people were very badly injured and bodies were very badly disfigured. Wow. News of the explosion quickly spread and doctors and nurses came from across Canada and the United States to help. One of the most common injuries was to the eyes, which were affected by the blast and also the flying glass. Because 50 miles of glass going everywhere. Shit. Most people were just sitting about doing their own day. If you were anywhere near a window, you got glass everywhere.

Thousands reported these eye injuries and I read that 39 people never regain their sight which is awful. If only one more head. You hear an explosion from the outside of your house as well. You look to it. You go what? You don't cover your face.

But to be fair, I think it was moving faster than the speed of sound so you wouldn't even hear it first. If that makes you feel any better. It doesn't? Yeah. I don't know how to please you. Well, one minor positive,

was advancements were made in many types of emergency medicines, with the medical facilities forced to adapt to care for thousands of wounded at once. Yeah, shit. So they had to improvise a bit, and actually medical science. They came up with penicillin? Yes. Mara Curie was there. She was there.

Mara Curie was there. I still don't know what she did. She invented penicillin. Yeah. At least then do go on canon. Yeah. That's right. K-fabe.

Yeah. In the Tiggle on, K-fabe. governments from around the world sent in aid with Britain, China and New Zealand all chipping in. Australia notably didn't help out. It doesn't mean we didn't. That's from all of us. Yeah, New Zealand did so. That's us too.

We're basically the same. We're also like Britain. In today's money, the damage bill came to about half a billion US dollars. The cleaner. Because, yeah, half the city's just wiped out. Yeah, of course. So what happened to each of the ships involved in the sequence of events? The emo, the one that you guys are saying, should have yielded.

Yeah, well. We will definitely talk about who's to blame in a second. It was carried by the tsunami and smashed into the shore, all but one on that ship died. Wow, someone survived it. Yeah, only one person. Survived the ship wreck and that blast. Yeah. Wow.

Yeah, I'm not, it's tricky talking about who's to blame, who, you know, who knows and that. But you, on the one hand. The guy going, Toot Toot, get out of my way. But on the other ship knew it was a floating powder keg. Yeah, could they have put up their little red flag just to be like, no, Toot, Toot. That's interesting you say that. We'll talk about that in just a second. But first of all, the tugboat, the Stella Maris.

Oh, no, the little tugger. Well, it came back. So it was actually part of the chain of events because it was in the wrong side and made the... Oh, yeah. The Emo got the wrong song. Sort of kicked it off. It came back to help fight the fire. because it saw the Mont Blanc on fire

and it came back to try and put it out. And it was badly damaged when the ship did explode, not surprisingly. 19 of the crew were killed, including Captain Brannon, but five managed to survive, even though it was really... Right next to it.

Yeah. That threw an anchor 5Ks or something. Oh my God. And of course the Montblanc itself, well, despite being the ship that exploded, all but one of the crews survived because they were the one... They abandoned ship and then...

They ran. So they survived from. So hundreds of people died in the area and some people just on shore or do they keep running? They're like, it's about to explode. Get out of here. Well, a part of it was I think that the ship was on fire in one spot. They jumped off and then rode to the other side of the bay and then it kept floating down and it landed on a pier. And the people that were closest by were definitely killed.

The survivors would never, like how do you move on from that? Well, I think like you, oh, yeah, no, absolutely not. Sorry, I was thinking, like, it has to depend on what's around you to also explode light glass or if buildings are damaged and something falls on you. But yeah, it's amazing that some of the crew lived. That's wild. Yeah, amazing, isn't it? After the explosion and cleanup, there was, of course, an investigation to find out what the hell happened.

At first, there were heavy rumours of the enemy Germany's invasions. involvement with whisperings of sabotage written about in the media. But that was never... How do you write in a whisper? Just like really small writing. Italics, small. Read this in an alleyway. I put a little star in front of it.

All it says is you didn't hear from me. Signed, journalist. They want to you. That was never proven in any way to be true. It was just an accident. But the helmsman of the emo, Norwegian John Johansson was arrested for behaving suspiciously and this suspicion intensified when he was found to be carrying a suspicious letter

written in the suspicious language of German. Yeah, it turned out that the letter was written in Norwegian and he was Norwegian so there was nothing suss about it at all. He's just gone through this traumatic thing and then he's been accused of being a Nazi on top of that cool. It's a fun day for Johnson. True. I mean, we'll not correct you that there were no Nazis in the First World War. Oh, First World War, yeah, of course.

But I don't know anything about Nazi, so I could be wrong. I could be wrong. Yeah, right. Yeah, forget that. Nazis aren't forever. There was an official investigation. Yeah. Diamonds are forever. Are they forever or a girl's best friend? Pick a tag line and stick with it, please. They both, obviously. They're a girl's best friend forever. Yeah.

Men come and go. Diamonds are forever. forever. That's good. Great marketing. So good. There was an official investigation with the inquiry very much blaming the crew of the Mont Blanc for what happened. Why? It argued a little bit what Matt said as his counter defence before.

Because the crew knew how flammable and explosive the contents was, they should have done whatever was necessary to stop colliding with anything. Rather than giving a toot and just playing chicken, should have just cut the engine and been like, okay, let's just let this ship go around. They were charged with manslaughter, but these charges were all later dropped. The main argument against them was, why the hell was the other ship in the wrong lane? Yeah, yeah. Why didn't they move? Yeah. And that kind of worked.

The two ships companies sued each other. The first trial again found that the Mont Blanc was on 100% in the wrong, but on appeal, it was found that both ships were equally to blame, and therefore, and that was at a higher court, I think it was the top court, therefore no one was ever convicted or held accountable for the fateful day. Wow. For decades afterwards, the Halifax explosion became the standard by which all large blasts were measured and compared. Whoa.

Sorry, Dave, the two pilots, did they survive? Because it feels like they're the two. Ask then. Yeah. If they didn't survive, like, you're fighting over whose fault it was. I think the people whose fault it was probably died in the explosion. Yeah, well, because the email only had one survivor. I don't think it would have been the pilot.

And then the other ship, most of them survive. Oh, right. But I don't 100% know who. Most of the Montblanc did, didn't they? Because they knew to abandon it. Yeah, they got away. Right. Only five of them died.

Oh, that's right. And all but one on the emo, yeah. Yeah, so for decades afterwards, people were like, oh, how big is it compared to the Halifax explosion? That was two, it was half a Halifax explosion. Even when describing the first explosion larger than it, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Time magazine wrote that the explosive power of the little boy bomb was seven times that of the Halifax explosion.

So that's crazy. Yeah. That's insane. And that also broke the record for the largest casualties of a city. I think it was 60% of the city were inhabitants were either injured or killed by that bomb. 60%. Yeah, absolutely crazy. Lessons were learned from the Halifax disaster.

internationally, the incident influenced the adoption of stricter maritime laws regarding cargo identification and also harbour traffic control because it sounds like the bloody cowboys need to obey the rules. A to-to-to-to-toes. A-to-to-to-to-t. There are also some minor positives to come out of the disaster in the long run. NASA actually has a great article on disaster response and recovery that I'll link to on the show notes if you're interested.

And as well as the medical advancements I make, mentioned, they write about how one of the few positives that came out of the explosion was, quote, the influx of skilled labourers, money and attention promoted new developments in Halifax, a city widely regarded as steadfastly conservative before this. So it brought in a lot of new life. No doubt it put Halifax on the map. It blew up the map, but... People were talking.

The Halifax community, the Halifax, what did I call it, the halogenes, have not forgotten the disaster. That's a light bulb. Yeah, I can't remember the word. Oh, either. They've not forgotten the disaster, and I'd be interested to hear if we have any listeners in that area of the world. Well, one of them suggested it. Yeah, because I imagine if you or any of your family have ever lived there,

with one in five people, surely your grandparents are your great grandparents or whatever, would at least know someone. Yeah, true. It's recent enough that there'd still be connections. I mean, there always will be. You know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, but yeah.

So totally. I'm sure there'd be people that would be like, oh yeah, my great grandmother was, you know, alive at the time. These days the city remembers the disaster every December the 6th

with a service at the Memorial Bell Tower located in Fort Needham Park. They're in Halifax. But that is the story, one of the largest explosions in history. That is. That's an amazing and awful story. I know.

So I think this is probably the record for the most deaths. Do you think they want? What about, nah, wasn't there a... I suppose Chernobyl that was ongoing. No, I'm thinking of an impaler. Oh, okay, yeah, yeah. Lad. Yeah.

How many, he had a lot, didn't he? Yeah. Fuck, he loved to impale. Lots of rumours about, yeah, him doing whole towns and things, so yeah. Yeah, but still, that's crazy. But yeah, it just feels, it's so silly hearing about these things after the fact when you're like, that was so easy to avoid. And not even just like,

oh, if a few things had gone differently, it would, it's like, no, if you just moved, if one thing had gone. No, just one big thing had gone differently. Just, even if it was just scratching a boat real bad. Yeah. Even that feels like that should be enough of a reason to not want to smash into another boat. Your job is to get them around safely. Yeah, but good point that like you know you're carrying a lot of explosives, so get out of the way. You would be precious about it, wouldn't you?

Yeah, never play chicken. No. When you're on a bomb. They're going, thinking, playing chicken with us, we're explosive. Yeah, you're an idiot. We're explosive. It's too late. And they didn't know, so.

Wow. Crazy, crazy times. And thanks to everyone that suggested that. Well done, Dave. A little story. Thank you. Great report. Well done everyone.

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First up, it's a show in two halves. You can come to both halves or just the first or just the second of your life. There's a podcast, first of all. Then we'll have a little break. Hang around. If you want to come and say, hey, that'd be really nice. And then afterwards we've got a little quiz or something. some late night shenanigans going on.

You know, Saturday night. It'd be about, what, 930 about that time? I'm all about shenanigans. I've had a couple of beers. It's time for shenanigans. Woo! That's going to be me. How? And if you like comedy and you like Perth and you like lounging,

how about you come to the comedy lounge on November 3rd, Sunday afternoon. I like all of those things. Really? Well, you'll be there because we're doing our show, our double show combo there, and tickets are available to both of these shows. I do go on pod.com. Can't wait. So pumped.

Gonna be fun. Yeah. You sound pumped. I am pumped. Can't wait. We generally do love coming to these places and doing these shows. And it's always a lot nicer when there are people in the audience. I've got to tell you.

I got to tell you. But we do it to no one. I mean, in a way, we're doing that now. Yeah. Is that what you were going to say? I'm just sorry. Just a lot more expensive for us because... Get out of my head.

Usually we don't have to pay for flights and accommodations and stuff to record here. Yeah, but I got to pay. pay for petrol. That's true. Drive my little Colin here and he's full of explosives. That's why I parked so carefully next to your car. Oh no.

You scraped along the side. My benzol cans fell over in the back. Oh dear. Studio's gone now. My boot is full of cigarette butts slowly burning down. Oh no.

I didn't think it'd be an issue. I stopped smoking in the boot. Just in the boot. It's my secret spot. You know, it's a nanny steak. I can't bloody smoke anywhere anymore. I just got a smoke in the boot. Smoking my boot. My trunk for Americans.

Yeah. We're talking about your trunk. This brings us to everyone's favorite segment of the show. It's the fact quote or question. Fact quote or question. Bing. And to offer a fact or quote or question, you can become a Patreon supporter of the show at patreon. com slash do go on pod.

And there's a lot of different rewards you can get there, like bonus episodes. We're about to record one of those, which is a bit. bit of fun and also things like voting on topics. And you can also give us, or you also get into the Facebook group, exclusive Patreon Facebook group. And you can also offer a factor quota or a question if you're on the Sydney, Schenberg, rest in peace, Memorial Deluxe package level of Patreon. And someone who has done that is Zach Dobran.

Hi, Zach. And one thing you get to do, as well as offer a factor quota or a question, is give yourself a title. He, uh, Zach was formerly the vice president of procrastination, which, um, is a club that we're all members of here, or at least me and Jess, I think. And Dave, what about you? You're a procrastinating. Oh, I'm very procrastinating. Yeah. And, uh, he's, he's given away the title of vice president of procrastination.

Really? Because I thought that if you're doing that job right, you should. never get a promotion. Yeah. But now he is called himself the official day one Matt quote specialist. Day one. Day one. I am so happy that you said that and that we ignored it and that you brought attention to it later on.

You may have heard me say day one earlier. I don't know what that was. Please don't bring it up again. Oh man. I genuinely thought that that was a reference to something that I should get and that I didn't feel like an idiot. So we just moved on. We just smiled and moved on.

I just went, God, you're clever. That was... Day one. That was the episode about race around the world. Nelly Bligh, wasn't it? Yeah, day one. But yeah, people did tweet in and stuff after saying, no, that made sense.

I'm like, okay, well, whatever it seemed to make sense, that's what I meant. Yeah. It's open to interpretation. Yeah. I'm like a Van Gogh painting. Is any one of those ones you interpret? Yep. Really?

Oh, you look at a self-portrait you interpret. Dave, art is subjective. Yeah, all those squiggly lines he does in the night sky. I see that as a night sky. I see this worms. Really? Because I see the title Starry Night and I've got no idea what it is. Yeah, well, that's where the fun is.

So anyway, Zach, aka the official day one, Matt quote specialist, asks us a question. I never read these out until we're on air. This is dangerous, which I love. And his question is, what would happen if people put things like headbands and necklaces feet first instead of over the head. Kind of putting them on like pants, feet first, but just taking a scenic route to get to the head or neck. The worst part about this strange question, I'm completely sober, just very tired.

What would happen? Well, he kind of goes on to answer it. Well, no, because what you're going to need is a material. that's very flexible but also holds its shape well. Otherwise, you're stretching a headband out over your hips, your shoulders, the widest parts of the human body. You were trying to wear a hula hoop for a necklace. But then you've got to put it on your head

so that it secures your hair out of your face. It's something they can stretch real big and then strike back up like almost as tight as a sphincter. I can't think of anything that has to stretch. Maybe manganese? Mangonese. Let's make it out of manganese. Yeah, I think that's the only option.

What about, okay, hear me out here. All right. We haven't even started yet. Put it over your legs. Yeah, with you so far. Both legs at a time. Yeah. Over the hips.

It gets up to your head. A moment on the hips. Oh, this is going to be a lifetime on your lips because it will get stuck on your lips. No, you get to the head and then you, because it's quite large, you wrap it around, like a rubber band. You know how you can. Well, I mean, you can just talk about an infinity scarf at that point. What the hell is that? I like that.

So they definitely exist and you could definitely put those on feet first. Oh, my God. Is that the answer? Yeah. That's what would happen. Yeah. I guess that what would happen is everything would become infinity scarves or infinity necklace. Infinity scarves.

Oh, infinity scarves. I think I'm embarrassed for anyone that wears these. Also known as snuds. Why? They look awful. Are they called infinity scarves? They just look like scarves. Is it because they looped?

together like the infinity symbol. It keeps going. I get it. Wow. It just looks like a scarf, Dave. Oh, I think I'm embarrassed for anyone who wears a scarf. Dave, what kind of Melbourne on are you like? Melbourne, I like, do you even drink coffee?

Do you even drink coffee? Do you even go down Laneways? Do you like Laneways at all? Do you like culture? I don't. Have you ever been to the grand final parade? Have you? Do you even know who the king of Mumba was this year?

I live for Mumba. Well, who was the king? Graham Kennedy It was Archie Roach No it wasn't it was Archie Archie Thompson Archie Thompson Thank you

I love Mumba I love Mumba I love to mum They have fireworks I love the Birdman rally Yeah Birdman Rally That is actually genuinely fun

It's very fun To watch the highlights are I'm afraid I don't think I like snuds I'm saying that right Yeah that's fine But for the purpose of this experiment You're absolutely right That would work

But, I mean, you're saying that, but you've seen me wear a scarf many times. Yeah. Do you wear snuds? 100%. Not like that. Most of mine are. No. Never wear snuds in the nudes?

At home, of course. Yours don't look like that. You look much nicer. Are you now on my Facebook trying to look at pictures of me wearing a scarf? I'm re-googling Infinity scarf. I say you're never fully dressed without a snud. On your hood. Oh, hello.

Anyway, let's move on Thank you so much to Zach, you bloody legend And let me just say to you Day one Day one to you too sir Did you say each other Day one?

Whatever me, just come up to me nod and say a day one And I'll say a day one to you And everyone else don't do that Because otherwise it'll ruin Yeah And then we'll be like Zach

And it won't be Zach And then one day Someone will be Zach will be lining up Ready to do it Yeah And then it'll be like Someone in front of him

Will say it And we'll be like Yay! This is Zach, our friend. And then Zach will come up and try it and we'll be like, security, get this imposter out of you. Yeah, so it's just not worth it. Don't do that. Have you just found a photo of a maxi snud?

Oh, I've just... He's seen a snud with buttons and it's no good. Tell me that that looks good. No, it doesn't, but she's cozy as fuck. I'll tell you that. Yeah, that looks cozy a-f. It may be spit for some reason. Send us a photo of you and your coziest snud.

But only if you're in the nud. No, no nudies. No nudies. Anyway, let's move on to the next part of... Rapper snud around your pud. What are you calling pud? Yeah.

Whatever I'm pointing out. Okay. Your junk is your pud. Yeah. I have an idea of what we'd like to do because the other thing that we do at the end of the show is that we like to thank some of our patrons who support us on patreon.com

forward slash do go on pod. Do not use the backslash, please. Oh, my God. That's disgusting. This is a PG show What do you reckon we are? M.A? Yeah, do one pod.com.

Probably, yeah. I don't think we, yeah, maybe M.A. M? No, what's M.A? Violence. High impact violence. Oh, yeah. Well, there are some, it can be violent. Probably depends on the episode. Depends on my mood.

So what I would like to do is we usually like to play a little game, give people something related to today's show. I would like to name their boat. Okay. Can we do that? I think we've done that before, but I mean, who doesn't want a boat? Yes. Can they all be tugboats?

Oh, yeah. Why that? So we get to name them and we get to name what they tug. Okay. All right, well, I'll love to kick it off if that is okay with you. Please. From Toronto in Canada, Kaiser Grilheim. What a, is that your real name?

That is so close to Kaiser Wilhelm. Yeah, it feels punny. Is it a punny? Is it a punty? Is that a pun? Kaiser Grilhelm. Is that a pun? I mean, it could be Kaiser's real name if it is.

Fantastic pun work from your parents. What does Kaiser mean? I was going to say Chief, but Kaiser Chiefs, but Kaiser Chiefs, they're not the Chiefs, are they? I think they are. Is that the joke? Or is it King? King Chiefs. King Chiefs.

Kaiser probably knows. It's probably yelling it at their. It's the emperor, so yeah. It's an emperor chief. So the king chief. So Jess. Yes. What kind of boat and name and what's it tugging?

What's it tugging today? Okay, so it's a tugboat. Yeah. I want to keep going with the regal theme. Okay. Perhaps it's called the regal eagle. Oh, the S-regal eagle. No, because it's a tregal theme.

No, because it's a tugboat. They're not SS. Are they? Well, it depends if they're adding SS and eagles together. I'm starting to think Nazis again. Oh, please. Kaiser's a grill. They're not implying anything.

So. They got rid of the Causes by the Nazi hero. Right? Right? Yeah. Yeah. Is Regal Eagle okay? I love it.

I love it. Thank you so much. The Regal Eagle. What is it tug? It's tugging a train. Oh. Weirdly. A train.

Is the train like alongside the canal? train? Yep. Oh. Yes to both of you. The tracks are right next to the water and it's just moving along. Yeah. Yeah, the train broke down and the little tugger was like, I got you. I got you buddy. Here, catch this rope and then away they went.

I assume it was just a little rope. That's cool. Hey, thank you so much Kaiser Grillhelm. I bet you he has a burger chain over there. That'd be great. Kaiser Grillhelm. And there's like their symbol instead of Kentucky fried chicken man. Instead they've got like a small-handed,

small-handed German man with a pointy hat. Okay. Thank you, Kaiser. I'd also love to thank from Esson. Not too far from here. Claire Aldridge. Claire. Claire Aldrich.

Hello. Hello, Claire. So Essonan. Famous for a few things. A direct factory outlet shopping center, an airport, and the Essonon Bombers Football Club. Bombers, explosives. Yes. Whoa.

Uh-oh. The footy grounds was called Windy Hill. You don't want that, those kind of conditions. No. We should call this shipmat. Ship mat. I like it. This is yours, Dave.

Oh, okay. I think that we should call it. The, I'm going to call this SS. Okay. Fine. Steamship. What's that what it's for? Santa Monica.

Okay. Steamship Santa Monica. Sounds nice and they are tugging discount jeans. Oh, great. All the way to Essendon. SS JJ. Thank God. Giving the people what they need.

Claire. Aldridge. Thanks so much, Claire Aldridge. Over in Esther. Delivering the jeans. Delivering the. Goods. Everyone needs dinner.

Can I thank some people too? Yes, please. I would like to thank from, oh, where's this? Bermondsey in London. Oh, David Fisher. Oh, hello David. Oh, Fisher. Great ship name already.

Yeah, true. But are you thinking tugboat still? Yeah. What are you naming David's tugboat? I'm calling, where about Susie from? London. London, okay. Bermansy.

Because Tugger was the nickname of Steve Waugh. So I'm wondering. Who's the famous Aussie cricketer? Yeah, so from London he'll know this, I think. Actually, do they care about, they don't really care about cricket in England, do they? Not this week after we beat their asses nearly half the time. Nearly half the time. Simpson's reference there, but...

That's good stuff. That is. Good good stuff. But we did just retain the ashes. I would you believe it, but they did just beat us in the World Cup. So anyway, so maybe the, it's a tugboat called the SS Iceman, because that was one of his other Nick-Ans. Oh, that's good. I like that a lot.

Iceman's cool. And maybe it tugs. Yep. Icebergs out of harm's way. Oh, so no icebergs were harmed in the making of this ocean. Yes. They're not, that's not to protect the ships. To protect the icebergs.

That's nice. Nobody ever thinks about the icebergs. And much like, what was our man's name? David Fisher. David Fisher, and much like an iceberg. David Fisher, there's a lot more to him than what you can see up top. Oh, absolutely. You know what I mean?

You're looking at 10% of the real man. Yeah. He's got depth. Yeah. That's why they call him the onion. He's got layers. Oh, God, he's got so many nicknames. The Iceman, the onion.

The Fisher. The ogre. Fisher amongst men. You know, I remember a fisher amongst men. Really? Really? Greg Hunt? Yep.

Greg Hunt. The Environment Minister. The hell is the ex-environment. Oh, who am I thinking of? Rex, Hunt. Kissed him and put him back. Dear. I imagine our health minister is also kissing him and putting him back.

Good on you, Greg Hunt. He was the one that liked a porn tweet accidentally in the middle of the night, then blamed it on a bot. And Australian comedian Greg Larson has not let him fix. I love. Tweet him regularly. He's always asking about it. Remember that time you? And Greg is tweet.

I don't know if this is true, but there was apparently an investigation that found that there was no. Yeah, really wasted. Wasted. Yeah, no shit. Allegedly. Anyway, I thank you very much to David Fisher. I would also like to thank from Cornwall. Oh, Cornwall.

They do past his right and skirm. Jones, Rome. I love to thank Mr. Josh Merch. Josh Merch. Josh Merge. Merge. Oh, merch. M-U-R-C-H, merch.

Oh, merch. Love that from... Oh, he's cornish. Doing them, doing Scones your way. Is that right? No, I'm a Devon. Oh, doing Scones our way, Jess. Good on you, Josh.

I knew I could trust you. Someone asked a really good question about this recently when I saw a Because it gets posed a lot, and my side's always on the losing end of these battles. I might have even been on the Patreon Facebook page. But then someone asked the question, what kind of cream? And this is key. When I say cream on first, I'm talking super thick cream. The only kind of cream I'd put on a scorn.

Who's on first? Cream. Clotted cream. Clotted cream. Not like a whipped cream in a cane. No, not some of the soppy shit you get in the down all number number. No, you got to whip that shit yourself. I'm talking, yeah.

Get out of whisk. Yeah, please. Earn it. Earn that cream. You got to earn it. Naomi Higgins and I made scones together recently. We whipped some cream. How thick was it?

Oh, it was pretty damn thick. Nice one. T-H-I-C-T-T-E-T-E-T-E-T-E-Wpped. I whipped it like 95% of the way. You know how your arm goes really, really tired when you're whisking. Oh, yeah. I know that. Yep, no, that feeling.

Hashtag, Blownable. Everyone knows that feeling, yes. You're like, I can't whisk no more. Yeah, so Naomi was like, well, I'll have a go because that's what you do. You share it. And then she does 5% of the work. Cream's done. I was like, you son of a bitch.

It's helping me out there at the end. But then I got to eat scones. Claiming all the credit. Anyway, Josh Mitch. We like you. Okay. Well, I feel like he's got to be on that beautiful little tugboat. The, what, is the SS the only one?

The HMS. Oh, yeah. The HMS. Cream Dream Dream, thank you The cream dream That sounds gross

No, that makes me feel hungry Oh, no If I could put Oh Dave Sorry Matt If you could What do you want to do? I was just thinking

Like if I had to pick one ingredient to put on a scone Jam can fuck off I'd be happy with just cream Okay Wow All right That's my cream dream

dream. What's just towing in the cream dream? He's, he's towing people's hopes. Wow. It's a metaphorical towing. Don't know, literally. He's literally towing. So he, he's the dream bringer.

So you, uh, order a hope. You go, you know what I'm hoping for today? A sheep with a hat. And he'll tow that to you. He'll tow you a sheep with a hat. It's going to be a physical thing. Dave, can you just. like Santa on the water.

He's Santa of the seas. Can you just take over and thanks for people please? All right, thanks so much. I'd like to thank someone. He's so loopy. They call him the fruit of the sea. I would like to thank. Fruit of the seas.

I would like to thank. That is not an okay thing anymore. Sorry, but that my soy boy levels kicked in there. Let's not call. Anyway. Shut up. I got to make a quick call. I would like to thank from Lang Warren here in Victoria.

Alana. Chitio. Oh, great. I'm so stoked. We've got a Langy listener. Oh, I got a bunch of my old schoolmates live in Langy. Really?

All right, we should name the ship there. Beautiful neck of the woods. Tell me a bit more about Lang Warren. Well, Lang Warren, you're sort of, you're starting to push towards the rural, regional edge of the city of Melbourne, the greater city of Melbourne. And what they like to do is they're the kind of guys that love to go out, going out four-wheel driving. They'll go out four-wheel driving on a weekend.

What they love to do is go down tracks, get bogged, winch each other out. Like a tugboat? Yeah, basically, drive another 20 metres, get bogged again, winched again. They are. I never thought about that. They don't tugboats of the way. It sounds like such a horrible way to spend a week. They love it. And then they end up the day with a campfire and a few beers and they can't wait to do it again.

I watch the videos they post on Facebook. I'm like, I love the nature around it I like the end of the day They watch what you do and go What really? Yeah, no they would I guess so, yeah

Oh, what a nightmare You post of you sitting indoors Oh look at this roof All these sealed roads he seems to drive on Look at him, he hasn't moved for hours He's doing something called a Netflix binge or something He's watching the good wife again So maybe she's on the SS Lange

Man cruiser. Oh, that's nice. And she's tugging, her mate's tugboat. Yeah. Getting around of trouble. That's right. Alana Chitio, I hope that's how you do it out there in Langie. Good on you, Alana.

Thanks so much. Appreciate your support. Beautiful part of, I love those areas of Melbourne where you just, you're, there's a bit more space around and you can drive not very far and you're in the bush. So good. I'm kind of, yeah, I'm occasionally jealous of that. But then it's also a lot. long way into the city from there. Yeah.

Yeah. The wrong traffic, it'll take you an hour. And there's no Uber Eats options. It's like, oh, fuck that. Oh, yeah, you turn on Uber Eats and it says, we are yet to be in this area. They're not, I don't know where, they're in Melbourne. They're just in the outer suburb.

I wasn't talking about Lang Warren. Oh, you're talking about the bush. Wow. Dave. Finally, I'd like to thank. I'm not sure if this is a Bush area. Half the episode this week was the report. The other half's been the sealed section.

at the back year. Well, I'd like to thank from Overton, over town, they'd probably say. In North Atlanticshire, Great Britain, Ross Garrard. Ross Garard.

Ross Garard. Ross Garard. That's a great name. Hard G, you reckon? It's not a Girard. Ross Gerard. I'm not, I reckon, Garard.

No, it's a hard G. Ross Garard. Who he's driving. Piloting. The HMAS. Seagull. Oh, that's nice. Tugging a big load of potatoes.

No, it's tugging seagulls. Oh, it's to do you seeagles. There's a boat of seagulls and they're here to take over. Oh, my God. Wow, pilots at Seagull as well? Yes. Well, why is Ross helping? He's a seagull.

He's a seagull. Our favorite seagull listener, Ross Garard. You threw an A in there. Explain to me what's going on there, HMAS. As opposed to the HMS, or is there no HMS? Is that a CD? HMAS. HMAS is the Australian line.

HSV. Right. Yeah, I think it's like... HMV, yes. HMV. Fuck. I think it's a, it stands for Australia at the A, right? Oh, right.

HMAS. Yeah, because that ring... HMAS! Say it like that. So it like that. So it like that. So it like that. HMAS.

Yeah. Ha ha. I got the vibe. Thank you so much, Ross Garard. And thank you to Kaiser, Claire, David, Josh, Alana, Ross for supporting us and being the boss. I tell you what I'm tugging all the way to you six. Jesus Christ. Love from the bottom of my heart.

Stop it. Oh, do not tug your love. No. Wait, what? Matt. I'm tugging a boatload of love to him. Oh, my God. We were just talking about tugging boats.

Stop it. Put it away, mate. What is wrong with you? Oh, my feeling. I didn't know it was such a toxic environment in here. Can't a man wear a part on his sleeve? The sealed section indeed. Oh, God.

But if you want to be one of these people that we tug, go to dogoinpod.com or patreon.com slash dogoonpod and we will greatly receive your support. Thank you so much, everyone. You keep us going, your bloody legends, the patrons. Oh my God, the patrons are our tugboat. Yeah, they're tugging this pot along. Oh, yeah.

That is so true. Wait, no, Dave. In a wholesome way. Dave's in a really pervy mood. Oh, that's not true. It is true, your little perv. It's no pervier than usual, can we just say? I reckon that's the beard.

Yeah, it's made you even pervier. The boob made me a boob. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Get out, get out. Just wrap it up. Wrap it up, let's go. The beard made me a sex person.

I said the boob. Let's get out of here. Help, everyone, help, help. If you want to support the show by just following us on a bunch of social medias, you can do that at our at Dugall and POD on nearly everything out there. And we've got a YouTube channel as well. There's videos. You can see our mouths move.

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