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
05:17Yeah
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