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84 – The Unsinkable Molly Brown
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This week Jeff shares the incredible true story of the Unsinkable Molly Brown.
Margaret “Molly” Brown is often remembered for surviving the sinking of the Titanic, but her legend goes far beyond that fateful night. As the ship went down, Brown helped others into lifeboats, took control when chaos erupted, and famously threatened to throw a man overboard when he tried to turn the lifeboat away from survivors.
But Molly Brown’s life didn’t begin or end with the Titanic. She was a fierce advocate for workers’ rights, women’s suffrage, education, and civil rights decades before those causes were widely accepted. A philanthropist, activist, and unapologetically bold woman, she used her wealth and influence to help others whenever she could.
This is the story of a survivor, a fighter, and a woman who refused to be forgotten.
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Sources:
- History Hit – Who Was the Unsinkable Molly Brown?
https://www.historyhit.com/who-was-the-unsinkable-molly-brown/ - Wikipedia – Margaret Brown
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Brown - Forbes – Decades Before Women Had the Right to Vote, Margaret “Molly” Brown Was a Fierce Bandit for Human Rights
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jerylbrunner/2020/02/28/decades-before-women-had-the-right-to-vote-margaret-molly-brown-was-a-fierce-bandit-for-human-rights/ - Encyclopaedia Britannica – Titanic
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Titanic
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Transcript
00:00:00
Jeff Rogers
Hello, Sam. Hi, Jeffrey.
00:00:25
Jeff Rogers
Samantha, welcome to the Jeff and Sam show. I'm Jeff. And I'm Sam. Hey, how are you? I'm good. I'm good. um Everybody, Jeff and Sam show here.
00:00:36
Jeff Rogers
ah Find us on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeartRadio. Follow us, rate us, review us. We're on Instagram. Send us an email. Send us. We love it when you guys send us um recommendations. Yeah. Send us those.
00:00:47
Jeff Rogers
um That... that was it That was the intro. Maybe the most professional we've ever done the intro. Knock that shit out of the ballpark. Yeah. and we We really did. i think it was because like you got to it before we like processed anything. I think it just came out. It just came out naturally. I didn't think about it. So I didn't fuck it up.
00:01:06
Jeff Rogers
So natural. of you um also if you're new to the show. This is just kind of our show. We do what we want. We shoot the shit. We talk.
00:01:17
Jeff Rogers
Hopefully you listen. Some people like the conversation. A few don't. And then we tell a story. And right now on these particular shows we're doing, we're on vacation. So I'm telling a story on one show one week. And then Sam is telling the story on the other show the next week. And then we'll be back to two shows per story.
00:01:36
Jeff Rogers
I'm sorry, two stories per show. I knew. Give me enough time to fuck something up and I can do it. You were doing really great up until then. But I want you to know that throughout the entire time that you were doing that and sounding so very professional and introducing us and telling everyone who we are what we do all I was thinking about was de-dungling.
00:01:55
Jeff Rogers
I love de-dungling. So everybody, do you guys know what a de-dungle is? Do you know how to de-dungle? So on my laptop. There's going be some real smart-ass answers. Fuck yeah, there's going to be smart-ass answers, Alan.
00:02:10
Jeff Rogers
um On my computer, when we first started doing the podcast, I would have um a wireless laptop and a wireless mouse, which had a little...
00:02:23
Jeff Rogers
USB insertable nubbin thing that goes into the computer. you into the little USB slot. Yeah. And that is a dongle. and Oh, that's a dongle?
00:02:35
Jeff Rogers
Right? So you de-dungle the dongle. Oh, just thought it was like the process of taking something out of the... Oh! shoote from Shooting from the hip here. I don't know. You made me believe it. I say we de-dungle it. When we de-dungle it, which takes away the wireless keyboard and wireless mouse, it goes... boom And Sam's reaction every time, right before we record, is just the best. I i just, it does make such a little, like, happy sound. The de-dungling sound. real Time to de-dungle.
00:03:06
Jeff Rogers
De-dungling now. We're de-dungling. And we are officially de-dungled, everyone. We're de-dungled. We're de-dungled. Yes, we are. ah Some may be dungled after this. I'm holding the little Jeff and Sam ah coaster that Kelsey made us. We're going to be going to dinner with Kelsey afterwards tonight. We are.
00:03:25
Jeff Rogers
Looking forward to that. You know what going have? What? A burger? Come on. They had a really good burger. They did. And they put the fresh jalapenos on it like I liked. You know what I'm to have? What? That whipped feta.
00:03:36
Jeff Rogers
Yeah, hell yeah. That was good. yeah I tried some last time. yeah um Can we sit in the spot of the restaurant that does not melt the skin off of my face? ah I swear to God, we go to this restaurant on a cold night, like a month ago, with Daniel.
00:03:54
Jeff Rogers
And I am sitting in this restaurant, and I'm not saying anything to you or Daniel, but I'm sitting in this restaurant, and like, oh, sweet baby Jesus. I'm like so hot. And I don't normally get so hot like that, but I'm sitting and I'm like, oh why is my face hot? Am I getting a fever? felt like i'm burning.
00:04:12
Jeff Rogers
We were sitting next to a window and right outside the window was one of those like tower outdoor heater things. And Daniel and I were sitting across from each other next to the window and Jeff was sitting next to Daniel on the inside.
00:04:25
Jeff Rogers
So when he said something to us, finally, and So finally I was, this is like an hour into it and I'm on fire. i don't know why I'm on fire. I just, all I feel is heat rapturing my body. And I'm like, are you guys hot? Like, what's the deal? I'm so hot. and You said, is that is that heater coming through the window or something? i thought the heat was from that tower thing was coming through the window because I was the only one facing the window.
00:04:55
Jeff Rogers
and you both so calmly put your hand against the window and said, no, it is not. And I was like, well, I'm on fire. Then why am I on fire? so we're not going to sit near that. Okay. I think I was directly under the ace. the You must have been. Because I was not hot until we started talking about that at the very end. Well, the fact that you even got hot. Yeah. is That says a lot. Yeah. the The thermostat was set on hell. I love hell, though.
00:05:24
Jeff Rogers
Well, you know, we're not there yet. Okay. Well, maybe we're not there yet, but I'm going to be the bartender. um I'm the bus driver, you're the bartender. hey We'll get there eventually. Smoke them if you got them. What you drinking? Poppy. Okay, what flavor? that Classic cola. Oh, oh, oh.
00:05:44
Jeff Rogers
I might have to taste that. Yeah. I'm drinking ah polar blood orange lemonade. I decided to drink more at the top of the show because, like, for the first ten minutes of the show, all I want to do is take a sip of a drink. Because during our actual talks, like, when we're telling the stories, I realize, like we don't really have time to sip. So you'll notice, like, if you haven't already, whenever you interject something, I'm like, beverage. Same. Whenever you talk, I'm like, oh, okay, she's speaking. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
00:06:14
Jeff Rogers
Cheers, queers. Cheers, queers. From Egypt. Cheers, queers from Egypt, because we are indeed in Egypt. We are. Like, we're solidly there. Not recording this in Egypt. We're recording this before Egypt.
00:06:25
Jeff Rogers
That's why probably you'll notice my story is a little little bit on the short side today. Whatever. It's still a fun story about an amazing human being. Listen, they're used to my short stories. There's only so much we could do in this four days of working and trying to...
00:06:43
Jeff Rogers
finally pack for our trip look i had a story for you and i still have the story for you don't tell me about it then no i'm not i'm not telling you anything about the story but it is so much fun and insane and it's like a solid 20 um page story and i realized that over the last five days i did not have the time to sit down and edit the story down and you know so i had to come up with something completely new off the cuff like look at you i think you'll like it i think you'll know the person Okay. ahha
00:07:14
Jeff Rogers
um Anything else? Or should we just do it? or should we... um Have you developed any rashes, fevers, or... No, I'm good. Okay, cool.
00:07:26
Jeff Rogers
Just letting you know. Nope, I'm good. You should keep it keep an eye out. Honey, I'm not getting sick. We're going... We got places to go. We got places to go. Listen, i've been i I've been chugging vitamin C and zinc.
00:07:39
Jeff Rogers
No, I haven't. I've just been doing what I usually do. But it's like i'll always take trips this time of the year. Like India. India was this time of the year. Morocco was this time of the year. You have to get out of the cold. It just so happens to be when the flu is like every fucking body has the flu. And yeah.
00:07:59
Jeff Rogers
I'm like, just don't let me get it. Just do not let me get it until delete after I get back from this grand adventure. I'll take it then. I'll take it. Right. give me the Give me a bad flu. I'll take it. Yeah. I will lay up on my couch and cough for a week. got sick leave to burn. Yeah. Just like let me make it through. yeah So that's what we're going to do.
00:08:20
Jeff Rogers
We're going to do it. It's going to be great. What do you think? Do you have any idea about like what you think we're going to come back and say the best moment is?
00:08:33
Jeff Rogers
ah don't have any idea. I mean, just from the top of my head, I mean, you like Chris asked me yesterday at work. Which Chris? Miller. Okay. um Sorry. I mean, the Supreme Leader. Well,
00:08:46
Jeff Rogers
I happen to adore both of the Chris's as do you. True indeed. Yeah. So yes, you actually didn't see the other Christian. He was dressed. So he was dressed up. Oh, cause it was Monday. Yeah. Yeah. He dresses up on Mondays. Um, but the, what was I saying?
00:09:06
Jeff Rogers
uh oh we were talking about like us i asked you the question when we come back and we start talking about egypt and hindsight what do you have a prediction about what your favorite moment will be i don't and that's where it was chris had asked me um what I'm most looking forward to And before I could even say it, he was like, besides the library in Alexandria, I was like, oh I don't know. i was like, maybe the the hot air balloon over the Valley of the Kings, like that's going to be a moment, you know? and then obviously seeing the fucking pyramids. like Those are going to be incredible moments, incredible moments. But I bet you, if I had to put money on it based on the fact that I've done this traveled with these companies before,
00:09:51
Jeff Rogers
For us, the very special moments are going to involve people somehow that are going to touch us. not really you. I don't like people. And maybe that won't be the case for you. For me, it'll be this interaction that I had. It'll be something like that. It'll be interesting. We'll be invited into people, probably invited into people's homes and be fed. I was always told not to do that.
00:10:15
Jeff Rogers
You don't have to, but you'll be the only one. I know it's going to be interesting, though. Like, I've never traveled with a group before like this. I do solo or just like a friend travel and I just kind of wander, you know, I never do anything
00:10:34
Jeff Rogers
plotted out, planned out like I don't, you know, i just kind of do my own thing. So this will be interesting for me. That is what I always did. and then Beth and I were in Ireland one day for a vacation.
00:10:45
Jeff Rogers
And it was January. And we were at the Ashford Castle. We stayed at the Ashford Castle in Hawaii. I mean, Ireland.
00:10:56
Jeff Rogers
That's different. I've been around the world. we We're at the Ashford Castle in Ireland, and somebody that was there said, have you ever got have you guys ever tried um this kind of company, like Intrepid, the company that we're going with? And we were like, no, because we plan all of our own stuff. And then the moment that we traveled with them to Morocco the first time, we were like, yeah.
00:11:20
Jeff Rogers
Yeah. For countries that are so different than what you're used to, yeah it's the bet you see 10 times more things than you would see if you just kind of go and try to backpack it, you know? um and That's my experience. I think you're going to have a blast. I hope you do. I have i hope I haven't oversold it to you.
00:11:39
Jeff Rogers
We'll find out. Yeah, we will. By the time you guys hear this, I will have already found out. And pack those shorts. Those are beautiful shorts. I'm going wear them.
00:11:51
Jeff Rogers
You are. y'all okay, i'm going to tell you. you kind Can I tell them the story? Save it for the next one. Okay. Shorts, next story. Shorts. Write it down. We will forget. With a spoon that says about to stir up some shit.
00:12:08
Jeff Rogers
Writing it down. Will you remember it Yeah, I think I will. Oh, okay. Because I won't. Jorts. They're not shorts. They're jorts. I'm going to write it down right now. the That's fancy as fuck.
00:12:24
Jeff Rogers
That's a fountain pen. i don't know why I have a fountain pen. Because you're you. I've never written with a fountain pen. That is from Benny. That came with our books that she gave us. Benny.
00:12:39
Jeff Rogers
God, I hope you like that. um I don't know. Benny, I hope you hear that. i don't know if she'll hear that or not. I don't know if she listens to the show or not. Maybe Jackie does. Jackie, tell your mama, Benny!
00:12:51
Jeff Rogers
um Okay, George, next story. Next show. okay Okay. You ready for this? I am. Here I go. du oh Why is that started? where That is like a relatively new thing. I do i don't know.
00:13:05
Jeff Rogers
Maybe it's like a, like a, Ooh, I'm kind of anxious kind of thing. I don't know. Hold on. We're going to put this on pause.
00:13:13
Jeff Rogers
Okay. Unpaused. Here we are. Here we are again. And we're back. And we are back. Are you ready? Samantha to hear a story.
00:13:25
Jeff Rogers
I feel like with your stories, the answer is always going to to be be the same. I don't know. i don't know if I'm ready, Jeff. To hear the story of a badass woman. Indeed. Okay. i always love a good badass woman story. Well, get ready, darling.
00:13:43
Jeff Rogers
So the woman that I'm going to tell you about today was immortalized in the most popular movie of 1997.
00:13:53
Jeff Rogers
And today, the fourth highest grossing film of all time until the Avatar movies came along. And something else I've never heard of. Avengers, something like that.
00:14:06
Jeff Rogers
Don't look at me like that. I don't know stuff. I've not seen the avatars. i haven't seen the Avengers. But I have seen this one which is the fourth highest grossing film. I just need a minute.
00:14:17
Jeff Rogers
Take your second. Feel your feelings. Something I've never heard of. The Avengers or something yeah like that? That was on the Wikipedia thing. And I was like, I mean, I've heard of it, maybe. But I have not seen it.
00:14:31
Jeff Rogers
but I would really like to help correct that because I think you would enjoy them because the characters, the actors that they have gotten to be in those films, like you don't even have to like comic book stuff. stuff Like you don't have to be the comic book.
00:14:46
Jeff Rogers
Like you don't have to know what happened in that. Right. But the movies are so well done. and like, it's got both Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth, which you interchange frequently. Is he the one with the hammer? Chris Hemsworth is the hammer. Chris Evans is Captain America. Okay. And then, I mean, Robert Downey Jr. Okay. Send me the very first two to watch. No, we I am going to watch them with you because I want to watch your face while you watch them. Can I watch them on the plane? Yes.
00:15:14
Jeff Rogers
I will watch them with you on the plane. I will download them right this instant. Okay. So we digressed. We did. I knew I would get you with that. That's why you didn't I I would get you with that. That's why you didn't say it at first. 1997. Fourth highest grossing film of all time.
00:15:32
Jeff Rogers
Any idea what movie this is? No. That I'm talking about? No. You were five. Yeah. Yeah. 1997, the fourth highest grossing film of all time.
00:15:44
Jeff Rogers
Okay, you don't know. i just but here I really was putting money on you knowing that But here's the thing. is like i don't I don't know what movies make money. So you could tell me that the I would never have guessed that Avatar was on the top four biggest money-making movies ever. like what? What?
00:16:03
Jeff Rogers
Never. you me to give you like a clue, a hint, a sentence? yeah I want you to do it. can give you a sentence. Or should I just guess after your... No, because I'm about to tell you. Oh. I'm the king of the world.
00:16:14
Jeff Rogers
Really? Yeah. Fourth highest Titanic. Well...
00:16:19
Jeff Rogers
That's that. The fourth highest gross still today. No, no. So for so long until Avatar came along. Also, Jeff or Cameron with James Cameron. James Cameron. Before Avatar came along, that one was the top grossing grossing film of all time. OK. For a very long time.
00:16:36
Jeff Rogers
And then Avatar bumped it down, but it's still on the fourth. Fourth is the fourth. Damn. So, oh, can I just read the paragraph again? Because I think we've lost people. So the one that I'm going to tell you about today was immortalized in the most popular movie of 1997 and the fourth highest grossing film of all time.
00:16:54
Jeff Rogers
However, beyond the events of what the movie portrays, she was better known for her social work, ah for welfare on behalf of women, children, and labor workers, and for often ignoring convention in favor of doing what she felt was the right thing. so this was after she survived the crash.
00:17:15
Jeff Rogers
Uh-huh. She was sort of a badass woman. and to Any idea? I'm gonna tell you. Have you seen the movie Titanic? Yeah. What? so Yes. Okay, so this is the story of the very unforgettable and the very unsinkable Molly Brown.
00:17:34
Jeff Rogers
didn Any a idea? Yeah. ahead. She was a badass. Thank you for your permission. She was born Margaret Tobin on the 18th of July, 1867 in Hannibal, Missouri.
00:17:49
Jeff Rogers
She was never known as Molly during her life. The name was earned posthumously. She grew up in a humble Irish Catholic family with several so siblings and started working at a factory at the age of 13. Wow.
00:18:02
Jeff Rogers
In 1886, she followed her two siblings, Daniel and Marianne Collins, along with Marianne's husband, John, to a popular mining town of Leadville, Colorado.
00:18:13
Jeff Rogers
Margaret and her brother shared a two-bedroom log cabin, and she found work at a local sewing store. While in Leadville, Margaret met James, we're going to call him J.J. Brown, a mining superintendent who was 12 years older than her.
00:18:30
Jeff Rogers
Though he had a little bit of money, Margaret loved JJ and gave up her dreams of marrying a wealthy man to marry him 1886. She said about her decision to marry this poor man, ah she said, quote, I wanted a rich man, but I loved Jim Brown.
00:18:50
Jeff Rogers
I thought about how I wanted to comfort my father and how I had determined to stay single until a man presented himself to me who I could give... to the tired older man, her father, the things I longed for him.
00:19:04
Jeff Rogers
Jim was as poor as we were and had no better chance. I struggled hard with myself in those days. I loved Jim, but he was poor. Finally, I decided that I'd be better off with a poor man whom I loved than a wealthy one whose money had attracted me.
00:19:19
Jeff Rogers
So i married Jim Brown." and her husband rose up the ranks of the mining company in Leadville. Brown became an active community member, Margaret, became an active community member who helped miners and their families and worked to improve schools in the area.
00:19:36
Jeff Rogers
Brown was also known for not being interested in conventional behavior and dress in line with other prominent women of the town, but she did enjoy wearing her big hats. In 1893, the mining company discovered gold,
00:19:52
Jeff Rogers
at the little johnny mine the little johnny butha that's a stupid name this resulted in jj being given a partnership at the ibex mining company in a very short amount of time the browns became millionaires and the family then moved to denver colorado where they bought a mansion for about thirty thousand dollars today's money probably like a million From the very first days of the Browns' arrival in Denver, we've got so many connections here you're about to love. From the very first days of the Browns' arrival in Denver, they were objects of curiosity.
00:20:30
Jeff Rogers
The most well-known gossip journalist of the time, Polly Prye, who Karen Kilgareff told about at our show when we went to see mave My Favorite Murder in Denver. The same show that she mentioned Nellie Bly. Yeah, Polly Prye.
00:20:48
Jeff Rogers
So Polly Prye wrote about the Browns nearly every week. Wow. But Margaret loved using her money to promote positive change in the world, and her friends included local and state politicians, international dignitaries, and influencers from around the world. That's impressive for the time. And also members of royal families.
00:21:08
Jeff Rogers
In 1902, Colorado Governor James Orman and his family even stayed in their home while the governor's mansion was under renovations. Margaret was also one of the most active members of society with some some of her activities including, she was not boring, okay, some of her activities included being a founding member of the demon the Denver Women's Press Club and the Denver Women's Club, also ah aimed to improve women's lives by allowing them to continue in education and raising money for children's causes and mine workers.
00:21:40
Jeff Rogers
No big deal. Organizing the famous Carnival of Nations to raise money for the construction of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, involvement in the Colorado chapter of the League of the American Arts, helping to fund the Colorado Friends League, and extensive involvement with funding for projects to assist juvenile delinquents.
00:22:02
Jeff Rogers
Where when did she have time for all of this? i what he i don't know. Money buys your time. Yeah. As a society lady, she also learned French, German, Italian, and Russian. And in an unheard of feat, that was an unheard of feat for women at that time.
00:22:20
Jeff Rogers
But this would all come in handy a little later on. All those languages. still just trying to get hold of the whole R rolling that you did. I don't know. I don't know why i do what I do.
00:22:31
Jeff Rogers
Though she was a popular hostess who also attended parties that were held by socialites, as she had only recently acquired her wealth, she was never able to gain entry entry into the most elite group, the Sacred 36, which was ran by Louise Sneed Hill. Did they wear robes and heads and chant stuff?
00:22:50
Jeff Rogers
Brown described her as, quote, the snobbiest woman in Denver, to which I say, fuck them. Do your own thing, Margaret. I she's doing so much on her own. I bet they're not. I bet they're not.
00:23:02
Jeff Rogers
Among other issues, Brown's activism caused her marriage to deteriorate. Since J.J. held sexist views about the role of women and refused to support his wife's public endeavors... fuck that guy. now I mean, that he wasn't all bad, you'll see. The couple legally separated in 1899, though never officially divorced.
00:23:23
Jeff Rogers
Despite their separation, the pair continued to be great friends throughout their life, and Margaret received financial support from J.J. By 1912, Margaret, she was single.
00:23:35
Jeff Rogers
She was rich, and she was in search of an adventure. okay She went on a tour to Egypt, Italy, and France. And while she was in Paris, her daughter, as a part of the John Jacob Astor IV party, that's where she and her daughter were at, she received word that her eldest grandchild, Lawrence Palmer Brown, was seriously ill.
00:24:00
Jeff Rogers
Margaret immediately booked the first class ticket on the first available liner leaving for New York, one called the RMS Titanic. Her daughter hele Helen decided to stay in Paris. That's good.
00:24:14
Jeff Rogers
Originally, her daughter Helen was supposed to accompany her, but Helen, who had studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, decided to take a side trip to London with friends.
00:24:25
Jeff Rogers
That is just like, whoa. You know, a decision? Ripple effects. Yeah. Like, brown God damn. Fate. Brown boarded the Titanic as a first class passenger on the evening of April 10th and sailed to New York City that night.
00:24:42
Jeff Rogers
To sail for New York City that night. On April 1912, disaster struck. small one as a the titanic approached her fatal collision most passengers had gone to bed just before midnight on april 14th the titanic hit an iceberg and it started sinking margaret said quote i stretched out on the brass bed at the side of which was a lamp so completely absorbed by my reading i gave little thought to the crash that struck at my window
00:25:15
Jeff Rogers
which she did hear and then it threw her to the floor. As the events unfolded, women and children were called to board the lifeboats, but Margaret stayed on the vessel and helped others escape until a crew member quite literally swept her off her feet and placed her in lifeboat number six.
00:25:32
Jeff Rogers
Margaret took an oar on the lifeboat herself and started urging the lifeboat crew to go back and save more passengers. Her urgings were met with opposition from quartermaster Robert Hitchens, ah the crewman in charge of lifeboat six.
00:25:48
Jeff Rogers
Nobody's in charge of Margaret margaret Brown, okay? Hitchens was fearful that if they were to go back, the lifeboat would either either be pulled down due to the suction or those in the water would swamp the boat in an effort to get into the boat.
00:26:02
Jeff Rogers
According to multiple reports, as Lifeboat 6 made its way farther and farther from the sinking of the Titanic, and thus farther into the freezing cold unknown, her captain, Robert Hitchens, grew just distraught.
00:26:15
Jeff Rogers
Thinking that their chances of being discovered were slim to none, and utterly exhausted and overwhelmed with fear, he lamented their poor chances of survival while also ordering a break from the rowing.
00:26:28
Jeff Rogers
Molly, though, Margaret, Molly, Brown, because she is a badass woman, she wasn't having any of that. She jumped to her feet. She ordered everybody to row and row as hard as they could, knowing that keeping the blood circulating in the freezing temperatures would be absolutely crucial for survival.
00:26:44
Jeff Rogers
When Hitchens tried to cross her, she threatened to throw his motherfucking ass off the ship, off the raft. I hope she said that. I hope she said, I'll throw your motherfucking ass right out of this boat. I kind of and like see her as a woman that would say something like that. i love it. She was so determined and exercised such command of the situation that the passengers took her lead and rowed Aww. Aww.
00:27:10
Jeff Rogers
they would be rescued and a matter of hours later after a few hours brown's laugh lifeboat was rescued by the r m s carpathia there she helped pass out blankets and supplies to those who needed them the most and she used her multiple languages to communicate with those who didn't speak english Brown recognized that in addition to the huge loss of human life, many of the passengers had lost all of their money and their possessions on the ship.
00:27:39
Jeff Rogers
she and She's amazing. She created a survivor's committee with other first class passengers to secure basic necessities for the second and third class survivors and even provided- is very few. Right. And even provided informal counseling to them.
00:27:57
Jeff Rogers
By the time the rescue ship reached New York City, she had raised $10,000 for them. Following her acts of philanthropy and heroism, Brown became something of a national celebrity. So she... Fuck those really fancy people in Denver. Okay, fuck them. I'm not part of your club? Nope.
00:28:16
Jeff Rogers
I'm going to make name for myself. Try to be part of my club. By 19, Brown became something of a national celebrity, so she spent the rest of her life championing new causes. In 1914, miners went on strike in Colorado, which caused the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company to harshly retaliate against them.
00:28:34
Jeff Rogers
In response, Brown spoke up for miners' rights and urged John D. Rockefeller to change his business practices. Wait, Rockefeller, that's a... who Who's that? who right? yeah Nobody. Brown also drew a parallel between minors' rights and women's rights, pushing for universal suffrage by advocating for rights for all.
00:28:58
Jeff Rogers
In 1914, six years before women were granted the right or guaranteed the right to vote, she ran for the United States Senate. She quit the race when the onset of World War one started, choosing instead to direct to be the director of the American Committee for a Devastated France during World War one She also was the head of the Red Cross over there. Fuck's sake.
00:29:23
Jeff Rogers
Also in 1914,
00:29:27
Jeff Rogers
She contributed to the minors and their families after the 1914 Ludlow massacre, and she helped organize International Women's Rights Conference that year, which was held in Newport, Rhode Island. She later earned, for her time in France during the war, she later earned France's prestigion prestigious Legion of Honor for her service during the war.
00:29:48
Jeff Rogers
I kind of love this woman. Same. Same. It was like i was like searching my brain. She's all over the place. At this time, a reporter in New York stated, if I were requested to personify perpetual activity, i believe I'd name Miss Margaret Brown.
00:30:09
Jeff Rogers
In 1922, Brown mourned the death of J.J., stating that she had never met, quote, a finer, bigger, more worthwhile man than J.J. Brown. His death catalyzed a bitter battle with her children over the father's estate, which fractured their relationship, though they later reconciled.
00:30:29
Jeff Rogers
And in night in the 1920s and 30s, Brown then became an actress, appearing on stage in La Glonne. I don't know. what that is, what it's about, anything like that.
00:30:41
Jeff Rogers
On October 26th, sorry, on the 26th of October, 1932, Margaret Brown died of a brain tumor at the Barbizon Hotel in New York. Over the 65 years of her life, Brown had experienced poverty, riches, happiness, and great tragedy, but most of all was known for her kind spirit and her unfailing help for those less fortunate than herself.
00:31:09
Jeff Rogers
Margaret Brown once said of herself, I am a daughter of adventure, and she was very much remembered that way. and the Tony Award-winning Beth Malone and Dave Domain, who played Margaret Brown and J.J. Brown in the Broadway play, they said of Margaret Brown,
00:31:26
Jeff Rogers
She's a magnificent example of when you see something and have the ability to fix it, that's what you do. She didn't say, oh, that's too bad. I'm going to go have tea now. This isn't right.
00:31:38
Jeff Rogers
What can we do? We have to organize and we have to make a change. She was strong, she was opinionated, and she would fight furiously to right any wrong.
00:31:48
Jeff Rogers
And the world needs more Molly Browns today. God damn right. And that is the story of the unsinkable Molly Brown. Wow. I love her. so much. So much.
00:32:02
Jeff Rogers
So much. All, everywhere. i mean. What a life. Wow. What a 65 years on this earth. Wow, Jeff.
00:32:12
Jeff Rogers
Fuck those socialites in Denver. Molly, you are You You made your own club. But like for good. Yeah. Not for tea.
00:32:24
Jeff Rogers
Not for tea. Not going to go have tea. Well done, Jeffrey. Well, thank you. Pinkies out. Is that it for right now? I believe so. That was your show while we were on vacation, a very short show. um But you know what? It's the best we could do.
00:32:41
Jeff Rogers
Christopher, when you're walking your dog two o'clock in the morning. That's dedication. I hope that made you smile. i hope the thought of Molly Brown made you smile because she was unthinkable.
00:32:55
Jeff Rogers
All right, everybody. That's it. That's it. That's it. And remember, we're here for a good time. Not a long time. Hey, hey, hey. Bye.