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The Worst Idea Of All Time

Did Titanic Sink? 05: The Wake of Titanic

The Worst Idea Of All Time

Tim Batt

Comedy

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Two large-scale official inquiries took place immediately after the Titanic's sinking. Carlo and Tim discuss what the inquiries revealed to the public and what they concealed.


With the fellas hard at work on the next chapter of TWIOAT, we present the first season of Did Titanic Sink?, the award-winning pod series from the Worst Idea Extended Universe. Join Tim Batt and Carlo Ritchie on their maiden voyage into the unknown.


Enjoying DTS? Season two is releasing now on RNZ!


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0:00.0

Hek on the Puhrangi day, nate ewirangi or a tea.

0:05.0

Kuyu and welcome back.

0:10.0

This journey started with one of the dumbest questions I've ever heard Grace the title of a podcast.

0:14.8

Did Titanic Sink? That's the question my friend Carlo has been grappling with for years.

0:19.8

And he's investigated it with seemingly every moment of his free time.

0:23.9

The man travelled to Belfast to look at the ship's blueprints in person.

0:28.5

But it turns out his theory that it didn't sink has actually got some legs. Over the last four episodes

0:34.2

Kalo has brought some really amazing evidence to support his narrative of what

0:38.6

happened to Titanic and how and even why. It turns out there was some very rich people

0:44.6

who could have benefited from this disaster.

0:47.0

So now we've got the motive, the means,

0:49.2

and the opportunity for Carlo's alleged conspiracy

0:52.2

that they switched the Titanic with the Olympic

0:54.1

and intended to sink it on purpose but what I can't wrap my head around is how they

0:58.8

could have gotten away with it. At the end of the last episode, Carlo did have this to say.

1:03.4

The reason I think, Tim, is because they were there waiting for the Titanic to sink slowly.

1:09.2

And then when that didn't happen and the light came up and there was no stricken Titanic

1:13.7

and just a bunch of people in the water they realized that this whole plan had

1:17.3

gone terribly wrong and they just fled out of there.

1:20.3

Well let's check it out. This is Did Titanic Sink?

1:24.0

Hey Carlo!

1:29.0

Hey Carlo!

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