Episode 628: The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 Part II - The Boston Molassacre

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🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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The boys are back and things are heating up as we return to The Great Molasses Flood of 1919, this week diving into the thick of it and treading through the brutal devastation caused when 2.3 million gallons of molasses exploded from its faulty tank, flooding the streets of the north end of Boston, killing 21 people and injuring over 150 in a disater unlike anything heard of before.

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0:00.0	There's no place to escape to.
0:02.9	This is the last hot task.
0:05.0	On the left.
0:07.2	That's when the cannibalism started.
0:12.3	Who was that?
0:14.9	I don't know how to do this episode without Hulk Hogan being here.
0:22.8	Oh.
0:23.8	When Hulk Hogan died?
0:25.1	My spiritual center of me.
0:27.5	I've been working.
0:28.4	Wow, you really work.
0:30.0	Yeah, man.
0:30.5	That's nice.
0:31.4	Yeah, I work without distraction.
0:33.3	I blare it all out, ma'am.
0:36.2	No, Hulk Hogan, he died. Yeah, man, he's clean. He's clean. Yeah. Oh, yeah. He looked like molasses. Also, Anne Burrell from Food Network, the female equivalent of Hulk Hogan, turns out she committed suicide. Yes. Super sad. It's very sad. It's almost like you shouldn't start an episode with it. Yeah, that's a really terrible thing to start the episode with. We could have just joked about Hulk Hogan. He's a monster. And Borel stuff is way more important. It's way sad. You mean the nice food lady was sad? I guess. That's what you want to talk about? Yeah. She was super sad. She did in a weird way. Yeah. Well, Hulk Cogan's heart exploded because it was the size of a pumpkin. Yes. And that was because it was filled with love. Welcome to the last podcast on the left, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Marcus Parks. I'm here with a death reporter, Henry Zabrowski. Death reporter Henry Zabrowski. That is both between, because this is the problem, I don't know if anybody else, I'm certain the audience has like one old friend text chain that does eventually devolve into just the how we all find out somebody dies. Right. Yeah, that's all it is now. The old murder fist text chain is just like who's, it's like, it's their first. Always. They beat TMZ sometimes. Each time. I woke up to Holkogen being dead, like two hours before it broke. It was interesting how much like I was unaffected by it. I guess like if it's like a day and a half, two days after Ozzie, like I don't, I could care less. Yeah, who gives his shit? He's a bad guy. The only thing I do remember is that nothing will take back that big bloated carcass making love to Bubba the Love Spunge Wife while he was absolutely filled to the max brisket. I feel like a fucking pig.
2:19.5	I feel like a fucking pig. Barbecue.
2:20.3	I feel like a fucking pig.
2:22.9	And we have a man who sometimes feels like a pig, sometimes not.
2:26.8	It's Ed Larson.
2:27.6	That's right.
2:27.8	I'm a squeal American.
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