Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

Hi, it's Susan. How you doing? Everybody hanging in there? Beckett and I are fine. Our families are fine. We're all healthy. We're all working from home.

And both of us hope that you're doing as well as possible during this time.

For this week's episode, we're going to go into the way back machine. Way back to our 2012 and back to 1912.

This week marks the 108th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. In 2012, the 100th anniversary, Beckett and I covered Margaret and Molly Brown.

And we also took a field trip to the Titanic exhibit at Kansas City's Union Station. I know what you're thinking. Susan, the Titanic, that's a disaster.

This is not a time to be talking about disasters. Well, maybe it's a time to be talking about this one.

Particularly, let's talk about Margaret Brown. Margaret Brown was brave and smart. She kept her wits about her. And she helped people during the sinking of the boat. She saved lives.

She did what she could, while others were doing what they could to help people survive the sinking of the Titanic.

That's a really great inspiration for us during our current times. We've remastered both episodes and blended them together.

First up, Margaret and Molly Brown.

And here's your 30-second summary.

Paul Bunyan, Simple Man, Cinderella, and Molly Brown are all figures of legends and myths.

Only one of them has a reality that is far more dramatic than anything Hollywood could manufacture. Her life is an example of truth be greater than fiction.

The...

Let's talk about Molly Brown.

But first, let's drop her into history. In 1867, Johann Strauss' Blue Danube Waltz was first performed.

Jesse James was Robin Banks in the Midwest. Congress approved the Lincoln Memorial. The US buys Alaska from Russia for $7 million.

Queen Victoria has the foundation laid for Royal Albert Hall. Ready Mixed Paint is patented. And on July 18, 1867, Margaret Tobin was born.

This tells you a Wild West Tall Tale once upon a time. A tiny baby entered this world in a most dramatic fashion, born during a terrible storm of tornadoes and floods. Her mother dies. And she's raised on a goat's milk by drunk and fathered famous.

She determined that she is going to move to Leadville and marry a rich man. She becomes a saloon girl to pay the bills.

And one day meets poor minor JJ Brown. This is not the man she hasn't envisioned for herself. She was going to marry money.

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