Hello and welcome to Positively Dreadful with me, your host, Brian Boiler.

I promise this isn't going to be an episode about the Titanic Tourist Somersible, which

I assume you're all sick of hearing about, but I do want to start there because I noticed

something gross but also kind of depressingly familiar when there was still a faint glimmer

of hope that the five passengers aboard the Titan could be rescued.

It started with the people most responsible for the tragedy, who probably at that point

knew that all was lost, nevertheless trying to lay the blame at the feet of the US government.

One of the founding firms advisors posted this message online, he wrote,

I hope to get a few hours sleep, wake up, and see very positive responses from the US government

in my inbox.

If I don't, the whole world will know the names of the people who did not do their jobs.

To be clear, the job, such as there was a market for it, was to build a submersible

that did not implode.

They started passing the buck, the instant they knew they had failed, wrecked their business,

most likely possibly wrecked other adventure tours and businesses.

They also probably suspected that there'd be demand and an echo chamber for lies and conspiracy

theories about the US government's role in the search.

That was a safe bet.

I'm just guessing about this, but I would bet that fewer people in America could name

the company that built the submersible, it's called Oceangate for the record, then could

recite some bogus claim about what actually happened.

One of those claims promoted by Dan Crenshaw, the Republican Congressman from Texas, is

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