Fred's Fun Fact: Titanic Almost Hit Another Boat

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, my friend's fun fact, Fred's fun. Learn so much? Wow?

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yeah, I know, And that was a subdued version of
learn so much. That wasn't what you would normally get.
But this is for Kaitlyn and Kaitlyn only. It's a
Titanic fact. I know you're a big Titanic early Yeah,
but did you know that just days before the Titanic
struck an Iceberg and sank in April of nineteen twelve,
it almost hit another boat. So there was almost a disaster,

(00:34):
a Titanic disaster before the Titanic disaster.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Girl, we gotta sark to that captain.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
That dude was not things were. He was not a
good place. I don't know if somebody's roasting him on
social media. I don't know what was going on. I don'
though he's going through a breakup or somebody on a
dating app or something.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
I don't know. I don't know what was going on
with him.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
But so this was according to a letter from a
steward on the boat that was written on the dooms
ship's stationary, writing to his wife one day after setting
sail from the United Kingdom. The guy who died in
the tragedy mentioned that as the ship was leaving the
docket narrowly missed colliding with another boat.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
He said.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
We got away yesterday after a lot of trouble. The
letter wrote, he said, as we were passing the New
York and Oceanic, the New York broke the ropes and
very nearly ran into us, and we just happened to
avoid a collision. It must have been a trying time
for the captain. This boat was doomed all around.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah, bad juju. Did you see the museum in Chicago flooded.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Museum? Yeah, a little. It was a while ago, but
what are the odds of that? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:36):
I went earlier this year, and then after I went,
it literally flooded.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Like you guys, the Titanic Museum flooded.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
I think there's too many, Like, I don't know, you're
messing with the ghosts. They had their shoes and stuff,
and I don't know, like all, you know, some of
their items and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
The rest these are the same Shenanigans from New York.
You guys, I think that guy was behind it. Really
it's the same against the same guy, the same guy
that that flooded the Titanic Museum is the same guy
getting caught in the fleet fish McDonald's with a printed
out gun. I'm going to connect the two right now.
You heard it here first conspiracy theory, He's abound, I

(02:15):
tell you. But that was for you because I know
you're a Titanic girl. Now here's a question. If they
obviously have this letter, I guess they recovered it, if
they're reading it or they we know what it says.
Would you want a letter on your wall framed from
written about from a man who died in the Titanic?

Speaker 1 (02:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
I have a book from the year it sank about
it that I think is cool. But now I'm like, wait,
is that giving money?

Speaker 2 (02:38):
People collect stuff from the boat itself, like you know,
China and whatever else.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
I don't think i'd want that. I don't know people died.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah, I'm respectful of the tragedy. I just have always
felt like connected to learning about it. But I'm certainly
not I don't like enjoy that that happened.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
The thing that's good, that nice of you?

Speaker 2 (02:55):
What was the thing that was up for auction recently
from the Titanic that you I try to get you
for your birthday?

Speaker 1 (03:00):
But it sold for just outside my budget. What was it?

Speaker 2 (03:03):
It was just outside our Secret Santa budget, I remember,
but there was something and it was like millions of
dollars that it sold for.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Okay, I mean I want the heart of the Ocean.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
So if whoever has me Secret san on, what is that?

Speaker 3 (03:15):
It's you know the necklace that the whole like movie
like she was drawn naked.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
It was the gold pocket watch, That's what it was
that was given to the captain who rescued the survivors.
That's right to sell for two million? Yeah right, And
our Secret Santa budget is only one.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Million, yeah million?

Speaker 2 (03:31):
This year it's at one yeah right, yeah, so I
you know what obviously, well, yeah, we're syndicated to get
a million dollars in Wendy's gift card.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Still a million, I'll take it.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
I hope you like some four seasons heat and air conditioning,
plumbing and electric work, because I'm going to send those guys.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
I'm going to send those guys right over. You know
you want some uh you want some TV? Let me
get the Me's Meals you know all over it.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Happy Secret Santa. Here's here's Me's Meals. I got you.
It's the Fred show

Speaker 1 (04:09):
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