The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - 346 - Henry Clay Frick (Live in Pittsburgh)

Episode Date: September 26, 2018

Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds examine Henry Clay Frick and his love of steel and money. OFFICIAL MERCH TOUR DATES SOURCES

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Dave Anthony that's me I read a story from American history to my friend oh the less ego driven Gareth Reynolds who has no idea what the topic is going to be about so long thank you sir oh I would like to point out that I will be at the Albany funny bone oh here we go fourth fifth and sixth and then I'll be at roostertea feathers in California the first second third and fourth come dance with Garfy okay yeah we sorry wait we this one sold out and we should have a bigger theater but you guys can all yeah you don't care they're into that they're here no but there's for booking for booking such a small venue we could

we could have more in this a lot of people in Pittsburgh couldn't come can you guys all quickly yell at my agent fuck you Josh okay good where's the beer oh so there's no beer and it's a small bit all right let's give it a job here okay and we have all the beer now I know how fucked up this is I want to thank Jill Vine who might be here for helping me out with tonight's topic research yes December 19th 1849 there's one river what there's got to be more to that in this story okay there's a river in this story then go fuck itself is that what it's called in Pittsburgh it should be called that called that you'll go

down to the go fuck yourself Henry Clay Frick finally finally we're finally doing this one yeah was born at West Overton Pennsylvania his grandfather ran a successful whiskey distillery and was the wealthiest man in the county all right yeah it's got Frick you money hot start other than providing a small cottage in a few acres of bad land on his estate Henry's grandfather shared none of his wealth was with his daughter or her family would just be like can you imagine having an abundance of something and then people being around you that are close to you not being able to have

any of it so you're just sort of sitting there while you have a ton of stuff and then the people that you care about that have done so much to help you there they're there and you're just meanwhile sort of distracting yourself with a thing I mean I mean for God's sake what are you gonna die with all of it you're not gonna have all that in your life mr this beer is so good it's not bad but he did serve as a role model for his grandson Henry at an early age he became determined to have a larger fortune than his grandfather okay good that's we healthy it's might have also been because Henry's father John was not

successful at all he failed as a painter and struggled as a farmer well it skips a generation yeah I think we've all heard that it's one of those Henry was considered a considered a fragile boy he was skinny underweight and delicate is delicate just seems like it's an opinion delicate doesn't seem like it's like no doctors like he suffers from being delicate he I'm sorry chart up here so your son is delicate watch see yeah see suffers from what we call being a pussy your boy is a huge medical term used to be called being a Nancy yet but then you know what happened we found out that that wasn't right so now we've labeled it

to something not offensive he's good though he's not a fucking pussy he's just a pussy but if we don't act quickly he could be a fucking pussy Henry fell often wait okay so he really it's just like yeah oh Henry I like what I see so he's like Sam Jackson and unbreakable he's the opposite of Bruce Willis he's a breakable one but a boy he's a boy but if he falls down the subway stairs he breaks everything that's right okay compared to the children other children he grew very slow okay what does this even okay and when he did grow it caused him a great deal of pain

what's going on Henry I'm getting bigger again no Henry are you okay must be a full moon out tonight mama look at my shoes oh my god I don't want to get any you're gonna you're gonna end up being six feet tall no don't say that I'll pop through the house like Alice when Henry was six on the trip to see it's only five and he's whining about growing bad news son when does it stop when Henry's six on a trip to see his grandfather he came down with scarlet fever okay good that's the end he died yeah it should be the end yeah which most most children did not survive at the time but somehow

Henry did I bet he wouldn't shut up the whole time though if growing hurt scarlet fever is a Henry also had quote chronic indigestion or inflammatory rheumatism wait okay is it rheumatism like it doesn't yeah it's the joints right so he has like he's got like child I can't have anything spicy or my elbow will crack he's got like he's got like that common childhood arthritis yeah no for sure are we sure there's not like a little 70 year old living in his chest so that would mean he would have attacks when he was highly stressed he would come home and collapse onto the sofa he would be quote suffering

grievously Henry was given prescribed restoratives which would bring him relief so yeah cocaine heroin how's that not gonna bring you relief I mean good for me we could I could go for some heroin wouldn't Trump be easier if you're on heroin yeah Henry went to Pittsburgh and landed a job at a department store and vowed to become a millionaire by the time he turned 30 like just stick to the shelves asshole we don't need excuse me these don't fit okay here you go thank you large over here not much better I'm growing you see been there no he was very good at his job his employer commended him particularly on a

success in quote waiting upon lady customers hmm okay yeah for sure I think especially in this time we're like I don't like it I well what does he do Dave what's his little angle what's he working I didn't get anything else that's it he's just like good with the lady customer give him a little eye contact and maybe and you don't know what that's it he looked at them bring him to orgasm I don't know how departments towards work I've never I don't work here but I'm not jacking anyone off I'll do everything else what kind of shoes do you want sir I'm actually not here for shoes I just use the bathroom but don't

stop whoo it's my first job a great handful I'm better with the ladies oh no it hurts I'm growing in 1869 he caught typhoid Jesus this kid's real I mean for the guy who's wind after growing he's really getting like some haymakers thrown his way it was considered a death sentence at the time but once again Henry survived okay after his grandfather hired him to do bookkeeping at the distillery but a few months later his grandfather died okay Henry was left nothing in the will right as as stipulated but he had a cousin in the coke business in the coke business and the cocaine business no

it's different kind of coke coca-cola business no why don't you talk do it that way coke is a fuel that is made by baking a soft coal in furnaces okay because at the beginning it still sounded like cocaine okay it for sure is a fuel okay yeah okay it has a high carbon content in a few impurities in what it has a high carbon content and a few impurities in few impurities yeah okay gotcha so Henry believe coke had a lucrative future and with four other men he went into the coke business I did it this way on purpose okay he owned 20% they had 300 acres of coal and 50 coke ovens okay but Henry wanted to buy

all the coal and all the coke ovens possible that's what coke's like we should get it all let's just get all of it no we'll figure it out we'll just get all of it right now and do it man so he got loans from Thomas Mellon famous banker douchebag so Thomas Mellon was like your idea is great and just started giving him cash to buy up as much coal and coke ovens as he could and then the financial panic of 1873 came and the price of coke plummeted so all those partners were like this is a bad fucking idea so he bought their shares okay and then he just started buying up all the other people were panicked about the

business okay and this is all being bankrolled by Mellon loans sure it's Mellon money Mellon money he made his money from Mel Henry new steel was gonna give up on the coke and get involved in the Mellon game honey do or honey don't I will not no no nope no way come on honey honey no Henry new steel was the key product in industrial development and coke was the key ingredient for making steel okay in 1877 there was a railroad strike that affected shipments of coke and coal so Henry and a sheriff went to evict a striker who lived on Henry's property it's so close to Coca-Cola okay the

striker refused to leave so Henry and the deputy picked him up and threw him down an embankment into a creek is that okay to do to man well right yeah then they threw all his belongings at him that's nice that's a better touch yeah turns out Henry Frick was not fond of laborers interesting sure that won't come back to be a factor in this so when he turned 30 as was his goal he had become a millionaire awesome yeah but a great what a great story awesome a great story to be 17 to be like I want to be a millionaire and then you 30 and you are you're a fucking psychopath millionaire yeah well especially at 30 because

that's like a third of the way through your life that they're like more than half of the way through your life at this point you know you're gonna be a real prick yep he's solely owned H.C. Frick and company he employed a thousand workers and controlled 80% of the coal output in Pennsylvania okay monopoly which is awesome it's a fun game we love monopoly I love the game it's fun yeah in 1879 Henry was one of a number of very rich Pennsylvania man who formed a secret club oh shit terrible news all right it was called the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club what a weird secret club I'm not sure what to make of

these people you guys know about the secret part you're clapping a lot it's not remember your oath they drew blood by a fire for God's sake they bought land above John Johnstown okay it had a large lake that was created by a dam right artificial lake sure the dam was originally reservoir the club was the place for rich men in the area to enjoy all the wealth it accumulated cool they picnic Congress yeah they picnic they swam and fish they smoke cigars they relaxed oh boy oh this was said to be the real catch me if you can vibe it really does said to be the largest artificial body of water in the world

hmm they modified the lake they put a fish screen across the spillway so the fish couldn't get out and then that would collect debris which kind of makes a spillway not a spillway and they lowered the dam to build a road to make it more convenient for people going from the railroad station to the cottage cottages in the lake so it was the easiest way to you know get across so it feels like a time-share so far yeah yeah no it's good yeah so this is just his fun place that he goes to vacation yeah sure that's any fun he married Adelaide child in December 1881 she was 31 he was 22 oh that's a celebrate normal yeah they would have

four kids to it who would live you know more than a couple days standard that's a good ratio 50 percent it's great yeah for sure no and Andrew Carnegie was another insanely rich man melon my old boy he owned Carnegie steel which was making 1 million 500,000 a year which today would be 37 million okay it's a lot yeah people loved Carnegie he was from Scotland but his thorough Americanization and enthusiastic patriot patriotism earned him the nickname the star-spangled Scotsman okay that's a dynamite image right there god bless this mess

because my boy these fucking colors don't run that's right it's exactly right I'm in the bloody Constitution you go batty yeah pushed it one of Carnegie's managers named captain Jones was jobless to reduce costs he came up with the eight-hour work day in the steel industry hmm because he controversial he discovered get away from that don't worry yeah he discovered he found workers could work at a high pace for eight hours and then be ready to go again if they got 16 hours rest I don't think he's right no actually it's the

other way around I think people can go for 16 if you give him like four hours rest something around there yeah yeah so Carnegie went from a 12-hour work day to an eight-hour work day and everyone celebrated it not realizing the reason he did it was because he's a fucking asshole so Carnegie formed a business relationship with Henry and soon HC Frickin company was the exclusive coke supplier for all of Carnegie's steelworks okay and Carnegie bought Carnegie bought stock in HC Frick until he owned half so the two men did not really like each other and yet Carnegie bought half of yeah because it's a good business to

be right okay but they didn't really like you Carnegie loved the limelight and he preached about the rights of labor which Henry hated okay and Henry lacked humor was ignorant of literature science or any region outside of the fucking Mahogna Valley Mahogna Halo Mahogna Hong Halo Mo Nong Halo Mo Nong halo no you're all yelling it at once that's not gonna do you Mo Nong Halo it sounds like it sounds a little bit like you're singing rubber biscuit

mohawk do that again bow bow bow you ever heard of a wish sandwich Carnegie also thought Henry was very socially uninteresting. Okay. Well, yeah, because he's like a bone whiner. No! Will you grab me some of that Chex Mix? Doh!

Oh, you fucking bone whiner. Ow! Oh, to shrink. Charles Schwab said Henry was, quote... This is like a real who's who. Hello, I'm Chuck Schwab. Charles Schwab said Henry was, quote... No one could fathom him.

I can't wrap my head around this guy. Unfathomable gentleman. This is my friend, the machine. Hello, Dow. I like Coke. So, Carnegie's brother, Tom, died, and then Carnegie allowed Henry to buy 11% of stock in Carnegie Steel,

just made him chairman of the board, and he was made president. Carnegie wrote to Henry, quote... Take supreme care of that head of yours. It is wanted. Again, expressing my thankfulness that I have found the man. I'm always yours, AC.

What is going on? What? These guys are gonna fuck. That's what. Okay. That's what. I was hoping it was going that way. Carnegie is gonna...

There's one bone that doesn't hurt when it grows. Get over here, you lump. Let's just... Let's just say it. It's not in here. It hasn't been written in your own history, that Carnegie pegged Henry Frick. Clearly.

And he pegged him, because he couldn't get hard on himself, so he put on a... On May 31st... Yeah, that's weird. May 31st, 1889, at 4 p.m., after a high snow melt and 10 days of heavy rainfall, the dam at the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club collapsed.

Okay. 20 million tons of water were released. Oh, shit. It's not a little bit. Yeah, it's a lot. Yeah. It's a lot of water. Yeah.

A 60-foot wall, 60-foot high wall of water. Okay, so we're really talking about an increase. That's... Yeah, compared to nothing. Right. Yeah. Moving 40 miles an hour.

Jesus. Rushed down and crushed the town of Johnstown. Okay. 1,400 buildings were destroyed. Debris built up against a stone bridge, including several tanks of oil and fuel, which then burst into flames. Can I just ask real quick?

Yeah. Are you sure these numbers aren't made up for political reasons? I'm gonna need to see the bodies. That's fair. We'll bring them by. Thank you. 80 people were burnt alive.

Oh, shit. 80 people were burnt alive during a flood. Yeah. When you be like, Could I have drowned? Not how you think you're gonna go. Could I have drowned? Why am I in fire?

It's a river. Water, hurry. Not there. No. Get up on the house. No, not the house. The fire burned for five days. What?

The flood killed 2,209 people. Holy shit. 10% of the town's population. Bodies were found as far away as Cincinnati. Which is 400 miles away. It's quite a surf. And yet fishing that summer was great in Cincinnati. We caught another big human fish.

Boy, they're biting. Is that a sturgeon or a bob? Another farmer. Boy. A sturgeon or freshwater fish. So I fucked that up. Yeah, no, I'm sure the 1% of the audience is like, What is he talking about?

Oh, no, there's some fishing asshole out here. I was like, what the fuck is this shit? Well, if this dude came for fishing humor, he's got a negative attitude and I don't like it. Sturgeon in a lake. Now I'm laughing. Get the hell out of here. So the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club

formed a committee to help the flood victims. Right on time. It was called the Pittsburgh Relief Committee. Okay. At the same time, they made a pact to never speak publicly about the club or the flood. Why does that have to be on the DL? That feels like you're trying to help, right?

Nope. Okay. Henry and Carnegie's companies donated $15,000 to the Relief Fund. And what? That's nice. And the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club donated $3,000.

Oh, that'll do it. All together, $18,000. That'll do it. The constant damages was over $17 million. Right. Right, so yeah, it's a great start. What do you want to do? You want to piss on them or give them a little bit of money?

You want to give them some money or piss on them? Give them money while pissing on them. Somehow. I love being rich. Oh, my God, we killed so many people. Where should we put a new club? So, people sued the club because of... On what grounds?

These peasants? They grifted together enough coppers to get a lawyer? Dime shop attorney? I mean, over 2,000 people died. Well... We donated $17,000. Two of my babies died. I didn't sue my wife.

This is a tsunami. What the fuck you, sir? The fuck out of here? Go catch a sturgeon. So, a couple of the club members just happened to be lawyers, and so they fought all the lawsuits. The club claimed they only lowered the dam by one foot when they built the road,

and that the flood was an act of God. Oh, well, that should hold up, yeah. That would hold up now. Yeah. All the people who sued lost. This caused some of them to go bankrupt. Henry, Carnegie, and the other rich men got off scot-free. Awesome, awesome.

Yeah, fuck yeah, finally. Finally. Little guy's not get one over this guy. No way. Nice try, little guy. Though Henry's life wasn't perfect, his daughter, Martha, had been ill since she was two. Oh, my God, imagine.

Her illness became chronic, and no one knew what was causing it. Now, he's got all the money in the world she's taken. All the doctors, no one can figure this out. Yeah, well, in this time, yeah, for sure. Yeah, they're like, I don't know, she's hot. She has a dragon in her stomach, and he's angry.

We ought to cut it out. Have you tried putting tons of beetles in her mouth? Well, fill her with beetles, and that will eat the infection inside of your daughter. After that, we're going to have to drown her. It's a long shot. So when she was four, a nurse noticed a small wound on Martha's right side

that was oozing pus. Wait, how... So, okay, is that new, or is that... Okay, so she's just leaking. She's got a valve. She's a leaking girl, that happens. Sure, yeah, you just all of a sudden have a little... You got a hole, you got a leak.

For sure, you just have a little opening that's... You get a side... I've had that, you get a side leak. No, no, you're like a box of wine, I get it. And then she looked close, and she found a pin coming through the wound. Okay, this is now taking a weird turn? Well, welcome...

Okay, welcome to Witchcraft. Martha, it turns out, had swallowed a pin when she was two years old, and it had slowly worked its way through her body... Shut up. ...for two years, leaving a trail of destruction, and then Ben like, I'm going out the side. Is that true?

Yeah, no, that's true, that's what happened. She swallowed a pin, and for years she was tortured. Number one, she's a fucking idiot. Number one, she's a fucking idiot. Number two, they didn't have X-rays. So that thing just wound its way...

I assume just like poking through... Like it's a needle, so it's just going through. Well, it might have like cross-stitched a little on the way down. Might have cross-stitched, might have done some cross-stitches. On July 29th, 1891, she died before her sixth birthday. Henry was devastated. Like a good capitalist, he put her likeness

on his checks. Just... Perfect, man. What a great way. You're a fucking monster. No. If your daughter dies and you're like, well, what's the best way I can remember her?

What about when I pay people money? So they can all see my daughters. I'm a capitalist. Money, money, money, money. So that made me feel less sorry for him. Plus, he just killed 2,000 people. He can feel a little grief himself. And she was an idiot.

All right, okay, settle down. She was dumb. My kid never ate a pin. My kid never ate a pin. You don't know that. He's nine. He's just half normal. Like, he's not a genius,

but he's not a pin-eater. There's a good chance I ate a pin as a boy, so... for sure. One of those big ones, too. One of those, like, long needles. My nan used to use. Also, don't leave pins around. What the fuck is happening in this house?

You've got a baby crawling around. You're like, I'll leave the pin cushion out. She likes to sleep on it. It probably wasn't the other one. There were probably like 40 in there, and just one came out this side. Help us! They're all leaking pins!

So in 1892, Henry Frick bought an iron ore company, and then railroads, a fleet of six steamers. The company now owned its mines, dug its own ore, loaded it onto its own steamers, landed it at its own ports,

transported it on its own railroads, distributed its blast furnaces, and smelted it with coke brought from its own coal mines and ovens with limestone brought from its own quarries. Sounds like a monopoly. Yeah, they have a pretty good handle

on a lot of the process. Yeah, they kind of locked everything down. That's Amazon. In the winter of 1891, Carnegie bought the Homestead Mill. Eerie. He appointed Henry as his second in command, knowing Henry was intensely

anti-labor. The amalgamated association of iron and steel workers, the AA, was a union that formed in 1876. Yeah? APPLAUSE All right.

There had been an ugly violent strike in January 1882, but the union held out and won a complete victory. CHEERING APPLAUSE I don't know if you guys know. A lot of changes.

It does, yeah. It changes a lot. I don't even know about this story. There was another strike in July 1889. Again, the union won. The union now appeared to be in complete control of the Homestead Mill. Membership doubled.

Cash on hand grew to $146,000. OK. They're fucking killing it. The work was brutal. Social Darwinist Herbert Spencer said that, quote, a week in the Pittsburgh Mills would be enough to make a sane man

commit suicide. It's a social Darwinist? Yeah. That's kind of a lame title, by the way. It's a hard guy to road for. I assume he didn't make a lot of money. That's a hard job. A lot of it's on spec.

Excuse me, do you need a social Darwinist? Absolutely not. In this economy, no. I could hang out with you and let you know who's the alpha. No. Darwin. My kids are leaking pins. I don't have time for this.

That's actually part of... I don't care. Leave. Because if you eat a pin... Darwin would say... That's a fucking idiot. Get the fuck out of here. Leave here. Have you thought about not living pins around for your kids to eat?

Yeah, I've thought about it. OK. All right, cool. It sounds like you might need a social Darwinist. No, I do not. Wait. OK. The union agreement reached

in 1889 was ending on July 1, 1892. Henry thought there was to be his chance to deal the union a blow because they kept winning. 1892. So the contract's up, right?

Take it to him. Democracy. The steel business was in decline as another capitalist bubble was about to burst the next year. Henry and Carnegie saw labor as the place to keep profits coming in. So Henry focused on reducing

wages of 326 out of the 3,800 workers in the company. The company was making $5 million a year. What Henry... They're pretty broke.

He's fighting over their wages and what Henry was fighting over would save the company $20,000 a year. Yeah. It's important. Yeah, it's important to do this. Carnegie then posted a notice to all employees. It explained there would be a merger

of the three mills, including the homestead mill. The newly created Carnegie Steel would be non-union. The company planned to let the current agreement expire. Then Carnegie went to Europe. What? Farewell, fuckfaces!

Woo! You're resting! You're resting! He told Henry he could handle the situation anyway. You're resourceful. You don't have a good little team? Carnegie wanted the union crushed.

He just wasn't going to say it publicly. He believed it got in the way of efficiency. Henry asked the union to take a 22% reduction in wages. Cool, normal request, so let's go from there. How'd they take it? They hung him in effigy. Oh, my God!

Jesus Christ! These negotiations are not going well. They don't seem to... They're not there. My God, that's me. Oh, I'm on fire now! Who knew they could paper mache so well? But still, the 20%

is just for those workers. It's still just $20,000 that he's trying to save. Yeah, which is... Cables between Henry and Carnegie show Carnegie didn't care much about the strike. He was more concerned about Henry buying an orchestra on.

Orchestra on? Orchestra on? A space orchestra? Space orchestra. We are orchestra on. We are space symphony. When we unite in eight pieces

in one, we become orchestra on. That's right. That's what he's buying. Gonna picture the mighty Morphin Power Rangers if that's cool with everybody. So, an orchestra on was a

self-playing musical device. It had musical instruments like organ pipes, trumpets, trombones, flutes, and piccoloes. What is happening? It's just... What is it? It's just a ball of instruments

rolls around and makes... It's like a Dick Van Dyklis music-making machine. It's just a bunch of instruments. It's a bunch of instruments that looks like a cartoon band fight? Yes, and they play themselves. How the fuck do they play themselves?

They're just sitting there? The guitar's trumpeting? The trumpet's harping? Yeah, I mean... It's just a brass and string instrument orgy? Not just brass and string. What the fuck is it? How does it work?

I don't know. What is it? Do you have a picture of one? Bring it up. It's big. It better be. Oh, look at your tattoos. Yeah.

Oh shit, it is really big. It looks like a dumbass organ. That's what I'll say. It's like a fan... Oh, look at all that shit. Yeah, that's a lot of shit. Yeah, there's a lot going on there. Oh, my God. But who's playing it? Someone's got to play it. Nobody plays it. It doesn't on its own.

Thank you. Thank you. Okay. So it somehow is just a haunted music teacher's office. That's right. It would cost Henry $6,100.

Why is he getting it again? I'm so deep down. He wants one. Oh, just for shits and gigs? Yeah. Remember, he's fighting over $20,000. He wants the $6,000 music machine for his house. Oh, I bloody need it.

Oh, it's not a want. It's indeed. Now, Carnegie, who everyone thinks is pro-labor, never talked about the strike, Carnegie wrote that it would quote... Oh, what? He's got high hopes for it? He wrote that it would give great pleasure

and be a marvel in Pittsburgh. So he's just excited that Henry's going to buy this new thing. Right, okay. They were... This is what they were discussing while they fought the laborers over $20,000. Yeah, no, that's fine. That's regular ivory tower chit chat.

Hmm. In May, Henry made it very clear he was preparing for a strike because he had a 12-foot tall fence topped with barbed wire built around the perimeter of the mill. Man, the second fence with barbed wire starts getting built. That's when you're like,

we've got to move. Something's up. Make a move now. It was a 600-acre perimeter that he built it around. There are also peep holes built in the fence so rifles could be put through. Oh, I thought so that the peasants could sort of be like

orphans at a fogged-up window at a Christmas dinner. Is that ham? You wouldn't give for a slice. But instead, it's to kill them. Yeah, it's to kill... I thought it was maybe a way for them to just watch the music man roll around in his musical

orgy time machine. That sounds great, but these holes are killing humans. Right, better. Humans who want money when they were... $20,000, mind you. Just fuck off. Why can't we have slaves?

I said, yeah, a little early on that one, I guess. Sometimes he'd string me along, I'm holding your hand, like, yeah, well... He said slavery, so... Uh... By June, he had built observation towers. See, this is...

He's building a jail, right? He's building a jail. Yeah, he's building a musical jail. He's just building... Yeah, he's built jail to musical. The workers started calling homestead Fort Frick. Fort Frick. Okay, right.

Henry told workers that he would not negotiate and they should not expect conditions to improve. So, okay. So that's what I'm doing. I built a fort and you get nothing.

But have you ever heard a ukulele drum? Be honest. Yes, sir. Get me one. Yes, Frick. He wrote to Robert Pinkerton of the Pinkerton Agency.

The good guys are here. The good guys are here. Hey, we're looking for some tactical shifts. You came to the right place. Have you bought a drum-yano? You're on the right track, if you have. Quote,

we will want 300 guards for service at our homestead mills as a measure of prevention against interference with our plan to start the operations of the works on July 6, 1892. These guards should be assembled not later than the morning of July 5th.

But surely, fencing materials, peep holes, guard towers, Pinkerton security guards has to cost more than what you're bitching over for. No, you're saving 20 grand. No, but it could not be more penny-wise

dollar foolish. You're like, well, careful. They're trying to get 20 grand. Let's spend a million to stop them. But there's also something joyous about seeing the life go out of a laborer's eyes. You know what I mean?

Like, if you've ever seen like, sometimes I'll go down to an Amazon factory and I'll... Oh, you got to go to the peep holes. And I'll take a stack of money and I'll light it on fire in front of them and I watch them slowly die

and I think this is what it's all about. This is what America is. If you've never seen a human give up hope, I don't think you understand what he's doing. Cue the geekordian. So the Union call for a strike

on June 29th, 1892. On what grounds again? They don't, they want to be able to live. Oh, all the bullshit. Yes, right. 2000 steel workers barricaded the front to stop non-union members from entering. So there's

union and non-union guys at the factory. There's actually more non-union guys at the factory than union guys. The plant was on the Mono-Momo River. We did this earlier. Mono-Gonalala. Nope, I did it.

Mono-Hikiki. The men started patrolling the river. The union guys patrolling the river. That night the union guys tried to talk the non-union guys into honoring this strike. A non-union guy asked what would happen

if they didn't want to leave and a union man yelled back come out anyway or if you don't you'll have to be a rapid runner. So... That insinuates... Yep, probably you should not... Life jeopardy.

At 9 p.m. the non-union workers left the mill and work stopped. So they're on board. Even the mayor is a union mill worker and he's on strike. The mayor's working in the mill? Yeah. Nice. It's that kind of town.

Sure. Strikers were posted all over to sound and those gaps were seen heading towards the mill. Okay. Henry asked a company to retrofit two barges with a floating dormitory, a mess hall, and a food preparation area. Wait. On his little...

His little bunker or thing? No, a barge. He's gotten too far. He's bought two barges. He's having me putting dorms on them. Okay. Opening a high school. A little college. Boat you!

They assumed the barges would be used to house scabs. The strikers started to organize in a military manner. 4,000 men were divided into three groups or divisions headed by commanders and below the commanders were eight captains. Okay.

The U.S. Navy officials were concerned about delays in steel deliveries which would cause delays on ships being built. Can't have that. The union believed that the Navy contracts would make the company cave in. The U.S. Navy sent a message to Carnegie and Henry and told him to fix

the mess. On July 4th, Henry sent a coded cable to Carnegie in London. Quote, Carnegie, Morgan, London, small pond, pony, plunge repairing, pond, pony, choke, watchman arrive, plunge, morning, board, early.

So was he just sitting on the cable? I assume that's about the pond, pond, pond, purge. I assume that's about the big musical device. Right. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, you call the guy over to fix that.

He's like, oh shit, I got to call some friends. I don't know. Henry had asked the sheriff of the county to protect the company's property. On July 5th, Sheriff McCleary arrived at Union headquarters with two deputies. The union was super agreeable

and even offered to assist keeping the peace saying he could deputize 500 union men. We got a lot of guys who could be sheriffs here. That's what you're looking for. I don't know. We all be sheriffs.

We went pretty good. I went and talked to them outside. They're pretty cool guys. So 500 of them are sheriffs. Turn them all into sheriffs. They're all sheriffs. One of them's above me. And this guy really good.

Really good. He's great. You're not good at this. I know, which is why this guy's going to actually probably take the reins in a great direction. You got to hear this guy talk. He is a charmer. I'm on board.

And who's it'll be? I should turn around and get the hell out of dodge. Good to catch up. Did the pin come out of your daughter yet? Yeah, yeah. It was a tense moment. You could hear a... I should get out of here.

Too soon? So the sheriff said he didn't see any problems, but he would still need to send men. He went back to Pittsburgh to get more men. At 6 p.m. came word that deputies were coming on a train to set up at Fort Frick. 2000 men gathered

at the rail station. Off the train, stepped the sheriff's deputy and six other officers. So the 2000 who are there are like the Union... Yeah. Off the train. The chief deputy said he was going

to the steelworks. And the Union men were very riled up. The man raised his hand to quiet them and told the chief deputy to follow him to Union headquarters. There, the Union committee members explained to the deputies that they had a choice

that they could leave safely or not safely. Hmm. And the deputies were like, oh, we'll do the safely thing. And they left. Same seats. So now Henry believed

he tried the legal channels and that didn't work. Wait, he hasn't though. He tried to send the sheriffs and the sheriffs were sent away. So now he thinks he has the right to bring in the Pinkerton's. Which is weird because he had already messaged the Pinkerton's.

Yeah. So it's almost like he had set it up because they were already boarding the retrofitted barges ten miles downstream from Homestead. Interesting. Okay. The sheriff deputized the Pinkerton's. They were armed

with 300 pistols, 200 Winchester's. What the fuck's a Winchester? It's a rifle. It's a windbreaker. Oh, no, sorry. It's a windbreaker. They've got windbreakers and guns. All right. You get to choose one. I'm not an idiot. Windbreaker.

It's not bad. You're going to need it to break. This will break it because it's got holes here and in the back. Yeah, it's a windbreaker. Exactly what it is. Thank you. It's like a parachute shirt. It's a parachute. Anyway, I'm taking two. No, no, no. I love the things. Okay, just the one.

Alrighty. No pun. A spotter saw the barges and whistled at the union. And a whistle at the union was blown, warning everyone there was an invasion happening. Thousands of workers and citizens of the town.

The crowd consisted not only of men, but of women who were armed with clubs. Nice. Nice. Ladies. Ladies, what's up? Nice. They just started clubbing their husbands. No! Get Jesus!

Hey, after you're done using that on Pinkerton, you want to peg me? As the barges made their way to shore, their shots were fired. Union leader O'Donnell called for calm, but it was pointless. When the barges arrived, the strikers warned the Pinkertons not to get off.

Okay, and? O'Donnell hushed the crowd and yelled, quote, in the name of God and humanity, don't attempt to land. Don't attempt to enter these works by force. The Pinkerton captain responded, quote, we were sent here to take possession of this property and to guard it for his company.

We don't wish to shed blood. If we then don't withdraw, we will mow every one of you down and enter in spite of you. How do you say you don't want to draw blood right before that? Yeah, yeah. That's actually contradictory. It's not true. We don't want to draw blood,

but we're willing to kill all of you immediately. Well, mow down. We don't want to draw blood, but if we have to, mow down is a whole different sort of... Yeah, that's the most blood. All the blood. If we don't want to draw blood,

we want all of your blood. So the Pinkers put down a gangplank. Okay. And then a striker laid down on it. Interesting. And then the Pinkerton man tried to shove him aside, and the guy who was laying down

shot him. The guy... Hitting the Pinkerton in thigh. So the striker had a gun on him, and when the Pinkerton went to push him, yeah, okay. I wish this had been like, and then he shot him in the dick,

but he didn't shoot him in the dick. So close, though. But he shot him in the thigh. So much better. And then the shooting started. Well, that started. William Foy, a striker, was wounded. The striker shot and hit the commander

of the Pinkertons, Captain Hind. The Pinkertons opened fire into the crowd, killing two and injuring 11. The tugboat that was towing the barges had wounded agents on board and pulled away leaving the barges. Awesome. Hey, hey, hey!

Bye-bye, bye! We got a guy in here that's got a little... We're in a lot of trouble. It's like a flesh wound. He's got a little tick. They're gonna kill us. I know, but Larry got hit right here on the arm. It's true. Look, look right there.

Yeah, it's like a scratch. The Pinkertons. Good luck on your dorm boat. I'm gonna kill you if I find you, tugboy. Okay. If you find me, I have to come back and get you to pull you out. What?

You can't leave without me. Oh, I see what you did there. Bye. Yeah. So awkward to have an argument on a boat. You never asked how Larry was. I don't care about Larry. I could see his elbow. Ow!

Yeah. That's Larry. It's all closing in. I see my grandparents. It's just scratch. Shhh. I want to act. I want to dance.

Oh, my God. There was an instrument. So, the Strikers took cover behind Scrap Iron. The Pinkertons went and cut holes in the size of the barges so they could shoot from almost total safety. Okay. Hundreds of women stood on the banks of the river

and chanted, kill the Pinkertons. Oh. I mean... Let's just make the movie just because of that. Yeah. That's the fucking scene alone.

Yeah. So great. That's the townspeople to help defend the peace. This brought 5,000 more people to the hills above the mill. A 20-pound brass cannon across the river started being fired at the barges.

Oh, boy. Those barges really got left in the dust. They really got screwed. It's the tugboat shooting at them. Hey! That's from Larry, motherfucker! I almost died. Tugboat's circling back again.

In Pittsburgh, thousands of steel workers prepared to head to Homestead to help. At 8 a.m., the Pinkertons tried to get off the barges which just led to more shooting at the Pinkertons. Sure, yeah. You can't leave. They also tried to shoot their way out and they killed four strikers.

But now the Pinkertons started jumping off the barge and trying to swim away. Oh, my God. Not good. This tugboat really screwed them. I love the Pinkertons getting shot at and jumping in the river. It is good, but it's not good if you're a Pinkerton. No, if it's a Pinkerton, but who gives a fuck

if you're a Pinkerton? Did they wear pink? Yeah, they had pink shirts. They did have pink shirts? Are you lying to me? You're lying to me because I'm picturing now like kind of pink security guards, like candy cane security guards. They were dressed all in pink.

They were naked. As the battle raged on, the AA Union was trying to end it and asked the sheriff to request a meeting with Henry Frick. So in the middle of all the shooting and the killing, they're like, can we get a fucking meeting to end this?

Right. And Henry Frick was like, no. Cool guy. No, this is good. Cool guy. He knew if things got worse, the governor would send in the militia and if the militia came, the strike would be done. Wow. Let's do it. It's good. It's good, Matt.

At 10.50 a.m., the tug returned to get the barges. Hey! Woo! Good news, bad news. Hi! How have you guys been? What are you talking about? How have we been? We've been getting shot out here like frogs. Since you didn't ask, Larry's fine. I don't care. He looked fine

when you ditched us. He went to the doctor and got a bandage and... I don't care. This is why we left. This is exactly... It's this attitude that's not great. Tie yourself to us now, tugboat. No.

Why did you come back to gloat, you little asshole? Say hi and see if your attitude had changed. You still have a very bad attitude. Okay. You remind me of a girl who ate a pin. That's what you're like.

Pin girl. I'm going to kill you, tugboat captain. Well, you have to get... You have to get off the barge. So... You are such a sassy little captain. I am going to strangle you when I get off here.

Do you understand me? Sure. Okay. See you later. Oh, my God. If you fucking come back here... Bye! Oh. Just dancing.

So the tug comes back. Everyone shoots back at the tug. And the tugboat's like, okay, I know, we're leaving again, and it just took off. It's like, no, that's not worth it. We can say we tried. We can say we tried, and it didn't happen.

It's like the idea of smoky U-turns in the water. Oh, God. He is unbelievable. Later! Where's he going? Just away. I'd love to get an update. So now the

strikers were up on high ground. They had 300 rifles, and they were just shooting at the barges. They killed the Pinkerton around noon. Then the strikers decided to light the barges on fire. Yep. Yep.

Clearly, this audience is on the side of the strikers. I'm on the side of the tugboat, in a small sect. But I've found a little niche for myself. I'm pro tugboat. So the strikers sent a raft

covered in oil-soaked timber. Oh, my God. Help's on the way, but they're on fire. There's no help. That's wood. Fuck! They set it on fire and pushed it toward the barges. The Pinkerton... Shit!

Finally, we had some water. All the Pinkertones start freaking out, and the captain threatened to shoot any agent that ran off. But the raft ended up burning itself out before it got to the barge. It's a fun sort of like... Sorry I yelled at you all back there.

I didn't mean a word of it. So then they loaded a flat car, right? So a... not a river... thing. A thing for land, right? A flat car.

Like a train car. We invented the car. And in more interesting news, it shall be your demise. And they loaded it up with oil drums. But now, is that flammable back then? Yep. They set them on fire.

Okay. And then they pushed the car, so it was flying down the rail towards the wharf, and the barges. So they've essentially set up like a real-life fiery mousetrap for the barges.

Where you just slowly get to be like... Well now... Don't hit the marble. Now it's like Mad Max. That's what we have at this point. It always has been. The flat car stopped at the edge of the river and just burnt out.

Man, if you're on the barge, you're like another nail biter. Okay, we need a plan. So they got dynamite. Oh no! Okay. And now what? And they started lighting the dynamite

and throwing it at the barges. Interesting. You got to love it when like... But they only hit the barge once and it did almost no damage whatsoever. Okay. So next they poured oil

into the river, hoping to light it on fire. They are trying to create like a trail towards it with oil? Yeah, but they couldn't... And this is before under siege came out, am I wrong? Yeah, okay. But they couldn't light the oil on fire.

They couldn't light the slick on fire. Next, they put dynamite in a duck and taught it to swim. At 4 p.m., 5,000 men from Shounding Works, Pittsburgh and elsewhere, arrived at Homesteads. Now there's more dudes.

Oh good, more dynamite arms. The president of the Union was pleading with Henry to talk to Union reps, but he wouldn't. He was also trying to get the crowds to calm down, but they started blasting 4th of July fireworks toward the barges.

Now, do you mean they were dipping into their 4th of July supply of fireworks? Well, it's after. It's right after 4th of July. But the leftovers of the 4th of July, that's just like sparklers and snakes. So that's just like... It's not the good stuff. We're gonna fire a Roman candle

at these bastards. Show them what's up. Then hit them with some black cats. Yeah. I was like, this is beautiful. They're enjoying the shit. God damn it. At 5 p.m., the Pickertons raised a white flag. Okay. It was over after

13 hours. And... As the Pickertons came off the barge, their guns were taken away, as well as their hats. Oh! Dave, you can disarm a man,

but you shouldn't dishonor a man. Let a man have some pride and keep his goddamn hat on. Can't I have any dignity? That hurts! Ah! Ah! Ah!

He's dead. Nice try, asshole. The Pickertons are walked between two rows of strikers. People threw stones at them, spit at them, and severely beat them. Well, you know,

a hat could stop two out of three of those. Yep. The strikers boarded the barges, looted them, and then set them on fire. That's the right order, though. Yeah. You don't want to fire then, Lute.

The Pickertons were handed over to the sheriff, who put them on a train back to Pittsburgh. All for 20 grand. For 20 grand? All for 20. So we got a bunch of dead people, burn barges, 20 grand. The next day at 10 a.m.,

Sheriff McCleary sent a telegram to the governor state intervention. The governor responded by demanding that the sheriff first do everything that he could to restore the peace. Two hours later, the sheriff telegrammed again, asking for assistance. And at 3 p.m., the governor

told the sheriff to recruit his own troops. So the governor's helpful. He's not... He's just at Mar-Lago. That's what he wants. I'm not... I don't know what the governor was,

but it sounds like he doesn't... An asshole. No, but he doesn't want to send his own troops, because he knows once his troops are sent, he knows what it means. What does it mean? He's got to fuck up the strikers. It sounds like he doesn't want to.

This is all to just break up the striker situation that has formed now that the Pickertons are gone. The governor had assembled troops on July 6 that were involved in sending the militia would lead to a massacre. Which happens. Never.

Obviously not now, because we're great. But on July 12th, the Pennsylvania state militia arrived. There were now 6,000 troops surrounding the mill. Company officials were back to work by 10 a.m. the next day.

Scabs were brought in and housed on mill grounds. Okay. Homestead. Homestead was placed under martial law. The company pressed charges against 16 of the strike leaders for conspiracy right and murder.

The union charged the executives with murder. Eventually a compromise was reached where all parties dropped charges. I thought everybody was going to be accused of murder to compromise. We're all murderers. I'm going to compromise where we're all murderers. Let me talk first, Hank.

We're all going to jail. We'll go through a plan we actually came up with. Hank, we'll do a hole. We have to have sex with other men. I'm going to stop you right there. I shank a guard for looking at me weird. Did you say you shag? I shank one.

We all go to jail for murder. None of us are going to get charged is the way we're going to go with it. Next time, I'll talk first. We're going to need your hat and badge. I... I'm picturing. I write sex stories.

Let's stop you right there. Again, I'm stopping you and you're still going. The one I have in my mind. I'm stopping you a lot and you're still talking through my stop. I outrank you. One in my mind is a bunch of murder jets in a yard. I'm not kidding. Hey!

Hey! Hey! No more words out of that mouth. Hey! No more words. None. That has a whipped cream can. Shut your mouth. Shut up. Shut up. Hank. Hank.

No shirts. Hank. Hank. Hank. Hank. Hank. Hank. Hank. Stop. No more. I'm negotiating. You're not. No. We've already come up with a solution. We're all murderers.

We're all murderers. No. Okay. All right. Don't. A lot of the non-union, the new non-union workers were black, which led to a race war. In the middle between non-union black and white workers on July 22nd.

So let's just throw in a race war. And with a side of a race war. The next day, Henry Frick was meeting Carnegie Steele vice president, the Carnegie Steele vice president in his Pittsburgh office, when a Russian anarchist, Alexander Berkman, barged in, yes, we have a hero. And he's Russian. He was holding a revolver and a sharpened steel file. You pick.

Let me ask you this, right or left? Berkman shot at nearly point-blank range. A bullet went through Henry's ear lobe and hit him in the neck at the base of the skull and the bullet lodged in his back. Henry went down on the ground and Berkman fired her second time, hitting Henry in the neck again. This wound started bleeding profusely. The Carnegie Steele vice president grabbed Berkman by the arm, stopping him from firing

again. Henry somehow managed to help the VP tackle Berkman to the ground as the three men struggled on the don't fucking invite an anarchist into your office. No, I'm talking about, yeah, I mean, but okay. Anarchist got shit done. Yeah, but I'm talking about having a hole in your neck and being like, stop this man. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, I'll bleed on him. You tackle him. I have typhoid and scarlet fever and growing pain. What if a bunch of pins just shot out when he got shot? Ah, so much better. I'm a doctor. So as the three men struggled on the floor, Berkman stabbed Henry four times in the leg with a sharpened steel file.

And then other employees finally rushed in and stopped Berkman. Henry was in critical condition and doctors at the hospital gave him little chance of survival. Okay. While the doctors operated on him, he dealt with business matters. What business? What? I mean, he was just like, don't cave.

What about fucking enjoying life for a second? I went like, what about taking a break? What about when you're dying? You're not like, I got to get some paperwork done. Save this receipt. I got to write some checks. That's my daughter. I'm getting some blood on these checks, but they're still good, right?

Yes. Oh, no. Still in your nurse. As he was being operated on, he cabled Carnegie to assure him he was not mortgaged. Carnegie, how are you, old champ? I'm good, buddy. What's new with you? I've got a story you're not going to believe.

When hearing the news that Henry had been shot, one of the soldiers guarding the homestead mill shouted, quote, hurrah for the man who shot him. Can we just bring back hurrah? And three cheers. And three cheers. Hurrah and three cheers. Three cheers unquestionably, like probably in the 1800s. If someone said three cheers for anyone, you were just like, rub, rub, and give a shit.

No, don't do it. No, I'm just kidding. So after the soldier did that, he was a private. An officer had him hung from a tent pole by his thumbs. What? I won't die. And tell us, heartbeat grew so faint, a surgeon ordered that he be taken down. What just happened?

Some dude got thumb noosed until a surgeon was like, he'll die. His heart. Everyone's like, what's happening right now? But even when he was taken down, the soldier refused to apologize and was given a dishonorable discharge. Over the thumb game? His head was half shaved. What?

No hats either. And he was kicked out of the camp wearing rags. What just happened to everything? Well. We're in Upside Downsville. He did a hurrah that he shouldn't have done. And he got hung by his thumbs. Son, hurrah the wrong way.

So Henry turned out to be okay. He went back to work within a week. What? I know, right? But every time he was near you, he was just like... Sorry. There, that's better. You're fucking shot in the neck twice.

And then a week later, you're like, how is everybody? So he never really stopped working as he dealt with this strike from his hospital bed. He also attended the funeral of his son, Henry Clay Frick Jr., who passed away on August 3rd. Okay. So cool. His kids are dead. I mean, that's bad, but at least he's suffering.

I don't know if you know what butt's used for. Besides pegging. Berkman was charged and found guilty of the attempted murder. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Support for the strikers started to fade. The press coverage on their attack on the Pinkertons did not help, and now the assassination attempt made it worse. After months, the picket line began to be crossed regularly.

The militia was pulled out by October 13th after a 95-day occupation. The strike left the union broke. It cost 10,000 a week for 1,600 strikers. On August 20th, 1892, with a vote of 101 to 91, the union voted to return to work, ending the homestead strike. And it cost 10,000... They had $146,000 when they started. Now they have nothing.

And it's all over 20,000. Yeah. Smart. Smart stuff. It was believed Carnegie was pro-union. He was famous for saying, quote, thou shalt not take thy neighbor's job. All the workers thought Henry Frick was standing in Carnegie's way, but Andrew Carnegie put Henry Frick in charge knowing exactly what he would do.

The strike resulted in the AA losing their powerful position within the American labor movement. Employers refused to sign with the union. By 1900, not a single steelwork in Pennsylvania was unionized. The union remained active in Ohio and Illinois for a while, but slowly faded. By 1909, membership was only 6,300. AA was taken over by the Steelworkers Organizing Committee in 1936. Henry and Carnegie started falling out.

They had many differences in fights over business. Henry had offered to sell land to the company at $500 an acre, less than the appraised value. But Carnegie made insinuations about the profit Henry would make from the sale, so Henry withdrew his offer to Carnegie and sold the land to someone else for a half million dollars more. Henry then responded to Carnegie's insinuations in a meeting in which the minutes were distributed throughout the company. Carnegie called on the board to request the resignation of Henry. Since Andrew Carnegie was the majority shareholder, no one could oppose.

So why even call the meeting? I mean, you're just... Well, I just wanted to see everybody in person again. I call a motion to get rid of that guy. Motion approved by me. Hold on. How do votes work? That's it.

I'm the guy. All right. Yeah. I'm like all the business people in one, like a piano, a guitar. So Henry just put in his resignation, but Carnegie wanted him out of the company completely. He pushed to have Henry's interest in the company seized. That would force Henry to sell 11 million less than at the market value. To do this, he altered a 13-year-old document Carnegie did and had it signed by principal

owners who were not present at the original signing by Henry. Okay. This is just sort of a little rip in the fabric of time. Carnegie then paid 1.5 million for stock that was worth 10 times as much. Henry then bought one of the greatest lawsuits in Pennsylvania history against Carnegie. The result was that Henry received 31 million insecurities, which would later bring him 23 million more than Carnegie had tried to force him to sell for. So Henry won.

Wow. Okay. Yeah. Henry became the largest real estate owner in Pittsburgh in August 1919. Henry Carnegie died from pneumonia, right? Before he died. Wait. Who died from pneumonia?

Carnegie. Okay. Before he died, he sent a message to his old friend, Henry, requesting a meeting. He responded, you can tell Carnegie, I'll meet him. Tell him I'll see him in hell where we are both going. That is tough for a secretary back then though. She's like, should I go ahead and read it all? Okay.

So just let him know that. Uh-huh. Is he coming? Well, what date did you want to meet him in hell? Right. I'm, what? I'm sorry. I'm new.

Meet the whole thing? Okay. Yeah. Is my old friend Henry coming? I'm about to die. Well, unfortunately. Meet him? Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. Okay. Hey. Sorry. That's not there. Uh-huh. I cannot meet, sorry.

I will meet you. I'll meet you in the place where we're both going. Oh. Hell. What? Yeah. No. I can't figure out.

Because the next week and a half, you're jammed with funeral stuff. I'm dying. Yeah. Yeah. No. So that's why I'm saying we should do this before you die, you know, and where does he want to do it? Is that what I should send back, or how do you, um, maybe what we'll do, oh gosh, I'm

just, I can't pull the trigger. Whoops. Okay. You're dying right now. Okay. Okay. Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to make you a bunch of sandwiches to take to hell, and then I'll put them under

your tongue like a piece of gold when you're going over the river's sticks. And then, and, and no, Andrew, Mr. Dr. Carnegie, Mr. Carnegie, I don't think you know death marks. No. Um, but I'm just going to schedule the, oh boy. Let's do egg salad with dill. I'll slip him. I'll cut him into fours and put them under your tongues.

Did I do good? Just before he died, Carnegie wrote that he felt guilty about homestead and said not one drop of blood was worth it. You know, maybe now this is just me, but maybe he should have thought of that when he was doing it or before. It's such bullshit. So your deathbed confession, go fuck yourself. Yeah.

You can't, no, yeah. It means fuck off. You don't get to sit on your deathbed and go, I'm sorry about everybody I killed. Yeah. No more. That is, that is one of the major problems with organized religion probably is that the belief that like at the very end, you're like, oops. And like, that's it.

Oh, all good. Welcome to heaven. Let's play volleyball on clouds. He's fine. He said, oops. He lost it. But then if you're on your deathbed and you don't get it out, oh, before I go, I want to say, oh.

He's going to hell. He's going to hell. He's going to hell. He didn't get to say it. Thank God I gave him sandwiches. Less than four months later. I understand you've packed sandwiches. They're under my tongue.

Well, the Dark Lord loves egg salad. Thank you, Dark Lord. So close. Less than four months later on December 2, 1919, Henry Clay Frick died of a heart attack. After his death, the New York Tribune wrote, quote, the name of Frick was abhorrent to a great number of his fellow citizens. As the largest real estate owner in Pittsburgh, Henry left 150 acres of undeveloped land to the city for use as a public park.

He also left substantial funds for the maintenance of the park, $2 million. Henry Clay Frick Park opened in 1927, eight years after his death. It is now the largest municipal park in Cleveland. In 2000, sorry, Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. No, no. Pittsburgh. He opened it in Cleveland because you guys hated him so much.

I got you, big boy. Stick with old Gary. I might have been right in that at the end and got tired. In 2013, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh determined that contrary to the South Fork fishing and hunting club's claims, the dam had been lowered by three feet, not one. How? They just got what?

Well, we did it. Thanks for the grant. Who was going to research back then? Well, nobody. But I mean, at this point, you'd think we'd be like... At this point, why don't we blame rich people whenever we can? Yeah, okay. Sure.

They're just... There might be some other things we could do with the dam. I'm fine with this kind of shit. No, time traveling dam solutions are high on my priority list. Okay. So they determined it had been lowered by three feet, not one, and that the changes reduced the dam's ability to discharge stormwater by half. Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Cargine, and others were only responsible for the deaths of thousands.

Today, you can see Henry's amazing art collection at the Henry Clay Frick house on the Upper East Side in Manhattan. Henry Clay Frick became a hero to the upper classes forever after crushing the unions. One can still Google his name and see articles that fawn over his business smarts. They neglect to include that he was responsible for the death of thousands. So that's why the study matters, because if you go online and you Google his name, you'll see a bunch of fucking dickheads from Forbes and the Wall Street Journal and shit. They met upgraded with businessman he is, but they missed the mass murder part associated

with him. So that kind of study is important. I agree. I agree. I don't disagree. But don't they always miss the mass murder part? Yeah, but that's what I'm here for. Yeah, I agree.

But the, yeah, it just is so terrible when the, like, like the icons are pieces of shit. So it's not even like there was like a system they're following that like started rooted in goodness. It's all just bile. So LA has a park named after a guy who shot his wife in the eye. Oh, God. Pittsburgh has a guy, a park named after guy murdered a bunch of union workers and helped kill thousands of people in a town.

I guess we're lucky. Finally someone who makes Griffith seem grounded. But you know, his, his relatives get to live on with tons of wealth. His name is as a museum, he's got this fucking art monies and all this shit. He should be considered a monster by our society. He should be no different than Charles Manson. He is a fucking monster. Wouldn't that be a good thing to do for us to just get a goddamn list of shitheads that

we honor still for no reason and just start ticking some boxes and just removing some bullshit so that people at least like eat because I mean, if you see a statue of someone like, if you don't know shit and I don't speak from experience, but if you see a statue of someone, you're like, good guy, good person, great human, right? You're like, there's a statue. But in reality, all the statues are just built on bullshit and there's just, for some reason, we act like getting statues out are like removing pins from torsos for some reason and all you need is a goddamn bulldozer and a petition.

At some point, I'm going to go to the fucking city council and see what happens, but be like, hey, can we name Griffith Park after his wife and said to him, but you guys should do the same thing here. That park should be named after Martha should because he's a fucking murderer. He's a mass murderer. Martha Frick. Yeah. Yeah.

The little girl had a pin come out her side and put a statue of her with a little pin coming out. Pin Park. And it can have, it can have eternal pus coming down the side. No idea. It's like a fountain where it's just like just shooting out of her side. Guys, thank you so much for coming out. We really appreciate it.

Can't thank you enough. Yeah. Appreciate it. Thank you.