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Episode 511: The Bath School Massacre - The Biggest A**hole of the 20th Century

2022-11-04 | 🔗

This week the boys shed light on the often overlooked story of The Bath School Massacre and we learn the tale of Andrew Kehoe, the orchestrator of the series of violent planned explosions that took the lives of 35 children and 12 others from a small Michigan Township in 1927. 

(Trigger Warning: This episode contains descriptions of murder & violence against children.)

This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
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That's it ain't added busload. Today's episode is way much because the blossom I had about this, As far as when I started and getting rid of our amendments is the sum of business snippet of some of the radical content. The dream indefinite, really fantastic. Welcome. Last podcast of a left ever one bit hanging out with the newly burgee, but also understanding why soberly marcus, Of course, the sharp man himself henry's eyebrows e bay charmaine. That's enough, Then you often here three men talk about, but today we're gonna talk about the bath school massacre Isn't that exciting? I also want to put a little caviar if by any chance, there's some horrible news that takes time. between now and when this episode airs, we didn't know
I'm sorry that every fuckin horrible thing happens every single week in this country. Today we are covering the bath school massacre. Leave us alone, stop committing acts of violence, at least this one's old, and I at least markets to changes in the bath school massacre and not like cause people keep calling it every source. I looked it up. I was researching called it. The bath school disaster like no, no, no, it's not drop in the wedding cake. Remained nights. Fifty dead children over here again, let's get into this historical piece of american present. So the bath schoolmaster
was a school bombing perpetrated in nineteen. Twenty five by a man named Andrew key hole in a small town of bath. Michigan it still to this day, holds the record as the deadliest school massacre in american history. Goby kick Heehaw managed Jesus Christ. He. How many to murder? Forty two people, including thirty five children in a matter of hours by blowing up a school fees bombing, his own ranch and turning his truck into an I e g? Is this marks? baths school massacre as one of, if not the first modern style. American mass murder, in all it took, was good old fashion. American tax based grievances. Of course, ingenuity in some ways brutal,
Now, when I say modern style, I'm using the modifiers to differentiate it from the dozens, if not hundreds, of massacres that occurred previously. America, like wounded knee in sand, creek, stop that involve indigenous tribes. Similarly, at all so differentiates bath from massacres of civilians during the civil war, like what transpired during bleeding kansas or the racial motivated nineteen, twenty one massacre in Tulsa oklahoma- oh you that was when they blew. Black wall street right, but I do think that they could probably bleeding me it's a bit gee rated term for what took place wooed. What is looming even worse, who is bloody, bruised kneecap, it was man, it's kind of like when you askin your elbow, no wounded knee is what it was called before. The massacre I was just like it would be like calling it the chicago masker wounded me. That was just what the place was: call well
a renamed, it great knees by contrast, the bath school disaster, the bats, for maskers. He almost a disaster. The bath massacre was perpetrated by a true lone wolf without any sort of outside influence, no help what however, and no real point hmm. Nor was this a spur of the moment crime. It was meticulously planned and executed over a series of months by a single man as an outlet for his ridiculously elevated frustrations. It is hard to say if there is a greater, more powerful force in the universe other than nefarious patience, because that's what this entire story is about is that you can prepare- and I do like that. This is not one of those like trying to make you too scared moments, but
Just the truth is that you can prepare for many things, but its very difficult to prepare against a motivated person that is on ending the patient in his his ability and his. If he's in his goal for vengeance, absolutely. This is why I only hang out with people with a d h d at all times in different ways. You both have in certain ways. I can see it in your eyes, maple patient they make make make make make you just saved my life. I thought that was maybe the four espressos I had that I'd feel like a normal person, absolutely people with patients they're just waiting for you to fall asleep point of frustration. The prime motivator behind this catastrophic event is so inclined. Happily mundane that it boggles the mind Andrew key, how the perpetrator wasn't standing up for it like a belief or an ideology like timothy mcveigh or ted gusinsky. Nor was he mentally ill. Luck
so many of america's modern mass murderers, he was it mentally. Well, I think it's not like he was garage, and I know he was a cry shouted at, but simply andrew key, who was quite possibly the biggest asshole of the twentieth century. Gloves I mean he's one of these he's in the top. I would put it top ten. Get outta here or windsor. What about winston? churchill. He was, but I know everybody got mad at him now, they're all manner of now, but not back when he was spoken, dig in their botz, ivo, the trenches and w w too, he was taken nabs at three p m. What I'm talkin petty ass home, a maiming gazettes of calling hitler and asshole as it's a little small hag asteroids, not quite big enough like this is just this is the biggest local asshole about we. Essentially, let's put it
that way his motivation for blowing up a school with an explosion that could have killed more than two hundred and fifty people. This was in opposition to a yearly tax to pay for the school he blew up yet cause he did have kids here. We well we'll mad, but he had a paper school that you have kids go to. Did you see that marcus I don't understand this. I don't think he's thinking about the greater whole, because if the kids aren't in school because he just recently blew it up now, they're in his yard, so it's actually best to have them in a school where they get an education and maybe they could like become plumbers or something I dont know. If he really understands how taxes work, as it's gonna be really expensive to rebuild the school built up, he was in planning to see no wise yeah, and I feel that this is like a raise, unlike some alike, ten dollars a month. Here was it was a hundred and three dollars a year, but will get into the cost later on now, of course,
It is a little more complicated than just being pissed off over a new tax, but not by much as it was quoted and Harold sectors book the baths disaster, and the birth of the modern mass killer. Andrew key hole was what you'd call a collector of injustice. yeah. I have found that my my collection has been getting pretty large, through do need to need to start putting them, and you start selling these off. The article about nancy would you at least collectors indiscriminately kill and public after long deliberation prepared with a powerful arsenal, but no real escape plan, their paranoid, driven by strong the feelings of anger and resentment and they're utterly wounded. Narcissism is nurtured by a retreat into a fantasy life of violence and revenge that eventually becomes reality nor a main source today is the bath school disaster and the birth of the modern mass killer by the.
Patron saint of american, true crime, Harold schechter, who has an incredible read here, as he always does he like a yeah. I know he's a he's like a friend too, but when comes down to it, there is truly no one better in the world of europe, because you also sets all of the content in a way that are like because one reading it let you go through it in your life Why are we here? Why are we talking about like dog bulls but all the way around his arrogance, who that's the market sparks effect. That's what you ve gleaned from harold tractors, amazing work focused on the inaccuracy, make the mind bored and then boom. Look at all these dead children You got up inside the eu, You didn't know, did you read sectors book in the vote? that you do of heritage actor what's the matter milestone, but he knows he knows, You are now, but if you're
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the catholic children, the olympics mortgages, your sewing and not much juice meant to them, or none at all. You know rate, I beg you guys both her miss pronouncing the word lesbians. I did. I bet that's my man. I know and wove a wall street. That's right. You're gettin do not ass wealth, or this yeah. I remember when you see honour, I do I fuckin due to YA yeah. I know you do it's over. How often do you remember it. I mean the thing is that if I could get paid money for gifts, I would be we are multi, multi, millionaire it'd be great, but you don't regret. A keyhole, however, was the first of those three boys born after the six girls on February. First, eighteen, seventy, who, while little is known about his early life, what we do know is
He showed in early aptitude for tinkering working with electrical devices on the family farm. Yet because this was the golden age of electricity, we're gonna find kids like you would like electricity wars. I love they like one day will I don't know, that's boring. Now, then we might be able to address is decent edison verses, tesla, I dont think I mean I can. I have held an elephant. He title is elephant telling me if your way out of it they might be a little out of bounds for us Well, that's gangster! My question is: is it you think that anything of this house, because here Father was very very old when he had him getting it's got anything to with old com I don't know. I've been told that the mail, a jack eulogies young forever. Why? Because it can, we constantly be make it all the time cool celery go. That's my balls are doing right now with ease electric powered. Contraptions were key whose main can,
opinions, because a few people who knew key hole in his youth described him as an unsociable isolated lunger. The only real socializing in key life came in the form of commute gatherings known as farmers. Clubs is gonna fun, yet formed as a way to bring isolated farmers together in time when the country's population was more rural and urban farmers? Clubs were made up of anywhere between twenty and twenty five families? would all gather once a month for meals, music, recitals and sketch com, performances. Everybody's me ring you your for dinner and then oh good, there's comedy rate. Oh, I love this performance by Michael in black there's, like love, been a farm Do you remember that I remember one time: murder fiscal asked to do a show in a chinese restaurant and we This is an ally thing and then I came out, and I
nude. We did boardroom aboard my sacha having all restaurant hitting the look of peoples Lord dummies is like me, frogman bobby with my fucking, dick and balls like here. My hands as people are eaten, stop men. They were happy no one's life ray. I love that fund farmers experience. We did it to silence, but the money is henry. Is that you're talkin about that? As if someone forced you to go there now know we were books, I really believe you. I owe you a bit of your book, your forced, I know I know your book to but didn't murder office have twelve hours of sketch material, choose from, and you were a true true, whereas it went these comedy sketches at the farmers. Clubs, where the one thing it could bring future mass murderer Andrew key ho out of his shell cribbing routines from books like
diverting dialogues and teens, droll dialogues and laughable recitations key, who would take the stage month after month, acting out skids that mostly featured racial stereotypes of black people, jewish people and irishman times change, humor change, it's funny at one point: it does not hold as true later on here jaeger- his joke women one about? what for
I also believe the reason why he everyone said he was the shitty little kid and he was loner anyway he was a loner and he was cold, and I do think that when he was performing at these farmers clubs it was it it served. His own purposes know what you mean, what purposes it can make him make it there's something about. He had this idea that he was this perfect child or his father probably rise them up like I do think in some way, socially there's no sociopaths read room's right, like they They understand that certain things are like you do this to be cool. Now like this is what you get rid of you that to be cool everyone's. I start that. Will you meaning to be like no one normal, I'm a normal person and I know you ve done more research than I, but I will say this I'll push back just ever so catholic dad's, not exactly uplifting. Now, for the most part, the catholic group pidgin, is
one or two january dal, sometimes they are. If you ve got the irish catholic dead, though he could be quite full of mirth and merriment. What he's got them? well, let's go through; that's that's just given exam. Bull of one of the non racist routines that andrew key ho dead in this one, two men named bones johnson, who share a humorous dialogue. Been yes, would you please play the part of bones Do I have any direction at all. Your direction is that you, you're, a man who has a question yet who ask men when you're now are you in black fits amateur like you, are asking a question and then you are expecting a reply. Well, then, then, you shall say-
your words to that reply. That's good because now I know to go with Mclaughlin Mclaughlin grew question. Small pbs show all right the book. Your bones, your bones! I regard Johnson, I'm johnson. Your johnson johnson, ok here we go have you ever heard? Who was the oldest woman? Now I'm not, but I suppose it was noticed. Chicken. When cheat. I very likely not, but he wasn't oldest woman for all that, indeed,. we use. I was older, well, the o. This woman that I ever heard of was antiquity kisses headed really not beyond what you do now. Truly could inequity you written that yourself and take what eagerly They must take what he s is an. oldest woman, they ve ever heard of bone is only honest, repudiated deal,
everybody else, and if I'm hanging out this farmers meeting this farmers party, this white beard, that way, the romance a girl she's. having your laughing next to you Our role in the hay possible. Smart animal comedy brings people together or violently divides nah shortly after Andrews mother died when he was eighteen. Andrews father took another wife number three, because Philips first wife had also died and its fairly com. Current. It's not like you kill him lives. This happened, wives drop, like flies badge, is get sick. A cotton brushing machines. They ve taken folia hit by two carriages, its hopeful that difficult to be a wife. That's why it was all a farce. This whole o till death do as port in them Eric thing because they knew what could happen in five months now it Is we live so long, it's quite white in and it is good to long
Well after his father remarried, though Andrew left home, although there's not a clear record of what he did for the next eight years, pretty much. What we know is that in nineteen hundred aceh, This record showed that key hole live in a boarding house in an hour michigan where he worked as a dairy man, although I don't really know what a dairy man is. You fluff, the others. yeah you want them to have more, it makes them give more milk, absolutely. Basically any single thing that you see you have to attempt to milk and find out if there's both in it I mean he was probably the one that bound the t done the element and was the first one to suckle Well milk out of one of those he's making your sense. The t HO also spent time in ST louis working as an electrician for a city park which of course, greatly increased his knowledge of electrical wiring.
But it's in Saint louis, that we see one of the old mass murderer. Cliches rear its ugly head once again or before andrew coo. Ee seem to be harmless loner who, like tinkering with electronics and enjoyed performing company, sketches now, and then he changed when he suffered a serious head injury that left him semiconscious for two months. the interesting. How so many resources that mean Harold? Does he says it more? So the other ones they don't? Quite that has to like being the thing that really probably made his impulse control, truly unhinged, because we now know in like hindsight how often like these types of by weird cray would seem to be crazy over. top murder scenarios come at injuries. The boy brain is a lot to do with a dozen more. There is nothing wrong with Andrew quixote's impulse control. In fact, he probably
almost impulse control has they've they ve ever cover cover the problem. I think all it is what it did is that it just disconnected him from empathy. His image is completely and totally died happens again and again, that's what are you starbucks for absolutely, but after that headings the keyhole move back home with his father and step mother. She just given birth to a child of her own named irene. Shortly after Andrew returned, he inexplicably killed irene's cat and things only got worse from there. or so the rumour say hold on a second. I'm not does not do any victim blaming here, but they give a infant a cat no or was it he been gone for eight years, show your favor. She was how the right of advocate yeah- I was you. I have a cat. Ok could see other than was infants, lack of ability care also pets were different than you didn't have to do all these things back. The pets came in and
And you know, I'm really do I think that cat his lived a lifestyle the same since the victorian very much there's a new catherine kind of my place and they made me albert and it just hangs out of his cap. Yet the nets I get is just a farmer, and this is a farm cat. They also you see a farm cat like three times a week as we established one of key hose implements of death was fire others simply lighting a match didn't seem to give him the same charge as creating a chain of events. If he had to seem smart when he did it see at the turn of the twentieth century gas stoves where new appliances and were therefore extremely dangerous, there's something about that hit and give cause they used column gasoline stops.
And is there some about it being a gasoline stove, might never doktor gasoline european yeah ass in the near my wrestling author eager and deserves to be supported like more sinister cause, us also spotty cause. When would checker lays out, although, like the most ferris invention, all mankind rethink about a million efforts to move around a punch. You people died young, organise between April and Why have eighteen? Ninety five? In chicago alone, eleven people were killed when their gas stoves exe it, and these were eleven separate incidences from sectors research. He was able fine such alarming newspaper headlines as death from gasoline stove who may be burned to death I gasoline I lean and gasoline stuff brings death and destruction now take too
my god, you should see the way, a cooks, a chicken parma. I think it's worth it. Oh yeah! I mean there was one. I love this little advertisement by using a gasoline stuff, of a working man's wife, can rest in bed from one to two hours longer. Each morning, half an hour well before rising. Have hot coffee and a warm breakfast for her husband without raising the temperature of the cook room, one eighth of a degree. And she can do the whole days cooking Isn't that absolutely fantastic and that's the era of chivalry commitment as a public service newspapers therefore printed precautions to keep people from blowing themselves up. Here's a couple of examples: dont fill the tank when the burners or let all night, the burners after the pipes of leak gas over everything,
I don't but then again, if you're, even thinking about doing either of those things is yours, you order is aren't gonna blow the final text, the best one that don't try to operate the stove. If you do, thoroughly understand there. We go. We still got labels, unlike air dryers, like don't use in shower We are of an impetuous group, american, legal or illegal, but from what it seems. Andrew Quixote's, stepmother francis either didn't follow that last, but advice or, if you believe, the rumours she was set up to fail by her in Singly violent stepson on seven september, seventeenth, nineteen eleven francis put a match to the stove and the stove immediately exploded that set francis on fire from head to toe shattered, reportedly Andrew rushed to the kitchen and stood over her watching her berne and either shock or
Ass, a nation before he finally fetched a pail of water. This, of course, was the wrong move or the right move for key ho. You believe the rumours that he was behind the explosion now to be fair. He would not have known you just want to put a little making soda on their little. Our I mean is it it may have been an accident she wouldn't engulfed in burning gasoline, yet guaranteeing high it was. It was done already. She was a screaming. It was the scene for hereditary in our man when he downstairs mother and water. It cause the burning oil to spread in the flames quote liquefied what little skins add latvia, and then did you see the tale of when he goes to the neighbors. So because I'm a ya know my call doctor, There are like yeah, ok and then he leaves, as he turns around leave and he comes back is actually you also. You call for a priest, that needs like it was real nonchalant wilson.
you might get an emotional connection with his dad's third wife, rather than generous near by I'm emergency services arrived francis was quote little man more than a blackened lump- she died in agony a few hours later and her death certificate listed the cause of death as burn from a gasoline So you know the scene that chapter sets up up with the father coming and he's. So all that this point that he has your keynes. He comes in decisions like literal, flaming, wife she finally burns out and they're so far from a hospital cause they're at the middle of fucking. Nowhere that they just like. Can you imagine that you just have to lift? They just have to lift her up and flop her on a bed and just wait, She just sit Nergal like it's like the end of a child's play when he comes back all bird the doll she's, a woman nook. Now with yes, you know it was assumed at the time that the death key keyhole stepmother was.
Accident? But after keogh murdered forty five people with bombs of his own making? It was rumoured, perhaps sensation as I am doing right now, that andrew had rigged the stove to explode. While Francis was out gathering nuts with her daughter, I think if you kill forty five children with self made explosives, it's ok two. Maybe look at some of his review slightly quail ally lily in a sort of change the perspective a little bed stand up comedian, for example, there is one very famous one who recently in cars reduce now out whose blind you guys know. I'm talking about all our fight. He was goes there yet goes there that there are few bits he did in the seventies involving drugs. in doing so liberally I've been more like now. That's argue mail. Would then, in hindsight it just seemed like a confession. Yeah now by this point, Andrews lie
he was actually much older than you think he'd be because most mass murderers tend skew towards the younger side. See you remember that guy's grandma Moses learned a paint when she was seventy old, you could do whatever you want. It's not too late. That's fantastic! Well, if I compare quixote one I'd say he shared a lot in common with stephen paddock, who killed sixty concert, goers and injured. eight hundred more in las vegas in twenty seven, when he was sixty four years old. Yes, lucky stephen paddock man do end again like us. I have no clue why he did it. How would like it's still a mystery? I think I, with this case, I think a lot of marvin he might even though mormon admire from a kill, those or kill those are our got, killed us or guy right. Like I again in a way that was so much more peaceful than next. subs you'll, have we really know how to kill those are: was gonna also it was called the killed. Those I mean it was a pretty
You'll never tells you would accompany romance even pay. If we ever do that, when do I get some inside information from a bartender mandalay bay, scary day but we have held a lease. That information, you sure got they were the oda. The was the place. Was there the police were there, their experience was frickin nuts or what all free these people share as patients. Absolutely I mean stephen paddock. When you look video of him patiently moving all those weapons into that room. How much preparation went into that? How much scouting? How much planning I mean, He who is much the same in the kill those hereby. How long did it take em to build that killed, and I think it I think it took a full year now and then he would sleep there. Oh yeah, he built himself into it yet took a long time.
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usually had to do with either keyholes own selfishness or his own incompetence. You really can't put it more close to the fact that he was just a fuckin prick now and an absolute asshole right see a new church was being built and andrew keyholes town and to defray costs. Donations were solicited from congregants, like keogh, who was asked to contribute the hefty nineteen twelve sum of four hundred dollar, so that is where a lot of money I mean- and this is Now, no one I lose money to burn down the charge of all of his grievances. This is the only one I agree with because you're like he barely. He obviously was not a man of the church Would you went to church at the game was highly he had to you like. You have to put up appearances now, but he couldn't you said no, he couldn't even offered to donate less. He was bows problem.
He was expected to the priest to shoot and for the moon ask for four hundred get fifty, but instead keyhole shouted the priest asking for donations. Office property he threatened go violence and never return to church for the rest of his life. Every goddamn. At the sudden, we cover one of these horrible b. Well, there's always a moment where I relate would I get off by law my lord for the most part, but unless you are a money, gouging brace get off by long yeah dude? If I could have seen in pull that price I by the back of his pants and then you get and that's where this ended. You'd be like just he's. Cranky know for sure. After that, the disappointments which were all keyholes fault came hard and fast. He bought eight steers from a name. And put them out to pasture, but because Andrew didn't know what he was doing, he turned him out on a field full of wet clover, now as anyone who seeing the second season of yellowstone knows not just me, I can
But is one guy at that at the grave with a greyhound bus station who is talking about a news, is that mercury is owners of the phone but gave it costs, there's a hell of a lead right areas when they started filming at the forces ranch, which is like thirty minutes north from where I grew up, and you know what I watched it and boy did. I get some insane memories and a slight is better ptsd when they showed that ranch, because I just brought back home that ugly ugly land immediately o king, but from that second season, if you seen it you know, but in our own out as a fine show the regions of origin is a daily popular. Yet oil is very much a bunch of insane violence, but eating certain types of clover can be deadly the cattle because it causes Secondly, whimsical sounding disease called ruminants timpani, you been talkin bout too many diseases brow that sound whimsical at all man, that's out of middlesex. something below
it felt like one of your noise albums. that's true, but it does. It sounds like a dash george montalban organ album, but also known as frothy blue. You know that's whimsical, I order of rocky blue moon, but didn't know this into a steers, died of frothy blow out as a result, He still tried blaming the neighbor who sold in the steers, demanding half of his payment back the neighbour, of course refused so key ho vince he'd been cheated, because keogh always was convinced that he been cheated. He stopped speaking to the neighbour altogether. Is our liner? I guess so now. Nineteen seventeen ten years before the massacre, nellie
uncle died and left behind, and eighty acre farm in bath michigan, where keyhole would commit his unforgivable crimes, but nellie and Andrew didn't inherit the property. Instead, they had to buy it for twelve thousand dollars, half of which was paid up front. and half was taken care of by six thousand dollar mortgage that had a monthly payments system of three hundred and sixty box now, while that seems like an inconsequential dieter, It will play a massive role in the mass recurred to come and many since what chill not every mass killing it babbling annihilation alarm times has to do with mortgage. a lot of money on the line now in some ways Andrew wasn't a total villain in basque township, or at least not at first. Since bath was now his home town
she soon joined the ladys Friday afternoon, club hoopington, who we need every wednesday at night. Ok, you got in and the ladys Friday afternoon, club alive. the husbands to join a meeting once a year there. Oh yeah, I love lay things further by india has had its Their andrew was known as a witty performer who was put in charge of putting on annual plays the lady. You guys ready to see another sketch about the chinese, cheers. Is what it's called magic you can fill in, thus learn. I love those old you fell on. This law will fail this. In fact, keyhole was described as highly sociable even though he was also known to be a highly distant person who enjoyed setting himself apart from others,
z, regarded himself as superior to the rest of bath because of his self education. Despite the fact that you It's a farmer with middling to low success at bats. What was it the idea? Someone said in america that, like one of our main problems, that everybody thinks they were debased millionaire know is that you know that there are no poor people in america just temporarily arrest millionaires. Yes, lol rival, when he was one of those guys. That was always like I'm different me, I'm a little different than everybody else, I more control. I am obviously a genius blue for afloat, firstly blowed fraulein below healthy load, I'm going to make a new savory dessert. On the one hand, he was that type of guy, so he was a perfect or making them laugh. What that's the ironic in about it. Is that he's there in bath Michigan he's in a rural community? He said
god, I'm so much more superior to all you other people, and meanwhile everyone else in town is better at the job that everyone in the town does than him. I didn't yet. He says he scenario: it's almost like gets its it because he's bad at it. Yeah were in an eerie similarity to family, annihilate or john list who used to move. his lawn in a three p suit. Andrew keyhole would plough his fields neatly groomed and dressed in a business suit, a vast and polished shoes, it as it is for us, as if dressing above his station, somehow set him. Apart from the so called plebeians who toiled in the dirt wearing appropriate clothing. It's just could it goes from being funny too,
wanting to examine. With the john thing as an image you going and astutely you first, you think it's laughter, but I get asked you kill forty five children with fucking improvised explosive devices. Thirty five children, seven adults, yeah! You you start to look, you start to realize, like oh, that's like pathological liking eyes, full of out like that, in business attire other who's hot as fuck there's some kind of sociopathic? To what I remember. I met the second or maybe the wealthiest man in brooklyn. He owns all of brooklyn Steiner, studios, an area that you would walk past him he's covered in stains. He wears nothing but sweatpants, man looks so unbelievably dishevelled. He looks like the dude from a confederacy of dances, one of the richest people ever. I wonder what what is that? Why do you think will days at the duality we talk about that sometimes, like you know, sir, so humanism and stuff do they? Is it the presentation and the knowing that, like, but secretly m super rich? What I think Actually, I think what it is that it's it's all right here, because part of key
those inability to get ahead was the fact that he was constantly getting in his own way by paying attention to shit that didn't matter. It's all this. Bullshit the brooklyn. in billionaire that you're talkin about he's focused on his business. Based on what that use focused on making money. He doesn't give a shit what he looks like. I will say this: the wife that you would go eat a car minds with was very focused on her looks yeah, because I was always like when I first met him. I was like how but what is happening and then I walked into my former bosses offers and he's just sitting. There It's like you, let the sky near her and that's what I found out the real truth. They wish to yeah yeah, but that's the thing about the andrew ki ho. If his hands got too greasy which happens all the time in farm work, especially when your work and what tractors you just constantly covered in greece. He would rush home to wash up if you got a smudge of dirt or even a small, sweat in a new shirt he'd run home and change and he kept his barn cleaner than most people in bath township cap
your house's. It's all ruse man, it's really just it again. I think it's! U duke it's something within. I think that term is a day, the pathological nor cicero, something you're. Looking at the gap between you and everybody else, and so you you do. Is you fill it with all those other nonsense? Without acknowledging that there is a distinct gap in your abilities to be sixty yeah, I mean, I think, a big part of is that It's the thing that we talked about in the or the alister crowley episodes. You know if you're going against your nature, because that's the thing this mother fucker should never have been a farmer ever. He should have been in person. You know it's almost like. He just became a farmer through some sort of stubbornness we is, he was for it was from his father or whatever like you came, they came upon the slain and again it was something about that. It's him pretending to be something that is not. He shuddered just built a comedy club. It sounds like
oh yeah, but besides his unreasonably fastidious nature, key hole was also known to be casually cruel in march of nineteen twenty. He shot. a neighbours dog fur bearing a bone beside his fence and coldly told the owner that he did so in a tone that suggested the act was entirely justified. At the time a neighbor went to keyhole farm to find andrew driving his horses beyond their physical limits and that night ki HO beat one of his horses to death because he was frustrated. Wasn't doing what he wanted them to do. No, I mean this is that that's end I think, is Andrew key hole in a nutshell, he's trying to force something that is impossible and when that doesn't happen he gets violent. Gay gets filing he'll. Do they cause that's a big dude was saying that an that incidents you lookin at that the him, this horse and whose, like nobody, who knows like what your relationship to a whore should be, would be treating this horse like this, because it has a learner, because I have from what I've heard
What you guys were you describe your love of the animals on your for its very or emilio like an open, your a horse, Jesus Christ, of course, yeah that you're gonna want to treat oars now. You're just get me on my motion. I mode actually want a treat horses cleared, is actually on its dick If you want to do that as a horse, I'm not which one is better or worse, either way, it's not easy to be a horse here. Only this already form that just like the rest of america, Ass Michigan was modernizing during the time that key hole was failing at farm work, but the modernization of bath when, in fact become the focal point for quixote's frustrations, see rural schools towns like bath, used to be single room buildings where one person will be responsible for teaching every kid from first grade, all the way up, tell eighth grade, and when the king got through eighth grade
He was expected to begin a life of toil and fields, just like his daddy had done, and yet his daddy had done before him. Finally, so many makers themselves the supposed to dig up, rocks and go to war and then, shot in the head supposed to be learn, and all these things about the union begin with other regions, You knew the range, but you may absolutely, but after world war, one, the tree became far more mobile and connected and push was made to build larger school in rural areas to bring country kids up to speed with their city counterparts. This was, of course, met with opposition from country folk who always seem to have a bit of a problem with education, could you don't understand when I'm out with horse it simple? I got the horse. I got soon to be dead. Wife. I've got definitely macedon. That's all that matters
live now, you mean to tell me, I gotta go to college and make things complicated like several of the Well, that's a little stereotypical of the american farmer. Is it not henry Thomas nebraska that much meat isn't the time period? Now farming is very difficult. Yeah, it's extraordinarily difficult. No, it definitely it It's a lot to be a farmer and it takes a lot to be a rancher, but back then I mean from the perspective henry was just going from it's not even I don't want to go to college. I don't want my kids to go to college. These people couldn't see why anyone needed anything higher than an eighth grade education, shameful, but when it came to Andrew How the major sticking point was the other side of the argument, because, in order to build these larger schools, counties had to consider
Lee raise the tax is now in bath. It took two years of arguing before it was finally decided that may be providing a high school education to the kids might be beneficial and a handsome two story, brick school was built overlooked. The town bath then hired a superintendent named emory hewett, who had a solid reputation as an educator and he had the ability to exercise authority with ease. But what hewett didn't count on was an increasingly. Irritable local sour pus named andrew key ho amy. Is like the mayor of gotham did not with this live in his life. Sane, like our goths, be great without realising that, like the joker is working in the fucking like he's there like Yeah he's the secretary. You know get more and more mad because that mood was really cause. You know he never. I will send you the only kind and tried to be nice.
Showed its true colours pretty early as soon as he got it. Now Europe a view see or of a large company, go to the male room. Go there right now, look people in the eyes As you never know what they did. Be when that mail is fine. They won but her too much and they start going crazy, we're afraid you, and a male roman hunger abbeys hang in there now like comparing anyway. Said the joker. You immediately know something's wrong to more of a slow back the bites the face paint That's it that's a difficult moreover, like a riddler asia is an error. Is these of light easy that world? Because again he's just now, we now know it adds your quixote's fuckin.
lord of mayhem, is trying to fucking bring gay ass the fold and again it's about taxes about taxes. Now things were admittedly hard for farmers in the early twenties when the best school was being built. The great depression had hit farmers before anyone else. Ten years before the stock market crash, nineteen, twenty nine in four key ho impotent killer his crop yields barely covered his expenses. Therefore, I will give him this. A new tax was understandably worrisome. What you're saying the term? Understandably worrisome? Wouldn't we very different, then I'm gonna make a series of explosives of over You mean, I don't know. What are we govern at this, but will see to pay for the school. A man of key hose means had to pay an extra yearly tax of a hundred and fifty bucks. That's twenty three hundred dollars in today's money. That's no small! Some euro and, in addition, key hole
also behind on his mortgage payments, would a man will get to the reasons why he was behind and his fucking mortgage payments lays an asshole, when you're trying to build bombs. I think you did he did, but if we do a little matthew, to bring things back to the land of reason. The school tax amounted to just three point: four percent. Of key hose yearly mortgage and if he believed this community, it would have been an inconvenient sacrifice, sure but impossible. One, but is key hope it hidden many fucking kids know. So why should you have to pay for anyone else is fuckin kid sats. Why sometimes I go to a public park. I park on top of the slide those? Are the money come up there? They got a subscriber pot gas than their parents, sports
the sentence how his loss I go alone at a time is be unlike. I've got kids, but I got a pot gas. So, despite the fact that tito was childless, he technically addressed his grievance. The way you're supposed to do it here in amerika. He ran for school board trend I am for treasurer, gained power over the purse. I will be lord of the coin I guess what man, but you know what you think, that the treasures don't got a lot of power at all. Well, it's doctors I mean he one and he spent his tenure doing everything he could to make sure the school got is little funding as possible. All job peep mcdonald. It here in there and he was I a go up. The works are maria.
On fuck all y'all up then coming you know technically this that's the american way in particular, keyhole focused his ire on superintendent, humic, fighting every request for textbooks, encyclopedias and playground equipment. That came across his desk fuck, the kids, fuck, the children again and again and again In addition. Keyhole took a hundred bucks out of huge yearly re, just tell him to go fuck himself and he removed a week from Hugh IX too weak annual vacate and just at a fuckin spy. He asked the say: fuck you! This is just a god. You see so many guys are everywhere and to make things even more acrimonious keyhole, more often than not forgot to deliver hewetts paycheck and would have to chase keyhole down just to get paid every week. see, I just see these tiny little shades and may because it's one of those I drive like a demon on my own time. But if you tailgate me, I will find me
self doing the thing where I slow down right now, slow down and I'll just you're gonna on track on the whole fuckin week, I'll stop at on the street. I dont care and ass there trying to get around me. I make sure I'm box and I'm in back and forth right, trying to play games with people's lives were just trying to get. Work or the grocery store. I've been children in the back seat of their own of their own bambi. I have a gentleman a grievance with some random person. If you want to play games, you've got to find out if you're playing the same games or if someone else is going to show up with a new game, with more complex rules than you ever thought, and now you're not playing your game, any more you're involved in somebody else's game yep I can just see this all end in horrible by just can't wait to move to allay where I can deal with all kinds of people. You know like henry's, no henry's. No, I m not unique, I'm not unique cause. I've had it done to me, and the cycle of abuse continues sites the little cars that do it Don't worry that all mess with Subaru, they know your work maybe
They know what they know. Men and backs got places to go and see them. I know the respect that supervision protect, yet on that island earning their death by butcher, prison lesbians fast. We ignore each day the great day. Now, of course, all of that man against the Andrew key hole is gone forth with it all sounds extremely patty and according to the experiences of some one very close to me, who was once on a small town school board, it's all pretty par for the course yeah, but while key hole was constantly fighting the tide, the tax is certain. Events fell into place, that would eventually coincide with his increasingly murderous hatred and is increasing resentment towards the community during the winter of nineteen twenty five, two years before the massacre The school somehow got infested with bee Now to my right. It does not get invested with bees. You brought the bees.
You're, the only one to have me. You did the bees getting the school as you'll see it might have been. Gale yo volunteered to help and slaughtered every be in sight. sensing, say all foreign king of a hill. Latterly right I mean they were like whose can we have this be problem donor to do tito's, like all solve your problem, and then there were like no more be is somehow keyhole figured it out is a year, a tiny gun, but since keyholes so efficient School board made him an unofficial, handyman and unlimited access to the building there when it took on infrastructure, look and fragile. I like Yes, indeed, so we went from now. Is he still the treasure yeah episode? treasure and now the handyman nuthin, really enjoying this new avenue of power. Keyhole spent the next two years doing
go repairs, plumbing and timing for the school piling coming in electrical repairs. Isn't it wonderful what I do all day long, all your precious wiring, ah see that light just fix it. You can. Thank you, where're, you will think you. It seems that you doing good stuff doing great star yeah. You seem totally hinge there, and this is all while he became intimately familiar with the ins and outs of the building. now, while we don't know for sure how his nefarious plans came to be formed, but it seems like the more time key spit in the building the more it became apparent to him that he really wanted to do was burn the whole goddamn thing to the ground. Hey there, MR janitor, with one arm- and this is true- there was a one arm, Jan her- that they hire. That was very bad. It is that was one of his sticking points
one arm janitor that they hired because they are trying to be nice. He fought against the guy being hired well technically, very good at his job, but then he kept whittling his salary down every year right he was fucking what is all this yours and asking with other people's money. You know at some point he's like see you doing a new paint job on the front of the school seems nights. Have you ever thought about using flickers of orange and red? It's pathetic with this, and is doing so awful. This may he's just the least community minded person on earth. Forty five children, seven adults, I'm just saying- just barely five, you know just sounded, don't say when we say leave community money, hickey literally try to kill the comments. He wasn't elected official, so he's not the this community minded issues the oil that community rybody again the american way yeah he's trying to eat it from the inside. But the thing was Andrew key
I was given the means to enact such a plan when the du pont company and the u s government realise that They still had a shit load, a high explosives left off. From world where one and its just sitting there be an unprofitable. It's like sheep, been a field. The thing about you explosive: it anxious be sick, name right, you gotta get! Oh, I didn't know explosives yachting. He really, I, oh that's great. So the department of agriculture began distributing a low grade explosive named pirate all made from high grade explosives and they sold it to farmers as a relatively safe and inexpensive way to clear fields of trees, dumps and boulders every farmer was allowed to purchase one thousand pounds of pirate, all each awe and in nineteen twenty five two years before the baths massacre and right around the time he was given. Complete access to the school Andrew key HO bought five hundred pounds at the stuff. Just once,
boy, MR du pont, using limited small amounts of of of explosives. But if, if they buy a shitload of em been, doesn't it make it a lot of explosives? No, it makes it a good customer while at around the same time Andrew quixote's life quickly, star sliding down the outhouse hole I can afford up at all. Whoa good day were based off his school board. Experience he'd been serving as the town clerk as a fill in before the next election. That's the thing was from a run off dude he just slipped. He was never really gonna, be this thing, but now they had officially elect them. So he is the key is basically a costume, and he says he's the electrician he's thou each to his. The treasure and now he's also the clerk yeah and he finally been expected to be re elected, but he didn't even get
nomination. Oh that's why I don't like coming on budget everybody's. Allow reopen no reason to think about electing me, giving free time only when I need hours and days free thinking, time, journaling, tire and planning time. If anything is to face- Now, I'm former government official turn bad yeah and you dont know it's organ explode and tell the bullet hits the bone. He then tried running for justice of the peace instead, but didn't even come close to get an elected. I don't need to be elected It is, though, it seems like you, We needed to be elected by the best. If it's not back all week, campaigned on. If you don't like me, I'm blowing up the school, they wouldn't work. At the same time,
wife. Now he's health was rapidly failing, which resulted in a pile of increasingly expensive medical bill. Came After nellie, I love the sounds of the coins falling out of my pocket fur. More key hadn't made a mortgage payment in four year sue, partly because the depression was lowering the price of this crop, but mostly he hadn't paid the mortgage out of principle out of principle, because he'd come to decide that he'd been sold the farm. at an unfair price, and this is a thing I just want to tell her audience again- remember this right, just because you think its correct it so difficult to tell the ban Does he really times I've been on the line with bio you're saying like you have the computer? All you have to do is to go in there and change it on the big computer, and then there, like my are tied literally. I know that they are not. I know that their open, because you're holding the phone to your face
We don't know these employers are getting pretty route to their employees. They may have their hands tied now they might. But I will say this: you do have a little bit of power. Don't pay back o your annexed bill? Let you laugh when thirty grand, but when they re What the monies they I'll give you two grand right now and then you won't do it so happens, sometimes who incredibly key, who also try blaming the mist payments on the school tax, even though it was again a hundred and fifty dollars a year while Quixote's mortgage payments were three hundred sixty dollars a month. No there's, no telling what specifically set key hole on the road to murder, because, as we said, it really was it just one thing: all we know is starting in late nineteen, twenty six. His collection of grievances piled up high enough, where his fur
This is a revenge began to form into a terrifyingly patient plan for mass murder. It something about that to again it's the patient's him bt k. Ah Unabomber, Stephen pat kid there's just something about that. How these are all combined, I don't know why for me it makes it so much more like you know, we don't have to use the word evil, but like there's something about that where, like the the amount of detail that goes into it, yes, because right now there could be somebody very you're right. its gary. There is somebody plodding there, literally its there's. Probably thousands of people plodding right now and that's why we were telling you the good ones are on your side. Listen we're here to listen! Also, if you our plodding right now get the new p s. Five gotham nights it supposed to be good. I got the ps for their orders,
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Of two lancing michigan there alone and without witnesses. He bought two boxes of dynamite and a bunch of blasting caps from the hercules powder company, omnium yum yum yum, having a funding day with. I fun little treats ah oh two boxes of your finest item, I please I'm gonna blow at the school. What was that some are earmarked Yeah, you know up to a pool enjoy myself but a hotel if adds yoda fed ass. You do any that we don't listen to our customers and I why they need all this dynamite, faggot used by january key hole was experimenting with explosives. night and when a neighbor asked him why he was below and shut up at midnight geo, explicitly told them he was experimenting with timers, indeed wired and explosive,
go off by alarm clock. I just like the distance he it's real. There's no scary. I mean he's he's scary because they're showing up there either, but like bible and stuff he's like just seeing if I could figure out how to blow something up from far away I dont want to do it a specific time. It's not for farming and they just go cool cool, a red flag. There I put a little red flag of ready lang. Re our ray or ages rose up. Once those experiments started bearing results. Andrew keyhole obviously made a decision. By early spring. Neighbors noticed that keyholes farm equipment, usually in pristine condition, had fallen into disrepair and his crops were left to rot in the fields yup. I said I tried to. I was out with the corn the other day and I said fuck it Is that corn, experimental until farming say soon, wow see unbeknownst to the town who had abandoned the business of farming completely to focus solely
becoming the mad bomber of bath charge me for the school charge me for the church may of nineteen twenty seven. The final piece of the puzzle fell in the place when keyhole bought something called a hot shot. Battery used, mostly to provide a spark to fire up hand cranked car engines. The hot shot battery also worked exceedingly well as an ignition device, or at least that was Andrew key hose hope. The same week he HO bought the hot shot batteries. He had an odd exchange with the school bus driver, usually when keyhole distributed paychecks escobar treasure he did so without a word, but on that day, keyhole gave a bit chuckle as he handed over the czech saying quote you better keep at it may be the last you ever get by re comedy soon. After the bus driver exchange, a teacher at the bath school
saw keyhole unloading several large crazy from his truck into the school. But up for that you're, who obviously had no frame of france for a school bombing decided the key, always by just download and potatoes. Now these aren't potato. These are explosives. of potatoes say whenever you want o. There was also the janitor who noticed that the crawl space trap doors were being kept open and unlocked for weeks at a time. Oh yeah sure could not lifted up with your one hour. I with my two arts, and I do that- their because I'm I'm planning something It seems like there was a lot of evidence that he was indeed planning some. It's a lot of a knock you with stuff that, but again you don't understand and toll everything blows up no frame of reference for the shit. You never cross in someone's mind that he's gonna blow up the school ryan process.
in one's mind, that they're going to kill children like it just doesn't. It doesn't compute man, but this all these crawl space has been left unlocked. This was the work of Andrew Ki Ho who had spent weeks wiring the internet. your building to explode on the last day of school. Oh, my god, that's crazy! Now the school year was set. and on may eighteenth and early morning, keyhole drove to town to send a wooden crate to lancing michigan that had the words pirate all high explosives, dangerous crossed off with black a trough. It is ironic that, if I just thought, while cedar extort, so it's no big deal now after sending the package keyhole was stopped by a fellow school board member who told keyhole, but the water pump at the school needed fixing immediately
Q. Of course, begged off saying there wasn't enough time to fix it before school started. Then keyhole very quickly disappeared. Will you did the thing where he's like? Well, you know I have, but there's no egg effects were now. You knows. Schools are soon at nine. Twenty five and the guy was like its eight fifteen and he's like ie? I gotta go well it's the last day of school. I think maybe those kids can go without water for just one day he's. My key who wanted to stay far away from school was because he'd set an alarm clock in the basement to go off at nine forty five fifteen minutes after classes began on the last day of school and when that clock at nine forty five andrew key hose explosives, bone. Before anyone could react, the north wing of the school collapsed starting with the roof and the second or room holding the fifth graders came crashing down,
on the next, which rushed a first floor. Room full of six greater saw. My girl, higher brick wall of the room holding the second graters on the second floor collapsed as well, but by some insane stroke of luck, the teacher had succumb to a request from our students to read them a story on the other side of the room, and all of them were therefore spared. Why, with just as the first set of explosive set up by andrew key hole or going off at the school, a utility worker named Oscar bush noticed the key hole. Farmhouse was on fire. Bush ran into the house to see if anyone needed saving but was instead met with a bundle of die I dad was up. My spiny walked any saw the bundles of dynamite. They pull them out. They pull out the dynamite within all of a sudden issues
She was the author. Structures are blown up so scary yeah, as bush and his neighbors had shown up to help quickly, for because they didn't get all the time. I now eighteen sticks in their shoes. Andrew Kiote, farmhouse exploded along with the sheep house, the barn that tool shed and the haug house and as those neighbours watched Andrew HO came driving through the smoke like a ghost and told everyone that they'd better get themselves to the school, keogh than bad off towards town he's spoken scariest along, and I feel like. I, like you guys. like all you guys used with, unlike like they're, watching their watching. His home explode as he's like smiling at them smell. I see it who would he tells them to get to the school? Because key hose one more thing to do, not back at the school, the entire north
wing was in ruins, but that had been the only part of the tea shaped building that had collapsed because it was more of a collapse in Oklahoma, city type, explosion, dozens of the schools, youngest children, could be heard calling from under the wreckage they have been killed by the blast. The biggest obstacle was that many were trapped under the heavy roof that had collapsed above them, so rescuers could see arms legs and heads of still living children, sticking out from the rubble covered and dust plaster and blood, and while some were rescued, those who didn't make it, including a girl who been crushed from the waste up by a piece of may henry, a boy who had been severed by a fallen beam day. They were laid on a grassy nor that came to be known as hospital hill to try and remove
roof a rescue in a multi ellsworth drove out to his form, to fetch some rope and that's when he saw Andrew key ho driving in the opposite direction towards the school for went, Ellsworth could make out quixote's face was quote contorted into a ghastly, grin like the richness of a corpse nelse with said the keyhole smile was so wide and so long I urge that he could see both rows of his teeth ass, a large while he's lying. I again, it's me go in five miles per hour in the forty miles result. I, if that look like I'll bring all fuckin world
around me. If I asked yes, I do like d or comparing yourself to this man. Will you drive Henry that safe for all yeah yeah ellsworth returned the wreckage just in time to catch up with key ho who was driving up to the scene for his final act of terror? One witness said that the first person notice key HO was superintendent buick, who was holding the body of a dead child. when he spotted his nemesis. He was handed the body to a woman standing next to him and walked up to key host truck either because keyhole summoned him or because humic knew something that no one else had yet figured out. I feel like on some level because they've been at each other's throats for so long. He was like you got something to do with us, which he probably looked over and saw that fucking.
While yeah once there she would put a foot on the running board and leaned in the window. A short conversation began, followed by a struggle that one witness said was a fight for control of a handgun. Another witness said that hook was trying to prevent key ho from flipping switch, but either way she would failed by gunshot or by switch Andrew how activated another bomb that caused his truck to explode, shredding both men into pieces that were flung so far. That parts were found hanging in tree branches walk away, terrible but its metal too. But it is I do he's just getting. You got blown to pieces the only
identifiable piece of key host body was part of his skull, recognized by the grey hair still attached by way of trajectory. It was also surmised that the intestines lodged in the steering column of the trucks records also belonged to keyhole dam, and if you look at pictures of KI ho, he looks like an old timey bank manager. That's how kind of dress you like the big, thick white hair and with an imperious face as insane as far as you acquaint his body was quote reduced to a terrible hunk of blood and bone and hair god. I love my fucking love sectors, riding the aids and get off the only thing that allow people to identify his body was the remains of the chequered sports coat he been wearing that day. However, you can keyhole were far from the only casualties in the car bomb.
key hole had loaded the bed of his truck with scrap metal, nuts, bolts, nails and farm implements, which in effect turned his vehicle into a gigantic shrapnel grenade. I dont know what made him think of that besides everything, but I just like thinking of every single possible way to be as a two causes: much chaos as possible because I was like that's one of the first of people. Doing that am I correct, like my very best use shrapnel gone the shrapnel moms like they do now. Our I mean not back, then really wasn't known. As I mean that was, it real, I mean in terrorist bombings throughout history, especially modern terrorist car bombings. This is textbook yes textbook and he was one of the first people to do it. I should stop the textbook gee, I don't know. I don't think we need to know what to man named Glenn. smith and nelson mcferrin were standing near by and while mcferrin was killed in the blast instantly smith had his leg blown off at the thigh and died later at the hospital
walk away, a woman named Anna perona was hit by shrapnel that tore out her eye and blew off part of her skull. While she did survive, following surgery saw the removal of sixty two pieces of shattered. Own from her range is that there were plenty more casualties, but the most tragic by far was eight year old click. Ok, Who'd escaped the school bombing unharmed, but had its stomach torn out and spy shattered by a large bolt from key hose last act of evil. Fifteen may later, the authority showed up on mass in this by the way this is before the fucking fire department even jam, and it's like the fuckin place blows up the collapse, as people are trying to dig kids out, Quixote's shows up and explosive fucking. They expose the carts like fifteen minutes. It's a good see, minutes
now, and while most of the authorities focused on rescuing the children, the shares department investigated the basement where the blast originated, where they discovered the massacre could have been far worse. They immediately saw several unexploded sticks. A pirate tall jutting out from the broken plaster that had fallen from the ceiling and a wire was running from the explosives to an unknown source. Rescue operations were halted while the policeman bravely followed the wires connected to various hot shot. Batteries were over three hundred six of pirate. All ten burlap sacks of gunpowder and two hundred and four sticks of dynamite planted, threw out the building all much we ass a ceiling of the basement and the first floor, the school. This is where you have to sort of thank the fact that most terrorist acts are ended and stopped by incompetence now because they don't know how to do it, please just an amateur rigging,
all up, so he fucked it up. Columbine was the same way. There were a lot of explosives. Indiana bind that didn't go off Now, no one knows exactly why keyholes explosive devices failed, but feed succeeded in detonating all five hundred and four pounds of explosives. He would have easily killed all two hundred and fifty children in addition, to all of the teachers and anyone unlucky enough to be near the building. That was his goal. It would have a vaporize the building you would have vaporized. All thank go to turn it on to rubble, but before the day was even out, the looky lose came in full force along with the understandable throng of journalists, thousands of just regular folks warmed the town to take the carnage so many that a line of cars two miles long trailed out of town. Why true crime now-
Why now? Oh yeah, true crime? No, it's so tasteless! So tasteless, hundreds of people surrounded the scene to gawk at the gorse same day was one of them was so brazen that he walked up to the wreckage of key hose truck and sniffed a section of intestine from the steel and put it in a jar of alcohol by god driver I'm so tasteless these days. So far, none of that goal there are no white way which now I'm innocent. this for later. What do you know? I don't know an ear. Marinated were all about in their sales. It isn't somebody's attic, we're somebody threw it out. Thinking tat, it was some force can move, but there was the power ability of one more bomb from andrew key ho. Remember: he'd, mailed a crate that morning before the bombing which it acted.
Only actually been mail to lanes bird Michigan instead of lancing post office that it again come on, but instead of explosives, authorities found a passiveaggressive collection of documents and account books showing off key hole balance as a bookkeeper lead with resignation letter that said quote, I am leaving the school board and, turning over to you, oh my accounts just had to Oh, how fuckin smarty was one last on one last word: issues at such a mundane task and just being better as far it's his it's his speedy case here, your box and since then, like sand, I'm being funny about it. I'm resigning What an asshole. Eventually, though, someone thought to inquire about you
where the hell Andrew key hose wife. Now he was, it was assumed that she died in the explosion at the keyhole farm and when the debris from the fire cool down the next day, those suspicions or confirmed andrew quixote's wife, had been his first victim when he crushed her skull with a blunt object. Remember she was about to be dead. Maybe she was sick, probably had tuberculosis, they fat, but again that was another one of his grievance yeah that he had to deal with this sick wife who was dying and caught. But that's a thing it was diverted handshake. It wasn't even that she was sick, wasn't even were bother him a bother them is that it was costing a money. Yes, her corpse had been lashed to a two wheel, hog cart, piled with family silverware, knollys jewelry bills from her frequent hospital. stays and their marriage license. He then down the whole thing with kerosene and let it on fire. Yeah man who kill oh dear,
furthermore, that he murdered his two remaining horses by binding their legs with wire. Before burning down the barn, strewed a young grove of trees by stripping off at band bark around the base of each one, in that took ours that takes hours to do yet, my god just to make sure no one benefited from his death. He dynamited all of his farm equipment Well there you go to your final insult pure up. Your ass We think that wasn't destroyed was the hen house, but that only survive because andrew the hose incendiary device. Hadn't worked on that building by looking The apparatus investigators discovered the key hole had destroyed everything on his farm, all at once by connecting fire bombs to a single electrical switch see. What I would have done is that you still want of chickens bill. Those chickens is Andrew key hose, miracle chickens, Natalie, nothing. You figured out how to.
but an lowers the miracle jacket they aren't. Detonated has its are about thereby right insane themselves olga mental hospital of associating chickens miracle which in the dream, where there's actually a jerk here, it's a miracle taste so good right. We killed and snapped at you, but perhaps what truly places? Andrew he who in the waning dickhead hall of fame, was what he painted on a sign at the edge of his property stints old and crude black paint? He who had written criminals are made not yeah. What if I just kill this guy again, I want to live together, and then I want to kill. It were not the same thing. Marvin mired said it's all. Sometimes a reasonable man is driven to do reasonable thing here, body I've seen some recent tik tok videos of will say that mostly welder in their cars. We are in very stupid hats with long beards, their course applying that it was the people a bath who had driven him to such madness. You did this to me. If it wasn't for the back ban,
now. No one question that may be going through your head at this point is why the fuck haven't you heard about thirty. Five children seven adults being murdered by a libertarian mad man in a school bombing before now. Well, it stop put any police. Nickel creed. I do anything Do you like your israeli lebanese people? I know, but I don't want you to pay I d. How does it does a libertarian parties in total and complete under shambles, but I would say he held political office which, by nature than cancels out, any libertarian muslim oriented eads winning ridding internationally, so anti government if holding office It sets out libertarian. Why is there even a libertarian party buddy, the libertarian party? Is it's a collage, it's like if, while its yet the liver, really water bottle in school right out and sham both at the bottom of warfare. Water bottles, you get your face and a poster which they love.
And then I relate to how you meet other unwashed men in a conference room while as to why you've never heard about this. The answer is as simple as Michael jackson get it again, I'm just so happy since obama. Children doesn't have to have so we re wouldn't even be of that aid might go by where you over you're, fuckin, Michael Jackson, glowed last week by like nine joke scam. So many jokes, so me Michael, x and jokes that we're getting uncalled for Why bring up Michael jackson's? You could make more pedophile jokes, I would say why did you leave my mark on it? criminals are made not born, not molested, those children. I would have to do this kind of her with justice. Michael Jackson's death squad, the way the two thousand and nine iranian election protest. Just when america was finally starting to pay attention to something in the Middle EAST that didn't directly involve us. So too did the bath school massacre
appear from the headlines when Charles lindbergh made the first so low transatlantic flights in history, you show me a flight of flights. up all the oxygen for this key literally sucked up. I mean flying across that first transatlantic sullivan history. It was his big of a deal. Is the moon landing? A man was insane that silence might manage to do that and it gave a pilot the confidence, being american nazi later on then rudy eggs is that now, because the deadline, Michael Jackson, did cover up a lot of things, including very fast. Death, and sometimes we need to honour faraday. Now I think about it. Every time a masturbate, so instead of In a point of national mourning or possibly a national conversation, bath became a local mc cobb tourist destination. What this more of nineteen twenty seven saw the descent of an estimated eighty five thousand tragedy. Tourist Oh, my dear arrived by journalists, as quote sniff
like ghouls at this town of dead children. I mean I have an inordinate amount of time in front of oj old house, but I dont know. I know it's it's bizarre. It's like did this, didn't he but unlike nine, eleven thirty, nine eleven, that's that was an explosion. I can't, I don't think there were second, tourism was higher online. Buying don't think they're one go. Almost any bombing was a little bit, but equally lemon women com. It wasn't as this is this a different time period. it is crazy, like its local yeah. I know my dad wooden like saw the ones of homer, said he, but that was just because he was in town and he happened to be in town was curious. I mean how, went. Look when I first came near for the first time in like two thousand and two: I looked at the whole, oh yeah, Levin home. I mean you know how many people are curious, but this this is beyond
mobile adler, said the tourist would fight for parking spaces near the house that lost the most children? Oh, my god, then they would trot down to this. Your house to carry away bricks and run their names on blackboards in the same rooms were children had been killed. Technically, this is a is the credible beginning to horror movie, yet hasn't happened in surprise, Finally, one of the first responders on the scene, Monti, Ellsworth profited off the disaster by putting together a commemorative booklet that he sold to tourists for a dollar. Fifty apiece it all, It's a screen, no more unusual than it used to be his goal. Now is that he buy this one as a dollar. Fifty learn everything you need to know about how a school converted earth I mean it just makes me think that they could have just offset the school taxes with something I got a magazine, sale of lung, saying I know you're talking again sensible europe not sensible bill
link, building an awareness or in the booklet, curious readers could find a brief history of the school wildly inaccurate biography of andrew key ho, a personal account of the experts. action and a reminiscence by a fifteen year old survivor. I didn't like it. She says now as far as how the rest of the country reacted the bath most of the people, who actually remembered it and talked about it, were the worst people our country had to offer, and they all try to use it to further their own agendas, just like worst people our country has to offer do today. Any time is a tragedy. We ain't we're done changed brow a local menace try blaming the massacre on the sins of modern society. The k k K tried blaming it on key ho being catholic. That's the craziest part about the k k k. That's when they were so unbelief raises. If you are tat, they were now. What was it tat demonstrated? How did they didn't get enough to collectively avenue? I don't know
white and protestant. Now there was a lot of their quite a few just why protestant people and you genesis, tried saying that key possessed a meander colic hereditary taint trick, an attack on their knees, atrocity wiesner, blaming the perennial on this next thursday. In flat between the balls and they had also say stain, but the taint is better paint. I like taint a lot more. Oh my. What we need to do is start arming the building using actually that's what happened tat, what he did oh, never mind yard was far as the media went. The lancing stay journal tried introducing the term key hoed to mean an active mass slaughter. oh, my god calling an act. It's like calling an active Stick terrorism like make vade are calling a school shooting like poland harris. You just got joost
never got but ideally juice. Thankfully, he owed hoed never caught on and similarly the bath schoolmaster never caught on either. It was soon overshadowed by a gas leak. motion that killed three hundred children in new london texas. Ten years later man, it's never. What are you what it's? Never talked about what you use to work on its always. What are you working on next now? I guess so, and it was mentioned only briefly during the coverage of a columbine and sandy hook- massacres by the time of your However, the media could then reference columbine and sandy hook and parkland and virginia tech and santa fe and run burke and a dozen other school massacres with double digit casualty counts and those are just a massacres that take place at schools that only school massacre,
but even though it is largely forgotten, the bath schoolmaster, remains that deadliest, mass murder of children in united states history and please, if you feel your hatred and negativity building like andrew key hose fine sums, of outlet before it reaches this level. But as the lunar you address it, the smaller explosion will be when it all finally gets to be too much, just as it does for all of us. At some point our lives, and that is one of the reasons why the only thing he did good was run for local office and then of heated, a horrible job at said office when he did attack, he tried to make a difference, but I think I appear vengeance and, as we learned from the four mentioned, the bat man in the beginning, he said, I'm vengeance, but at the end, when of riddler crony says, I'm vengeance, and then the batman eliza. He also needs to help see robber had absorbed, does teach
I won right advance side. I would also say bill to kill those your, but as an artistic project failed what spend a year building a kill. Those are You can write a fund funny. Man is run stow about how you want there to be free, gummy worms for everybody right, do something like fun and then you drive it the local parade and then is the fun tension of you gonna going to use it to kill everybody today you can say like no, I'm, like god, you can get your god fix. By saying I choose despair. All of you. We didn't even talk about parade, massacres we do as massacres or sconces massacre. Mercer exotic better this all I got it all sports massacres and that's it. That's bad massacre re mad at you, for shedding some light on that horrific blocking story
harry scare I long time ago, but it still the right around the corner. So again, chicken with your local loners, bring em some blight muffins, just high you're, having been there. Not gonna, like the muffins rhubarb, juggling J, p m, I gonna lose weight. I try it and if you feel your hair with negativity, building in building and building address it talk about work on it play all duty, just like how do you like them all the kids do not become a radio like on ip address it yeah talking to microphone. It helps do something else. Besides No, no, don't read your head into microphones either because it turns out there's a lot of morons out there. They went on ass. You way to see It is well all right everyone, just when you thought the of american violence with something fresh, hip new turns out zeal, as they all grand old flag itself, yep area, not reassuring at all- and are you mighty
brad letter leffler onto the terms. We all got to take a good hard look at it say I'm in a new debate today, like other than that you ever eighty make we're coming too grand rapids at any apples, but because marcus parks really is suffering from his long covert thing. We want him to be healthy weariness castle and I are going to be moved. You gonna be doing to show Just boys changes to two little boys are doing. These shows we want you to know up front we're gonna be bring some special guess because it More than one person to replace marcus parks line is gonna, be the same exact, we're gonna fight We can do something about ray you they're, going to do great they're gonna do fuck you guys gonna fuckin, kill. It thinks every one impatient about in vienna, indian understanding about you, know me taken care of you ve been care, my health, you can so why? Wouldn't I gotta put a pause and lie performance for little. Ah, yes, because europe was really really
difficult, we had a lot of fun but by the end we were all wiped out, but now we're back in the pocket. Thank you guys for being fucking cool and next week's we're getting into some were kind. To our roots, reignited we're gonna, get sobering, doing some interesting stuff about sin and involving some of our favorite characters. I know you ve been tested and, of course, will be covering who was an old tv show happy days that fair happy then we're gonna cover farms, and what did he do and why was he in his boardings and hanging out in ice all right? Everyone, if you aren't veal and well at their hang in there please and dead, just keep on doing the best. He can. I thank you so much for me. name would give way to see when the road and again thanks for supporting the show so much all over the network. We lawyers, satan, green male that game, which would
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