Gareth Russell — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries

“We try to hold the idea: if you do everything right, nothing bad will happen to you. And you're like, this was just a ship that was following protocol... it's just a normal standard human error and there's nothing in that ship that should have made that outcome likely. And maybe sometimes we're just screwed.”

— Gareth Russell on why we need conspiracy theories.

“The statistic that shocks people is that the worst hit demographic was second class men. They did a 92% fatality rate.”

— Gareth Russell, on the intersection of gender, class, and family duty.

“I think this is all projection. I think this is us again after the fact trying to say how we would have acted. And so therefore we're appalled with [Ismay] because in our little perfect heads, we would definitely not have done that. Yes, we would you bunch of liars.”

— Gareth Russell on the public vilification of Bruce Ismay.

“I think one flaw rescues her from just being the footnote to her own death. Like I like to give her a life.”

— Gareth Russell

“She was the kind of person I think might have been a nightmare to work with... but perfect's not perfect's not history.”

— Gareth Russell