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On May 18, 2025, a car went over the seawall at St. Peter's Park in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and plunged into Harbor Cove with three women trapped inside. Alex (M.A. in history) and Dennis (U.S. Navy veteran) tell the true, fully-sourced story of off-duty fire lieutenant Buddy Doucette and the crew of the lobster boat Tight Lines, who went in after them with nothing but a hammer and a knife. We checked. It's real. You're not going to believe it.

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Sources for this episode include CBS Boston/WBZ, the Boston Globe, NBC10 Boston, and statements from Gloucester Fire Chief Eric Smith and Deputy Fire Chief Tom LoGrande. Full source list available on request. — Wear the mindset: K-B-O Standard Supply

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On September 11th, 2001, while the towers were still burning and the whole country went silent, something else was happening on the water that almost nobody remembers: roughly 500,000 people evacuated from Lower Manhattan by boat in under nine hours — bigger than Dunkirk, run by ferry captains, tugboat crews, and dinner-cruise operators who'd never drilled for anything like it. This episode opens our First Responders line with the story that got buried under the horror of that day — the men who turned down cash to save more strangers, the passenger who got to safety and turned right back around to help pull others out, and the quiet, humble courage of people who didn't ask to be remembered. Not invincible. Provably resilient. Accurate, absurd, affectionate — even here.

What is KBO Standard Supply? We make no-nonsense apparel for the disciplined, the relentless, and anyone who knows that a rough day is no excuse to quit. If you’re going to face the chaos of the world, you might as well look lethal doing it.

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A bonus episode, off the usual cycle — requested by one of our most loyal listeners, and there was nothing to do but honor it. November 10th, 1975: twenty-nine men, a storm called the Witch of November, and three words on the radio that became the whole hinge of the story. We get into the ship, the theories nobody's ever agreed on, and the reason this wreck is remembered when deadlier ones on the same lakes mostly aren't — a songwriter who spent the rest of his life making sure he got it right. Accurate. Absurd. Affectionate. Even here.

This one's for a listener who asked us to tell it straight, so we did. If you know the Gordon Lightfoot song, you know the ending. What you might not know is he kept fact-checking it for fifty years. That's the whole episode, really.

KBO Standard Supply is still building out piece by piece — more soon.

What is KBO Standard Supply? We make no-nonsense apparel for the disciplined, the relentless, and anyone who knows that a rough day is no excuse to quit. If you’re going to face the chaos of the world, you might as well look lethal doing it.

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