Andrew (host)
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first heard Jul 2026
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And they did it with no insurance, no safety net and no sick leave.
Yeah.
We're going to get rich, you see?
Mm-hmm.
The scarcity reached all the way home.
Mining widows took in boarders to survive, and the space was so tight that beds themselves ran in shifts.
A two-bedroom house might shelter a whole family plus a rotating crew of miners.
As the men coming off the noon to midnight shift trudged home, and the very bed would fall into was being made up by the men heading out for the midnight shift.
One family story captures the whole brutal arithmetic of the place.
A minor, an immigrant most likely, fell ill during the great influenza of 1918, the Spanish flu.
And it's crazy because it didn't even originate in Spain.
They were the first to report on it.
Oh, it's Spanish, you see.
So he could not afford to stay home because in Butte, missing work meant another man took your job and kept it.
So he worked and he sickened and he died in the hospital.
A few rooms down the hall from where his wife was giving birth to their fifth child.
After he was gone, the rent from the boarders paid the bills and the other children left school to help keep the family alive.
Jesus.
Yeah.
That was the true cost of like the richest hill on earth.
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