Sharks, Shakespeare and a Shotty

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Giddday and welcome to Fun facts and sidetracks. Hey Al, how are you, Mart? I'm awesome, mate. That's the way. Here we are in the fun facts and sidetracks bunker. It definitely is a bunker. I built the bunker. It's a besser block bunker, full of concrete. It is. And it's, safe from whatever the world might throw at us in these, crazy times.Yeah. And it's very crazy. We won't go there. We will not. No, no. Hey, listen. We don't, claim to be experts on the topics we're talking about but we're just having a bit of fun. We do a little bit of research and I'd just like to think that, we are here to have some fun and a bit of a laugh. What do you reckon now? Yeah, I reckon and, thanks to the people who've actually sent us some feedback on our first few [00:01:00] shows. Oh yeah, it's been pretty good. It is good to get that feedback. Yeah. Special shout out to Di who I think our biggest supporter so far. Yes. Go on. You die. Yeah. Di's got the gold star so far. Oh, that's good. Let's rip in. Yes. Okay. Okay, mark. First up, music as always. Mm-hmm. What have we got? Something a bit different this time. I thought we might talk about. Some of the great albums that have been recorded, but they've been done under pretty difficult circumstances. Yes. Yeah. Now, probably the one that most people would think of when you think recording under duress would have to be Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. Yeah. Like awesome album. That's the best. Yep. But you've got. Couples breaking up all over the place. You've got couples having [00:02:00] affairs with other people. You've got people writing songs to each other and telling them they're not particularly happy with them, shall we say? Yeah. So, but. Through all that and through what must have been an awful time to record all that stuff. Oh, that'd be horrible, wouldn't it? Incredible cocaine use, like apparently maybe that's what got him through it. Gold Dust Woman. It's, you know, yeah. Is not too disguised. Yeah. But despite that, it's an album that just, has had amazing sales and amazing durability. If you're listening to this and whether you are.60 or 30 or, or even younger, you'd probably go, oh, your fleet would make Rumours. I, I know that that album, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not many people don't. Yeah. But some interesting facts around that. So, Stevie Nicks wrote. Dreams, which a lot of people would know now because it's had this sort of, revitalisation by being used, to accompany all sorts of vision. Now on TikTok, she wrote that in 10 minutes. Yeah, yeah. [00:03:00] Not bad money. Is it? Good work. Christine McVie, wrote Songbird in something like half an hour. She actually woke up in the middle of the night and had the song. In there. She had the chords. She had the lyrics, she had the melody. But she had nothing to record it on, so she stayed up all night and as soon as she could, she got into a studio the next morning and put it on a two track just so she didn't forget it. Wow. I mean, now you just put it on your phone, right. And go, well, you go, Hey Siri, take a note. Yeah. But, yeah, they're just wired, aren't they? They're wire. Yeah. You know? Yeah. That's really good. Yeah. How do you, how do you come up with everything I. In the middle of the night. It was crazy. I mean, you make Loving Fun by Christine McVie. That was obviously she was sort of splitting up with John McVie, the bassist. Yeah. And she kind of made out that song was about her dog. It was actually about the lighting director for the band. So she was having an affair with him. [00:04:00] So, you know, there's all this stuff. No wonder they were taking cocaine. Yeah. And, and even down to, the construction of the album, they had a song called Silver Springs, but that couldn't make it onto the album because it, was too long. Yeah. So they actually used, how long do, is there, do you know how long it was? Yeah, it's quite a long song. Something like six and a half minutes. Wow. 'cause I think they, I think they probably had like three and a half minutes. Yeah. So that's why I Don't Wanna Know got a start on the album. Cause it was that little jangly sort of song. Yep. It was probably like the three minute pop song. Yeah. A great song too. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I know. Yeah. Yeah. But a bit of a fun sidetrack about Rumours. Is that it was so popular, it achieved diamond status and then it achieved double diamond status. So, diamond being 10 million sales, 10 million, okay. Double diamond being 20 million. So. In the US and this is not [00:05:00] about downloads. Yeah. This is about album sales. Yes. So it's going back and we will in future episodes talk about downloads 'cause Yeah. Then you've got people like Taylor Swift and, and The Weekend and all these people that are just, you know, have amazing figures around that stuff. But in terms of album sales, so Rumours sold 23 million. Which is not bad. It's not bad, is it? It's not bad. 23 million. There's only 13 albums in history that have achieved this double diamond status. Wow. Yeah, I know. Okay. There's a heap of band. Yeah. And then some awesome albums. Okay. Do you want to have a crack at what else might have been on that list? Well, obviously the Beatles have got to be on there. Yeah. Which one? Oh, it will have to be the White Album. It is. Yeah. You've cracked it. It is the White Album. Yeah. Yeah. See, I know my music. You do. I know you do. No, you don't actually. Okay. Alright. Smart ass. What have you got, that was a [00:06:00] stab. Yeah. Oh geez. Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson would have to be on there, wouldn't he? Uh, which album? Thriller. Yes. Yep. 34 million. 34 million. 34 million. Okay. And again, when you, you know, it's easy to forget the track listings on an album like that, but when you look at it, you just go, holy dooley, it's just hits from start to finish. Yeah. Yeah. But 34 million. Okay. I know another one that I'm pretty sure would be Dark Side of the Moon. Pink Floyd. Yes. No, actually get out of here. I know. It's, it's like. Whenever you talk about Pink Floyd, you think that's the album? Yeah. No, it's not. Were they on it? Yeah, they're on the list. Oh, so it was Brick in the Wall? Yeah, the Wall. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So, wow. The wall sold 23 million. I suppose so. Because when Dark Side Moon come out, it was so popular. Yeah. But probably with a certain bunch and then when the, The Wall came out, it was a bit [00:07:00] more sort of, commercial, wasn't it? It's a big double album. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Wow. What else? Stones? No, no. Rolling stones, which is surprising. But no Prince, no. Okay. Well this is interesting. Yeah. Uh, Ah, geez. Look, I'm, whether you're telling me now when it's not Prince and it's not the Stones. Yeah. There's so many other bands like Queen, Queen, uh, no. Well, okay. Well, who, who were they? Yeah, because I'm, I'm honestly, they, I'd only be throwing bands out that I feel of the. Would like those. Yeah. As popular. Yeah. It's pretty interesting. I mean, some of these you go, oh yeah, of course. Yeah. You go the Eagles. Yeah. You know. Oh yeah, of course. Yeah. So, yeah. So the Eagles, Greatest Hits 71 to 75. Okay. 38 million, which is a fair effort. Yeah. Hotel California. 26 million. Okay, so that's two. So that's two out of 13. Yeah. Which is [00:08:00] a fair old effort. Here's a good one. Ac CDC back in black. Oh yeah. So Bon Scott’s just died straight away. They went back into the studio. Wow. With Brian Johnson. Yeah. 27 million. Wow. That's in the States. It's, that's such a great man. Pretty amazing. Here's another one. I mean, Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin Four has to be. Yeah. Well, you just don't, yeah. Yeah. Okay. So the, you know, Black Dog and Rock and Roll and Stairway to Heaven and all that stuff. Yeah. 24 million. , Billy Joel's greatest hits volume one and two. 23 million. So it's the second highest certified greatest hits album. So there you go. Wow. He's still knocking 'em in the aisles in Central Park. He does like how many concerts in Central Park and they're all singing Piano Man. Yeah, the whole crowd. It's just nuts. Wow. Yeah, and then there's some, I guess we forget just how popular country is in the US and how, when. An [00:09:00] album makes it big. It makes it really big, right? Yeah. So Garth Brooks double live, of course. 23 million. Yeah. Shania Twain. Come on over. So, you know, it had that, uh, You're still the one Yeah. From this moment on, That don't impress me much. Yeah. That was a huge hit. Yeah. 20 million. Hey, what about, what about old Mullet Man with Achy Breaky Heart? Curiously not on the list. Please don't tell me ….curiously not on the list. Mart. But let's see, we've got, there's two more. Okay. Who are they? Well, Green Day Dookie, so their first album. Okay. Yeah. Which I get that. Yeah. But like. For, for Americans. That's, yes, that's as punk as it gets. Yeah. And yeah, that was, that was a big one. But here's, here's the one that blows me away. Hootie and the Blowfish Cracked Rear View. 22 million. I. [00:10:00] That's, wow. That's amazing. I would never think someone like him. Yeah, he’s good. He sounded great, but yeah. And, and you compare him with Pink Floyd. I know. I know. And that guy's actually now a country artist. Yeah. And probably very successful, but. When you think about album sales, I would've thought there's a whole bunch that you might put like Dark side of the Moon. Yeah. Or Carol King's Tapestry. Exactly. You know? Yeah. When you really sit down and about it, Paul Simon, you Paul Simon. Think of a big, big, big band. You think about like Meatloaf. Yeah. You know, Bat out of Hell or, yeah. He had a real big following. Yeah. But, not double diamond, I'm afraid. Wow. So there you go. That's, yeah. That's really amazing. Yeah. There's some fun facts for you. Yeah. Yeah. You learn something every day and like I said, we'll come back in another time to. Song downloads through people like Rihanna and, like I said, Taylor Swift and Drake and Billy Eilish and yeah, you know, the Sabrina Carpenters of the world [00:11:00] and yeah. And The Weekend, The downloads for that single Blinding Lights were just ridiculous. Mm-hmm. Anyway, we talked about the Eagles before, so we're back just talking about difficult to record albums. Yes. The Long Run…… great album. Yeah. But they really hated each other. Seems to be with some bands. Yeah. And this was also on the back of, you know, a few years earlier they had Hotel California. Which, as we just said, is double diamond, bit of, pressure to follow it up, right? Yeah. But nevertheless, it was going to be a double album and eventually they didn't have enough songs. It took 18 months to record it, and they record it in five different studios. Yeah and they got guest songwriters on the case. Mm-hmm. So people like JD Souther and Bob Seger and, you know, so Heartache Tonight was written by those guys and, you [00:12:00] know, Souther also wrote Teenage Jail and Sad Cafe. Like yeah. It's a really good album, if you like the Eagles. Yeah. But, a bit of a tough one. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of Bob Seger, think he turned 80 the other day. Yeah, I know. That's amazing. It's scary, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. So that was, well, Eagles always toured under the premise of, you know, if hell freezes over, we'll get back together. And then sure enough they did. Yeah. They're kind of, they've run their race now, which makes you appreciate The Stones staying together for so long. Yeah unreal. But speaking about the weight of expectation, in more recent years, there's probably never been anything bigger than Nirvana having to follow up. Smells like Teen Spirit. Yeah. And you know, just that great sound whole Nevermind album was just ridiculously successful. Mm-hmm. So I think it's fair to say that Kurt Cobain was fairly tortured about it, and he, [00:13:00] the original title for the album, In Utero I'm talking about, was I Hate Myself and I Want to Die. Yeah. Now he kind of said, that was all a joke and. He was sort of playing the card of being the disaffected youth, and it was a funny title and all this, but we all know what happened not long after. And the record company certainly didn't want him to release an album called that. Do you know how old he was when he died? Oh, he was. He was in the 27 Club, right? Yeah. So, this album took 14 days to record, which is much less time than Nevermind. Cobain wanted to record an album like The Pixies 'cause The Pixies were his idols. And so he kind of wanted to emulate that. He was a true to his, his way. Wasn't he? Yeah. The original lyric [00:14:00] for Heart-shaped Box was Heart-shaped Coffin, and it read, I've been buried in a heart-shaped coffin for weeks. Instead of, I've been locked inside your heart shaped box for weeks. So again, the record company weren't too keen on that. And, so that album had that as a big single Penny Royalty was slated to be the third single, but it was cancelled when Cobain suicide in 1994. So, wow. Terribly sad. It's very sad. Pretty tough album to follow up. Nevermind. That's for sure. Geez, he must have been pretty tortured, which is really sad. Yeah, totally. But a connection to that album obviously is, the Foo Fighters second album, the Color and the Shape. So Dave Grohl basically is a perfectionist in the studio. Yeah. And he actually, had weeks of recordings for that album and pretty well discarded the [00:15:00] lot and said, oh no, I'm going to do this myself. Wow. Which he did. To me, that's their best album, ever long. My Hero, Monkey Wrench. You know, it's pretty amazing. Yeah. The Fooies. Yeah. And that you, have you ever seen when they do, Monkey Wrench No. Live? You would've seen clips on YouTube. Yeah. Where they get, he'll get someone out of the crowd. Yeah. He come up and play guitar. Yeah. Like it could be a little, A young guy. Could be a little kid. Yeah. Or KISS guy. There's a guy in the KISS makeup. Wow. He just, and they shred, like he gets people who can play. Yeah. But there's a little kid who I reckon the guitar's as big as he is. Yeah. And he just kills it. And like, Dave Grohl being a champion gives the kid the guitar and the kid's just blown away. He's got Dave Grove's guitar. You know, I love musicians like that. Yeah. You know, they're just, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, he's a dude. Yeah. A perfectionist, but a dude. Yeah. Yeah. What [00:16:00] else? Okay, one last one for you. What's this sound? This is Bob Dylan. Yeah. Blonde on Blonde, 1966. Mm-hmm. He was not thrilled with the studio musos that he had. And, so the story goes, he actually wanted some controlled chaos, so you might know the song. Rainy Day Women Numbers 12 and 35. Yeah. That's the one that goes, you know, and I would not feel so all alone. Everybody must get stoned. Yeah. So the story was that he actually got all of the musos to swap instruments. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, okay. So you've got a guy playing trumpet who is actually a drummer. Yeah. And you've got a guitarist who's, you know, a keyboard player or something, Which is why all the instruments sound out of tune and it's kind of sound drunk. Yeah. They sound drunk or they sound high. Yeah. Yeah. And that's why. Wow. So that was the effect that he wanted. Yeah. Yeah. Have you seen the movie? I [00:17:00] have. It's awesome. We've seen it twice. It's terrific. Yeah. It's, it really is. It's fantastic. There you go. There's a few, difficult to produce albums, but ones that all became classics. Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah. Yeah. It's cool. Really good. Mart, I wanted to just change pace for a moment and talk about Jaws. Ah, here we go. Yeah, yeah. Your favourite subject? Well, sharks and I am a little addicted to shark movies, but I must say I've probably watched Jaws. I don't know, 12, 15 times. Why is that? Because it's great. But you surf, like I don't get it. Well, I saw it once and I can't even get my, you know, I'll go in between the flags and that's me. Yeah. Well, I, I must admit, when I saw Jaws, I was much younger. Yeah. Uh, yeah. I didn't want to jump into a bath or a swimming pool, let alone [00:18:00] the ocean. Yeah. Yeah. But I, but I think that's what's amazing about this film. It had people worldwide terrified. Yeah. Didn't it? Yeah. And that was kind of when all the disaster movies were happening. I mean, that was 1975, right? Yeah. So you've got, you know, at that time you've got Towering Inferno and Yeah. Earthquake. And you know, if you didn't have planes falling out of the sky, you had sharks eating people in the water and all that stuff. Yeah. But it, how did we make it through that Al? I know, But it's the movie that changed so much in terms of how movies are marketed. Yeah. For all sorts of reasons. It took way longer to produce than they thought. And it was supposed to be a movie released in winter. But what happened was they, they released it in summer. Yeah. And now it's kind of accepted that at cinema, the blockbusters are released in summer. But that was only because it took them so long to make it. Yeah. Which is pretty interesting, I reckon [00:19:00] I'd say so. It, it grossed 470 million worldwide. And which made it the highest grossing film of all time until Star Wars came along two years later in 77. Mm-hmm. Pretty amazing. Yeah, just the fact that it had so many holdups is what fascinates me. It was supposed to be filmed on Nantucket Island, but when they were scouting the location, the weather was so bad they couldn't even get there. So they kind of happened upon Martha's Vineyard and they went, this looks like a pretty good spot. Mm. So that's where they filmed it, they should have done it at Bribie. We have seen a few sharks there and yeah, sadly there has been an attack there lately. Yeah. But you know, it was just the whole production was held up by the shark itself. They had three mechanical sharks, and this is in the days before animatronics and all that. Mm-hmm. They had this shark that just wouldn't cooperate, so it sunk at one stage. You know, it, it took the majors and, you know, they're all, [00:20:00] a lot of the people on the set didn't really get along that well. What with the shark? Well, well with each other as well. Apparently, Robert Shaw, who played Quint, the crusty old seadog. He didn't get along with Roy Scheider. He didn't get along with Richard Dreyfus, who played Hooper. And so there was a fair bit of sort of antagonism on set to start with. Then the shark, which they call Bruce, or multiple versions of the shark didn't cooperate. The film starts going over budget. Spielberg's going, what am I doing here? You know, he, was apparently having nightmares every night, but not about sharks, about it kind of ruining his career, you know? Wow. Yeah. But ultimately they got the film produced. And, you know, there's so many things about this movie that are just iconic, like the soundtrack. Yes. Created by John Williams, he apparently played it to Spielberg just, you know, on a, [00:21:00] on a little keyboard or something. And, he just laughed at him thinking it was a joke and he said, no, no, no, this. This will really add to the Yeah, the tension. Yeah. To the tension. It does. Because that's all I hear when I go out between the flags. Exactly. So many coincidences, you know, they were, they were gonna film it at Nantucket Island. They couldn't get there because of the weather. They ended up filming and they called at, at, they ended up filming at Martha's Vineyard, called it Amity Island, which, you know, is a bit of a joke because Amity stands for friendly. Mm-hmm. But, but yeah, look, it was the first time they'd used. Underwater point of view vision for sharks. Yeah. Ron and Valerie Taylor, the Australian couple. Yeah. They filmed all the real shark footage. Jeez. Which was terrifying. Jeez. And they used a lot of locals on the beach. They got locals to be there. So when you see people running out of the water. Yeah. Really scared. Yeah. It, it was true because they, they got people who weren't [00:22:00] actors as such. Yeah. And they, they made them think there was, you're so sort of, yeah. Let's not pretend about this. Yeah. Yeah. So that sort of all comes through, you know? Wow. Yeah. So terrific movie. Because the guy that gave him the trouble, the old guy, what's his name? Robert Shaw. Yeah. He was in a lot of stuff, wasn't he? Oh, he was a sort of like a classic. A classic, classic Shakespearean actor. Wow. Yeah, because I think I saw him in Guns of Navarone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And different, like those old war movies. He was really good. They got Robert Shaw and the other guys didn't necessarily want to be in the film. But I think, they had movies coming up that they weren't sure whether they'd be successful or not. Yeah. And I think their wives probably said, this is work. Do it. You know? Yeah. So they did. I bet they're glad they did. Oh yeah. You know? Yeah, but even the fact it's such a good movie because of the tension. What makes this such a good movie is because the shark never [00:23:00] worked. Yeah. Properly. It takes one hour and 21 minutes before you actually see the shark. So when you do see that moment, that's another classic. It's a classic. And when you know, Chief Brody is just shovelling all this. All the stuff out the back of the boat and the shark just comes up and it's the first time you see this thing in its entirety and you go, holy dooley. When he says We are gonna need a bigger boat. Yeah. That wasn't in the script. He just came up with that on the spur of the moment. But it's like the classic line from the film, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, but that, that's just a classic of like something going wrong but enhances the movie. Totally. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Like building up the tension, that's John Williams, right? Yeah. Amazing. What a vision. Yeah. Just seeing it as it is. Because every time I put my head under the water in salt water, that's all you hear. [00:24:00] And I try to be happy about it. Well, there were three Jaws sequels, which probably didn't have you quite as terrified about going into the water. Yeah, yeah. Well the second one was pretty good, because they got some of the cast back for that. So that's four years later. Yeah, it's still at Amity Island. And in that one they end up electrocuting the shark. Mm-hmm. Which is great, but, until Rocky two came out in 1979 Yeah. It was the highest grossing sequel in history. Wow. And it had that classic line just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water. Mm-hmm. Right. So you remember it was, yeah. Like everyone was running around with Jaws t-shirts on and all the Jaws memorabilia and merchandise and all that stuff. It was, it was a thing. That's terrific. And then they, you know, to quote, uh, happy Days, they jumped the shark and they made Jaws three. Yeah. Which was made in 3D and I watched it recently and it hasn't got any better with age. It hasn't, especially if you're watching it [00:25:00] and you're not watching it in 3D. Yeah. So that was the one that was set in like a Sea World in a theme park. Yeah. And don’t tell me it gets out? Well, no, what happens is they catch a great white Yeah. And they're not supposed to keep a great white in captivity. No. And so there's a much bigger great white trying to get in to release it. Oh goodness. So this is where the Sharknado comes in? Sort of. Yeah. So the son of Chief Brody, he's now working at this Sea World type park. Right. So, and he's played by Dennis Quaid. Mm-hmm. So it's a young Dennis Quaid. Yeah. Yeah. Which is pretty cool. And, you know, there's, there's all the stuff that you'd expect. Mayhem ensues. And then lastly, they did Jaws 4 the Revenge, and that just went too far. So Lorraine Gray, the lady who played the mum. Yeah. Stupidly, she sort of backed up for a last one. Everyone else kind of went No, we're not getting involved. Yeah, they they'd had enough by Jaws 2. Yeah. But it's, it's funny, [00:26:00] they end up in The Bahamas and Michael Caine's in it, Michael Caine, “I told you to blow the bloody doors off.” So they're sort of racing around in a helicopter and, they actually changed the ending of the film because it was considered to be too violent. Wow. You know, and they, so they run this boat into the shark in like the pointy bit at the front on the bow of the boat. And for no reason the shark explodes. So is this where they got the Sharknado idea? Uh, mate, look. Sharknado's so much better than Jaws 2, 3 and 4. I have to say, I love those movies so much. Yeah, I really do. I saw Jaws, but I didn't see the follow up. I'm sorry. No, don't be, you're not missing much with them. But I would highly recommend not only Sharknado, but some of the, shark themed B grade movies. Yeah, yeah. Like, will it give me confidence to get back into the [00:27:00] water again? Oh, yeah. You won't be worried about this. Jurassic Shark. Oh, here we go. Yeah. Six Headed Shark Attack. Yeah. They're actually Two headed, Four headed and Five headed preceding that Shark Side of the Moon. Shark Side. Yeah. Shark Exorcist. Hello? Hello. Trailer Park Shark. Shark Side of the Moon. Yeah. This my favourite is Ghost Shark. It's a film in which, anywhere there's water. Yeah. This giant shark just appears. Someone will be in a, like a workplace environment. Yeah. And they go to get a cup of water from the water cooler and this shark just comes out. Oh God. What it appears or, or a, yeah, at a car wash. Like if it's in the water container, the whole water container just explodes. It just appears. It's a ghost shark, Mart. Anything can happen. So, yeah. Kids playing on slip and slides. Oh, you know, car washes. It's just, it's a permission to have mayhem basically. [00:28:00] Yep. So, must see. Sadly, overlooked by the people from the Academy. That's all I will say. Yes. But yeah, back onto Jaws. The funny thing is that, Spielberg was really worried that people would see him as just a, shark and a truck director because he, he'd just directed Duel, the truck movie. Yes. And so he was worried, but let's face it, Jaws was the best thing he ever did, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Duel. You never ever saw the truck driver, did you? No, I remember it was a great movie. It's a bit like the shark, right? Yeah. The less you saw of it, the more suspense he was, was he a mechanical truck driver? Well, we don’t know, we only saw the boots. They might have been. Look, I, I got a great story Al Yeah? Okay. About driving down to Sydney again. It was the same trip as the last story I told you where I had the experience of my brother seeing me out of the car. Oh yeah. Well. We were heading up one range. I don't know where it was. It was probably New South Wales [00:29:00] somewhere. And remember this is in the seventies and this is when, well, late seventies. This is when Duel was a big movie. Okay. And people were seeing it and it was a great movie. Yeah, I remember. And um, we were my brother again. We were driving, I was driving this time and we are heading up the range. It was double lane going up. Signal lane coming down so you could overtake trucks and things. But as we were coming to the, the hill, the mountain, and it was at night, I could see the truck just hitting the bottom of the mountain starting to climb. Mm-hmm. And I thought, oh yeah, a truck. And as we're getting closer and closer and I was in this 186 s, Monaro, green. Frog green. I remember that car. Yeah, it was a great car. Wish I had it now. Oh yeah. Yeah. We won't go there because I sold it. Yeah. Anyway, so I'm heading and I could see the truck and we're getting closer and closer and he's probably about halfway up the mountain now. And then we start climbing them out and I'm getting closer and closer to [00:30:00] him and he started to wobble it. It wobbled a little bit on the road. Yeah, maybe looking like he's reaching for something. I don't know. Couldn't see him in the cabin, but the truck wobbled a bit and I'm thinking, oh, what's going on? So I'm climbing up next to him and I didn't want to like shoot past him at a million miles an hour. So I'm just driving casually past him. And my brother Gary was sitting on the passenger side and he happened to look up and he ducks down screaming. Accelerate. Said, get out of here. I said, what's happening? And there's this truck driver. He's got double barrel shotgun. Oh, wow. Yeah. And he's waving at around at us. Wow. Whether he was like high on, on No Doze. I don't know. Yeah. But that was probably why he was wobbling to reach across to grab his shotgun. Wow. And he's put it down. So, hey, he's got this gun. And I saw it. It's waving around my brother's head. Wow. Okay. Why he didn't pull the [00:31:00] trigger? I don't know, but I'm so glad he didn't. But Gary said to me, flatten it. So I've just accelerated in third gear, gone backwards. Oh no. And then come up against him again before I just sort of think, you know, like drop down to second. Yeah and then take off. I had plenty of acceleration to take off, but that spur of the moment, I've just flattened it. And it wasn't the V8, it was on 6 cylinder. I've just gone backwards. Oh no. And he came up against him again and he's still waving the thing at us. And then I passed him. So, so did you see him later? No. I just kept driving. Yeah. I got over that hill and we just, we didn't stop or wasn't going to be near that guy. I just thought Wow. Wow. He was pretty scary. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, we survived, but it was just like Duel. Yeah. Wow. You didn't see the guy. I wonder he just saw the gun. You wonder if he was influenced by that movie, or maybe [00:32:00] if it was just a maniac. He was probably just a maniac. I wonder what he's doing now. Or maybe you've got Queensland plates on your car and that's enough to Yeah. Yeah. Was the state of origin around then. No, no. Yeah. Goodness. Well, good story. Yeah. Mm. You're here to tell it. Yeah. Luckily. Now one of the things that constantly blows me away is when you hear, everyday sayings mm-hmm. And you discover that they weren't created a week ago or a couple of years ago. Mm-hmm. You know, they're not kind of like slay or yeet or, or whatever. Yeah. But they're actually created by one William Shakespeare. Okay. This is going to be good. In the1500s. Right. Which is just amazing. So I thought it'd be fun to pull out a few [00:33:00] sayings. So you're saying a lot of these sayings, a lot are from Shakespeare. Totally. He's, he was amazing. And it's amazing how, you know, you hear Shakespeare and it's all Ye olde English. Yeah. And you think, well, all that language is, is kind of passe. Yeah. Until you realize that all the words that he's saying are literally still being used. Wow. And, and mostly the meanings are the same. That's incredible, isn't it? It when you think about it. Someone's using your words. Yeah. So here's one. Come full circle. Come full circle. Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah. What does it mean? Well, so, in a deadlocked argument, or a heated debate, someone's always right. So you can expect someone to have a point of view and, you know. To argue the toss, but some very often you come back to the same point that you started when you're arguing. He says, in King Leah, that we've come full circle. [00:34:00] Geez. Yeah. Here's another one. Eaten me out of my house. Now you've, you've got a son who doesn't mind a feed. Yeah. You know, I thought you were talking about me. But again. He is talking about, Sir John in Henry IV, part two. And yeah, the hostess at the local tavern isn't impressed with his unquenchable appetite and his refusal to pay the tab. Ah, yeah. Eating me out of my house. Yeah, yeah. Elbow room, like really common sayings. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, King John. He is, and this is interesting because he is actually looking for elbow room for his soul to free his conscience up. So he is not physically looking for physical space. Yeah. But nevertheless, he is looking for elbow room for his soul. Wow. Pretty cool. Yeah. A fool's paradise, [00:35:00] Romeo and Juliet. Yeah. Give the devil his due. Henry the fourth part one. There's so many of these things wear my heart on my sleeve. Ah, Roxy Music, did he know Brian Ferry? That's right. I'm not sure on my sleeve. Not sure which came first, but, you know, both great. But yeah, that's Othello. Love is blind. I mean, if we could list every song that uses the lyric, love is blind, yeah, we'd probably have a very long list, but that's from The Merchant of Venice. Neither here nor there. Again, Othello, something in the wind. Comedy of errors. The be all and end all, the naked truth, a wild goose chase. Cruel to be kind. Ah, Dave Edmonds. Yeah. A sorry Site. Fancy [00:36:00] Free, Brave New World. So, I mean, Brave New World. There's a, you know, a novel by Aldous Huxley, and I think people might be forgiven for thinking, well, that's where that expression comes from. Yeah. But it's not, it's from The Tempest. So, you know, setting your teeth on edge, breaking the ice, too much of a good thing. All these things are from one, Shakespeare dot W. Yeah. Which is pretty cool. When you think about it. Yeah. And there's like, there are heaps more so in future episodes we'll look at more Shakespeare. Yeah. And also just look at the origin of words because so often. There's a pretty fascinating story behind it. Yeah. That that'd be a good topic, Al, I reckon. Anyway, I reckon that brings us to the end of this one. We've had a bit of fun. We have talking Jaws and talking, you love your sharks, guns being pointed at you from, from a truck cabin and all [00:37:00] sorts of stuff. Yeah. It's been good. Well that's, that's terrific, Al. Thanks. Alright, well we'll catch you next time folks. Thanks for listening. We do appreciate it. Yeah, see ya. Bye.