Do Go On - 300 - Frane Selak: The Luckiest Unlucky Man in the World

Episode Date: July 21, 2021

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It was recorded in front of a live audience at the Stubordel Studios. Small and intimate and beautiful crowd, thanks to those who came out. If you wanna watch it, you can still see it. It's up there to be streamed at saucepresence.com. There'll be a link in the show notes. Check it out there. It's an extended cut apart from, you know, there's little bits that have been chopped out of this episode, but also mainly because, you know, I try to cut out things that would be a bit confusing if

you weren't in the room. But also, there's a whole second section of the show where Dave takes Jess and I through a quiz going back through the first 300 episodes of the show. So it's a really fun cool time. Tune in there if you want to watch all that. I'm also up doing shows in Queensland for the rest of the week, including a live primates, second-ever live primates episode. And if you want to see that come along, it's a good chat comedy in Brisbane this Friday night at 9.30. I'm also doing the stand-up show

at good chat. Just before that, at 7 o'clock, there's details for all tickets for all this stuff in the show notes. Also, base comedy in the Gold Coast tonight, if you're listening on the Wednesday and Thursday as well as I believe Sunday. And then Monday I'm at SBC comedy. So come check me out if you want to, if you're in and around Brisbane in the Gold Coast. Anyway enough of that, let's get on with the show. Hello and welcome to the 300th episode of Do Go On. My name is Dave Warnke and as always,

I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Schewett. Yeah! I guess everyone can eat anna as always, I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Schewett, yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Hey, Dave. How's it going?

Good man, how are you? Pretty good, 300, we did it. Yeah. Was that the goal from the beginning? 300 done? Yeah. Well, yeah. Oh.

Yeah, it was really a few early, so it's not 300 weeks yet. It's really only 2.9 We've actually gone early here. Oh, no, it's not a 300th week. No, which is what people normally celebrate 300 weeks of podcasting how long have you been alive? Today 15 Thousand weeks. I'm very old. And that means nothing to me. Yeah. Is that a lot?

Oh, so much. Cool. So we're actually doing this podcast live at the Super Dolls series. This is the first time we've done one with a live audience here. They know that already, but I'm talking to the people listening on the podcast now. Yeah. Which, what I think talking to the people listening on the podcast now. Yeah.

Which, what I think of the podcast is sort of like entertainment on the go. Whoa. Whoa. That's something I've coined. I don't know if it'll take off, but. Unbelievable. I reckon that's great. Oh, use that.

Yeah. Great. I think that, yeah. Oh, use that. Yeah. Great. I think that's, yeah. Well, remember to credit me when you do. Yeah, I will. I will. That's a feminist. Yeah.

Yeah. Long have been. I think it was one of the first, actually. I said, when I got on the scene, women were huddled in a corner. And I said, come join us. What scene is this? What scene? Are the women huddled in a corner at the beginning? The beginning of time.

Yeah, well not quite the beginning of time. Right, but early on in the scene of time. Did I say scene? Yeah. Early on in the scene, I was just checking what scene. Oh, the feminist scene. Gotcha. It was very early on didn't exist yet. Yeah, I invented it. Yeah. Like I coined that term before. Anyway, yeah, I just think women should be given a chance. So, and it's, you know, some people say it's brave, but I just think, I just think that's right. And I'll stand up. I don't care if I get persecuted for it. And can I just say thank you.

Yeah, you can. Yeah. And can I just cut you off just there and also say thank you. You've done a lot for those in the corner. Dave, can you explain for the 300th time what is this show? Well, for the past 299 episodes, what we've done here is taking in turns the report on a topic often suggested by one of our listeners, go away, do it in a research, bring it back in the form of a report, and then tell the other guys what they're going to talk about.

Nearly got there, the end bit. I tell off. It sounded so good. What they're going to talk about? Basically, Matt's got a report he's going to give to you and I, and he's got a question to start with, I believe. That's right. Okay, here's my question. What do elephants, horseshoes, folly fclovers, and shooting stars often symbolize?

A good night out. Jess, if you wanted there you don't know. Is it luck? It's luck! Is it luck? It's luck! Fuuuuck! Wow! Jess wins again.

So, for the 300th episode, I'm doing a triptych or triptych. Some people say is how you meant to say it. Of reports about incredibly lucky and or unlucky people. Oh! The first one is about a Croatian music teacher named Frane Selach. Okay, the world's luckiest, unlucky man. So I mean, it cancels each other out and he's a pretty normal. Just a man.

He's the world's man. Check him out. Check him out. Bring him out. Look at him. Is it bad? World's man. This one was suggested by Quackatomic

from Penville, Indiana in the United States. John Nicholas Bourdon from Montreal, Canada, Atticus from OJ, California, USA, and Tom DeWilton Holmes from Norwich, Norfolk in the UK. There is a lot of information about Slack's early years. Seems he was born in the late 20s or early 1930s, depending on the article you read. It's a few, yeah. Journalism is not what I used to be. By the late 50s or early 60s, again, depending on the article you read.

His story becomes a little better known as this is when his series of unfortunate events begins. In 1962, Slack was in his early 30s. Or. Oh, yes. That means there it is. It's blue off to take the Caledon dish. And according to Chris Littlechild, writing for Ripley's.com, believe it or not. While writing the rails from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik, a freak accident saw his train catapulted

into a river. Seventeen passengers were killed, but he was able to swim to shore with nothing but a broken arm and hyperthermia for his troubles. This harrowing event was just a drop in the ocean compared to what was in store for him next. Can I just quickly ask you to explain how what is a train catapulting look like? Like they get to a certain bit and then it just flies up in the air. Yeah. Launch. Yeah. Wow.

Yeah, it just went... you know what I mean? They got to get that fixed. It's too late for that, yeah. So this was one of his, oh, the first of his seven major brushes with death. The second incident is perhaps the most incredible. And then the rest will be pretty disappointing. It's a shame it didn't finish with the big incredible. And then the rest will be pretty disappointing. It's a shame it didn't finish for the big one. The rest is like paper cuts.

Ow! Ow! Ow! Five more paper cuts. Spraying is ankle one time. According to John Kuroski, running for all that's interesting, Fray and Selac had never been on a plane before, but desperate times called for desperate measures.

Cornelac, the year was 1963, and the 32-year-old Croatian man had just received word that his mother was ill, 32 or 30, something. So he found out his mom was ill, which made him determine to immediately fly from Zagreb to Riyaka to see her. The earliest flight available was already fully booked, but Selak said he managed to persuade the sympathetic airline to let him sit at the plane's rear with the flight attendant,

different time. He just went, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on! Come on! That's part of the back, that'll cushion on the wall. Come on! I'll just sit in the toilets, fun. That's all right! I need to go anyway.

Not a gentleman. Um... Select recalled that his first experience with air travel went smoothly until shortly before landing when the unthinkable happened. Ooh. One of the plane's doors somehow flew open. No one was thinking that way though.

As the lactol the telegraph in 2003, one minute we were drinking tea and the next the door was ripped open and the flight attendant was sucked in a mid-air followed shortly by me. Ooh. What about the tea? The tea was safe. Oh, thank goodness. The tea had a seatbelt on.

It's a cute. That's really cute. I'll be back in the chair in front of you just a little seatbelt for you, cup of tea. And this watching you, everyone, get sucked out. Oh, no. Who's going to drink me? I'm going cold. That's all tea wants.

Oh. You said the steward out and then also Frank? Frank. Frank. Frank, we had no Mike Frank. Frank. Sorry. I mean, some articles probably refer to him as Frank.

That's beyond that. I do it. Someone who suggested him also refer to him as Frank. Got you. Paul Frane. That's the seventh new death thing yet. He almost got punched by a man. Confusing him as a Frank. So he's been sucked out of a plane. He's been sucked out of a plane. So he's been sucked out of a plane. He's been sucked out of a plane. Something that you never want to happen to when you're on a plane. That's one of the last things you want to have at a plane. Yeah, you are not wrong. Sucked.

That was so intense. Man, he was sucked out of a plane. And you think me saying it was intense? Yeah. Well, wait until you get sucked out of a plane. Holy shit. Yeah. Obviously, it's totally different when you're sucked off on a plane.

Obviously. That's one of the best things I can have to do on a plane. It's sucked out of a plane. Yeah. No, no, no. And when those two get confused, it's a real nightmare. Yeah, yeah. No, no, no, no, suck on.

Yeah. Yeah. Too late. Too late. But's a real nightmare. No, no, no, no, no, suck it! Yeah! Too late. Too late. But it was too late. I must say jump after, but good luck getting a suck off, fall into the ground. How can you focus on it when you're plunging to your death? That's a very good question.

I mean, I got a pretty strong mind, but... I'm trying so hard to push him towards a regret face. Yeah. And I feel like I'm close. Sipin, there's a new me, no regrets. No regrets. Soon after the plane crashed, so they flew out and then the plane crashed, uh, leaving the flight attendant two pilots, 17 other passengers dead.

But not so, Ak. What? He miraculously survived after landing in a haystack. What are you talking about? What? He awoke in hospital, shaken, but not particularly injured. Just covered in hay.

He was furious. What is all this? I was gonna get a suck off. That's not the right term, it's a suck job. Please never look me in the eye when you say suck job. Suck job. Haha. According to Selak via Kuroski, in 1966, also the other Saints, when they want to know me. The only time they've been lucky. Yeah!

Feels good. One for day. Haha. So according to Selak, in 1966 he was on a bus, so this is the third one now, which is not, it's better than paper cuts, but... I mean, you were absolutely right, now I know what it is. Sucked out of a plane, how did you top that? Laying in a haystack, well, everyone else dies. He's gonna get sucked out of a bus.

See, he's still letting that stuff. Start to understand why he's known as unlucky but lucky. He's so unlucky to be involved in all these accidents. Right, yes. You don't want to be anywhere near this man. No. So, in 1966, he was on a bus that skidded into a river, leaving for dead while he swam safely to the banks and suffered only minor cuts and bruises. Apparently, the local neighborhood was aware of his rotten luck and, like they were saying, Kroski quoted one of his neighbours, put it like this.

If I heard Frayne had booked a flight or a train, I would cancel. I don't get it. That's fair. What point do you start thinking this guy is in on that? I was just thinking he's one of the best serial killers in history. He's just gotten away with it. Wow. This people dying left right in the center and he's just swimming away.

I hadn't considered that. That's a good point. By 1970, Selak had given up on public transport and was getting around by car instead. Much safer. No one ever dies in the car. No. This change of transport wasn't enough

for him to ward off the accidents. One day, he was cruising down the motorway when his car's fuel tank exploded. Oh. Luckily, Selach was able to escape his automobile just in time. He learned to say hi. It's a very hazy country. Christ, you got a lot of hay everywhere. So, yeah, the fuel tank just exploded. Yeah, just an exploding fuel tank. Right. Sure. That's number four. That happens. an exploding fuel tank. Right. Sure. And that's number four. That happens. Yeah, that's number four. Wow. Three years later in 1973, his car tried to kill him again. Kill a car

is very funny. This time, a malfunctioning fuel pump caused an engine fire, somehow resulting in flames shooting through the car's air vents, poor old select. Again, he survived, though much of his hair didn't. Oh, it was singed off. But, above that, he's all right. Grew up. You could just use some hay as it's a hay. Yes, no, you think you're playing. Hay to pay.

And he could bite on labor, they need to, wait, hang on. Oh. Hang on, he can get it, he can buy it on labor, they need to... Wait, hang on. He can get it, he can get it. Uh, hate to pay, hate to pay no more to pay. What about... If he steals it because he hates to pay. He hates to pay.

Some of that. Oh, we'll add to that bit out. The pun king is struck again. Croskey continues, after 22 accident three years, Selac said he survived being hit by a bus while walking in Zagreb in 1995. He just bounced off the front. Got up, bounced off the front, walked away. The following year, 1996, Selac claimed that he was driving in the Croatian mountains

when an oncoming truck caused him to swerve off a 300-foot cliff. However, he said that he was able to jump out of the last second and watch from a tree at the cliff's edge as his car plummeted downwards. He had time to climb a tree! I think he jumped down, he grabbed on the tree, and that's how he survived right on that. This guy's full of shit. Now he's leaning into the unlucky thing, and he's like, yeah, and then I jumped out of the car, and it went off a cliff, and I saw the whole thing from a tree. Shut up, framed. I believe in. And I saw the whole thing from a tree. Shut up, framed.

I believe in. Select the telegraph that his friends were eventually hesitant to get in a vehicle with him, or it even be near him at all. They came a stage when I was lucky to have any friends at all, he said. Many stopped seeing me saying I was a bad karma. I was bad karma.

I was a bad karma. I was bad karma. I was bad karma. I just know there will be no more accidents yet. I'm going to enjoy my life now. I feel like I've been reborn. Why would you do things yourself like that? It's the worst thing to say, Frank. Well, that's seven. We've gone through the seven.

God has been watching over me all these years. The devil has moved on to torment someone else. He said this in 2003. Ask when the reporter asked him about his history with the accidents, he said, you could look at it two ways. I was either the un luckiest man in the world or the luckiest. I prefer to believe the latter. But of course, all good things must come to an end. Oh no! And so did Sylax run of near death accidents.

When his luck took an unexpected turn in 2003, soon after that interview. Nah, it's not. It's just before he bought a lot of ticket and won a million dollars. No! No! Oh, my God. I mean, clearly, you're going to win if you buy all the tickets. He's got him all. He won a million dollars.

Million bucks. Oh, you know, about the equivalent of a million bucks. And then it all caught on fire. $1 million. Million bucks. Oh, you know, about the equivalent of a million bucks in And then it all caught on fire Wow reporting on his big win in 2003 the Scotsman wrote at the time now the four times married pensioner is buying a house Unlocking love Buying a house a a car, and a speedboat. Absolutely planned. Oh! No!

And he's also planning to marry his girlfriend. I feel like my life is just beginning said. In a 2014 article for the BBC, writer Guy Deloni stated that Selack had given the majority of his winnings away to friends and family. But then according to Little Child, he spent the last of his winnings on a hip operation and on a shrine of the Virgin Mary in thanks for his good fortune. Then he told something slightly different every reporter was now there.

The lottery win was the first opportunity for the world to hear Slack's amazing tales of survival. And he recounted the seven tales to newspapers like England, the telegraph, and Germany's Durspiegel. I must say that right. The Spiegel. Oh, the Spiegel, so. Is that Mira? Durspiegel. And then, so, after the lotto when his story started spreading, more people were in

the rest of his time, all these wild tales. It started moving around the internet. In 2014, Slack's tale was turned into a three-minute video by a New York animator, David Ransom, and his video went viral with over three million views. Despite the video's success, its subject was unhappy with the telling. Delaney quoted local Croatian reports of Slack's reaction

writing, there's a grab based daily, Dutangie list asked for his reaction, and he said, the Americans have no idea. They drew a mustache on me and mixed up all my accidents. He's nuts. Maybe they will earn big money. He's talking about this YouTuber. Maybe they will earn big money while I live on a pension.

At least send me $1,000. You want to see me with your dollars? Yeah, I know, it's so weird. Sell your speak when you dumb shit. That's such a strange, Rukis, like maybe they'll earn big money. I live on a pension. At least send me $1,000. You do make huge life-changing cash on a viral video. Yeah.

So he's probably right there. They should send him a thousand dollars. Fucking, Ellie, shouldn't... No, don't. No. The animator, David Ransom, sounded pretty shuddered by their actions saying, I'm very sorry that he was upset by his depiction. If he would like to set the record straight, I would be more than happy to amend the video to more

accurately represent his image. Take the mustache off. Frame by frame, Henry Cavill's stuff. Take the mustache off. And he's like, I'll add or remove any details he wants, but the video is still up as it was back then. With mustache? Oh. But obviously, it didn't get in contact. As this story spread around the internet, doubts about its authenticity grew.

According to Kuroski, in the age of Google, those who doubt select point to the lack of official records documenting a fatal Croatian plane crash in 1963, or a fatal train crash the preceding year. At the same time, the BBC gave the year of his first accident as 1957, not 1962, and said that it took place on a bus not a train.

Right. Meanwhile, there have been inconsistencies in Slack's own stories. When the telegraph interviewed him in 2003, he said that he'd been playing the lottery consistently for years before finally winning. But when the telegraph spoke to him again in 2010, when he said that he gave most of his fortune away to various charitable causes, the story was that he'd won the jackpot on his very first time ever

playing. The year of his lotto win was likewise changed across the various accounts. All relatively minor quibbles, in the corner of this guy, I reckon they're pretty big quibbles. They could easily be the result of some simple mistakes, but these kinds of discrepancies are harder to ignore when the survival stories at the center of frame selects biography are so harder to believe themselves. The website hoaxorfact.com.

That's a good website. It is also a bit skeptical of the claims writing, the wild claims of deadly accidents are not verified. There are no official records of the said accidents where frames are like cheated death seven times and survived. In 2010 the meta picture website published the story about frame select. Later in a comment a Facebook user named Shalco J. Co.O. Slack said Frane Select is his father and that none of the mentioned accidents happened to him. Throwing dad under the bus. He said, except for a couple of minor car accidents, he explained that his father dreamed of

fame or his life and fabricated the story after winning the jackpot. Writing, another media that copy all those lies, photos of fake, and none of that happened to my father, all caps. My father! Accept a couple of minor car accidents. After winning that jackpot, my dad, who dreamed of fame all his life, has found and paid local journalists to write about amazing life full of closing counters with death. Some foreign correspondents in Croatia copied the story

without checking any evidence as all proofs. Internet picked it up and Croatian Baron Minhausen was born. Old man make you journalists all fools. Oh. Oh. That's going to make for a really awkward family dinner. I couldn't even figure out if I couldn't find anything to confirm that he had a son if that was his son or you know.

So someone just changed their name? Yeah. So yeah, I mean it sounds like a lot of it is bullshit, which is a shame because the Patreon supporters vote for this topic and it sounded so good. And then the more I read, I'm like, nah. It's probably bullshit. It's an old man talking shit. Yeah.

Oh, no. Oh, dear. So, yeah. Of Celax, amazing last story. Kuroski is also dubious, though he hedges his bets a bit saying, perhaps his story contains a mix of truth and lies. Perhaps he's misremembered some details that have caused inconsistencies.

Or perhaps those who have retold his stories have mistakenly added inconsistencies themselves and thus muddied the waters. What are you reckon? Ah, full of shit. LAUGHTER Ah, this man is my new god. LAUGHTER

I believe everything he says. Because honestly, why would you lie and make the like most gnarly accident number two? If you were, you'd build it to seven. So that makes me think that it's all for. But then would you think that's what a like that's what a lie would do. how convenient that my most dramatic near-death experience was the last one. I'll hide it in there somewhere. And then the last one can just be like, I'm out of character. Yeah, it was a big mistake, because that's the one.

There's websites saying all the world playing crashes of 1963 and just lists some old, like non-incroachial. all the world playing crashes of 1963 and just lists them all. Oh shit. None in Croatia. So it's... But, mate, but I mean, it was 1963 all late 50s. But also they went on then. Yeah. What a fun website. That would be to browse late at night. All the playing crashes there have ever been.

Well, that was my night last night. That's got to feel good. Because people always say, like, oh, you're more likely to get hit by a cart. I don't care. It's still scary up there, isn't it? Yeah. Bloody hell.

It's pretty fun. I love the detail. We're about to have tea. You know, that's. That's fun. That's good. Yeah. So I felt I was like, I could have like padded it out,

made it the whole report. But it felt like a bit unsatisfying to have the episode about a story that is possibly fully bullshit. So I've got two more stories about some very lucky slash unlucky people, and these ones are almost definitely true. Okay. Okay. These are these ones are almost definitely true. OK. OK. These ones are true.

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So Anne Hodges was in Alabama on the 30th of November 1954. Nothing strange here. That's where she lived. OK, I was going to say where'd she been up until that point. During that afternoon, a meteor lit up the sky, moving at approximately 200 kilometers per hour, visible from parts of Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi. Locals reported seeing a bright, reddish light crossing the sky like a Roman candle trailing smoke.

Others described it simply as a fireball. It's like, oh, like a meteor? Just a... Oh, there's a meteor it simply as a fireball. It's like, oh, like a meteor. Just a... Oh, there's a meteor in the sky. Fireball. Fireball, yeah. According to Carrie Corrigan, a research geologist at the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum.

So the name again. Carrie Corrigan. Woo. Woo. Jess and I, we didn't hear anything after that. Yeah, you're going to have to repeat that. You're going to have to repeat that. But that was Carri Corrigan.

According to Carri Corrigan. Ooh, there it is. Ooh. Ooh. A research geologist at the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum, she said, meteorites are not rare. They've been falling on Earth since the planet's beginning, and they fall all over the Earth.

Most meteorites found by humans on Earth are in the range between the sizes of a golf ball and a fist. They lose about half their volume when passing through the planet's atmosphere. A great deal of the extra-trestrial material landing on Earth falls into the ocean, and much of it is extremely small. We get hit by dust all the time, according to Gary Corrigan. We hit by dust.

Yeah. Is that a fun fact? No. Dave, is that a dust? Yeah, that's dull. That's dull. So we get hit by intergalactic dust all the time. Yeah, well, if she'd ridden it that way, Dal. That's Dal. That's Dal. So we get hit by intergalactic dust all the time. Yeah, well, if she'd written it that way, yeah.

That sounds good. She's dust. She can't spin a yarn. Oh, cool dust. That's fun. Yay. Dust. I'm trying to jazz this up for you, but.

That's you trying to jazz it up? That's. I'm trying to jazz it up. Yeah, speak hard. Come on down for some dust. He can't jazz up dust. Yeah, I'm just the best I can do. I just did.

Intergalactic speckles. Speckles, I'm here for that. Speckles, speckles. Yeah. So as the meteor lit up the southern American skies and Hodges was oblivious to the spectacle, caught on a Alice George writing for the Smithsonian, the 34 year old lay napping cosly under quilts

on the sofa in her Alabama home. Was it night time? It was 2.46 pm. Okay. Or was about to be, I guess, up to now. It's anywhere up to 2.45. I was just making sure it was a nap and not asleep. Okay.

It was night time. It's just asleep, isn't it? making sure it was a nap and not a sleep. Okay. It was nighttime. It's just a sleep, isn't it? Even if it's three hours. Oh I mean do we have time to get into this? Well constitutes a nap. Where does it go into keep territory? Is it just a sleep? Yeah, I yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, I think of all sleep's as naps Just a little naps big naps. Yeah, medium naps. Just live naps. A little naps, big naps, medium naps. Okay. That's a good way to live. I love that. I love that. So I've described you up to 245.

Yes. Let me now tell you what happens at 246 pm. When she woke with a shock as the meteor fizzed like a bullet through Hodges' roof, smashing into her radio before hitting her. She was hit by a meteor. And hit her radio. Was the radio okay? The radio got fucked up. No!

Is it enough? It turns it on suddenly. What station was it on? Darren Hinch is blasting. I should have done that. That's such an old reference to you. Darren Hinch. You know he's in politics now.

Not anymore. Okay. Put me back in my place. We're both old. Is he back in radio? Good on him. He's written a book. Sorry, I'm sorry to eat that.

Sorry I'm sorry to eat that. Does anyone heard of Darren Hinch? Does anyone heard of Darren Hinch? It used to be a big deal. OK, well, I met Darren Hinch once. What? Very briefly, I was doing trivia at a pub in Hawthorne and I was setting it up, and there's all a legendary hotel out the back of the beer garden,

and I'm like, oh, that's Darren Hinch. And my job was to go up to the table and say, would you like to play with your audience? I said, oh, excuse me, Mr. Hinch, would you like to play trivia? And he goes, son, I've just been at a wake, and then walked to work. LAUGHTER

So do you want a sheet or not? Yeah, that's really rude. It's a yes or no question. You can just say no thanks. So was he consoling like a widow in black? Sorry, my sorry to butt in here. Do you guys want to play trivia or not? Yeah, if you guys aren't going to play, could you move on?

Yeah, get out of here. I'm gonna play trivia or not. Yeah. If you guys aren't gonna play, could you move on please? Yeah, get out of here. I mean, it's fun. Could you even more an elsewhere please? Okay, so it's hit the radio. Let's put down here to one time. Yeah. It's obviously very distracting.

Daren Hinge has gone off. What about Darren Hinge? Darren Hinge is also no longer on. He's brother Darren. So how's she gonna listen to the radio now? Well, she's not that's the thing. On what? Remarkably though, despite being hit by the 8.5 pound 4.5 billion year old space rock.

Oh, you really chastened up there. That's good. I did a bit of Google and I, can you call a meteor or a rock? I think you can. Okay. I'm so worried about scientists listening. Yeah. As we know, there's a lot of them. You don't want to get a scientist giving you an arm actually. Yeah, you don't get the science community offside. Space rock. You're smashing a beaker.

Those guys. They're fucking scary. So she gets hit by this 4.5 billion year old rock. Those guys, they're fucking scary. Yeah. So she gets hit by this 4.5 billion year old rock. Space rock. Yeah, space rock. And all she got was a massive bruise down on her left side, which you can see here. Oh.

That's a beauty. That's one of the best bruises I've ever seen. That's one of the bet. Yeah, that's great. So I guess we'll link to the photo for people. Yeah, for people listening to the podcast. It looks, yeah, it's got a real space rock blue. Yeah, all I, doesn't it?

If you just saw that photo and someone said, what do you reckon calls this, bruise? What would you say? Space rock, yeah. Space, oh yeah, I could. It could be right. It would have been so weird. It just went up for you. He thought about saying something else. Which would have been so weird. It was just an app for you.

He thought about saying someone else. Yeah. Which would have been absolutely bonkers. Yeah. Oh, Rick and, uh. Uh, he'd buy car. Car, tractor car. Yeah, tractor car.

That's not even a thing, man. Yeah. He made it up a new motor transport. It's fucking guy. So he's been nothing but trouble. Nothing but trouble. Since he walked in. So according to George, Hodges remains the only human being known to have suffered She's not in the trouble. She's walked in.

So according to George, Hodges remains the only human being known to have suffered an injury after being struck by a meteorite. Oh. There was a cow that died. But humans, she's the only one. And is the cow the only cow? Only cow. Only known Cal.

I mean, no known Cal. Wow. But so I just, so I can't help but circle back a little bit. The radio was not able to be repaired. Oh, I imagine you lost the radio. Imagine if you died. And the last thing you hear is Darren Hinch. That's the way I want to go out.

I also work on radio. You couldn't. What on your interview, Darren, Olchunee? Yeah. Oh, that's a great name. Darren. Well, you wouldn't want to listen to me on the radio on your deathbed.

That hurts, Matt. That really hurt. Now, I'd be there in person back announcing Flume. Back announcing Flue, He's dying off. He's old. He's old. He's old. He's dying off flu. According to Michael Reynolds, a Florida State college astronomer, you have a better chance of getting hit by a tornado and a bolt of lightning and a hurricane all at the same time. Wow. Which makes sense because I mean this is only a vapon once. Yeah. But how many times have that exact combination happened?

And how many cows? Boss, have you seen Twister? Yeah. Yeah. Makes you think. Madose. So apparently a larger meteorite split into it that fell toward the ground. One piece hit Hodges and the other landed a few miles away and a farmer found it.

He was going through his plowing his field with a donkey and the donkey is like, well, what was that? Yeah. And then he went back and he heard on the radio because this was still working. It must be nice. Darren's back announcing a meteor. Oh, that was flew more so this just in the media more. So he went, he heard that a meteor hit and he's like,

oh, that's what that weird black space rock must have been. So he took it and he apparently sold it, got a car. You have to go back because he's first thought was, oh, what's that weird black space rock? Anyway, I keep playing with you. Yeah, that's an endless spot. Yeah. He sold it.

Yeah, he sold it and apparently, or to 1950s reports, he made a pretty penny. Wow. The entire meteorite is officially known as the Sila Corker meteorite, which is what the town in Alabama was called. Beautiful. But it's popularly known as the Hodges meteorite. Hodges' husband, Eugene, knew nothing about the extraterrestrial invasion of his home until the end of his work day When he returned home to find his house surrounded by a crowd of people. We had a little excitement around here today and Hodges said Little ex-Iman that was her in the bed

With this huge bruise bit of excitement. I'd be milking it for all the sympathy I could. I'd be like, oh, you better get me a cup of. I've been hit by a meteor. I would get myself home but the meteor. I think you better make dinner. I don't know how long could you milk that, 10 years? Honestly, this lady was having a nap at 245. I don't think she's a go-getter. LAUGHTER Could it, could it be working on that shift? I don't know.

I look eye-opened, have not. I know. That's why I know. How much more piece of shit you got to be? Takes one and have nice. I know. That's why I know. How much your piece of shit you got to be? Takes one and a half. To be asleep. Love and afternoon nap. Which I call a small nap.

George also mentioned that in the hubbub after the meteorite strike, and Hodges became a minor celebrity. Her photo appeared on the cover of Life Magazine's December 13 edition with an article entitled, A Big Booser from the Sky. It's pretty fun. Okay. I could have done better, but all right.

Go incidentally. Medi saw you better. Medi saw. He just did. And then like an arrow. Check out my Medi saw. It's a big, big big bruiser from the sky. It was at the...

Sounds like meaty aww. Meaty saw. It works written down. Right? Thank you. Coincidentally, Hodges lived across from a driving theatre named The Comet, which featured a neon depiction of a comet soaring through space. Pretty well. As Hodges lived in a rental, the owner of the rental wanted to claim rights to the rock. She's like, that question That question of my house that is my media or And Hodges like no, but it hit me yeah it chose me

The landlady birdie guy thought it belonged to her and Hodges said suing is the only way she'll ever get it. I think God intended it for me after all it hit me Yeah, that's what that's that god works in the If you why if he wants you to have something He'd hit me. Yeah. That's what, that's it. Go for it. It's a good serious word. If you want, if he wants you to have something, it will shoot it. It will shoot it from the sky, like a taco cannon or a t-shirt cannon at a festival concert. Taco cannons made it here. Wait, I went to a festival in Austin, Texas.

Stay with us. And that's on an episode we recorded for next week. Anyway, so... You're gonna love it. But there was it. They stopped the between bands. This truck came out with flags waving and stuff and they shot.

So onto the stage. They drove onto the stage of mini sort of buggy. So, music and flags and everything. And then they shot... They shot... Burritos? Burritos. I said, Arcas, didn't I?

They might, yeah, imagine Harchel. Harchel, Harchel, open. So, did you get a burrito from the festival? Yeah, they were cold by the time I got to. Breakfast burritos, heavy on the egg. It was the egg in a wrap. I mean, it was fun to see Yeah, it was less fun to eat, but the cannon doesn't warm them up. You think so the way out Matigrad sound Yeah, that's definitely some king so I

Um the cannon didn't eat up my It doesn't think, it definitely isn't King's own out. You're the worst customer to music festival. The candidate need on my proof. The candidate need on my proof. The case eventually was settled out of court with Guy, the homeowner, the land lady, getting $500 to let Hodges keep the meteorite. When Eugene Hodges was unable to find a buyer for it, unfortunately the other half of it sold, apparently made a mini fortune out of it. They couldn't find, I don't know if they're asking too much or what, so the family ended up using it as a door stop. A $500 door stop, and eventually it was donated to the Alabama Museum of Natural History. So, Anne Hodges was amazingly unlucky to be hit by a meteor, but I guess by the same token.

Pretty lucky to survive it. Very lucky unlucky. You see the theme here? I'm drawing. Yeah. Yeah, you made that quite clear at the beginning of the episode. I'm starting to piece it together. People are going to hear more and more and more. I'm connecting some dots. Let's see what story number three has to reveal. So this is the final one of the three. And it happened in a small village of Sadeto in Spain with a population of less than 300. Pretty new town or village it was set up in the 50s or 60s, depending on which article you read. I'm going to read a bunch of this from an article by Suzanne Daley writing for the New York Times in early 2012. Just a few weeks ago, the 70 households

in this isolated farming village were struggling under the double whammy of Spain's economic downturn and the ravages of a severe drought. Some were even thinking of passing up Spain's huge Christmas lottery known as El Gordo, or the Fat one, which is something of a national obsession. But they bought tickets out of loyalty to the Homemakers Association, which makes a small percentage of the sale. So a local community group goes around and sells all their tickets and they get a little cut. So they all, the tan ended up still buying the tickets. And their number came in.

No. All but one household in San Diego held at least a piece of the winning ticket in the lottery's huge first prize of $950 million. The biggest ever. Ooh! Some of San Diego's residents, mostly farmers and unemployed construction workers, one millions. The least fortunate came away with a minimum of $130,000, and the giddy feeling that life in its mysterious ways was giving them another chance.

It is one of the rare bits of happy news amid the relentlessly gloomy European economic crisis in which Spain has been one of the hardest of the hard luck cases. But it has not come without its own cost. The village, until now just a dot on the map, about three hours northwest of Barcelona, Barcelona, has been inundated with salespeople and fortune seekers ever since. On a recent morning, the vendors just keep showing up. Bankers in suits offering high interest rates. Car salesmen talking up B&Ws and furniture dealers going door to door. Want a boy, Kirch?

They're carrying you care? Yeah, the sofa on their back. Like many other local farmers, Jose Manuel Canella Cumbra, who had recently invested in more efficient irrigation techniques, worried about how he would meet his payments, but his wife bought two tickets worth $260,000, and his son found two more she had bought earlier and had forgotten about, bringing the total to $520,000. Imagine that, I got, I forgot.

She's for fun about it. It's just like a donation of the local thing, a bit of fun. I kept saying, look for some more, look for some more. LAUGHTER But this money means that now we can breathe. And the best part is that it isn't just me, everybody won. So it's just a really nice tale about a town.

It's like no one's left out, apart from one guy. That sucks. The day of the lottery announcement was collective madness, the resident said, as they realized how many of their neighbours had won, too. As new spread, the farmers raced into town on their tractors. The mayor rose a ponds. They got there like six hours later.

They were racing. Whoa! They were just outwording them. We'll see you there. We're just out walking him. We'll see you there. We're just gonna walk. So the mayor rose up on's, used a megaphone to congratulate everyone. Annika Bourday, the cafe manager, ran into the street with her socks on. Fun data.

Even though that holds in the toes. And shoes on top. Yeah, she was wearing socks. Bit of fun. In what seemed like 20 minutes, the bankers were on hand to collect the tickets and then the local news media showed up. Some of the ladies talked about going to the hairdresser, Mayor Pond said, but the hairdresser won, too.

And she said, I'm not working today. So that ended that. The lottery first established in 1812 as a huge event in Spain. Many people take the morning off to watch the televised coverage of the numbers being drawn from a gilded spinning cage. Spain's lottery works differently from those in the United States and Australia. This year there were 1800 first prize winning tickets with the same number.

That's why a whole town can win it even though they bought a lot of different tickets. It's kind of a nicer way of doing it. So they're all basically buying a share of different tickets. It's kind of a nicer way of doing it. And so they're all basically buying a share of this thing. As the tickets cost $26, actually had a full share of it. They are often broken down to $6.50, participation, and they're the ones that ended up getting you $130 grand. The Sardeto Homemakers Association sells the tickets every year,

and usually that's about $1,300, which it uses to pay for food and decorations during local festivals. This year, the tickets, the women sold here and in visits to 17 neighboring villages, bought in more than 150 million in winnings. Even now, the residents of Sanito are prone to giggling when they retell the stories of where they were

when they heard, and how they almost did not buy any tickets or how someone's grandmother had a secret stash of tickets tucked away in a purse. But selling the tickets was difficult this year, even the cheapest participation were expensive for some. At one point, Marie Carmen LaBaya, a member of the Homemakers Association, tried to sell a ticket to a friend whose husband was unemployed, but a friend could only promise to pay her later. When the number was called, the friend still had not paid, but Miss Lambaya had saved the ticket for her anyway. She was afraid to call me and ask Miss Lambaya said, so her son called my son and asked him whether I'd really save the ticket.

And I said, of course I did. And then there was a lot of crying. And I said, of course I did. And then there was a lot of crying. That's nice. So far, though no one has splurged on anything much, Mayor Pond said. Are you going to see Mercedes going up and down our streets, you said? I don't think so. People are going to invest in the fields and maybe you're so far. That's so bleak.

It's interesting, because I watched Dockos of many years gone by, and they really, they just kept farming and keeping it all pretty normal. It was funny that the documentary crew would be talking to me like, now we didn't make any big purchases, and then the Docko camera would sort of pander the corner where there's a huge TV. I grabbed piano.

I grabbed piano. Now now we didn't splash out on anything. I say from the top they're giant horse. They got the one, the bigger the horse, the more offensive they are. Some like Mr. Panell, the farmer, hope that the money will keep the next generation in particular is signing the village. In the 60s, Sadeto had 400 residents, but nowadays only 250 people live there. Young people have moved on just because there's no opportunities.

But after this, there's a whole new section of the town where the kids, the next generation of built houses, and they're all hanging around, so the population has grown again. That's nice. Yeah. The only resident who did not win was Kostus Mitzos Tarkas, a Greek filmmaker who moved to the village for the love of a woman, which did not work out. Oh, Kostis! Oh, Kostis, a fortune.

Oh, no! Oh! Oh! How do I get that in there? Upon Martha. Yeah. He actually understands that they work. I was thinking, how do I get that in there? Upon Martha, see? He actually understands how they work. Oh, Master... Master Bell's there before King.

Sorry. That is touching. So, he moved there for love. The relationship didn't work, but he stayed, and then didn't buy a lot of ticket. He still lives in a barn. He's restoring about half a mile outside the village. Somehow the homemakers had overlooked him this year as they made their rounds.

Oh, so it's not like he didn't even say, it's not like he was a scrooge. I don't want to participate in that. They just didn't offer him a ticket. That's what, yeah, that's what a few. One of them is like, he chose not to, but a few of the articles are like, they just didn't make it to his house, because a little bit out of town. They didn't make it to his barn. Yeah.

It's so funny as well. They just didn't make it to his house, it was a little bit out of town. They didn't make it to his barn. Yeah. Ha ha ha ha. Uh, it's so funny as well. No one goes, you know, there's one of these ones with the millions. I'll give you one of these little part, Disappearance Costas. No. But I'll tell you later why. They think he's the real winner here.

Mr. Mitsakis said it would have been nice to win, but he has benefited nonetheless. He had been trying to sell some land without much success the day after the lottery, a neighbor called to say he would buy it. The next day another neighbor called, but Mr. Misakis refused to get into a bidding war. This is the whole town is so sweet, right? This is a small village he said, you don't want bad feelings. According to an article on dw.com, it took a day. Yes, it is my website. Yes.

It took a day and a half before Mitzakis realized he was the only one in the village who hadn't won the lottery. Once the shock war off he says it was actually funny. You say a day and a half was he like partying like yeah we all did it and he was like hang on That was last year I bought a t-shirt One of that counts and that's weird I think it was more he assumed someone else wouldn't have bought a t-shirt as well It was a day and a half where he's like oh everyone

Every single person that's actually funny No I'm actually find that very funny Okay. Every single person. Ha ha ha ha. That's actually funny. Yes. No, I actually find that very funny. I'm not upset. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. I think it was...

Ha ha ha. I think it was Destiny says. He was a filmmaker who now had unparalleled access to an amazing story. He set out to document how money would change life in Cedito. He went out and filmed some of the early reactions of the villages to the news of their new fortunes. Sitting on a plane heading home to Denmark, film producer Lars Tang Sorenson came across a small news article about Cedito's big win. The article

included a few lines on Coster's and his film, and Lars was intrigued. Several emails, a few Skype sessions, and one visit to Cedito later, Lars became the film's producer. According to the Greek reporter.com, since Christmas of 2011, he's been filming a documentary about the families of one the lottery, describing how their newfound money has affected them. If he came here today and didn't know anything different, you wouldn't notice a thing. You don't see fancy cars on the streets. Not much has changed since 2011.

The only great difference is that young people now have opportunities and therefore they have decided to say in the village rather than trying to build a future in large cities. I wasn't able to find much about the release of the film, but Mitzos Sarkas told the Guardian in 2014 that they went to Khan to pitch the film in 2012 and distributors were falling over each other to be involved. Which makes you think it would have been excellent. He titled the shoelaces together. That would get their attention.

I'll remember me. To wrap this story up, do you think Miss Arcus would trade his opportunity to make this film for a slice of the jackpot? I would. Because then with the jackpot you could make another film. Yeah. Only now with a budget. Well, the Guardian asked him this question and he replied, I think I wouldn't change anything.

Although at first I didn't feel that way, I don't like to think of life in terms of money. And I love what I do. It's like my hobby, making films brings me pleasure. So he's happy. That's nice. So yeah, I kind of finished with a less fun and just more sweet story than that. That's nice.

But are you saying that he's unlucky, but lucky? Yeah, well, he says he's lucky. He's lucky to be around and he loves the town. And he's really loved making this lucky to be around and he loves the town. And he's really loved making this film. This is his passion. And he got a story, like a story kind of a story that is pretty famous around the world.

And he got the exclusive access to making that. Do you have people agree to being the film because they feel bad for him? He's the kind of guy that walks into the general store and they're all talking and they just suddenly get really quiet. Hey! Like covering up their golden grills in their mouth. Hey!

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! I just buy and bread Like a normal person by the way. I don't eat bread rich people don't eat bread I don't need it. So that should end it, you know, maybe that ends the podcast episode I thought it just was nice, you know, because I feel so lucky and Unlucky to do this podcast So I thought it appropriate. I thought it it. That's a topic. Beautiful. Well done, Mac.

Give it up for Matt Stewart, everybody. Well done. Dave Pooley. Wow, sadly, all good things must come to an end. Thank you so much for coming out to our 300 episode. But until next time, we'll say thank you, and goodbye, everybody. Bye-bye.

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You can't choose Bragg. It goes on and I'd get a livable wage and the free time to be able to start my dream podcast, semi-inspired by you guys as well as Mission, Zach and Cam and Alexi. Have you guys had to take any leaps of faith for the sake of your dreams? Sorry for the long wind up to forget a question, but I thought I should and a long wind down as well. But I thought I should share my leap of faith. I ship out to boot camp in September and won't be able to listen to the pod for two months,

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It's amazing. But no, you did exactly what we wanted Miguel. You asked the question, but you answered your question. That's what we, if you ever asked your question, we love an answer. My obvious one is I took a big leap of faith quitting the air conditioning industry my first love to get into comedy full-time comedy including podcasting and the Stubato Studios all the little things all the pieces of the pie I double in and that was yeah that took me quite a while to build up the like years to build up the courage to take that leap. I also loved the company I work for,

the air conditioning company, Mercury heading Collieb do yourself a favor. Great people there, but so they, if they sucked, it would have happened probably quicker. Because they were just a nice people to work for, I ended up there for seven years, I think. So long. Yeah, how about you, Bob?

Yeah, same. I got the opportunity to do overnight shifts at Triple J and had to kind of make the decision to quit my full-time, steady job at a company I really liked working for. Because I couldn't go part-time, so I had to, I made that call and yeah, that took several years of working multiple jobs, of doing podcasting and comedy, like stand up and acting staff and working full time the whole time, and then finally kind of being like, well, now's the time. I did it and I haven't looked back and it's been great. So those lips are faith are good and you'll be, it's gonna be fine.

Yeah, I mean, it sort of worked out to some degree for us, maybe for others it doesn't, but I don't, I imagine people, for the most part don't regret trying. Yeah, exactly, yeah. Yeah, I mean, you can always go get a job again. Yeah, that's right. Mercury will have me back, right? That's what I'm not saying plug.

You've got experience in that industry if everything goes to shit. Callmakery.com.au. I could work in any call center. And there's heaps of them. So, you know, there's good to have a backup. I read on a video that you read on a video. I read on it in the comments of a YouTube video that... You read on a video. I read on it in the comments of a YouTube video

that you were on sometime, for some reason I was looking at some old video and one of the comments was, Hey, I used to work at a call center with her. If I knew she was there, I would have worked there longer. She's cool. So we, they worked at the call center I worked at, but didn't know I was there. No, they knew you were there, but they didn't know you were doing cool stuff.

Oh, I see. Okay. And that would have kept them on. Yeah, it feels like such a tenuous link to someone doing something kind of interesting, you know, like, my cousin's friend plays footy professionally. I know, you know, it's like, okay, my cousin's friend plays footy professionally. I know, you know, it's like, okay. Your cousin's friend. I know that person incredibly vaguely.

Which football you talk about. Dave, you had a leap of faith. I'm really bad at quitting things, but when I was 14, bravely quit tennis. Wow. And I could have become a multi-millionaire from that. Dave, you could not hold the record. But I didn't record.

Yeah, I had to overcome that, bravely. And then bravely quit, which could have become a very lucrative job. So you've never really, you've never had to quit a day job because all your day jobs have been kind of fun. Yeah, it's difficult when you like all your jobs. You just knew, yeah, that's funny because I feel like you grew up close to Jess but Jess and I grew up in the world

where you gotta get a real job, right? But you somehow knew that wasn't necessarily true. Yeah, I wrote down three options and I was, you know, from a uni job, I was like, all right, I could be a kids party entertainer. I could be a trivia host slash bingo caller or I could work at murder mystery nights. I'm serious. I applied for all three and I got the kids party entertainer first and then thankfully moved into trivia. The question, Rodin.

Your dream was kids party entertainer. I thought I'd rather do that. I'd rather do that than I know looking back and I'm, what were you thinking? That was such a such a hard job. Oh wow, when it goes badly, you guys really bad break. It's really funny. That's great. I love it. Thank you so much for that question Miguel and congratulations on I'm just killing it at last. Killin' it online. Oh hell yeah. You are crushing it. How first ever fact caught a question or a bra. Yeah, love it. Nailing it. You stuck a question into that brag

and no, I respect the hell out of that. The next one comes from Gary J. From the UK. And Duke. What a guy. Who's title is Waterboy? And Gary J. Also asked a question.

Gary J. writes, I remember Matt being super kind of me after his London center. But this is a me bragging. You can also write in bragging for me to read out. That quote question, bragg, or compliment. We'll take that. I remember Matt being super-carnomy after his London setup show and getting me to join in the chat with him

and some other fans we're having. But whenever I'd talked, he'd laugh at my brummy accent in the nicest way possible of course. I don't remember that. That sounds a bit rude. I don't remember it being nice. Well, my question is, what accent do you love? Slash-like, slash laugh at, slash can do really well. I love doing South African accent. I'm a little bit South African, maybe less than one sixths, so it's okay. I think this could be a problematic segment. Diplomatic immunity.

Yeah, South African, that's fun. I can't do it, but it is fun. I love Welsh. I can't do it. Oh, beautiful. Welsh is really fun. I love Irish. Yeah.

I was at the rugby the other night, and I could hear a few. Ireland was not playing. It was at Wallabies versus France, but lots of Irish people in the crowd. I was about to say audience. I think just because it was rugby and they're just like, I'm going to say it, but I could just hear them a mile away. I was like, Oh, Irish person. There's one.

Yeah, that is one of the great accents. Beautiful. Yeah, well, she's out there. I love American accents and English accents as well because they're so varied. Oh, yeah, great. How one country can have, I mean, that's true of a lot of places. Yeah. But I mean, coming from Australia with this kind of like very slight variations. Yeah. Yeah. I think it can be so vastly different. Yeah. Great point. I've been watching tons of the French show the Bureau and they have lots of French characters obviously which I love hearing their accents and also a part of it's said in Russia and

Hearing especially there's these guys with the deepest voices Deeper than Matt's can you believe get out with these beautiful Russian accents? I love hearing them talk Oh And no, I cannot do it. No, if you're not. I heard a great accent, Risa Jess. You're on this podcast, the Wax Queersical podcast, and Julia and Cosgrove played Mrs. Claus. Jessica Claus.

Jessica Claus, yeah. Who was such a funny character. So on this podcast that Kaira and Wheatley does, it's, he reads through the quiz, he has a guest, which was just in this case, and then two comedians improvising characters, staying character whole show, and her made me laugh so much.

Oh man. What, the accent was sort of like a Russian-ish. Oh yeah, it was sort of like, oh, it's a tough one, isn't it? It was kind of like Iceland Russian-ish. Oh yeah, it was sort of like, oh, it's a tough one, isn't it? It was kind of like Icelandic. Yeah. I don't know, it was an interesting. But it was so good.

Yeah, it was beautiful accent. It goes one of the best podcast episodes I've listened to in a while, if you're into that kind of thing, hot tip. But it'll be, if you look up waxed, it'll be the Jess Perkins episode. Thank you so much, Gary Jay. The next one comes from David Loring, who's given himself the title of director of Cromulance.

I think that's a Simpson thing, right? Yeah, Cromulance. And he's written a fact, which is this is a bit of a shit factor. Okay, that's a hot start. Okay, this will be for Dave, I guess. No, here's a dull. I thought, hey, shit, come on, something. This is a bit of a shit factor,

but it will give you something to try out at Barbecue's. Geeze, set the, his own bar low. Throughout the 90s, after school TV programming in Tasmania was peppered with some obscure, religious advertising that would play multiple times per ad break. Wow. As a result, those of us who grew up in the 90s

can still recite most of them by heart. Among these ads were a song about a girl with three pockets in her overalls. I get the religious bent there, obviously. A very early 90s Christian rap music video and a series of Mormon commercials that had clearly been re-dubbed with Australian actors. Most of us grew up assuming they were just nationally broadcast ads, but based on the very puzzled looks from our mainlander friends,

if the ads ever came up in conversation, we learned they were a tazzy specific thing. Wow. As such, thanks to the most memorable of them all, you can identify a Tasmanian millennial in a crowded room by simply calling out in the jungle one day and watching as they recite a rhyming story about greed, starring some jungle animals. Wow.

I want to try that next time I say it, Andy Matthews or another Tasmanian. Yes. You're like, in the jungle one day, yeah, to see him go. Let's send him a message and like, in the jungle one day, to see him go. Let's send him a message and just say in the jungle one day and say what happened. See what happens.

That's great. I says I'm not sure when you would ever need to do that, but if you know a Tasmanian of our generation, I say give it a crack and be amused by the results. We absolutely will. Thank you Dave, that's a great, that wasn't a shit fact at all. That wasn't shit, that was really fun.

Certainly wasn't boring. And it wasn't grim. Oh, I know it was a bit grim. What's it? I don't know. All right, so the final fact-quite-a-question or break this week comes from Paul Mellor, who's given himself the title, mild-mannered businessman by day, big fucking nerd in real life. Paul, I've been following on Twitter his work, he was nervously following

England through the Euro, final the whole way through, but he's so polite about it. He's like, oh, I was just great to be close and that sort of stuff. Loved is not at all the stereotypical English, what do you call it in football fan? Very mild-mannered English football fan by day. Quietly trusting this day then. Yeah, that's right. Paul is also asking us a question, here it is. I know you guys love a great name, but what is the craziest name you have come across? I know you guys have a great name, but what is the craziest name you have come across? For example, I've worked with a cliff edge. What? What? No, have you, I believe you Paul, you've worked with a cliff edge and a Wayne Curr. I'd, all right, I'll take your word for it.

Cliff Edge. He says also my great uncle was named Alfred Hart and the family story goes that he was told off in class, assuming it was the 1940s, and when ordered to stand up and give his name, he simply said Alphart. Apparently the teacher said that if he did, if he did, he would be in detention for a month. Alphart. Alphart? Alphart, okay. Stand up, tell your name. Alphart. Alphart.

Well, if you do, you'll be in detention. I can't help. I can't keep it in. I remember there's some distant family relatives that I heard about. I might have mentioned them on the show before. They were named Nora Dick. No, you're kidding.

That's so good. Nora Dick. Nora Dick. What do you do for fun? Well, that's very good. Yeah, some of these questions are hard without notice. Like there was one, not too long ago, asking for TV phrases, we say all the time. And I couldn't think of any at the time,

and then ever since I've been thinking about it all the time. Like triangle, I said, all the time. Triangle. But it is impressing in a remedial class. What shapes this triangle, say that all the time. I call it a flunstone phone. Yeah, I'm trying to have the other world names. There's so many on the show that I can't remember any of.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've come across some amazing names. Bernard Dernas. Bernard Dernas on our mind, yeah. Even though people do correct us, that's not how it's really pronounced, but still don't take that from us. I mean, when Dernas, the fart burner. You've got a disenchantment. I'll pop.

Oh, I didn't get it. That's why I'm not the pun king day. You got us straight away. Cliff edge. Cliff edge. Half the top mate, half the top. Yeah. Nora Dick though.

Nora Dick. Yeah, okay, you did well. You did really well. And it would only be improved if it was Nora Dick off. Yeah, I'm trying to think of other ones from... Yeah. I can't. Well, someone compiling them for a while.

There was someone who's putting together. Every time we went, that's a great name. Yeah. Come and be aware that was. Even from the 300th episode, there were a couple where Jess and I went, sorry. Back it up a bit. Didn't hear anything you said. That's right. Get us to the name again. I can't remember what all of it was. Like it just happened, it's week by week. Yeah. It's either people who suggest the topics, or the patrons were like,

God, that's an amazing name. Or these historical figures we come across, it's just... I think honestly it's more impressive to have a pretty average or dull name. It seems like every second name is incredible. You're right. Maybe we're just too easy to impress. That's true. You're awesome. I don't want to live in a world where I'm not impressed by names.

So, Jess, I'm going to have to say goodbye to you too as a race off to the airport, but I'll finish these for you. You also say goodbye to me? Oh, sorry. Oh, so, Jess, I'll say goodbye to you. Dave, I will not- Dave, fuck you. But before I go, can you give me, we thank some other patrons, and you normally give it.

So this episode was about people with luck or bad luck. Yeah, I wonder how you could come up with that. I think lucky or I'd like you. Maybe I'd just find a list of the luckiest people and compare them to them or something. You'll be the one in the town that doesn't win a lot. And your town's in York City. I'm million.

I've given away trillions in lottery. And it took you a day and after to figure out you were the only one. I've been telling people that story. It's working out and being like, hang on, you won, you won. You all won. I haven't bumped into somebody yet who did. But a realization. I love it.

Brutal. All right, well, we'll catch you two next week and I'll catch everyone else in a second. Bye. Hey mates, that's right. It's me again. This episode has more endings than the bloody third Lord of the Rings. I honestly never even got to the end of the third Lord of the Rings. I think I got through about three of the endings. Third of a good thing, don't get me wrong, but

I'll get around to watching the last half an hour or whatever it is. Of that, I'm here to thank a few more of our great supporters at patreon.com, such do go on pod or do go on pod.com. And yeah, I found a listicle, highest form of journalism, I think, the listicle. And I found it on ranker.com. I'm now up here on the Gold Coast, obviously, Dave and Jess, back home in Melbourne.

They're locked down, I'm actually feeling very lucky, which is appropriate for this episode, but slightly guilty as well that I'm up in near freedom on the Gold Coast in Queensland, while they're in a tight lockdown back home. But I guess I'll do my duty here and I'll thank a few of our great supporters. This is, that's funny. It's been there for all of Melbourne's lockdowns. I feel like I've, what are we up to? The fifth one there now and I missed out. So

Bit of FOMO, that's not true. I feel very lucky. So I want to thank a few of our great supporters. And yeah, each of those supporters will get a lucky slash unlucky person to maybe compare themselves to, maybe to live their lives up to. Can I be this lucky slash unlucky? Firstly, I'd love to thank our supporters being waiting very patiently.

I should say, yeah, all of the people I'm reading out today, they sort of slipped through the cracks. I went back and I went through our spreadsheet and double checked over a quite a few hours during the week, I looked through them all and I found a bunch of people who somehow slipped through because of different quirks in the system either like a payment didn't work at first and then it did or whatever. It's a confusing system that paid for it anyway.

I've got a really old school spreadsheet that tries to keep up with it, basically using an abacus. Everyone who signs up, I've got to slide one of those beads across and there's got to be a bit of better system, which I think we are actually working on. Anyway, I don't know why I'm saying all this. It's very late at night. Just had a fun gig. If you are up in Queensland, I should say, and you're listening to this this week, I'm

doing a live primates this Friday night at GoodChat Comedy. I'm also doing a stand-up set there at GoodChat, so this Friday night at Goodchat Comedy. I'm also doing a stand-up set there at Goodchat so this Friday and yeah, and there's also some based comedy gigs in on the Gold Coast, so check out those if you can and you're up in the Queensland area, certainly in the southeast of Queensland. Anyhow, I'd love to thank a few of our great supporters firstly from Salt Ste. Marie in Ontario, Canada. I don't, I think even Canada, I might have mispronounced there. So apologies for that, but I'd love to thank who's been waiting so patiently. Wyatt Fremlin. Wyatt Fremlin. Now, Wyatt, I've found, I think, a great lucky slash unlucky person for you.

This listicle actually, it's number one ranked lucky slash unlucky person is Frain Selac. But this person, we've actually done a bonus episode on, I just did a bonus episode, I think last year. It was a great episode. It was called The Unsinkable Woman. And this is your person here. Why, you've got Violet Jessup. She was on the Titanic in 1912

and it's sister ship Britannic when it sank in 1916. So that's a pretty good one. Pretty lucky, huh? That's what this Lysicle says it goes. Retarically it asks. Pretty lucked up, right? Bit of fun. Thank you so much, White. I'd also love to thank from Tel Aviv in Israel, Aliyad Herman. Aliyad, you're lucky, Sash, I'm lucky. No, this is definitely an unlucky person. Lajasil Baris was stuck in a jail cell when in the path of a volcano in 1902. Your option of Mount Pelle on the island of Martinique in the Caribbean resulted in nearly 30,000

deaths. Oh, that's not a good one. Lead, I mean you've been waiting to be thanked and this is what you get. Let me give you another one. How about this Adrian Carton De Weat who was wounded eight times in three wars, losing both an eye and a hand, but looks like you survived, hey, that's a bit luckier. Unlucky and lucky. Or as the Listerka once again says, pretty lucked up right.

154 say yes to say no. Thank you so much for your support. Long term, Lead, you bloody legend. I'd also love to thank from London in London in Great Britain. It's Rizazaf. Rizazaf. You've got Roy Sullivan who was struck by lightning seven times in 25 years. I actually I was close to including Roy in today's report but I kind of feel like he maybe has got a whole episode in one day. That's a wild story right struck by lightning seven times in 25 years. Some of you don't know about Roy Sullivan he's actually a metal pole. No, that's not true, a bit of fun though.

This one pretty locked up, right? 217, yes, 57, no. Okay. Okay, the next one. Sorry, I was reading ahead like an absolute amateur. From Santiago in, let me just quickly double check this. Santiago in CL, maybe chili, of course. Sorry, showing my absolute ignorance there.

Santiago is the capital in largest city of Chile. Sorry, I feel like a real fool, but I'd love to thank from Santiago in Chile. It is Estafania, labrin. So much Estafania. And your person is Walter Somiford, who was struck by lightning three times during his life, and once when he was dead, what? I haven't read, I've got to tell you I haven't read ahead for any of this, just read that headline quickly. This says, the first time major Walter Summerford and Englishmen were said to have been struck by lightning was in 1918 on a WWW World War I

1918 on a WWW World War I battlefield. He was reportedly riding a horse at the time, and while the animal died, some of the food was only temporarily incapacitated by the strike. I guess that's because the horse was grounded, right? Does that make sense? I'm not a scientist, I should say that right up to top. Cancer of his life indicated some of the food was struck two more times in 24 and 1930. When he died two years later, he was buried in Vancouver and Canada. In 1936, his grave stone was destroyed by a fourth lightning strike. I mean, there's still a reason because it was pretty lucked up right. 144 CS31st I know. Sanding not all that lucky to me.

Ah, and Hodges is in. This list is following today's episode pretty well. She only made it to number 8. 111 thing she was lucked up 22 not so much. All right, next up I'd love to thank from Essex, Graze to be precise in Essex in Great Britain. It's Jack Tooms. Jack Tooms. Another previous episode, Adolf Sachs. You would probably already realize this, but during his childhood, he fell out of a three-story window drank acid and fell onto a burning stove

One of the most surprisingly Fun and interesting stories are I can the history of the saxophone which Dave did a report on I think early this year Check that one out if you haven't already But you get adult sax jacks tombs jack tombs But you get Adolf Sachs, Jack's Tooms, Jack Tooms. I would also like to thank from Albuquerque in New Mexico in the United States, Santiago Romero. Santiago Romero, you've got Henry Ziegland, who was killed by a bullet that had been fired

at him 20 years earlier. Jesus. Wow, okay, so it says the story of Henry Ziegland has been called apocryphal by some and the events of his life are somewhat convoluted. Okay, well this sounds a little bit like another story we heard earlier in this episode. Ziegland lived in Texas during the late 19th century and in the aftermath of a failed relationship his former girlfriend killed herself. The girl's brother blames Egland and set out to kill him, the brother missed 25 until his own last year and after. The bullet that was meant for

Zeglund lodged in a nearby tree when Zeglund decided to rid himself of the tree with Donemart in 1913, the bullet reportedly struck him in the head, he was killed instantly. Holy shit! That story is hectic, but surely not true. Anyway, it says 150 think he's pretty lucky. 60. Disagree. Something I should read ahead a little bit more. Thank you so much to you, Sandiago. I'd also love to thank from Palm Harbor in Florida in the United States, Mark Carroftus, Mark Carroftus. You've got another, that's so funny. That's another episode, Michael Malloy.

I don't know if you remember this. This is rated number 11, most lucky slash unlucky people in history. Five of Michael Malloy's friends try to kill him repeatedly for insurance money, and he was very hard to kill. A great episode. I won't go into any of that in case you haven't heard it, but a classic app. Definitely worth listening to.

I think that was a Jess Perkins report. Thank you so much to you, Mark. A couple more. I'd love to thank from Bedford in Texas in the United States. How about this one? Ramon Atagaveta. Atagaveta. It says, after bravely surviving one ship rep, Raymond finally felt safe traveling when he booked a ticket aboard the Titanic. Oh no. to ticket aboard the Titanic. Oh no. Born in Uruguay in 1840, there's an Argentinian businessman, there's a board of ship, the ship American at Sank in 1871, and as one of the 65 passengers to survive the disaster, he only escaped by jumping the water and swimming to safety. Oh my god, and then he ended up on the Titanic.

That is stiff. This one, this is the closest course of a pretty lucked upright. 74 say yes. 54 say no. So I got one left to go. Some of these ones I'm reading out of my college and I'm like, good reports, potentially for the future. The last one I'd love to thank from Newtown. I'm reading out and I'm like, oh, this sounds like a good report, potentially for the future. Last one I'd love to thank from Newtown. I was drinking Newtown Abyss tonight, man, Newtowner,

New South Wales and Sydney. It's Eric Rudd. Eric, finally for you, this one I think sounds like a great report. So I won't go into it too much because I really think it could be a good one. To great report. So I won't go into it too much because I really think it could be a good one. To Sutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima and Nagasaki when atomic bombs fell from the sky. I was actually reading up on him a bit possibly to write him into this report, but yeah, he survived both and survived the first one. Then went home to Nagasaki, where another the second bomb fell and he survived that as a world story. So yeah, good on you. Thank you so much to Eric Daniel, Mark Santiago, Jack Estafania, Riz Lead and Wyatt. The only thing left to do now is thank a few of our great long time supporters who are now in the tripditch club.

If you've been a supporter on the shout out level or above for the last three years straight, you get to be shouted out now. Obviously that's what I mean. I'm making this sound more confusing than it is. So please you'll recognize one of the names from just before that's how long he was waiting to be shattered out before but the way this works if I can remember properly normally just picks a cocktail that's based on the topic, Dave's book to band, then I'm reading out the names, Dave's hopping them up, and then Jess is sort of hyping

up Dave. I'll see how much of this I can do myself, terms of what's a lucky band, some sort of a lucky band, let me have a quick search here. We've got the Verve, the Verve, into play. One of their hit songs, Lucky Man. So that should be pretty good. I think Daff Punk's also in playing Get Lucky. Bruce Spring's saying it's playing Lucky Town.

It's actually a pretty sweet lineup. Pretty sweet lineup tonight at the show. And yeah, the cocktail, I guess it's the, it's the, the, the fat one, I forget what the Spanish name was, but El Gordo. So we're having El Gordo cocktails, and that's just got whatever you want in it, cause it's in a big gold cup,

and you're a winner as you drink that. So let me read them out, there's only four. I'll read them out, I'll harp them up, and then I'll compliment myself on the hopping up, if I can figure all that out. And here we go, four names tonight, welcome in, please to the TripDitch Club. I'd love to thank and welcome from to Wumba in

Queensland, just down the road from where I'm Jonathan Lysco, Lysco, straight to the bloody booth mate, you can party on in here. All you like. Welcome in Jonathan. I'd also love to welcome in from Matt Aree in MD. Damn it. MD in the United States. Let me quickly look up what MD is. Doesn't matter. It sure does to this person. MD State is Maryland. I'm going to go follow their college basketball team. All right, from Maryland in the United States, it's Taylor Michael. Taylor Michael, well, isn't tonight Taylor made for you, Taylor Michael. You're going to have a great time in here. This place is your kind of place. I'd also love to thank from mine as rest in Victoria, Australia. It's Karen Loader. Hey, we're gonna load tonight up with fun

for you, Karen Loader from Miners. We have a rest here and have a good time, Karen Loader. And finally, from Salt Steemery in Ontario, Canada. It's White Fremlin, that's right. It's a double entry episode for you. I'm on the 300th episode. Welcome in white to the TripDitch Club. Framland, you're no grandma in, you have a good time.

Have a good time. Good on you. Don't feed them after midnight. That's a different thing. Welcome in, Wyatt, Framland. So thank you so much to all our inductees. Into the TripDitch Club. If you want to be involved in any of this stuff,

go to patreon.com.com. or do go on pod.com. And yes, I'd love to thank Wyatt, Karen, Taylor, and Jonathan, Jonathan Taylor. Oh, imagine if there was a Thomas in there today as well. If you know, a few home improvement fans would appreciate that. Oh, all right.

Well, that brings us into the episode. From next week, we'll be back to the whole three line up the whole way through. Apologies that I had to do this last bit by myself. Thank you so much for those who have listened all the way through. Appreciate that very much. I hope you've had a really good time. Thanks so much for everyone for listening to this show. Keep it going through 300 episodes. Couldn't be more stoked. If you go back and listen to episode one, I imagine it doesn't sound like we're thinking, oh, we'll be doing this in six years' time, but yeah, I'm so stoked that we are, and

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