Do Go On - 253 - Woodstock

Episode Date: August 26, 2020

In 1969, some of the most iconic acts of the 1960s performed at Woodstock for four days of peace love and music. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Santana and many more took to the stage. But despite going down in history as one of the greatest festivals of all time, Woodstock was almost an unmitigated disaster. Last minute venue changes, bad weather, no security and a lack of food... combined with hundreds of thousands of extra people showing up, it really is a miracle it went ahead at all.Buy tickets to our streamed shows (there are 8 available, all with exclusive extra sections): https://sospresents.com/authors/dogoonSupport the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: patreon.com/DoGoOnPodCheck out our web series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2TuMQ31VXvqqEus9Bo6FZW-dDY5ukEuh Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/Submit-a-TopicTwitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasREFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbWRIxsjhmQ&t=911shttps://allthatsinteresting.com/woodstock-festival-1969https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstockhttps://www.vulture.com/2018/10/the-whos-roger-daltrey-had-the-worst-time-at-woodstock.html

Melbourne and Canada, we got exciting news for you. And we should also say this is 2026. Jess, what year is it? 2026. Thank God you're here. Right now, I'm in Melbourne doing my show with Serenji Amarna, 630 each night at the Cooper's Inn Hotel, having so much fun. We'd love to see you there.

Canada, we are visiting you in September this year. If you've somehow missed the news, we are heading up Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, and Toronto for shows. That's going to be so much fun. Tickets for all this stuff, I believe, are online. And I'm here too. This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. Visit planetbroadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Dave Warnocky and as always I'm here with Matt Stewart and Jess Hirkens. G'day Dave, your little cheeky buggy. You do it, mate, you're bloody all right. How's your father? Oh, that's great. How's your dad? I haven't spoken to him for a while actually, to be honest.

I spoke to mum the other day. and I said, how's dad? She said he was asleep in his chair. So I think he's fine. He's still there. Matt, how's your dad? He's going pretty well. I haven't spoken to him super recently,

but last time I did he was going pretty well. Father's Day coming up, though, sometime, I think. Yeah. I don't know when exactly, but it's coming up pretty soon because I'm seeing ads online. I've been seeing ads for ages. And I was like, shit, it must be really soon.

And it's not until September. And I was like, I don't care. My birthday's first. Dad has to come to me first. Imagine if your birthday was a national holiday, then your birthday ads would have started ages ago. Yeah, that would have been good.

Hopefully one day. Actually, the day this comes out, it is my birthday. So today is a national holiday. Whatever you do, and if you're at work, walk out that door. If anyone gets fired for not turning up to work on Jess's birthday, their boss is a bum. Absolute bum. Yeah, and you should take them to court because that's fucking. up.

That is fucked up. Jess, as it is your special day, do you want to do the honours of explaining how this show works? You'll let me on this, my special day? Once a year. Yay! Okay, I'm going to take an hour and a half to do this. So, each week, one of the three of us,

Matt, Dave or me, Jess, the special birthday girl. Take it in turns to research a topic, usually suggested by our listeners. and we research and we read and we watch stuff and we write up a nice little report and we bring it back to the other two, who you would think would respectfully sit back and listen and learn.

But they don't. They interrupt a lot and we have a lot of fun along the way. But really, at the end of the day, it's all about friendship. Mm-hmm. Preach time. Is that all right? Yeah. A bit much.

I haven't had much sleep. No, no, that was just the right amount on this special day. And this, oh, so special. special day. So who's doing it this week, Jess? Dave is in charge this week and we usually get on to topic with a question. I have a question for Dave before he asks his question. My question to Dave is, are there any birthdays in this? Is anyone born? Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Born to be alive. Yes, all right, Dave. Oh, that's cool. It's about the band that sang that song.

Yeah. Which does not come to mind. Hey, Dave. I've got a quick question for you. What's it like being a little 29-year-old, hey? Oh, we're a cute. Dave, when you get to your 30s like us, you'll understand what it's really like to be a grown-up. But for now, you're just a whittle baby boy. Obviously, Jess is in her 30s now. I'm in my 330s.

Yes, but you look like you're in your 130s. If I can be so bold. Thank you so much. That's very kind. Dave, of course, we have to wait an entire 48 hours for you to catch a year to catch a up with us. The longest 48 hours of my entire life. You look so useful.

Anyway, what's your question to get us on the topic this week, David? All right, my question for both of you is, what music festival was listed by Rolling Stone magazine as number 19 of the 50 moments that changed the history of rock and roll? It is indeed Woodstock. Matt has jumped in early there. Jess was waiting patiently, so I'm going to give her a point just to penalise you. Yes. Also, I was going to do like joke answers first, Matt.

But yeah, obviously it was Woodstock, but I was going to be like Falls Festival, you know. Oh, that Falls Festival. Very good festival. Great festival. I haven't been to it in a long time, but it was pretty fun the year I was there. Pennywise played. Oh, that's fun. Yep. They were very good.

Yep. So Woodstock, you're doing your report on Woodstock? I am doing a report on Woodstock, 1969. Nice. So, Names. So, Names.

Basically, I put up three very famous music festivals or music concerts up into the Patreon voters, and they overwhelmingly voted for Woodstock. Awesome. It's been suggested by a few people this one, so thanks to Aaron Grinberg, Josh Benefield, Holly G, Albert, Antonia,

Lindsay Conway and Charlie Heffernan. Oh, nice one. I've got to say, I mean, obviously I know, what Woodstock is. But I think it's just one of those things that you hear about so much. I don't think I've done a lot of reading or research about it to actually know any nitty-gritty details.

I'm just like, yes, it was a big music festival in 1969, and that's it. So this is exciting. Yeah, it's funny, Jess, it's one of those things that I also felt like, you know, everyone knows about Woodstock, but then, and even looking into it, there's a lot of articles that talk about how important it is,

but then they're only about three paragraphs long they don't have too much detail. They haven't even bothered research. They're like, oh, yeah, yeah, it's really important. Anyway. It's big, we all know that. We all know. It was huge, big cultural movement.

And, yeah, it's very, God, wish I was there. Yeah, basically. Jimi Hendrix was there. Someone was nude. Yeah, they mentioned. Oh, what a time. Remember that mud? A fun.

Basically that, and then, and then they also go, oh, it was 45 years ago today. Anyway, like, that's about it. Yeah. But I did find a bunch of great articles in the end. They're all linked in the description of this episode if you want to read up more in three-paragraph, little bite-sized pieces that you can see.

I love that, actually. Love that. Well, let me take you back to the 1960s, which was a turbulent time for America. JFK was shot in 1963, America's military involvement with the Vietnam War increased and generational social tensions developed around humans' sexuality, women's rights,

modes of authority and experimentation with psychoactive drugs. Ooh. As the resident druggy. It's a reputation my parents would not be happy with, even in joke form. What's your favourite psychoactive drug? Oh, love them all. How can you choose? Sophie's choice of drugs. What a phrase.

I don't know if I could name one. Is LSD? That was actually what Sophie's choice was about. She was going out on a bender and she was only allowed to pick one of her two favorite drugs. Oh man, we've all been there. That was a real Sophie's choice. What an emotional film. The decades saw the rise in a largely youth-based counterculture

that celebrated experimentation, modern incarnations of bohemianism, and the rise of the hippie and other alternative lifestyles. One of the most iconic events of the whole era occurred in the last month of the last summer of the swinging 60s. But despite its enduring name and rock and roll legacy, was almost an unmitigated disaster. Let's talk woodstock baby. Yes, I love unmitigated disasters.

Almost. Almost, that's right. I bet there were some woodstock babies as well. Oh, yeah. Almost definitely. Yeah. It was his own little baby boom. That's nice.

Isn't that nice? And I'm not sure, because it was almost a disaster, if you could categorize this with some of my disaster episodes that I've done over the years, Chernobyl, Mountaine Helens, Woodstock. You know, the big three. Yeah. So the festival itself was the brainchild and 60s hippies love child, if you will,

of four men in their 20s, Michael Lang, Artie Cornfield, Joel Rosenman and John P. Roberts. That's a man in your 20s. You're perfectly placed to sort of get into their heads. Yeah, I don't remember what it's like to be in my 20s anymore. But thank God you're here doing the report day, but you can really, Really relate. I just snuck it in.

Yeah. The last summer of the last month of my 29. Of the four of those. I don't know anything about their personalities yet, but just based on names, I think I like Artie the most. Oh, yeah. Not that you asked,

not that there has to be a favourite, but that's the name that really stuck out. The real Sophie's choice of favourite names. Do you take Ardy? Do you take John? Do you take Joel? Do you take the other one? John.

Said John. The two Johns? Just knows Michael. Sorry, Michael Lang. So Michael Lang was 25 and had experience promoting festivals in the Miami area. Culminating in the successful 1968 Miami Pop Festival where headliners included Chuck Berry

and the Jimmy Hendrix experience. Oh, wow. Wow. Imagine making that festival, Jimmy Hendrix and Chuck Berry. Holy shit. That's crazy. And that guy's only 25, so he's got the experience putting on the stuff. Wow. Artie Cornfeld, Jess is.

favorite was a young, my faith. I love him. He was a young songwriter who had written over 75 songs that charted on the billboard charts and was the youngest vice president at Capitol Records ever. Wow. Also in his 20s.

Any of his songs in particular that we would know? Not to my knowledge. Right. Okay. He'd written 75, did you say? Yeah, 75 hit songs and then he became part of Capital Records. That's crazy. So this is Artie? Or is this as Lange? So that's Artie.

So Michael Lang's the Miami pup guy. Ardy Cornfield's, the Capitol Records guy, who record in an interview the first time he met Michael Lang, is the Miami Festival organizer. He goes, I was standing on my desk, smoking a little hash. It's okay, I say that?

I don't say that. I mean, they can just not write it. Is it a written interview or a video? 25 years later. It's okay, I say that. 1999 interview. They became friends that year and 19-940 interview. They became friends that year in 1969

and discussed building a recording studio in the woods somewhere. They wanted to have a studio with some vibe that artists could go to and really get into nature whilst making their records. Meanwhile, over in New York, Joel Rosamman and John P. Roberts, the other two people are introduced at the start, were entrepreneurs based in New York City

that were already building a recording studio. John Roberts was heir to the Polydent-Slas-Polygrip Denture Adhesive Fortune. Oh, yeah. Born into money, into denture money. You know, big denture. He became, he becomes the money man in the four men. Right. So Michael and Artie, the guys in New York were put onto Joel and John,

sorry, Michael and Artie, the guys who are... Can we call Michael and Artie, just to simplify, just call him Artie Lang? Just bring him into one person. What about Marty? Oh, yeah, that's good, too. I like Marty. What about Marty Lang?

Love that. That's ruined it all. So Marty, they're the ones that want to build the studio in the woods. They're put on to Joel and John to ask them about their experience building the studio, basically to get some pointers. The two young music guys met the entrepreneurs and even gave them a proposal for the studio that they wanted to build in Woodstock in rural New York State. And to be honest, the entrepreneurs really weren't that interested in the idea.

They, however, were only keen on one line in the entire proposal. One sentence that stood out to them that said, quote, there's even a chance we could get some of the local talent to perform. The local talent of the area at that time included Bob Dylan and Janice Joplin. So the entrepreneurs Joel and John were especially intrigued by this

and felt like they could make a fortune from this gig. So they went back to Marty, McLeanardi, and said, we're not really interested in the studio, but we do like the idea of putting on a concert, which Marty weren't that keen on. And they were like, oh, that was just a throwaway.

line. No one really wants that. Yeah, we just want to make a studio and they're like, but we don't want you dumb studio. So the two duos went back and forth until the New York guys proposed to put on the concert and then use the profits of the festival to build the recording studio that the other two wanted. Oh, yes. Now that's a compromise. It is. And that's how Woodstock Ventures Incorporated was formed. Awesome. Now, this was January 1969. They hope to put on the concert in August of that year. So seven months to book, plan, promote and stage the entire festival. Seven months? Seven months.

Takes longer to bloody grow a human. You're damn right. I don't know why I decided to throw that out there, but seven months is not a lot of time, I guess is what I'm trying to say. You're putting that into context for pregnant people. Yeah, yeah. Just if they were like, yeah, let's see if it's reasonable. Oh, wait. That's crazy. It is crazy short. And the idea is for a festival to go for not one, not two, but three days.

So they wanted to be huge. Wow, yeah. So they had the idea, but to put on a large concert and sell as many tickets as possible to fund a studio. That's the idea. Roberts and Rosamman became the money men paying for the festival. So now they needed a venue and some acts, you know, the festival part of the festival. Yeah, okay. Which they initially had trouble doing. They had a real hell of a time booking acts early on, but that all changed when Credence Clearwater Revival, CCR, signed on to play for the sum of $10,000, which is equal to about 70,000 US today.

I'm honestly a little bit over CCR at the moment. It is getting played a lot. Who's playing? My house at the moment. That's interesting because I really, I don't hear them all that much. When they come on, I enjoy it. Yeah. But, and I was saying that to my old man.

a while back and he's like, oh, if you're around at the time when they were out, you would have been absolutely sick of them. They were played so much. So it's like you're living through the 60s, just? Yeah. But it's just, it's always the same couple of songs while the dishes are being done. And I, and, you know, you hear them once, you go, I don't have this song in a while. That's nice.

Is it a fortunate son while he's cleaning the silver spoon? Is it there a seminal album soundtrack to the dishes? Yes. Yeah, it is actually, yeah. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah, it does make sense in context, but still, every day. God, can't handle it. Anyway, but that is pretty...

By the way, about seven-month gestation period is a chimpanzee or a hippopotamus. I was wondering what you were Googling, because you did go quiet? Yeah, absolutely. And I was like, what's he up to? Well, I was looking up something very important. Woodstock took about as long to grow as a hippopotamus. But they're massive. They're they're big.

Only seven months. And so was Woodstock. Crazy. That's not a coincidence. That's not a coincidence. So, Credence were the first ones to sign on. The drama Doug Cliff had later commented, once Credence signed, everyone else jumped in line

and all the other big acts came on. That's cool. I have bad mood rising stuck in my head, but yeah, great. I'm happy that Credence got everybody else over the line. That's good. The first domino to fall. And from that point on, other popular musicians signed on to the roster,

which we'll go through, was looking great. So no worries there, but the venue was a whole other question. The first choice was a lush 700-acre piece of land in Socrates, New York. Very green spot, a few miles from Woodstock, which, according to Britannica, quote, is where Bob Dylan and several other musicians were known to live and which had been an artist's residence since the turn of the century. So that whole area around Woodstock,

a very, already known as a very cool place. Yeah, great. That's what you want for a festival, you know? Who cares about logistics? I just want it to be cool. That's right. Which is why they initially planned to host it on the sun. Oh, yeah.

Whoa. But... That's fucking rad. CCR said, no thanks. So they had to move it to Woodstock. Well, that's what they planned to do. They wanted to go to this place in Sogaties, but that fell through when the owner of the land decided

he didn't want to rent the land to some long-haired hippies, so they had to keep looking. So they got in their cars and drove around looking for a place that basically said for rent or for sale. They were looking for signs. They came across the 30-acre Mills Industrial Park in Walk Hill, New York, which had none of the rolling hills of the other place. It was an industrial lot with pretty shitty land, but they were desperate, so they just signed on. Great.

And it was 30 acres, and the one they were looking at originally was, was it 70? 700. Because I was already going like, gee, 70 to 30, that's a bit of a drop-a. 700. All right. Well, the nature reserves can have to be dropped from 600 to zero acres on the festival plan, but that's okay. We'll just get a petting zoo.

Yeah. Get a little goat, let people pat it. I love it. Charge them 10 bucks. So they signed on to this new place, this industrial park, but the site shifting caused bans to have cold feet, and many started to doubt that the actual thing would go ahead at all. So there was a bit of panic amongst the artists.

And then things went from bad to worse for the organisers, when people from the town of Warkill, which is where the industrial park is, caught wind of the festival and many were opposed. They saw the hippie festival as a potential major disruption to their quiet way of living. The concerned citizens committee was formed, and despite meeting with the organisers many times, they just couldn't seem to see eye to eye. The CCC.

CCC versus CCR. Director of Operations of Woodstock, Mel Lawrence, remembers that many of the townspeople were concerned about the culture of long-haired hippies that, quote, smoked pot, took other drugs, were unruly, listened to really loud music, and you had to be careful about your young daughters, which became a real point against us. These hordes will be coming in and taking advantage of our daughters.

And I knew that was absolutely true. So the town officially backed out on July 15th and even protected themselves by passing laws, including a portable toilet ban and a law requiring a permit for any gathering over 5,000 people. So that basically killed the festival just one month before it was supposed to kick off on August 15. Ah, shit.

It's so funny. It feels so short-sighted when a town goes that way. My favourite festival, which I talk about, a fair bit, Meredith Music Festival, the town is so far on board with it, They run stalls there and the town makes a lot of money off it and their community groups do. And they really welcome everyone in with open arms. It's a really nice way of doing it.

And so everyone who goes there fully respects the town and it's just a way nice to set up. So you go the other way and you go combative straight away. It seems strange. And it's sort of a chance for one weekend for your town to make a bit of money. Why not? Totally. And also, having a portable toilet ban could really backfire.

What if they just put the festival on anyway? Yeah, that's right. We've got tens of thousands of... All right. Just shit wherever you want, whatever. Shit in a bucket if you want. A bucket, lardida, all right. Someone's brought a bucket.

That's if you've got the VIP ticket. You can shit in a bucket. So the three-day festival doesn't have a venue one month before it's supposed to kick off. And the organisers were scrambling. It was all very stressful, but an unlikely savior stepped forward. 49-year-old dairy farmer named Max Yasker agreed to let the festival rent part of his property in the White Lake area in Bethel, New York.

Max Yaska. Yeah. Love that. Max Yaska. Yaska from Bethel, Bethel, New York. Max Yaska, Bethel, New York. All of that is very pleasing. It did it for you, baby.

It is. Did it for you. Very pleasing. Despite being this new site being 60 miles away from the town of Woodstock, the festival is still referred to as Woodstock. Because... When it should be called Bethel. Bethel.

Where were you on August 15th, 1969? Were you in Bethel? Bethel. But then again, if it was called Bethel, and then Dave was telling us it was supposed to be called Woodstock, we'd be like, that's so dark. That's so stupid. Woodstock.

Like the, like the... 58% bourbon. Yeah. No, that bourbon would be called Bethel. Yeah, right. Bethel Bourbon. Got a ring to it. Actually, yeah, okay.

Now, I'm listening. All right. Do you guys want to form a company? Called Bethel Bourbon? Bethel Bourbon. He did my grandpa's denture money, which he actually had. He was a denture specialist. Yeah, great.

So it was actually originally billed as... A denture capitalist. Yeah. Well? Not wrong. Don't you regret that? That was great. That was fun.

That was a bit of fun. So we all know it as Woodstock, but it was actually originally built as Woodstock Music and Arts Fair Presents an Aquarian exposition in White Lake, New York. Okay. I guess Woodstock was just catchy, so that's what everyone's called it. So the farmer, Max, Yasker, was hero to the festival organizers, but opposition to the festival soon began in his area

after it was announced that Bethel would be hosting the festival. Signs were erected around town saying, quote, local people speak out, stop Max's hippie music festival. And no 150,000 hippies here and buy no milk because here was a milk go. Okay, you're just going to not have any milk. That'll show them. Yeah. You dickheads.

Yeah, having dry cocoa pops. That'll show them. Yeah. It'll be really mad about that. That's crazy. It's so strange to me that, yeah, that's all, we don't want those bloody hippies here. Yeah, isn't it funny to think?

The hippies are like famously harmless peace lovers, right? Yeah, and they're like, they don't like them because they've got long hair and they wear clothes that are a bit different. I don't like it. It's just that real generational thing where, like, I think when I was reading about it,

the difference between this young hippie generation and the generation before was probably more different than any other generation in modern history to that point. So there was, because it was such, a big counterculture. Like they are growing their hair and wearing weird clothes to be different to their parents. And their parents are like, we did not like this.

We didn't not like this. I think because we're sort of the children of that generation, right? Are we? Yeah, basically. And we're, so it means to rebel against them, we have to be rule followers. Yeah. And we, I think we really are. Yeah.

And they don't realize that. They're like, oh, they're not, why aren't they doing it like we did? It's like, we're rebelling against you, your dickheads. Yeah. We're getting jobs. I haven't drunk milk in years. I work in a bank, okay? I've got steady superannuation.

Jess, that's not true. That is not true. I don't at all. I'm fucked in the future. Ah, well. You're part of that 60s hippie vibe rolling on. I'm just hoping that I have some kids who rebel against me and work really hard in school

and are very, very intelligent people with great business savvy. And they do very well. And then they look after me. Yeah, that'll show you. Their rebellion is being real smart. Our brains are rebelling against our DNA. You pesky kids with your intelligence and your drive for anything.

Put mum in a good home. Thank you. So tickets for the three-day festival cost $18 in advance and $24 at the gate, equivalent to about 130 and 170 US dollars today. Organisers hoped to sell 50,000 of these tickets. Through record stores and mail order, they pre-sold over 100,000 tickets. Whoa.

What were they hoping for? 50, and they've doubled it. But because everything was so last minute, they didn't have time to install gates, fences or ticket booths at the event site. Good. All important, I would say. The promoters later said that they had to focus on

the infrastructure for the musicians and providing food for the people, Basically, they were told by their builders, you can choose either a fence or you can have a stage. And they chose to have the stage. Oh, interesting. I would have gone fence. Yeah, that's right. Because then I could hang fairy lights on it.

I love fairy lights. I love them. And the bands could play just in front of the fence. Yeah. Exactly. Fence cute. Beautiful, especially with fairy lights all over it. Gorgeous.

When you say 100,000 pre-bought tickets, they paid, prepaid. Yeah, they've pre-paid. Yeah. That's good. So they've got the money. Well, do they? Oh. They also didn't have bathrooms,

concession stands, and a pavilion for the professional performers when the festival started. So it was a real mess at the start because basically they had like four weeks to do everything. But they had like hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. They would have had millions of dollars to spend on all this stuff though because they had been paid for the tickets.

That's right. But it ended up costing lots and lots and lots. Right. Especially last minute. Because they didn't have any time. Yeah. And because food and entertainment were the number one priority, the ticketing was going to be impossible to police

due to the lack of fencing and turnstiles, it was decided at the last minute to throw open the non-existent gates and just make the festival free. What? That meant that lots more people than expected turned up, but it also meant the promoters lost a lot of money. Oh, why did they lose money? Yeah, well, way more people than...

Yeah. Where more people turned up but didn't pay them money to attend. Don't advertise that it's going to be free. Just like, just let people turn up with their tickets. This is before mobile phones. You know, if that happened now and your ticket wasn't getting checked, you'd call your friends and be like, dude, come to this first one day, not checking,

and more people would come. But back then, people would turn up with their tickets and they'd just come in and that would be fine. Why would you then go, actually, free? So then all the people who have paid a lot of money, are going, what the fuck? Yeah, I'd be pissed on. And then just more people are coming.

Well, I think a lot of the time, the people that had rocked up probably were prepared to pay, but they had no way to pay because they didn't have ticket stands. So they just opened, and there was so many people waiting to get in that they just threw open the gate

just because they couldn't do anything about it. Far out. Sounds like a real nightmare. Oh, my God. I just feeling stressed to the organisers. Well, the festival was due to kick off on Friday, August 15th, 1969. But two days earlier than that,

50,000 so-called early birds had already set up camp in front of the stage area. That was their entire estimated attendance rocked up two days early just to get a good spot. And they've set up camp in front of the stage. Yep. That is so funny and terrible. That's not where you want to be sleeping. No. Oh yeah, what if you want to go to bed?

You know what? It's where the mosh pit is. I'm very tired. I'm going to, I'm going to try. turn in. Into your 10. Oh, man. When the festival

was properly kicked off two days later on August 15th, the 1969, it's estimated that up to 500,000 people turned up. Half a million people. What? I know.

They hoped for 50,000. Yep. They got 500,000. Yeah. And remember, they didn't have fences and they hadn't really thought about the roads either, which in some directions meant

traffic jams. for 20 miles. What's that in kilometers? You know, I don't fucking know miles and I refuse to learn. Like 35? 36. Jesus. And they have, so toilets wasn't even one of their first priorities.

But even if it was, they're anticipating 50 to 100,000 people. They've got 500,000 people and what, two buckets? Yeah. Oh, my God. And food, you don't, this is the main thing for me is food, because I'm always hungry. I'm thinking about it right now. They had the helicopter in extra supplies.

A local Jewish women's group made 40,000 sandwiches and just handed them out. They brought in, like, raw food, like, you know, just entire lambs. And anyone who had a bucket, like a pot to cook it in was just given it and said, go. A living lamb? Yeah. Who's got a knife? Who's going to slaughter this lamb? It's 32Ks as well, isn't it, Dave?

There's going to be maths nerds out there, furious. Miles 1.6. Yeah, that's about right. I do not want mathematic Twitter on our back again. Yeah, not again. Last time. I'm sorry that I asked, but I refuse to learn miles or pounds or Fahrenheit. I refuse.

Well, we know. I just go, la la la la la la la. They told us in a recent episode, negative 40 is the same in both. And that's the only time they intersect. Is that right, Dave? That's true, 100%. Crazy. One of the few things I've learned on this podcast that's stuck in my brain.

Yeah, I'll, I'll, forget that anyway. So they don't have enough food. They're just bringing in sandwiches and just handing out sandwiches. Yeah, I mean, some people have brought a bit of food, but like there's definitely not enough to go around. That is my worst nightmare. This does not sound like a fun festival.

No. I like, because I went to Splendor last year to do some comedy, and I liked being able to wander around and choose which of the many places I could get a coffee from. I was like, hmm. Wow. Yeah. Honestly, a woodstock hippie would spit in your face if they heard you say that. Yeah.

Spit right in your face. But I wouldn't be near them because I would not be at that festival. Okay. That's fair enough. Yeah. It sounds like a fucking nightmare. So they've got the food stalls there. Brilliant.

You got the Roddy wraps. Oh, yeah. I love that. A real staple of mine. Some of the best corn fritters I've ever had in my life. It was avocado. Fantastic. Meredith Fetter, of course.

Oh, wow. And corn fritters. and a bloody Mary. I was like, this is the best day of my life. Meredith have gone for the opposite of the Woodstock approach. They could sell way more tickets, but they've capped it.

I think 12,000 is all they allow in. So everyone's good. And each year they add a bit more room on the site at the farm. They open up a little bit more. So same amount of people with a little bit more room to move. That's nice. It's nice. It's just a nice festival.

But maybe we've learnt now. We've learned from, but I mean, people who were at Woodstock don't, I was going to say they don't complain about it. I'm sure they do. It sounds like a nightmare. Yeah, you never hear about that. I guess by now, enough times going by that.

I'd just be like, how cool is it? I was at Woodstock. Yeah, it's just a thing to say, right? And so that rose-coloured glasses, in hindsight, it's like, yeah, what an experience, but at the time, I would hate it. I want to know how a hastily built stage catered to half a million people. I wonder, and they wouldn't have had big screens, or anything.

No screen. No screen. I can't see it. I can sort of hear it. Could you hear it? Yeah. You'd barely be able to hear anything. Yeah, I'll talk about the sound in the second.

So there were traffic jams for 20 miles. Many just ditched their cars and just walked the rest of the way. And given the volume of traffic, it took an average of eight hours for commuters to drive the 98 miles from New York City to Bethel. So it was a long journey for most to get there. Oh, I'd need snacks just on that drive. And the last 32 kilometres. would have taken hours. Yeah.

Oh. Horrific. And I love a road trip, but I'd turned back. Oh, God, no. Well, eventually radio and television descriptions of the traffic jams discouraged people from setting off to the festival. So even more people may have turned up otherwise. Wow.

Ah, out. And it wasn't just traffic that was against them. They also had to deal with the weather. No. As it had recently rained a lot and was very muddy and the festival was completely outdoors. There was rain throughout the weekend. which caused flooding and the mud only increased as time went by.

Yeah, I remember seeing footage of people just, I mean, you see it of modern festivals as well, people just diving into the bogs splashing around in it. No showers, no hygiene set up at all. If you got a bucket, you're a VIP. Well, there was a lack of food and sanitation, as I said, and almost no security. Only 12 police officers were in attendance for the crowd of 500. thousand. I imagine they'd be smarter to just like take off their uniforms and pretend to be

another punter. Yeah, just jump in the mud. Yeah. Despite this, despite fears that having so many free-spirited people in one place would result in absolute chaos, it was overall a very safe and positive vibe. There was no violence. It was just music, a lot of skinny dipping, which if you watch any footage, there is a lot of naked people, some doobies and free love be.

Maybe. You like the Doobie Brothers? Oh, yeah. Well, here's one of them. This was the Make Love Not War counterculture, generation after all, and many put the safety of the festival down to this mantra,

make love not war. And there was... And they did. Apparently people were just having sex wherever they felt like it. Again, a nightmare. In the mud, oh God. I don't want to be walking to the shit bucket

and just see people fucking. You're lining up for your rottie wrap and the two people in front of your burning, you're like, excuse me, you're up next. Please. Please. I'm very hungry. Please. I've got my keep cup and I want a latte.

That's my kind of festival and even then I hated it. Because I got cold overnight and I didn't feel well and I didn't like it. I didn't have a nice warm shower. To help with security, the promoters enlisted hog farm, a communal pig farm in New Mexico to help out. It's leader, a man known as Wavy Gravy. What? That's reference on the Simpsons. Oh man, I've got the quote here.

I've got it. I've got it. I never got what that meant. So he's a famous hippie from that era called Wavy Gravy and he was like a volunteer at Hog Farm, which is a communal pig farm that him and a bunch of other hippies lived at. And he threatened to douse people who got out of line with salts of water or hurl pies at them, cream piles.

That helped keep people in line. That's funny, but like a comedy cop. We should try that. Take cop's guns away and give him pies. Cream pies. And as Matt just said, that's one of my favourite Simpsons as well as when Mr Burns is having a flashback from events in his life.

And there's one where he's undercover on a boat with Greenpeace and he just starts drilling a hole in the boat. And then he reveals himself, it was, ah, you fools. The man you trusted wasn't wavy gravy at all. And all this time I've been smoking harmless tobacco. And I love that before I got the reference. Oh, so good. Yeah, same.

And when I got the reference was right now. It's so good. I've been watching The Simpsons a bit lately, and there are so many references to stuff we've talked about and just things that I did not get, even though I've seen these episodes 10 times. Now I'm like, oh. Now I get it.

So there's all that to continue with. And of course, there was music eventually. Oh yeah, I forgot about the music. I was thinking about shit buckets. Well, because of the crazy traffic jams, many of the acts ran hours late or had to be flown to the site by helicopters. What? Where did the fuck did they get helicopters?

Well, the Army Reserves actually brought the axe to and from the stage. Richie Havens is one of the singers, recalled there wouldn't have been a woodstock if it weren't for the army. There you go. Where were they bringing them from? Offsite. Yeah, from hotels.

Right. That's the way to do it. I had pictured that all the acts were just in there amongst the crowd. But that, yeah, I guess they're huge stars back then. That would probably cause a ruckus. Well, they're waiting backstage in like a pretty non-existent area. And many of them, because of the delays, were waiting hours and hours and hours, which I'll talk about.

But you asked about the sound. Bill Hanley was the concert sound engineer who said, it worked very well. I built special speaker columns on the hills and had 16, loudspeaker arrays in square platforms going up the hill. We set it up for 150 to 200,000 people. Of course, 500,000 people showed up. It probably wasn't quite loud enough for everyone right up the back.

Wow. And the lighting rig was even more ramshackle as they weren't able to get a proper roof on the stage in time and couldn't hang the lights that were intended, so they ended up just having a couple of spotlights. And that's it. Ah, a couple of dolphin torches. taped

taped to a stick well with the stage built speak is in place a couple of spotlights and a huge crowd waiting the music finally kicked off on day one at 5.07 p.m. Hours after schedule.

5.7. 5 o'clock it starts. Yeah. Fucking hell. First up was singer-songwriter and remember some people have been there for two days by this point. Yeah. Like two and a half days.

What are you doing? Oh, you're fucking. Oh yeah. You fucking. You're skinny dipping. You're eating whole lambs. Yeah, it does fill the day. You've got stuff.

You got stuff on. Really, the music is secondary. Normally, lambs are grazing, but this time around, they're grazing on the lambs. Picking them as they go. I'll have a little bit of lamb cheek. First up was singer-songwriter Richie Havens, performing some songs with a guitarist and a man on Conger. This performance really put Richie on the map.

This is him remembering it years later. It's quite a long quote. I enjoyed it. He said, I was supposed to be fifth on stage. And no one of the whole festival went on when they were supposed to. I came in on one of those glass bubble helicopters and saw Tim Harden under the stage sort of playing by himself. I knew he wasn't going to go on first. I didn't want to either. But I had the least number of instruments. So I thought, God, three hours late, they're going to throw beer cans at me. They're going to kill me. Fortunately, the reaction was, thank God something's finally, someone's finally doing something.

They were happy. That makes sense. Like, surely you'd be. welcomed as a hero. Yeah. Yeah. Finally. And he went on to describe his set. I was supposed to sing for 40 minutes, which I did. And then I walked off the stage and people were great.

And then the organiser said, Richie, four more songs? Okay. I went back on and they were still clapping. So I sang four other songs. Went off again. Then I hear Richie, four more songs. They did that to me six times.

What? Two hours and 45 minutes later, I'd sung every song I know. Oh, that's amazing. He played for nearly three hours. I've got to say, this account is disputed because any set list, it's only been recorded that he actually played for 55 minutes. I don't know.

Over the years, that's gone longer and longer. He did play a couple of Beatles covers, so I don't know. But it's such a great, if it's true, what a great story. Four more songs. Wow. Four more. Four more? I reckon.

All right. Yeah, all right. I'll go again. There we go. I've got to tell you. By the end, he's just playing songs that he played at the start because he knows they're all too stone to notice. You don't remember what happened three hours ago.

Yeah. Wow. Well, after Richie kicked things off, the music barely stopped for four days. Because of the delays, the three-day festival ended up going to a fourth day. What? It consisted of 32 acts all up,

and I'll talk you through a bunch of them. The first day had, and some of these bands were big in the 60s, and I don't really know them. maybe you guys do. They had Sweet Water, Burt Summer, Tim Hardin, Ravi Shankar played through a rainstorm. That would have been pretty freaking cool to watch.

Wow. Familiar with Ravi's work. Yep. That's about it for me, two of those names. The singer known as Melanie. Oh, yeah. I think I've heard of Melanie. She took to the stage after another act cancelled

and her impromptu, so she wasn't even mentioned before. And performance got two encores from the crowd. Wow. Are they playing overnight or are they stopping for naps. Oh, well, let me talk you through the hours that some of these acts are on. Oh, no.

You would hate it. This festival is making me so anxious. It's awful. I hate this. I know I'm supposed to think it would be awesome, but this is my fucking nightmare. I hate this. I mean, I feel like I'm somewhere in the middle, I think. I would definitely go, if given the opportunity, but it does sound like there would be times

where I wish I hadn't. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then Arlo Guthrie, Woody Guthrie's 19-year-old son played. So that's a pretty big deal at 19. What was his song, Caroline's basement or something? No. Oh, yeah. He had a...

Cafe. Yeah, and so that's like a 16-minute parody song type thing. Right. And apparently people were pissed off because he didn't play it. He's number one hit, like his big hit. He didn't play it. You don't play 16 minutes when they keep making you go on to do four more song. Just play that song and you're good.

Yeah, play it. Alice's restaurant. That's it. Andy Matthew is a big fan of the Guthries. Oh no. We know he listens to this show. Sorry, Andy. Sorry, Andy.

Misrepresented that. But he definitely didn't play it and people were pissed. Finally, the first act on night one, performing for over an hour and finishing at 2 a.m. So not too bad. This is the first night, 2 a.m. was the six-month pregnant Joan Baez, who recalled her set years later.

She said, I went out on the stage, and I'm not sure what I sang, but I remember this guy at the top of the hill in the back with no clothes on and flowers in his hair and a long beard and he started to dance to the crowd towards the stage. So I just cut one of the songs so I could bow politely to him and leave before he made it onto the stage and got up there with me. She just called him a day to get away from his creesh.

She watches him coming and just goes, fuck this. Thank you, good night. Bye. Yeah, it sounds like a horror movie where every time she looks back, he's a little bit closer. But he doesn't look like he's moving. very fast, but he just keeps coming. Any sort of floating?

Yeah. I think she probably made a good call there. Yeah. Six months pregnant at that horror festival. And at 1 a.m. performing for an hour. Bloody good effort. Yuck. If she was a hippopotamus, she'd only be a month away from birth.

Yeah. And so that's even crazier, isn't it? Yeah. It's the equivalent of being eight months pregnant at a music festival in hippo-turned. Yeah. I confused myself. Me too. I think I'm on board.

I think I get it now. I get it now. Hang on. So that's day one. That's Friday. Saturday, August 16, comes around. The music started at 1230 the next day when Quill took to the stage. And acts on the second day included Santana,

whose debut album had only been released that same month. Ah. And... So he wouldn't have been the huge star at that point? Absolutely not. No, he wasn't. He hadn't done his song. with Rob Thomas yet.

I looked through his set list. I couldn't believe he didn't play smooth. He didn't play smooth. It's getting hat. What is it? That's the search. Surely they rioted. Yeah, they must have rioted.

Yeah, he wasn't well known at the time, but apparently his like, groovy music really went down well with the crowd. So he was a big hit. And to be honest, that really could have launched him into the 70s. Yeah, true. I was expecting to know more of the artist names.

Like, a lot of them sound like they were big at the time, but not that many. remain iconic? I reckon you'll know Day 2, this is the biggest day or arguably some people get annoyed of that. But anyway, I think,

because you've got Santana who said to the crowd, Carlos himself said, it was a bit scary to go out there and plug into this ocean of hair, teeth, eyes and arms. It was incredible. That sounds like an awful ocean.

An ocean of teeth and hair and arms. Yeah. He said, I'll never forget the way the music sounded bouncing up against the field of bodies. You never forget that sound. Oh, yeah, it doesn't sound good, Carlos. And then years later he told Rolling Stone magazine, but the band as a whole,

it was great. But I was struggling to keep myself grounded because I had taken some strong psychedelics right before I went on stage. When we first got there around 11 in the morning, they told us we'd be going on about 8 o'clock. So I said, hey, I think I'll take some psychedelics and by the time I'm coming down, I'll be ready to go on stage and I'll feel fine. That does seem smart. That seems prudent. I think the perfect time to be performing, and ideally to be at your best, is when you're coming down from psychedelics. He said, but when I was peaking around 2 o'clock, somebody said, if you don't go on right now, you're not going to go on.

But my guitar's a snake. He was like, I spent an hour. Come on, Snake. I spent an hour killing that guitar. Come on, Snake, it's our time to shine. I'm going to murder you on stage. Oh no, the bass player's got a snake as well. I've got to kill the bass player.

The guy who comes up to him and says, hey, it's your turn to go on, Santana, who'd be like, I don't know why this pumpkin's talking to me, but we better do what it says. All right. Their set was followed by the Incredible String Band. That's why makes me laugh. I love early band names because it's like,

you had all of them to choose from back then. Rock was brand new. You could be, you can pick anything. The incredible string band. Then it was canned heat. Oh, yeah, they're a big one. I'm on a truce a band. I'm on a floor to give.

Bang and tune. I don't know how he sings like that. How do you make your voice like that? I had to get him a trance myself. I wonder if he did too. There's a Spotify. playlist that I was listening to you whilst writing this to try and get into the vibe where someone went through and they've put every song in order that was played over the four days.

Get fucked. So I put that on shuffle and I was having to go through, but I can't remember. Come on raw again. Maybe they might not have played it. There's some good stuff. So there was can't heat. Then John Sebastian from the Loven Spoonful was pulled out of the crowd to give an impromptu set because artists were running late.

So they were like, get up here, John. They play. That's fun. Do you believe in magic? Magic. I know that from the parody of American Pie. I know that from Not Another Teen Movie, I think. I think they sing that in the, you know, I think a parody is a bit from American Pie

where Oz Striker joins some sort of singing group. Mountain performed the. The fourth gig is a band in front of 500,000 people, so that's pretty crazy. What? But having said that, Jess, wasn't your third gig in stand-up in front of, like, the biggest crowd ever? 1,200. That's fucking 500,000. That was your third.

And then, yeah, your third was in front of, uh, 1,200 on TV. And then your 10th was on TV again, right? No, uh, 6 and 7. Six was on TV. seven was on TV also. I reckon that's got to be like a world record. I don't think anyone of all time has done stand-up televised twice in their first seven gigs. Yeah, it wasn't good.

Unless maybe if someone started on one of those, like, America's Got Talent or something. But surely, I don't know, but. I'm sure other people have done it in Raw. And then done up late as well. Oh, maybe not. Wild. But, yeah, I think Raw was, I know there are other people. I think Claire Sullivan was one of her first gigs as well was the national final, which is televised.

Yes, that's true. People from outside of Victoria have less heats to get through, like Tasmania goes straight through. So often Tasmanians or Northern Territory entrance, their second ever gig is at the Melbourne Town Hall, which is wild. Yeah, which is insane. Well, these people's fourth gig was at Woodstock, so that is pretty cool. crazy. Do you know Mountain? I don't really know Mountain. No, I don't know Mountain. It's a strong name. I'll tell you that. They got in

early with that one. Yeah. Yeah, don't mind that. The Incredible String Band versus Mountain. Have you ever heard of the nitty gritty dirt band? That's another one of those old band names where I'm like, I mean, you've got so many options. I mean, everybody was just dirt. Or dirt band or something. We were talking about bread a few episodes ago.

Yeah, bread. What are they thinking? What about just nitty gritty? That'd be right. Yeah. Yeah. Nitty-gritty dirt band. Two-mouthy. There's a lot going on there. Yeah, nitty gritty.

Leave a bit of mystery. What are they? Are they a band? Are they some dirt? Let's find out. I like the name of Mountain's first album was climbing, exclamation mark. Oh, that's good. That's good.

Mountain climbing. They keep going with that theme? I hope so. The next one was Nantucket's sleigh-ride. I guess that's sort of mountain-related. That sucks. Yeah, okay, yep. Flowers of Evil was their third album.

Oh, no. Back in form. But their fourth album, Back on as avalanche, mountain avalanche, that works. Yeah, that sounds good. Go for your life, man's world, mystic fire, and masters of war in 2007. So they... Oh, still going.

Seemed like they're maybe still around. Cool. Dave, I'm excited to... Because you said this is the big day, so I'm excited to hear some names I know. All right, I reckon from now on, for the rest of the night, you'll know everyone here. The music went all night, and I mean all night on Saturday. Because of the delay, some of the biggest bands of that entire era, played at ridiculous hours.

So Credence Clearwater Revival, who were the first band booked, remember, and one of the headlines didn't go on until very late. John Foggety recalled this years later. We were ready to rock and roll and we waited and waited and finally it was our turn.

There were half million people asleep. These people were out. It was sort of like a painting of a Dante scene, just bodies from hell, all intertwined and asleep, covered with mud. And this is the moment I'll never forget as long as I live. A quarter mile away in the darkness,

On the other side of this bowl, there was some guy flicking his bick. And in the night I hear, don't worry about it, John, we're with you. And I played the rest of the show for that guy. Sounds like a euphemism, but I just realized that that means he's whiter. Yeah, bick lying. Not having a wank. Flicking his bick. I saw him in the distance.

Having a wank. Don't worry, John, I'm with you. His dick out. Look at me. Very uncomfortable. I played the rest of the show for that masturbating man. Flicking his bick. So what a term.

So I love that. Poetry. To be honest, I think Credence did not have a good time. They actually refused to be filmed. They, which I'll talk about this. There's a big documentary about this and they didn't want to be part of that. They didn't like the sound and they just didn't have a very good time. So I'm not surprised to hear that he's looking back on it.

Right. Not very happy. But a lot of other people. There's no way that everyone just slept through it. No way. No way. Because listen to the lineup that would have been sleeping through it. So this is the lineup on Saturday night.

Basketball fans, the Grateful Dead went on at 10.30 p.m. Basketball fans are a pretty good name. That is good name. They played only five songs in their hour and a half set. They finished with a 50-minute version of their song, Turn on Your Love Light. 50 minutes. Yeah, for one time.

I hope that guy wasn't flicking his dick for the whole duration. Yeah. You got to have a rest, mate. He's trying to crescendo right at the end. You got to get some electrolytes. in here, I think. I'm roar over here. Help me.

So the Grateful Dead, they played during the rain, and this is Bob Weir told Rolling Stone magazine, who's one of the members years later. The stage was wet, and the electricity was coming through me. I was conducting, touching my guitar and the microphone was nearly fatal. Oh. I love everyone looking back on it. There's some outrageous stories.

Then the Orph four-mentioned Credence Clearwater Revival actually went on at 12.30, so I doubt everyone is dead asleep like he was claiming. No way. And then Janice Joplin performed with the Cosmic Blues Band from 2 till 3 a.m. What? She'd been excited by the large crowd once she arrived

but had to wait 10 hours to perform and drank a lot of alcohol and shot up a lot of heroin whilst waiting. Pete Townsend. She thought, that way, when I'm coming down and hung over. Perfect. And the guy in the crowd was also coming down.

Downhill. Oh no. Oh no. Pete Townsend who performed with the Who later in the night. After Joplin finished, witnessed her performance that he said in his 2012 memoir, She'd been amazing at the Monterey Music Fest, but tonight she wasn't at her best.

Due probably to the long delay and probably too, to the amount of heroin and booze she'd consumed while she waited. But even Janice on an off night was incredible. That's pretty cool. A little over a year later, she'd be dead at 27. Oh, wow. Next up was Sloth. That didn't have anything to do with the heroin, did it?

Oh, no, no, no. Just a coincidence. Oh, no. Oh, no. Sly and the family Stone were up next from 3.30 to a 420. What? Fuck off. Everyone go to bed.

What are you doing? I got so sick after Splend. The sickest I've ever been because it was so cold overnight that we didn't get much to sleep because you couldn't get to sleep and then you'd wake up really hot in the morning once the sun hit. And so you're not sleeping and, you know, you're just surviving on food truck food. I was sick for two weeks after it. Were there deaths because of Woodstock?

It's mental. How was drugs? I was going to say, how is anyone alive? Drugs. That's right. They were on something, all of them. Yep, the whole time. It's the only way. So, yeah, 330 to a 420 for Sly and the Family Stone.

Santana would say of Slystone, I don't think he ever played that good again. Steam was literally coming out of his afro. Wow. Then The Who went on from 5am till 605am. They had also waited 10 hours to perform after being scheduled to take the stage in the evening. That's how late everything's running. And it wasn't a comfortable wait in the muddy field, quoting the Who's Roger Daltry here from an article in Vulture that I'll link to.

He said, it was even harder on the who drummer Keith Moon. Daltry said he always suffered from terrible nerves before performances, which per adultery always worsened the drinking habit that wound up killing him. An audience of half a million didn't exactly help. Even worse for Daltry, who, while a dabbler in alcohol, abstained from drugs through this time, there was no food backstage and everything was laced with LSD.

Even the ice cubes had been done, he said. Fortunately, I'd brought in my own bottle of Southern comfort, so I was fine right up until the morning. I decided to have a cup of tea. That's how they got me. A nice cup of hallucinogenic tea. Oh my God. And also he's like, it's all right.

I've got my own self-a-cumfort, so I'm staying hydrated. This is blowing my mind. So they played their album Tommy in full, which is like their concept album and then played a couple of greatest hits at the end of their set. Wow.

Jefferson Airplane finally wrapped up Saturday night, performing from 8 till 9.40 a.m. Sunday morning. And then what? Did they have a break or do you just start again? They had a break for about five hours and then the music started again. What the fuck is this festival? It sounds awful. Why is it so famous?

It sounds like a fucking nightmare. I hate it so much. I'm loving your reaction. This is the best. I think I'm pretty sure modern festivals have a similar, they might not have the huge headliners playing at those times, but most of them would have music through the night when they now. Splendor Wood, I think.

No, no, that'll finish. That finishes at about midnight. Does it? Meredith goes through to... Nothing starts up again until 11 or 12th the next day. Meredith on Saturday night goes through till 8 a.m., I think. Does it? It goes all the way. Yeah.

There's a, they say never miss Silence Wedge, which is an hour or two hour break. The last band and the, I think the two, Tai Chi master who kicks off the Sunday. Yes, love that guy. But at least because they spread it out and you have designated camping areas, you can go to bed at any time and you can't get to sleep. I love an afternoon nap, big time.

Yeah, I remember looking for you and someone's like, he's having a kid. I'm like, oh, all right, he's fine. This is a nightmare. Also, just from like, I'm a real planner. So the logistics of it are stressing me the fuck out. The good thing is... You're waiting for 10 hours to go on. Only one stage.

That's right. You can't miss anyone. Imagine if there were three stages all... And you've planned out, oh, I've got to see this band at this time, and they get to this other stage at this time. And they're all working off random five-hour-behind time schedules. Oh, my God. Well, now if bands go like three minutes over, sometimes they literally pull the plug on the band.

That's what I like. I like organization, logistics. We know what everything's doing. Bring back wavy gravy. Well, the music's up for a few hours, like I said, but 2pm on Sunday it kicked off back again with Joe Cocker and the Greece band. I think I've seen performs with this. So good.

Then there was Country Joe and the Fish, the band. Can we just, once more, I've got to say, so many band names available back then. You could have anything. The strokes that hadn't been taken. Pantara was still on the table. Metallica. I'm looking around my room and I can think of better things.

Salt lamp. That's not bad. A pen cup. That sounds like one of the bands on this lineup, really. Yeah. The pen-hornet was still up for grabs. Weed hornet hornet or wheat hornet's on the table. And that makes more sense in that era

than when I was in year seven, that's for sure. Keyboard box. Oh, keyboard box is close, but I think they would have to make it longer and more annoying. Keyboard box, fun time, silliness, our band. Band. You have to add band so people know what it is. Yeah, what is this?

So the band were followed by Johnny Winters, then blood, sweat and tears. And Matt, you'll love this. At 3 a.m., Crosby Stills, Nash and Young took to the stage for what was only their second ever gig. Wow. What time was that? 3 a.m. Sunday. I saw them in 2013.

And I don't think they'll ever play again from what I've been reading lately. Oh. They've, uh, a few of them. Crosby has fallen out with the rest of the band because apparently was a bit of an a-hole. Oh, no. But he's apologising. I think he's realized it, but it sounds like maybe the damage has been done sort of thing.

Too little, too late. Yes. But they were, I'd feel lucky to have been able to see them. But, yeah, three, that would have been amazing. Second ever gig. Holy shit. Yeah, they performed an acoustic and then an electric set. Apparently the other acts on the bill

who'd never heard them perform together had their eyes glued to this new sort of supergroup. Yeah. Oh, that's cool. They were like the band's band of the festival. Right. Yeah, that's great. I love that.

I just keep, it keeps popping into my head, that quote you said before about like everything was laced with LSD because I'm imagining like unpealing a banana and be like, D-L-S-D! And that image of unpealing a banana and finding LSD just keeps popping into my head. They've glued the skin back on. Yeah. So if I ever look like, if my eyes close over a bit,

I'm thinking about an LSD banana. I just wanted you guys to know that. You've taken an LSD banana. I'm just thinking about it. Do you think Flick the Binn? It's crazy. Nothing safe. Is anything?

Flick the Bick. Yeah, it's a good name. Banned. Got to be banned back then. Yeah, flick the Bick. Yeah. But what about LSD banana is pretty good as well. LSD banana.

Now we're going back to something that would have played it. Woodstock. LSD Nana band. That's our kids band. Yeah. You know, like we do children's entertainment. Elstee. About don't do drugs, but eat bananas.

Good. source of potassium, a low-G-I snack. Yeah, you're damn right. It keeps you going in both ways. It does, yeah. So the crowd of industry friends looking on from offstage was intimidating and this prompted stills to say of the gig, this is the second time we've ever played in front of people, man.

We're scared shitless. Neil Young was really young at the time. He was only 23 for that gig. Crazy. Living up to his name. Yeah. The music went on, I mean, I'd, Huh?

Picking up what you put it down there. That's just me going, acknowledge me. I actually had read the sentence wrong. I was supposed to say, Neil Young really was young, but I fucked it. I fucked it. Neil Young was real young. I think his first album might have even come out that year as well.

So he was obviously, and he'd be pretty wide-eyed, right? Because he started out up in Canada where he's from. And imagine that would have all been pretty full-on. Yeah, big deal, but I think, you know, he's the kind of guy that opens his mouth to sing and everyone goes, oh, shit. But Matt, at the time, was he quite old or? No, I think Neil was young. Wait, but he was, when was he in Buffalo Springfield Day? I think he'd done a bit of stuff from that already.

So I think maybe his solo album had come out 68, I was looking up, maybe the year before. Okay, right. So, yeah, so he'd been, he had been around a little bit, but just them as a foursome, it was their second ever gig. Yeah, second time that the four of them had come together. They'd already had individual and band success with other bands, hadn't they? Yeah. Stills was from the Hollies.

One of the English ones from the Hollies. One, a couple of them from Buffalo Springfield and one of them from the birds. From the birds, yeah. It's what, back then it just felt like every big band was, you know, the Venn diagram of all the bands. They just overlaps everywhere. And yeah, I think that people were like, whoa, these four people coming together, it sounds awesome.

Yeah, let's see. So the music continued on through the night again and into Monday morning, which initially wasn't supposed to happen. It was supposed to just be a Sunday night and it would finish. We had the Paul Butterfield Blues Band from 6 till 6.45 a.m. Shah Na-na was the second last act from 7.30 till 8 a.m.

The then-new act probably only got on the bill because of their friendship with the ultra-cool Jimmy Hendricks, who took to the stage for the final and quintessential performance of Woodstock. Hendricks himself was actually up from 9 a.m. till 11. 11, 10 a.m. Monday morning. So he was supposed to be the Sunday night headliner. Right. After being introduced as the Jimmy Hendricks experience,

Hendricks corrected his temporary groups named to Gypsy Sun and Rainbows. That sounds right. He said, for short, it's nothing but a band of gypsies. Okay. Despite playing such an iconic set, so a lot of people that imagine Woodstock, you see Jimmy Hendricks up there.

Yes. Which included a very famous guitar rendition of the US National Anthem, the Star-Spangled Banner. Not that many people actually saw him play it live. Because the festival ran an entire day late and he wasn't on until Monday by the time, you know, things came round to it, a lot of people had actually left the festival by that time.

They've got to get back to work. Yeah, these hippies did go to work? They're all accountants by day. Yeah, they're going to go cut their hair and get back to work. He still played for somewhere between 30 and 80,000 people, but still a lot less than a lot of the other acts had. Wow. Accurate estimates are difficult because no one wants to say

that they missed Hendrix at Woodstock. I was like, yeah, no, I'm sorry. What a reward to hang around. He was the highest paid artist at the festival, so arguably the headliner. He received $18,000, which is equivalent to about $125,000 US today. But there was also a clause in his contract

stipulating that no one could perform after Jimmy Hendrix at the festival, a clause which actually resulted in him playing to a much smaller crowd. So they probably could have put him on earlier, but then they would have had other artists. after him, which he didn't want. So he played to less people.

He kind of screwed himself there a little bit, didn't he? But I mean, like, he's still performing to what? Was it 30 to 80,000? 30 to 80, yeah. I mean, that's still pretty good, isn't it? Far out. That's sick. That is totally, that's the image in my head.

I think Woodstock, I think when you said Joe Cocker, that reminded me, I've seen clips of him playing a lot. But the Jimmy Hendricks, is that where he, did he light his guitar on fire there? Am I thinking that? Isn't that famous little ritual he did where he burnt? Was that somewhere else? I might have been somewhere else. I didn't watch the entire two-hour performance,

which I definitely watched. Honestly, Dave, do you even give a shit about our podcast? I watch the Star Spangled Banner. Yeah. What's that parody did? The Simpsons. It's not in Wainswell 2, is it? Wayne's World 2 is Wayne Stock.

Yeah, but is there a... Or am I thinking, I don't know, it doesn't matter. Jimmy Hendricks looks like he burned his guitar at Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. That's another big one on the other coast. And I should say to correct another mistake I made, it was Graham Nash is the English one from Crosby Stills, Nash and Young. He was the one from the Hollies. Stills was from Buffalo Springfield with Neil Young. And I just remembered another thing that connected an old report to this is remember that Phil Hartman designed their logo.

Oh, yeah. That's so cool. That was a really fun fact. If I can say that, Jess, I really thought that was fun. I don't love that you did that, especially on my special day. Sorry, sorry. But it was fun. So I'll allow it because I'm feeling generous.

Honestly, Jess. Because I'm in my 30s now. You know, I've matured. It does seem like something a cheeky, 20-something-year-old might say. So you'll let him get away with it this time. Yeah. That's all right, scamp. All right.

Thanks, ma'am. I will murder you. So that's the music, which obviously a big part of the festival, but I just wanted to say it was noticed just before the festival kicked off that they've forgotten to hire an MC. Oh, that's good. So the festival's lighting designer, Chip Monk, who actually didn't have much to do in the end

because they only had the spotlight, was asked to step in at the last minute to introduce bands and make announcements. He can be heard and seen in recordings of Woodstock making stage announcements, including requests to stay off the towers. people started climbing the music speaker's towers and he had to tell them to get down, especially during the storms.

And I love this warning about brown acid. He said, to get back to the warning that I've received, you might take it with however many grains of salt you wish, that the brown acid that is circulating around is not specifically too good. It's suggested that you do stay away from that. Of course, if it's your own trip, so be my guest. But please be advised that there's a warning on that one, okay?

Brown acid. Morning on that one. Honestly, the brown acid, that's an issue to do with the Portaloos. We didn't get enough. And there has been some cross-contamination. So please stay away from the brown acid. I'm drinking the brown acid. Towards the end of the festival, the farmer who owned the land,

Max Yasker that they were using made a famous address to the crowd. He said, this is his speech. I'm a farmer. Crowd cheer. I don't know how to speak to. 20 people at one time, let alone a crowd like this, but I think you people have proven something to the world. This is the largest group of people ever assembled in one place. We have no idea that there could be this size group, and because of that, you've had

quite a few inconveniences as far as water, food and so forth, but above that, the important thing that you've proven to the world is that half a million kids, and I call your kids, because I've got children that are older than you are, half a million young people can get together and have three days of fun and music and have nothing but fun and music. And I, God bless you for it. Oh, that's so nice. What a legend.

That's so nice. That's sick. That's lovely. Which is really nice. You read the James Acaster's classic scrapes book. There's a similar kind of story in there. Do you remember? He was talking about doing a festival,

doing stand-up at a festival. And I'm going to butcher the story, but it basically goes that he it wasn't ideally set up for a stand-up. Like there was no light on him or whatever. They were expecting musicians. So he went out and the crowd were hating him. And there was a similar figure at this festival that just,

he was like the Max, their version of the Max guy. And he came out and the crowd loved him. But they were booing, I think they were booing James Acaster and asking for the farmer. Something like that. It reminded me of a couple of festival spots I'd done where you're just like, oh, this is not built for comedy. Yeah, this sucks.

I have not thought about this. Listening to that story made me feel sick in my stomach. But yeah, I like this. This version is so much nice. Everyone's on the same page. Max sounds like a legium. Yeah, and it sounds like the attitude at the festival was great. I have no issues with that.

It's the logistics that I'm struggling with personally, not for me. Dave, did you read anywhere how much? much Max made from this? Like they rented the land. Yeah, they paid him, uh, well, something like $10,000 or something. So quite a lot of money. Yeah. All the time.

I mean, comparatively they paid Jimmy Hendricks like 18 grand or something. Yeah, so he made similar money, you know, to some of the bigger musicians. Like he got similar money to say credence who are on. Yeah, big payday for a long weekend essentially. And they got, everyone got their money? Yeah, apparently, I read in some places. So this is the kind of thing where 50 years later, it's such an iconic thing, but everyone was high and drunk and there's so many stories.

Everything's laced with LSD, even the bananas. Well, the Who and Janice Joplin and a couple of other artists refused to go on until they got their money up front and cash backstage. Well, when you've already waited 10 hours, I'd be saying money up front too, actually. And you've also seen that people are coming in for free. You're like, well, where's, how are you paying for this anymore? So they had to get a banker to front the money to cover it. Densher dollars.

Give them the cash. and then they got the, you know, their equivalent of, you know, 80 grand or something. That's good. I went to a festival about 10 years back called the Blueprint Festival. And I think the organisers are maybe allegedly still on the run because they... Oh, no. Yeah, they bit off a bit more than they can chew and owe a lot of people money. And I think they were just these young kid organizers.

and it was if I really enjoyed it, but yeah, I don't think the money made sense and it's ended up kind of ruining their lives, allegedly. Oh, that's such a bummer for everyone. Yeah, no one got paid. Like the farmers, there were local businesses who put up food and drinks and everything. I just think like no one got paid. Yeah, this is making me want to watch the Fire Festival of Docker again. It's the difference between like the Fire Festival.

disaster and everyone's like this is not good enough whereas Woodstock's like, free love baby let's fuck. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, there's no toilets. Woo! This weekend ever!

I didn't want one anyway. I love to not, I love to just shit anywhere. I'd just like to poo wavy gravy, baby. Let the wavy gravy fly. Well, less than two years after the festival, Max Yasker sold the farm

and in 1973 he sadly died of a heart attack, age 53. Rolling Stone accorded him a full page obituary and he's one of the few non-musicians to ever receive such a tribute because of his impact. That's lovely. That's so nice. Not nice that he died obviously. Well, good thing must come to an end, Jess.

That's right. It seems like he had a pretty good run. It seemed like a nice man. Sadly, not everything about the festival was positive. There were two recorded... Yeah, no shit, Dave. I can name a bunch of things. and I have been passionately.

Well, there were two recorded fatalities at the festival. One from insulin usage, and another cause when a tractor ran over someone sleeping in a nearby hairsty. Oh, shit. Just a bit nasty. That's not good. Insulin usage died from it. I had too much.

I'm not sure if they'd had too much or they needed someone, they didn't have it, all that sort of thing. Yeah, right. So two deaths? But two. But two out of half a million people. That's right, with no proper security, no proper medical. They did have volunteers on site, but, you know, it's not enough for 500,000 people.

And everyone's on drugs 24-7. Yeah, that's right. So you'd expect some overdoses or, you know, people needing medical attention. So that's actually, well, very sad, especially somebody, that accident of the tractor, that's awful. But those numbers are incredible. Yeah, for sure. And a lot of people, apparently the biggest injury was just people cutting their feet because everyone was walking bare feet.

That was the most reported injury by the volunteer medical staff. But overall, everyone was pretty damn safe. Amazing. Wow. That's awesome. Once the crowd's left, again, this caused traffic jams. They also left a lot of mess behind. The cleanup took days, cost tens of thousands of dollars and required bulldozers.

There was that much shit there. Oh, that's gross. Literal shit. Yeah. Literally, yes. But they just used that as manure in the nearby fields. Honestly, it was one of the most prosperous seasons. Yeah, exactly.

So, you know, swings in roundabouts, eh? The farmers were like, come back, keep shitting. Shit over there, please. Any shit over there? I need some wheat. Can everyone spread out and take a shit, please? Three shit minimum. All in all, despite being so damn ram, shackled in last minute, Woodstock was culturally a huge

success. However, all up it costs $3 million to host the festival and because of the sheer scale and the fact that they had to make it free for 80% of attendees, the organisers lost a lot of money. Fortunately for them, most of the band's performances were filmed

and in 1970 the following year a documentary called Woodstock directed by Michael Wadley was released to huge critical acclaim. With the runtime of over three hours. And these days there's a four-hour version. It was edited by seven

people, including Thelma Schoonmaker, who would go on to win multiple Academy Awards editing Martin Scorsese's films, and also edited in part by Martin Scorsese himself when he was very young. Oh, cool. I'm also just imagining the four-hour version is just slowed down. It's the same.

75%. It's just a bit slower. And there was a lot to edit. Director Wad Lee at the festival shot 315,000 feet of film, nearly 100,000 meters. I love hearing about that measured in feet. Yeah. He had like multiple cameras set up and they're all running film and all filming the entire festival.

So it's just, there was so much. That's amazing. The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Film and was a box office smash grossing over $50 million on a budget of only $600,000. Whoa. So it made more than 15 times the entire festival cost, which is crazy. Wow, that's nuts. And it was a lifeline to festival organizers who were part of the producing it.

And the movie financed settlements and paid off $1.4 million or nearly $10 million US dollars of debt they had occurred, incurred from the festival. Oh, that's lucky. So thank God they filmed it. Oh, and it was just luck. They're just like, oh, it'd be fun to film sort of thing. Yeah, well, they got the, well, I thought that. you know, they thought it was going to be a thing,

but I don't think culturally that was like the biggest music documentary ever at the time. Like, I think it was something like the fourth, third or fourth grossing film of the entire year. Like, think about the last time a documentary was in the top three highest-grossom films of the years. Yeah. It was crazy successful. Incredible.

And that must have been good for the bands as well. Oh, yeah, absolutely. So a bunch of those acts, even though some of them, we don't remember them all today, like the guy, Richie that's that opened the festival, that really kick-started his career, and him being part of stuff like the film and the soundtrack really gave him a career. That's awesome. I should also say the documentary and its live soundtrack album

also helped put Woodstock on the cultural map, connecting it to not only the people that attended, but millions more around the world. So that's another reason that we, generations later, still know it, because the film was, and we've all seen that footage of, you know, even for a few seconds of Jimmy Hendrix. That's part of the documentary. Yeah.

Now, the cover of the live album released became one of the most iconic photos of the festival. If I showed it to you, I reckon you might see it. It might have seen it. It's taken by Burke Uzzell. Great thing. And it features Bobby Kelly embracing his then-girlfriend of only 10 weeks,

Nick Urqueline. Or maybe it's the other way around. Maybe the gender's the other way around. Maybe it's Bobby Kelly embracing her boyfriend of 10 weeks, Nick Urqueline. They were tracked down years later and are still married to this day. Aw. Not amazing 50 years later.

That's nice. So they're sort of embracing and they're wearing like a hippie looking blanket type thing with the crowd behind them. It's just a really nice moment. And they barely knew that the photo was taken. And apparently when the album came out, they were like, oh, wow, we're on the cover.

That's us. That's cool. And then 50 years later, they'll track down and they were like, yeah, we're still married and I saw video footage of them. They just look like, you know, our parents. It's amazing. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. I'm looking at that photo now. Yeah, I'm looking at a photo now. I was just looking at that photo before. Maybe I'll try and use it for the cover image that I release on our Instagram if you want to see it. Great. I'm pretty, yeah, I bought that CD for my dad ages ago.

But I don't know if I ever listened to it. Is it worth a listen? Like the record quality is good? Yeah, they totally, and it's been remastered and it sounds really, really good. Yeah, sick. Probably better than actually sounded live. I mean, it's a very nice photo, but I don't, is that the best photo they had from the day? You couldn't have something of like the whole,

crowd on the stage or something, looking a bit more grand. I'll try and post a few photos as well from the air. It's insane. It's amazing. Are you looking at Google Images? How many people, like half a million people on this grassy hill. It's like Santana said, just a mass of people. It's terrifying, really.

I saw a photo before of people's way up the back. Like, you could barely see the stage from where they're, from in the photo you could barely see it. So they definitely couldn't see the stage from where they are. And they're sitting shoulder to shoulder. Like they're tightly packed. in that far back. Far out. It's insane.

It's awesome. I just want to end with a, well, I'll end with this fact and then a line from our old mate, Carlos Santana. So this is a crazy historical fact. All three of these report topics and huge moments of the 20th century all happened in a 30-day period. Think about this month. The moon landing, the Manson family murdering eight people including Sharon Tate and then Woodstock, all in 30 days. Crazy days. Yeah. So in the same. month. Wow. That's nuts. And they call it the summer of love. It seems a bit more

messed up than that, right? Yeah. And then Vietnam's really kicking off when people have been conscripted, all sorts of stuff, yeah. Geez, sweet. Wow. That's nuts. Santana would later say, looking back on it, remember he was high as hell whilst playing accidentally with a snake, he said, some people called it a disaster area, but I didn't see nobody in state of disaster. I saw a lot of people coming together, sharing and having and great time. If that was out of control, then America needs to lose control at least

once a week. In the 60s, people didn't go to concerts to get drunk and pick up chicks. They went to get bombarded with music and be taken somewhere else. When he came out, you never knew if you were going to be the same. You didn't go to a concert to escape. You went to a concert to expand.

I wish you finished that with man. That would have been perfect. The only people would have made that better. That would have been perfect. Expand, man. Man. The opening act of the festival, Richie Havens, who was forever associated with Woodstock, died of a heart attack in 2013, and as Perry's wishes, his ashes were scattered from the air above the Woodstock site on its 44th anniversary that year. Oh, that's great. Oh, that's nice.

There you go. So do you know what the farm is now, still a working farm? Oh, right. So there's been a number of anniversary concerts over the years, the biggest being Woodstock 94 and Woodstock 99 for the 25th and 30th anniversaries. these took place in New York in the state but were nowhere near the original site. Probably worth their own report, especially Woodstock 99,

which was marred in violence and was a complete disaster by many things. Exactly opposite. And wasn't it, I think Metallica played there, and it was like heavily, a lot of advertising, a lot of corporate sponsors and stuff, like the opposite of,

what a weird way to celebrate it. It was like the MTV version I think people were saying. Oh, that sucks. Yeah, a lot of, New metal was huge at the time. So he had limp biscuit, corn, those types of bands. Who thought that was a good idea? Yeah. Some of the people that organised the four that organised the original festival were involved,

but then they very much distanced themselves saying, oh no, we were only initially involved. No, that wasn't us. Yeah. Far out. But the original site was purchased in 1996 by billionaire Alan Jerry, and today is home to the Bethel Woods Centre for the Arts, which includes a museum and a 15,000-seat outdoor concert venue. 15,000. Yeah.

That's huge. Yeah, it's kind of like an amphitheater. That's nice. On August 13th, 2006, Crosby Still's Nash and Young performed before 16,000 fans at the New Center, 37 years after their historic performance at Woodstock. That's cool. Yeah, there's still concerts there. And you can go and have a look and we'll just have to add it to the list of many,

many things that we want to see when we finally get to the United States. Oh, man. That would be so cool to get there. Yeah, just a walk through if you're allowed to, which I'm actually. I don't know, do they do tours or something? I wonder. Yeah, well, because there is like a Woodstock museum there and you can, yeah, I imagine go have a look.

That'd be great. That's the actual sign. I'd be keen for sure. Yeah. Dave, after doing the report, would you go to Woodstock? Great question. Because I feel like Matt probably would. Yes.

I mean, you'd have to, right? I mean, it would be tricky if you didn't. You absolutely don't have to. No. You reckon if you could go. Go back in time, go to Woodstock, you wouldn't go. No. I mean, I'd still be the same person I am now,

and that would still be my nightmare. I think I would... I'm half of between the both of you. I think I would find it a nightmare, but I would just be so intrigued by the vibe, everything about it, the story of the history, and now researching this, because I also saw video footage of the mud

and the, you know, rain, and now hearing about lack of food and sanitary is like, sanitation, it's like, oh! Yeah. But also seeing those... iconic bands and just being part of it. If I knew that I could safely four days later come back and be my modern self and be safe, I'd say yes.

Oh, I wouldn't stay for the four days. If I could pop in, have a look around for a bit and then leave, I'd do it. But if I had to be there for a four day, even a full night, no, not doing it. I think, I think, Dave, you and I are on a similar, so I think what you said is kind of how I feel as well. I think we're on a similar sort of level. Because it's just so intriguing, like, you want to be there. I'll think any of those big historical moments.

Some, if you could be there, even just to view it. Yeah. You know, just to be part of the history. But, like, you know, as long as you could be safe, I'd probably say yes. Yeah. But that is my... But everything is laced in LSD days. I know, every...

Even bananas? Don't touch any, especially bananas. Brown bananas, because that's that brown... The brown acid. Brown acid. And that is, I mean, it's your trip, so you do you, but you probably shouldn't. You shouldn't do that one. Well, that is my report on Woodstock, 1969.

Great report, Dave. Enjoyed it very much. Yeah, well done. That was wild. What a ride. Crazy, crazy. Crazy story. And like I said at the start, I really didn't really know much about it at all.

So it was a fun one to dive into it. I put it up for a vote a few months back. And I just quickly checked if there was enough info. So I got as far as known four young men put it together. And I didn't get beyond that. So thanks for filling in the rest. There was a couple of details you got to that I did it. Just a couple.

Just a couple. But yeah, Dave, you should post a few video clips during the week as well on our social media of some of the... Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. We'll try and get the vibe across. I'll love to see a Joe Cocker one again if you can. All right. I'll try and remember a bit of Joe Cocker.

I'll try and put the Jimmy Hendrix Star Spangled Banner just because it is so iconic. I'll go shit in a bucket, just sort of get the vibe going. I won't shower for the next four days and I won't eat. I'll just do acid. For the next four days. As a tribute. It's raining quite heavily outside. I think I'll sleep out there tonight.

I think it's the, his cover of Beatles with a little help from my friends. I think it's one of his iconic ones from Woodstock. How good? It's just one of those, you know, I'd love to do a mix of covers that are better than the original. I reckon that would fit the bill. I hate that song, and I hate it because they, or I don't necessarily hate it, but on an episode of Sesame Street, it was a dog looking for his bone, and he could not find it anywhere, but his friends came and they helped him find his bone.

Yeah. Well, it's just another thing, Jim Henson Company is ruined. Well, another song that's ruined by Sesame Street for me is Material Girl because they had a young girl puppet who had cereal for breakfast. She was a serial girl. That's good stuff. Come on, that's good stuff. They did, Hughie Lewis and the News is hip to be square as well.

And it was about the shape of square. Oh, Sesame Street. Do you have so much to answer for. Hey, but that does bring. us to everyone's favorite section of the show, the Patreon section, which kicks off with the fact, quote or question section, which has a jingle, I think, that goes like this. Fact quote or question. You always remembers the ding.

The way to get involved with this is if you join up on Patreon at patreon.com slash do you go on pod and you sign up on the Sydney-Shonberg-Lox Memorial Edition level. And you then get, when you sign up, there's a link you get and you get to give us a fact to quota of question. If you're on that level, and yeah, this sounds confusing to you, send me a message on Patreon and I'll sort your way out. But I think it seems to be running pretty smoothly now. And I read out a few each week and I read them out first time on the podcast. So please bear with me. The first one comes from Drew Forsberg. And he's given himself the title. Everyone gets to give themselves a title as well as Ask a Fact.

tell a quote or say a question and Drew's given himself the title of official NBL most efficient player award nominee please do not fact you okay well unless you're Andrew Gay's going under a pseudonym that would be amazing true imagine if Gazey listened I love you we love you gazey oh have I said on the podcast yet that I interviewed him that's going to come out in a month or so on the stupid old channel He was so fun to interview, the best. Just such a lovely fun guy.

All the interviews I've done for that series have been brilliant. Well, I enjoyed them. I don't know how brilliant they'll be to watch me fumble around interviews with my heroes. Who's editing them? Is it Evan Munro's Mick? Yeah, Emma and Evan, it's stupid older handling the edit. So then it will be brilliant. I have not had the balls to watch it yet.

It's just like, what a nightmare watching yourself be awkward around heroes. hopefully a bit of fun for others anyway Drew Foresberg is asking a question and it goes like this not sure if this counts as cheating but what are your favourite games of the following three types physical tabletop and videographic okay I'm confused so far

answers can be childhood or current I apologise if this is a rehash but I was hoping to create a fun discussion out of it I seem to have a knack of being an underwhelming fact quote or question contributor and wish to do better for you all. Also, the first syllable in my last name is pronounced Fours, not Force. Drew Foresburg. Sorry, Drew.

And thank you for leaving that right to the end, just ensuring that I got it wrong again. Okay, so... That's the way to do it. So favourite physical game, tabletop, so I'm guessing is like a board game or a card game or something like that. And I should say, Drew, I have not found you to be underwhelming at all in the past. Absolutely not.

No, no, this is a great question. It really is. I was just a bit confused by it. I still am. So I'm going to let you guys go first and I'll jump in. Well, I was still clarifying it. So physical game, like a tabletop game or video game. Yes.

So one of each, I should say, yeah. So we go around the circle for each category maybe? So what's a physical game mean? Is that like 40-40? I think that's like kids games or like sport maybe. And is it to play or what? Well, I'll give you one of each. Favorite sport basketball to play to watch maybe, maybe basketball, maybe rugby union.

Love it. Really? Seriously? Yeah, I love what, I get very into the, I love the wallabies. Look for you. Love them. Maybe I should give it a crack. It's fun.

I do the line-out, the gigantic men lifting each other up. It's beautiful. I love it. It's my favorite bit. It's so graceful. But it's hard supporting the wallabies. I mean, I say that being. a saint's sport in AFL, but the hard, they have been, you know, we're so close to the best

team in the world here, like geographically in New Zealand. Yeah, that's right. To be fair, I haven't like really followed them for a couple of years, but I do very much enjoy watching, like the World Cup. Yeah, it's so fun. I love any big World Cup. Love it. The cricket, the soccer, I love all that.

A lot of fun. But then like kids game, maybe hide and seek or, or what's the time? Oh, that's a good one. I can't remember how that works, but that rings a bell as being fun. Yeah. Murder in the Dark, whichever iteration you play. No one remembers. No one remembers how to play.

Everyone's got a different one. Card game or like tabletop game. My favourite card game is 500. Oh, me too. Love it. A lot of fun. Play that with my folks a bit. Hadn't played for a really long time.

And then went over for dinner recently and I saw their pack of 500. I was like, let's do this. And then obviously there's the. the traditional three hours of trying to explain it to a new player who doesn't get it and it's very confusing but I love it. And if you're going to play it with my parents, you've got to always be on Dad's team because he gives zero fucks. He makes very big calls and backs himself and usually pulls it off.

Wow, good for him. Well done, John. Yeah. And then video game. Oh, the Sims. That's an easy one. Okay, that's a good one. How about you, Matthew?

I want to get this podcast over and done with so I can go play some. Dave, Dave, do you, let's go by category. What's your physical? Physical, if we're doing sport to play, it would be, I really liked tennis growing up, especially. And to watch, it's probably tennis as well. Yeah, right. Tennis is.

I love watch, honestly. I grew up. The Aussie Open time of year. I love it at the start of the summer. I like that time of year, but I find tennis pretty boring to watch. I like playing it. Enough. A late game, they're playing until like midnight.

but it's hot so you're not going to bed anyway. Yeah. I love it. Yeah. I was going to say it was the first time I went to the tennis this year. Went for a day with my mum. I'd never been before. I'd watched it a lot, but I got to go.

I used to go on the school holidays for the Australian Open. I get a day pass for the, what do you, like the outer courts pass? You just wander around. Yeah, yeah. Ground pass, which I prefer to then sitting on centre court and just watching one game after the other. I like wandering around and seeing the tiny games where there's like. Yeah.

20 seats around a court. And you can see these little unknown players. That was fun. And they're still the best player you've ever seen. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's just wild because I was playing back then. That was one of the sports I played probably the most as a kid.

I did try them all. But I think, yeah, to play these days as an old man, probably golf is my favorite to play just because it's the only sport I've really played. They've been kicking the footy around a bit, which is fun. but it's not really sport. But to watch is definitely AFL or Aussie rules. But I've been watching a bit of cricket, the English summer. I've been watching, I really enjoyed watching them play the West Indies month back,

especially the first test when the windies were competitive. They got less competitive as it went on. But anyway, yeah, but to play, probably go off to watch, probably Aussie rules, I'd say. And then the next one, Dave, was Tabletop. I love card games as well, like Jess. I haven't played 500 in years, so it would take me a little bit to pick it back up, but my family used to play it a lot, which I love.

And in terms of like a board game type thing, I also haven't played in years now because no one I know knows how to play, but I used to play a lot of Marzhong, the Chinese game. Oh, yeah. I used to play that on the computer a fair bit. Did you play, so there's like two versions. There's the one where it's like,

we have to match the tiles. And then there's also the one we have to, it's like, it's basically a card game, but with tiles and you have to like make suits and pairs and you compete against three other players. Pretty confident I was just matching tiles. I was going, this is fun. I've had that a few times. I've had that a few times. I'm like, oh, sick, I can play mahjong, and then it's the other one.

So, yeah, I used to play that. And then when I went to China many years ago, I played and bought a set there and it was just, yeah, really, really fun. But I need to find people that know how to play it because I only knew it because I used to go out with a girl whose family were really into it. That's the only time I've ever played it as well. And I used to date someone who's family played. And we played on their family holidays. Yeah, great fun.

Love it. And the tiles are so cool, like, you know. Yes, they look great, don't they? Little things smooth and, like, colorful. Yeah, great. I think my, for Tabletop, that's like board games, right, as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think Trivial Pursuit, a bit of a classic.

That's probably my favorite one to play. And the other one I enjoy, although I haven't played it in ages, is Ultimate Boulder Dash. Oh, great game. Yeah, that's fun. So there's like five different categories and you've got to, everyone has to make up a thing. So it's either a date or an acronym or a word. And so the word's like an obscure word, everyone goes around and writes down a fake definition for that word.

And then whoever's turned it is reads them all out and everyone has to guess what the real meaning of the word is or what that date is actually famous for or what the anagram actually stands for or whatever. So it's just a bull- as a bullshitting game, which funnily enough, I enjoy a bit. But yeah, like I said, I haven't played it in quite a while. And then the last one, Dave, this one's hard for me, the videographic game. For me, there's a tie between I loved Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 or 3 and then also absolutely loved Pokemon on the Game Boy.

So good. So fun. So good. I think I'm going to have to go with probably old school Mario, just running left to right, headbriding bricks, getting mushrooms and whatnot. I was confident you were going to say Pong. Pong? I don't mind Pong. I actually...

Do you remember when that came out? I used to play this game eight when I was quite little, and it would have been on Friends computers. It was called Commander Keene, I think. And there was a game inside that game where you could play Pong. And it is fun. Commander King was also fun. It was a left to right sort of world game.

Donkey Kong Country was another one I played a lot as a kid. And Battletoads was another favorite. Oh, cool, fun stuff. Yeah, I'm like, of the age where I like going left to right. Or I think I'm actually probably even too young for a lot of those games, but because we got an out-of-date console when everyone else is playing 64. and moving forwards, we were still playing Super Nintendo, but... Who cares?

I know, but I actually... It's a nice memory. That's just like, because I haven't really played much since then, that's what I still prefer to play. That was a good question, Drew. Geez, you got some mileage out of that. Feels like we've been talking for about half an hour. That might be our longest ever fat quote or question. Thank you for that, Drew.

The next one comes from Suresh, Paris, who's given himself the title of Reserve Bartender of the Triptitch Club on probation after drinking more than making. He's also asked a question, and Saraj's question is, as we're living in an increasingly complex socio-political climate and considering the multitude of factors at play in dealing with the COVID situation, have you recently re-watched any TV shows or cave paintings

from when you were a kid and did they hold up? Oh, hang on. I think that cave painting must. might have been directed at me. Godham, yeah. What have I been watching? I've been watching the West Wing, which isn't a rewatch, even though it is 20 years old.

It's my first time watching. You've probably overtaken me now. I've sort of stopped. I've slowed a little bit on that. Yeah, I think it's 2002 where I'm watching. I guess third season maybe. Yeah, I'm sort of, I'm into it and I'm not. It's a tricky show.

Some of the stuff is so, like, sappy that it's hard to watch almost. And the Ayrant, you can see the writing sometimes too much. Yeah, okay, yep. Well, I think, like, I think it's a very good show, but I think maybe just at the moment, I'm just looking for easier things to watch. I want just something kind of dumb that I can just let wash over me. And I feel like that is what the West Wing is doing for me.

It just feels pretty dumb. Yeah, great. Dave, what are you watching? I've been really watching a lot of action. action movies. Yes. And my favorite movie as a teen, Terminator 2 definitely holds up. Oh, cool.

Check it out. That's good. You guys haven't seen it, have you? I don't think so. I think I've seen parts of it. Is that the one where he gets frozen and keeps walking? Yes, that is Terminator 2, yep. Great film.

So good, so good. Should you give it a watch? My plan for this week, well, okay, so when this comes out, it's Wednesday, so it's my birthday. My plan is to just watch Avengers movies. Cool. Yeah, that'll be interesting. I bet you they don't hold up that well, but maybe they do.

I think when you just blindly love something, you forgive it of all of its shittiness. Oh, that's nice. You know? Well, that's the hope, isn't it? Yeah. I think the thing that I have just started rewatching, which is only from a couple of years ago,

is the Umbrella Academy, doing a short season of recaps for, primates at the moment and two episodes in and I already think that it has held up. It's looking really good. So watching that leading up to then watching the second season, which is now out as well.

Evan and I are going through them all. So that has also been good. Check that out on primates channel. Thank you so much for that question, Saraj. Now Farad al-Thani has given himself the title of senior executive, doing what I want. Love that. Good for you.

That's a good title. Go get him. And the question is, if you would have to describe Australia in one word, how would you describe it? Australia in one word, start to describe anything in one word. Big. Oh, that's good. Yeah, you can't argue with that. It's big.

And we have lots of big things. So it works on a couple of levels, you know. The big banana. Damn, that's good. Okay. What about hot? Hot. Yep.

I guess so. In both ways. Very sexy as well. Oh, yes. Hot bonds is what's implied. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay.

What do you think, man? I'm going to say wide. Oh, yeah. So if we recap, it's big, hot and wide. What are we describing? Are we writing a new national anthem right now? It's big hot and wide.

Come inside. We are Australia. Oh, Dave, stop it. And that's just the first verse. We are Australia. Thank you so much for that question. We haven't spent anywhere near as much time on your topics. so you'll already know this Fahar, but I'm giving you,

I've just Googled your name. It means Panther. Okay. I'm sure you were already aware of that, but that's a fun fact attached. You're welcome. So Pantara could have been called Fahar. If they went with the Arabic version,

they would have gone for Fahard, which is a cool metal name as well. Love that, yeah. That's probably a really good battle name, isn't it? That's awesome. And finally this week, the last factor quote or question comes from Paul McNally, who's given himself the title of Head of Diagnostics. And as context, he writes, I work as a radiographer, mainly with X-ray and MRI.

So anatomical diagnostics are grand with me. I feel like branching out. TV fucked. I'll tell you why. Dog sick, no worries. Problem with government's policy? 100% can tell you why. Not going to help you solve them, though.

Oh, felt so promising early, but in the end. Right. I wish that he'd x-ray those bloody clowns up in Parliament House. Chuck them in the MRI. See what they're really thinking about. Yeah. Clowns up on Capitol Hill. Okay, so this is a fact from Paul, and it is long-looking.

But I reckon it's just within the word limit. Here we go. The Soviet Union was founded basically to promote workers talking, are taking over the workplace, up to and including the country. But other mini-Soviet sprung up around that time. The very first was a Soviet state set up in a town about 10 minutes drive from where I live, the Monaghan Soviet. It was founded in asylum to protest against the 95-plus hour weeks that staff had to endure.

The red flag of communism was raised above the building. It was set up in February 1919 and lasted 12 days. The workers won a 56-hour working week, the right for married staff to go home after your shift ended. Apparently the boss could just keep the gates shut before then, a pay rise and an equal pay of women doing the same work. That's the fact, and then he's got a side note. I know vaguely of this topic, but not much about it.

Then I looked into the location and saw it was held in the mental hospital my late father used to work in. when they commissioned a new building to replace the old ward blocks my dad was going to be the head of this new facility and was allowed to pick the colours for the paint on the walls and he picked some bright communist red i thought it was strange at the time as a 10 year old but now as a 32 year old i get the joke vivile a revolutionion that is a very interesting fact i mean i don't think i fully took it all in because I was reading it at the same time.

No. Yeah. That sounds wild. I just want to very quickly find out what Paul means because that's my dad's name as well. Oh, it is not as good. What I took away from that just quickly is that he said that married workers were allowed to leave with a single people. We're just locked in.

And then you can't. So Paul doesn't mean Panthers. No, Paul means small. Small Panther? From the Roman family name Paulus, which meant. small or humble in Latin. Humble's better. Stay humble.

Humble's better than small. I mean, there's nothing wrong with small either, I guess, but it depends on what it's about. And, you know, size of the matter of that sort of stuff. We know that. That's what small people say, yep. That's the end of the fact quotes and questions there. Four, crackers.

That was real high quality. The other thing we like to do is thank you. a few patrons who are on the shoutout level which I believe is the DB Cooper level Dave. Yeah, you can work it out

if you go on Patreon, you'll work it out. There are no Triptitch Club members inducted this week so we're just doing the a few shoutouts each. Patreon shut out. I might kick it off if that's okay with you all. Yes, how are we thanking them out?

Oh yes, Jess. You normally come up with a little thing for us to do. I think for this week we will assign what they're doing at Woodstock. Fantastic. I love that very much. All right. So we're kicking off first from Zephyr Hills. Zephyr Hills, I think it is.

Zephyr Hills in Florida, United States. Albert Favre. Albert Favre is. He is. just wandering around, just checking on everyone. He's got a little first aid kit. Oh, that's great. And he's just making sure everyone's all right.

Still having a great time. Still enjoying, but just sort of, you know, just looking out for everybody. He's got a little clipboard. He's got a clipboard and a little first aid kit. And when someone goes, I got an awry, he puts a band-aid on. He gives it a clean, puts a band-aid on. I mean, they're just going to get muddy again anyway. But yeah, and then he's like, you're okay?

And they're like, yeah, I'm all good. Thanks, Alba. Oh, that sounds like. That actually sounds very much the vibe. It seems like just a small task of all the things that I could have assigned. It seems like I've gone for something a little bit dumb. But, you know, just in the sense of like a human connection, it's the biggest. I've just looked up a pronunciation website as well and it says, I should have said,

Albert Favour. Favour. Yeah, that looks right. I guess Favar. Thank you so much, Albert, you legend, doing God's work there. I'd also love to thank from Oxnard in California, United States, Brian Stafford. Brian. Oxnard, that sounds bloody bad ass.

But Brian is so badass that he's in charge of the Woodstock suggestion box. Oh, I love that. A bit of feedback. Yes, he's like out there, hey guys, anyone got any suggestions to put in the box? It's completely anonymous. We're not going to like... And people are writing in like, get some toilets or some adequate food. He's like, okay, yes, great feedback. Thank you.

We're gobbling all. All up this feedback. Maybe next year. Music should stop at midnight, you know? Okay, you want some sleep at some point. Okay, okay. No 20-mile traffic jams. All right, man.

I'm getting it. Come on, we can't do everything. That is it? Yeah, God, you've been a bit unreasonable. Imagine being that guy and having to be like, oh, great. Yeah, we'll take that on board. We'll see what we can do. Shit, shit.

Yeah. He seems like we haven't really done anything right. He's like, I do not have that power. I cannot do that. Yeah, but I'll pass it up the chain, I guess. I'm just so much for doing that, Brian. Great work once again. Now from Austin, Texas.

Stay weird, or whatever their motto is. Alec Ruiz Guerrero. Guarero. Alec Ruiz Grouero. I think what Alec will do is he will, just to check it on everyone's tent putting up ability. So he'll go around and just make sure they're all structurally sound. Oh, so he's a tent checker.

Exactly. Love that, very important job. Because we need shelter for all that sleep we're going to get. And he goes around, he's got spare pegs, he's got spare stick things in case. And he just knows how to, sometimes you just need someone who knows how to put up a fucking tent. Every time I'm putting up my stupid pop-up tent, which was purchased to make it easier. Yeah. They're never like they describe.

No, it's never just give it a flick and it does it itself, you know. It's never just flick the Bick and you've got a tent. That's what they should design, an actual flick the Bick tent. I reckon Bick could do it. Well, once the tent goes up, I'm flicking my Bick. Oh, big time. Thank you, Alec. That, geez, so practical this week.

Everyone's doing really good jobs. Loving it. Dave, do you want to thank some people as well? Yes, I'd like to thank from Suva in Fiji, the capital of Fiji. There you go. Awesome. That's freaking cool. David Cullen.

David Cullen, of course, Fiji famously has the bananas on the flag. I think David is in charge of the acid-based bananas. Another very practical job. Making sure people eat the acid bananas before they go brown. Getting them right in that sweet spot. Yes. White acid bananas, yummy. Very good.

You'll have a wonderful trip. And get some potassium. That's a big job. Because, yeah, a lot of people, half a million bananas to check. I assume there's one banana for every attendee. Yeah, exactly. It's part of the ticket price which a lot of people didn't even pay. So there you go.

You get a banana? I told you they lost a lot of money, mainly through bananas. One a day or you just get one banana? Make it last. Yeah, make it last. Oh, okay. It's a big one. It's really big.

It's really good. Oh, okay. The biggest one you've ever seen. Like you couldn't, you probably couldn't get through it in one go. No, like good luck getting through a, an acid banana in one go, come on, man. Come on, man. You just made a fool yourself, yeah.

What am I thinking? Well, I know. I feel foolish. Can we edit that out, please? I don't want to look a fool. So thanks, David from Fiji. How freaking cool. Is that our first patron supporter from Fiji?

Yeah, might be. Yeah. Love it. Now, from a little bit closer at home, from Carlton here in Victoria. A little bit closer to home. Hey, a little bit. Ebony at Marja.

Ah, Ebony. I met Ebony in Kosovoi. Oh, cool, awesome. Came along, yeah. Well, thanks for supporting the show, Ebony and Matt. What is Ebony in charge of at the Woodstock, 1966? Well, being from Carlton, obviously, Ebony, you'll be in charge of the coffee. I'm making sure that the coffee quality is right.

Is it Jess Perkins levels? Ebony, you'll be seeing a lot of me. Are you interested in coming to the festival and now you've heard that? If there's coffee? Yeah. Yeah, I'd be a bit more cane. If I knew there were food trucks and stuff, I fucking love food trucks. Coffee quality checked by a cult and local.

She doesn't have to make it or anything. She just has to go around and have a sip out of everyone's coffee. And go, yeah, that one's all right. She just tips it out. You should take that back. Yeah. Go get another one. You should go get them to do it.

You another one. That's no good. Don't accept terrible coffee. So it says on her t-shirt. She got a clipboard as well. Love that. Yeah. Yeah, everyone's got a clipboard.

All these jobs have clipboards. Of course. I would also like to think. So thanks, Ebony. I'd also like to thank, now we know this guy. From Kinross, Western Australia, the Simpsons expert of the show, Jacob Lane. Jacob Lane.

I mean, we know what his strengths are. Do we play to those? Well, I think that maybe, we are playing to the strengths. His job is to, he's actually wavy gravy's assistant, making sure that no one is smoking harmless tobacco. So he's a reverse, Burns. Yeah, that's right.

He's also got a clipboard. Jacob, hopefully you can pull that off. Assistant to Wavy Gravy Gravy. As far as I know, wavy gravy looks like Mr. Burns with a wig. And he has that puffer vest

that he just pops and then it turns into a life vest and he just jumps in and swims away. So good. Is that you done, Dave? Is it my turn? Yeah, so thank you. Those are the three people. I'd like to thank David, Ebony and Jacob.

And I thanked Alec, Brian and Albert. Yeah, great. Bringing it home, I would love to thank from the ACT in Yarra Lama. The Clans of Capitol Hill up there. I'd love to thank Kristen Barrett. Thanks, Kristen. Kristen Barrett from the ACT, Jess. What kind of skills would she have up there?

Kristen is actually running an arts and craft stall. Oh, nice. So you can go and you can make your own flower crown to wear or just do some coloring in. You can do nude painting if you want to. While you're nude? Or you can be nude, whatever. You can paint with your nipples.

But yeah, she's running a really lovely, inclusive and welcoming. Arts and Craft. Which is doing really well. Arts and Crowson! She's done it! She's on purpose? Yes. Your face?

He says otherwise. Yes, I did that, yes. You're that good. I'm that good. I make amazing jokes subconsciously. Thank you so much, Kristen. I'd also love to thank again from the ACT. My goodness, this time from McKella.

I'd love to thank Alex Palmer. Oh, Alex. Alex is actually in charge of the skinny dipping pond. Alex is the lifeguard. In charge of it. Lifeguard, but also in charge of making sure that no one's skinny dipping in disgusting. casting clothes.

Yeah, get them out. I said, oh, I can see you've got a little G-string. I don't think I can't see it because it's flesh-colored. Yeah, I wasn't born yesterday, mate. Take it off. I work on less experienced lifeguards slash skinny-dipping supervisors, but not me. All these guys are volunteering and working,

but at the end of the day, they are also play in a super group that I think we should name at the end as well. Okay, yeah, great. So I think we've got one more to, One more to thank here. Alex Palmer doing God's work there, making sure everyone's nude. Amazing. And finally, from Gulfport, MS. Mississippi.

Gulfport, Mississippi. I'd love to thank Travis Alexander. The lover of big monsters. Oh, that's right, the kanji. Kaiju. No, Kaiju. How can we work Kaiju into a Woodstock job? Well, I mean, every festival's got to have someone who's like,

on the non-existent gate, making sure Godzilla doesn't come and attack the festival. He's keeping Godzilla out. Yeah, he's keeping Godzilla at bay. And by all reports. Godzilla can stand in a nearby field and listen, but I'm sorry, mate. It's just a bit risky if you come in. Really, it's no Godzilla's. We've got one.

Oh, okay, good. Only one kaiju. No kai-jus. First in best dress. So we've got an area for all. If Godzilla's in, it's, Sorry, Mothra. You're over there.

Yeah, Mothra. Mothra is trying to fly in, no? Mothman, obviously, is allowed in the VIP section. Side of stage. Oh, yeah. It's a confusing system. Travis, we'll explain it to you in the lead-up. All right, so we've got Travis, Alex, Kristen, Jacob, Ebony, David,

Alec, Brian and Albert. What's their band called Jess? What's one of these 1969's kind of silly? Maybe we'll do two words each. Yeah, great. Okay. The first one's the, the last one's band. We can play in the middle. Okay, yeah.

Okay. Okay. The dirty funk. Acid orchestra. Felching Pond. Banned. Banned. That sounds a bit too active.

Wow. I love it. I reckon they're going to be a hit. With no inductees into the Triptitch Club this week, that means we've got. got no more Patreon business to do. Fantastic. Well, if you want to get involved, you want to get the bonus episodes.

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Welcome to the post-30s club. Now, I think it should be your honour to boot this baby home this week. Okay, great. How does Dave do this? Dave, give me, what do you usually say? I don't know. Because I feel like we've done like the plunks and shit.

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