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

Episode Date: July 21, 2021

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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. Hey, mate, just before we start the episode, it's me, Matt Stewart. Thank you so much for tuning in to our 300th episode.

It was a great time. It was recorded in front of a live audience at the Stupidel Studios. A small and intimate and beautiful crowd, thanks to those who came out. If you want to watch it, you can still see it. It's up there to be streamed at saucepresents.com. There'll be a link in the show notes. Check it out there. It's an extended cut.

apart from, you know, there's a little bits that have been chopped out of this episode, but also mainly because, you know, I'd try to cut out things that would be a bit confusing if you weren't in the room. But also there's a whole second section of the show where Dave takes Jess and I through a quiz going back through the first 300 episodes of the show. So it's a really fun, cool time. Tune in there if you want to watch all that. I'm also up doing shows in Queensland for the rest of the week,

including a live primates, second ever live primates episode. And if you want to see that come along. It's a good chat comedy in Brisbane this Friday night at 9.30. I'm also doing the stand-up show at Good Chat. Just before that, at 7 o'clock, there's details for tickets for all this stuff in the show notes. I'm also at base comedy in the Gold Coast tonight, if you're listening on the Wednesday, and Thursday as well, as well as, I believe. Sunday and then Monday I'm at SBC comedy so

come check me out if you want to if you're in and around Brisbane and the Gold Coast anyway enough of that let's get on with the show and welcome to the 300th episode of do go on my name is Dave Warnocky and as always I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart yeah hey Dave how's it going good Matt how are you pretty good 300 we did it was that the goal from the beginning 300 and done Yeah, well, yeah. Oh.

Yeah, it was... We released a few early, so it's not 300 weeks yet. It's really only 2.9. We've actually gone early here. Oh, no, it's not a 300th week. No. Which is what people normally celebrate. 300 weeks of podcasting.

How long have you been alive? Today, 15,000 weeks. I'm very old. It means nothing to me. Yeah. Is that a lot? Oh, so much. Cool.

So we're actually doing this podcast live at the Stupid Dobs. This is the first time I've done one with a live audience here. They know that already, but I'm talking to the people listening on the podcast now. Yeah. Which what I think of the podcast is sort of like entertainment on the go. Whoa. That's something I've coined. I don't know if it'll take off, but...

It's unbelievable. I reckon that's great. I'll use that Great, I think that, yeah Well, remember to credit me when you do Yeah, I will I will That's a feminist

Yeah Yeah Long have been I think it was one of the first actually I said When I got on the scene Women were huddled in a corner And I said, come join us

What scene is this? Women huddled in a corner They were huddled in a corner At the beginning The beginning of time Yeah, well, not quite the beginning of time. Right, but early on, in the scene of time. Did I say scene?

Yeah. Early on in the scene. I was just checking what scene? Ah, the feminist scene. Gotcha. It was very early on, didn't exist yet. Yeah, yeah. I invented it.

Yeah. Like I coined that term before. Anyway, yeah, I just think women should be given a chance, so. And, you know, some people say that's brave, but I just think, I just think that's right. Yeah. And I'll stand up. I don't care if I get persecuted for it. And can I just say thank you?

Yeah, you can. And can I just cut you off just there and also say thank you. You've done a lot for those in the corner. Dave, can you explain for the 300th time? What is this show? Well, for the past 299 episodes, what we've done here, It's taken in terms of a report on a topic, often suggested by one of our listeners,

go away, do a bit of research, bring it back in the form of a report, and then tell the other guys what they're going to talk about. Nearly got there, the end bit. I fell off. It sounded so good into it. What they're going to talk about? Basically, Matt's got a report here.

He's going to give to you and I, and he's got a question to start with, I believe. That's right. Okay, here's my question. What do elephants, horseshoes, four leaf clovers and shooting stars often symbolise. A good night out. Jess, if you weren't there, you don't know.

Is it luck? It's luck. Fah! Jess wins again. So for the 300th episode, I'm doing a triptych or a triptych. Some people say is how you meant to say it. Of reports about incredibly lucky and or unlucky people. Oh.

The first one is about a Croatian music teacher named Frayn Salak, aka the world's luckiest unlucky man. Does that mean it cancels each other out and he's just a man? Just a man. He's the world's man. Check him out. Take him out. Bring him out.

Look at him. It's a man. World's man. This one was suggested by Quack Atomic from Penville, Indiana, in the United States. Jean Nicholas Baudon from Montreal, Canada, Atticus from O.J., California, USA, and Tom DeWilton Holmes from Norwich, Norfolk in the UK.

There isn't a lot of information about Slack's early years. It seems he was born in the late 20s or early 1930s, depending on the article you read. There's a few, yeah. Journalism is not what it used to be. By the late 50s or early 60s, again depending on the article you read. His story becomes a little better known

as this is when his series of unfortunate events begins. In 1962, Slack was in his early 30s. Or his mid-30s. It's pulling up on a technicality there. And according to Chris Littlechild, writing for Ripley's.com, believe it or not, While riding the rails from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik, a freak accident saw his train catapulted into a river.

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

Up in the air. Yeah. Launch. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, it just went. You know what I mean? They've got to get that fix.

It's too late for that, Dave. So this was one of his, the first of his seven major brushes with death. The second incident is perhaps the most incredible. And then the rest will be pretty disappointing. It's a shame he didn't finish with the big ones. Yeah.

The rest is like paper cuts. Ow! Ow! Again! Ow! Five more paper cards. Sprined his ankle one time. According to John Kuroski, writing for all that's interesting, Frayn Selak had never been on a plane before,

but desperate times called for desperate measures. According to Selak, the year was 1963, and the 32-year-old Croatian man had just received word that his mother was ill. 32 or 30... Something. Something. Something.

So he found out his mum was ill, which made him determined to immediately fly from Zagreb to Riyaka to see her. The earliest flight available was already fully booked, but Salak said he managed to persuade the sympathetic airline to let him sit at the plane's rear with the flight attendant. Different time, huh? He just went, come on. Come on. Come on. That spot at the back, the little cushion on the wall.

Come on. Just sit in the toilet, it's fine. It's all right. I need to go anyway. Not a gentleman. Selac recalled that his first experience with air travel went smoothly until shortly before landing when the unthinkable happened. One of the plane's doors somehow flew open.

No one was thinking that, were they? As Selac told the telegraph in 2003, one minute we were drinking tea and the next the door was ripped open and the flight attendant was sucked in a mid-air followed shortly by me. me. What about the tea? The tea was safe. Oh, thank goodness.

The tea had its seatbelt on. Secured. That's really cute. On the back of the chair in front of you, just a little seatbelt for your cup of tea. And it's watching because everyone gets sucked out. Oh, no. Who's going to drink me? I'm going cold.

That's all tea wants. So you said the steward. And then also Frank? Frane, yeah. Frane. Frane. Not a weird name like Frank, Frane.

Sorry, I mean, some articles probably refer to him as Frank. That's beyond. They do. It's someone who suggested him also referred to him as Frank. Poor Frane. That's the seventh near-death thing he had. He almost got punched by a man, confusing him for Frank.

So he's been sucked out of a plane. He's been sucked out of a plane. something that you never want to happen to you when you're on a plane. That's one of the last things you want to have happened you on a plane. You are not wrong.

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

Obviously. That's one of the best things that could happen on a plane. It sucked out of a plane. Yeah. No, no, no. And when those who get confused, it's a real nightmare. No, no, no, no.

Suck-oh! Yeah, yeah, yeah. Too late. But it was too late. Unless they jump after, but good luck getting a suck off, fall into the ground. Like, how can you focus on it

when you're plunging to your death, you know? That's a very good question. Yeah. I mean, I. I got a pretty strong mind, but... I'm trying so hard to push him towards a regret face.

And I feel like I'm close. This is a new me, no regrets. No regrets. Soon after the plane crashed. So they flew out and then the plane crashed leaving the flight attendant, two pilots and 17 other passengers

dead. But not slack. What? He miraculously survived after landing in a haystack. What are you talking about? What? He awoke in hospital, shaken, but not particularly injured.

Just covered in hay. He was furious. What does I say? I was going to get a suck off. That's not the right term, is it? Suck job. Don't. Please never look me in the eye when you say suck job.

Suck job. According to Salak, via Kuroski in 1966 also the Year of the Saints when they want to know the only. The only time

they've been lucky. Yeah. Feels good. One for day. So according to Slack in 1966 he was on a bus so this is the third one now. Which is not

it's better than paper cuts but. I mean you were absolutely right now I know what it is. Sucked out of a plane. How do you top that? Landing in a haystack while everyone else dies. Yeah.

He's going to get sucked out of a bus. See, he's still landed in a haste. Start to understand why he's known as unlucky but lucky. He's so unlucky to be involved in all these accidents. Right, yes. You don't want to be anywhere near this man. No. No.

So in 1960s he was on a bus that skidded into a river, leaving four dead while he swam safely to the banks and suffered only minor cuts and bruises. Apparently, the local neighbourhood was aware of his rotten luck, and like they were saying, Kuroski quoted one of his neighbours, put it like this. If I heard Frayne had booked a flight or a train,

I would cancel. Yeah, I think that's fair. At what point do you start thinking this guy's in on it? Yeah, I was just thinking he's doing stuff to... I was just thinking he's one of the best serial killers in history. Oh, yeah. He's just gotten away with it. Wow.

There's people dying, left, right, center and he's just swimming away. I hadn't considered that. That's a good point. By 1970, Salak had given up on public transport and was getting around by car instead. Much safer.

No one ever dies in a car. This change of transport wasn't enough for him to ward off the accidents. One day, he was cruising down the motorway when his car's fuel tank exploded. Luckily, Salak was able to escape.

ape his automobile just in time. He landed in some hay. It's a very hayy country. Croatia. Croisha got a lot of hay. Hay everywhere. So, yeah, the fuel tank just exploded. Yeah, just an exploding fuel tank. Right.

Sure. And that's number four? That happens. Yeah, that's number four. Wow. Three years later, in 1973, his car tried to kill him again. Kill a car. It's very funny.

This time, a malfunctioning, Yule pump caused an engine fire, somehow resulting in flames shooting through the car's air vents, at poor old Selak. Again, he survived, though much of his hair didn't. It all singed off. But, apart from that, he's all right. He's all right.

He could just use some hay as a toupee. Yes, now you're thinking. Hey, toupee. And he could buy it on labor, then he'd... Wait, hang on. He can get it. He can get it. He can get it. Hate to pay

Hate to pay, no more to pay If he steals it because he hates to pay Hates to pay Something like that We'll edit that bit out The pun king is struck again Kuroski continues After 22 accident-free years

Selak said he survived Being hit by a bus while walking in Zagreb in 1995 He just bounced off the front Got up Bounced off the foot. Got up, walked away. The following year, 1996, Salak claimed that he was driving in the Croatian mountains

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

i saw the whole thing from a tree shut up frame i believe him uh select told the telegraph that his friends were eventually hesitant to get in a vehicle with him or even be near him at all there came a stage when I was lucky to have any friends at all, he said. Many stopped seeing me saying I was a bad karma. I was bad karma. I was a bad karma. I just know there will be no more accidents he added. I'm going to enjoy my life now.

I feel like I've been reborn. Oh no. Why would you jinx yourself like that? It's the worst thing to say, Frank. Yeah. Well, that's seven. We've gone through the seven. God has been watching over me all these years.

The devil has moved on to. torment someone else. He said this in 2003. When the reporter asked him about his history with the accidents, he said, you could look at it two ways. I was either the unluckiest man in the world or the luckiest.

I preferred to believe the latter. But of course, all good things must come to an end. Oh no. No. No. And so did Selak's run of near-death accidents. When his luck took an unexpected turn in 2003, soon after that interview.

Nah, it's like I was just before. He bought a lotto ticket and won a million dollars. No! No! There I go. I mean, clearly you're going to win if you buy all the tickets. He's got them all.

He won a million dollars. Million bucks. Or, you know, about the equivalent of a million bucks in the local currency. And then it all caught on fire. Wow. Reporting on his big win. in 2003, the Scotsman wrote at the time,

now the four times married pensioner is buying a house. Oh, unlucky in love. Buying a house, a car, and a speedboat. Absolutely plain. And he's also planning to marry his girlfriend. I feel like my life is just beginning, he said. In a 2014 article for the BBC, writer Guy DeLawney stated that Salak had given

the majority of his winnings away to friends and family. But then, according to Little Child, he spent the last of his winnings on a hip operation and on a shrine of the Virgin Mary in thanks for his good fortune. Then he told something slightly different to every reporter was, sounds of it. The lottery win was the first opportunity

for the world to hear Slacks amazing tales of survival, and he recounted the seven tales of newspapers like England's The Telegraph and Germany's De Spiegel. Am I saying that right? The Spiegel. Oh, the Spiegel, sorry.

Is that mirror? De Spiegel. And then, So after the lot of win, his story started spreading. More people are interested, he's telling them all these wild tales. It started moving around the internet. In 2014, Slacks' tale was turned into a three-minute video by New York animator David Ransom, and his video went viral with over 3 million views.

Despite the video's success, its subject was unhappy with the telling. Dolanee quoted Local Croatian Reports of Slack's reaction writing, the Zagreb-based daily Jutanji list asked for his reaction and he said, The Americans have no idea. They drew a mustache on me and mixed up all my accidents. This guy has a loose cannon. He's nuts.

Maybe they will earn big money. He's talking about this YouTuber. Maybe they will learn big money while I live on a pension. At least send me a thousand dollars. You want a million dollars! Yeah, I know it's so weird. Sell your speedboat, you dumb shit. It's such a strange, he's like, maybe they'll earn big money,

I live on a pension, at least send me $1,000. You do make huge life-changing cash on a viral video. Yeah. So he's probably right there. They should send him $1,000. Fuck, I know, he should have. No, don't. The animator, David Ransom,

sounded pretty shattered by the reaction saying, I'm very sorry that he was upset by his depiction. If he would like to set the record straight, I'd be more than happy to amend the video to more accurately represent his image. Take the mustache off. Frame by frame, Henry Cavill's style. Let's take the mustache off.

And he's like, I'll add or remove any details he wants, but the video is still up as it was back then. With mustache? So he obviously didn't get in contact. As his story spread around the internet, doubts about its authenticity grew. According to Kuroski, in the age of Google, those who doubts like point to the lack of official records documenting a fatal Croatian plane crash in 1963

or a fatal train crash the preceding year. At the same time, the BBC gave the year of his first accident as 1957, not 1962, and said that it took place on a bus, not a train. Meanwhile, there have been inconsistencies in Slackzone stories. When the Telegraph interviewed him in 2003, he said that he'd been playing the lottery consistently for years before finally winning, but when the telegraph spoke to him again in 2010, when he said that he gave most of his fortune away to various charitable causes, the story was that he'd won the jackpot on his very first time ever playing. The year of his lotto win was likewise changed across the various accounts.

All relatively minor quibbles, according to this guy, I reckon they're pretty big quibbles personally. They could easily be the result of simple mistakes. but these kinds of discrepancies are harder to ignore when the survival stories at the centre of Frayne Select's biography are so harder to believe themselves. The website hoax or fact.com That's a good website.

It's also a bit sceptical of the claims writing the wild claims of deadly accidents are not verified. There are no official records of the said accidents where Frayne Select cheated death seven times and survived. In 2010, the Meta Picture website published the story about Frayne Select. Later in a comment, a Facebook user named Shalco Jako Seleck said, Frane Selak is his father and that none of the mentioned accidents happened to him. Throwed dad under the bus.

He said, except for a couple of minor car accidents. He explained that his father dreamed of fame all his life and fabricated the story after winning the jackpot, writing, another media that copy all those lies, photos are fake, and none of that happened to my father, all caps, my father. Except a couple of them. of minor car accidents. After winning that jackpot, my dad who dreamed of fame all his life has found and paid local journalists to write about amazing life full of close encounters with death.

Some foreign correspondents in Croatia copied the story without checking any evidences or proofs. Internet picked it up and Croatian Baron Minhausen was born. Old man make you journalists all fools. That's going to make for a really awkward family dinner. But I couldn't even figure out I couldn't find anything to confirm that he had a son If that was his son or, you know So who knows If someone's just changed their name

Yeah So yeah It's I mean it sounds like a lot of it is bullshit Which is a shame Because the Patreon supporters voted for this topic And it sounded so good

And then the more I read I'm like Oh it's probably bullshit It's an old man talking shit Yeah Oh no Oh dear Oh dear

So, yeah, of Seleck's amazing life story, Kuroski is also dubious, though he hedges his bets a bit saying, perhaps his story contains a mix of truth and lies. Perhaps he's misremembered some details that have caused inconsistencies, or perhaps those who have retold his stories have mistakenly added inconsistencies themselves, and thus muddied the waters. What do you reckon? Oh, full of shit. Oh, this man is my new god. I believe everything he says. Because honestly, why would you lie and make the most gnarly accident number two? Yeah.

If you were going to tell a story, you'd build it to seven. So that makes me think that it's all true. But then would you think that's what a liar would do, how convenient that my most dramatic, you know, near-death experience was the last one. I'll hide it in there somewhere. And then the last one can just be like, I had a car wrecked it. Yeah, okay. It was his big mistake because that's the one,

there's websites saying all the world plane crashes of 1963 and just lists them all. Oh shit. None in Croatia. So it's, but I mean, it was 1963 or late 50s. But also there were none there either. What a fun website that would be to browse late at night. All the plane crashes there have ever been.

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

We're about to have tea. You know, that's fun. That's good craft. Yeah, yeah. So I felt, I was like, I could have, like, padded it out and made it the whole report, but it felt like it'd be a bit unsatisfying to have the episode about a story that is possibly, fully bullshit. So I've got two more stories

about some very lucky slash unlucky people and these ones are almost definitely true. Okay. Okay. These ones are true. All right. So the first one's about a lady named Anne Hodges.

Probably bullshit. I don't trust her. Sounds like a fake name. So Anne Hodges was in Alabama on the 30th of November 954. Nothing strangey.

That's where she lived. Okay, I was going to say, where'd she been up until that point? During that afternoon, a meteor lit up the sky, moving at approximately 200 kilometres per hour, visible from parts of Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi. Locals reported seeing a bright reddish light crossing the sky like a Roman candle trailing smoke. Others described it simply as a fireball.

It's like, oh, like a meteor? Just a... Oh, there's a meteor in the sky. Fireball! Fireball. Yeah. According to Carrie Corrigan, a research geologist at the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum... Say the name again.

Carrie Corrigan? Jess and I, we didn't hear anything after that. Yeah, you're going to have to repeat that again. But start with Carrie Corrigan. According to Carrie Corrigan... Oh, there it is. A research geologist at the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum, she said, meteorites are not rare.

They've been falling on Earth since the planet's beginning, and they fall all over the earth. Most meteorites found by humans on Earth are in the range between the sizes of a golf ball and a fist. They lose about half their volume when passing through the planet's atmosphere. A great deal of the extraterrestrial material landing on Earth falls into the ocean, and much of it is extremely small. We get hit by dust all the time, according to Gary Corrigan. We're hit by dust. Yeah. Is that a fun fact?

No. Dave, is that a dull fact? Yeah, that's dull. That we get hit by intergalactic dust all the time. If she'd written it that way, yeah. That sounds good. Just dust. She can't spin a yarn.

Oh, cool, dust. That's fun. Oh, yay. Dust. I'm trying to jazz this up for you, but... That's you trying to jazz it up? Dast. Trying to jazz it up, dust.

Come on down for some dust. He can't jazz up dust. Yeah, this is the best I can do. I just did. Intergalactic speckles. Speckles, I'm here for that. I get speckles. So as the meteor lit up the southern American skies,

Anne Hodges was oblivious to the spectacle. According to Alice George, writing for the Smithsonian, the 34-year-old lay napping cozily under quilts on the sofa in her Alabama home. Is it night time? It was 2.46pm. Okay. Or it was about to be. I guess up to now it's anywhere up to 245pm.

I was making sure it was a nap and not asleep. Okay. It was nighttime. It's just asleep, isn't it? Even if it's three hours? Oof. I mean, do we have time to get into this? What constitutes a nap?

Where does it go into Kip territory? Okay. And then when is it just asleep? Yeah, that's a good point. I think of all sleeps as naps. Just long naps, I've little. Middle naps, big naps. Yeah.

Medium naps. Okay. That's just how I do it. I know, I love that. I love that. So I've described to you up to 245. Yes. Let me now tell you what happens at 246pm.

When she woke with a shock as the meteor fizzed like a bullet through Hodger's roof smashing into her radio before hitting her. She was hit by a meteor. Oh. And he did a radio. Yeah. Was the radio okay?

The radio got fucked up. Oh, no. Did it set it off? It turns it on. What station was it on? Darren Hinch is blasting. Oh, shut up, Darren. That's such an old reference for you.

Darren Hinch. You know, he's in politics now. Not anymore. Oh. Okay. Put me back in my place. We're both off. Is he back in radio?

Good on him. He's written a book. Anyway, sorry him to tweet that. Sorry him to tweet that. Has anyone heard of Darren Hinch? Has anyone heard of Darren Hinch? It used to be a big deal. Okay, well, I met Darren Hinch once.

What? Very briefly, I was doing trivia at a pub in Hawthorne, and I was setting it up, and there's all... Name and Sharrie Hotel. Out the back of the beer garden, and I'm like, oh, that's Darren Hinch. And my job is to go up to table and say, Would you like to play?

What you like to play? And I said, oh, excuse me, Mr. Hinch, would you like to play trivia? And he goes, son, I've just been at a wake and then walk to a woman. So, do you want a sheet or not? Yeah, that's really rude. It's a yes or no question.

You can just say no thanks. Was he consoling like a widow in black? Sorry, mate. Sorry to butt in here. At this table says reserved force awake. You guys want to play trivia or not? Yeah. If you guys aren't going to play, could you move on, please?

Get out of here. I mean, as fun as Hitch is. Could you mourn elsewhere, please? Okay, so it's hit the radio. Let's put Darren Hinch to one time. It's obviously very distressing. Darren Hinch has gone off. What about Darren Hinch?

Darren Hinch is also no longer on. His brother Darren. So how's she going to listen to the radio now? Well, she's not. That's the thing. On what? Remarkably, though, despite being hit by the, 8.5 pound 4.5 billion year old space rock.

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

Yeah, no, no, no, no. Space rock. They know to fuck you up. Smashing a beaker. Those guys... It's happened before. They're fucking scary. So she gets hit by this 4.5 billion-year-old rock. Space rock.

And all she got was a massive bruise down her left side, which you can see here. Oh. That's a beauty. That's one of the best bruises I've ever seen. That's one of the best, yeah, that's great. So I guess we'll link to the photo for people of home. Yeah, for people listening to the podcast. It looks, yeah.

It's got a real space rock bruised part, doesn't it? If you just saw that photo, And someone said, what do you reckon caused this bruise? What would you say? Space rock, yeah. You'd be right. It would have been so weird. He thought about saying someone else.

Yeah. Which would have been absolutely bonkers. Oh, I reckon. Hit by car. Car. Tractor car. Yeah, tractor car. That's not even a thing, man.

Yeah. He made it up a new motor transport. This fucking guy. It's been nothing but trouble. Nothing but trouble. Since he walked in. So according to George, Hodges remains the only human being known to have suffered an injury after being struck by a meteorite.

There was a cow that died. But humans, she's the only one. And is the cow the only cow? Only cow. Okay. Only known cow. Wow. But so I just, sorry, I can't help but circle back a little bit.

The radio was not able to be repaired. They lost the radio. Imagine if you died and the last thing you hear is Darren Hinch. That's the way I want to go out. I also work on radio. You couldn't. Why don't you interview Darren? I'll tune it. That's a great name.

You wouldn't want to listen to me on the radio on your deathbed. That hurts, Matt. That really hurt. No, I'd be there in person. Back announcing flume. Back announcing flu, he's dying of. He's old. He's old.

He's old. He's dying off flu. According to Michael Reynolds, a Florida State College astronomer, you have a better chance of getting hit by a tornado and a bolt of lightning and a hurricane all at the same time. Wow. Which makes sense because, I mean, this has only ever happened once. Yeah.

How many times since that exact combination happened? And how many cows? Twice. Have you seen Twister? Yeah? Yeah. Makes you think. It does.

It's it. So apparently a larger meteorite split in two as it fell toward the ground. One piece hit Hodges and the other landed a few miles away and a farmer found it. He was going through his plowing his field with the donkey. And the donkey's like, what was that? Yeah. And then he went back and he heard on the radio because his was still working. Must be nice.

Darren's back announcing. Yeah. A meteor. A meteor. Oh, that was flu. more so this just in Meteor. So he heard that a meteor hit and he's like, oh, that's what that weird

black space rock must have been. So he took it and apparently sold it, bought a car. Do you have to go back? His first thought was, oh, what's that weird black space rock? Anyway, keep plowing. Yeah, that's an another thing spot, yeah. And he sold it. Yeah, he sold it and apparently

according to 1950s reports, he made a pretty penny. Wow. The entire meteorite is officially known as, the Silakoga meteorite, which is what the town in Alabama was called. Beautiful.

But it's popularly known as the Hodges meteorite. Hodges' husband, Eugene, knew nothing about the extraterrestrial invasion of his home until the end of his workday when he returned home to find his house surrounded by a crowd of people. We had a little excitement around here today, Anne Hodges said. A little excitement.

That was her in the bed. With this huge bruce, a bit of excitement. I'd be milking it for all the sympathy I could. I'd be like, oh, you better get me a cup. I've been hit by a meteor. I would get myself one, but the meteor. I think you better make dinner. That'd be me for like, I don't know, how long could you milk that?

Ten years? Honestly, this lady was having a nap at 245. I don't think she's a going to get her. Could it be? The same work of the night shift, I don't know. Look, I often have naps, that's why I know. How much of a piece of shit you've got to be? Takes one and no one.

To be asleep. Love an afternoon nap. Which I call it a small nap. George also mentioned that in the Habab after the meteorite strike, Anne Hodges became a minor celebrity. Her photo appeared on the cover of Life magazine's December 13 edition with an article entitled A Big Bruiser from the Sky.

It's pretty fun. Okay. I feel like I could have done better, but alright. Coincidentally. Meaty sore. Meetysore. He just did. He just did.

And then like an arrow. Check out my metersaw. That's something. It's better than Big Bruiser from the sky. It was... It sounds like Meteor. Meaty sore. It works written down.

Right. Thank you. Coincidentally, Hodges lived across from a driving theatre named The Comet, which featured a neon depiction of a comet soaring through space. Pretty wild. As Hodges lived in a rental, the owner of the rental wanted to claim rights to the rock. She's like, that crash into my house, that is my meteor. And Hodges like, no, but it hit me.

Yeah, it chose me. The landlady birdie guy thought it belonged to her and Hodges said, suing is the only way she'll ever get it. I think God intended it for me. After all, it hit me. Yeah.

That's how God did it. If he wants you to have something, he'll breathe you. He will shoot it from the sky. Yeah. Like a taco cannon or a t-shirt cannon at a festival concert. Tarko cannon has made it here yet?

I went to a festival in Austin, Texas. Stay weird out there. That's on an episode we recorded for next week. Anyway, so... You're going to love it. But there was a... They stopped the... Between bands, this truck came out

with flags waving and stuff, and they shot... So onto the stage? They drove onto the stage of mini sort of buggy. That's so good. Music and flags and everything, and then they shot... Burritos?

Burritos. I said tacos, didn't I? Imagine hardshel. Hard shell open. So, did you get a burrito from the festival? Yeah, they were cold by the time they got to you. Breakfast burritos, heavy on the egg. It was an egg and a wrap.

I mean, it was fun to see. It was less fun to eat. But the cannon doesn't warm them up. You think so? On the way out. Made it great sound. It's ridiculous. Yeah, those are some things.

You're the worst customer at a music festival. The cannon didn't eat up my breathing. The case eventually was settled out of court with Guy, the homeowner, the landlady, getting $500 to let Hodges keep the meteorite. When Eugene Hodges was unable to find a buyer for it, unfortunately the other half of it sold apparently made a mini fortune out of it.

They couldn't find, I don't know if they were asking for too much or what. So the family ended up using it as a doorstop. A $500 door store. And eventually it was donated to the Alabama Museum of Natural History. So Anne Hodges was amazingly unlucky to be hit by a meteor, but I guess by the same token, pretty lucky to survive it. Very lucky, unlucky. You see the theme here I'm drawing?

Yes. Yeah, you made that quite clear at the beginning of the episode. I'm starting to piece it together. People are going to hear more and more. And they're going, okay, I'm connecting some dots. Let's see what story number three has to reveal. So this is the final one of the three. And it happened in a small village of Sedeto in Spain

with a population of less than 300. Pretty new town or village. It was set up in the 50s or 60s, depending on which article you read. I'm going to read a bunch of this from an article by Suzanne Daly writing for the New York Times in early 2012. Just a few weeks ago, the 70 households in this isolated farming village were struggling under the double whammy of Spain's economic downturn and the ravages

of a severe drought. Some were even thinking of passing up Spain's huge Christmas lottery known as El Gordo, or the fat one, which is something of a national obsession. But they bought tickets out of loyalty to the Homemakers Association, which makes a small percentage of the sale. So a local community group goes around and sells all the tickets and they get a little cut. So they all, the town ended up still buying the tickets, and their number came in. No. All but one household in Sedetto held at least a piece of the winning ticket in the lottery's huge first prize of $950 million, the biggest ever. Some of Sedato's residents, mostly farmers and unemployed construction workers, won millions.

The least fortunate came away with a minimum of $130,000. And the giddy feeling that life, in its mysterious ways, was giving them another chance. It is one of the rare bits of happy news amid the relentlessly gloomy European economic crisis in which Spain has been one of the hardest of the hard luck cases. But it has not come without its own cost.

The village, until now just a dot on the map, about three hours northwest of Barcelona, Buffalo, has been inundated with salespeople and fortune seekers ever since. On a recent morning, the vendors just keep showing up, bankers in suits offering high, interest rates, car salesmen talking up BMWs and furniture dealers going door to door. Want to buy a couch?

Are they carrying the couch? So far on their back. Like many other local farmers, Jose Manuel Panella Cumbra, who had recently invested in more efficient irrigation techniques, worried about how he would meet his payments. But his wife bought two tickets worth $260,000 and his son found two more she had bought earlier and had forgotten about, bringing the total to $520,000. Imagine that. I forgot.

I forgot. Yeah. It's just like a donation of the local thing, a bit of fun. I kept saying, look for some more, look for some more. But this money means that now we can breathe. And the best part is that it isn't just me, everybody won. It's a really nice tale about a town. It's like no one's left out apart from one guy.

That sucks. The day of the lottery announcement was collective madness, the residents said, as they realized how many of their neighbours had won too. As news spread, the farmers raced into town on their tractors. The mayor, Rosa Pons. They got there like six hours later. They were racing. Whoa!

Everyone's out walking them. We'll see you there. We're just going to walk. So the mayor, Rosa Pons, used a megaphone to congratulate them. Congratulations, everyone. Anika Bourday, the cafe manager,

ran into the street with her socks on. Fun detail. Even though they had holes in the toes. It was shoes on top, but yeah, she was wearing socks. A bit of fun.

In what seemed like 20 minutes, the bankers were on hand to collect the tickets and then the local news media showed up. Some of the ladies talked about going to the hairdresser, Mayor Pond said,

but the hairdresser won too and she said, I'm not working today. So that ended that. The lottery first established in 1812 is a huge event in Spain. Many people take the morning off to watch the televised coverage of the numbers being drawn from a gilded spinning cage. Spain's lottery works differently from those in the United States and Australia, I guess.

This year, there were 1,800 first prize-winning tickets with the same number. So that's why a whole town can win it, even though they've bought a lot of different tickets. It's kind of a nicer way of doing it. So they're all basically buying a share of this thing. As the tickets cost $26 each, they get a full share of it, they are often broken down to $6.50 participations, and they're the ones that ended up getting you $130 grand. The Sedato Homemakers Association sells the tickets every year,

and usually that's about $1,300, which it uses to pay for food and decorations during local festivals. This year, the tickets that women sold here and in visits to 17 neighbouring villages brought in more than 150 million in winnings. Even now, the residents of Sedito are prone to giggling when they retell the stories of where they were when they heard and how they almost did not buy any tickets or how someone's grandmother had a secret stash of tickets tucked away in her purse. But selling the tickets was difficult this year.

Even the cheapest participations were expensive for some. At one point, Marie Carmen Lebeyer, a member of the Homemakers Association, tried to sell a ticket to a friend whose husband was unimpleased. but a friend could only promise to pay her later. When the number was called, the friend still had not paid, but Ms. Lambeyer had saved the ticket for her anyway. She was afraid to call me and ask Ms. Lambea said.

So her son called my son and asked him whether I'd really saved a ticket. And I said, of course I did. And then there was a lot of crying. That's nice. So far, though no one has splurged on anything much, Mayor Pond said. Are you going to see Mercedes going up and down our streets? you said, I don't think so. People are going to invest in the fields and maybe a sofa.

That's so bleak. It's interesting because I watched docos of many years gone by and they just kept farming and keeping it all pretty normal. It was funny, the documentary crew would be talking to me. They're like, no, we didn't make any big purchases. And then the doco camera would sort of pander the corner where there's a huge TV. A grand piano. No, no, we didn't splash out on anything.

So from at top, their giant horse. They cost a lot, the bigger the horse, not expensive they are. Some like Mr. Pinella, the farmer, hoped that the money will keep the next generation, in particular his son in the village. In the 60s, Sedetto had 400 residents, but nowadays only 250 people live there. Young people have moved on,

just because there's no opportunities. But after this, there's a whole new section of the town where the kids, the next generation of built houses, and they're all hanging around so the population is growing again. Oh, that's nice. Yeah. The only resident who did not win was Costas Miszostakis, a Greek filmmaker who moved to the village for the love of a woman, which did not work out. Oh, Costas. Oh, cost us a fortune. Oh, no. Oh, oh. I was thinking how do I get that in there? A pun master.

Yeah. He actually understands how they work. Oh, master. Master bows down before a king. So. That is stretching, though. So he moved there for love. The relationship didn't work, but he stayed and then didn't buy a lotto ticket.

He still lives in a barn. He's restoring about half a mile outside the village. Somehow the homemakers had overlooked him this year as they made their rounds. Oh, so he didn't even say, oh, it's not like he was a screw. I don't want to participate in that. They just didn't offer him a ticket. Yeah, that's what a few. One of them is like he chose not to,

but a few of the articles are like, they just didn't make it to his house because it was a little bit out of town. They didn't make it to his balm. Yeah. It's so funny as well. No one goes, you know, there's one of these ones with the millions.

I'll give you one of these little participations, Kostas. No. But I'll tell you later why. They think he's the real winner here. Mr. Mitzakis said, it would have been nice to win, but he has benefited nonetheless. He had been trying to sell some land without much success. The day after the lottery, a neighbour called to say he would buy it.

The next day another neighbour called, but Mr. Misarchus refused to get into a bidding war. This is the whole town is so sweet, right? This is a small village he said, you don't want bad feelings. According to an article on dw.com, it took a day... Yes, it is my website. Yes. It took a day and a half before Mitzakis realized he was the only one in the village who hadn't won the lottery. Once the shock wore off, he says, it was actually funny.

You say a day and a half, was he like partying? Like, yeah, we all did it. And then he's like, hang on a second. That was last year I bought a ticket. One of that counts. I think it was more, he assumed someone else wouldn't have bought a ticket as well. It was a day and a half where he's like, oh, everyone else. Every single person.

That's actually funny. No, I actually find that very funny. I'm not upset. I think it was Destiny, he says. He was a filmmaker who now had unparalleled access to an amazing story. He set out to document how money would change life in Sedeto. He went out and filmed some of the early reactions of the village to the news of their new fortunes.

Sitting on a plane heading home to Denmark, film producer Lars Tang Sorensen came across a small news article about Cedito's big win. The article included a few lines on Costas and his film, and Lars was intrigued. Several emails, a few Skype sessions, and one visit to Sideto later,

Lars became the film's producer. According to the Greek Reporter.com, since Christmas of 2011, he's been filming a documentary about the families that won the lottery, describing how their newfound mum, money has affected them. If you came here today and didn't know anything different, you wouldn't notice a thing. You don't see fancy cars on the streets. Not much has changed since 2011. The only

great difference is that young people now have opportunities and therefore they have decided to stay in the village rather than trying to build a future in larger cities. I wasn't able to find much about the release of the film, but Mitsosakis told The Guardian in 2014 that they went to Khan to pitch the film in 2012 and distributors were falling over each other to be involved, which makes you think it would have been... He tied all their shoelaces together. That would get their attention. That'll remember me.

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

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

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

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

How are you? You're talking about normal things. Good to see you. Anyway. I'm just buying bread. Like a normal person by bread. It's regular. They don't eat bread.

Rich people don't eat bread. No way. I don't need it. So that should end it. You know, maybe that ends the podcast episode. I thought it just was nice, you know, because I feel so lucky and unlucky to do this podcast again. So I thought it appropriate.

Thought it appropriate as a topic. Beautiful. Well done, Matt. Give it up for Matt Stewart, everybody. Well, done. Dave Pooder. Well, sadly, all good things must come to an end. Thank you so much for coming out to our 300 episode. But until next time, we'll say thank you, and goodbye, everybody.

Bye-bye. Yeah. Every camera. What a fun time we had on the 300th. In front of a live audience of Stupid Old Shooters. It was so great. Great fun. If you do want to check that out, you can watch it, including a whole extra quiz

Dave did about the show and the first 300 episodes. Looking back, reminiscing. It was really fun. You can go to saucepresents.com. There's a link in the show notes that will take you directly to our page. There's now 17 do go on streams you can watch there. Oh, that bothers me. All with exclusive extra content.

We're going to need to ditch two or do three more. Pick a couple to delete. Yeah, if that's all. That will be easier than doing three more. Yeah, let's delete two. At random. But now it's time for everyone's favorite section of the show where we get to shout out and thank some of our many great supporters.

I think we've got time to do the fact quote and question together and then I might have to do the rest by myself because Dave and Jess are apparently pretty important people. Or more likely, I'm actually about to fly away. I couldn't throw you in it for too long. We're so important we asked you to leave the state. I said, you need to go. Get him out.

So the way this works is if you go to patreon.com slash do go on pod or do go on pod.com, you can support us on a bunch of different levels. On each different level, you get different kinds of rewards for supporting us. You really do keep the show running. One of those levels is the Sydney-Shaunberg Deluxe Memorial, Rest in Peace edition level. And on that level, you get to give us a fact quote or question, yet to vote in two of the three. topics pretty much

two out of every three weeks you get to help directly decide what the topic will be and you get bonus episodes

and all sorts of other stuff that other levels get as well but the fact quote or question is where you send in

a fact a quote or a question and this section has a little jingle that goes something like this fact quote

or question bing he always remembers the ding and on this one I read out four facts quotes or questions sent in by

our great supporters And they also get to give themselves a title. The first one this week comes from Miguel Acosta, who's given himself the title of On Call Assistant Amateur Primatologist and Prospective Duck Scrubber. That is. The longest business card we've heard in a while. Duck Scrubber.

And I wonder, yeah, is he sort of a duck scrubber helping out our mate from the Science Hour, one of our bonus episodes that we occasionally do? What's that guy's name? He's an ormothologist. Gary Chalk. Gary Chalk. Dr. Gary Chalk.

And those ducks will need a lot of scrubbing. After he's done with them. Oh, my God. Oh, gross. You know, sign up to the bonus episodes if you want more context for that. I don't know if you do. I wish I could scrub it from my brain. So this question comes from a girl.

He writes, howdy gang? I recently dropped out of college and left behind a degree in historical investigation and education with a minor in theatre. To join the US Coast Guard as a marine science technician, basically I'd be an aquatic captain planet tending to pollution and environmental emergency, hence the nickname MSTs get duck scrubbers. Because we got to clean those baby ducks in the oil spills.

You get it. You've seen the soap commercials. It was a hard decision to make, but I live in Puerto Rico where the opportunities as a history, as a history, I guess as a history academic or whatever, very, very limited

and a bachelor's degree here is essentially just a piece of paper. Not like the ones we've got. Yeah. Now I get to marry my partner after five years of dating. This is listed as a question, by the way. I do get to marry my partner

after five years. No, a brag. That'd be great. You're killing it. I'm a question or brag. Oh, that's good. It should be. Yeah, I like it.

Me too. Feel free to take that up as an option. Absolutely. You can just brag. It goes on and I'd get a livable wage and the free time to be able to start my dream podcast, semi-inspired by you guys as well as Mission, Zach and Cam and Alexi. Have you guys had to take any leaps of faith for the sake of your dreams? Sorry for the long wind-up to get a question, but I thought I should and a long wind down as well.

I love loving it But I thought I should share my leap of faith I ship out to boot camp in September And won't be able to listen to the pod for two months Which is a bit depressing But I love you guys And how do you like to eat my shit

Which is a line from another one of our bonus episodes The Phraising the Bar Potchristra. That's right the first ever line That Brendan Fraser said in cinema So Dave says that at the end of each episode It's if you don't know Frasing the Bar is a podcast Where we explore the greatest films in cinema

also coincidentally all featuring Brennan Fraser. It's amazing. But no, you did exactly what we wanted, Miguel. You asked a question, but you answered your question. That's what we're... If you ever asked a question, we love an answer. My obvious one is I took a big leap of faith, quitting the air conditioning industry, my first love.

To get into comedy full-time comedy, including podcasting in the Stupid Old Studios, all the little things, all the pieces of the pie I'd dabble in. And that was, yeah, that took me quite a while to build up the, like years to build up the courage to take that leap. I also loved the company I worked for, the air conditioning company, Mercury Heading, cooling, do yourself in favour.

Great people there. But so they, if they sucked, it would have happened probably quicker. Yeah. Because they were just nice people to work for. I ended up there for seven years, I think. It's not long. Yeah, how about you, Bob? Yeah, same.

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

it's going to be fine yeah I mean it were it's sort of worked out to some degree for us yeah maybe for others it doesn't but I imagine people for the most part don't regret trying yeah exactly yeah I mean you can always go get a job again yeah that's right mercury will have me back right That's what I'm not sweet plug. You've got experience in that industry if everything goes to shit. Callmercary.com.com. I could work in any call center. And there's heaps of them.

So, you know, it's good to have a backup. I read on a video that... You read on a video. I read on it in the comments of a YouTube video that you were on. For some reason, I was looking at some old video. And one of the comments was, hey, I used to work at a call center with her. If I knew she was there, I would have worked there longer.

She's cool. So they worked at the call center I worked at. Yeah. But didn't know I was there. No, they knew you were there, but they didn't know you were doing cool stuff. Oh, I see. And that would have kept them on? Yeah, it feels like such a tenuous link to someone doing something kind of interesting.

You know, like, oh, my cousin's friend plays... footy professionally. I know, you know, it's like, okay. Your cousin's friend. I know that person incredibly vaguely.

Which football are you talking about? Dave, have you had a leap of faith? I'm really bad at quitting things, but I, when I was 14, bravely quit tennis. Wow.

And I could have become a multi-millionaire from that. Dave, you could not hold the racket. Yeah, that was, I had to overcome that, bravely.

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

but Jess and I grew up in the world where you've got to get a real job, right? But you somehow knew that wasn't necessarily true. Yeah, I wrote down three options when I was, you know, for my uni job, I was like, all right, I could be a kid. party entertainer, I could be a

trivia host slash bingo caller or I could work at murder mystery nights. Are you serious? I applied for all three and I got the kids party entertainer first and then thankfully moved into trivia and the question writing. Your dream was kids party entertainment. Well I thought I'd rather do that.

I know looking back and I'm like, what were you thinking? That was such a hard job. Oh wow. When it goes badly, it goes really badly. That's really funny. That's great. I love it. Thank you so much for that question, Miguel, and congratulations on... I'm just killing it at life.

Killing life. Oh my God. You are crushing it. Our first ever fact, quite a question or brag. Love it. Nailing it. You snuck a question into that brag, and I respect the hell out of that. The next one comes from Gary J from the UK. What a guy. Whose title is Waterboy.

And Gary J. also asked a question. Gary J. writes, I remember Matt being super kind to me after his last. London stand-up. This is a me bragging. You can also write in brags for me to read out. Fact quote, question, brag or compliment. We'll take that.

I remember Matt being super kind to me after his London stand-up show and getting me to join in the chat with him and some other fans were having. But whenever I'd talked, he'd laugh at my Brummy accent in the nicest way possible. Of course, I don't remember that. That sounds a bit rude. I don't remember it being nice. Well, my question is, what? What accent do you love slash like slash laugh at slash can do really well?

I love doing South African accent. I'm a little bit South African, maybe less than 116th, so it's okay. I was going to say this could be a problematic segment. Diplomatic immunity. Yeah, South African, that's fun. I can't do it, but it is fun. I love Welsh. I can't do it.

Oh, beautiful. Welsh is really fun. And I love Irish. Yeah. I was at the rugby the other night. and I could hear a few. Island was not playing. It was Wallabies versus France,

but lots of Irish people in the crowd. I was about to say audience. I think just because it was rugby and they're just like, I've got to see it. But I could just hear, I could hear them a mile away. I was like, oh, Irish person.

Oh, there's one. Yeah, that is one of the great accents. It's beautiful. Irish and Welsh is up there, I love American accents and English accents as well because they're so varied. Oh, yeah, great point. Well, one country can have, I mean, that's true of a lot of places, I suppose.

But, I mean, coming from Australia where there's kind of like very slight variations in accent. Yeah. Yeah. It can be so vastly different. Yeah. Great point. I've been watching tons of the French show, the Bureau. And they have lots of French characters, obviously, which I love hearing their accents.

And also a part of it's set in Russia. And hearing, especially there's these guys with the deepest voices, deeper than Mats, can you believe? Get out. But with these beautiful Russian accents. accents. I love hearing him talk. So good. And no, I cannot do it. No, fair enough. I heard a great accent recently. Jess, you're on this podcast, the wax quizzical podcast, and Gillian Cosgrove played

Mrs. Claus, Jessica Claus, yeah. Who was such a funny character. So on this podcast that Caron Wheatley does, he reads through the quiz, he has a guest, which was Jess in this case, and then two comedians. improvising characters, staying in character the whole show. And yeah, her made me laugh so much. Oh, man. And the accent was sort of like a Russian-ish. Oh, yeah, it was sort of like, oh, it's a tough one, isn't it?

It was kind of like Icelandic. Yeah. I don't know. It was an interesting. But it was so good. Yeah, a beautiful accent. It's one of the best podcast episodes I'll listen to in a while if you're into that kind of thing.

Hot tip, it'll be, if you look up Wax. Quisicle, it'll be the Jess Perkins episode. Thank you so much, Gary Jay. The next one comes from David Loring, who's given himself the title of Director of Cromulence. Which I think that's a Simpsons thing, right? Yes. Cromulence.

And he's written a fact, which is, this is a bit of a shit fact. Okay, it's a hot start. Okay, this will be for Dave, I guess. No, he's a dull. Hey, shit. Come on. It's not my thing.

This is a bit of a shit fact, but it will give you, something to try out at barbecues. Geez, he set his own bar low. Throughout the 90s, after school TV programming in Tasmania, was peppered with some obscure religious advertising that would play multiple times per ad break. Wow.

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

very puzzled looks from our mainlander friends, if the ads ever came up in conversation, we learned they were a Tazzi specific thing. Wow. As such, thanks to the most memorable of them all, you can identify a Tasmanian millennial in a crowded room by simply calling out, in the jungle one day, and watching as they recite a rhyming story about greed starring some jungle animals. Wow. I'm going to try that next time I see Andy Matthews or another Tasmanian. She'd be like, in the jungle one day.

Yeah. Just see him go. Let's send him a message and just say in the jungle one day and see what happens. See what happens. That's great. He says, I'm not sure when you would ever need to do that, but if you know a Tasmanian of our generation, I say give it a crack and be amused by the results.

We absolutely will. Thank you, David. That wasn't a shit fact at all. That wasn't shit. That was really fun. Certainly wasn't boring. And it wasn't grim. Oh, and it was a bit grim.

Was it? I don't know. All right. So the final fact, quote, a question, or brag, this week comes from Paul Meller, who's given himself the title, mild-mannered businessman by day, big fucking nerd in real life. Paul, I've been following on Twitter his work. He was nerd.

nervously following England through the Euro finals, the whole way through. But he's so polite about it. He's like, oh, it's just great to be close and that sort of stuff. Loved is not at all the stereotypical English, what do you, hooligan football fan, very mild-mannered English football fan by day. Just quietly trashing the stadium. Yeah, that's right. And Paul is also asking us a question.

Here it is. I know you guys have a great name, but what is the craters? craziest name you have come across. Oh. For example, I've worked with a cliff edge. What? What? No.

No, have you, I, do I believe you, Paul? You've worked with a cliff edge and a Wayne Kerr. All right, I'll take your word for it. Cliff Edge. He says, also, my great uncle was named Alfred Hart. And the family story goes that he was told off in class, assume it was the 1940s. and when ordered to stand up and give his name,

he simply said alfart. Apparently the teacher said that if he did, if he did, he would be in detention for a month. Alfhart. Alfart. Al fart. Okay. Stand up, tell your name.

Alfart. Al fart. Well, if you do, you'll be in. I can't help it. I can't keep it in. I remember there's some distant family relative that I heard about. I might have mentioned them on the show before. they were named

Nora Dick No you're kidding That's so good Norrit Nor it What do you do for fun Well

That's very good Yeah Some of these questions are hard Without notice Like there was one Not too long I were asking for TV phrases we say all the time

And I couldn't think of any at the time And then ever since I've been thinking about them all the time Like triangle I said that all the time that all the time. Trangle. But is impressing in a remedial class.

What shapes this? Triangle. Say that all the time. I call Flintstone phone. Yeah, I'm trying to have other wild names. There's so many on this show that I can't remember any of. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've come across some amazing names.

Vernadurn. Verna. Verna, it's on our mind, yeah. Even though people did correct us that that's not how it's really pronounced, but still, don't take that from this. I mean, Wendonner, the fat burner. You'll go to dissension, why not? I'll fart.

Oh, I didn't get it. That's why I'm not the pun king, Dave. That's you. You got it straight away. Cliff edge. Cliff edge. Hard to top, mate. Hard to top.

Yeah. Nora dick, though. Nora dick. Yeah, okay. You did well. You did really well. And it would only be improved if it was Nora Dickoff. Yeah, I'm trying to think of other ones from, yeah.

Was someone compiling them for a while? There was someone who was putting together. Every time we went, that's a great name. Yeah, I can't remember where that was. Even from the 300th episode, there were a couple where Jess and I went, sorry, back it up a bit. Didn't hear anything you said. That's right.

Get us to the name again. I can't remember what it was. Like, it just happens. It's week by week. Yeah. It's either people who suggest the topics or the patrons were like, God, that's an amazing name. Or these historical figures we come across.

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

So, Jess, I'm going to have to say goodbye to you too as I race off to the airport, but I'll finish these from... Do you also say goodbye to me? Oh, sorry. So, Jess, I'll say goodbye to you. Dave, I will not... Dave, fuck you. But before I go, can you give me

we thank some other patrons and you normally give us so this episode was about people with luck or bad luck Yeah I wonder how you could come up with how they're lucky or unlucky Maybe I'd just find a list of

the luckiest people and compare them to them or something You'll be the one in the town that doesn't win the lottery And your town is New York City Millions They've given away Trillions in lottery

You don't get a dollar And it took you a day and I have to figure out you were the only one. I've been telling people that story. Just walking around being like, hang on, you won, you won, you all won. I actually haven't bumped into anybody yet who didn't. What a realisation. Love it. Brutal.

All right, well, we'll catch you two next week and I'll catch everyone else in a second. Bye. Hey, mates, that's right. It's me again. This episode has more endings than the bloody third Lord of the Rings. I honestly never even got to. the end of the third, a lot of the rings. I think I got through about three of the endings.

I've heard good things. Don't get me wrong. But I'll get around to watching the last half an hour or whatever it is of that. I'm here to thank a few more of our great supporters at patreon.com slash duggo on pod or dogo on pod.com. And yeah, I found a listical, highest form of journalism, I think. The listicle. And I found it on ranker.

I'm now up here on the Gold Coast, obviously Dave and Jess back home in Melbourne. They're locked down. I'm actually feeling very lucky, which is appropriate for this episode, but slightly guilty as well that I'm up in near freedom on the Gold Coast in Queensland while they're in a tight lockdown back home. But I guess, you know, I'll do my duty here and I'll thank a few of our great supporters. It's funny. I've been there for all of Melbourne's lockdowns.

I feel like I'm, what are we up to, the fifth one there now? And I missed out. So, a bit of FOMO. That's not true. I feel very lucky. So I'm going to thank a few of our great supporters. And, yeah, each of those supporters will get a lucky slash unlucky person to maybe compare themselves to, maybe to live their lives up to.

Can I be this lucky slash unlucky? firstly, I'd love to thank our supporter who's been waiting very patiently. I should say, yeah, all of the people I'm reading out today, they've sort of slipped through the cracks. I went back and I went through our spreadsheet and double-checked over quite a few hours during the week. I looked through them all and I've found a bunch of people who somehow slipped through because of different quirks in the system, either like a payment didn't work at first and then it did

or whatever. It's a confusing system in the patron anyway. I've got a really old school spreadsheet that tries to keep up with it, basically using an abacus. Everyone who signs up I slide one of those beads across and there's got to be a better system which I think we are actually working on.

Anyway, I don't know why I'm saying all this. It's very late at night. Just had a fun gig. If you are up in Queensland, I should say, and you're listening to this this week, I'm doing a live primates this Friday night at Good Chat Comedy. I'm also doing a stand-up set there at Good Chat, so this Friday. And yeah, and also some based comedy gigs on the Gold Coast. So check out those if you can, and you're up in the Queensland area,

certainly in the southeast of Queensland. Anyhow, I'd love to thank a few of our great supporters. Firstly, from Salt Stee Marie in Ontario. Canada. I don't, I think even Canada I might have mispronounce there. So apologies for that, but I'd love to thank who's been waiting so patiently. Wyatt Fremlin. Wyatt Fremlin. Now, Wyatt, I've found, I think, a great lucky slash unlucky person for you. This listicle, actually, it's number one ranked lucky slash unlucky person is Frayn Selac. But this person, we've actually done a bonus episode on. I just did a bonus episode, I think, last year. It was a great app.

It was called The Unthinkable Woman. And this is your person here, Wyatt. You've got Violet Jessup. She was on the Titanic in 1912 and it's sister ship Britannic when it sank in 1916. So that's a pretty good one. Pretty lucky, huh? That's what this Lysicle says. It goes, rhetorically it asks. Pretty lucked up, bright, a bit of fun. Thank you so much, White. I'd also love to thank from Tel Aviv in Israel, Liyad Herman. Lead, you're lucky slash unlucky.

No, this is definitely an unlucky person. Lager Silbaris was stuck in a jail cell in the path of a volcano in 1902. Eruption of Mount Pele on the island of Martinique in the Caribbean resulted in nearly 30,000 deaths. Oh, that's not a good one. Lead, I mean, you've been waiting to be thanked, and this is what you get. Let me give you another one.

How about this? Adrian Carton de Wiette, who was wounded eight times in three wars, losing both an iron and a hand, but it looks like he survived, hey? That's a bit luckier, unlucky and lucky. Or as the Lysica once again says, pretty lucked up, right? 154 say yes. Two say no. Thank you so much for your support. long term, Lead, you bloody legend.

I'd also love to thank from London in London, in Great Britain. It's Rizazaf. Rizazaf. You've got Roy Sullivan, who was struck by lightning seven times in 25 years. Actually, I was close to including Roy in today's report, but I kind of feel like he maybe has got a whole episode in him one day. That's a wild story, right? struck by lightning seven times in 25 years.

Something you don't know about Roy Sullivan. He's actually a metal pole. No, that's not true. A bit of fun, though. This one, pretty lucked up, right? 217, yes. 57, no. Okay.

Okay, the next one. Sorry, I was reading ahead like an absolute amateur. From Santiago in, let me just quickly double check this. Santiago in C-L maybe Chile of course

sorry showing my absolute ignorance there Santiago is the capital and largest city of Chile sorry

I feel like a real fool but I'd love to thank from Santiago in Chile it is Estefania Labrin thanks so much Estefania and your person is Walter Somerford,

who was struck by lightning three times during his life and once when he was dead. What? I've got to tell you, I haven't read ahead for any of this. Just read that headline quickly. This says the first time Major Walter Somerford, an Englishman, was said to have been struck by lightning. It was in 1918 on a WW World War I battlefield,

He was reportedly riding a horse at the time, and while the animal died, Somerford was only temporarily incapacitated by the strike. I guess that's because the horse was grounded, right? Does that make sense? I'm not a scientist, I should say that right up the top. Accounts of his life indicate Somerford was struck two more times in 24 and 1930. When he died two years later, he was buried in Vancouver and Canada. In 1936, his gravestone was destroyed by a four.

lightning strike. How is it? I mean, they're still asking the question. Pretty lucked up, right? 144, say yes, 31 say no. Sounding not all that lucky to me. Oh, Anne Hodges is in. This list is following today's episode pretty well.

She only made it to number eight. 111, think she was lucked up, 22, not so much. All right. Next up, I'd love to thank from Essex, Greys to be precise, in Essex in Great Britain. It's Jack Tooms. Jack Tooms. Another previous episode, Adolf Sachs. You would probably already realize this, but during his childhood, he fell out of a three-story window, drank acid, and fell onto a burning stove. One of the most surprisingly fun and interesting stories, I reckon, the history of the saxophone, which Dave

did a report on, I think, earlier this year. Check that one out if you haven't already. But you get Adolf Sachs, Jack's tombs. I would also like to thank from Albuquerque in New Mexico and the United States, Santiago Romero. Santiago Romero, you've got Henry Ziegland, who was killed by a bullet that had been fired at him 20 years earlier. Jesus.

Wow. Okay. So it says the story of Henry Ziegland. has been called apocryphal by some, and the events of his life are somewhat convoluted. Okay, well, this sounds a little bit like another story we heard earlier in this episode. Ziegland lived in Texas during the late 19th century

and in the aftermath of a failed relationship, his former girlfriend killed herself. The girl's brother blamed Ziegland and set out to kill him. The brother missed when he fired and took his own life soon after. The bullet that was meant for Ziegland lodged in a nearby tree when Ziegland decided to ridden. himself of the tree with dynamite in 1913, the bullet reportedly struck him in the head. He was killed instantly.

Holy shit. That story is hectic, but surely not true. Anyway, it says, 150 think he's pretty lucky. 60 disagree. Starting to think I should read ahead a little bit more. Thank you so much to you, San Diego. I'd also love to thank from Palm Harbor. in Florida in the United States.

Mark Carroftus. Mark Carroftus. You've got another class. This is so funny. This is another episode. Michael Malloy. I don't know if you remember this. This is rated number 11.

Most lucky slash unlucky people in history. Five of Michael Malloy's friends try to kill him repeatedly for insurance money. And he was very hard to kill. Great episode. I won't go into any of that in case you haven't heard it. But classic app. Definitely worth listening to. I think that was a Jess Perkins report.

Thank you so much to you, Mark. A couple more I'd love to thank from Bedford in Texas in the United States. How about this one? Ramon Atta Gavita. Artagavitia. It says after bravely surviving one ship rep, Raymond finally felt safe traveling when he booked a ticket aboard the Titanic. Oh no.

born in Uruguay in 1840 was an Argentinian businessman who was aboard the ship America when it sank in 1871 and as one of the 65 passengers to survive the disaster he only escaped by jumping in the water and swimming to safety oh my god and then he ended up on the Titanic

that is stiff this one this is the closest course of a pretty lucked up right 74 say yes, 54 say no. So I got one left to go. Some of these ones I'm reading out, I'm like, oh, these sound like good reports, potentially for the future. Last one I'd love to thank from Newtown.

I was drinking Newtown of beers tonight, man, Newtowner New South Wales and Sydney. It's Eric Rudd. Eric, finally for you, this one I think sounds like a great report. So I won't go away. into it too much because I really think it could be a good one. Sutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

when atomic bombs fell from the sky. I was actually reading up on him a bit possibly to write him into this report, but yeah, he survived both and survived the first one, then went home to Nagasaki where another, the second bomb fell and he survived that as a wild story. So, yeah, good on you. Thank you so much to Eric, Daniel, Mark, Santiago, Jack, Estefania, Riz, Liyadh, and Wyatt. The only thing left to do now is thank a few of our great long-time supporters who are now in the Triptage Club.

If you've been a supporter on the shoutout level or above for the last three years straight, you get two. you get to be shouted out now, obviously. I mean, I'm making this sound more confusing than it is. So, please, you'll recognize one of the names from just before. That's how long he was waiting to be shouted out before. But the way this works, if I can remember properly, normally Jess picks a cocktail that's based on the topic. Dave's booked a band.

Then I'm reading out the name. Dave's hyping him up and then Jess is sort of hyping up Dave. I'll see how much of this I can do myself. In terms of what's a lucky band? Some sort of a lucky band. Let me have a quick search here. We've got the Verve. The Verve are in to play one of their hit songs, Lucky Man.

So that should be pretty good, I think. Darf Punk's also in playing Get Lucky. Bruce Springsteen's playing Lucky Town. It's actually a pretty sweet lineup. Pretty sweet lineup tonight at the show. And yeah, the cocktail, I guess it's the fat one. I forget what the Spanish name was, but El Gordo. So we're having El Gordo cocktails and that's just got whatever you want in it

because it's in a big gold cup and you're a winner. as you drink that. So let me read them out. There's only four. I'll read them out. I'll hype them up and then I'll compliment myself on the hyping up if I can figure all that out. And here we go. Four names tonight.

Welcome in, please. To the Triptitch Club. I'd love to thank and welcome from Toowoomba in Queensland. Just down the road from where I am. Jonathan Lithgow. Lith go straight to the bloody. booth, mate. You can party on in here all you like. Welcome in Jonathan. I'd also love to welcome in from Mount Airy in MD. Damn it. MD in the United States. Let me quickly look up what

MD is. Doesn't matter. It sure does to this person. MD State is Maryland. I go, I follow their college basketball team. All right, from Maryland in the United States. It's Taylor, Michael, Taylor Michael, well, isn't tonight Taylor made for you, Taylor Michael? You're going to have a great time in here. This place is your kind of place. I'd also love to thank from Miner's Rest in Victoria, Australia. It's Karen Loder. Hey, we're going to load tonight up with fun for you, Karen Loder.

From miners, have a rest. Have a rest here and have a good time, Karen Loder. And finally, from Salt Steamerie. in Ontario, Canada. It's White Fremlin, that's right. It's a double entry episode for him on the 300th episode. Welcome in, White, to the Triptage Club, Fremlin. You're no Gremlin, you having a good time.

Have a good time. Good on you. Don't feed him after midnight. That's a different thing. Welcome in Wyatt Fremlin. So thank you so much to all their inductees into the Triptage Club. If you want to be involved in any of this stuff, go to patreon.com slash dogoonpod or dogoonpod.com.

and yes I'd love to thank Wyatt, Karen, Taylor and Jonathan Taylor Oh, imagine if there was a Thomas in there today as well A few home improvement fans would appreciate that Oh, all right, well that brings us in an episode From next week we'll be back to the whole Three line up the whole way through

Apologies that I had to do this last bit by myself Thank you so much for those who have listened all the way through Appreciate that very much I hope you've had a really good time Thanks so much for everyone for listening to this show, keeping it going through 300 episodes. Couldn't be more stoked. If you go back and listen to episode one,

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