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Episode Date: August 29, 2022

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Like our private Patreon, Mason. That's right. But legally distinct. That's right. And one of the things we do every month is something called the Time Crapshule. That's right. James and Mason's Time Crapshule. Every episode, we pick a year in pop culture and we go,

is this any good? Yep. Or would we be depressed to live in this era? It's usually the depressed thing. It oftentimes is. Surprisingly, the further back you go in history, the more depressing the very state of pop culture is. But what we're doing is we're picking a year,

we're picking over its carcass. We're like, was this a good year for pop culture? Did this influence the modern day? Is there some weird stuff that happened? Always. Or there's always a weird thing. Is there a weird trend? We find a weird guy who did a weird thing.

Some guy who's just said he did a thing, but it's obviously a lie. Is there an animal that became a movie star for 50 years somehow? Yeah, yeah, Jimmy the Raven, yeah, we've talked about him. So yeah, this is just one of those episodes if you do want to go back and look at any of this. As we've mentioned in previous weeks, we also have a show called We Got This Covered where we look

at clickbait, we have a comic book club, we also do movie commentaries. So yeah, there's a huge back catalogue if you are interested, but don't even worry if you're not interested in any of that maybe you just want to listen to this and go

no thank you I will wait for regular Weekly Planet when it returns on September what's the date Mason? the 5th or something tell me the date Mason

might be the 5th or something is it the 5th? let's find out it is yes not that I didn't trust you I just never thought that you'd get that right it's amazing isn't it

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I guess. Yeah. Because then they're not hassling us? Sure. I guess. We appreciate any and all people up to but not including just flat out abuse. We don't like that. We don't.

We don't. Anyways, we hope you're having a good time. We'll be back very soon. Thank you very much. Good to have you, guys. We'll see you real soon. And here's the thing we said. Yeah.

The time crapshaw. Yeah, yeah. Folks, welcome once again to another episode of James and Mace's Time Crapshula Podcast. James is filled with joy over there on the other side of the table. I certainly am. Every episode we pick a year at random. That's seemingly random. We look at all the pop culture and we're like,

what's this? What's this? What's this? Would we have wanted to live in this year or is it a pop culture wasteland? Is it a pop culture desert or a pop culture oasis? Oh, that's great. Speaking of oasis.

Oh, that's right. The Beatles. That's exactly right. We're talking about the year 1965. That's great. Speaking of Oasis. Oh, that's right. The Beatles. That's exactly right. We're talking about the year 1965. That's right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which may have inspired a certain couple of brothers from, where were they from? London.

Welsh. I don't think they're Welsh, the Oasis brothers. Welsh. Liam and Noel Oasis. Noel Oasis sort of rolls off the tongue very well. It does, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Anyway, pick 1965 and we're like, wonder what happened in here. Yeah does, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Anyway, pick 1965.

We're like, wonder what happened in here. Yeah, lots of stuff it turns out. It was a big year. For example, they were good at predicting the future in that year because in 1965 a US Senate subcommittee predicted that by the year 2000 Americans would be working 20 hours a week and vacationing seven plus weeks a year. Oh, yeah.

That's unfortunate, isn't it? Isn't it though, yeah. That's some teacher holidays there, a year. Oh, yeah. That's unfortunate, isn't it? Isn't it though? Yeah. That's some teacher holidays there, right? There. Oh, yeah. Seven weeks. Those bloody bludgers.

Am I right, James? James? No, it's well earned, Mason. You're not going to trap me on that. Okay. Even though I don't teach anymore, I- You still respect the craft of teaching? No.

But that's not to say that they don't deserve a break like everybody else. Also doesn't count all the time they're in the bloody staff room. That's true. I just had a flashback of being too afraid as a child to go into the staff room. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now it is. I'd kick that door in. I don't know what I'm doing. What are you up to? I don't know what I'm doing there but I'm kicking the door and I'm like, what are you doing?

You know what it's for? You go in there and it'd be like, this kid, this goddamn kid. That's what it's for. That's why you and it'd be like, this kid, this goddamn kid. That's what it's for. Yeah, I bet. That's why you're afraid. You don't want them talking about you. I didn't like spending a lot of time in the staff room. Like, you poke your head and you're like, hello, what's up?

Quickly get my lunch and then I'll go and like. You're talking about as a teacher. Yeah, yeah. Not as a student. Yeah, because I go on. Hey, guys, what's going on? We ate my lunch. I'd go and work because I'd be like, if I work now,

I'd have to work after school. That's true. You don't get paid extra for being there. Well, that's how I know I could never be a teacher because I would have done all the work after school. I would have been like, well, I could work now, but I don't want to. Future me can deal with working.

Oh, no, Mason. That's right. Should we talk about some movies then? Yes, please. These are some of the popular movies. The Sound of Music was the biggest movie of the year, Mason. It was a surprise smash hit and it launched a new era of musicals, some of which I remember and most of which have faded into obscurity.

You know one thing we haven't done on this is just go 1965 on pop culture on Google and then look at the questions that people have asked. Oh, wow, that's something new. What else have we got? Oh, should I do the movies quickly? Okay, cool. Dr Zhivago, Thunderball.

Yeah, let's do that. Was that the second one? No, the second one was from Russia with Love. Okay, cool. But I was just going to say one of the questions is, what was the most popular thing in 1965? Let's find out. And the answer was, in 1965,

The Sound of Music was the highest grossing film. Great. So there's no new information. No, that's true. Here are the other questions, James. You ready? Why was 1965 so important? What was big news in 1965?

Wow. Hang on. Ollie. What happened April 1965? What happened November 1965? What happened October 1965? What happened March 1965? Why did Thomas Edison invent the light bulb?

1965. Yeah, I guess so. Fascinating stuff. Yeah. Fascinating and all very relevant. But adjusted for Yeah, I guess so. Fascinating stuff. Oh, yeah. Fascinating and very relevant. But adjusted for inflation, I believe, Thunderball is the highest grossing Bond movie ever. Really?

Because it was $140 million at the time. Did it? Which is like a billion dollars now. Oh, my God. That's incredible. That's impressive. Also, Thunderball is the one I like talking about the most because it's the one produced by Kevin McClory.

The one they can keep remaking? Yeah, so he years prior when Ian Fleming wanted to make the jump from Bond being in books to the big screen, he worked with Kevin McClory, who was the screenwriter, and Jack Whittingham, who was another

screenwriter, on a new Bond script. Not an adaptation of an existing book but a new storyline. And then the whole thing fell apart for a variety of reasons and then shortly thereafter Kevin McClory received an advanced copy of Ian Fleming's new book, Thunderball, which contained all the plot elements that they had discussed. We're so lucky.

Yeah, there was a huge lawsuit. And now if you pick up a copy of Thunderball, it says in the jacket sleeve, it'll always say, like, written by Ian Fleming based on a screenplay by the two other guys. Okay, yeah, I get you. But yeah, so Kevin McClory basically got these weird rights to make – I've discussed this before, but he got these weird rights to make his own James Bond movie but only using the elements

that he developed for this script. Which was Blofeld. Blofeld and Spectre and the theft of two nuclear warheads. That's why it took several Daniel Craig movies to put Spectre in. Yeah, that's right. And essentially what they did is when they eventually came to making Thunderball several years later, they were like, we'd like to make you a producer on this, but you can't make it.

You still have the rights to make your movie in perpetuity essentially, but you can't do it for 10 years. And they were like, I'm pretty sure they were like, if we get him to make this, he'll like once he's made it, he will get it out of his system. But it turns out Spite is a huge motivator. And the money. Exactly.

10 years later, he's like, I'm going to make another one of these. And he did in 83? Yeah, he made Never Say Never Again, which also starred Sean Connery out of Spite. Yes. Because it initially wasn't going to be Connery, but then he's like. And that would have helped immensely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think, what did it go up against i can't which roger moore one i went up against but it did pretty well yeah yeah i don't think it beat it but it did no but yeah but that's

again i love that because it's so wild it's like if somebody wrote some marvel comics back in the 60s and then they just got the rights to make an Iron Man movie. Incredible, yeah. Just had them in their back pocket at all times. Yeah. What a loaded weapon that would be for Marvel. Kevin Feige every day would be like having a meeting with that guy being like. Give me the thing. Give me the thing.

Yeah. Give me the thing. I'm just going to let the dog out. Rough, rough, rough, rough. Why don't you, Mason, just sit. Just sit silently? Okay, I'll do that. Bye, Ollie.

Bye-bye. I'll see you later. Are you familiar with the movie Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines? No, I've heard the song. That was a movie. The Great Race? Do you think the song was based on that?

No. Those magnificent men in their flying machines, they go up-de-lup-dup and da-da-da-da-da. You know that song? Da-da-da-da-da-da. Exactly. I don't know that song. Yeah, it's a movie.

Terrific. Rawnsley, a press owner, announces an air race in order to boost the circulation of his newspaper. But one of the participants, Percy, pilots plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Percy Trump. Is there any reference to Down Diddley Down? It says there are no songs.

Wow. Yeah. Wow. Wow. There's a Down Diddley? It says there are no songs. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Wow. There's a pseudo sequel, though, too, not much. Let me check. Song, song, song. Yeah, there was a song, etc.

That's true. Anyways, Mason, The Great Race, That Darn Cat, or Darn Cat. It looks like an M. Cat Baloo. And what's new, Pussycat? So just three cat-themed movies. Cat Baloo. And what's new, Pussycat? So just three cat-themed movies. Cat Baloo. I think Elvis is in that movie.

I don't know. It's one of those ones where he's going to drive a car or drive a boat or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, speaking of. I was actually having a conversation just quickly about Elvis the other day. I think it was with my mum.

She's like, I was watching one of those old movies. And, you know, he wasn't even playing the guitar in those movies. I don't think he could actually play guitar and i'm like they're miming they're not they're not really playing it like you know that right like you've known that in movies i don't really most of the time they're not playing the instruments especially not from like that era she's like well i thought he was a good i always thought he was a good guitarist like it's a movie oh yeah i don't know what you mean she went to an albus exhibition that's why anyway my parents also went to the Elvis exhibition. Of course they did.

Did they? No, they did. Yeah, they did. And afterwards, my parents were like, not a fan. Of my parents? Yeah. They saw him there? Wow, brutal.

No, my mum's like, just not an Elvis fan. She's like, yeah, he's all right. 1965 was the first time when you said that damn cat. 1965 was the first year in which a swear word was on tv and what was it was damn it was c-bomb wasn't it but also here's the thing here's the thing about that is in america it was damn yeah but in the uk the first f-bomb dropped nice was it like john cleese on a talk show or something i'll find out for you by doing a search right now if you could so yeah interesting year for movies the only one i would say that's really kind of resonated

is probably the first three, Dr. Zhivago, Thunderball, and Sound of Music. Even then, though, like I couldn't tell you what Dr. Zhivago is about for a million years. For a million years, I couldn't tell you. Not for a million years. If I had a million years, I'd never figure it out. Okay, here's where it is.

The first ever swear word heard on American primetime network TV was damn by Miss Pringle in an episode of My Favourite Martian. Oh, okay. But in the UK, the first use of the F word on television was on November 13, 1965, towards the end of the year. Thought he'd squeeze it out. By literary agent Kenneth Tynan during a satirical discussion show on the BBC. That sounds just like every show on the BBC.

Right. Just a panel of comedians being like, you're a prick and you're a prick. Yeah. And you're a prick. It was on the TV show. Who's lying though? It was on the TV show, Would I Swear to You? Would I Swear at You?

I'm going to swear at you. I'm going to swear at you. Nine out of ten cats would say the F-bomb. Is that a good show? People like it, right? I think so. Here's some TV shows though from the era that debuted. Hogan's Heroes.

Famously, the lead guy from that was murdered under suspicious circumstances. No, James, he killed himself. No. It was completely. It was Willem Dafoe. I saw the movie. It was probably Willem Dafoe. But he was a bad guy.

What was his name again? Bob. Crane. Yeah. He used to bring women back to have sex with him and film them. And now I think his son sells that stuff online to people. Oh, well, I mean, it's probably morally fine because they're all dead now. I agree.

Yeah, so it's fine. You're not going to believe this, but Days of Our Lives started. It has never stopped. Lost in Space. Green Ape. That's never stopped either Lost in Space. Green Acre. That's never stopped either because obviously we've got that series. We've got the wonderful movie with. Matt LeBlanc.

Matt LeBlanc. And then we've got the TV show on Netflix which will never be cancelled. I think it has been cancelled. It will never be cancelled. Okay, sure, James. Green Acres. The Wild Wild West. All the sci-fi western which, of course, has continued forever

because it became that movie. That's right. And now it's an endless runner mobile phone game. With like a weird chiptune version of the theme song, which is not quite the same. I've made that up, by the way. It's a good joke, though. I Dream of Jeannie,

Get Smart, F Troop, Thunderbirds, which became a movie but they weren't puppets. Do you remember? I do, yes. Bill Paxton was in it I think. Well, I mean from famous quotes

from the year. Number one, sorry about that chief from Axel Smart. Oh, very good. But also caution, cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health.

Is that true? That's the US Surgeon General. Wow. Also, turn on, tune in, and drop out. That's Dr. Timothy Leary. Who's that? The drugs guy. Mr. Drugs.

The king of drugs. He likes drugs, doesn't he? He was all about, guys, you've got to do some LSD. Well, I'm not about that, so I'm glad I haven't heard of him. An American psychologist and writer known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs. The Joe Rogan of his day. Evaluations of Lyria polarized ranging from bold oracle to publicity hound.

I think you leaned towards that last one, I would reckon, because you're a square. Yeah, man. The FBI, that show, which was also, that's the show in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. You know the one that they show that DiCaprio's in? Oh, that was a real show. I believe it's that show. I Spy,

which became an Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson movie. Oh, yeah. I think Pryor was a bloody Bill Cosby. Yeah, Bill Cosby. The Hollywood Squares. Kimba the White Lion. Ultraman, a special effects fantasy series, which is the full title. And then, of course, there was a Beatles animated series

before we do music, Mason. The Beatles was a Saturday morning animated series featuring representation of the popular English rock band of the same name. They did all the songs and all that. I can't remember. They did all the songs and such. Okay. But it wasn't their voices.

I looked into it. Ran for a couple of seasons and then it was on syndication until 1969. Mason Music. Nice. This is your wheelhouse. Oh, well, I think the biggest song of the year was a bloody. Help? No.

I mean, Help was a big song. It might have been Rolling Stones. It might have been I Can't Get No Satisfaction. Oh, I read how that started. Was it Mick Jagger Can't Get No Satisfaction. Oh, I read how that started. Was it Mick Jagger Couldn't Get No Satisfaction? I read it on here. Yeah, that's funny. Keith Richards.

It's not funny, James. Men not getting satisfaction. It's a serious business. Keith Richards came up with the famous guitar riff for Satisfaction. Oh, there was a guitar riff? Yeah, when he woke up from a deep sleep and sung the riff for three seconds to a tape recorder only to then fall back to sleep again whoa god see you just got to write down all of your ideas when you're asleep yeah i have one more music fact okay pete best oh i know this one i do

well pete best this that year i believe released uh who is pete best first pete best was a it was a one-time drummer for the Beatles, sometimes called the Fifth Beatle, although numerous people are often called the Fifth Beatle. Also, he was the fourth Beatle and they replaced him. It's true. So, you know. We were talking recently, if you're a fan of Do Go On.

No. Well, imagine if you were. Yeah. They did an episode recently with comedian Cameron James about Jimmy Nickel who was the Beatles drummer for like two weeks. Yeah. And when the Beatles toured Australia, he was temporarily the drummer at that point because Ringo was sick.

But then Ringo was like, this guy's stealing my bits. I'm going to go down to Australia and get him. Oh, actually he did that. And they sent him home alone. Is that true? That is true, yeah. They just sent him to the airport alone. Well, that's what you get for helping out.

I hope he got paid some money, but he probably got paid. No, he actually got paid a lot of money. Did he? Like, it was like 10 grand a day or something. Oh, shit. Oh, yeah, something like that. Wow, good for him. Or 10 grand a show or something.

It was like some insane amount. Yeah, that. Yeah, something like that. Wow, good for him. Or 10 grand a show or something. It was like some insane amount. Yeah, that's insane for now. Yeah. Yeah, that's YouTube money. Hell yeah, brother. Yeah. No, but we didn't get to the Pete Best thing. Oh, yeah, sorry.

So Pete Best that year released an album, if I remember correctly, called – it would have been Best of the Beatles. It was called Best of the Beatles. Meaning it was Pete Best from the band The Beatles. But I don't think there was any Beatles songs in there, obviously, because he couldn Best of the Beatles. It was called Best of the Beatles. Meaning it was Pete Best from the band The Beatles. But I don't think there was any Beatles songs in there, obviously, because he couldn't get the rights. So it was just him just doing an assortment of songs, probably like covers and whatever were very common at the time.

It fooled many people into buying it and it was investigated for consumer fraud. But the case was dropped because technically he's best of the Beatles. That's true. And also just look at the back. Yeah, I know, right? It's not like you could – it's an era where you download it and be surprised.

It's the biggest possible format for an album. You could just look at the back and go, personnel, not any of the Beatles. That's right. That's terrific. So apparently his net worth is $600,000, and over 30 years later best received a major monetary payout for his work of the Beatles after the release of their 1995 compilation on the early records from Anthology No. 1.

So there you go. There I go. So I think he still might get royalties if he owns anything. I have no idea. That's pretty good. What other music, Mason? Or have you done with music? Have you had enough of it?

No, I love music, James. You're sick of it. No, the thing is that I love music. Oh, that's good. Popular musicians included. How many of these have you heard of, James? Here we go. The Beatles. No.

The Rolling Stones? No, sorry. Freddie and the Dreamers. Yeah, I'm a big fan. Go on. What do you mean, go on? What's your favorite? Freddie and the Dreamers. Freddie and the Dreamers. they covered that yeah yeah yeah yeah nice mine my favorite one

is the one that goes freddie and the dreamers where freddie and the dreamers you know that song yeah it's really good of course i know it in the dreamers and where cool as can be you know that song of course i know it the band freddie the Dreamers. And this is a song, Cars, Freddy and the Dreamers. No, no, no, no, no. Anyway, The Animals. You know The Animals. Nah, sorry. The Animals did House of the Rising Sun.

Don't know it, mate. Sorry. The Kinks. Nah. The Searchers. Yep. The Seekers. Nah.

Were you more of a Searchers man or a Seekers man? It's important, James. I would be a seeker's man. Okay. Moody Blues. Donovan. I'm just speeding through this. Donovan.

Donovan. Jason Donovan. Not Jason Donovan. Cilla Black. Dusty Springfield. You would have heard of Dusty Springfield. No, sorry. Tom Jones.

No. Simon and Garfunkel. Is he? What do you mean? Is Simon Garfunkel? No, they're different men. Okay. God damn it, James.

Influential songs, James, include Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers. Don't know it. California Girls by the Beach Boys. Sorry, no. And Hurt So Bad by Little Anthony and the Imperial. I love all those old school names. Love it.

Oh, this hurts so bad. In a good way. Yeah. Yeah. I've got some events Mason Go on So Intelsat

Also Intelsat 1 Also known as the early bird Was the first ever Commercial communication satellite aircraft Which was placed in orbit In April of 1965 That's big

I don't believe that There was also the launch of the PDP-8 The, the first of its kind and the only 12-bit microcomputer. Oh, the only 12-bit. Interesting. Yeah. I don't even really know what a bit is.

Yeah, but it doesn't seem like much. No, but I mean back in the, you know, we knew the 8-bits, obviously, and the 16-bits. That's true. And so forth. And also there was the first rectangular television which came via Motorola, who are now exclusively known for phones you don't

buy. That's correct, yes. Wow, incredible. But I've got some other kind of situations that happened. Other situations? So have you heard about the story of Randy Gardner? No. Randy Gardner. Randy Gardner. Maybe I've seen a few bloody movies featuring a Randy Gardner

Am I right James? Like at the cinema? Yeah Okay Yeah yeah yeah You'd go to the cinema for these? Yep You couldn't just watch them at home?

No Okay No video on demand You'd go to the cinema He's a 17 year old who set the scientifically documented record For the longest non-stimulated human has gone without sleep. He stayed up for 11 days and reported serious cognitive and behavioral issues. These included, yeah, you go crazy. These included moodiness, problems with concentration,

short-term memory, paranoia, and hallucinations. On the 11th day when he was asked to subtract seven repeatedly, starting with 100, he stopped at 65. When asked why he stopped, he replied he'd forgotten what he was doing. So, yeah. Wow, okay. So this is really interesting because basically- I would stop-

As a man who's had a very good night of sleep, I would have stopped way before then, honestly. I would have gone 93. Oh, that's it, I reckon. Yeah, no, I don't want to- 80, 80, honestly. I would have gone 93. Oh, that's it, I reckon. Yeah, no, I don't want to. 80, 80, 83. Close enough. I'm leaving.

So, yeah, there you go. It's also when you go without sleep. Yeah. Apparently you are instantly cured of all of these things after a good night's sleep. So it's temporary unless you've got some kind of actual like cognitive problem. Yeah, right, right, right. Gatorade was also created and named in 1965 by scientists

at the University of Florida. Florida Gators. That's right. At the request of the head coach of the football team. When the Gators won the Orange Bowl, the opposing coach said about their loss, we didn't have Gatorade. That made the difference. Wow.

Was he paid by Gatorade. That made the difference. Wow. Was he paid by Gatorade? That's my question to you. So yeah, they didn't have sugar and water. Do you want to hear some space facts, James? No, I do. I know you love all your satellite facts, but it's so cold and inhuman, just like you, James. These are some human

space facts. Okay. Number one, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first person to walk in space. I did know that, yes. Next to VoxHod 2. Number one, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first person to walk in space. I did know that, yes. Next to Vox Hod 2. Second fact, astronaut John Young smuggled an illegal corned beef sandwich on board the Gemini 3 spacecraft. He was given the first reprimand in NASA's space mission history

and his snack remains the only contraband sandwich to ever make it into space. Imagine if Gemini 3 had exploded because he brought a corned beef sandwich on and there's just like footage that's been beamed down to the headquarters and you just see like he opens up like a little Ziploc bag and a sandwich flies out and hits an air filter and then static and then it's just a. FX's The Veil explores the surprising and fraught relationship between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from istanbul

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So who will you rise for? Register today at sunrisechallenge.ca. That's sunrisechallenge.ca. Photo from another, there's a video from another satellite of just Gemini exploding. Oh, we laugh. We laugh because it's fun. Also, how do you, I don't know. How do you what? Space food. Is it difficult to eat a sandwich in space?

I don't think so. Not like that. None of it's all dry ingredients. Oh, man, if I got to space, I would immediately smuggle a sandwich. I would do it. Just be like, yeah, why not? Just ruin my career immediately. He would have had to have told them also because they didn't have video.

He would have said, I'm eating a sandwich. I was like, ah, you idiot. Or as he's taken off, he's waving out the window with a sandwich, pretending to eat it. Like, huh? Look at this. Look at me. You're going to stop the shuttle?

You can't. Turns out they could. They put a big set of spike strips in front of it. It's launching. Rips the fuel tanks out. Here's a couple more facts. Got it. On December 16, astronauts Wally Shearer and Tom Stafford

became the first people to perform music in space when they played jingle bells on harmonica and bells that they smuggled onto the Gemini 6. What is happening? What are these people doing? Rogue lunatics. Rogue lunatics. Rogue lunatics. Okay, but all right, here's why they did it.

Because NASA, as a practical joke, played a parody of Hello Dolly, one of the biggest hits of the year, to wake the Gemini 6 crew in 1965. That started the tradition of waking astronauts up with songs. So basically it was like any building site workplace, just lots of practical jokes and sandwiches and like bullying probably. It sounds like just a regular workplace. Yeah. Do you want something?

Couldn't do it these days. Do you want something awful? Yes. Charles Linster broke the world record for the most non-stop push-ups with 6,006. Did he post it on Linstergram? It didn't say that, but yes. He only stopped at 6,006 because his coach didn't want him to harm himself

unknowingly. 69 days later, he broke his neck, paralyzing him permanently. Were they related? I don't think so. So there you go. You cannot do 6,006 push-ups consecutively. That is not possible. That's a real Jimmy the Raven situation of like just one of these old-timey facts that somebody said.

Yeah. And you can't really prove otherwise. It's just like, well, why would anybody lie about it? I don't know because everybody lies all the time. Let me find out the push-up record. Apparently the record is 10,507. Wow. So maybe you did do it.

That's too many. God. I reckon if you put a gun to my head, I could do 50 in a row, but I'd have to have a gun to my head. Wow. Yeah, but that's not enough. To break that record. Or my neck.

No, that's true, yeah. Here's some more facts. AstroTurf was invented. Oh. Also, the Pillsbury Doughboy was introduced. His name was introduced. His name is Poppin' Fresh. Sure, hence that Simpsons reference.

That's right. The price of the Volkswagen Bug Beetle in 1965 was $1,595. Okay. How many, sorry, dollars? $1,595. Okay. How many, sorry, dollars? $1,595. Johnny Cash's truck caught fire triggering a forest fire that burned several hundred acres in Las Padres National Forest. Fans of the Volkswagen these days, that amount, $1,595,

you could have been $14,507. Very reasonably priced. That's a very reasonably priced. Yeah. God, couldn't get a Volkswagen.. That's a very reasonably priced. Yeah. God, couldn't get a Volkswagen. No, no, no, you couldn't. You couldn't get like a decent second-hand car for that. Yeah.

Johnny Cash's truck caught fire triggering a forest fire that burnt several hundred acres. When the judge asked Cash why he did it, he said, I didn't do it. My truck did, and it's dead. So you can't ask, you can't question it. I mean, that's true, but you did do it. What a, that's bizarre. That whole, that whole situation's bizarre. Why did I do it? What do you mean, why did I do it?

Because I wanted to. I wanted my truck to catch fire, to burn a forest down. I'm Johnny Cash. My legend continues, he should have said. You mentioned the first cosmonaut to walk in space, didn't you? I did. Hugh Hefner threw a Batman-themed party in 1965. ABC executive Yael Udoff was in attendance and ended up pitching the idea for a Batman TV show the following year.

Whoa. James Russell invented the compact disc, but nothing happened for a while. Well, there was no good music to put on it. It's true. The species of banana eaten today is different from the species eaten pre-1965. That's why those candy bananas taste different

from actual bananas. What? Yeah. So they used to taste like that? They used to taste like the candy bananas. That's not true. That is true. Based on a species taste like that. They used to taste like the candy bananas. That's not true. That is true. Based on a species of banana that doesn't exist anymore.

The gross Michael banana became commercially extinct. It's called the gross Michael. Mikkel, maybe? Maybe. Hey, do you want to try my gross Michael banana? Where's it made, Michael? I'll never tell you. But do you want to try it?

It's a secret. That's gross Michael's secret, actually. Gross Michael keeps his secrets, especially about where I put my butt. I put all the fungus on them. That was me. Gross Michael. Oh, no. So, yeah, they became extinct.

Surely they'd be able to bring that back at this point, right? I mean, maybe. Did anybody take a DNA sample? Seeds? I don't dna sample seeds so i don't know can you i i don't know this james this isn't the podcast for determining whether or not nobody had like a separate isolated batch of these oh great question i need to know if that banana thing is true because there's no fucking way a banana tastes like that for real okay you're out of your mind mason okay uh books and comics from the era while you're looking that up okay do you know what came out There's no fucking way a banana tastes like that, for real. Okay, let's find out. You're out of your mind, Mason. Okay. Books and comics from the era.

While you're looking that up. Okay. Do you know what came next? Artificial banana flavor. Artificial banana flavor. Artificial banana flavor was a replication of the gross Michelle taste, not of the Cavendish, which is the current banana. It's not a replication. Like a raspberry lolly doesn't taste like a fucking raspberry, does it?

That's bullshit. I mean, 10best.com disagrees with you, as does foodandwine.com. Give me a real website. Sciencefriday.com. Give me bigsandwich.co if that disagrees with me. BBC.com says it's... They're all linking to this. America's Test Kitchen.

That's a real website. Oh, wait, it says alleged.com says it's. They're all linking to this. America's Test Kitchen. That's a real website. Oh, wait, it says alleged reason. There we go. Yeah, people lie. But what fruit lolly tastes like the fruit is my point. Orange. Not really. I don't know, though.

Books and Comics Mason. Do you know what came out this year? Dune. Dune. Frank Herbert's Dune. Dune. Fox in Socks. Okay, continue that, but I have a fact badge. The Man with the Golden Gun. Give me? Dune. Dune. Frank Herbert's Dune. Dune. Fox in Socks. Okay, continue that,

but I have a fact about you. And The Man with the Golden Gun. Give me a Dune fact. Oh, one more. Girls used to buy comic books as much as boys. Superman's girlfriend, yes, Lois Lane, was the third best-selling title in 1965, selling four times as many copies as today's most popular comic books. That's very true. So here's the fun fact about Dune. Go. After being rejected by 20 publishers, Frank Herbert's 1965 sci-fi classic Dune was finally picked up by Chilton Books. The publisher was previously known only for those big car repair manuals sold in auto parts stores.

I'm a big fan of those actually. Same. I mean I don't need them because I know how to do car stuff. I was actually born with a car. So that's how I know. You were born with a car. My brother's a car. Oh, sure.

That's why I know cars so much. Okay, wow, wow, wow. Because in the womb I was looking at cars. Anyways, did you not know my brother was a car? I mean, which brother? The one you don't like. That makes a lot of sense, actually. I didn't know, but.

Biggie for the introduction of comic book characters. Need to name a few, but there's more than this. Absorbing Man, Beast Boy, Dragon Man, Egg Fu, Fandral, Fritz the Cat, Hercules, the Marvel version, the Inhumans. Judo Master, Juggernaut Casilius Lobo Lucifer The Marvel Version

Harry Osborn Stiltman The Warriors 3 Wonder Girl That's a lot of stuff I agree But none of them are like None of them are like A plus

I would say like Inhumans is probably the biggest Yeah there's no A list stuff there There's names we recognise And like characters that have endured for a long time. Like your Wonder Girls. But there's a lot of joke stuff like Stilt Man. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

Do you want to know some toys that were popular? Yes. Cap pistols. Oh, yes. You know, you go bang, bang, bang, bang. I know what cap pistols are, yes. And then you're like, I'm out, I'm out, I'm out. Can you still get those?

Yeah, probably. I think they're not as good or loud. G.I. Joe was interesting. Also, just get like a fake gun and they could electronically make a loud noise. It's true. Nah, it's not the same. Yeah, it's the same. You can't smell that gunpowder going off.

It's true. You can't think you're going to blow your hand off doing it. Here's one, James. You'll love it. A toy that you'll love. Yeah. Slumber Party Barbie Dolls. Oh, I got this.

Came with a diet book entitled How to Lose Weight, telling her, don't eat, and a bathroom scale set at 110 pounds, which is like 50 kilos. It's not a lot. Yeah, Barbie's tall as well. That's true. And impossibly. She's a real, you know?

Yeah. A bitch is all you're saying? No! An hourglass figure. I was making the trademark noise of the hourglass figure. I say that because I was speaking to somebody recently and there's a bunch of Barbie movies on Netflix. Right.

And he reckons they're like AI generated. They're so bizarre and really catty and really just like Barbie and her friends turning on each other. And there's a million of them and they're awful apparently. And they're on Netflix, did you say? Apparently, yeah. There is a Barbie movie coming up soon with Margot Robbie. Image of Margot Robbie released. And directed by Greta Gerwig you say? Apparently, yeah. There is a Barbie movie coming up soon with Margot Robbie. Yes, there was that image of Margot Robbie released.

And directed by Greta Gerwig, so that should be fun. I think that one could actually be good, yeah. Also, another toy that was popular was G.I. Joe, as it was introduced just the year before, and skateboards, which were declared a medical menace. Nice. And also the game Operation. I bet there's like a Thrasher magazine T-shirt that's like medical menace.

Medical menace. Medical menace. What was the last thing you said, sorry? Medical menace. Operation, the game Operation. Oh, well, that's a medical menace. I didn't tell you that much. How do you get all that stuff in him?

Well, you don't. Oh. I mean, you put him in. You put him in at the start of the game. But what you're saying is what's the backstory of that man? I think he put them all in himself. No, I think the doctor did it because that's what you do at the start of the game.

Oh, that's true. Yeah. So you're a psycho doctor. It's just torture, yeah. Yeah, yeah, wow. Yeah, cool. Notable deaths? T.S. Eliot.

Churchill. Not so bad. That's fine. Kind of caused a massive famine. Look into it. Not kind of. He did. T.S. Eliot.

Nat King Cole. Malcolm X was assassinated at age 39. Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy. Notable births, Mason. Go on. Robert Downey Jr. Your favorite. J.K.

Rowling. But bearing in mind, folks, once again, we do not count notable births. It's true. So just ignore these. As I said, your favorite, J.K. Rowling. No, she sucks uh but i've this week she's all like i've received so many dms from people and they really support

my and whatever and people like your dms aren't open yeah nobody can dm you so i don't know what you're talking about the undertaker dr dray ben stiller i didn't realize ben stiller was that old what an idiot uh what a stupid old idiot. Viola Davis. Chris Rock. Mads Mikkelsen. Kevin James. Bjork.

Slash. I didn't know Bjork was that old. Yeah. I would have said like born in the 80s. Yeah, me too. Brandon Lee. I suppose she was in a band called the Sugar Cubes, which was around in the 80s, I think.

That is true. Brandon Lee, Robert Zombie, John C. Reilly, Michael Bay, William Zabka, Frank Grillo, Steve Coogan, Dexter Holland of Offspring fame. Whoa. That's right. Didn't you know the Pretty Fly for a White Guy guy toured with them when they toured that album?

The guy in the video clip with the- Yes. And he wore the big football jersey and that. And he came out and did the thing or whatever. Wow. Yeah. They're sexy girls also. Probably.

Okay, wow. Yeah, so there you go. Wow, what a time, Mason. Have you got any more information before we work out what's good here? I have no more information, James. All right, I'm putting in Dune. Okay. And I'm putting in the CD.

Okay. Because the CD was invented. You know what? Did we mention Mary Poppins? Did that come out that year? 1965. Is that true? I think so. Why wasn't that on the list was invented. You know what? Did we mention Mary Poppins? Did that come out that year? 1965. Is that true? I think so.

Why wasn't that on the list? I don't know. I looked up notable movies and it was not there. 1964. You moron. Okay. She won. Julie Andrews won Best Actress in 1965.

Mason, why do you get things wrong every time? I didn't technically get it wrong. I got things technically incorrect. The Sound of Music, Dr. Zhivago, Thunderball. Yeah, but I mean. I'm going to put in Sound of Music. Put in Sound of Music and put in Thunderball. But, I mean, it's not like Bond wasn't invented this year.

You know what I mean? It wasn't a debut. And it was a big seller. It's more kind of like what happened afterwards. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it wasn't like, oh, Dr. No. What about TV shows? Oh, God, I'm looking through here.

Nothing really. I mean, Hogan's Heroes, Days of Our Lives is still going. Still going, that's true. I would say I would put that in because that was like, you know, soap dramas. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And weird filters. Controversial and important subjects of the time.

Exactly. Has currently shown over 12,000 episodes. Sneaking a sandwich into space. Sandwich in space, absolutely. Would that be the only sandwich that's ever gone to space? They would have packed them now. They reckon they'd pack them. I don't think they eat sandwiches in space.

I think it's all goop out of a tube. I think they've improved upon it since then. Okay, but here's what I'm saying. That's the only. Oh, illegal sandwich or traditional sandwich? It's the only traditional illegal sandwich. Like I reckon these days they'd be like weird space sandwiches, like the bread is weird, the meat is weird, you know.

There's probably no butter on them for some reason. Sandwiches in space. It's like mechanical lubricant or something. Astronauts commonly make their own sandwiches and even pizza on the International Space Station, Mason. Wow. So there you go. What are they making it out of?

Space food sticks. This is rocks. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Space rocks. Oh, they've got to drill So there you go. What are they making it out of? Space food sticks. It's rocks. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Space rocks. Oh, they've got to drill them out of the moon and then they make a sandwich out of them. Yeah, okay. So I'm putting in the song Satisfaction.

Any Beatles songs of notes that I should put in there? Oh, Help, I guess. Help. Yeah, Help. Freaking Help, all right. I'm stuck. Help. Come and get me.

The guy who stayed asleep, awake, get me. The guy who stayed asleep. Awake. Awake or whatever. The guy who stayed asleep. Wow. That would have been incredible. Rectangular TV. Oh, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away was also on that album.

Hey, you've got to hide your love. I like the Edward Vedder version of that. You would like the Edward Vedder version. I do like it. That's what I said. Rectangular TV. It's important, right? Sure.

Ticket to Ride was also on that album I said. Rectangular TV. It's important, right? Ticket to Ride was also on that album. Rectangular TV. Yeah. He's got a ticket to ride. And a new key. You know that song? Yes, Mason. I know songs.

Nice. I know all the songs you've said. I was lying before. Wow. Yeah. Frankie and the. No, that one I didn't know. Okay.

What else we got here? Hugh Hefner, Batman Party? No. Bananas? Banana extinct bananas. I think that's important. Put extinct bananas in there. All right.

America's Taste Kitchen says the alleged reason blah, blah, blah is because artificial banana flavor wasn't developed based on the modern-day banana. It was developed based on a variety called the Gross Michael or the Big Mike. Big Mike. There's admittedly some disagreement on whether artificial banana flavor is actually based on the Gross Michael or if its flavor profile is just more similar to the artificial stuff.

But even if the answer is closer to the latter, I'm confident to know that artificial banana flavor is actually reminiscent of a real banana. So apparently it is closer. I disagree immensely. Given that you've never tasted the original banana. Nothing tastes like that. Yeah, well, because it went extinct.

Because it was too good. That's why. It's just not true. All right, let's look at this. So I've got Dune CDs, Sound of Music, Thunderball, Days of Our Lives, Sneaking a Sandwich Into Space, Satisfaction, Help album, Rectangular TVs. Did you also have Sneaking Bells, Harmonica and Bells into Space?

That's boring. Yeah, no, that's true. Food is more dangerous. You almost took a bell in, did you? I see two fucking bell-ins over here, mate. I see that much. Sneak a bloody gun into Space, we'll see how. Sneak a chainsaw into Space and just fire it up in a narrow hallway as a prank.

That would be fun. Big year, I think. Yes. Big for music, big for pop culture, big for Barbie's diet. Yeah. 50 kilo. Yeah, that's low. Get out of here.

I don't know. I reckon it's like a low 70s. Yeah, I mean, the thing about it is I feel like, you know, I think we weight heavily debuts of things. Yeah. So, like, I reckon if the Beatles debuted this year, I'm like, that's a big year. But, I mean, just...

I see what you're saying. The album helped. Good album. Yeah. But how much has that influenced pop culture since then? Because aren't we looking at the impact? I mean, we've always needed a ticket to ride when you think about it. Yeah.

Try to ride without a ticket. It's not going to happen. I do. I don't pay. Wow. Yeah. I'm rude too. You are also rude.

That's true. Yeah. I reckon it's like a low 70s. Look, also as a public transport professional, if you're out there, you don't have a ticket when they find you, just take the ticket. Don't do a big song and dance. Just take the ticket and then write a letter and be like, sorry, I forgot, and they'll just let you off.

Yeah, totally. Don't worry about it. Yeah, I completely agree. Yeah. I don't. Don't have a big sook. No, because that doesn't work ever, right? Yeah.

Yeah. 71? Yeah, 71. No, because that doesn't work ever, right? Yeah. Yeah. 71? Yeah, 71. Yeah, cool. Because last week, last month in 1979, we did Cabo TV, Minder, Alien, Star Trek, The Motion Picture, Life of Brian. Oh, Dennis Waterman died. Oh, did he?

Yeah. Oh, no. I think we did it. I want to say Off the Wall, The Wall, Sonny Walkman. And that got a 76. Yeah. I feel like it's a lot lower than a 76 then. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

See, that's the thing. I think it's a lot lower than a 76 then. Yeah, yeah, yeah. See, that's the thing. I think there's a lot of stuff. Maybe 70. I think it's a lot of stuff we recognize but not a lot of stuff of like. Perfect analogy. Thank you. It is a perfect analogy, isn't it? Yes.

It's the perfect metaphor, isn't it? It is really. What I've said is a perfect metaphor. That's true, Mason. Yeah. All right. So 70, happy with that? Yeah, I'm happy with that.

All right, 1965. We can also completely reshuffle this at some point. Do you think one day we should do a bracketing system? Oh. Like once we've done a certain number of years, what we should do is we should put them in brackets and then we should eliminate some just to get rid of them forever. You know?

That's not a bad idea. Condemn them to the bin of history. Yeah, you're absolutely right. Like 1940, 1925 or whatever, they can go in the bin forever. Ridiculous and I will not. Well, let's stack like 1934 up against 1999 and see how it goes, you know?

That's not a bad idea. Yeah, let's stack some silent films up against the Matrix. See how that goes. All right. Anyway, so we're going to say Wouldn't Want to Be Alive Then or Hot Stuff. 1965, Wouldn't Want to Be alive then or Hot stuff 1965, wouldn't want to be alive then Kind of interesting And also a bunch of civil rights stuff

That we You know what? Well not only that, it's not even really in any of the pages That we looked at, it's not really featuring prominently It's not really featuring prominently on Popculturemadness.com Well it's not just that, I go to, like, several sites. I see.

And, of course, you know how we wrap up every week now, Mason. We did the Nutbush, folks. We're doing it right now. I mean, not yet because there's some lead-in time. We still disagree on when to lead in. Yeah. Now, now, now. It's now, right?

I don't think it is. I think it's when she's like. It's before then. So you think it's now? I think it's then. I don't know, man. Yeah. I think the DJ, I think the DJ maybe plays like a little bit of that

and then everybody rushes to the dance floor and then when she starts singing, you do the nut bush. I think. I mean, obviously nobody is still listening to this podcast at this point. After we've said hot stuff, people wouldn't want to be alive. We're out. People are out. But I reckon if people did still listen to this point,

they'd be like, I know definitively. We should ask Levens. Levens would know, wouldn't he? Levens would know, yeah. Yeah, that's true. All right. All right. Folks, what do we say?

We did it already. Ideally, there would be like a smooth transition out from the nut bush. We do the entirety of the nut bush. That's right. And then it's a smooth transition back to our drinks. Yeah. All right. Folks, what a hell of a show.

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