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Al and Marty 0:16

Hello and welcome to Fun Facts and Sidetracks. This is the podcast where we take a lighthearted look at, fun facts, as the name suggests. Mm-hmm. At coincidences. And all sorts of stuff that amuses us. My name's Alan with me, as always, is my good friend. Mark, how you going? I'm awesome, Al. How are you? Mate. I'm excited we're gonna talk about two of my favourite movies today. Okay. A bit later on. So we'll get to that. Before we do, yes. Quick disclaimer, as always. We don't claim to be experts. We're just mates having a chat about stuff that we like a chat to have a laugh about. Just a chat. Just a chat. We find all sorts of stuff on the internet or we rely on our memories, which are rapidly fading. [00:01:00] So please, if you find something that, you think isn't quite a hundred percent right, then feel free to give us a shout. Give us a shout. Yeah. Jump on the, on the socials or give us an email at Fun Facts and Sidetracks. At gmail.com. Yeah. And we'll straight in the bin. No, we won't. We'll edit that bit. No, we won't. Okay. We've got a fair few things to talk about, so let's wade into the wonderful world of history and pop culture. Alrighty. Righty. Mark. First up, what is, first up? Well, as always, we like to start off with music. Yes. And. A little segment that we call the ones that got away. Mm-hmm. Now, for anyone who hasn't heard this before, this is really about, it's a bit of a homage to the, , record company exec who didn't sign the Beatles when he had the chance. Yeah. Is probably the classic example [00:02:00] of the ones that got away. But, throughout history, there's been a lot of pretty good songs that have been incredibly successful, that have been offered to people, and they chose for whatever reason. Not to take them up, so to slip through their fingers. Indeed. Yeah. So we've got a few more to talk about and the first one is probably the first song that I think Pink had as a big hit, and that was Get the Party started. Oh, it's a great song. It's a pretty cool song. I mean, like it really is a good sum. Yeah, so that song was actually offered to Madonna. It was intended for Madonna. Yeah. And don't quite know the story there, but somehow Pink Got it. Yeah. She could have done a good version. She probably could. But Pink it is a Yeah. Yeah. I mean the rest is history, right? Yeah. She just owned it and the video was great. 'cause it was, it was that classic kind of, Hey, here's the party girl about to hit the town. Yeah. Yeah. I actually saw her [00:03:00] in concert not so ago, probably a year ago when she came through here to Brisbane at, Lang Park. It was huge. She was flying around the whole, flying on a cable. She's very good. Yeah. She's an entertainer, isn't she? Yeah. But when that song came on, the whole place just went crazy. Yeah, yeah. So next, speaking of Madonna. Mm-hmm. Holiday, which. Probably, again, was one of her first big hits. That song was actually offered to Mary Wilson, who was one of the founding members of The Supremes. Oh, okay. And she chose to pass on it, but again, it fell into the hands of a young Madonna who said, I'm looking for exactly this kind of song. And, her career just blossomed after that. It was number one on the Billboards Dance Club song chart. Yeah. And, she never looked back. Let's face it. Wow. You know? Did she write, I, I don't know a lot about Madonna I thought she wrote [00:04:00] a lot of stuff. I think she might've more recently in her career. Okay. But I think when she started off, like a lot of artists, she was looking for good songs. Yeah. And there were people, but you know, you gotta remember this was probably her first big hit too. Yeah. So. Well, she probably didn't have that much sway in the industry like she does now. What was her, was it her first or was it, it wasn't her first. Like a Gherkin was the other one. Wasn't it? Like a Gherkin I think Like A Gherkin was a little bit later. Yeah. Was it? I think she thought it. I thought it was her, her first. No, I think the first album and all, any Madonna fans now are gonna say, you have no idea what you're talking about. But I think her first album was stuff like Lucky Star. Yeah. And holiday. And Like a Gherkin came a little bit later, Who knows if, if that decision to pass it up by Mary Wilson was Yeah. Kind of figurative in, what became Madonna as we know her. Okay. Here's another one. Mm-hmm. Rock Your Body [00:05:00] by Justin Timberlake. Oh, okay. Now I know you're a massive Justin Timberlake fan. Yeah. Love. , I don't particularly think that it's one of the greatest songs ever written or recorded. Mm-hmm. But I included this one purely because it ended up on, his first album, but it was in fact written for Michael Jackson and. Michael Jackson really wasn't all that happy with it because in his mind it was too similar to his past records. Yeah. And he was looking for something different. So. While it's probably a pretty forgettable track, I just thought it was interesting that Michael Jackson was still looking to grow and Yeah. Expand and that, 'cause that would've been pretty late in his career, right? Yeah. Yeah. So interesting. Wow. It is interesting. Yeah. Justin Timberlake, was he a Musketeer? Yeah, he was. Yeah. He was, and he, you [00:06:00] know, I, I think slightly more recently than, than the Musketeers who's been bringing sexy back and, you know. Yeah. He's a pretty good actor. He acts in a lot of stuff. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm not, I'm not bagging. Yeah, I see why, because we like you for Justin. Yeah. He's very talented, but I'm not having a joke. Totally. Yeah. I've seen him dance. I've seen him sing and he's, he's very good. I like the stuff he does with, that's funny stuff. I've seen him take off. Uh, Michael McDonald, Oh, yeah, yeah. From the, Doobie Brothers. Yeah. Okay. And stuff like that. This is, look Justin Tim Blake's huge. And he came through at the same time as. Britney Spears and still has loads of hits. Yeah. Probably not everyone's cup of tea necessarily, but Hey, there you go. I wouldn't buy the albums, but I appreciate He's very good at what he does. One more song. Yep. Wrecking Ball. Wrecking Ball. Now that's, um, Miley, Cyrus. I was gonna [00:07:00] say the daughter of. Yeah. Yes. With the mullet. Yes. Mm. Billy Ray. Billy Ray. Yes. Don't break my heart. the amazing thing about this song is that it was written for Beyonce. But evidently the writers knew straight away that it wasn't quite the right fit for her. Mm-hmm. And Miley, who was sort of in that process of. Transforming from a child artist to becoming accepted as an adult, performer accepted. All right. Yeah. So, you know, from a teen idol to a mature star, if you like. So that was the writing a wrecking ball? Yeah, well, I mean, it was a perfect song. 'cause that video, right? She's, yeah, she's on the wrecking ball and, certainly it changed her image overnight, so Yeah. Perfect song to do that. Yeah. It was, so, you know, that's a classic example of Right song, right. Sort of raunchy image. Yeah. Right. At the right time. I saw a sing Jolene with , Dolly. Well, that's the thing. She's. [00:08:00] I mean, she's such a big star now. Yeah. She can do whatever she wants, right? Yeah. And she did well. Yeah, she, well, Okay, mark, now it's time for a new segment. What segment is that out? I think we should call this and the Oscar goes to me to Mart, I think everyone probably realizes that the award season is going to be dominated by a show called Adolescence. Okay. Yeah, the acting is amazing. The main character in it, the young guy had never acted professionally before. Yeah, I've heard about this. Yeah, and the fact that each of the four episodes is shot in one take. How long are the episodes? They're like 50 minutes, an hour. 50 minutes. And they move between locations. They actually have a drone shot in it. There's a podcast with Richard Osmond called, the Rest Is Entertainment, and I'd highly [00:09:00] recommend it to anyone who wants to nerd out on this stuff. Just how they physically did that sort of thing with one shot. It's pretty cool. So you've got adolescents and it's probably gonna scoop the pool this year. I thought it'd be fun to go to the other end of it, to the shallow end of the pool, if you like. Yes. You know we have to do this, mark. Yeah, we do. I think we should have a chat about what's recognized pretty well as the most cruddy movie of all time. And that is Plan Nine from Outer Space. Yes. Let's go there. Directed by Ed Wood. people might be familiar with Ed Edward through the. Johnny Depp movie that was made some time ago, called Ed Wood, which tracked his life and all the really crummy movies that he made. But this guy would put his heart and soul into these movies, but produced on a shoestring, with a terrible [00:10:00] cast. And passion paper, thin plot. Yeah. Lots of passion. Lots of passion but as a result, you know, people have parties where they get together to watch Plan Nine from Outer Space and just laugh at, some of the kooky stuff that goes on. Yeah. For people who are not as, as enamoured with Plan Nine from Outer Space as I am. So what have you got on it now? Well, let's just say that the plot, sees some extraterrestrials who seek to stop humanity from creating a doomsday weapon, uh, that could destroy the universe. So the aliens implement. This thing called Plan Nine, which is a scheme to resurrect all the Earth's dead. And by causing all this chaos, the aliens actually hope that the crisis will force humanity to listen to them. Otherwise, the aliens say they're gonna destroy earth with the armies of the undead. Wow. So it's, yeah, it's quite an ambitious, it's quite on drugs. It's quite an ambitious plot for someone who is producing it on a [00:11:00] shoestring. Some pretty fun facts about this movie. It was actually initially called Grave Robbers from Outer Space, but, the Baptist Church was actually funding the film and they didn't really like the grave robber, name. So it was changed to plan nine from out I space the Baptist Church was funding it. It, yeah. Well, I didn't, I don't think they had to dive too deeply into their pockets, to be honest. When was this? When was this? This film? It's, I think it's like 1957. 57. Yeah. And, um, amazed that they would, they would give money to something like that. Yeah. Well, I think. You know, they were probably keen to help this guy. Yeah. Because it had, despite not being the greatest movie, it had a cast of people like Bella Lugosi, who was really kind of well known at the time for all his Wow. Dracula handwork. And, and there was a lady by the name of Vampira, or at least a character called Vampira. She was a Finnish lady called Maley [00:12:00] Numi. Who had her own late night horror TV show at the time. Yeah. And, apparently first fun fact on the movie, 'cause she's in like full black outfit. I, I guess a little bit like the Monsters. The Monsters and the Adams family. Yes. Right. That real gothic. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So she used to catch the bus to the studio in full, in full makeup and full dress. Um, like back then that would've shocked you. But now. Yeah, well, but it wouldn't really matter now. It would be just normal. Not a bat. An eyelid. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, she was one of the first to sort of do that whole gothic thing. Another interesting fact was that Bella Lugosi, who was one of the main cast, actually died halfway through the filming. Wow. And so they just replaced him with another guy who kept a cape over his face. For the rest of the movie. So he just raced around with a cape on, which pretty, did he even sound like him? yeah. Well, no, there's [00:13:00] no, he had no lines. Oh wow. Probably happened to be hanging around. So. Pretty weird. They fixed the problem, no one will notice. That's right. I don't think it affected the quality of the film. Yeah. So, there's a, there was a video release at one point that on the credits it said almost starring Bella Lugosi, but it's so cruddy. It's got, kids, plastic flying sources. I mean, you've seen it. Yes, yes. The flying sources. Yeah, the flying sources. They're great. Incredible. They look like, like pies or something, but apparently they were little kids toys. One of the really neat things is that a lot of this film is set around a cemetery. Yes. And if you watch it, you'll see that the headstones are made of cardboard. Yeah. So when the, the crosses, when the actors brush past them all the headstones wobble. do you know the Seinfeld episode where they're in the Chinese restaurant? Oh, you're in the queue and they can't get served? Yeah, and the guy's been pretty hard. Hard with them. Yeah. That's it. Yeah. [00:14:00] Well, they're going to see a screening of Plan Nine from Outer Space. Really? Yeah. There you go. Hold So. Okay. And what year would that, that would've been in the, the eighties. Yeah. Or maybe late. Yeah. Early nineties or something. Early nineties. Yeah. But it's one of those movies that, it's such a cult thing that it gets screened Wow. And people turn up 'cause it's a laugh, you know? But, one last fun fact about, aliens Invading Earth. I found this amazing. In the middle of the Cold War American President, Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, yes, agreed that they'd set aside their differences if aliens ever were to invade the earth. So they weren't joking. Well, it was deadly serious. I dunno. Oh god. I dunno. But that's very scary. Wow. Where's that area in America in the. The desert. Oh, area 51. That's the one, yeah. Yeah. Oh, America was obsessed with, flying sources and [00:15:00] space in general, and aliens in the fifties, so, wow. It's, it's not surprising that there's a poltice of these movies made, but you know, this one stands head and shoulders above everything else. Yeah, I reckon. Yeah, it's terrific. It's got everything, it's got vampires, it's got space people. Yeah. Yeah. It's got cruddy things flying around in the sky. Yeah. And, and a really kind of a moralistic. Yeah. Undertones of the script as well. Yeah. You know, you, you people do what's right or we'll invade your earth and Yeah. And, ruin it for everyone. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty interesting. It's the American way. Yeah. Maybe where we go now? Er. All righty. So onto favourite movie number two for me. Mm-hmm. And that is Spinal Tap. Oh, it's, that's. Yeah. That's another, that's the completely the other way, isn't it? It is a little bit, yeah. But how good that they're actually making a second version of Spinal Tap? [00:16:00] I couldn't believe that it was released in, was it 1984? Yeah. I just, that's, yeah. That's amazing. For people who aren't aware of Spinal Tap, it's the classic satire. It's a mockumentary about, a rock band. A heavy metal rock band. Yeah. I love their accents. Yeah, their accents are brilliant. You know, they're also English and obviously these guys are American. Yeah, I mean, for, for people who who don't know the films, we, we couldn't, endorse them highly enough. But it's Michael McKean, uh, Harry Sheer and, Christopher Guest and, those guys have featured in so many terrific movies. A mighty Wind waiting for Guffman. Best in Show, For your Consideration. Yeah. It, there's a whole, a whole troop of people that just make these fantastic mockumentaries and they're so good at it, but I do love their accents. Yeah. There's a scene where they're like on the days off and they're, at a zoo and they're talking about these [00:17:00] monkeys and it's just the way they talk, you know, but they have some bread is funny. Can they say hello? Very good. So whatever they do, it's always terrific. Yeah. And they're always a really good supporting cast. Yeah. Yeah. And to top things off, they were good musicians, great musician. Well, they perform. I mean, I don't know if you've seen. They do a live performance at a charity gig, live Performance of Big Bottom, which is Harry Shearer plays the bass player. Oh, he's amazing. Derek Smalls. That's moustache of his, yeah. And so they got like 20 bass players out on stage. Oh wow. And under the premise that you can never have too much bass guitar. So, you know what's really interesting is that there was a couple of bands that actually thought that they were. You like that was, they made it for them. You know about them? About them? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. One like Ozzie Osborne. Yeah. A Quiet Riot. Oh yeah. And Aerosmith. Yeah. [00:18:00] Right. You know, like, especially that scene where they get lost backstage and they're trying to, you know, the crowd's cheering for them and they're looking how to get on the stage and they just keep rock and roll, rock and roll, and they're running with the guitars and, and they keep passing this cleaner and Oh, he's saying this way and yeah. They're so funny. It's just hilarious. Very clever men. Yeah. And I just love some of the highlights in the film, like the fact that their drummers kept dying through all these bizarre circumstances. Yeah. So, John Stumpy Peeps died in, in a bizarre gardening accident. And, apparently, Brian May from Queen was hospitalized briefly and…. He managed to rip his gluteus maximus to shreds with some over enthusiastic gardening and straight away Michael McKean tweeted….. a bizarre gardening accident and people who are in the know just love that stuff, you know? Yeah. Yeah. It's a great movie. You gotta see it if you haven't seen it. The, 24 [00:19:00] inch, Stonehenge that's supposed to be 24 feet high. Yeah. When they say. But it's not life size. All the, the dials on the guitar amps, go to 11 instead of 10. My favourite is, there's a terrific scene in which Nigel Tufnel’s sitting at the piano. Yep. He's playing this quite beautiful piano piece in D Minor, he's actually playing it. He is, yeah. Yeah. In D Minor, the saddest of all kids and Rob Reiner's playing it straight. 'cause all of this, most of the movie was. Predominantly just loosely based on a script, but they were just ad-libbing. And so Rob Reiner's asking him about this piece. Yeah, this beautiful piece of music. And he goes, oh, well this piece is called Lick My Love Pump. In that, in that English accent. Yeah. And the whole game is to, you know, not make each other laugh kind of stuff. Imagine that He would just come off that in the spear of the moment. Oh yeah. So the, terrific news is there's a new. [00:20:00] Spinal tap film. Yeah. Coming out later this year. And there's a whole bunch of people who are signed on Paul McCartney. Oh really? Yeah. Elton John. They'd be queuing not, wouldn't they? Garth Brooks wouldn't with they. Well, now they know. Yeah. Now they're in on the joke. Yeah. Kerry Godliman, you know the lady on, afterlife? Yeah. With Ricky Gervais, yeah. Paul Schaeffer. Fran Drescher. So, yeah. Wow. It should be a ton of fun. It will be. I can't wait. Yeah. So that'll be good. Yeah. We can't talk about Harry Shera without taking a little sidetrack to talk about the Simpsons. Yeah. And his moustache and, and his moustache. But all, all the terrific, voice work that Harry Shearer does on The Simpsons. Yeah. So. Everyone from Monty Burns to Ned Flanders. He does all the voices, doesn't he? He does Flanders. He does Waylon Smithers, so, wow. He does, principal Skinner. He does Lenny, Kent, Brockman. They're all so different. Yeah. Dr. Hibbett, [00:21:00] like Reverend Lovejoy. Oh goodness. Otto man. Otto Man, Ranier Wolf Castle and a bunch of others. He's scratchy. Yeah. He's, Dr. Marvin Monroe. Yeah. So he's the one that laughs they've got that chuckle. Yeah, that's it. So how does he do that? I know, it's so good. And we can't talk about. Harry Shearer and The Simpsons, without taking a little sidetrack to share a fun fact about how they came up with the names. Okay, so Matt Groening is the middle of five kids, and when you hear the names of his family and his parents, you go. Okay. That's where they got the names. So Homer is his dad's name. Marge is his mom's name. Margaret. Her maiden name was Wigga. He's got a sister called Lisa. He's got another sister called Maggie. Yeah, she's got another sister called Patty. Wow. And he's got a brother called [00:22:00] Mark, but he, Matt Groening, when he started this thing, wanted it to sound like his dad was yelling at him all the time and he, he really liked the word brat. Yeah. But he just changed it around and made it Bart. Oh, wow. Butt. Yeah. Yeah. So clever. Pretty amazing. The Simpsons. Hey. Yeah, it is amazing. I can't remember like every night you'd watch it. Religiously. Yeah. And every night it was a great, it was never a dull series that you go, no, that wasn't that good. Yeah. It was always good. The quality is always terrific, isn't it? Yeah. And the cameos and the, and the topic. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Yeah. No, it's pretty cool. Cool. Bleeding Gums, Bleeding Gums. Murphy. Yeah. Oh god. You know? Terrific to think that there's not only one generation, but two generations of people who haven't lived at a time when there wasn't Simpsons, you know? Yeah. Yeah. That's incredible. Yeah. Yeah. Great. Show blows me away that it's so consistent, because I watched [00:23:00] a documentary about the making of Ren and Stimpy. Mm-hmm. Which is another great show. Oh geez. But, they only made a handful of episodes because the guy who was in charge of it was so fixed on it being perfect that it, everything went over budget and over time, and every picture was a piece of art. It's a piece of art. It's a painting. Yeah. Even if it's like a pimple on someone's nose or something. Yeah, I know. But you'd watch that show. I'd watch it with Luke. And you wouldn't, and it's meant to make you laugh. You'd sit there and I'd be watching it, but there's so much really going on that you're just watching it without laughing. And then after the show, and then the next day you talk about it and that's when you laugh. Mm-hmm. You know, whether it's about re. Asking Ren if he could go to the toilet. Oh, Ren, can I go number ones?[00:24:00] You know, it's such a, the Great voices, great characters, and I can understand the guy must have been. Yeah. On the edge I reckon. Yeah. Well, apparently to work for him was a nightmare. Oh, I can imagine. 'cause he was a perfectionist. Yeah. But, um, yeah, I could imagine. Yeah. It's a real shame that it didn't kind of last too long, but Wow. Through all the various people who've produced the Simpsons mm-hmm. The quality's always great and it seems like by and large, and Roy on time, you know, so yeah. Unreal. Different, different kind of animation, of course. But yeah, getting back to Ren and Stimpy, the other one was when. Ren was, Stimpy, was old blue nose Frank Sinatra. That's right. And he's saying, come fry with me, come fry. That's fry egg. Oh dear. Do you remember powdered toast, man? Oh, he flew backwards. Yes. And his cape went. That's what I loved about it. It [00:25:00] was so out there that is so much to take in. At the end of it, you were sort of a bit exhausted. You go, ah, yeah. And then next day you talk about it and laugh. Apologies to anyone listening who has no idea what Ren did is about, but again, have a look because it is hilarious. It's worth it. Well, we're amusing each other here anyway. Yeah. Yeah. It's worth it. All right now Mark, one of the things that we do like is Good coincidence. A good coincidence, and it is quite amazing how many coincidences there are in relation to siblings. Yeah. And twins, especially Uhhuh. So we've got a few of these to have a chat about. One of them is a brother and sister. And this lady, the sister, actually committed suicide after. A failed relationship [00:26:00] and the girl's brother vowed revenge against the man who broke her heart. There was a guy called Henry Zeiglund and he actually shot at Zeiglund, but missed him, and the bullet lodged into a nearby tree. Now, years later, Henry Zeiglund was clearing the land. And was using dynamite to remove the tree far out. The bullet was dislodged with considerable falls. No. And it struck Zeiglund and killed him. Oh, you are kidding me. Well, I don't know, but you know that just, I, I believe it. That's just out there like it is. How long ago you and I idea where this went? Year this happened? Yeah. I don't know, but whenever it happened, it's a crazy coincidence. Who told you this hour? I have it on. Good authority, mark. Let's move on. . Look, I've got a story about, it's probably not as dramatic as that one, but yeah, it'd be good if you could lift the mood a bit. I was driving down the city with my brother in [00:27:00] the late seventies, maybe early eighties. Mm-hmm. It was around the time when that truck and movie was on, jewel, that's it. Yeah. Where there was. You didn't really see the truck driver's face, Anyway, there was another incident that happened on that same time. It always reminds me, but getting back to my story, I'm driving away and we're taking turns and we were driving up these mountains. I can't remember who it was, but it was, it was the night, it was very dark and my brother was driving Gary, and I was leaning against the window with the pillow asleep and then suddenly he screamed, which woke me up, and he just was. Went off into the dirt on the side of the road, like swerving everywhere and then and stopped. Mm. And he was just like saying the F word really quite loud. And I said, what's the matter? He said, I just saw you outside the car. He said, I was driving and he was standing on the side of the road in a. What's the snowy river? The blood. The wet and dry. Oh yeah. The big coats. You know the snow river man? Yeah. Snowy oil, [00:28:00] skin coat sort of thing. Yeah. Yeah. And he said, I was point, I was going pointing this way, and he said he saw me, drove towards me and followed where I was pointing, and then realized what am I doing out of the car? Wow. Which woke him up. Wow. And he was just on a corner. Oh no. And if he never saw me, we would've gone over the side. Oh, wow. That's, that's even to today. That, that, that sort of shives me. Yeah. Explain that. Yeah. Yeah. I, I can't, gee, I can't, I, yeah, it was a really weird situation and I remember it so well 'cause of the way he reacted and how loud he was. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. All right, well, let's lower the tone again. Let's, let's talk about some more, some more fatalities. In Finland in 2002, there was a man who was struck and killed while he was [00:29:00] trying to cross Highway eight on his bike. Two hours later. His twin brother attempted the same crossing and was also struck and killed, dear, so they were killed. One and a half kilometers from each other, two hours apart. That's just amazing. You know, like Yeah, you, you just can't explain that. No, but there's something spooky about it, isn't it? Oh, sure is. Yeah. There's, there's a lot of twin stuff. Honestly. Here's another one on the 22nd of May, 1975. Twins, John and Arthur Mofo both suffered from heart attacks and they lived 120 Ks apart. They were admitted to separate hospitals and were not aware of the other's condition. Mm-hmm. And they each died shortly after. Wow. So, wow. So there's, people talk about the connection between twins and I reckon these things kind of highlight just how [00:30:00] real that is, huh? Yeah. But. There are some that don't have anything. No. Well, that's true too. That is very true. But you know, it it, why is it? Yeah, why is it the some and some don't. Yeah, I know. It's weird, you know? 'cause I've asked them, I know a couple of, I know a couple of twins Really? I know. Like a couple of twins. Twins. A couple of sets of twins. Four people, two people. No, and you just, one of the questions usually I ask is, yeah. Is anything like, do you guys sort of like. Yeah, pick up like one hits with the hammer on the end of your finger. The other one feels pain. Is there anything like that? Oh no. Well, it highlights that it's hit and miss this whole twin thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. Maybe not. I think there's something in it myself. Yeah. I can't explain it, but there is. Uh, there, sometimes there could be something like, there's another one I think of. Mm-hmm. It's, I've got a, a friend, a first Nation friend.[00:31:00] Yeah. And I grew up with him in school. Philip Phillip Holt, his name is, and you know, we, with all our mates, a bunch of mates and went through school, primary school, high school, rode motorbikes together. We used to have the same bike and we'd go every afternoon riding. Well, years go by and I've got my life and I'm. Doing my thing and I built this house here where we're in at the moment, and I was working in the front. I was, the night before I had this distinct dream of Philip in my dream. Mm-hmm. He came to me in my dream and he's, he's there talking to me. Mm-hmm. And he never used to say much. He was very quiet guy. Yep. Well, the next day I'm working in the front yard and he pulls up in on, on a motorbike. Yeah. Wow. He didn't know where I lived. He, he found out where I was and he was, he came to see me. Yep. On that day, the day before I had the dream. Yeah. Yeah. So, I don't know. It's crazy. Things happen. I've got a couple of things like that that happen to me and I just, I can't [00:32:00] explain it. You go, woo. Yeah. Well, I mean, there's, there's stuff like that and then there's stuff that is, things that are only discovered years later. Mm. Like there's, there's one here. There's two twins and they're both named Jim. So 1979, a set of twins were reunited at the age of 39. They'd been separated when they were four weeks old. They hardly knew of each other's existence. Did they know they had a twin? Well, they hardly knew of each other, so I'm assuming they might have known. But when they met, they were both named Jim by their adopted parents. Yeah. They both loved maths and carpentry, both pursued careers in security, even eerier. They both married women named Linda, divorced and remarried women named Betty. And here's, here's the kicker. One of them, had a kid called James Allen. And the other [00:33:00] one had one called James Alan with the Alan spelt differently. Oh dear. So, so what a reunion. Wow. Imagine that so much to talk about. Come and buy a lot of tickets. That was so much to talk about. No, well, only half the stuff to talk about. Yeah. Just crazy. That is crazy. That's what I mean. Why is it like that? Yeah, but there's also just weird stuff like. There's a guy called George D Bryson, who checked into the Brown Hotel in Louisville. In Kentucky. Mm-hmm. And he was signing the register and he realized that the previous occupant was a Mr. George D Bryson. Oh, wow. Maybe that was just deja vu. Not only that, it felt like it had happened before it's day. Yeah. Wow. So that's a bit creepy as well. Yeah. Um, there've been so many things like that. Yeah. Well, there's one here that's not quite twins, but twin deaths. Mm-hmm. King Umberto, the first of Italy, [00:34:00] had this weird dining experience. He found that he and the owner of the restaurant that he was eating at were both born on the same day in the same town. Both married, a woman called Margarita. On the 29th of July, 1900, the king learned that the restaurant owner had been shot and killed in the street. Later that day, the king was also assassinated. Wow. Explain that. Yeah. What does it all mean, please? Is there 25 words? All there? Yeah. Is there someone from the other side trying to organize something there and they've just got it wrong? A wrong guy? Yeah. Maybe. It's a two for one deal. Not that one far out, the one that was important. I liked his pizzas. Yeah. So that's just crazy stuff. It is crazy. Yeah. And I guess that's probably a good note to end this podcast on. That was good. We've had fun. We've had made, anytime you talk [00:35:00] about, spinal Tap and Plan nine from Outer Space and The Simpsons. Yeah. And crazy things that happen with twins. Totally. Alright. Don't forget folks, if you want to get in touch, check us out on Instagram or Facebook see you next time. See you.