Rescued recordings and kooky kids tv

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Al and Marty: 0:17

Hello and welcome to Fun Facts and Sidetracks. Fun Facts and Sidetracks. That is the one Mart. This is a podcast where we take a pretty lighthearted look at all those things that interest us. Coincidences, movies, pop culture in general. Yeah, yeah. Bit of history. My name's Al and this is Mark. How are you mate? Yeah, I'm great. What a about you. Oh, terrific. Yep. Good. Loving life. A quick disclaimer before we start. Yes, we do a lot of, researching on the internet. We, trawl through our memory banks for stories and, try to remember things from the past. But if things aren't quite a hundred percent, please don't hold us to it. Yeah. We mean no harm Earthlings. We come in peace. Send us an email and tell us we're wrong. Yeah. Send us an email to Fun Facts and sidetracks@gmail.com. Or if there's a topic that you want us to talk about Yeah. Then we can certainly do that. Or check us out on, Facebook and Instagram. Yeah. At Fun Facts and Sidetracks. Okay. On with the show. Okay, mark. Now first up, we always talk about those ones that got away. Well, we have been so that's good. Yeah, we have been, and this is, this is normally songs that, were recorded by another artist, but this time around, I thought it might be good to talk about well-known albums that nearly didn't make it okay. For whatever reason. Here you go. Really good example of this is the Green Day album. American Idiot. Yeah. from 2004, they were actually robbed and all of the master tapes were stolen, so they really just had to start over. They rerecorded the whole thing. And it became a bit more politically laden. It's fair to say. Okay. In their lyrics. But pretty well out there. There's, there's sort of master tapes for, uh. Different version of, I wonder if the liver a turn up. Yeah. Well they'll probably turn up for sale and like, they'd be worth a fortune. Yeah. Really? Yeah, because it'd be interesting to hear it. Yeah. How, how different it would be and it probably just a bigger hit. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Might turn up on marketplace, you know, pick up only. Anyway, so, any scammers call, I dunno if you've heard, Green Day lately, but, on stage it's fair to say that they're fairly scathing about the current American president. Wow. So, anyway, we'll leave that where it is. I have to be careful. Probably. Yeah. Okay. Another one, and this is, we're sort of unashamedly Beatles fans. Mm-hmm. Here at Fun Facts Sidetracks. Yeah. And so this one is banned on the Run, which was the most successful album for Paul McCartney in a post Beatle era. Mm. And he and Linda and the band actually went to, Lagos in Nigeria. Yeah. To record it. Which a lot of people said, well, that's a funny thing to do because it's not the safest part of the world. But he wanted a sort of a different sound. And sure enough, they actually got robbed. So they, they lost all of the, master tapes, all the lyrics. Wow. All the demo tapes at least. So yeah, they had to go back to, that's another one you'd like to get your hands on. Oh, man. Yeah. And. Evidently the guys that held them up didn't really know who he was. No. Until Linda said he's a Beatle. Like, don't shoot him, please. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. This is Beatle Paul. Yeah, so they were mugged and lost the lyrics and the demo tapes on top of that, two of the guys from the band actually got teased off with it and resigned. So ultimately there was Paul and Linda and Denny Laine, there in Nigeria, and they basically rerecorded everything. Wow. Yeah. So, so Paul would've paid most of the instrument. Yeah. Well I think that was maybe part of the reason for the guys sort of leaving, 'cause he was such a perfectionist and, you know, jumped on the drums and whatever Paul does. Yeah. Who's that? Who's that other person? Denny Laine. Denny Laine. Yeah. So he was from the Moody Blues. Oh, okay. Initially, yeah, so there you go. And I guess some other fun facts around this album. So, Picasso's last Words, which is one of the very excellent songs on Yeah. Band on the Run. Yeah. Came about because Paul and Linda were on, on holidays in Jamaica, and that's where the movie Papillon was being filmed. They had dinner with Dustin Hoffman, who was one of the stars. Wow. Yeah, I remember. That's a great movie. The Queen. And, yeah. And Hoffman challenged Paul McCartney to write a song about anything that was happening. So he saw in a magazine. This article about Pablo Picasso dying. Yeah. And challenged Paul to write a song and fair enough, Paul, Paul picked up a guitar and started writing that song, and apparently Dustin Hoffman's shouting to his wife, look, he's doing it. He's doing it. So that's how that song came about. Wow. Yeah. So apparently, it was recorded at Ginger Baker Studio. Ginger Baker was the drummer from Cream. Mm-hmm. He had a studio in Nigeria too. but he didn't play drums on it. He actually played percussion with a tin full of gravel, which was the sound they wanted. Wow. What a great song had to go. It was like grand old Painter died last night. Yeah, that's what a great song. Yeah. And just because he was challenged to write it. Wow. We're gonna listen to that. Yeah. Apparently the title band on the run is a reference to the Beatles splitting up. Yeah. And in fact, even that line out of the song, if we ever Get out of here. That's actually down to George. 'cause George was just saying, you know, in these meetings that they had at Apple headquarters all the time. Yeah, he would. He would just say, oh God, if we ever get outta here, sort of thing. So yeah. Wow. Great band, great song. Oh, awesome album. And some pretty cool characters on the front. Yeah. On the album cover. Yeah. What was the hell all about? It was like how many? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6 guys from and And the three band members. Yeah, Michael Parkinson. Yeah, he was one. Yeah. And the Dracula guy. Christopher Lee. Christopher Lee, yeah. He had an interesting life. That guy. Yeah. Yeah. He'd done a lot of stuff. Even wrote a heavy metal album. Oh wow. So he served in the Second World War. It was a desert rat. And wrote a heavy metal album. Goodness. And was Dracula and Benighted and Yeah. Interesting life. And he was in the Bond film too, right? He was, but he was also in Lord of the Rings. Yeah. Wow. And he was in Star Wars. Wow. Yeah, he's done nothing. Gone nowhere. He was the best Dracula. Right. He was always the best. He was. 'cause he was so serious, wasn't he? Yeah. That serious face. Yeah. Oh God. And watch those moves. I didn't like the scary ones. So anyway, that is banned on the run and that was without doubt, McCartney's, most successful album Post Beatles. And Wow. With good reason. It's, it's just an awesome album. It was, when you hear it, it takes you just to the seventies. Yeah, it does. Yeah. And my brother had a VW combi wagon, had an eight track in it. No one would know what an eight track is now, but it was a dirty, big cassette and he had the whole album. He had, David Bowie and uh, I think it was Spiders from Mars or something. And uh, it was the same time. Yeah, yeah. And, and band on the run. Yeah. Right. And he used to, I was only 16. They used to, he used to let me drive, take it away. And, but it was just like funny 'cause the steering wheel was up really high and it bounce, they bounce, you know, combi wagons, they sort of bounce. And this song was, and it always reminds me when I hear band with the run. Yeah. It always takes you back to that time. It's a lovely, lovely time. Yeah. Yeah. Good. Well, speaking of driving Combi vans, yeah. Here's another song, boys of Summer. Okay. Yeah. So this one's got a pretty interesting background. 'cause it was written by Mike Campbell, or at least the music was written by Mike Campbell, who's the guitarist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Right? Yeah. And it was offered to Tom Petty and he said no, and. it was sort of kicked around for a while and Mike Campbell was one of the first people to get a, a drum and synth machine. Yeah. And had this friend called Roger Lin, who actually, as you do, was at Leon Russell's house. Yeah. Good old Leon. Yeah. And, was building a drum machine. And Mike Campbell got hold of it and sort of put down this drum track. Yeah. And anyway, long story short, it found its way to, Don Henley, and he wrote the lyrics for it, pretty quickly. Even, once they had the song down, the master tapes for it got chewed up by a machine. Yeah. And, even when, Mike Campbell was playing it to them, he had it in this new groovy synth machine that had a, like a cassette player in it. Yeah. Every time a hit play, it wouldn't play. Oh wow. And it took like six times and he was just about to go, oh, well this thing's not gonna work, and no one's gonna hear this song the seventh time. It wowed out. Yep. It, it played And it had a really unusual sound, didn't it? Yeah, it did. It did it to me. That's the sound of summer and Yeah. But I mean, Henley wrote it 'cause it was all about excess and all of those things that were happening on the west coast Yeah. When the Eagles had just been kings of the world. Yes. Yeah. So there you go. I can still hear that guitar leak in it. Yeah. Well, mike Campbell's an awesome guitarist. Yes. And I mean, he filled in Fleetwood Mac, didn't he? Yes, he did. With, Neil Finn. He's got a band now called The Dirty Knobs, which is a great name for a band. It'd be a great way to make a living, wouldn't it? Oh, yeah. And it's hard. It's hard. And there's so many people that don't make it, but the ones that do, they do, if they play their cards right, they have a good life. Yeah, absolutely. What's next, Al? Alright, next up we'll have a bit of a change of pace and we'll talk about some very smart people who did some very odd things. Okay. You're not gonna start talking about me are Yeah. Maybe well, mark, it seems like some of the smartest people to have lived might also be some of the weirdest. Mm-hmm. A really good example of that is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Yes. While he was very clever, it seems he was very gullible as well. Evidently a couple of young girls doctored some photos, within a house. Yeah. And using a, I guess a crude version of Photoshop mm-hmm. To include fairies Okay. Within the pictures. And he of course said, well, these girls could never create anything like that. Mm-hmm. Therefore, fairies must be true. And he described these photos as the most astounding photographs ever published. Imagine if he lived today. Al. Well, I mean, for someone who used Logic in his books. Yeah. Elementary, Yeah. It seems like he was a bit of a wacko when it came to being suckered, so Yeah. He'd be getting scam calls all over the place. If he was alive today, I'd even try it. I think it'd be an easy mark, wouldn't he? On Facebook? Marketplace. Yeah. That's it. Okay, another one. Yes. Sigmund Freud, old Sigmund, old sig, the father of talk therapy. Apparently he was a major user of cocaine and in fact he, he actually administered cocaine to a friend to cure morphine addiction. He was injecting it three times a day and six months later, his friend's addiction to both morphine and cocaine led to him dying. Great. Spread that Sigmund scratching at imaginary bugs and all those things that happened. Oh my goodness. But the weirdest thing of all is that Sigmund Freud. Believed that the number 62 was after him. So a really good example of this was when he was given room 31 at a hotel, he freaked and said, oh, 31 is half of 62. That's even worse. Wow. And, went completely balmy. So, I don't know if that was down to the cocaine or. If it was just because the number 62 had some significance for him, but yeah, that's pretty sad. Yeah. I believe maybe the cocaine had a bit of, it might have been, I've never had cocaine, but No, I, based on that, I don't wanna, yeah, I think when you had that march, yeah. I don't wanna have a fear of any numbers, I'm afraid. No. Got enough problems without digits chasing me. He couldn't work on Sesame Street. Imagine if you met the count. Ah, that would be a nightmare. Uh, 62. Oh, I'm coming to get you. Oh dear. Yeah. Okay. What have we got now? Now, probably the weirdest and most eccentric of all geniuses. Is Nikola Tesla? Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah. Now, this, this guy is amazing, apparently he was born during an electrical storm. Yeah. And that led to his obsession with electricity born 165 years ago. But this guy, was fascinated with things like wifi. He predicted wifi. He predicted mobile phones where people could communicate with each other no matter where they are through a device that fits in their vest pocket. Yeah. How many years ago? 65 years ago. 65 years ago. It's just crazy. Yeah. He was working on X-ray. He was working on a death ray. A laser. A laser being, he was talking about self-driving cars. Self-driving cars, yeah. Yeah. And he even talked about the possible rise of artificial intelligence. So talk about born at the wrong time. Right. Wow. So, so attaching the name Tesla to a vehicle that supposedly futuristic is absolutely brilliant, brilliant. But there were also some really weird things about this guy, I could imagine he was a germaphobe. He was obsessed with cleaning. Yes. He was scared of doctors. Yeah. And wouldn't go to a doctor even if he was very unwell. He loved pigeons. Apparently he had a pigeon that he called by name. And was so close to it that he would've married it if he could. Okay. Okay. Okay. He hated pearls. No one knows why, but, he hated pearls and apparently for the last 30 years of his life, he was kind of homeless. Really? Yeah. Yeah. So kind of these sort of people can be like that. Yeah. So 'cause they just don't seem to function. Well I think like they've burnt out. If your, if your head is, if thinking of such big, expansive thoughts and you're living in an era where it's really, course you can't, well they're just getting industrialization happening. Yeah. And he's thinking about mobile phones. Yeah. It'd be pretty hard to fit in live in the now, wouldn't it? Yeah. To fit in and just talk normal to someone. Hey, how you doing Jack? Apparently he was working on a thought camera and an earthquake machine. Wow. So, you know, yeah. Lots of unrealized dreams. Yeah. Yeah. Oh dear. Another weird one is Albert Einstein. Old Albert. Old Albert. So mega brain and crazy hair. Right. And apparently despite being the mega brain that he was, he loved being out on his boat, but he was hopeless. In the water. Yeah. It was a sailboat, so I guess, but he'd crash into people all the time. Oh wow. He loved sailing. He would run into people, but he never learned to swim, so he was, yeah. Yeah. I dunno how you get away with that. No. Nor do I go out in a boat. Well, yeah. So if you fell in, nothing could save him. That's it. Yeah. So, you know, nobody's perfect, no. Yeah. It seems to be the way these people are, that are like just beyond, you know, thinking they think, you know, their, their minds are just, they're just made differently. Yeah. Definitely differently. We look at those people. They're all, yeah. Kooky. Yeah. Mm. Okay. Where are we going now, Alan? We are going to kids tv, so, so we're going from Albert Einstein Yes. To HR Pufnstuf Oh, wow. Which is a bit of a leap. Yeah, no, it's great. It's great. But that's how we like it. Yeah. It's nice and random. I think they're both on cocaine. I think they might've been. Now for people who are not familiar with HR Puf nstuf, and it's quite okay if you're not, because this is a very random topic. It was a kids TV show produced in 1969, by two brothers, Sid and Marty Croft. They did a lot of stuff. Yeah, they did. They even made puppets for the Dean Martin show. Did they? Wow. Yeah. They were clever guys. Yeah. They were, I watched a clip on YouTube, that's why I've sort of included it here. Yeah. I was watching a clip that just randomly came up of this show, and it looks so drug inspired. It's like nothing you see anymore. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. But, they'd actually created this thing for the World's Fair in 1968. There's, yes. A Dragon and somebody said, we should actually produced a TV show based around this dragon. And at the time there was a hit song called Puff the Magic Dragon. Yeah. So there's a bit of an app appetite for Yeah. There was a bit of an appetite for Dragon stuff, right? Yeah. And so, so, uh, yeah. Well, the weird thing is this show for people who've not seen it again. Please Google it because, gosh, how do I explain the premise of this thing? It was about a, it's about good versus evil and I guess it's, it's based on the idea of a stranger in a strange land. So it sent us on this little kid called Jimmy who has a magic flute. Okay. So it's a bit like there's no place like home. It was very much inspired by the Wizard of Oz. Yeah. And so you've got all these crazy characters. So the kid, Jimmy. Turns up with Freddy, his magic flute. Yes. But there's a wicked witch who's trying to steal the flute. Yeah, I remember this flute used to talk. Yeah. Yeah. The the flute talks. Yeah. All of the sets talk. So the trees talk. The mushrooms talk. Yeah. There's all these weird little characters getting around in it. Yeah. And HR Pufnstuf is the mayor of the town, so he steps in and saves Jimmy from the Wicked Witch. And so Jimmy stays in this cave with puffin stuff and all these weird ass characters. I don't what to say, but HR pufn stuf. Well, and that, and that's what everyone says. Right. Could it, could it be more obviously drug related, but Sit Marty Croft say No, it had nothing to do with drugs. Wow. But honestly, bit like puff the major dragon a little bit. Yeah. Wow. So anyway, living the Mayor of Living Island, that's what HR Huff and stuff was. Anyway, the funny thing about the show is all these characters, whether they're trees or rocks or mushrooms or talking anything. Yeah. They were all using character voices from people at the time. Yeah. So HR Pufnstuf is actually taking off Gomer Pyle. Oh really? That was a Yes. It's a real sort of friendly Southern accent. Yeah. One of them, there's a lion that was WC Fields. There's a grandmother clock that was Zsa Zsa Gabo. Oh, wow. I, yeah. Okay. There's Judy Frog was Judy Garland. There's evil trees, Bella Lagosi and Peter Laurie. You know, there's all this stuff A talking skull was Boris Karloff, the West Wind is John Wayne. Like there's all this crazy stuff. Wow. I didn't realize that. Yeah. It's only when you watch it and you go, oh wow. I mean most people have forgotten about all those characters, but it's when you, when you watch it, you just go, what? But anyway, when they were casting for the show, they'd seen Jack Wild who was doing, Oliver at the time. Yeah. And they went, this is the kid we need. Yeah. He was, playing a 12-year-old, but apparently he was 16. And, Marty Croft said he'd take guardianship of him to let him live in America. Yeah. 'cause he was an English kid and he had two, teenage daughters. And apparently Jack Wild caused him a few nightmares. It's fair to say. But the neat thing is the Crofts sued McDonald's because. When you see the McDonald's characters, mare Cheese and Big Mac. Yeah. They look remarkably like Wow. HR Pufn stuf. Characters. Aren't they amazing? The Americans? Yeah. It just, another neat thing like you, do you remember the theme song? It's HR Puff and stuff. Yeah. No, I don't. Well, it, it's kind of got this breezy bouncy thing. Yeah. And when Paul Simon heard it, he went, now you are ripping off 59th Street Bridge song, you know? Yeah, yeah. Feeling groovy. Yeah. Really? Yeah. So he gets a writing credit for it, because otherwise they were going to court and apparently they made loads of merch for this stuff as they did in the sixties and seventies. So there's Kellogg cereal. I was gonna say probably selling it through Kellogg Cereal. Kellogg Cereal. There's stickers and rings, and there's Freddie and Puppets, Freddie the flutes, and there's, oh goodness. There's records. Yeah, there's all this stuff. Wow. That went through cereal. Yeah. But the weird thing, the thing that blows me away is they shot it on film. So it was a financial disaster because instead of shooting it on tape, they shot it on film. 'cause it's like the most colourful show you'll ever see. Yeah. They wanted this lush colour that you get by using film, but that costs a fortune and takes a long time. Yeah. Yeah. So I think they only made one or two series and otherwise it would go broke. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Incredible. Isn't it pretty psychedelic? It was. So that wasn't the only show. These guys did. I know They did a thing called Sigmund, the Sea Monster and Banana Splits. Oh, yeah, yeah. Banana splits. They were a band, but they were big puppets. Like people, you know, puppets in, they climb inside the costumes. Yeah. The, uh, what's it, um, la la la la la la la la la la la. Well, banana. Do banana. Three banana. There was, there was a dog, a lion. An elephant and a monkey. Yep. And, it was a great show. It was very fast and funny. Great music. And, you know, some of the musicians that were writing the stuff, four of them people like, Gene Pitney. Oh yeah, yeah. And Barry White. Yeah. I love you. Boob Barry. No, he was doing the, he wrote a banana split song or something, right? It wasn't the banana split song. The theme song. Yeah. The theme song actually got two number 96 on the billboard hits or something. Oh wow. Yeah. Between Tiny Tim and someone else. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Again, Kellogg's being a sponsor got on board and they had the name Banana Bunch I think it was, but it was already a kids book and they couldn't get the copyright on it. Oh, okay. So they went banana splits, but Kellogg's had already printed out Over a million cereal packets. Wow. Yeah. Oh wow. Of cereal packets with hand puppets in with that name. No, that had to be thrown. Oh yeah. So, whoops. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Big money in kids. Yeah. Especially then. Yeah. Serial. Yeah. Unreal. Just to indulge our, trip down childhood TV memory lane for one more moment. I can't go to HR Puff n Stuff without mentioning Lancelot Link. Oh, the Secret Chimp. Secret Chimp, yes. Hang Lance. So, this was a, spy organization. That's right. Yeah. The agency to prevent evil, which was ape. Yeah. And they were up against their arch nemesis, chump, the criminal headquarters for the Underworld Master plan. Wow. This used chimpanzees as the main characters and the producers would give them gum to chew so their mouths would move to imitate the speech of the voiceover actors. It was so good. So good. And again, there was an album produced by the band. Yeah. Goodness. Called the Evolution Revolution. Wow. Yeah. But the neat thing was, the writers on this show, they'd worked on pretty good comedy shows like Carol Burnett and they were writers on Get Smart, which of course had control Yes. And chaos. Yeah. And now you've got. Ape and chump. Wow. So, you know, they weren't moving a hundred miles from where they were. No. Yeah. But so good. And it's very clever and everything's on YouTube now, so you can, should revisit that. I think. Well, you know, it's kind of cruddy, but good. If it seemed very good. I wonder if he's elated to, uh, Wally Wallpamur. Oh, Wally Wallpamur, another reference. Everyone rule relate. Too much selling paint. It's a different era. Alright, mark. Now time for some, fast tracks. I thought since we were talking about dragons and chimpanzees. Yes. We might do some animal related fast tracks this time around. So, you know when dogs tilt their head when you speak to them. Yeah. They're actually trying to pinpoint familiar words when they're looking at you, they're looking for where the noises are coming from, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, food, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's it. Yes. That's it. Walkies. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're so smart. Yeah. I'm a bit like that. I tilt my head to the side, so that's what that is. Wow. Yeah. Here's another one. A blue whale has a heart that weighs roughly 180 kilograms. Oh, so when they're in the water with you? Yeah. You can hear the heartbeat from over two miles away. Oh, wow. Isn't that amazing? Wow. Yeah. They weigh an average between 130,000 and 150,000 kilograms. Wow. It's a big, big lump of whale to be in the water, isn't it? That's huge. But to hear a heartbeat from two miles away Oh yeah. Shark could hear him from bloody a hundred miles away. Yeah. Well that's right. Yeah. Wow. So there you go. Geez. I wouldn't wanna be a whale. No. Evidently, and I say this, I say evidently because I have no empirical evidence to support this. Okay. Dolphins name each other. Do they? Apparently, so Dolphins are so highly socialized, that they travel in pods of two to 30 and they have names for each other. Wow. So, uh oh, yeah. Yeah. You're gonna do the flipper sound, don't you? Yeah. How do they know that? Well, I, yeah, I dunno. So someone's down there. Hey Russell, send Stan over. Would you? Yeah. Want some more fish? Pto. Aussie dolphins. Anyway, here's another one. Now this is weird. King Charles technically owns all the dolphins in UK waters. King Charles. Mm-hmm. Get out. How can he own them? I some strange birthright. Oh, through the royal family mostly. I dunno. But you, you won't, you're not accepting that one. Not accepting that one. Well, I don't know. Gone. I'm just saying. Yeah, I know you are. And it's probably true. Okay. Here's another one for you. What? And ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Mm. Wow. So that could be why. They run around in circles when they're trying to escape predators. Oh. Despite their fast speed. Okay. There you go. Not, not the sharpest tool in the shed. The ostrich by the sound of it. No, no. Hmm. Ugly looking thing too. Yeah. Uh, okay. Another, the unicorn is the National Animal of Scotland. Ah, yeah. So the unicorn. Yeah. So evidently again, it was chosen because of its connection with dominance and chivalry as well as purity and innocence in mythology. But it didn't get on the arc Well, no, that's right. 'cause there were two alligators, long thickies, a hump cam, and a chimpanzee. Another reference that everyone is getting into right now. One last fun fact related to animals. Sure. Yeah. No, this is good. A hippo's jaw can open wide enough to fit in a sports car. Wow. Now I need to know that one. Next time I see a sports car, I mean, there's some sports car drivers that I like to see fit into a hippo's jaw, but, that's pretty freaky. Wow. Yeah. Wonder who did that. Yeah. How did they find out? Okay. We've proven it. You can open the drawers up again now. Yeah. Anyway, there you go. There should be some, fun facts there to annoy your friends and work colleagues with. Yeah. Let's hope. Yeah, Let's do one last thing, Martin. And I know this is a topic that's quite close to your heart and that is that there's a theory that human noses and ears get bigger as we age. I know going, but apparently our nose and our ears stopped growing. Along with the rest of our body. But thanks to the weight of gravity, both parts continue to lengthen over time. Wow. That's, and my source for that is the Discovery Channel, so, so yeah. But mine hasn't grown well, I think ever since the Monty Python's life of Brian from launched, we have called each other Big Nose. Yeah. We've got a big nose. Oh, you have got, come on Big nose. and for the last, when did that come out? That another Big Nose and, Eric Idols. Mr. Cheeky character. Yeah. who plays, he plays Stan and Loretta and all sorts of characters in there. Yeah. But when we hear about, you know, shut up Big Nose. Yeah. It's sort of, we have called each other Big nose ever since. Yeah. So I know that's got a special place in your life. And in fact, when um, Eric Idle and John Cleese toured, we went to see, we did it was great. Them in concert and it was great. They were both brilliant. They were both good fun and yeah, you know, naturally blessed are the big nose ending the concert with, always look on the bright side of life. Yeah. And I guess that's probably a good note to end this podcast on. Yeah. Big nose, look on the big, come on, come on. Big Noses Hale. I'm just going to have one more fun fact here, which is that you can't hum if you hold your nose. No. Mm. No, you can't. There you go. So, as we leave everyone. Trying to hum and holding their nose. I'll be doing it for a while. You, you will. That's about it for this episode. Don't forget, if you want to get in touch with us, drop us a line if you've got any topics you want us to cover off, get in touch and we will catch you next time. We certainly will. It's been good. Yes, see you next time.