Speaker 1: Yes, it's Lucky dep Time you Lucky Ducks. Your is
Speaker 1: a weird s They're gonna get a treat.
Speaker 2: It's Malamanti Hello, Hello, I got so excited by that, Angels.
Speaker 2: Am I ever going to see your face again? Episode?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: You know I love the story behind the song. So
Speaker 2: today I'm bringing you another one, another one, another one
Speaker 2: that's really really, really sad and tragic.
Speaker 1: That's not like you to do that.
Speaker 2: I know tragic. Well, it's almost like I think that
Speaker 2: is the inspiration well behind it is the best songs.
Speaker 1: I can always tell when a musician's in a good
Speaker 1: place because their music's pretty lousy, like they need to
Speaker 1: draw on tragedy and heartache to stay use gold Well.
Speaker 2: Tell me if you remember this song of farmer slagging
Speaker 2: but where were They Going? The Way? By Fastball. That
Speaker 2: song came out in nineteen ninety eight and it stayed
Speaker 2: at number one for seven weeks.
Speaker 1: Did I know the song so well and didn't know
Speaker 1: its name? Didn't know who the people singing it is?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't know why. I think I knew it
Speaker 2: was called the Way, but if you'd asked me who
Speaker 2: sang it, I didn't know either.
Speaker 1: Oh what are they called fastball?
Speaker 2: Fastball? It was just one of those songs that I
Speaker 2: won't remember on the radio. Yeah, you know. Anyway, that
Speaker 2: song was written in nineteen ninety seven and the lead
Speaker 2: singer was inspired to write it because he lived in
Speaker 2: this same area where this thing was playing out in
Speaker 2: June of nineteen ninety seven, where this elderly couple from
Speaker 2: Texas went missing. Right now, this is how the story goes.
Speaker 2: There's this couple called Leila and Raymond Howard. Raymond was
Speaker 2: eighty eight, Leila was eighty three. He had just recovered
Speaker 2: from some pretty heavy brain surgery and she was showing
Speaker 2: early signs of not early signs, but signs of Alzheimer's.
Speaker 2: She was forgetting stuff. She was like it was becoming
Speaker 2: an issue, but she still insisted on driving and doing
Speaker 2: that stuff, and the kids didn't want to take away
Speaker 2: her independence and all that. So on the twenty ninth
Speaker 2: of June, Leela, the mum had said to one of
Speaker 2: her sons that they were going to this music festival.
Speaker 2: It was called the Pioneer Day Festival that they used
Speaker 2: to go to every year, and it was like fifteen
Speaker 2: minutes from their house, and the son's like I'll take you,
Speaker 2: and she's like, don't be stupid, it's fine, it's only
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes away. And he thought, let them go. So
Speaker 2: they went and every year they usually get home at
Speaker 2: around three am pm. Rageous, yeah, but anyway, but when
Speaker 2: it got to five and they still weren't home, the
Speaker 2: family are like, fuck, this is weird. Then it gets
Speaker 2: to eight and they're like, okay. They call the police.
Speaker 2: They called the media. Whatever, our parents are missing. They
Speaker 2: explained the whole thing. So there's this hunt to find them,
Speaker 2: and it's like they've just disappeared off the face of
Speaker 2: the earth. So Tony Sculzo is the name of the
Speaker 2: lead singer of Fastball. He's watching this. He's looking through
Speaker 2: the newspaper, he's following the story, and he's cottoned onto
Speaker 2: this idea that Leela and Raymond had gotten in their
Speaker 2: car and they're sort of like trying to relive their youth.
Speaker 2: They're just driving to this festival and they're just like, fucking,
Speaker 2: let's just go to town and do whatever. Let's just disappear.
Speaker 2: So back to the actual fucking reality of this. There
Speaker 2: were sightings of the couple. There was a cop listen
Speaker 2: to this how fucking wrong this is. There was a
Speaker 2: cop who pulled them over at one point because Leela
Speaker 2: was driving without her head lights on. It was nighttime,
Speaker 2: and he asked her where she was going and she said, oh,
Speaker 2: Texas and he said, you're going in the wrong direction,
Speaker 2: and he's giving her directions. You've got to go back
Speaker 2: the other way because by this point, I think they
Speaker 2: were like three hundred kilometers from Texas. And he's like,
Speaker 2: you got to turn around and go back the other way.
Speaker 2: And he said where exactly do you live? And she
Speaker 2: said I don't know. Oh, and then he just said okay,
Speaker 2: take care bye, and that was it. Okay. So then
Speaker 2: on the thirteenth day of the search, as always happens
Speaker 2: in these stories, two boys are walking through like a
Speaker 2: forested sort of area where there's this creek and they
Speaker 2: smell this smell in the air. So they go home
Speaker 2: and they tell their parents. The parents contact the police.
Speaker 2: The police do a search, so they find the car
Speaker 2: at the bottom of this cliff, like bottom of an
Speaker 2: eight meter cliff, because it had happened at night from
Speaker 2: what they could assume, and they say she must have
Speaker 2: gotten either so disorientated or she didn't see the edge
Speaker 2: of the cliff, because there's no skid marks or anything
Speaker 2: to indicate that, you know, she's trying to stop, so
Speaker 2: they went right off the edge. This is the saddest
Speaker 2: part to me. Raymond's body was still in the car,
Speaker 2: buckled in Leela. She had obviously survived the crash. She'd
Speaker 2: put the car in par turned off the headlights. His
Speaker 2: passenger side door was open, so she obviously opened it
Speaker 2: to help him out or something. But then they found her.
Speaker 2: She died about six meters away in this little clearing area,
Speaker 2: but she had her keys and her purse in her hand,
Speaker 2: like she was going somewhere I know.
Speaker 1: So he's like, where were you going?
Speaker 2: Without even yes, yes, And they were five hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty kilometers away from where they should have been. Fuck,
Speaker 2: isn't that so sad? Fun?
Speaker 1: Wow, Molly Meldrum in the house.
Speaker 2: No, that was Jeff Finick. That's what you do.
Speaker 1: Finish off with those lovees. Oh my god, you're why
Speaker 1: did you get Jeff Finick? And Molly Maldrim comfumed.
Speaker 2: Molly Maldram used to say, oh shit, yeah, before we go,
Speaker 2: we've got to find this. Molly Meldram is awful. Molly
Speaker 2: still alive, Yeah he is. Look, I don't think he's
Speaker 2: doing great.
Speaker 1: Terribly, That's why I didn't know if he was alive
Speaker 1: or not.
Speaker 2: Do yourself favor, Do yourself favor. Get the album, listen
Speaker 2: to it. Yeah, support Ossie bands.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and what was that on? Hey, Hey Saturday, mister
Speaker 1: mister Summers.
Speaker 2: Do yourself a favor. Molly's melodrama? Remember, yes, I do.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, thank you for listening and we'll chat
Speaker 1: to you really soon.
Speaker 2: They love you.
Speaker 1: Snick out