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Peter Williams

Australian road train legend known as 'Lizard', with a 48-year trucking career from the Hume Highway to Northern Territory cattle routes, driving for Buntine/RTA for three decades.

Aug 13, 2026

37:13
What do you think that means?
37:14
I mean, a lot has sort of happened in the last sort of 20 years.
37:17
Harvey Nichols, Boyd really, I would say by its success in Knightsbridge, London, started opening stores outside London.
37:24
And I'm not sure all of them have been that successful.
37:27
So the first store I think was in Leeds.
37:30
That's sort of okay.
37:31
The one in Manchester is too small.
38:39
And what do you mean by that? Is it just a case of spending money on it and making it seem more luxurious?
32:41
What do you make of that, Peter?
32:43
Hmm.
32:45
Well, I'm not sure that I buy that, um, observation is the only way to confirm or disconfirm, uh, theories.
32:57
I, I think there are a, a, a range of explanatory values that we would look at.
33:04
Uh, inc- including, uh, can we, uh, confirm or disconfirm through evidence.
33:12
Uh, but also looking at things like, uh, explanatory power, e- explanatory scope, uh, simplicity, so the use of Occam's razor, for example, in, in science.

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45:15
Yeah.
45:16
Um, and the, the problem with that is I think there would be lots of, of areas of things that we, um, rationally believe in that wouldn't be included within that.
BruceHOST
74:23
Yeah
74:24
No. Um, you went through them wobbly bits the other side of, um, Adelaide River, but yeah, you know, they, they weren't real flash, but they were all right.
74:35
And, um, yeah, I lasted there for about a year, and I rang, I rang Buntine's about then.
74:44
They said, "No, we got nothing." And, um, I'd never met Glen Forbes.
74:50
He was the manager there.
74:52
So I wrote a letter to him telling him all the shit I'd done on the Hume, and, uh, he wrote back saying, uh, "There's nothing in the br- there's something in the breeze, uh, with a range of uranium mine, carting a 20-foot container on the middle of each trailer, three trailers.
75:16
And, uh, if it's not, we're, we're still going through it.

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BruceHOST
130:36
They're not in the real life at all.

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