Finn John

There's a movie that came out, I think, in the late 40s, and then they remade it again about 10 or 20 years ago called Whiskey Galore.

And in it, the residents of a small Scottish island.

This

almost sounds like a stripper's name.

It does.

It really does.

It really does.

If it was Brandy Galore, that would be totally a stripper's name.

But on this little island, it's 1943.

The war is on and therefore they're not getting any shipments of whiskey and they've just run out and everyone is very sad about it.

And it's going to be a long, dry spell until the war ends.

But then, hallelujah, there's a shipwreck of a big freighter with the hold stuffed with cases of scotch.

And so the local residents hurry up and get a community salvage party going.

And They get most of the whiskey off of the ship before the local authorities figure out what's going on and are like, wait, you can't do that.

I must confiscate that.

But by this time, they've hidden the whiskey all over the place, including in some boxes of ammunition that the local authority guy is getting ready to send someplace.

And when it arrives, they open it up and see the whiskey bottles tucked in there and think, oh, he's smuggling.

And so he gets arrested and The community gets back to being drunk on scotch until the end of the war.

It's pretty funny.

It's also an opportunity for a life imitates art kind of thing because something very similar to that happened in 1932 at Whale Cove.

Now, you may be aware of this.

There's a rock that sticks out of the ocean in the mouth of Whale Cove, and they call it a rum runner rock.

And this episode is why.

I'm not 100% sure what the sequence of events was here.

There's a couple of different sources that say different things.

There's a movie that came out, I think, in the late 40s, and then they remade it again about 10 or 20 years ago called Whiskey Galore.

And in it, the residents of a small Scottish island.

This

almost sounds like a stripper's name.

It does.

It really does.

It really does.

If it was Brandy Galore, that would be totally a stripper's name.

But on this little island, it's 1943.

The war is on and therefore they're not getting any shipments of whiskey and they've just run out and everyone is very sad about it.

And it's going to be a long, dry spell until the war ends.

But then, hallelujah, there's a shipwreck of a big freighter with the hold stuffed with cases of scotch.

And so the local residents hurry up and get a community salvage party going.

And They get most of the whiskey off of the ship before the local authorities figure out what's going on and are like, wait, you can't do that.

I must confiscate that.

But by this time, they've hidden the whiskey all over the place, including in some boxes of ammunition that the local authority guy is getting ready to send someplace.

And when it arrives, they open it up and see the whiskey bottles tucked in there and think, oh, he's smuggling.

And so he gets arrested and The community gets back to being drunk on scotch until the end of the war.

It's pretty funny.

It's also an opportunity for a life imitates art kind of thing because something very similar to that happened in 1932 at Whale Cove.

Now, you may be aware of this.

There's a rock that sticks out of the ocean in the mouth of Whale Cove, and they call it a rum runner rock.

And this episode is why.

I'm not 100% sure what the sequence of events was here.

There's a couple of different sources that say different things.