Filming 'Titanic' and Someone Drugged Our Soup (Classic)
4/4/202630 min
On August 9, 1996, the cast and crew of Titanic wrapped a long shoot with a seafood dinner. Within an hour, around 40 people (including director James Cameron) were ill. The cause: someone had spiked their chowder with a hallucinogenic drug called PCP. In this ep, camera operator Jamie Barber recounts how the night spiralled into a hospital trip… and a conga line.
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First 90 secondsJamie Barber· Guest0:00
[gentle music] Super Real Life Well, the first thing that happens is my arm started going numb, and then the world begins to tunnel in a little bit and gets a little slow. So I wandered outside to get some fresh air, and as I'm standing there, more of the crew are coming out saying that they don't feel well, and they don't feel well. So they loaded us into vans, and they drove us to a small hospital. And for some reason, someone had a guitar- [laughs] ... and he, one of the crew members takes the oxygen mask off, sits up on the gurney and goes, "You know what we need? A conga line." And we did a conga line around the, uh, emergency room for maybe, like, 10 minutes, and then that's when everyone sort of realized we're not gonna die. This may be okay.
Julian Morgans· Host0:55
Hey, I'm Julian Morgans, and you're listening to What It Was Like, the show that asks people who have lived through big, dramatic events what it was like. [gentle music] Hey everyone, welcome back. So it's the start of the Easter weekend here in Australia, which means that a lot of you are about to take some time off. I'm gonna do the same. So we're gonna run something from the archives.