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🗓️ 13 January 2023
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0:00.0 | the USS PCP. I'm Rebecca Leib. I'm Jason Horton and this is Ghost Town. |
0:20.5 | Did you eat any of the PCP spike clam chowder from the set of Titanic and did they ever catch |
0:26.8 | the person responsible? Yeah, that's kind of a crazy story. On August 9th, 1996, when lunch was served |
0:33.5 | on the set of Titanic, the soup contained a secret ingredient, fencichlidine, better known as PCP. |
0:41.3 | We are talking about the lunch that was spiked with PCP on the set of the major motion picture |
0:52.1 | Titanic. I've had some horrible lunches working in entertainment the past 10 plus years. I've never |
1:00.3 | once had a lunch that sounded that fun. They'd be a good lunch for me. They'd be a good lady. Nice soup |
1:06.8 | with PCP. On the Halifax Nova Scotia set of Titanic, the casting crew, including director James Cameron, |
1:13.6 | producer John Landau, cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, and actors Bill Paxton and Susie Amisse. I think |
1:21.1 | that's how you pronounce our name. Now Susie Amisse Cameron. We're ready to complete the scene shot |
1:28.5 | on the evening of August 8th and then move on to Mexico. We're a massive replica of the Titanic |
1:33.7 | was waiting on an outdoor soundstage in Baja. However, just across Halifax Bay, the crew broke for lunch |
1:40.0 | at midnight courtesy of local caters. The specifics of this chowder seemed to be murky at best. |
1:46.1 | Cameron claims it was muscle chowder. Paxton, he claimed it was clam. The Halifax police |
1:52.9 | report suggested it was lobster. Susie Amisse was one of the few casting crew who was not |
1:59.9 | interested in any of the chowder, no matter what it turned out to be. And Cameron, who is now |
2:05.9 | married to Amisse said, quote, she's always been high on my list of suspects as a result. |
2:12.2 | No, someone saying no to chowder is a pretty common thing, especially at a catered crew meal at midnight, |
2:18.6 | midnight chowder. I mean, listen, I'm all over and I love discount seafood, free seafood, |
2:22.4 | even better, PCP lace seafood, even better, better. It's probably been stressful. I would imagine, |
2:28.8 | I don't think you want a cream based soup as a lunch. And this is a lunch. So you know they're |
2:33.5 | going to five AM. That would fuck anybody up without drugs. It didn't take long for the consequences |
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