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Blue Dot: Celebrating Jaws at 50 with the "Lost Shark Guy" David Ebert

Director Steven Spielberg is behind the camera while filming Jaws.
Photo courtesy of the Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Director Steven Spielberg is behind the camera while filming Jaws.   

Host Dave Schlom is joined by David Ebert, Director of San Jose State University's Pacific Shark Research Center to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the movie Jaws. 

It was only Steven Spielberg's second motion picture, but the 26-year-old director came through, despite production difficulties and delays, to produce a masterpiece thriller.

Both our host and David (aka "the Lost Shark Guy" from Shark Week on TV) have a deep and abiding love for the film and they share what makes it so special for movie buffs and marine scientists following in the trail of the character Matt Hooper (played by Richard Dreyfuss), a shark expert.

From Bruce the shark's malfunctions to actor Robert Shaw's iconic USS Indianapolis monologue, Jaws is a special film that holds up amazingly well 50 years later!

Dave Schlom is the longtime host and creator of Blue Dot. From surfing to Voyager in interstellar space, rock guitar to orcas in our imperiled oceans, the topics on Blue Dot are as varied as the host’s interests and connections -- which are pretty limitless! An internationally respected space history journalist, Dave is also deeply fascinated by all aspects of the grand workings of nature’s awesome machinery on scales ranging from galactic to subatomic. And topics take in all aspects of the arts and sciences.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.