Two In The Think Tank - 139 - John Belushi

Episode Date: June 20, 2018

This week, Jess completes her triptych of Hollywood biographies with The Blues Brother himself, John Belushi. From the Windy City to the big screen, we learn about the early years and the premature death of a comedy pioneer. Report begins at 10:44Support the show and get rewards like bonus episodes:www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPodSubmit a topic idea directly to the hat: http://bit.ly/DoGoOnHat Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] : dogoonpod.com References: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NenGqL8g-ghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Belushihttps://www.biography.com/people/john-belushi-9206502   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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You could start your new career in months, not years. Take classes online or on campus This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. Visit Planet Broadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates Hello and welcome to another episode of Do go on do go on my name is Dave working. I'm here with just If you want to do the intro you just say I just I just like doing things to go. Oh, okay. Just like to be near you, right? It was hard to tell if you're trying to annoy him or you wanted to be him.

Be him, it's be him. The girls want to be on him. And the girls want to be with him. Is that it? Yeah, I really had a talk when Jess is going under me. Did I say English words then? No, really? It was all backwards and it just sounded like he was saying,

the Satan is my God. The Satan. Oh, how embarrassing. Oh yeah, I'm the idiot. Like the Facebook. Early on Satan was called the Satan, but then Justin Timberlake came in and he said, get rid of the the, which was a band at the time and they left the room and then he said now that we're alone. Yeah, I want you

I can't stand the the So pretentious. Oh my goodness. Yes. Anyway, can we talk about the the oh they're back Oh, I get out of here the band of the please Now if we could just chat about the, in your name. Did, sorry, did somebody mention us? No, no, I'm talking about the, in the Satan's name, please, the, the get out of here, thank you.

Sorry, the Satan. I'm, look, I'm gonna just do it, you're Satan now, okay? Okay, you're looking at me like I'm Satan. You are. Thank you, thank you so much. looking at me like I'm certain. You are. Thank you. In our worlds. I also apparently have broad appeal to both men and women. Appreciate you saying that, Matt. Okay. What did I say? Anyway, it doesn't matter. You said that men, women want to be with me. Men want to be on me. No, I ran. I don't care. I'll take them all.

Oh, okay. Yeah. Great. Much like Satan. Yeah. He'll take them all. I don't know what that means. I'm just looking forward to taking you out of context yelling. I thought was it. Okay, yeah great much like Satan. Yeah, he'll take them all Looking forward to taking you out of context yelling I Was it I love the Satan now I've said it. Oh God Matt quick you say it otherwise you'll be able to use this against I love goodness Well, Planned purity and being Kind I can't think of a third nice indeed. Yeah, I can't think of what I think of the worst fucking nerds say. I think you'd find it hard to say that.

I can't do it. I can't pretend the word was burning my tongue. How very interesting. So anyway, where are a show called Doogawon, the podcast? Let's do go on podcast, and we... No podcast, just do Go On. Do Go On, great. Okay. And on this show, each week, we do a different...

Wrap. Wrap. But that's a key. Oh no, she made me say wrap. It was filled up. I'm already raised. I don't know why that was in my head. Well, that was the first wrap.

I mean, the first wrap. Yeah. If you're going to head. Well, that was the first wrap. Yeah. If you're going to think of wrap, that's the wrap you think of. Correct. I mean, you're the person who was talking about ASAP Rocky before. Yeah. So you know wrap. I don't know.

Anyway, so this show is called Doogon and it's about a different topic each week. And one of us does a report on that topic this week. It's Jess Turn and to get on topic, something destructive. Yes, we'll ask a question. And then we'll do the report. I now understand. Thank you. Now, Jess asked the question, but I don't feel comfortable speaking it unless somebody else is also speaking. So could you try to figure out what the question is please? How many chuck does woody wood wood? Chucky chuck woody wood wood chuck chuck.

I can confirm that is written on just a screen. Thank you. And the answer of course is Matilda Swinton. That's not a... Not her name. I imagine that's what Tilda Swinton. That's not a... That's not her name. I imagine that's what Tilda stands for. Oh, baby, I did it. I want to know.

Can I put... No, I need to know. Tilda Swinton. Catherine Matilda Swinton. All right, well I did it. So, it stands for Tilda stands for Catherine. Yes, very strong. It is confusing.

Okay, now what is the question Jess? You've written one, you said you're excitedly told us before we started recording. You've written one. I wrote it. I wrote it and not five minutes ago. Last and well, very early this morning. Wow, that's great.

So my question to you, gentlemen slash fuck boys. Hey, gosh. Is this the... I'm the gentleman here. I'm the slash. Katarus from the band, I'm the gentleman here. I'm the slash guitarist from the band, Guns of Roses. My question is, who was one's called the most dangerous man on TV? Dave Wonicky. That's bullshit and you know it. Firstly, it would be on TV. Secondly, I mean on TV

and I've been very dangerous. How? One time. Well, with your dazzling look. Mainly, I'm dangerous when I get in the kitchen and I don't tempt a cook. That's not a TV, is it? You've not been on Master's ship, have you? I've been pitching cooking shows for many years. Yes. I haven't had any interest.

Okay, well, it's not Dave Warnakie. Is it Markle Draxen in theous Era when he did a Dangerous Special, when he did the film clip with Eddie Murphy where they was called Remember the Time? No. Is it evil, can evil, can evil? No. To my dangerous person on TV.

Yeah, you're gonna, it's an interesting one. It's Don't Call Steve Austin. Is it a bad person? No. It's just that part of it. It's not, again, that's Michael Jackson. It's not necessarily someone that you might, might spring to mind. Think you're out of more in terms of a clean ribbed-wormant style. Oh

Dangerous performance style. It's amazing Jonathan Amazing Jonathan like a lady that would do horrible stuff Amazing Jonathan shock and horror was he sort of act not Not, it's not my bad. It would purposefully go wrong and he would, you know, there would be a lot of blood. Oh, no, thank you. Um, Alice Cooper. No, good one though. The most dangerous man, David Letterman,

that guy was unhinged. I suppose you're moving more in the right kind of- Jay Leno. Not Jay, not, not, not, not, not, not a late show host. Well, a show that's on quite late at night, American. American late night show host. We can't at Bernice. Hot dogs, up late with hot dogs.

It is hot dogs for a big brother. It's the most dangerous man on the earth. I think you need to give it to us Jess. I think we've had enough from cracks here. Anyone from Saturday Night Live maybe stand out? Bill Murray. Similar era. Keep going. Chevy Chase. Well you're so close. Oh, Chasey Chess. Steve and Steve Martin wasn't on that one. Who was that? You're thinking the right era of person. Dan Acroid. John Ballucci. Yeah. Oh, it's about John Ballid. John Belushi. It's about John Belushi. It's about John Belushi.

John Belushi. Yes. He was called the most dangerous man on television. Yes. What was he doing? He's bloody wild. Really. Yeah. So I put it to our Patreon. Who suggested John Belushi? I haven't seen him in the hat. That's cool. Yeah, suggested by Mac Shildroff. Great one, Mac. And I put to the hat, sorry, I haven't seen him in the hat. That's cool. Yeah, suggested by Mac Shieldroth.

Great one, Mac. And I put to the hat, sorry, I put to the Patreon's, because my last couple of reports have been Hollywood biographies. Oh, yes. We sort of said we wanted to make it like a trip ditch. Trip ditch, yes. So I put it to them and I gave them four options

of people from a similar kind of era or like, you know, anyone in that sort of entertainment industry and I said, who do you wanna hear more about? Really, that's surprising. I mean, that's great. The blue spots. Yeah, it was for John Belushi. I was quite surprised by that one.

There was a couple of great suggestions in the hat, which I won't say because hopefully we'll get to do them another time. But yeah, overwhelming response for John Belushi. And I didn't know heaps, so it's quite interesting. Did you have his brother in the hat as well? No. Disappointing.

Once again, Jim misses out. Although I did learn of two actors who are siblings that I did not know about, which I will talk about. The Olsen twins, Jess. I mean, twins are in their title. Yeah, but they're not completely identical. Yes, one slightly taller. One's left-handed, Mary Kate.

Yeah, they could be strangers, that's true. So? No, they couldn't be strangers. I mean, they know each other. But at one stage, they could have been strangers. Yes, they could have been born strangers. Yeah, and in a way, aren't we all born strangers? Not twins.

They've known each other since they were little sperm. Yeah, but do you ever really know and person? How they know sperm? When is when when are you a little sperm? Yeah, I I okay full disclosure don't have any sperm. So I don't know heaps of the answer. Full disclosure I don't know how it works. And I'd like to leave that as a district.

Yeah. Well, hopefully you take up the story from when John Belushi was a sperm. Obviously. And we can go from there. So about nine months before the 24th of January 1949, John Belushi was a sperm. Yes.

Oh. Beyond that point. Actually, no, it would have been like, even before that, because nine months before he was like, it would have been that weird tadpole, part egg, part sperm section. Look, I'm sorry, I have been holding this for you guys. I am a scientist.

I'm sorry to use those big words there. I'm sitting here thinking, what is he talking about? Yeah, look, we're gonna have to do a full report on this map because I am lost story. Okay, we'll say that for later. Let's get on with the human form of Balouche. So John, what time did he emerge from the vaginal cavity? He'll cavity canal cavity. Subtriangle like a scientist David, you're doing it wrong.

Like cavity. Like I can't find that somewhere on the Richter scale, he came in at a fall. All right, I mean, that's true, but you locked into that. Thank you. Very lucky. Very, very lucky. Wow. So January 24th, 1949, John Adam Belushi was born in Chicago.

Ah, Chicago, the windy city. Yeah. Is that right? Chicago? Chicago. Chicago. Ah, Chicago, the windy city. Yeah. Is that right? Chicago. Chicago. Chicago. Chicago. Chicago. Chicago. You're speaking like a local. He was raised in Wheaton, which is a sub of 30 miles or 48 Ks west of Chicago. Chicago. Chicago. Chicago. Chicago. Chicago. I'm so sorry. Along with his three siblings, younger brothers Billy and Jim and sister Marion. His father, Adam, had immigrated to America from Albania

and his mother Agnes was the daughter of Albanian immigrants as well. His father owned a restaurant, spent most nights working. During the week, he'd stayed in an apartment above the restaurant to avoid the 50k commute. So the kids didn't see much of their father growing up. Oh. Their mother also worked. So John and kids didn't see much of their father growing up. Oh. Their mother also worked.

So Johnnie siblings were often kind of left on their own. However, their grandmother, who they called Nana, was a round and was a very important part of the blue she kids. They called her that because she would cook with nunchucks. Yeah, she cooked traditional Albanian cuisine. Yeah, Albanian pizzas, Albanian pastas, Albanian Chinese food. Yeah, she'd do it all, but she'd do it with chopsticks. Wow.

Yeah. That's so interesting. Yes. Thank you. And obviously really influenced him later in life. I mean, obviously. Peter Sizzle there. She was, you know, chocolateucks in the kitchen, obviously.

She was previously the most dangerous woman on television. Yes, yeah. On her cooking show, cooking with Nana. Yeah. And non-chucks. Yeah. Cooking with Nana, Jacks.

Sorry, Ms. Penaza. Yeah, he started, but that's fine. Oh, yeah. That happens, you're nervous. I know, I'm nervous. Talking about my idol, Nana. Jacks. Nana, Nana, Nana. Nana, Nana.

None of them. No, they're not. No, they're not. Matachucks. That's a great, talking about rap names, Nana Chucks. Oh, yeah, copyright.

That's how you do it. I didn't realize you were a lawyer, Jess. Yeah, I'm a lawyer. Wow. How did you not know that about this? You got a side to me. We've got a lawyer at this show. Go away, Cookie. How did you not know about this? We've got a lawyer at this show. God, we're cookie.

Wow. We're the modern day band at Sang Wom C.A. Village people. Village people. Yeah. They had the lawyer, they had the... The scientist. The civil servant.

The teacher. The guy who struck driver. The gas station attendant. the bed really grew. That was a big band. The Nanna Chuck. The Nanna Chuck. Oh, the Nanna Chuck was, that's where she was from. That's where she started.

Wow. Yeah, yeah, she was the Y. Really? Y. People often ask that, why? Who brought the Y to this? Nanna Chuck Y. And she would answer in Albanian.

See Senor. So cute. So cute. So cute. So cute. So beautiful, isn't it? Wow. So Nana was a really big part of the Baluci kids' lives. And throughout his life, John always called, he would say that Nana was the soul of the family. She was, that all the kids are very close to her.

Um, John's brother Jim, Baluci. Interesting. Is that an Albanian tradition? Yeah, to retain the surname. Naming your brother after your surname? I think so. Yeah, right. I think it's the Albanians that started it. Yeah. He said Nana was like their mother figure and she was the heart of the family. Oh, Nana mother. She was the sole moments ago now. She's the heart. She's everything. Nana mother was very good.

They needed her to live. Soul heart. She was their breathing apparatus. Lungs took it hard. It's fair to take an oxygen with that. Nana He said if it wasn't for Nana, we'd be in jail today. Wow. I don't know if that's it. She also broke them out of jail. Yeah, yeah. She was there to fix attorney and broke them out.

Did you got them on both ends? It wasn't for Nana. They were already going to let them out, but she's like, I got this. I already got 25 to life and importing the heroin, but Nana got me off. She took the fall for me. It's been a long time in prison, thanks, Nana. What an angel. What an angel. She didn't speak English. So this was... The very hard to defend someone in the court, without speaking English.

Yeah, but she was so endearing. I was like, no, I think she's good. Her body language was she did a lot of shragal like, gamma. She had the phrase she knew in English. Gammah! When this was crack under pressure, all right, fine, it wasn't him, he didn't do it. Gammah! Then they'd hand over their wallets.

She was also rubbing them, I don't know why. She did it all, that's why. Not a joke. Nana Jack, students from English show, this was where John's physical performance began, because he sort of needed to communicate with her non-verbally. He's doing that in court.

Unless he's picking that up in court. Yeah, amazing. So he, yeah, he's a ability to communicate non-verbally who's very expressive, he could make up languages or like, you know, when people not make up languages, it's like, oh, I've invented this now. It's easier to make up a new language than learn Albanian. True. No, you know how some people like try to, Dave, try to speak other languages or try to sound like

they're speaking other languages and it's not very convincing at all. Another people. I don't know that but yes. Well, well, very convincing. Yeah, convincing. This is where he sort of came from, uh, entertaining his grandmother when he was a kid, and his brother Jim Bullushi. Cause I had to keep track. It's the same thing that, uh, is there a relation there as just a weird coincidence? My friend and comedian Pete Jones does that, and that's why it always makes me laugh.

He always be like, he has always been was talking to Dave, Warnocky. And who's this? I can't Pete Jones. Pete. Jones. Thank you. Sort of how you, it's like your name dropping, but it's like.

It's very obvious. That's something to Michael Perkins. My brother. Anyway. Are you guys Albanian? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Big time. I mean, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, big time. I mean, they make tradition.

Check that out. Big old Banyans. Really? So Jim remembers Bullishy. Remember being an obsidian appearance one time? Well, sure, according to Jim anyway. Sit calm he had. That's not Jim Bullishy.

Yeah, it's Jim Bullishy. Yeah, it's too bullishy. Well, yep. So according to him, he was upset at his parents one time when he was a kid. And John turned to his younger brother and said, mom and dad are irresponsible parents. Just eat and sleep here. Go out for everything else.

So yeah, relationship with their parents, I think was like fine, but their parents were absent. So they kind of, they were quite independent kids. And John, sort of, school became like a second home for him. So he attended Wheaton Community High School. He was a bit of a jack of all trades. He was an all-state linebacker. He saw the stage in school plays and debating tournaments, and he played in a band.

So he was kind of... That's the big three. Yeah. It's still an awful thing. Drama, music and sport. Yeah. What else is there? Uh, spelling bees. Fuck off.

I was thinking in like, in terms of American college... cliche. Usually you're into one, though. Yeah. Spelling bees. Accapella. Oh, that's true. Bring it on.

No, wait. That's cheerleading. Pitch perfect thing. Science club. Cheerleading. Pitch perfect. Science Club cheerleading. And you did all these. Yeah. Wow. College parties. Oh, Keg is. Keg is. Toga. Toga parties. Animal House style. Correct. He did it all. He did it all. American listeners, are we nailing your lives? Your college experience?

Oh, sorry, sorry, they say, Kager. Otherwise, he would have been like, what are they talking about? Kager. I mean, it's obviously our college experience is very, very similar. Oh, yes. Oh, totally.

For the Togapalies I went to. Yeah, I definitely, I slept in beds with sheets. Yeah. So I, you know, a couple of steps away from the Togapalies. I still do. What? Yeah, I slept in beds with sheets. I believe so I sent, you know, a couple of steps away from the target party. I still do. What? Yeah, I'm crazy. You are living like a kid, the rest of your life.

Yeah, I don't wanna grow up. Do you have a top sheet? Yeah. Oh, no, no, I find it. Very, it traps my feet. I don't like being trapped, yes, which is why I've launched a product. If I could say, when this now called the, some of you may have seen online, I've

a couple of weeks ago on the Lager website, we talked about Gloveless Fingers, the product where you want warm fingers, but to keep your palms nice and cool. So I've launched a Puzzle World crowdfunding campaign, which is going crazy, Matt said I wouldn't even get $20, and it is at $100 No, I said it shouldn't get even $20. I said you should not be using our joint account or our podcast right now to be advertising this bullshit. But as I understand it, it's all or nothing, right? It's all or nothing.

I have to raise $10,000 amongst this product. I've got $100, so that's like $4.50 in the US. And it's like $121 of Rose Sofah from 13 people. So if you're interested in making this happen, anyone who pledges $10, we will send you a demo pair of Gloveless fingers, palm coolers, by Dugo on. When you say we, Dave.

Yeah, I will rope you in. We'll rope you in. No, I'm not helping with this. And we'll also send you a certificate of authenticity. You will. Authenticity. Yes. It's misspelled, you a certificate of authenticity. You will. Authenticity. Yes. It's misspelled, so legally it's not a money document.

I'm confident that this is not going to be a concern of ours. Well, so... Someone did suggest I did enjoy this. I think I saw on Twitter or someone suggested that maybe you should look at marketing towards the hip-hop community because they do have issues with getting their palms sweaty. Yeah, I did do that. That was good.

Someone also suggested that it could go to high school students if you want them to keep their hands off their phones. Right. The fingers will be restrictive. But they'll be able to grip pen with their palms. And I would just like to say to the people who have tweeted to us or commented on Facebook saying, guys, I think this is already a thing.

You are missing a lot. Wait, what are you? It is not a thing because I've decided to call it Gloveless Fingers Palm Coolers. That's the difference there. That's the difference. That's the difference. No one has ever created a product called Palm Cooler. Yeah.

Were you doing Napoleon Dynamite's cousins voice there? No, Matt, that's just how I speak. Is that okay? Guys. Anyway, the possible link below is how I just took a while. I'm not putting the link in. Okay, so. Just Google it, guys, come on.

Please, I need this. I need this real man. He does not need it. This is my chance to be an entrepreneur, a bit of a startup. This is my startup, I need this real man. He does not need it. This is my chance to be an entrepreneur, a bit of a startup. This is my startup, I need some capital. Think of a better thing. Yeah, I can't, this is the best I've got.

Well, that's very sad. All right, play, do we just need another 9,000? Yeah, back to an actually talented person. John Belushi. That felt like a digger, you days. I don't know how. I don't know how that could be. Did he invent, how many products to he invent in his life? Well, let's find out Hmm. Can I go on and we'll find out? Okay. Thank you

In his senior year of high school, he met Judy Jacqueline. That's good name. JJ. JJ. Judy Jack Judy and John started dating and Judy recalls that John was kind and funny But also a little shy. It could take a while to warm to new people or new situations. He didn't want to follow in his father's footsteps and join the family restaurant business, which is such a Hollywood cliche, like as in movies. Right. I don't want to follow in dads footsteps.

Yeah, I don't want to take up the nunchucks. Yeah, he wasn't interested. Nobody could use those nunchucks, like Nanakood. Nanakuck. Nanakood. Nanakood. Nanakood. Nanakood.

Nanakood. Nanakood. Nanakood. Nanakood. Nanakood. Nanakood. Nanakood. Nanakood.

Nanakood. Nanakood. Nanakood. Nanakood. It's a very dangerous profession. Yeah. And he just didn't feel equipped for it. How many trucks could a wooden Nanakuck if a wooden Nanak could chuck a wood. Is that what I asked for this time? In a roundabout way, sure. You were on topic. He had dreams of moving away from home, a pursuing career as an actor. And when he finished high school, he went to the summer stock theater in Indiana,

which was his first real job as an actor. It's not far from Gary. Indiana. In case you're wondering which Gary. I'm wearing a Gary jumper today. You guys know what's that? I did not know it as I never look at you. Wow. What are they the great Gary Steelhoods? Oh that's a now defunct team isn't it? Yeah. She's had a great little run for her. How much did that jumper cost you? I think it's $30, $40 postage. $40 postage? Some of that. $40 postage $40 postage? Some of that. $40. Oh my god, of this gloves. I'm gonna be ruined.

The postage alone. Stop beledging people. Oh my god, $40. I think most of the people that are placed during the US cross is gonna be like $2 to send a glove. Wow, cancel, cancel now. I thought it would be like two dollars to send a glove. Wow. Cancel. Cancel now. That is terrifying.

That would be so funny, Dave. It's a huge. You don't go as bankrupt. I raised $10,000 for a made up product and this is money. I'm back on board now. Everybody please. No, I don't need now. Everybody please. No. I don't need this.

Give anything you can, share it around, get your friends and family, anything that we can put in. I'll chuck in most of my life savings. Oh, well, yes, well, I can give them to you. I'm gonna have to mail to you, think. I don't know. I need to mail to my US address, please. I don't think the gloves will cost as much to mail

as this sick hoodie. Oh really? $40. I think it'll cost about the same. So everybody please pledge. We need to reach our goal of $10,000. Now I'm torn, because I don't want to encourage him on this. I want him to go broke though.

Why? Because it's funny. I mean, you've grown up in such affluence, Dave. I've never known what it's like. Maybe now's the time to learn. I've never known what it's like to have a dream and then have that dream. Lose you tens of thousands of dollars. So everybody, please pledge.

Anyway, so John is working and performing at this theatre in Indiana. But this was the late 60s. The Vietnam War was escalating. John wasn't interested in being drafted to the war, so he enrolled in college, college, to avoid having to go to war. He enrolled in the University of Wisconsin, but only lasted there for a year. And after he left the University of Wisconsin, he returned to wait to attend a small community college, college of Dupage. Fun fact, the mascot of college of Dupage is the chaparrel, which is a small bird also known as the road runner. Oh, oh, it catches you through me.

Me me. Yeah, so one evening in the summer of 1967, John's high school drama teacher took John and Judy to a second city show, second city being an improv comedy troupe. In Chicago, because it's the second biggest city in America. Is that right, Dave? I think that's what it's called second city.

Is that? Maybe not. The way you asked that has cast out. Don't look it up. Let him sit and be wrong. So if anybody who's not aware of second city, it's an improperly trope, which has been a starting point for comedians and actors like

Alan Older, Joan Rivers, Bill Murray, John Candy, Dan Acro, Tina Fey, Amy Pohler, Steve Correll, Stephen Colbert, so many more, it's completely ridiculous. Yeah. And Judy recalls as they left that night, John said, that's what I want to do. Like it was a huge moment for him seeing Second City and going like, yep, that's what I want to do. That's sick.

Yeah, and that cool. How old is he at this stage? Just finished high school. Yeah, right. That's great. Yeah, and that cool. How old is he at this stage? Just finished high school. Yeah, right. That's great. Yeah. And I don't think many people really, I mean, I'm sure we all kind of have memories of moments where we were like, yeah, I don't know. Maybe we don't. Well, the moment where you go, that's when I want to do that. Yeah. Yeah. I've got a bunch of egg ones. I know Josh Will says who's on a podcast in this network called Don't You Know Who I Am,

which we've all done an episode of recently, if you want to check that out, really fun to show. Great show. But he said that he remembers when the Melbourne International Community Festival Roadshow came through Tasmania. He went and saw the show and the lineup was like ridiculous. I can't remember who it was, but it was something like Will Anderson Dave Hughes, tripod and... Wow. ...cruined grand or something like that. And maybe Pete Helio, or there was some sort of hectic lineup.

Huge. And that was the day, so it was gonna be comedy. That's cool. I've got one. Yeah. I used to play in bands and then I wasn't in a band anymore,

so I had to go solo. So I started doing, I was doing those some freezer geeks, which are like underage, no alcohol, drug and alcohol free events. The drug and alcohol is not free of these. Anyway, so it's just, you know, and why go?

14 to 17 year olds basically going there. And I did a geek one night and my songs went very good because I'm not a great singer, but I did some improv jokes in between the songs and that probably got a better reaction than the actual songs. And then when I went home that night, the ABC were airing raw comedy from that year. And one of the acts was Smart Casual, who were Sydney Double Act, and they did... They don't say to the Hawk.

Yeah, that was that song. The Hawk. I thought that in my head this weekend. So, so funny. And they can walk. Hawk, hands. Who's gonna push the Hawk? Who's gonna do it? It's a great tune. that in my head this weekend. So, so funny. And they can run. Harkins. Who's gonna push the hawk? Oh, you see, it's a great tune.

And they can run comedy and music. And I thought, ah, I didn't know you could do that. And that was one of those moments for me. She started as a musical act. Yeah, yeah. I did some comedy songs first. Yeah, basically just music underneath. But jokes, kind of thing. Yeah, is that, but that's

one of those moments. Okay, my, it just happened to be that I had just done a gig and thought, oh, me talking went better than the songs. And then that came on. I was like, oh, that's an option. I would always leave stand-up shows or tri-pot shows, especially going, I want to do that. I want to do that so badly. And then just never backed myself to do it. And then here we are. Fuck. I don't wanna do it. Anyway, back to Balushi.

So he started LeeZone Comedy Trip in Chicago. They went by the West Compass trio. That was with Tino Insana, and a guy called Steve Bacheckis. This success peaked the interest of Bernie Sallans, I'm probably saying it right, I'm so sorry. He was a founder of Second City and he went to see them perform in 1971 and immediately asked Balushi to come on audition. So he joins the cast at Second City, which was pretty cool. Although he was young and he was untrained, his scruffy, edgy and physical style stood out,

and his energy and fearlessness made him a crowd favorite. Everybody, very quickly, people like this guy is going to be huge. Cool. Second City would hone John's skills, and he in turn would help push the company further because it brought more people in And they everything started to To really get move and which was cool John and Judy moved into a small apartment together in Chicago a block away from second city and at second city He met and began working with a couple of small names Harold Rammus and Brian Doyle Murray. Oh

Brian Doyle Murray. Oh. Brian Doyle Murray. Oh, you know, he's related. He doesn't know he's Bill Murray's all the brother. Yeah, it's a powerful family, the Murray's. I mean, they're in bloody groundhog day together. Yes. Not nice. Isn't there another Murray that...

Is there another acting Murray? I'm looking at Dave like he would have any idea. That is related or just a name. That is related. Is there another human who acts who's named Murray? Yeah, Murray, the red wiggle. Oh, that's right. That's what I was thinking. Better than sticky Greg. Fuck off Greg. Everybody's happy. Fuck off Greg. We're happy when you're not here. Oh. Roodle. Are you looking up Marys now?

Bill Murray, brothers. Joel Murray, John Murray, Edward Murray, the third. What? What? What of them? I don't know if they're Brian, Doyle Murray. Oh yeah, Joel Murray, he's an actor. Isn't that... John's... No, Bill's... He's from the one who wants to go over it. nephew? Brother?

Uh... He's not. That guy. Yeah, Bill Murray's brother. No, shit, what's he in? I know his face. You're gonna say one thing and I'll be like, yeah, I know that guy. Yeah, it's in a lot of stuff.

Yeah. I think he's just one of those guys who is in a lot of things. He was basketball player and the cable guy. He was Val's date in the nanny. I remember Val. I think I actually remember him from the nanny. Right. He was Bob uncredited in the Drew Caryshow.

Great, okay. All right. He was Larry in Malcolm in the middle. So now that we're looking at pictures of actors that aren't related, I might just... He was Gringo and Mr. Pig. He's had an illustrious career, he's a... In 1972, Balushi was offered a role in National Ampune's Lemmings, which was a parody of Woodstock, which was going to play off Broadway that year in 1972.

So Chevy Chase is also involved, and the performers were playing the characters of Rockstar, so they had to be funny, but also musically talented. And it's still a live show at this time. It's a live show. Cool. The show was a bigger success than anyone had anticipated. It ended up touring. It was supposed to just be like a fairly short runoff Broadway.

It ended up touring all over the country. They did like 350 performances. Well, Blue Sheep. Blue. Blue. Blue Sheep played the character of the MC and also did an impression of Joe Cocker. Oh yeah. I can imagine he'd do a good cocker.

Did a great cocker. What Dave? I'm just imagining he's a great impression. Yeah it is, it would be funny. What's the cocker? Yeah, Joe Cocker. Joe Cocker. The musician.

Yeah. Yeah, see I couldn't do it. It's all in the hands I reckon. What would you do? Here I sing. Gravel, gravel. Out of two. There it is.

We wind up and walk around. That was pretty good. Better than we all expect it. Even yourself. Yeah. See, sometimes you can surprise yourselves. Um. And me.

Yeah. Back yourself. Okay. Oh, dear. Oh, no. Um, and me. Back yourself. Okay. Oh, dear. Oh, no. Okay. Oh heavens. Now you just fake it. This truck was with a cold. Yeah. Thank you. Dave.

I'm very perceptive. After the success of Lemmings, John was invited to be involved in the National Lampoon Radio Hour, which is a half hour syndicated comedy program, after a four months of writing and contributing the show, needed a creative director. And John stepped into the role. His first order of business in his role, Bullushi. Oh. Any relation? To Jim?

Yeah, older Jim. His first sort of business was hiring all of his friends. What a guy. When a baby gets in charge, everyone fruit loops for dinner. Which I hope if either of you ever get a decent job. Yes, you're the one who's going to get a decent job and get us. Cush you jobs. Fuck! You're the one.

I'll pay you at least on two occasions. Okay. Not enough. Thank you. Thank you for that. Very. But. But it was two days of work, not a career changing. And a lifetime. Dave, what the fuck have you done for us? Well, we asked you to be on this podcast. That was a pretty good. Okay, so you did one nice thing three years ago I'm trying to think of a grow-up day Day in the past move on one a long term a successful career where I get to be famous all right David's a And only famous could be for any reason. It could be like a thing that makes her seem awful.

That's infamous. Infamous. I don't want to be in the wrong room. I'm positively famous. And rich. Oh, hang on. This is too much. Get a pen.

Yeah. What are you going to, yeah, remember this, Dave? Yes. Come on, mate. No, I probably won't. What are you gonna, yeah, remember this, Dave? Come on, mate. No, I probably won't. So he's hired all these friends, something that... But that totally makes, but it totally is what you would do. I'm not sure it does. Because there is friends because he finds them

all funny and talented over there. And they're not just like friends from primary school, like people that he's worked with. It's not like he's like, oh, I need an accountant. Jack, you can do it. So I'm not an accountant. Just Jack, I'm giving you a job back. Get in the chair.

I don't want the chair. Get in the accountant chair. But I'm a very successful lawyer. I drive a bunch of money. Where your crunch is numbers now. I could be your lawyer. No, I've got a lawyer. That's Gary.

The dog. The accountant. One of my job, and my dog to have a job. So we can come with me to work. He's a good boy. He's a to work. He's a good boy. He's a good lawyer. He's a good lawyer. So he's casting his friends.

This is Gilda Radner, Brian Doyle Murray, and his younger brother Bill Murray. He also cast his new friend Dan Echroyd, who he'd met on a trip, I wrote, triple, on a trip to Toronto to check out the local second city cast in 1974. John took his job very seriously, and although his comedy was wild, his work ethic was professional and focused. Oh. This episode is brought to you by Progressive.

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Ah, the balloon. The balloon. John. John. Ah, John, okay. Hi, Dulles, friends. He's working really hard. In the summer of 1975, a brand new comedy series

was being assembled. Most of National Lampoon's crew was being hired for the new show, with one exception. Everyone around the project and the comedy scene was saying that John should be a part of the show, but the creator, guy called Lawn Michaels, wasn't so sure about Balushi. He'd heard maybe he'd be a bit hard to handle. Lord eventually agreed to meet with Balushi. John.

He was a hard worker. Yeah. He agreed to meet with him, but the meeting was a complete disaster. Apparently Belushi, apparently, allegedly, talks on and on and on about his hatred for TV in an interview about being on a TV show. Yeah. That's great fun. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that I love that he could come back. Yeah. That's great fun. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So that I love that he could come back from that. So that's dangerous. Yeah, he's so dangerous because he just bags out the form on TV. So watching it sucks. Yuck. And the advertisers don't like that. He genuinely did have a distaste for TV. He hated it.

But Judy says she knows John really did want to be part of the show because he knew that this show was going to be something different. And with a lot of prompting from others, Lawner Great to give John another chance. And John came prepared with a new character. A guy that loves TV. He walks in. Apparently John had been quite taken with a Japanese film festival that had been on TV and he'd been studying the actors Okay, he pulled his shoulder length hair back up into a high bun put on a bath robe and got a long sword like stick and

Turned up at the office and he was there in character and after several hours He was escorted into the meeting room with Lon Michaels and some of the other writers. Several hours. Several hours of like, in character. One of the writers was like the people kept telling us like there's this crazy man in the lobby waving a stick around. Like they all thought they were in danger.

I love that they didn't escort him from the premises. They escorted him into the meeting room. So you're gonna have to come this way. I, it's a no for me, you know? Yeah, you just like, that please go. So they bring him in, he's doing this character, and then instead of using the stick he was holding as a sword, he started pretending to play pool with it. And was all funny and sweet and clever, and Lon Michaels was like, oh, great.

And what, and invited him to come and do a screen test. This was like in some of the boardroom I mentioned. Yeah. How strange is that? But apparently quite endearing. Well, yeah, it's, I mean, it feels like our instinct was obviously wrong. You can.

I'm not sure that it was. You think, I'll talk more about that character later. Oh, no, the character being wrong, but us like, yeah, okay, sure. Yeah, poor players. Yeah, look, the worst former comedy, poor comedy. Yeah, obviously, I mean, we weren't there. He was hired, so obviously he I mean, we weren't there. And he was hired.

So obviously he was... It was a difficult one. Because he's very physical as well. Back then, you were allowed to be pretty fucked. Yeah. And he went on to do that a lot. Really? Yes.

So when Satelli Night Live first aired, after all of this drama, right, when the show first goes to air, first character in the first scene was John Belushi. So, he, his talent was undeniable. Everybody loved him, but he was a real perfectionist. He could be very abrasive and a real handful when he felt the show wasn't living up to its full potential. He'd be very vocal about what he saw to be second-rate creative choices.

It almost feels like in reading or hearing a lot about him, it's almost like he's a bit of a control freak. In times when he's in control of things, it feels like things are a bit smoother, but when he has to sort of take it, like he's cast rather than the writers, he doesn't deal as well. He displayed a great deal of dissatisfaction with the women writers, often refusing to be in sketches they had written. Oh my God. Right. According to Jane Curtin, who was one of the first in SNL as well with him, she said this

in 2011, she said he was a misogynist who deliberately sabotaged the work of women writers and comics while working on SNL. She said this is a quote from where she says, so you'd go to a table read and if a woman writer had written a piece for John, he wouldn't read it in his full voice. He felt as though it was his duty to sabotage pieces written by women. What? How was that a duty? What the fuck?

What a good duty. Yeah. Bit, bit strange. However, as if this makes it better, someone in a documentary I watched said that he remembered seeing John with candy and chocolates and flowers for the people he'd pissed off the day before. So all is forgiven. Yay! So he seems like a real handful to work with and that's a recurring theme.

Sounds like a bit of a fuckhead. Yeah. Wow, what a dick. He was really, really focused on his career and being a star. He wanted to be a star. And to push women down. To get there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Cool. He saw SNL as his chance to make it happen. Right. It was his big shot. He was frustrated and very jealous of the attention that Chevy Chase received. His Chevy Chase was seen to be like, he was like the good looking one. He is a massive stud. He's saying, Chevy back there. Yeah, Chevy. If you're just thinking of community Chevy, you probably had a picture, but he was a real young Chevy, like a Caddy Shack and SNL and Fletcher. Yeah. Very like very marketable like he was very TV or film you know like it was like he could

he had the looks to go on from things it wasn't just talented he had the look. He was very funny though. Yeah. I was a kid I found him funny haven't seen those movies in a long time. Yeah I don't know how well they age. Caddy Shagoff saying not too long ago and that was that's still him funny. I haven't seen those movies in a long time. Yeah, I don't know how well they age. Katty Shugoff said not too long ago and that was, that's still really funny. Um, somebody mentioned as well, maybe it was Dan Acroid. I don't know. Somebody mentioned that like, Chevy was one of few people in SNL who would like

use his own name and identify himself. I could say, hi, I'm Chevy Chase in some like weekend update and stuff like that. He would say his name. So people got to know his name a bit better. Otherwise, they're all playing characters, so you don't necessarily get to know their names. It's not quite like now when you've got social media and you can follow all of them and you know what everyone's doing, but. They say Chevy's a bit of an A-hole as well. Yeah, it's notoriously hard to deal with, isn't he? Work with? Yeah. Yeah, I don't know any specific. I've heard that vitally a bunch of times. I also have that perception, but I don't know exactly where I'm from.

Yeah, yeah. I think that's... I've always found that disappointing, but it's like, it just seems like a lot of people who are like, who are like, who are successful and aren't very good people. Yeah. But maybe that's unfair. I don't know. Because I, what you probably don't hear about

is when they're not ourselves, they're just normal people. They're hugeakmans of the world. Yeah. Let's hope that you never hear about him. We never hear anything bad about him. Oh my God, I don't want to know. Ignorance is bliss.

Not our hue. In a show like SNL though, you couldn't wait around for your chance. You had to make your own like and put yourself out there. So, John recreated his character that he'd brought with him to the office that fateful day and created a samurai character. And the fun part about this is the samurai. Fade pool. Ran a deli. Played pool. Ran. A deli. Oh, yeah.

So you use a samurai sword to cut up the meats. Yeah. Very clever. Like that, he's got that from his nunna, Nunchuck, a web of the kitchen. Yeah, not a church. Exactly, that's what I can say. That makes a lot of sense.

Yeah, that's sizzle earlier. Right. They say the best comedy is based on some form of real. Yes. I like how he changed it from Nunchucks to swords. Yeah. Just to mix said the best comedy is based on some form of real. Yes. I like how we're changing from Nunchucks to Swords. Yeah. Just to mix it up a bit.

And apparently this was very... Apparently that was to get away from the copyright law that Nana had put onto him, because she was also a copyright lawyer. Obviously. She said, if you use Nunchucks in your comedy, she said this in Albania. It's on.

No, she said that with a shrug. Come on! Not a verbal communication. Yeah, is it? Hey, come on. Is that the whole phrase? And he understood obviously. Yeah, of course.

Similar to I am Groot. Yeah, exactly. Hey, come on. Come on. Now, this went down really well. Apparently it was very funny. I personally don't think it's aged all that well. Have you watched this sketch?

Yeah, I've watched a bit of it. And you're like, it was one funny part what I thought was kind of clever. So the whole time he's just using a samurai so like throwing a tomato up in the air and like cutting it and just smashing it, salami while he screams in a non-language. It's the fruit ninja over the 70s.

The fruit ninja of the 70s. And then there's one part at the very end where he's made the sandwich and the guy says, could I trouble you to cut that in half? And he like pulls out the sword like, and then like very gently cuts it in half. It's like, okay, yeah, that's classic. That was down the good bit.

Oh, come on. Yeah. I think it's strong. Skeaches, like rarely do they age that well, I think. Yeah. And often, you know, they're classically hit and miss. A sketch show, right? That's the thing they say about sketches. Yeah. Hit and miss.

There always been hit and miss a sketch show. You have no other love setting, I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, I think their highlight packages are really good, but I think they do long sketches, often with small ideas that go on maybe too long. But it also was an hour show, and I have to come up with an hour of new sketch every week. Yeah, that's pretty fun. So it probably means that some ideas are going to be stretched more than they would otherwise.

I don't know. For example, a samurai who owns a deli. I love it. That's... Yeah. He played a series of successful characters over his four years at SNL. They all own delis. No, there is a great corner of a cap over like a diner. That one's fun too.

Dinoslash deli. Yeah, so he's, he was becoming a real crowd favourite. He was very, very popular. SNL was incredibly popular all over the country. The cast were like instant celebrities. He was huge. He was making friends with Hollywood elite, the Rolling Stones were good friends of his, and he and Keith Richards were just hanging out in Belushi's basement. Just hanging out. Wow, put that on the CV. Keith Richards hangs out on my basement.

No big deal. John was quite impulsive on an off stage, and he was, this is one of my favorite stories. He was known to turn up at friends houses and start making spaghetti at three o'clock in the morning. Really without them knowing? Yeah, just sort of let himself in. Right.

But this is, he must have been so fucking charming because those friends telling these stories are like, but hey, that was John. I was like, if I have a friend who lets himself into my house and starts cooking at 3 a.m., I'm gonna be like, oh, classic that. I'm like, get the fuck out of my house. I'm gonna call the police, mate.

Yeah, what are you doing? Get your shit together. That's my spaghetti. I'm charming. Not that charming, mate. That's what I would say. 3 p.m. come on in. Let yourself in at 3 p.m.

No problem. 3 a.m. that problem 3 a.m. That's sleepy time. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know how many times that's time when sleepy time is and isn't Yeah, it's like a man doesn't know when to sleep. That's um, I do if I'm home late I will I will make spaghetti so I have a little blue shin meat. It's your can Yeah, well kind of spigot like what? spaghetti so I've had a little bulgur in me. Do you reckon? Yeah. What kind of spaghetti is the pasta? Yeah.

What are you putting on it? No, no, I like, well, just a basic sort of tomato, napalaton, a kind of sauce. Yeah. Maybe a little oregano or a little basil. Maybe a little bazaar. Maybe a little pomegranate. Maybe some pomegranate. Yeah. A little bit bezel. Maybe a little bazaar. Maybe a pumice. Yeah, maybe some pumice. Yeah.

A little bit of salad, a little bit of a pear. Look, I won't say no. So I'll say yes. Yeah, we'll get great. Thank you. Yeah, fantastic. I'll go to you. 3am is not spaghetti time in my world.

What's 3am for you? Sleepy time. Here we go. So you don't get it. I get it. Dice in the West. We do things very differently. I said once a week, when I work, one AM to six AM, which time is definitely not sleepy time. But you do not eat spaghetti through here. I do not. I eat shapes and often gingerbread.

Yeah, I'm adorable. Okay. So John was already in intense over the top personality, but when he began experimenting heavily with drugs, I don't know how you experiment heavily. Yeah, experiment makes it sound like dabbling. Yeah, he was quite into drugs. I guess he was experimenting heavily like trying lots of different things, I guess. Yeah, but different potions.

Yeah, and not just little bits of them, though. So New York basically became a 24 hour party. That was him. He made it the big apple. Yeah, yeah. Soon never sleeps because of John Belushi. Wow, that's incredible. Yeah, but you didn't know that. What an origin story. Yeah. Oh, by the way, just so we don't get many tweets, LA is the second largest city, but Chicago back in the day used to be seen as the one that rivaled in Iraq. So that's what I was thinking.

But this is something we said 20 minutes ago, so they have already tweeted at us. I just wanted to try and say, now we're trying to tweet. We would have, yeah, delete them. Delete that tweet. Kenny? Delete it.

Yeah, Kenny. Kenny, come on, man. Oh, I'd be so weird if someone had called Kenny had just a weirdo. We had someone's called Kenny. Yeah. There we go. Gotcha. I'm so weird if someone called Kenny had just a weird. It would be so weird if someone was called Kenny. Yeah. There we go. Gotcha.

He was unpredictable. He had a temper and this caused him to be fired and immediately re-hired. By lawnmikers, a number of times. Immediately re-hired, you're fired. And you're hired. You got a contract here it is. That's not quite a immediately date. You're fired, you contract here it is. That's not quite a mevely day, would have been. You fired, you hired. And the fight hired.

In the new contract, he's got a higher pay rate. So he never went out. He just got a raise. That's how lawnmower skis people raises. I like it. Fight hired. What? It's kind of like in four weddings in a funeral

when Hugh Grant says, and has that girlfriend of yours, because she's no longer my girlfriend. And then Hugh Grant's like, well don't worry I'm here she was always sleeping with someone else like she's now my wife. Very good. Yeah. Okay so he was constantly pushing the limit and but he was somehow kind of maintaining a manic pace for a while like it was just go go go go go all the time.

One time he was found asleep in a friend's bed with a lit cigarette in his mouth and the mattress was smoldering. He's like the worst friend in my life. And a people like recalling that, but that's jazz. John. Judy, who'd been by his side since high school, couldn't keep up, didn't want to support his party lifestyle. She basically kicked him out of their house, said he had to find somewhere else to stay.

So naturally, SNL couldn't help but have a little fun with this. And during their live show, they urged the public to write to adopt a Belushi for Christmas. And John could go and stay with them for Christmas. And then Jim turns up, you're like, fuck. I got to walk Jim. Speaking of Jim, Belushi, he remembers talking to his brother and how flippantly John was saying that their lives

are different. Yeah, Judy and I split up, whatever. We're different now. About a month later, John and Judy were married. We're different now. We're married. Yeah, we're different, we're split up. Cause we're getting married.

Fire hired. Fire hired, see? You dumped your wife Because of contract. You got a race. What? What's going on? Matt. You make kiss the bride. Oh, that's why they're always people here. Lord Michael's officiating Wow, Matt if Dave looked me in the eye just said when he said you dumped your my wife. Yeah, that is legal. Sorry, mate I don't want to be Dave's wife. Dave, divorce, who? Looking to her eyes. Divorce me. And null it.

You divorced. You remarried. Ah, look at how it's whining away. Oh, that's whining away. She did look away. I'm so sorry, you were both now, divorcees. Oh. I'm keeping the boat.

We didn't have a boat. I had to see it, but. I had to see it. I had to see it, but. I had to see it, but. Can I play the piano? Like, gun before. That's vaguely relevant. So they're married now.

Judy has been described as like a lion, a tomato, John. She understood him. She helped him. She helped sort of allow him to be what he needs to be. She waived chairs at his face. I kind of can't even give him a a little bit to, I don't know. He seems like the most exhausting person to be friends with

in a relationship with around. I just don't know if I'm trying to keep track of his movements and just, you know, he'd probably go out for days and be like, is he alright? Yeah, that was... So he just in a bed with a cigarette? That's the worst to me. Yeah.

Oh, no thank you. He's in the kind of a shume. He's always alright, but... Yeah, he's one of those me. Yeah. Oh, no, thank you. You need kind of a shume. He's always all right. But yeah, he's one of those people you'd be like, I mean, I know he's fine. Yeah. You'd be out with him a couple of times and that would give you an idea that he is always fine. And that is the thing. They all kind of had this feeling about him. He was just this indestructible person. He was just this party boy. Yeah, insane. By the end of the second season of SNL, he was a fully fledged TV star.

But pretty soon, as it always does, Hollywood came a nookin. Who's that at the door? Hollywood! Sorry? Hollywood. I don't know who that is. I'll come back. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

They sent Mickey Mouse to a... ...every Hollywood. Hollywood! You just got less than those confidence. Check the address. Check the fucking address next time. Hollywood! Hollywood! Hollywood! Hollywood.

Ha ha ha ha! In 1978, he performed in a series of, if he films, one was old boyfriends, there's also Go and South directed by Jack Nicholson. Fuck, I should've said directed by Jack Nicholson. And Animal House directed by John Lenders. Upon its initial release, Animal House received generally mixed reviews from critics, but time proclaimed it as one of the years best. But issue was completely focused. The concept of time. The concept of time said Animal Way. Over time, people now look fondly upon that.

While they were filming, he was completely focused because he wanted to do well in film. What he always sort of was working towards was a career in film. So he was clean, because he hates TV. He hates TV, man. He said he spits on his TV. Yeah. In his meeting for a job on TV. Before he did his shit on lawnmotch, he's head.

Does he know that you can watch movies on TV? Yeah, TV's great. He's spitting on it. It's very versatile. Yeah. I'm a going to learn much about his head. Does he know that you can watch a movie on TV? Yeah, TV's great. He's spitting on it. It's very versatile. Yeah, I'm a big fan. If any TV big wigs out there want to give me a job. If there are any wigs, I don't care the size. I'll take your job.

Little wigs. Little wigs give us little gigs. Little wigs little gigs. Copyright. If lawn's listening. That's your me is. We're available. But where are packing to do? You can hire fire us anytime. We's your ears. We're available. You can hire fireers anytime.

Fire hire, don't hire fire. No, but if you close your eyes. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I close my eyes. Just close them. You never look at the lawn in the eye. And then turn around and run. Because of my heavy eye steps.

I can't keep them open. I'm sorry, Lon. So yeah, he was a good boy. He was clean and he was really focused during the filming actually He was working two jobs. He was commuting between Oregon and the SNL studio in New York. Oregon, no, which I put on my pasta That was from his oragano from Oregon. No Really? Sougano. So is that quite a... Oh, fuck off! I just took you sick to get it.

Yes, you are lightning fast and that was very funny. That's one point that's quite a long commute from... Yeah, huge. Huge. Where's Arugano in the... Is that on the West Coast? Portland's on the West Coast. Yeah. Yeah, so he's working really hard.

He's character only had about 50 lines of dialogue, but he managed to steal the spotlight in the film with his facial expressions and his magnetism. All 50 lines were like grunts as he was hitting some of the sword. One, one, one, two, he was only, he was the only one who was allowed to improvise. Everyone else was very tightly scripted. And he was allowed to go a bit, go a bit Lucy Goosey on it. I'm just a Goosey Dunber Lucy. Oh, and he was saying, I'm lightning falls.

Obviously, good director. That's true. Like John Landis. Um, the film did really well at the box office. It's one of the most profitable movies of all time. Why? Apparently. Maybe then.

Why? Um, why? Why? A couple of the lines of his in the movie. He's the most memorable lines. And now, John Belushi was a movie star. Yes. What movie were you talking about?

I don't know how. Yeah, that's Togorant. Togor, Togor. And Belushi. Togor. John. And Dan Acroid had been talking for years about starting a band.

They debuted the Blues Brothers on SNL. And we're a hit with the audience Brothers on SNL and were a hit with the audience. So they were just like a, I think they originally did it as like audience warm up and then eventually they went on as like a musical guest. And although they were like, they were taking their music very seriously, it was still quite funny as well and the audience absolutely loved them. Steve Martin, who was at the peak of his stand-up career at the time, was a guest host that night and asked them to open for him like a stadium because Steve Martin was doing like arenas. Yeah, it was a world and crazy guy.

He was insane. Have you read Born Standing Up? No, but I've seen the cover. Great, that's battle you need. Yeah. No, he's so amazing. So he asked them to open for me. Should I read it? Yeah, it's really good. I should read it. It's someone of those books that everyone's read, but me. Maybe I'll get it on Audible. Yeah Dave's just looking up to see if it is on Audible. I deal with him. Yeah, baby. I believe it read by Steve Mark. Oh man, that would be

so good. Well, that is a book I'm going to. I've read the book. With your eyes, like an idiot. And thoroughly enjoy it. I'm gonna really listen to it. Steve Martin doing it. Yeah, fuck that. Get him to do the hard work. That's cool. I feel like when you're reading someone's autobiography,

it's so much better to hear it in their words. Yeah. I think Tina Feyn, the writer, I think you want to hear it in their words, I doubt it. Anyway, so they did so. Despite some of the audience initially being quite skeptical, a lot of people were there sort of thinking like, oh, I had the Steve Martin opening.

Yeah. It's always hard to open for another comedian. Totally. Paid money to see a certain person. Especially in musical, especially in acts that people kind of see as characters from another show, it's not really related. It would be hard, but they smashed it.

I think they're kind of perfect because they're not trying to be particularly funny, right? Music already provides its own energy, it's very different, it's not like someone doing Steve Martin worse than him. Yeah. I feel like it's completely different than also like a great energy totally. Yeah. And like, Balushi can sing and Dan Accroyd can really play the harmonica.

And their band were made up of these amazing musicians, which I'm about to talk about. So they actually did super, super well. So with the help of pianist Paul Schaefer. Wow, from the CBS Orchestra. They started assembling studio talents to form a proper band. So they got the SNL sax offenist blue, blue,

marini and Trombonist sex offenist Tom Malone, fucking great names. They also got Steve Cropper, he was on guitar and bassist Donald Dunne went by duck, Donald Duck. Of course. And in 1978, the Blues Brothers released their debut album, Briefcase, Full of Blues, with Atlantic Records. The album reached number one on the Billboard 200 and went double platinum. That's awesome, two million copies. It exploded. It was so good. So, in 1979, Belushi left Saturn out live, so did Acroid, because they wanted to pursue a career in film.

So how many years, Dr. Dan? They did four. Four seasons, right? Yeah. They made three movies together, 1941, which was directed by Steven Spielberg, neighbors, and most notably the Blues Brothers, which again was directed by John Landis. It's a great movie, it really is. Released in the US on the 20th of June 1980, the Blues Brothers received generally positive reviews. It earned just under $5 million in its opening weekend

and went on to grow as $115 $5 million in its opening weekend and went on to grow as a 115.2 million in theaters worldwide. That insane. This worldwide baby. What was the budget? I thought I remembered it to be a flop, and then it was only over time. It did better over time and it also did better overseas. Right.

So in the US it didn't do super well, but it was huge here in Australia. And wasn't it the most expensive car, chase, car crash scene of all times? So many cop cars in this town. Yeah, I was really... I think at the time, and maybe even still, I'm probably not still. They bought a bunch of old cop cars, and I think they paid like 400 bucks a pop for them. Their first draft, so they had a really short turnaround. So Dan Acroid wrote the first script and it was like 324 pages long. It was like triple the length of a normal screenplay and then

John Landers had to kind of edit it all down into something filmable and then they just filmed it. So it was a really quick turnaround from writing it to filming it, to getting it done. So after a good like five months of filming and partying, John was completely exhausted. And at this point, Judy and Dan, Acroed, and Judy, Ejeklyn Balushi, consulted a doctor about rehab for John because they were a bit concerned about him.

But he was sure he didn't need any help and could handle anything on his own. But then John got news that his grandmother, Nana, was in hospital having suffered a heart attack. John Lincoln, it lingered in Chicago for two days, not wanting to visit, because he felt like she was waiting for him, holding on for him, so that if he went to see her, she'd die.

Things like, I'm not gonna go because then she'll die. Eventually, he did go to see her, but she was more worried about him, saying he looks tired and he needed some sleep. No, no, no. She passed away a little while later, and a week after a funeral, John Sore psychiatrist,

and took a new course of action. He hired a man named Richard Smoky Wendell, a former Secret Service agent who'd been working as a bodyguard for Joe Walsh from the Eagles, and Smoky was hired to protect John from himself. He was there to stop John from being tempted by drugs and I'll keep him under control. Never heard of that. Isn't that right? Yeah. He's securing a security guard to protect you from you.

At one point, apparently John tried to like, sneak out the kitchen window and get out and like he got out onto the street and smoke, he was just standing there like, come on dude. That would be frustrating. I'm sick of service. Because he, when he, he could farm at could fire him at any time, like, yes. Yeah. So that would be the tricky thing. I suppose that maybe John's wife or something

is like, hey, only I can fire. Yeah. If John says you're fired, you're actually fire hired. Yeah. You're getting a raise. You're a fire hydrant. That's an improv game we're trying. Please put out the fire. Um, we didn't start the fire. John Belay, you did. You were smoking in bed. So, this kind of, he started to do quite well. He even hired a personal trainer who's looking after his physical health a bit better. He took on a couple of different roles, like one in romantic comedy, which kind of stretched him as a performer, because he was so used to doing things so over the top and the director of that film having to be like, turn it down a little bit, just be a regular person, but that move was a bit

of a flop. And then turn it down to match. Turn it down to match. No idea what he was saying, just muttering to himself. On the fifth of March, and it was literally just saying motto. Yeah, as we eat, the record is going good. Yeah, good. Great. On the fifth of March 1982, Belushi's trainer Bill Wallace arrived for a scheduled workout and found John Belushi, uh, dead at the Chateau Mamot hotel on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. He was 33 years old. Gosh, Jesus is age. I didn't realize he was so young. He didn't look that young, I think.

True. But he also did a lot of stuff for that age. The cause of death was a combined drug intoxication involving cocaine and heroin, a drug combination known as a speed ball. Why do you know that David? There's a lot of people who have overdosed on them, a lot of famous people. I just don't understand why you would combine them. It seems like a recipe for disaster.

It always seems so heartbreaking too when they're doing well and then things sort of turn and you kind of went back to drugs. In the early morning hours of the day of his death, he was visited separately by friends. Robin Williams, have I heard of him? Yes. Robert De Niro. Oh. As well as...

On the day, so sorry. So this is like earlier in the day. So he would have... On the same day beforehand. Yeah. I think it might have been like early, like as you say, one a.m. kind of early morning and then he was found dead. Isn't this crazy thing that Rob Williams and Rob Adinero both drop in?

Like, what? What? What's celebrity? Well, he was like a, he was an it guy. You know, your favorite father, John Misty song? Chateau, lobby number four. You know what Chate Shadow that's talking about? No.

Yes. I just double checked. That and not that firstly, very cute. You remember that's my favorite father John Misty song. But then again, the time that we went and saw him, I was like, this is my favorite song. I think the whole theater heard. I don't care. It's my favorite. Is that in reference to John Belushi's?

No, it's in reference to the Chateau Memorial. Because I think, and I didn't look into these heaps because I did finish this report at 3am. But I think other things have happened at this, quite a bit of an infamous place. Is that correct? Yeah, inside these walls of the Chateau Memorial, include these people people have worked there

including Billy Wilder, Hunter S. Thompson, Annie Libowitz, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Death Grips, and John Blue she died there. Wow. But it's been mentioned in a bunch of songs. Yeah. It's a good, it's like it's a it including one by Angus and Julius Stone called Chateau. Oh, I like that song and Trigger bang by Lily Allen Jim Morrison Live there for a while God lot of people you mentioned did die young. Yeah, well, okay

So someone else that visited him as well was a woman called Catherine Evelyn Smith. She was like a backup singer and drug dealer. Two months later, she admitted in an interview with the National Inquirer that she'd been with Balushi the night of his death and had given him the fatal speedball shot. After the appearance of the article, I killed Balushi, subreddit is really being created with their headlines there. It was published in June 29, 1982. The case was reopened, and she was extradited from Canada, arrested and charged with first degree murder. Really? And a plea bargain reduced the charge to involuntary manslaughter, and she served 15 months in prison. I didn't know that anybody who had been charged with, oh, around his death.

So why was that article written? Because she admitted that she had injected him. Right. Who did she admit that? She actually injected him, just give him the drugs. Yeah, I've read that she injected him. Oh. Yeah, right. I'm not sure why she admitted that in give him the drugs. Yeah, I've read that she injected him. Ooh. Yeah, right. I'm not sure why she admitted that in an interview.

Yeah. But that's what caused the case to be reopened. Seems naive. Does him a bit naive. Oh, maybe she felt guilty and wanted to turn. Yeah, maybe. Maybe they paid her. Yeah, that would be naive.

Yeah. To do that for the money. Yeah. And then think you're not going to get in trouble. Yeah. So two weeks after he's death, the next episode of SNL, as it went live, Brian Doyle Murray gave a tribute to him. And he told a story about a time.

He and John were walking in the snow, the heads down, and all of a sudden John pushed Brian out of the way. And Brian looked up to see John get hit by a truck and fall to the ground. And John got up, dusted himself off and was completely fine. Like an ambulance came, they took him to hospital, they x-rayed, he was fine. But Brian's like that truck would have killed me. He's like, he, John saved my life and then sort of paid tribute to him on behalf of liaison all class and crew and everything. It's a really nice tribute.

So yeah, that's the life and death of John Belushi, but I have some fun facts because I didn't want to end on a sad tribute there. That was a lovely tribute, but I loved it. I loved it as some fun facts. Well, one of them I mentioned before, these are fun facts about Blue's Brothers, the movie. Oh, good. One of them was one that I had before about Dan Acroid writing 324 pages of his first draft.

Did you know that Dan Acroid and Carrie Fisher became engaged during the filming? No. So they had sort of become a couple, set up by John Belushi, and they became engaged after Acroid, successfully administered the Heimlich maneuver on her. This is what Fisher said. She said, I almost choked on some kind of vegetable they shouldn't have been eating. Brussels sprouts. Some kind of vegetable. He saved my life and then asked me to marry him and I thought, wow, what if this happens again? I should probably marry him. They did not get married.

Oh, but I enjoy that. Fisher wasn't the only Star Wars connection. Frank Oz, we've mentioned before for his work from the market. He played the corrections officer who returns Jake's belongings to him at the very start of the movie. That's Frank Oz. Right. Isn't that cool? That's cool.

And my final fun fact ties into our beautiful city. Shikorgi. Shikorgi. The Blues Brothers was very, very popular in Australia, as well as other parts of it. Like I mentioned before, it was hugely successful overseas. Similar to the Rocky Horror Picture Show in New York, the Blues Brothers was shown regularly in Melbourne's Valhalla cinema on Friday nights for the 80s and 90s, whereas many as 400

costume fans would watch as 30 actors recreated the scenes as the movie played with everybody singing along to the musical performances. What, are people voicing, are they mining along? What's going on? I have no idea if they're singing live or but they're performing along with the movie. That's fun. That is fun.

That's fun. Fun fact. I also just remember that we did Shake Your Tail fellow feather when I was in grade five and I played Ray Charles. Is that weird? Not for a primary school thing. Yeah, great. Without having not been there, I can't. I can't. I'm sure. Hopefully you were doing it. I think there's a picture somewhere. Yeah, when we're not talking about Blackface, are we? No, no. Okay, I, I didn't know that information. I assumed not, but I said it, I thought it was fine for a particular. Correct assumption.

I just stood in front of the keyboard for a bit and my aunties were heard about the family of a dancing with. Yeah, I think you're allowed to sing right child songs of the kid. Thank you. In grade two, I once, oh Dave, sing-right child song Great to I once Oh Dave now walked out dressed as a bug and said welcome to the ugly bug ball I have to audition for that line Like seven other kids audition

You were picked as the ugliest bug. Yeah, why do you think you got the role? I think I just had a bigger voice than the others. Yeah, that's yeah Yeah, definitely not those big bug like eyes. I just had a bigger voice than the others. Yeah, that's right. Definitely not those big bug-like eyes. I was wearing a mask. Yeah, but you had an ugly presence about you. That was the vibe you brought to the role. And I had an ugly, unbodied role.

I was like, walk around. Why did you have a gate there? Well, I needed permission. You needed permission? Yeah. Okay. I give needed permission. You needed permission? Yeah. Okay. I give you permission. So that's my report about. Try.

Is that a small? I give myself a mission to shine. Gotta shine so bright. Gotta make it feel like Vanessa Rhyme or Rosie. I'm gonna see me. Give myself permission to shout. Bachelor girl? Oh, that's not sure.

But that is the end of my report, boys. Another Hollywood star where you think he was probably a bit of a prick. Yeah, I reckon he would have been hard to deal with. It was Bachelor girl. Well done. But, yeah, obviously very talented. And achieved a lot in,

I didn't realize how short a life. It's only 33. Yeah, that is a lot. Yeah. Yeah, I pictured him to be in his 40s for sure. Yeah, I thought older, but yeah, there you go. Very well done, Jessica Perkins. Thank you so much.

Thank you so much. If you like John Belouch, yeah, listen to this podcast called Mark Check. And they haven't listened to me, but they've done a few episodes on John Belouchy on his career as well. If you want to hear more, like, I imagine more specifically about his movies and stuff. More of the Belouch. More Belouch, more like unpacking of movies and stuff, but that's super fun pod. And with that, the trip ditch is complete,

so will you stretch it? God no, three, three and done. Three and done. Can you name one good third sequel? Little weapon four. Return of the Jedi. Return of the Jedi. The Hunger Games. Second Sequel.

It's only about fourth. Oh, you want the fourth one? Yeah, third Sequel. Oh! Yeah, the fourth one. Yeah. So I've done two of those. Yeah, Dave's done one incorrectly.

So the third Sequel, I think you meant the third film overall I don't know many day really has been wrong there's unlikely this part of the episode will see the lot of day he will be hounding you. I will. I'll be having you. Well I give you I'll give yourself permission to try. Shine shine. I'm going to try so bright. All right, that was a great episode. I've got to say. Thank you. I didn't know much about him.

Yeah, I didn't know either. Hey, so guys, there's a new segment of our show for some of our Patreon subscribers on the Sydney Shineberg level and above. They get to ask a question, give a quote or a fact. This segment's called fact quote or question. Love it. And you know, that's a working title. They get to give themselves a title themselves.

I suggested you, a new vice president, but so far none of them. For all of them. None of them pick that. No, each individual so this weeks fact better question is from a guy who's given himself the title the most average American His name is Joe Smith and he said yes, that is my real name And this is his question my question is if you all

Love it love it is American even from his title, but also from the way he says you all. My question is, if you all, which is great, you know he's American even from his title, but also from the way he says you all, my question is, if you all had to swap podcasts with another podcast on the Planet Broadcasting Network for one week, who would you swap with? Like, would you three together want to do the weekly planet, hey fam, or TOEFOP for example, that was a bracketed part so that wasn't yeah, probably not. And which podcast would you all want to do yours podcast in yours absent? I don't think sounds stupid when you say yours. The podcast must go the same way but basically we're just swapping the people in the scenario. Thanks guys, y'all are awesome. Well, y'all are awesome, Joe Smith.

Thanks, y'all. I would like to do two and a think tank. Yes. So us three would do two and a think tank. Am I lucky out of the think tank? I was banging on the tank's door. Yeah. Okay, fair enough.

I was like that. And then they would have to do it. Because I think, well, we already know Andy's Very capable of doing a report. He's done a great one for us. Al would be awesome as well. Oh, you do a swat. Yes So the swap with them. All right. All right. All right. Interesting. That's how it works, isn't it? I did read the bit in the brackets. Yeah, that's how it works. That's what a swap is Yeah, we're now. This is fun. I Think you get to pick a different one. You can pick a different one to do out so it doesn't have to be a direct spot.

Well, I'd also like a direct spot. Okay, great. The three of us with Auntie Donna because I think they have no rules, no structure. They just get to fuck around, which is when you think about the one of them's a horse, one of them's a chicken nugget. Yeah, well's all time. Chicken toss. Matt's the third one. And then I'd love to hear them, the craziness that is them, try and do a report and what and when it goes off the rails, it would really go off the rails. Yeah, big time. Yeah, that's good. That'd be awesome. I should have thought of sort of thought about this at all,

but those are both really good. Okay. Maybe I'd get that's it all, but those are both really good. Okay. Maybe I'd get a planet, weekly planet in here, and I'd get James to do a report to May so about a real bad murder. Ooh, okay. Maybe. No. I'll-

About, no, about a real good movie. Okay, and in We'd go and do Their Podcast no we'd go and do Josh L's podcast David be Josh and you and I'd be contestants contestants Okay, so who's doing the weekly planet that week? No one? Oh gosh, or Josh is Josh's Josh goes over to we can talk about a superhero in coming with moving news. Yes, he'd be great at because Josh can do it no wrong. I'd get I'd get Maceau of Change my one. Maceau to do the report on

10 age mutant internet turtles to to James. Right. Thank you. James Smith, is this what you want? John Smith, sorry. Joe Smith. Joe. Fucking. Oh, that's not the most average. John Smith is the most. John Smith, sure.

Second most average, Joe Smith. Then John, Joe blogs. Yes. John Tudorson. Jane Doe. Jane Doe. You know, I get it. You get it. So that was this week's question, fact question or oh my god.

Yes. So yeah, a few of them come in already. There's going to be a few questions. No one's going to quote yet, but anyway, and a lot of people haven't got back to me. So if you are on the Sinishanberg Patreon level, please hit me up with your theme of jig. And the Patreon's been going very well lately. We are up to I think 75 or 75. So I'm going to go back to the last one. If you are on the Sinishanburg Patreon level, please hit me up with your theme a jig. And the Patreon's been going very well lately. We're up to I think 75 or 76% of the way

to our US tour goal. So excited. We're actually, we're starting to actually talk about like it's probably maybe going to happen maybe. I almost thought it was, I was all talking then like I thought it was and I'm like, nah, I don't know. who knows. So if you want to help us get to that goal You can always it's actually at 78% my goodness My goodness Good Willikas My grandma says good lord. Oh, that's good. She's 92

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Grandmother's referencing Neil Diamond this whole time. Yeah, so anyway, you want to get involved in the Patreon, just head to patreon.com. So I just do go on pod or our website, do go on pod.com. And you get two bonus episodes per month, a certain level or above, you get shoutouts, you get to vote for the topics, or basically shape the show and what we talk about. And you also make maybe hit your fact, quote, or question, or you get us to thank you live on air, which we'll do right now. Live. With does record life. I mean, this is a live recording.

Love to say. Live to tell, which really does take away the live crazy element, but we'll do it anyway. And what are we going to thank them? How are we going to thank them this week? Yeah, I was thinking, I don't know, Matt, any ideas? Sometimes we do with Blues brothers. Yeah, I was thinking like giving them an instrument to play, or maybe like a Blues name. Oh, yeah. Or anything else if I would of you want to help.

No, this is your role. I don't want to step on your toes. What if they were, I'm going to step on your toes. Blues brothers, what about there's some other band name that's similar to Blues brothers, something sisters, the cousins, the uncles, the aunts, whatever. Love it, yes. Great. Yeah, cool.

I was just taking it all in, orally. Taking it all in. Yeah. All right, cool. Who wants to kick us off? I'd love to start by thanking from the United Kingdom of England in London. Yeah, nice. A man who runs a website called a place to hang your cape.

Yes. Which is a superhero based hangout zone. And a long time supporter. Long time supporter. His name is David Malowski. Oh, it's David. Okay, so it doesn't always have to be, it could either be a colour, it could be a genre of music, it could be a feeling, and then a collection of people.

It could be more than a feeling. What about Cape something, the Cape? Cape hangers. The Cape hangers, that's pretty good. Cape hangers, I mean. And they provide the official soundtrack to a place to hang your cape. Yeah, yep. And what about David Molowski and the Cape hangers? Oh,, they provide the official soundtrack to a place to hang your cape. Yeah. Yep. And what about David Milovsky and the cape hangers? Oh, now you're talking like that.

I guess it had been you know, we love our ender. Yeah. I do love it. I'm being into that. He was a little something you started it. Yep. And David Milovsky is finishing. And thank you. I know they should be a little started. Thank you.

Thanks for going with me there. And thanks to David for the support. Place down your cape. Check it out if you would like to go to the Hangout Zone. I hope I'd describe that. Okay. I'd also love to thank from Brisbane in Queensland. One of our favorite towns.

I say ours, one of my favorite cities. It's pretty good. Oh, we've loved our last show we did last year and we are hoping to maybe visit again sometime. Yes, we're hoping to maybe, yeah, maybe pre-Christmas again, maybe, maybe. We should probably start planning that properly. From Brisbane, I'd love to thank Timothy Barry, a man with two first names. Timothy Barry.

A man after my own heart. Oh. Timothy Barry. And the... Timothy. Timothy. It's not an end, though. and the... Timothy... It's not an end though. Timothy Barry and the Maroon Mist.

Oh! Oh, I love it. I love that. Queenslander. Queenslander. Queenslander. That's great. That is good.

The Maroon Mist. Sounds like a Subaru as well. Yeah. I don't want to check that out. That is great. Thanks, Timmy Barry. On your Timmy Barry. That's a real great name.

Timmy. Rock solid. Barry is one of my favorite names. Because it sounds like Gary. Yes. I get it. Dave, would you like to go next? Thank you.

Thank you so much. I would like to thank from the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand. And I would like to give this... I don't want one for anything over there. I'd like to give them plenty of thanks. Oh. That is to Fraser Cameron. Fraser. Fraser.

Fraser Cameron. Fraser Cameron. Butty, noiles and the gang, hopefully, are all doing well. Also, Daphne. Love Daphne. Little dog. And obviously... Eddie. Eddie the dog. Oh, also Daphne. Love Daphne. Little dog, and obviously. Eddie.

Eddie the dog. And your old man, Mr. Crane. Crane. Hopefully he's doing as well. What about Rose? Oh, Rose can fuck off now. Like, Rose, Rose is great. What about Mr. Crane in the forgotten rosters?

LAUGHTER I like it. Yeah. That's very good. Fraser Cameron, that is your new band or hang out zone name. Congratulations. Mr. Crane in the Forgotten Rosas. Bay of Plenty.

It sounds amazing. It does. I love to go there. And I'd like to thank my final person is from North Yorkshire. Yorkshire. York from North Yorkshire. Yorkshire. Yorkshire. Redcar.

Redcar. Redcar in North Yorkshire. Over in G.B. I'd like to thank Sean Oliver. Sean Oliver, another man with two first names. Well, got some more Sean Oliver. Yeah, great. Is that something? Yeah, let's make that something. So what, say it again more short Oliver. Yeah great. Is that something? Yeah let's make that something. So what what say again? Sean Oliver and the twist. Coughs some more. Scora. Oh no

that enough for me porridge. The birds go. Cough a little bit more. Feds are coming up me porridge. Something like that. That is not an excuse to lose par with them. Oh the birds have gone out. How did they get it? They can't carry a ball. They're blowing in. Tucked it under the wings and off they popped. They didn't eat that they just took the ball. They took the ball. I'm scared.

I'm going to use my hands now. Please sir, don't prepare porridge into me palms. I'm putting a spoon in the water. Thank you sir. Thank you for this burning pain. So what have we got Sean Oliver and the bird safes? Yeah. Yeah.

Sean Oliver. You really birds. You disappeared into that. My eyes rolled back. Yeah. In my head. That was beautiful. But did some did some what happened no I'll replay it for you like that something else that was dedicated to you that much got important under the way you're insane thank you Sean and I would like to thank a couple of people as

well a few boys don't mind I'd love you to thank some people. Thank you so much. I would like to thank from Surrey also in great Britain Adam Knight. Oh, God great name Holy moly with a K Adam and the round table Band is a table. Yeah, it's just him. Heading a table. But does he move around the table?

Hey! He's got eight cents at the table and he displays musical tunes. Does a different voice for each of them? I mean, you can veto it if you hate it. No, I love it. You hate it. I get it. I get it.

Adam and the round table. Yeah, I like it. Adam loves it. Adam loves it. Adam loves it. Thank you. Adam, we love you. His tables also, it's really easy to get from gig to gig because he just rolls it down the road. Yeah, it's his motor trans, as well. Johnson holds one leg with his hands. Like what are the things that he might eat? Wee!

Yeah, like a little hamster wheel. Yeah. And I would also like to thank if I may, Dave, we had Sean DeFore from North York we had Shondafore from North Yorkshire, this person is from West Yorkshire. What are the bloody chicks? You know the North Yorkshire's and the West Yorkshire's love each other. Thank goodness.

You two need to find each other and become friends. We'll send us a picture. Thank you. This person is from Oset in West Yorkshire. It's Steven Grunner. Oh. That's Steven Groon there. Oh. That's a good name. Oh, wedding, when do we hear wedding bells? I'm sure he doesn't get that all the time.

What everything we do is things they get all the time. Do you not think Oliver gets bird thief all the time? Steven Groon, any ideas? Steven Groon and the funeral directors. Oh, because you think, fuck yes. You think wedding. For weddings and a funeral. You twist that around a little bit. Stephen groom, it's got a beautiful rhythm. I love it. Stephen groom and the funeral directors. Dave, that's great. That's some of your best work. Thank you so much. And they all dress up. They all wear all black suits. Yes. Oh, and they just play like this,

this groom look on their face. Yeah, really morning music. Yeah, you do not play this at night. Do not. Ha ha ha. Awesome, thank you, Steven groom. Thank you, pun king. And thanks everyone for watching the show at patreon.com slash do go on part.

It really helps and when we hit goals like the US tour that is just going to make our lives. Ah, absolute dream come true if we get to tour to America or anywhere but certainly America would be amazing. Certainly would be. If you'd like to get in contact at any time do go on pod.com, because you've got all the links there. You can also click on suggested topic there and you can put a get in contact at any time, do go on pod.com, because you've got all the links there. You can also click on a suggested topic there,

and you can put a topic in the hat that one of us may choose. You can tell us about the topic, why we should do it. That's always nice to read. You read your little pictures. And then... Read your pictures. He does not understand pictures. No, he does.

And also see our words on Instagram. Hang on for me, so you can pitch the topic to us and we read it. And it's often while we choose them. Jess has also just taken the reins of Instagram off Dave, because Dave, we found out years after we started that he doesn't really understand how it works. So if you've ever messaged on Instagram, you'll probably get a reply now.

And, uh, no, we're up to date with the messages. I'm just gonna send you a message on Instagram. And also, we'll probably, uh, just start doing more stories and stuff, I think. So I put that pressure on me. Please do. I mean, we all have access to it. You can just ask. I just did, please.

I thought you said, no, no problem. I just saw you doing a story now and I think that maybe we're gonna start doing stories now because you're doing a story now. Now, right now. Yeah, fucking love and it's so hard. I'm watching your story, it's pretty good. All right, I would say if anyone's still listening, but I'm starting a new podcast

and these guys are gonna be on some time. It's coming out soon, so I just thought I'd put the word out, but I think it'll be out in the next few weeks called Primate, and it's all about apes and monkeys in popular culture. Sounds silly when you say it out, layout. Oh, it doesn't, it sounds genius. So yeah, well, I'll tell you more about that in future episodes.

Yes, we'll definitely let you know when it comes out, very excited, Matt and I recorded our episode of that one already, and it was a lot of fun talking about. Wow, it doesn't let you know when it comes out. Very excited. Matt and I recorded our episode of that one already and it was, um, was a lot of fun talking about it. Wow, it doesn't sound like it was fun at all. It really was. It was, um, how do I say it was nice. It was pleasant. How do I say, how do I say, yeah, it's jealous a quiet. It'd like to sit in, it's a quiet. It'd like to sit in a fun or interest. Oh, it's. But it finished. And yeah, and we were able to move on with the last.

No, we got to talk about one of my favorite things in the world, but we're not spoiled. It was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. And yeah, when that comes out very, very soon, getting contact anytime, thanks so much for listening. We'll be back next week with another episode. But until then, I will say thank you, and I will say good bye. Bye.

Bye. The pipes of jungle. Thank you and I will say good bye. Bye! The pipes of jungle. Go sing it now. The pipes of John Belouch. This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. Visit planet broadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates. I mean, if you want, it's up to you.

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