139 - John Belushi
00:00 Melbourne and Canada, we got exciting news for you. And we should also say this is 2026. Jess, what year is it? 2026. Thank God you're here. Right now, I'm in Melbourne doing my show with Serenji Amarna, 630 each night at the Cooper's Inn Hotel, having so much fun. We'd love to see you there.
00:17 Canada, we are visiting you in September this year. If you've somehow missed the news, we are heading up Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, and Toronto for shows. That's going to be so much fun. Tickets for all this stuff, I believe, are online. And I'm here too. This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. Visit planetbroadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates.
00:41 Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On. Do Go On. My name is Dave Woeke. And I'm here with Jess and Matt. How many weeks are roses now? Jess, if you want to do the intro, you just say. I just like doing things together. Oh, okay.
00:59 Just like to be near you. It was hard to tell if you were trying to annoy him or you wanted to be him. Be him. The girls want to be on him. And the guys want to be with him. Is that it? Is that it? Yeah.
01:14 It's really hard to talk when Jess is going under me. Did I say English words then? No. It was all backwards and it just sounded like you were saying, The Satan is my God. The Satan. Oh, how embarrassing. Oh, yeah, I'm the idiot.
01:28 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 I want you I can't stand the the the they are so pretentious
01:48 oh my goodness yes anyway can we talk about the the oh they're back all right get out of hear the band the the please now if we could just chat about the the the Your name. Sorry, did somebody mention us? No.
02:03 No, I'm talking about the, the, and the Satan's name, please. The The The, get out of here. Thank you. Sorry, the Satan. I'm, look, I'm going to just do it. You're Satan now, okay? Okay. You're looking at me like I'm Satan.
02:18 You are. Thank you. Thank you so much. In our worlds. They 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.
02:27 You said that men, women want to be. With me, men want to be on me. No, the way around. I don't care. I'll take them all. All right. Oh, okay. Yeah, great.
02:35 Much like Satan. Thank you. He'll take them all. I don't know what that means either. Jess, I'm looking forward to taking you out of context yelling. What was it? I love the Satan. Now, I've said it.
02:45 Oh, God. Matt, quick, you say it. Otherwise, you'll be able to use this against him. I love goodness. Oh, well planned. And purity. And being kind. I can't think of a third nice thing.
03:00 I can't think of what's that thing that all those fucking nerds say. I think you'd find that Satan would find it hard to say I can't do it. I can't pretend. The word was burning my tongue. How very interesting. So anyway, we're a show called Do Go On, the podcast.
03:18 Let do go on podcasts. And we... No podcast. Just do go on. Do go on. Great. Okay. And on this show each week, we do a different...
03:27 Rap. Rap. Oh, no. No, she made me say rap. In West Philadelphia, a board and raised. I don't know why that was in my head. Well, that was the first rap. Yeah.
03:39 Yeah. If you're going to think of rap, that's the rap you think of. Correct. I mean, you're the person who was talking about ASAP Rocky before. Yeah. So you know rap. I know rap. Anyway, so this show is called Do Go On, and it's about a different topic each week.
03:52 And one of us does a report on that topic. This week, it's just turn. And to get on top. She's feeling destructive. Jess will ask a question and then we'll do the report. I now understand. Thank you. Now Jess asks the question.
04:13 But I don't feel comfortable speaking unless somebody else is also speaking. So could you try to figure out what the question is, please? How many Chuck does Woody Woodward Wood, Wood? with Chuckie, Chuck, Woody Wood, Wood, Chuck. I can confirm that it's written on Jess's screen. Thank you. And the answer, of course, is Matilda Swinton. That's not her name.
04:41 I imagine that's what Tilda stands for. Oh, baby, I did it. I want to know. Can we? No, I need to know. Tilda Swinton. Catherine Matilda Swinton. All right, well, I did it.
04:53 So Tilda stands for Catherine. Yes. Very strange. 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 that you've written one this week. I wrote it.
05:04 I wrote it. And not five minutes ago last and a while, very early this morning. Wow. That's great. So my question to you, gentlemen slash fuck boys. Hang on. Is this? I'm the gentleman.
05:18 I'm the slash guitarist from the band Guns and Roses. My question is, who was once called the most dangerous? Dangerous man on TV. Dave Warnacky. That's bullshit and you know it. Firstly, never been on TV. Secondly,
05:35 I've been on TV and I've been very dangerous. How? One time... What, with your dazzling, looks? It's mainly I'm dangerous when I get in the kitchen and attempt to cook. That's not on TV, is it?
05:47 You've not been on Master Chef, have you? I've been pitching cooking shows for many years. Yes. I haven't had any interest. Okay, well, it's not Dave Warnocky. Okay. Is it Michael Jackson in the... the dangerous era when he did a dangerous special when he did the film clip with Eddie Murphy
06:02 where they was called Remember the Time? No. Is it evil can evil can evil? No. The most dangerous person on TV. Yeah, you're going to, it's an interesting one. Stone Cold Steve Austin. Is it a bad person?
06:13 No. Or it's just that's part of this. Again, that's Michael Jackson. It's not necessarily someone that you might, uh, might spring to mind. Think about it more in terms of a. Glenn Ridge. Glenn Ridge. Oh, dangerous performance style.
06:27 The Amazing Jonathan. The Amazing Jonathan. A comedian that would do horrible stuff. I remember The Amazing Jonathan. Shock and horror was his sort of act. It's not my bad. It would purposefully go wrong and there would be a lot of blood. Oh, no, thank you.
06:44 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 direction. Jay Leno. Conan.
06:55 Not not. Not a late show host. Well, a show that's on quite late at night, American. American Late Night Show host. At Bernies. Hot dogs. Up late with hot dogs. It is hot dogs for a big brother.
07:11 I think it's called the most dangerous man on time. I think you need to give it to us, Jess. I think we've had enough on cracks here. Anyone from Saturday Night Live maybe stand out? Bill Murray. Similar era. Keep going. Chevy Chase.
07:27 Oh, you're so close. Chasey Chessie Chess. Steve, Simon, wasn't on that one. No, he wasn't. You're thinking the right era of person. Dan Aykroyd? What? Who else?
07:36 John Belushi. Yes. It's about John Belushi. That's about John Belushi. John Belushi? Yes. He was called the most dangerous man on television. Yes.
07:44 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.
07:56 It was suggested by Mack Schildroth. Great one, Mac. And I put to the hat, sorry, I put to the patrons 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. Triptitch, 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. I said, who do you want to hear more about?
08:23 Really? That's surprising to me. That's great. And a huge response, yeah, 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.
08:36 And I didn't know heaps. So it's quite interesting. Did you have his brother in the hat as well? No. Oh, 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, I don't know.
08:56 The Olsen twins, Jess. I mean, twins is in their title. Yeah, but they're not completely identical. Yes, one's slightly taller. One's left-handed. Yeah, Mary Kate. Yeah, it could be, they could be strangers. That's true.
09:09 Well, no, they couldn't be strangers. I mean, they know each other. But at one stage, they could have been strangers. Yeah, 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 spurns.
09:22 Yeah, but do you ever really know in person? Oh, they know spurns? When are you a little sperm? Yeah. I, okay, full disclosure, don't have any sperm. So I don't know heaps about. Full disclosure, I don't know how it works. And I'd like to leave that as a mystery.
09:39 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.
09:54 Actually, no, it would have been like, even before. that because nine months before he was like it. It would have been that weird tadpole part egg, part sperm section. Look, I'm sorry, I have been holding this from you guys. I am a scientist. Wow. Sorry to use those big words there. I'm sitting here thinking, what is he talking about?
10:15 Yeah, look, you're going to have to do a full report on this map because I am lost already. Okay, we'll save that for later. Let's get on with the human form of baloosh. So what time did he emerge from the vaginal cavity? Ew, cavity. Cannell? Cavity. Stop trying to talk like a scientist, David.
10:33 You're doing it wrong. I think you'll find that somewhere on the Richter scale, he came in at a four. All right. I mean, that's true, but you lucked into that. Thank you. Yes. Very lucky. Very, very lucky.
10:46 Wow. So January 24, 1949. John Adam Belushi was born in Chicago. Chicago. Ah, Chicago, the windy city. Yeah. Is that right? Chicago.
11:00 Chicago. Chicago. Chicago. You're speaking like a local. He was raised in Wheaton, which is a suburb 30 miles or 48Ks west of Chicago. Chicago. Chicago. I'm so sorry.
11:15 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.
11:39 Their mother also worked, so John and his siblings were often kind of left on their own. However, their grandmother, who they called Nuna, was around and was a very important part of the Belushi kids' lives. They called her that because she would cook with nun chucks. She cooked a traditional Albanian cuisine. Yeah, Albanian pizzas, Albanian pastas, Albanian Chinese food. Yep. Yeah, she'd do it all, but she'd do it with chopsticks.
12:08 Wow. Yeah. Right. And that's so interesting. Yes. Thank you. And obviously really influenced him later in life. I mean, obviously.
12:16 She was, you know, nunchucks in the kitchen, obviously. She was previously the most dangerous woman on television. Yes. Yeah. On her cooking show, cooking with Nana. Yeah. And Nunchucks. Yeah.
12:26 Cooking with Nana Chucks. Sorry, mispronounce that. Yeah, you started, but that's fine. Yeah. That happens. You're nervous. I know, I'm nervous. Talking about my idol.
12:37 Nana. Chucks. Na, nana. None other. Other than Nuna chucks. That's a great. See, talking of rap names, Nana chucks.
12:46 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 me? I don't know.
12:56 We've got a lawyer. This show. Go away, we're kooky. Wow. We're the modern day band that sang YMCA. Village people. Yeah. They had the lawyer.
13:11 The scientists. The civil servant. The teacher. The garden truck driver. Gas station attendant. The band really grew. That was a big band. The Nunachuck.
13:22 The Nunachuk. Oh, the Nanachuk was, that's where she was from. That's where she started. Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She was the Y. Really? People often ask that, why?
13:32 Who brought the why to this? Nanachuk, why? And she would answer an Albanian. C. Signore. So close. Just such a linguist. So beautiful, isn't it? Wow.
13:45 So Nana was a really big part of the Belushi kids' lives. And throughout his life, John always called, he would say that Nana was the soul of the family. All the kids are very close to her. John's brother, Jim, Balushi. Interesting. Is that an Albanian tradition? Yeah, to retain the surname. Naming your brother after your surname?
14:07 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, Nara mother. She was the soul moments ago.
14:21 Now she's the heart. She's everything. None of Mother was very good. They needed her to live. Soul heart. She was their breathing apparatus. Lungs? Took it hard.
14:32 They found it hard to take an oxygen without Nana. He said if it wasn't for Nana, we'd be in jail today. Wow. I don't know if that's... She also broke them out of jail. Yeah. She was their defence attorney. And broke them out.
14:48 If it wasn't for Nana. They were already going to let them out, but she's like, I got this. I would have got this. about 25 to life for importing that heroin, but Nana got me off. She took the fall for me. Spend a long time in prison. Thanks, Nana.
15:03 What an angel. She didn't speak English. So this was... Very hard to defend someone in court without speaking English. Yeah, but she was so endearing. Her body language was so... She did a lot of shrugger, like,
15:15 Come on. It's the only phrase she knew in English. Come on. Witnesses would crack under pressure. All right, fine. It wasn't him. He didn't do it. Come man.
15:27 Yeah. And then they'd hand over their wallets. She was also robbing them. I don't know why. She didn't get it all. That's why. Not a chuck. None of Chuck.
15:35 Students speak English. So this was where John's physical performance began because he sort of needed to communicate with her nonverbally. She's doing that in court. She's picking that up in court. Yeah. Amazing. So he, yeah, his ability to communicate nonverbly.
15:52 he was very expressive. He could make up languages or like, you know, you know when people, not make up languages. Like, oh, I've invented this now. It's easier to make up a new language than learn Albanian. True. No, but you know how some people like try to, Dave, try to speak other languages or try to sound like they're speaking other languages
16:09 and it's not very convincing at all and other people. I don't know that, but yes. Bobom. Very convincing. Very convincing. This is where he sort of came from entertaining his grandmother when he was a kid. And he's brother Jim, Balushi. It's hard to keep track.
16:27 Is that a relation there? Is it just a weird coincidence? Friend and comedian, Pete Jones, does that. And that's why it always makes me laugh. He'll always be like, yes, I was talking to Dave, Warnocky. And who says this? Pete Jones. Pete Jones, thank you.
16:43 Sort of how you, it's like your name dropping, but it's like. It's very obvious. I'm speaking to Michael Perkins. My brother. Anyway. Oh, you guys, Albanian? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, big time.
16:58 Naming tradition checks out. Big Albanians. Really? So Jim remembers... Bulushi, remembers being upset at his parents one time. Well, like, sure, according to Jim anyway. Sitcom he had? That's what was cool.
17:18 Yeah, it's Jim Belushi. Yeah, it's Jim Belushi. Wow. 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 mum 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
17:39 absent so they kind of they were quite independent kids and John uh 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 stole the stage in school players and debating tournaments and he played in a band. So he was kind of... That's the big three. Yeah. Drama, music and sport. Yeah. What else is there? Spelling
18:03 Bees. Fuck off. I was thinking in like in terms of American college cliches. Usually you're into one though. Yeah. Spelling bees. Acapella. Oh, that's true. Bring it on. No, wait. That's cheerleading. Pitch perfect thing.
18:19 Science club. Cheerleading. And he did all these. Yeah. Wow. College parties. Cagas. Cegas. Toga.
18:29 Toga. Animal House style. Correct. He did it all. He did it all. American listeners, are we nailing your lives? Your college experience? Oh, sorry.
18:39 Sorry, they say cager. Otherwise, he would have been like, what are they talking about? Cega. I mean, it's obviously our college experience is very, very similar. Oh, yes. Oh, Toga. The Toga parties, I went. too.
18:53 Yeah. I definitely, I slept in beds with sheets. Yeah. So, you know, a couple of steps away from a Toga party. I still do. What? Yeah, I'm crazy. You are living like a kid the rest of your life.
19:05 Yeah, I don't want to grow up. Do you have a top sheet? Yeah. Oh, no, no, no. I find it very, it traps my feet. I don't like being trapped Jess, which is why I've launched a product. If I could segue into this now, some of you may have seen online, I've a couple of you may have seen online.
19:22 I've a couple of weeks ago on the Lego website we talked about gloveless fingers the product where you are you want warm fingers but to keep your palms nice and cool so I've launched a possible crowdfunding campaign which is going crazy Matt Matt said it wouldn't even get $20 and it is at $130. No I said it shouldn't get
19:38 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 has to be it's all or nothing right. It's all nothing I have to raise $10,000 to launch this product. I've got a hundred,
19:54 Aussie dollars, so that's like $4.50 in the US. And it's like $121. I've raised so far 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 cullors,
20:08 but I do go on. When you say we, Dave. Yeah. Can you use that way? We'll rope you in. No, I'm not helping with this. And we'll also send you a certificate of authenticity. You will.
20:18 Authenticity. Yes. It's misspelled. So illegally, it's not a bunny dog. I, well, I'm confident that this is not going to be a concern of ours. Well, at, someone did suggest, I did enjoy this. I think I saw on Twitter or somewhere, someone suggested that maybe you should look at marketing towards the hip-hop community because they do have issues with getting their palms are sweaty.
20:41 Yeah, yeah, I did read 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 restricted. but they'll be able to grip pen with their palm I would just like to say to the people who have tweeted to us
20:57 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
21:12 But I do go on No one has ever created a product called Palm cooler Yeah Were you doing Napoleon Dynamite's cousin's voice there No, Matt, that's just how I speak. Is that okay? Um.
21:26 Um, guys. Anyway, the possible's link below. Sorry, Justin, go on. I'm not putting the link in. Okay, so. Just Google it, guys. Come on. Please, I need this.
21:36 I need this real bad. 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. I can't. This is the best I've got.
21:46 Well, that's very sad. All right, pledge. We just need another 9,000. Now, back to an actually talented person. John Belushi. That felt like a dig at you, Dave. I don't know how. I don't know how that could be.
21:59 How many products did he invent in his life? Well, let's find out. Can I go on and we'll find out? Okay. Thank you. In his senior year of high school, he met Judy Jacqueline. How gross that name? That's a great name.
22:12 JJ. JJ, Judy Jack. Judy and John started dating, and Judy recalls that John was kind and funny, but also a little shy and 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,
22:27 which is such a Hollywood cliche, like as in movies. Right. I don't want to follow in dad's footsteps. Yeah, I don't want to take up the nunchucks. Yeah. He wasn't interested. Nobody could use those nun chucks like none could.
22:43 None a chuck. None could. None could. None would. None would. None will. None should. Yeah.
22:48 It's a very dangerous profession. Yeah. And he just didn't feel equipped for it. How many chucks could a woodnuna chuck if a woodnone could chuck a wood? Is that what I asked at the start? In a roundabout way, sure. You were on topic. He had dreams of moving away from home and pursuing a career as an actor.
23:10 And when you finished high school, he went to the Somersstock Theatre in Indiana, which was his first real job as an actor. It's not far from Gary. Indiana. No, no. In case you're wondering which Gary. I'm wearing a Gary jumper today. You guys notice that?
23:23 I did not notice. I never look at you. Wow. What are they the great? Gary Steelheads. Oh, that's a now defunct team, isn't it? Yeah. Jeez, that a great little run for that.
23:31 How much did that jumper cost you? I think it's $30, $40 postage. $40? Something like that. $40. Oh, my God. If these gloves, I'm going to be ruined. The postage alone.
23:45 Stop pledging people. Oh, my God. $40? I think much of the people that have pledged through in the US. Christ, I thought it would be like $2 to send a glove. Wow. Cancel. Cancel now.
24:03 That is terrifying. Oh, that would be so funny. Dave makes a huge. Dave goes bankrupt. I raised $10,000 for a made-up product and then I lose money. I'm back on board now. Everybody, please. I don't need this.
24:21 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. Well, Jess, well, I can give them to you. I won't have to mail to you. No, no, no, I need the mail to my US address, please. I don't think the gloves will cost as much to mail as this sick hoodie.
24:40 I really hope. $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.
24:55 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.
25:14 Anyway, so John is working and performing. at this theater 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, college, to avoid having to go to war. He enrolled in the University of Wisconsin, but only lasted there for a year.
25:35 And after he left the University of Wisconsin, he returned to Wheaton 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 roadrunner. Oh. If it catches you, you through. Meep.
25:57 Meep. 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?
26:14 I think that's why it's called Second City. Is it? Maybe not. The way you were asked that has cast doubt. Don't look it up. Let him sit and be wrong. So if anybody who's not aware of Second City, it's an improv comedy troupe,
26:30 which has been a starting point for comedians and actors like Alan Alder, Joan Rivers, Bill Murray, John Candy, Dan Aykroy, Tina Fey, Amy Polar, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, so many more, it's completely ridiculous. And Judy recalls as they left that night, 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
26:53 want to do. That's sick. Yeah, and that cool. How old's he at this stage? Just finished high school. Yeah, right. Oh, that's great. Yeah.
27:01 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 vague ones. I know Josh Earl says, who. who's on a podcast in this network called Don't You Know Who I Am,
27:20 which we've all done an episode of recently, if you want to check that out, really funny show. Great show. But he said that he remembers when the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Road Show came through Tasmania. He went and saw the show, and the line-up was, like, ridiculous. I can't remember, but it was something like Will Anderson Dave Hughes' tripod
27:37 and Corinne Grant or something like that. And maybe Pete Hellier. It was some sort of hectic lineup. Huge. And that was the day he decided it was going to do comedy. That's cool. I've got one. Yeah.
27:50 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 freezer gigs, 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. Then why go? 14 to 17 year olds basically going there. And I did a gig 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
28:18 and that probably got a better reaction than the actual songs and then when I went home that night ABC were airing raw comedy from that year and one of the acts was smart casual who was Sydney double act and they did They did the hawk Yeah, that was that song The hawk
28:33 I've had that in my head this weekend The hawk Hawkins Who's gonna push the hawk? That's a great job And they combine comedy and music and I thought, oh, I didn't know you could do that. And that was one of those moments for me.
28:50 Did you start as a musical act? Yeah, yeah. I did not know. Yeah, basically just music underneath the jokes kind of thing. Yeah, isn't it? But that's one of those moments. So I came home, it just happened to be that I had just done a gig and thought, oh, me talking went better than the songs.
29:06 And then that came on. I was like, ah, that's an option. I would always leave stand-up shows or, tripod shows especially going, like 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.
29:23 Fuck. What am I doing? Anyway, back to Belushi. So he started his own comedy trip in Chicago. They went by the West Compass trio. That was with Tino Insana and a guy called Steve Boshikas. Their success,
29:43 the interest of Bernie Salins. 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 Belushi to come on audition. So he joins the cast at Second City, which was pretty cool.
29:59 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, like very quickly, people were like, this guy's going to be huge. Cool. Second City would hone John's skills and he in turn would help push the company further
30:18 because it brought more people in and everything started to really get moving, 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 Ramis and Brian Doyle Murray.
30:37 Oh. Brian Doyle Murray. Oh, you didn't know he's related. I didn't know. He's Bill Murray's older brother. Yeah, it's a powerful family of the Murray's. I mean, they're in bloody Groundhog Day together. Yes.
30:51 Isn't that, there's another Murray that, is there another acting Murray? Looking at Dave like he would have any idea. That is related or is 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 how I was thinking of.
31:08 Better than stinky Greg. Fuck off, Greg. Fuck off, Greg. Everybody's happy. Fuck off, Greg. We're happy when you're not here. Oh. Brutal.
31:21 Are you looking up Murray's now? Bill Murray brothers. Joel Murray, John Murray, Edward Murray, the third. Wow, there's a lot of them. I don't know if these are Brian Doyle Murray. Oh, yeah, Joel Murray, he's an actor. Isn't that John's, no, Bill's. He's from the one else to think of all, I reckon.
31:41 Nephew? brother he's not that guy yeah Bill Murray's brother no shit what's he in I know his face
31:56 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 he was I think he's just one of those guys is in a lot of things uh
32:07 he was basketball player and the cable guy he was Val's date and the nanny remember Val I think I actually remember him from the nanny. Right. It was Bob uncredited in the Drew Carey show.
32:20 Great, okay. He was Larry and 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 of his own. In 1972, Belushi was offered a role in National Ampoons Lemmings, which was a parody of Woodstock,
32:46 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 rock stars, so they had to be funny but also musically talented. And it's still, it's a live show at this day. It's a live show. Cool. The show was a bigger success than anyone had anticipated.
33:04 It ended up touring. It was supposed to just be like a fairly short run off Broadway. It ended up touring all over the country. They did like 350 performances. Whoa. Belushi. Whoa. She played the character of the MC and also did an impression of Joe Cocker.
33:18 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 would be funny, wouldn't it? Of the cocker. Yeah, Joe Cocker.
33:29 Joe Cocker. The musician. Yeah, see, I couldn't do it. It's sort of in the hands, I reckon. What would you do? Here I say. Gravel. There it is.
33:44 up and walk out of. That was pretty good. Better than we all expect it. Even yourself. Yeah. See, sometimes you can surprise yourselves. Then, Mia. Back yourself.
34:02 Okay. Oh, dear. Oh, no. Okay. Oh, heavens. Now you're just faking it. Is this Joe Cocker with a cold? Yeah.
34:11 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 around 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 new role, Belushi.
34:33 Oh. Any relation? To Jim? Yeah, Alder. His first order of business was hiring all of his friends. What a good. God. It's like when a baby gets in charge.
34:47 Everyone, fruit loops for dinner. Which I hope if either of you ever get a decent job. Jess, you're the one who's going to get a decent job and get us cushy jobs. What fuck? You're the one. I've hired you at least on two occasions. Okay. Not enough.
35:02 Thank you. Thank you for that. But it was two days of work, not a career changing. Not 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
35:19 I'm trying to think of it Grow up Dave Dave I want a long term A successful career where I get to be Famous All right Is that too much
35:33 Is that too much Dave isn't too much And only famous Could be for any reason It could be like A thing that makes her seem awful. That's infamous.
35:44 Infamous. I don't want to be in. Okay, sorry. I'm positively famous. Positively. And rich. Oh, hang on. This is too much.
35:53 Get a pen. I'll take note. What are you going to, yeah, remember this, Dave? Come on, mate. No, I probably won't. So he's hired all his friends. Something that a decent person would do. But it totally is what you would do.
36:07 Because they're his friends because he finds them all funny and talented. 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. It's like, I'm not an accountant. Just Jack, I'm giving you a job, mate. Get in the chair.
36:23 I don't want the job. Get in the accountant chair. But I'm a very successful lawyer. I drive. Well, you're crunching numbers now. I could be your lawyer. No, I've got a lawyer. That's Gary.
36:33 The dog. He's the accountant. Wanted my job. My dog to have a job so he can come with me to work. He's a good boy. He was a good lawyer. Who's a good lawyer? So he's casting his friends.
36:43 This is Gilda Radner, Brian Doyle Murray, and his younger brother Bill Murray. He also cast his new friend, Dan Aykroyd, 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.
37:08 Oh. Right. Okay, so the baloosh. Ah, the baloche. The baloche. John. John. Oh, John, okay.
37:17 Hired all his 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. Ooh. Everyone around the project and the comedy scene was saying that John should be a part of the show. But the creator, a guy called Lorne Michaels. Oh.
37:39 Wasn't so sure about Belushi. He'd heard maybe he'd be a bit hard to handle. Lorne eventually agreed to meet with Belushi. He was a hard worker. Yeah. He agreed to meet with him, but the meeting was a complete disaster. Apparently, Belushi apparently, allegedly, talked on and on and on about his hatred for TV in an interview.
38:04 About being on a TV show? Yeah. That's great fun. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I love that he could come back from that. That's dangerous. Yeah, he's so dangerous
38:15 because he just bags out the form on TV. Stop watching, it sucks. Yuck! Appetizers 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,
38:35 Lorna Gray 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 the Japanese film festival that had been on TV and he'd been studying the actors. Okay.
38:53 He pulled his shoulder-length hair back up into a high bun, put on a bathrobe 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 media. meeting room with lawn 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 in the lobby waving a stick around like they all thought they were in danger love they didn't escort him from the premises they escorted him into a meeting room so you're gonna have to come this way it's a no for you know yeah you just like please go um so he's
39:39 They'd 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 Lawn Michaels was like, oh, great. And invited him to come and do a screen test. This was like in some sort of boardroom, I imagine. Yeah.
40:01 How strange is that? But apparently quite endearing. Well, yeah. It feels like our incident. think was obviously wrong. I'm not sure that it was. You think... I'll talk more about that character later.
40:18 Oh no, the character being wrong, but us like, yeah, okay, sure. Yeah, pool players. Yeah. The worst form of comedy, poor comedy. Yeah, obviously, I mean, we weren't there and he was hired, so obviously he was... It was a different time. Because he's very physical as well. Back then, you were allowed to be pretty fucked.
40:38 Yeah. And he went on to do that a lot. Really? Yes. So when Saturday 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 his talent was undeniable. Everybody loved him.
40:58 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 it, it's almost like he's a bit of a control freak. Like in times when he's in control of things, it feels like things are a bit smoother.
41:19 But when he has to sort of take a, 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. Okay. Often refusing to be in sketches they had written. Oh my God. Right. According to Jane Curtin, who was,
41:39 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 her. She said, 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.
41:57 He felt as though it was his duty to sabotage pieces written by women. What? How is that a duty? What the fuck? Yeah, what a good duty. Yeah, a 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.
42:16 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.
42:36 To get there. To get there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cool. He saw SNL as his chance to make it happen. It was his big shot. He was frustrated and very jealous of the attention that Chevy Chase received. Because Chevy Chase was seen to be like, he was like the good looking one.
42:53 He was a massive stud. He's seen Chevy back then. Young Chevy. Have you just seen a community Chevy, probably had out of a picture. But he was a real... Young Chevy. Like Caddyshack and SNL and Fletch. Yeah.
43:09 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. It was very funny, though. Yeah. I just found, when I was a kid, I found him funny.
43:25 I haven't seen those movies in a long time. Yeah, I don't know how well they age. Caddyshag I've seen not too long ago, and that was, that's still really funny. Somebody mentioned as well, maybe it was Dan Aykroyd. I don't know. Somebody mentioned that, like, Chevy was. was one of few people in S&L who would like use his own name would identify himself. I could say, hi, I'm Chevy Chase.
43:46 In some 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. They say Chevy's a bit of an a-hole as well. Yeah. He's notoriously hard to deal with, isn't he? Work with?
44:08 Yeah. Yeah, I don't know anything specific. I just have heard that vaguely a bunch of times. I also have that perception, but I don't know exactly where 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 uber successful and aren't very good people. Yeah.
44:24 But maybe that's unfair. Oh, I don't know. Because what you probably don't hear about is when they're not assholes. They're just normal people. The Hugh Jackmans of the world. Yeah. Let's hope that you never hear of. about him being an awful. We never hear anything bad about him.
44:40 Oh my God, I don't want to know. Ignorance is bliss. Not our Hugh. In a show like SNL though you couldn't wait around for your chance. You had to make your own luck and put yourself out there. So John recreated his character that he'd brought with him to the office that fateful day
44:58 and created a samurai character. And the fun part about this is the samurai. Played pool. ran a deli. Oh, so use a samurai sword to cut up the meats. Very clever. He's got that from his nunner, nunchucks, eh?
45:19 Weapons in the kitchen. That makes a lot of sense. That's that sizzle earlier. Right. They say the best comedy is based on some form of reality. Yes. I like how we change it from nunchucks to swords. Yeah, just to mix it up a bit.
45:34 And apparently this was very... Apparently that was to get away from the copy. 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.
45:52 Come on. Nonverbal communication. Yeah, come on. Is that her phrase? And he understood, obviously. Of course. Similar to I'm Groot. Yeah, exactly.
46:04 Hey, come on. Now, this went down really well. Apparently it was very funny. I personally don't think it's aged all that well. Do you've 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,
46:21 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
46:40 and then like very gently cuts it in half. It's like okay, yeah, that's classic. That was the only good bit. Huh. Yeah. They're finished strong. Sketches like rarely do they age that well. Yeah.
46:56 I think 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. They're always a bit hit and miss. sketch show. You never love Saturday
47:08 and I'm not going to lie. Yeah, I think their highlight packages are really good, but I think they do long sketches. Often with small ideas that go on
47:23 maybe too long. But I don't know, but it also is an hour show and they have to come up with an hour of new sketch every week. Yeah, that's pretty full on.
47:30 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.
47:36 who owns a deli. I love it. He played a series of successful characters over his four years at SNL. They all own delis. No, there is a Greek owner of a capp, like a diner. That one's fun too. Diner slash deli. Yeah, so he's, he was becoming a real crowd favorite.
47:58 He was very, very popular. SNL was incredibly popular all over the country. The cast were like instant celebrities. He was, um, he was, um, he was becoming popular. huge. He was making friends with Hollywood elite. The Rolling Stones were good friends of his, and he and Keith Richards were just hang out in Belushi's basement. Just hang out. Wow. Put that on the CV.
48:18 Keith Richards hangs out on my basement. No big deal. John was quite impulsive on and 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 3 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.
48:42 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 going to be like, oh, classic Matt. He'll be like, get the fuck out of my house. I'm going to call the police, man. Yeah, what are you doing? Get your shit together. That's my spaghetti.
49:00 I'm charming. Not that charming, mate. That's what I would say. 3 p.m. come on in. Let yourself in at 3pm. No problem. 3 a.m.
49:10 That's sleepy time. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know how many times that's the time when sleepy time is and isn't. Yeah. It's like the man doesn't know when to sleep. That's, um, I do, if I'm home late,
49:23 uh, I will, I'll make spaghetti. So I, there's a little balusia in me. Do you reckon? Yeah. What kind of spaghetti, like what, what, spaghetti is the pasta? Yeah. What are you putting on it? No.
49:35 No, like, well, just a basic sort of tomato, napolitana kind of sauce. Yeah. Maybe a little oregano. A little basil? Maybe a little basil. Maybe some parmesan. Yeah. A little bit of sour, a little bit of pepper?
49:54 Look, I won't say no. So I'll say yes. Yeah, okay, great. Thank you. Yeah, fantastic. Oh, good for you. Graham is not spaghetti time in my world. What's 3 a.m for you?
50:05 Sleepy time. Here we go. See Dave gets it. I get it. Dave gets it. The East and the West, we do things very differently. Except once a week when I work, 1 a.m. to 6 a.m. Which time is definitely not sleepy time.
50:16 But you do not eat spaghetti at 3am. I do not. I eat shapes and often gingerbread. Yeah, I'm adorable. Okay. So, John was already an intense over-the-top personality. But when he began experimenting heavily with drugs, I don't know how you experiment heavily.
50:33 Yeah, experiment makes it sound like dabbling. Yeah, he was quite into drugs. He dabbled. 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.
50:53 That was him. He made it the Big Apple. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So he never sleeps because of John Bollucci. Wow, that's incredible. Yeah, but you didn't know that. What an origin story. Yeah.
51:03 Oh, by the way, just so we don't get any tweets, L.A. is the second largest city. But Chicago, back in the day, used to be seen as the one that rivaled New York. And that's what I was supposed to do. But this is something we said 20 minutes ago, so they have already tweeted at us. I know. I just wanted to try and say that. We would have. Yeah, delete them.
51:20 Delete that tweet. Kenny? Delete it. Yeah, Kenny. Kenny, come on, mate. That'd be so weird if someone's called Kenny had just tweeted. It would be so weird if someone was called Kenny. Yeah.
51:30 Thank you. Gotcha. He was unpredictable. He had a temper. And this caused him to be fired and immediately rehired by Lorne Michaels a number of times. Immediately rehired. You're fired. And you're hired.
51:46 New contract. Here it is. That's not quite immediately, Dave. It would have been you fired, you fired. And fired hired. In the new contract, he's got a higher pay rate. So he never learns. He just got a raise.
51:57 That's how Lorne Michaels gives people raises. I like it. You fight hired. What? It's kind of like in, um, Four weddings and a funeral when Hugh Grant says and has that girlfriend of yours. He goes, oh, she's no longer my girlfriend. And then Hugh Grant's like, oh, well, don't worry.
52:12 I hear she was always sleeping with someone else. She's now my wife. Very good. Yeah. Okay, so he was constantly pushing the limit. But he was somehow kind of maintaining a manic pace for a while. Like it was just go, go, go, go all the time. One time he was found asleep in a friend's bed with a lit cigarette
52:33 in his mouth and the mattress was smoldering. He's like the worst friend in my eyes. And are 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,
52:50 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 balushi for Christmas. So John could go and stay with them for Christmas. And then Jim turns out. You're like, fuck. I got to want Jim.
53:07 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.
53:23 We're married. It's different. We're split up because we're getting married. Fire hired. Fire hired. See? You're dumped. You're my wife.
53:32 He's a contract. You got a raise. What? What's going on? Matt. You may kiss the bride. Oh, that's why all these people are here. Law and Michael's officiating.
53:41 Wow. Matt, if Dave looked me in the eye just then when he said, you're dumped you, my wife. Yeah, that is legal. Fuck! Sorry, mate. I don't want to be Dave's wife. Dave, divorce her. Look in her eyes.
53:51 Divorce me. I null it. You're divorced. You remarried. Ah, look away. Look away. Oh, Matt. She looked away.
53:57 She did look away. I'm so sorry. You are both now divorcese's. Oh. I'm keeping the boat. We didn't have a boat. How did you buy a boat in that split second? I had a secret boat.
54:09 Can I play the piano? I couldn't before. That's vaguely relevant. So they're married now. Judy has been described as like a lie and tameer to John. She understood him. She helped him sort of allow him to be what he need to be. She waved chairs at his face.
54:28 He kind of contained him a little bit too. I don't know. he seems like the most exhausting person to be friends with, in a relationship with, around. Just imagine trying to keep track of his movements and just, you know, he'd probably go out for days and he'd be like, is he alright? Yeah. Is he just in a bed with a cigarette? That's the worst to me. Yeah.
54:47 Oh, no, thank you. You kind of assume he's always all right, but. Yeah, he's one of those people who'd be like, I mean, I know he's fine. Because 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.
55:07 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 knocking. Who's that at the door? Hollywood. Sorry?
55:26 Hollywood. I don't know who that is. I'll come back They send Mickey Mouse To every Hollywood He just get less and less confident Check the address Check the fucking address next time
55:45 Hollywood In 1978 He performed in a series of A few films One was old boyfriends There's also going south Directed by Jack Nicholson Fuck, I should have said, directed by Jack Nicholson.
56:05 And Animal House, directed by John Landis. Upon its initial release, Animal House received generally mixed reviews from critics, but Time proclaimed it as one of the years' best. Belushi was completely focused. The concept of time. The concept of time, said Animal House. Over time, people now look fondly upon that. He was, while they were filming, he was completely focused,
56:29 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 in his meeting for a job on TV. Before he did his shit on lawnmock's head. Does he know that you can watch movies on TV?
56:47 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.
56:57 Little wigs. Little Wigs, give us the little gigs Little Wigs, Little Gigs Copyright If Lorne's listening As your ears We're available But we're a package deal
57:11 You can hire fire us any time We're a package deal Fire hire, don't hire fire You're high and you fire No but if you close your eyes Yeah that's true You're hide, close eyes Just close them
57:20 You never look at Lawn in the eye again And then turn around and run Because of my heavy isps Can't keep them open I'm sorry Lorne So, yeah, he was a good boy. He was clean and he was really focused. During the film, he actually was working two jobs.
57:33 He was commuting between Oregon and the SNL studio in New York. Oregon, which I put on my pasta. Pat. Is that where it's from? Is Oregon from Oregon? No. Really? Oregon, no.
57:51 So it's quite a... Oh, fuck off. Oh, it just took you a sec to get it. Yes. You are lightning fast and that was very funny. That was funny. That's on the point that it's quite a long commute from home to New York. Huge.
58:06 Where's Oregon? Is that on the West Coast? Portland's on the West Coast. Yeah. Yeah. So he's working really hard. His character only had about 50 lines of dialogue but he managed to steal the spotlight in the film
58:19 and with his facial expressions and his magnetism. All 50 lines were like grunts as he was hitting something with sword. One one, fine two. He! Three. He was the only one who was allowed to improvise. Everyone else was very tightly scripted.
58:37 He was allowed to go a bit loosey-goosey on it. Lucy-guisy-gousy, John Belushi. You're saying, I'm lightning fast. I'm just a good director. That's true. John Landis. The film did really well at the box office. It's apparently one of the most profitable movies of all times.
58:56 What? Apparently. Wow. Maybe then. What? A couple of the lines of his in the movie. His most memorable lines. And now, John Belushi was a movie star.
59:10 Yes. What movie were you talking about? Anna House. Yeah. Yeah. That's Toga, right? Toga. Toga.
59:18 And Belushi. Toga. John. And Dan, Akroyd, had been talking for years about starting a band. They debuted the Blues Brothers on SNL and were a hit with the audience. So like it was, 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.
59:45 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 at like a stadium. because Steve Martin was doing like arenas. Yeah, he was a wild and crazy guy at the time. He was insane. Have you read Born Standing Up? No, but I've seen the cover. Great, that's about all you need.
01:00:07 Yeah. Now, his story's amazing. So he asked them to open for him. Should I read it? Yeah, it's really good. I should read it. It's one of those books that everyone's read, but me. Maybe I'll get it on Audible.
01:00:18 Yeah, Dave's just looking up to see if it is on Audible. Ideally, with him. Yeah, baby. Better believe it read by Steve Martin. Yes. Oh, man. That would be so good. Well, that is a book I'm going to get.
01:00:28 I've read the book. With your eyes, like an idiot. And thoroughly enjoy it. I'm going to re-listen to it. Yeah. Steve Martin doing it. Yeah. Get him to do the hard work.
01:00:37 That's cool. I know, but I just feel like, you know, when you're reading someone's autobiography, it's so much better to hear it in their words. Yeah. I think Tina Faye narrates her right as well. Daily, yeah. Anyway, so they did so.
01:00:50 Despite some of the audience initially being quite skeptical, a lot of people were there sort of thinking like, Oh, at the Steve Martin opening. Yeah. It's always hard to open for another comedian when people have paid money to see a certain person. Especially in musical, like it, and especially an act that people kind of see as like
01:01:03 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? And music already provides its own energy. It's very different. It's not like someone doing Steve Martin worse than him. Yeah.
01:01:20 You know, I feel like it's completely different, but also like a great energy. Totally. Yeah. And like Belushi can sing. And Dan Akroyd 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.
01:01:35 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 saxophonist, Blue Lou Marini, and trombonist saxophonist. Tom Malone. Fucking great names. They also got Steve Cropper. It was on guitar and bassist Donald Dunn.
01:02:01 He 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.
01:02:17 It was so good. So in 1979, Belushi left Saturday Night Live, so did Akroyd, because they wanted to pursue a career in, film. So how many years do you reckon they'd done? They did four. Four seasons, right? Yeah.
01:02:28 They made three movies together, 1941, which is directed by Stephen 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 gross $15.15.2 million in theatres worldwide. Isn't that insane?
01:02:55 It's worldwide, baby. What was the budget? I thought it was a... I thought I remembered it to be a flop, but... And then it was only over time that it... 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.
01:03:11 And wasn't it that was the most expensive car chase, car crash scene of all time? There's so many cold cars in the same. I think at the time and maybe even still, I'm not... Oh, 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 Aykroyd wrote the first script, and it was like 324 pages long. It was like tripled the length of a normal screenplay,
01:03:43 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, Eckrod, and Judy Jacqueline Belushi, consulted a doctor about rehab for John
01:04:10 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 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. So he's like, I'm not going to go because then she'll die. Eventually, he did go to see her, but she was more
01:04:38 worried about him saying he looked tired and he needed some sleep. She passed away a little while later and a week after a funeral John saw a psychiatrist and took a new course of action. He hired a man named Richard Smokey Wendell, a former secret service agent who'd been working as a bodyguard for Joe Walsh from the Eagles. And Smokey was hired to protect John
01:05:02 from himself. Right. He was there to stop John from being tempted by drugs and alcohol, keep him under control. Never heard of that. Isn't that? Yeah. hiring 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 Smokey was just standing there like come on dude. How would be frustrating?
01:05:24 I'm secret service. Because he, when he's, he could fire him at any time, I guess. Yeah. So that would be the tricky thing. I suppose that maybe John's wife or something is like, hey, only I can fire you. Yeah. If John says you're fired, you're actually fire hired. Yeah.
01:05:40 You're getting a raise. You're a fire hydrant. That's an improv game we're trying. Yeah. Please put out the fire. We didn't start the fire John Ballouche, he did He was smoking in bed
01:05:53 So This kind of He started to do quite well He even hired a personal trainer He was looking after his physical health a bit better He took on a couple of different roles Like one in like a romantic comedy
01:06:08 Which kind of stretched him As a performer Because like 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 movie was a bit of a flop. Turned it down too much. Turn it down too much.
01:06:23 No one had any idea what he was saying. It's muttering to himself. On the 5th of March... Mudder. I mean it was slitchie. He was just saying mutter. Yeah, it was weird. The director was going good.
01:06:34 Yeah, good. Great. On the 5th of March, 1982, Belushi's trainer Bill Wallace arrived for a scheduled workout and found John Belushi dead at the Chateau-Mamont Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. He was 33 years old. Gosh, Jesus' age.
01:06:53 I didn't realize he was so young. He did a lot. Because he looked that young, I think. True. But he also did a lot of stuff. Yeah. For that age. The cause of death was a combined drug intoxication involving cocaine and heroin,
01:07:07 a drug combination known as a Speedball. Why do you know that, David? Because a lot of people 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's always, and it always seems so heartbreaking too
01:07:22 when they're doing well and then things sort of turn and he 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, ever heard of him? Yes.
01:07:36 Robert De Niro. Oh! As well as... So sorry. So this is like earlier in the day. So he would have, On the same day beforehand. Yeah.
01:07:47 I think it might have been like early, like as in say 1 a.m. kind of early morning and then he was found dead later. Isn't this crazy thing that Robin Williams and Robert De Niro both drop in? Like what a celebrity one? He was like a, he was an it guy. You know your favourite father John Misty son? Chateau Lobby number four. You know what chateau that's talking about?
01:08:10 No. Yes. I just double-checked. Firstly, very cute. You remember that's my favourite father-jom, this is my favourite song. But then again, the time that we went and saw him, I was like, this is my favourite song. I think the whole theatre heard.
01:08:24 I don't care. It is my favourite. That is in reference to John Bullishies. No, it's just, well, it's in reference to the chateau mum. Because I think, and I didn't look into this heaps because I did finish this report at 3am. But I think other things have happened at this quite, it's a bit of an infamous place.
01:08:42 Is that correct? Inside these walls of the Chateau Mamal include these people have worked there including Billy Wilder, Hunter S. Thompson, Annie Liberwitz, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, death grips and John Blushy died there. Wow. But it's been mentioned a bunch of songs. Yeah. It's a good.
01:09:11 Including one by Angus and John. Julius Stone called Chateau. Oh, I like that song. And Trigger Bang by Lily Allen. Jim Morrison lived there for a while. Gosh, a lot of the people you mentioned did die young. Yeah. Well, okay, so someone else that visited him as well was a woman called Catherine Evelyn Smith.
01:09:31 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 Belushi the night of his death and had given him the fatal speedball shot. After the appearance of the article, I killed Balushi, sub-editors really being created with their headlines there.
01:09:53 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,
01:10:10 and she served 15 months in prison. I didn't know that anybody who had been charged with 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? She didn't just give him the drugs. Yeah, I've read that she injected him.
01:10:29 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. It does seem a bit naive. Or maybe she felt guilty and wanted to her. Yeah, maybe.
01:10:41 Maybe they paid her. Yeah, that would be naive to do that for the money. Yeah. And then think you're not going to get in trouble. So two weeks after his 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, their heads down, and all of a sudden John pushed Brian out of the way.
01:11:09 And Brian looked up to see John get hit by a truck and fall to the ground. ground. Shit. 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. Yeah. But Brian's like, that truck would have killed me. Right.
01:11:24 And he, John saved my life. And, yeah, then sort of paid tribute to him on behalf of Lewis and all cast 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.
01:11:47 That was a lovely tribute, but I loved to hear some fun facts. Well, one of them I mentioned before. These are fun facts about Blues Brothers, the movie. Oh, good. One of them was one that I had before about Dan Aykroyd writing 324 pages of his first draft.
01:12:04 Did you know that Dan Aykroyd 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 Akroyd successfully administered the Heimlich maneuver on her This is what Fisher said. She said, I almost choked on some kind of vegetable though I shouldn't have been eating, Brussels sprouts. Some kind of vegetable.
01:12:31 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 Muppet,
01:12:50 he played the corrections officer who returns Jake's belongings to him at the very start of the movie. That's Frank Oz. Oh, right. Isn't that cool? That's cool. And my final fun fact ties into our beautiful city. Chicago. Chicago.
01:13:09 The Blues Brothers was very, very popular in Australia, as well as other parts of the world. 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 through the 80s and 90s, where as 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. So people are voicing, are they miming along? What's going on?
01:13:39 I have no idea if they're singing live, but they're performing along with the movie. That's fun. That is fun. Fun fact. I also just remember that we did shake your tail feather when I was in grade five and I played Ray Charles. Is that weird? Not for a primary school thing. Yeah, great.
01:14:02 Without having not been there, I can't. I can't. Hopefully you were doing it. I think there's a picture somewhere. Yeah, we're not talking about blackface, are we? No, no. Okay, I didn't know that information. I assumed not.
01:14:16 But I said it, I thought it was fine for a problem. Correct assumption. I just stood in front of the keyboard for a bit and mimed his, well, I heard about the fellow you were dancing with. Yeah, I think you're allowed to sing Ray Charles songs as a kid. Okay, great. In grade, too, I once walked out, dressed as a bug, and said, Welcome to the Ugly Bug Ball.
01:14:35 And I had 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 Yeah, that's right Yeah, definitely not those big bug-like eyes
01:14:52 I was wearing a mask Yeah, but you had an ugly presence about you That's right That was the vibe you brought to the role And I had an ugly unit You embodied the role As I walked to the mic there Why did you have a gate there?
01:15:04 Well, I needed permission You needed permission? Yeah. Okay. I give you permission to try. Is that a song? I give myself permission to shine. Gotta shine so bright.
01:15:24 Gotta make everything. I feel like Vanessa Romeroci. You find I'm gonna see me. Give myself permission to shine. Bachelor girl. Oh. Now I'm not sure. But that is the end of my report.
01:15:36 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.
01:15:58 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 if you do if you like john balusia I listen to
01:16:12 this podcast called mic check um and they haven't listened to them yet but they've done a few episodes on john balushi on his career as well if you want to hear more like i imagine more specifically about his movies and stuff
01:16:27 more of the baloche more like unpacking of of movies and stuff that's super fun pod and with that the trip ditch is complete jess or will you stretch it. God, no. Three.
01:16:39 Three and done. Can you name one good third sequel? Lethal weapon four. Return of the Jedi. The Hunger Games. Second sequel. Talking about fourth. Oh, you want the fourth one?
01:16:58 Yeah, third sequel. Oh. Yeah, the fourth one. Yeah. So I've done two of those. Yeah, yeah, Dave's done one incorrectly. So the third. sequel, I thought you meant the third
01:17:08 film overall. I don't know many. Dave really has been wrong. It's unlikely this part of the episode will see the light of day. He will be hounding you to have this a gun. I will. I'll be hounding you.
01:17:23 Well, Dave, I give yourself permission to try. Shine. Shine. I'm going to try so bright. All right, Jess. That was a great episode. I've got to say. Thank you. I didn't know much about him.
01:17:37 Yeah, I didn't know either. Hey, oh, so guys, guys, there's a new segment in our show for some of our Patreon subscribers. Yep. On the Sydney-Shineberg level and above, they get to ask a question, give a quote or a fact. Great. This segment's called fact, quote, or question. Love it.
01:17:58 And, you know, that's a working title. They get to give themselves a title themselves. I suggest a junior vice president, but so far none of them. I don't know, I'm going to pick that. No, each individual. So this week's... Fact's better question. Is from a guy who's given himself the title,
01:18:15 the most average American. His name's Joe Smith. He's humble. And he said, yes, that is my real name. He is the most average American. And this is his question. My question is, if y'all... Love it.
01:18:28 Love it. You know he's American, even from his title, but also from the way he says y'all. Yes. My question is, if y'all had to swap podcasts with another podcast on the Planet Broadcasting Network for one week, who would you just swap with?
01:18:43 Like, would you three together want to do the weekly planet? Hey, fam, or Tofop, for example. That was a bracketed part. So that wasn't canon. Yep, it's been to be read. Yeah, probably not. And which podcast would y'all want to do y'all's podcast in y'all's absence? I don't it sounds stupid when you say y'all.
01:19:02 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 in a think tank. Yes. So us three would do two in the think tank? Am I locked out of the think tank? Am I just banging on the tank's door?
01:19:24 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 swap, yeah, so the swap with them. All right, all right, interesting. That's how it works, isn't it? I mean, I did read the bit in the brackets.
01:19:42 Yeah, that's how it works. That's what a swap is. Yeah, we're nailing it. This is fine. 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 swap. Well, I'd also like a direct swap. Okay, great.
01:19:55 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 horse. chicken nugget. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Shoggin'hawk.
01:20:09 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, you know, 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. I haven't thought about this at all, but those are both really good.
01:20:26 Okay. Maybe I'd get a, uh, uh, uh, planet, weekly planet in. here and I'd get James to do a report to Mesao about a real bad murder. Oh, okay. Maybe. No. About, no, about a real good movie. Okay.
01:20:52 And we'd go and do their podcast. No, we'd go and do Josh Ell's podcast. David'd be Josh. And you and I'd be. contestants. Contestants. Okay. So who's doing the weekly planet that week?
01:21:09 No one. Oh gosh. Or Josh is. Josh is doing it. Then Josh goes over to weekly planet. Josh goes to go and talk about superheroes and comic book movie news. Yes.
01:21:17 He'd be great at because Josh can do it. No wrong. I'd get Mesao. I've changed my mind. Mesao to do the report on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to to James. Great. Thank you.
01:21:31 James Smith. Is this what you wanted? John Smith, sorry. Joe Smith Joe That's not the most average John Smith is the most average John Smith sure
01:21:39 Second most average Joe Smith Then Joe blogs Yes John Tituson Jane Doe You know I get it
01:21:49 You get it So that was this week's Question fact question Or my gosh Yes So yeah A few of them come in already There's going to be a few questions
01:21:59 Few No one's on a quote yet But anyway And a lot of people I haven't got back to me So if you are on the Sydney-Shaunberg, Patreon level,
01:22:08 please hit me up with your theme of jig. And the Patreon has been going very well lately. We are up to, I think, 75 or 76% of the way to our US tour goal. So excited. We're actually,
01:22:20 we're starting to actually talk about it 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, no, I don't know. Who knows?
01:22:31 So if you want to help us get to that goal, you can always do it. It's actually at 78%. My goodness. My goodness. Good grief. Willickers. My grandma says, good lord.
01:22:43 Oh, that's good. She's 92. Alleged to be of Neil Diamond. I was singing that. Good Lord. Crunchy granola sweet. Is that what that is? Sure.
01:22:56 Because my head started going into Jive Bunny. Da-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-. do do do do bao do but do but do but do but bam bam but do but do but do by doba do is also Neil Diamond? I guess so. In a way, aren't we all Neil Diamond? We're all mill diamonds in the rough. Grandma was referencing Neil Diamond this whole time.
01:23:20 Yeah, so anyway, you want to get involved in the Patreon. Just head to patreon.com slash do go on pod or our website dogoonpod.com. And you get two bonus episodes per month, a certain level or above. You get shoutouts. You get to vote for the topics. So basically shape the show and what we. talk about and you also maybe hit your fact quote or question or you get us to thank you
01:23:39 live on air which we'll do right now live it does record live I mean this is a live recording love to tape live two time 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 something to do with blues brothers yeah I was thinking like giving them a
01:24:03 an instrument to play or maybe like a blues name. Oh yeah. Or anything else, if either 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, you know, band name that's very similar to Blues Brothers,
01:24:23 something, sisters, the cousins, you know, the uncles, the aunts, whatever. Love it, yes. Great. Yeah, cool. I was just taking it all in, orally. Taking it all in. Yep. All right, cool.
01:24:37 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 longtime supporter. Long-time supporter.
01:24:59 His name is David Mollofsky. Oh, it's good. 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. 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.
01:25:28 Yeah, yep. And what if it's David Molloski and the cape hangers? Oh, now you're talking. I like that. I'd go see that band. You know we love an and the. Yeah, I do love Ananda. Huey Lewis and the news started it.
01:25:41 Yep. And David Mollocky is finishing. And thank you too. I don't think Huey Lewis started it. But thank you. Thanks to go on with me there. And thanks to David for the support. Place Tung your Cape.
01:25:52 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 favourite towns. I say ours. of my favorite cities. It's pretty good.
01:26:04 We've loved our live 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. A man after my own heart. Oh. Timothy Barry. And the...
01:26:30 Timothy... It's not an end, though. Timothy Barry and the maroon mist. Oh, I love it. I love that. Queenslander. Queenslander. That's great.
01:26:43 That is good. Good stuff. The maroon mist. Sounds like a super hero as well. Yeah. I do want to check that out. That is great. Thanks, Timmy Barry.
01:26:52 On your Timmy Barry. That's a real great name. Tom Barrie is one of my favorite names. Because it sounds like Gary? Yes. I get it. Dave, would you like to go next? Thank you.
01:27:05 Please. I would like to thank from the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand. And I would like to give this. They don't want one for anything over there. I'd like to give them plenty of thanks. Oh. That is to Fraser Cameron. Frazer.
01:27:18 Fraser. Fraser. Buddy Niles and the gang, hopefully are all doing well. Also, Daphne. Love Daphne. Little dog. And obviously. Eddie.
01:27:30 Eddie the dog. and your old man, Mr. Crane. Cray. Hopefully he's doing as well. What about Rose? Oh, Rose can fuck off. No, like Ros. Ross, Rose is great.
01:27:44 What about Mr. Crane and the forgotten Rosas? I like it. Yeah. That's very good. Fraser Cameron, that is your new band or hangout zone name. Congratulations. Mr. Crane of the Forgotten Rosas. Bay of Plenty.
01:28:00 It sounds amazing. It does. I'd love to go there. And I'd like to thank my final person is from North Yorkshire. Yorkshire. Yorkshire. Red car. Red car.
01:28:15 Red car in North Yorkshire. Over in GB, I'd like to thank Sean Oliver. Sean Oliver, another man with two first names. Oh, gosh, small, short Oliver. Yeah, great. Is that something? Yeah, let's make that something. So what, say it again?
01:28:32 Sean Oliver and the twist. Go have some more. Squire. Oh, no, I've had enough of me porridge. The bird's going. Could have a little bit more. Birds have come and got me porridge. Something like that.
01:28:46 That's not an excuse to lose porridge. Oh, the birds have got it. How did they get it? They can't carry a bowl. They put it in. Ducked it under their wings and off they popped. They didn't eat that. They just took the bowl.
01:28:59 They took the whole bowl. Screw. I've got to eat with my hands now. Please, sir, don't prepare porridge into my palms. Oh, it's boiling. It's boiling. Thank you, sir. Thank you for this burning pain.
01:29:15 So, what have we got? Sean Oliver. And the bird thieves? Yeah. Yeah. Sean Oliver. You really, you disappeared into that. Yeah.
01:29:27 My eyes rolled back. Yeah. That was beautiful. Beautiful. What happened? I'll replay it for you later. That is something else. That was dedicated to you.
01:29:37 The bird's got him. You're insane. Thank you, Sean. And I would like to thank a couple people as well if you 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.
01:29:58 Oh, gosh. Great name. Holy moly. With a K? Adam and the round table His band is a table Hitting a table But does he move around the table?
01:30:15 He's got eight scenes at the table And he displays musical chairs Does a different voice for each of them I mean you don't You can veto it if you hate it No I love it Adam and the round table Yeah I like it
01:30:28 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 transport as well. He jumps in, holds one leg with his hands. Like one of those things with gladiators.
01:30:41 Wee! Yeah, like a little hamster wheel. Yeah. And I would also like to think, if I may, Dave, we had Sean before from North Yorkshire. This person is from West Yorkshire. Oh, what are the bloody chairs? You know the North Yorkshires and the West Yorkshires.
01:30:58 Love each other. Oh, thank goodness. You two need to find each other. become friends. Send us a picture. Thank you. This person's from Osset in West Yorkshire. It's Stephen Groom.
01:31:10 Oh. Another good name. Oh, wedding, do we hear wedding bells? I'm sure he doesn't get that all the time. Well, everything we do is things they get all the time. Good point. Do you not think Oliver gets bird thief all the time? Stephen Groom, any ideas there?
01:31:29 Stephen Groom and the funeral directors. Oh! Because you think... Fuck yes. You think wedding. Four weddings and a funeral. You twist that around a little bit. David.
01:31:36 Stephen Groom and 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?
01:31:47 Yes. And they just play like this grim look on their face. Yeah, morning music. Yeah, you do not play this at night. Do not. Awesome. Thank you, Stephen Groom. Thank you, pun king.
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01:32:26 do go onpod.com. It's got all the links there. You can also click on suggest a 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.
01:32:41 Read your pictures. He does not understand pictures. And also see our words on Instagram. Hang on, I've missed that. No, you can pitch the topic to us and we read it. And it's often why we choose them. Jess has also just taken the reins of Instagram off, Dave. Because Dave, we've found out years after we've.
01:33:03 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, oh no, we're up to date with the messages on Instagram. Just don't understand why you would message someone on Instagram. And also we'll probably just will start doing more stories and stuff, I think. Is that right? Don't put that pressure on me. Please do them. I mean, we all have access to it. You can just ask. I just did, please. I thought you. Yeah, no problem. I just saw you doing a story now and it made me think that maybe you're going to start doing stories now because you're doing a story now.
01:33:34 Now! I'm fucking loving this story. I'm watching your story. It's pretty good. Oh, I'd say if anyone's still listening, but I'm starting a new podcast and these guys are going to be on some time. It's coming out soon,
01:33:47 so I just thought I'd put the word out, but I think it'll be out in the next few weeks. It's called primates, and it's all about apes and monkeys in popular culture. It sounds silly when you say it. outlay out. Oh, it doesn't. It sounds genius. So, yeah, I'll tell you more
01:34:04 about that in future episodes. Yes, we'll definitely let you know when it comes out. Very excited. Matt and I have recorded our episode of that one already, and it 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?
01:34:22 It's a chena sequa. It lacked a certain, senacequa. It lacked a certain fun or interest. Oh, do I say. But it finished. And we're able to move on with our last. No, we've got to talk about one of my favorite things in the world, which we'll not spoil, but it was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun.
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