Do Go On - 163 - WW2 Badass Audie Murphy

Episode Date: December 5, 2018

Here are Do Go On HQ, we love a story of a WW2 Badass! This week we hear about the impressive life of Audie Murphy - decorated soldier, Hollywood actor and all round legend.  Support 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] References:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphyhttps://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Explore/Notable-Graves/Prominent-Military-Figures/Audie-Murphyhttp://www.audiemurphy.com/biography.htmhttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001559/bio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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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.

And welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Dave Warnocky and I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Hello to you too as well. We are also in the room. Can confirm. As they've said. And it's a hot scoop. Miced up.

Yep. Is that what this is? If all got headsets on. It's a big room We're just wandering around You are giving away too much information Use the space All right, you're a donkey

No, I'm not a donkey And I asked you to stop calling me one All right, you're a seagull Thank you And you Matt are a majestic Lion King Yes, thank you Hey, that's the episode of primates this week

Oh great, there you go I did not even mean that I retract anything that would inspire A plug for primates A show I really appreciate that opportunity to plug primates Dave with special guest Claire Tonti. Tonte.

And Dimity Kirkwood from the Millennial Divide. It was a real fun time. We talked about the Lion King. Classic film called the Lion King, which I like to call the Lion King. Right. And when I accidentally just said that Jess was a seagull, I also should add, this is completely unintentional. But last week's episode of Booksheet, I talked about Anton Chekhov's The Seagull.

That's really going to seem like you set all that up. I swear I didn't. I'm just that good. You got Seagull on the brain. I'm also all I'm thinking about, I just had some chips. Seagulls love chippies. A little seagull boy. And what about donkey?

You've been watching Shrek? Yeah, I love it. Next question. What's your favorite part of Shrek? Oh, probably the donkey. I like his balls. Oh, you mean the movie. I like the intro and outro and bits of the middle.

I love Shrek the halls. Yeah. The name. I haven't seen it, but it does sound festive. Great pun title. Yeah, they put the name before the horse on that one. Yeah, definitely. Hey, while we're plugging things, I'm coming to Adelaide as well as Perth next year, as well as Brisbane and Melbourne, but Adelaide and Perth are on sale now,

and you can go to Matt Stewartcomedy.com slash gigs and click on links there for the appropriate show, and I'm pretty sure there. There's an early bird discount code pre-Christmas for do-go-one listeners. If you put in the code, I think is do-go-on. What is it, do-go-on-on pod? I think it's do-go-on. And... If do-go-on doesn't work, try do-go-on pod.

You are good. And then try free tickets. Yeah. Wait, no. Then try bum-bum-bum-bum. Bum-bum. Mum-m-m-mom. Yeah.

Try that. And then if those options haven't failed, and I have to stress, you have to have tried all. of them. Right. Then tweet it, Matt. Yeah. If it doesn't work.

Otherwise, I hope your producer is listening and can set up all of those codes because that would be fantastic. That would be great. If you are listening, Emma, please do that. Bum, bum, bum, especially. Bum, Bum, what percent does Bum get you off? No, well, bum bum, is obviously 30 percent. It was 10 percent per bum.

Right. If I type in 10 bums, do I get a free ticket? Yes. I think I end up paying you, which I please don't do that. 11 bums. 11 bums and he has to pay you. I cannot afford that. Well, you should have thought of that before you come.

Emma, why did you set up that discount go? That was foolish. The Perth economy is tough. It's expensive to get there. A combination's not cheap and I'm probably staying in a toilet. That's a hell problem. But I don't know you're right. It isn't your problem.

Anyway, please come to those shows. What a fantastic Christmas present. Hey, here's another great Christmas present. We're only a few weeks away from Christmas and I'm fucking feel festive. Kishmeeshmeesh. We've also, we've got a red bubble. And everyone associates Michael bubble with Christmas.

Well, why not associate Red Bubble? Michael Red Bubble. Michael Red Bubble. And if you go to do go onpod.com slash, I don't know what the slash is, but if you just go to that and click on Shop, it'll take you to our red bubble. And you get different things like shirts. I believe, I'm only judging this based off two and the things. tank our sister podcasts from Planet Broadcasting slash Shiboddle, she goes.

And they just had a listener by a clock with their funny faces on it. So if that's possible, I love that as a Christmas present idea. There's all sorts of things you can get. That's right. We've uploaded a couple of designs and then you get to pick what you want to print it on and then they'll ship it to you. T-shirts and hoodies are the big one that we sell a few of. But we'd love to start selling clocks as well.

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Are you just listing Because it's amazing if you just I mean I was staring at my computer And not making eye contact with you guys So obviously I'm just listing them Yeah I thought you're just riffing Throw Pillow I was like you're amazing I really

Wow your opinion of me is so low That me saying throw pillow is amazing I don't even know what that is Right It's a throw pillow. It's a cushion. I imagine if I said throw pillow, you would have also been impressed. Oh.

Does that mean your opinion of me is also low? Oh, so it's also low. Think of Jess, halve it. Then halve it again, double it, and then third it. Oh, my God. That is confused. My opinion is so low because I didn't think you'd understand that. Yeah.

And I didn't. So my opinion is so accurate. Yeah, it is. Anyway. Nobody's arguing that. I mean, geez. Anyway, hit up do go onpod.com. Click shop.

Go to our shop. Is this our first in studio podcast? I was just thinking. I believe it is. This feels different. Yeah. Probably because it is. Yeah.

We haven't done one in the studio since before, well, like since we did one with Mesa or about Batman. Yeah. Hi, everyone. We're back in the studio. We've just come back if you haven't been keeping us on social media from our UK tour, which was a lot of fun. We ended up doing nine shows over there. So much fun. It's a bit.

Crazy. Lots of Do-Goan listeners from England, Scotland and abroad. People came across from Europe, different places. That was cool. Yeah. There were Australians in some of the shows? Less than I was expecting them. A guy from the Ukraine came in.

Oh, that was cool. That made my life. And also some Osloans. Yes. A Parisian? Yep. Switzerland, Sweden, Lebanon. Finland.

Lots from Ireland. Heaps of Ireland. Heaps of Ireland. So we're definitely going to go there one day. Yep. Next time around, we'll definitely. Definitely and I've got a new dream of doing a show somewhere on Continental Europe. But anyway, we're going to figure that out.

It's probably, I mean, in the meantime, we should probably do this show. Yeah. But I'm already dreaming ahead. I was waiting for there to be more to that sentence. Like, in Continental Europe, in a silly costume, but it just stopped. Well, no, I didn't want to give too much away. Right. Matt's happened to do it, just at the airport.

Yeah. Yeah, I can't know that. Not even get, leave the effort. That way we don't have to sort out visas. Yeah, that's how that works, right? I assume so. If everyone books on the same flight, we could do it in international airways. Oh, over the intercom.

This is your captain speaking. Oh, that would be awful. Podcast rule. Matt's least favorite part of being on a plane is the PA announcement. Interrupting the screens. I mean, I'm not on my own there, surely. No, but it was out of character for you. angry you got at them.

Look, because you are very chilled out. I flip the bird at the screen a few times. So basically you're watching the screen, the PA comes on and it automatically pa pauses what's on your screen saying cabin announcement. Sometimes it's important. It's of safety reasons.

Sometimes it's, would you like to buy some perfume? And you're just like, no. Hey, I just have this thought, if we do it in international airways, and I don't 100% know if the skills transfer across,

but maybe Mesa could fly the plane. I would assume those. A transferable. Yeah. Trams and planes. Yeah. It's all public transport. They've all got wheels of some description.

That's right. Buttons and dials. They've all got a wire hanging above them with like a metal thing attaching to it for some reason and sand. What is that? They're all on tracks. Yeah. Oh, it's a weird piece of transport. It is a weird piece of transport.

Thank you. Aeroplanes. How do they do it? Is that the title of this episode? Yeah. Oh, what is? Spoilish. So for those who don't know.

how the show works if you're listening for the first time. We sound like we don't know how the show works. Well, we don't really. But there's three of us here and we each take it in turns to do a report on a thing. We may as well do it with three of us here. We'll have a go. And one of us knows what the report is and they've researched the topic and it's usually based on a listener's suggestion. The other two don't know what the topic is.

We get on the topic with a question this week. Jess is doing the report and she's about to ask a question, I believe. And I normally get them right. Nearly half the time. No, nearly a third of the time. Okay. Nearly a third. You get them more than a third of the time?

Oh, that's true. Yeah, I'm the winner. But you're not in this comp today. I reckon I could still have a guess. And I wrote a question. I'm going through a bit of a phase of writing the question ahead of time. To be fair, I wrote it while we were sitting in here anyway. But I did it.

Okay. So. All right. I am primed. After that, I'm inspired to try and get this right. Please embrace the new me. Please. The question is, which world will be?

or two badass has been referred to as the real-life Captain America. Captain A. America. Wow, that would be a great name. But no. Is it someone I would have heard of? I hadn't, but that doesn't mean you haven't. You have been around a very long time. I'm trying to think of the actual Captain America's name.

It's like Steve Austin, Steve Rogers. Steve Jobs. Yeah. That's a real life Captain America. Yeah. God bless him. God bless our boys up there in Apple. Do you want it in Cupertino?

The big apple. I get it. Cooper Tino. I like that a lot. That's the Apple headquarters in California. Cooper Tino. Can I get you a Cupertino? Was that Jim Carrey?

Yeah, I think it was. Thank you. My next impression, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Okay. Yep. That's it. Hello. Okay.

That was that. I love Seymorhofen playing our good friend, Alasay Tromboe virtual. Oh, and nail it. Yeah. Here's John, I'll do it very quick. This is a niche impersonation, but I'll also do my Alcette Trumblohirtial. From two on the think tank, our sister podcast we mentioned. It's a two-word impersonation.

Here it is. That's doable. That is something Al has said and will say again. Very positive, can-do kind of guy. It wants to help. I just want my word. One little nitpick there was that didn't sound like Al exactly. It sounded like Phillips Emma Hoffman doing Al.

Right. Which is kind of what it was. Perfectly. Thank you. I like it when Al tries to go full Australian. That's fun. Because he has a hybrid accent anyway. So when he just forces the Australian side, it's like, we do sound ridiculous.

Anyway, enough of Al. I don't think I know. I don't think I'll get the guy. Have you heard of Ordy Murphy? No. No, but I want to. Well, you're going to. Ordy.

Ordy. I've heard of Orney Adams, the guy from comedian, the documentary with Jerry Seinfeld. Is that even the same? Orney. Orney. This is Ordy. So that's different. How do you spell that?

A-U-D-I-E. Oh, but like Audi, the car, but... Ordy. But different. There you go. Some people do say Audi-O-D-D-O-D-E, though, will say. All right. European car manufacturing.

Do you want to call him Audi? Yes. No. Ordy. Well, I'll wait before I call him Audi. Yeah. I don't want a disrespect. Badass, especially if he's going to come beat my ass.

Yeah. Okay, I'm excited. That's a great name. So, Aorty was born on the 20th of June at 1924 or 25. That will come back. That's badass. He was the seventh of 12 children. Quick question.

Okay, I'll allow it. And who are you referring to? Audi. Ordy. Does he know what's causing it? Yes, all the siblings. I was trying to get to like their parent, his parents names there. Oh, his parents' names.

Just like a fun little segue there. Like, do his parents, anyway, so his parents put Emmett Berry Murphy and his wife, Josie Bell, Killian. Oh, good. Fantastic names. I know. Emmett Bell. Emmett Berry. And it was first name.

Emett Berry, Josie Bell. Middle name, Barry. Yeah. Love that. So good. And Josie Bell, what was the other name? Killian. Killian me softly.

Oh. with that beautiful words in my ears. Do you think that's, maybe that's how their son, Steve Jobs, ended up coming up with the name Blackberry for one of his first mobile phone devices. He's really, he's morphed a lot there. That's so fantastic. Yeah. Do you think that's why?

No, I don't think so. But thank you. Yeah, and then he went out to find Apple Records with the Beatles. Did he really? This is going to be a banger of a report. Yeah, strappy. A lot to cover here. So, yeah, he was born in, in King.

Kingston in Texas. As a child, he was described as a loner with mood swings and an explosive temper. Keep that in mind. Oh, he's going to be an explosive man in life. His father was pretty absent when Audi was growing up and eventually just abandoning the family altogether. And Audi dropped out of school in fifth grade and got a job picking cotton to help support his mum and his siblings. And he also got handy with a rifle and would hunt small game to support the family as well.

Like he'd feed them. A lot like Catnus Everdeen Or Annie Oakley Oh, all right, that one Fucking, yeah He's always got to jump on my reference isn't he? What about Catnus Eberdine? Yeah.

Cat-piss Everdine. No, Dave. Why are we always going to the gutter? And can I just do a quick impression of Philip Seymour Hoffman's character in that film? Good bye. Sorry, what film was that, Dave? You got lucky. Yeah, I got so lucky. I've seen any of them. I've seen trailers for those and it looks terrible. John, I'd say I enjoyed it. I didn't think I would, but I did. I think I might have even seen them all.

But anyway, here's my impersonation of Capneseabene. Ready? Yeah, that was good. Thank you. I like that you were miming that, which is useless on an audio platform. But also, you didn't mime it well at all in that you didn't move your arm when you fired a...

an arrow. That's how he does all these impressions though. Do a bulldozer. Same same hand movement. Yeah that is odd. Left arm outstretched, right arm, bent at the elbow. Yeah. That's how he does everything. Yeah. I love that. Love his style. Thank you. I was a bull's eye in my heart. Yeah. Oh wow. Okay. So he's, yeah, from a young age, he's supporting his family. And sadly his mother died when he was about 16 of pneumonia. And county authorities placed his three younger siblings in Bowles' children home, which was a Christian orphanage in Quinlan in Texas. And he got work at a radio repair shop and at a combination general store garage and gas station in Greenville, which is about 25 minutes away from where his younger siblings were.

I don't know where the other older ones went. They must have just kind of scattered. But yeah, so they all kind of got separated. The same year that his mother died, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor occurred. and Ordy wanted to enlist in the army, having always wanted to be a soldier, but he was turned away by the Army, Navy and Marine Corps for firstly being underage,

but secondly he was also underweight. He was quite small in stature and he was very skinny. Oh, yes, thank goodness I've got an excuse to not go to war. Oh, few. And you can pretend you want to. Yeah, I want to be a hero so bad. What a way, 50 acres, I'm so sorry. Oh, no, that's okay.

We've got a new division opening right up. Come right through here. You're on the front line. You don't think in modern warfare they need like nerds at computers. You're fucked, mate. You're first in. Mate, you'll actually, you'll be piloting the drones, but actually inside the drones. You'll be in a drone.

Just in case we need someone to be inside the drone reporting back. Yep. Still in the air. Yep. That's you, Dave. All right, I can see the enemy. All right, we're going in. And we're detonating now.

Oh, I'm exploding. Sorry, mate. Sorry you had to find out this way, but you are not avoiding it. I'm going to run away. Where to? The other side. I'd never expect that. I wouldn't expect that.

Them. Yeah. Wait, the other side of the... The war? The wall. Oh, the wall. Yeah. Okay.

So you're just going to leave the room. Yep. Right. I thought this through. I don't know what you have. You're in the army headquarters. I'm just going to the other side of the wall. Right.

Most people... would actually run away. Me, I just hide in plain sight. You hide in a cupboard. Yeah, yeah. Wait for HQ to close down for the night. For six years. Wow. Okay. Is the wall going for that long? Or do you not know that it's over so you just stay there out of precaution? People come and tell me the war's over and I'm like, no, this is a trick. You're lying to me. You're lying to me. So people know you're in the cupboard.

Yeah, a couple of people. People who work at HQ. Yeah, the general thing's really funny that there's a guy in the cupboard. Right. Okay. I knew I'd be rubbish anyway. So I think at this point you can probably leave the cupboard. If the general knows you're there. I can't like the cupboard.

Okay, yep. All right. Never been in a fight with the cupboard. All right. Matt, this weirdly makes sense considering the long-running joke we have, well, joke, theory, that Dave's girlfriend is a broom. This makes sense. Oh yeah, it's a broom cupboard.

Did you say joke? Yeah, I said joke and then I was like, well, it's not a joke. It's a, it's a, it's a girlfriend. Conspiracy theory of ours, because we've never met her or seen. Conspiracy theory, it goes all the way to the top. It's a broom. I was thinking Mop, but yeah, maybe a broom. And you have both met her on multiple occasions now.

Multiple. Two is multiple. When was the second time? You've met her twice. You can pay for a Hector one time. I've only met her once. I've met her once. Twice.

When was the second time? I'm sorry that she doesn't give a shit about our show or come to the live once. Well, that's not on us. Because we both met her once on the same night doesn't equal us meeting her twice. No, I'm pretty sure you've met her another time. but you can't think of when, conveniently. Oh, God, I'll have to get her. You haven't inserted that memory into our brains yet.

I'll have to get her diary. Yeah, no, it's been once, and we're very confident that was an actress because she was way too beautiful. Yeah, but a fantastic performance. Oh, very compelling. Yeah, very compelling. She did keep her distance from Dave.

I actually thought she might be her Seymour Hoffman. That's how good she was. And did she say hello. She did say that. She did, but I arrived. Did she say goodbye? Yes. I did when I left.

And in the middle she said, which was weird. Yeah, but I was like, is there a bulldozer in here? Hungarian for dessert is served. Oh, she's Hungarian. That is not what you've said all along. Oh, it's unraveling. We've got him.

It's all true. Anyway. The actor had an Australian accent. Hungarian's very close to Australia. Oh, my God. He is going bright red. He is unraveling. Dave, I'm going to say.

You're saying he was very underweight, which is classic intro section of Captain America film and probably comic books, I assume. Very good, Maddie. Thank you. You did it. Yeah, I've got a comic book at home. So, yeah, he's turned away from the Army, the Navy and the Marine Corps. Nobody wants him.

The following year, his sister provided an affidavit that falsified his birth date by a year. So he was 17, but they said, oh, no, he's 18. And he was... Did you say a year later? Yeah, so he was 16 when he was trying. I saw that it was like, he was 17. And a year later he got his sister to write a false affidavit saying he's 18. But backdated.

Yeah, backdate that affidavit. They're like, okay, so you're 19. He's like, whatever. Just shut up, can I come? There's also an affidavit saying I weigh more than I actually weigh. Just don't weigh me. Yeah, don't weigh me because I've got it written. I'm weird about it.

Yeah, I don't want to talk about it. I don't like, but trust me. There's a number on the paper. Trust me. Yeah. I know I look skinny, but I carry it well. I weigh more than the average range rover. Just give me the serum.

Fuck. I really, that was, I like American captain. Yeah, I like American captain too. He's real good. Stanley Tucci. That's why I like it. Stanley Tucci. He played Captain America.

No, he hosts the show of Captain Pabonine. Oh, he does too, yeah. But no, he's the German doctor. who injects Steve Rogers with the serum. I mean, what can the toch not do? The toch! Honestly, I watched EZA the other day. He's just so great.

I can do it all. He does everything. That's fun dad. Fun dad. German doctor. Wacky man with cool hair. He does it all. I mean, name another thing, he's done it.

Fashion assistant. Fashion assistant. Yes. Anyway, I reckon the people have tuned in especially to he about it. I'll be badass. Gay best friend of Cher in burlesque. Why did he take that role?

I'm glad he did. I watched Berliske at least quarterly with my friend Linney. But why did he take it? Did she have lots of different best friends and she's categorized them all based on her sexuality? Yes. Or did you? Okay.

Cut me off at the past there. Have you seen the film Burlesque? No. Well then don't you jump on my bananas? Is that a line from the film? You'd have to watch it to find out. You can come over to my house, watch it, it's the best. That sounds fantastic.

Anyway, fuck. I've got through a page. So he manages to finally get into the US Army. He's accepted. This is in June of 1942. So he is 17, but they've said he's 18. And you know the song from the sound of music that was based on this guy? He is 17.

Did go we got 18 do, be do, be do. You love musicals. I do. You love them. Well, I love the little orphan Annie. The list goes on. Stop calling her that. She finds it offensive when you say, oh, hi, little orphan Annie.

How are you? Just call her Annie. Yeah, well. Oh, no, but we do know a few annies. Yeah. It gets confusing. It does. I don't know a few orphan annies.

Hi, Jess is my mom, Annie. Hey, mid-sized. It's orphan Annie. What's up? I feel sorry for big orphan Annie. I don't. She's a bloody rad dog. She's a dog.

Sadly orphaned, but now living a happy life. Oh, boy. Okay, so he's made it into the army in 1942. While he was participating in a close order drill during that hot Texas summer, he passed out. So he's struggling a bit with some of his basic training. This badass is inspiring for me. A thin, like obviously an underweight guy that passes out a lot

can go on to be considered a badass. When's the last time you passed out? I'd pass out one string of blood tests. Yeah, we've all done that. You need to up your frequency of passing out, mate. Tell us about his... I've done it. His jugular.

His esophagus? Yeah, tell me. Give me an esophageal update. No. How's he? Fine. He swallows well? Asoficly speaking.

Asofically speaking, he's in the top percentile. Philip's seen a lot of esophically speaking. He's about to get a serum injected into him and that's going to change everything. I'm waiting for that serum. How frustrating for the warheads out there listening to this when we have, have you said anything about this guy yet? Barely. Well, I can't wait to hear it more. So his company commander thought.

his build was too slight for service in the infantry and tried to have him transformed into transferred He was going to be injected tried to have him transferred to a cook and baker's school But he, Murphy So already insisted on becoming a combat soldier So they were trying to make him a chef of some description

Yeah basically like a swing musician in the band The Cook and Bakers Get him on drums I went straight for horns Yeah He would have been on the horn, no doubt. He's probably on the triangle. What are you talking about this?

We're talking about World War II badass. Yeah, we're talking about like a man with my build. He's about our height, or I think a little bit shorter. This man is, he's a exophonist, if anything. He's what? A sycophonist. Oh, yes, okay. Grow up, Jess.

I thought you were saying esophagus again. So he completely his basic training and he was shipped to Casabinus. Blanca. Oh, the film. Fantastic. Beautiful. So you've got an acting. He went to Casablanca on the 20th of February.

Byrd. Frankly, my dear. I don't give a fuck. Yeah. That's beautiful. I'm just going to have a little break here. Yeah, cool. That's gone with the wind, mate.

Fuck. Hey, I've seen classic. Hey, could you do a new podcast about classic movies so I don't have to watch them? Yeah. A good one. And so, yeah, he went to Casablanca. he later went to Sicily where he was a division runner for the third infantry. And although he'd struggled to get into the military and provide and prove himself,

Ordy began to prove himself to be a more than capable soldier and an excellent marksman and rose through the ranks rather quickly. Supreme Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower, that's such a good name, made the decision to invade Italy in early September 1943. Audie and two of his fellow soldiers and friends were travelling along the Volterno River, which is in south central Italy. The trio were near a bridge when one of them was killed by German machine gun fire. Ordi's friend, a soldier named Tipton, tossed hand grenades in the direction of the fire

and Audi responded with the Thompson sub-machine gun killing five German soldiers. Five. You know those machine guns that just have like the huge round barrel on the front of them? It's one of those, which for some reason just seems so bad. ass. But, you know, he killed five people. Like one of those old school Tommy guns? Yeah.

Like the gangsters use, man, they're probably the coolest-looking machine gun. Yeah. Well, this is a Thompson machine gun, so I'm going to say it's probably the same thing. And if you're using one of them, you've got to have a cigar coming out your mouth and you've got to be saying, eh, eat land, sucker. Yeah. And laughing maniacally. Yeah.

By July, he was a corporal, and by December, he was promoted to sergeant. And by this time, the 3rd Infantry Division had suffered heavy casualties. They had 683 dead, 170 missing, 2,412 wounded. At the time, at the end of 1943, the division began training near Naples for the planned 144 storming of Anzio Beachhead, Anzio, the beginning of the liberation of Rome, and already made section leader on the 4th of January, and was, promoted to Staff Sergeant on the 13th of January.

He's flying up the ranks. Within a couple of weeks he's had two promotions. That's an amazing time. I guess in part it's because people are dying around you, but still that is a wild rising through the ranks. Yeah. A week after his promotion to Staff Sergeant on the 21st of January, he was hospitalized in Naples with malaria.

He returned to his unit in time to take part in the unsuccessful first battle of Cisterna, which was fought between the 30th of January and 1st of Feb. It was the most fierce and sustained fighting he had experienced to date. And their lieutenant colonel Michael Pollock, who was the commander of the 1st Battalion of the 15th Infantry, temporarily took charge when the company commander was left badly wounded. And he later stated that the three-day battle that followed decimated the company, leaving fewer than 30 soldiers alive.

Ordie Murphy, still alive. Out of how many was it? A lot. I don't know exactly how many. A lot down to 30. A lot more than 30 down to 30. Right. Wow, 46.

Whoa. The men were forced back to Anzio and remained there for months, taking shelter in an abandoned farmhouse. And on the 2nd of March, their artillery fire disabled a German tank. And although the tank crew were killed as they tried to escape, already knew that the tank could be repaired by the Germans and put back into use. So leaving his man in the farmhouse,

he advanced towards the tank by crawling on his stomach and he then used rifle grenades to permanently put the tank out of commission. For this action, he received the Bronze Star with V device. Can you set something like, you've been decommissioned and then started firing those grenades on it? Yeah.

And then walk to an slow motion as it exploded behind him. That genuinely happens later. He continued to make scouting patrols to take German prisoners before being hospitalized for a week. He was still doing his scouting stuff. He's getting his badges. The man does it all. Tying little ropes for no reason. Yeah, just little ones.

But then he got malaria again. Oh, man. And so he was in hospital again for about another week. The third division was taken off the front line in late March and placed in resorts. reserve and they were put through additional combat training. But the training was so intense that Ordi felt that these men needed relief and he refused to put them through more training. But this action cost him a promotion that he was supposedly going to receive

because he defied orders to stand up for his men. Didn't hurt his career overall, to be honest, but he didn't get a promotion as quickly as he should have because he was like, nah. It's about four days instead of three. Yeah. He's like, we don't want to. And I'm just sort of picking a few key stories here. Obviously, with any of these World War II, guys, it's like a million different things.

But I'm just picking out a few here. When does he get in a stand-up comedy? Soon. Cool. Another story that comes up about him a lot is when he and his best mate, Laddie Tipton, who I mentioned before. You didn't mention his name was Laddie. You just said Tipton.

Laddie. Laddie, Tempton, another cracking name. Yeah. They were together during a battle. and two Germans exited a house about 100 yards or 90 metres away from them. And they waved a white flag. So Tipton made himself visible, beckoned for the German soldiers to come towards him.

And he was immediately killed by machine gunfire coming from within the house. Laddie was? That is a dog act. You do not make fun of the white flag system. No, what's the point of it? That ruins it for every now. What's the point of the white flag system? That's a dog.

I thought that he was going to dog them. they dogged him. Oh, he was going to be like, okay, come on over. And he was going to, which I would have looked very unfavorably upon him, but now I look unfavorably upon the others. Yeah, the Germans. They dogged him. So he gets killed by the machine gun fire.

It was a bit of a trap. And Ordi later wrote, I remember the experience as I do a nightmare. A demon seems to have entered my body. My brain is coldly alert and logical. I do not think of the danger to myself. my whole being is concentrated on killing. So he goes bat-shin.

Right. Would I be right in saying that those guys who shot him were Nazis? Well, I guess. Because, you know, that does not reflect favorably on them. Yeah. Sorry, 20 Nazis out there, but this doesn't look good for you. That, yeah, I'm actually, I'm getting a pretty hard and fast rule about them, that they're bad. And I don't like black and white like that.

I know, but I think I have to agree. To be honest, I haven't seen many examples of them doing any good. You know? But, hey, I'd love to be proven wrong. Yeah. I would love for. Would you? Yep.

So already advanced alone on the house, seemingly impervious to the German fire that was being directed straight at him. He wounded two Germans, killed. took the others as prisoners. His actions that day took approximately an hour, during which he killed eight German soldiers, wounded three, and took 11 as prisoners. And for this, he received the Distinguished Service Cross. He's just a one-man, one-man army.

Yeah, I like to imagine him just, like, is it when they Mel Gibson's on the Simpsons and he's just like rubbing his face going, whoop-pah-bub-poo-poo-poo-poo-pup. That's how I like to imagine Audie Murphy. Just like going bat-shit. I was thinking of him like Grandpa, Grandpa Simpson in the Army

where he's just like a badass from the hellfish? Flying hellfish. Just sitting on hand grenades and just doing whatever it takes. Yeah. Well, sure. That's the same. Some sort of mix of the two.

Dressing up as a bellic dancer, kind of Hitler. Whatever it takes. That is not Iobo. They were brave to take on Hitler. were they? Yeah. So, yeah, he got the Distinguished Service Cross,

and this is the second highest military award that can be given to a member of the United States Army. I mean, you kill that many people, capture that many people on your own, and you get the second highest. What is number one doing? Well, the Distinguished Service Cross is for extreme gallantry

and risk of life in actual combat with an armed enemy force. And this award is only given when all of the criteria, isn't met for the honour medal. So it's just like one step below, but it's still a huge, it's not given out all that off. So it was just like one box wasn't ticked or something like that?

Something like that, yeah. I wonder what the box was. I don't know, there's no damsela in distress or something. He's probably swearing or something. Yeah. He didn't look that cool when he did it. I see. Yeah.

But speaking of looking cool when he did something. Hell yeah. This is the citation from when he did receive a medal of honor. and I want to read it because it explains exactly what happened. So it says, Second Lieutenant Murphy commanded Company B, which was attacked by six tanks and waves of infantry. Second Lieutenant Murphy ordered his men to withdraw to prepared positions in a woods

while he remained forward at his command post and continued to give fire directions to the artillery by telephone. Behind him to his right, one of our tank destroyers received a direct hit and began to burn. its crew withdrew to the woods. Second Lieutenant Murphy continued to direct artillery fire, which killed a large number of the advancing enemy infantry. With the enemy tanks abreast of his position, Second Lieutenant Murphy climbed on the burning tank destroyer.

So the tank's on fire, he climbs up on it, which was in danger of blowing up at any moment and employed its 50-calibre machine gun against the enemy. He was alone and exposed to German fire from three sides, but his deadly fire killed dozens of Germans and caused their infantry attack to waver. The enemy tanks losing infantry support began to fall back. For an hour, the Germans tried every available weapon

to eliminate second lieutenant Murphy, but he continued to hold his position and wiped out a squad which was trying to creep up unnoticed on his right flank. Germans reached as close as 10 yards, only to be mowed down by his fire. He received a leg wound, but ignored it and continued the single-handed fight, until his ammunition was exhausted.

He then made his way to his company, refused medical attention, and organized the company in a counterattack which forced the Germans to withdraw. Apparently he called basically at fire on his exact location, and so they blew up the tank as he walked away from it and didn't look back. What a bad ass.

Yep. So for that he got Honor Medal. So that's the top one. Medal of Honor. Yes, that's right. So now he's got the first and the second highest medals. He's got all of them. I'll go into that. When he was asked later why he'd seized the machine gun

and taken on an entire company of German infantry, he replied simply, they were killing my friends. Okay. Interesting question. I'll field this one. What would you do? You wouldn't.

You know, I think history is always like when he was later asked, who are these people asking these questions? Who was asking, was it his grandson or something? Why'd you do it? Why'd you do that, Grandpa? What? Wait,

Kill the enemy. Why did I do my job? It was in a war. He was later on. Why'd I go on above and beyond? Yeah, the question would have been something like, why did you, like, you were almost reckless with your own life? Well, you were reckless in your own life.

What? Yeah, and he's like, I don't know, just. Pretty insane. But he, like, to him, the question was probably like, yeah, course I did. But the question has been asked, Most people would be like, that is. I would run.

I would turn and run. It's, uh. Dave wouldn't run. He'd fly in his little drone. Yeah. Beam me up, Scotty. He calls his drone, Scotty. It's really weird.

He thinks it's alive. Scotty, I need some sustenance. You got any chocolate milk up there? For the last time, my name's Greg. I'm a pilot. I'm a pilot. Shut up. I'm trying to concentrate.

Greg. Chocolate chocolate milk. Scotty, where's the chocolate milk in here? Don't be a tired of scotty. Give me that chocolate milk. I'll just keep sipping to you, insert it into my mouth. We don't have that technology. Scotty.

And take it out of context. That's a terrible sentence. Not done yet. All right. Now you're done? Well, for now. For now. Ordie also suffered from post-traumatic stress, which I think makes sense.

which back then was either called shell shock or battle fatigue. I don't shell shock before, but battle fatigue is fun. He was plagued with insomnia and bouts of depression and he slept with a loaded pistol under his pillow even after the war. He had headaches, vomiting and nightmares. But in an effort to draw attention to the problems of returning Korean War and Vietnam War veterans much later, he spoke out candidly about his own problems with post-traumatic stress.

And he called on the government to give increased consideration and study to the emotional impact of common. combat experiences and to extend healthcare benefits to war veterans. So he used his bad experience, try and help other people. Holy shit. And like I said before, with all stories of war, particularly World War II Baddarses, there's a lot more to his story, but I just picked a few key war elements because I also want to talk about what he did after.

So at the end of the war, he was considered one of the most decorated soldiers in history being awarded 33 medals and honors. It would be hard to march with that. Yeah, it'd be heavy. Yeah, occasionally you'll see veterans with just, there's no room left on their shirt, there's so many medals. He would be that. He'd need a second shirt or they'd be on the back or something as well.

And they're all like, they're made of metal, right? So they'd be heavy. Some of them are pretty significant. But he's also decorated for bravery by the governments of France and Belgium. And he was credited with killing over 240 German soldiers and wounding and capturing many more. She's always kind of a weird thing with war, isn't it, to be like, wow, he killed all those people,

but it's like, they're still people. Yeah. I agree the Nazi party, bad. We all agree on that. But people are people. But it's so strange. Yes. Yes.

Well, yeah, it's not, I mean, the soldiers, right? They're doing the job. That's what they've got to do. Yeah. It's the, yeah, the fuckheads who are. making wars happen. Yeah. People like, and I don't want to go out on him,

but maybe I will, Adolf Hitler. Yeah, yeah. Started a big war. There, we said it. He's, I'm going to say, a real piece of shit. Yep, I think you might be right. Maybe I'd say worse than that. I don't want to, I don't want to.

Two pieces of shit. No, a bigger piece of shit. Whoa, one really big piece of shit. I just think he's one of the worst, almost iconically bad. Wow. And can I just say, that is not. I will be. So yes, he's a very decorated soldier.

And keep in mind the majority of his awards were given to him before he was even 20 years old. Anyway, what have you done with your life? So, look, I don't have time for you to list what you've done in the last 17 centuries. No, I just need you to know. Don't hang around waiting for me to achieve any of that. God, no. Oh, no, no, no.

So in July of 1945, Audie was in Life magazine, which caught the eye of actor and producer James Cagney. And he brought him to Hollywood. James and his brother William signed him as a contract player for their production company and gave him training in acting, voice and dance. They never actually, they never cast him in a movie. Triple threat.

And a personal disagreement ended their association. in 1947, but he called the bloody bug. Right. So he's singing, acting and dancing. Yeah. He befriended a Hollywood writer called David Speck McLua, and they collaborated when Ordi wrote his autobiography called To Hellenbach, which was released in 1949.

McClure used his connections to get Murphy a $500, or equivalent to about $5,000, bit part in Texas, Brooklyn, and heaven. And he'd been dating Hollywood actress Wanda Hendrix for a couple of years, and her agent got him a bit part in the 1948 Alan Ladd film Beyond Glory. But his first leading role and kind of his big break was a film in 1949 called Bad Boy. With Will Smith. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. This is before he changed his name to Martin Lawrence. Right. But, yeah. Whoops, spoiler. So he's Big Mama's house as well. Yeah. This guy's done a lot.

He's done so much. The film's called Bad Boy, and their film's financial backers refused to bankroll the project unless Audie Murphy was given the lead role. Wow. Isn't that crazy? Hey, I will only fund this film if you put someone who's never properly acted in the lid role. And that's why ally artists didn't want to give it to an inexperienced actor. You're like, all right, well, sure, you can have this film as long as you attach a very famous name to it. Yeah, this one's like, no.

But, I mean, he is very famous, just not for acting. Right. He's been all over newspapers and he's, yeah, he's a household names. Right. Well, you know, that would definitely get attention, especially if he's good in it. Yeah. Probably all really bad. Oh, bad boy.

Oh, that's why. It's called bad boy. You're really living. It's open to the critics there, isn't it? Yeah. There was one bad boy in this film. The film. And I'm not talking about the character.

No. Universal Studios signed Audi to a seven-year studio contract at $2,500 a week, which is equivalent to about $25,000 a week. For seven years? Yep. That's every million dollars a year. Whoa. Yeah.

Yep. Holy moly. So now would you go to war? Was he good in bad boy? I never said... Dave said he would be in a drone? Yes, I wouldn't go to war because I am very anti-war. Look, I'm not going to go to war for an acting contract.

For the chance to make 25 grand a week. So why are you here? Acting contract? Obviously, duh. So obviously Bad Boy was very successful then. Yeah, Bad Boy did well. Yeah. But some of his other work did even better.

So married actress Wanda Hendrix in 1949. They'd been dating for a couple of years. However, their marriage didn't last and their divorce became final two years later in 1951. And four days after his divorce was finalised, he married former airline stewardess Pamela Opel Lee Archer. Good name. Four names. Love it. Has not been a bad name in this episode.

I agree. Well, they went on to have two sons, Terry Michael, not amazing, and James Shannon also a bit plain. But when your name's ordi. Yeah. And he hated that his name was Audi. Oh, okay. So he gave his son's boy. boring names. Sorry Terry and James.

Terry and James. No, I feel that. I got the boring names as well. Yeah, actually, I got to talk. We've got three of the most dulled names already. In 195, Ordi's autobiography to Hellenbach was to be made. I would have called it Audi biography. Oh, that is good. Is it?

That is. That's good stuff. So good. Yeah. So it was set to be made into a film. It was going to be directed by Jesse Hibbs. And he was initially reluctant to play himself, but he eventually agreed.

So he played himself in a movie based on a book about himself. But he'd written. But he'd written. And he was like, I'm finding hard to relate to this character. I just don't know if I can play me. So how old is he now? He's pushing 40 and he's got to play himself as a 20-year-old. No, 19-55.

He's 30s. 30s. So he only has to, and he's, And he's going and playing a guy pretend to be 18. I guess so. Hey, I'm. Oh, no, it's me. I'm not to know.

There's no way you're 18. Oh, I am. I promise. There's no way 18. You're obviously 30 years old. No. 17 pretending to be 18. I did read, I didn't write it down.

But I did read a couple of places that he, in the, like, the edit of the film, already cut out a few kind of. key things because he felt people wouldn't believe that it was real. Like it was, it was, it's that situation of like the truth is stranger than fiction. There were some things that people would be like, bullshit, he didn't do that. And he was like, I did. But I'll cut it out because people won't believe how much of a badass I am. Hell yeah.

So DeHellen Back became the biggest hit in the history of Universal Studios at the time. What? And I'm pretty sure I read somewhere, it remained their biggest film until Jaws in 1975. So for 20 years, it was their best. And that was the highest grossing film ever to that point, Jaws. Yeah. So it was a megastar.

Yeah, it was huge. Like, yeah, very few people get to the top of any game and he's done it twice. Yeah. Soldier and Actor. He's not done. Oh, what's he going to be? Do you want to have a guess? What's he going to buy?

Do you want to have a guess? Oh, okay. politician I reckon No, Matt Yeah, that's a good guess Well, he also trained in dance And song Is it singer?

Yes, well done He's going to be a singer Kind of. A crooner? No, he was a fan of country music But he wasn't a singer or musician himself But through... That doesn't matter in that genre.

No, but through Friends He was introduced to a songwriter called Scott Turner and they collaborated on numerous songs between 1960. Is he the beatboxer? Yes. That's cool. That's not even his name.

He just broke Dave. He punched the wall. That guy from Australian Idol season one, is that you mean? Probably, I don't know. What's his name? That was Joel Turner. Yeah, that's definitely who Matt meant. What a reference to go for.

So obscure and it was the wrong name. I mean, I do that. You should clarify, it's quite late. And Dave's very tired. I feel like we're endlessly clarifying. It's quite late. Just assume it's late. Unless we say, oh, it's early in the morning.

And by early, we meant 2 a.m. Yeah. Just assume always, we should have said this 100 episodes ago. Assume always that it's late at night. And at least one of us is fucked. Okay? Dad! Yeah, if John, if you are listening, please.

He is, he cares about us. Hey, John, thanks so much for tuning in. And when Jess said, who's it going to be before in that funny way, that's a reference to my favorite podcast called Sizzletown. You should check it out. Anyway. What's it going to boy? We say it a lot off Mike.

I accidentally brought it on Mike there. That's okay. And I thought I needed to give it context. I probably didn't. But that is a great hot tip for a podcast. Tony Martin. We all love him. Australian comedy legend.

Don't speak for me, Dave. Oh, he was talking about me and him. We all, and he pointed at me. Yeah, that's the dynamic, isn't it? Way all? Against the world. But you're telling me you don't love Tony Martin. No, I do.

I just don't like you speaking on my behalf. I like to be consulted. Thank you. Anyway, so they collaborated on numerous songs between 1962, 1970, the most successful of which was shutters and boards. And when the wind blows in Chicago, He hired a professional lyricist for this. Yeah.

Well, apparently he used to write a bit of poetry and stuff as well, a couple of which are in his book. Shudder and more. Well, in his defense, he was normally a beatboxer not a lyricist. Yeah. He just writes down the way he's like, boom and ch. Yeah. And wiki, wiki, wiki.

And break it down. God, guys, don't give away too much of our musical experience. Okay. We'll intimidate people with our skills. His singing career, it didn't, it was not, it wasn't anything, but he did it as well. We didn't get heaps of success or anything from that. But throughout an acting career spanning from 1948 to 1969. Why aren't you saying that right?

1948. I was like, am I doing that thing again where I make 1800s, 1900s? 19848 to 1969. All right. Nice. He made more than 40 feature films and one television series. 40 feature films. That's two a year.

That's crazy. I love it when he does Quick maths. I love it. Plus a TV series. Because sometimes I'm like, that's a bit. And then Dave jumps in. I'm like, it is a bit. I nailed it.

Two feature films a year. He's laughing. That's a lot of work. Apart from being a decorated soldier, a film star, a country musician, a husband and a father. He also bred quarter horses at the Ordy Murphy Ranch. Naming a ranch after yourself. Come on, mate, think of a name.

I reckon someone would have done that. Probably one of the horses. Named it, Audie Murphy. And he went, all right, I feel a bit silly naming at that. I'm called Rorty Murphy. You're going to Mr. Ed? No. Okay.

There's a whole new character called Horsy-talkie-talkie. Hi, I'm horsey-talk-talk, and I want a name me. This here ranch, Orney Murphy. Is that his name? Ordy. I've been saying it this whole time. I'm afraid I've already written it down. It's going to cost $100 an admin if you want to change it.

I'll leave it as it is. Orney Murphy. We know what you mean. Could you pass over another bit of peanut butter? It's the only way I know how to talk. That was beautiful. Thank you for sharing that with us. Thank you.

So he's raising horses and he also loved to have a punt. So he would gamble on his horses. Oh, nice. This is his downfall? He's gambling left his finances in a poor state. He's making a million bucks a year and he's lost it. In 1968, he stated that he lost $260,000 in an Algerian oil deal and was dealing with the IRS over unpaid taxes.

I mean, who hasn't done that? We've all lost $260,000. Well, luckily for me, it wasn't quite that much, but those Algerian oil deals. I dropped mine in a drain. You're 260 million? Yeah. God, I felt like a real goose. I find it fascinating when super rich people gamble.

I feel like gambling's for people who are like, I need, I need some money. Yeah. But when you've already got it, it's like, what's the win? More money? You've already got it. You got so much. I mean, I do get why it's a bit of fun. I don't know what I'm.

Anyway, I get why you might do it in little bits and pieces, but if you've already got heaps of money, I don't get why people gamble heaps of money. Again, Matt, that is beautiful and thank you. Well, I'm just looking for answers. Can you explain to me? Why do you do it? I'm not mega rich.

I'm not less than you. You already said the right answer. More money. More money. That's the answer. More money, more problems, Dave. Remember that. No money, no problems.

More money, more problems. I'm so sorry. He's already. written it down. No money. I'm afraid it's going to be a hundred-dollar admin fee. Well, just to tell you, come on. Jump on board.

I'm taking it for a ride. It's a Christmas past. Does that? Um, horsey-talkie-talkie. Does horsey-talkie will work at the casino? No, but I do gallop in time. Is horsey-talkie-talk-okay? No.

Okay. Could you call my vet? Vetti. Vettie. Vettie. That'd make me fairly better or bet. Eddie Veddy? Eddie better or a bit better.

Okay, I'm going to have a quick break again. Okay, off you go. Tip-top, clip-top. That horse has been put out to pasture. In spite of his financial difficulties, he refused to appear in commercials for alcohol and cigarettes as he wasn't a smoker or a drinker, and he was mindful of the influence he would have on the youth market.

He's like, I'm not selling out, man. I mean, morally, great decision. Financially, not so good. Not great. On the 28th of May, 1971, already was a passenger on a private plane flying from Atlanta, Georgia, to Martinsville, Virginia. A couple of hours into the flight,

the aircraft crashed into Brush Mountain 20 miles west of Roanoke in conditions of rain, cloud, fog, and zero visibility. Terrible conditions. The pilot and all the passengers were killed And Audi was only 45 years old So he died as well He died What? I thought for sure he was going to somehow fall through

No No so he was killed in this plane crash The pilot had a private pilot license And 8,000 hours of flying time But basically he didn't have the correct qualifications Or license to be flying that type of aircraft You knew Oh God

So was something else from on there But it was a commercial fly No it was a private jet Private plane You did not prepare me emotionally for him to die then That felt like we were still mid-story I did say the pilot and all of the passengers were killed Yeah but before that

At that point I realised what had happened That's when we both realised I'm not sure how you would like me to have led up to it Sadly But tragically his final journey Okay well thank you for your notes They're too late His luck finally ran out

when, you know, after all his bad gambling luck, his luck continued to be poor, but this time fatally. He took the biggest gamble of his life when he got on board a plane with an unlicensed pilot. No, I don't like any of this. I'm mentioning a flight here and just probably assume I haven't mentioned any before now, maybe this is something bad's about to happen. Okay, thank you again for your notes. You could have just looked at the eye and said, I'm sorry.

I mean, you could have started that paragraph without a big gritty. on your face. You were smiling the whole way through. I'm reading your body language going, something cool to happen. He's going to parachute out. I thought he had survived. It did look like she was building to something like that.

No, I just wanted to get through it because it was hard and it's a comedy podcast and I'd like to move on. Well, I think we've moved on pretty well here. Yeah, I think we haven't, we haven't dwelled on. 45. I cannot believe all of that happened. Yeah. He made 40 films.

And he got 30-something war metal. Yeah. What is that crazy, isn't it? I cannot believe that. I assumed you were about to tell me he was 80 or something. He married twice. He had those kids. Yeah.

Incredible. He had like these Hollywood wives. Wives. No, I realized the second one was not a Hollywood. It just feels like he just went through these different phases like, now I'm going to be a country singer. Now I'm going to be a Hollywood actor. Now I'm going to be in the art.

Like, this is in reverse, obviously. Now I'm going to be a gambler, sadly. Now I'm going to be a toddler. Now I'm going to be a baby. Now I'm going to be in my mum's tummy. I'm bummed. He was buried with full military honours at Arlington National Cemetery in June of 1971

and in attendance were ambassador to the UN, George H.W. Bush, who only just passed away himself. Army Chief of Staff, William Westmoreland, with more land and many of the third inventory division so his fellow soldiers a special flagstone walkway was later constructed to accommodate the large number of people who visited to pay their respects it's the cemetery's second most visited grave site after that of JFK wow so people still go where's Arlington? Virginia Arlington Virginia and yeah so was he connected to he was on his way to Virginia

Because he was a Texan, right? Originally, yes. Yeah, right. Arlington. Hmm. I think he got a big military base. Right. That's it.

Yeah, that would make sense. The headstones of Medal of Honor recipients buried at Arlington National Cemetery are normally decorated in gold leaf, but Aorta had previously requested that his stone remained plain and inconspicuous like that of an ordinary soldier. So his is just normal. Unfortunately, because everything else is gold, it actually makes his stand out more than anything else in that cemetery. You look for the one that is in gold and you know you're looking at who. Yeah, there's a Audi.

Trying to stand out. We'll have to try and visit. That would be cool. And just finally as well, there were lots of other different honours, both in terms of military and also civilian, that would bestowed on him during his lifetime and also posthumously, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He's got one.

He's got it all. Oh, man. Yeah. So that is my. He's got to start on the fact. Well, I'm afraid I've just got to correct myself here. Just before people get on Twitter, there's also an Arlington in Texas,

so he may have been buried there, but there is the big one in Virginia as well. Oh, right. Is there a Bruce Springsteen song called Arlington County? Doesn't matter. That doesn't not matter. Anyway, that's my report on Ordie Murphy. I had not heard of him, but what an amazing badass.

Yeah. When you said at the start, like, I haven't heard of him. I was like, well, how many of these badasses have we ever? Hmm. Oh, he looks like a Hollywood. Oh, he's a babe. I was going to ask, is he really attractive guy?

Yeah, he's quite good looking. He kind of looks a bit like the guy who plays Bucky in Captain America, weirdly. That is very strange. Oh, JFK is in Arlington, Virginia. So it is Virginia. So I need not say, but I just thought I'd better look that up just to stop people getting in a little. Yeah, just before your tweet. So, yeah, pretty amazing life, huh?

Yeah, you're right, by 45 to have done so much. It's crazy. And that was the biggest grossing film for Universal until Jaws. Yeah. One of the big studios. Yeah, crazy, isn't it? Oh, I've got a photo here just because I want to look him up. Pull in the Dukes.

Yeah, he did a few Western films. While we're doing corrections, Bruce Springsteen has a song Darlington County. Right, close. Very close. Any connections? Any relation to Arlington, Virginia? I'm going to say no. I'm going to say no.

Wow. I'm fascinated by that guy. Yeah. You know when you don't know someone exists and then you hear about them and then they die and you feel like, huh, fun. I could have gone my whole life with that knowing about him.

Well, even though I'm pretty sure if he hadn't died in that plane crash, he probably would either be very, very old or have already passed of natural causes anyway. So I think he probably lived a pretty extraordinary life for his 45 years. He packed a lot into 45 years. And I feel so inspired that that weedy little guy could grow up to be. He does not look like a weedy little guy. A babe, an actor, a country singer and terrible gambler.

All of my big passions in life. Yeah, that's the dream. That's a dream combo. But by my age, he'd won several awards, both for military and film. Oh, way before your age. Yeah. So long ago. So there's a section on, I'm just on his Wikipedia page where it says,

awards and then they just have a list of them. Yep. And it just feels like you're scrolling for minutes before you get to the bottom of his military awards. Yep. Wow. Fantastic. Do we say who suggested that?

Oh, thank you. Yeah. It was suggested by a few people. Right. Maybe big in America. Three people. Jeremiah, Russell and Clay all suggested that one. So thank you.

Thanks, guys. Because that was a very cool topic. And the Patreon's voted on it. Yeah, that's right. I put up basically four biographies. that I could have done this this week. And it was a pretty tight race for most of it and then already kind of took off at the end.

So here's a clear winner. Classic Audi. Yeah, so very cool. Thank you for voting. So good. Thanks so much, Boppa. Plej. That was amazing.

What is the story, huh? Yeah, I'm going to have to check out some of those movies. Geez, I hope he's done a movie with a primate in it. Oh, that would be so great. If he's done 40 movies, one of them's got to. Sure, that's got to be in your contract, right? Yeah, I reckon, especially in those days. Yeah.

I'll look into that and let you know. You're up for coming on on other primates? Absolutely not. Damn it. I don't know what I can do. If even Audie won't get you on. Even though you've done more episodes than anyone else. Oh, have I?

I want to maintain that. I think you've probably been on a quarter of the episode. Yeah, that's the way it should be. Oh. Well, that brings us to a fantastic. Do you like how I'm saying fantastic now? Fantastic. Fantastic.

Is that Liam Neeson? I don't know where I've been doing it for a while. I have been doing it for a while. Fantastic. And I love it. It's fun to say. Fantastic. Oh, that is fantastic.

It's fun to hear. Oh, great. That is good to hear. That is fantastic to hear. This week's fact quote or questioner comes from maybe our, maybe he's our gold standard Patreon. He's our, he donates more than. anyone else. He's a wild man. His name is Brian Colella.

Brian, you beautiful man. Dave, do you know how, can you explain this segment in brief? For a fact quote a question. Yeah. Well, basically, if you support the show on Patreon, which you can do, if you want to keep the show ticking along, you've got to patreon.com slash do go on pod and in exchange he gets some rewards for your stuff, including two bonus episodes a month for some tears, shoutouts, and also the fact quote or question section of the show where you get to give us a fact, a quote, or a question that we will answer.

And you also get to give yourself a beautiful nickname. You do. A title. That's why I asked you to do it because I always forget. I know fact, quote, or question, you get to give one or three things. I always remember two of it. Fact quote a question, you get to give a fact or a question. Anyway, what were the three again?

Fact, quote, or question. Fact, quote, or question. So the segment's called fact quote or question. You can give, sorry, Dave. A fact? A fact, yes. A quote. Okay.

Which is from someone else. Or yourself. And a fact? Or a question. A question. Thank you very much. Which we'll answer. And this week, Brian Colella, he's given himself the title.

I've read his name and I've spoken to him online a bunch of times. I've never had a try at saying it out loud. Hopefully that is right. Brian Collella. Coala is a possible alt take. Jess, if you could edit in the right one. Brian Colella or Brian Coolella. Brian Colella, he's given himself the title,

World's Greatest Two in the Think Tank listener. Oh. Because he's a great big fan of a sister podcast. Well, it's interesting because that podcast has come up a few times in this episode. Yeah. And can I just give you a message from Alistair? Yeah. Hello.

So what's the fact quote or question? Brian's fact quote or question is a fact. And this is the fact. there is a society for people born in space started by a NASA astronaut named Harrison Schmidt who was born in Santa Rita, New Mexico after an expanding open pit mine consumed the town and turned it into space.

Can you believe that? What do you mean into space? So this is from the Albuquerque Journal and it's talking about the astronaut Schmidt said one of the most fascinating things about Schmidt is a distinction he shares with baseball Hall of Fame slugger Ralph Kiner and a couple of hundred other people. He was born in space.

Actually, he and the others were born in a real town, Santa Rita, New Mexico, that no longer exists. The one-time frontier town became a company town with two churches and a hospital, then it was chewed up bit by bit by the ever-expanding open-pit copper mine, which is all that remains today. People who were born at the Santa Rita Hospital have called them. themselves the society for people born in space and meet now and then for a union, a reunion, a reunion beside the yawning pit.

So it's been sucked up by the earth, so they say that it doesn't exist there anymore. That's kind of cool. So it's no longer on earth where they were born. Right. So if the hospital where I was born was bulldozed, I'm now born in space. If it was sucked up by the earth, yes. Or by a bulldozer, yes. Right, sucked into a bulldozer.

If a bulldozer sucks, then in, I'll allow it. Okay. But otherwise, not. Not on your fat bippy, Boppy. I'll try and join the society then. Yeah, great. I'll try, well, that means I'll try and bulldoze the hospital first. Well, no, not bulldoze.

Your bulldozer needs to suck it in. No, I'm going to bulldoze it. And then obviously there'll be a little rubble and dust and I'll vacuum. Yeah, we've out the old Dyson and Airblade. God, I'd love a sponsorship from Dyson. My vacuum cleaner is on the Fritz. Oh, I've got a Dyson. I can tell you it's great.

I cannot afford a Dyson. I will back. Yeah, look, Affloon East over here can afford a Dyson. I can't afford a Dyson. I live like less than a kilometer away from Dave. But. On the wrong side of the tracks. Yeah, I'm on the wrong side.

Can I come over and borrow the Dyson? It's great. I only complain. The charge isn't long enough. Yeah. To vacuum the entire mansion in one go. Yeah, I mean, I've got multiple Disons, obviously. I assume your cleaner is probably furious about that.

I can vacuum my entire house in five minutes. Really? Yeah, it's really small. You're that good. Yes, that's it. I'm that good. Hey, let's thank some people. Thanks so much for that fact, Brian.

Yeah, thank you, Brian. Brian, I'll see you in space. Okay, in my house. I had an idea too. So what we always do at the end is we thank some people who support us on Patreon. If you want to jump on there, do go on pod. No, patreon.com slash do go on pod. And you can support the show, get all these rewards Dave was talking about.

And one of those is that we will give you a shout out. And I was thinking this time we could call them the real life and then insert fictional character. Oh, okay. That's good. That's good stuff. Do you like that? That is one of the best for a while. Thank you so much.

Can I kick off? Please. I would like to thank from a place we just were, London. I was thinking you're going to say my house. We were not at my house. I won't have you there. We were at my house, as in we were at each of our own houses. That's true.

We were at my house. Yes. Oh boy. I'm worried about it. I wouldn't get either of your filthy unvacumed houses. I vacuumed just poorly. I vacuumed yesterday. Well, did you vacuum today?

No. Thank you. Yeah. I did spill garlic bread on the floor today. Spill garlic bread. I got crumbs everywhere. Do you not spilling? Okay.

How much do you think the Dyson is? I dropped garlic bread. It's going to suck up a high garlic bread. You just suck up the whole garlic bread. I don't know why I find that image so funny. Well, that's ruined. Put it into space. From London, I would like to thank Tom Rourke.

Oh, great, man. It's like a spy name. Yeah, I love that. Tom Rock. Tommy Rourke. The real life, James Bond. Oh, that is good. He said spy name.

Yeah, it is. Tom Rock, the real life, James Bond. Yeah. Wow. My 6, that's London, baby. Best thing. Best thing, in my opinion. Is that, yeah, you're happy with that one?

Yeah. I don't think anyone would complain about it. Yeah, you're right. I don't want to be a super spy who gets all the chicks. I would also like to thank. I say that every day. From Lincolnshire. Also in Great Britain, Alex Garrow.

I like that too. Garrow, the real London. Phantom. Ooh, Liz, behind a waterfall. The ghost that walks. My favorite superhero.

Yeah, we know. Also, like the worst superhero. No, no, he's not. Yeah, but also, Billy Zane. Oh, Billy Zane. He's so cool. So hot.

Oh, yeah. But the fan, it's sort of like not a great superhero art. Yeah, I mean, I think people that love superheroes bagged out a bit, but then I think it's really...

You're part of it. Like, I know a lot of Melbourne comedians love him. Really? Former Secret Society. Really? I once got bullied by Ronnie Chang about liking him. Oh, well, that's... All right, you've met Ronnie Chang.

Yeah, I got bullied by a celebrity. Sammy Jay is a big fan. He did a whole show about it. Okay. You know Sammy Jay. Well, I know that he did a show about the Phantom. I actually did say it. It was fantastic.

I'm sick of you guys. Just bloody name dropping left, right and center over here. One of the only Donna guys loves it. Does he? Yeah, I forget which one. Not Brogan. You said Does he? Not knowing.

which one. I don't care. I think it was Zach. I'm going to say Zach. I'm happy to know that someone likes the phantom. Look at me Broden. He's smart. People always laugh in your face. When you say you love the fandom, people laugh

in your face. Really? No, I'm telling you there's a lot of fans. I bet we've got listeners he loved the fandom. So you know, one of the officers here is painted purple? It's because of the fandom. I picked it Phantom Purple.

That's a true story. Anyway, probably you will not hear a more boring anecdote than that in your life. But Matt, We'll try to top that. I'll try and top it. For us, Phantom fans, Phantom Maniacs. Yeah, I was a big fan.

Let's go get a photo for this week's episode in front of the purple. Phantoms. No, Fantamaniacs. Fuck, me. We're Fantamiac. I hate all of you. Somebody thank someone. I'd love to thank, if I could.

Well, somebody, please thank someone. It's so late. Could I thank all the way from Chelsea in me? I haven't been to Chelsea but I have been to me That's me Dave That's Maine Maine I haven't been to Maine We don't know if that many supporters from Maine

It's always cool when that small estates come out I love them small states Where is Maine? Somewhere up around the edge Northeast Northeast yeah That's what I was thinking I said edge

Yeah you're damn right I'd love to thank Michelle Stafford The real life Dave The real life, Dave. Really? The real life. Ziggy Stardust.

Oh, that is cool. That's great. Good one. Yep, love that. I have nothing more to say than I love it. That's all you need. That's a good one. Which one of you is the Bowie fan?

I have a t-shirt that says Bowie. We both like David Bowie. I like him too, but I wouldn't say I'm a super fan. No. Because I'm trying to think which one Ziggy Star Dust is. He's not the light of the eye patch and the red hair. Oh, right.

The lightning bolt is... No, that is, sorry. That is Ziggy Stardust. That is Ziggy Stardust? Yes. Yes, definitely. Okay. What's the red hair one then?

The Lightning Bolt is the red hair as well. Who's the thin young Duke? The thin white Duke. I love that he... It's just so funny that he had all those personas. What a man. The real life. Ziggy Stardust.

Michelle Stafford. And I also love to thank from Hong Kong, Hong Kong. We were just there. I had a chicken. pie at the airport. He did have a chicken pie. The pastry was sweet, which was different. I like that.

If we ever go to Hong Kong airport again, can we go outside and stay the night? It looks very cool. It looks so cool. I've been there, malt. I've been to that airport like half a dozen times. I've never gone outside. I had hash browns from Burger King and they were great. We had nothing but nice words to say about it.

I had a chicken pie. I had hash browns. We really expanded our taste buds. We won't say anything bad about it. from Hong Kong. Oh, sorry, yes. You want more than that? Of course.

It's Binoy Shah. Binoy. Hello, Binoy Shah. The real life Burger King. I get James Bond, thank you very much. Dave, you haven't given us one yet. I think you're the one who hasn't. I'll say the real life Burger King.

Oh. The King of the Burgers. We don't have Burger Kings here. If it was Australian, it would be the real life Hungry Jack. Yeah. Oh, that's a nice one too. You can take a choice, Benoit. Whatever you prefer.

By the way, you have a fantastic name. Love it. Benoit Shah. Very nice to have listeners in Asia. We must say, we are hoping to one day go there as well. Oh, we want to go everywhere. Let's not kid ourselves. We want to take over the world.

And I think podcasting is the way to do it. Dave, would you like to thank some people? I'd like to thank a couple people now to take time. I'd like to thank from Dublin, one of Jess's favorite spots in the world. Tiernan Ennis Tiernan! This would be the same Tiern That's Tiernan!

That is Teananin, yeah. Hello Teanan! We know you in real life. We know you in real life. We're in a bit of a pickle in our Edinburgh show and we lost our tech like the day before the show and we put out to Patreon like

somebody please is anybody kind of good at tech and Tienin was like, oh I'm okay I guess and he was a fucking superstar and lovely. And it was great to meet him and his wife, Rachel. Yes, a big shout out to you as well, Rachel. Appreciate you coming along.

And Tienan, what a pleasure it is to thank you. And I think that Tienan is the real life. He's on the decks. The real life Fat Boy Slim. Wow. Because you do know there is a real, a real life Fat Boy Slim. That is incorrect. Oh.

The real life Fat Boy Slim. I'm trying to think of his name. It's something Cook. Yes. Something normal, right? Norman Cook. Yeah, that's it. Yeah.

Normal cook. Normal cook. No, Tandallis, the real life at Boyslam. This is good. And I'd like to praise you like I should. Yeah. Please do. Do it.

Like I should. Hopefully you are fucking in heaven tonight. Some lyric is. You are my funk soul brother. Check it out now. A little bit of this and a little bit of that. And a little bit of this and a little bit of that is what I wish to you. He's 55 years.

years old. Tienin. Bloody Ellie looks good. He looked great. He looks real good for any age. Hey, I should say for the Bowie fans who are annoyed, the lightning strike is Aladdin sane. Is that right? I believe so, yes.

I'm so sorry to all concerned. And I would like to move on quickly, out of embarrassment, from Napier in New Zealand. New Zealand. What a great place. I'd like to thank Jackie Miller. Jackie Miller. First and foremost, Jackie Miller, thank you for your support. If that isn't a Hollywood industry type from the Olden Day's name, I have never heard of one.

Jackie Miller, if you don't already own like a chain of shops called Jackie Miller, go out and do it now because you'll be rich. Or like some sort of, you should have a stable of Hollywood A-listers. Yeah, I agree. I think Jackie Miller is like a real, like, if Jackie Miller backs you in Hollywood, you're going places. She is a star maker. Jackie Miller, the real life, Pam.

Did I do one? I've liked out. He said Pam. Is that the whole way through? Yep. I was thinking like Dreammaker, and we've also just said Aladdin's sign, but I was thinking the genie.

Yep, that's also where I was going with Pam. Pam the genie. So the real life, Pam the genie. Pam the genie. Sorry, Jackie. But also, you're welcome. Jackie Miller. Does anyone remember this old, not Aladdin,

but like there was a genie cartoon called Bob in the Bottle? No. When was this? The 30s? I think so, yeah. And the theme song went like this. When you're feeling sad and blue, there's only one thing you should do.

Put some pepper under your nose. sneeze away those worries and woes bob Bob in the bottle he's so nice Bob Bob in the bottle makes everything like paradise And you had to sneeze Jess is looking up to make sure it's real But I'm how would I've made all of that up That song sounds real

But it sounds like Doodoo da da da da da da da da Oh, Lion King No Isn't that Lion King? No that's Jungle Bormade Little Mermaid

This year we is always greener. Oh. I wonder who ripped off who. You dream about going up there. I love Sebastian. He's fun. Barb.

Barb in the bottle. Yeah, very similar. Anyway, so, Jackie is the real life Pam the genie. Pam the genie. Pam. Pam. Great to have you on board. The genie.

Well, that does bring us to the end of another classic episode of do go on. Thank you so much for joining us. Why don't you join us again? Please. Possibly next week. Please indulge. Please indulge in our back catalog if you haven't already. Go onpod.com for links to

all the old episodes and of course links to our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube, which are all the platform slash do go on pod. And over the next of the while we're going to be hopefully figure out some more live shows around the place. Yeah.

Social media is the best way to figure that out if you're on the Patreon. They always find out first. but otherwise if you follow us at do go on pod on Twitter, Instagram and dogo on slash dogoon pod on Facebook. And if you go to, you do follow us and the shows come out next year 2019, it's going to be the year of the do go on podcast live shows. That is a big call to make, Dave. And you better follow through. We did a lot of live shows this year,

but I'm hoping in my heart of hearts that next year will do even more and go even more places, especially places we haven't been before. I'm actually hoping the opposite. We do. We go to places we haven't. I was really hoping to slow down, but make more money. So if you two could maybe take smaller cuts, give me more of it. But we definitely do a lot less work.

I really got to let you know that you're in the wrong industry if money is what you're after. What's that? Have you thought of horse gambling? Have you thought about starting a chain of stores called Jackie Miller? I'm going to be rich. I'd probably really get into acting. Why don't you just do Hollywood movies? They get paid really well.

That guy was getting paid a million a year. Yeah, I might do that. You had no experience. All right. I'm going to go do that. See ya. Oh. It's back to just you and me, Dave.

Well, easy come, as you go. People fly in for three years and fly out again. How well? I guess we'll be back next week. We'll know that episode then, Matt. Yeah. What do you reckon? Do we get it someone else in or just?

I guess just try it for us for a bit. Yeah. That'd be nice. Yeah. Well, until next week, guys, thank you so much for joining us. As always, suggest a topic anytime at do-goonpod.com. And maybe we'll be reporting on your thing next week. But until then, I will say goodbye.

Later's. Bye! She came back. Just to say goodbye. I'm not going to leave them hanging. I thought it was Philip Seymour Hoffman for a second. Goodbye. This podcast is.

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