Do Go On - 180 - Sidney Sheinberg

Episode Date: April 3, 2019

Sidney Sheinberg was one of the most influential entertainment industry executives of the 20th century. He is credited with discovering Steven Spielberg, as well as having a hand in many of the greatest modern films.Recorded live at the European Bier Cafe for the Melbourne International Comedy FestivalSupport the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/Submit-a-Topic Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] Get tickets to our live shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival: https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=456263&As well as for Thailand in June: dogoonpod.com/eventsBook tickets to Matt's stand up show (currently in Melbourne, soon in Sydney) with the early bird discount code: dogoon via mattstewartcomedy.com/gigs  Check out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/ Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasSources/Further Reading:https://variety.com/2019/film/news/sidney-sheinberg-dead-dies-universal-steven-spielberg-1203158148/https://www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2017/10/09/steven-spielbergs-first-boss-made-this-promise-that-unleashed-the-directors-creativity/#293ee54d46d7https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9akjje/donkey-vs-king-the-day-nintendo-fought-hollywood-and-wonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Sheinberghttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm0790901/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hello and welcome to another intro to another episode of Dugo One. My name is Dave Warnacky and I'm sitting here with me. It's just me. Matt and Jess are not here right now. They have let me run wild to quickly tell you that this week's episode that you're about to hear was recorded live at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival on Saturday Just Gone. It's our first of four shows. And man, we have an absolute cracking time.

Met a lot of great people. We packed out the venue, to be honest, was probably overpacked. Sorry for the people that couldn't find a seat. We've actually revised the seating capacity slightly for the next three Saturday afternoons. If you want to come along, if you are listening to this when it comes out or any time in April,

please come to the European Beer Cafe. 3 o'clock. Tickets are available at the comedy festival.com. There's a link in the description and yeah, we're going to do three more of these live ones and not all of them are going to be released onto the main feed here. So next week we'll have another studio, normal episode coming out. So if you want to hear them all, why not come down to the European Beer Cafe at three o'clock? Great times.

Really, really fun. And my suggestion is to go out there and to see as many Melbourne International Comedy Festival shows as you can. And I've got a hot tip for you. One that I think if you like this show, you would really like. and that is Matt Stewart in his solo stand-up comedy show, Bone Dry, which I think I'm allowed to tell you, is a really great show, even though I technically was the director of the show, which helped Matt a little bit, put it together, but it's 99.9% Matt's stuff, and I saw it on Saturday night. I've seen it a few times now,

but it's just a well-old machine now. It's a great show, so that's on at the Chinese Museum. And tickets to that are also available at comedyfestival.com.com.com. I saw it. It was sold out on Saturday night and I've been selling out a bunch of those. So I also think you should book ahead to that if you can. And yeah, check it out. I think he's come to the Sydney Comedy Festival as well and all the details for all Matt's Future Gigs are on his website, which is linked below in the description of this episode. So I think that's pretty much it from me. I don't think I've got anything else to tell you. The topic of this week's episode is very dear to a lot of do-go-on hearts. So hopefully you will enjoy it as much as we did making it. And yeah, I'll be back

at the end of this episode with a few Patreon thank yous and a few shoutouts to some of the legends that do support us. But until then, let me just tell you to enjoy this episode and I'll see you on the other side. I'm so nervous. Stop freaking out, Jess. We've done this before.

There are so many people out there and they're making so much noise and they're going to expect me to be all bubbly and happy and fun. They sound dangerous and deranged. Oh God, and Matt's not even here yet. Where the hell is he? I hate guys, sorry I'm running late. Yeah, I've just been getting a subway sub

Round a corner Matt, we're on in like two minutes You need to get into character quickly Yo, yeah, sorry, yeah, sorry fellas Yeah, yeah, yeah, uh-ohm Lower, lower Hey, hello I'm Matt Lower

Uh-ohm, hey, hey Hey, hey, hello, I'm Matt Dumber I reckon the Saints gonna win the premiership this year He said Dumberer, not delusional Sorry, fellas Oh shit, that's the theme song We're gonna have to go on soon

God, I hope the audience start making some noise now. This is going to get really embarrassing as we try and welcome on. Us, Bougouan, Matt, Jess and Dave. Who am I talking to? Yeah. Hello, Melbourne Comedy Festival. How are you doing out there?

That's a pretty good reaction. All right. Welcome to the show. I should say, my name is Dave Warnocki. Thank you so much for joining us at live, do go on. I'm on stage with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Yeah.

That feels good. How good is this? We're here at the place we said we'd be. Can you believe it? We did it. Huh? Huh? All right, great.

That's some of it. Best stuff, so if they're not laughing at that, then I'm fucked. It's going to be a long afternoon. Sorry for everyone who's standing. Are there any empty seats? Sorry, everyone who's standing. There's a couple in there. Hey, I'll stand in solidarity for the whole hour.

I will not. Yeah. I'm going to sit down now. In solidarity with the seated people. Oh, yeah, that's good. I'm in a similar height even though I'm standing, so this is going to be okay. No, I'm going to sit down, fuck you.

Suck me in, dickheads. This is great. A lot of people, well, not a lot, but like relatively, quite a few people coming in. Anybody from interstate? Can we from interstate? Anybody from overseas? Front row.

Fuck you. Interstate. Oh, we got on a plane for an hour. Whatever. I've gone mean early, sorry. Yeah, I appreciate you coming, Matt. I do. I saw that. You seem great. You guys have come. Where have you come from overseas? Arizona. Ah, God's country.

That's Texas. Sorry, that's Texas. Arizona. Arizona. Phoenix country. The round mound of recent. Chandler country. What? What does that mean? He's from Arizona. Can we be any more from Chandler?

Okay. That's good. That is good. They're wearing matching t-shirts that both say that. Do you wear those everywhere you go? Only when you're here. So that's no. Just for today. It's great to have you here. And then those t-shirts will be burned after today.

I need a little, I need like a, I need a butler. I need my own. own little table. It's fine. I'll figure it out. Hey, just start the show, I reckon. Great. Well, thank you so much for coming out. We always start these live shows by asking for a round of applause if you've ever heard our podcast do go on before.

Fantastic. Thank you. Thank you. That makes us feel good. On the other end of the scale there, give us a round applause if you've never heard this podcast before. It's okay. It's okay. It's always a very timid applause. I love it. It's like...

Who was it? Show them. Show them to me. Show yourselves. This one here? Someone's standing, please, swap. They would kill for that seat. How dare you sit in the seat of one of them? You're a real piece of work.

Also nice to meet you. Thanks so much for coming. Dave, Matt and I have both turned early, so you're going to have to be the sweet one today. Hey, hey, you look great. You look really friendly. Let's be friends. that's probably more threatening than what they just say,

ooh. Let's be friends. Forever. Or I'll find you. Anyway, I'm the nice one and I'll direct this to you. Basically, what this show is, one of us... Don't even bother, mate. All right, sorry.

One of us takes it in terms... We all take it in terms to report on a topic usually suggested by an audience member or a... You know, people who care. Oh, fuck. No, not now. You're going to look up who suggested, aren't you? Yes.

And the other two people don't know what it's going to be about today. It is Matt during the report, so we have no idea what he's going to talk about. Neither is he. I don't think he does either, yes. This one, yeah, okay, sure. Full disclosure, this was written late last night. Well, I think technically early this morning. Okay, yeah.

I got to bed about 4 a.m., so, and have not re-read it? let's all read it together I'm normally not I'm better I reckon it's been years since I've been this all right he's a new man and let's hear his report we usually start with a question to get us onto topic

which I imagine Jess and I will struggle with and then we'll throw it over to all of you hey I mean I reckon you'll get this one I might not struggle I believe I'll get it okay I won't get it the question is who is so it's a person

Oh, okay. Who is the most influential Hollywood producer of all time, arguably? It's the answer. It's me. Sydney Schaeper. It is. Sydney Schauber. Well done.

You got it. Look, I have not drunk enough to do an hour of that, boys. Well, stay hydrated. So, yeah, it's about the man. I was really hoping he lived a more interesting life, to be honest. But I'd already committed. and it was getting pretty late. Too late to change.

Okay, give us a round of course if you know who Sydney Shineberg is. No? Okay, fair enough. For some reason, he's become a character on this show, so that fills you in and I'm going to go on a timeout for a bit.

Here we go. Sydney J. Scheinberg, the J stands for J, was born... He's not even kidding. Was born on the 14th of Jainburg. January 1935 in Corpus Christi, Texas. God's country, yeah.

That's a little fact I know about Texas. Maybe take that home with you. His parents were immigrants to the USA's mother, Tilly Grossman. Wow. Is that how you pronounce it? Grossman? Oh, yeah. I was really on board for Tilly, and then her surname was Grossman.

And none more on board, to be honest. I like it. Yeah. She was Ukrainian. and his father, Harry Scheinberg, was Polish. Scheinberg grew up in Corpus Christi, the place that I mentioned moments ago. It's in Texas. And during his teenage...

God's country. Yeah. Oh, that's an inner... Okay. During his teenage years there, he was a professional disc jockey and an English-slash-Spanish newscaster at a local radio station. He spoke Spanish? See.

Come on day I reckon don't You know a tiny bit of Spanish Well this is my go-to phrase Necessito condones I need some condoms But do it as Shineberg

When have you ever needed to say that In English or Spanish All over the world You know Saying it into the mirror I reckon Yeah I practice all Spanish phrase in front of the mirror.

So that's, I've gone through his childhood there. Obviously, not a lot is known. He's an enigma. From there, he headed to New York City in America, where you're from, and

he studied at Columbia University, where he graduated in 1955 before heading to Columbia Law School, where he graduated with the school's highest honors. He was a real bloody nerd. Yeah. I see a lot of myself in this guy.

I like it. In 1956, in 1956, the 21-year-old Scheinberg married 19-year-old Lorraine Garry. Lorraine! You might remember he

named a character in Back to the Future after it. Yeah. Kish Lorraine. Is that right? So is her last name, Gary? Gary, yeah. I was so stoked.

Lorraine. Gary. Yeah. That's great. Yeah, it's about as hot of a name as you could have. Lucky you've got that laptop there. You just see it go,

Louren Gary. I just hear Lorraine Gary and I just think Necessito Condon as every time. See, it comes in handy, I'm telling you. I'm telling you. For the people who are listening for the first time, yeah, this is a pretty source.

show. A bit risque. Yeah, sorry about that. MA plus. That's a little mini regret phase. In 1958, Scheinberg headed to California to teach

at the UCLA, to be honest, nearly all of this story happens in America. Yeah. You're going to get that a lot, so. He headed to California to teach at the UCLA School of Law. What did they teach there?

I don't know. I guess you would school. They teach school, yeah, of course. That does make sense. Sorry, I feel like an idiot. It's right there in the name. Yeah.

While there, on the West Coast, he took a job at review production, which would become universal television, thus beginning his career in the entertainment industry. And showbiz. What's he said? That's my impression of showbiz. That's my impression of the con-biz.

That's my impression of the con-tabism. of showbiz. Thank you so much. You have to say after an impression... Yes, I deserve that one applause. After every impression, you do have to say what it was several times. Yeah, yeah. Just make sure.

I just want to stop the report and say, so he went to teach at a law school and then somehow ended up founding universal pictures. We didn't... He didn't find it. That's what you mean. I guess he did. It found him.

In a way, it found him. Well, that answers my question. No, he got a job there. He didn't found it. Oh, right, right. He got a job and then review production became Universal Television, which became... Which it probably would have become,

regardless of Sydney working there or not. No, I don't think so. I think I'm going to hear about how he revolutionised the world. Yeah, sure, okay. Well, let's begin. His career is now seen as being intrinsically linked to fellow Hollywood heavyweight Stephen Spielberg. This is because Scheinberg gave Spielberg his big break

when he signed him to a contract when he was just 20 years of age after seeing his first film, Amblin. The 26-minute film impressed Scheinberg enough to offer Spielberg a seven-year deal for Universal, making Spielberg the youngest director in history to be signed to a long-term deal with a major Hollywood studio. Seven years, damn.

What an absolute mistake. That did not work out well. Terrible find. Yuck. Also, five years or ten years. Come on. Right. Seven, yuck.

It's a lucky? That's probably superstitious. It's yuck. Yeah, agree. No, you got me. You won me over in the end by saying it again. When signing him,

Apparently, Scheinberg made the confidence building promise the Spielberg. And this is often quoted. He said, I will support you as strongly in failure as I will in success. Isn't that beautiful? That's so nice. He said that while he was holding him by a candlelight. Yeah.

I thought, to me, that sounds more threatening than you thought. He's holding him over a candle, saying. Yeah, I'll support you. I'll support you in failure. Yeah? All right. Just singeing the back of his head a little bit. I'd hate for some of that pretty little head to get burnt.

That weird tiny beard. It's got a weird tiny beard, Spilberg. Anyone noticed that? Maybe my tiny beard. Hang on. Any beard in comparison to yours is small. Do you just see any beard that's not that and go, what is wrong with you?

What's up, tiny beard? What's a tiny beard? It's like George Lucas has a weird tiny beard as well. It doesn't fit his whole face and it's short. It's weird. Okay. A tiny beard. beard. He's got face

coming out below the beard. I don't think you should see face below your beard. I think you should see some facial features, though. Greeter disagree. You've seen these features. Yeah, they are yuck. Do the thing where you show them how shallow your chin

is. It's my favourite. What is with that? Can't be unseen. Sorry about that. That should have come with a warning, sorry. Trigger warning. Oh, just remember that's my real face. That you're reeling in horror at. Put it away.

I have. I have. In 1973, Scheinberg was... Oh my God. Shineberg was became the president... I told you he was influential. He changed the English language. He became the president of MCA.

Incorporated and Universal Studios alongside another heavyweight Lou Wasserman well no him, no one love the wass. Lou Wassam man Lou spelled L-E-W as well

Lou Wasser Man Wassamon Wassam Was a man could be During Scheinberg's reign

Universal had huge success They had the biggest movies of the 70s 80s and 90s, can you name those movies? Jaws. Yes. E.T. Yes. Jurassic Park 1.

Yes, you fucking nerd. Thank you. Thank God, because I zoned out at the start of his sentence. And I came back in as he said, can you name? And I was like... And they were all Spilberg directed film. Told you it was a mistake. I told you. When George was being made,

One of the first roles cast was that of Ellen Brody. The actor scoring the role was Lorraine Gary. Do you remember her from before? No. Sydney, it's Sydney's wife. Oh. So, I don't know if that's coincidence or what, but that was one of the very few big film roles she had.

She walked into the audition room and he's like, oh, you're here. Oh, hi, honey. Proceed. She was in, she ended up being in all, like, the first three. Jawses. Jawses. Yes. Thank you.

Thank you, everyone, for repeating the correct word, I said. Just underline how correct it was, I think. Spilberg was in the director's chair, but was still relatively unknown, having only directed one feature film prior to this. The production hit many snags along the way, but Scheinberg came to Spielberg's defense, backing his protege,

even when the production ran well over budget. and when words started to spread around the industry that this shark movie would be an epic financial disaster who continued to back him anyway this guy I like this guy you know he's one of my guys yeah sure he's got a small tiny beard but you know what I don't want to see his face

I want to see a small beard on every man I got yeah gotta go bye Sydney come back he's always in an hour this is the best bit of Sydney he's showbiz yeah you never knew but there's jazz hands every time I do it That's great.

I also like that they were calling it like this little shark film. Yeah. That's cute. It's funny because it was a pretty low budget film and yeah, it was expected to be... But I mean, anyway, all right, I'll just keep reading. Yeah.

It was the first major film to be shot on the ocean. How about that? Oh, wow, really? Yeah. Before they did that, there was one swimming pool in Hollywood and it was like an above ground one metre deep pool. Yeah.

Is this correct? Yeah, basically. They normally shoot in tanks in Hollywood. So they're out on the sea. They're out on the sea. Oh, love it. That salty air in their face. And in their camera equipment.

It's getting, oh, salt and wet. Apparently they came back after hugely long days, hugely long. And they'd be sunburnt and they'd have sand in their underpants. It was a real nightmare. Absolutely not. It's there for days. It doesn't matter how many times you shower. There's still sand in your ass crack.

Yeah. All your nooks and or crannies. Crew members gave the film the nickname Floors. Cop that, dickheads. That is good writing. That is good. Spielberg has since taken the blame for a lot of the issues, blaming his perfectionism and inexperience.

Oh, that's like going into a job interview. And they say, what are your weaknesses? And you go, I'm a perfectionist. Yeah. I work a little too hard. Then you also back it up by saying, I'm also very inexperienced. Don't worry, I got this.

I know what I want, but I do not know how to get it at all. He was the one to insist that the film was shot at sea. I also insisted that they use a life-sized mechanical shark. Has anybody seen that shark? At Universal Studios? It's not aged well. Like, considering how scary that movie was when it came out, now it's like, oh.

And did you see this in 1998? Yes. We both went to Universal Studios in 1998, separately with our families from the Aflorn East. This story has gone down in Warnocky family history. So you're on a ride, and it takes you through the back lot of Universal Studios, shows you, you know, the Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho House,

all that kind of stuff. You get up, you cross this little bridge, and there's the music starts, and then, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. And then, Jaws. No, sorry, I think the music was da-da-na-na-na-na-na-da. That's true.

Sorry, I always get my films confused. I'll do the soundtrack from here, if you like. And my dad leans over to take a photo over the edge of the cart. His sunglasses fall off into the mouth of the mechanical shark. And they were eaten. And we sued.

Because America is a great country like that. Any small grievance, $200 million. Please just go away. Yeah, but my dad tells that story a lot. And he's here tonight. Yeah. Dave's dad's a lot of fun. You know, I... He's a great guy. He's coming next week if you want to meet him.

So he's my parents. Really? When are yours coming? I don't know. Tell him to come next week. Okay. They're not coming. They're not coming. He just went out for a packet of cigarettes a couple of years ago.

He'll be back any minute. When you were there. I mean, you guys did have a pretty affluent upbringing going to a university as in Nonone. Well, you know, I was at Gumbaya Park there. So cop that dickheads. So, yeah, he said this is a quote from him that I don't know if it's worth saying,

but we're here now. Spielberg says to he's blaming himself. He said, I was naive about the ocean. I didn't know what it was. He said, the hubris of a filmmaker who thinks he can conquer the elements was foolhardy. But I was too young to know I was being full hardy when I demanded that we shoot the film in the Atlantic Ocean

and not in a tank. He was specific about the ocean. It is weak because everyone told him, let's do it, and no one's ever done this before. And he said, I think I got this. I made a 26-minute film. About a couple of hippies who went in a car for a bit. I think I know what I'm doing.

I think I know the ocean. It's ridiculous. You know, you said the mechanical shark hasn't aged well. It didn't age well from the beginning because it was very unreliable and because of that they had to use a more minimalistic approach. They sort of alluded to the shark more than showing it. Showed the fin used that song, how to go again?

Yeah. Absolutely terrifying. Ominous, ominous tune. Just gives me chill. Even performing it myself now. Yes, I'm calling that a performance. What was your showbiz's impression before? So Spilberg has said that in hindsight

he was pretty glad that the shark was no good because they made the film better. Made it more like a... Who's that old English guy with the birds film? Hitchcock. More hitchcocky. I just mentioned him five minutes ago. Did you? Yeah.

Was it in relation to this? Yeah, the Psycho House up on the hill. The Universal Studios Tour. I forgot you went there. No, I just wasn't listening. I thought we'd all been in 1998. Do you know who was instrumental to the forming of all the Universal theme parks? Sydney-Shaenberg.

No. Yeah, apparently he was the one who pushed it for Universal to get involved and they became like a big competitor at Disney. And at the opening of one of their big parks, they, I think it was in the Jaws ride. The shark thrashes around. And Sidney Scheinberg got them to put some Mickey Mouse ears in the water with blood around it. He's an idea's man.

Bit of fun. Apparently the initial budget for Jaws was $4 million, but it ended up costing $9 million to make. But through all that Scheinberg back Spilberg, and he was vindicated in the end because it went on to take $471 million at the box office, which apparently would be over $1.9. billion today. Billion, with a B. Yeah.

That's so much money. Imagine that. It took 471 million dollars at the box office, which would be $1.9 million today. Yeah, the economy over in America's fucked. No way you got out. Well done. Despite the huge success of films like Jaws,

perhaps the thing Schenberg is best known for, at least amongst the do-go-on hardcore fans. Oh, this is so good that you buy it. not know this, great. He wanted Back to the Future to be renamed Space Man from Pluto. And I don't, because I talked about this on a very early episode

where we talked about Back to the Future, the trilogy, but I didn't read it, I don't think I read out the actual memo that was sent. This is what Scheinberg sent to Spielberg and the Zemeckis, the writers of the film. Although I believe that the present draft... Sorry, Matt, it is in capital,

so if you could yell it. Oh. Or maybe you I mean, should you be, should Seanberg be probably reading it, I'm afraid. I just went to drink from my microphone. You do, I think you do that every year. Every time.

Every time. I can't be holding two things. I did it. I got a clap for drinking. I'm 28 years old. All right. Sydney. I've been quietly psyching myself up in the corner here.

Hey, I'm sitting. I'm going to read my letter out loud. Okay, okay. It's terrific. Welcome back. Welcome back, Dave. Where am I? Yeah.

You bailed less than halfway through, and I understand why, because... Oh, is there more? Yeah. Oh, my God. Maybe that is too full on for people to listen to. Yeah, honestly, that was exhausting. And my ears are bleeding, so... From there, he said, now that I've buttered you up...

That was the buttering? Apparently, he had a reputation of being a real harder. Him and Wisman, Wesserman, he was the bad cop. Wesserman was the good cop. I thought it was Wosserman. That's right. That's what I said. So now that I've butted you up,

I would suggest we consider the title, Spaceman from Pluto. Underpinning these suggestions are the following thoughts. One, modify the dialogue on page 35 so that Sherman calls Marty a Spaceman from Pluto. Pluto. Otherwise, the title doesn't make sense. And every film has to

somewhere mention the title of the film. Because in the original draft, obviously, on page 35, Sherman calls Marty a back to the future. Reading it, it feels clunky. Two, modify

Marty's dialogue on page 77 so that he identifies himself as a spaceman from the planet Pluto. Instead, of what was scripted, Darth Vader from Vulcan. Did that make the... Anyway. And three, finally, change the title of the book

written by George, his father, and referred to on page 130, from a match made in space to Space Man from Pluto. It's like any opportunity. Just change... Can we just change... Change Lorraine's name to Space Man from Pluto. Could the dog be called Space Man from Pluto?

He's like... And the credits at the start, instead of saying Back to the Future, maybe you could say this film is called Space Man from Pluto. Oh, that's good. Just to really hit it home. He said, obviously you get the idea. I'm sure there will be those who will argue

that the movie will appear to the audience to be a cheap, old-fashioned sci-fi flick. Nonsense! I think it's a kind of title that has heat, originality and projects fun. Most importantly, I think it avoids the feeling of a genre

time travel movie. Sincerely, Sean Berg. Sorry, how does he sign off? again? Gotta go! Bye! He's always on the move. Yeah. I mean, he's an important guy.

He's universal. He is universal. The team behind Back the Future got this and they're like, oh shit, can we stand up? This guy is very important. He's the one getting the film made. But they knew Spielberg was close with him.

So together they got Spielberg to reply with a memo saying, thanks for your most humorous memo. We all got a big laugh out of it. Keep him coming. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha That's great And apparently Sean Berg was like

Yeah Yeah funny She's a little funny joke I made Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha We all had fun with that Ha ha ha The other thing he did which I love Well actually I hate, sorry

I'm ashamed of mind there Initially Doc Brown's pet was going to be a chimpanzee Right? And Scheinberg said no film has ever been a hit with a chimp in it. He said change it to a dog, so they did. And yeah, anyway, I like chimps. And apes. Chimps are apes, mate.

Fuck. Read a book. About chimps. Damn it. Shineberg was involved in another famous 80s incident. prime rate related. Oh my God, what did he do? Condomo, porfavour.

Condomo! I think that's Italian, sorry. You'd be in the chemist having to act it out. Ah? Ah? Huh? No one's getting condomo out of that. Well, I didn't commit.

No, you didn't. And I'm glad you didn't. So this other incident when he was leading Universal was in a court case against Nintendo alleging their new arcade game Donkey Kong infringed on Universal's intellectual property King Kong.

I touched on this in the Donkey Kong episode of Primates but for those of you haven't heard it are you cheering because you haven't heard it or? It was an episode with Naomi Higgins and Evernor Smith I don't know, look it up, I don't know. Quit plugging your eyes. The other pod. No, good on you.

But at the time, when I talked about it, I had no idea that Scheinberg was involved in the story, but he was the head of Universal, and he was the one that would push for this court case. According to Vicer's motherboard, Nintendo was still an unknown electronic gaming company that just settled in Seattle from Japan. So Universal thought that Nintendo would run scared

as soon as its lawyers came. During a meeting with Nintendo, Scheinberg was quoted as saying... What am I reading from? They quoted stuff at some of it. You'd better start seeing in migration as a profit centre. Yeah, that's badass. Now I've got to go by.

The head of Nintendo, the head of Nintendo's US operations, Minoroa Rackawa, was leaning towards settling with Universal, but their attorney, a man named Howard Lincoln, believed they would win if it went to court. after a bit of investigating Lincoln found that Universal had previously been in court

fighting for its right to use the King Kong name themselves in this case Universal's own defence stated that King Kong was in the public domain and thus they had the right to use it so that already argued in court the opposite of what they were now trying to argue

in court Sydney what a guy he's a lawyer yeah Universal and in his Nintendo ended up going to court, where according to Vice, Nintendo showed an overwhelming collection of evidence that proved not only that Nintendo wasn't infringing anything, but also that Universal was being hypocritical.

Vice goes on to say that US District Court Judge Robert W. Sweet, he decided that Universal couldn't claim the rights to King Kong and that the Donkey Kong game had nothing to do with their own furry ape. On top of that, it got so ugly for Universal that the judge determined that Tiger Electronics King Kong handheld game, which is a game. Universal had previously licensed the King Kong actually looked too much like a rip-off of Donkey Kong.

So Nintendo was given the option of taking Universal's licensing fees for that title as well. So he went in to try and gab some from cash and it ended up... I feel litigation as a profit-making center. Oh no, I've lost all my money.

Sydney. Sydney, what I got? Next thing. Oh, Mua Seamless. After reading Thomas Kenealy's novel

Shinla's Ark Scheinberg sent it to Spielberg suggesting it would make a great film. They decided to make it and a small budget was allocated

as Holocaust films were rarely profitable apparently and Spielberg didn't even accept a salary for the film as he believed it would be a flop.

He was wrong as it made over 300 million and was one of the biggest films of the year. Shineberg left Universal in 1995 after it was

taken over by the Seagram Company. He founded his own production company with his sons, John and Bill, a few months later, called the bubble factory. Have you heard of this? Absolutely. Anyone heard of the bubble factory? Oh, that's weird.

That's such a good name. Sounds really whimsical. Do you know who came up with it? Who? Lorraine Gary. Yeah, Lorraine. Apparently, when someone important came over and they were like, oh, where's Sydney?

She said, oh, he's out in the backyard playing bubbles with the kids. then I guess said the... That's how she invented the name. Telling someone what her husband and children were doing. I don't think he was... He probably wasn't playing bubbles every time. Playing bubbles is also weird. Suddenly they're in their mid-20s.

He's still out the back playing bubbles. Playing bubble. What are the rules to bubbles? How do you win bubbles? I did not come here to be attacked, okay? I'm trying to educate you about a great man and that is not okay. For its first couple of years, the bubble factory was financed by Seagram.

Seagram's a company that started out making whiskey in Canada. I love the business over there so wild. It's like, now they're a film. Anyway, the bubble factory was financed by Seagram and produced films with the budgets of around 40 million. And part of the deal was that Universal would release them. But after films such as Flipper, starring Paul Hogan, flopped. That was entirely unintentional.

You don't even know your own genius at 2 a.m. Flipper was a flopper. That's fun. That is fun. The deal was ended by Seagrams. I remember Flipper very fondly, but I was a dumb child. Yeah, I thought it was a massive hit. I don't remember the plot of Flipper. It did not make its budget back.

Isn't Elijah Wood in Flipper? Yeah. And Flipper is in Flipper? No. I think of another film. I imagine, actually now I think of Flipper. I actually imagine free willie. And then instead of a whale jumping at the end,

it's just a seal. Is that the film? No. Is that flipper? No, flippers a dolphin. Where the fuck do you get a seal from? They've got little flippers. They've got flippers.

They flip and fly. Did Scheinberg say that it should be a seal. Surely. It makes way more sense. Nobody likes dolphins. You can't even get them on land to hang out. Yeah, true. I think

You ever tried to high-five a dolphin? Good luck. Are you thinking of Alex the Seal? Probably. Another big hit. Whoops. Next thing. After the deal was ended,

the bubble factory continued on as an independent producer and released films and now you're going to kick yourselves. You're like, oh, I know I had heard of them after all, right? They released films such as Bad Girls from Valley High, Mummies Surprise

and Slappy and the Stinkers Are they all pornos? I was going to say shotgun being sloppy because then you two are the stinkers And then you said Then you made it porn related Don't you think it sounds like a porn? What was it, Mummy's Surprise?

I think that was that. This man produced jaws and now he's producing Mummy's Surprise. What kind of mummy? Do you reckon like oh, mommy, or like, pick up your socks.

Oh. Yeah. I mean, I gave you two options. Yep, isn't an answer. Well, the word I was thinking is probably not said anymore. Oh, God. Can you say slutty?

Probably not. Yeah, I wouldn't have said it. Would not have said it. Yeah. Thank you for checking. Okay. I reckon, yeah, I reckon don't. Avoid that one. I won't say that.

Yeah. That was a close call. This has become a real mummy surprise up here, isn't it? Porna? What? What does that meet, Matt? Next thing. Shineberg had plenty of successes that I haven't had time to go into.

He also, he was instrumental. Or ignore Jess. It could be that too. It's hard to when you keep talking over me, but... We swapped places. He was instrumental in Universal purchasing iconic record labels like Motown and Geffen. So he did all sorts of stuff as well as the theme park stuff. And while you think of him with the blockbusters, like Back to the Future and Jaws and all that,

he also was involved in a bunch of Oscar winners while at Universal, including The Sting, which won an Oscar in 73, out of Africa in 85, and Shinla's the list in 93. But it was his relationship with Stephen Spielberg that will probably be remembered the longest. And when Sydney, sorry if you're hearing this for the first time, Sydney passed away on the 7th of March 2019, just last month. At his home in Beverly Hills at the age of 84, Spilberg released a statement saying, My heart is broken of this news. For now, let me just say that Sid had a big personality and attention,

heart. He was the tallest most stand-up guy ever knew. He gave birth to my career and made universal my home. He gave me jaws. I gave him E. We'd have a brag in a time like this, but I gave him me too. And he gave me Schindler's list. We're a team for 25 years and he was my dear friend for 50. I have no concept about how to accept that Sid is gone. For the rest of my life, I will owe him more than I can express. That's nice. Yeah, that's pretty sweet. So, Rather than ending on that sad note, I found this website called VIPfack.com. And you can look up any celebrities on here, and I haven't read through any of these yet. Just give him a sec, to have a scroll.

The only one I saw that I found fascinating was there's all these boxes with different questions and stuff, right? This one says, is Sydney Scheinberg gay or straight? many people enjoy sharing rumours about the sexuality and sexual orientation of celebrities we don't know for a fact whether Sydney Scheinberg is gay, bisexual or straight however feel free to tell us what you think

vote by clicking below the weirdest hey have a quick vote on what you think someone's sexuality is what's happening should we all have a vote now no correct instinct there sof The rain is standing there going, guys.

Yeah. Hello. That's odd. Yeah, what are we... Well, I'm glad I've given this side a plug. Did you find any other celebrities where people have already voted? People have voted on this one. Oh my God.

It's... Yeah, gay is leading by a long way. There's quite a bit of evidence to the contrary, but... There's other... He's a question that said, are there any photos of Sydney Shineberg's hairstyle or shirtless? Do we get to vote? No, it answers a question though. There might be.

Nobody is writing these questions into this site. It's just one sad, lonely person going, well, I'm going to give the people the information they want and that's ambiguous information. Irrelevant ambiguous information. There might be, but I'm not. Unfortunately, we currently cannot access them. Unfortunately. From our system.

We are working hard to fill that gap, though. Check back in tomorrow. Imagine someone's checking in every day. Can I see Sydney's hairstyle? I need to see it. And all shitless. How weird. Maybe I'll finish with this one.

It's an important question. What is Sydney Scheinberg doing now? Oh, let's take a vote. Supposedly 2019 has been a busy year. for Sydney Scheinberg. However, we do not have any detailed information on what Sydney Scheinberg is doing these days. Maybe you know more.

Well, now we do. Feel free to add the latest news, gossip, official contact information, such as management, phone number, cell phone number or email address. And your questions below. No one has filled out there. All right, no, that, I can't leave on that.

All right, I feel like I shouldn't have started this. There's no good out. You're in it now, baby. Do you go on. Does Sydney Scheinberg do drugs? Does Sydney Scheinberg smoke cigarettes or weed? It is no secret that many celebrities have been caught with illegal drugs in the past. Some even openly admit their drug usage.

Do you think that Sydney Scheinberg... Does smoke cigarettes, weed or marijuana? Let me guess. This is cops. Cops are running this website for sure. Definitely undercover operations. What do you think? Get in touch with us?

Do you have any photos of him importing illegal heroin? Do you have drugs? What is your address? Or does Sydney-Sharmberg do steroids, coke, or even stronger drugs such as heroin? Tell us your opinion below. Zero percent of voters think, that Sydney Scheinberg does do drugs.

I would agree with that. Yeah. It does. In the present tense, certainly. 100% are convinced that Sydney Schaenberg has never tried drugs before. I should have ended when we talked about cops there and that got a bit of a laugh.

I never know the time to leave. But yeah, I guess I'll just talk now. How about now and I say, later gentlemen, get off of Matt Stewart and Sydney Schaimberg. Finishing Strong. I found that website at the back of the room. Yeah. That's great. You did great.

Thanks. Yeah. Sorry for talking over you. Not now. Just please. There's visitors. Okay. Maddie, where do you think we are?

Yeah, we're not at home, mate. All right. Dave, get us out here. Guys, we've got to say thank you so much for coming out to our first live podcast at the 2019 in Melbourne International Comedy Festival. We have three more of these to go on the next three days. Saturday afternoons, but you guys came to the first one and we love you for it. And keep yourselves a round of applause.

Coming out, supporting our show, thank you. Before we go, I'm going to tell you a hot tip for a great comedy show that you can see tonight or any of the next 21 approximate nights, and that is Matt Stewart Bone Dry. Yeah, oh, thank you so much for that tip. Yeah, it's on at 7 o'clock at the Chinese Museum and it's a pretty good time. Oh, at 7 o'clock or your show? seven o'clock you are the pun master

is that a pun that is not a pun oh fuck I have no idea that seems like a pun yeah it should be a pun it should be if it's not can we change that to a pun it's more of a homonym time can have two meanings but it's the same word

is that right am I saying it right but we're also we've got three more live shows over the next three weeks and you should come to those as well. This will be going up this week in the feed, but probably, I don't know if any of the other ones will,

I'm not sure they might be Patreon only. We should talk about this some other time. We'll figure that out. You just relax. There's another show quite quickly after us, so tiny little done, but they're sold out, so don't worry about it. A little bit of admin. So we'll get you to, we'll be leaving through the back stairs.

We do have T-shirts over in the corner. If you'd like to come over and buy a T-shirt, you certainly may. If you want to just have a chat to us, head downstairs. We'll come downstairs very soon. The Saints are on in about an hour. If anyone wants to watch the game,

I think it'll be on TVs downstairs. Nah, good on you. But that does bring us to the end of the show. So yeah, we'll be up the back for a little bit, but we have to get out of you pretty quick. So just to reiterate what Jess said. If you want to just say hi, come downstairs. But let's have a big round of applause

for the European Beer Cafe, Carl Chandler, who organised all this stuff. We had Talia on the door. Paulio on sound. very much. And until next time, we'll say thank you so much for coming out. And I guess it's goodbye. Waiters, cheers.

And you're back in the studio with Dave. And let me just say, what an absolute triumph. And I don't think Matt or Jess would be ashamed in me saying that. I think that'd agree. We had a great time at the European Beer Cafe. And genuinely, thank you to everyone that did come out and fill that first show. If you think it sounded like fun and you want to come and enjoy that fun

we are doing that three more times the next three Saturdays at the European Beer Cafe at 3pm kickoff. We've got some brand new t-shirts to sell a beautiful design that our fantastic friend and artist Peter Thomas has designed. He's also done our logo and a lot of stuff in the past including the primates logo

that you probably know and love from Matt's other show. So thanks to Peter for that. Yeah, some really cool, really cool t-shirts that you can only get at the gigs if you want to get one. we'll give them to you for a beautiful, beautiful price. Hey? Anyway, thank you so much again to everyone that did come to the fantastic venue that is the European

Beer Cafe. All right, it's time to thank some beautiful people that support the show on Patreon. And if you want to be one of those aforementioned beautiful people, all you've got to do is go to do go onpod.com and click on the Patreon link or go to patreon.com slash dogoonpod. And the way it works is if you chuck in any money, a couple of bucks a month, five bucks a month, ten bucks a month, whatever, you get different rewards for different levels of support, including up to two bonus episodes every single month that no one else hears, and maybe some of the live ones that recording coming up at the European Beer Cafe will go on there,

which means that we can be probably a little looser than normal. We can say stuff, controversial stuff. Oh, you get Jess going, and she is controversial. You've heard what she said about Bindy Owen a couple of years ago. Guess what she says about? I don't even want to say. That's not true at all. But anyway, we will have fun with those live ones,

and a lot of the Patreon people will hear those, as well as other stuff like quiz episodes. We do all sorts of bonus things. And you get to hear about episodes in advance or live shows in advance, I should say. You can get tickets to that kind of thing. And we also shout out to some people. But there's also a thing called the fact, quote, or question.

All the people in the Sydney-Shimeberg deluxe package level, rest in peace. And of course, that episode was in memory. of Sydney Scheinberg. People at that level get to give us a fact, quote or question that will read out on the show. And they also get to give themselves a job title or a title for how they are related to the podcast. And for the first time, first entry on the fact code of question, because there's not that many of the people in this very exclusive tier.

People get to come up a lot more frequently than the other levels. And for the first time, though, Nicholas Olifson. Fantastic name. Nicholas, thank you so much for your support. Nicholas has given himself the title of freelance peacekeeping agent. I like that. A man of peace, but also freelance. We have to pay you more. Hey, keep the peace.

We'll do it. And Nicholas has given us probably of the fact that the quote or the question, Matt would be able to tell you this more because this is usually his bag. But I think probably the one that said the least out of the three is a quote. but I like a good quote. And Nicholas says, I bring you a quote from Nick Offerman that you guys can probably relate to.

And Nick Offerman says, quote, figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it, end quote. Wise words from Nick Offerman. Yeah, they say,

never work in a day in your life if you enjoy what you do. And part of our job has become the podcast, which is so, so fun. And when we started out doing it, it wasn't any part of our job, it was just a fun thing to do. And now it has literally become, you know, a big part of our lives,

especially because of people like Nicholas Oliveson on Patreon. It means that we can make ends meet a bit better. So you are one of the beautiful people that are making us, you know, be able to do what we love in some ways for a living. So, yeah, hopefully that inspirational quote from Nick Offerman can inspire some other people. So thanks Nicholas Olives. Nicholas Olifson, much appreciated. All right, and of course another big part of the show is shouting out to our Patreon supporters.

And usually we choose six per episode, but just so you don't hear me bang on and on and on at the end of this episode because it's only meant. I'm going to shout out to three very special people that support the show. And we do these in order of when they're pledged. So we don't pick them at random. We try and go through and do it in order as much as we is humanly possible, I should say. So if you've been waiting a while, I'm sure you're coming up soon, but I've got three people that I would like to thank by name now. And usually we have Jess here to give us a game or something. But I'm thinking, because that episode was about the great man, Sydney Shineberg, maybe, just maybe.

I can twist my old mate's arm a little bit and get him in here to thank a couple of our patrons. No promises, but I'll see if Sydney is up for it. Let's see how we go. Okay, I'd like to thank for their Patreon support from London. I would like to thank Ellie Taylor. Ellie Taylor, thank you so much for your support. And Sydney, you're going to do this? Come on, mate.

I'd really appreciate it. If you just thank, Ellie Taylor from London. Okay, devil, do what you say? Do you say, I appreciate everyone that supports the show on Patreon? By the way, it's a Patreon. Am I a Patreon? I don't know what that word is. It makes me think of a pantry.

We even have pantries in America, I don't even know. I've got too much food. Too much food in the pantry. Anyway, take out the stuff. Take out the mustard. I don't need mustard. I only have tomato sauce. I call it ketchup because I'm American. Of course, I forget these things sometimes. But anyway, Sidney Schenberg here, by the way. Of course, you know my voice. I'm a very, very famous man. But anyway, who am I thinking? Ellie Taylor from London. Lundy Taylor, London, I went there one time. I saw padding to bear at the station. I said,

where are you from? You from deepest, darkest Peru? And he said, yeah, I've just caught the train here. And I said, a train for Peru. How that was that work? Anyway, not a man of transport. I don't know these things. Anyway, I'd like to thank you. What's her name again? Ellie Taylor. Okay, Ellie Taylor. Thank you so much for supporting. What's the show going again? Do go on. Do go on. Why do you call it a podcast from Mars? You know, I've tried Pluto and no one went with that. How about Mars?

I think we're just going to call it. Do go on of that. That's okay. Okay. Whatever you say, but Ellie Teller, thank you so much. You're number one person, number one person, number one of the box office. I swear, if you're going to be an actor? You got to be an actor.

You got to be an actor. Okay. Okay, got to go. I see tell what I know. Got to go. Bye. Whoa. I really hope you don't leave, Sydney, because I really hope you thank two more people.

It would be horrible if I got. Ellie thanked for the next two people missed out on that. So maybe you'll come back. He's just gone to get a drink, I think. Sydney? All right, anyway. Hopefully it comes back. I would like to thank now another person who supports the show on Patreon.

And also from overseas, thank you so much for supporting the show, from Houston, Texas, Eli Shop Fisher. Eli Shop Fisher. Sydney? Oh, he's come back. All right. Thanks. He's got me a drink as well. Appreciate that.

Cheers. Okay. Eli Shop Fisher. we're thanking Sydney from Houston in Texas. Texas. Texas tea. You, I struck all in my backyard one time. That's how it got so rich. I don't have said that in the report,

but I'm a rich man from oil. Texas TECD, everything's bigger in Texas. Even the tea. You know, you order a cup of tea. They give it to you on an oil drum full of tea, of course. Anyway, who I'm thinking? Okay, Dave's pointed to a screen here. Am I saying this right?

Eli Shup Fisher. Eli's love a hyphenated name. You know, there's probably millions of Eli Fishes, but I bet my bottom dollar, my bottom T, Texas T dollar, that there's no Eli Schafeasher. Am I right? Am I right? Let me know if I'm right. I don't even let me know.

I know I'm right. Eli Scha Fisher, thank you so much. Are you going to be a big star? I told you've got a neck to this. I reckon that you're going to be a big star. So please up in front of the camera, get the face, do a self-tape, do a little audition, you know, send it to the people you didn't know. And then let me know.

When you're in Hollywood, look me up. You know, you'll see my house. It's quite big. Live next to the Hollywood sign. Under the H. Okay. Okay, Eli Schofisher, thank you so much. Oh, I gotta go, bye, okay.

Well, and he's out of here again. Well, he's gone to the bathroom this time. All right, thank you so much, Eli Schottfisher, and thank you, Sydney Shineberg, that, whatever that was, appreciate that. And finally, we'd like to thank another person. Hopefully I'll get Sydney back in here for this, but no, no promises.

From Wingdale in New York, Okay, I'm loving this. In the United States of America, just making sure that wasn't New York. I panic, I panicked. I would like to thank from Wingdale, New York, Kevin Packrad. Is that Kevin Ulysses Packrad? Who supports the show so much on Twitter and we engage with a whole lot? Thank you so much, Kevin.

We appreciate all the support you give to the show. And maybe, just maybe, we can get our great mate, Sydney, Scheinberg. Sydney, Jay, Schindberg, the Jay standing for Jay. I'm going to bring him back in. Sydney. City, you've just coming here. Come on. The microphone's hot.

We're thanking a guy called... All right, he's come back in. Right, he's gone out again. Okay. All right. No? Okay, he's coming back in. All right.

He's going to thank Kevin Packrad. Sidney, you got that? There it is. Wingdale, New York City. Kevin Packard. Okay, okay, okay. I'll give it to you. I'll thank one more birthday.

Hey, Cindy Chiburg here. Cindy Chiburg. Who am I thinking? I didn't listen to what thing you said, kid. You know, you got a great face for radio, but your voice not good for radio. I mean, okay, face for radio is an offensive thing itself and having not a voice for radio, that's not good. I don't know, I don't tell him when I got it.

You should be, I don't know, it's like a hand model or something. You got beautiful hands. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. That scene in ghost? They should have zoomed in on your hand. I don't, I haven't seen ghosts, but I imagine I get a lot from popular culture. Okay, anyway, I don't have time to watch full movies.

I only wants 20 minutes of each movie and then I skip to a next movie and sometimes I combine the movies. You know, you know, E. suddenly he's getting eaten by a shark. I saw Joe straight after E.T. Then a, you know what, giant dinosaur was dressing park, and I said, you know what? These three movies, they're going to be big time. But I put them in my mind this one movie.

I called it the giant shark alien crocodile come to life. Yeah, for a long time I thought dinosaurs were crocodiles. Then I found other crocodiles were kind of dinosaurs in the way. Anyway, okay, I'd like to thank. Who am I thanking here? Okay, give me this list. Okay, I'm going through. I would like to thank from Wingdale, New York.

Walk. Wingdale. My goodness. My brother lives at Wingdale. His last name. Oh, of course, Sheenberg. It's the same as mine. Always forget that. So crazy. So crazy. So Chris Schaenberg, you should look him up. Whenever you're in Wingdale, you know, he owns, uh, he owns the apartment's door, uh, go down there, uh, beautiful place. You get some discounted tux suit pants. Okay, yeah, yeah, sweatpants. Oh, whatever you, I'm trying to translate for the Australian audience, but I, then I, this guy's from Wingdale. So sweatpants. They're on sale right now. Chris Schindberg. Look him out. Okay. I'd like to thank from, In New York, beautiful place, beautiful part of the word, spent a lot of time there.

I've got a cabin up there, got a cabin near the woods. I don't like the woods so much, but I love the cabin. So when I'm in the cabin, I put the curtains down, I draw the blinds, I can't see any of the woods, and then I just think I'm in a cabin, but it's in New York City or Los Angeles. Anyway, okay, I'd like to thank, what's his name? Oh, this is a name. Oh, my God. Oh, M.G.

Is that what the kids saying? Oh, my goodness. Kevin Peckrad. Kevin Packrad. You know, you can't spell Kevin Packrad without Kevin. You know my favorite star of all time? Kevin Costner. You seen that guy? You seen the bodyguard? My God, I will always love you in that film, Kevin Costner. My goodness. So good. So good. Okay, so Kevin Packard. Thank you so much. You could be a bodyguard. You could be my bodyguard. You could be Chris Scheinberg, my brother's

bodyguard. He's hiring. If you're looking for a job, check it out. Check it out of Wingdale, New York. But thanks to spot on the show on Petron, Patreon. Am I seeing that right? Patreon. Say again. Patreon. I don't really like that, but okay. Thank you so much to Kevin Packard and all the crew out of Wingdale. Big shout out.

Big love. Chris Scheinberg, I'm going to call you soon. You haven't spoken in a couple of months, but I'm going to call you soon. We'll tee this up. We'll tee the whole thing up. Okay. So, just to recap, I love you all. And I've got to go.

I really got to go all this time. I've got to make a big personal call. Okay, I've got to call Steven Spielberg. Got a message for Steven Spielberg? Oh, my goodness. Steven Spielberg. Could you say hi for me? Hi.

Stephen Spielberg doesn't do highs. You know, he does a lot of goodbyes because he's so busy. He's always saying goodbye. You know what I'm saying? All right, can he say goodbye to Stephen Spielberg for me? With absolute pleasure kid. Okay, got to go. So Steve Spielberg tell him that Chris says hi.

No, Dave says hi. Chris says hi. No, bye. Chris says bye. Dave says bye. Okay, I reckon you'd be a better Chris. Everyone would be a better Chris. Everyone change your name to Chris.

We get a lot more work in Hollywood. I've done the stats on it. If you called Chris, everyone gets a job. Okay? When's the last time you saw a movie and didn't have a Chris in it? Name a film without a Chris in it. I can't. Off the top of my head.

Exactly. Exactly. Number one in the box office, Chris, the movie. Okay, got to go. Got to write that down. Got to tell my wife, Lorraine. Wow, and he's out of here. Woof.

Well, thanks to everyone that supports the show on Patreon. Bit self-conscious now because apparently I've got a voice for radio. Well, I don't have a voice for audio, actually. Gee, I've got a face for radio, but not a voice for radio. Anyway, I've got to go think about some things. But thank you to recap, Ali Taylor, Eli Schofisher, Kevin Packrad. My goodness, the great man, Sydney Shineberg. Hopefully you enjoyed those personalised, but very, very erratic shoutouts.

Very erratics. And thanks to everyone that supports the show on Patreon. Go on Pod. If you would like to be thanked. And all sorts of things. Get the bonus episodes. Get it into you. All right, I've got to go.

It's late here, and I'm on my own. and I'm really a bit scared. I obviously had Sydney in the studio before, but it's quite late at night in a dark, dark room. So better go or put the light on. Either way, I've got to go. Thank you for listening to the show. We'll be back next week with a studio episode.

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