Two In The Think Tank - 233 - Betty White ; The First Lady of Television

Episode Date: April 8, 2020

Betty White is a household name, and has had a career spanning eight decades. But how much do you actually know about her career besides The Golden Girls? Trust us, Betty White has had a very busy life!Buy tickets to our live stream show here: https://sospresents.com/Our website: dogoonpod.comSupport the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: 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] out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasREFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:https://www.biography.com/video/betty-white-mini-biography-42155247https://www.biography.com/actor/betty-whitehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Whitehttps://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/04/the-early-betty-white.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_on_Televisionhttps://www.otrcat.com/p/betty-white Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hello Dave, hello Matt. Hello Dave, hello Jess. Oh my God, I almost forgot your name and you know what I'm just. I've said a moment before. You glance at your palm, just, which one's that? I've got them tattooed on, them being Jess and Dave.

We've been doing this show for a long time. No. We're Facebook friends. I don't know. I love to get much closer than that. I mean, and when you're only Facebook friends, it's not amazing.

Yeah, it's weird. You should get more Facebook friends. Well, I keep sitting there waiting to be poked and it hasn't happened. It hasn't happened. Matt, sometimes you're going to be proactive. You've got to do the poking. Sometimes you've got to be the poke and not the poke.

Yeah, get out there. We should be the poke. Get out there, get out of the poke. All right, I'm going to have a poke tonight. I feel weird about what I said. How we doing? Are we good? I think we are sitting exactly 1.5 meters apart of this stage. Yes. Very important. Legal requirement out. As we were setting up the gear, Matt did say 1.5 meters things. I have to take a couple of steps back. I'm so sorry, I'm encroaching your territory

like that. Well, you can encroach as long as you don't end COVID. Well, I was moving in, I was moving in for a poke. Did that bad joke give you a heart attack? It hurt my clutches in your chest. It hurt me more than it hurt you. And I know I hurt you a lot having to hear. And fine enjoyment. Not very convincingly, but still.

He's broken already. It's great. Hey, what is this show? Look, I don't know. I'm going to ask the guy that has made that great joke. Matt, what is this show about? This is show. Oh, well, you've come to the right place because I know this back to front. I've been on every episode of that.

He's taking his other palm. Like you, too, who sort of flowed in and out at your leisure. I'm here week in week out. So we've only done about what 230 episodes each. I'm sorry that we're not up to your standards. Well, this is 233 for me. And as in all the other 232 episodes, the way it works is one of the three of us,

if in attendance, we'll do a report on a topic after researching. Sometimes for a week, sometimes for two weeks, sometimes for a day in a bit. Like probably today's reported Jess, who's reported on a topic soon and it's going to be about a topic and to get us onto that topic, Jess asked the question right now and the question is... Who was the first woman to win a daytime Emmy award in the category of outstanding game show host? Oh Adrianna Exanities. Oh, Tanya Zayetay. She didn't hope, was she the host? Well, best sidekick. Yeah, she was a sidekick at best.

Oh, this is weird, it's a real sausage fest, the game show host. Oh, yeah. Something in Baby John Burgers. Yeah, is this someone we would know? No, it is definitely someone you would know. It's Betty White just came to her mind. Yeah, it is. What?

She's just been around so long. I just thought she's probably done it. It's Betty White. Betty White, what was it? It was Golden Girls a game show. In a lot of ways Isn't everything a bit of a game? Is a life a game Matt? Blanche play out of the game the game was fucking Everybody all the time love to fuck yeah blanche

Lurbs to firk spoiler alert That Betty no It could have been really she could have been yes, no Betty Betty what was this sort of the more naive Type character whereas Blanche Dubois He loved Right is that a catchphrase? Yeah, yeah That was a whole character real she had a southern accent man. She was great She was Samantha before there was a Samantha. Yeah, but do it in a southern accent. I loved

there was a Samantha. Yeah, but do it in a Southern accent. I loved the food. Can you give me something? What's something that someone says in Southern accent? I'll go. I'm a Southern and I love to fuck. Okay. Oh yeah. But I mean I wanted you to say it in the Southern accent so I could basically give me a key. I'm a Southerner. I loved to fur. I mean now I don't even need to do it. You just did it. Thank you. Yeah, and you couldn't top it, too, you honest.

I couldn't top that. Well done Dave. That was perfect. Some people would be confused. Or offended. Yeah. Probably offended. I've got the buy-in pills.

I'm a southerner. I'm a southerner. This is southerner bells came uniform. What a fool. Why the hell's a bit of fuck well? These are your parts. This is Southern Bail. This is Southern Bail. Came here to part. Where to part? Why the hell's a bit of fuck, well, these here parts. She's wanting to herself. Yeah, she's wanting to. She's like, these here parts.

Yeah. Yeah. Honestly, it's a Betty White. I don't know where that came from. I didn't know she'd hosted a game show. I just didn't get, she's been around for so many centuries. She's been around for a very, very long time. She's had a career that has spanned eight decades.

Well, I mean, golden girls was from 80s. 80s, and she was playing an old woman in that. She was in the 80s. She was in her 60s then. She was already playing a grandmire in the 80s. Yeah, and there was, I feel like I've said this recently to someone, but her, one of the characters, Dorothy, who was like the Carrie. Yes. I've seen it. I saw it in Sex and the City of the Film.

Can you maybe translate this on? You haven't seen either of the shows. Make a third translation. Me, me. Which cast member of Diagnosis Matterish? Oh, well, so which member of the Dick Van Diagnosis have you had? Well, I can put in Ninja Turtles for you if you like or the OC what would be work best for you. I love the Ninja Turtles. Ninja Turtles okay so the

Blanche slash the Samantha is the Michelangelo right on the party good. Yeah. Then you got Dorothy or Carrie is the Leonardo the leader of the pack. Right amazing how well this all on and you've got what are the other so who are the other two golden girls what the mom so I guess that's so fear so fear so she call it rude she is actually actually the sassy Rafael gave her all the all the the race lines because I thought it was funny coming from a very old woman who was actually younger than the woman playing her daughter.

Is that the Miranda? Because Raphael, where's the red band down there? No, no, no, no. She's got red hair. Oh, yes, she would be Miranda, yes, yep. And then the last one is the final one. Yeah, no one ever came. Now let me put all of them into the Beatles, okay?

So. So. I will talk, obviously of them into the Beatles. OK, so. LAUGHTER I will talk, obviously, about the Golem girls. But that's probably the reason why I chose this topic. I have actually put Betty White up for voting before. I can't remember the general theme, but the patron. She always sort of came in second. Patreon's choosing something else.

And then just last week, we were talking about how I'd been watching the Golden Girls because we're in isolation and I was watching so much lost, which is very tense. And nothing could ever happen in that show. It's like every episode, another thing tries to kill them. Okay, the show you need to watch is called Gilligan's Island.

Same thing, but it's fun. Yes, okay, I need to listen. Golden Girls, say Golden girls and lost fun. Okay, baby, we'll be gilligons on it. Okay, that makes more sense. And the rest. But I put on rest as seen. And the rest.

I know that made sense. I put on golden girls just to, you know, something light, something a bit of fun. And then I thought, what's a pretty white steel? And now here we are. I can't tell you eight decades, I don't know too much about it. Yeah, and I think we generally know, like probably a lot of people listening,

we would know just the stuff that she's done in the last, I don't know, 10, 15 years. Yeah, did you ever occur in character on Boston Legal? Yes. So that's one example. That's one example. I think she wasn't diagnosed as murder one time. That would not surprise. Yes. So that's one example. That's one example. I think she was on diagnosis murder one time. That would not surprise. Wow. She's been on pretty much everything. It's insane.

But I mean, let's start at the beginning, why don't we? I love it. It feels like a logical place to begin. Oh, so when you're actually was born, 1800s? Oh, that's a good question. If we were to guess the year. I'm gonna guess 1932 Dave I'm gonna say slightly older 1929 Betty Marion White was born in Oak Park, Illinois on January 17 1922 That's my grandparents age and they're dead. She's 98 years old. What?

She's 98 years old. No, that means that does make sense. I just said she was old in the 80s. So that does add up. I knew actually said she was 60s and she's there. She's there a lot of clues with it. There we go. She's 98.

She does not seem it in my memory. I haven't seen her this week or anything. You haven't checked in. I haven't had a Zoom chat with her. She doesn't know how to zoom. She's pretty cool. Everyone knows zooming is cool. I love business meetings. She also excels. Of course she excels.

In most facets of her life. Yeah, and I sort of thought, you know how when you look into the early life of someone else, or you on face level, or like you sort of think, oh, that person's cool, and then you read more about them, you're like, oh, they're a bit of a dick. Yes, that haven't last week with how to use. Exactly, yeah.

And almost every time we do a blog, you're in the show. Yeah, yeah. Apart from that time we do a boggling show this show. Yeah, yeah. Apart from the old. I will not be the case. Thank God. Yes, 98 years of good time. You should have gone a roll down all over again.

Yeah, well, we're like, oh, I remember all those wonderful sort of, bit of a dick. Okay, bit of a dick. Oh, my God, he's awful. So Betty's the only child of Christine and Horace, or why? Are they still alive? I believe so, yes. He's got strong genes. Very strong genes.

And parents are 120 and 128. Any why we'll actually outlive us all. Horace. Horace. Love that name. You don't want to repeat Christine. That's not interesting to you. Horace is more interesting to you.

Christine's a very modern name. That's Ageless. Where's Horace? Christine's come back around. Horace hasn't had a research in the mile left on. Horace. Christine's come back around Horace. Hasn't had a resurgence in my lifetime. Horace ran out in the NBA in the 90s, played for maybe the Bulls. I think he wore glasses, goggles. Of course he did horror.

Horror goggles. Yeah. For eyes, even an NBA player. Hey, for eyes, I'm playing the NBA. I'm playing. Why not the coolest guy in my life school? He comes back and gets bullied by the former students. I played with Michael Jordan. I don't care.

I don't care. Come here for your wedgie. All right. So, yeah, she was born in Illinois and the family moved to California when she was a little over a year old. They were living in LA, actually, when the great depression first hit. And Betty Betty's father who worked as an executive for a lighting company built radios on the side as a way to make extra money. But it being the Great Depression people didn't have a lot of expendable income. So quite often he would trade the radios for other goods, including

on one occasion a dog. I don't have any cash but I do have this bucket full of radios. Can I have that dog please? They eat the dog. What are you doing with the dog and the girlfriend? I think they were probably okay because he had like, oh yeah the radios. Yeah, the okay job. And a gig on the saw. He was a sawed hustling. She's so old that she moved to Hollywood before it was Hollywood. Oh yeah. No No, it was kicking on, but that's, that's weird. Oh, for young listeners, radios are like the iPhone X of the day. They're all up to, and dogs are like edible cats.

Yeah. All right. Cats are unedible. Or bats with learning. Yeah, we learned the hard way there, didn't we? Hey, everyone has to sit inside their homes now. Don't they? Never eat them. You can kiss them. You can hug them. Like them.

You can't lick them. You can suck them. You don't eat them. Just don't swallow. What were you saying? You can go to third base. No further eating them. That's that's home base. Yeah. That's a farm run. Oh, I'm still a home run.

I don't remember a chicken this afternoon Let's last like that little clip. Yep. What I'm saying is I had sex with the chicken You should have said that in a solvent accent finger working good That's nowhere near it. Is it? No, we're near it, isn't it? Well, that was a bad... Oh, that's a big one. We don't have listeners in the South, do we? Of America.

We're so much further south than them, how do they get to come to South? We're south. Come on. Come on. Ghosts are then Tasmania, Michael. I'll accept it from the penguins. Yes. Tasmanians?

Yes, same, same. Yeah, it's mostly penguins there. Anyway, while he was in high school, she was interested in a career that allowed her to follow her love of wildlife. She wanted to be a forest ranger. Unfortunately, though, women were not allowed to be forest rangers at the time.

So old. You can't let them out in the woods, bears. I don't like a smell of ladies. It's very confusing. So she turned her attention to writing and fell in love in the woods, bears, I don't like a smell of ladies. It's very confusing. So she turned her attention to writing and fell in love with performing. Only a few months after graduating from high school in 1939, she found a bit of work modeling

and got her first acting role in a small theater. She graduated high school in 1939. She's older than World War II. She wasn't an old three-world war II. Speaking of when World War II. She was an adult. She was an adult-dream World War II. Speaking of when World War II started, she put her acting career on hold and volunteered for the American Women's Voluntary Services. Apparently. They accept women.

They did accept women almost exclusively, which then got them in a lot of trouble for discrimination. So then they let men in. I was in that process, actually. We were furious. Object. I'm do declare. So apparently her role was to transport military supplies through California, but I also read that she participated in events for troops before they were deployed overseas.

And I have no idea what capacity she was involved in. I know what Blanche was doing in that capacity. Well, I like to imagine her dropping off military supplies and then getting changed in the car into a Seacond outfit and then just running on to stage. So she's just doing too much. She's taken on so many different things. So she's volunteering with the AWVS.

And when the war ended, Betty was around 23 years old and ready to get her acting career back on track. That same year, 1945, Betty married Dick Barker. Oh, hang on. That's a good name. That is a cool name, it's a great picture. Can you picture a barking dick? I can't.

Please, but I know. I thought it was a little math. You raised it. Why is it such a happy little? It's a little Jack Russell. Oh, OK, sorry. Sorry, it's a big hog. Brough, brough, brough. Is that you're happy now?

Yes. Is that a be more of a dick oinca if it was a big hog? Oh! We're going off track here. So we're a... Barker. Oh, a bit. I tried it right here for that.

But there's another famous Barker who's a game show host. But he's not dick-barker. Oh, Bob. He's a Bob Barker. That's a different guy. I gotta be honest. He's name. Yeah. Imagine a little Bob Barking. What's a Bob? So I forget your a virgin. What a Bob is. It's just underneath the dick just above the gooch. Okay, anyway, so she made his dick barker who was a US Air Force pilot. The marriage was short lived, it lasted less than a year.

A parent, I read somewhere that he wanted her to give up on her showbiz dreams on her acting career and she was like, no. So... But he felt, he made the right choice. Betty feels like a fool now. Yeah, he's definitely also a lot. Yeah, I reckon she should have stuck it out with him. Yeah, I reckon she should have just, you know, I mean.

I don't see a big future for this girl. Relationships take work, you know what I mean? That's for my experience. They take work. That's what I would say. You think they take sacrificing your dreams? Yeah, sorry, this is my last podcast I quit. Nah, fuck that. That's what I would say. You're saying they take sacrificing your dreams? Yeah. So this is my last podcast I quit.

Nah, fuck that. Anyway, so she starts approaching big movie studios looking for any work she could possibly get. However, despite her previous modeling work, she was turned down because she was too unphotogenic. Big cool. Can I just ask, does she already look like a grandmother? No. I can't imagine her. Oh, she was gorgeous. Can I just ask, does she already look like a grandmother? No. I can't imagine her.

Oh, she was gorgeous. She was very attractive, young looking. And you know how you see photos from the olden days and you're like, we were talking about this last week. Yeah, how would he say to be very handsome at the time? He's looking at him now. He looks a bit like a serial killer. Yeah, but.

Yeah. What's not hot? What's not hot about that? I love the dead eyes. Yeah, for sure what's not hot. It's not hot about that. I love the dead eyes. Yeah, for sure. Oh, yeah. But now, even objectively now, Betty, gorgeous. Yeah, Betty's hot still.

Oh, yeah, big time. Hot and Cleveland. Is that where you met? Gotcha. Anyway, so if she wasn't Freda Jenik, she would find a job with that didn't matter. So she started looking for work in radio. Oh, smart.

We've all done it. We've all Oh smart. We've all done it. I've got to say that hurt reading it. It's like, no, you can be both. No, you can't. And she said, I'd go around on casting days and try to get a job. Tuesday was casting day. And I'd just go in and sit around in the office. I figured if they saw me often enough, they'd just think they'd hired, they had hired me. And then they'd just give me a job to do. Like, it's like George Costanza basically.

Just sit here and see what happens. Is that work here? Yeah, yeah, what's up? What do you need? That, yeah, how good is that for you? So one of my first radio jobs, Ernto 5, there was a show where she would just read commercials or play small roles or sometimes make crowd noises

in the background. Hahahaha. One hand clapping. No, I'm even following to clap both hands. She's like, you got to pay me 10 for both hands. You said it. I regretted it. After appearing on... So she does this for many years.

She's just doing anything she could. Any opportunity that came up she takes it. She's working for free sometimes or whatever. So she's been in Chobas for eight decades. This is the first six or seven decades just show just audience noises. Is that what she did? I wouldn't say decades, but he's probably yep. And she's not just doing audience noises. She's also saying there's never been a better time to buy.

I'll be cleaner. After appearing on numerous popular radio shows, she eventually got her own radio show, creatively titled The Betty White Show. Oh, wow, that's a leap from clapping in the background. Having her own show. Yeah. Oh, no.

In 1947, she married a man named Lane Allen, who is a Hollywood agent. This marriage only lasted a couple years, and they were divorced in 1949. That year, in 1949, she got a big break, age 27 by this point, by the way, where she was invited to join radio presenter, Al Jarvis, on a new project. Al Jarvis hosted a popular radio program called Make Believe Ballroom, which,

Oh my God. Oh yeah, I should definitely flag it. Some of these radio shows and TV shows have incredible names. That is awesome. Not to be confused with Make Believe Ball Pit. Just my show. We're a pretend that I'm in a ball pit. And mine, Make Believe Ball Sack. For me.

For a pretend my balls aren't floating loose. Um, so. Do you not have a ball sack? Well, I've said too much, but. How have I known you for so long? At this point, radio is pretty new. There's, you know, the pictures, any names. That's only the running low on ideas.

They could have anything. So, if you have a bit of an issue with, make, believe, ballroom or the Betty... I do. I actually love it. Let me just tell you here that the Betty White Show comes up another three times. Right. All different.

Okay. So that's, just think of anything else. Anyway, so Elle was the host of Make Believe Ballroom and it was adapted into a television program called Hollywood on television. Okay. Pretty good? I mean, that's better, surely, that's better.

Hollywood on television. Yeah, I think it's good That's better than your show my balls on television We're not just right I guess I walked right into that having my heart crush and your balls Again, why don't you ball so much? I don't eat balls so much. I don't like it. It's a really blue episode. Blue balls. Blue balls.

Sorry, the program Hollywood on television. It was on six days a week and it was live for five and a half hours every day. What? No commercial breaks. It was an ad-libbed variety show with just the two of them. What? Five and a half hours. I love it. I want that job. Ad libbed variety show with just the two of them. What? A five and a half hours.

I love it. I want that job. But they have props. It was a bit like, oh, this water bottle. And they talk about that for an hour. Yeah, what is the most? And then they still have four and a half hours to fill. It sounds like a nightmare gig.

Honestly. I love it. I want to do it. I don't. What did they pay for five bucks? I mean. I think by this time she's probably making a slightly more cash maybe like seven So yeah, they did that for several years Al Jarvis left the show in 1951 and film star Eddie Albert took over He only lasts in the role for six months finding five and a half hour days Six days a week to be a bit much

But don't worry too much about him though because he, a few years later, he was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in Roman Holliday alongside Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn. So he had a pretty good career anyway. Yeah, it sounds like he made some good choices. And he played the Warden in 1974's longest yard. He played the Warden. The Warden.

Oh, I was going to say that would be a bit. Played the longest yard. He played the water. The warden. Oh, I was gonna say that would be a bad. The water. Water great actor. Oh, that he played the water as in the instrument. Oh, same noise actually. He's got keys. Yeah, water's got keys though. I got a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit Danny. It's like a hover. They hover. A couple hover boys. You got to attach to you at all. You know those guys who have those silver bowls,

and they like, Twitter them through their fingers. Medicines? Yeah, that's based on my balls. Medicines, they knelt at the altar of my crotch. I thought them. I'm going to ask you one question. Is that... My question is, have you been drinking?

Does it really sound like... He's had coffee. About a night coffee. No, people shout. They melted the altar of my balls. That is not what I said. The altar of my crotch. I do big, I do big, pardon, I'm so sorry. Big forgiveness. I'll turn up my crotch. I did make you pardon.

I'm so sorry. I beg forgiveness. At the ultra of your crotch. So Eddie's left the show after six months. Our JavaScript is gone. And now Betty's left to host the show by herself. I thought I was a day alone. She's believed to have been the first female television talk show host as a result, because she's just there by herself for five and a half hours six days a week.

So, was people just watched her go insane in real time? Well, why? Surely you would sit down and watch it for five and a half hours. No, I must be like a bit of background noise. Yeah, while you're doing stuff. Like a radio TV. Do you remember that episode of The Simpsons Where TV went down and crusty went, oh, you're like an old ant post

somewhere and he was just making characters with Mr. Oil can. And I imagine all the guns, something like that. So one thing I remember was after a period of white talking directly into the camera lens for hours at a stretch, the show began accepting guests to interact with her, as well as gradually incorporating scripts and sketches. Gradually, I didn't think to put that in in the first place.

No, well, yeah, the zoom wasn't around yet. Oh, yeah, you couldn't zoom. Yeah, just let us throw a risk allpian like crusty stinging. Betty says that close to one one full hour of Hollywood on television was consumed by commercials. Most of the ads she presented herself, but occasionally the sponsor would do their own spot. What are you... Just when you think she's getting a break, she's doing the commercials as well. Yeah. It's not like we'll be right back and then they go to a pre-recorded ad.

She then does the ad. That one, I mean, she'd probably enjoy that because she's got a script to read or something. Yeah, at least that's some structure. So she says that sometimes sponsors would come in and do this but themselves. She goes, there was Lou Slicer, who called himself by the name of the producty soul, a handy dandy little cutting machine that could slice anything, including many of our viewers' fingers. We discovered that when the mail started coming in. Who were going, I bought it and it was last myself.

He changed his name. The handy-dandy little. To lose, slicer. Maybe he was born with that name. I don't think he was. The second made great idea. Yeah, he thought, hey, you know what to be handy? A little handy.

A little handy. In 1951, the Emmy Awards introduced a new category to include women. And Betty was nominated for best actress. For that role. Yeah. OK. She didn't win.

The award went to GoodTrude Berg, probably dead. Yeah, that's not the name of a survivor. Yeah, it's true, Burg. That same year, she formed a production company called Bandy Productions. It was named after her dog, Bandy. And she... She traded her radio for, so... Yeah. Never paid cash for a dog. Never. Don't do it. She started the company with George Tibbles. And... Is that a cash? That was named after her cat. This is your George Tibbles. And Don Federson.

Oh chicken. He's a lot of names of died out. Yeah Federson. John. That's Don. Well John was another example. We know some John's. John is a name.

Oh. Do you know any Don's? No. President America? Ah, can you, do you think anybody calls him Don? Yes. That Donnie. Yeah, from the Ninja Turtles. That's Hux.

Donnie, honey Walberg, Hucky Marks brother. Oh, of course. Yeah, we get called Donnie Don. Should do. So together with George and Don, they took one of the recurring sketches from Hollywood on television where Betty played a housewife called Elizabeth and created a half-hour sitcom called Life with Elizabeth, which ran in syndication for two years in 65 episodes. It was actually really, really popular.

It's amazing that, yeah, I mean recurring sketches make sense when you got five hours to feel it. Totally. Bring back what's the other one? Let's see what Elizabeth's up to and it's just her like cooking a roast in real time. It was genuinely like pretty nothing inoffensive kind of dull stuff, but people liked it. Makes sense. This is why she's getting an actress nomination, and she's doing something.

Yeah. So she's starring in and producing the show, making her one of very few women with full creative control in front of and behind the camera. Yeah, she was also the camera operator. Yeah, and she did catering. I don't know if I feel like today. She would do first aid.

On set, if anybody got a little boo boo a little bandaid on it the slicer yeah the slicer this is their Louie Louie Lou slicer Lou slicer okay the handy bandie little handy yeah in 1954 she hosted and produced her own daily talk slash variety show called the Betty White Show. Okay. You think that there's anyone in history who said more words out loud than her? Oh, wow!

I'm really older than anyone else and has also been broadcasting and those decades we're talking about now. She spoke all day. And she talks a pretty good clip as well. Dave, that is a fascinating question. Has she spoken more than anyone in history? Probably. Right?

I reckon we can say myth busted. Yes. The myth. Someone else spoke more. Okay. It's a myth that someone has spoken more than Betty White. What's a job where you talk more than that? Other radio announces.

Like telephone operators? She's on five and a half hours a day, six days a week for like four years. So you're already, you know, you're just getting some solid talk time in. But what about people who work nine hour days, six days a week, and their job is talking on the phone? Good point. We're just to work on a talking job. Yeah, that's true. And I work on radio, but that's like, that's a lot of music. You know, it's sing the songs there. No, I betty,

Betty would have. She did sing songs on the show. Yeah, so like, and we're going to throw to a song, it's a new one from me, Betty White. Loos, slatter. They're all singing about things you can see. They're all singing about things you can see. Yeah. And they look at tibbles and look on her over there. So yeah, now she's hosting her own talk show, The Betty White Show. Like, prefer this name. Yeah. This is The Betty White Show volume 2.

This is a second Betty White Show. It would have been out of show name like curtains from the stars from hitamars with Betty White or something like that. A betcha that was on the short list. Curtains from the stars from here to Mars. So the curtains come down from the stars and then back here to Mars? They're not like curtains donated by celebrities. No, no, there's not a bouncing.

It's a long roll of habit Ashery from Spotlight or somewhere like that. And yeah, the role bounces and it goes like stars are further away from Mars. So, you know, it didn't have enough in it to bounce all the way back to stars. That's what there was another idea they had, but they thought it would be unrealistic to call it curtains from stars back all the way up to the stars again. They're like that. No one's gonna buy it. Yeah, yeah, they stuck with Mars. Also, it was a big catch here. And it rhymes. Yeah. And that's always good. Yeah, yeah. Anything Dave? I think the only thing it must do. So she's hosting the B-Watch show. Like I said, com, she had creative control over the series and was able to hire a female director. The show faced criticism for the inclusion of Arthur Duncan, who's an African-American

performer as a regular cast member. The criticism followed when NBC expanded the show nationally. Local Southern stations threatened to boycott unless Duncan was removed from the series. In response, Betty White said, I'm sorry, live with it. Gave Duncan more air time. You can see where some people might have been confused. This has got white in it. So tuning in going hang on, this is not what it says on the box. The box is what they school TV. And they just put Betty in very small. So it's like the white show. That's something I can relate to. This is in 1954 and people are complaining,

she's just going, we don't even have TV in Australia yet. No, no, we don't. We get it in a couple of years. Yeah. Wow. Anyway, so she just puts him on air more. She's just like, fuck you.

Initially it was a big rating success, but the show repeatedly changed time slots which is always a bit of a nail in the coffin isn't it and it did suffer a lower viewership so by the end of the year NBC quietly cancelled the series but life with Elizabeth was still running she's doing both at the same time by the way. Both for five and a half hours a day. And it ran until 1955, after which she appeared as Vicki Angel on the ABC sitcom Date with the Angels. Oh, she's one of the titular angels.

Yes, Vicki Angel. Love the chance to say titular, as you all know. Of course, it ran from 1957 to 1958. The sitcom was a critical and rating disaster, but ABC wouldn't allow White out of her contractual agreement and required her to fill the remaining 13 weeks in their deal. So you're alive.

You're alive, 23 hours a day, digging holes. So what she did was she rebooted a old talk show, The Betty White Show. I love this show, you can't kill it. Much like the titular Betty White. I'm kill it. And that aired until her contract was fulfilled. By the time the 60s rolled around, Betty was in her late 30s and out of work. So she turned to attention to network game shows. She made many appearances on the hit show Password as a celebrity guest from 1961 all the way through to 1975.

She was like a recurring guest all the time. She loved it. You played the part of Mother's Maiden name. Primary school. That's my mother's maiden name. Very confusing. Yeah, yeah, it's hyphenated. Right. Yeah, any primary school. Did you also get a mother ma- mother's maiden primary school? Fairly confusing, got us two questions. Yeah. We've got to think about it. Wait, what? So in the game, password, two teams, each composed of a celebrity player and a contestant, attempt to convey mystery words to each other using only single word clues in order to win cash prizes.

So you describe one word by using another word? Yeah, by the way, there's a lot of game shows in here and where possible I have found the synopsis of the show and they're all very confusing. Right, a lot of them. They could have come up with anything. They've come up with nameless word, basically. I don't use this word. The word is beard. I just say to you, mustache. David Boone. Oh.

One word, mustache. Boone. Getting closer. I don't know. Is that work? Sorry, is this it? I don't get it. That's a fun of us. It's that for a long time. And it's only one question per

episode. It was through this show that Betty met her third husband, Alan Ludden, who hosted the program and they were married in 1963. Betty became a game show regular, making frequent appearances on what's my line? To tell the truth, I've got a secret match game and Pyramid. I think I've got a secret, my favorite one. Well, I've got a secret. The whole game shows them, go, can I tell us that? No, no, no, no, no, no. I'll give you one word, clue, mustache.

I'll tell you after the show's over. I'll tell you off here. There's always, there's always off here. The big, it would be revealed. The credits are all in your count here with this thing and I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa. You got no ball sack? That's any what?

As far as this is before they knew, women don't have ball sacks. They didn't hold that woman back then, didn't they? They really didn't. They didn't want ball sex. We didn't know a lot about women back then did that. They really did. In what I know. They can't be forest rangers, I'll tell you that for sure. In 1962 she made her feature film debut playing a Kansas senator in advice and consent. Does it work with that sound like a Kansas accent? the sex element. Here in a way with some, you make me ready, oh yeah, we're ready to dance.

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A highlight of Betty's career was playing man-hungry, Sue Ann Nivens on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Uh, yes, the Cannibal. LAUGHTER Yeah, it was... It was a weird show. It was in the fourth or fifth season and they were really jumping the shark. We need someone to get these ratings back.

Yeah. OK, good enough for this meat. LAUGHTER Man meat! It was a couple on it, mate. husband looks tasty. I'm like oh, soo... I think she did come into the show in like the fourth season or something.

Apparently while discussing the character when they wrote it, Mary Tyler Moore said, we need someone who can play signingly sweet, like Betty White, which led to Betty White being cast. The show was hugely popular and Betty won two Emmys for her role. In saying, following the end of the Mary Tyler Moore show in 1977, Betty got her own sitcom on CBS, her fourth show entitled The Betty White Show. Love it. And that's a very confusing Wikipedia entry. It genuinely is.

Sam Biggification. Yeah. I'm not sure if that word out loud before, same-be-quation. This is what the... This is what the syllable. This is what the fourth Betty White Show was about. My mouth just made a weird noise.

That's called talking. Yes. Stop, make a stop. Stop. Stop, make a stop. Stop. Wait, so kind of like sound. Anyway. Yeah, that was not your mouth.

That was not your mouth. I'm up. That's all. I've heard of some funny excuses before. It was a chair. On my mouth. I can't believe it. We had no as well as talking.

So that's a pretty watch out. You're like, you've literally shut your pants. And you're like, oh, sorry. A little frog in my throat. Everyone's looking at your stained pants. Sometimes my breath spells very bad. I'm so sorry about that. Well, let me just go clean my teeth.

I'm just gonna whittle to the bathroom. I'm just gonna squelch over to the bathroom. Oh, sorry. I got some scotchy lips. Don't look at my butt! Okay, I'm making that noise all my mouth! W-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w- tell you about Penny White's show number four. Number four? Number four. This is what the show is about. The show is about Joyce Whitman played by Betty White, a middle aged actress who lands the lead in a fictitious

police series called Undercover Woman It's a parody of Angie Dickinson's show police woman That's purposely funny that's great I thought it was serious and I was like how easy easy was it to get a show back there? Undercover woman. I was gonna be like a Mrs. Doutfire prequel, isn't it? Yeah, but so. So Betty's character gets the lead in this show

and Joyce is thrilled with the show, but Liz plays to learn that the direct date is her ex-husband, John Elliott, whom she unfundly refers to as old pickle puss. What does that show as cancelled after one season? What does that mean old pickle puss? Who knows, but it's great. Well, all right.

We've got to have the conversation. Yeah, we're talking about secrets. That's a good office. Sadly, all good things have come to an end. No, he's still alive. Betty's husband. No, a pickle pause. No real life husband.

Alan Lutter and died from stomach cancer on June 9, 1981 in LA. The couple have been married for 18 years. To this day, Betty has not remarried since Ellen's death and in an interview with Larry King, when asked whether she would remarry, she replied by saying, once you've had the best, who needs the rest? Oh, love it. That was a great line. Oh, good is that. Okay, so she's nearly, by this time she's nearly 60, she's recently widowed, but her career shows no sign of slowing down. In 1983 she hosted a game show called Just Men. Puffing.

That is confusing. Here's how the show works. Two female contestants, one usually a returning champion, competed. OK, already not what it says on the box. Wait, the object of the game was for the women to win keys by correctly predicting answers to question posed previously to a panel of seven celebrities, all of whom were men.

Okay, just man. The name of the show. Just man. Right. I tried so hard on the Wikipedia page to understand it and I don't at all. I'm confused. Yeah, it's very confusing, but it ran for about three months. But it did win, Betty, a daytime Emmy award in the category of outstanding game show host, making her the first woman to win. Right. Just one more. It only aired for three months. Just meant.

I'm guessing she was the only good thing about it then. Surely. She won an award but it tanked and it I don't think people would have been tuning in going what's happening. I don't understand this panel. We could pede your article is winning keys by guessing answers to questions. So there was like seven keys. Okay. And one of them started a car and so if you got it right, you got a key from that man, just man. And then he would go over and try to start the car. And if it worked like you won the car, but most of the time it didn't. Well, there were like, dubbed cars. Maybe, maybe, maybe it was rigged, but it was like such a confusing concept. It doesn't make a lot of sense, but she won an

Emmy. She appeared so frequently on so many games, so high. Surely the name of that show would have someone with keys or cars. No. Like key to success or something. It being just men does not feel noteworthy. It does have an exclamation mark at the end. Does that change it at all for you? Oh, okay. Yeah. Now again. Is that better? Just men. You were saying it. You were saying it not exclaiming it. You put a full stop on the end and I didn't like it. No.

How would I exclaim? I was doing a hand gesture and everything. That's true. Don't you say it was your hand? Just man. You know that weird standing man with your mouth before? Yes. That was a bit of an exclaim.

Try it again. On more time. Come on. You can't force me. I'll do it. Okay. This is how you should say just men. Yeah, right. If you're with an exclamation mark. You were saying just men. Huh? We'll stop. Yep. This is how I would say just man exclamation mark. Yeah. Just men exclamation mark. Ah, yes. No, I hear the difference. It's subtle, but it's subtle. And that's, I mean, files around, that should still be running.

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I said she never remarried, but. What she did to just men, not ones to seven men. In 1985, she scored her second career highlight role and the biggest hit of her career as Rose on the Golden Girls. The series chronicled the lives of four widow-daw-daw-daw-worsed women in their Golden years who shared a home in Miami. The Golden Girls, which also starred Be Arthur, Estelle Getty and Ru, McClannahan, was immensely successful and ran from 1985 through to 1992. Be Arthur was initially hesitant because she thought that she

and Rue were basically reprising their roles from the TV show Mord, which had aired in the 70s, and that Betty White was basically playing the same character she played on the Mary Tyler Moore show. She was kind of like, what's the point here? But then she finally agreed to be on the show when Rue told her that she and Betty had swapped roles. Betty would play Rose, who she described as, so innocent, not the brightest nickel in the drawer, but funny.

So they kind of swapped roles, and so Rue became like the Rue plays Blanche, the... Oh, the sex you are. Samantha. Yeah. The witch ninja turtle was... Michael Angelo. Michael Angelo. Right, thank you. Now I'm back on board.

I know what you're talking about. You're not confusing. The show was a massive hit. The Barry Van Dyke for people playing it on. The Barry Van Dyke. God, he had so many girlfriends on Diagnosis murder. He. Outrageous.

Did he wait long between, like, was there much of a break between them? Oh no. It was a bit Jerry Seinfeld, like, every couple episodes of In You. You love interest. Did you ever see like the breakup? Now that usually the despair and in the next episode he's making out with another girl a lot a lot of making out from Barry Van Dyke Yeah, he was kind of like the phrase you crane. I was definitely thinking of dick Van Dyke for some reason Oh, no, it's Sunbury. Yes remember the game that famous game we created

Ducara your shame and our Barry of course, the father of Shane. Yes. Like, father like son. I say we came up with that game on an episode of this that hasn't come out yet. Oh, yeah, that's right. Just stay tuned for it. Oh, yeah.

The origin story of Dic Barry, Shane. We also did a tweet about that not realizing that we hadn't put it out yet. We've definitely mentioned it on the podcast since. No, we have. I'm sure we have. we have that's a great moment Wait for it. Are you a dick burial shame or will you dig burial shame dig buried in shame? Yeah, it'll make sense soon Don't worry about it. Shane is also a van dark

Anyway, so the golden girls massive here at one heap of awards Including the prime time Emmy award for outstanding comedy series twice including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series twice. It won three Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series and each of the four stars received an Emmy Award with Betty and Estelle both being nominated seven times and Ruined B being nominated four times. She's got a stacked cabinet for the first time. Yeah, she's got a lot of awards.

I've never seen the Golden Girls. I mean, I've seen like three episodes. Right. And it holds up for some of the seven seconds. What are three good? Like, yeah, I mean, it's definitely it's an older style of sitcom that we've kind of moved past. And a few of the jokes now having seen so many different sitcoms

over the years, you kind of see the jokes coming a little bit. But the performance is a good, the characters are good, the chemistry is good. Like, it's, yeah, it still holds, it's still a fun show. You used to get re-peded when I was a kid at daytime, like afternoons all the time. Yeah. You know, I couldn't remember seeing it, but I'm really not remembering it, but I couldn't tell you any specific episodes or any of which is one of those things we'll just always around.

And I can't, what's the song? Thank you, Sumpi and a friend. I can't, what's the song? Thank you, Sumpi, and a friend. I do know the song. Of course. Something, something, and back again. You're a pal and a confidante. Yeah, I love the use of confidante.

And then, oh man, and out. And if you threw a party and you needed what is it? And if you threw a party! And you invited everyone you knew, you would see the biggest gift would be for me. Oh, so it's a bit, it's a braggodacious. Yeah, that's how it would bring the biggest gift. Yeah, because I love you the most.

Right, that's what it means, of course. I've yet never seen it. Isn't that interesting? You know, that's. You're the one who loves. Too well. You would see. Yes. Isn't that interesting? You know that's too well Yes The biggest gift will be for me

Thanking you I think it is yeah god damn well done well they wrote good theme songs for sitcoms in the 80s and 90s Or I was assuming I was gonna be able to sing along to that, but I could not I do I recognize it I was gonna be able to sing along to that, but I could not. I do, I recognize it. I can't believe it. Yeah, the show is about Dorothy Blanch and Rose, who are all a similar age. I think Blanch is supposed to be a bit younger, and they're sharing a house in Miami.

Dorothy's mother, Sophia, is around a lot, but the actress of Stel, who played Dorothy's mother, is younger than Dorothy. They just put her in a wig and makeup. It was like a three-hour process. A bit of a grandmail yet a situation. Yeah, to make a look. Was grandma yet another actually that old?

I don't know. She's still like that old. We're wearing a lot of makeup. Wow, yeah. The big glasses. Yes, it was a lot of that. But is... Yeah.

So I think she was about a year younger or something. It was, yeah. I didn't realize it was heavy makeup and stuff. That's interesting. Yeah, yeah. And apparently I realize it was heavy makeup and stuff. That's interesting. Yeah, yeah. And apparently I did read on IMDB trivia, love that place, that she got a facelift between series one and series two and the makeup artist was like, fuck. Oh, would you.

Now we've got to work even harder to make you look old. What a weird decision. Yeah. Well, I mean, you're not in the makeup 24, 7, you know? That's true. You're going to be a still when you're not so fair. You know what I mean? Right. You're so fair, you're not in the makeup 24, seven, you know, that's true. It'll be a still when you're not so fair. You know what I mean? Right. You're so fair.

You're so fair. You're so fair. She didn't want to be recognized on the street because you wouldn't recognize it. Looking even younger. That's true. True. She's got a perfect crime. That is.

Yeah. Perfect crime. Um, Betty had a strange relationship with Be Arthur on an offset on their television show, commenting that Arthur was not that fond of me and that she found me a pain in the neck sometimes. It was my positive attitude. That may be mad sometimes. Sometimes if I was happy, she'd be furious. That is the classic. My big fault is caring too much. I don't know. I guess I was too positive. Yeah. I guess I just, I don't know. I worked too hard. I don't know. I don't know what to say. And that really upset her. Upset her. But it did seem that we didn't really get along with anyone all that well, but it was still like a great show for them to all work on. You don't have to be absolute best friends with people to work with them as we prove. Well, you don't have to, but it's really nice, right? Yeah, I'm glad we are.

Yeah, please never forget us. Yeah, we are obvious friends. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. After seven seasons, the Golden Girls came to an end when Be Arthur chose to leave the series. So the hour long series finale, which aired in May 1992, Dorothy, who is played by Be meets and marries Blanche's Uncle Lucas, played by Leslie Nielsen. Oh, yes. Good to say. And moves to Hollingsworth Manor in Atlanta, Georgia. So Fear wants to join Earths, her mother, but in the end, she stays behind with the other women in Miami, and this led to the spin-off series, The Golden Palace. Oh.

Never heard of that. I'm there. Yeah. It does sound like a dumpling place. Mm, delicious. So this is from Wikipedia. The Golden Palace begins where the golden girls had ended. In the quartets now sold Miami house. Dorothy didn't own the house. I don't know why they

had to sell it. Just get somebody else's. Blanche. Right. Anyway, so they sell the house. Dorothy's married and gone. So the three remaining roommates, Sophia, Rose and Blanche, decide to invest in a Miami hotel that is up for sale. The hotel, however, is revealed to have been stripped of all its personnel and an effort to appear more profitable, leaving only two employees, the hotel's manager and the hotel's chef. This requires a woman to perform all the tasks of a hotel star.

Fantastic. So they had a show that was working really well. And one of the cast members left, because they fucked it. Surely they could just kept the series going without it. They brought someone in, now I can't remember who it was. They brought someone in to do a bit of a screen test to see if they could just replace it, but the chemistry wasn't as good. Ali Shein. It was Shelly Shein. Yeah. They couldn't, they couldn't find someone who matched the chemistry, but like if you take one person out, do the other three not still have chemistry? Yeah.

But I mean, they did in the Golden Palace. This faulty tower is big at the time, so it sounds like... What, he was faulty towers? This is Aedes, wasn't it? Well, 70s, man. I wasn't 70s, wasn't. I'm not sure, actually. I couldn't tell if it was on my head. Also, this is in the 90s, so yeah, faolti Tows was, would have been done by me. Yeah, you're right, so it's fine to then do the same idea.

I would have said it at a swimming pool change room and called it the golden showers. Oh my god. All the shit things I've said today. How long were you trying to work that in? Oh, it was just counting me. I would have thought on it for a half a minute. I would have sat quietly for ten as punishment to myself. How long do you reckon this series, the Golden Palace, ran for? Well, I'm guessing, because I've never

heard of it, four episodes. I didn't make a season. One season. In addition, Betty White reprised her role as Rose in guest appearances on the show's Empty Nest and Nurses which were both set in Miami. I was thinking Empty Nest might have been a spin-off but that was a spin-off of something else and it was another show about retirees in Miami. She just played the same character in four different shows. She was set in Miami. She was also a guest on CSI Miami. Unfortunately not. Well not yet. Right. Which did you have a guest verse in Will Smith's Miami? I believe yes. Um. But do you Betty White? Welcome to Miami. I ordered. Yeah, it's exactly what she's

out like. Then we come to the 2000s. In December 2006 at the age of 84 Betty White joined the soap opera the bold and the beautiful In the role of Anne Douglas She made 22 appearances in it And Douglas was the long-lost mother of the show's matriarch Stephanie Forrester She also began a recurring role in the ABC's Boston Legal from 2005 to 2008 I remember of Aunt Gray in that of Of course she was, she's great in everything. I don't remember Boston Legal that well. Like I definitely know the show title.

William Shatner. Right, yes, yes. And that guy who played the bad guy in one of the X-Men films. You love a law show, don't you? Love a law show. Love a slightly quirky law show. And you say Betty White was good in this

Of course she was Betty White super question on my part. Sorry about that She was introduced to a new audience of young viewers when in 2010 she appeared in an ad for sneakers Do you remember? Yes During the 2010 Super Bowl and the ad became very popular and won the top spot on the USA today Super Bowl ad meter Americans. That's in the cabinet for sure. Surely. Do you remember the ad? There's a bunch of guys playing football

and Betty White's in there and she gets to take it. I like a real Betty White. Yeah, and she's like, you been riding me all day. And he says something like, oh, I says something main and she says, that's not what your girlfriend says. It's very funny. And then it's a sneakers.

And that's a Mr. T version. Yeah, there's a few versions. And it's all that, you're not you when you're hungry tagline. So each success, following the success of the Snickers ad, a grassroots campaign on Facebook called Betty White to host SNL in In brackets, please. Begin in January 2010. The group was approaching 500,000 members

when NBC confirmed in March that Betty White would in fact host Salonite Live on the 8th of May. The appearance made her at age 88, the oldest person to host the show. Before Betty, this title was held by Miss School Spillman. Was that like in the 1930s? How long has that been in Albion? Well, Miss School Spillman was a German grandmother from New Orleans who had won SNL's Anybody Can Host Contest and was 80 years old when she hosted in 1977. She was

actually a character, John Candy character. In her opening one-a-log, Betty thanked Facebook and joked that she didn't know what Facebook was and now that I do know what it is, I have to say it sounds like a huge waste of time. And would you believe the appearance on SNL earned her 2010 Primetime Emmy It sounds like a huge waste of time. Ha ha ha. The bit. Well, 10 years later, she's still right. And would you believe the appearance on SNL earned her a 2010 Primetime Emmy Award for outstanding guest actress in a comedy series, her seventh Emmy win overall.

She won it. She won. She won. She won. She won. She won. She won. She won.

She won. She won. She won. She won. She won. She won. She won. She won. Yeah, she was she hosted SNL. What was the award the category the award for outstanding guest actress in a comedy series? Well, she would have acted in some sketch. Yeah, she would have been sketchers and stuff. I was a host always. I can miss school was robbed. That was in 1977 and miss school was 80. She was and then 2010. Eddie comes in 88 years old fucking hell. It's gonna be furious. She's listening to this.

She probably doesn't know. She was so mad. She's one nobody's older, Jericho. She's on the phone, a lawn Michael's. Give me back on. Give me back on. Give me back on. I'm a hundred and twenty fifty. I don't do maths.

You there? Well, hundred and twenty three. Fuck you Dave. Still, she's. This girl was born in 1897. What? Same year that the VFL AFL was born. There you go.

Her claim to find her. In June 2010, Betty White took on the role of Elka, the house caretaker on TV lands, original sitcom, Hot in Cleveland. Again, this is not from Wikipedia. The series centers on three aging entertainment industry veterans from Los Angeles, Melanie Joy and Victoria. The three women find a more welcoming and less shallow and youth obsessed community in Cleveland, Ohio. When, as seen in the pilot episode, their Paris-bound plane makes an emergency landing. They decide

to stay and lease a home where sassy caretaker, Elca, Betty Watt, still lives in the guest house. So they're flying to Paris, three entertainment industry veterans, flying to Paris, they're playing emergency landing in Cleveland, Ohio, so they decide to stay. Yeah. In Cleveland, Ohio.

Just so crazy about work. That's so cool. Who are the three, was there any other names in that? Wendy Malik's in that one. Technically that's a name. Miss Cool Spillman. You'd know Wendy Malik's face.

And Valerie Bertinelli and Jane Lee Vies. Very nice, very nice. I don't think the last one was a name. That was me panicking. The show ran for five years, making Betty White 93 years old and the series wrapped in 2015. Also during the same time, she was filming hot in Cleveland. Between 2012 and 2014, Betty hosted an executive produced Betty White's off-their rockers, in which senior citizens played practical jokes on the younger generation.

in which senior citizens played practical jokes on the younger generation. For this show, she received three Emmy nominations. Wow. She's hosting a prank show on the side. She win was the Emmy for Best Prank. Best prank show. She doing like the reverse jackass prank where he dresses up as an old man.

She dressed up as a kid. She's dressed up as a girl scout, like selling cookies. Also in 2012, just during this time, she won her first Grammy for Spoken Word. Spoken Word. She's got half an egg up now. She's got half an egg up. And it's not too late.

You got that Tony. I wouldn't put it past her. Is that the one? Oscar. It's got an egg. So it was for the spoken word recording for her bestseller, if you ask me. It was her first Grammy at the age of 90. She's won five prime time Emmy awards, two daytime Emmy

awards, including the 2015 daytime Emmy for Lifetime Achievement. She's received a regional Emmy in 1952. It's probably, I mean, they don't do those anymore, I don't think. Anyway, she's got one. She's the only woman to have received an Emmy in all performing comedic categories and also holds a record for longest span between Emmy nomination for performances.

Her first was in 1951 and her most recent was in 2011, a span of 60 years. She's also won three American comedy awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1990, 30 years ago. She kept working since then and two viewers for quality television awards. She was inducted into the television hall of fame in 1995 and has a star on the Hollywood walk of fame on Hollywood Boulevard alongside the star of her late husband Alan Luddon.

Their stars are next to each other. That is truly beautiful. Very cute. I mentioned at the start that she loved wildlife and that something that has stayed with her throughout her entire life. She's worked with a number of animal rights organizations. She's a big supporter of the Farm Animal Reform Movement and Friends of Animals Group, and is on the board for the Los Angeles Zoo and has donated tens of thousands of dollars

over the past 40 years. A Betty White calendar for 2011 was published in late 2010. The Keeney? Calendar features photos from White's career with various animals, and she also launched her own clothing line in 2010, which features shirts with her face on them. And all proceeds go to various animal charities that she supports. I want so bad. Anyway, at the time of recording, she is alive and well and has just celebrated her 98th birthday in January.

I hope she gets the 100th. I reckon she will. Yeah, I reckon she'll make it. I really shall them brad it and go out for a duck when she just needs any score to make the hundred. Yeah, somebody, I mean. I couldn't have said I understand that now. I wanted to put it in terms that people could understand at home.

Yeah. I know everyone has a- Doing a bradment. Doing a bradment. You don't want to, you just need one run, I think. So what was it for? My number been ours for runs in his last innings to retire with an average of a hundred And he went out for a duck which is zero You know

He's an explanation in itself Just finally as well. I do have a I have a couple of fun facts But I might just leave you on this one. She was the oldest cast member on the Golden Girls. She doesn't look at them. I tell you. I'll cut that B. And as outlived all of her co-stars on the show. They all did. Be Arthur Pasterway into it. It's a contract. I must outlive them. Be Arthur Pasterway in 2009 at the age of 86.

Room a clarinet hand Paster away in 2010, age 76, and still getting passed away in 2008, age 84. Wow. They're pretty good innings for all of them, but Betty still going at 98 years old. And a dead set legend. And that's my report on Betty White. That was fantastic. A true great life.

Betty tradition. I'm giving some background applause. Thank you. Get that man and Emmy. True great life. A Betty tradition, I'm giving some background applause. Thank you. Yes. Get that man and Emmy. God, you are good. Have you considered a career in radio?

Yes. And you know I have. Please. Anyway, so yeah. You pass on my CV, your boss. Your way too old. They don't take 400-year-olds at triple J. It's a youth station.

Well, that's a Betty White. I bet they'd give Betty a job. Oh my god. Triple J would give her a job. Of course. Yeah, there's no one famously old at triple J. All the Bob. Well, the Bob had a Royal HG run there until,

went into their 50s, I'm sure. That's yeah. And you're what are you're nearly 30? Shut up. Don't tell them that. I want my boss to know. Things don't lie about our age. You're 20 and I'm forever from now on.

22, thanks very much. Sorry, 22, for a while. I'm very young. Dave, what year was I born? 19, 12. I don't think you are as good a man as we thought you um, I've wanted to do a report on her for a while I definitely think the patrons have voted on her maybe twice Or she's been one of the options and they voted for something else and I thought you know what I'm gonna go for it

Fuck the paper. Yeah, they stuffed up because that was a great report What a crazy life and I didn't know much about her. I just knew of her. Totally, but she's done so much, 80 years. Yeah, she's one of those people who just always around. Yeah. And my place. And it's great to have her there. Yeah, you never ask her anything though.

No, I never I don't. I'm not interested. But it's great to have her there, sitting at the other end of the table, chair and down as she does. She's got a hunger. Oh, she. Yeah, she buddies got a hunger. She. Yeah, she's the favorite food. Oh, big chicken. Big chicken. Chicken.

She supports big chicken. And I'm afraid of them, because I think they're running things from underneath, but underneath what? Underneath the soil. You know how the flat earth has me layers. We met mole people. Yes, Betty White is a mole person. Finally we got it out of it. We got it. We got there What's that? I said I know I betrayed you Betty. Oh no. You know that she's vengeful and vengeful. Yeah, she's vengeful She's vengeful

Which is a close relative of the mole people bowl, put to the and a close relative of the mole people. Well, that does bring us to the end of the report part of the episode, but the show must go on. It's funny that you mentioned that you've put her up a few times to the vote. I've put I've put Bradman up for the vote. I think six times. Whoa. Come's come last every time. Oh man, Gary Jay. What is this? You understand why I just squeezed in a little fact about him and even though it was absolutely shoehorned. He's done nothing for his cause there because all the American people that don't vote for him already are going to be like, I don't want to hear an hour of that. He's being like, oh yes. Cricket is a game. Don't remember some man. I'm not

his short for duck's egg which looks like a, and that's why it means no runs. I actually did not know that. I did not know that. I did not know that. I didn't get cricket. Don't at me. I'm not going to get any cricket. Luckily for you, it's not on at the moment. That's good. Nothing is. Nothing is on at the moment. You're a fan of nothing. I do fucking love nothing. Not from podcasts, podcasts forever. No, we're really swooped in here. What a great time. Captured the market. I've honestly only seen silver linings. We've pulled, we've pulled a full crossy of the clam here.

We are out in the middle of the desert broadcasting. Yeah. Everyone else has been taken off air. We've got stingy and the battery. We're going forward. I like the idea of before seven Bradbury, it was called pulling a crossy. And Bradbury swept in and took it from him.

And Cross-D fell out. At the last second, of course. And of course, so what we like to do after the report is sort of the second section of the show. What a lot of people have dubbed the better section. The main meal. Yeah, that's right. You've had your own tray, you've had your own doves.

The poppet homes are bread. Now let's get into the big chicken. So this first part is a section called the Fact Quotal Question section. The shaman has got a little jingle that goes something like this. Fact Quotal Question. And the way it works is if you support us on Patreon at patreon.com slash do go on pod on the Sydney Shahnberg

Deluxe Memorial Edition resting piece level. Then you get to give us a factor quote or a question. You also get to give yourself a title. We do two of these a week. This week, the first one, multi-time fact-quotal questioner, Kevin Ulysses, Packrad. Oh, great. The name never gets old.

And he's given himself the title, official Sandra Judicator, slash pretzel checker of the do-go-on podcast and that's a reference that I can't remember but feels vaguely Sandra Judicator and pretzel checker I mean pretzels have come up before you're gonna need two portfolios they go together really well I don't know how to bloodily of this week wait what day is

it what done that's great maybe last And, because I always have snacks at the end, this time, small packets of mini pretzels. Oh, that makes sense. Mini, mini. Oh my god, what a delight it was. How did you know it was a small packet of a big pretzels? That'd be crazy. I only like one small bit ripped off as in there. I'd be okay with that. I love a big love pretzels I grew up thinking pretzels were mini pretzels. Yes. That was all they word of me. Yep. Big pretzels or pretzels as they're called in Germany. Yeah, my mind credible. I've told this before but in at October first that's what I lived on because I didn't do any vegetarian food there. All I was pretzels. Honestly, it kind of sounds okay. I'd be happier than that.

Now that little act that we did before about you shitting yourself, I lived it. Could you have too many pretzels? I did nothing but drink leaders of beer and eight pretzels. Six days in a row. And then you left the whole thing of going, oh, what a strange noise my mouth made. I've gotta go.

Yeah, and I went straight to an airport and I'm like, I need to leave this country. No joke. I flew out under the cover of darkness when I was meant to stay for another couple of days. I'm like, I gotta leave Germany. And I went to Prague anyway. And you were covered in shit.

Did you bathe before you left or? Look, I made it. Let's just say that. Wait until you got to Prague before you took the shit. Warn, wha? Warn, wha? That's like a duck waddling. Warn, wha? That's awful. Wawful stuff.

I know, apology. What a gift. What a gift. But Kevin Ulysses' pack He's he's offered us a question And it starts with a little somber note here, but looks at it. Hey guys, so this will be my last fact quote a question for a little while Or at least it's I've got more money. Oh, it's taking a break. That's okay. Absolutely fine. Yeah, do not apologize Absolutely fine. You've supported us for so long. I sure on is absolutely optional. Yes, that's what it's not necessarily. Yeah, only if you can and would like to, it's absolutely fine. Thank you, Kevin.

You've got to tick both of those can and would like to. If it's only one of them. Yeah, if you can, but you don't want to, probably don't do it. I mean, I'm not against it. So he goes on to say, today I have a question. It has two parts. Ooh, okay. To begin. Very formal, I love it. This is going to be an essay isn't it? To begin.

To begin in the beginning. I am a first year student at Mars College in Palkeps, Keebsy. Palkeps, Poo Keebsy, Palkei, some of our New York brackets. Go Red Foxes! Uh, Exclamation mark. You see how I explain that? It's not like Red Fox. Red Foxes. It was a comedian, so their mascot is multiple Red Foxes. Right. Is that all right? Red Foxes a comedian?

I don't know what you're talking about. Is that all right? And I'm in English major with a cinema studies minor. Right. I was an English major with a cinema studies minor. Right. I was in English minor. Yeah. I'm in both those things. Isn't that fun?

I live in the bottom corner of a building called Leo, which is also my star sign. Oh my god. Holy moly, moly. Yeah. With my roommate, Cal. He was the question. I wasn't the question. I think when he was going to the beginning. How is this a question? I was the question. I was the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. I wasn't the question. attempt to dissuade him from making this horrifying mistake. And also, would you give a shout out to my friend,

Anna, who occasionally listens to the show. Thanks, Kars. OK, so on the off chance that Anna might be listening now and has listened all the way through to the end, hi, Anna. Hello, Anna. Secondly, Cal. Cal. Let's have a chat.

OK. OK, because I can only assume your surname is Kylater. And you're going to go into accounting with a name like Calculator. But it's the role you were born to play. I can't actually go against it. Well, I mean, look, you just have to ask yourself, are you willing to put up with that being mocked forever? Yeah.

Because people are family. Or do you want to do something where you know you have a will to live? I got it because it when he's called Mr. Kylater that'll sound stupid. All right? Yeah. Putting that on a business card Mr. Kylater. It's dumb. He ends heart-breakingly with the sentence. Hope to see you on your North American tour. I'm guessing you wrote this about three four weeks ago. Yep. Well, Kevin. One day, Kevin.

Kevin, if you haven't heard... Let's continue to get all sorts of weird viruses. I mean, we can't travel, and then we'll just take the hint, I reckon. Yet to be announced, October American tour has been canceled. Which is, yeah, hopefully your, I mean, the start of that sentence might have got you excited. Yeah. Our 2020 October 2, or America, is not happening anymore because of, you know, the, what I like to call the troubles. I don't think you can call it that.

I think that's been taken. Which ones the troubles? That's the Irish one. Oh, sorry. You know that I'm something like, one-sixty in Irish. You're anything. I'm a majority Irish. You're a man of the world.

Yeah, true. Hey, when you got up for it, that's not an appropriate phrase. Thank you to Kevin. Thank you, Kevin. Thanks for helping me finish there and said that before and what's going on. And I'd also have to thank Bron all day. Bron! We've only got a few minutes. Bit of fun all day.

Bit of fun saying what I'd like to do. I'd like to thank Bron all day, but I'll instead thank Bron Alday and who's given herself the title Patreon Mom. We needed one of these. Yeah, we needed you, Bron. Reminding the patrons to eat their broccoli, get their dirty laundry out of their bedroom,

and really would it hurt to text me if you're going to be home late? I mean, it's not as though you're not on your phone all the time anyway. Yeah. That's a great title. All included. And she's offered a fact. And the fact is the key to making a fluffy scone. All right, I'm listening. All that attention is here. The key to making a fluffy scone or scone, depending if you say it right or not, is a very hot oven, not overworking the dough and don't be tight with the dough per scone ratio. You're better than...

I was assuming that was going to go with you're better than that, but it didn't. You were better with fewer bigger scones. You're better with fewer. Thank you, I was going to say, read it with that tone though. You're better with fewer big scones. You're better with fewer. Thank you. I was gonna say, read it with that tone though. You're better with fewer big scones. Also, you must put the jam on. Oh, I agree. You have to read it.

You have to read it. The truth. This is a fact. Read it. Read what Bron said. This is a fact. Oh, it's a false fact, but I'll read it as she's written it. You're also, you must put the jam on, then the whipped cream.

Don't be tight with the condiments either, okay? I agree with it. Not a great more, yes. Yes, firstly, disagree with the order. Secondly, I disagree with using whipped cream. I disagree and disagree. You're a good-bodied man. A lot of it's gotta be clotted.

I don't mind, either way. Clotted on first. Yeah. Thick cloth. Yuck. I mean, cloth is not a friendly word. What's the disgusting word? But I didn't make it up. Thank you, Brian.

Thank you, Kevin. Fantastic work from both of you. I'll happily come over for scones anytime. Oh, yes. She doesn't write. She does. Well, she starts them off right. I'm making them a big and fluffy.

She loses the plot from there. I'd also love to thank a few patrons. What we normally like to do is go through and thank a few of our patrons. I've spent my lockdown going through and cross-checking all the all the shout outs we've done so far and I've found a fair few ones we've missed over the years because of the weird Patreon sorting system. I've been playing video games. It's right I got an Nintendo switch in here is a fun time. It's a great time. I've been exercising and just working this spreadsheet with real hard.

That's a great game. You know how to really isolate. What you do is you lick a certain amount of envelopes in an hour and then the next day, you see if you can beat that, not that. I go now. So I'd love to think of a counter. Would you want to come in with a game that you know?

Oh, yeah, okay. Should we name their TV show? Oh, they're all the Betty Watch show. I know. Star of the Betty Watch show. We can name their game show. Okay, that's it. Yeah, the game show, game show.

And there's got to be some and done. I'm going to use only things I can see right now. Right. So, I reckon is what they did in the writers meetings as well. I'd love to first. Secret. I'd love to first. I'd like to thank who's been waiting patiently since 2017.

Oh boy. Sorry about that. Marcus Brissmann. Oh, Marcus. Brissmann. Brissmann, come up. What about, it's called Brissmann only. Okay.

Next one, Mark. Yeah. And how does that work? There's a panel of one man, Marcus. Marcus. Yep. And everyone asks us to guess what he's thinking. Ooh!

You can only use facial expressions, so you've got to be like, but most weeks, he's a bit of a clue. Most weeks, he's thinking, did I just shoot myself? And the answer is usually yes. You've got a 50-50 shot. Yeah. You can't say anything with his mouth. Bap, bap, bap. Bap't say anything with his mouth. Pie Soft's from Brisbane. From Brisbane.

From Brisbane. Marcus Brisbane is from Gothenburg. Oh, Sweden. In Sweden. Wow. Well done, man. All right, Millie Soft.

Millie Soft's game show is called What's Under the Lada? Ha, ha, ha, I like it. Yeah. I like it. Thank you. Is it the people on the show, only people that are very superstitious, so they're not willing to grab it out from underneath the ladder?

Yeah. Yeah. And it's also covered, and there's just a bunch of sound and verbal clues. What is it? What are they cryptic, though? So they have to figure out what's under the ladder. I really like it if they figure it out Then they can come back next week Nobody wins under the ladder the prizes you get to come back. Yeah to come back

That's a real gift really soft. Thank you so much for your support And we apologize for missing you all this time. Millie soft sounds like a like an Aldi version of Microsoft Yeah, okay. I got the new millisoft 64 64 What fucking you do I think it is am I okay? You is it is it 64 Yeah, what you're You've gone with Nintendo 64 right. Yes Not a common all 64 don't be fucking ridiculous.

I'm really so 64. I've retired now. OK, David, do you want to thank some people? Yes, please. I would like to thank if I may. Please. If I may. All the way from Eastphal, California.

I've lost the name here. This is not a great system. Rick Zau. Rick Zau. Rick Zau. Fantastic name. Sounds like a game show host. Yes, it does.

Who's it by Rick? He's your host, Rick Zau. And he is, of course, hosting Matt, what's he's show called? Uh, dial on the monkey. Oh. Oh, I'll... I'll on the monkey? Yeah, so everyone's sitting on a monkey. Right.

Diling a phone. Be the monkey. Well, yeah, I know what you're thinking. It's not a real monkey. It's a man in a monkey suit. A tuxedo. Oh, sure. Yeah, okay. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So it's post-eddy white won't be upset. No, animals are. The animals are fun. And it's hosted by Rick Zow. Rick Zow. Fantastic. And how does it work, Dave? How does it work? Yeah.

Well, you're sitting on a monkey. And you have to try and guess words. Yes. The monkey is thinking. And the dialing. It has a dialing a phone. Yeah, you want a dialing a phone. You have a phone, a friend.

You can phone one friend. But that's also a chimp. And you have to try and figure out what that chimp is isn't a monkey, of course Yeah, of course, which is a extra confusing. There's no monkeys involved on the show at all. Yeah, but Is not what it says on the box. Yeah Neither way any of Betty shows Betty what show just man? No, the Betty White show

The Betty White show showed Betty White showed just men the Betty White show The Betty White show showed Betty White fourth one was about a woman called Janice or whatever the fucking away nothing to do with Betty White It was paid by Betty White sure, but it wasn't about Betty White anyway Dave on your ricks out I would like to now think all the way from you just said now funny to Ramazal. Yeah, I'll actually Did say pretty funny pretty funny stuff I'd like to thank from leads now a place we've been a couple times and I absolutely love we love leads James the prime minister oh I'd like to thank James Underwood James Underwood is your thank James Underwood. James Underwood. Is your host James Underwood? Underwood. Underwood.

I found a different man. He was the host of the game, brick or tree trunk. Yes. And what it was is that you get blindfolded and something is thrown at you. And you have to try and defend yourself and figure out the same thing.

You have to figure out, was that a brick? Was that a tree trunk? And if you're wrong, they keep throwing stuff. They keep throwing until you get it right. You got it right. But I also had other things I thought you'd knives, fire extinguishes, toddlers, yet catch those, or you were a bad person.

That's why you went to jail. Yeah, if you don't catch the toddler. It finished in the gunfire. Oh, it's the truck, the round. James, we love your show. Thank you, James. It was a thrown you show. Thank you. You got to guess their age in months. Yeah. 27.

No. It was 26 after jail for you. They all went to jail. It was a confusing time. Hey, may I also thank some people? That would be so good. I would love to thank from Ohage. That's got to be Ohio right? Oh I'd be. Oh hire? Surely. Yes. Oh I would love to thank Zach Keiser. Oh kick it with the Kaiser. Oh kick it with the Kaiser. Is that the name of the show? Yeah.

That's the name of the show. Kick it with the Kaiser and again you just have to guess what you're kicking. Yeah you have to guess what you're kicking. Yeah, you have to guess what you're kicking. They put something down in front of you, you have to kick it. But that's there with you kicking it. You can get with him. Yeah, yeah. But your legs are tied together. So you kick your left leg, Zach's right leg,

and you have to. Oh, I thought you were going to kick it right. But your legs are tied together, so you're doing, OK, right. So it's a three-legged kick race. And you kick stuff that I think the catch there is. You have to guess what it is. And if you guess you get to keep it, but they may put down something very breakable.

So maybe like a Ming Vars, you don't want to kick that. But they do often put down grenades. Yeah. So you do want to... No, the time you want that away. The two most common things, grenades and Ming Vars. You want the grenade to be far away from where you are now. You want it to go away want the you want to go away?

Do you know what I mean? And that was another episode of Kigga with a Kaiser. I'm alive and sick. I'm not remembering that lyric, right? That is that Chili Peppers lyrics. I've no fucking idea. I didn't know where you pulled that. No idea where you pulled it from. Loved it though. Loved it and it became my favorite show and especially yelling you want the grenade to go away. Yeah. I would also love to thank, thank you so much, Zach, I'd love to thank finally from Ambla, PA, Dave. Oh, is that Pennsylvania? PA, yeah, that's right.

I would love to thank Daniel Spring. Oh, Daniel Spring, fantastic name. And his game, of course, is called Jump, The Pit of Fuck Faces. Wow. All your enemies from... We were doing so well. And you came up with Jump, no, I'm, yes, ending you. Yes, all your enemies from school?

Yes, they're in a pit. And you have to jump. But while they taunt you, oh, all your enemies from school. Yes, they're in a pit. And you have to jump. Jump while they taunt you. Oh, you can't do it. You'll never make it. You'll never make it. If you're wedgy. Honestly, this is, I think this is the closest to having a chance of getting out. Is it just so ongoing? I play in the NBA. I play in the NBA. Can I get some respect? I've just looked up the lyric is, how come everybody want to keep it like the Kaiser? Month better.

You was the way that I was. He's been it with the Kaiser. It's a team of goalkeepers. No, this is, jump the pit of fuck faces, is that what it is? Yeah. I'm just great. And then if you jump it, do you win a prize? And if you don't, you have to hang out with your bullies,

is that it? Now you're in the pit. And they have to hang out with your bullies, is that it? Now you're in the pit. Oh, and they have to hang out with them in the pit. They're just chanting in the pit, in the pit. Yep. I reckon they says legs. I think it does, so I think the name needs work. They've got the potty mouth.

Yeah, they probably don't want fuck faces on there, but... You just call it pit of enemies. Yeah, that's pretty good. You can put a pit of friends. It's a jerk, it's a jerk, jerk pit. Jerk pit! Oh, that's not... Oh, no, that's pretty good. You can put pit of friends. It jerks. It jerks. Jerk pit. Jerk pit. Oh, that's not. Oh, no, that's another show.

Jump the jerk pit. It's all your enemies, but they're all whanking. Yeah, and if you don't want to fall into that pit. They don't want to fall in there. They're also still mocking you. Ugh, if I'm making a jump, it. You're whanking on television. Yeah, and we still think you're shit in that. For us.

You fucking dead. You're actually making me go limp. I'm having a work this real hard. Your glasses, Horus. Horus. Poor old Horus. So yeah. Thank you very much to those lovely people who support us on Patreon.

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And... Oh, classic, I like it. Each cobbler. Ooh, dessert. Oh, I love a shoemaker that's been brought in for dessert. Which is what I assume that is. It's like a little... It's a peach that's been carved into a little like man with a hammer.

Yeah, that's right. It's what I picture a cobbler to be. It's cobbler? Yes, that's right. So we've actually got a dirty half D who've come, coming into the cobb tonight. D Shoffa doesn't. Oh, I think I was not with that. I did not know what you meant. From Liverpool in Great Britain, it's Ben Wittingham, please grab a cobbler.

From Nottingham, Shile, so in the Great Britain, Benjamin McRobby. Have some prawns! Grab yourself some prawns. Prouds! From Mount Lebanon in, I think, Lebanon, LB? Or is that lower-brimming stone? I think it's Lebanon. I think this is our first Lebanese in data. Rani Tabri, but it can't be because we must have shouted them out in the previous

show. We've done it. We've shout out to Rani before. In fact, we did it in episode 109. Oh wow. I've got it written down next to their name because I've really, oh my god, I've been working with spreadsheet hard. Great game. This, you must be having so much fun. From Perth in Australia. Oh. Cameth, would you, would you, Naratni from Georgia in the United States, Sean Harris and from NB in Canada, NB Dave, NB?

Come on, you've got to know Canada as well. North Brobin Hook. as well North Brobin Hook Yeah, it's North of the Brobin Hook Dean Brett Dean Brett You know, the name's a man after my own heart. All those wonderful people. Enjoy the open bar. Enjoy the open bar Oh, that's I mean where the specials with the cobbler and the prawns that's that's that's fine But it's not all we have you can choose anything from the top shelf the second shelf the third shelf But do not touch the fourth shelf. Oh my god. No, the fifth shelf's fun. Yeah, fifth shelf's That's where we keep like the cleaning products. Yeah, I don't want to do that

We probably should put those elsewhere. Yeah, it's a bit getting a bit confusing We have to warn people because there was that time when Gary J from the UK had a big shot of gif time when Gary J from the UK had a big shot of GIF. Oh God he was bouncing for hours. He was. It's a New Brunswick Canada. New Brunswick. We're an old Brunswick. I should have never named after this. I can only assume, yes. Well that brings us to the end of the episode. What a fantastic time we've had. We've had a great time. Amazing. That was a good bit. I meant it. That was a lot of fun. You would at least say exclamation mark. Amazing exclamation mark.

Thank you. We should also add, if you want to join in on the Patreon, which a lot of people have been doing lately, you can get our bonus episodes. We put out two every single month, and we're very close on our target to putting out a third episode right now. It's where it 98 or 99% of the goal for real. If we achieve this goal, we will start a new year and every month we're over that goal,

we'll do an episode of phrasing the bar, the only podcasts in the world dedicated to the films of Brendan Fraser. And what basically how to work is the three of us will watch a Brendan Fraser film starting from his first offering. We think he's done about 50. So if this works and we do it monthly,

it'll take Dave, what's in there, and is that used to it's now and is that years over four years and we're in it for the long haul. Absolutely. Oh my God. And yeah I'm pretty stoked if that happens. Yeah it'll be sick. I've actually I've seen a few of his films on Netflix I've been browsing and I've got to save it in case. I watched one recent I was like what am I doing? I'm burning it shit. I'm burning the bar. You got it. Which is another game show I'm thinking about. You have to commit arson. You should also mention too that this Saturday kicks off our run of live stream shows.

Absolutely. Saturday, Melbourne time, which is 12 o'clock Saturday, East Coast in Australia. Do you know when I was figuring out the times for around the world? That was before I realized that our daylight savings was ending and a lot of other countries were starting. So that's two different time shifts. Oh great. I have no idea what time it is in other countries. Oh yeah, cool.

Yeah, but it's pretty easy. If you type in our time and date conversion on Google, there's lots of websites where you chuck in Melbourne time, you try 12 p.m. Saturday, it will tell you what time it is. I love that. I love that. I love that. I love putting the responsibility on them. You figure it out. You're an adult. I love that. It's fucking great.

You got Google? Figure it out. You'll be right. That, I mean, yes, that is true. The streams will be available for a short time after If you're a couple of hours, it's for 24 hours So some people I think in you know in the eastern block They might be getting it in the early AM. Yep. Am I saying that right? Is there a place called the eastern block? There could be people in it in Australia who have other stuff on and want to watch it later Oh, that's true.

What do people have on of them? Absolutely nothing. You shouldn't be doing anything and that was a trap. I mean I'll be busy. Did you see the last thing I want to say, but this has made me laugh more than anything else recently. The Western Australian premiere was asked in a press conference. You would have said so.

That's my gal. He was asked, someone in New South Wales was fined for going out for a jog and then stopping to buy a cabab and the journalist asked him and he just couldn't get through the results, it was laugh and so much, he's like, geez, I do it differently in New South Wales, which I love the job. It's a great opportunity to say. Yeah, you can go for a jog and get a kebab. The Oslan interpreter next to him was piecing herself laugh. I guess she's a kebab.

I watch the interpreter when he talks a lot of time. It's so good. Anyway, that was... And he just can't get through the sentence. It's not a bad going for a jog and buying a kebab. He just can't get the words out. But anyway, what did I interrupt? We were talking about the live streams.

The live streams, they are, they are, this Saturday is the first one but there will be four of them. And you can buy a season pass where you pay for three, get to attend or four. Yeah. And you put jammers, you can watch us and you put jammers. We went judge. We won't be wearing your pajamas, sorry, that just to clarify that. Well if you send them in. You cannot watch us in your pajamas.

I'm not going to be wearing your pajamas. You express first and now I will do it. I will wear your pajamas. I will wear my pajamas. We do want pajamas that'd be cute. Yeah, of course. Have a different outfit theme every time. I suggested we wear monkey suits the first week. I believe we should.

Love that. But yes, we're gonna do like some exclusive stuff for the live stream that will only be out and then will be burnt forever. We're gonna do some questions and magic. The magic, I'm gonna pull out my floating balls. It's gonna be a lot of fun and yeah we can't do any live shows for the foreseeable future so if you want to get involved, come and bloody have some fun, it'll be great. Would I sell it? Was that good? Yeah, that was great. I'm really, really looking forward to it. It's going

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