Do Go On - 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, Dave, hello, Jess. Oh my God, I almost forgot your names and you only just said them moments before. You glance at your palm, Jess. 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. I know. We're Facebook friends.

It doesn't get much closer than that. And we're your only Facebook friends. Isn't that amazing? It's weird. You should get more Facebook friends. Well, I keep sitting there waiting to be poked and it hasn't happened. That's not happened. Matt, sometimes you've got to be proactive.

You've got to do the poking. Sometimes you've got to be the poker, not the pokee. Yeah. Get out there. I wish I could be a pokey. Get out there. Have a poke. All right.

I'm going to have a poke tonight. I feel weird about what I said. How are we doing? We're good? I think we're good. I think we are sitting exactly 1.5 metres apart at this stage. Very important. Legal requirement.

Now, as we were setting up the gear, Matt did say, one point five metres, thanks. I'd take a couple of steps back. I'm so sorry, sorry, I'm encroached on your territory like that. Well, you can encroach as long as you don't. And COVID.

Well, I was moving in for a poke. Did that bad joke give you a heart attack? It hurt me inside. That hurt me more than it hurt. you and I know it hurt you a lot having to hear and feign enjoyment not very convincingly but still he's broken already it's great um hey what is this show look I don't know I'm going to ask the guy that just made that great joke Matt what is this show about this show well you've come to the right place because I know this back to front I've been on every episode of it actually his other palm

unlike you too uh who sort of float in and out at your leisure. I'm here week in week out. Sorry, we've only done about, what, 230 episodes each. I'm sorry that we're not up to your standards. This is 233 for me. And as in all the other 232 episodes, the way it works is one of the three of us, you know, if in attendance, will 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 on to 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? Ooh, Adriana Exanities. Tanya Zietta. She didn't hope. Was she the host? Well, best sidekick. Yeah, she was a sidekick at D.

best. Oh, this is weird. It's a real sausage fest, the game show hosts. Oh, yeah. I'm thinking baby John Burgess. Is it someone we would know? It is definitely someone you would know. Betty White just came to my mind.

Yes. Oh, I'm serious. She's just been around so long. I just thought she's probably done it. It's Betty White. Betty White. What was it? Was Golden Girls a game show?

In a lot of ways. Isn't everything a bit of a game? Isn't life a game, Matt? Blanche played at the game. The game of fucking. Everybody all the time. Love to fuck. Yeah, Blanche loves to fuck.

Spoiler alert. Is that Betty? No. But it could have been. Really? She could have been... Yes. No, Betty White was the sort of the more naive type character, whereas Blanche Dubois, he loved to fuck.

Is that her catchphrase? Yeah, yeah. That was her whole character, really. She had a southern accent, Matt. She was great. She was Samantha before there was a Samantha. Yeah. But do it in a southern accent.

I loved for food. I mean, it is similar. Can you give me something that someone says in southern accent? I'll go from there. Well, I'm a southerner and I love to fuck. Okay. Oh, yeah. But I mean, I wanted you to say it in a southern accent,

so I could basically give me a key. I'm a southerner and I love to fuck. I mean, now I don't even need to do it. You just did it. Thank you. Yeah, and you couldn't top it, to be honest. No, I couldn't top that. Well done, Dave.

That was perfect. Some people would be confused. Or offended. Yeah. Probably offended. I'm a sovereign nose. Hello. Salton Bale.

This is Southern Bale. Came here to fuck. I'm in a phone. What the hell's a bit of fuck round? These here parts. She's pointing to herself. Yeah. She's like, these here parts.

Yeah. So honestly, so Betty Watt, I just, I don't know where that came from. I didn't know she'd hosted a game show. I just figured. 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. Whoa.

Well, I mean, Golden Girls was from... Was her 80s? 80s. And she was playing an old woman in that. In the 80s. She was in her 60s then. She was already playing her grandma 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 Sex and the City of the film. Can you maybe translate to someone who hasn't seen either of the show? It's like a third translation.

What do you mean? Which cast member of Diagnosis murder is she? Oh, well, so which member of the Dick Van Dyck family? I can put it in Ninja Turtles for you, if you like, or the O.C. 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. And the party girl. Gotcha. Then you got Dorothy. Or Carrie is the Leonardo, the leader of the pack. This is amazing how well this aligns. Then you've got, what are the other, so who are the other two golden girls? You've got the mum.

Sophia? Sophia. Is she cool but rude? She is actually cool but rude, okay. She's the sassy Raphael. They gave her all the racy lines because they 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 wears the red bandana. No, no, no, no. She's got red hair. Oh, yeah, she would be in Miranda, yes. Yep. And then the last one is the final one. Yeah, no one ever cared. Now, let me put all of them into the Beatles.

Okay, so. I will talk, obviously, about the Golden 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 patrons, she always sort of came in second. and 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 good ever happens 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 watch that. It's golden girls. Say Golden Girls and Lost Fuck.

Okay. Yeah, baby would be Gilligan's Island. Got it. Okay, that makes more sense. And the rest. But I put on... The rest is seen. And the rest. I know that made sense.

I put on Golden Girls just to, you know, something light, something of bit of fun. And then I thought, what's Petty White's deal? And now here we are. I've got to 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 like the last, I don't know, 10, 15 years. Yeah. Did she have a recurring character on Boston, Lille?

legal? 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 one, don't we? I love it. That feels like a logical place to begin. So when do you reckon she was born? 1800s? Oh, that's a good question. If we were to guess the year.

I'm going to guess 1932. Dave? I'm going to say slightly older. 1929. Betty Marion White was born in Oak Park, Illinois on January 17, 1922. What? That's my grandparents' age and they're dead. She's 98 years old.

What? She is 98 years old. I mean, that does make sense. I just said she was old in the 80s, so that does add up. And you actually said she was 60 then? Geez, there are a lot of clues. She doesn't seem it in my memory

I haven't seen her this week or anything but you haven't checked in I haven't had a Zoom chat with her She doesn't know how to Zoom I reckon she might Yeah she's pretty cool She's pretty cool And everyone knows zooming is cool

Yeah I love business meetings That she also excel Of course she excels Oh in most facets of her life Yeah And I sort of thought You know how when you look into

early life of someone or 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 happened last week with Howard Hughes exactly yeah almost every time we do a biography yeah yeah yeah um apart from that will not be the case thank god yes 98 years of good time she's so cool rolled out all over again yeah we're like oh i remember all those wonderful sort of a bit of a dick okay bit of a dick oh my god he was awful so betty's the only child of christine and Horace are white. Are they still alive?

I believe so, yes. She's got strong jeans. Very strong jeans. Her parents are 120 and 122. 20. 20 white will 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. Chrisin's a very modern name. That's ageless. Christine's come back around. Horace hasn't had a resurgence in my lifetime.

Horace Grant and the NBA in the 90s played for maybe the Bulls. I think he wore glasses, goggles. Of course he did horace. I'm goggles, yeah. Four eyes, even an NBA player. Hey, four eyes, I'm playing the NBA. Hey! How are we not the coolest guy in my high 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 in for your wedgy. 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'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? Did they eat the dog? What are you doing with the dog? I think they were probably okay because he had like, oh, yeah, he had an okay job.

And a gig on the side. He was side hustling. She is so old that she moved to Hollywood before it was Hollywood. Oh, yeah. No, it was kicking on, but that's weird. Oh, for younger listeners, radios are like the iPhone tens of the day. Is that what we're up to? And dogs are like edible cats.

Yeah. Is that right? Cats aren't edible. All bats we've learned. Yeah, we learned the hard way there, didn't we? Hey? Everyone has to sit inside their homes now, don't they? Yeah. Never eat them.

You can kiss them. You can hug them. Lick them? You can lick them. You can suck them. But you don't eat them. Just don't swallow. That's what you're saying?

You can go to third base. No further. Eating them. That's home base. Yeah, yeah. It's a home run. That's a home run with a chicken this afternoon. Tasty little tree.

Let's isolate that little clip. What I'm saying is I had sex with the chicken. You should have said that in a southern accent. I think a looking good. That's nowhere near it, is it? No, that wasn't bad. It wasn't good. 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 claim to the south? We're south. Come on. Come on. Go, oh, then Tasmania might go. I'll accept it from the south.

the penguins. Yes. And Tasmanians? Yeah, same, same. Yeah, it's mostly penguins there. Anyway, Wildbody was at 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, they 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 theatre.

She graduated high school in 1939. She's older than 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. They accept women? They did accept women, almost exclusively, which then got them in a lot of trouble for children. discrimination.

So then they let men in. I was part of that protest, actually. We were furious. I object. I 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, like, getting changed in the car into, like, a sequined outfit and then just, like, running onto stage. She's just doing too much, you know? She's taken on so many different things. So, okay, 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 great. Can you picture a barking dick? I can't. With his little mouth. Eurethro. Why is it such a yappy little...

It's a little Jack Russell. Oh, okay. Sorry. Sorry, it's a big hog. Is that you happy now? Yes. Because that'd be more of a dick oinker if it was a big hog. You going off track here?

I would trade a radio for that. But there's another famous Barker who's a game show host. But he's not Dick Bob. Bob. Bob Barker. It's a different guy. I've got to be honest. Age name.

Yeah. Imagine a little Bob barking. What's a Bob? Sorry, I forget you're a virgin. What a person? Bob is. It's just underneath the dick. Just above the gooch.

Okay. Anyway, so she married Dick Barker, who was a US Air Force pilot. The marriage was short-lived. It lasted less than a year. I read somewhere that he wanted her to like give up on her showbiz dreams on her acting career, and she was like,

no. So... He felt that he made the right choice. I bet he feels like a fool now. Yeah, I know. Yeah. he's definitely also alive. 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 big future for this girl. Relationships take work, you know what I mean? That's, from my experience, they take work. That's all 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 unfodogenic bit cruel can I just ask does she already look like a grandmother no I can't imagine her she was gorgeous he was very attractive young and you know how you see photos from the olden days and you're like we were talking about this last week yeah Howard Hughes said

to be very handsome at the time he looked at him now it looks a bit like a serial killer yeah but yeah it's what's not hot about that love the dead eyes yeah for sure oh yeah But no, even, you know, objectively now, Betty, gorgeous. Yeah, Betty's hot still. Oh, yeah, big time. Yeah. Hot in Cleveland. Oh, is that what you meant?

Gotcha. Anyway, so if she wasn't photogenic, she would find a job where that didn't matter. So she started looking for work in radio. Oh, smart. We've all done it. Got to say that hurt, reading it. Yeah. I was 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, like George Costanza, basically. I'll just sit here and see what happens. Is that work here? Yeah, yeah, what's up? What do you need? Yeah, I could do that for you. So one of her first radio jobs earned her $5 a show

where she would just read commercials or play small roles or sometimes make crowd noises in the background. One hand clapping. Not even. bothering to clap both hands. He's like, you've 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, whatever. So she's been in showbiz for eight decades. Is the first six or seven decades just show...

Just audience noises? Is that what she did? I wouldn't say decades, but years, probably, yep. And she's not just doing audience noise. she's also saying there's never been a better time to buy. A carpet 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. I know. In 1947, she married a man named Lane Allen, who was a Hollywood agent. This marriage only lasted a couple of 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. 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. It's my show where I pretend that I'm in a ball pit. And mine, make believe ball sack. Where I pretend my... My balls aren't floating loose.

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, they could choose any names. It's only they're 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. All different. Okay. So that's, just think of anything else. Anyway, so Al was the host of Make Believe Ballroom, and it was adapted into

a television program called Hollywood on television. Okay. Pretty good. That's better, surely that's better. Hollywood on television. Yeah, I think that's good. That's better than your show, my balls on television.

Well, Matt just stands in front of the camera. I guess I walked right into that, Having my heart crushed. And your balls. Oh. Crushed. Not again. Why don't know your balls so much?

I don't like it. It's a really blue episode. Blue balls. So, 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. them. Five and a half hours. I love it. I want that job. Would they have props or was it a bit like, oh, this water bottle? Then they'd talk about that for an hour.

Yeah, what's the best? And then they'd 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. Why do they pay it for five bucks? I'm in.

I think by this time she's probably making 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 lasted 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 Holiday alongside Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn.

So he had a pretty good career anyway. Okay, it sounds like he made some good choices. And he played The Warden in 1974's The Longest Yard. He played the Water. The warden. Oh, I was going to say that would be a... Played the water. What a great actor.

And Matt, he played the water as in the instrument. Oh. Same noise, actually. Has he got keys? Yeah, water's got keys, Dave. That's one of the dumbest questions I've ever heard. What the fuck is wrong with you? You dumb shit.

Sorry, my second. Thomas question is, do you have a ball sack? That is a dumb question. We all know he doesn't. We've got a couple of floating boys down here. They hover. They hover. They're not attached to you at all.

You know those guys who have those silver balls and they like twiddle them through their fingers? Medicians? Yeah, that's based on my balls. Magicians, they knelt at the altar of my crotch. What the fuck? I'm going to ask you one question is that. Shut up. My question is, have you been drinking?

It really sounds like. Oh, he's had coffee. About a night coffee. Triple shout. They knelt at the altar of my balls. That is not what I said. Alter of my crotch. I beg, I do beg your pardon.

I'm so sorry. I beg forgiveness at the altar of your crotch. So Eddie's left the show after six months. Al Jarvis is gone. And now Betty is left to host the show by herself. Five and a half hours 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.

People just watch they go insane in real time. Well, why? Surely you would sit down and watch it for five and half hours. No, it must be like a bit of background noise. Yeah, while you're doing stuff. Like radio TV. Do you remember that episode of The Simpsons where TV went down and Krusty went to like an old outpost somewhere and he was just making characters with Mr. Oil Can. I imagine it would have gone something like that.

Something like that. So one thing I read 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. They didn't think to put that in in the first place. No. Well, yeah, Zoom wasn't around yet. Oh, yeah, you couldn't Zoom.

Yeah. They just throw her a scorpion like Krusty, stinging. Betty says that close to 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. So 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. 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, yeah, she says, but sometimes sponsors would come in

and do the spot themselves. She goes, there was Lou Slicer who called himself by the name of the product he sold, 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.

People were going, I bought it, and they'll slice myself. He named, he changed it. He changed his name. Handy dandy little. To Lou Slicer. Maybe he was born with that name. I don't think he was.

That gave him a great idea. Yeah, he thought, hey, you know what to be handy? Handy dandy. In 1951, the Emmy Awards introduced a new category to include women, and Betty was nominated for Best Actress. For that role? Yep. Okay.

She didn't win. The award went to Gertrude Berg. Probably dead. Yeah, that's not the name of a survivor. Trudeberg. That same year, she formed a production company called Bandy Productions. It was named after her dog, Bandit. Which she traded a radio for, so.

Yeah. Never paid cash for a dog. Never. Don't do it. She started the company with George Tibbles. Is that her cat? That was named after her cat. George Tibbles. And Don Fettison.

Her chicken? He's a lot of names of. died out. Yeah. Fair to say. John. That's Don. Okay.

Well, John was another example. We know some John's. John is a name. Oh. But do you know any Don's? No. President of America. Oh, can you bet...

Do you reckon anybody calls him Don? Yes. What about Donnie? Yeah, from the Ninja Turtles? That sucks. Donnie. Donny Wallberg. Lucky Mark's brother.

Oh, of course. Yeah, they get called Donnie 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 and 65 episodes. It was actually really, really popular. That's amazing that, yeah.

I mean, recurring sketches make sense when you're up five hours to fill it. Totally. Bring back the same. 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 then. She's doing some acting. Yep. 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, yeah. And she did catering. Yep. What do I feel like today? Yeah, she would do first aid on set. If anybody got a little boo-boo. A little band-aid on it. The slicer.

Craig the slicer. What was his name? Louis. Louis. Lou Slicer. Lou Slicer. Okay, the handy bandy, little pandy. Yeah.

In 1954, she hosted and produced her own daily talk slash variety show called the Betty White show. Okay. Do you think that there's anyone in history who said more words out loud than her. Oh, wow. She's really older than anyone else and has also been broadcasting and those decades we're talking about now. She's 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. That someone else spoke more.

Okay. It's a myth that someone has spoken more than Betty White. It's a myth. What's the job where you talk more? that. Other radio announcers? Or 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 used to work in a talking job. Yeah, that's true. And I work on radio, but that's like... That's a lot of music. You don't sing the songs there.

No, like 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. Loose Slicer. They're all out. Just singing about things you can see.

Yeah. Little cat, tibbles in the corner over there. So, yeah, now she's hosting her own talk show, the Betty White show. Much prefer this name. Yeah. But this is the Betty White Show, Volume 2? Second Betty White. It would have been out of a show name like Curtains from the Stars from here to Mars with Betty White or something like that.

I bet you 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. Oh, they're not like curtains donated by celebrities. No, no, there's sort of bouncing. It's a long roll of haberdashery from Spotlight or somewhere like that. And yeah, the role is sort of bouncing. isn't it? Because like stars are further

away from Mars so you know, 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 going to buy it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They stuck with Mars. Also it was a bit catchier. And it rhymes. Yeah. That's always good. Yeah, yeah. What do you think, Dave? I think it's the only thing it must do. So she's hosting. the Beatt show. Like a sitcom, 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 airtime. I love it. You can see why some people might have been confused. The show has got white in it. So, yeah.

Tuning in going, hang on, this is not what it says on the box. The box is what they used to call the TV. Right. And they just put Betty in very small prints. 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 of Elizabeth was still running. She's doing both at the same time, by the way. Both for five and a half hours a day, successfully. And it ran until 1955, after which she appeared as Vicky Angel on the ABC sitcom Date with the Angels. Oh, how do you feel about that? She's one of the titular Angels.

Yes, Vicki Angel. I love a chance to say titular, as you all know. Of course. It ran from 1957 to 958. 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.

Live 23 hours a day. Dicking holes. So what she did was she rebooted her old talk show, the Betty White show. I love this show. You can't kill it. Much like the titular Betty White. Can't 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 her attention to network game shows. She made many appearances on the hit show Password as a celebrity guest from 1960. 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. Wow. Very confusing. Yeah, yeah, it's hyphenated. Right.

Yeah, any primary school. Did you also get a Mother's Maiden Primary School? Very confusing for those two questions. 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. They could have come up with anything. They've come up with, name this word, basically.

But don't use this. This word. For example, the word is beard. I'd just say to you, mustache. David Boone. One word, mustache. Boone. Getting closer?

I don't know. Is that? I don't know. That works? 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 Luddin, 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 might be my favorite. Oh, I've got a secret.

The whole game show is them going, can't tell us that. No, no. I'll give you one word, clue. Mustache. I'll tell you after the show's over. I'll tell you off air. It's always off air.

It will be revealed. The credits are all and you can't hear what they're saying. And everyone's going, whoa, whoa, whoa. You got no bullsack? Eddie what? That's crazy. This is before they knew women don't have ball sacks. They didn't know a lot about women back then, didn't?

They really didn't. They didn't want to 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 advise and consent. What would that sound like a Kansas accent? Here you're my wayward son.

You're going to read to bed. Don't you cry no more. Ben-lal-l-l-l-l-na-na-na-na-pand-l-l-na-na-pun-l-a-na-na-pun-l-a-na-na-pun-l-l-l-a-na-na-l-l-na-l-a-n. That's totally answer my question. Yeah, bet you feel like an idiot now, don't you? her performance was really well received but it would be her only big screen appearance for many decades she comes back to it what do you mean what do you mean as in she there was a feature film debut and she wasn't in another like big screen flick how old was she this is in 1962 and and how long till she did

it again a while and it was an adam sam the film wasn't it he brought her back did he god we have so much To thank him for. Absolutely. A highlight of Betty's career was playing manhungry Sue Ann Nivens on the Mary Tyler Moore show. Yes, the cannibal. Yeah, it was a weird show. It was in the fourth or fifth season and they were really jumping the shark. We need something to get these ratings back.

Yeah. I can't get enough of this meat. Man meat. We've got blood on her face. Husband looks tasty. 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 sickeningly sweet, like Betty White, which led to Betty White being cast. The show was hugely popular and Betty won two Emmys for her role. Insane. 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.

That's a very confusing Wikipedia entry. Yeah. It genuinely is. Ambiguification. I've never said that word out loud before. Ambiguation. This is what the... This ambiguidation.

This is what the fourth Betty White show was about. My mouth just made a weird noise. That's called talking. Stop. Make a stop. It's stuck. It made some kind of like, sound.

Anyway. Yeah, that was not your mouth. Come on. It was Matt's balls. I've heard of some funny excuses before. It was a chair. Oh, my mouth did it. I can't believe it made that weird noise while I was talking.

So, a pretty white shirt. You're like, you've literally shot 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. Wow.

Let me just go clean my teeth. I'm just going to waddle to the bathroom. I'm just going to squelch over to the bathroom. Oh, sorry. I got some squelchy lips. Keep making that noise on my mouth. That's a yuck riff. Four people would hate that.

You got it on the poo jokes. You did it. I'm just trying to tell you about Betty White's show number four. It's number four. It's number four. This is what the show. 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. So they were called it Undercover Woman. That's funny. That's purposely funny. That's great. I thought it was serious and I was like, how easy was it to get a show back then?

Undercover Woman. I was going to be like a Mrs. Doubtfire prequel or something. Yeah. So good. So Betty's character gets the lead in this show. And Joyce is thrilled with the show, but less pleased to learn that the director is her ex-husband. John Elliott, whom she unfondly refers to as old pickle puss.

The show was cancelled after one season. What does that mean, old picklepuss? Who knows, but it's great. Well, all right. We got out of the conversation. I've got a secret. Sadly, all good things must come to an end. Wait, what?

No. She's still alive. Betty's husband. No, picklepuss. No, real-life husband. Alan Luddin died from stomach cancer on June 9th, 1981 in L.A. The couple had been married for 18 years. To this day, Betty has not remarried since Alan's death.

And in an interview with Larry King, when asked whether she would remarry, she replied by saying, well, once you've had the best, who needs the rest? Oh, love it. That's a great line. How 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.

That is confusing. Here's how the show worked. Two female contestants, one usually a returning champion, competed. Okay. 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, pose.

previously to a panel of seven celebrities, all of whom were men. Okay, just men. The name of the show. Just men. 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 means. for three months. Just men. I'm guessing she was the only good thing about it then. Surely.

She won an award but it tanked. And I don't think people would have been tuning in going, what's happening? I don't understand this. What's this panel? The Wikipedia article is confusing. They're 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 men. 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, they were like done cars. Yeah, maybe, yeah, maybe it was rigged.

But it was such a confusing concept. It doesn't make a lot of sense, but she won an Emmy. She appeared so frequently on so many game show hosts. Surely the name of that show would have someone with keys or cars. Like Keith's success or something. Being just men does not feel noteworthy. It does have an exclamation mark at this.

end does that change it at all for you? Oh, okay, yeah. Now we get it. 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. Well, I didn't, how would I exclaim?

I was doing a hand gesture and everything. That's true. I was always saying, just men. You know that weird sound in over the mouth before? Yes. That was a bit of an exclaim. Try it again. One more time.

Come on. You can't force these things. I'll do it. Okay. This is how you. you should say just men. Yeah, right. If you're with an exclamation mark.

You were saying just men. Uh-huh. We'll stop. Yep. This is how I would say just man, exclamation mark. Yep. Just men, exclamation mark. Ah.

Yes. No, I hear the difference here. It's subtle. And that's, I mean, if I was around, that should still be running. I'm really sorry if that was misleading to any listeners, that you weren't quite getting the appropriate tone. That's on me.

You know, who can say? that show title properly, Just Man. So Betty's appeared so frequently on so many game shows that she's been affectionately dubbed the First Lady of Game Shows. She loves them. She's married to a game show?

She's married to a game show, yeah. I said she never remarried, but... What she did to Just Man. Not once to seven men. Yeah. 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 widowed or divorced women, in their golden years who shared a home in Miami. The Golden Girls, which also starred B. Arthur, Estelle Getty and Rue McClanahan, was immensely successful and ran from 1985 through to 1992. B. Arthur was initially hesitant because she thought that she and Rue were basically reprising their roles from the TV show Maud, which had aired in the 70s, and that Betty White was basically playing the same character she'd 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 sexy one. Samantha. The witch ninja turtle was... Michelangelo. Right. Thank you. Now I'm back on board. I don't know what you're talking about now.

So confusing. The show was a massive hit. Barry Van Dyke for people playing at home. The Barry Van Dyck. God, he had so many girlfriends on diagnosis murder. Did he? 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 he knew, new love interest. Did you ever see, like, the breakup? No, they're usually just disappearing in the next episode he's making out with another girl. A lot of making out from Barry Van Dyke. Yeah, he was kind of like the Frasier Crane. I was definitely thinking of Dick Van Dyck for some reason. Oh, no, it's his son, Barry. Yes.

Remember the game? that famous game we created Dick Barry or Shane and Barry is 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 Stay tuned for Oh yeah The origin story of Dick Barry Shane I also did a tweet about that Not realising that we hadn't put it out yet We've definitely mentioned it on the podcast since

I'm sure we have That's a great moment Wait for it are you a Dick Barry or Shane Or will you Dick Barry or Shane or will you Dick Barry or Shane? Dick Barry and Shane. Yeah. It'll make sense.

It'll make sense soon. Don't worry about it. Shane is also a Van Dyke. Yeah, that's right. Anyway, so the Golden Girls, massive hit, won heaps of awards, 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 Ruin B being nominated four times. She's got a stacked, cabinet for... 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 something... I think it's pretty 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 performances are good, the characters are good, the chemistry is good. Like, yeah, it's still holds... It's still a fun show. It used to get repeated when I was a kid on daytime, like afternoons all the time. Yeah. I couldn't remember seeing it, but I mean, I remember seeing it, but I couldn't tell you any specific episodes or anything. It was just one of those things that was just always around. I can't, what's the song?

Thank you for being a friend. I do know the song. Of course. Something, something and back again. You're a pal and a confidant. Yeah, I love the use of confidon. Thank you. Oh, man.

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 braggadacious. Yeah, I would bring the biggest gift. Yeah. Because I love you the most.

Right. That's what it means, of course. I've never seen it. Isn't that interesting? You know that's so well. Too well. You would see. Yes.

The biggest gift. It will be from me. I'm thanking you, I think it is. Yeah. God damn, well done. They wrote good theme songs for sitcoms in the 80s and 90s, I reckon. I was assuming I was going to be able to sing along to that, but I could not. But I do, I recognise it.

So, yeah, the show is about Dorothy, Blanche and Rose, who are all a similar age. I think Blanche is supposed to be a bit younger, and they're sharing a house in Miami. Dorothy's mother, Sofair, is around. a lot but the actress Estelle 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 grandma yet a situation yeah to make her look was grandma yet are not actually that old i don't know that she's definitely wearing a lot of makeup yeah yeah big glasses yes it was a lot of that but is yeah yeah so i think she was about a year younger or something yeah yeah i didn't realize it was heavy makeup and stuff that's interesting yeah yeah

and apparently i did read on i mdb trivia love that place that she got a facelift between series one and series two and the makeup house is like, fuck, sorry. 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 not to be Estelle when you're not so fair. You know what I mean? Right. You were so fair? Maybe she didn't want to be recognised on the street because you wouldn't recognise it looking even younger. That's true. That's true.

Jeez, what a perfect crime. That is. Yeah. Perfect crime. Betty had a strange relationship with Bea Arthur on and 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's fault is caring too much. Yeah. 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 B 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 leave. Goodness, we are. Yeah, we are obvious friends. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. After seven seasons, the Golden Girls came to an end

when Bea Arthur chose to leave the series. So the hour-long series finale, which aired in May 1992, Dorothy, who is played by B, meets and marries Blanche's uncle Lucas, played by Leslie Nielsen. Oh, yes. How good is that?

And moves to Hollingsworth Manor in Atlanta, Georgia. Sophia wants to draw. join 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've dined there.

Yeah. It does sound like a dumpling place. Mmm, delicious. So this is from Wikipedia. The Golden Palace begins where the Golden Girls had ended in the Quartet's now sold Miami House. Norith he didn't own the house. I don't know why they had to sell it. Just get somebody else in.

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 in an effort to appear more profitable, leaving only two employees, the hotel's manager and the hotel's chef.

This requires the women to perform all the tasks of the hotel staff. Fantastic. So they had a show that was working really well. Well, one of the cast members left, so they fucked it. Surely they could have just kept the series going without it. Apparently, they brought someone in, now I can't remember who it was. They brought someone into a bit of a screen test to see if they could just replace her, but the chemistry wasn't as good.

Charlie Sheen. It was Charlie Sheen. Yeah. 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. Well, I mean, they did in the Golden Palace. Was faulty towers big at the time or something?

It sounds like... What year was Fulty Towers? That was 80s, wasn't it? I think so. It wasn't 70s, was it? I'm not sure, actually. I couldn't tell it on my head. So this is in the 90s.

So yeah, Fulty Towers would have been done. 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.

If I had thought on it for half a minute, I would have sat quietly for 10 as punishment to myself. How long do you reckon this series of Golden Palace ran for? Well, I'm guessing, because I've never heard of it. Four episodes. I didn't make a season, I'm guessing. 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. Oh, because I was thinking Empty Nest might have been a spin-off, but that was a spinoff of someone else. And that was another show about retirees in Miami. She just played the same character in four different shows. Because it was set in Miami. She also a guest on CSI Miami.

Unfortunately not. Well, not yet. Right. Who knows? Did she have a guest verse in Will Smith's Miami? I believe yes. Over to you, Betty Wide. Welcome to Miami.

Nailed it. Yeah, that's exactly what she sounds 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. Anne 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 it being great in that.

Of course she was. She's great and everything. I don't remember Boston Legal that well. I definitely know the show title. William Shatner. Right. Yes, yes, 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 Snickers. Do you remember? Yes. It aired during the 2010 Super Bowl and the ad became very popular. won the top spot on the USA Today's 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. Then she gets tackled. Playing like a real Betty White. And she's like, you've been riding me all day. And he says something like, oh, he says something mean. And she says, that's not what your girlfriend says. It's very funny. And then it's a Snickers.

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. It's a huge success. Following the success of the Snickers ad, a grassroots campaign on Facebook called Betty White to host SNL. In brackets, please. Began in January 2010.

The group was approaching 500,000 members when NBC confirmed in March that Betty White would in fact host Saturday Night 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 Mistkel Spillman.

Was that like in the 1930? How long has that I been running? Well, Missal Spillman was a German grandmother from New Orleans who had won S&L's Anybody Can Host Contest and was 80 years old when she hosted in 1977. She was actually a character, John Candy character. Ms. Gelskillman.

In her opening monologue, 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. A bit. Ten 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. There was.

other people who actually have acted. Yeah. 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 sketches. Yeah, she would have been in sketches and stuff. Obviously, the hosts always are.

I reckon Missicle was robbed. That was in 1977 and Misskill was 80. Did she win? And then 2010, Betty comes in, 88 years old. Fucking hell. Missco would be furious. She's listening to know this. She probably hasn't heard.

She was so mad. What nobody told her, do you reckon? She's on the phone to lawn Michael's right now and get me on. Give me back on. I'm 150. I don't do maths. That's that right? Well, 123.

Fuck you, Dave. This school was born in 1897. Same year that the VFL AFL was born. There you go. Her claim to fame. In June 2010, Betty White took on the role of L. The House Caretaker on TV Lans, original sitcom, Hot in Cleveland. Again, this is not from Wikipedia.

The series centres 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, Elka, Betty White, still lives in the guest house. So they're flying to Paris, three entertainment industry veterans,

flying to Paris, they're plane emergency landing in Cleveland, Ohio. So they decide to stay. Yeah. In Cleveland, Ohio. Just so crazy it might work. Who are the three, was there any other names in that?

Wendy Malick's in that one. Technically that's a name. Miskill Spilman. You'd know Wendy Malick's face. Okay. And Valerie Bertinelli and Jane leave these. Three names. I don't think the last one

wasn't that. 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 and executive produced Betty White's

off their rockers, 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's doing like the reverse jack-ass prank where he dresses up as an old man. She does up as kids. I'm Johnny Knoxville. 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 World. but spoken word. She's got half an egot now.

It's got half an egot. And it's not too late. You got that Tony... I wouldn't put it past her. The other one? Oscar. Oscar. She'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 primetime 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 the 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. And she kept working since then. And two of you,

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 Ludden. Their stars are next to each other. That is truly beautiful. Very cute. I mentioned at the start that she loved wildlife and that's something that has stayed with her throughout her entire life.

She's worked with a number of animal rights organisations. 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 cany. The 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 one 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 100. I reckon she will. Yeah, I reckon she'll make it.

I really doesn't Bradman it and go out for a duck when she just needs any score to make the 100. Yeah. Somebody, I mean... Thank goodness I understand that now. Yeah. I wanted to put it in a terms that people could understand at home. Yeah. And everyone has...

Doing a Bradman. Doing a Bradman. You don't want to... He just need a... One run, I think. So why was it four? It might have known. It was four runs in his last innings to retire with an average of 100.

And he went out for a duck. Which is zero. You're not making the finish. It needs an explanation in itself. Just finally as well, I do 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, let me tell you. I'll copy that, B.

And has outlived all of her co-stars on the show. Are they all dead? Yep. B. Arthur Pastor. She saw to it. It was in her contract. I must outlive them. Beat Arthur passed away in 2009 at the age of 86.

Rue McClanahan passed away in 2010, age 76, and Estelle Getty passed away in 2008, age 84. Wow. They're pretty good innings for all of them, but Betty's still going at 98 years old. And a dead set legend. That's my report on Betty White. That was fantastic.

A true great life. A Betty tradition. and 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. Can you pass on my OCD to your boss? You're way too old. They don't take 400-year-olds at Triple J. It's a youth station. Don't that to Betty Y a bet they'd give Betty a job.

If she asked for one, Triple J would give her a job. Of course. Yeah, yeah. There's no one famously old at Triple J. Father Bob. Father Bob. Roy and H.G were on there until went into their 50s, I'm sure. Yeah. And you're what are, you're nearly 30.

Shut up. Shut up. Don't tell them that. I don't want my boss to know. She's just going to start lying about her age. You're 29 forever from now on. 22, thanks very much. I'm very young. Dave, what year was I born? 1912.

I don't think you are as a. good of them as we thought you were. 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 going to go for it. Fuck the patrons.

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's always around. Yeah.

At my place. And it's great to have her there. You never ask her anything, though. No, I never, I'm not interested. But it's great to have her there, sitting at the other end of the table, chowing down as she does. She bloody has got a hunger. Does she?

Yeah. What's her favourite food? Oh, big chicken. Big chicken. Chicken. She supports big chicken. I'm afraid of them because I think, you know, they're running things from underneath. But underneath what?

Underneath the soil, you know, you know how the flat earth has. We're talking about mole people. Yes. Betty White is a mole person. Finally, we got it out of him. We got it. We got there. I've betrayed you, Betty.

Oh no. You know that she's vengeful and vengeful. She's vengeful. She's vengeful. She's vengevol. Which is 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 must.

It's funny that you. mention that you put her up a few times for the vote. I've put Bradman up for the vote, I think, six times. Whoa. He's come last every time. Oh, man, Gary J. I'm so sorry. You understand why I just squeezed in a little fact about him then, even though I was

absolutely shoehorned in. He's done nothing for his cause there because all the American people that don't vote from already are going to be like, I don't want to hear an hour of that. You're being like, oh yeah, cricket is a game. Don Bradman was a man. Buck is short for duck's egg, which looks like is. zero and that's why it means no runs. I actually did not know that.

I did not know that either. I don't get cricket. Don't at me. Well, 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. I'm 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 a full crusty of the clown here. We're out in the middle of the desert broadcasting. Yeah. Everyone else has been taken on. fair we've got stingy and the battery we're going for it i like the idea of before stephen bradbury it was called pulling our crusty and bradbury swept in and took it from him and crusty fell over at the last second of course of course so what we like to do after the report this 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 entree you've had your hors dupon's or bread now let's get into the big chicken So this first part is a section called the fact, quote, or question section of the show. It's got a little jingle that goes something like this. Fact quote or question. And the way it works is if you support us on Patreon at patreon. At patreon.com slash do go on pod on the Sydney-Shyneberg Deluxe Memorial Edition, rest in peace level. Then you get to give us a fact, a 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, he's Packrad. Oh, what a great name. The name never gets old. And he's given himself the title, official sand adjudicator slash pretzel checker of the Do Go On podcast. And that's a reference that I can't remember, but it feels vaguely sand adjudicator.

And pretzel checker. I'm sure pretzels have come up before. If you're going to need two portfolios, they go together really well. I donated blood earlier this week. Wait, what day is it? Well done, that's great. Maybe last week. And, because I always have snacks at the end, this time, small packets of mini pretzels.

Oh, that makes sense. Mini, mini, mini. Yum. Oh, my God, what a delight it was. Imagine if it was a small packet of a big pretzel. That'd be crazy. I only like one small bit ripped off is in there. I'd be okay with that.

I love a big pretzels. I grew up thinking pretzels were mini pretzels. Sure, yes. That was all they were to me. Yep. Big pretzels or pretzels. as they're called in Germany. Yeah.

Bleu my mind. Incredible. I've told this before, but at Octoberfest, that's what I lived on because I didn't do any vegetarian food there. All I ate was pretzels. Honestly, kind of sounds okay. I'd be happy with that. You know that little act that we did before about you shitting yourself?

I lived it. Because you had too many pretzels? I did nothing but drink liters of beer and eat pretzels. Six days in a row. And then all went wrong. You lived? You lived the whole thing of going, oh, what a strange noise my mouth made. I'm going to 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've got to leave Germany. And I went to Prague. Anyway, and you were covered in shit. Did you bathe before you left? Oh, look, I made it.

Let's just say that. You waited until you got to Prague before you took the shit. sound like a duck waddling. That's awful. Awful stuff. I know, apologies. What a gift. What a gift.

But Kevin Ulysses Packrab. He's offered us a question. And it starts with a little somber note here by looks of it. Hey, guys, so this will be my last fact quote or question for a little while. Or at least it's I've gotten more money. Oh. He's taking a break.

That's okay. That's absolutely fine. That is fine. Do not apologize. I apologize. You've supported us for so long. Patreon is absolutely optional. Yes, that's why.

It's not a necessity. Yeah, only if you can and would like to. It's absolutely fine. Thank you, Kevin. You've got to tick both 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. But, 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'm a first year student at Maris College in Paukeepsie. Paukeepsie. Paukeepsie. Some of that, New York brackets. Go red foxes.

Exclamation mark. You see how I exclaimed that? It's not like Red Foxes. It was a comedian. So their mascot is multiple Red Foxes. Is that right? Red Fox is a comedian? I don't know what you're talking about.

Is that right? And I'm in, I'm an ink. English major with a cinema studies minor. Right. I was an English minor. Yeah. I mined in both those things. It's not fun.

I live in the bottom corner of a building called Leo, which is also my star sign. Oh my God. Holy moly, moly. With my roommate Cal. How was this a question? He wasn't joking when he was going to the beginning. How was this a question?

And now a few weeks ago. What star sign is Cal? Yeah. Cal. Now, a few weeks ago, Cal mentioned to me that he was thinking of taking on accounting as his minor. My question is, would you please 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, guys. Okay, 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. Okay. Okay. Because I can only assume your surname isculator. And you're going to go into accounting.

With a name like Calculator. Mate, it's the role you were born to play. I can't actually, I can't go against. Well, I mean, look, you just have to ask yourself, are you willing to put up with that and being mocked forever? Or do you want to do something where, you know, you have a will to live? I get it. Because when he's called Mr. Kulator,

sound stupid. Are you getting that? Put that on a business card. Mr. Q later. It's dumb. He ends heartbreakingly 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, you know. Kevin. One day, Kevin. Kevin. If you haven't heard. Unless we just 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. been cancelled. Which is, yeah, hopefully your, I mean, the start of that sentence might have got you excited. Yeah. Our 2020 October tour of 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 one's the troubles? That's the Irish one. Oh, sorry. You know that I'm. something like 160th Irish. You're everything.

I'm a majority Irish. You're a man of the world. Yeah, true. Hey, when you got it, thorn 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 love to thank Bron all day. Bron. We've only got a few minutes.

I think of fun I'm 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 Mum we needed one of these Yeah yeah we need you Bronn

Reminding the patrons Feed 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. Yes.

All our 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 bigger scones. Also, you must put the jam on. Oh.

You have to read it. You have to read it. The truth. This is a fact. Read it. Read what Bronz said. This is a fact. Well, it's a false fact, but I'll read it as she's written it.

Also, you must put the jam on, then the whipped cream. Don't be tight with the condiments either. I agree with everything. I agree more, yes. I firstly disagree with the order. Secondly, I disagree with using whipped cream. I disagree and disagree. You're a clotted, man.

Clotted, it's got to be clotted. I don't mind either way. Clotted on first. Yuck. Thick. Clot. Yack. I mean, clot is not a friendly word.

It's a disgusting word. But I didn't make it up. Thank you, Bron. Thank you, Kevin. Fantastic work from both of you. Ron, I'll happily come over for Scons anytime. Oh, yes. She does them right.

She does. Well, she starts them off right. I'm not going to be a big and floppy. 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 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.

Dave and I've been playing video games. That's right. I've got a Nintendo Switch and it was a fun time. It's a great time. I've been exercising and just work in this spreadsheet. It'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 hour you see if you can beat that number.

I go now. So I'd love to think if I can. Or do you want to come with a game that you know? Oh, yeah, okay. Should we name their TV show? Are they all the Betty White show? They are now. Star of the Betty White show.

We can name their game show. Okay, that's fine. Yeah, the game show, game show. They can their game show and it's got to be summoned. I'm going to use only things I can see right now. Which I reckon is what they did. Probably. I'd love to first...

I'd love to first... I'd first like to thank, who's been waiting patiently since 2017. Oh, boy. Sorry about that. Marcus Brissman. Oh, Marcus Brissman. Briss man cometh.

What about... It's called briss man only. Okay. An exclamation mark. Yeah. And how does that work? There's a panel of one man, Marcus. Yep.

And everyone asks us to guess what he's thinking. 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 got a 50-50 shot. You can't say anything with his mouth.

Briss man only. I would also like to thank who's been waiting also since 2017. Millie Soff. Millie Soff. We normally say where they're from. Millie Soff's from Brisbane. From Brizzy, Millie. And Marcus Brissman is from Othenburg.

Sweden. Sweden. Wow. Well done. All right. Millie Soff. Millie Soff's game show is called What's Under the Ladder? I like it.

Yeah. I like it. Thank you. Are 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?

They're very cryptic, though. So they have to figure out what's under the ladder. I really like it. And if they figure it out, then they can come back next week. They can come back. Nobody wins what's under the ladder. With the prizes, you get to come back. You get to come back.

That's the real gift. Millysoft, thank you so much for your support, and we apologize for missing you all this time. Millysoft sounds like an Aldi version of Microsoft. Yeah, okay. I got the new Millysoft 64. 64? What fucking year do I think it is?

Am I okay? What year is it? Is it 64? Yeah, there, what year is it? You've gone with Nintendo 64, right? Yes. Not a Commodore 67. Not a Commodore.

64, don't be fucking ridiculous. I'm really soft 64. I've retired now. Okay, Dave, 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 Eastvale, California. Oh, I've lost the name here. This is not a great system. Rick Zow. Rick Zow. Rick Zow. It's a fantastic name. Sounds like a game show host.

Yes, it does. hosted by, here's your host, Rick Zow. No. And he is, of course, hosting Matt. What's his show called? Dial on the monkey. Oh. File on the monkey?

Yeah. So everyone's sitting on a monkey. Right. Dialing 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. Gotcha. Yeah. Cicter monkey. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay.

So Eddie White won't be upset. No. The animals are happy. The animals are fine. Fantastic. And it's hosted by a. Rick Zow! Rikzow!

Fantastic name. How does it work, Dave? How does it work? Yeah. Well, you're sitting on a monkey. Yeah. And you have to try and guess words. Yes.

The monkey is thinking. And the dialing? The dialing. The dialing a phone. Yeah, dialing a phone. You got to find 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 a monkey. It isn't a monkey, of course. Yeah. Of course. Which is extra confusing. There's no monkeys involved on the show at all. Yeah. It's not what.

it says on the box. Neither were any of Betty shows. The Betty White show. That's men. No, the Betty White show. The fourth one... The fourth one was about a woman called Janice or whatever the fuck. I had nothing to do with Betty White.

But it was played by Betty White. Sure, but it wasn't about Betty White. Anyway, Dave. On your Rick Sal. I would like to now think all the way from... You just said Now Funny to rhyme with Zow. Yeah. I'll actually Zaur on.

I did say pretty funny, pretty funny stuff. I'd like to thank from Leeds now, a place we've been a couple of times and I absolutely love. We love Leeds. James. Nepi Meantster. Leeds, Leeds, Leeds, Leeds, Leeds.

I'd like to thank James Underwood. James Underwood. Is your host James Underwood. 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 figure out. To try and defend yourself and figure out the same time.

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 stuff. You get it right. They also have other things they throw at you. Knives, fire extinguishes, toddlers. You have to catch those or you were a bad person. Yeah, that's why you went to jail.

Yeah, yeah, if you don't catch the toddler. It finished with a gunfire round. Oh, it's the toddler round. Oh, James Underwood. We love your show. The elders are thrown at you, you've got to guess their age in months. Yeah. Yeah.

27? No. It was 26. Off to jail for you. They all went to jail. It was a confusing time. Hey, may I also thank some people? Oh, that would be so good.

I would love to thank from OH. That's got to be Ohio, right? Gotta be. Ohio? Surely. Yes. Ohio. I would love to thank Zach Kaiser.

Oh, Keezer. Kick it with the Kaiser. Oh, kick it with the Kaiser. Is that the name of the show? That is the name of the show, yes. 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.

They put something down in front of you, you have to kick it. But Zach's there with you, kicking it. You're kicking it 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... Your legs are tied together.

No, no, no. Okay, right. It's a three-legged kicking race. And you kicks up... 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 it might be like a Ming vase and you don't want to kick that but they do often put down grenades yeah so you do want to you want that away the two most common things grenades and Ming vase

you want the grenade to be far away from where you are now you want it to go away do you what I mean and that was another episode of kick it with a Kaiser I'm not even saying am I remembering that lyric right

That's that chili peppers lyrics? I have no fucking love you. I didn't know where you pull that one. No idea where you pulled it from. Loved it though. I 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 Ambler, PA, Dave. Oh, is that Pennsylvania? PA, yeah, yeah, 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 Fuckfaces. Wow. All your enemies from... We were doing so well. And you came up with jump. No, I'm yes anding you. Yes. All your enemies from school. Yes, are in a pit. And you have to jump it while they taunt you. Oh, you can't do it. You'll never make it. You'll never make it. Here for your wedgy. Honestly, I think this is the closest to having a chance of getting out. Is it just someone going, 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? Mine's better. He was way better. Keeping it with the Kaiser. It's a team of goalkeepers.

No, this is jump the pit of fuckfaces, is it? Yeah. Which is 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. Now you're in the pit. Oh, and they... You have to hang out with them in the pit.

Are they just chanting, in the pit? In the pit. Yep. I reckon this has legs. I think it does too. I think the name needs work. Clean up the potty mouth. Yeah.

Yeah, they probably don't want fuck faces on there, but... You just call it pit of enemies. Yeah, that's pretty good. You could pit of frenemies. Jerks. Jerk pit. Jerk pit. Jerk pit.

Oh, that's no. The jerk pit. Oh, no, that's another show. Jump the jerk pit. It's all your enemies, but there were. all wanking. Yeah. And you don't want to fall into that.

You don't want to fall in there. They're also still mocking you. I don't reckon you could jump it. You're wanking on television. Yeah. And we still think you're a shitter than us. Four eyes. You fucking dead.

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

And the only other thing we like to do is us patrons have been involved on the five buck tier or above or three years get inducted into the Triptych Club, which is a very swanky VIP area behind a velvet robe. Jess, what are the hors d'oeuvres and cocktails on offer tonight? Always forget you're going to ask me this

until you ask. And then I go, fuck. Tonight, prawn cocktail. Okay. Oh, classic, I like it. Peach cobbler, 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. I thought I picture a cobbler to be. It's a cabler. Yes, that's right. So we've actually got a dirty half D who've come into the club tonight. They're sure of a dozen.

Oh, thank goodness. I wasn't out with that. I did not know what you meant. From Liverpool in Great Britain, it's Ben Whittingham. Please, grab a cobbler. From Nottingham Shire also in the Great Britain, Benjamin McRobbie. Have some prawns. Grab yourself.

Some prawns. Some prawns. From Mount Lebanon in, I think Lebanon, LB? Or is that lower Brimmingstone? I think it's Lebanon. I think this is our first Lebanese. In doubt out of Rani Tabri. Can't be because we must have shouted them out in the previous three.

I'm sure we've done it. We've shout out to Rennie 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 the spreadsheet hard. What a great game, that is. You must be having so much fun.

From Perth in Australia. Camath, Widgenaratny, 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 Brobenhook. Yeah, it's North Broban Hook. Dean Brett.

Dean Brett. He's two first names. A man after my own heart. Look at all those wonderful people. Enjoy the open bar. Enjoy the open bar. I mean, the specials of the cobbler and the prawns, that's fine. That'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 fine. Yeah. Fifth shelf. Fourth shelf, that's where we keep, like, the cleaning products. Yeah, don't drink. You don't want to drink those.

We probably should put those elsewhere, I think. It's getting a bit confusing, isn't it? We have to warn people because there was that time when Gary Jay from the UK had a big shot of Jiff. Yeah. Oh, God, he was bouncing for hours. He was. It's a New Brunswick, Canada. New Brunswick.

We're in old Brunswick. I assume it was 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 wasn't convincing.

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, we're at 98 or 99% of the goal, for real.

If we achieve this goal, we will start a new series. And every month we're over that goal. We'll do an episode of phrasing the bar. The only podcast 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.

How many is that years? Over four 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 as I've been browsing. I've got to save it in case. Totally. I watched one recently and I was like, what am I doing? Don't burn it. It'll be great. Don't burn the bar. You got to. Which is another game show I'm thinking about. It's burn the bar. You have to commit arson.

Yes. We 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 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. This is the most patronising thing that I've ever heard. No, I love that.

I love putting their responsibility on them. You figure it out. You're an adult. I love that. It's fucking great. I've already done that. You got Google? Figure it out.

You'll be right. I mean, yes, that is true. Plus, the streams will be available for a short time after. If you're for ticket holders, it's for 24 hours. So some people, I think, 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? Not anymore. There could be people in Australia who have other stuff on and want to watch it later. Oh, that's true. What do people have on at the moment? 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 Premier was asked in a press conference. You would have said to someone. He was asked, someone in New South Wales was fined for going out for a jog and then stopping to buy a kebab. And the journalist asked him, and he just couldn't get through the response. He was laughing so much.

He's like, geez, they'd do it differently in New South Wales, which I love the jab. The state versus state jabs. That's a great opportunity to take. Yeah, you could go for a jog and get a cabab. The Oslan interpreter next to him was pissing herself laughing as she was interpreting. I've watched it so many times. It was so much.

It was so much. And he just can't get through the sentence. It's not about going for a jog and buying a kebab. He just can't get the words out. But anyway, Dave, what did I interrupt? We were talking about the live stream. Live streams, they are, yeah, this Saturday is the first one, but there will be four of them. And you can buy a season pass, we pay for three, get to a 10 to all four.

Yeah. In your pyjamas. You can watch us in your pajamas. We won't judge. We won't be wearing your pajamas. Sorry, just to clarify that. You cannot watch us in your pyjamas. I'm not going to be wearing your pajamas.

If you express post them now, I will do it. I'll wear your pajamas. I'll wear my pajamas. Can we do one in pajamas? That'd be cute. Yeah, of course. They'll have a different outfit theme every time. I suggested we wear monkey suits the first week.

I believe we should. Love that. But yes. And we're going to do like some exclusive stuff for the live stream that will only be out and then we'll be burnt forever. Like we're going to do some questions and answers. The magic. I'm going to pull out my floating balls. It's going to 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. Did I sell it? Was that good? Yeah. That was great. I'm really, really looking forward to it.

It's going to be a lot of fun. But that does bring us to the end of the episode. You can get in contact with us any time at do go onpod.com, and that has links to our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, which are all also at do go on pod. You believe that? Very convenient. And yeah, just if you're a stupid old channel on YouTube's where it is,

but you'll get a link when you buy a ticket, right? Yep. Yes. It's all pretty straightforward. We've posted the link on our socials. It'll be in the episode description of this episode. Oh, that's right. Yeah.

SossPresents.com is where you get tickets. So just do it. it, all right? All right. Make me tell you twice. Well, we've already told them a few times. Okay, one more. Just do it.

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