Two In The Think Tank - 260 - Robin Williams

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Starting point is 00:02:27 Music Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On! My name is Dave Ornicky and as always I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Hello Dave, hello Matt. Hey Jess and Dave, happy block toverse. Wow. Happy block toverse. Weak. I don't know.

Starting point is 00:02:52 Happy block tofer grace. It's block. We are having our blockbuster tober month. I think that was the original name, blockbuster tober. One of this. One of this. The biggest topics we do. The most requested, the most voted for. We're right in the heart of it now.

Starting point is 00:03:09 We're hitting the midway point today of block Tofa Grace period. It is good. There is a certain little blockiness in the air and I think everyone's catching it and you know, that's why everyone's staying indoors. Yeah. It's highly infectious. It's highly infectious. It's got all around the globe. Started a wet market in Wuhan and had his spread around the world.

Starting point is 00:03:34 But this is a positive one. This is a block. I've got a fever and it needs more block. Hey, quick question. What are you two doing for block? Thank you so much for asking. Obviously, normally, I holiday at the summer home, but because we can't do that at the moment, I'm holidaying in the summer apartment.

Starting point is 00:03:53 It's beautiful here. That felt safer or? Yeah, yeah. To have more people around you. Yeah, exactly, yeah. I wanted my neighbors closer. Do you remember summer and winter house? Summer and winter apartment. Yes, exactly. Yeah, I wanted my neighbor's closer. Do you have summer and winter house, summer and winter apartment? Yes, summer and winter.

Starting point is 00:04:09 Just the four properties, is that all you have? Oh, God no. I've got a beach house. Spring camper van. Yeah, spring camper van, that's just for fun. And we've also got a winter chalet. And an autumn swag. But that's really just more ornamental at this stage. Yeah, fantastic. Well, I'm so pumped to get into week three of block. This is the third most voted for and requested topic. And this one surprised me.

Starting point is 00:04:41 This one I did not. Some of the others I'm like, I've seen them around a lot. This one I did not realize would be so big. Obviously this is one of the few times where all three of us know the topics because we have to divvy them up to see who did all the reports, deal with us.

Starting point is 00:05:00 Normally if you're a new listener, we would not, the two not doing the report wouldn't even know what the topic is. But this week, Dave and I do know, and Jess is about to tell us all about it. You're still going to start with a question? Sure, Ian. All right, so I'll quickly explain the show for new listeners.

Starting point is 00:05:14 One of the three of us goes away and researchers a topic usually been voted on by the audience or the patrons. And this time, it is the third most popular of all time basically or at least of all time of the topics that we haven't done yet. And I mean that takes a bit of the shine off it because it's 250 something topics have been done already. But Jess has taken that topic away, she's researched it, she's written a report, she's going to tell it back to me and Dave now while Dave and I listen

Starting point is 00:05:46 Respectfully quietly. Maybe we chip in helpfully every day on that. No, I'm gonna. I'm gonna mute my mark this week Okay, all right In fact, Dave just take the day off. Thanks, and then you can just listen back to the podcast later Yeah, I'll get the info. That's what we're all here for That's what will happen when inevitably the three of us have a big falling out, but we can't, like we don't want to stop the podcast because by the time-

Starting point is 00:06:12 No, I'm just a quitter, are we? Am I making millions by that time? So we're just in it for the cash, so we just record podcasts separately. All from our own homes. Well, we have a big copyright infringement over who owns the name, do go on. So then we have to come up with podcasts, like the the do go on or Dave go on and stuff like that.

Starting point is 00:06:30 Matt and the do go on, man. The official do go on podcast. Yeah, the real, what was the zombies? The real zombies in inverted commas. Yeah. The real do go on. Okay, so yes, we do get started with a question. I know you two know the topic, but for anybody who manages not to see the title

Starting point is 00:06:53 of the episode, because I know some people do try to do that, exactly. So for them, and for you, I suppose, the question is, who got their big break, playing a man from Ork? Oh, I'd go, okay, who could it be? Could it be? It's either Maul or Mindy.

Starting point is 00:07:10 Now, who played Mindy? Oh. Actually, it is Maul or Maul. It's not Mindy from Ork. So that means, Dave, I think you want to say it with me. Robin. Maul. Oh, no.

Starting point is 00:07:26 I think it's actually Robin Williams. Robin Williams, that's right. Oh, I'm gonna tip with my tongue. So I mean, there were so many topics. How many topics were put up for the vote for Blocktober, Matt? Well, I think it was the 100 most, something like the 100 most requested topics. Right. And so the third most voted on was Robin Williams. I've been out so many mysteries and killers. Yeah, all the things that people usually

Starting point is 00:07:51 are really, really into, it's fascinating and pretty cool. Yeah, pretty cool that they wanted a bio of a clown essentially. Oh, a clown doctor. Yeah, I went into that movie expecting something different. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, Oh, a bicentennial man. This will be fun. This will be fun. Oh. Oh my God. Yeah, look, you make us think. I should've said flubber. I thought this was gonna be a fun family romp. My God, it was horrifying.

Starting point is 00:08:34 I don't even think I mentioned flubber. It's actually so hard. I wrote this report and then I kept like, thinking of more movies you was in. I was like, God, if I don't mention that movie, I'm gonna get killed. I saw many. I was like, God, if I don't mention that movie, I'm going to get killed. I find films. Huge. And I mean, for people sort of of our generation as well, by the time we were aware of who Robin Williams was,

Starting point is 00:08:55 he was in his mid to late 40s. So going back and actually learning a bit more about his early life is really, really interesting. And I think I thought of him as like a stand-up who sort of got into acting and then sort of surprised people by being quite good at acting, but a story is actually quite different. So... Oh, that's what I assumed as well. Yeah. So I mean it's... It's not great. Anyway, I'll just tell you in the report I reckon all right, but this has been suggested by Quite a few people it's been suggested by Libby Corey Irons

Starting point is 00:09:32 Justin Nichols Danny Bolter Clifford Warren Logan Jr And detective I thought Bolter was great detective Herbert Covington. Oh, yeah, can't be the detective. He's one of the best. Although the name before was an old farmer as well. I love it louder. Out of respect. Yeah. Can I say it? I loved it. I'm hoping he's got like a pocket square or whatever they are. And a molecule. And Nekki, for my son, he's worse right? You know that thing that sort of, yeah, a crevap. A crevap, that's what I'm saying.

Starting point is 00:10:06 A nicotine. That can't be. Is that anything? It should be. If it's not a nicotine. Is it a crevap though or is it a different thing? Yes. I think I'm manicurizing.

Starting point is 00:10:15 So part of the dinoware. Oh, dinoware collection. Oh yeah. Daves, expertise. Here we go. Dinoware and crockery apparently. So. So.

Starting point is 00:10:28 So. So when by the stage that we're multi millionaires and recording separately, Dave's also got a side hustle, which is a dinnerware company, he's stuck so hard to the fact that dinnerware is clothing. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:10:43 He releases a dinnerware collection, including a necker's she chief and a Krobat, two separate things in his life. Two different things. And possibly in real life, too. And two different price points. Yeah. Big price difference.

Starting point is 00:10:54 I know people say don't at me, but if anyone has more info on neck of chiefs and Krobat's, because I don't, I won't remember this conversation at all. So during the week, if you do want to tweet me, I'll be like, I don't know what you're talking about, but thanks for at all. So during the week if you do want to tweet me, I'll be like, I don't know what you're talking about, but thanks for the info. Yeah, okay.

Starting point is 00:11:08 So yeah, let's get stuck into the life of Robin Williams. His full name is Robert McLaren, or McLaren Williams. And he was born in Chicago, July 21st, 1951. His father Robert was a senior executive for Ford Motor Company, and his mother Laurie was a former model and part-time actress. Both of his parents had a son each from previous marriages. Laurie had a son named McLaren Smith-Williams, who was raised by his grandparents, so Laurie's parents. And he found out that his parents were his grandparents later in life and met Robin

Starting point is 00:11:45 when Robin was about eight years old. I'm not entirely sure how old McLaren was or Mac, but in photos he looks like easily late teens early 20s before he found out that his parents were actually his grandparents. Yeah. And Robin's father, Robert, had a son named Robert, known as Todd, so it's a little bit easier. Oh, I think I'm already confused. This is a crazy family tree already, and there's only been two sons named. Are you going to break it down real quick once more? Because my head is exploded. So basically, Robyn has two half brothers.

Starting point is 00:12:23 Yeah. So his dad has another son, his mum has another son. Okay. So all three boys were essentially raised as only children. And despite median life, later in life, though, they all remained really connected, despite Todd and Mack not being biologically related. They all just sort of saw themselves as three brothers.

Starting point is 00:12:45 They have three of them together, a revenge diagram, right? Yeah, because Robyn is the middle. Yeah. So, um, yeah, so Robyn was raised as an only child. And in late 63 when Robyn was about 12, his father transferred to Detroit and the family moved into a 40 room farmhouse on 20 acres. Whoa, Detroit is like, that's the big motor car city. So that's why, so that's why and he works for Ford, right? And he married a model. Did the model, he married, was it

Starting point is 00:13:18 the model T Ford? Yes. Wow. I know. That's huge. So, Ruben was a car. Ruben was a car. He's half car. That makes sense. That's how Brian works differently. Yeah, because he's half car. And one half brother was half car.

Starting point is 00:13:35 And the other half brother was no car. No car. But somehow they all just saw each other as family. Isn't that beautiful? I don't want to take you back to the farmhouse with 40 rooms with three people living in it. What do they, once you get a billiard room, a library, a board room, conservatory, what else is there?

Starting point is 00:13:52 And how many bedrooms do you really need for three people? Oh, this is a farmhouse, right? This is a bathroom that, you know, like the cows would have one bedroom, chickens would have a bedroom, pigs, probably not the bedroom, goats of course, would have their own room. Pigs. Probably not the bad room.

Starting point is 00:14:05 Goats of course, but have their own room. That's right. Sounds to me like the classic episode of Escape to the country, where there's two people wanting to downsize to a 40 room farmhouse so they can have run an Airbnb as well. Yeah, yeah. Just in case our friends come to visit, we want to have 19 spare bedrooms. Yeah. I want to be an old person in England.

Starting point is 00:14:23 They all seem to just live this wildlife. I mean, I haven't seen many episodes of that show down to the country or whatever, but it does sound like what you just described is every episode of that. Every episode. They want to downsize in the house has 19 bedrooms. And some stables.

Starting point is 00:14:41 Or you'll see House Hunters International or House Hunters Island edition where people are trying to buy an island. And you're like, yeah, I want to be an old British couple. They're like, we just want to get some sun. I'm like, you're going to burn. You haven't seen sun in 60 years. Now's not the time. But I mean, that kind of wealth, but also being like, yeah, I'll go on this reality show that's played during the day. I wonder what people would have known that I own an island. Have some fucking shame. For God's sake.

Starting point is 00:15:09 Have some shame that you own in Ireland. What a funny level of shame that would be. I mean, yeah, like have some shame that you've got so much money. You have such wealth that you have to shopping for an island. Yeah. I mean, come on. Well, call me Dave. Helping the hungry.

Starting point is 00:15:23 I mean, I've got an island in comedy days? Helping the hungry. I mean, I've got an eye on it. I've also got some shame. So I don't talk about it. Dave thinking buying an iron's a bit much. What a comedy bastard. That's right. People shouldn't own entire private islands, yeah. Yeah, I said it.

Starting point is 00:15:40 So Robin attended Detroit County Day schools and all boys private school where he described himself as As serious a student as you could be and an athlete both things that were a little bit surprising. Yeah Really good at sports very serious student. Right He excelled in school where he was on the school's wrestling team and was elected class president And with both of his parents working, Robin was partially raised by the family's maid and much of his home life was quite isolated.

Starting point is 00:16:10 He was by himself a lot. Because there was 30 bedrooms between him and his parents at all time. So even if they weren't at work, it's like how the fuck do I find? You don't know that. And this is pre-intercoms and stuff. You can't be like,

Starting point is 00:16:25 Mom, where are you? Was his mum made by chance an old English woman? Um, whose catchphrase was, hello there! We just realised as Jess tells the story that he hasn't come up with any original ideas, he's just every character he's ever played is ripped off from someone from around the house. Do they have a room full of magic lamps? Yeah, it's actually that was one of the rooms. That was actually two of the rooms. Two lamp rooms.

Starting point is 00:16:56 The lamp room. I mean, the house is big enough to have a fucking lamp room. And I imagine being that wealthy. So the family moved to San Francisco when he was 16, which was a massive culture shock from the stiff private school that he'd attended in Detroit. You know, San Fran in the 60s was pretty loose. So there he attended Redwood High School, which was a much more relaxed and easygoing than his previous school.

Starting point is 00:17:21 And at the time of his graduation in 1969, nice. Oh, yeah, don't forget that one. previous school and at the time of his graduation in 1969, nice. Oh, yeah, don't forget that one. He was voted funniest, but also most likely not to succeed by his classmate. Wow. They got one thing right there. What kind of fucked up school has that award? I know. Most likely not to succeed. He's like on the Simpsons

Starting point is 00:17:44 when Hoverguestwiz reunion, and he gets most improved odour. LAUGHTER Yeah, maybe they weren't joking that much of the Simpsons. That's not that big of a stretch, is it? That is so rude. It's crazy. Yeah, at my school, they just didn't tell me.

Starting point is 00:17:59 Exactly. They thought it, but they didn't let us know. And don't they look stupid now, with their multiple properties and steady jobs. Idiots. Some of them probably have islands. After graduating from high school, he enrolled in Clemont Men's College to study political science.

Starting point is 00:18:21 It was an all men's school, and the only opportunity to mingle with girls was in theatre. So Robin decided to try and improv theatre class because that's where the ladies were. I mean we've all enrolled in a drama degree to meet people so. And had that go for you Dave. Fantastic. I married with nine children. So, study drama. So, so, study drama.

Starting point is 00:18:50 Yeah, he was totally sucked in and he loved theater and he stopped attending his political science classes. He was just hanging out in the theater rooms. So his father was like, I'm not paying if the classes you're not going to. So they agreed that Robin would go back home to Marin, where his parents were, and attend a local junior college.

Starting point is 00:19:08 So we did that and he attended a college of Marin, which is a community college, and studied acting full-time. And this is a nice little thing from Wikipedia. It says, according to College of Marin's drama professor, James Dunn, the depth of the young actor's talent became evident when he was cast in

Starting point is 00:19:25 the musical Oliver as Fagan. Williams was, Williams often improvised during his time in the drama program, leaving cast members in hysterics. Dunn called his wife after one late rehearsal to tell her Williams was going to be something special. That is nice. I did think you're going to say that he improvised during the musical of Oliver, which you cannot do. You cannot. The live auction we're trying to keep up with, even if you're just making it up. He's a beatboxing, and they're like, please. Every other cast member's like, mate, come on. I don't know what you're talking about. He's like, oh, time machine. All right. Space jump. Yes, and Robin, we've rehearsed this for 12 weeks. Can you just do the fucking lines, please? Charleston is not good enough for you. But that is nice.

Starting point is 00:20:16 So the professor remembers him being so good that he made a call. Yeah. He's like, this kid something special. Yeah. And now I get what you're saying, Bob about him getting intacting later, but he was enacting before comedy. He goes even further, because he and some of his classmates were invited to perform a Western style version of the Taming of the Shrew at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to wild success. They had rave reviews, they won awards, they had a royal command performance, and it was a massive time for all of these wide-eyed young performers. It was huge. One of his classmates is interviewed in this documentary that I watched, which a great deal of this report,

Starting point is 00:20:57 a lot of the information came from that. It's a great docko. And one of his friends and classmates is talking about it. And he was just sort of saying that like it's an opportunity that comes around once in a lifetime if you're lucky. And it was just so, it was so nice hearing him talk about it. And I was like, yeah, there's so many things that, you know, even the three of us have got to do, that we totally take for granted, that I hope we look back on when we're old and go, like, that's pretty cool that we got to do stuff like that. Because at the moment, you're just old and go, that's pretty cool that we got to do stuff like that. Because at the moment you're just like, yeah, it's normal.

Starting point is 00:21:27 You know, it was just nice seeing him talk like that. It was really cool. In 1973, Robin moved to New York to attend the Julliard school. Robin and Christopher Reeve started at Julliard together as advanced students. So they came into about second or third year, I think, and sort of joined that class based on their previous experience.

Starting point is 00:21:50 I cannot tell you how hard it is to get into that. He must have been so talented. He's very good. I think they have like thousands of people auditioned for like, you know, a class each year, right? It is. Like one of the most prestigious in the world. So, yes. He must have been extremely naturally talented. Very good. And Christopher Reeve remembered his first impression of Robin when they were new students at Julia. He said he wore tie-dye shirts with tracksuit bottoms

Starting point is 00:22:15 and talked a mile a minute. I'd never seen so much energy contained in one person. He was like an untied balloon that had been inflated and immediately released. I watched in awe as he virtually corromed off the walls of the classrooms and hallways to say that he was on would be a major understatement as his first impression of him.

Starting point is 00:22:35 That feels like, yeah, that adds up to me. Yeah, that's a bit right. Yeah, from what I've seen, yes. So it's just a way of being that way, interesting. Yeah, so what followed were intense classes in which John Houseman or Houseman worked his students hard in order to get the best out of them. Robin described it as moments of great.

Starting point is 00:22:54 This is amazing and moments of what the hell am I doing here? It would have been so intense. But he also talked about being taught, this is Robin, talked about being taught to pay attention to things on a different level, things like movement, your vocals, acting and getting a great set of tools to work with. And in the documentary, he mentions doing a bit with a hat pulled down and when he moved his eyes, his eyebrows, it would pop up.

Starting point is 00:23:21 I knew described seeing their teacher John Howesman laugh and how thrilling it was for him. And he mentions that kind of thing in relation to a few different people. He talks about his father watching TV and his dad was a hard laugh, but something on the TV made him really laugh and he was kind of like, oh, how do I make dad laugh like that? He talks about it with his mom as well and mucking around trying to make her laugh. And now the teacher too. So I think like it's a recurring thing throughout his life at that sense of validation by getting people to laugh is like what he's always chasing. Right. Did can you see you two drama types? You fell in the non drama rich people, the Julia art school I've heard about

Starting point is 00:24:02 a lot. Is that what? Why is that so prestigious and hard to get into? That's not the method one. Which one is that? It's just like a performing arts academy. People also study cello and things like that there. But it's just at such a high level, really great teachers. If you look at their alumni, it's a lot of very famous people have gone through that. But I think it's also, yeah, there's like limited places, I don't know, I've got no idea. But like here in Australia, our big drama schools, they'll take like 20 to 30 people each year.

Starting point is 00:24:34 Yeah. And I'll have a couple of thousands. Yeah. Well, like audition for night or our biggest one. But over there, I think because so many more people, the stakes are even more against you. So that he got in, especially as an advanced student too, I didn't realize that, just that he'd joined other people that already been studying the acting. And they obviously, he's good enough to join people who've already been doing it a year and just sort of seamlessly transition into it. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:25:00 Pretty impressive. Right. That makes sense. Yeah. No, I do hear about a bit. That's the Western Australian one, right? No, not as you Sydney. What's the Western? There's a big one in Perth as well. There's Wapar. Wapar. Western Australian forming arts. Yeah. Oh, that's fantastic. And then the Victoria, and the one here is VCA. So there are three Victorian College of the Arts. There's three. There's a three big in Australia. But over there,

Starting point is 00:25:23 yeah, it's just again, love with so many more people. I think it's pretty cutthroat. Yeah. Yeah. So and there's some really great anecdotes from his teachers at Juilliard. These were just on Wikipedia, which is great. So there's this one here, it says, they had a class in dialects, taught by Edith Skinner, who Christopher Rave said was one of the world's leading voice and speech teachers. And according to Rave, Skinner was bewildered by Robin Williams and his ability to instantly perform in many different accents. That's good.

Starting point is 00:25:54 Their primary acting teacher was Michael Khan, who was equally baffled by this human dynamo. Love that phrase. That's good. Williams already had a reputation for being funny, but can't criticize his antics as simple stand-up comedy. In a later production, Williams silenced his critics with his well-received performance as an old man

Starting point is 00:26:14 in Tennessee Williams' night of the iguana. Rave wrote, he simply was the old man. Yeah, that's acting. I was astonished by his work and very grateful that fate had thrown us together. So yeah, it's funny saying that he was voted most likely not to succeed, and then a few years later, his teachers are in awe of him.

Starting point is 00:26:32 That's kind of cool. And in fact, Robin left Julia during his junior year in 1976 at the suggestion of John Hausman, who was in charge of the drama program, who said there was nothing more Julia could teach him. Wow.

Starting point is 00:26:46 Wow. Is that him being polite? Can you distract me, everyone? Can you leave? We don't have anything more for you. It's not for you. Well, another teacher apparently said that Robin was a genius and that the school's conservative and classic style

Starting point is 00:27:02 didn't suit him. So maybe it is a bit, maybe it is a bit like, you don't, you don't really, well, it's not that you don't belong here. I don't know, yeah, they're just saying you don't, there's nothing more we can teach you here. Which is pretty fucking crazy. So once he left Juliette, he returned home and started doing improv comedy and what he describes as a response to not getting acting work, he just wanted something to do. So from improv, he moved pretty smoothly into

Starting point is 00:27:28 stand-up and he started performing in San Francisco in 1976. And he worked as a bartender at a comedy club called Holy City Zoo, so then he could get up on stage and perform. He just got a job bartending so he was around. When you say up on stage, you mean up on the bar? Yes, he would dance on the bar, like coyote ugly. It was very sexy. I can see that. He'd go all-in on something like that. He'd go too far, yeah.

Starting point is 00:27:57 And this is where he met Valerie Valardi, who was a waitress who was finishing her masters in dance at Mills College, and they fell in love. After about six months in San Francisco, though, Robin moved to L.A. and he started to perform at the comedy store where names like David Letterman and Andy Kaufman were appearing. Like, it was kind of a really big time in L.A. in comedy. And Dave Letterman describes feeling like he was clinging onto the microphone for dear life and Robin was a guy who could levitate.

Starting point is 00:28:30 Cause there was one night where the mics cut out for some reason and everyone else was sort of like, oh fuck and then Robin just sort of went into the audience and he says something like I knew how to project cause I'd been trained to be loud. And so he just performed and he just, he absolutely killed it and all the other comedians are going, fuck.

Starting point is 00:28:51 And yeah, Dave Letterman was talking about feeling like he'd come to LA at exactly the wrong time because he couldn't keep up with Robin. So. Well, I mean, this town is famously, you can only have one successful comedian at any time. Exactly. Yes.

Starting point is 00:29:04 Especially types like Robin Williams and David Letterman who are so similar. famously you can only have one successful comedian at any time. Exactly. Yes. Especially types like Robin Williams and David Letterman who are so similar. Yeah, that's right. In style, delivery, everything, you know. Five real dead parents. That's so catchy. Imagine Robin Williams hosting like a late night show. He'd be a nightmare.

Starting point is 00:29:18 Wow, the model of might actually be good. Yeah, but eventually I'm interviewing. Yeah, fair enough. He'd be. He's like, probably a fun interviewer. Yeah, but eventually I'm interviewing. Yeah, for enough. It'd be. It was fun. Probably a fun interview. Yeah, you just have to let him go. Yeah, yeah, you'd have to be the type of interviewer that can just just go with whatever they're throwing at you. Yeah, you probably don't have to sail that much as an interviewer probably. Yeah, so he's in LA and he's

Starting point is 00:29:43 dating and living with Elaine Boosler, who's also a comedian. And she describes knowing that Robin was seeing other people, but she didn't really mind. But other comics were worried for her and kept telling her, you know, he has a girlfriend and San Francisco, which she asked me about and he denied. But shortly after he and Elaine broke up, Robin married Valerie in June of 1978. Okay. But it's the 70s. And in these interviews in the docko,

Starting point is 00:30:12 everyone seems fine with it. Even though I was like, okay, but they don't seem to care. So it's like, all right, well, you do you. That's a culture thing. You don't get it. You don't get it. You don't get it. You don't get it. This is San Francisco.

Starting point is 00:30:26 This is LA. This is LLM. This is Tinsletown. I think it's a dumb, definitely around there Jess. I don't care about your little virgin rule. Yeah, those are my virgin rules. I'm just saying. I literally said that's cool.

Starting point is 00:30:41 Yeah, okay, Jess. You made a bit of a scene now. Calm down, Jess. I'm going to have to ask you the name. In 1977 Gary Marshall, who produced Happy Days, and you'd know Gary Marshall too, you would know his face and he he has often played a producer type person. So he was a producer of Happy Days. And he asked one day why his son Scott wasn't watching Happy Days anymore.

Starting point is 00:31:14 He's like, why don't you watch Happy Days? And Scott, who had become fascinated by Star Wars, said there's no space man on it. So Gary goes into the writer's room and says, Scottie wants a space man. What does his Sydney shine, big brother? Yes. He found a new one, Gary.

Starting point is 00:31:32 And his name's Gary as well. Gary Marshall. I'm just like, I look at his image. I do know him. Yeah. And so you can hear him saying it. And Gary Marshall's sister, Ronnie, was also working on the show. She was in charge of casting, so she suggested a comedian she'd seen perform.

Starting point is 00:31:49 So they brought in Robin for an audition. And when he was asked to take a seat at the audition, he immediately sat on his head on the chair. Like, he sat upside down and Marshall cast him on the spot. That's all based man. That's based man. This comes from another planet. You're not, you are spot on because a comment that Gary Marshall made about it later on, he said that Robin Williams was the only alien who auditioned for that role. And we had to give a two and a half.

Starting point is 00:32:19 Gary Marshall is also directed a lot of big movies, pretty warm and beaches, run away broad. They're all romantic comedies, but look at it. Valentine's Day. Oh yeah, he's a present artist. Very martial also directed a lot of big movies, pretty world-renowned beaches, runaway bride. They're all romantic comedies, but look at it. Valentine's Day. Oh, yeah, he's a princess Darius. Princess Darius, Genovia, we love it, Jess. Muppet's day. He's innever been kissed, but I don't know if he's directed or produced that one as

Starting point is 00:32:37 well. Yeah, right. He plays this kind of person. Like he plays this hard ass,, owner or editor of a newspaper. It's with the shine, it real shiny white teeth. He's got like perfect teeth man. Yeah, and he's got that, he's got a very recognisable voice. If you can't picture him, Google Garry Marshall and you'll go,

Starting point is 00:33:00 oh yes. So anyway, so Robyn's brought in for an episode of Happy Days in which an episode of Happy Days in which an alien named Mork attempts to take Richie Cunningham back to his planet of Ork as a human specimen, but his plan is foiled by Fonzie. Hey. Hey.

Starting point is 00:33:18 In the initial broadcast of this episode, it all turned out to be a dream that Richie had, but when Mork proved to be so popular, the ending in this indicated version was re-edited to show Mork erasing the experience from everyone's minds, thus meaning the event had actually happened and wasn't a dream. So when happy days aliens exist, love it. I didn't know, I didn't realize it was a spin-off. Amazing.

Starting point is 00:33:42 Yeah. So by chance, ABC had a series fall through and they needed to fill a slot. So they scrambled to put something together so they decided to give more caspin-off. So there there had been another show called Sister Terry about a tough talking former gang leader turned none. Starring Pam Dorber as the titular character, sister Terry. So Gary Marshall took footage from sister Terry and from Robin scenes and happy days and spliced them together to create a pilot

Starting point is 00:34:15 and came up with a show about a space man living with a human woman. Literally didn't even film anything. He just spliced these shots together. That didn't air, did it? No, that was assuming that we're just being... Baffling. ...to the bosses.

Starting point is 00:34:30 Yeah, right. It's like, what's going on here? They're clearly not in the same room, these two have an conversation. Well Pam, Dorba didn't even know she'd been cast in the show until she read about it in the paper. Imagine she was like, this sounds shit. Imagine getting your TV show up on network television

Starting point is 00:34:51 because a spot opened up and they just rushed the thing together. You think there'd be so much work leading up to every show you're getting made? We were rejected over 10 years. This is like, yeah, just wax on together and we just took a free spot. Like it's a community radio station or something? That was a spot free, so yeah, we put our hands up.

Starting point is 00:35:11 And maybe stuff like that happens more where they do have to kind of scramble to put something together. Surely there's a little more work than just splicing two bits of film together. But those shows don't last, but this one did. So apparently Robbins manager called him to tell him about it and said, we've got 22 shows guaranteed you'll get paid 15 a week and Robbins stoked, like it's like $1500, yes, he never made so much

Starting point is 00:35:36 money. And then his manager was like, no, no, 15,000. He was like $1500 a week. Yeah. You're going to get paid $15 a week. $15 a week. It's a week. It's a town straight away. $15,000. I'm going to buy a hammer.

Starting point is 00:35:56 It's getting that per week. Yeah. Wow. That's. I know. Big of you all happy with 10% of that. Imagine you're waiting for the winner. I know. So Gary Marshall's son,% of that imagine you're waiting to I know so Gary Marshall Sunscot the one who wanted a space man

Starting point is 00:36:08 He tells this really great story in the docker about how Robin would be improvising and be so physical on set and Gary Marshall would ask the camera guys if they got it but with three fixed cameras the camera guys would be like he didn't come by here Gary be like this guy's a genius. We have to capture what he's doing and I'd be like, this guy's a genius, we have to capture what he's doing. And they'd be like, if this guy's a genius, he could hit his mark. Oh, yeah. And it was like, I just sit here, this is where my camera is.

Starting point is 00:36:32 What did he learn at Julia? Had a razor hat with his eyebrows? Not to stand on a mark. Not to hit a mark, doesn't matter how to his mark. So, Gary brought in a fourth camera just to follow Robin. And that has since become the standard format for sitcoms, his four cameras. And that's because Robin Williams was so physical and so hard to predict that they just had

Starting point is 00:36:54 to have someone specific to follow him. That's smart. Kind of crazy. That's funny when you, like it seems obvious now. A lot of those things are like, yeah, obviously they just have a camera following him, but someone had to invent that. Yeah, someone had to think of that. So despite the concept sounding very dumb, and like I said, Pam Dauble was like, this sounds terrible. Mork and Mindy was immediately popular. The Nielsen ratings were very high. It was ranked at number three behind Laverne and

Starting point is 00:37:19 Shirley and Threes Company, which were also both on the ABC. And Happy Days was number four. It outranked the show. It was a spin-off from. Wow. And that's insane. That's cool. At its peak, it had a weekly audience of 60 million people. Whoa!

Starting point is 00:37:37 Two Australians and a bit. Wow. Two and a bit of Straits. Yeah, whacking a bit of New Zealand in there too, wow. Yeah, come on in New Zealand. Please. So, we like it. Please.

Starting point is 00:37:49 Can we come and visit you as well? I can't wait to start to make deals, not for Melbourne people, but. God knows. Yeah, I want to go visit New Zealand or anywhere, anyway. I'd like to just even be able to go to the beach, which is like maybe half an hour away. For people, isn't in the future, we're still in COVID-19 lockdown. In case you're like, what just go?

Starting point is 00:38:11 You're a... That was a distant memory, hopefully. Hopefully. One day. Oh, it doesn't feel it. So, yeah, 6 million people watching. Crazy. I can't get my head around that.

Starting point is 00:38:24 He's just become very quickly a star. He's a star. 60 million people now. How many people is that in Olympic pools? One. One. That's a real big. That's a real big pool.

Starting point is 00:38:39 Yeah. It's a small pool. He's stand up careers also going really well. He'd go from the set of Morgan Mindy to the comedy store to perform and then to the improv as well. He'd work a full day filming the sitcom and then do multiple gigs tonight, you know, five or six.

Starting point is 00:38:52 He was appearing on talk shows, he was partying in Hollywood, he was hanging out with big name stars, like Richard Pryor and Robert De Niro and Andy Warhol and John Belushi. I saw a picture of him with Andy Warhol, and I was like, well, I gotta put that in there because that's insane.

Starting point is 00:39:07 It's just like Robin and his wife just sitting next to Andy Warhol at a club and I was like, that's a strange photo. But I love it. So by the second year of Morgan Mindy, Robin was using heavy drugs pretty regularly. He was partying, drinking, using drugs, sleeping with women.

Starting point is 00:39:24 He's wife Valerie in the docker says, he loved women and I got it and I wanted him to have that. But I also wanted him to come home. I guess they're concerned more for his wellbeing in terms of this. She sounds like a real nag. She is a nightmare. I want you to come home. She's honestly like one of the coolest ladies I've ever seen. Like she seems so great. She's honestly like one of the coolest ladies I've ever seen. Like she seems so great. She's really cool. Do anything like just come home occasionally. Yeah. And it really did seem like it was more like to get some rest like you should, you know,

Starting point is 00:39:57 she wasn't too worried about anything else, which is very cool. There'd be times that he was looking pretty rough on set and his co-star Pam would say she knew he'd been out till three or four AM. But his career kept growing. And in 1980, he scored his first starring role as the titular character in Popeye. The film was not good. Oh, oh, nice.

Starting point is 00:40:21 Yes, and I've only used like a tiny clipper vid in the docker, and I was like, oh, I hate that. I think I saw anything kid maybe. Is it one of those ones? It looks shit. It was just an dusty corner of a video shop. For blockbuster. So I was like, pop-I, a movie.

Starting point is 00:40:36 Cool. Oh, this is weed. Yeah, it looked a bit strange. Also, I believe the debut, or if not one of the early films of a future Brendan Fraser collaborator, Linda Hunt. It looked a bit strange. Also, I believe the debut or, if not one of the early films of future Brendan Fraser collaborator Linda Hunt. Yeah, it's meant often. I do have a phrase in the bar.

Starting point is 00:40:50 Yeah, this came up on a recent phrase in the bar and one of us said it and the rest were like, what? Pop by the movie. Yeah, that's why I thought it stuck in my mind so much. I did not even know it existed until that moment. Yeah, and it wasn't good, but Robin's performance was seen as great. He was still regarded very well,

Starting point is 00:41:10 but still the movie being a flop, he felt as if his dreams of being a movie star might not be the most promising dreams. He was like, okay, well, maybe not. Couple years later, during the fourth season of more Can Mindy, Pam Dorber had the difficult task of telling Robin that his close friend John Belushi had died the night before from an overdose.

Starting point is 00:41:31 Robin had been with John in his bungalow at the Chateau Marmont, and the news that his friend had died only hours after he'd been with him was a massive shock for Robin. Robin said, here's this guy who was a beast who could do anything and he's gone. And that's sobered the shit out of me. So seeing his friend die from an overdose was a was a massive turning point for Robin in terms of his own drug use and he stopped partying and using drugs to the extent that he was. Okay. It's not a great step but he really backed right off. I don't do them on Wednesdays anymore. Okay. That's a rest day.

Starting point is 00:42:06 Gotta have rest days. That is smart. I mean, it would be like, yeah, I think about something like, imagine living in a world where there's no, you've got, I mean, he has a job, he has to get up to work and that's not stopping him. That would make, and you're like partying, that would make it hard. Like, if you've got a day job where you can't rock up like that in a bad state, it keeps you, you go, well, I can only party on the weekends. But people who, musicians, for instance, it's almost encouraged to do it while they're

Starting point is 00:42:37 performing. That would be, you see why it's such a big trap. And why there's a lot of drinking and stuff in comedy as well, which he talks about too that it's just, it's around you. So you do just kind of do it. Yeah, drinking at work. Yeah. Yeah, that's normally bars.

Starting point is 00:42:52 Like, often our pay is a beer, isn't it, Jess? Yeah, free drink. So you get two drinks tonight. All right. Woo. It was looking out. It was around the same time that Robin Lent that Maulken Midni had been cancelled. And he was really fearful of what the future held for him.

Starting point is 00:43:09 And he and Valerie had enjoyed the party life of Hollywood, but they felt like it was no longer for them, so they decided to go back to Northern California. So they moved to a ranch outside of San Fran, and they started a family. Their son Zachary was born in 1983, and was served by Christopher Reeve as his godfather. Superman himself. You have superman as your godfather. That is sick.

Starting point is 00:43:32 Robbins career kept moving along, having roles in the world according to GARP, in 1982, the survivors in 1983, and club paradise in 1986, that we said these roles didn't really advance his film career. But I mean... According to GARP, that classic that we said these roles didn't really advance his film career. But he... According to Garb? How do you... That classic that we all know and love?

Starting point is 00:43:49 Yeah. The world according to Garb. Wow. Garb. Yes. His first major break in film came from his starring role in Good Morning Vietnam in 1987, which earned Robin a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. And that's like his big breakout role. It's maybe what, his fifth film role? So just to confirm, according to Garb, no nominations. No nominations, survivors, no nominations.

Starting point is 00:44:20 Wow. Club Paradise, no nominations. Popeye, no nominations. Oh my god. Now I know the system is rigged. What? Club paradise, no nominations. Popeye, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, wow. It feels like a 90s film. But that's probably because I watched it at school. Yeah. In the 90s. Yeah. Check that. So I watched it. It would have been in high school, so the 2000s. So to me, it's a 2000s film. All right. I knew I'd probably think it I mean, the 1990s, of course, I'm meaning the 17. 1890s. So Robin was allowed to play the role without a script and he improvised most of his lines Did he change the outcome of the war We won

Starting point is 00:45:19 Okay, yeah, he actually improvised the line good morning He actually improvised the line, good morning, Vietnam. Oh, there's something in that. Oh my God, he is good. Changing the name of the film, it was initially going to be called according to Garp 2. Back in the habit.

Starting point is 00:45:35 The Secret of the Oos. So the director said we just let the cameras roll. Oh, sorry, that was from the producer, Mark Johnson. We just let the cameras roll and Robin managed to create something new for every single take. What an editing nightmare. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:45:49 Oh, the editors is like pulling their hair out. Sounds like a co-star nightmare for an anxious person like me. That's like, but we have a script that we can stick to. That's right. Everyone else, you have to stick to your scripts and no matter what he says, you have to say what the script says.

Starting point is 00:46:04 Yeah. What fun, whether we're having he says, you have to say what the script said. Yeah. What fun weather we're having. Yeah. He used to say like, wow, look, an alien. And you're like, what fun weather we're having. What fun weather we're having. Dinner's ready, darling. Did you ever have that when you were doing more acting,

Starting point is 00:46:20 like learning acting stuff, do you have a work with a cowboy who just wouldn't do the script. I was. And she wasn't not me. Let me tell you. Yeah. Let me tell you. Yeah. Dave, anything? You would have been a cowboy, Rick. No, I don't think you'd usually feel sick to the script. I would say most drama students take that take it very seriously. Yeah, that's right. Everyone else would be like, seriously, line up. Yeah. No one I mean.

Starting point is 00:46:46 Half time in the show backstage, people are like, what the fuck, man? You dropped one line out there. Come on. You dropped one word. Yeah. It's the most important word in that line. Did you, do you ever work with someone

Starting point is 00:46:58 who went on to be like really successfully acting? Even more than both of you? Absolutely not. Huh. No. He didn't have a work with Hugh Jackman or something. Yeah, Hugh Jackman, he went on to start about the same time at WAPA. I'm really happy for him.

Starting point is 00:47:13 Good on him, I say. No, I auditioned for a performing arts course and I didn't get in because I didn't get a high enough enter score, now called an ATA, because I didn't do well enough in math. Yeah, that makes sense. But I had a really good audition. So I was like, OK, that's dumb.

Starting point is 00:47:29 But three girls from my drama class, and they're only 10 in our entire drama class. Three girls got into that course, and none of them do anything within the arts now. Yeah, right. Right. But there's so many acting jobs in Australia. Yeah, exactly.

Starting point is 00:47:43 But they don't like, oh, no, I thought one of them was going to be a drama teacher, but no, she works in visual merchandising. I'm not sure that. No, that sound like there's an extra word. Making shops look cool. Surely that's just merchandising. I guess you could do audio for everyone you love, all in one place. You'll find beauty favorites, cozy presents, fun ideas under 100 and more. Like festive dressing for you in your home, experience the magic at your favorite store, or order on Nordstrom.com with free shipping and returns. Need it faster?

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Starting point is 00:49:35 by new customer surveyed who saved with progressive between June 2022 and May 2023. Potential savings will vary. Discount's not available in all safe and situations. Anyway, in 1986, Robin teamed up with Ruby Goldberg and Billy Crystal to create comic relief USA. So it's an annual HBO television benefit devoted to the homeless. And as of 2014, it raised $80 million. Wow. So they would do this annual TV benefit and all these big names would come and perform.

Starting point is 00:50:09 And yeah, it's crazy. They're a clips of it in the docker and it looks like so much fun. And yeah, the creator of Comic Relief is guy called Bob Zimada. He said that Robin felt blessed because he came from a wealthy home, but he wanted to do something to help those less fortunate.

Starting point is 00:50:27 And he does a fair bit of philanthropy throughout his life as well, which I'll talk about later on. But between film roles and working, he'd return home to the ranch where Valerie said he would just sort of switch off and recharge. A lot of people actually said, in person, he was pretty quiet. He's sort of one of those people that when he's on, he's on, but he could definitely switch up. That is interesting. I always just got the vibe from watching him. He's always on when you're watching him, that he was like that all the time, that in private, he might be a bit much.

Starting point is 00:50:58 Have you ever seen him in private, though, Dave? No. There you go. So that's interesting. You've only seen him in public. Yeah, I know. I think somebody like that, somebody being like though, Dave. No. There you go. So that's interesting. You've only seen him in public. Yeah, I know. I think somebody like that, somebody being like that all the time would get exhausting.

Starting point is 00:51:10 There's a lot of fun, but you'd also be like, I'm seriously just asking you if you've done the dishes yet. Can you just answer me and nod in an accent? Whoa, did I do the dishes? Yeah! And you're like, okay, thanks. Okay, but I can see the dishes, Robin, and they're still there.

Starting point is 00:51:25 So I've had a bad day and I just want to talk to you about it. He picks up the dishes and the dishes I have in a comfort zone. Oh, have you been watching it? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, the robberworms impersonation, and it ends up just being sounds. Is it, is the hard part doing robberworms is he thinks of words that whole time at that pace. Wow. Yeah, his brain is very quick. Was it Bob's, sorry Bob, was that Bob's,

Starting point is 00:51:57 Zemuda, Zemuda? Is that the guy that was Andy Corpon's friend? Oh, I'm not sure, possibly, UDF. Yeah, he's, you know, so there was, I think he kept that Tony Clifton character going that was sometimes. Yeah, so he's an interesting guy in his own right. So how was he involved? He would, they were just a bit creative comic relationship. Oh, okay, good. Yeah. So yeah, between roles, you come home and you switch off and Valerie said she was struggling to manage the home. She was like I didn't have an organized kind of brain. I had no

Starting point is 00:52:33 sense of order. I was supposed to sort of be this homemaker but I didn't know how to do that and so she hired a woman named Marsha Garces as a nanny and to help around the house and to bring a sense of order to the house. That'll come up again later. Yeah, I'm wondering why you mentioning this, okay. In 1988, Robin and Valerie divorced. And when I say, it'll come up later, I mean, it'll come up right now. So in 1988, Robin and Valerie divorced. And tabloids widely reported that he'd run off

Starting point is 00:53:05 with the nanny, Marsha. In the Dockhoe Valerie explains that she and Robin had separated long before Robin and Marsha started a relationship. And even the way she describes their divorce is just that she was sort of like, she had loved the Hollywood lifestyle and being like the adventure of being with Robin, but it became so much as he got so

Starting point is 00:53:26 popular and so famous, it became too much for him. She's like, I didn't want that and we grew apart and we let each other go. Like she's so fucking zen about everything. She seems very cool. And even what she says here, because so she said they'd separated before Robin, you know, started relationship with Marsha. And she says, everyone got carried away with the story. And because I didn't counter it, because I don't talk to the press, they got skewed. And I'm sorry for that. I'm sorry for Marsha that she had to start her adventure with Robin in such an unpleasant

Starting point is 00:53:58 way. Like, she's so nice. She's so cool about everything. Yeah. She's really, really cool. So he married Marshal in 1989 and the same year they had their daughter Zelda. And this was a time of settling down for Robin. He'd sort of outgrown the fast-paced party touring lifestyle and he said he felt like he was getting his life together. And he also entered a period

Starting point is 00:54:22 of work which proved he was more than a goofball, he was a talented actor who brought a great deal of pathos to his work. In 1988, he did waiting for Goddard with Steve Martin, which is insane. And Robin said he learned a lot from Steve about timing and how to use a pause to your advantage, because he's talking about himself. And he's like, in my act, I don't have any timing. Like, he's just like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no Why not watch to that? Yeah. Real night is feeling filmed. Robin described the school that he went to,

Starting point is 00:55:07 that sort of private boy school as this kind of vibe. Like it was that sort of stuff. Right, oh wow. And that final scene, some critics said, inspired a generation and became part of pop culture. I kept it my captain, sort of this big iconic scene in that film. In Awakening's in 1990, he plays a doctor modeled

Starting point is 00:55:29 after Oliver Sachs, who's a famous neurologist, and Oliver Sachs later said that the way Robin Williams mind worked was a form of genius. And that's going from a neurologist who did a lot of studies into the brain and stuff. So he's just sort of like, he's hitting a really good stride with his acting work. In 91, he played an adult Peter Pan in the film book.

Starting point is 00:55:50 Oh, classic. That was my favorite film of the time. Love that so much. It's great. I've really experienced it. It's really great. The critics in like that much. I think it's one of those ones who was like,

Starting point is 00:56:01 oh, this film wasn't for the critics. Kids at that time loved it. I knew everyone, I knew loved it. How about when he finally, like, can use his imagination and he sees this for a long time? And be like, what a moment. What a moment. It's so good.

Starting point is 00:56:17 Dustin Hoffman, amazing. Shme. Shme. Julia Roberts is in it. Yeah, yeah. Break out. So good, anyway. Yeah, yeah. Break out. So good. Anyway, huge for her.

Starting point is 00:56:27 Monty Python's Terry Gilliams said, Robin had the ability to go from manic to mad to tender and vulnerable. He had the most unique mind on the planet. There's nobody like him out there. Terry directed him in two films. So that's what he's kind of basing that on. It's just like, it's just very cool to see the way

Starting point is 00:56:43 the people speak about his work. So he's hit of basing that on. It's just very cool to see the way the people speak about his work. So he's hit a really good stride and he's doing some work, which goes on to be seen as his best. And his personal life's going pretty well too. In 1991, his third child, Cody, was born. And the following year, his role as the genie in the animated musical, Aladdin, was written specifically for him. I think some people know that that was musical Aladdin was written specifically for him.

Starting point is 00:57:05 I think some people know that that was a role that was written for him. At first, he refused since it was a Disney movie and he didn't want the studio profiting by selling merchandise based on the movie. But eventually, he agreed saying, I'm doing it basically because I want to be part of this animation tradition.

Starting point is 00:57:21 I want something for my children. One deal is I just don't want to sell anything as in Burger King, as in toys, as in stuff. I just didn't want them to make much. So it's not specifically- That's where I've seen a genie toy. Oh, I reckon I had one. I mean, Mac has definitely had a genie, right? Mac has definitely had a genie, right?

Starting point is 00:57:40 Mac has definitely had a genie, right? Mac has definitely had a genie, right? Mac has definitely had a genie, right? Mac has definitely had a genie, right? Mac has definitely had a genie, right? Mac has definitely had a genie, right? Mac has definitely had a genie, right? Mac has definitely had a to prop it all? Is it Disney that he had some problem with? Yeah, I think it was corporations, yeah, because it's saying like toys and Burger King and stuff like that, which surely Disney would have to have some kind of relationship with them.

Starting point is 00:57:57 I don't know, yeah, but he was sort of like, I didn't want corporations, but he wanted something for his kids and he wanted something. He wanted to jump on the bandwagon because animation was getting big. Animation was big. Yeah, that's it all took off in the 90s. That's why they call it the second golden age because finally it was taken off for the first time. Before that they hadn't thought of drawing pictures.

Starting point is 00:58:21 Wow, moving images. Amazing. So no surprise that Robin improvised much of his dialogue, recording approximately 30 hours of tape. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha But he impersonated dozens of celebrities in character, including Ed Sullivan, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Gratio Marx, Rodney Dangerfield, Arnold Schwarzenegger and us in Hero Hall. And his role in Aladdin became one of his most recognized and best loved, and the film was the highest-grossing movie of 1992, winning numerous awards, including a Golden Globe for Robin. Absolutely.

Starting point is 00:59:03 Yeah, that's a classic. I saw that at the cinemas up in Aubrey. Did you? On Dean Street, Aubrey. I remember. You remember, you remember every movie in Waysick? Well, I do. That's what Alistair recommends. I forget that about you. But it's definitely fading.

Starting point is 00:59:17 That's my memory phase. But I do remember most of the childhood movies. It was a rainy day. Did you love it? It was a shame. And we, the family drove up because it wasn't much to do in in Bright. We were just locked up in in our little holiday place. We were renting. So yeah, drove an hour up to Aubrey to watch a film and we watched Aladdin. It was sick. That's great. It's a good film.

Starting point is 00:59:40 I think maybe my parents went and saw Michael Collins from thinking of the same trip. So think maybe my parents went and saw Michael Collins from thing another same trip. So they, he's went to Aladdin, parents went to Michael Collins. You had different experiences that day. In 1993, he said, hello, and his role in Mrs. Dan Fyer. Director Chris Columbus said, watching him work was a magical and special privilege. His performances were unlike anything any of us had ever seen.

Starting point is 01:00:07 They came from some spiritual and other worldly place, which is nice. It was just hit after hit. Jumanji came out two years later in 1995. Oh, we love that. Oh my goodness, had the board game, the video. Oh yeah. I think I was too scared to watch it,

Starting point is 01:00:21 but 95 I was five. I've since seen it. Anyway, he continued to have a successful career playing a wide variety of roles over the next decade. Films like Patch Adams in 98, What Dreams Make Hardmore, So, in the 8-Bicynd annual mandate, 99, and Patch Adams obviously is gonna be a real funny film.

Starting point is 01:00:41 He's a clown doctor, so he's going to be in there clowning about being a doctor. It's all going to be fun and fun. Oh no. Oh, it's going to be such a lighthearted movie and nobody's going to criticize this guy. Oh no. I just look at Michael Collins came out four years after Aladdin. So that was on a different trip to Dean Street Aubrey. The memory really is fading. My God, I'm so worried. You're worried about you, Maddie? Your greatest gift.

Starting point is 01:01:10 Now, I'm still can remember when I, where I saw the film, but remember where and when my parents saw films, that skill started. That's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that off, you can sort of compensate for that. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Other films like Insomnia in 2002, one hour photo as well, and Angriest Man in Brooklyn, yeah. I love photography.

Starting point is 01:01:36 This is gonna be fun. This is really fun. I haven't seen that, but apparently that's great. Yeah, I haven't seen Lila. But these films showed Robyn's range and dramatic abilities, as well as his ability to play layered comedic roles. That's the thing too.

Starting point is 01:01:49 I reckon one hour photo was one of the first movies where I registered people were talking about Robyn Williams in like a serious role. I feel like that. A serious role. And yeah, and people were kind of like, wow, you know, it's so cool to see this comedian become, like it's great when they can transition and be really good actors

Starting point is 01:02:07 But it's like no, he trained like he was a really good actor He is and what you know like it was he can raise a hat with his office Okay, it's funny if you see it Eric idle in the docker is explaining watching Robin perform one night and I can understand the bit is funny, but seeing someone retell a bit, not funny. Okay. So then you get these shoes, I mean, gambler, they're untied the entire time. The bit was that like Robin was on stage and he just had this one really persistent

Starting point is 01:02:40 heckler and Robin had everyone else in the audience all pray together for little Timmy up the back that he will die. Like, he's had the audience praying for the death of his annoying Hecler. In the moment in the audience, I'm sure would have been a bit of fun, hopefully. But retelling it, you're like, okay, that's nice. That's not a very good thing. And was Eric like, and I was one of those people praying for this young man to die. Yeah, exactly. And was Eric like, and I was one of those people praying for this young man to die. Yeah, exactly.

Starting point is 01:03:05 Eric was, yes. He also continued, Robin also continued to provide voices in other animated films, including Fern Gully, the last Rainforest. Anyone else remember Fern Gully? And the first Fern Gully, but I do remember getting some good heat in the girls. A lot of hot on the playground.

Starting point is 01:03:23 Loved it. Loved it. Don't remember a single thingved it. Loved it. Don't remember a single thing about it. Loved it though. Remember loving it. Robots as well in 2005. And happy feet.

Starting point is 01:03:31 2006. It's a lot of animated stuff as well. In March 2008, his wife, Marsha, filed for divorce from Robin, citing irreconcilable differences. And their divorce was finalized in 2010. And he married his third wife, graphic designer Susan Schneider on October 22nd, 2011. So like we mentioned before, when Belushi died, Robin said it, it's sobered the shit out of him, but he had a couple of struggles with alcohol

Starting point is 01:03:58 over the course of his lifetime. In 2003, he started drinking again while he was working on a film in Alaska. He sort of talked about it and just being really isolated. It sort of started as having a drink and then it became a problem. So in 2006, he checked himself into a substance abuse rehab center in Oregon, admitting that he was an alcoholic. And years afterwards, he acknowledged his failure to maintain sobriety,

Starting point is 01:04:24 but said he never returned to using cocaine. It was just alcohol that he was having issues with. And he had another admission to rehab centre in mid-2014 for treatment of alcoholism. So yeah, that's just one sort of part of his life as well. He had some other sort of health issues in March 2009 He was hospitalized due to heart problems. He postponed His one man to a for surgery to replace his aortic valve

Starting point is 01:04:56 And to correct a regular heartbeat. It was pretty big heart Having a mother who's a car valves are very important for him So important and this is something that is good friend Billy Christon you because while Robin was in surgery, Billy left multiple voicemails on his phone as a character called Vinny the Valve guy as if Robin was an old car. The mechanics were. Oh man, you work on a Billy Christel's level over that. That's amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Multiple messages. And then so that Robin would wake up and have all these voicemails.

Starting point is 01:05:28 Billy talks about the phone calls. He'd see like, he'd see the area code and know that it was Robin calling and he'd answer it would always be a different character and their voicemails that he would leave on Billy Crystal's voicemail were really funny, which is nice. They had a really cute friendship. So Rob made a great recovery from surgery and he said it gave him a sense of of appreciating life and slowing down a little. He was on David Letterman eight weeks later. So he slowed down for about two months. Yeah, but now like he yeah, he talked about it just you're giving you a bit of appreciation. In 2014, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. It's a progressive degenerative neurological condition that affects the control of body movements, but it has a lot of symptoms beyond the tremors that we associate it with, heaps and heaps of things like insomnia, depression, and dementia, and lots and lots of things.

Starting point is 01:06:29 Obviously not every person is going to have every symptom, but it's still a pretty full on diagnosis. And Billy Crystal said that when Robin told him that he'd been diagnosed, it was the first time that he'd seen Robin scared. He was like, I'd never seen fear in him, and I saw it then. And unfortunately, a few months later, on August 11, 2014 at his home in Paradise, K. California, Robin Williams was found dead having taken his own life. Some media outlets claimed alcohol was involved, but the final autopsy stated that neither alcohol

Starting point is 01:07:01 nor illegal drugs were involved and prescription drugs present in his body were at very normal therapeutic levels. So it was nothing sinister. The autopsy also provided a really important piece of information. Examination of his brain tissue suggested Robin had suffered from diffuse, lube body dementia. It's similar to Parkinson's,

Starting point is 01:07:22 but it acts a different way in the brain. And his wife Susan revealed that in the year before his death, he'd experienced a sudden and prolonged spike in fear and anxiety, depression and insomnia, which worsened in severity to include memory loss, paranoia, and delusions. So after his death, his family and friends spoke out a lot about the condition because they wanted to make it clear that Robyn's brain was feeding him misinformation, and that his feelings of depression were symptoms of the disease. So his wife, Susan, was sort of saying that Louis body dementia is what took his life essentially. Right.

Starting point is 01:08:00 Yes. I didn't realise that. Yeah. That makes it all make so much sense. I remember hearing that it was alcohol and stuff like that. I think the Parkinson's diagnosis, I mean, he'd been unwell on and off for a while, but it took many, many doctors to diagnose and they said it's Parkinson's.

Starting point is 01:08:28 But I don't think he publicly said anything about it. And so that came out after he died. But then it seems that that was actually misdiagnosed. And instead it was this other thing that, yeah, basically his brain was lying to him and that's awful. That is so awful, yeah. But he's family spoke about it quite a lot. And his death was global news, tributes flowed from everywhere. His daughter Zelda Williams responded to his death by saying, the world is forever a

Starting point is 01:09:01 little darker, less colorful, and less full of laughter in his absence. And President Barack Obama released a statement upon Robin's death, and it's quite nice, he says, Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a banger-hanging Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind. He arrived in our lives as an alien, but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit. He made us laugh. He made us cry.

Starting point is 01:09:30 He gave his immeasurable talent freely and generously to those who needed it most from our troop station to broad to the marginalised on our own streets. Which is a really nice That's so nice. Yeah, wow. Really nice, David. Oh, nice, that's great. Yeah, wow. That's summed up very nicely, Barack. Yeah. All of whoever wrote that for Barack. Exactly. It's summed up very nicely, Barack's speech on the team.

Starting point is 01:09:59 They've done a beautiful job there. Yeah, that is super nice. A couple of things that I didn't know. I've listed them here as fun facts. They're not that fun, but they're just a little bit lighter rather than ending on the death of a legend. So we all knew it was coming sadly, but.

Starting point is 01:10:13 We didn't mention that Koko the Gorilla also. Of course, yes. We talked about an episode of primates about dedicated to K the gorilla and apparently yeah, he hung out a bit and then when Coco was told a news Coco did signed sadness. Sad. Yeah. Oh, that's so awful.

Starting point is 01:10:38 I think whoever was the guest on that episode was like, did they need to tell Coco? No. What do you know otherwise? Why'd you have to bum out a gorilla? So as a way of coping with his addiction and getting out of the habit of drugs and alcohol and stuff, he took up cycling and he became a really devoted cycling enthusiast. Eventually he accumulated a large bicycle collection and became a fan of professional road cycling, often traveling to racing events like the Tour de France.

Starting point is 01:11:15 In 2016, a couple years after he died, his children donated 87 of his bicycles in support of the challenged app. I know in support of two foundations challenged athletes foundation and Christopher and Dana Reeves foundation his his close friend that's a wild amount of Bicycles, I know 87 of them and that I don't know if that's all of them They didn't say all of them. I said 87 a couple of each as well Would start up to donate 10% of our father's collection That's all of them. That didn't say all of them. They said 87. They gave a couple of each as well. We decided to donate 10% of our father's collection. I don't know why would you have so many bikes? It feels like a box, the kind of thing.

Starting point is 01:11:52 Oh, maybe you've got, this is my road bike and this is my mountain bike or something. If you were two bikes. If you had the money. But 87, that, yeah, this one, I ride when it's slightly rainy. This one when it's cloudy, but no rain. It's probably like Jay Leno and cars, you know. Yeah, just people collect. I don't think he rides them all.

Starting point is 01:12:14 Yeah, he collects them. People do that with shoes. He made these ones with funny colors. Limited edition for like. I just bought four pairs of shoes. So four in one go. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:12:27 And Aiden has one pair of shoes. How many do you have in total? I don't know. Too much. I've got a few pairs of shoes. Too much shoes. Not too much shoes. You count them like water.

Starting point is 01:12:41 They're not individual. They have a tap, a shoe tap. I turn on the shoe tap. Ooh, too much shoe. Too much shoe, too much shoe. Turn off the shoe tap. That's fun. I didn't realize you had a shoe tap.

Starting point is 01:12:55 You didn't have a shoe tap in your house? No, I don't. Oh my god. Yeah, runs drive very quickly. Yeah. Robin made multiple appearances at benefits to support literacy and women's rights, along with appearing at benefits for veterans. He was a regular on the USO circuit where he traveled to 13 countries and performed to

Starting point is 01:13:16 approximately 90,000 troops. He did that a lot. After his death, the USO thanked him for all he did for the men and women of our armed forces. It's pretty crazy. He really liked what Barrax, I don't know, I'm not on first-hand basis with Barraka Barma, or what Barrax was saying before. But yeah, how he touched every section of like he played, he seemed, he played so such a diverse cast of characters in terms of the professions, I guess. That's probably what every actor would do, though,

Starting point is 01:13:45 over a career I assume. Play lots of different things. You would hope, or you being typecast as a doctor. But he seems like a lot of his, yeah, that's true too. Does it seem like a lot of his wear occupation based? Yeah, that's true, yeah. Like when he played that fast-growing boy Peter Pan, who doesn't any or man. Yeah, all right. Okay I'm not using it so quickly proven wrong Man who it's spinach to become a strong sailor. We're sailor though, right? Occupation your folks are on the spinach, but the occupation was sailor. I thought his occupational is spinach enthusiast But you're right. Yeah I thought his occupational spendage is enthusiast, but you're right. You're right.

Starting point is 01:14:24 Yeah, right. In response to the 2010 earthquake in Christchurch, he donated all proceeds of his weapons of self-destruction performance to help rebuild Christchurch. Wow. So, another 87 bikes. That's what they got so many of those those like rental bikes around. They're just all Robin Williams bikes. It's crazy. Cross Church is such a beautiful city. She's had a tough run lately. So beautiful. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:14:55 Yeah, I was there for that most recent tough run. Years after the films came out, Janet Herschenson revealed an interview that Robin Williams had expressed interest in portraying Hagrid in the Harry Potter film series. Wow. It was rejected by Chris Columbus due to the British only. They were having only British actors. But can you imagine Robin Williams's Hagrid would have been a very different tone. You're a wizard Harry. Oh, hey, would have would have been a very different tone. You're a wizard Harry. Oh, hey, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, our photo was saying that between takes he would be classic Robin Williams and the director kind of figured out that if he let Robin just play and get all that sort of energy out, he would get an even better performance from him when they were rolling.

Starting point is 01:15:54 He was like, he just had like a glow about him then. He was like, there was an energy about him. That's the same method we use for tiring out our dog. Yes. Take it from a long walk. Let him get it out of him. Get it out. Yeah, toddlers.

Starting point is 01:16:07 And then we start filming and of course he gives an Academy Award. Worthy performance. God, you've got a good dog. Well speaking of awards actually, just to finish off, I've got like a list here. So he won one Academy Award, was nominated four times. Four Grammys, three Emmys, six Golden Globes being nominated

Starting point is 01:16:27 for 12 as well as two MTV Awards and two Saga Awards. So he won a lot of awards and was a nominated for a lot more. What is he three of four in an ego? Is it? We just missed the Tony. Yeah. Yeah. So he's got Emmy got Emmy Grammy and Oscar. Yeah, wow And if they counted Golden Globe and Golden Globe, he'd be really and if they counted MTV awards Oh my god, I'm watching the best picture Oscar movies in reverse or what I've just watched the first the most recent four and I'm starting I think maybe MTV Picture the years more my speed. Yeah Probably more fun. I had a look and they are all

Starting point is 01:17:07 Avengers films. Recently there's a lot of Marvel movies. What kind of loser would watch all of the Marvel films in some kind of order? Kind of lame person would a lot of people and they're all great people, Jess. Don't be so hard on this. Have you got through them all? Yeah, I've done. I finished them. Yeah, you did. And now I feel empty.

Starting point is 01:17:34 And I actually had to slow down at the end. I'd space them out at the end. And how many is it? 95 films. It's like 20 something I think. It feels like 95, yes. As soon as the movie called Ant Man came out, I was like, wow, okay. They're doing them all.

Starting point is 01:17:50 They're doing them all. I love the Ant-Man one. I know, I know people love it, but it just made me laugh, not being super into. They're often ranked. I wasn't aware of it. I think that often the big Marvel fans don't rank the 8 man ones that high, but I find the really fun. I just thought it was really hard too.

Starting point is 01:18:09 And who's the cop in one of them? Randall Parker. Randall Parker. Love Randall Parker. You always forget Randall Parker. I can know he's one of my favorite actors. I can never remember his name. It's great name too.

Starting point is 01:18:20 He's great. He's so funny. Which ones are you in? Or is he in both? Second one. I got to watch it again. And man in the wasp. I watched that at the at the cinemas. And man in the wasp. Where were you? Where come on? It was at the Nova in Carlton. Okay. And what were mum and dad watching? Yeah. We were mum and dad. Mum and dad dropped me off. Yeah. They were watching. They went watch that old film. Not an adult film. Sorry. I

Starting point is 01:18:47 am deep for an audience. If you know what I mean. Yeah, they watched the porn version of Ant Man. Dave, what's it called? Pant Man. Pant Man. Not my best. Dave, what are you got? Well, Pant Man is really good. Thank you. Yeah, I don't know you can beat that Dave, Jess, you nailed it. Thank you. Finally. Pant dick. No, that's... That's where a guy who's able to shrink the size of his dick way down.

Starting point is 01:19:15 And then they finally figure out they can... What's the giant version of Ant Man? Well, it's called like Jogant or something. Oh, he's just still his Ant Man. Oh, but he's... I think in the comics he had a different name. Anyway, I don't know. Yeah, it's that only Dick. Jogantor Dick.

Starting point is 01:19:32 It's his spin-off character. All right. Maybe they didn't jump the gun at all. I just remembered one more thing to add, if I may, just nice, because Robin said his children gave him a great sense of wonder. And in 2019, Zach, his eldest child and his fiancé, Olivia, announced the birth of their son, McLaren Mickey Clements Williams and McLaren is Robin's middle name. And then Cody, his youngest son and his fian fiance were married on July 21st of last year and what would have been Robbins 68th birthday.

Starting point is 01:20:10 So his kid's honoring him in that way, which is nice. That's nice. Thanks, sir. That's nice facts at the end. Yeah, it's like, he's some nice stuff. That's my report on Robbins, will you? That's great, great work, Bob. Oh, that was really cool.

Starting point is 01:20:23 Yeah, I kind of assumed I would have known all about him, but yeah, I had that idea in my head that he was like a lot of comedian actors who start in comedy and then move into serious acting, like Jim Carrey, I assume. But maybe now I'm doubting that, did he start studying drama as well? Maybe, but I'm confident Adam Sandler didn't. But boy, he's tried to do some serious roles. studying drama as well. Maybe, but I'm confident Adam Sandler didn't. But boy, he's tried to do some serious roles. And he's done him pretty well. Yeah, Mr. Big was good. I watched him in a serious one. I watched his recent Halloween one last night

Starting point is 01:21:06 where he plays. He plays sort of the Bobby Boucher character from Waterboy. Only he's in a, in the, what's the town where the witch trials were? Salem. So he's in Salem and it's Halloween, but he's really scared of Halloween as well. And then what is this movie? Is this a serious movie? It's called Hubey Halloween. No, he plays like it's, yeah, he plays a, it's weird that he's still playing characters like this, but it's, you ever see the water boy? It's a very water boy, you know, the way he's sort of, he am, am, am, that sort of character. And this was made recently. Yeah, it came, it was released this week, I think.

Starting point is 01:21:36 Oh, wow. Are you the only person who's watching? It was ranked number five on Netflix in Australia. Wow. By Netflix or no. So, apparently Adam Sandler's like, he's, was ranked number five on Netflix in Australia. So. Wow. By Netflix or. Apparently Adam Sandler's like, he's, he's one of their big stars.

Starting point is 01:21:49 They, he gets a lot of views. I really like the Shandban. I'm a big Shandban, band. And then I watched a YouTube video that suggests that all of Sandler's films are in the same universe. Because there are a lot of like in this film, there was a family called the Odoils. Like the book Odoils.

Starting point is 01:22:10 Odoils from... Is it, I thought it was an Odoils. Odoils. And yeah, there have been Odoils in a lot of different films. Hey, Jess, I've just looked up what he's known as when he becomes big, when that becomes big. that and becomes big. Yeah. You want to have a stab?

Starting point is 01:22:29 Big ant man. Giant man. How did they do that? That's good. I don't know how they found it. That is arguably better than big ant man though. I actually can't say for that. Big ant man.

Starting point is 01:22:42 Thank you. But I guess big ant man would just be the size of a dog or something. Yeah, that's a fucking big ant. Oh, you should, you run away from that ant. Yeah. Oh, it's a small dog. Small dog. Like a chihuahua.

Starting point is 01:22:54 That's still a big fucking ant. That was a great, great report. Great block, tober report. Oh, the third most, we were surprised, as you said, the top chest. That this is the most third most voted. But they've chosen a great one. That was a great report. And it's great because it's meant that all three have been quite different so far. We had a famous murder trial. Then we had an ex-carrowing journey,

Starting point is 01:23:19 a parrowing journey, and now a famous entertainer biography. There's a really good documentary called Robin Williams come inside my mind. It came out in 2018 and it gave me a lot of great info for this. So if you want to check it out, I would highly recommend, but as always, all of our references and stuff will be in the description of the episode. Great work, Papa. Thank you. I also, I just said a quick look to see some other notable

Starting point is 01:23:46 Juliette school. I love, no, if you have got any interest. Robin Williams is the first one listed. Cool. And Christopher Reeves was right up there. Kevin Spacey, Mandy Patinkin. Yes, Mandy Patinkin was in Robyn's year. Jessica Isaac, Nina Simone. Wow. John Williams, the composer. So I'm guessing you did music. I'm guessing Nina Simone probably did music as well. Barry Manolo, Pat Benatar. Pat Benatar, cool. Barry Manolo. Since season, Alan Greenspan, the economist, it's a really, it's quite a broad range of

Starting point is 01:24:22 just big names. And then a lot of names I've never heard of as well. Falkilma is a name I have heard of. Nothing. It's a weird name standing after me, I don't know. It's a nice kiln, mate. Like a mother composer. Yeah, so Kyle Gas from Tenacious D.

Starting point is 01:24:39 Oh Tenacious D. That's cool. I wonder what it is. When did Julia, that's cool. Yeah, I think I'm guessing you did music. Cage. Cage. Sorry, Cage.

Starting point is 01:24:48 It's the only way. The funniest duo. Oh my god. Yeah, that's great. So good. All right, so this brings us to everyone's favourite section of the show, the Fat Quotal question section, which has a little jingle. It goes, oh, something like this.

Starting point is 01:25:02 Fat Quotal question. He always remembers the ding. And to get involved in this, you go to patreon.com-such-to-going-pod. Linked in the show notes, and you then get involved in the Sydney Shionbeak Deluxe Memorial Edition Package Rest in Peace level, or some version of that. And once you're on board there, you'll get a link, and you can give us a factor quote or a question.

Starting point is 01:25:24 If you are on that level and you're confused by that, send me a message, I'll hook you up. Through Patreon? Through Patreon, yes, and it's a Patreon message. Now, I just want to his phone number. It gives a text. I'll fall. He said too much. I wish I knew your number off my heart, but I don't even know mine. Yeah, I know mine and it's just don't have't have to do that like you so I know my parents home line of case still live and have it.

Starting point is 01:25:50 My parents just got rid of their land line so I know mums but I'm fucked for dad I don't know. I usually just call my, say can I talk to dad? That's my dad's got a mobile but very rarely has it on him. Yeah, it's dad. It just keeps it as a landline basically. I just kept it at home next to the landline phone. My grandpa used to famously keep it plugged in inside the pantry.

Starting point is 01:26:16 Couldn't even hear a ring even if you were in the... I love our famously world famous everyone in my family, which is obviously... Yeah, pretty famous family. A worldwide family. I love the idea that he got famous outside the family for that. Everyone knew the Warnicky grandpa. Hey, you're the guy, the Patrick guy. Patrick Fonga. Yes, it's me, former Q. So if you're involved on this Sydney Shambel level, you have to give us a factor quote or a question, and we do four each week, you get to choose the factor quote or the question obviously.

Starting point is 01:26:46 And you also get to give yourself a title. Firstly, this week we've got Paul McNally. I wonder if any relation to Rand. Rand McNally. Is that the first place? I don't even know what that means. Is that the brand of Atlas or something? But they're famous at this production.

Starting point is 01:27:04 The bar points to it on the globe. We'll call anywhere on the globe. And then they end up calling Australia, but first, he points to Rand McNally. Hopefully Paul is from the Rand McNally Empire. Paul's given himself the title, Resident Life Coach and Gardens counselor against submitting Patreon submissions drunk. Brackets, fuck sake. Please, please. That's really funny. Alright, so Paul's given us a fact and here it is. Being my job, I like medical facts.

Starting point is 01:27:37 That's a fun start. Being my job. Do we know where the job is? No. Well, as far as I know, he's a resident life coach and guidance counselor. Being my job, I like medical facts. I think this one is reasonably well known, but here you go. In the age before anesthesia, oh no, anesthesia and antibiotics, am I saying that right? Okay, great. In the age before anesthesia and

Starting point is 01:28:01 antibiotics, speed of surgery was key to patients' survival. Of course. Or so it was thought, oh no. Surgeons would race to operate the quickest giving rise to weird scenarios. In 1847, Robert Liston performed a leg amputation in 28 seconds. He accidentally cut through his assistant's finger. He works so fast. Both his patient and assistant died of gangrene

Starting point is 01:28:30 and someone in the viewing gallery died of shock from the gore, leaving this as the only surgery ever to have a 300% mortality rate. How did he do it in 2020? Yes, as you said. That's a chainsaw. I was probably before this chainsaw. He just axed it off.

Starting point is 01:28:44 The person in the crowd, what were they expecting to see, even if they didn't cut the finger off, they were there to see a leg amputation. So it's going to be gory. Yeah. Why the fuck are you watching that? He accidentally dropped a junior mint. Oh, here we go. Paul has told us his job before. He works as a radio-greifer, mainly with X-ray and MRI. Fantastic. Gotcha. Yeah, I knew it because it was talking to us like it was continuing the conversation. I just forgot that he had told us that the last time he gave us a factor quite a question. Thank you so much, Paul. That was a great fact. That's, yeah, that feels like a

Starting point is 01:29:23 mini-report almost. I feel like that's the most condensed report we've ever had. Great work, Paul. That was a great fact. That's, yeah, that feels like a mini report almost. I feel like that's the most condensed report we've ever had. Great work, Paul. Yeah. The next one comes from Roy Phillips, who's given himself the title of Chief Priprater of Bomba D.E.B. Love it. Did you write down his actual job title? These are all actual job titles, Dave. So. Okay, Dave. Oh my god. Watch the chewed. Okay.

Starting point is 01:29:49 In the resident grade three teacher. Dave, we've got you chewed at about 11. I need to dial that back to a four or a five. So Roy has a question. You ready for this? Yes. Thought I'd mix up a classic question with a bit of do go on spice. Which person that you've covered as a topic or as

Starting point is 01:30:07 being a topic, would you like to have as a dinner guest? Dolly Patton. Oh, good one. But I'd make a bring a guitar. You wouldn't just have one ready, you'd go, you better bring your fucking guitar. That's true, I've got a guitar, she could use that. But she's like, you know, when people on the way, I'm on my way now, Neem, pick up anything on the way. Yeah, you guitar. Yeah, because politely you go, just bring yourself, I've got everything sort of like, bring yourself in your guitar and warm up your vocals on the way. Me, me, my mom. Because we haven't a sing along. Okay.

Starting point is 01:30:42 I'd say mom would be DB Cooper. So many questions. Oh, yeah, that's a good one because you can go, who are you? I think it saves name and I'd be like, oh, I don't know who that is. Yeah, that's the funny thing. I'd be like, okay. But I want to know, I'd be like, did you live, we're having the money or that sort of stuff? I've been asking a guy at your house, did you live through it? Did you live through that? Oh no. I'm imagining that this is like you can have it.

Starting point is 01:31:06 Yeah. You want dead or alive. That's probably. Yeah. Um, ooh. That's a... Matt, why did you say that's a good one to Dave? Um, in such a way that implied mine wasn't a good one. To be honest, Bob, if I could be invited to one of these in SideCard, it would definitely be your dinner party.

Starting point is 01:31:24 I'd be like, Dave have tells about it later. Yeah, mine's good for the info, which I can bring back to the show, but it's probably not a great night. I'll work. I'm just a guy. I'm really good at these, a dreamboat after all. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:31:37 Just looking those eyes, if you can. They're trying to fix the whole time. These dark sunglasses. Oh, man, I don't know. Bigfoot. No, it's hard, hey. What about that? Great, yeah.

Starting point is 01:31:49 Could give you a piggyback. That'd be nice. Oh no, hang on. The Lizard Man from... Well. Oh, what would be on the menu then? Yeah, you know what your servant for dinner? Butterbees.

Starting point is 01:32:01 The thing you got to remember is... The Lizard Man loves butterbeams. That's a good question. I feel like there'd be a hundred different people I would love to have over. Absolutely. That would be a good question for people to let us know who they are. Oh yeah, it's great. Love to hear that actually.

Starting point is 01:32:18 Yeah, definitely. Tweet us. Maybe reply to this episode. Who would you love to have dinner with from the buddy, Bat-Kettle-Ogg? Well, I lost myself mid sentence. The next one comes from Gatty J for the UK. And last week we had Batal, I'm sorry, Bat Battle, who gave themselves the title egg hater. And we're like, wow, that's the most succinct title we've had, I think. Well, Gaddy J from the UK has gone one better.

Starting point is 01:32:52 His title is Mr. which is great. Mr. Gary J. Very good. I thought it was his father. Mr. Gaddy J from the UK is my father's name. It's called me me Gary J. Mr. Gary J has asked the question also. His question is, if there was no pandemic and money wasn't an issue,

Starting point is 01:33:15 what's something you'd love to do? What's something you'd love to do or go or somewhere you'd love to go or do? Oh my God. That's, I've not read that very well. And he's given an answer for himself, but maybe we'll give ours first. Okay, mine would be to go on the trip that I planned to go through from my 30th birthday, which is the African safari. Oh, you're going to have an African safari. Yeah, it's going to go up at the end of August. Oh my. I did, I did, what did I know that? I'm sure I've talked about it. That's amazing. Sorry to say.

Starting point is 01:33:46 I just and I both had to cancel overseas trips. Yeah, I would have, we've sort of been thinking about and hoping to do like a big trip, you know, couple of months of seeing lots of places. So all around the US or Canada or something like that. If there was no pandemic and money wasn't an issue, I would take off for like four months and see a lot of that. I can do a really big bit.

Starting point is 01:34:14 It's the best. Yeah, some of my happiest memories are just traveling where there's no, it just feels like you've got all the time in the world. Once you have four months plus or probably even a couple of months or more, it just feels like you've got all the time in the world. Once you have four months plus, or probably even a couple months or more, it just feels like you've got so much time. So just everything. Yeah, that's my plan when the world opens up again. Love it.

Starting point is 01:34:33 Yeah, I guess. My previous. My obvious one would be to do the American tour that we had planned. And that's a similar idea. It would be a longest trip traveling around America would be so good. I was also meant to go to do my first Edinburgh fringe festival, that would have been, I mean, yeah, apart from all the things that I was meant to do anyway, they're on a smaller scale than that. What else? Yeah, I had a few things that I had coming up

Starting point is 01:35:00 that I would have loved to have done, but on a smaller scale, I just love to have a day in a beer garden with friends, drinking beers in the sunshine, it would be so nice. Yeah, that would be great. Much smaller scale, yeah, I'd love to go down the coast somewhere, a couple hours away. I'd love to go. That'd be fine, thanks. I'd love to go to Rebel Sport. Yeah. I'd love to go to Rebel Sport.

Starting point is 01:35:25 Yeah, I'd love to go to Rebel Sport. You know what? Even closer. I'd love to go to my mum's house. Oh, wow. Dad lives there too, but I always do that. I was like, I want to visit my mum and then people seem at my parents split up or dad's in a little bit of a life.

Starting point is 01:35:41 I was like, oh, no, sorry, dad's there too. Dad's there too. I picture my folks at the Beagarden, you too as well. Yeah. I'd be nice to be in the same room as you too. You too. You too, bono's there. Ed's Gary Mullins Jr.

Starting point is 01:35:55 What? The fourth and final member. Did he just call it Gary Mullins Jr.? Well, Gary Mullins Jr. And it's Adam Clayton. Adam Clayton. I'm Clayton. Yeah, it's a lot of students. Well, it's Adam Clayton. Adam Clayton. Adam Clayton. Yeah, good point, mate.

Starting point is 01:36:08 It would be nice to be able to just do this in our normal studio again. Oh, it's so excited to be able to do that. Because it, for people outside of Melbourne, we're moving in the right direction generally speaking. It seems like it's now starting to feel hopeful that maybe we'll be able to do the podcast in the same room by the end of the year, I think. Wow. Which is kind of nice, which we'll mean we'll also hopefully

Starting point is 01:36:27 do some live streams as well. So, stage in for that. I think that we need things to keep being positive in the world of COVID. So Gary answered his own question here. He said, me and Nat, my wife, at least said it's Borat voice. My wife.

Starting point is 01:36:47 Thank you for that direction there, Gatti. It's me and Nat, my wife, are turning 40 in four years and are saving up to go to Australia. And I really want to get in one of them cages and swim with the shark. Oh, that's cool. That's incredible.

Starting point is 01:37:03 I mean, we do that a lot of times. Yeah, it's a very old thing to do Oh, that's cool. That's a cracker. I mean, we do that a lot. That's a lot. Yeah, it's a very Aussie thing to do. So that's great. I love that kind of, that forward planning of like, all right, for the 40th, let's go to this. That's awesome. You did that. I mean, you both did that for your 30th, you maybe not four years, but you were talking about it for a good year or something. That was, yes, that's, that's true. And that was the longest. What? About five years ago, Matt said, I've never heard you wanted to go on a trip here. And then you were talking about this for a year.

Starting point is 01:37:32 You couldn't stop banging on that. I knew Jess was going to Hawaii for a year, and I knew you were doing a trip, but I thought I had it in my head. You were going somewhere else. But we've also talked about, at one point, I was going to come to Africa with you Dave. So maybe you just hit home that you were going without me and I'm so sorry. Oh, I'm so sorry.

Starting point is 01:37:50 Oh, I'm so sorry. Oh, I'm so sorry. But the, you're right, I got tickets, the flights to Hawaii in October of last year. And that's the furthest ahead I've ever booked a holiday. And it was only because there were like insane sail flights and I was like, all right, well, what coincides with my birthday?

Starting point is 01:38:10 Hawaii, okay. Otherwise, I have never ever planned a trip so far in advance. And I never will again, because it didn't pay off today. Yeah, it's interesting, because I think one of the best things about a holiday is the anticipation, looking forward to forward to it. So you've got great value out of it without the pay off of it. So that's the plus about booking your head, but what you did was just give yourself a brutal disappointment. A real deep cut. Dave and I were talking for a little while, our birthday present few was going to be, we were going to give you a Hawaiian day at home, so we're going to buy you Hawaiian records,

Starting point is 01:38:57 ingredients for Hawaiian cocktails, Hawaiian shirt or two Hawaiian shirts and some decorations and stuff. And then someone pointed out which is something I didn't even consider all. They're like, you know, that might just really hammer home that she's not able to go to Hawaii. I like that. I had not considered that angle. I'd fully mourn to the holiday. So that would have been nice, but I think you did very well with your generous birthday gifts this year. That's, was that too?

Starting point is 01:39:31 Now let's go back. Jess, that was the only reason I brought it up. Let's go back to never giving gifts again. Wait, when I turned 30, so thank you so much Gary. That was a great one. He's that kicked off a bit of a combo. And finally this week, Tom Goodall, who's given himself the title of Undersecretary for underwear.

Starting point is 01:39:58 Undersecretary. OK. And Tom has asked a question as well. Now that you guys are all over 30 and getting on in years, it's time to consider writing your memoirs. What title would you give your autobiography? He says, I expect some puns in the title. Well, I'm not, Dave will have to tell me if mine's got a pun in it or not, because I don't

Starting point is 01:40:21 really understand what a pun is. I want some kind of perk pun, I guess. Yeah, right. If he wants puns, I've got art in the name there. Mine might just be something like, you know, just Perkins, a tortured artist. Oh, that's good. Yeah. I like that a lot. What about Matt Stewart, a memoir? Oh wow. Simple, classic.

Starting point is 01:40:48 Yes, love it. No, it is not a pun. Oh, damn it. Dave? What about the Matt Stewart story by Dave Warnakie? Ooh, throw them off. Yeah, that's right. I probably move a few more units

Starting point is 01:41:02 because you have more interesting life than you've lived a lot longer. What about like a wharnaky? What is he good for? Yeah. That's good. I think absolutely nothing is the answer. You know that?

Starting point is 01:41:17 He says on the back. Yeah, you flip it over. My favorite chapter in my book will be how I was in Vegas when I turned 30. And do you guys could probably write to this, being overseas for your 30 years? LAUGHTER My the best chapter in mine will be called COUGH DOOOOOO! DIGGIN DIGGIN DIGGIN DIGGIN DIGGIN DIGGIN DIGGIN DIGGIN DIGGIN DIGGIN DIGGIN DIGGIN DIGGIN

Starting point is 01:41:39 I had a horrific dream last night about Barnesy. I mean, we all,, we were reported in the media that he had been in hospital, but he was fine. But then it came out that he'd actually been murdered and that they put that story out there to try and catch the killer. Oh, that is a wow you watch a lot of pyro. What a great concept for a dream.

Starting point is 01:41:59 And I was waiting. Did you wake up and immediately Google Barnesy? No, I hadn't thought about it. You know how you don't really think about it until like that just jogged my memory. And it was really awful in the moment. We're all very upset by it. Australia was in mourning. Of course.

Starting point is 01:42:12 I would 100% think. And I thought. He had a great name for his autobiographies because his iconic solo song is Work and Class Man. So he's put it into the first one. It was called Work Working Class Boy, which covered his childhood and then Working Class Man's the sequel to it. So that's pretty good if we had a hit song that would make it a lot easier.

Starting point is 01:42:32 Yeah, that's right. So we just call it do-go-on theme music. How about that? By Evan Munnerasmoot. Yeah. Altogether, we could probably have our autobiography, our joint autobiography could be called something like, do go on and on or something. Oh, that's good. But again, we've had a big lawsuit by that time, so mine's called Dave go on.

Starting point is 01:42:59 And people are like, that doesn't quite work. Mine's called the truth behind Dugalon. And it is scathing. Oh my god. It's a saucy peak behind the curtain. Dave, you also did a similar bad wordplay one for the bonus episode Dave Island Disks. LAUGHTER Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 01:43:19 No, I think I call it Desert Island Dave. Oh, Desert Island Dave. Desert Island Dave. Dave Island Disks makes even more sense actually. It's about the disc part, which is the bit you were keeping. So bad. But so good. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:43:35 Cheese, Tom, I recommend what you down. That's another one. If anyone's got any ideas for our autobiography titles, please do send them through. I know some of our listeners are better upon masters and we are ourselves. Which to be honest would not be that hard. Beyond Dave, who is a genuine upon master? It's a master, about a stand before a king, let me just tell you. Matt, Matt, doormat. Is that it? Oh, wow. The doormat. Mm, that's a good one. That sounds shit.

Starting point is 01:44:07 It's just a book of doormats. Oh, let's know. It's a book about how people have just walked all over me my whole life. Never treated me with respect. If you want a good photo for the cover and bridge my doormat is half a watermelon that looks real cute. Oh, that's great.

Starting point is 01:44:20 That's nice. I've wiped my feet on that doormat chest. And for a while though. Yeah, can't wait till we get to wipe out awful, awful shoes on your beautiful mat again. Can't wait to see your shoe tap again. Yeah. Wow.

Starting point is 01:44:36 So the shoe tap helped yourself. Dave's only had one pair of shoes to 10 years. So he cannot relate. So I've got a new one recently for the birthday. So he's to 10 more years. We should get on to thinking some other patrons. We like to thank a few others along the way, and Jess normally comes up with something

Starting point is 01:44:54 a little game to play from the show. I don't have time to think about it when I'm doing the report. Okay. What was some funny stuff that came up? Yeah, I guess it's maybe like another weird cartoon to do a real life version of. So he did pop I as a in real life if that's a cartoon. So we could do you know, like what they're the star of.

Starting point is 01:45:14 Yeah, they're the star of a. I don't waste it. I don't think there's that many. Okay. Well, yeah, I think in all right. Well, can I kick it off? Yeah. Only if Jess has given us that the stamp of approval.

Starting point is 01:45:28 Sure. You have to know. If you think of something better, well, I'm reading out this name. Let us know. No, no, no, I think that's good. Giving them a movie title is good. I'm thinking firstly from Nashville, Tennessee, home of country music, Eric Alba. Eric Alba. Eric Alba.

Starting point is 01:45:46 Maybe Eric could be in the film version of Lurlene Lumpkin with the real human playing. Do you remember Lurlene Lumpkin? No. She's the country musician who was flirting with Homer. Oh, yeah. I'm asking. She asks if you'll bunk with her tonight.

Starting point is 01:46:03 Bunk with me tonight. Yes, of course I remember. But I mean, that storyline has been begging for a real life big slide adaptation. Yeah, that cartoon definitely needs to be adapted into a cartoon. So maybe Eric Alba plays Homer.

Starting point is 01:46:22 And yeah, who plays Leroy and Lumpkin maybe Jessica Alba. Yes, perfect casting. Yeah, that's really good. That's really good. Have you ever seen the Simpsons made like what they would look like if they were real? Terrifying. Yeah, it's terrifying. Terrifles.

Starting point is 01:46:39 Terrifles are good word. I like that. What do you call those again Again, smooshin' two words together. Christachunity. Portmanto. Portmanto, that's it. The next person I'd love to thank is from all, apologies for the pronunciation.

Starting point is 01:46:58 I'm going to say, Lurak from Germany, I think, D-E. Dominik Schwind. Schwind. Schwind. So, wait, are we doing animated versions or live action versions? Live action versions of TV. Oh, animated versions.

Starting point is 01:47:14 All animated versions. What about the Jetsons? Oh, yeah, that'd be great. I'd love to see a live action version of that. A lot of technology would be cool. Yeah, that'd be really fun. That'd be fun. George Jets that. Classic technology would be cool. Yeah, that'd be really fun. That'd be fun. George Jetson, there's a billboard.

Starting point is 01:47:28 It's maybe like a jeweler or something called George Jetson and it brings that theme song in my head every time. George Jetson. George Jetson. Da- it was like, it was very funny. They somehow were interacting with Harvey Birdman. They needed him to represent him in a case. Because from their reality, everything was just like travelators and stuff.

Starting point is 01:47:59 So they came in the front door of Harvey Birdman's office and they're like, where's the travel owner? And all they could walk very well because they were used to just being travel-related everywhere. So it's like, they're just very slowly walking, the dog dies on the journey. It's going from night to day to night to day, and they're just making their way across the four-meter walk

Starting point is 01:48:21 and they're doing very funny stuff. Anyway, thank you Dominic Schwind. Thank you Dominic. Who will play George Jetson. And finally, I'd love to thank from Waterloo in Ontario. Canada. If you're going to commit, commit. Waterloo. I'd love to thank Zoe Helena. I'd love to think Zoe Helena. Zoe Helena. What about a life? What about yeah? I was gonna say Captain Planet, but I think College Humor or someone like that.

Starting point is 01:48:51 Yeah, Don Chadel was. I've got to play that. What about Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law? Do you know that cartoon? Yeah, I do. I do. I don't. But it sounds fun. Yeah, I do. Pretty stuff. I don't. But it sounds fun.

Starting point is 01:49:06 It is really fun. What did I know it? So we could play Harvey or I can't think of any of the other characters in it. Well, you want title character, don't you? Yeah. Yep. Just playing Harvey. We're going to do a gender swap.

Starting point is 01:49:18 I know that the fans of Harvey Burmett, knowing how the comic book community loves gender swaps in films. I reckon they're going to be right on board with this. They love a reinterpretation. Yeah, what they do. Yeah, it's a really fun cartoon if anyone's looking for cartoon tips. There you go. Zoe, Harvey Burdman. From what a do.

Starting point is 01:49:42 There was no ab, she could play the real life version of the abu cartoon. Yeah. That is a real thing. Almost definitely is. Surely it's some place. The past was a different time in a lot of ways. Can I thank some people as well?

Starting point is 01:49:54 Oh, please, Jess, can you? I would love to thank from Wingdale, New York, Kevin, Packrad. Oh, I have a path. Kevin, Packrad. Have we not shouted out to Kevin, Packrad before? No, pack. Kevin, Packrad. Have we not shouted out to Kevin Packrad before? No, we not. This feels like an era.

Starting point is 01:50:09 I feel like we must have, but I guess we got to commit from here, because I'll have to go back through the bloody database. Maybe we feel like we do because he has suggested so many great topics. Yes, yes. Maybe we feel like we've mentioned him in that way. Well, I feel like he's a pretty cool guy.

Starting point is 01:50:24 So what have Kevin Packackrad played Johnny Bravo? Good one. He's the guy with the big jaw and the big hair and tiny legs. Oh, that's so good. And he says He does do that. I want to can I give I just want to give Zoe one other option because I feel like if people don't know Blinky bill real-life koala Blinky bill Oh, she's gonna play not see if she wants to or bill or Blinky. I want to give this Canadian another option She's definitely heard of Blinky bill Blinky bill that had to be a big was that not a big international show? I don't know All right Zoe right at the end. I'll give you one third of. Why are you wasting all of these great options?

Starting point is 01:51:06 I'm sorry, you're sorry. We've got more people to go. Oh, my God. And I'm already out of ideas. Yes, sorry, yes, you're thinking people. Yes, I am. You piece of shit. So you stay in your lane, Dave.

Starting point is 01:51:20 Well, I've got some cartons ready to go. So if you're desperate, let me know. I'm always desperate. I'd love to thank from Oakland, California. I'd love to thank Michael, Jahi, Chapelle. Chapelle. Chapelle. What about do you remember? Hey Arnold. Oh yes. Move it for Paul Heard. That's a really good. I loved that one. I loved how you're all the same. Yeah, I was a high-end fan. Good stuff.

Starting point is 01:51:52 Loving that. Michael, so you think he's playing the titular army? Yeah, with his big hair and a tiny little cap sitting in between the two tufts of hair. Yeah. Yeah. That's great. And then when him and Gerald, the best friend, put the thumbs to you at the moment, and it made this noise that went,

Starting point is 01:52:11 Oh, yeah. And if you think a real-life homo would be pretty full on looking, I think the real-life hyano would be something else. His head literally is a football with ears on the outside. His grandpa was nice too. Just saying. And finally for me, I would love to thank from Van Koova in WA. What's Washington? Yeah, Washington, Eric. Washington, I reckon. They have Vancouver as well.

Starting point is 01:52:44 I'd love to thank Terry, Sal Kido, Sal Rochido. Ah, Terry, well. Sal Sido. He loves his brother, right? He loves his brother, but most of all, he loves each other. Madeline.

Starting point is 01:52:59 I think this might even be Terry with an eye, potentially a woman. Ah, well, even better because she loves her bread. She loves her butter, but most of all, Terry, you love each other. Hey, Terry, congrats. You are now a French orphan. Oh, but she's so happy all the time. She's mad, and she's mad, and I love Madeline.

Starting point is 01:53:21 So cute. And Pepito? Yes. There was a live action film, if I remember correctly. I choose Madeline. I love Madeline. So cute. Oh, a Pepito? Yes. There was a live action film, if I remember quite a lot. Really? Many, many years ago. It's time for a re-bush.

Starting point is 01:53:30 Oh, OK. Potentially. I remember my Nana taking my sister in a Hattersee that. Oh, wow. That's a can't tell if the name of the cinema, sorry, Matt. Was it in Dean Street, Aubrey? Yeah. And your parents were watching Titanic at the time.

Starting point is 01:53:41 LAUGHTER Dean Street, Aubrey. It was always advertised on, like, regional TV up around there. And every ad was Dean Street Aubrey, just seemed like such a magical place. Everything was on Dean Street Aubrey. Yeah. Dean Street Aubrey. Aubrey's really got it going on. Oh my God.

Starting point is 01:54:00 Yeah, the film came out in 1998, so there you go. Yeah, almost checks out the Titanic, almost. Yeah, it was very close. Was that the cinema for so long? It potentially. Probably. So thanks, Terry. That's me, Dunday, if you want to bring it high.

Starting point is 01:54:14 I want to bring it home now with, from Mill Waukey, Wisconsin. I'd like to thank Eddie Coon. I want to go with... Who? A question. What was the cartoon where his sister was DW? Eddie Koon. I want to go with who? Who? Who? The, what was the cartoon where his sister was DW? Arnold Hay Arnold. No, that's Arthur.

Starting point is 01:54:31 Arthur. Yes. I said that. When you said Hay Arnold, that's, I popped into my head, Arthur, and I couldn't quite picture his man. And I know that. DW. I know that's because my initials are DW. So I got a fair bit of that.

Starting point is 01:54:43 Yeah. I know. I call you DW and I also call our friend Daniel Walker DW. So it comes into my head a lot. There you go. So Eddie, that's a really good idea. Eddie, maybe your name is Kuhn or Kahn, so KUHN. So I apologize for saying that wrong, but Eddie, you are the titular Arthur, the art vark.

Starting point is 01:55:01 I think Eddie might be Eddie, Eddie, E-D-E-D-I. I'm not going to stop correcting people's pronunciation, but that would be my best guess. Just in case, E-D-coon or C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C- from Milwaukee Wisconsin there. I'd like to thank now from a mystery location, whoo, possibly from the fortress of the malls. I would like to thank Alan Gilsonan. Alan Gilsonan. That's it. Alan's a mystery. What about Rick and Morty? Oh, good one. Which one is he gonna be? Pickle Rick. Pickle Rick. He's gonna be Pickle Rick. Pickle Rick. Pickle Rick. He's going to be pickle Rick. Pickle Rick. Pickle Rick. Pickle Rick. Oh yeah. All right. I guess Rick. There are a lot of ricks in there. Pickle Rick though. Pickle Rick. Alan Gilson and. Thank you. You just don't want to be Jerry. You just don't want to be Jerry. Paul Jerry. Yeah. Dave is such a Jerry. But you don't want to be. You don't want to be Jerry. But Dave,

Starting point is 01:56:04 you're such a far- You've never seen this show, so I don't know how offended I should be. You should be pretty offended, Jerry sucks. Really? Oh. Everyone hates Jerry. Really? Who's the most popular and best looking character on the show?

Starting point is 01:56:23 They don't really have those. Well, I'm not in it then. So thank you so much. Maybe Summer, I guess. Summer's pretty funny. Yeah, they're all very funny characters. They're all good. Well, Alan, it's you and me, buddy.

Starting point is 01:56:35 I think you'd enjoy the show, Dave, although, yeah, maybe you wouldn't. Have you given a watch and let us know? Thanks for putting that last week's theme out to get yourself out at J get yourself out of jail in case I don't like it. I think you really would like it. It's a lot of yeah, it's a lot of many. There's an episode that's all it's like a high-smoothie spoof. Very fun. They're putting the team together and it's a lot of double it's all double crosses and stuff very you'd you'd lap that one up or I'd be I'd be the character when my favorite characters mr. poopy butt heads

Starting point is 01:57:08 All right now you're talking Maybe I'd be mr. Macy's Trying his best I would like to finally think from Candle North Carolina poopy butthole I got it wrongupi butthole, I got it wrong, Pupi butthole, sorry. Don't add it. Don't add me, they've already done it. Right, butthole. Thanks, Jess, that was a long enough destruction

Starting point is 01:57:31 from North Carolina for me to move on and say, I would like to thank from this girl. Oh, I love Carolina. Oh, my God. Now, he's saying the name you can't now. Teresa or Teresa LaValle. Oh, what about Teresa LaValle? What about Teresa or Teresa is in Power Puff Girls?

Starting point is 01:57:49 What am I favorite Carp in going out? I loved it. Yes, I loved the blue one, Bubbles. Bubbles, that was my favorite. I loved Bubbles. I never watched this. I'll just just wait. Until finally watching for primates earlier this year,

Starting point is 01:58:01 I think we did a primates episode about it because the bad guy is Mojo Jojo Jojo Jojo Jojo Jojo Jojo. Yeah, that's a fun joe though. I was real funny funny. Oh, really really funny I like it a lot. So I thank you so much to Teresa or Teresa from Lovale I've no Lovale from Candola in undisclosed state in the United States of America. Good save What were the other power puff girls names? Buttercup. Yes. And the Lossum. That's right. Buttercup was the bad-ass green one.

Starting point is 01:58:32 Yeah, yeah. Lossum was the red leader. Pink, yeah. Oh, pink, yeah. Then that's a good show. I'm going to give Zoe one last choice. Oh, my God. What was that cartoon where they were, like monsters and one of them held

Starting point is 01:58:52 its eyes in its hands? Oh, our real monsters. Our real monsters. And that was crumb. That's right. That's another possible option there for you. So, he's, I've given you some duds. And though it could be crumb, ikas or oblina. What are three characters? Man, I love it. That's right. so much. I had a crum toy or future arm as Zoe you could be oh my god. Matt why is Zoe get so many reals gets why are you panicking man? So playing favorites Zoe love with the first option. You're gonna make them give everyone five options now to see case. Yeah actually that's where we do every page one we've ever had. We've got to go back to the start. Oh, thanks so much for all your support. So amazing stuff from Eric Dominic, Zoe, Kevin, Michael, Terry,

Starting point is 01:59:32 Eddie Allen and Terese. Yes, but particularly we'd like to thank Zoe, of course. All equally, you're all amazing. And we appreciate you so much. Thank you so much. But that pretty much brings us to the end of the episode. How fun is Blockbean? We've passed the halfway mark yet and only the two biggest block topics to come. Absolutely. We've got some fun ideas for November to keep the fun going. While speaking of fun, do we need a check if there's any members of the TripTitch Club to be welcomed in? Oh, of course. Yes. I did have a brief look earlier and there are two inductees

Starting point is 02:00:11 into the TripTitch Club this week. So what are they, who's playing the music? Dave picks the music for those new listeners, Jess figures out the cocktail and the hors d'oeuvres. I'm checking the names off the list. Great. Well, he's actually, he's got a new album out, but he's also playing his greatest hits, much appreciated from John Bon Jovi. Oh, John Bon himself. Come on down. I'm a little bit of a freer on a silver horse. Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well. Yeah, he's definitely right. What do you call that thing where it's like a vocalizer or something? There's a tube that they sort of sing into and it electrifies it. I've been generated by food fighters used to as well.

Starting point is 02:00:52 Oh, wow, wow. Yeah, I know what you're talking about. Like, I think of the name. The Foto. Foto. It brings a bell. Maybe that was a thing that lasted not very long. Maybe bring it back.

Starting point is 02:01:03 Rock and roll. Yeah. Two for those. that lasted not very long maybe bring it back rock and roll yeah okay so John Bond in the corner playing solo yeah playing solo what was his big solo hit it was the one from young guns it's probably my favorite song of his anyway band for glory no band for band for Laura's Rose Tattoo doesn't matter. Blaze of glory, thank you. All right.

Starting point is 02:01:26 And Jess, what do we got? What are we eating while we're drinking? Well, given Robyn's love of party, we've got beer and cocaine. Oh, all right. I love cocaine as an hors d'oeuvre. Yeah. It's going around on silver trays.

Starting point is 02:01:43 Little live. That's a bit of fun. All right, so just two inductees this week, Dave's the hype man. I'll lift up the velvet rope, bring him in, Dave gives him a hype, and then Jess has started a new role of hyping up Dave's hyping. All right, yes. Feeling good, all right. And of course, I don't think we've explained these people

Starting point is 02:01:59 that have supported us at the shadow level for three consecutive years. So let's take it into this club. It's very exclusive. And the a few members at most each week get welcome bin. So here we go. Warm it up the pipes. Okay. That was a really important part to explain what we were doing this day. That's it. Thank you so much. Firstly, from Old Meldrum in Aberdeenshire in Great Britain. This is going to be a good name It's, you are not wrong. It is Grant Cheesewright.

Starting point is 02:02:27 Yes! He ate Cheese Wrong, he's Cheesewright! Yes! Welcome in Grant Cheesewright. Great name mate. Great name honestly. I'm patting him on the back for that one. If he's Cheesewright, well I don't want to be Cheesewright.

Starting point is 02:02:42 And secondly, from Melbourne, Victoria, in Australia, it is Georgia Cowling. Oh, sweet Georgia Cowling, all right. Yes. So welcome in, she grant, she's right, and Georgia Cowling. A couple of fantastic knives. That's how it works. That's so much. She's right. And Georgia Kowell, a couple of fantastic names. How are we always? Both be legends, absolute legends. Grab yourself a line, have a beer, grab your open lens party, a responsibly. This is safe cocaine. Yeah. And I only do, you know, we don't encourage it to it in a responsible manner. God, no, don't encourage it at all.

Starting point is 02:03:22 We've got, we've got medics waiting if required. This cocaine is essentially I'll be honest. It's just ground up vitamins. Okay. Nice. So people are just going to feel really good. A placebo effect. Total placebo effect. Yeah. If I can just say that as a disclaimer for anybody who's listening who's a cop. Oh no. Yeah. He was like ready to just rock up to my house and arrest me. Well, Bet you feel stupid. No good point, Jess. And I should say this, if you are a knock, stop listening right now. This podcast is not for you. We are, this is knock knocks are loud. We have one. I said, we're allowed one. No more. But I think that does bring us to the end of the episode. Thank you so much, everyone. For giving us a crack, this is your first time or coming back for

Starting point is 02:04:18 possibly your 260th time. We welcome you. And snortons of crack if you've just got into the club. That's right. We welcome you. And Snoughtons and Crack if you've just got into the club. That's right. We welcome you all except, except Narks, of course, no Narks. No, no. Fighterman Crack. Ooh, this is Fighterman Crack. In product we'll cover with. This could be big. Real big. But you can get in contact with us at our website, dogoonpod.com, which links you to our Patreon. To the form we can suggest the topic, so we'll share that to you if you do that. Anyone can do that down after your Patreon supporter. So that's open at all times, get into the hat.

Starting point is 02:04:51 We've got an email, do go on pod at gmail.com and we are at do go on pod on all the social medias and we're also on YouTube, got some live videos out. And also a web series, whoa, we are across the mediums. Honestly, we've done so much. If you're not impressed by it, I don't know what you want from us. We're trying really hard. Okay. So what do you want? I'll do my desk. If you'll do it. We are massive try-hards. If you didn't realize, I hope you're all having a fantastic block, apart from nox, you should not be listening. I hope you're having the shitest block ever.

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