Do Go On - 260 - Robin Williams

Episode Date: October 14, 2020

It's almost impossible to have NOT seen a Robin Williams movie! He's one of the most well known comic actors, but how did he come to be a household name? Let's take a look at the making of a legend ; the life of Robin Williams.Buy tickets to our live streamed shows:https://sospresents.com/catalogSupport the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: patreon.com/DoGoOnPodBuy tickets to our streamed shows (there are 8 available to watch now! All with exclusive extra sections): https://sospresents.com/authors/dogoonCheck out our web series: https://www.youtube.com/user/stupidoldchannel Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/Submit-a-TopicTwitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasREFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (2018) https://www.biography.com/actor/robin-williamshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Williamshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mork_%26_Mindyhttps://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/05/robin-williams-death-biography-dave-itzkoff-excerpthttps://biographics.org/robin-williams-biography-life-dark-comedy/

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Dave Ornicki and as always I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Hello Dave, hello Matt. Hey Jess and Dave. Happy Blocktivus. Wow. Happy Blocktivus. Week.

I don't know. Three. Happy Block Tofer Grace. It's Block. we are having our Blockbuster Tober month. I think that was the original name, Blockbuster Tober. Month full of the biggest topics we do, the most requested, the most voted for. We're right in the heart of it now.

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 going all around the globe, started a wet market in Wuhan and had it spread around the world. But this is a positive one. This is Block. I've got a fever and it needs more Block. Yeah. Hey, quick question.

What are you two doing for Block? Thank you so much for asking. Obviously, normally I holiday at the summer home. Because we can't do that at the moment. I'm holidaying in the summer apartment. Ah, it's beautiful here. That felt safer or? Yeah, yeah.

To have more people around you. Yeah, exactly, yeah, I wanted my neighbours closer. You've got a summer and winter house, summer and winter apartment. Yeah, summer and winter. Just the four properties, is that all you have? Oh, God, no. I've got a beach house. Yeah, spring camper van.

Yeah, spring camper van. That's just for fun. And we've also got a winter chalet. Oh, and an autumn swag. But that's really just more ornamental at this stage. Yeah, right. 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. 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. Yeah.

Dear listener, normally if you're a new listener, 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. Am you still going to start with her question? Sure am. All right, so I'll quickly explain the show for new listeners. One of the three of us goes away and research is a topic,

usually being 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 respectfully, quietly. Maybe we chip in helpfully every day or not. No, no. I'm going to 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. I reckon 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 that time. None of us are quitters, are we? And we're 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. Yeah. Well, we have a big copyright infringement over who owns the name do go on. So then we have to come up with a podcast like the do go on or Dave go on and stuff like that. Matt and the do go on band. 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 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, okay, who could it be? Could it be? It's either Mork or Mindy now. Who played Mindy? Actually, it is Mork from Ork. It's not Mindy from Ork.

So that means, Dave, I think. You want to say it with me? Robin. Mork. Oh, no. I think it's actually Robin Williams. Robin Williams, that's right. I got the tip of 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. It beat out so many mysteries. and killers. Yeah, all the things that people usually 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. Oh, fun clown doctor. This is going to be a wacky adventure. It's mostly good. saying when I was like, oh, a bicentennial man, this will be fun.

This will be fun. Oh. Yeah, look, he makes you think. I should have said Flubber. I thought this was going to be a fun family romp. My God, it was horrifying. 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 he was in. I was like, God, if I don't mention that movie, I'm going to get killed. So many. I mean. I mean, iconic 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, 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 his story is actually quite different. Oh, that's what I assumed as well. Yeah. So, I mean, it's not crazy. 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, Justin Nichols, Danny Bolter, Clifford Warren Logue, Jr. Oh, my God. And Detective Walter was great. Detective Herbert Covington. Oh, yeah, you can't be the detective. He's one of the best. Although the name before was an all-timer as well.

Sorry, I laughed out of respect. Can I say it? I loved it. I'm hoping he's got like a pocket square or whatever they are. And a monocle. A neckerchief. Am I saying these words right? You know that thing, that sort of scarf?

Yeah, a cravat. A cravat. A cravat. A cravat. That can't be. Is that anything? It should be. If it's not a thing.

Yeah, that's a thing. Is it a cravat though or is it a different thing? Yes. I think I meant a cravat. So part of the. It's part of the dinnerware. Oh, dinnerware collection. Oh, yeah.

Fantastic. Dave's expertise. Here we go. Dinnerware and crockery, apparently. This is where... 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. He releases a dinnerware collection, including a necker sheaf. And a cravat, two separate things in his mind. And possibly in real life, too. And two different price points. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Big price difference. I know people say don't at me, but if anyone has more info on neck achieves and cravats, 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 the info. Yeah. Okay.

So, yeah, let's get stuck in to the life of Robin Williams. His full name is Robert McLaren, or McLaren, McLaren, McLaren Williams. And he was born in Chicago, July 21, 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 when Robin was about eight years old. I'm not entirely sure how old McLaurin 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. Oh. Yeah. And Robin's father, Robert, had a son named Robert, known as Todd,

so it's a little bit easier. I think I'm already confused. This is a crazy family tree already, and there's only been two sons named. Are you able to break it down real quick once more? Because my head just felt like it exploded. So, Robin has two half-brothers. 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 meeting later in life, though, they all remained really connected, despite Todd and Mack not being biologically reliant. They all just sort of saw themselves as three brothers. Like a Brady brunt.

The three of them together are a Venn diagram, right? Yeah, because Robin's the middle. Whoa. Yeah. So, yeah, so Robin was raised as an only child. And in late 63, when Robin 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, and he works for Ford, right? And he married a model. Did the model he married, was it the model T Ford? Yes. Wow. I know.

That's cute. Robbins' mum was a car. He's half car. That makes sense. That's why his brain works differently. Yeah, because he's half car. And one half brother was half car and the other half brother was no car. No car.

But somehow they all just saw each other as family. beautiful. I don't want to take you back to the farmhouse with 40 rooms with three people living in it. What are they, what are they got? Once you get a billion room, a library, a ballroom, conservatory, what else is there? And how many bedrooms do you really need for three people? What's a farmhouse? I assume that, you know, like the cows would have one bedroom,

chickens would have a bedroom. Pigs. Goats. Probably not the bedroom. Goats, of course, would have their own room. That's true. Sounds to me like the classic episode of Escape to the Country where there's two. two people wanting to downsize to a 40-room farmhouse

so they can 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. They all seem to just live this wildlife. I mean, off the...

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... Every episode, though, on a downsize in the house has 19 bedrooms. And some staples. Or you'll see House Hunters International or House Hunter's 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 imagine having that kind of wealth, but also being like, yeah, I'll go on this reality show

that's played during the day. I wouldn't want people to know that I own an island. Have some fucking shame. For God's sake. Have some shame that you are on an island. 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 are shopping for an island.

Yeah. I mean, come on. Are you a commie, Dave? Helping the hungry. I mean, I've got an island. I've also got some shame, so I don't talk about it. Dave thinking buying an island's a bit much. What a commie bastard.

That's right. People shouldn't own entire private islands, yeah. Yeah, I said it. 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. 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 even know their home.

And this is pre-intercoms and stuff. You know, you can't be like, Mom, where are you? Was his mum made by chance an old English woman? Yes. Whose catchphrase was, hello there. That's right. We just realised as Jess tells the story that he hasn't come. up with any original ideas.

Every character he's ever played is ripped off from someone from around the house. Do they have a room full of magic lamps? Yes, actually, that was one of the rooms. That was actually two of the rooms. Wow. Two lamp rooms. I mean, the house is big enough to have a fucking lamp room. I know.

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. 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 classways. Wow. They got one thing right there, didn't they? What kind of fucked up school has that award? I know. Most likely not to succeed. It's like on The Simpsons went home, it gets to his reunion and he gets most improved odour. Yeah, maybe they weren't joking that much on 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. 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. Some of them probably have violins.

After graduating from high school, he enrolled in Claremont Men's College to study political science. It was an all-men's school, and the only opportunity to mingle with girls was in theatre. So Robben decided to try an improv theatre class, because that's where the ladies were. I mean, we've all enrolled in a drama degree to meet people. And how'd that go for you, Dave?

Fantastic. I'm married with nine children. So, study drama. Yeah, he was totally sucked in and he loved theatre and he stopped attending his political science classes. He was just hanging out in the theatre 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. So we did that. he attended the 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 Marion's drama professor James Dunn, the depth of the young actor's talent became evident when he was cast in 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. Why not? The live orchestra trying to keep up with you with you, you're just making it up. He's beatboxing and they're like, please. Every other cast member's like, come on. I don't know what you're talking about.

He's like, oh, a time machine, all right. Space jump. Yes, and. Robin, we've rehearsed this for 12 weeks. Can you just do the fucking lines, please? Charles Diggins is not good enough for her. But that is nice, so the professor remembers him being so good that he made a call to his wife saying,

holy shit, something special, yeah. And that happens a lot. And that happens a lot. And that happens a lot. Bob about him getting into acting later, but he was in acting before comedy. He goes even further because he and some of his classmates were invited to perform a well.

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, a lot of the information came from that.

It's a great doco. 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, fuck, that's pretty cool that we got to do stuff like

that. Because at the moment you're just like, yeah, it's normal. 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 Juilliard. School. Robin and Christopher Reeve started at Juilliard together as advanced students. So they were kind of, they came into about second or third year, I think, and sort of joined that class based on their previous experience. 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 he must have been extremely naturally talented. Very good. And Christopher Reeve remembered his first impression of Robin when they were new students at Juliet. He said he wore tie-dye shirts with tracksuit bottoms 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 caroned 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.

feels like, yeah, that adds up to me. Yeah, that sounds about right. Yeah, from what I've seen. So he's just always been that way. Interesting. Yeah. So what followed were intense classes in which John Hausman or Hausman worked his students hard in order to get the best out of them.

Robin described it as moments of great, 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 a time. 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 eyebrows, his eyebrows that would pop up. And he described seeing their teacher, John Housman, laugh and how thrilling it was for him. And he mentions that kind of thing in relation to a few different people. It's like 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, how do I make dad laugh like that? And he talks about it with his mum 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. Dick, can you, so you two drama types, can you fill in the non-drama-ish people, the Juilliard School I've heard about a lot? Is that, why is that so precise? and hard to get into. That's not the method one? Which one is that? Oh, it's just like a performing arts sort of like an academy. So people like also, you know, study cello and things like that there.

But it's just at such a high level, really great teachers. Like if you look at like their alumni, it's like really 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. Yeah.

And they'll have a couple of thousands. Well, like audition for Knight are our biggest one. But over there, I think because so many more people, the stakes are even hard, you know, more against you. So that he got in, especially as an advanced student too. I didn't realize that, Jess, that he joined other people had already been studying the acting. And they obviously think he's good enough to join people

who've already been doing it a year and just sort of seamlessly transition into it. Yeah. Pretty impressive. Right. That makes sense. Yeah. Nighter you hear about it.

That's the West Australian one, right? No, that's the Sydney one. Oh, what's the, what's the Western, there's a big one in Perth as well. That's Wopper? Wopper. The West Australian performing arts. Yeah. Woppa.

Oh, that's fantastic. And then the Victorian, and the one here is VCA, so there are three Victorian College of the Arts. So there's three, they're the three big in Australia. But over there, yeah, it's just, again, 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, um, 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 Reeve said was one of the world's leading voice and speech teachers. And according to Reeve, Skinner was bewildered by Robin Williams and his ability to instantly perform in many different accents. That's cool. Their primary acting teacher was Michael Kahn, who was equally baffled by this human dynamo. Love that phrase. Isn't that good? Williams already had a reputation for being funny,

but Khan criticised his antics a simple stand-up comedy. In a later production, Williams silenced his critics with his well-received performance as an old man in Tennessee Williams' Night of the Aguana. Reeve 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. That's kind of cool.

And in fact, Robin left Juilliard 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 Julietard could teach him. Wow. Wow. Wow. Is that him, like, being polite going, can you distract everyone? Can you leave?

Yeah. 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 didn't suit him. So maybe it is a bit like 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 another more we can teach you here. Which is pretty fucking crazy. So once he left Giuliarity, 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 stand-up and he started performing in San Francisco.

go in 1976. And he worked as a bartender at a comedy club called Holy City Zoo so that he could get up on stage and perform. He just got a job bartending

so he was around. And when you say up on stage you mean up on the bar? Yes. Yeah, yeah, 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. And this is where he met Valerie Vallardi. 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. because 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 because I'd been trained to be loud. And so he just performed and he just absolutely killed it and all the other comedians are going, fuck. And yeah, Dave Letterman was talking about feeling like he'd come to L.A. at exactly the wrong time because he couldn't keep up with Robin. I mean, the town is famous. 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. It's real deadpan. Imagine Robin Williams hosting like a late-night show. He'd be a nightmare. Wow, the monologue might actually be good.

Yeah, but imagine him interviewing. Yeah, fair enough. It was probably a fun interviewee. Yeah. You just have to let him go. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you'd have to be the type of interviewer that can just go with whatever they're throwing at you. Yeah, you probably don't have to say all that much as an interviewer probably.

Yeah. So he's in L.A., and he's 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 and kept telling her, you know, he has a girlfriend in San Francisco, which she asked him 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 and the doco, 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. It's a culture thing. It's a time thing. You don't get it. This is San Francisco. This is Lala Land. This is LA, this is La La Land.

This is Tinsletown. The things are done differently around there, Jess. I don't care about your little virgin rules. Yeah, those are my virgin rules. I'm just saying, I literally said that's cool. Yeah, okay, Jess. You made a bit of a scene now. Calm down, Jess.

Yeah, we're going to have to ask you to leave. In 1977, Gary Marshall, who produced Happy Days, and you'd know Gary Marshall too. You would know his face and 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. He's like, why aren't you watching Happy Days?

And Scott, who had become fascinated by Star Wars, said there's no spaceman on it. So Gary goes into the writer's room and says, Scottie wants a Space Man. What is his Sydney Shineberg's brother? Yes. We found a new one, Gary. And his name's Gary as well.

Gary Marshall. I've looked at him as 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.

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 our Space Man That's our Spaceman This guy's from another planet

You're hired 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 it to him by default Gary Marshall Also directed a lot of big movies Pretty Woman, Beaches Runaway Bride They're all romantic comedies, but look at it. Valentine's Day. Oh yeah, he's a Princess Diaries.

Princess Diaries, Genovia. We love it, Jess. Mother's Day. He's in Never Been Kissed, but I don't know if he's directed or produced that one as well. Yeah, right. It's a real rom-com man. But he plays, like, he plays this kind of person. Like, he plays this, this hard-ass owner or editor of a newspaper.

It's... With a real shiny white teeth. He's got, like, perfect teeth man. Yeah, and he's got a very, um, recognizable. voice. If you can't picture him, Google Gary Marshall and you'll go, oh, yes. So anyway, so Robbins brought in for an episode of Happy Days in which an alien named Mork attempts to take Ritchie Cunningham back to his planet of Ork as a human specimen, but his plan is foiled by Fonzie. Hey. In the initial broadcast of this episode, it all turned out to be a dream that Ritchie had. But when Mork

proved to be so popular, the ending in the syndicated 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 in Happy Days, aliens exist. Yes. I love it. I didn't know. I didn't realize it was a spin-off.

Amazing. 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 Mork a spin-off. So there had been another show called Sister Terry about a tough talking former gang leader turned nun. I love that. Starring Pam Dauber as the titular character, Sister Terry.

So Gary Marshall took footage from Sister Terry and from Robinstein's in Happy Days and spliced them together to create a pilot and came up with the show about a spaceman living with a human woman. Literally didn't even film anything. he just spliced these shots together. Wait, that didn't air, did it? No.

That would have been... That would have been... Baffling. To the bosses. Yeah, right. It's like, what's going on here? They're clearly not in the same room. These two having a conversation.

Well, Pam Dauber didn't even know she'd been cast in the show until she read about it in the paper. Imagine... And she was like, this sounds shit. Imagine getting a... Getting your TV show up on network television. because a spot opened up and they just rushed a thing together. You'd think there'd be so much work leading up to every show getting made.

We were rejected over 10 years. This is like, yeah, just whack something together and we just took a free spot. Like it's a community radio station or something? Yeah. I was a spot free. So, yeah, we put our hands up. 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, you know, just splicing two bits of film together. But those shows don't last, but this one did. So apparently Robin's manager called him to tell him about it and said, we've got 22 shows guaranteed, you'll get paid 15 a week. And Robin stoked. Like he's like, 1500 bucks. Yes. He'd never made so much money. And then his manager was like, no, no, 15,000. He was like, 1500 bucks a week. Uh, yes. You're going to get paid 15 a week. 15 bucks a week. Woo-hoo. Sweet. He hits it down. straight away. $15,000.

I'm going to buy a hammer. And it's getting that per week. Yeah. Wow. That's... I know. Big, if you're happy with 10% of that, imagine your wave just winner.

I know. So Gary Marshall's son, Scott, the one who wanted a spaceman, he tells his 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. And Gary would 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. They're just like, I just sit here, this is where my camera is. What did he learn at Julia, how to raise a hat with his eyebrows, not how to stand on a mark? Not to hit a mark. It doesn't know 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 to have someone specific to follow him. That's smart. Kind of crazy. It's funny when 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 Dorbill 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 Schuble. Shirley and Three's 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. Isn't that insane? That's cool. At its peak, it had a weekly audience of 60 million people. Whoa. Two Australians and a bit. Wow.

Two and a bit of Australia. Yeah, whacking a bit of New Zealand in there too. Wow. Yeah, come on in, New Zealand. Please, we like you. Please. Can we come and visit you as well? Oh, I can't why they're starting to make deals.

Not for Melbourne people, but... God, no. 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.

Yeah. In case you're like, just go. Yeah, that was a distant, distant memory, hopefully. Hopefully. One day. Oh, doesn't feel it. So, yeah, 60 million people watching. Crazy.

I can't get my head around that. He's just become very quickly a star. Wow. He's a star. 60 million people. Now, how many people is that in Olympic pools? One. Whoa.

They're really big. They're a densely filled pool. Yeah. Yeah. It's a small pool. His stand-up career is also going really well. He'd go from the set of Mork and 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 a night, you know, five or six. 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've got to put that in there because that's insane. 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. Wow. I love it. So by the second year of Mork and Mindy, Robin was, using heavy drugs pretty regularly. He was partying, drinking, using drugs, sleeping with women. His wife Valerie in the doco 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 her concerns more for his well-being in terms of being out. 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 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, 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 until 3 or 4 a.m. 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 no.

And they only used like a tiny clip of it in the docker and I was like, oh, I hate that. I think I saw it as a kid maybe. It was one of those ones. It was just in a dusty corner of a video shop for Blockbuster or something. Like, Popeye, a movie. Cool. Oh, this is weird. Yeah, it looked a bit strange.

Also, I believe the debut, if not one of the early films of future Brendan Fraser collaborator, Linda Hunt. Yes. You're talking about often. I think of 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 out of 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, you know, regarded very well. 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.

A couple years later, during the fourth season of Mork and Mindy, Pam Dauber had the difficult task of telling Robin that his close friend, John Belushi, had died the night before from an overdose. 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 sobered the shit out of me. So seeing his friend die from an overdose 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 him on Wednesdays anymore. Okay.

That's a rest day. Got to have rest days. That is smart. I mean, it would be like, yeah, I think about that 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 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 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 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. Like, often our party is a beer, isn't it, Jess? Yeah, free drink. Oh, you get two drinks tonight. All right. Ooh. Things are looking up. It was around the same time that Robin learned that Mork and Midney had been cancelled.

And he was really fearful of what the future held for him. 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 Sanfran, 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. Robbins' career kept moving along, having roles in the world according to Garp in 1982. The Survivors in 1983 and Club Paradise in 19. that we said these roles didn't really advance his film career. But I mean... According to Garp, that classic that we all know and love? The world according to Garp. Wow. Garp. 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 he's a big breakout role. It's maybe, what, his fifth film role? Sorry, just to confirm, according to Garp, no nominations. No nominations. Survivors, no nominations. Wow.

Club Paradise, no nominations. Popeye, no nominations. Oh, okay. Now I know that the system is rigged. Absolutely. Good morning, Vietnam, nominated. Okay. I watched that at school.

We must have been studying Vietnam War. That was his first big film. I remember, I remember that being a big hit. Yeah. Yeah, maybe in school as well. What year did it come out? 87. Oh, wow.

It feels like a 90s film. But that's probably because I watched it at school. Yeah, in the 90s. Checks out. See, I watched it. It would have been in high school, so the 2000s. So to me, it's a 2000s film. Oh, right.

And you're probably thinking 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? Which is... We won!

And everyone had to be like, okay, yeah. He actually improvised the line, Good morning, Vietnam. They're like, ooh, there's something in that. 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. The secret of the ooze. So the director said, we just let the cameras roll. Oh, sorry, that was from the producer. at Mark Johnson. We just let the cameras roll. And Robin managed to create something new for every single take. What an editing nightmare. Yeah. The editor is just 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 could 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 scripts are. Yeah. What fine weather we're having. He just said like, wow, look, an alien. And you're just saying, like, wow, look, an alien. And you're You're like, what fine weather we're having. What fine weather we're having. Dinner's ready, darling. Did you ever have that when you were doing more acting, like learning acting stuff?

Do you ever work with a cowboy who just wouldn't do the script? I was a cowboy. And she was a nightmare, let me tell you. Yeah, let me tell you. Yeah, Dave, anything? You would have been a cowboy, I reckon. No, I don't think usually people would stick to the script. I would say most drama students take that,

take it very seriously. Yeah, that's right. Everyone else would be like... Lighten up. You know what I mean? 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. Yeah. Did you... Do you ever work with someone who went on to be like really successful in acting?

Even more than both of you? Absolutely not. No. He didn't ever work with Hugh Jackman or something. Yeah, Hugh Jack. Hugh and I started about the same. same time at Wopper. I'm really happy for him.

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 A-TAR, because I didn't do well enough in maths. Yeah, that makes sense. But I had a really good audition. So I was like, okay, that's dumb. But three girls from my drama class, and there were only 10 in an entire drama class, three girls got into that course and none of them do anything within the arts now.

Right. Right. But there's so many acting. jobs in Australia. Yeah, exactly. 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 what that is.

No, that sounds like there's an extra word. Making shops look cool. Surely that's just merchandising. I guess you could do audio merchandising. Sure. She sells radio ads. Anyway, in 1986, Robin teamed up with Woopie Goldberg and Billy Crystal to, um, 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. And yeah, it was crazy. They're clips of it in the docker and it looks like so much fun. And yeah, the creator of comic relief, this guy called Bob Zemada, he said that Robin felt blessed because he came from a wealthy home,

but he wanted to do something to help those less fortunate. 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 off. It is interesting. I always just got the vibe, you know, from watching him. He's always on when you're watching him, that he was like that all the time and that in private he might be a bit, you know, a bit much. 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 that all the time would get exhausting. Yeah. 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 not in an accent? Well, did I do the dishes?

Hey, yeah. And you're like, okay, thanks. Okay, but I can see the dishes, Robin, and they're still there. I've had a bad day and I just want to talk to you about it. He picks up the dishes and the dishes are having a conversation. Hey, have you been washed? No. No, no, how's it.

Oh, my God. Huh, hey, who, was he. Yeah, I'm pretty good at that too. You know, you're the Robin Worm's impersonation and it ends up just being sounds. Because the hard part of doing Robin Worms is, He thinks of words that whole time at that pace. Wild. Yeah, his brain is very quick.

Was it Bob's, sorry Bob, was that Bob's Zmuda? Is that the guy, that was Andy Kaufman's friend? Oh, I'm not sure. Possibly. U.D.? Yeah. He's, you know how, so there was, I think he kept that Tony Clifton character going. That was sometimes, yeah.

So that, he's an interesting guy in his own right. So how was he involved? They were just a bit... Created comic relief. Right, okay, gotcha. Yeah. So, yeah, between roles, you'd come home and he'd switch off. And Valerie said she was struggling to manage the home.

She was like, I didn't have an organised kind of brain. I had no 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 Marcia 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're mentioning this. Oh, 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, Robert and Valerie divorced. And tabloids widely reported that he'd run off with the nanny, Marsha.

In the doco, 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, She had loved the Hollywood lifestyle and being like the adventure of being with Robin, but it became so much as he got so popular and so famous. It became too much for her.

And 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 a 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 Marcia that she had to start her adventure with Robin in such an unpleasant way. Like she's so nice. She's so cool about everything. Yeah, she's really, really cool. So he married Marsha 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 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 Godot 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, I just, he's just like, blah, la la la, la, and watching Steve work. He was like, oh, okay, you can shut up for a second, see what happens there. So that's pretty cool. In 89, he played a private school English teacher in Dead Poets Society. It's another school one I would have watched to that. Yeah.

A real 90s feeling film. Robin described the school that he went to, that sort of private boys' school, as this kind of vibe. Like, it was that sort of school. Right. Oh, wow. And that final scene, as some critics said, inspired a generation. It became part of pop culture.

I, Captain My Captain, sort of this big iconic scene in that film. In Awakening's in 1990, he plays a doctor modeled after Oliver Sacks, who was a famous neurologist. And Oliver Sacks later said that the way Robin Williams' mind worked was a form of genius. And that's coming 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. Oh, classic.

That was my favourite film at the time. I love that so much. It's great. I looked out recently and the critics didn't like it that much. I think it's one of those ones that was like, 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,

bang around, and you're like, what a moment. It's so good. Dustin Hoffman, amazing. Shmey. Shmey. Julia Roberts is in it. Yeah.

Breakout role. So good. Anyway, huge for her. Monty Python's Terry Gilliam 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 very cool to see the way that 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 a role that was written for him. At first he refused since it was a Disney movie.

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. 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. Just didn't want them to make merch. So it's not specifically... But I swear I've seen a genie toy.

Oh, we, I reckon I had one from McDonald's. Mac has definitely had a genie, right? Yeah. Yeah. And do you get the feeling like, he's like, He doesn't want corporations in general to profit, or is it Disney that he had some problem with? Yeah, well, 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 him. I don't know, yeah, but he was sort of like, he 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 getting big. Yeah, that's it all. It all took off in the 90s. That's why they call it the second golden age because it finally was taken off for the first time. Before that, they hadn't thought of drawing pictures. Wow, moving images. Amazing.

So no surprise that Robin improvised much of his dialogue recording approximately 30 hours of tape. Again, editing nightmare. Yeah, and also, yeah, there's a script for all the other actors. But he impersonated a dozen. of celebrities in character, including Ed Sullivan, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Groucho Marx, Rodney Dangerfield, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Arsenio Hall. And his role in Aladdin became one of his most recognised and best loved, and the film was the highest grossing movie of 1992,

winning numerous awards, including a Golden Globe for Robin. Absolutely classic. Yeah, I was a classic. I saw that at the cinemas up in Aubrey. Did you? On Dean Street, Albury. I remember. You remember every movie in what you saw? Well, yeah, that's what Alistair reckons. I forget that about you. But it's definitely fading. That's my memory fades. But I do remember most of the

childhood movies. It was a rainy day. Did you love it? And we, the family drove up, because it wasn't much to do in Bright. We were just locked up 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. I think maybe my parents went and saw Michael Collins if I'm thinking of the same trip. So the kids went to Aladdin. Parents went to Michael Collins. You had different experiences that day. In 1993, he said

hello in his role in Mrs. Doubtfire. Director Chris Columbus said watching him work was a magical and special privilege. His performances were unlike anything any of us had ever seen. They came from some spiritual and otherworldly place, which is nice.

It was just hit after hit. Jamungi came out two years later in 1995. Oh, we loved that. Oh, my goodness. Had the board game, the video. Oh, yeah. I think I was too scared to watch it. 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 May Come also, 98. Bicentennial Man, Dave. 99. Fantastic.

Adams, obviously, is going to be a real funny film. 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 funny. Oh, no. 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. Wow. We're worried about you, Maddie. Your greatest gift. Now, I'm starting, I still can remember when I, where I saw the film, but remembering where and when my parents saw films, that skill is starting to fade. But if you're always exactly four years off,

you can sort of compensate for that. Other films like Insomnia in 2002, one hour photo as well, and angry man in Brooklyn. Yeah, I love photography. This is going to be fun. This will be fun. I haven't seen that, but apparently that's great.

Yeah, I haven't seen it either. But these films showed Robin's range and dramatic abilities, as well as his ability to play layered comedic roles. That's the thing, too. I reckon one hour photo was one of the first movies where I registered people were talking about Robin Williams in like a serious role. I feel that 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. But it's like, no, he just. trained. Like he was a really good actor. He is and what, you know, like it was... He can raise a hat with his eyebrows. Okay. It's funny if you see it.

Eric Idol in the doco 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 he gets these shoes and you can't blow it. They're untied the entire time. Can you like that? The bit was that like Robin was on stage. and he just had this one really persistent 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 this annoying heckler. That sounds brutal. In the moment in the audience, I'm sure would have been a bit of fun, hopefully. But retelling it, you're like, okay,

it's not that funny, Eric. And was Eric like, and I was one of those people praying for this young man to die. Yeah, exactly. Eric was, yes. He also continued, also continue to provide voices in other animated films, including Fern Gully, the last rainforest.

Anyone else remember Fern Gully? I never saw a Fern Gully, but I do remember it. I remember it getting some good heat in the... A lot of high on the playground. Loved 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 in 2006. So 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 finalised in 2010. And he married his third wife, graphic designer Susan Schneider, on October 22, 2011. So like we mentioned before, when Belushi died,

Robin said it sobered the shit out of him. But he had a couple of struggles with alcohol 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 centre in Oregon,

admitting that he was an alcoholic. And years afterwards, he acknowledged his failure to maintain sobriety, but said he never returned to using cocaine. It was just alcohol that he was having issues with. And he had another admission to a rehab center in mid-24, 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 of 2009, he was hospitalized due to heart problems. He postponed his one man tour for surgery to replace his aortic valve and to correct irregular heartbeat. It was a pretty big heart surgery. Having a mother who's a car, valves are very important for him. So important. And this is something that his good friend, Billy Christ, knew 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 working. Oh man. You're working on Billy Crystal's level over there, man. That's amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Multiple messages and then said that Robin would wake up and have all these voice mats. 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 Robin made a great recovery from surgery and he said it gave him a sense of appreciating life and slowing down a little. He was on David Letterman eight weeks later. Wow. So he slowed down for about two months. Yeah.

But no, like he, yeah, he talked about it just giving him 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 and depression and dementia and lots and lots of things. Obviously, not every person's 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 nor illegal drugs were involved and prescription drugs present in his body were at very normal therapeutic levels.

There was nothing sinister. The autopsy also provided a really important piece of information. Examination of his brain tissue suggested Robin had suffered from diffuse Louis body dementia. It's similar to Parkinson's, 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 Robin'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. Yes. I didn't realize that. Yeah, that makes it all make so much sense. Yeah, I remember people, I remember hearing that it was alcohol and stuff like that. And I think the Parkinson's diagnosis, I mean, he'd been unwell on and off for a while,

but, you know, it took many, many doctors to diagnose and they said it's Parkinson's. But I don't think he publicly said anything about it. And so that came out after he died. Right. 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. Wow. That is awful.

It's so awful, yeah. But yeah, his 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 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 bangerang 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. He gave his immeasurable talent freely and generously to those who needed it most, from our troops stationed abroad to the marginalized on our own streets.

Which is a really nice. Yeah, wow. Really nice statement there. That's great. Yeah, wow. That's summed up very nicely Barak or whoever wrote that for Barak. Exactly. It's summed up very nicely, Barak's Speedronic team. They've done that 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. We all knew it was coming, sadly, but... You didn't mention that Cocoa the gorilla also... Of course, yes. And we talked about an episode of Primates about...

dedicated to Coco the gorilla and apparently yeah he hung out a bit and then when Coco was told and used Coco did sign sadness yeah sad yeah that's so awful

I think whoever was the guests on that episode was like did they need to tell Coco would Coco would you have to bum out a gorilla so as a sort of of way of coping with his addiction and sort of 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 travelling to racing events like the Tour de France. And in 2016, a couple of 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 close friend. That's a wild amount of bicycles. I know, 87 of them. And that's, I don't know if that's all of them. They didn't say all of them. They said 87. They keep a couple each as well. We'll decide to donate 10% of our father's collection.

I don't, why would you have so many bikes? It feels like a bike's the kind of thing where you go, oh, maybe you've got, this is my road bike and this is my mountain bike or something. If you were... Yeah, two bikes. If you had the money. But 87, 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, people collect. I don't think he rides them all. Yeah, he collects them. People do that with shoes. These ones are funny colors. Limited edition, bike.

I just bought four pairs of shoes. Whoa. Four. In one go? Yeah. Yeah. 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. I've got a few pairs of shoes. I've got too much shoes. You count them like water. They're not individual. I have a tap, a shoe tap.

I turn on the shoe tap. Oh, too much shoe. Too much shoe. Too much shoes. Too much shoe. Turn off the shoe tap. That's fun. I didn't realize you had a shoe tap.

You didn't have a shoe tap in your house? I don't. Well, oh my God. Yeah, it runs dry very quickly. 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 approximately 90,000 troops.

He did that a lot. After his death, the USA thanked him for all he did for the men women of our armed forces. It's pretty crazy. Really? Like what Barak's Obama? I don't know why I'm not on first name basis with Barack Obama. What Baruch's was saying before.

But yeah, how he touched every section of, like he played, he played such a diverse cast of characters in terms of professions, I guess. That's probably what every actor would do though over a career, I assume. Play lots of different things. Yeah. You would hope, or you're being typecast as a doctor. But he seems like a lot of his, Yeah, that's true too.

It does seem like a lot of his were occupation-based. Yeah, that's true, yeah. Like when he played that fast-growing boy. Peter Pan. Bicentennial man. Yeah. All right, okay. I'm not usually so quickly proven wrong.

Man who eats spinach to become a strong sailor. Well, a sailor though, right? Occupation. You're focusing on the spinach, but the occupation was sailor. I thought occupation was spinach enthusiast, but you're right. You're all right. 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 why they got so many of those, like, renter bikes around. They're just all Robin Williams' bikes. It's crazy. Christchurch is such a beautiful city.

Jesus has had a... a tough run lately. So beautiful. Yeah. Yeah, I was there for that most recent tough run. Years after the films came out, Janet Herschinson revealed an interview that Robin Williams had expressed interest in portraying Hagrid

in the Harry Potter film series. Oh, wow. But it was rejected by Chris Columbus due to the British only. They were having only British actors. But can you imagine Robin Williams as Hagrid? It would have been a very different tone. You're a wizard, Harry. Ho! Hey, ho, ho, ho.

Oh, what's that behind you? Justin's not a talk about it. He does have range. You can play it pretty straight. I wonder if he would have played it sort of small. Just play a giant small. Well, the director of one hour photo was saying that like 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. He was like, he just had like a glow about him then. He was like, there was an energy about it. That's the same method we use for tiring out our dog. Yes.

Take it for a long walk. Get it out of him. Get it out. Yeah, or toddlers. 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, four Grammys, three Emmys, six Golden Globes being nominated for 12,

as well as two MTV Awards and two SAG Awards. So he won a lot of awards and was nominated for a lot more. What is he, three of four and an egot, is it? Where you just missed the Tony? Yeah, yeah. So he's got Emmy, Grammy and Oscar? Yeah. Wow.

And if they counted Golden Globes. And Golden Globes. And if they counted MTV Awards, oh my God. I'm watching the best picture Oscar movies in reverse order. I've just watched the most recent four. And I'm starting to think maybe MTV picture of the year is more my speech. Yeah. Probably a more fun.

I had a look and they are all Avengers films. Recently there's a lot of Marvel movies have been winning in. What kind of loser would watch all of the Marvel films in some kind of order? I'm kind of lame person would bother. I would say probably a lot of people. And they're all great people, Jess. Don't be so hard. Have you got through them all?

Yeah, I've done. I finished them. And now I feel empty. 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.

Wow. As soon as a movie called Ant Man came out, I was like, wow, okay. All right, they're doing them all. 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 the Marvel.

I wasn't aware of him. I think that often the big fan, Marvel fans don't rank the Ant Man ones that high, but I find them really fun. Paul Run's really hot too. And who's the cop in one of them? Randall Park. Randall Park. I love Randall Park so much.

You always forget Randall Park. He's one of my favorite actors. I can never remember his. name. It's a great name too. He's great. He's so funny. Which one's he in? Or is he in both? The second one. I've got to watch it again. Ant Man and the Wasp. I watched that at the cinemas.

Where were you? Where come on? It was at the Nova in Carlton. Okay. And what were mum and dad watching? Yeah. Where were mum and dad? Mom and Dad dropped me off. Yeah. They were watching... They went to watch an adult film. Not an adult film, sorry. A film aimed.

that an adult audience, if you know what I mean. Yeah, they watched the porn version of Ant Man. Dave, what's it called? Pant Man. Pants Man. Not my best. Dave, what are you got? Well, Pants Man is really good.

Thank you. Yeah, I don't think you can beat that, Dave. Jess, you nailed it. Thank you. Or Aunt Dick. No, that's... It's where a guy who's able to shrink the size of his dick way down. And then they finally figure.

out they can, what's the giant version of Ant Man? Well, it's called like Gigantor or something. Oh, he's still just, Aunt Man. Oh, but he's, I think in the comics he had a different name. Anyway. Right. I don't know. Yeah, it's that only dick.

Gigantor Dick. 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, which is 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, McLaurin, Mickey Clements Williams. And McLaren is Robin's middle name.

And then Cody, his youngest son and his fiancé were married on July 21st of last year on what would have been Robin's 68th birthday. So his kids honouring him in that way, which is nice. That's nice. Thanks for having some nice facts at the end. Yeah, it's like, here's some nice stuff. That's my report on Robin Williams. That's great. Great work, Bob.

Oh, that was really cool. 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.

done them pretty well. Yeah, Mr. Big was good. I watched... I watched... I watched his recent Halloween one last night, where he plays... He plays sort of the Bobby Boucher character from Waterboy. Only he's in a...

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. What is this movie? Is this a serious movie? It's called Hubey Halloween. No, he plays, like it's, yeah, he plays, it's weird that he's still playing characters like this,

but it's, you ever see The Waterboy? It's a very water boy, you know, where he's sort of, hey, I'm, m-10, that sort of character. And this was made recently. Yeah, it came, it was released this week, I think. Oh, wow. Are you the only person who's watching it? It was ranked number five on Netflix in Australia. Wow.

Buy Netflix? Apparently Adam Sandler's like, he's, he's one of, he's one of the best, he's one of, he's one of, of their big stars. He gets a lot of views. I really like the Shandman. I'm a big Shandman fan. And then I watched a YouTube video that suggests that all of Sandless films are in the same universe.

There are a lot of, like, in this film, there was a family called the O'Doyles. O'Donnell? O'Donnell. O'Donnell. O'Donle? Oh, no. O'Donle? From, I thought it was O'Donel's.

Billy Madison. O'Donle. And yeah, there've been O'Dillers in a lot of different films. Hey, Jess, I've just looked up what he's known as when he becomes big, when the ant man becomes big. Yeah. You want to have a stab? Big Ant Man? Giant Man.

How do they do it? That's good. I don't know how they come up with it. That is arguably better than Big Ant Man though. I actually kind of prefer Big Ant Man. 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.

Holy shit. Small dog. You'd run away from that ant. Holy shit. Small dog. Like a chihuahua. That's still a big fucking ant. That was a great, great report.

Great Block toba report. Oh, the third most... We were surprised, as you said, at the top chest, that this is the 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, yeah, quite different so far.

Yeah. We had a famous murder trial. Then we had an... Harrowing. sort of harrowing 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, Boppa. Thank you. I also, I just had a quick look to see some other notable Juilliard school alumni, if you have got any interest. Robin Williams is the first one listed. Cool.

And Christopher Reeve is right up there. Kevin Spacey, Mandy Patinkin. Yes, Mandy Patinkin was in Robbins Year. Oscar Isaac. Nina Simone. Wow. John Williams, the composer. So I'm guessing he did music.

I'm guessing Nina Simone probably did music as well. Barry Manilow. Pat Benetar. Pat Benetar. Cool. Barry Manelow. Sid Caesar. Alan Greenspan, the economist.

It's a really, it's quite a broad range of, just big names. And then a lot of names I've never heard of as well. Falcilma is the name I have heard of. It's a weird name standing out to me, I don't know. Philip. El Kilmer. Another composer. Yeah, so, oh, Kyle Gass from Tenacious D.

Oh, Tenacious D. That's cool. Went to Julia. That's cool. Yeah, I think, I'm guessing you did music. Cage. Cage. Sorry, Cage.

It's the only way. The funniest duo, oh my God. Yeah, they're great. So good. All right, so this brings us to everyone's favorite section of the show, the fact quote or question section, which has a little jingle that goes to something like this. Fact quote or question.

He always remembers the ding. And to get involved in this, you go to patreon.com slash dogo and pod. Linked in the show notes, and you then get involved in the Sydney-Shonberg 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.

If you are on that level and you are confused by that, send me a message. I'll hook you up. Through Patreon? Through Patreon. Yeah, send us a Patreon message. Or just on his phone number. Yeah, it's 04.

You said too much. I wish I knew your number off by heart, but I don't even know mine. Yeah, I know mine. And you just don't have to do that like you used to. I know my parents' home line, if they still live and have it. My parents just got rid of their landline. So I know mum's, but I'm fucked for Dad. I don't know.

I usually just call Mum. So can I talk to Dad? My dad's got a mobile, but very rarely has it on him. Yeah. It's just keeps it as a landline, basically. I just keep it at home next to the landline phone. My grandpa used to famously keep it plugged in inside the pantry. You couldn't even hear it ring even if you were in the...

I love how famously. World famous. Everyone knew. In my family, which is obviously, yeah, yeah. Pretty famous family. A worldwide family. I love the idea that he got famous outside the family for that. Everyone knows.

Yeah, everyone knew him. The Warnocky Grandpa. Hey, you're the guy, the pantry guy. The pantry phone guy. Yes, it's me. Former Q. So if you're involved on the Sydney-Shonbert level, you get to give us a factor quota a question,

and we do four each week. you get to choose the factor quote or the question, obviously. 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? Yeah, they're a famous Atlas production. Bart 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's sake All right, so Paul's given us a fact And here it is Being my job, I like medical facts 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. 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 and antibiotics, am I saying that right? Yeah. Okay, great.

In the age before anesthesia and antibiotics, speed of surgery was key to patient 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. Oh, he accidentally cut through his assistant's finger. He worked so fast. Both his patient and assistant died of gangrene,

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 do it in 20? You also used an axe. That's a chainsaw. I was probably before the answer of chainsaw. Yeah. off. 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 man. Oh, here we go. Sorry, Paul has told us his job before. He works as a radiographer, mainly with X-ray and MRI. Fantastic. Gotcha. Yeah. I knew, because it was talking to us like it was continuing. in the conversation.

I just forgot that he had told us that the last time he gave us a fact of a question. Thank you so much, Paul. That was a great fact. I love it. 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 Propriter of Bombardier Beer. I love it. Did he write down his actual job title? These are all actual job titles, Dave. So. Okay, Dave.

Oh, my God. Watch the chewed. Okay. A resident grade three teacher. Dave, we've got your 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. I thought I'd mix up a classic question with a bit of do-go on spice. Ooh. Which person that you've covered as a topic or has been a topic would you like to have as a dinner guest? Dolly pardon? Ooh. Good one. But I'd make her bring a guitar.

You wouldn't just have one ready. You'd go, you better bring your fucking guitar, doll. That's true. I've got a guitar. She could use that. Well, she's like, you know when people are on the way, I'm on my way now, need me to pick up anything on the way. Yeah, your guitar.

Yeah, because politely you go, just bring yourself. I've got everything sort of. Just bring yourself and your guitar. And warm up your vocals on the way. Me, me, my, mo. Because we haven't a sing-along. Okay. I'd say mine would be DB Cooper.

So many questions. Oh, yeah, that's a good one because you can go, who are you? Yeah. And he'd say his name and I'd be like, oh, I don't know who that is. Yeah, isn't it? That's the funny thing. I'd be like, oh, okay. But I'd want to know, I'd be like, did you live?

What happened to the money? All that sort of stuff. Imagine 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 anyone dead or alive. Yeah. Oh, that's a...

Matt, why did you say that's a good one? Dave 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 inside card, it would definitely be your dinner party. I'd be like, Dave, tell us about it later. Mine's good for the info, which I can bring back to the show, but it's probably not a great night. It's just a guy.

He's a dream boat after all. Yeah. Just look in those eyes if you can. It's bright specs the whole time. His dark sunglasses. Oh, man. I don't know. Bigfoot?

No, it's hard, hey. What about? Great, yeah. Could give you a piggyback. That'd be nice. Oh, no, hang on. The Lizard Man from the... Wow.

Oh, what would be on the menu then? Yeah, you know what you're serving for dinner? Butter beans. Butter beans. The thing you've got to remember is, the lizard man loves butter beans. That's a good question. I feel like there'd be a hundred different people

I would love to have over. Absolutely, of course. That would be a good question. I reckon for people to let us know who they... Oh yeah, it's great. Love to hear that actually. Yeah, definitely tweet at us. Maybe reply to this episode.

Who would you love to have dinner with from the bloody back catalogue? I lost myself mid-sentence. The next one comes from Gary J from the UK. Gary Jay. And Gary, I thought last week we had Battal, oh, sorry, Betel, 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 on better. His title is Mr. Which is great. Mr. Gary J. Very good, Gary J. I thought that was his father. Mr. Gadi J from the UK is my father's name. He's called me Gatty J. And Mr. Gary Jai has

asked the question also. His question is, if there was no pandemic and money wasn't an issue, 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. 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 for my 30th birthday, which is the African safari. Oh, were you going to have an African safari? Holy shit. At the end of August, damn it. I did I, did I, did I, did I, did, did I'm sure I've talked about it.

That's amazing. Sorry, Jess and I both had to cancel overseas trips. Yeah, mine, I would have, uh, we've sort of been thinking about and hoping to do like a, a big trip, you know, a couple of months of seeing lots of places. So all around the US or Canada or something like that, if I, if I, if there was no pandemic and money wasn't, wasn't an issue, I would take off for like four months. and see a lot. I reckon.

I do a really big trip. It's the best. Yeah, some of our happiest memories are just traveling where there's no, it just feels like you've got all the time in the world. Once you go four months plus, or probably even a couple months or more, it just feels like you've got so much time. Yeah, that's my plan when the world opens up again. Love it.

Yeah, I guess my obvious one would be to do the American tour that we had planned. and that's a similar idea would be a longish trip travelling 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 on a smaller scale than that well I had a few things that I had coming up that I would have loved to have done but on a smaller scale

I'd just love to have a day in a beer garden with friends drinking beers in the sunshine, it would be so nice. Yep, that would be great. Yeah. Much smaller scale, yeah, I'd love to go, you know, down the coast somewhere. Couple of hours away. I'd love to go to Rebel Sport.

Yeah, I'd love to go to Rebel Sport. 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 always do that. I want to visit my mum and then people.

my parents have split up or dad's no longer alive or something. I'm always like, oh no, sorry, dad's there too. Dad's there too. I picture my folks at the beer garden. You too as well. Yeah. It'd be nice to be in the same room as you two to be honest. You too.

You too. Bono's there. Edge. Gary Mullins Jr. What? The fourth and final member. Do you just call him Gary Mullins Jr.? Well, Larry Mullins Jr. And it's Adam Clayton.

Adam Clayton. Yeah, good point. it would be nice to be able to just do this in our normal studio again. I'm so excited to be able to do that. For people outside of Melbourne, where 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 will mean we'll also hopefully do some live streams as well. So stay tuned for that. Yeah, 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, he said in Borat voice. My wife. Thank you for that direction there, Gaddi. He said, me and Nat, my wife, are turning 40 and four years and are saving up to go to Australia. And I really want to get in one of them cages and swim with a shark. Oh, that's cool. That's a great one. I mean, we do that all the time. 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. Maybe not four years, but you were talking about it for a good year or something, I reckon. That was, yes, that's true. Hang on. The longest. About five minutes ago, Matt said, I've never heard that you wanted to go on a trip for your 30th.

And now you're like, you were talking about this for a year. You couldn't stop banging on about it. I knew Jess was going to Hawaii for a year, I reckon. 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 it. At one point, I was going to come to Africa with you, Dave. So maybe it just hit home that you were going without me.

Oh, I'm so sorry. Awful. But 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, sale flights and I was like, all right, well, what coincides with my birthday? 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 it. So you kind of got great value out of it without the payoff of it. So that's the plus about booking ahead. But what you usually, did was just give yourself a brutal disappointment. Yeah, a real deep cut. Dave and I were talking for a little while our birthday present for you was going to be, we were going to give you an Hawaiian day at home. So we're going to buy you Hawaiian records, ingredients for Hawaiian cocktails,

Hawaiian shirt, or two Hawaiian shirts and some decorations and stuff. And then someone pointed out, which was 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 mourned the holiday. So that would have been nice. But I think you did very well with your generous birthday gifts this year.

That's, is that, was that too much to ask, 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 Jay. That was a great one.

That kicked off a bit of a combo. And finally this week, Tom Goodall, who's given himself the title of Undersecretary for underwear. Oh. Undersecretary. Okay.

Okay. 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 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, like, you know, Jess Perkins, a tortured artist.

Oh, that's good. Yeah. I like that a lot. What about Matt Stewart, a memoir? Oh, wow. Simple, classic. Yes, love it. No, it is not a pun. Oh, damn it. Dave. What about the Matt Stewart story by Dave Warnocky? Ooh, throw them off.

Yeah, that's right. I probably move a few more units because you have more interesting life because you've lived a lot longer. What about, like, Warneke, what is he good for? Yeah. Something like that. Oh, that's good.

I think... Absolutely nothing is the answer. You know, that says on the back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you flip it over. My favorite chapter in my book will be how I was in Vegas when I turned 30. You guys could probably relate to this, being overseas for your 30.

The best chapter in mine will be called, Count do. I had a horrific dream last night about Barnsey. What I mean? We all, like it was 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 Poirot. Yeah. What a great concept for a dream. Did you wake up and immediately googled Barnsey? No, I hadn't thought about it. You know how you don't really think about it until like that just shrugged my memory.

And it was really awful in the moment. We're all very upset by it. Australia was in mourning. Of course. I would 100%. He had a great name for his autobiographies because his iconic solo song is working class man. So he split it into the first one was called Working Class Boy, which covered his childhood and then Working Class Man is the sequel to it.

So that's pretty good. If we had a hit song, it would make it a lot easier. Yeah, that's right. Could we just call it Do Go On theme music? How about that? By Evan Monroe Smith. Yeah. Altogether we could, you 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 already, we've had a big lawsuit by that time. So mine's called Dave Go On. And people are like, that doesn't quite work. Mine's called The Truth Behind Do Go On. And it is scathing. Oh, my gosh.

A saucy peek behind the curtain. Dave, you also did a similar bad wordplay one for the bonus episode, Dave Island Disks. Yeah, yeah. No, I think I called Desert Island Dave. Oh, Desert Island Dave. Desert Island Dave Island Disp makes even more sense, actually. It took out the Difts part, which is the bit you were keeping. So bad, but so good.

Yeah. Geez, Tom, I reckon we've let 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 pun masters than we are ourselves. Which, to be honest, would not be that hard. Beyond Dave, who is a genuine pun master. It's master bows down before a king.

Let me just tell you. Matt, Matt, door mat. Is that a poem? Oh, wow. The door mat book. That's a good one. That sounds shit. It's just a book of dormats.

No, 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 image, my doormat is half a watermelon that looks real cute. Oh, that's great. That's nice. I've wiped my feet on that door mat, Jess. Not for a while, though.

Yeah, I can't wait until we get to wipe out awful, awful shoes on your... beautiful Matt again. Can't wait to see your shoe tap again. Yeah. Wow. Show you the shoe tap. Help yourself. Dave's only had one pair of shoes for 10 years, so he cannot relate.

I've got a new one recently for the birthday, so here's the 10 more years. We should get on to thanking some other patrons. We like to thank a few others along the way. And Jess normally comes up with something, 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 Popeye in real life even though it's a cartoon. So we could do, you know, like... What they're the star of? Yeah. They're the star of a... I don't waste it. I don't think there's that many. Okay.

Well, yeah. I'm thinking, all right, well, can I kick it off? Yeah. Only if Jess has given us the stamp of approval. Sure. If you think of something better while I'm reading out this name, let us know. No, no, no, I think that's good. Giving them a movie title's good.

I'm thinking, firstly, uh, from Nashville, Tennessee, home of country music. Eric Alba. Eric Alba. Maybe Eric could be in the film version of Lerlene Lumpkin with the real, a human playing. Do you remember Lerlien Lumpkin? No. She's the country musician who. was flirting with Homer.

Oh, yeah. I'm asking. She asked if you'll bunk with her tonight. Bunk with me tonight. Yes, of course I remember Lleyn. I mean, that storyline has been begging for a real life big screen adaptation. Yeah, that cartoon definitely needs to be adapted

into a cartoon. So maybe Eric Alba plays Homer and yeah, who plays Lerlene Lumpkin? Maybe Jessica Alba. I love it. Perfect casting. Yeah, that's really good. That's good.

Have you ever seen The Simpsons made like what they would look like if they were real? Terrifying. They're always terrifying. Yeah, terriful, yeah. Terrifle. Terrifle's a good word. I like that.

What do you call those again? Smushing two words together? Chrysotunity. Portmanteau. Portmante, that's it. The next person I'd love to thank is from all. apologies for the pronunciation.

I'm going to say Luruk from Germany, I think, D-E. Dominic Schwind. Shooind. Dominic Schwind. So wait, are we doing animated versions or live-action versions? Live-action versions of TV animated things. What about the Jetsons?

Oh, yeah, that'd be great. I'd love to see a live-action version of that. Lots of technology would be cool. Yeah, that'd be really fun. That'd be fun. George Jetsons. There's a billboard there's maybe like a jeweler or something

called George Jensen and it brings that theme song into my head every time George Jensen Daughter Judy There was a Harvey Birdman episode that had the Jetsons in it and it was like it was very funny

they somehow were interacting with Harvey Birdman they needed him to represent him in a case and because from their reality everything was just like travelators and stuff. So they came in the front door of Harvey Birdman's office and they're like, where's the travelator?

And they couldn't walk very well because they were used to just being travelated 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 like a four metre walk in the door. Very funny stuff.

Anyway, thank you, Dominic. Twinned. Thank you, Dominic. Who will play George Jetson. And finally, I'd love to thank from Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. Commit. If you're going to commit, commit. Waterloo. I'd love to thank Zoe Helena. Zoe Helena.

What about life? Yeah. I was going to say Captain Planet, but I think College Humor or someone was going to done that. Don Sheidel was Captain Planet. What about Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law? Do you know that cartoon? Yeah, I do, yeah.

I don't. But it sounds fun. It is really fun. Why don't I don't know it? Zoe could play Harvey or can't think of any of the other characters in it. Well, you want title character, don't you? Yeah, yep. We're going to do a gender swap.

I know that the fans of Harvey Birdman, 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, well, they do. Yeah, it's a really fun cartoon. If anyone's looking for cartoon tips. There you go.

Zoe, Harvey Birdman. From Waterloo. There was no, she could play the real-life version of the Abba cartoon. Yeah. That is a real thing. Almost definitely is. Surely at some point. The past was a different time in a lot of ways.

Can I thank some people as well? Oh, please, Jess, can you? I would love to thank from Wingdale, New York, Kevin Packrad. Oh, the Pack. Kevin Packrad. Have we not shouted out to Kevin Packrad before? How have we not? This feels like an error.

I feel like we must have. But I guess we've 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, he has. Maybe we feel like we've mentioned him in that way. Well, I feel like he's a pretty cool guy. So what have kids?

So what if Kevin Packrad played Johnny Bravo? Oh, good one. He's the guy with the big jaw. Yeah, the big hair. And tiny legs. Oh, that's so good. And he says, hello, mama. That's very good.

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 can play Natsy if she wants to 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... Is that not a big international show? I don't know. All right, Zoe, right at the end, I'll give you one third option. Why are you wasting all of these great options? I'm sorry. We've got more people to go.

And I'm already out of ideas. Yes, sorry, Jess, you're all thanking people. Yes, I am, you piece of shit. So you stay in your lane, Dave. Well, I've got some cartoons ready to go. So 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 Chappelle. Chappelle. Chappelle. What about, does anyone remember, Hey Arnold? Oh, yes. Move it football head. Hey Arnold, yes. That's such a good.

I loved that one. I loved Hay Arnold. I was sick. Yeah, I was a Hay Arnold fan. Good stuff. Loving that. Michael. So do you think he's playing the titular Arnold? Yeah, with his big hair and a tiny little cap sitting in between the two tufts of hairs.

Yeah. Yeah. That's great. And then when him and Gerald, the best friend, put their thumbs to get them and it made this noise that went, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo. Oh, yeah. And Matt, if you think real life Homer would be pretty full-on looking, I think the real life, Hey Arnold would be something else. His head literally is a football with ears on the other side. His grandpa was nice too.

Just saying. And finally for me, I would love to thank from Vancouver in WA. Washington? Yeah, Washington, I reckon. They have Vancouver as well. I'd love to thank Terry Sal Kido, Salchido. Ah, Terry. Salcedo.

He loves his bread. He loves his butter, but most of all, he loves each other. Madeline. Yes. 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 loves each other.

Madeline. Terry, congrats. You are now a French orphan. Oh. But she's so happy all the time. She's Madeline. She's Madeline. I love Madeline.

So cute. Papito? Yes. There was a live-action film, if I remember correctly, many, many years ago. It's time for a reboot. Potentially, I remember my Nana taking my sister and I to see that.

Oh, wow. I can't tell you the name of the cinema. Sorry, Matt. Was it in Dean Street, Albury? Yeah, and your parents were watching Titanic at the time. Dean Street, Albury. It was always advertised on, like, regional TV up around there, and every ad was Dean Street,

Aubrey. It just seemed like such a magical place. Everything's on Dean Street, Aubrey. Dean Street Aubrey. Aubrey's really got it going on. Yeah, the film came out in 1999, so there you go. Almost checks out with Titanic, almost. Yeah, you're very close.

Was that the cinema for so long? It potentially does. So thanks, Terry. That's May done. Dave, if you want to bring it home. I want to bring it home now with, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I'd like to thank Eddie Coon. I want to go with... What was the cartoon where his sister was DW?

Arnold. Hey Arnold. No, that's Arthur. Arthur. Yes. I said that. When you said, hey Arnold, that popped into my head, Arthur, and I couldn't quite pictures, man.

And I know that... D-W. I know that because my initials are D-W, so I got a fair bit of that. I know. I call you D-W and I also call our friend D-W-W-W- So it comes into my head a lot. There you go. D-W.

Eddie, maybe your name is Kun or K-U-H-N, so I apologize for saying that wrong, but Eddie, you are the titular, Arthur, the Ardvark. I think Eddie might even be, it might be E-D-I. I'm not going to stop correcting people's pronunciation, but that would be my best guess, just in case, Eidie Coon or Kahn. Jeez, it's a good name. I'd love to know how to say it, E-D. Well, thank you so much from Milwaukee, Wisconsin there.

like to thank now from a mystery location. Possibly from the fortress of the moles. I would like to thank Alan Gilsonan. Alan Gilsonan. Fantastic. Alan's a mystery. What about Rick and Morty? Oh, good one.

Which one is he going to be? Pickle Rick. Pickle Rick. He's going to be Pickle Rick. Pickle Rick. I'm Pickle Rick. I thought for a second I said picker Rick. Oh yeah.

All right, I guess Rick. There are a lot of Rick's in there. Pickle Rick. Picklework. Alan, Gilsenann. Thank you so much. You just don't want to be Jerry. You just don't want to be Jerry.

Poor Jerry. Yeah, Dave is such a Jerry, but you don't want to be. You don't want to be Jerry, but Dave, you're such a funny. I've never seen this show, so I don't know how offended I should be. You should be pretty offended. Jerry sucks. Really? Everyone hates Jerry.

Really? He's very funny. Oh, my God. He's so funny. Why do people hate him then? He's just a bit of a drop kid. Who's the most popular and best? looking character on the show?

They don't really have those. No. 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. I think you'd enjoy the show, Dave. Although, yeah, maybe you wouldn't. How about you give it a watch and let us know. Thanks for putting that little asterisk there, Matt, to 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 men's stuff.

It's a lot of writing. There's an episode. So it's like a heist movie spoof. Very fun. They're putting the team together. And it's all double crosses and stuff. You'd lap that one up, I reckon. You'd have to watch a bit to get to that.

I'd be the character, one of my favorite characters, Mr. Poopie Buttheads. All right, now you're talking. Maybe I'd be Mr. Mises. Yeah. All right. Trying his best. I would like to finally thank from Candler.

North Carolina. Pooey butthole. I got it wrong. Pooby butthole, sorry. Don't at her. Don't at me. They've already done it. Great.

Butthole. Thanks, Jess. That was a long enough distraction from North Carolina for me to move on and say, I would like to thank from North Carolina.

Oh, North Carolina. Oh, my God. No, he's saying the name. You can't now. Uh, Teresa or Therese LaValle. Oh, what a great name. Lavelle. What about, uh,

Torres or Teresa is in Powerpuff Girls. One of my favorite cartoons growing up. I loved it. Yes. I loved, the blue one, Bubbles. Bubbles, that was my favourite. I loved Bubbles. I never watched it.

Until finally watched it for Primates earlier this year, I think we did a Primates episode about it because the bad guy is... Mojo Jojo. Mojo Jojo. Yeah, that's a fun show though. It was a real funny sort of stuff. Oh, really, really funny.

I like it a lot. So thank you so much to Teresa or Therese from LaValle, no, LeValley, from Candler in Undisclosed State in the United States of America. Good save. What were the other Powerpuff girls' names? Buttercup. Yes.

And Blossom. That's right. Buttercup was the badass green one. Yeah, yeah. Blossom was the red leader. Like pink? Yeah, yeah. Or pink, yeah.

Man, that's a good show. I'm going to give Zoe one last choice. Oh, my God. What was that cartoon where there were like monsters and one of them held its eyes in its hands? Oh, are real monsters. Are real monsters. And that was crumb.

Yeah. That's right. That's another possible option there for you, Zoe. Jeez, I've given you some duds. And Zoe could be Crumb, Ickis or Oblena. What are the three characters? Man, I loved it so much. I had a crumb toy. Or Futurama.

Or Futurama, Zoe. You could be, you could be a leiter. Matt, why do Zoe gets so many? Every else gets one. Why are you panicking, Matt? Stop playing favourites. Zoe loved the first option. I think you go back through and give everyone five options now just in case.

Yeah. Actually, let's redo every Patreon we've ever had. we've got to go back to the start. Thanks so much for all your support, though. Amazing stuff from Eric Dominic, Zoe, Kevin, Michael, Terry, Edy, Alan and Therese. 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 has Blockbeen? We've passed the halfway mark yet, and only the two biggest block topics to come. Absolutely right. We've got some fun ideas for November to keep the fun going. While speaking of fun, do we need to check if there's any members of the Triptage Club to be welcomed in?

Of course, yes. I did have a brief look earlier and there are two inductees into the Triptage 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 Bonn himself. He's coming down. On a steel horse, he rides. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah, he's definitely playing. 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? A vocoder maybe. Generated by foo fighters used it as well. Ow, wow, wow. Yep, I know what you're talking about. I can't think of the name. Vokoda? Vokoda.

Vosda rings a bell, maybe. That was a thing that lasted not very long, maybe. Bring it back, rock and roll. Yeah, due for a resurgence. 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. Bound for Glory. No, bound for I'm not sure. It's rose tattoo. Doesn't matter. Blaze of glory. Thank you.

All right. And Jess, what are we got? What are we eating? What are we drinking? Well, given Robin's love of partying, we've got beer and cocaine. All right. I love cocaine as an hors d'oeuvre.

Yeah. It's going around on silver trays, little lines. Yeah. 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 Row, bring him in, Dave gives them 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 are people that have supported us at the shoutout level for three consecutive years. So that's how you get into this club.

It's very exclusive. Only a few members at most each week at Welcome Bin. So here we go. Warming up the pipes. Okay. Yeah, yeah. That was a really important part to explain what we're doing this, Dave, but I forgot.

Thank you so much. Firstly, from Oldman. Melbourne in Aberdeenshire in Great Britain. This is going to be a good name. You are not wrong. It is Grant Cheese Right. Yes. He ain't cheese wrong.

He's cheese right. Yes. Welcome in. Great name, mate. Great name, honestly. I'm patting you on the back for that one. If he's Cheese Right, well, I don't want to be cheese right. And secondly, from Melbourne, Victoria in Australia.

It is Georgia Cowling. Sweet Georgia Cowling, all right. Yes. He's done it again. So welcome in. Grant, cheese right and Georgia Cowling. A couple of fantastic names, as always. Both be legends, absolute legends.

Grab yourself a line, have a beer, crack it open, let's party. This is safe. This is safe cocaine. Yeah. And only do, you know, we don't engage. encourage it to it in a responsible manner. God, no, I don't encourage it at all.

I'm just providing it. 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, but you feel stupid. No, good point, Jess, and I should say this. If you are a narque, stop listening right now.

This podcast is not for you. This is narc friendly. Yeah, we're narque unfriendly. No narcs allowed. We have one. I said, we're allowed one. No mores. But I think that does bring us to the end of the episode.

Thank you so much everyone for giving us a crack of this as your first time, or coming back. for possibly your 260th time. We welcome all. And snorting some crack if you've just got into the club. That's right. We welcome you all except Narks, of course. No Narks.

No Narks. Vitamin crack. Oh, this is vitamin crack. Your product we've come up with. This could be big. Real big. But you can get in contact with us at our website. Do go on pod.com, which links you to our Patreon.

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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. What do you want? Do you want me to ask for you or do it?

We are massive try-hards, if you didn't realize. I hope you're all having a fantastic block, apart from narcs, who should not be listening. I hope you're having the shitters block ever. As always, I want to know, what are you doing for block? That's the question on everyone's lips. Let us know what you're doing for block on those social media that Dave mentioned. But yeah, boot at home, Davey boy.

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