Do Go On - 345 - Dame Julie Andrews

Episode Date: June 1, 2022

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Melbourne and Canada, we got exciting news for you. And we should also say this is 2026. Jess, what year is it? 2026. Thank God you're here. Right now, I'm in Melbourne doing my show with Serenji Amarna, 630 each night at the Cooper's Inn Hotel, having so much fun. We'd love to see you there. Canada, we are visiting you in September this year.

If you've somehow missed the news, we are heading up Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto for shows. That's going to be so much fun. Tickets for all this stuff, I believe, are online. And I'm here too. Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Dave Warnocky and as always I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Hello, David. How do you do?

Dave, it's so good to be here with you and Jess, you also. Thank you. Great to be here. Dave, there's something I've always wanted to ask you. Oh no. Can you please move your car? It's blocking me in. And once you've done that, can you please explain to the new listeners?

how this show works. I will never move my car once I get a good spot. I never give it up. But I will explain that this show what we do here is we're taking in terms of report on a topic,

often suggested to us by one or more of the listeners. We go away, we do a little bit of research, write out some stories, bring it back to the other group who have no idea what's going to be on.

And it's Jess's turn to give us some stories this week. As I said, Matt and I don't know what the topic's going to be. So to get us onto that topic. She's going to ask us a question. Jess, have you prepared a little

question. Yep, I did it just before. So my question is, who taught us the important lesson that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down? Mary Poppins? Played by... What's her name? Anne Christian Anderson. Julie Andrews. You said Anne Christian Anderson. So you don't get a point for that one. Damn it. Dave gets that one. Is it Julie Andrew? It is Julie Andrews. I'm so thankful because I thought that you, for a second, forgotten that one of your first ever reports was on the history of Mary Poppins. Yeah, nine. And I was like, No, Jess, you've done it. If somebody's going to double report, it's going to be me.

For sure. 100%. I'd put money on that. Sometimes I do have to Google, do go on and then a potential topic that I'm thinking about. Just a little glimpse behind the curtain here. So recently we did a Patreon bonus episode about dumb deaths. It was dumb deaths 2.0 because there's so many dumb deaths out there. Second time I would done the topic.

And Jess said, you know, we all said the name of the topic because they're quite obscure people. Usually they've just had a dumb death. That's what they're most famous for. And Jess goes, all right, I think I've thought about it all day. I think this is the person I'm going to do. And I had to say, Jess, I'm so sorry, but that's who I did for dumb death one. I miss all that. It's in the very chat you're a part of.

Wow. If I'm out of that for a few hours some days, I'm like, you miss a lot. Whoa. Yeah. Sometimes you come in and you're like, oh, no. Oh, no. Jess and I are both very online. A little too much.

Yes. So this... Take me out just to plug in the top, right? Yeah. We're like, oh, granddad. We have to get him on the landline if we need him. Yeah, so this has been suggested by a couple of people. Jen Wood and Kelly have suggested a report on... Jedwood.

Jed Wood. Jen Wood. Oh, Jen Wood. Not Jedwood. Have requested a topic on Julie Andrews. I put this to the Patrions to vote on. I gave them... I wanted to do like a...

I've wanted to do share for a while, and I thought I like... learning a bit more about those sort of iconic divas, whatever. So I put up a few and I was like, I put up Share, and I put up Julie Andrews and a couple of other topics. And with a very big majority, Julie Andrews took the cake. I wonder, does that mean people know she's had an interesting life or people are just curious to find out more?

I think she's had a pretty interesting life. I also think she is quite universally admired. and she's very charming and quite wholesome and just everybody I think sort of sees her as our collective grandmother. So I think maybe people are just like, yes, Julie Andrews, she's great. And let me tell you, in doing some reading about her, she is great. Oh, thank goodness, because there's many people who we've ruined from people's childhoods on the day. They're rolled, darling.

No. You're like, oh, no, maybe it wasn't. Not roll. Not rolled. Not rolled. So, yeah, I can confirm from the very start of this, Julie Andrews, an angel. And this is just going to be a bunch of wholesome fun. Oh, so happy to hear it.

And I suppose, like, you know, there's been one of those people who's had this career that spanned decades. And I think there's been, like, certain times of, like, resurgence, so Julie Andrews' resurgence. So a lot of people might not know a whole bunch about her early life or how she got started. I'm thinking, yeah, Mary Poppins on the Sound of Music. Yeah. And it's wild to me that she's, well, I think she's still alive. Yeah. Because it's like, those things happened centuries ago.

Yeah, it's so long ago. Sound of music. Incredibly early in her career as well. Right. But then she's just continued to work really consistently. And I talk about this later as well, but she's just worked very consistently through her entire life and then had like this major resurgence in the 2000s. Huh.

It was crazy. I don't think I. I'm curious to hear what she's been up to because they're the only two things I can think of. Oh, you'll know. There'll be more. I mean, I remember she was referenced in an episode of Frazier. I do have that.

That's one of the things I was going to talk about. Yeah, of course. Frazier's son was meant to be coming over for Christmas. Uh-huh. I watched the phrase that I do a Frasier Christmas marathon over you. Why do you do it to yourself? But there was his son. He's excited his son's coming over, but his ex-wife says,

I've got plans. It's a pretty good opportunity. He's been invited to this other thing and Fraser's telling the family and they're like, you shouldn't be, you shouldn't let her take him away from you for Christmas. So, well, he has been invited to go to the Austrian Alps. And like, oh, that does sound pretty good.

And they're going to be staying in a castle. Oh, okay. And, uh, and Christian Anderson will be performing at the dinner. Julie Andrews. Julie Andrews. I don't know where I got. I don't know why I think of her. as Anne Christian Anderson.

That's not a person. But I mean, she's got Andrews in there, so maybe that's where my brain's spinning. Well, that's true, and that's where I'll start. Julia Elizabeth Wells. Julia as well. Really? Yeah, it was born on the 1st of October 1935.

It's all a fucking lie. It's all a lie. What do you believe anymore? Julia? Julia Elizabeth Wells, Julia Wells. Born on the 1st of October 1935 in Walton on Thames in Surrey, England. So she's English.

She is English. And does she always speak with an English accent? Oh, yeah. Yes. Okay. Very English. Because Mary Poppins, that's... English.

She's English. English. Yeah. Okay. A spoon full of sugar. Yeah, no. I think as a kid, I didn't... I couldn't hear accents, I don't think.

But, I mean, obviously you heard Dick Van Dykes Cockney, which he nailed. Hello, Mary Poppins. Yeah, that's right. So it's set in London or something, wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah. But that's a little while away still. She's just been born.

And her voice is already English. I thought you said it happened early in her career. She's the child of Barbara Ward Wells and Edward Ted Wells. His middle name isn't Ted. She just goes by Ted. Okay. I had questions. Edward Ted.

I know you boys. Ed Ted Wells. Not bad. Ed Ted. With the outbreak of World War II, her parents separated and were soon divorced. By the time she was about four, I think. What do they disagree over whose side to take in the war? That's embarrassing.

They had some differing views in the war. Both of her parents remarried her father married woman named Winifred, who was a war widow and worked at the same factory that Ted worked at. And Julia's mother married Waterville performer Ted Andrews. That's where Andrews comes from. And while Ted Wells was... It's a real thing for Ted. Yeah, she loves Ted.

So there's a couple of Ted's here. Keep up. It's only half the Ted of the first husband, though. That's true. Edward Ted. Edward Ted. This is just Ted. While Ted Wells was helping evacuate children to Surrey during the Blitz,

Julia's mother joined her new husband in entertaining the truth. Julia lived with her father briefly at this time, but in 1940 her father sent her to live with her mother and stepfather. His hope was that her mother and stepfather would be able to provide better for Julia, who was showing to already have musical abilities. And she wanted to, like, you know, train in those abilities. So he thought, well, they are working in their performers. And Ted Ed was performing with her, what, but in a volunteer capacity? He was not performing with her.

He was a factory worker. Ted Ed, Ed Ted, is a. factory worker. Yeah. Wasn't he entertaining troops or the mum went away? The mum went away. Sorry. I lost her.

There's so many Ted Andrews. You're thinking of Ted Ed Wells. That's right. This is one of the few times I've kept up with. I know. And we've got doubles and it's very confusing. And you're keeping up. It's amazing.

It feels weird. Yeah. You love Anne Christian Anderson. So it makes sense that you'd be paying attention. But the Andrews family were quite poor and in her words lived in a bad slum area of London at the time and Julie has since stated that the war was a very black period of my life which I think makes sense probably a lot of people would say that

yeah a bit of a glass half full half empty kind of yeah kind of yeah it is a bit isn't it yeah well okay the war was bad but what opportunities did it create yeah maybe you could have got into manufacturing guns yeah you know money can be made yeah julia children in this day and I not thinking about how they can capitalize on war. Yeah, so, oh, woe is me. I'm born into a big war. I don't have access to food or shelter.

Oh, my God. Kids these days. Anyway, according to her, her stepfather was violent and an alcoholic, and after a couple of incidences, she put a lock on her bedroom door just for her own safety, which is fucked. A child should not have to do that. in time her mother and stepfather who she was told to call pop

which she hated she I think she called him like Uncle Ted and her mum's like call him pop and she's like I don't want to but mom and pop their stage career improved and they were able to afford to live in better areas in a nicer home

Ted Andrews got her into lessons with concert soprano and voice instructor Madame Lillian Stiles Allen that's a good name Stiles Allen recalls the range accuracy and tone of Julie's voice amazed me.

She had possessed the rare gift of absolute pitch. That's beautiful, but did they get someone to excise that demon? That she'd been possessed by. We've got to get pitch out of there. We've got to get that perfect pitch out of it. And into me, give it to me. This poor child has been possessed with perfect pitch. So with a child with perfect pitch and a beautiful voice, what are you going to do other

than capitalize on that? So from about 1945, manufacture guns. Manufactured guns. About 9045 a family manufactured guns. The war's over, you fools, you've missed your shot. Hi, hi, cell load. Every year and year, people have been buying more and more guns. You've started calling her Julie.

Has she changed her name now? It's not entirely clear where the name does change. I think this is her, like that quote was her former teacher talking about it, probably quite far down the track. But yeah, I wasn't exactly clear on where she changed. Yeah, dropped the R, went for an E. So 1945, she spent a fair bit of time performing with her parents. She later wrote about her first performance,

during which she stood on a beer crate to reach the microphone, saying it must have been ghastly, but it seemed to go down all right. The beer. The beer. And I read on this website I found that has like a, bunch of information, I think specifically about Julie Andrews. Oh, cool. Is it Julie Andrews.com?

No, it's Wikipedia.org. Okay. Just had like heaps of information about Julie Andrews and her films and stuff. Why does it name that if it's about her? I don't know. It might have been like a supercalifragilistic. Oh, Wikipedia. Yeah, that's a really long word.

I can never remember how it finished. Yeah, so they just shortened it for the website practices. That makes way more sense. Yeah. I think you have to pay per letter when you're registering your website, so it's better to keep it shorter. She is good at business. Yeah. So I read on Wikipedia.org that fellow child entertainer Petula Clark,

who was a couple of years older than Julie, recalled touring around the UK by train to sing for the troops alongside Julie Andrews. They slept in the luggage racks. And Clark later said it was fun. And not a lot of kids were having fun. Again, wartime. That's grim. Not a great time to have fun.

You're a troop that's just returned from the front. It's like, and now some children. to sing. Great. Awesome. But they're like, that child has absolute pitch.

I must excise that demon. Demon. There's a demon in that child. Demon. Just tackling a child on stage.

Be gone, demon. The power of Christ compels you. Shaking a child. Get out of there. So a career breakthrough happened for her when she was about

12 years old when she made her professional solo debut at the London Hippodrome singing the difficult aria, je sui titiana, titania. That is difficult.

Titania. It was part of like a musical review. It was called Starlight Roof and it kicked off on the 22nd of October 1947. The review apparently lasted for about a year. They're performing all the time and Julie wrote about how her performance would go. This is what she would say. She was like there was this wonderful American person and comedian, Wally Bogue, who made balloon animals.

He would say, is there any little girl or boy in the audience who would like to? one of these and I would rush up on stage and say I'd like one please and then he would chat to me and I'd tell him I sing I was fortunate in that I absolutely stopped the show cold I mean the audience went crazy oh that that actually happened I thought that was a like she was a plant yeah yeah she was a plant okay night after night she'd go up and go I thought that was her origin story if she wasn't a plant and she's doing that every night he's got to be like look sorry Julie um let's share it around shall we I'm actually asking for a volunteer from the audience I don't need you know why are you singing no why are you singing now she made it say i was lucky i was lucky people

enjoyed it yeah isn't that why you were hired to do it yes and that's what confused me i thought she was no she was she'd be like she'd be a plant i've heard of having a red hot show but she stopped the show cold yeah is that good julie well yeah before that they were applauding they were laughing but when i sang they went completely silent crickets you hear a cough yeah i love those coughs you could hear a penny drop and that's how I knew they were loving it. Yeah, that's right. I'd hear the penny and I knew, I've got them. I've got them.

And then they'd start leaving because I was so good, it couldn't get better than me. They thought, how could this show improve? I must leave to tell others about it. And find that penny. Where did it go? Where did I put that penny? At 13, she became the youngest solo performer ever to be seen in a royal variety performance before King George and the future Queen Elizabeth, the London Palladium.

Wow. Isn't that wild that people are still alive who were alive before Queen Elizabeth II was on the throne? Yeah. Yeah, this is the future queen. Wow. Isn't that wild? I mean, I was alive. She ascended to the throne in 1950.

53. It was 50-something. Dave, you love the queen. Yeah, 57. What are you celebrating? 75 years this year, is it? Fucking hell. Celebrating.

Also, that makes it 40 years? No, I was, I don't know. 75 years. Carried the two. I think that means that's 47, isn't it? 47. 47. Lock it in, Eddie.

There we go. So yeah, she's 13, performing in front of the king and future queen. Love it. Amazing. I couldn't, you said Petulia Clark before. I'm like, why do I know that name? She's saying downtown. Downtown.

Is that her one-hit wonder? Downtown. It's a good song. She sold more than 68 million records. Yeah, I think it's probably more than a one hit wonder than with that. But yeah, pretty cool. She charted with The Little Shoemaker in 1954. The Little Shoemaker.

We all remember that hit. Hey, everyone, Dave coming with a fact check year. 1952, the Queen. It's only 70 years. I got excited. Ah, see, I was confident it was in the 50s. Yeah, that felt right to me. And we said 53, but it was 52, so we were very close.

We feel foolish. So I actually feel pretty good about myself. So this next part I found on newsner.com. Newsner. Newsner. No follow-up questions. Newsner. Newsner.

Newsnya. They're running out of dot coms, aren't they? Newsnya. Is Newzna taken? Yeah, somehow. Oh my God. It's crazy. You actually have to, um, uh,

You have to say it with a very flat face and like, Nizna. You're like, they can't give any expression. So you've been training for that for years. Newsnia at six. So from Newsner.com says, by the time Andrews became a teenager, she was already gaining fame. And she revealed in her memoirs that at age 14,

her mother asked her to perform at a family friends residence. That's when you know, mate. Getting your family friends. Wow. Yeah, Julia's going to do a little concert for us all. She's really good. Everyone gather around. All right, one song, one song.

No, I'll be doing an entire show. Oh, she's going to do cats solo. After I had sung, the owner of the house approached me, she wrote. He was a tall and fleshily handsome. Fleshily. I don't know what that means. Okay. Flesherly handsome.

And I recognized him as a man who would come around to visit her family home once or twice in early years. That evening, the man came and sat on the couch next to me. I remember feeling. an electricity between us that I couldn't explain. Okay. Nothing suss. Okay, because it felt like it was going to be really suss. Yeah, it's not suss.

Well, it's a little suss, but not in the way you're thinking. Okay, great. I was worried it was going to be dark. An electricity. Yeah. When they were later driving home, her mother asked Andrews if she liked the man. He seemed pleasant, was all that the unsuspecting Andrews said. During that car ride, her mother blurted out, that man is your father.

What? So the man that she had always had grown up knowing was her father, Ted Well. was not in fact her biological father. Oh, mate, this would have been... A third, Ted? No, I don't know his name, but it could be Ted. Wow. Her mother revealed that while she was married to Ted Wells,

she had had a brief but passionate affair with the man Julie had just met. I wonder if it was passionate. This guy is like electric. See, he conducts electricity. Yeah. If you touch him, your hair goes... It's crazy. It stands on end.

You seem completely go obstinate. He's always rubbing his shoes on the carpet. This has blown my mind. I know. A third dad. A third Ted. And they're all called Ted. They're all called Ted.

She wrote in her memoirs. Somehow I was able to push it to a dark corner of my mind. It did not alter the fact that the man who would raise me was the man I loved. I would always consider him my father. Which one? Ted Wells. Not Pop. Not Pop.

We didn't like Pop. He didn't particularly like Pop. Yeah, Pop sounds awful. He and her mother, I think, drank quite heavily. I don't think home was necessarily a, the nicest place to be when she was growing up and living with her mother. But she would see her dad, Ted Wells, quite regularly, you know, weekends and spending holidays and stuff with him and absolutely loved him.

And they had a really love relationship. That's good. Yeah. So she writes, she said he was the one who took me on nature walks to swimming baths and down to the seaside. Just the memory of him sitting and reading to me was enough to make me love listening to books and the spoken and written word. So your relationship with Ted 1, way better than Ted 2,

better than with the mum. Sounds as I were just loose, you know, people in the entertainment industry, very unreliable. Yeah, not 100% sure. I didn't read a heap about her relationship with her mum, I think probably fine. But yeah, didn't... Fan fine. Fan fine. But very, yeah, very close with her dad, which is nice.

After her mother told her the truth, Andrews never asked Wells about it and often wondered whether he knew about her mother's affair and whether he was aware of Andrew's not being his own daughter. There is that kind of weird, I guess she had the right to know. I guess, but also like, what a weird way to do it.

I know, and she was sort of like, I don't want to, I don't want to be the one to tell dad. And I don't, you know, she was worried about like what, how that would impact their relationship.

I just, but, so she, yeah, she didn't know if her dad ever knew. And then the answer to that, she only found out, out a month after her mother's death.

She approached her Aunt Joan to ask if Wells had known all along. And it turns out that Wells had always known she wasn't his daughter, but still raised her like his own. Love that. So that's nice. So that's just a little tidbit there that I did not know. Because what you'd think, it could, well, you know, depending on the person, could have been easy to be like, once that relationship ended,

wasn't actually his kid, it would have been easy to be like, no look there's no reason for me to have that relationship with you anymore isn't that hard yeah but obviously he he just loved her because he saw her as his daughter and it raised her from infant yeah that's right I mean two types of people oh absolutely yeah and I guess it's is it different again

when it's like a stepchild who knows it's a it's a complex one isn't it but yeah they um they had a lovely relationship all through their lives, which is very nice. So cool. So I'm not 100, like we were saying before, not 100% sure when she took the stage name of Julia Andrews, but her performing career was just starting to take off, and she made several appearances in radio and television,

as well as on stage over the next few years. How old was she? This wasn't 16 going on 17? Don't you regret that? So after performing in various stage productions in London, on the 30th of September, 1954, On the eve of her 19th birthday, Andrews made her Broadway debut as Polly Brown in the London musical The Boyfriend. Two separate words, the boyfriend.

That's three words. I'm sorry. I meant Boyfriend is separated. Yeah, the boyfriend. No, but it's the boy friend. Boyfriend, different. Two different words. I'm going to go out of a limb and say that that show sucked. I did it.

Really? Is that what you think? The boyfriend. It's a classic. Musical. Yeah. She played a poll. I'm standing by my opinion.

He hates musicals. I'm just looking up the Wikipedia page on The Boyfriend. Let's have a, I'm trying to find like a plot. Oh, there's several acts to it. Let's, okay. So The Boyfriend is a musical by Sandy Wilson. Set in the carefree world of the French Riviera in the Roaring 20s, the Boyfriend is a comic pastiche.

of 1920 shows. It's relatively small cast and low-cost to production makes it a continuing popular choice for amateur and student groups. Okay. It's cheap and easy to do. Right, you've wanted me over with The Boy Friend. Two words. Don't get any ideas out there, anybody.

The boy, one word. And Friend. Friend. The boyfriend. So making this move to Broadway meant a move to New York, which Julia was nervous about. At this time, she was the main breadwinner for the family, so it felt like a risk to take this opportunity.

But she did it, and the boyfriend was a hit. Critics called her the standout of the show. She played Polly Brown for a year, and towards the end of that year, she was approached to audition for the role of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. How wonderful. Oh, lovely! I had nothing else.

I was like, I don't have. a second quote. Okay. She was successful. She played the role for two years, again, to rave reviews from audiences and critics. From Wikipedia, it says, during rehearsals, director Moss Hart spent 48 consecutive hours solely with Andrews, where they hammered through each scene. Is there words? Andrews later stated that the good man had stripped my feelings bare, molded, needed, and helped me become the character of Eliza and made her part of my soul. So he didn't let her leave the theatre for 48 hours. 48 hours.

Andrews referred to it as the best acting lesson she'd ever received. Soon after opening, she had to tone down the Cockney accent she'd learnt for the role because American audiences couldn't understand her. It went too far into Cockney. Right. Oh, lovely. Ah, what an happy lover. Is that that?

Yeah, I think so. So impressed with her performance in My Fair Lady was composer Richard Rogers. And he asked her to be involved in the Rogers and the Hammerstein television musical Cinderella. to Rogers and Hammerstein? Yes. Wow. He was the Rogers. Nepotism.

Okay, you can just access that. Can you all right? So, yeah, they put on the television musical Cinderella, which was written especially for her. So Cinderella was broadcast live on CBS in March of 1957 and it had an estimated 107 million viewers. What the hell? That's incredible.

Isn't that wild? Just in America? I guess so. That would have been like a big chunk of their population. Huge. How many people are there now? 200 and something? 300 and something.

Million, sorry. Three, 400 people? In America, you're crazy. Brody, yell. Yeah. She was nominated for an Emmy for her performance. And at this point, she's 22 years old. Wow.

She's doing very well for herself. And I'll tell you what Julie Andrews does next after these messages. Over the next few years, she worked constantly. TV appearances, more theatre productions, and in 1959 she married set and costume designer Tony Walton. Not Ted, unfortunately. But Tony. Yeah.

You know? His name was to Tony. To Tony. To Tony. To Tony. By 1962, casting for the film adaptation of My Fair Lady had begun. And Warner Brothers head, Jack Warner, decided the role needed to go, to a big name.

Andrews didn't have the name recognition yet, and so they brought in the big gun, Hepburn. The bulk of Hepburn's... Catherine? Audrey. Oh, okay. Disappointed by that, eh? Disappointed.

So sorry. Always on Team Catherine. What's the relation of Catherine and Aubrey? No relation. They're born in different countries. Really? Yeah. I knew that.

I reckon Dave might have told us on the Academy Awards episode. I found maybe is when I found out. I must have known that. because Catherine is an egot and Audrey I think it's the other way around it Oh Audrey's the egot Catherine Hepburn's won four Academy Awards for Best Actress Which is a record

Wow And Audrey is an Egot winner I believe so But isn't her the thing she can't sing Well yeah my very next line is the bulk of Hepburn singing Was dubbed by soprano and ghost singer Katherine Hepburn Marnie Nixon

Ghost singer Ghost singer How good is that? How good is that? Did they record it? I purposely left this in because I was like what else is Marnie Nixon done?

I went to look and it's like she's a soprano and ghost singer I was like well I've got to put that in there because obviously we'll have a lot of fun with ghosts but obviously if you're thinking about like ghost writer it totally makes sense doesn't it she sings for you but you take credit

that's right like you do with a ghost you think we could get some ghost singers I think we get ghost podcasters I love to do a musical episode oh now you're like a musical episode Oh, now you like musicals. If I'm not singing it.

I would, did it be lovely? I'll have Michelle Brazier, thank you. Welcome to do, go on. I'll play myself, actually. So yeah, they brought in Audrey Hepburn, and yeah, her singing was done by Marnie Nixon, who also did the singing for Deborah Kerr and the King and I and for Natalie Wood in Westside Story.

So there's quite a lot of productions and different projects and stuff that Marnie lent her voice to. So, yeah, it was a bit of a devastating blow, but Julie Andrews was her graceful and cool self saying she understood the decision and her only regret is that her performance was never recorded so she doesn't have that as a keepsake. It wasn't like

as common back then to have recordings of the Broadway show so she doesn't have any kind of, there's no recording of her being Eliza Doolittle which is, yeah, which is understandable but yeah she's so graceful and so lovely about it. I've just looked up the Egot page right Dave.

Audrey Hepburned won an Egot and Catherine was just the Just the multi. Just the multi winner. How many Oscars have you won? I mean, it's rude to us. Yet. Yeah, come on, that's right.

I'm going to round mine up to one. I'm going to say one and then by the end of my life, that will be true. Yeah. I just want to say, and from this point I'm only an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and a Tony away from being an egot. That's right. I mean, the people who are like, oh, time is linear. It's not. Yeah, it's not.

If it happened at any point, it's happened now. So, yeah, I've won an egot. If it happened at any point, it's happened now. I could not agree more. That's beautiful. Time is cyclical. Time is cyclical. It's all happening.

Everything's at once. You see in good place? Time is Jeremy Bellamy. There you go. Beautiful. I don't know what that means, but I agree. I agree too. So yeah, Julie, being very cool and gracious about it,

Warner, Jack Warner later recalled that the decision was made for financial purposes, stating that, in my business, I have to know who brings people in their money to a cinema box. To a cinema box. cinema box. Audrey Hepburn had never made a financial flop. I imagine that's how he talked. I love that voice. And it's still a cult classic.

It absolutely is. And you know what? And I'm sure, I feel like I've definitely said this before, but, you know, Hepburn is like such an iconic, one of those classic actors. But I hadn't actually seen any of her stuff

until maybe a few years ago, really. And then watching Breakfast at Tiffany's, maybe 10 years ago and being like, oh, I get it. Like, she's captivated. So, yeah, I can see why that's a good call. But also, you watch, like, Mary Poppins and stuff, and Julie Andrews is also quite captivating.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, you watch the nanny and Fran Dresher is quite captivating. Exactly right. There's a presence about them, these people. The big three. Hepburn, Andrews, Dresher. Yes. The list goes on.

But Julie's next massive opportunity was just around the corner. Walt Disney had seen her. performance in Camelot at the Majestic Theatre and offered her the titular role in Mary Poppins. Andrews initially turned down the role as she was pregnant with her first child and she was like, I can't be filming a movie right now. And in a pretty unheard of move at the time, because Hollywood has been brutal and cutthroat forever, Disney said, that's okay, we'll wait for you. Yeah, that is interesting.

She was still relatively unknown. Yeah. But they're obviously so sure she was, and they were right. Absolutely, yeah. and they put it off for her. And in a fun little fact here, history repeated itself when they were making the 2018 reboot of Mary Poppins returns. Jess, the whole job there.

History doesn't repeat itself. It's always happening now. Well, Emily Blunt was also pregnant, and the movie was postponed to accommodate her as she played Mary Poppins. Oh, my God. It feels like as soon as you get pregnant, you're going to get the call. Would you like to be Mary Poppins? Oh, my God.

Is that real? Is that real? I think so. Should I? Oh, I can't sing. Never mind. That's what some people say, instead of saying my water broke, they say, I've got my Mary Poppins call.

So, yeah, that's what they mean. Oh. Yeah, you might have heard it. Quick. Yeah, so many of my friends have said that. And I was like, congrats, babe. I got the call from Mary Poppins. I'm like, do you need to run lines?

Do you want me to help? Do you want me to, what do you need? Oh, they need a hospital. Okay. I get it now. I just thought that was quite nice that happened for both of them. Yeah, it's great. He's repeating itself is nice.

You're right. You don't often hear stories, especially in old school Hollywood, about things like that. Yeah, totally. It's so cutthroat and it's like, you know, your hair is the wrong color. Get out of the city. It's like, what? You ban. And Mary Poppins didn't have.

No redhead tear. Mary Poppins wasn't a, she didn't have kids. No. She's a nanny. She's a nanny. She's a nanny. The nanny. See?

I didn't even, I didn't, maybe that's why my brain keeps talking about Fran Drescia. It all makes sense now. My God. The nanny. Mary Poppins was there. So, how she became. Pregnant?

Pregnant. Wow. A little way to find out how it works. So, according to Wikipedia, after the birth of her daughter, this is Julia Andrews, we're done talking about Emily Blunt. No, we're not. She comes back later. Anyway, after the birth of her daughter, she received a call from former report topic,

P.L. Travers, author of Mary Poppins. Wearing pants, I imagine. Probably. Who told her, well, you're much too pretty, of course. But you've got the nose for it. Don't know what that means. And then did she hang up? That's all the course.

Beep, beep. Who was that? She was Australian, wasn't she? Piel? Yeah. Yeah. Meribara. That's where she came from.

See, I remember that. So could you do it, say it, you said it with a posh accent. Can you do it again? Oh yeah, fair enough, she would have said, well, you're much too pretty, of course. Now, but this is in the, what's this, the 50s? Yeah, that's when... We sounded a bit more English then.

But it's just what, like, grandparents sound like now. Oh, no. Oh, well, you're much too pretty, of course. Yeah, yeah. But you've got the nose for it. Yeah, that's bad. Is that good? That's better.

Now, this was Andrew's first major film role, so this is huge. She's like, do you usually get a call from the author telling you look weird? You got a weird. I mean, just by the tone, it didn't sound like my nose was good. Mary Poppins became the biggest box office draw in Disney history. Wow. Variety lauded Andrews performance as a signal triumph. She performs as easily as she sings, displaying a fresh type of beauty.

The film was nominated for 13 Academy Awards and won five, including the Academy Award for Best Actress for Julie Andrews. So this is her first role. she's but 23 now she's got the Academy Award She must be close to an ego If she isn't You'd think she would have won a Tony at some point

No Tony No Tony I don't think so I go through some of her awards at the end She was dating her Tony She married a Tony Does that not count Or I've married a Tony

I've dated a Tony So I'm only an ego away Yeah Well I've had sex with Grammy I mean who cares Oh, I have some follow-up questions. Follow-up questions. Is that a title or a name? Literally went through all the awards and thought,

which one's the easiest one to have sex with? Yeah, I assume you're talking about a grandma. A grandma. Is that right? And that's fine. We're not yucking anybody's yum. We're just wanting to check. Especially yummy grommies. com.

Matt, it's yummy grummy. Yummygrummy. Yummy. Oh, she's a bit of a yummy grummy. Do I dare see if it's a website? Don't, don't. Don't. You're at my house on my Wi-Fi.

I'm going to start getting some weird targeted ads. I'll know. Yummy grummy. Shout out to any yummy grummy's listening. So, yeah, she's won an Academy Award for Best Actress. She also received the Golden Globe for Best Actress, and her co-stars won the the 1965 Grammy Award for Best Album for Children. So would that count for her?

Is she a Grammy winner there? Yes, yeah, yeah, yep. There you go, it's too ticked off on one year. She has a couple of other Grammys as well. I know, but ticked off so early. This is her first major role. It's so young. She's been working, you know, she's been performing since she was in her mid-teens.

But yeah, she's like early 20s and she's got an Academy Award. Amazing. And it is definitely her singing. It's not Marnie. or whatever. It is definitely Julie singing. Does her own singing. This you might have seen clips of on YouTube

or you might have heard of this. In her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes, she ended her speech by saying, and finally, my thanks to a man who made a wonderful movie and who made all this possible in the first place, Mr. Jack Warner, which was a beautiful jab because my fair lady was in direct competition for the awards.

And he didn't cast her in the movie. Yeah. So she's like, thank you for making this possible. Right. I feel like we've talked about that before. Maybe on the Academy Oscars episode or... Or the Mary Poppins episode maybe? Maybe, yeah.

Yeah, probably. That's fun. And so that would be funny actually because then I have told that twice. And both times it's been new to me. But it was familiar that time. So I've probably said it before. But I like that. It's a bit sassy.

It's so funny, I just would have assumed if anything, she'd won a Tony or won 10 Tonys. I've got all the awards. at the end, so we'll know for sure. I've got all of them. I believe you. But I don't know if she has an ego. I think she's been nominated for Tony's. I think Tony's the one that's missing.

I could be wrong. We'll find out. Bit of sizzle for later. So yeah, she said, thanks to Jack Warnow, which is fun. Another nice little fun fact, again, about the 2018 reboot. Julie Andrews turned down a cameo appearance

at the end of the film, saying, this is Emily's show, and I really want it to be Emily's show. She didn't want to take away from Emily Blunt playing Mary Poppins. She didn't want to take any of that attention. So she was like, no, I won't. I won't be in that. It's interesting because in a way it would just bring more attention to the movie,

which would be good for Emily Blunt, right? Yeah, I guess so. It's just a polite way of saying, no, I don't want to. I don't want to do that. Fuck that. I've already done one of those. You kidding me? Leave me alone.

Was that successful? I'm pretty sure I went and saw it. So that's success, isn't it? Yeah. You saw it at the movies. But I can't really remember it. I remember maybe there was a, they did. Their version of the chalk scene where they all jumped inside the chalk with Dick Van Dyck

was on like a clay pot instead. They jumped into a pot. Yeah, I think you're right. Yeah. Did Dick make a cameo? Dick makes a cameo, yes. So he wasn't too big. He doesn't care about taking attention away.

And I think I read... It might have even been when we're talking about Mary Poppins. Oh, I don't know. But they... Because Dick Van Dyke does make a cameo and he does this like dance sequence. And they choreographed four different versions of it with like... varying difficulty because he was like in his late 80s at the time or maybe 90 or something and he was like oh the hardest one he's like I'll do them all and he nails it I'll do them all at

once I'll do all four versions big dick fan a two three four so Mary Poppins came out in 1964 and it was only one year later that possibly her other most famous film came out the sound of music ever heard of it so that was it was just straight after yeah 64 65 that is outrageous. That were movies I watched a lot as a kid and I don't I don't record I realise it was the same person because I think she has black hair in one and blonde hair Yeah yeah yeah yeah possibly be the same person different people and I'm probably wrong I was saying she was in her like 20s and stuff before but if this came out in 64 and she was born in 35 Yeah she's 29 yeah yeah yeah 20s yep still crazy yeah because I mean it's film before it comes

Yeah absolutely So yeah, Sound of Music, 1965 is the highest grossing film of that year. Her performance as Maria won her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, and she was nominated a second time for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and the BAFTA for Best Actress as well. Christopher Plummer, have you seen Sound of Music any time recently or just as a child? Have you seen it at all, Dave? I've seen, I don't think I've ever seen it all the way through.

Yeah, right. A few bits of it. So the dad, he was only 35 in that movie. There you go. And I don't know if it's just because I was a child and also it was an old movie. So everybody seems really, really old. But if you'd gone to my head, I would have said probably 50. Yeah.

He would have been 50. I would have guessed 50. He was 35 and Leasel, the eldest, was played by a 22-year-old. Yeah, right. Stard young. Yeah, it's baffling. So I was like, he was 35. He admitted that he found Andrews to be insufferable and annoying during filming,

mockingly calling her Miss Disney. Oh, wow. That's Christopher Plummer saying that. Yeah. Later, he admitted he was being immature and that Andrews was a great actress. He was only 35 at the time. Andrews is a great actress and a true professional. And the two of them remained very good friends until his death in 2021.

Oh, wow. That's nice. So I just think that's kind of funny that he's like, ugh, God, insufferable. And then had the self-wheres to go, no, I'm. being a bit of a cheerer there actually she's a delight. From my vague memories he was a real stud. Well, yeah, I guess.

I don't really remember I don't remember, well, I was a child. I had different taste then. But I see pictures of him now, even as an old man, you're like, oh, yeah, you're a good-looking chap. But in there, in sound of music, I was never like, Haba Huber, Captain von Trapp, yummy, never.

Yeah, you were more into that Aryan boy. Yeah. I truly don't think I got that movie. No, I did not understand. I had no idea what was going on. Yeah, why are they so scared? Why are they running away from these people? This is so strange.

And why is this little Nazi dog the boys? And what's a Nazi? What's a Nazi? I didn't know. It was a different time. I love those pre-Nazi days of our use. Yeah, it was good. But, you know, there's a...

We may have lived in a... time where Nazis had existed but there's that sweet innocence of not knowing what a Nazi is then i i wish for that again dave how long how long before you knew hearing all these all those things you just said i definitely haven't seen the movie in full okay yeah it's quite a long movie as well it's also quite music heavy i don't think you'd like it yeah not for i mean yeah they're not for me it's the movie's gone for ages then all of a sudden there's a whole puppet show with songs yeah how long does that go Oh, high on hills, a lonely got a little, lay, lollay.

Oh, no. And I said, yeah, why are they, they've got, why are they such an elaborate? Yeah. I mean, they have, the kids have a fucking song just to go to bed. Like, Jesus Christ. Yeah, they perform a song to say good night. Good night. That was real, that was not good.

That sounded right to me. No, it was it. Good news. Do you have a ghost singer? I have a ghost singer. Because I think your ghost singer's dying, a horrible death. What, how do you solve a problem like Maria? Yeah.

How? Always, and it's funny, Andy Matthews used to do it. Well, he did briefly, did a stand-up bit about it because he also misunderstood it like I did. I always thought it was how do you solve a problem like Maria would solve the problem? Yeah, right. But it's how do you solve a problem like Maria? Maria is the problem we have to solve.

Yeah. Which is nice because aren't they singing, they're not singing it to her though, are they? Are she in the room when they're singing that? I don't think so. Because it feels like a bit of a dick, movie. So she's like a young nun and the other. nuns are like, she's a real pain.

You're not thinking they're asking themselves, WWMD, what would Maria do? Yeah, but they're not. They're saying, how do we get rid of Maria? She's a pain in the A. So Julie Andrews continued her streak in starring in the top-ranking films of their year.

In 66, she starred opposite Paul Newman in torn curtain, which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. I said, Curtain weird. It sounds like you made it. Torn Curtain. They're pitching the film. movie looking around the room.

There's a curtain torn. Sealing crack? Light switch. Spider plant. Bottle cap. City. Because you're thinking, like you're saying that, that's three of the biggest names ever.

Yeah. Paul Newman. Hitchcock. Julie Andrews. It's the biggest movie of the year. I'm thinking I've definitely heard of this. Yeah. It's torn curtain.

Torn curtain. It's a 1966 American political thriller. It is about an American scientist who appears to defect behind the iron curtain to East Germany. It sounds light and fun. It's in 1966. What I would have been doing that year is watching the Saints Premiership run, winning their one-only premiership in September there. Yeah, but you could also, I mean, that takes up a day. I reckon anywhere else in the year, you could have watched a film.

You've got the 22 rounds leading up to it as well. Right. And a couple of finals. And footier season starts when? March, April. And it's finished September. Yeah. So you've still got a fair bit of time.

You could have watched a film. Can I just look it up. Preseason, then you've got you know, then you've got replays. What am I looking at? What month did it come out? Let's have a look. Let's have all seen the movies. Let's see.

July. No, no, she has. No, he wouldn't have seen it. No, it's fair enough. I'm sorry that I pushed. I'm sorry that I pushed. The following year, she played the titular character in thoroughly modern Millie. She played Thurley.

Thoroughly. I shouldn't have laughed so hard of my own job. That's very good. At the time, thoroughly modern, Millie and torn curtain were the biggest and second biggest hits in Universal Pictures history,

respectively. Huge. That's so funny how some movies can be huge and then you just never hear from them again. Yeah. It's like Avatar. It was so big. So big.

Oh yeah, like in 50... In 50 years time, like our children's children won't be like. Avatar. Yeah. That sounds stupid. Yeah, yeah. And we'll be there a bit senile in the corner saying,

I remember the blue people. Blue people. Yeah, okay, Nana, all right. There was the Australian guy who seemed like it was a new big star. And then they had to jump on a bird. Not for Sam Worth. Sam Worthington. Sam Worthington.

They had to carjack a bird and shove their hair in its arsehold. You remember better than I do. They had to carjack a bird and shove hair in its arsell. That's absolutely. true. I mean it was this tail but so close to its asshole. You know what I mean? Wow. Worth a rewatch?

I mean, by then, the six fall-up movies will be released. Yeah. They'll do a reboot. The kids will know the reboot. We'll say, well, we remember the original. Am I thinking that right? They're doing like five sequels and they're filming them concurrently. I think there's at least two more that are coming out. Five would be ridiculous.

But there could be more. But even just going, let's not release a sequence how it does let's lock in it the third one as well yeah

everyone loves a love that confidence trilogy um thoroughly modern milly was nominated for seven Academy Awards and Andrew scored a golden globe

nomination for her performance as well so just like everything she's churning out is getting great reviews she's getting nominated for staff like she's just killing it but after this run of success a couple of flops were always going to be inevitable

oh dear Star in 1968 was a biopic of Gertrude Lawrence and Darling Lily in 1970 co-starring Rock Hudson were two of Hollywood's most expensive flops. Oh no. It didn't help that at the same time as filming she and her husband Tony Walton were going through a divorce. Despite reviews, her performance was once again nominated for the Golden Globe

and of these films Andrews later wrote what's funny. It's funny when the nominees are, Despite the reviews, Julie Andrews. Wow. Who knew? Because it was trash. She's a walk-up start. They just say an Amy Albert for that. Everything she touches turns to golden clothes.

She later wrote about these films that non-stop success in a career is impossible, but nobody sets out to make a failure either. She's like, eh, it's inevitable. You're going to make some flop. It's not the dream. But, you know, you can't beat yourself up. That's right. And that's nice.

She remarried and she remarried. in 1969. Nice. That's a nice year to get married. Beautiful year to get married. To American film director, screenwriter and producer, Blake Edwards. Ted. Sir name Edward.

Yes. Blake Ted. Blake Ted. This marriage made her the stepmother to Blake's two children as well, and the couple also adopted two daughters in the mid-70s. And they were married until like... Quick question. Yes.

Does she know what's causing it? Adoption. Okay. This marriage lasted about 40. years or something. He died, I think, 2010-ish. Is he in a director of movies that we know? You? Yes, Dave.

You could have just said yes and asked for no follow-up questions. Yes, no, no, no. I thought I'd written it down, but I haven't. So let's have a look. Yeah, yeah. He directed Pot Crack. Oh, my God. His best-known films include Breakfast at Tiffany's. Oh. Did he direct it? He directed Breakfast at Tiffany's.

There you go. So he's future wife's enemy. Yeah. And Victor Victoria. Days of Wine and Roses. I'm going to say Breakfast at Tiffany's is probably the biggest one. Oh, Pink Panther with Peter Sellers. Oh, yeah.

The series. He's done a few. So yeah, he was quite a well-known. Great work. So I did love Matt looking around the room. What was it, Crack Pot? Crack Sealy. Or pot crack.

Yeah. Crack, it's an actual fact. That's not bad, yeah. Pot crack is also okay, I guess. You punched it up. Yeah, I'm loving the vibe, but let's swap those words around. Now, I don't want this to just be a list of what she did every year. I know that biographies sometimes do feel a bit like, and then this happened, and then this happened.

I'm going to skip ahead a little bit, but often with these stories, there seems like there's a very clear time that this person was in their prime, and then they might have a resurgence like 20 years later. you know, some of these big Hollywood stars. Can I wait for my prime and then my research. But that's not the case for Julie Andrews. She's worked pretty consistently across stage, TV and film since the early 50s. And she has consistently been nominated and won awards and is just growing this fandom of people who find her so charming and wholesome. There's a bit of a gap in the 90s where quite famously she was forced to quit Victor Victoria,

the stage production. Her husband directed the movie. Director the movie. So she had to quit the stage production towards the end of the Broadway run in 1997 when she developed hoarseness in her voice and doctors assessed that she had non-cancerous nodules in her throat and she underwent surgery.

The surgery left her with permanent damage that destroyed the purity in her voice. One of the things she was known for was the purity of her voice. Did you know this? Yes. I knew the story that she couldn't sing anymore but I wasn't sure why. Yeah, so her speaking voice was left

pretty much permanently rather raspy. And she later said she believed the hoarseness was due to a certain kind of muscular strain that happens on the vocal cords, later adding, I didn't have cancer, I didn't have nodules, I didn't have anything. So she regrets the surgery? Yeah.

So at least, at the very least, in her mind the surgery was unnecessary and had caused permanent damage to her singing voice, which was kind of her bread and butter. So a couple years later in 99, she filed a malpractice suit against the doctors who had operated on her throat. And the doctors originally had assured her

that her voice would be back to normal and she'd be able to sing in about six weeks, but it never did. The lawsuit was settled in September of 2000, sort of out of court for an undisclosed amount. And Julia has since undergone another four operations. And while the operations have helped her with her speaking voice, her singing voice has never been restored.

Barga. So this is in the 90s that, yeah, her voice, which is pretty disappointing, but in classic Julie Andrews, you know, just being a delight, there's this quote here. It says, her famous four-octave soprano was then reduced to a fragile alto. She was quoted at the time as saying, I can sing the hell out of Old Man River.

So she can still sing. Which was from Breakfast at Tiffany's, right? No. That's Moon River. Moon River. And then I said, what about... So she's still capable of singing, just not the same range that she had,

which is obviously very disappointing. But I also read that some people sort of said that surgery and sort of the raspiness, it sort of made... I forgot how they worded it, but like some of those more middle notes were a bit more golden and yeah, she can still sing, but it's not the way that she was famed. famous for.

Right. So the next phase of Julie's career introduced her to a new generation of audience. In 2001, she starred as Queen Clarice Marie Rinaldi in The Princess Diaries. Oh, yes, Queen of Genovia. That's right, playing the grandmother of Anne Hathaway. This was her first Disney film since Mary Poppins. Wow, that's a big gap. Huge gap, isn't it?

And a lot of fun that movie. Oh, my God. So much fun. And they waited for her. They hired for her. Originally, Anne Hathaway's mum was going to play the... Princess. They went and between, yeah, they waited.

They didn't release a single movie in that time. Yeah, Disney. They just shut down. They said, we're shutting up shop. We're waiting for Julie. She reprised her role in the 2004 sequel, The Princess Diaries 2. Royal Engagement. I imagine they're not good films.

They're great films. They're great films. They're great films. And look, is it because it came out in 2001 when I was 11 years old and I was the target demographic of it and now I'm seeing it through the lens of nostalgia? a little bit. I think I'm the same. And the limo driver.

Yes. He's so fun in it. Lou? Is it like Joe or something? Joe. Joe. It's Joe. Sorry, Matt.

It's Joe. The actor's name is Joe? No, the character's name is Joe. Who plays Joe, Dave? Joe is. Hector. Hector. Elezonondo.

He's great. Best known from Chicago, Hope. Can I have a look at him? Yeah, you'd know his face. He's been in stuff. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He's now 85 years old.

He was like a man from Chicago. I think they still have rewatchability. Yeah, right. Like, I don't think you'd hate it. I think they're quite nice films. Good hangover film? Great hangover film. Yeah, absolutely.

Feeling a bit vulnerable. Yeah. A little fragile. Yeah. I'd watch it and cry on a plane. Yeah, perfect. Yeah. I don't know why.

Does there a reason why I cry in movies on the plane? Yeah, there is something about, it's something to do with like, I don't know. high altitude. Something about being in the sky. Something about being alone with your thoughts. There is some sort of science behind it, I think. But yeah, that's why we're all a bit sooky on planes. Oh my God.

She's writing in her princess diary. Dear Princess Diary. It's the diary of Princess. I haven't seen it, I assume. Dear Princess Diary. in the sequel Princess Dario 2 Royal Engagement She sang on film for the first time Since having throat surgery

The song, it's called Your Crown in Glory Your Crowning Glory She's all that deep It was a duet with Raven Simone And it was set That is so raven actually Yeah Raven sang that is such a raven song

It's a raven thing to do It was set in a limited range of an octave To accommodate her recovering voice and the film's music supervisor, Dawn Sola, recalled that Andrews nailed the song on the first take. I looked around and I saw grips with tears in their eyes. Everyone on set's like, Julie, fucking Andrews is seeing. Oh my God.

That scene is set on a plane. That's not true. It's said at a slumber party. I'm going to need a hot towel at. So beautiful. So, yeah. Yeah, like I said, I didn't want it to just be, and then this year, she did this, because she's doing something all the time and like these huge, crazy, amazing projects.

She won't stop. She won't stop. They've tried. They said, Julie, take a holiday. She won't. So are you going to talk about any more films? Yes, yep. Because, yeah, I'm still, I still don't, I don't think I've heard one that.

Just you wait. I've seen. Tongutton. Just you freaking wait. Two words. I want to go back and watch torn curtain. It sounded pretty cool. You should watch torn curtain.

In 2003, she made her debut as a theatre director, directing a revival of The Boyfriend, the musical in which she'd made her Broadway debut in 1954. How many words? Three. Three words. The Boyfriend. Do you get to make that choice as the director? Yes, you do.

I read as well that her production, her production featured costumes and scenic design by her former husband, Tony Walton. Oh, welcome back, Tone. That's quite nice. In 2004, here you go, Matt. If you haven't seen this, 2004. I'm going to, we are stopping recording, we are sitting down and we are watching it.

Can you give me a clue? Oh, have a guest, 2004. She voiced Queen Lillian. It's an animated blockbuster. Shrek. Trek, too. She plays Fiona's mom. Yes.

John, yes. No, he was. No, he's the Lord Farquard. He's Lord Farquod. Who's the dirt? It's, um, John Feast. Yes.

Yes. Absolutely. See? I definitely saw that. I've seen at least two Shreks. Well, she's reprised the role as well for its sequel, Shrek the Third and Shrek Forever After. So she's done a fair bit of voice work as well. She's done many, many TV and stage performances, too many to mention.

But one that I thought was nice was when she made her London comeback after a 21 year absence. Her last performance there was a Christmas concert at the Royal Festival Hall in 1989. So in 2010, she performed at the 020.2. Two Arena, accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and an ensemble of other performers as well. She'd previously said in interviews that she wouldn't be singing. She'd be doing a kind of talk singing, because obviously post-surgery. Rap, please rap, please rap.

My name is Julie, and I'm here to say. Yeah, obviously post-surgery, her voice is not capable of what it used to be. Yet she actually sang two solos and several duets and ensemble pieces. The evening, though well received by the 20,000 fans present, who gave her a standing ovation, did not convince the critics, which is so funny to me, because imagine being a critic,

seeing this 75-year-old icon, and being like, hmm, not that good, while 20,000 people give a standing ovation around you. And also knowing that she's had operations that have, you know, heard her voice. Yeah. And she'll be like, hmm, I've heard better. Yeah. I've seen Adele.

I was like, what? Imagine like being on stage looking at 19,999 people on their feet. And you can see the one critic just arms crossed in the front row. Taking at all effort and is no. No. No from me. It's a no from me. I just thought that was quite funny.

But it's really nice that she's done this big arena show and everybody's standing ovation. Everyone's loved it. Yeah, a bit sad, I reckon. Seeing her like that. Yeah. Let it go, I reckon. Pull the plug.

Just disappear into the, into the, Into the ether. Yeah, yeah, yeah. As you should. So her list of accomplishments is very long, and it has its own Wikipedia page. Love that. List of awards and achievements.

Well, there was like there wasn't enough room on the one Wikipedia page about her. Yeah, because isn't all of Wikipedia about her life? Yeah. So, yeah, obviously she has her own Wikipedia. So she has her own Wikipedia site. Exactly right. But then they've like split it up to make it easier. Oh, that's handy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they've got, it's. So they've got like, hyperlinks and you can sort of click through. Yeah, absolutely. And there's like this whole page is just about awards. I don't know what that means. I don't get it.

Oh, sorry, I don't understand. I think Yahoo, that were ones that you made for yourself back in the United States. Oh, I'm young. No, you're not. I don't get that. Oh, sweetie. No, I'm actually incredibly young and youthful and I'll never die. So I don't know.

I don't know. about it. Anyway, so in 2000, she was made the Dame commander of the Order of the British Empire

to services for services to the performing arts and received the award from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. Yeah, she's a Dame. Does she command all the dames? Yeah, is that?

Sort of like a Sir, she's a dame. She's like, Helen Mirren, do what I want. But the commander, is that an extra thing? I don't know. Pretty cool, though, isn't it?

Dame commander. Dame commander. She had the Kennedy Center honors in 2001, and she's been nominated for 135 awards. Wow. And has won 67, Wow. Including.

Almost half. An Oscar, six Golden Globes, three Grammys. Oh, here we go. Two Emmys. Yeah, so no Tonys or... We're missing out on a Tony. Is it just Tony? Yeah.

I wonder if she... Just because she was like... Oscar Tony, Emmy, yeah. Do you have... Is it only American, like, Broadway? Broadway shows that you're eligible for Tony's? Which she's been in. Right.

Like she's done, yeah, she's done Broadway shows. Do I reckon she's been nominated for one? Yes, she absolutely has, yeah. Oh. I think she's been nominated for a few. If you get a lifetime achievement, Tony award, does that count for Egot? Yeah, sometimes they do, but then they put a little astrex next to it. Yeah.

Well, not one competitively. Because it feels like she's going to get at least a lifetime achievement, Tony. She's been nominated. three times for a Tony, 57, 61 and 66. Come on. 66, eh? And she declined a nomination for her role in Victor Victoria, citing that she felt the rest of the company had been overlooked.

It's kind of cool. So she could have won that one. Maybe. Maybe. That's weird. Like a protest thing to be like, interesting. She had several honorary degrees as well. And excitingly, she can next be heard on screen in 2022's Minutes.

The Rise of Gru. She's still working. And she's also the voice of Lady Whistledown. Oh, I was going to ask. I think that's her on Bridgeton. Yes, it is. On Bridgeton. On Bridgeton.

Did you say the voice? Is that a cartoon, Bridgeton? No. She's like a, it's like a narrator. Right. Yeah, she narrates it and it's great. There's a gossip magazine. I didn't realize, yeah.

I thought it was like a period of romance. Yeah, it is. And she's, yeah, she essentially narrates it. It's very silly, but I love it. She reprises her role. You watched it? Yeah, yeah. Second season?

Both seasons. Yeah. Me too. That's good. First season was a bit hornier. Yeah, the first season was so fucking horny. Yeah. Watching that with the in-laws over Christmas.

You're like, oh, oh, la la, I think I need another cup of tea. Excuse me for a second. It's getting a bit hot and heavy over here. They're with yummy grommies. Dot org. So that is my report about Julie Andrews and one thing that I um also read uh and I look I don't have that many sources on this but I thought it was quite cute is it apparently she travels with her own kettle

what do you mean I don't know she just brings a kettle with it wherever she goes and I thought that was nice I love that yeah so thank you do they're less common in America I learned recently yeah their power plug their power plugs aren't as they take forever to like two hours to boil yeah so they do them on the stove over there Is the Volcano High enough? I saw her TikTok about it. Yeah, no, I think that's true.

I just didn't really know what they did instead. But I know that kettles aren't very common. Yeah, but I guess, yeah, I don't know. They're micro-oved tea. Do they? Some places. That's like being in the future. Or just like doing it wrong.

So thank you to Jen Wood and Kelly for suggesting Julie Andrews. And thank you to the Patrions for voting on it as well. It was honestly a lot of fun. fun to give her last name? There's a listener Kelly Wells and when you're saying Wells before I'm like that's the only other well

I don't think it was Kelly Wells I think it was Kelly Clark but in this particular suggestion it just said Kelly so but I'm pretty sure it was Kelly Clark fantastic suggestion loved hearing about her life

what a delight so that brings us to everyone's favourite section of the show the fact quote or question section and before I talk about that, this is part of a broader section where we like to thank all our great supporters. You can sign up at patreon.com slash dogoonpod or dogoonpod.com.

And yeah, there's a bunch of different levels. What are some of the rewards people get, Dave? You can be part of a Facebook group that no one else has access to. It's a level of a little area where we give each other compliments and hats. For a second, I thought I was saying, you get to have access to a Facebook group that nobody asked for. Nobody wanted, nobody else for. I'm like, okay. No, it's very nice people just like big each other up in there.

It's lovely in there. It's very nice. You get to vote for topics, for example, this week, which was chosen by the Petroon supporters. Yeah. You get three bonus episodes a month at a certain level, which adds to the 140 that you instantly get access to as soon as you support the show. And yeah, you get discounts and first access to live shows. And you also, if you're on the Sydney-Shaunberg level, you get to give us a fact of quote or a question or a brag or suggestion or whatever you like, really. Just type anything you want in there.

You also get to give yourself your own title. This section actually has a little jingle. Go something like this. Fact quote or question. Bing, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. Whoa. I always remembers the ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. And there's only three this week.

Normally do four. So if anyone's on the Sydney-Shymberg level, feel free to get them in. Come on over. Come on over, baby. I thought that might encourage them. That's beautiful. Some Christine Aguilera at them.

I think we could get that sing a mani in here to... Get fucked. To go sing it? You get fucked. That was good. Yeah, that's good, but I like great. Meow. Dave's that one...

Kitty got claws. The first one this week comes from Eric. I said that with a New Zealand accent. Eric E. Morales. Eric E. E. Morales. I love the New Zealand language. That's beautiful.

Eric has given himself the title MVP. Oh. Most vertical patron. Okay. A little pun on the primates. Yeah. The most vertical primate, which is so good. Good stuff.

By theuteur, Sir Robert Vince. Eric has asked a question this week, and this is that question. Eric writes, hi all, or sure if anyone has asked, have I said that I only read these out as I'm reading it. It's very apparent. Because sometimes it's their typo, sometimes it's my error. I'll just read it as written. Hi all, or sure if anyone has asked something similar, but here goes. It's probably not sure. I love to sleep on my side, but inevitably it hurts my back when I wake up. next morning. So I tend to sleep on my back. What's your most comfortable position asleep in? How do you get comfortable enough to get to sleep? Anyway, cheers and thanks for answering my dumb

questions. Thanks, Eric. It's not a dumb question. It's a very personal one. Neesh. Yeah. Unexpected for sure. I'm a little offended. Are you? Yeah. Well, I'll feel this one then. I just feel like, what are you going to do with that information? You know what mean you're going to steal my identity maybe yeah that's not jess she's not sleeping on her stomach yeah no that's how you know it's not me i sleep on my i i want i know sleep on your back i believe is probably the best way to sleep so i i'll try to sleep on my back but i always end up on my side yeah i mean you're also asleep so like you move you can't really control that the whole night i do often find where i fall asleep is how i wake up right you know like i'll in your best

Amazing. What are the chances? That's crazy. Every night? Yeah, after watching Moon Night on Disney, I realize now that it's not that common, some people need to chain themselves to the bed so they don't get up and moonwalk or whatever that is. I haven't been paying that much attention. But yeah, sleep on the side, I reckon is the go. But yeah, I do try to sleep on my back. And to try to get to sleep, I'll do.

I might have talked about this before, but I play some games. Normally like an alphabet game or I go through like last night I was going through I'm like all right I just I'm gonna go through actors I to Z oh wow And then you name like a yeah Ben Affleck Okay so we're going surname surname only? Ah well you make up your own rules Last night I think yeah I went with surname How far did you get? I believe I

I I remember getting pretty deep Yeah I think I was I got stuck on X and And must have fallen asleep around then. Excellent. But in the past, I've done like, it's, you know, higher level of difficulty. I'll go A, B. But I'll go any one at all.

Alec Baldwin, then B.C. Brian Collella, who's one of our great patron supporters. I wonder how Brian would feel about you thinking about him as you got to sleep. Yeah, sorry, Brian. Sorry, Brian, if that is an invasion of your privacy, to have your name in my head as I fall asleep. D.E. I can't think of one right now.

So Dave, how do you go to sleep? I sleep on my side hugging a pillow. That's cute. Love to hug. I mean, you have a wife, but okay. Exactly what she says to me. And I was like, but I can roll around with this pillow. I can face this way.

I can't just chuck you around the bed. And then you say, anyway, night pillow. I love you. I spend my life with you forever. I cannot get to sleep unless it's on my side, but I'm told I end up on my back snoring very quickly, but I can't go to sleep unless I'm on my side. Even as a child, I remember my dad would come in and like,

you know, tuck me into bed and he'd be like, come on, on your side. I can't sleep otherwise. Yeah, right. I try, I try, I try. Got to get all tucked up. I got to start on the right side. and then I roll to my left and then I'm asleep. Love that.

Yeah. It's pretty great. I think that's a good question, Eric. I wasn't offended as David Jess were. I'm very offended. I'm actually quite upset. So I don't know if you can hear that in my voice. Jess,

I'm going to struggle to sleep tonight. Yeah, because I'm like, who the fuck is watching me sleep now? Like, why do you need to know this about me? Do what I mean? Yeah. Like, I give so much of myself. And now you want to know how I sleep? Like what more is there of me to give?

Um. You wonder how I walk? Left foot, right foot. Is that right? Yeah. Always so as a left. Always. That's how you know it's Bob.

I'm going crazy. I can't think of a D.E. Yeah, he's Googling D.E. David E. I don't know. Is Derek? Yeah, Darren. I mean, I normally would come up with one.

I just can't remember what I'd say. You're also going straight for male names, which is very interesting. Oh, I think every. I just said was a male name as well. Donna. Yeah, I normally, E.F. is Ella Fitzgerald often. Okay.

D.E. Yeah, I don't, it's funny. I don't normally feel like I could get stumped there. Anyway, next one comes from Drew Foresburg. Very close to a DE. And Drew's title is N-S-F-N-S-W. Okay. Not safe for New South Wales, I guess is what that is.

I assume so. Drew has asked a question as well, writing, if you live deep within the fortress of the mole people, how would you try to infiltrate human society? I'm asking for a friend, obviously. This is not misdirection. I would, okay, so I live deep within the fortress of the moles, and I'm trying to infiltrate human society.

So I just go through the ground. Okay. I go up. Yeah. And then you just, you just, you're like, hello. Yeah, I come out the hole. And they go, do you just come out of that hole? I say, what?

No. I gaslight them and then I go you're crazy bye and I just like walk off and then I'm just like I just live there

you pick a footy team that was incredibly easy what do you mean how do you mean how do you mean like I'm down so I just go up yeah

I don't I don't get it I reckon I um I first he's still looking up DE he will not let this go he's really struggling to get DE that's interesting you can't just

you can't just Google or you want to you want to figure one out who has people are going to be yelling at their iPod that's what i'm frustrated by it uh Dwight Eisenhower oh thank god good good one good one how did you arrive at that i i googled people with the initials d e Danny elfman it was that easy Danny elphman uh they've got Zach effron on here come on what's his real name I'm guessing his real name's de Zak or something.

Dave, if you were a mole person, how would you infiltrate? I'd probably Google humans' names. Okay. And then call myself Douglas Engelbert. Okay. Okay. We've really lost Dave with this one. I'd probably call myself David Evans, aka the Edge.

There we go. That's how you get, you know, you infiltrates a side of, by calling yourself, hello, I am The Edge. Hello, it's me, The Edge. He should have called himself Da Edge. Then he could have kept the Edge. How else do you infiltrate society? I think that you obviously become president or prime minister of a large country,

get access to nuclear weapons, and then I think the rest is... Dev, I feel like mine was easier. What was your one? Just go up. Oh, go up. Yeah, sorry, get into the lift. Go up. Escalator.

Dachcalator. Yeah. Yeah, I think, you know, you just want to, depending on where you come up, so if you come up in Melbourne, you pick a footy team. You know, you join the footy tipping comp at work. Yeah. Get a job. Get a job, join the footy tipping. Win the footy tipping.

Go to Friday night drinks. Yep. Probably get some plastic surgery to look like a human. Start dating Darren from work. Shave the mole hair off your body. Mary Darren. What's Darren's last name? Mole.

D.M. Slide in a mole. And then live forever with Darren. Yeah, I think that's great. Easy. People say this like it's a tough thing to do. Great question and well answered. Thank you, Drew Forsberg.

And finally... Well answered. Finally, we got one from Derek Brigham. Brigham. Okay, old sky blue eyes. Oh. All sky blue eyes. You guys, you don't have sky blue.

I call you... I always talk about your eyes as the big blues. What are we got? You've got deep blue eyes. Deep blue. Not a sky blue. What have I got? You've got a deep blue as well.

You too, very similar with your eyes. Beautiful, beautiful eyes, my beautiful boys. What's old sky blue eyes saying? Old sky blue eyes has a fact, which is the blue sky we see on a clear sunny day is the result of Rayleigh scattering, where the shorter wavelengths of blue light are more readily scattered, filling the daytime sky. And as a bonus fact, blue eyes get their colour. for the same reason.

Lacking pigment in the iris, the fibres of the ice scatter and absorb some of the longer wavelengths of light. This results in more blue light reflecting back out and the eyes appear blue. Whoa. That's crazy. I haven't fully taken that all in, but I love it.

I don't get it, but it's amazing. I remember once I got my eyes tested at the optometrist's like, oh wow, you have very little pigment in your eyes. She's like, are you sort of sensitive to bright lights? I'm like, yeah, bitch. She's like, yeah, that's because it comes in and it just bounces around your eye heaps. Wow. That's interesting.

That's funny. Is that why I'm always pulling the blind down and you're not worried about it? But you've got light eyes too. Yeah, I've got like green blue eyes. That's so, so what, brown eyes wouldn't be as sensitive to light or something? More pigment? Yeah, I guess based on that. Because they're butts, you know?

I don't think they do. I reckon they are sensitive because they get such little light. Yeah, they're little moles. You expose your asshole to the sun. It's going to burn. That's true. I thought about it like that. That's very interesting.

There you go. Thank you very much. Eric, Drew and Derek. Oh, my God. D.E. Derek, Drew and Eric. And the other thing we like to do is shout out to a few of our other great supporters. Jess, you normally come up with a bit of a game based on the show, the episode we just did.

if we like name the Broadway musical they're in. Fantastic. I love it. The boyfriend. That one's taken. Julie did that one. Damn it. Torn curtain.

I'd love to thank, if I may, from Mount Gravat East in Queensland, Australia, Bridgett. Bridget Todd. My son, the hat. Oh, that's good. That's what, a rom-com? Yeah, it's a rom-com. A single month.

to a hat. Finding love. No, the mum finds love. Mums can find love, Matt. Single mum. Correct. Looking for love. Look, I've been on yummy grommies.

I know mums and grums can both learn this. Depending on your definition of love, of course. Mums and grums. Riggard. I cannot wait to see that musical. I'd also love to thank from address unknown. Can we assume from somewhere deep within the fortress of the malls? I'd love to thank Elizabeth Todd.

Ooh, a couple of Todd's. Yeah, I wonder, any relation. I hope so. Elizabeth Todd. Musical, how about help, I'm on fire. Help, I'm on fire in my loins. Ooh. A bit of bracket work.

It's how the song keeps going, but the musical is called Help, I'm on Fire. I'm on fire with my loins. Help, I'm on fire in my groin. Not a good musical. I was going to say these things right themselves. We just showed how easy it is. Help, help, help, help. I'm on fire, fire, fire with desire.

I'm not talking metaphorically. I am burning like a tree. That's on fire. Yeah, you've got to click. Because otherwise, trees just stand in there. Yeah, often trees aren't on fire at all. Most of the time, they're not. I'd say like 95% of the time.

Yeah. Thank you, Elizabeth Todd. And finally for me, I'd love to thank from Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Dominic Hugh. Dominic Hugh, you have a go one. Dominic, starring in... He's looking around the road. The famous musical...

Is that my picture? About a photographer. Yeah. And... He's on a musical journey of discovery finding his first ever photo. Wow. Yeah. That's nice.

That's beautiful. And, you know, not only does he find, eventually find the photo, along the way, he finds himself. Oh, my God. Spoilers. Thanks for that. Jazz, it's about the journey. Still, it would be nice to go into it, not knowing anything. But, okay.

A beautiful musical and well-puted. Together by Dominic. Beautiful. Thank you, Dominic. Can I thank some people? I'd love it if you did. I would love to thank from Huntingdon, Huntingdon in Great Britain. Cheryl.

Cheryl. Cheryl. Star of Box of Puppies, the musical. Box of Puppies, the musical. It starts with a man, a masked man, dropping a box of puppies with a brick in it into a lake. But that box of puppies comes to life. Because the puppies are alive?

No, no, the box. Okay, the puppies all die. Help, we're inside. Help, help, I've got a box. I've got puppies inside me. Yeah. But singing. Yeah, yeah.

Help, I've got puppies inside me. All I mean to start with help. And yeah, the box comes alive. Sort of like a magic pudding sort of thing. Okay. A bit of a character of this box. Yeah. Cheryl playing the box.

And it's about the box's journey to return the puppies back to its mom. Mummy dog. Mum and dog. Or grum. Yeah. Wow, that's nice. Yeah, it's beautiful. Who does Cheryl play?

Cheryl plays the box. Okay. Lead role. Good work, Cheryl. That's good. Voices the box. Right. Yeah.

Because it's an animatronic thing. Oh, okay. Boximotronic. Boximotronic musical. First of its kind, actually. Yeah, yeah. Very impressive, Cheryl. I would also love to thank from Arlington, Texas.

Joel Acklinxel. Joel Acklin. Acklin is fun to say. Acklin. I love that. Acklin. Something very satisfying about that. Jol Acklin.

Clah. That's fine. Jal Acklin. Jal Acklin. Beautiful name for a boy or a girl. What about bank robbers incorporated? Okay. They're going legit, but still robbing banks.

And it's all about the legal process where they're trying to... Register a business. Yeah. They're trying to do it. the right thing and pay tax. Yeah. And the... bureaucracy stands in their way.

Accountant keeps saying, and how did you come into this money? Like, we sold it from a bank. How is that not clear? Yeah. And so I've stolen $300,000, what's the relevant tax I pay on that? That's a great joke, but how did you really earn this money?

By working. Yeah, it took us quite a lot of time planning it. I mean, some people are like, oh, you can't earn that much money in half an hour. I was like, well, no, there was a lot of work leading up to it. Yeah. You know, people always say it's not bad for half an hour's work, but it actually, I mean, once you actually look at the amount of time, the number of people in the group, it's like it's not set you up for life kind of money.

A bank doesn't rob itself. It takes a lot of plans. That's a great opening number. A bank doesn't rob itself. Oh, that's good. Takes a village to rob a bank. Yeah. That's nice.

Thank you, Joel Acklin. And finally, for me, I would love to thank from Hazelbrook in New South Wales, Gina Lawrence. Gina Lawrence. Hazelbrook sounds lovely. Yeah. Sounds like a monorail might have put on the map. Yeah.

First thing I thought as well. Put them on the map. Is there something in that? Yeah, monorail the musical. It's just the stage adaptation of the Conan O'Brien penned Simpsons episode. But we've added a few new characters. Including one played by Gina Lawrence, which is a box. and that's the staple of a Matt Stewart musical is that

they'll always be a box character Everyone needs a motif Yeah exactly and it's actually It's it's gotten to a point where audiences are delighted to see the box They're sort of like how is he going to incorporate it this time When the box comes on they start applauding It's standing ovation The box like they have to factor that into the running time

They're like okay well box you'll walk out Don't bother starting your song yet Wait for the standing oh Everybody will settle down to begin Yeah, the box is sort of the modern day Fonzie or Kramer. Like a walk-on roll? Yes, absolutely, yeah. Beautiful, a beautiful thing.

Hey, I'd like to thank from Chirmside West in Queensland. Big shout out to Carolyn Clancy. Cancey. Clancy. Clancy, first thing I thought of as well. Caroline Clancy, Chernside West. It's Pharmacy the Musical. Pharmacy the Musical.

Pharmacy the Musical. Yeah, it's just a musical look. behind the scenes. What happens up there? Counting pills. Counting pills. Counting pills. Dishing thrills.

Two, four, six, eight, pack of ten, here you go. Not every song rhymes. They don't have to. Not every song that's a rhyme. That's such a basic thing to think. Yeah. God, you look like an idiot when you say that.

And it's about, you know, the journey of the pharmacy, how it began with just pills and, Blah, blah, blah. Now, you know, Shane worn deodorant and, you know, all these sorts of... Napoleon Perdis Foundation. Exactly. Yeah.

You know, like all those bullshit supplements. You can buy little bottles to put your shampoo in for when you travel. Yeah. And a little thing to scrub under your nails. People are like, how do we get here? Well, we explore that in this musical. Yeah, well, it starts with that flashback. Yeah.

Let me tell you my story. Somebody came in and said, have you got any little bottles? And I said, no, there's something to think about. Bringing it back home now to thank someone from Melbourne. It's Craig McQueen.

Oh my God, are you kidding me? McQueen. Craig McQueen. Fantastic man. Thing of that pharmacy one, there'll be a piece, a song about those Tupperware containers

with each day of the week on it. Yeah, absolutely. Big time. Yeah. Anyway, but we've moved on to Craig. I haven't. I'm thinking, for a name like Craig McQueen,

I'm thinking something like a bit of a Western, like a cowboy kind of musical. Okay. But it's from the perspective of the cows. Yes. Where are they sending us? Mo, move,

move along. Can it be called Mo, Moe, move along? Yes. The musical. Do we think it needs that many moos? What about just?

moo-mo-mo move along what do we think well these are things will workshop yeah moo-mo-mo-mo-mo-mo-mo-mo-mo-mo-mo-m-l-long i have a vision yes though and i get the vision i'm just i hate the i'm just thinking in terms of like printing the posters you know you want it to be nice and legible yeah yeah yeah what about moo-moo-moo etc along that's better yeah great people can sort of figure out mu-moo etc along yeah you choose your own it moves Mo-Moo recurring along. Yes. Mo to the power of moo.

Yeah. Along. Mo to the power of moos fun. Yeah, that is good actually. Anyway, we can workshop this, but it's definitely about cows. It's about cows, yeah. And Craig McQueen's playing a cow. Yeah.

He's playing the head of the cows. Villain is a horse. Yeah. I think that's a, I think, I mean, I keep thinking, I keep thinking the last one's the best one, but then the next one's better. Yeah, so let's see how we go with the last one. And finally I'd like to thank from Ormond Beach in Florida. It's Western Vol.

No. That is such a good name. Western Vol. Western Vol. Holy shit. Western Vol. I was wondering how you got to Western theme. It's funny of the things you just see just out of your...

I didn't see that. Western Vol. What about Deck Chair, the musical? Oh. History of the Humble Deck Chairs. chair. Okay. And it's a lot sexier than you would think.

And what deck chairs have seen. Yes. And what deck chairs have been a part of. A lot of butts. A lot of butts. A lot of butts. A lot of famous butts. Yeah.

Everybody sat on a deck chair. Yeah. That's the thing that makes us all equal. Everyone sat in a toilet. Imagine being like Brad Pitt's toilet. Oh, imagine. Oh, no. He's coming back for more.

I guess every toilet would say that, wouldn't it? Oh, I've never thought about that. Poor toilets. That's why I piss outside. Yeah. And a gentleman never ships. Thank you very much to Western, Craig, Caroline, Gina, Joel, Cheryl, Dominic, Elizabeth and Bridget. And that brings us actually to the end of the episode.

We've got no triptych shoutouts this week. We normally do shout out to people in the Triptitch Club if you're on the shoutout level or above for three straight years. But none three years back survived. So let's have a moment of silence for the ones we lost. Jess, is there anything we need to tell people before we go? That if you would like to, you can suggest a topic. There's a link in the show notes. You can also do it at our website, dogoonpod.com.

You've also been working on an exciting new development. Yes, I have. And we have. We have got a new merch store set up. I'll pop the link in the show notes as well. It'll be on our website, on our Instagram. You'll be able to find it. But yeah, we've got some new merch available on,

on spring.com we've got mugs. We've got hoodies, we've got stickers and there'll be more coming in the next couple of months as well. So if you're in the mood for something new to drink

your morning brew out of or to stick on your laptop or to wear on your body. Which one's weird? They can do whatever they like. I'm not here to govern what people do. So you can put the mug on your computer. Yeah, and if you want to drink out of a hoodie,

you can. Fantastic. I'm so excited. We've got hoodies. These are our first hoodies we've done? They are, yes. So cool. Yeah, it's really great stuff.

And we would love to hear from you as well. If you've given any of that merch to go, give us some feedback. We'd love to hear about it. But yeah, it's just a topic. You can find us at DoGoOnPod on all social media. And yeah, dogoonpod.com is our website. Thank you. I think that's about all the time we have here today.

I think it is. Even though we have unlimited time. Yeah. But I need to pee. That's all that we have to say here today. Yes, well said. Dave, boot this baby home. We'll be back next week with another episode, but until then,

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