Two In The Think Tank - 345 - Dame Julie Andrews

Episode Date: June 1, 2022

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My name is Dave Warnke 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 get a good spot i never give it up but i will explain that this show what we do here is we take it 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 and julie andrew 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 Andrews? It is Julie Andrews. I'm so thankful because I thought that you'd for a second forgotten that one of your first ever reports was on the history of Mary Poppins.

Yeah, no. And I was like, no, Jess, you've done it. 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 we've 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 Deaths 1. I missed 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 I don't know how to catch all that Sometimes you come in and you're like Oh no Jess and I are both very online A little too much Yes so this

Takes me ages to plug in the top right We're like oh grandad 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... Jed Wood? Jed, Jen Wood. Oh, Jen Wood.

Not Jed Wood. Have requested a topic on Julie Andrews. I put this to the Patreons 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 uh like that learning a bit more about those sort of iconic uh 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 majority, Julie Andrews took the cake.

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's 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 uh people 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 show yeah they're rolled down no you're like oh no not rolled not rolled not rolled out so yeah i can confirm um from the very start of this You're like, oh, no, maybe it wasn't. Not rolled. Not rolled. Not rolled, oh. 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,

she's one of those people who's had this career that spanned decades. And I think there's been, like, certain times of uh like resurgence so julie andrews resurgence um so a lot of people might not know a whole bunch about her early life yeah or how she got started i'm thinking yeah mary poppins and the sound of music yeah and it's wild to me that she's oh i think she's still alive yeah because it's like those things happened centuries ago yeah so. 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, yeah, 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 Frasier. I do have that.

That's one of the things I was going to talk about. Yeah, of course. Frasier's son was meant to be coming over for Christmas. Uh-huh.

I watched the Frasier, I do a Frasier Christmas marathon every year. Why do you do it to yourself? He's excited his son's coming over, but his ex-wife says, oh, 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 let her take him away from you for Christmas.

He's like, 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 okay and uh and christian anderson will be performing at the dinner julie andrews i don't know where i got i don't know why i think of her as and christian anderson that's not 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, 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.

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, she's English in that as well. Yeah. Okay. A spoonful of sugar. Yeah, no.

I think as a kid I couldn't hear accents, I don't think. But, I mean, obviously you heard Dick Van Dyke's Cockney, which he nailed. Hello, Mary Poppins. Yeah, that's right. So it was 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. 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. 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, did 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 a woman named Winifred, who was a war widow and worked at the same factory that Ted worked at. And Julia's mother married vaudeville performer Ted Andrews. That's where Andrews comes from. And while Ted Wells was... The real thing for Ted. Yeah, she loves Ted. So there's a couple Andrews comes from. And while Ted Wells was helping... It's a real thing for Ted. Yeah, she loves Ted.

So there's a couple of Teds 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 troops. 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. With her new Ted. Sorry, I lost her. There's so many Ted Eds.

Ted Andrews. You're thinking of Ted Ed Wells. That's right. This is one of the few times I've kept up with the little Ted. I know. And we've got doubles and it's very confusing. And you're keeping up. It's right. This is one of the few times I've kept up with the little names. 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 outlook. Yeah, it is, isn't it? Yeah, well, okay, the war was bad, but what opportunities did it create? Maybe you could have got into manufacturing guns. Yeah. You know, money can be made yeah children in this day and age not thinking about how they can capitalize on war yeah it's

all oh woe is me i was 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. 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 mum 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, Madam 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.

Perfect 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 her. And into me. Give it to me. This poor child has been possessed with perfect pitch. So with a child with 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... Manufactured guns. Manufactured guns. From about 1945, a family manufactured guns. The war's over. You fools, you've missed your shot.

Buy high, sell low. Every year on here, people have, you've missed your shot. Bye-bye, sell low. Every year on here, 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 um but yeah i wasn't exactly clear on where she changed yeah dropped the uh went for an e um 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. Very nice. 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 julieandrews.com?

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

I can never remember how it finishes. 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 a 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. Apparently in the train. And Clark later said it was fun and not a lot of kids were having fun Again, wartime 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 suis 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. And 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 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 actually happened? I thought that was like she was a plant. Yeah, yeah. Oh, 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 going to be like, look, sorry, Julie. Let's share it around, shall we?

I'm actually asking for a volunteer from the audience. I don't need you to... Why are you singing? No, why are you singing now? She made it so I was lucky I was lucky people enjoyed it Yeah, isn't that why you were hired to do it? Yes That's what confused me

I thought she was No, 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. 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. 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

at 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 1953. Fifty-three. It was 50-something. Dave, you love the Queen. Yeah, 57. What are we celebrating? 75 years this year, is it? Fucking hell.

Celebrating. Also, that makes it 40? No, it was... I don't know. 75 years. Carry the two. I think that means... That's 50.

That's 47, isn't it? 47. 47. Lock it in, Eddie. There we go. So, yeah, she'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 Clarke before. I'm like, why do I know that name? She sang Downtown. Is that her? Downtown. 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 then 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 in with a fact check here. 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. Newsner. They're running out of dot coms, aren't they?

Newsner. Newsner. Is Newsner taken? Yeah, somehow it is. It is. It's crazy. You actually have to say it with a very flat face and like, you can't give any expression.

So you've been training for that for years. Newsner at six. So from newsner.com, it 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 friend's residence. That's when you name made it. 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 fleshly handsome. Fleshly. I don't know what that means. Okay. Fleshly 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 sus. Okay, because it felt like it was going to be really sus. No, it's not sus. Well, it's a little sus, 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 Wells, was not in fact her biological father. Oh, mate, this would have been a- 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. No wonder it was passionate. This guy is like electric. He conducts electricity. Yeah.

If you touch him, your hair goes. It's crazy. Stands on end. You seem completely gots back, Dad. He's 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 memoir, 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 don't like Pop. He didn't him my father. Which one? Ted Wells. Not Pop. Not Pop. We don't like Pop. 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 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, weekends and spending holidays and stuff with him and and absolutely loved him and they had they had a really lovely 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 a with ted one way better than ted two yeah better than with the mom sounds like we're just loose you know people in the entertainment industry very unreliable yeah not

100 sure she i i didn't read a heap about her relationship with her mom i think probably fine um but yeah didn't fran fine fan fine um but very yeah very close with her mom i think probably fine um but yeah didn't fan fine fan fine um 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 andrews not being his own daughter there is that kind of weird i guess she had the right to know i guess but also not the way to do it. 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, she was worried about like what, how that would impact their relationship. Hey dad, just. Do you know I'm not a little boy. But, so she, yeah, she didn't know if her dad ever knew. And then the answer to that, she only found 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 Nah, look, there's no reason for me to have that relationship with you anymore Oh no, isn't that hard Yeah, but obviously he just loved her because he saw her as his daughter. And he'd raised her from infant. Yeah, that's right. I mean, two types of people.

Oh, absolutely, yeah. And I guess is it different again when it's like a stepchild? Who knows? It's a complex one, isn't it? But yeah, 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 Julie 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 one's 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 there. The Boyfriend. That's words there. The Boyfriend.

That's three words. I'm sorry. I meant Boyfriend is separated. Yeah, The Boyfriend. No, but it's The Boyfriend. Boyfriend, different. Two different words. I'm going to go out on 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. I'm standing by my opinion. He hates musicals.

I'm just looking up the Wikipedia page on The Boyfriend. I'm trying to find a plot. Oh, there's several acts to it. 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 1920s shows. Its relatively small cast and low cost of production makes it a continuing popular choice for amateur and student groups.

It's cheap and easy to do. All right. You've won me over with the boy friend. Two words. Don't get any ideas out there, anybody. The boy, one word, and friend. Friend. Or 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. How wonderful. How 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 that words? Andrews later stated that the good man had stripped my feelings bare, moulded, kneaded and helped me become the character of Eliza and made her part of my soul.

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 they went too far into cockney so impressed with her performance in my fair Lady was composer Richard Rogers. And he asked her to be involved in the Rogers and Hammerstein television musical Cinderella. Any relation?

To Rogers and Hammerstein? Yeah. 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? 300 and something.

Million, sorry. Three, four hundred people? In America? You're crazy. Bloody hell. 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 T-Tony. T-Tony. T-T-T-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. Yeah. 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. Oh, Audrey's the EGOT.

Catherine Hepburn's won four Academy Awards for Best Actress, which is a record. Wow. And Audrey's an EGOT winner. I believe so. But isn't there a thing she can't sing? Well, yeah. My very next line is the bulk of Hepburn singing was dubbed by soprano and ghost singer... Katharine Hepburn.

Marnie Nixon. Ghost singer? Ghost singer. Oh, my God. How good is that? How did they record it? I purposely left this in because I was like, what else has Marnie Nixon done?

And I went to look and it's like, she's a soprano and ghost singer. And 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 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.

Do you think we could get some ghost singers? I think we could get ghost podcasters. I'd love to do a musical episode. Oh, now you like musicals. If I'm not singing it. I wanted it, belovedly. 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 west side story wow so there's quite a lot of productions and and different projects and stuff that marnie lent her voice to um 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, you're right, Dave. Audrey Hepburn 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 ask. 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. 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. You've got to watch that show. 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 and their money to a cinema box. To a cinema box? Audrey Hepburn had never made a financial flop. I imagine that's how he talked. I love that voice. Thank you. It's still a cult classic.

It absolutely is. And you know what? I feel like I've definitely said this before, but Hepburn is such a 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 captivating so yeah I can 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 Drescher is quite captivating. Exactly right. There's a presence about them, these people. The big three. The big three. Hepburn, Andrews, Drescher. 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, I'll hold you up 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 a thing? I think so. Should I? Oh, I can't to get the call. Would you like to be Mary Poppins? Oh, my God. Is that real, is that a thing? 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. My pants are wet. I got the call from Mary Poppins. I'm like, do you need to run lines or do you want me to help?

Do you want me to, what do you need? Oh, they needed hospital. Okay, I get it now. I just thought that was quite nice that that happened for both of them. Yeah, it's great. History repeating itself is nice. You're right. You don't often hear stories, especially in school hollywood about things like that yeah totally

it's so cutthroat and it's like you know your hair's the wrong color get out of the city it's like what you're banned and mary poppins no redheads here didn't mary mary poppins wasn't a she didn't have kids no she's a nanny she's a nanny the nanny see i didn't even i didn't have kids. No. She's a nanny. She's a nanny. The nanny. See? I didn't even... Maybe that's why my brain keeps talking about Fran Drescher. It all makes sense now. My God.

The nanny. Mary Poppins was there. That's how she became... Pregnant? Pregnant. Wow. What a way to find out how it all works. Mr Sheffield.

So, according to Wikipedia, after the birth of her daughter, this is Julie 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, of course, her... Beep, beep. Who was that? She was Australian, wasn't she, P.L.?

Yeah. Yeah, Mirabara. That's where she came from. See, I remember that. So could you do it, say it 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 No 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

Oh well you're much too pretty of course Yeah yeah But you've got the nose for it Yeah that's fair. Was that good? That's better. Now, this was Andrew's first major film role, so this is huge for him.

Do you usually get a call from the author telling you you look weird? You've got a weird nose? 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 Andrew's 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 about 23 now. She's got the Academy Award. She mustress for Julie Andrews. So this is her first role. She's about 23 now. She's got the Academy Award. She must be close to an EGOT 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 a Tony. She married a Tony. Does that not count? I've married a Tony. I've dated a Tony. She married a Tony. Does that not count? I've married a Tony. I've dated a Tony. Yeah.

So I'm only an ego away. Yeah. Well, I've had sex with a 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. Is that right? And that's fine. We're not yucking anybody's yum. We're just wanting to check. Especially yummygrummies.com. Matt, it's yummygrummy.

Yummygrummy.org. Oh, she's a bit of a yummygrummy.org Oh, she's a bit of a yummygrummy. That's horrendous. 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 don't know. Yummygrummy. Yummygrummy. house on on my wi-fi i'm gonna start getting some weird targeted ads shout out to any yummy grummies listening so yeah she's won an academy award for best actress she

also received uh the golden globe for best actress um and her co-stars won 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. 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. 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 um i think i feel like we've talked about that before maybe on the academy 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 tony's 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 don't 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 um so yeah she said uh thanks to jack warna which is fun a nice another nice little fun fact um 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 no, I won't be in it. That'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. That's just a polite way of saying no, I don't want to. No, I don't want to do that. Fuck that. I've already done one of those.

Are 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 um the chalk scene where they all jumped inside the chalk with dick van dyke yep was on a

like a clay pot instead they jumped into a pot yeah i think you're right yeah did dick make a cameo he did dick makes a cameo yes 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 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 uh 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 them all at once i'll do all four versions big dick fan 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 that were movies i watched a lot as a kid and i don't i don't reckon i realized it was the same person because i think she has black hair in one and blonde hair yeah yeah yeah possibly be the same different people 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.

She's in her 20s. Yep. Still crazy. Yeah, because, I mean, it's film before it comes out. Yeah, absolutely. So, yeah, Sound of Music, 1965. It's 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? Just as a child. Have you seen it at all, Dave? I don't think I've ever seen it all the way through.

Yeah, right. I've seen 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 as well. He was 35 and Liesel, the eldest, was played by a 22-year-old. Yeah, right. Starved 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. Well, he was only 35.

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 like Ugh girl insufferable

And then had the self words to go No I'm being a bit immature 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 tastes then Yeah 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 You reckon he hollywood in sound of music i was never like hubba hubba

captain von trapp yummy never yeah you were more into that aryan boy i truly don't think i got that movie no i did not understand i had no idea what understand. I had no idea what was going on. 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 boy? 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 youth. 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 and 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. I mean, not for me. 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 for?

Too long. High on the hills, a lonely garden. Oh, no. And I was like, yeah, why are they... Why is this happening? It's elaborate. Yeah. I mean, the kids have a fucking song just to go to bed.

Like, Jesus Christ. That's true. Yeah, they perform a song to say goodnight. Goodnight. That was not good. That sounded right to me. No, it wasn't. Have you ever had a ghost singer?

I have a ghost singer. Because I think your ghost singer is dying a horrible death. How do you solve a problem like Maria? Yeah. How? Always, and it's funny, Andy Matthews, what he did briefly, did a stand-up bit about it, because he also misunderstood it like I did.

Always thought it was, how do you solve a problem like Maria would solve the problem? Ah, yeah, right. But it's how do you solve a problem like Maria? Maria's the problem we have to solve. Yeah. Which is nice, because aren't they singing, they're not singing Ah, 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?

Was she in the room when they're singing that? I don't think so. Because it feels like a bit of a dick move. So she's like a young nun and the other nuns are like, how do you... She's a real pain in the ass. Right, you're 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 ass. 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 up. Torn Curtain. They're pitching the movie, looking around the room. There's a curtain torn. Ceiling crack? No. 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 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, I was thinking the same thing. 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 and 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 footy 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.

Come on, Jess, look it up. You've got pre-season, then you've got replays. What am I looking at? What month did it come out? Let's have a look. Let's see if Matt's ever seen the movies. Let's see. July. No, he wouldn't have seen it. That's fair if Matt's ever seen the movies. Let's see. July.

No, he wouldn't have seen it. No, it's fair enough. I'm sorry that I pushed. You're busy. I'm sorry that I pushed. The following year, she played the titular character in Thoroughly Modern Millie. She played Thoroughly. That's funny. I shouldn't have laughed so hard at my own joke there.

It'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. It'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. And no one talks about it. In 50 years' time, 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. Okay, Nana, all right. There was the Australian guy who seemed like he was a really big star. And then they had to jump on a bird. Not for Sam's worth.

Sam Worthington. Sam Worthington. They had to carjack a bird and shove their hair in its arsehole You remember it better than I do They had to carjack a bird And shove hair in its arsehole That's absolutely true I mean it was its tail

But so close to its arsehole You know what I mean? Wow Worth a re-watch? I mean by then The six follow-up movies Will be released Yeah

They'll do a reboot The kids will know the reboot We'll say Will 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 Okay Five would be ridiculous There could be more But even just going Let's not Let's not release a sequel and see how it does let's lock in a the third one yeah everyone loves that trilogy um uh thoroughly modern millie 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?

What's funny when the nominees are, despite the reviews, Julie Andrews. Wow. Who who knew because it was trash it's a walk-up start they just say an army armor for that yeah everything she touches turns to golden glow she later wrote about these films that non-stop success in a career is impossible but nobody sets out to make a failure either i just you know she's like it's inevitable you're gonna make some flops She's like, it's inevitable. You're going to make some flops. It's not the dream. But you can't beat yourself up.

That's right. And that's nice. 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.

Surname Edwards. Yes. Blake Ted. Blake Ted. screenwriter and producer blake edwards um surname edwards yes like ted like 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 i think question yes does she know what's causing it adoption okay um 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?

You could have just said yes and asked for no follow-up questions Sorry Yes, no follow-up questions No, no, no, I thought I'd written it down but I haven't So let's have a look Yeah, yeah, 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. I did love Matt looking around the room. What was it?

Crack Pot. Crack ceiling. Or Pot Crack. Yeah, Crack Pot. It's an actual thing. That's not bad. Yeah, Pot Crack is also okay, I guess. Hey, you punched it up.

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't wait for my prime and then

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 directed 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 did you know this

yes yeah i knew the story that she couldn't sing anymore but i wasn't sure why yeah so her 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 um 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 of years later in 1999,

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. This is in the 90s that, yeah her voice which is pretty um pretty pretty uh disappointing but um in classic julie andrews uh 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 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 not the way that she was 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 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. 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.

In those five days. 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 the limo driver yes he's so fun in it lou is it like joe or 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 oh look at hector hector alison zondo hector Who plays Joe, Dave? Joe is... Hector Elizondo.

Hector Elizondo. 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's the main man from Chicago. I think they still have re-watchability. 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. Is 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 in the sky. Something about being alone with your thoughts. Yeah, there is some sort of science behind it, I think.

But, yeah, that's why we're all a bit sookie on planes. Oh, my God. She's writing in her princess diary. Dear princess diary. It's the diaryary of Princess. I haven't seen it, I assume. Dear Princess Diary. In the sequel, Princess Diary 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 Crown in Glory. She's all that deep. It was a duet with Raven-Symoné. That is so Raven, actually. Yeah. Raven sang that?

That is such a Raven song. Such a Raven song to do. So Raven. It was set in a limited range of an octave to accommodate her recovering voice. And the film's music supervisor, Dawn Solar, 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 singing. They filmed it in the air. Oh my God. It is. That scene is set on a plane. everyone on set's like Julie fucking Andrews is singing they filmed it in the air oh my god it is that scene is set on a plane that's not true it's set at a slumber party I'm gonna need a hot towel 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'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 still don't think I've heard one that I've seen. Torn Curtain. Just you freaking wait. Two words. I want to go back and watch Torn Curtain. It sounded pretty cool. You should. Torn Curtain. 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 featured costumes and scenic design by her former husband, Tony Walton. Oh. Welcome back, Tony. Isn't that 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? Have a guess. 2004. I'm going to – we are stopping recording. We are sitting down and we are watching it. Can you give me a clue? Have a guess. 2004. She voiced Queen Lillian. It's an animated blockbuster.

Shrek. Shrek 2. Shrek 2. She plays Fiona's mum. John Lithgow? Yes. John – yes. No, he was –

No, he was – He's Lord Farquaad. He's Lord Farquaad. Who's the Yes, yes Absolutely I definitely saw that I've seen at least two Shreks Well she's reprised the role as well for its sequels

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 o2 arena accompanied by the royal philharmonic orchestra and an ensemble of 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 uh 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

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 and still be like, hmm, I've heard better. Yeah, I've seen Adele and 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. With a notepad. Taking 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 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. It 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 site. 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 like hyperlinks and you can sort of click through?

Yeah, absolutely. And there's like this whole page is just about awards. Is it one of GeoCities or? I don't know what that means. I don't get it. Ohities or? I don't know what that means. I don't get it. Oh, sorry. I don't understand. I think Yahoo,

they were ones that you made for yourself back in the 80s. 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 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. Sort of like a sir, she's a dame. Does she command all the dames? Yeah.

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, two Emmys. Yeah, so no Tonys or.

No Tonys. We're missing out on a Tony. Is it just Tony? Yeah. I wonder if she. Just because she's like. Oscar, Tony, Emmy, yeah. Is it only like Broadway shows that you're eligible for Tonys?

Which she's been in. Right. Like she's done... Yeah, she's done Broadway shows. Do you 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 asterisk 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's had several honorary degrees as well. And excitingly, she can next be heard on screen in 2022's Minions, 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 Bridgerton. Yes, it is on Bridgerton. You watch this? Did you say the voice? Is that a cartoon, Bridgerton? No.

She's like a narrator. Right. Yeah, she narrates it and it's great. It's a gossip magazine. I thought it was like a period romance. Yeah, it is. And she essentially narrates it. It's very silly, but I love it.

She reprises her role. Have you watched it? Yeah, I have. Second season? Both seasons. Yeah, me too. It's very silly, but I love it. She reprises her role. Have you watched it? Yeah, I have. Second season? Both seasons. Yeah. Me too. It'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, 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. There with the yummy grummies.

Dot org. So that is my report about Julie Andrews and one thing that I also read 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 brings a kettle with it wherever she goes. And I thought that was nice. I love that. Yeah. So, thank you. They're less common in America, I learned recently. Yeah.

Because their power plugs aren't as... They take forever to... It's like two hours to boil. Yeah. So, they do them on the stove over there. More commonly. I saw a 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 microwave tea. Do they? Someplaces. 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 Patreons for voting on it as well. It was honestly a lot of fun to... Did Kelly give her last name? I know there's a listener, Kelly Wells. And when you're saying Wells before, I'm like, that's the only other Wells. No, I don't think it was Kelly Wells. I think it was Kelly Clark.

But in this particular suggestion, it just said Kelly. 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 dogoandpod or dogo on pod.com and yeah there's a bunch of different levels what are some of the rewards people get dave uh you can be part of a facebook group that no one else has access to it's a lovely little area where we give each other compliments for a second i thought he was saying is it facebook you're gonna have access to a facebook group that nobody asked for nobody wanted nobody okay nobody asked for. I'm like, okay. It's very nice. People just like big each other up in there.

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Come on over. Come on over, baby. I thought that might encourage them if I sang Some Christina Aguilera at them I think we could get That singer Marnie 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. Morales. Eric 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 the auteur, Sir Robert Vince. Eric has asked a question this week, and this is that question. Eric writes,

question this week and this is that question uh eric writes hi all or sure if anyone has asked have i said that i only read these out as i'm reading them out it's very apparent because sometimes it's their typo sometimes it's my error uh i'll just read it as written hi all or sure if anyone has asked something similar but here goes probably not sure all right um i love to sleep on my side but inevitably it hurts my back when i wake up the next morning so i tend to sleep on my back what's your most comfortable position to sleep 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. Niche. 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 I 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 know sleeping on your back, I believe, is probably the best way to sleep. So 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... Like in your bed. Amazing. What are the chances? That's crazy. Every night? Yeah. After watching Moon Knight on Disney,

I realise 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 haven't been paying that much attention but um no yeah so on side i reckon is the go but yeah i try i do try to sleep on my back and to try to get to sleep i'll do i think i might have talked about this before but i play play some games normally like an alphabet game where I go through. Like last night I was going through. I'm like, all right, I'm going to go through actors A to Z.

Oh, wow. And then you name like A. Yeah, Ben Affleck. Okay, so we're going surname. Surname only? 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 remember getting Pretty deep Yeah I think I was I got stuck on X And

Must have fallen asleep Around then 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 Anyone at all. Alec Baldwin, then B, C. Brian Colella, who's one of our great Patreon supporters. I wonder how Brian would feel about you thinking about him as you go 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. 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 say, but I can roll around with this pillow. I can face this way. I can face this way. I can face that way. I can't just chuck you around the bed. And then you say, anyway, night pillow.

I love you. Love you pillow. 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. 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. I try, I try, I try. Got to get all tucked up.

I 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 uh david just were i'm i'm very offended i'm actually i'm quite upset so i don't know if you can hear that in my voice but i'm gonna 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 you know 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? You want to know how I walk? Left foot, right foot. Is that right?

Yeah. You always say the left. Always. That's how you know it's Bob. I'm going crazy. I can't think of a DE name. You're always so on the left. Always. That's how you know it's Bob. I'm going crazy. I can't think of a D-E name. Yeah, he's Googling D-E. David E. I don't know any of these people.

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. I think everyone I just said was a male name as well. Donna. Yeah, I normally E said was a male name as well. Donna.

Yeah, I normally, EF is Ella Fitzgerald often. Okay. DE, yeah, I don't, it's funny, I don't normally feel like I get stumped there. Anyway, next one

comes from Drew Forsberg, very close to a DE. And Drew's title is NSsfnsw okay not safe for new south wales i guess is what that is i assume so and uh 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... I was like, hello. Yeah, I come out the hole and they go, did 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 time. That was incredibly easy.

What do you mean? How do you inflate like up? Do you know what I mean? Super easy. Like I'm down. And so I just go up. Yeah. I don't get it.

I reckon I first. He's still looking up DE. He will not let this go. He's really struggling to get DE. That's interesting. Focus, Dave. Focus. You can't just Google or you want to figure one out who has... People are going to be yelling at their iPod.

That's what I'm frustrated by. Dwight Eisenhower. Oh, thank God. Good. Good one. Good one. How did you arrive at that? I googled people with the initials D-E.

Danny Elfman. It was that easy. Danny Elfman. They've got Zac Efron on here. Come on. What's his real name? I'm guessing his real name is Dezak 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 infiltrate society, 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 Da 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...

Dave, 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.

Escalator. 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. You get a job first. 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. Marry Darren. What's Darren's last name? Mole. Darren Mole. DM. Slide into

DM. And then live forever with Darren. Yeah. I think that's great. Easy. God, people say this like it's a tough thing to do. Great question and well answered. Thank you, Drew Forsberg. And finally. Well answered. the way we got one from derrick brigham brigham okay old sky blue eyes oh sky blue eyes and you guys have you don't

have sky blue you boy i call you i always talk about your eyes as the big blues what do we got you've got deep blue eyes deep blue not a sky blue what 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 two are very similar with your eyes. Beautiful, beautiful eyes, my beautiful boys. What's old sky blue eyes say? 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 eyes 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. 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, the optometrist was 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, a bit. She's like, yeah, that's because it comes in and just bounces around your eye heaps. Wow. That's interesting. That's funny. Is that why I'm always pulling the blind down. She's like, yeah. That's because it comes in and 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 blind eyes too. Yeah, I've got like green blue eyes. So 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. Oh yeah. Little moles. You expose your asshole to the sun,

it's gonna burn. That's true. I hadn't 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 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. What 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 Gravatt East in Queensland, Australia, Bridget Todd. My son, the hat. Oh, that's good. That's what, a rom-com? Yeah, it's a rom-com. A single mum to a hat. Finding love.

No, the mum finds love. Mums can find love, Matt. Single mum. All right, looking for love. Look, I've been on yummy grummies. I know mums and grums can both blend in. Depending on your definition of love, of course. Mums and grums.

Rigid. 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? Just go up. I'd love to thank Elizabeth Todd. Oh, a couple of Todds. 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. Bit of bracket work. It's how the song keeps going, but

the musical is called Help, I'm on Fire. Help, I'm on fire in my loins. Help, I'm on fire in my groin. Not a good musical. I was going to say these things write themselves. We just showed how easy it is.

Help, help, help, I'm on fire, fire, fire with desire. I'm on fire, fire, fire with desire. I'm helping. 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 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 on. Dominic Hugh. Dominic starring in... He's looking around the room. The famous musical... Is that my picture? About a photographer yeah

and he's on a on a 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. Jess, it's about the journey. Still, it would have been nice to go into it not knowing anything, but okay. A beautiful musical and well put 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 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 of puppies.

I've got puppies inside me. Yeah. But singing. Yeah, yeah. Help, I've got puppies inside me. All I'm doing is musicals start with help. And yeah, the box comes alive. Sort of like a magic pudding sort of thing.

Okay. A bit of a character, this box. Yeah. Cheryl playing the box. And it's about the box's journey to return the puppies back to its mum. Mum. 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. Or voice as the box. Right. Yeah. Because it's an animatronic thing. Oh, okay. I mean, box-imatronic.

Box-imatronic musical. First of its kind, actually. Yeah, yeah. Very impressive, Cheryl. I would also love to thank, actually. Yeah, yeah. Very impressive, Cheryl. I would also love to thank, from Arlington, Texas, Joel Acklin. Joel Acklin.

Acklin is fun to say. Acklin. Acklin. I love that. Acklin. Something very satisfying about that. Joel Acklin. That's fun. Joel Acklin. Joel Acklin. Joel Acklin. Beautiful name for a boy orckland. Joel Ackland. Joel Ackland. Beautiful name for a boy or a girl.

What about Bank Robbers Incorporated? Okay. Yeah, they're going legit, but still robbing banks. And it's all about the legal process where they're trying to form a company. They're trying to do 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's work. Well, no, there was a lot of work leading up to it. Yeah. You know, people always say 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 planning. That's a great opening number. A bank doesn't rob itself. It takes a lot of planning. That's a great opening number. A bank doesn't rob itself. Oh, that's good.

It takes a village to rob a bank. 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 it on the map.

First thing I thought as well. Put them on the map. Is there something in that? Yeah, Monorail the Musical. It's just a stage adaptation of the Conan O'Brien penned Simpsons episode, but we've added a few new characters. Ooh!

Including one played by Gina Lawrence, which is a box. And that's the staple of a Matt Stewart musical, is that there'll always be a box character. Everyone needs a motif. Yeah, exactly. And it's actually, 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 O. 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, 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 Chermside West in Queensland, big shout out to Carolyn Clancy. CC! Clancy! Clancy! First thing I thought of as well. Carolyn Clancy, Chermside

West. It's Pharm pharmacy the musical pharmacy the musical yeah it's just a musical look at the 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 has to 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 things. Napoleon Perdus 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 did 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. There's an idea. Bringing it back home now to thank someone from Melbourne. It's Craig McQueen. Oh, my God. Are you kidding me?. It's Craig McQueen. Oh, my God. Are you kidding me? McQueen.

Craig McQueen. Fantastic man. Think 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 McQueen. Come on. Well, 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? Moo, moo, moo, moo, moo, move along. Can it be called Moo, Moo, moo, moo, move along? Yes. The musical. Do we think it needs that many moos? What about just Moo, moo, move along?

What do we think? Well, these are things we'll workshop. Yeah. Moo, moo, moo, moo, move along. I have a vision, Jess. And I get the vision. And I hate the vision. I'm just thinking in terms of like printing the posters.

You know, you want it to be nice and legible. Yeah, yeah. And not just full of bullshit. What about moo moo et cetera along? That's better. Yeah. Great. People can sort of figure out.

Moo moo et cetera along. Yeah. You choose your own moos. Moo moo recurring along. Yes. Moo to the power of moo. Yeah. Along.

Moo to the power of moo is 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... That's very important actually. 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 how the things you just see just out of your... I didn't see that. Western Vol.

What about Deck Chair, the musical? History of the Humble Deck Chair. Okay. And it's a lot sexier than you would think. And what deck chairs have seen. And what deck chairs have been a part of. A lot of butts. A lot of butts. A lot of butts. But a lot of famous butts. Yeah. Everybody's sat on a deck chairs have seen. And what deck chairs have been a part of. A lot of butts. A lot of butts.

A lot of butts. But a lot of famous butts. Yeah. Everybody's sat on a deck chair. Yeah. That's the thing that makes us all equal. Everyone's 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 shits.

Thank you very much to Weston, 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 shout-outs this week. We normally do shout-out to people in the Triptit Club if you're on the shout out 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 do go on pod.com you've also been working on an exciting new development yes i have and we have we have got a uh 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 it. But yeah, we've got some new merch available 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. Now, which one's which? They can do whatever they like. I'm not here to govern what people do. So you can put the mug on your laptop or to wear on your body. Now, which one's which? 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 a go, give us some feedback. We'd love to hear about it. But yeah, you can absolutely suggest 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. 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, thank you so, so much.

Until then, it's goodbye. Later. Bye.