Do Go On - 404 - Walter Cronkite

Episode Date: July 19, 2023

Often on Do Go On, we like to tell you about people whose name you probably recognise, but whose life you know little about. This week, we tell you all about 'The Most Trusted Man In America' - Walter Cronkite. This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 05:16 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).Support the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: patreon.com/DoGoOnPodSubmit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/suggest-a-topic/ Check out our AACTA nominated web series: http://bit.ly/DGOWebSeries​ Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] Check out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/ Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasDo Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.  REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Cronkitehttps://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/walter-cronkite-retires-from-cbs-evening-newshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/national/did-the-news-media-led-by-walter-cronkite-lose-the-war-in-vietnam/2018/05/25/a5b3e098-495e-11e8-827e-190efaf1f1ee_story.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Writing_69thhttps://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/walter-we-hardly-knew-you-234885 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

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

Hey Jess. So good to be here. Loving life, loving you and loving you too. Ring a ding ding ding. I wish I was never born. Oh, wow. Can I just say how good is it to be here with you? So good.

Thanks so much. Dave, can you explain to me? Because it's been a week since we did this. How does this podcast work? What is it? What's going on? What's my name? Who am I?

What is life? Well, I won't tackle the last question until later in the episode. Before then, I'll say this show is called Do Go On. I'm Matt. You're just. She's Dave. I genuinely stop that. I, uh, I touch myself with, oh my God, he's losing it.

I went, I'm Matt. I touch my. Fuck, no. I lost it. Well, let me have another crack in here. Okay. All right. I'm Matt.

That's Jess. That's Dave. What we do here is we take in terms of report on a top. topic often suggested to us by one to the listeners, we go away. We do a bit of research. We bring it back to the others in the form of a little old school class report. The other two, listen intently as they are regaled with information on a topic brand new to their ears. They actually don't know what the topic's going to be, which is the case for Dave and I or Matt and I, whoever I am now. Jess, it's your turn to report on a topic this week.

Yes. We don't know what you're going to talk about. So we start with a question, which you often forget to write. Well, I remember this time. In fact, I wrote it before I'd even started writing the report. Can you believe it? That's a first. That's a first in 400 episodes.

That's personal growth. My question is, who was known as the most trusted man in America? The most trusted man. Geez, most trusted man. Who would you trust? In America. A real person? Yes, real person.

Baskin and all Robbins. No, it's not ice cream related. Okay. Well, it's going to rule out my guess. Was it Ben? Chalk chip. Oh, okay. Isn't that bad?

Ethel Merman. Is that an American? I don't know what that. That's the name that came in my mind. Ethel Merman. Yeah. Is it like one of those newsreadery types? Yes, it is.

Walter Cronkite? Yes, it is Walter Cronkronk. That was fantastic. Well done. What did I say? I went blank there. You went like, no, Mermon. So you were close.

I said Ranker or something. wrong croaker well none of those were correct none of those odd sounds you made were correct the answer is Walter Cronkite Walter Cronkite

yeah I don't know where I've pulled that from because he's the most trusted man in America I see the one with the suspenders who leans in and wears glasses that's Larry Oh my God Larry Bird

Walter Cronkite Isn't that a great name It's such a great name What could this story possibly be about I guess Walter Cronkuntka It's about Walter Cronkite. It's about the most trusted man, but will he always be trusted? Yeah. Oh, okay. And this was suggested by only by one person. It was suggested by Josh Benfield from

Jacksonville, North Carolina. It was voted on by the Patreon. And in fact, for my last report, Charles Kingsford Smith, it was a dead tie between Charles Kingsford Smith and Walter Cronkite right up until, like, at some point I was like, well, I just have to pick one and start writing. And after I'd started writing, Charles Kingsford Smith got one more vote. So it was neck and neck. So I asked the patrons, I was like, do you want to do a whole new vote? Or do you want me to do the second one? Because they were neck and neck and they were like, do the second one?

Let's find out what it is. So here we are. So the patrons voted for this one a little while ago, which is very exciting. I've spoken. So I guess he's probably like America's answer to Peter Hitchina. Well, that's the thing. Do you think he the American Hitch? I don't think so because I don't think there are modern day equivalents.

I don't think there have been for a long time. Oh, he's from the olden day. He's not a modern man. He's from the old days. Whoa, okay. And throughout this, it's like, there's no twists and turns and mystery and he hasn't killed anybody or anything crazy. But what is interesting about his story is just the fact that as a member of the media and as a news reader, as a news anchor, he was so loved and like influential in some ways,

which you just can't connect with in a modern lens. But most people now can probably name one newsreader, maybe. Mal Walden. Sandra Sully. Oh, that's good. Yep. Tracy Grimshaw. Yep.

Jennifer Kite. Jennifer Kite, yes. Ray Martin. And which of these news channels are you watching every night on television? Stephen Quatermain. Sports? Sports. Network 10, fantastic network.

Of course. It's interesting that you say that. Anyway, so Walter Leland Cronkart Jr. Fawken, great year. Walter Leland, Cronkart Jr., fantastic. Born in St. Joseph, Missouri in November 1916, son of Walter Sr. a dentist. That's his name.

No, that's his job. Walter Senior a dentist. A dot dentist. Senor a dentist. Oh, Spanish. Spanish. He was an only child. The family lived in Missouri until they moved to Texas when Walter

Walter Jr. was 10 years old. According to Britannica.com, as a boy, Cronkite was an avid reader of books, magazines and newspapers. In 1927, he moved with his family to Houston, where he worked on school newspapers in both middle school and high school. Encyclopedia of World Biography backs this up, saying during that time Walter read an article in American Boy magazine. Fuck, that's a fun name.

American Boy. Magazine. A magazine. About the adventures of reporting around the world. It inspired his interest. in journalism and he decided when he was in junior high school that he wanted to be a reporter. I've just looked up a photo of him. I don't. I recognize him sort of. Yeah. But it's not who I was picturing at all. I don't know who I thought it was a, I thought he was a modern guy.

No. He's got a great little mo. You're picturing Larry King. No, yeah, Larry King, but I think I'm picturing another guy as well, which it doesn't matter. It doesn't because it's not relevant to this report about Walter Crockett. News. Well, can up USA Newsman. Shepard Smith. Do you know him? Shep. Shep.

I don't know Shep. He's like, it would be a, still a very well-known name in American particular. Yeah, but why have we heard of it? Because I'll get to it. Okay. I've literally just said he was born. Why are you talking about this? We'll never know.

Jess, I need you to give me the crux of it. Give me the crux of Kronkite. We will get there. I guess that was the other thing. So Charles Kingswood-Smith was a name I knew, but I didn't know any of the story, right? And I think Walter Cronkite's probably similar, definitely to me, but also probably to a lot of Americans in a similar age bracket to us, who didn't necessarily grow up watching him.

But it's a name you know, but not necessarily a story. So hopefully this is interesting. Patreon's voted for it. Put that caveat in there. You wanted this. You asked for it, and I am being very kind in delivering it. He led quite an active youth. He was a Boy Scout, a track athlete, and participated in student government.

And after graduating high school in 1933, he studied at the University of Texas in Austin, where he studied political science, economics, and journalism. And of course, worked on the student newspaper there, The Daily Texan. To help pay his tuition, he took a part-time job working as a correspondent for a Houston newspaper, The Houston Post. In fact, his work outside of university started to take off. And in 1935, he dropped out of college to concentrate. on journalism, which is kind of fun to be like, he's studying journalism and he drops out because he's already working as a journalist.

Yeah, there's probably not that many degrees you can do that in you're like, you know. Yeah, nursing. I'll figure it out. I'm just going to go full time. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. There's probably, I mean, yeah, a lot of the arts ones probably. Yeah, I suppose.

You can learn on the job. Yeah, but your practical stuff. Brain surgery, you probably should. I've got this. Hit the books. I've actually being paid to do this on the weekend. So I just don't just do it all the time. I'm just going to keep doing it.

I think I was singing of young Dan Rather, who was born in 1931. Who took over after him. Yes. That's why I've confused the two. Dan Rather. You spent like five minutes trying to find that out of it. Yeah, he's missed everything so far. Yeah.

Do you know anything Jess has said so far? Yeah, university. Yep. Stay weird. We're in Austin. Yep, that's right. He's nailed it. Huh.

He can multitask. Well, I didn't think you had it in your mother. So he worked at the Houston Post. He moved into the world of broadcast journalism, a radio announcer for WKY in Oklahoma City. He bounced around a bit in those early years working all over the place. And while he was working as a sports announcer for KCMO in Kansas City, he met Mary Elizabeth Maxwell or Betsy to her friends.

And the two would go on to marry in 1940, a marriage that lasted 65 years. Oh, that's good. That's nice. But then after 65, what happened? One of them cheat? She went on a root rampage. Betsy, baby.

She was red and she was dead. Getting a bit silly. So, that's beyond the diamond. 65th anniversary, blue sapphire anniversary. Oh my God. And is there any more than that?

I don't think many get to the blue sapphire. My grandparents got to 70 something, I think. 70 is platinum. Wow. 80th is oak. Oh, come on. We're going back to wood? Well, because I guess, like, platinum's like the sturdiest.

medal, isn't it? For jewellery and shit. So surely you put that towards the end, like 70, and then nobody's getting to 80. Who's getting to 80? Yeah. I mean, yeah, they just make it an oak. Oak.

Because you're a tree at that point. I don't know what that means, but I think it's fitting. Honestly, it feels it the jewelers given up at that point. Yeah. You can really milk them for a bit more, you know? Yeah. Two gold rings.

Oak, you're fucking. Plenonium. Just make something up. Whatever. It costs to 80. grand. A thousand per year of your love. Pay it to me now.

Per year of your love. Can you put a price on your love? Can you? Can you? Sorry, he can't hear me. Can you put a price? I don't love. Well, you'd have to have married at 18 and both made it to nearly 100.

But I reckon that would have been done. Longest wedding. Matt, you've got the laptop over and you look like you're looking stuff up. Longest marriage. Longest marriage. Longest wedding. He took weeks. Just say I do.

I won't. I won't. Longest wedding. 70 meters. Don't even know what that means. Longest marriage. Yes, longest marriage. I'd love to know.

Yeah, you're right. I mean, people get married before 18. It's true, yeah. Oh, Guinness World Records got something here. Of course. They got something on everything. Trust them of my life. Would you?

I would. I would, and if I were you. What's most trustworthy publication? The longest marriage ever is that of David Jacob Hiller, born 20th of October 1789, died 7th of July, 1899. Why are you giving me this information? And Sarah Davy Hiller, born 17, 192,000, 18, 28,

who were married for 88 years and 349 days. Oh. That's great. And then she went on a roof. That's where the oak comes from. They nearly made it to 89 years. Yes, I was so close to 89. Wow, were they married when they were like one?

So wait. This is a 17-800s. I probably married at all. Honestly, yeah, it could have been. So Mrs. Heller passed away. But still back then, to live that long is, like, freakish. Yeah, good on them. Now you get, like, people.

I saw an episode of, you can't ask that, of, like, people over 100. And they, like, some of them were so switched on. I was like, I think, like, you feel like a hundred, you'd just, like, like a bag of bones or something. Like, what they were all just. They were all up and about. A bag of bones. Was that, you can't ask that. Are you just a bag of bones?

That was my question. They deemed it a bit too offensive. Even for you can't ask this. You can't ask that. No, you actually cannot ask that. That's a bit cronters. Oh, you bag of bones. How do you actually feel in that meat sack?

Anyway, we've got a lot of topics. I think it depends on the person right as well. Of course. Because I'm very good for my old age, four or five hundred years more. Yeah. Most 500-year-old people look like dog shit. Absolutely. But you look like, you look good.

For my age. You're a bag of bones and a half, if you know what I mean. Yeah. Thank you so much. I don't know what he means. I don't want it last. Double bag, my bones. I'm going to move on.

So, yeah, we're talking about Walter Cronkoy. And Betsy, getting married. Betsy, I got married. 940, was it? Yeah, I just don't really talk much more about about her or their family. Is it because of what she did? Yeah, because of the route tour.

Rampas. We're going on a route tour, stopping all stations. I think it's going to be abundantly clear to the list is that it's late in the day. And we've already recorded an episode today, and we're losing our freaking minds. And Jess said, this one's a bit dry. Please be a bit looser. I should stop asking. We're really taking that for a walk already.

But if I don't say, you guys. sit there quietly and politely and I get through my report in 36 minutes. I've also been sipping on a coffee. Yeah. So I'm feeling wired. Anyway, while he's in Kansas City, he also joins the News Agency United Press International, who were his main employers for the next few years. Now, this part, I really liked this.

It grabbed my attention. It's from this great journalism website, Wikipedia.org. Oh, wow. Does it do you stand for Walter Croncott? That's right, yes. And the K stand for Cronkart? Yep. Walter E. Cronkite Epedia.

It's beautiful. Is this middle name E? It's Leyland. Yeah. Yeah, great, close enough. So this is from Wikipedia. With his name now established, he received a job offer from Edward R. Murrow at CBS News to join the Murrow Boys, which was a team of war correspondents. The war correspondents. Send in the Murrow boys.

CBS offered Cronkite $125 a week. which in 2020 money is 2,200 a week, along with a commercial fee amounting to $25, which is another $447. So he'd be making close to $3,000. He's cashed up. It's still, yeah, this is what an early job? Yeah. The Barrow boys.

Up to that point, he'd been making about $57 a week, so it's about $1,000 at United Press, but he had reservations about broadcasting. He initially accepted the offer. And when he informed his boss Harrison Salisbury, UP counted with a raise. And then Hugh Bailey, the head of the United Press, also offered him an extra, like a raise on top of that. And he ended up just deciding to stay on at United Press rather than taking the sweet, sweet cash over at CBS. And that was a move which angered Murrow and drove a wedge between them that would last for years. Oh, you don't want to piss off the Murrow Boys.

Well, the head of the Murrow Boys, the Murrow Man. Oh, the one Murrow Man. Mr. Murrow. Murrow. Marrow Man. Right, so he stayed put for a bit more cash. Yeah, but it was still like, I think it was still less than what he was offered, but he was like, oh, I'm not sure about broadcasting, which is kind of funny given his future. Is it kind of like a no one ever says no to the Murrow boys?

Probably. Oh my gosh. Something like that. We offered you a lot of money and I was embarrassed when you said no. I don't like it. Anyway, so he soon headed overseas to cover World War II for United Press. He was on board the USS Texas through her. her service off the coast of North Africa as part of Operation Torch.

And I loved this. Again, it's from Wikipedia. On the return trip, Cronkart was flown off Texas in one of her vaught kingfisher aircraft when Norfolk was within flying distance. He was granted permission to be flown the rest of the distance to Norfolk so that he could outpace a rival correspondent on a different ship, the USS Massachusetts, to return to the US and to issue the first uncensored news report to be published about Operation Torch. So it was a race.

to like be the first to, this happens a lot. They have to be the first to report on a story. So he's like, get me off the boat. I can see land, fly me over there. I've got to get their first. Wow. It's such an interesting thing, like how they've made the sort of gamified information. We've got to be the first to get the, if I don't know if I'm using gamified correctly.

It feels that, yeah. I learned that off a listener when they asked us a question a while ago on this show. I've never heard it before. But anyway, it is funny that it's like, yeah, we're in this about, we're in this for the right reasons. Yeah. Being the first to tell everyone the thing we saw. Or being right. Like that happens a bit as well where others are reporting, like a reporting something's happened, but they hold off.

And it turns out it hasn't happened. And then they get to be smug that they didn't jump the gun. They do that a lot as well. It's very interesting. I remember, but there's a reason they call it news. Am I right? Yeah, why is that? Well, they don't call it old.

Uh-huh. They say old news though, so... Exactly, and old news doesn't sell. If you're on a boat and the guy's flying over you for the plane, you're like, fuck. You're being so Channel 10 right now. Yeah. Yeah, the King of News. Check it out.

Who hosts the 10 News? Jennifer Cite. Jennifer Cite? Yeah. Holy shit. And Stephen Quaterman's doing sport. Jennifer Cite, I didn't... She's been on the top of the game for...

so long. It must be tough. Jennifer Kite. I know. Jess, is it too late to do a report about Jennifer Kite? It is actually, yeah. Okay, I was just checking. I think it would have been rude not to ask.

Oh, absolutely, but it is unfortunately a bit too late. If you'd asked, oh, 30 seconds earlier, I could have done it, but unfortunately... You're good, but you're not that good. Yeah. I feel like I remember Jennifer Kite from childhood. Yeah. She's been around for yonks. What a legend.

I can't believe she's on back on top. You know who else is on top? Walter Cronkite. Is he? Well, his experience on board, Texas really established him as a war correspondent, and he became one of the top American reporters in World War II. Really? And that was one of the big wars.

It was one of the big ones. Subsequently, he was one of eight journalists selected by the United States Air Force to fly bombing raids over Germany. Why didn't they just get pilots? A great question. This was all part of a group called the Rite. 19th. Couldn't figure out what the relevance there is, but it's called the writing 69th.

So it was a group of journalists that were essentially they were flying with. They were accompanying members of a particular wing of the Air Force. So they could then write about, you know, what's happening. Yeah, we're up in the air. Dropped a bomb, went boom. It's real windy up here. I'm cold. The group were required to undergo a rigorous training course in just one week.

They trained in a multitude of tasks, including how to shoot weapons, despite rules barring non-combatants from carrying a weapon. They were also trained in how to adjust to high altitudes. How to steal someone's weapon. How to steal a weapon. Parachuting and enemy identification. Their training was to prepare them to accompany the 8th Air Force on bombing missions over Germany. And their first and last mission is on February 26, 1943. That sounds ominous.

Of the eight journalists who comprised the writing 69th, only six went on that fateful mission, and Cronkite was one of them. Overcast skies meant the original plan to bomb an aircraft factory was abandoned, and instead they planned to bomb my mortal enemy of the sea submarines. Unfortunately, while flying over Oldenburg, Germany, the American bomber group encountered German fighters. The plane that New York Times correspondent Robert Post was in was shot and exploded mid-air.

Post and eight Air Force crew members were killed, and the other aircrafts returned safely, some had suffered some pretty bad damage. Post-death effectively ended the days of reporters flying on bombing missions. So they'd gone to all that effort to train them all up. They went on one mission. They went, that's a really bad idea. What were we thinking?

Why would we send innocent journalists up there? Poor innocent journalists. What they should have done is, personally, what I think they should have done, instead of training up journalists to be pilots, and they should have trained the pilots to be journalists. Yeah. Yeah. Teach them shorthand.

Yes. You know, it's a quick photography course. Yep. This is a typewriter. It's honestly, I've got a degree in it. It's not that hard. Yeah, I reckon you could do it in a week. You probably could.

Much easier than learning how to be a, you know, a fighter pilot. Yeah, because they were doing every part of them. And it's war. So you don't, I mean, like, are you caring that much about some of the media ethics? Are you caring about defamation? But there is, like, there's that old spoken rule that if you're in the army, you're not allowed to hold a pen. Oh. I didn't know that one.

He's not allowed to hold a gun, then allowed to hold a pen, so it's really difficult between. Really? That's true. But they still didn't teach them how to use a pen. Yeah, yeah, but you just can't have a pen. You can't have a pen. Whoa, well, we'll trade here. Just in case you get a pen at some point. It's one click for on, one click for off.

All right, cue. We'll go over that again. I'm sorry, I was a bit quick for some people. It's okay. Was that the right Bond character, though? Yeah. Okay. It was one of the letters.

So two other reporters, Denton Scott and Paul Manning, who both missed the first raid, did fly after this mission, but it was not nearly as widespread as it might have been had Post not been killed. So they were sort of like, this is a great idea. This is going to be a thing we do heaps. And then immediately one of their journalists gets killed. They're like, oh, no, we're not doing that. Post war, he stayed on in Europe covering the Nuremberg. No, just after the war. After the war, sorry.

After the war, he stayed on in Europe covering the Nuremberg trials and serving as the main report. in Moscow from 46 to 48. So he's spending a bit of time in Europe. But to cover the Nuremberg trials, they had to do a weak, short course of international war law. Yes, that's right. They had to be qualified as barristers or whatever they call them. Yeah, war barristers.

War barristers. Lawyers. Oh, yeah. You know, you shoot your shot sometimes. A lot of swings. A lot of misses. More swings to come. Having returned to the US and a stint as a radio broadcaster in the Midwest,

in 1950 Cronkite joined CBS News. I included the next sentence purely because I love old-timey show titles. He originally served as anchor of the network's 15-minute late Sunday evening newscast up to the minute, which followed, What's My Line? Oh, yeah. There's a lot of really fun old show titles in here, and it's a lot of fun. How would it sound just if the announcer was just about to introduce the audience of the show up to the minute.

Okay. I can't get low enough to do a good, like, rolling ladies. Can you do one of those? I thought it was going to be more like a ladies and gentlemen. You know, more like, please, welcome to the show. It's Walter Cronkite for up to the minute. That might be older. That's very good.

I'm overdosing on helium in this booth. Cup that, jetties. That sort of stuff. But that was more. war time, I guess. Yeah. It's 1950. The war's over.

War's over. Move on. There's no more war. Honestly, I'm sick and tired of people getting bogged down in this war. Yeah. It's done. Yep. Okay.

Yeah. The war was run. The war was what? Move on. We're doing game shows now. Up to the minute. Yeah. Whose line is it?

Yep. Let's find out together. But let's just shut the fuck up about the war. The war's done. Okay. Don't mention it anymore. It's annoying. All right, who wants to play?

That's the long intro. Yeah, he's losing it. Come on, Walter. A lot of people, of course, know Walter Cronkite as a news anchor, and we'll get to that shortly. But before that, he worked on a bunch of different and unexpected shows. And again, because I love ultra title so much, I'm going to tell you about a few of them. From 1953 to 1957, Cronkite hosted the CBS program, You Were There. You Were There?

You Are There. I'm here. You are there. Yeah, yeah. Thank you and good night. Which reenacted historical events using the format of a news report. His famous last line of these programs was, What sort of day was it?

A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times. And you were there. I'm in. I love it. I thought that sounded dog shit at first, but now I want to watch it. Can I get the box set?

Yes. I've already ordered it for you. In 1957, he began hosting the 20th century, a documentary series about important historical events. Oh, no, they're going to mention the war. Oh, I don't want to have to say it again. A long-running hit, the show was renamed the 21st century in 1967, with Croghite hosting speculative reporting of the future.

Well, we've run out of time, so let's just guess what's going to happen. That ran for another three years of them just speculating what the future was going to hold. Oh, do they get many things right? I don't know. Cronkart also hosted its news to me, a game show based on news events. During the presidential elections of 52 and 56, Cronkite hosted the CBS News Discussion Series, Pick the winner. This is another anecdote I liked that I read. Another of his network assignments was The Morning Show, CBS's short-lived challenge to NBC's Today.

His on-air duties included interviewing guests and chatting with a lion puppet named Charlemagne about the news. About the news! It's all those news base with him. It feels like TV has reverse jumped the shark. They did all these weird things at first, right? Doesn't that feel like they're losing their mind? Yeah. We're dropping ratings.

What do we do? Carstefanovic, we need a new sidekick from him. What about a lion puppet? Yeah. Okay? He can talk to the lion puppet about the news. Are you okay? Wouldn't you be like...

If it worked for Kronkheim, it'll work for Stefanovic. It's so good. He considered this. discourse with a puppet as one of the highlights of the show. Well, that does not bode well. He added, A puppet can render opinions on people and things that a human commentator would not feel free to utter.

Oh, wow, it's an edgy puppet. Same things that we're all thinking. I was and I am proud of it, he said. You can't say that puppet. Oh, he did. I love this. He shows a little bit about his character. Cronkite also angered the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.

company, the show's sponsor, by grammatically correcting its advertising slogan. Instead of saying, Winston's tastes good like a cigarette should, verbatim, he's substituted as for like. So, Winston's tastes good as a cigarette should. He was like, that's incorrect. I'm going to be saying something different. Hey, that puppet sounds like a lot of fun. That's Cronkite, not the puppet. Oh, oh my God. I thought only the public could say the things that we're all thinking that were, that was so edgy. But in 1962, Cronkite took over the role of Anchorman for CBS's nightly feature newscast. The show was tentatively renamed Walter Cromkart with the news, but later, just the CBS evening news. Oh, imagine that. They're like, sorry, well, we've got to take

your name out of the title. Well, originally the news was only like 15 minutes long. It was just a pretty short broadcast. And that was mainly puppet chat. And it was in 63 when the show was expanded from 15 to 30 minutes. Making Cronkite the anchor of American Network TV's first nightly half-hour news program. There you go. And that invented the half-hour nightly news, did it? Pioneer in it.

Yeah, invented is a stretch. Cronkite's tenure as anchor of the CBS Evening News made him an icon in television. During the early years as anchor, Cronkite's main competition was NBC's The Huntley-Brinkly report, anchored by Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. Yeah, you can't.

have two lees. Huntley, Brinkley. No, it doesn't work. It's hard in my man. Huntley, Brinkley. I don't like it. All right, Hunters, come in here. Yeah, hunters now, okay?

Hunters and Brinkley. That works. That's better. Okay? That is better. Hunter and Brinkley, maybe. Hunter and Brinkley, sure. Brinkley Hunter and Brinkley.

No, Hunter and Brinkley. Anyway, their program had a much bigger audience, but a few key world events were about to happen that would see Cronkite breeze past them. Oh my gosh. Was he going to, like, cut their brakes or something? Yeah. So, okay, few things happen in, this is the early 60s. A few things are coming up in the next 20 or so years.

Okay. It better not be a bloody war. Yeah, I'm sick of these freaking wars. Okay. I'm going to have to snip out a good chunk of this report. Now, look, when discussing the events of November 22nd, 1963, does that ring a bell to you at all, Dave? November 22nd, 1963. I was afraid. A certain assassination.

That's right. Basically, every documentary you see will show footage of Walter Cronkite breaking the news that President John F. Kennedy had died. That might be where you kind of recognise him from. Cronkine had been standing at the United Press International Wire Machine in the CBS newsroom as the bulletin of the president's shooting broke and he clam it to get on air to break the news as again he wanted CBS to be the first. And it's really pretty amazing effort by everyone actually. There was no camera in the studio.

CBS didn't own a camera yet. They had one, but it was being used elsewhere. Like, you know, which is crazy now. Yeah, of course now you just have one locked off all the time. I reckon if there was breaking news, we could jump downstairs and be like on air now, you know, and we're not in a TV station. Yeah, I mean, we could do it on our phones. Exactly. Well, that's actually very true.

But yeah, so their camera isn't ready. They have to go retrieve it from somewhere else. And then they take ages to set up. So they're trying to get everything set up. Cronkite instead goes into one of their radio booths to report the events and then the audio is played on TV. So CBS was 10 minutes into its live broadcast of a soap opera as the world turns, a live soap opera.

So they're performing it live on TV. That's fun. Amazing. Bring that back. Yeah. As the world turns, which had begun at the very minute of the shooting. And a CBS news bulletin. Do you think they're connected?

Oh, my God. Oh, my gosh. There are no coincidences. Holy shit. Yeah. I think we've just cracked this case wide open. Yeah, this goes all the way to the top. The president.

Time goes by. What's called? As the world turns, Dave. So just like a title card, CBS News bulletin sort of slides into the broadcast. Which they would literally do by hand. Yeah, probably. In front of the lens while people are still acting behind it. They're like, what the fuck's happening?

And then Cronkite's voice is being heard. as he's recording these things in a radio booth. So his first one is, here is a bulletin from CBS News. In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas.

First reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting. And I'm sorry, we should also say, Dave's done an entire two-part report on this very topic. So none of this should, you know,

it's not a spoiler. He pretty famously died, but also you can go listen to that whole thing. Right, but Walt was the first. It was the first or was one of the people breaking the news to America? That's right. He was a bit non-committal. He wasn't only.

He's saying reports saying. Exactly. That's what I'm talking about with before, where they don't want to... And this happens a lot with this exact story. Just before the bulletin cut out, a CBS News staffer was heard saying Connolly too, apparently having just heard the news that Texas Governor John Connolly had also been shot while riding in the presidential limousine. Then CBS went back to the telecast of As the World Turns,

which gets interrupted a few more times. Do they just do like a space jump-style freeze? I don't know what they do. I think they're sort of going to like their regular ad breaks and stuff as well. But in between news updates, there's just a live soap opera happening. Because, yeah, wild. If something happened now and when stuff does happen, a news reporter will just pop up and be like, we're interrupting because of breaking news.

But they don't have the camera set up. They don't have, like they can't do that. It's amazing. So the cast continued to perform live while Cronkite's bulletins broke into the broadcast, unaware of the unfolding events in Dahl. So that answers your question. Yeah, they're still performing, but nobody's watching them. Oh, that's so sad. Isn't it?

Cronkite is just in the radio booth, delivering news updates as they get them. And then at 2pm, he told the audience that there would be a brief pause so that all of CBS's affiliates, including those in the mountain and Pacific time zones, which were not on the same schedule, could join the network. So they're putting them all together at one. He then left the radio booth and went to the anchor desk in the newsroom from Wikipedia. Within 20 seconds of the announcement, every CBS affiliate except Dallas's KRLD, which was providing local coverage, was airing the network's feed. The camera was finally operational by this time and enabled the audience to see Kronkite,

who was clad in a shirt and tie but without his suit coat, given the urgent nature of the story. He didn't have time to grab his coat. So he's just in a shirt, it's unheard of. The whole country is watching Kronkite. Cronkite. Wow. Every affiliates on him now. After a few minutes of broadcast, Cronkite threw to KRLD news director, Eddie Barker at the

Dallas trademark, where Kennedy was supposed to be making a speech before he was shot. Barker relayed information that Kennedy's condition was extremely critical. Then after a prayer for Kennedy, Barker quoted an unofficial report that the president was dead, but stressed it was not confirmed. Coverage came back to Cronkite, who reported that the president had been given blood transfusions and two priests had been called into the room. He also played an audio report from KRLD that someone had been arrested in the assassination attempt at the Texas school book depository. Back in Dallas, Barker announced another report of the death of the president, mentioning that

it came from a reliable source. Before the networks left KRLD's feed for good, Barker first announced, then retracted a confirmation of Kennedy's death. So he's sort of like, he's going a bit rogue and just being like, yeah, he's dead or not. I don't know. He's definitely dead. No, he's not dead. That seems so funny to even be like, I can't confirm it, but there's reports he's dead. So I would confirm it and then report it. But he might not be dead.

Can't confirm that either. But again, do you think it's just like wanting to be the worst? Yeah, it's too, it's so competitive that they forget what they're really there to do. Yeah. And that is to serve the news. Information is king. But if you go, there's two possibilities. He's either dead or alive.

So I haven't technically got it wrong either way. Well, one way. wrong, but the other is right. So I am right. Good night. Prodingers Kennedy. Wow. Makes you think. Does.

CBS cut back to Cronkart reporting that one of the priests had administered last rights to the president. In the next few minutes, several more bulletins reporting that Kennedy had died were given to Cronkite, including one from CBS's own correspondent, Dan, rather, that had been reported as confirmation of Kennedy's demise by CBS Radio. So CBS Radio is calling it. Others are calling it. As these bulletins came into the newsroom, it was becoming clearer that Kennedy had in fact lost his life. Cronkite, however, stressed that these bulletins were simply reports and not any official confirmation of the president's condition.

Some of his colleagues recounted in 2013 that his early career as a wire service reporter taught him to wait for official word before reporting a story. He's a true journalist. Thank God there's one of them left. Then there's that famous footage that's used. every single time you watch anything JFK related. At 2.38pm, Cronkite was handed a news bulletin. After looking at over for a moment, he took off his glasses and made the official announcement. From Dallas, Texas, the flash apparently official, he's reading a piece of paper.

President Kennedy died at 1pm Central Standard Time, and then he looks up at the clock, 2 o'clock Eastern Standard Time, some 38 minutes ago. After making the announcement, Cronkite paused briefly, put his glasses back on, and swallowed hard to maintain his composure. And that's why it's quite famous footage because he's like quite obviously affected by it. With noticeable emotion in his voice, he said, Vice President Johnson has left the hospital in Dallas, but we do not know to where he has proceeded.

Presumably he will be taking the oath of office shortly and become the 36th president of the United States. Linton B. Be taking the oath. Fuck, we love Lyndon B. Johnson here, don't we? So good. What's not to love about him? Yeah. His name. For the next four days, along with his colleagues, Cronkite continued to report segments of uninterrupted coverage of the assassination,

including the announcement of Lee Harvey Oswald's death in the hands of Jack Ruby. The next day, on the day of the funeral, Cronkite concluded CBS evening news with the following assessment of the events of the last four dark days. It is said that the human mind has a greater capacity for remembering the pleasant than the unpleasant, but today was a day that will live in memory and in grief. Tonight there will be few Americans who will go to bed without carrying with them a sense that somehow they've failed. If in the search of our conscience, we find a new dedication to the American concept that brought no political, sectional, religious, or racial divisions, then maybe it may yet be possible to say that John Fitzgerald Kennedy did not die in vain. That's the way it is Monday, 25th of November, 1963.

This is Walter Cronkite, good night. That's the way it is, was something he said a lot. So, yeah, so he's quite famous for reporting. or being that face of reporting Kennedy's assassination. Another thing that he... Sounds like he blamed all Americans for that assassination. Yeah. That's kind of what he said.

He's like, when you go to bed and I think about what you've done, okay? Yeah. I've cut a chunk out there because it went forever, but I think he was essentially trying to be like, hey. Dan Rather more like Dan Blather. Am I right? Yeah, except it's Walter Cronkite. Walter Cronkart.

More like, Walter, let's move it off. Come on, mate. Come on, next show's about to start. Tick-Tock, buddy. So Walter Cronkite was there on America's TV through some of the biggest world news stories. Wait, wait. Walter Cronkite, more like Walter, might you hurry up, please, mate?

There's an article from the Washington Post that was great. Until 1968, Walter Cronkite believed what his government told him about the Vietnam War. He was an old-school journalist, a patriot, a man who came of age covering World War II as wire service reporter and then taking over as the anchor of the CBS Evening News. Obviously, we all know this. Like most journalists of his generation, he embraced the fight against communism and understood why the United States had intervened in the war raging in Vietnam. He was sort of known as like Uncle Walter, people kind of called him really affectionately.

And he developed a reputation as the ultimate straight shooter, the avatar of objectivity in the words of Richard Perloff, a professor of communications at Cleveland State University. He'd never taken a public position on the war. But in mid-February of 1968, Cronkite and his executive producer, Ernest Lyser, traveled to Vietnam to cover the aftermath of the TED Offensive. They were invited to dine with U.S. General Creighton Abrams, who told Cronkite the war effort needed another 200,000 American troops. The general engaged in what Cronkite described in his memoir

as the brutally technical discussion of the firepower and kill ratios and the like, how in effect we could kill more Vietnamese. I wanted to win the war, but this emotionless professionalism was hard to take. So he's sort of seeing how really brutal it is. After a relatively short visit, Cronkite returned to the US, and on Feb 27th, CBS aired a report called Report from Vietnam. Who, what, when, where, why? Which is snappy.

I think we can all agree. That's like, is that journalism 101? No, you wouldn't really do why. That's more current affairs. That's editorialising. So you just do who, what, where, when. Yeah. The why is current affairs. Gotcha. Yeah, the why and how is current affairs.

Right. Cronkite ended the one-hour program with his own editorial. He acknowledged that what he was about to say was subjective. In an uncharacteristic move, he was about to share his opinion. Okay. He says, it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honourable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy

and did the best they could. A story that's a bit disputed but pretty amazing is that President Lyndon B. Johnson later said that if he'd lost Cronkker, he'd lost Middle America. That's how influential Cronkite is. He ended the war. Yeah. Wow. Pretty crazy.

He didn't end the war. But historians say the media coverage didn't necessarily change the American view on the war, but something did pivot when Cronkite crossed the line into opinion. He kind of mainstreamed anti-war sentiment, which was absolutely there. I mean, you know, people were protesting Vietnam War for a long time. But he mainstreamed. it and people kind of went like, oh shit, yeah.

And so... And the president sees the tide turning in opinion and goes, okay. And apparently, like, part of why he, Linda B. Johnson chose not to run, like, he pulled out of the race was he had like, yeah, his health wasn't great and he was sort of like, with this shift, I can't, I won't survive, like, politically, I won't survive the criticism. It was kind of interesting. Washington Post says Kronkite's great persuasive power

emerged from his long history of not attempting to be persuasive at all. So JFK's assassination and the Vietnam War were two of the main world events most commonly connected to Walter Kronkite's journalistic career. But here's just a few more things that he covered in his like 20 years. The moon landing.

Okay. Watergate. What was his opinion on the moon landing? He was a big fan. This is bullshit. Actually apparently like, again, it was a bit uncharacteristic, he was like really delighted. He was on air like, oh, yay!

I mean, today, yeah. Momentous day, yes. That's hard to think of something that would happen now that would feel as momentous. Yeah. Even like if, I feel like even if they got to Mars and someone set foot on Mars, if they haven't already. We wouldn't all be watching live, would we? I feel like we'd, I feel like there would be, it would be huge, of course, but it still feels like, you're like, yeah, they got on one.

I'm sure they can get on all of them. The moon is so much closer worth than miles. You're like, yeah. Oh, did they want to another one? Good on. Yeah, of course they did. Well, I just know what the famous phrase they say is. I'll know it for trivia, but.

But I don't, I'm not going to watch it. Yeah. The footies on. I can watch that later. That's the thing back then. It's like you couldn't watch it later. Yeah, that's right. You couldn't tape it.

Watch it later. I couldn't see it on YouTube later. Yeah. So yeah, the moon landing, Watergate. and Nixon's resignation, the Iran hostage crisis, Martin Luther King Jr's assassination, John Lennon's assassination, the death of another president, Lyndon B. Johnson. So it was a busy couple of decades. Oh, Lennon would be gone.

Linden be dead. There's a few, the first handful there we've done episodes on, so I feel like we really need to tick a few more of those big events off our list. Have we done John Lennon? We did the Beatles. Yeah. But we haven't talked. Yeah, I don't think you, because it's such a big topic,

covered the That could be a thing John Lennon's assassination Sure Have we Have we done a Martin Luther King episode? No No

That's interesting That is That's gonna be in the hat A lot I reckon Yeah I reckon it's been up For a vote For sure

Yeah right What was the other one in there The Iran hostage crisis Yeah I don't know If I know anything about that Jess could you do all of those In later this year Absolutely

Thank you I forget what I had for lunch I don't know Someone remind Jess Please. She had loaded fries, okay. That were delicious. I've got a bit of acid reflux now because I'm old.

Okay, so yes. So, yeah, just, you know, you could talk all day, but essentially these are topics that are interesting in themselves and that we've covered. But it's just like, if you think about it from like, from a news anchist point of view, he's covered some of the biggest events in history. Pretty crazy. He was there. He was there. At the time, CBS had a mandatory retirement policy once a person. and hit the age of 65.

And many people were saddened by his departure, comparing him to a father or uncle figure. And they actually enforced it. Yeah. I was almost certain you were going to say, but for this legend, they said, if you want to keep going, you can. Isn't that crazy?

They kicked him out. One of the biggest, like the, yeah, the most trusted man in America, one of the biggest names in news. And they were like, you've got to go. Well, that's a strange rule. Yeah, I mean, this is back in like the, it's the 60s or the 70s.

That's the 80s by this point, yeah. But it's almost looking after. It's like, hey, enjoy retirement. Come on. You've done a great bit at work here. Give someone else a go. Nah. But yeah, so people saw him as an uncle figure,

but in an interview about his retirement, he described himself as being more like a comfortable old shoe to his audience. You know, it's been a bit self-deprecating. Of course, the 65-year anniversary of his birth being Blue Sapphire. That's right. Oh, he got the Blue Sapphire. 65. Okay.

I'll hold on a while to get some sapphire. I could just buy my own. His last day in the anchor chair was March 6, 1981, and this was his farewell statement. This is my last broadcast as the anchorman of the CBS Evening News. For me, it's a moment for which I have long planned, but which nevertheless comes with some sadness. For almost two decades after all,

we've been meeting like this in the evenings, and I'll miss that. But those who have made anything of this departure, I'm afraid have made too much. This is but a transition, a passing of the baton. A great broadcaster and gentleman Doug Edwards preceded me in this job, and another, Dan Rather, will follow. And anyway, the person who sits here is but the most conspicuous member of a superb team of journalists. Writers, reporters, editors, producers, and none of that will change. Furthermore, I'm not even going away.

I'll be back from time to time with special news. I'm not given up. I'll be back from time to time with special news reports and documentaries, and beginning in June every week with our science program, Universe. Old Anchorman, you see, don't fade away. They just keep coming back for more. That's great. How good is that?

And that's the way it is. Friday, March 6, 1981. I'll be away on assignment, and Dan Rather will be sitting in here for the next few years. And Dan Rather can take this mic out of my cold dead hand. Fuck you, Rather. I think it's cute. Yeah, that was, I like that little gag in there.

It's like, hey, it's not about me. Anyway, it was a, that's a beautiful sign off. That will not be how I'd end. Absolutely not. You'd be burning bridges. Oh, yeah. The following people can go fuck themselves. I'd be like, I'd be building some bridges only to burn them.

I'd be saying, hey, fuck you. Bridge. Fuck you. Fuck you. Can't wait. And I wouldn't exactly say he retired. He was as active as ever. He continued to broadcast occasionally as a special correspondent for CBS, CNN and NPR.

One such occasion was Kronkart. anchoring the second space flight by John Glenn in 1998, as he had the first flight in 1962. That's kind of cool. What's that? What's a space flight? It was a flight in space. So the second one happened in the 90s?

It was a John Glenn's second flight. John Glens, yeah. Oh my God. What is that compared to a rocket ship flight? John Glenn flew over Australia at some point, threw over Perth or something. My friend Stacey, there was somebody dressed as John Glenn at Stacey's wedding.

It was a long story and I loved it and was amazing. Wait, what? Yeah. Was it a dress-out wedding? No. So, okay, here's what it was. Here's what it was. What's John Glenn?

So my friend Stacy. He's an astronaut. Okay. So they dress as an astronaut at the wedding. So John Glenn's flight, I think it must have been the 1962 flight, had passed over like Perth or something. And Perth, we love them, but they're a very isolated city. And there was a campaign in the 90s, like where they got a bunch of children.

to sing this song and it was like an ad to get John Glenn to come back to Perth. Oh. They were trying to do that. And so at the wedding, they told this story. One of their friends came out dressed in an astronaut costume and everybody sang the song to John Glenn. And everyone knew what was going on apart from you? All the Perth people did.

Well, the rest of us just went along with it and went, why is somebody dressed as an astronaut at this wedding? The wedding also had a laser show at one point. Holy shit. The most event-packed wedding I've ever been to in my life. It was amazing. John Glenn. I saw John Glenn and I was like, oh, hi, John Glenn. John Glenn.

I've seen him in a wedding. So Cronkart, he also hosted the annual Vienna New Year's concert on PBS. From 1985 to 2008, he hosted that. Every year, New Year's Concert in Vienna, succeeded by Julie Andrews in 2009. Previous Report topic. Yeah. I thought I'd said some words wrong there. For many years until 2002, he also hosted the annual Kennedy Center Honors.

He lent his voice to IMAX movies and Disney World Rides, animated films and Broadway shows. He recorded voiceovers for the 1995 film Apollo 13, modifying the script he was given to make it a little bit more Cronkitean. Oh, yeah. He appeared on the Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1974 and Murphy Brown in the late 80s and early 90s. He hosted multiple documentaries, spoke at and hosted immense, and was a political act. activist. He spoke out against the war on drugs, Rupert Murdoch and America's presence in Iraq. Yeah, wow. So he was busy. USA Today wrote that few TV figures have ever had as much power as Kronkite did at his height. For many years until a decade after he left his post as anchor, Kronkite was

considered one of the most trusted figures in the United States. For most of his 19 years as anchor, he was the predominant news voice in America. It's pretty big. It's wild, especially because you think like you think about Australian news and it's different in every state. Right. But yeah, he's like, even in different cities like there'll be, you know, regional news and stuff. Yeah. So that's not the case over there. Well, maybe it wasn't then.

Oh, right, gotcha. Yeah. Just to mention as well, a few awards and acknowledgments he's had in his career. In 1981, the year he retired, former president Jimmy Carter awarded Cronkart the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 85, he was honored with an induction into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Hall of Fame. In 89, he received the four freedoms awards for the freedom of speech. He won four Peabodies for excellence in broadcasting. Nice. In March of 2006, he became the only non-NASA recipient of an ambassador of exploration award. Everybody else that's got that award is

from NASA. He must be like, oh, what's on today? Oh, another huge award. I want him in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tonight. Okay. No worries. See you there. It's crazy. I'll be there. He has a planet named after him? That's got to be alive. Cronkite or it sounds like Krypton. It's so close to kryptonite already. He's got to... Minor Planet 6.3.18 Cronkite, which was discovered in 1990.

That's great. The journalism school at Arizona State University is named after him. And there's a 6,000 square foot memorial dedicated to him at Missouri Western State University, which is in St. Joseph where he was born. Huge. Huge. And that's just a few. I mean, honestly, that's really impressive, but once a planet is aimed after you, you go, oh, everything else is...

Yeah. Whatever. That's true. I've got a freaking planet. I've got a planet. I'm going to return my home planet now. So that's just a few of his, uh, of his acknowledgements. Sadly, all good things must come to an end.

No. And Walter Cronkite passed away in June 2009 at the age of 92. A good innings. Really good innings. Great one. He was cremated in his remains buried in the family plot in Kansas City next to his wife, Betsy, who had passed away four years earlier. So, 92.

Amazing. Love it. Love to hear that. Walter Cronkart. I know the name. Yeah. And I reckon I would have said American TV news. But you didn't, though, which is interesting.

I would, I reckon I would have, if given that chance again. True. And I guess all I said to you was most trusted man in American. If you asked me again now, knowing what I know now, I would, I think I would. I also, I wouldn't have accessed the name like Dave. but if you said who was Walter Cronkite, I think I would have said American TV news. Yeah, but like...

But I thought he was a current guy. Yeah, right. And like I said earlier, it's like a name you know, but not necessarily a story you know. And it's hard to sort of... It's a hard story to tell because, I mean, a lot of it is him reporting on news of big major events. But, yeah, back in the day, especially.

And to be trusted that way in the media is incredible. Yeah. Really cool and so rare. And I can't think of anybody else. I can't think of anybody in our Australian media that I would be like, I trust you. I reckon he would have won multiple gold Logies. Yeah, he was Australian.

I think maybe Yana Vent. Maybe she. You trust Yana? Maybe I trust Yana. I don't know. Okay. Or Jennifer Kite. They're the two big ones.

Maybe Ian Henderson. Ian Henderson, Hendo, for sure. Mal Walden always felt I could trust him. A great voice. Peter Hitch, you know. I love the Hitch. The Hitch. Grew up with the Hitch.

Man, love the hitch. Love him. Great with the hitch. Love him. You grew up with the hitch? Listen, like he was our news guy. Okay. Every night.

Yeah. We went to Kinder together. I met him last year. He was a delight. It was such a thrill. Yeah. I was so excited. I've met.

You've met. You've met. Interesting people. Sure. But freaking Peter Hitchin. Peter Hitchina. Are you kidding me? The best.

I pulled up an article from Roy Morgan Research. You were talking about most trusted people. They've done a big survey. in 2021, most trusted professions in Australia. I was saying, like, where do journalists rate in Australia? You know, talking about Cronkite number one in America back then. You want to have any guesses? Who would be most trusted?

Most trusted. Firefighters. Oh, did they make the list? Come on, you don't trust a firefighter. Yeah, come on. Don't you trust a firefighter? I can understand not cops being up there, but firefighters. Yeah, who else you...

They did not make the list. Really? Okay, well, then this feels like bullshit. Paramedic? Doctors are number two. 82% trust. I've had some pretty crook conversations with doctors, to be honest. Who do you show?

Number one, most. Similar ballpark. Nurses. Yes. Yeah, I was going to say, yeah. Nurses are, for sure. You're telling me bankers on there? Bankers.

So from the bottom, the lowest is car salesman. Second lowest advertising. Third lowest real estate. Yep, this all makes sense so far. Fourth lowest insurance brokers. Yes, yeah, yep. Fifth lowest state members of parliament. Yeah.

Then we've got federal members of parliament. Yeah. They're actually equal. Business execs, stockbrokers, talkback radio announcers, TV reporters. They're the bottom. They're all in the bottom third. So TV reporters. And radio reporters.

And radio, a talkback radio announcers are slightly below TV reporters. That's incredible. Yeah, nurses up top for sure. We're our podcasters and comedians. Yeah. Please. Bank managers are somewhere in the middle, 20% trust. Really?

I mean, one in five people trust them. Probably people were related to bank managers. I wouldn't wish I'd probably I'd freaking leave the country if that was the case. Or worse. I don't know. Go to Cronkite. You would go to Cronkoy. You know what I mean.

Who are the most doctors? Nurses number one. Nurses and doctors and pharmacists, school teachers, dentists, engineers, high court judges, state Supreme Court judges. You trust an engineer over a fucking Supreme Court judge. Yeah, it's interesting. Then university lecturers are below them,

and then police are sort of just above 50%. You know anybody can be a university professor. I don't think that's true. I think I could walk in and do it. Oh. Oh, yeah, yeah. What's a cronker. I think that makes you trustworthy.

No, I know, but I guess that's just what people imagine. Nearly anyone can be a cop, you know. Nearly anyone can be a dentist. Just if you get really good grades, I guess. That's bonkers. Hmm. You know when I trust doctors? I trust doctors when I'm in a critical condition.

Then I absolutely trust doctors. And you're often in a critical condition, if I'm being honest, Jess. Well, look, can I just end with one little thing about Walter Cronkart? Yes. That seems apt, honestly. This is a, it's a little quote from him about his sort of his catchphrase that he was quite known for. As Anchorman of the CIP. I'm Cronkart, bitch.

You can get fucked. Is that it? Yeah, so I guess I have nothing else to say. So that brings us to everybody's... No, it's as Angerman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement, and that's the way it is.

To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal to report the facts as he sees them without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue. That's the way it is. That's the way it is. Ah, cronk tells like it is. So there you go. That's kind of the story of a name you probably know, but maybe didn't know much of the story

or why he was the most trusted man in America. No, but now knowing that, I trust him. Yeah, I trust him. I trust him. On your cronk. On your cronk. That was one of his other catchphrases, you've been cronked. Wow.

You could have given me a million guesses as to what the report was going to be about today. And I don't think I would have ever. they got to Walter Cronkite. Better be Mal Walden next week. I'll tell you that much for nothing. What a great name, Mal Walden. Mal Walden. Well, that does bring us everyone's favorite section of the show

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So secret we haven't even talked about. You can also join the Facebook group, the nice corner of the internet. Get to vote on topics. Like this one today from Jess Perkins. You can be the ones putting Walter Cronkart in people's ears. That's a lot of power. Yeah. Almost too much.

Use it wisely. But the first thing we normally like to do in this section of the show is talk about the people on the Sydney-Shaunberg level. In a section we like to call the fact-quoted question section, which I think has actually all that goes up like this. Fact-quote or question. D-D. Hmm. He always remembers the ding and she always remembers the sing. And they've done it again.

And that's the way it is. Got cronk. So this section... Got-crunk. Not even cronked. Got cronk. Got cronk. Hashtag got crook.

So this section is where people give us a fact, quote of question. If they're on the Sydney-Sharmberg level or above, they also get to give themselves a title. And I read them out for the first time when I'm reading them out. And first up this week, we've got one from Nick Fidion. And Nick Fidion has whiskers on his chiniden. Oh no. Where I'm running out of steam here.

Okay, majorly running out of names. Don't worry about this gave you on there. And Nick's offering us a joke. All right. Love this. Here we go. Writing, if you ask Rick Astley for his copy of the movie up, he cannot give it to you as he will never give you up.

However, in doing so, he lets you down, thus creating the Astley paradox. Oh, he's never going to. going to give you up, but he's never going to let you down. He does let you down. Oh my gosh, Rick, I just want to watch it up. Rick. I just want to see a talking dog. That dog talks.

Doug? Up. No kidding. Worth a rewatch. I'll miss some of the subtleties. Thank you so much, Nick Fidion. Or Nick Fidgen. Next one comes from Jacob Giron.

Jacob Yeron, Jabeb, Guyron. Jepib. I think you could edit together. Any of those combinations and you might get one, right? J-Bib. J-Bib, you're all. Jacob has got the title of Mr. G, and the G is for Nile. Oh, so maybe that is.

Does that, is that clue meaning it's Jacob Yeron or a soft G? We'll never know. Jacob's asking a question writing, Hey guys, hope all is well. Miss you guys. We have never met, but I assume we would miss each other. Aren't we some silly little chaps like that? Yes.

Anyways, let's cut this tension with a question. When you were a kid, what profession did you think you would be in? Was it always entertaining or did Matt want to be a race car driver? Oh man, if I could have been Dick Johnson when I was a boy. I would have said signed me up right here right now. You wanted to be Dick? I want to be Dick. I want to be Johnson.

I always thought I would be on TV or in movies as a kid, but I don't know why as I never wanted to act. I just thought it was a cool job. Sneaking in a brag here as I just got accepted into my dream school, UCLA, or Akla, perhaps, here in Los Angeles, and I just figured my best mates from Australia, who I miss very much should know. All jokes aside, you have been a part of my Wednesday routine for at least five years now, and you still never miss on an episode. Thanks for the laughs.

Hey, Jacob, thank you for the listening. Thank you. Congratulations getting into UCLA. Yeah, it's great. Yeah, it's great. And you don't have to be an actor to be on TV. You could also be Walter Cronkine. Have you ever thought about that? I'm Jacob, you're on, and you've just been geared on.

I think that. I think that's pretty good. I think that's a great starting point. You've just been geared on. You've just been geared on. No, that doesn't work. We talked about this a little while ago about jobs we thought we might do. At one point, I wanted to be a basketballer by day.

A rock star by night. Yep. But I mean, I went through a lot of different things. You know, before I, I realized that you can't follow your dreams, I wanted to be like a drawerer. What do you call them? Illustrator. Illustrator. Illustrator.

Mainly because you couldn't tell anyone what you wanted to be. You know, I want to be a drawerer. I remember when I was a kid, I loved drawing so much as a kid. Loved it, loved it, loved it. And I said that too. I can't remember if it was a teacher or a parent, but their advice was architecture. they have to draw. So that became, and I just went, oh, okay.

They're like, if you want to get a job and you want to draw, then architecture. So I start for a little while, I'm like, I want to be an architect. Journalists at one point in high school wanted to be a journalist. Yep. But yeah. Wanted to be a writer of some kind. Oh, yeah. A nurse, a paramedic.

I wanted to do, I wanted to help people. And now I just do very self-indulgent things and help no one. Don't at me and say I help you. I don't mean like that. I mean, you come, you go, I'm very sick, and I go, oh, fixed, that. I don't do that. So, no, you come at me and say that in some sick way, comedy is healing. And collectively, everyone's like, we weren't.

No, I was going to say that. We would never compare you to a nurse. Go on. I wanted to be an frog by day, archaeologist by night. Of course. After watching The Mummy, Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weiss, my two heroes growing up. Yeah, what a combo. What a hero combo.

There still are my absolute. Any hopes for a sequel, a mummy sequel? Of the Mummy. Like, The Mummy 2. No, a new sequel. Mummy 4 or whatever. The fourth one. I don't know.

I'll never say never. Any hopes like I'm somehow green lighting the movie? I'm asking if you're still hoping for it because there's been talking about it lately. Oh, yes, I absolutely do hope. But I do hope that Rachel Vyce will come back. Remember when she skipped number three? Yes. And this wasn't as good without it.

I thought, I don't think that was the reason. I thought the replacement was fine. Maybe not Wyss. Fine. Vice fine. Yeah, yeah. But, um, yeah. Archaeologist was my primary school dream job.

Thank you so much, Jacob. And congratulations on getting into UCLA. Very, very exciting. And I miss you too, Jacob. That is 100% effect. Don't be a stranger. Last one this week comes from Megan Graham, aka Muppetmaster

and Megan's asking a question writing Roknama Rooknama and Ruknama to you too Megan, thank you so much If you're gonna raise one dish from the world What would it be?

My vote is for apricot chicken I don't get fruit and made as a thing Anyway, love you guys And congrats on being ace Even if you like apricot chicken Well, I'll stop you right there I do not like apricot chicken So I'm with you on that

I've never had it I'm happy to never have it again I reckon I could do two for one here I'll knock mine out and also knock that out by saying, I would just ban apricots. Whoa, no. Do not like.

What? Aphidot's a great. I love an apricot. Horrible flavor. They are a forbidful on. Horrible smell. Horrible on chicken. Horrible on their own.

Sorry, we've let our parrot out of the cage. Absolutely. I would not be putting that in my mouth. A horrible flavor. Marrible. Horrible. Marrible. Never again.

You found me on. Polyate parr. Polyate pap. Polyate apricot. Is it food or a meal? I think it's a dish. I guess you can take that anyway, which way you're like. I don't like most things.

Is that true? How to narrow it down? Yeah, there's a lot I don't like. I'm sure. Fruit cake? Yeah, fruit cake can fuck off. Yeah, good one. No, fuck fruit cake.

Yuck. Yeah. It's right. Don't like it. Can't really think of too many things I really dislike. But yeah, that one is one that I'm like, well, what are you doing here? We've moved past this. This is what they had to do in the old days because they didn't understand that things could be better.

Yuck! People don't do them anymore, probably. I hope not. What's a deviled egg? It's an egg that has sinned. Yeah. That's Satan's egg, though. Satan's egg?

Come on, Dave. I'd give it a try. Deviled eggs, a hard-willed eggs where the yolk is mixed with mayonnaise, mustard, vinegar, salt and pepper. Oh, that sounds all right. Oh, my God, I'm in. Oh, my God. Bring him back. Okay, I just don't like eggs.

But I wouldn't erase them because everybody, like, so many people really love eggs. And also, they make cakes nice and fluffy. Okay. So I wouldn't say no to eggs, but I don't want to eat them. Thank you. What about, Matt, is there anything you just like to strike from the record? He said fruit cake. Oh, yeah, sorry, yeah.

It's not that I really have. hate. There's just lots I don't like. Yeah, I don't like, I don't like zucchini very much. Yeah, okay. But I don't mind a zucchini slice. Right. But that's because it's like chopped up so fine in there. Yeah. I guess. I don't like olives, but like not enough that it, you know, if there was a bit of olive on a pizza, I wouldn't be like, bleh! Last month you were talking about being excited about going to Olive Garden, and now I hear this? What is it with you? Do we like olives or do we ate olives? I don't understand.

Jerry? Jerry? You ain't olives and like olive garden? That is what you're saying? Yeah, yeah. So olive garden, you can have an non-olive dish. Absolutely, yes. You just have the garden.

That's right. Thank you for that fantastic question, Megan. I agree. I agree. I'm happy to split the two up and keep them both alive. I mean, now that Jess has wiped eggs off the planet. Chickens aren't going to survive.

Oh my God, you're right. Chikins without the eggs. We've got to protect your remaining chickens. I said you could keep your weird little eggs. Yeah, but the weird little ones aren't the ones that... Leop. Okay. The next thing we like to do is thank a few of our other fantastic Patreon supporters

who are on the shoutout level or above. Just normally comes up a bit of a game based on the topic at hand. Yeah, the name of the 1940s TV show there in. Oh, okay, great. which are nearly always about seven words long. Yeah, they're too long and they don't make a lot of sense. All right, if I can kick us off, I'd love to thank from, I'm going to say, Middleborough, Massachusetts, am I, Dave?

Absolutely. Jeffrey Stittston. Who's that behind the door? Yeah, yeah. You've just invented, thank God you hear. Yeah. Who's that behind the door? Love it.

Who's that behind the door? And that, unlike who, thank God you hear, there's not a scene that's actually. it out, they just opened the door and they go, it was Greg. Let's find out who's behind the next door. We'll be back after the break. Uh, Jeffrey Stidson, congratulations on your fantastic name, by the way. Mm, excellent work on the name. I'd also like to thank from Bellingham, or Bellingham, also in Massachusetts. Wow. It's Ryan. What about ride this pommel horse, please. What is a pommel horse? That's the athletics horse, isn't it? No, gymnastics. Yeah, gymnastics, one of those ones. Mr. Pummel.

They just wheel it into the studio and then, you know, for half an hour, we can do whatever you like on it. That sounds like a different kind of show to me. Go to town. Got a root rampage if you want. Gorklet comes in and says, that'll be all. Good night. Was Root Rampage this episode? It's a route tour.

You're going to go on a route tour? That's funny. Thank you so much. Ryan, enjoy the horse. However you please. I mean, you're hosting it. Until Cronkite comes in and gongs you off. Enjoy watching people.

Have a go of that horse. And finally for me, I'd love to thank from Happy Town here in Melbourne. Camberwell in Victoria, it's Caitlin Hodder. I was sort of it as Happy Town. Why is that? When I was a teenager, there was these freezer gigs there at the Camberwell Town Hall. And whenever I went there, it was like a Friday afternoon after. after school. The skies are always so blue. The sun was shiny. Everyone was smiling.

Oh. I probably only went there half a dozen times, but every time I went to Camberwell. And I wouldn't have been back since. It's right there in the affluent east, isn't it? I used to live right near that, Ten Hall, yeah. And I just always think, I'm like, what is the happiest place I've ever been? So I've been to Disneyland. That's possibly why. Happy town. I love it. So what's Caitlin Hodder's show? Step on the old tin roof. Step on the old tin roof. So you've got to make sure. you're not standing in the gaps. You want to be standing on the timbers there?

Yep. And yeah, if you fall through... You will fall to your death. You die. And if you die, you're eliminated. It's a short-lived show. Yeah. Yeah, the tin, yeah, they put them varying gaps.

Can I thank some people as well? Yeah. I would love to thank from Maidstone in Great Britain. It's Fay Diamond. Fay Diamond. That's good stuff. Fay Diamond. All aboard.

All aboard! All aboard! No. Question mark. Oh, all aboard? It's a mystery show. It's them going, are we all aboard? I'll have to go do a check.

And then it's a counting show. Oh, I like it. So it'll be like a, it'll be all right. So first topic tonight is women in the military. Are we all aboard? And this is the 1950s, right? And first one was like, yes, I think everyone, I'm all aboard. Everyone should be allowed to be in the military.

if they're like. I don't think ladies should be light on the military. They're very distracting to the fellas there on the front lawn and it's only going to disres between the troops

and I think that a war place is certainly not on the front line. It's somewhere else. I don't want to say where but certainly not there in the war. So something like that. And the way they could visualize it is there'd be like a train set

and they'd ask the question and say, do you believe in? this all aboard and if you agree you get on the train and if not you stay on the platform and then they go around the platform and say what do you think that yeah yeah what and they go on the train why do you think that wow yeah well i think my very possibly i might get cancelled for this and that's fine i suppose but i don't think ladies belong in in the army uh i believe that they're too good for it i think men should go and be killed and ladies should rule the world sorry cancel me fine stuff like that yeah i think it's uh that's a green light for

me. Yeah. But Mattas and buy all the characters. Slowly lose my mind. Slowly. I would also love to thank for Ransgate, also in Great Britain, Daniel Faulkner. Daniel Faulkner. What about the TV show?

Show us your teeth. Oh, I wasn't sure where that was going. And I love it. Show us your teeth. There's like a special camera that goes and everyone looks right into your mouth. You talk through the history of your smile. Wow. And then an expert comes in and says, has to be able to say, guess how many feelings?

Yeah. Have you had braces? Have you had a plate? Do you currently have a plate in? Are you a flosser? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Coffee drinker, et cetera. Love that. And then maybe get a little teeth makeover.

Yes. And whoever has the best teeth wins. They spin that, they spin the set around and they're shy, I ran your shirt. Say, say. Got out of Shaya. Thank you. We've got out with some pretty good shows. I'd watch that.

I'd watch a show called Sharks you, too. That's good stuff. Finally, for me, I would love to thank from Kirkwall, also in Great Britain, Elizabeth Welch. Elizabeth Welsh. Fantastic name there, Elizabeth. Yes. Deal or Welch? Deal or Welch?

Yeah. So a deal is struck and... I'm in. And quietly, the individually, this has been done before, but individually they can... If you decide to welch on the deal... Yes. And the other one still says deal.

The welter gets... gets the grand prize. Oh, wow. Whereas if you both make the deal, you split the prize, but if you both Welch, no one gets the prize. You get nothing.

So it's a risk. Yeah, yeah. That's just a re-badging of another game, but this one was invented in the 50s. Yeah, yeah. So they've ripped off deal or Welch. Dave, would you like to sex of people?

Oh, I'm somewhere to be. Oh, we don't actually even talked about what time we need to finish today. We're just going to keep talking. All right. like to thank from Great Falls in Montana, Alex Thayer. Alex Thayer, man, Great Falls, Montana. I want to be there.

Doesn't that sound fantastic? Great Falls. In the big sky country. Bungy off this. Oh. So you're blindfolded? So you don't know the height. You don't know what it is.

You just have to jump. You have to jump. It's a trust exercise. But if you go through that you win a prize. You win a prize. If you survive, you win a prize. Yeah. There is a risk that you will break your neck.

Because the other part of the game is, which you don't know, you get the choice of three lengths of bungee cord. And the longer you pick without going over, right. It's the bigger the prize. Great. So you can go all in and go, I'll have the longest rope. Yes. You blindfold and then you walk up a three-foot ladder.

Yeah. Yeah. You can jump. Four. Oh, Alex Slayer. That's fantastic work. I love it. I think that is good.

I think we've actually... Bungy off this is a great name. I hope Reg Grundy's listening. Yeah. I might green light some of these. Is Reg still with us? Sadly, I don't think so. Oh, rest in peace.

I'm a way to find out. I'd like to thank now from Long Gully here in Victoria. Big shout out to jazz or Jace. Jazz, I reckon. Jazz. Jazz. Jazz, I reckon jazz. Two options there.

What about a TV show called Bag of Puss? Oh, I hate that. No. No more. No further context on that, thank you. If you can explain your way out of it. No, no. Bag of something. I'm happy with bag of off, but pass has to go. But that's only one in 100 chance. Do you get a bag of pasta? And it's spaghetti made out of pus. I'm going to know that one.

You're not in. Okay. Oh my God. You're hard to impress. Yeah, no, bag of pasta is no good. I'm not watching that. It sounds disgusting. Bag of cats. Bag of cats. Okay. Now, how do you play bag of cats, Jess? You give in a bag? Yeah.

And two minutes on the clock. How many cats you can put in the bag? And now... Somehow this is more fucked than puff. How is true? How? Did I say that you do anything with the bag once you call the cats? I think we're all picturing a weighted bag.

No. And a lake. You get to keep the cats. Oh, you get to keep as many cats. We also get to keep the pus. Just... Jazz, I'm so sorry. Sorry, there's a hundred bags, 99 of them are full with gold bullion.

One of them's full of pus. You pick the bag. Okay, but it's like sort of Nickelodeon channel fake gooey pus, right? It's not real pus. Yeah, fine. If that's going to make you not say no. So it's a 1% chance of getting pus. Exactly.

You take that deal, wouldn't you? Yeah. But how embarrassing would it be if you were the one who picked the bag of pus? Are you allowed to touch the bags? No. Oh, okay. Because I know gold is soft, but it's not as soft as pus. Yeah.

That's soft for a metal. Yeah, yeah. But not soft for pus. No. On a medal to pus scales. Yark. It's only one in 100. Okay, I've said okay.

I just don't want to hear any more about it. And it's hosted by Andrew O'Keefe. Just to add a little danger element. Oh, my God. Not going to touch that one. And finally, I would like to think from... Okay, but we can talk about pus for an hour. I'd like the thing.

From Kings Langley. Never heard of that. From New South Wales. It's Patrick. Farmer. Patrick Farmer. Patrick Farmer wants a wife is the obvious one. Of course.

We're not doing that. We're not doing that. Oh no. Turn your laptop up. Tell your laptop off. Okay. We had to have a quick break there because I knocked over about a liter of water into my computer. Yeah.

And I was like, oh, whoops. And Dave luckily was like, were you going to save the computer? Turn it off. I yelled. Turn off. Don't off. He snapped into action.

I wouldn't have picked Dave to be good in a crisis. Yeah. I just was. Do you define good as, oh my God. Yeah. Snapping into action? Yeah, well, I run and got a tower because I have spilled a glass of water on a laptop before and it killed it. It never recovered.

So I didn't want that to happen to you. Which I appreciate because I only got this computer a few months ago. So how do you, yeah, you turn off, turn it off because you don't want the water in it while it's on. It's bad. It's so funny how many baths I've had with this computer and that's the time I got wet. Jesus Christ. Baths with the computer. How else do you wash a computer?

It's efficient. You don't have to use twice as much water. Otherwise, the computer has its own bath. Take me later. This computer is my best friend. You're telling me you would bathe with your best friend. I never have it plugged in when I go on the bath with it. I'm not stupid.

So what will we up to then? We're coming up with the TV show for Patrick Farmer. Patrick Farmer. Okay. All right. Let's go over a classic full sentence one. Yep. I'll come up with the first couple of words.

Jess Middles it, Dave, you bring it home. Promise I won't say pus. However you want to... Puss. In my bucket. Is it a Kiwi show? How ever you want a pus in my bucket. However you want to pus in my bucket.

It's so narrow. Like how many different ways can you pass in a bucket? You'd be surprised. I have a joke. From the top of a ladder. I can't believe it's been going over six seasons. I'm doing a handstand. I'm pissing in a bucket.

That's hosted by Patrick Farmer. Through my friends, who's holding their arms out like a hoop. Through an actual hoop. Through one of those weird Rube Goldberg machines. Oh, that's pretty good. So a bit of a fun sketch online last month or it's a long Rube Goldberg thing. And it ends by pulling the plug out of a. someone on life support.

Oh, that is good. I was enjoying the rube, but that was a nice little touch. That's fun. That's really fun. Oh, gosh. Well, on your Patrick Farmer, and thank you so much to Jazz,

Alex, Elizabeth, Daniel, Faye, Caitlin, Ryan, and Jeffrey. You're absolutely keeping this pod going by supporting us on Patreon, and we appreciate it. Patrick Farmer, though, you do owe me in your computer. Yeah. It was something about you that made me wave me arms around.

Eradically. Well, that brings us to the final thing we need to do, which is bring a few people into the Triptitch Club. Now, I don't have a working computer. Dave, do you think you can, or Jess? No, no. I would love to. No, let's absolutely. No, no, no.

It's fine. I don't think I could. Oh, my tiny little delicate lady brain. Can I just say one? I would love it. Are you on board? A woman running a shout-out section at the end of a podcast? You're off the train, but I'm on the train.

But I also would love it if we could switch it a little bit where Matt has to try and come up without seeing these names. Yes. Try and come up with some of the punts. Because you're all talk, you fucking dirty dog. You always described my wordplay as weak, but let's find out just how hard it is. Oh, no, it's just a character bit I do. I really I really respect the work you do that.

Jess, would you be okay if I read out the names and you would be the hype man format? Oh, great, yeah, because I can't read out the names. That's for sure. But I think the harder job is hyping me. Oh, yeah. We'll see how I go with that. She seems hyped.

But before we do that, now we're going to tell people about the Triptage Club. In case you haven't heard before, this is our Hall of Fame where we induct people that have been. supporting the show on the shout-out level or above for three consecutive years. They've already had a shout-out a little while back, but to say, thanks for supporting the show for so long, we induct them into our Hall of Fame slash Clubhouse slash Hangout Zone Theatre of

the Mind. It's an airport lounge for Jess. It's a gig for me sometimes. I've book a band. Matt, it's something else to you, completely a lovely, just a lovely place to hang out. Yes, and I've booked a band this week. It was funny. I didn't even realize that I'd be taking You know, Dave's role when I booked this band. Just pure coincidence, but I've booked the... You won't believe it. Oh my gosh, really? What?

Who've you got? The kite string tangle. Wow. The Walter Comkite string tangle. Yeah. Is that his name? What was his name? Concite.

Cronkite. I thought it didn't quite sound right, but the kite thing still works. So that's all... Are there, Dave, do you have any... Are there any bands named after him? Surely there's the Cronkarts or something. Well, obviously, I booked these in advance. Yes.

I'll try and book a band for about three years time from now. Walter Cronkite Band. This is who we'll be booking in. Did you say you've got a cocktail bopper? Yeah, I do. I've got the Sir Walter. Ooh. It's got a lemon zest twist.

It's got rum, cognac, curacao, grenadine, lemon juice. I'm interested in this. Yeah. I don't think my mind took in all of that. That's a lot of stuff. Yeah, but it's going to taste real good. And that's a real one or is that your own concoction? I googled it. That's a real one.

Oh, fantastic. I don't think you've done one that isn't like purposely bad. What do you mean? Last week it was a grenade. I was just holding a grenade. That was a month ago, Jess. Move on. Oh yeah, that was ages ago. Grow up.

Sorry. Well, in a few years time, I'll be able to book in Too Much Saturn, famous for their song Walter Cronkite, and they have had nine monthly listens on Spotify this month, so we could make that 10. Yeah, great. Oh, that's fantastic. Amazing.

There was a, Friends of Rom on their first EP, had a song called I Wish I Was As Credible as Roger Clemson or something or something, or something like that. And I think he was the Australian or maybe the Sydney respectable newsreader at the time. Roger Clemson or something? That doesn't really mean. Oh, okay. Do you remember, you know that song?

No, I don't remember that one. Maybe if I heard it. I don't recognise Roger Clemson either. It's off Dick Sandwich. English-born Australian retired media personality. There you go. There you go. Now, so what we've got here is, I forget who's who now, I'm standing.

You're at the door? I'm at the door. I've got the clipboard here with the names of the new inductees. There's three this week, Matt, so you are off pretty lightly. You only have to induct three people. And I should also say for listeners at home, Dave is normally reading the names and addresses. He's preloading these. Oh, get absolutely fucked.

It's about time they knew. You're on your own here. Well, that's right, I am on my own. Unlike Dave, I don't know what these names are addressed. I've made some bridges then. I'm actually going to bring these up off the top of the dome. I actually spent months writing mine.

I'm happy to admit that. Happy to admit that. I actually, you know, I've got plenty of written for these, but I'll let you have a go, Matt. I'll let you have a go. So what we're doing here, usually Jess is on stage with me. Matt reads out the names. I'll be doing that this week.

So Jess is on stage with Matt who hipes these people up. and Jess will be hyping up, Matt, in theory. We'll find out how that goes. So let's get ready. Welcome him in. Let's not take away their big moment because they've been supporting the show for a long, long time. I would like to say a big thank you and run on in from Endicott in New York.

It's Will Bedoya. Will I'll bedoya. I'll bloody love you. Hey, in Anticot, getting a cot with me and let's have a nice, will you marry me? All right. She's dropped the microphone. Okay, I'd like to thank. Now, from Monaghan in Ireland, make them welcome.

It's Paul McNally. Monaghan me, your face. I want to kiss it. Paul McNally, you're my pali. Will you marry me? Will you McNally me? Wow, it really came on strong for Paul there. And finally, I would like to think...

This is easier than it looks. Finally, I'm from St. Orban's In Greatest of Britons, big shout out and welcome to Sam Pares. Sam Pears. Let's get a couple of you in, maybe a pair of you. I've got one, I've got one.

We're certainly not going to all ban you. You're welcome anytime you like. And Jess. Nothing, Sam Pear's. Nothing some pairs to you. Make them welcome. Sam Paul and Will. That's good stuff.

Jess, you've got the job. job. Next week, can you please take it? Absolutely not. That's the best that, that's better than anything Dave's ever done and that was your first go out. I'm happy to admit that. Happy to admit that.

Nothing. San pairs to you. Come on. Oh, that's fucking great. That's fucking great. That's, that's so great. I think women can be funny. I'm on board.

Get him on the train. He's on board. We've lost our whites. Well, I don't know if you need the laptop for this bit, but that does bring us to the end of the episode. Thank you so much for listening. Jess, is there anything else we need to tell the beautiful listener? That if they would like to suggest a topic, they can do so at do go onpod.com, which is where you can also find information about live shows and all our other podcasts on this beautiful podcasting network we have. And you can find us at Do Go On Pod

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