Two In The Think Tank - 289 - Oprah Winfrey

Episode Date: May 5, 2021

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Yes. Jess, I just, I need to call you out on this. Yes. Because we did get some feedback about the live shows that we sounded like we were being nasty to each other. That was joke nasty. Joke nasty. Well, I have started legal proceedings. Well, to be completely honest, I have crippling the low self-esteem and imposter syndrome. And honestly, I often put people on a pedestal and they don't really value me in the same way and then they kind of leaves me feeling a bit rejected and a bit isolated. And then, so on the flip side of that, something I do a lot, basically, as a way to protect

myself as a defense mechanism, is that I push, I keep people at an arm's length. So when I say things like, are you safe friend? And I say, oh, colleague, that is just me big terrified of letting you in. Okay, so for that's clear for the listeners. Yeah. Just jokes and sadness. Sadness and a symptom of some mental health

Exactly. So if you have a goat me for it, you're kind of the problem I think we've cleared that up. I think everyone's feeling more comfortable now I was just gonna say hey just let you know it's all jokes, but just put it in a much more succinct way Much more succinct now well the good news is we're hoping to do more live shows now, you know, things are opening up a bit in Australia. And one we've booked in already in Melbourne is a live screening of the mummy at Lido cinemas in September. And after we're recording an episode of phrasing the bar, our spin-off picture on on the podcast, we'll go through Brendan Fraser's movies in the cinema.

And we put that on sale last week. We've sold half the tickets, the cinema and you get to book your seat. If you look at the map, it is absolutely filling up. Yes, it is. That is ridiculous. Really exciting. So if you want to get involved with that, there is a link in if you get a latest in a stocom slash daddy, it's a very different link, so don't. What do they open this? It's a special thing, they don't worry about it. All right, it's porn.

And that's okay. So. Yeah, that's sick. Porns being given the Jess tick of approval. You know, that's fine, whatever. Do you do you? All right, we're going to crack into this week's episode. And for first-time listeners, Jess, what is this show? This show is called Do Go On. The Do is where one of us goes and do's a report.

Oh, okay. Oh, that's good. What's the go then? They do some research. One of them, so one of them goes and do's a report. Do's a research. Do's a research. Yes.

They run up the report as part of their research that they've do's. Yeah. And then they go in their car, they come here to the studio. They go. And we all see each other. Yeah, and then they go in their car they come here to the studio go We all see each other we say hello, and then They we turn on the microphones and we are the one who dude the report Says it to the other two who politely applaud. Yeah, so you telling me I should have turned these microphones on. Mm-hmm. Not yet.

I think that that is. Not only the microphones are on, but Jess is on. Yeah. That's fantastic. And Jess is enjoying her own jokes. I wouldn't touch. I liked it too. Fantastic.

Well, this week I am the one who's doing the report. Yes. And I'm going to ask. No, that's just normal English. Yeah. I was really would have been funny if it wasn't but I couldn't figure out how to do it wrong What a doozy and I I'm gonna get us on a topic this week by asking a question and The question this week is I think it's a very gettable one so hands on buzzer. Okay buzz

All right, Jess just buzzed in first. I was just testing a buzzer. Okay, buzz. All right, Jess, just a buzzer first. I was just testing the buzzer, just testing the buzzer. No testing here. But, I know. Jess, you get to hear the full question, but you've already buzzed in, so you get first-guarded. It's a weird system.

What? The game show, where everyone wants to buzz in really quickly. The question is, who famously said something like, you get a car, you get a car, you get a car, everyone gets a car. That would be... Barry Burke from Barrick.

Gale's best friend, Oprah. That's right, it's Oprah Winfrey. I'm gonna tell the story of Oprah Winfrey. David, I know normally we do like a couple of joke answers, but I could not risk giving you that opportunity and you swooping in and just giving me correct answer. So I just had to go for it. I hope you understand.

We have it because we have a listener who used to keep Tally of who's been getting the most right last I heard I was winning. But I haven't had an update in our I can two years. Yeah. And let's know pressure to them. It's a big task. Yeah, maybe they've moved on. I wouldn't had an update in I reckon two years. Yeah, and let's know pressure to them. It's a big task. Yeah, maybe they've moved on. I wouldn't do it.

In fact, I'm not doing it right now. Just you know, I didn't know, so. I did. Of course you bloody. It's fun, you've already picked a hole in this report. Her best friend Gail does not get a mention. I would have stedman. All right. I don have said, Edmund.

I don't know if that should have mentioned. Do you mention her talk show? In passing. Oh yeah, anyway. I think it's a very big successful talk show and I will mention that, but yeah, I don't know. Maybe this is an awful report, but. I don't think that's the case, no.

I think you're focusing on her professional career. Let's see, let's find out. So this was suggested by Keely from Queensland in Australia and Meredith Van Beek-Husen from Auckland in New Zealand. Couple of Southern hemisphere suggestors for this one. As a quick warning, Oprah's early life was brutally tough and she suffered from abuse, so yes, just the heads up, I'm not going to go into it too much, but I will be mentioning that.

Are you ready for this report? I'm quite surprised it hasn't been suggested by more. Yeah, I was, her name is in the hat a lot, like if I search for it, she comes up in the suggestions for other people's topics. There's a great interview by Oprah with this person. That sort of stuff. More people have suggested Gail. What a slap in the face. Tom Cruise jumping on chairs.

Can we do an episode on the chair jumping? 100%. I also don't mention that in this report. I don't actually don't know how I'm gonna fill this time. So Oprah was born on the 29th of January 1954 in Cosiosco, Mississippi in the United States of America. But Oprah is not actually her birth name. According to a BBC profile, do you know this?

Oh, I thought it was. I do know. Oh, what? Yes. Is it similar to Oprah? It is. It is an anagram. Yes, it is. It's Auper. Auper. Auper was her original name, Auper Gale Winfrey. That's right. So it's from the BBC profile. That's right. Auper, not Auper. Auper. I didn't realize that Gail was named after Oprah's little nut. Yeah. That's friendship point.

Well, it's actually, that's just a character that Aupa plays. She's that good. Yeah. She's like Eddie Murphy. She plays her own family and friends. So, Aupa. Aupa. Auppah. So this is still from the BBC. She was named after a biblical figure in the book of Ruth. I didn't even know there was a book of Ruth in the Bible. Oh, it's instantly my favourite book. Yeah.

When no one knew how to spell or pronounce it properly, they started calling her Oprah instead, and it's stuck, and the name Oprah is now known to millions worldwide having reached a level of fame where she can be identified by her first name alone. Yeah, that's the dream. Okay, I've just got to say, fair enough if you don't know how to pronounce the name, but there's no way you're mispronouncing Oprah and being like, I reckon that's Oprah. Yeah.

Yeah. But I did find it funny that this BBC article made a big deal about her being known by her first name. I was like, she's the only Oprah. You know, if it was like Greg, that would be quite an achievement. Greg from Greg's. Yeah. Or Adele. Adele, yeah, I mean that's...

I know lots of Adeles. Right. You know? But there's only one Adele, it's the name unknown. Most of the mononame people, like Beyoncé, you know, they're the the only Beyonce, you know. Madonna.

And I was gonna say, Orpah, it's like, I was like, that's an unusual name, but so is Oprah. I'm just very used to it. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. The Orpah Winfrey show.

That's fun. Yeah, I love it. I'd watch it. Oprah's parents were young when she love it. I'd watch it. Oprah's parents were young when she was born about 19 and 21. Her mother, Vanita Lee, was a housemaid and according to The Washington Post, Oprah's father was in the arm services when she was born and her mother was looking to escape Mississippi. Her father later said, he heard of her birth when he received a printed baby announcement

in the mail with a scribbled note that wrote, Send clothes. Soon after Oprah's birth, her mother moved to Milwaukee, leaving Oprah with her grandmother on a small farm. According to entrepreneur.com, her grandmother was a harsh but loving disciplinarian who in whim-free credits with fostering her outgoing personality and precociousness. Under her grandmother's tutelage, she learned to read by the age of two and by the time she was three her speaking talents had already began to emerge. She was often invited to recite poetry at social clubs and church teas where they refer to her as

the little speaker. The Guardian writes that during the years living with her grandmother, she would often wear Hessian overalls made from potato sacks that earned her the cruel nickname sack girl. Not very creative. Not very creative, no. And it doesn't mention who's calling her that. Guessing it's not a grandmother who's dressing her in those. Probably not.

She had pet cockroaches and a doll made from a dried corn cob. So she was really living in poverty on the farm. The Guardian article continues, when she was three, she would mock interview her doll and the crows on the fence outside her grandmother's home. Stop it. She was such a gifted speaker in church that a kind of childhood nickname was the preacher.

The preacher. I like little speaker. Yeah. That's fun. You know, like when you go to a party or a barbecue and you take your little Bluetooth speaker and everyone's like, oh, thank you so much for bringing the speaker because I forgot mine.

And you're a real hero? Is that my, yeah. Is that a story from your life? I don't know, it might be. It's kind of amazing that she had so many nicknames at such a young age as well. The little speaker, Sack Girl, and the preacher. Imagine a little toddler reciting poetry though, that's very cute. According to the Washington Post, at age six, I went to live with her mother, then returned two years later to her father in Nashville, where she was welcomed by Vernon and his wife, Zelma.

There's something that no one's really made a point of this, but her parents' names are Vanita and Vernon. Oh, yeah. What are the odds of that? Two Verns. Imagine your mum and dad both been named some version of Vern. My uncle Michael married a Michelle. That's pretty good.

That's pretty good. My dad used to date a Paula. Oh no. And his name's Darren. Really? Yeah. So that's pretty weird. Well, the work with the guy whose name is Kim, his wife.

Or so Kim. Get out. So the same name. That'd be very confusing in bed wouldn't it oh real hot yes Kim sorry that's someone you work with but you went through it there yes Fern yeah no I couldn't no I don't think I'd be able to make it work with a male Jess because you're there's definitely obviously Jessy's in things out there. You think that that would be a deal breaker for you.

Yeah. Yeah, because I mean, there's little things that you, it's not like, you see someone you're like, I'm in love with them, I haven't even heard their name. Yeah. Well, normally you hear the name and you're like, oh. I kind of did do that, so.

Okay. So if you found out that their name was Jess, it would have been too late. Yeah, too late, I mean. No, I mean, that's not fair to, but I wouldn't love it. I'd probably call them by their surname or something. I'd have an nickname for them, you know?

The last name is also Jess. Sorry. Oh, Jessy Jess. This is my boyfriend, Jessy Jess. Oh, Jesse Jess. This is my boyfriend Jesse Jess. Jesse Jess, Jr. This is my boyfriend. Well, I could call him something else. This is the little spaker.

This is the preacher. So, yes, so she was from Washington Post. She then returned two years later to her father in Nashville where she was welcomed by Vernon and his wife, Selma. Selma had had one difficult pregnancy, which ended in a miscarriage. And while she wanted children, she didn't want to risk another pregnancy. So Oprah's arrival was for them a godsend, and they immersed her in their life of hard work, family and church. When Oprah was nine years old, her mother asked Vernon if Oprah could come for a visit for the summer and Vernon agreed. But when he came to pick his daughter up the next

fall, Oprah's mother told Vernon that Oprah was going to stay in Milwaukee with her with her with her mum. Vernon Winfrey remembers crying over his daughter only once and that was when he had to leave her there with his with her mother Saying we had brought her out of that atmosphere because it was pretty tough there with her mom in in Milwaukee We'd brought her out of that atmosphere out of a house into a home So I knew it was not good for her being in that environment again, but he just you know, it was mom's wishes. He just had to I guess that's tough. He just had to, I guess, that's tough. Yeah, real tough. And this is, this is the, the toughest part of her life, I believe, in her years living in Milwaukee, Oprah suffered greatly, living through poverty

and abuse, according to entrepreneur.com, her mother was so preoccupied with her own problems that she had little time for Winfrey. This lack of parental supervision left her vulnerable and beginning when she was nine and continuing for several years thereafter, Winfrey was sexually abused by several different men, including a teenage cousin and a mother's boyfriend. Years later, during a show, like her own talk show, she was doing about incest, Winfrey burst into tears and shared with her audience the story.

Wow. So this was like early on in a show in 86 when she had her own, you know, the Oprah Winfrey show. And it was one of the things that I think, she was so open about herself. And that really drew people in and made people feel like, you know, they really knew her. The article goes on to say confused, ashamed, guilt-ridden and afraid to tell anyone what was being done to her.

Winfrey began to act out. So she and I think, yeah, this is from the Washington Post. The only way Winfrey could figure to fight for herself was through manipulation and acting out. Oprah wore bifocals that were butterfly rimmed, she felt ugly in them and wanted to get a different style, but her mother said she couldn't afford them. And Winfrey already the accomplished actress with a keen dramatic sense devised a plan. And this is quoting from Oprah.

I stayed home from school, broke my glasses in many pieces and called the police. After I pulled down the curtains and knocked over the lamps, I lay down on the floor and fact be unconscious and having amnesia. Of course, I'd seen this on Marcus Welby, MD, on the TV show about someone having amnesia. This was the story. Someone broke in, hit me in the head and knocked off my glasses, went free, recalled laughing. Oprah's mother didn't think the stump was very funny at all. I've seen her tell us for a few times. She accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally

accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally

accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally accidentally They really smashed up the glasses. I didn't take anything else. And I don't remember anything. Yeah. So Oprah's mother didn't think the stunt was funny at all.

She'd had it record Oprah. She felt that Oprah was uncontrollable, ungrateful, and after the robbery stunt, maybe a little crazy, according to Oprah. That's what her mother felt about it all. Knowing what's going on there, you feel, obviously hugely unfair. But this is probably for the best

because as entrepreneur.com goes on, her increasing belligerence and delinquency proved too much for her mother. She tried to put Winfrey in a detention center, but the institution didn't have enough beds. So instead, she sent her back to live with her father in Nashville, Tennessee. Whoa.

That was option B. Yeah. I'd rather put you in detention, to be honest. Yeah. All right, find you, and have a bed, find back to your dad. Go to your dad. Who, yeah, clearly. Who was really wanting to have, have you, yeah.

A strict disciplinarian, like a grandmother, Winfrey's father changed the course for her life. This is quite a Winfrey again. My father turned my life around by insisting that I can be more than I was and by believing I could be more. His love of learning showed me the way. Living with her father,

Oprah's life began to change. She became an honest student and according to entrepreneur.com again, she rediscovered her flair for public speaking, emerging as a standout barator, which I think she already obviously showed signs of from a very young age. Her speaking skills earned her a scholarship to Tennessee State University, where she majored in speech and drama. In 1973, while only a sophomore, the 19-year-old win, did I say something funny?

Sorry. No, no. You did say sophomore. What, how do you say that? She joined the softer bowl, Tim. How do you say sophomore? Isn't that a say sophomore? Sophomore.

Really? I thought that was always what I was sophomore. Sophomore. Sophomore. Sophomore. Sophomore. I've never heard of pronounced sophomore before. always thought that was sophomore. Sorry. Sophomore. Sophomore. I've never heard of pronounced sophomore before. I've never heard sophomore.

Sophomore. Okay, that makes it feel like- I'm basing it on a lot of television and movies. Don't think so. Well, I believe that you would be, that would be right then. But I didn't mean to laugh and derail. It wasn't worth that. I just made eye contact with Dave.

It's so funny. I mean, there is a sophomore, but yeah, there's a big chance that Jess and I both wrong about to get one zillion twits. No, I have a funny feeling of Jess and seeing it on American TV. Yes. It's a word we don't really have here.

No, it's not. Maybe I've never heard it before. Really not. Because I mean, it's written sophomore, I guess. So maybe that's, yeah, maybe I've only ever seen it written there. It feels like I would have, I mean, I've watched a grassy junior high. Yeah, surely that it's in there. Beverly Hills 90210 surely

I'm gonna be other shows other shows Charlie Oh Dawson's Creek bring it on you know films. Yeah, T'orocracy. Yeah, Seinfeld You know, films. Yeah, Tirocracy. Yeah. Seinfeld. Seinfeld.

All shows. There was a small... Soft more. That is so funny that I feel like... Because I would have definitely heard the word before. Yeah, at some stage. I do apologize. Maybe I should.

I appreciate you pulling... I mean, upon it, because... Do you really appreciate this? No, I do. Because at least... Because at least if you ignored it, I would have got tweets with people being annoyed by it. But anyway, it's a word that will not come up again.

Okay, that's great to hear. While only a sophomore, yeah, it just doesn't feel right. I mean, I'm not gonna America's wrong on this one. Yeah, I think so. They also didn't have to pronounce orpa. Yeah. Good point. Or aluminum.

So while only a sophomore, no, you're right. It is sophomore, isn't it? Jeez, Louise. While only a sophomore, the 19 year old Winfrey was offered a job as co-news anchor at Nashville CBS affiliate. Wow. WTVF TV. It became not only Nashville's first female W-T-V-F-T-V.

It became not only Nashville's first female coworker, but the first black coworker as well. At the age of 19. She's a sophomore. Now that you say it, it sounds ridiculous like that. Anker, how did she get that gig? That's awesome. Racy, she didn't even have to start

in like community radio and TV. I think she I just think she was that good Obviously undeniable that's remarkable Yeah, I'm pretty big things for this kid. Dirkin. Yeah, I think full of shit. No, I got a funny film. I think you're full of shit Joke nasty Yeah, I think you're full of love and light. Thank you. Can I tell you? You're hearing from my lawyer. No. Inspired by her success at WTV-F-TV, I love that catchy.

Was her first thing to be like, we've got a rebrand. Oprah left college during a senior year, sorry, Senor, Senor year, to accept a position in Baltimore with WJZTV as co-anchor of the evening news. And according to Oprah, this is wild some of the stuff that they put her through early. According to Oprah, the news director said to me at the time, nobody's going to remember Oprah. So we want you to change your name. We've come up with a name we think that people will remember and people will like. It's gonna be terrible.

It's a friendly name. Suzy. Suzy went free. I don't hate it. Suzy went free, it's fun. So that's gonna be like, die, eh? Yeah. Judas.

And then she's sort of like, and things quite, she starts acting it out. Hi, Suzy, very friendly. You can't be angry with Suzy. Remember Suzy? But my name wasn't Suzy. And you know. It, Susie, very friendly. You can't be angry with Susie. Remember Susie? But my name wasn't Susie. And you know. It's not Oprah either.

I'd grown up not really loving my name, because when you're looking for a little name on the lunch boxes or the license plate tags, you're never gonna find Oprah. Similar to Bort. Yeah. No Bort, you'll see Bort. What a Bort license plate. But Bort, you'll see Bort. Why don't Bort license plates?

But honestly, having a very vanilla name, I can tell you it's not all sunshine or rainbows, you can always get Jessica, never Jess. Oh right, that's interesting. Jessica means I'm in trouble. I don't want it. You're not being in trouble on your lunchbox. No! Lunch is meant to be a happy time.

A happy time, it was a sandwich in there. Sorry Matt, a sandwich. Thank you. I think every word could have one more syllable. A great. What's a lint? A mite ball. I like to say sophomore.

I say it like Mario. A sophomore? Like a all year. Which I can do as someone who is one-sixteenth Swiss. And I can do it, because I know someone who's one-sixteenth Swiss Italian surround. And I can do it, because I know someone who knows someone. Thank you.

I'll put you in touch. Thank you so much. Yes, there's a more direct link. Mm, I don't see it. Thank you. Okay. Okay. So Oprah goes on, so I grew up not loving the name, but once I was asked to change it,

I thought, well, it is my name. Do I look like a Suzy to you? Not really. So I thought, no, it doesn't feel right. But what is a Suzy? Hmm. You know? I was so quick to say no, but like what's a Suzy?

What's a Susie? What's a Susie look like? You know? Yeah, that's pretty deep, man. I mean, I would assume a child. It's a child's name. Susie. For a little tiny baby.

I think you're like Susie Quattro. Oh, okay. That's my go-to Susie. Mm. And is it Susie in the banshees? No, that's, but that's a different, is that a different... Suzy, Suzy. Suzy, I'm thinking of Suzy, thank you.

But that's another old rock band, I think. What's there in there? There's another... You know, well, Suzy Q is also Suzy Gouachoy. I think. Ha ha ha ha ha. Well, I can think of it as like 70s rock stars. Yeah. So she basically say, no, I'm going to keep my name.

Yes, she said, so I thought, no, it doesn't feel right. I'm not going to change my name. And if people remember it or not, that's okay. Great. And then they said they didn't like the way I looked. This was 1976 when your boss could call you in and say, I don't like the way you look. Now that would be called a lawsuit. But back then they would just say, I don't like the way you look.

So they sent me to a salon where they gave me a perm and after a few days all my hair fell out and I had to shave my head. And then they really didn't like the word. But even worse than being bald, I really hated, hated, hated being sent to report on other people's tragedies as a part of my daily duty, knowing that I was just expected to observe when everything in my instinct told me that I should be doing something, I should be landing a hand. So she found it really hard to be doing news reporting because everything was so grim and she just wanted to help not just report on it, she wanted to get involved.

Yeah, that story about the hair was so wild. She tells it in a, it doesn't sound quite as fucked, but another way I read it was they were like, your hair is too thick. You got to go thin out your hair were like your hair's too thick, you got to go thin out your hair, change your hair, which is like, that's just, yeah, fucked, but um, and like you said, that would be a lawsuit now. Yeah. But back then they could just do that apparently, news, the Baltimore news anchors over,

not anchors, but the executives. So yeah, she was finding, uh, finding that part of the job really hard. She was only doing it for a matter of months, but I'm caught under entrepreneur.com again. She found that hard news wasn't really her forte. She was deeply empathetic. She had difficulty distancing herself from her work, often having to fight back tears while reporting stories that touched her. And unable to get past this emotional connection to her subjects, she was fired. But I guess it makes sense.

You never hear of news reporters cry. I mean, I'd like to watch that news more, I think. You want to watch people cry? No, I can't go. But I want them to go to a reporter who's at a tragic scene being like, like, this is awful. I'm actually talking about it. Or, you know, it'd be fun if they were being like, like this is awful, actually talking about it. What, you know, it'd be fun if they were just like,

it is, it's fucked up, it's what it is. What the hell? Yeah, it is interesting, maybe you can't, maybe you can't have it. I would even just like it if they spoke in normal voices. Yeah. So I did an internship with, because I studied journalism,

I did a TV news for a week and just sort of shadowed them. And the reporters all have normal voices. One of them had this like very, she had quite a high sing-song kind of voice. She spoke very slowly, you know, talking about her weekend, I'm going to do this. And she was lovely. Then we get to the news and it's the morning, Darren. And I was like, what is happening? Just talk normally, you idiot. It's very, yeah, it's very strange that I think it's like trying to take any emotion out of the voice

and trying to make all reporters sound the same, but it is a strange thing. Yeah, thanks very much, Darren. And about 10 o'clock this morning, a train arrived here at this station and then she finished and goes, Thanks very much, Darren. And about 10 o'clock this morning, a train arrived here at this station. And then she finished and goes, I'm hungry.

We're here for you. I'm like, what is it? I don't know who you are. Jess, I don't want to allow me, but you are very good at that. Have you considered being a reporter? I studied journalism. Have you considered being a reporter?

No, I found it really grim. I like it. Your Australia's answer to Oprah. I have been saying that for a long time and nobody will answer my emails. Who are you saying it to? Dear Ida Batros, I think you'll find I am Australia's answer to Oprah. I'm Australia's answer to the question Oprah. Yes. Yes please. Okay. Just please is a fun show title. What do I do on the show? Who cares? Who are the way prizes?

You work out, play it up. You get the cars from Barry Burke of Barrick. Thanks Barry. Thanks Barry. So at this point Phil Donahue would you to remember this guy at all? Phil Donahue, he apparently kind of started this format basically. The talk show host, the went around and talked to people. Dr. Phil Donahue. This is pre-Dr. Phil. I will mention the good Dr. briefly later, but no, Phil Donahue is like a silver head man. The name rings a bell, yeah. And he'd go around. I think it was obviously in the 80s, and he was the big shot. It was a popular nationally syndicated talk show out of Baltimore.

And a Winfrey station manager, luckily she had someone who could see her talents and could see that her caring about stuff might be a positive. For a human and for their job. Yes, exactly. So they wanted to create a sort of similar show to Phil Donahue's show, but for the local market. So fortunately for Winfrey, this happened in 1977. She became the co-host of the Baltimore Morning Show, and this is one of my favorite TV show names ever.

People are talking. I love a show that just is what it says. What do we got on here? Now we're gonna have people, but what will they be doing? Sit and? Okay, people are sitting. But what will they be doing? Sit and... Okay, people are sitting.

I like this, but I reckon we could punch it up even further. People are talking. So if you could pipe down, people are talking. People are talking and you hear boys. And I said you get a share packet of Jats. And play your video games, but turn down please. People are talking. And what it sounds like. It's like,

Winprey kind of took what Phil Donahue was doing, but just ended up making it her own and even, and just taking it to another level in terms of popularity and that sort of stuff. Kona at entrepreneur.com, Oprah had found her niche, her uncommonability to connect intellectually and emotionally with a wide variety of topics made the show an instant success.

I came off the air she says of her first show and I said to myself, this is what I should be doing. It's like breathing. Wow. People are talking rocketed up the ratings chart, eventually becoming the... Hey, we're talking. Eventually becoming the top show of the genre

in the Baltimore market, and Winfrey's success attracted the attention of Chicago-based WLS TV, which offered her a chance to anchor the station's flandering talk show, A.M. Chicago, or is that Am Chicago? I think it's Am. I think it's Am.

We AM Chicago. Winfrey's earthy, down-home, comfortable-style, captivated audiences, and the show became an instance smash hit. It bested even hometown boy, Phil Donahue, and the ratings, and was quickly syndicated in 120 cities. Whoa! There's quite a, like a quick success. Hell yeah!

How, it had a Phil take that. Take that. He's proj-ay. It's taken over. Yeah, well, I don't know, but I imagine probably not great, or maybe you did, maybe loved it. Great imagination, there. I love that.

Maybe somewhere in between. Really? Maybe a real mixed feeling, you know? Maybe it was fine about it. Yeah, maybe there is a part of you that's like, oh, that's, you know, never feels nice to be overtaken, but at the same time, you know, a young voice. So the next generation.

Yeah, maybe nobody told him. Maybe he's still on in now. Yeah. The camera's been switched off for decades. He does not. Phil. But he turns up 6am every day. Does he show?

Phil is time to go. I wonder when, yeah, so I vaguely remember the show in the 90s. Phil Donahue,. Let me see. He's still alive at 85. Wow. Go fill. On your field. Go. Have you got fill up on your phone? Do you do? Yeah.

Can I see? I don't. I must say a person don't recognize him, but so it's loading his photograph. Oh, there's the cell bear. So the filled on a hub show at Ranta 1996. Oh, wow. So, wow. Oh, wow. It just reminds me of being sick from school.

Yeah. You know, you're home sick and... Oh, I'd rather be sick than watch the... I'd rather be at school and have to be forced to watch this. Which photo did you see, though, Jess? Was it him as an old man? Yeah. Because I think he looks...

He didn't... That's not how I... I wouldn't have recognized him there either. As a young man, he didn't look like an old man? Because I think he looks, he didn't, that's not how I wouldn't have recognized him there either. As a young man, he didn't look like an old man. Yeah, just like a great look at that hair and the big gold. I mean, he said, did you see him as an old man? I mean, he started as an old man. And he showed me a picture of an old man. No, that, I mean, that's him as like a 50 year old.

The difference between those two photos is one of them is like a proper press photo, so his hair is coned. combed and the other one is just looking a bit shaggy in the hair. That's so funny, I don't recognize him in the more modern photo at all. It's the big glasses that I think I remember more than fantastic goggles. I don't think I recognize him at all. And in haircut you could set your watch to. He's got a full trophy cabinet as well, 20 Emmy Awards. Wow. So, he was a game changer. Pretty good. Good fun. He's got a full trophy cabinet as well, 20 Emmy awards. Wow!

So, he was a game changer. Pretty good. Good fill. Good fill. Good for fill. Only fill. Only fill. He's my favorite fill.

Maybe a token. Well, I mean, that's the only thing I think that stopped him from being the king still. Is he didn't get that sweet name. Yeah, 100%. So, it got into Britannica. Winfrey's honest and engaging personality quickly turned the program. This is a Chicago, A.M. Chicago. I'm Chicago. It quickly turned the program into a success.

And in 1985, it was renamed the Oprah Winfrey Show. Syndicated nationally in 1986, the program became the highest rated television talk show in the United States and earned semi-several Emmy Awards. Semi is what I say for several Emmy. Sometimes I add circles, sometimes I take a cab. Because it comes up that often. Yeah. My semi. Phil is also semi with 20 am. Yeah, yeah

Yes, just fill in I'm a couple of semis what you was it that the it was that's when they talk about semi trailers That's how how big they need to be to keep all their awards in wow. Yeah, that's incredible And what you was it that it was renamed to the Oprah Winfrey show so 85 wow Cool, so she's taken off. Yes. And in that same year, I didn't know about this stuff at all, but in 1985, Winfrey scored a role in Steven Spielberg's adaptation of the novel The Color Purple. She played the role of Sophia, and her on-screen husband's name was Harpo. And during the auditioning process, Oprah apparently told Spielberg, Harpo is Oprah Beckwoods.

Maybe that's a sign. You should hire me. Love that, love that. And that's why I always go for roles alongside my onscreen husband said. So, wow, sad Spielberg, I think. Come on. You know what this means.

I'm, yo, Tammy, Tammy, little luckier there. Mm. Everad? Everad, that's right. Yep. I saw her talking that story on when she was on Letterman at that time in 86. Oh, wow.

Her performance was critically acclaimed, scoring. So she's come up with, no, as far as I know, no real acting experience to this point. Other than her speech and drama studies? Well, yes, okay. But yeah. But it was like newsreading and talk show host thing. Quite different.

And then, yeah, she was nominated for best supporting actress at the Golden Globes and Academy Awards. Wow. Amazing. Awesome. That blew my mind. Soon after the Oscars, and Academy Awards. Wow. Amazing. Awesome. That blew my mind. Soon after the Oscars, Oprah hosted Saturday Night Live. I watched the opening monologue of it this morning. And so it was quite funny.

She did it as a bit of a two-hand with, oh, fuck, what I start saying. This one I can't remember the guy's name. He's like the rival wedding singer in the movie the wedding singer Oh, I know that guy losing his man. Yeah, I love it. Don't love it. Well done We'd be good at one of those games. We should form a trivia team What would I contribute that is that that is. The trivia host gets up there and goes, all right, I'm gonna do an impression.

I'm the rival in the wedding singer and Matt and I like, who in you're like, John Lovis. Okay, yeah, sure. But how strange was this? Oprah Winfrey, right everyone knows, Oprah everyone knows how to say it, but I'm watching it and the announcer goes,

ladies and gentlemen, opera Winfrey right everyone knows Oprah everyone knows how to say it but I'm watching it and the announcer goes ladies and gentlemen Opera Winfrey The Strangels at time that people didn't know how to pronounce the name But also strangers as a time where the host of a show didn't do his research Didn't know how to pronounce the host of the show's name. Yeah Okay, I'd get that run out. I mean some good sound throwing stones from a glass house, but Yeah, Justin maybe he skipped his sophomore year that guy maybe

Then in 1986 Don't ask me stuff more stuff more stuff more It's not suffer more. It's not sophomore. It's not sophomore. I would have, if you both weren't so sure, I would have kept a little glimmer of hope that I... Honestly, I am not 100% on it. It's funny, I just yesterday I was catching up with a mate and we were remembering how one time after a few beers, I lost five bucks to him

because I was so sure it was pronounced Aranutan. Wait, no, Aranutan. So you know what I said, that is our pronounce. I had the G at the end rather than the middle. Right. No, I'm like, and I'm like a lot of people think it's in the middle, but it's actually, you know, I was really.

You're really doubling down. Okay, what about I told you, but I just looked it up on Google the American pronunciation is listed as Soph more oh my god, so I wasn't that sophomore yeah, yeah, but the British pronunciation in fairness to Matt is listed as having three syllables three syllables. Suffer more. Oh, okay. And how to, because I was having a real Mandela effect sort of moment, I'm like, I have lost it. That's interesting.

I've never heard. Doesn't that show how much British media I can chew, how much American. I have much of a American. Interesting, but I've never, like, we don't use use that word in Australia, so I've only heard it in media. Yeah, I'm sure. I reckon I hear it. Sometimes you'll hear, like, there's software more album and stuff like that.

Right. Does that mean you're second album? Yeah. Maybe? Yeah. But that makes way more sense that it can be pronounced both ways. Yeah, it's normally the opposite. Normally America would pronounce it

fanatically and Britain would pronounce it strangely. Yeah, they pronounce it Worcester or something. It's coming to me Worcester, yeah, you're like, I don't get you people. You're a fan of the language, but you say it all wrong I Felt it is great I know Australians probably shouldn't our cup about yeah pronunciation Well, Matt. I do want to apologize and I didn't I didn't You know consciously call you out on I just know it's a little bit

So turns out we're both right, and that's the best possible scenario. You really felt, I can tell that you felt bad for a laughing. Yeah, no, I just, I just looked away, but when looking away, I made eye contact with Dave and that was like, well, now, really. Because I was also very prepared to go. Maturely, as I am, and I just hope that a few tweets have just been deleted

withdrawn cheerfully Jesus tweeting like it is stuff a moral right Whatever whatever come on What is having fun? I mean my second year at Worcester University. I put a brew on all right. Marik is having a a cup of coffee. I mean, my second year, what's the universe? I don't put a brew on. All right, Americans have a bloody cup of joe. We know about culture. We get it. We get it.

We'll put a billi on the boil. Everyone relax. The way that you do in your culture, with us is obviously a billi on the boil. We've all got billies. And boils. Very painful. It's to walk.

My arm, my butt. Oh, worst place ever, Billy. Or a boil. All right, so in 1986, Oprah started a TV production company naming it Harpo Productions, which of course is Snoit Cuttle, Oprah. Backwards.

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back with. I didn't realize that it was also the name of her on-screen partner in one of her big acting roles because I didn't know she, I didn't really know she acted much. And I thought maybe Ricky Lake, like we saw in one of our episodes of Frazing the Bar, had acted a little bit as well. I mean, that was a time where talk show has just got big acting jobs in Hollywood. But I think Ricky Lake was an actor.

Then we have a talk show. Yes, that's right. I knew that Oprah had her own production company, but I didn't realize she'd started it so early. Yeah, so I was really. I think that's just early in her career. And it's like backing yourself, but also bloody already succeeding.

Just from the get-go, it's awesome. She just, I can't really understand it. She was so undeniably talented that she got a scholarship, then she's getting a newsreading job at 19. And then even though she was showing a bit of emotion when talking about brutal things. And then she reinvented the talk show genre. Incredible.

Yeah. But then she started this production company and with it has produced claimed films like Precious, which was nominated for many Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. Harpo also produced Selma, a film that chronicled Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to secure equal voting rights. Apparently, Oprah became involved in Selma after working with its star David O'Yellowow on another film, The Butler, and the two got on so well on that when O'Yellowow asked for Oprah's help in getting Selma made. She said she'd do whatever she could to help.

Apparently they were getting on real well. She was playing his mom on screen. She's great in that. I totally forgot about that, but I remember watching it going, oh, she's good. Yeah. In that way, yeah, amazing. And then, so yeah, I've just been watching this stuff since I'm like, holy shit, she really can act. Yeah, she really can.

And yes, so though I'm hanging out, he's like, we're trying to get this film made. I think I'm born to play Martin Luther King, and he done one of the famous speeches filmed himself in character and showed it, and apparently she was like, it's good, it's good, it's not quite there, but it is really good. I think even we can work on this and it can make it happen. He's like, can you please be involved

of your produce or something? She's like, what about it involved? And he's like, you know, just helped me getting it made. She's like, I'll do whatever I can. And yeah. So really, I don't think it would have been made without her. On a side note, Oprah is acting in the Butler was critically acclaimed also. She received multiple nominations for acting awards, including at the BAFTAs and the screen actors guild awards. So it makes sense that as well as producing Selma, Oprah also appeared on screen as Annie Lee Cooper, which Vanity Fair called the smartest bit of cameo casting of the year.

Okay. It's a funny way to phrase it, but Cooper, the woman she plays, was a real life civil rights activist who is best known for punching Alabama Sheriff Jim Clark. Ah. And so it's a great scene in the film, but this is this great website, Wikipedia.org. Oh, yeah. Summarize the story of Ani Lee Cooper punching Sheriff Jim Clark. In January 1965, Cooper, who was 54 at the time, stood in line for hours outside the Dallas County

Courthouse to register to vote until Sheriff Jim Clark ordered her to vacate the premises. Clark prodded Cooper in the neck with a Billy Club. So he's there trying to get involved in democracy. So the cop comes and is jabbing this middle-aged 54-year-old woman in the neck with a club and she turns around and popped even the jaw knocking into the ground. Deputies then wrestled Cooper to the ground as Clark continued to beat her repeatedly with his club. Cooper was charged with criminal provocation and was escorted to the county jail and then held for 11 hours before being allowed to leave.

She spent the period of her incarceration singing spirituals and some in the Sheriff's Department wanted to charge her with attempted murder. Okay. Following the guy who beat her with a cl- Yeah. Following this incident, Cooper became a registered voter in her home state. So she, this was a big incident

and it started to turn some of this stuff. So, I mean, this is all a whole different story. Yeah. But before this time, it was, you weren't allowed, a segregation was illegal in America, but some states were still sort of finding ways to make it happen. They were making it brutally hard for black people to register for vote. They'd just make up

Extra hurdles that they wouldn't for white people and yeah, so Yeah, it's great story and that's like a whole other topic, but I just did Oprah in the movie to she punch Yeah, she's a wildtruck them out. Yeah, she it's not like a full sock them But it's yeah, she she gets him to the ground and it's a wild-talking them out. Yeah, it's not like a full sockum, but it's, yeah, she gets them to the ground and it's a beautifully shot. And I just think the direction so good in that film. So obviously you'd think a big film critically acclaimed, the director's gonna be nominated for best direction

at the Oscars. That is not the case. Hardly nominated for any Oscars, even though there was real Oscar buzz about the film, it's a classic film that would get Oscar buzzer by a pick like that that was done so well, etc. But it was only nominated for two Oscars, the best picture, which is the big one obviously, and best original song, which it won. But everyone was expecting, or most people seem to be expecting that it would be nominated across most of the major categories.

And people like this is very strange. What a strange snub. And then a few years later, according to InsideA.com, the actor was talking about before David O. L. O. said that one of the reasons why his 2014 movie Selma only received two Oscar nominations back in 2015 was because members of the Academy Awards didn't like that he and the cast wore, I can't breathe shirts to the movie's premiere. So they're doing a film about a classic civil rights moment and they were, you know, in part of a one at the time and the members of the Academy apparently didn't like that.

one at the time and the members of the academy apparently didn't like that. At the time, the article goes on, at the time of the movie's release in December of 2014, there were nationwide protests over the death of Eric Garner, who that July was killed after a white New York City police officer administered a chokehold on him as officers tried to arrest him. Cell phone footage, which later went viral,

showed Garner saying, I can't breathe over and over again. He later died on the way to the hospital and a medical examiner called his death a homicide, with the report specifying that the compression of Garner's chest and prone positioning during physical or strait police led to his death. The white police officer was not indicted by Grand Jury. So the cast, as well as Selma Director Ava, D'Vernay, wore the shirts in support of the protest.

Very, very peaceful process. Just wearing a shirt with a message on it. Oh, you're low, oh, told screen daily, screen daily is the publication. Members of the Academy called into the studio and our producers saying, how dare they do that, where the shirts. Why are they shit-staring? And we are not going to vote for that film because we do not think it is their place to be doing that. Members of the Academy apparently called

the production studio and said that. And let's remember that in 2014. Yeah, members of the Academy are an incredibly diverse group of people. Yeah, that's what I want about it. I say people, not just men obviously. They're all old, what dude? They're very diverse. But all different ages ranging from 60 to 85. Yeah. And a real finger on the pulse, I would say, of the Academy. So So yeah, it is a bit surprising that they wouldn't feel comfortable with that. The quote goes on, it's part of why that film didn't get everything that people think it should have got.

And it burned the hashtag Oscars So White. They used their privilege to deny a film on the basis of what they valued in the world. So yeah, I didn't know any of that story. And that only talked about that quite a few years later. But yeah. That's ridiculous. I think after it came out and the director of the film

retweeted a link to that. And then the Academy Awards Twitter said, we hear you working on it, or something to that. And then the Academy Awards Twitter said, we hear you working on it or something like that. Oprah, through Harpo Productions, has also produced many hit TV shows. So there were those big hit films and critically acclaimed films. On the other end of the spectrum has produced many hit TV shows, maybe not so critically acclaimed. Apart from here, I know her own show, The Oprah Winfrey Show. She also has done a show called Dr. Phil and a show called The Doctor Oz Show. Oh yes. Dr. Phil is a talk show starring the titular Dr. Phil. Yes, not a doctor. Oh, that's what I'm going to talk about. Dr. Phil

roasts the prominence as a regular guest on Oprah Winfrey show. Then in 2002, Oprah and Phil teamed up to create his own show, which still runs today, apparently. It's just been renewed until at least 2023. Whoa. I did not think it was still going. No, neither. So I vaguely remember what you were just referring to there just that there was some controversy

about whether or not Dr. Phil was an actual doctor or just a plain Phil. So I found this article on distractify.com which asks the question, is Dr. Phil a real doctor? What's his last name? McGraw. McGraw. That's a good answer. Luckily.

You had that looked and loaded. Did you Google them? What do you just know that? Let's Dr. Phil McGraw, yeah. I mean that doesn't really answer the question. Did you know that or not? It's Dr. Phil McGraw, yeah. I mean that doesn't really answer the question. Did you know that or not? It's Dr. Phil McGraw, yeah. No, I did not. I do. I'm a... Dave, so did you. Do you know what Dr. Phil McGraw? Google it or did you know it? Dr. Phil McGraw. MD. That's just my go-to answer to everything

and suddenly come in hand. It always seemed weird when you said it before now. Yeah, it makes sense. And what did you say to him? Dr Phil McGraw. Okay. Or one word? Yes. So, luckily, the destructify article also answered their own question. And this is what they wrote. The answer to this question depends on what you mean by doctor. Oh, okay. If you're wondering whether he's a physician, the answer is no. Dr. Phil has never been licensed as a physician in any state. However, he is a doctor of philosophy in that he has a PhD.

He received a degree from the University of Northern Texas in 1979 and obtained his license to practice psychology in Texas. But in 1988, after two complaints of misconduct, one of which alleged sexual advances towards the patient, the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists launched an investigation into his practices. After they were unable to find any reference to physical contact, Dr Phil fulfilled the Board's requirements. With a PhD. The board's requirements, so as to have his complaint file closed in 1990, Dr. Phil no longer

holds a license to practice psychology, though. After more complaints from patients emerged and put his ability to practice psychology at risk, Dr. Phil voluntarily surrendered his Texas license in 2006 and no longer holds a license to practice psychology in any kind of any kind in the United States. This has been an ongoing controversy in the clinical cycle world with many psychologists questioning whether his TV program violates the law by offering the services of a psychologist. For reference, practicing psychology without a license in California, whereas show films, is a felony. But it appears that Dr. Phil has covered his own legal tracks by asking guests to sign

paperwork that states they are only receiving advice rather than counseling on the program. On the today's show in 2008, the celebrity doctor said he has made it very clear that his current work does not involve any clinical practices and that he had retired from psychology. Dr. A. Dreyganard is very clear that he's retired from psychology. When the show is called Dr. Phil. You were the doctor as silent. She's Phil. It's Phil.

And his surname is. McGraw. McGraw. McGraw. McGraw. McGraw. Yeah, so I don't know why I went into all that on an Oprah thing but I just thought it was just an interesting and that is one of her big successes on TV. Fantastic

Now on to Dr. O's Okay I'm glad you are I'm glad you did nothing you would have done. I'm like I've got a now check if Dr. O's is a real doctor. Yes Dr. O's a doctor. And according to the LA Times he is saying. Because he wears scrubs right here. Yes he wears scrubs. Hezz is a real doctor. Yeah, it's Dr. Ozz a doctor. And according to the LA Times, he is saying- Because he wears scrubs right here. Yes, he wears scrubs.

He wears a stethoscope. He really leans in. That one, I don't think they ever made it over here. The doctor film was on TV, but it's Dr. Ozz on TV. I've seen bits of scrubs. Sometimes, and it now is in a show called The Doctors. Yeah. Maybe, yeah, where he's like one of the lead guys.

Yeah. But it's always on when I'm at the gym. Right. And they, I think they're all wear scrubs. So, Dr. Ozz, that's so funny. They all wear lab coat is here You're according to the LA Times He's an accomplished cardiac surgeon with degrees from two Ivy League universities Okay, so he's really cool, but it does go on to say what do real doctors have to say about the advice to spend on the doctor

I'll show well less than one third of it can be backed up by even modest medical advice. One, wow. Less than one third. If that sounds alarming, and this is from the LA Times, which I assume is a legit paper, if that sounds alarming, consider this. Nearly four in ten of the assertions made on the hit show appeared to be made on the basis of no evidence at all. That is terrifying. Isn't that wild? Dr Nick is. How do you get away with that?

And you know like scrubs is quite often regarded as one of the most accurate medical shows. Like they're very, they're consulted doctors and stuff in the writing, I believe. Which doctors are they consult? Doctoros? Doctor Phil. Hey, so now I would say you'd be better off just watching scrubs, watching Doctoros. I'd say even better than that, go see an actual doctor. Oh, that's a great suggestion actually, yes, see the doctor. Yeah, who's going to give you some sort of specialised advice?

Yeah. Also, because I imagine like when you're on Dr. Philodocterized, that's worked out weeks if not months in advance. You don't just call up a clinic and they say, oh, actually, Dr. Phil's got a space later today. If you could just come down to the studio. Yeah. He'd be able to check the waiting room at the back of the studio.

You walk out. People are recording, like, what the hell is happening? What the hell? Oh, Dr. Phil McGraw. Oh, no. No. I thought Phil was the surname. Now this makes sense.

Dr. McGraw will see you now. Well, that make, because Os is the surname. Huh? I mean, pick a, pick a, what are you doing? He's first name is an Os? No, it's memit, I think. It's not Os McGraw. No.

What? Keeping in the family. Okay think it's not Os McGraw Keeping in the family okay all doctors aren't McGraw only see a doctor with a surname McGraw. That was a cool name Yeah, memet Oz my my name is Carol King Really Pretty cool on a tapestry we wave, huh? Yeah. So I mean anyway. Yes Anyway back to Oprah enough of the oddball doctors. Yeah Oprah doctor Once in some ways probably on a rary somewhere right surely I'm gonna later on just to can't get through all the Verachievements I've got a couple of paragraphs about start award. She's got and stuff. She's just it's pretty hectic

Anyway, opera opera fuck. What is this Saturday Night Live? That's what we're doing. It's not that it's good. You better believe. You better believe that they he practiced that all day long and then suddenly live from New York City Saturday night. It's live baby.

He doesn't have a second shot. Opera. Opera whimpering. Fuck. Oprah Winfrey. Fuck. Turns off his mind. Fuck. Oprah has proved to be hugely influential in many different ways over the years.

And this one, I found really interesting, it was her book club. Yeah. This is according to Britannica. She broke new ground in 1996 by starting an on air book club. She announced selections two to four weeks in advance and then discussed the book on a show

with a select group of people. Each book chosen quickly rose to the top of the best seller charts and Winfrey's effect on the publishing industry was significant. Apparently, I think it was in another article that said that even books with similar names got a big boost in sales.

Oh wow. Not amazing. The cast on the hat. I was even in Cat the Hat, it was in Oprah's book, though. Yeah, surely. Oprah's efforts came with some criticism, according to the Guardian, her critics sneered at her populous choices, though she has also recommended books by Tolstoy and Forkner, but they ignore

the fact that Oprah single-handedly persuaded millions of Americans to switch off their televisions and read a book. Government cannot do that, the Guardian wrote, Oprah can. Some authors did and appreciate the publicity her show gave them. Author Jonathan Franz and expressed reservations about O'Prat using his work for a book club as it might put off male readers. So O'Prat, I invited him from the show. What?

Jonathan, it sounds like you're not ready to be a millionaire. I got into writing novels for the art. I don't want to make any money from it. I want to connect with exclusively men. Men. What a strange choice. Men, men. I'm trying to get my book on the Doctor Phil's.

So. OK. Britannica continues. Winfrey further expanded her presence in the publishing industry with the highly successful launch of O, the Oprah Magazine in 2000. In 1998, Winfrey expanded her media and entertainment empire when she co-founded Oxygen Media which launched a cable television network

for women. In 2006 the Oprah and friends channel Debout or Debude on satellite radio and she broke into partnership with Discovery Communications in 2008 through which the Oprah Winfrey Network or OWN replaced the Discovery Health Channel in January of 2011. In 2009 Winfrey announced that her television talk show would end in 2011. It was speculated that she would focus on OWN. The last episode of the Oprah Winfrey show aired in May 2011 and Oprah's next chapter, a weekly Primetime interview program on own debuted in January 2012. So it's pretty cool that because you know, you know you're big when you have to let

people down gently by saying two years out, all right, I'm gonna retire from this show in two years. Wow. Yeah, amazing. Which we will be doing with this podcast. We will this show in two years. Wow. Yeah, amazing. Which we will be doing with this podcast. We will be retiring in 2050. 2050, baby. We're giving you as much nose as we can.

Hopefully 30 years is enough. Probably some I can hear hearts breaking right now. Yeah. Ow, my heart. In 2017, it was announced that Discovery was acquiring a majority share in own. Though Winfrey would remain involved in the channel. That year she also became a special correspondent for the for 60 minutes which aired on CBS. In 2018 Winfrey announced an agreement to produce content for Apple TV and in

2020 she began producing and hosting the streaming talk show Oprah Talks. Wait, Oprah Talks COVID-19. In addition, she hosted a two-part panel discussion, where do we go from here on own to address the widespread anti-racism movement that arose after the on-video killing of George Floyd, an unarmed African African American man by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I'm still reading from the Britannica article here. Wimfree engaged in numerous, so this is the article, this is the paragraph he just goes bangs off a few of the things she's been awarded and whatnot. Wimfree engaged in numerous philanthropic activities including the creation of Oprah's Angel Network, which sponsors Charitable Initiatives Worldwide. In 2007, she opened a $40 million

school for disadvantaged girls in South Africa. She became an outspoken crusader against child abuse and received many honours and awards from civic philanthropic and entertainment organizations. In 2010, she was named a Kennedy Center Honorary, and the following year, she received the Gene Herschult Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture and Arts and Sciences. In 2013, Winfrey was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She won the Cecil B. Demille Award,

a Golden Globe for Lifetime Achievement in 2018, and her impassioned speech in which he called for racial and gender equality was widely seen as one of the ceremonies most memorable moments. And if you remember it, it sort of kicked off this thing where people like, I wish it would be the president. So we can have a really big thing. People really wanted to like that speech. You should be running the country.

Yeah. And in the end, she's, I think, I don't know how much you considered it, but it seemed like it was a genuine possibility for a little while there. Wow. So I knew she was a media mogul, but I didn't know I didn't know anything about the acting and how much, I knew she was rich and had production stuff,

but so much, I didn't know about it, any of that stuff. It's so nice when you say people just become incredibly wealthy. If it then spend a lot of it helping other people. Yes. You know, that's very nice. Yeah. I tell myself if I ever got mega wealthy, I would still be living in a pretty normal house

and trying to do as much as possible for other people. But I think it's also like, where do you start? How do you build a school? How does that happen? Who do you speak to? Yeah, amazing. And I mean, maybe to her $40 million isn't even that much. Yeah, she's like, a $40 million. I'm about to say what a recent estimate of her wealth is. And if that's true, she's been holding on to a bit of it. It's gonna start in the bees, Eric. Yeah, there's a bee in there.

Yep. So yeah, also amazing. And all of her business acumen and how she just had a lot of success with that. Oh, there were ups and downs. You know, there were families in there as well, but way more wins. So you want to have a guess?

When have we do these guesses for money? The guesses are always way too high and it's like, oh no, it's actually not that much. I'll just say. So the CEO magazine. $8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Late last year, estimated her wealth at $2.6 billion. $2.6 billion is my guess. Correct. You were spot on. Sposh on. Wow. Wow. That's a lot of money. That's a lot of cash.

Yeah. That's a lot of bread. As the Americans would say, a lot of mula. I love bread. I also googled the soft rock band. Baby, I'm a won't you. And maybe I'm a need you. They also love the ad syllables. That's me to see my bread. I also googled.

That makes sense, baby, I'm a need you. I'm worried. Sorry, Dave, what'd you do, googled? Does he have any doctorates? Yes. Oh, she has not one, not two, not three, but at last count from business insider, four honorary doctorates making her probably

two hours more of a doctor than Dr. Filmagro. That's incredible. Not surprising at all either. I want an honorary doctorate. Wow. What? Any listeners out there if they have that power? Give me one. Give me. Go on, give me. Go on. Go on. Please. So what an absolutely

incredible life. So how old is she now? She's 50, sorry, 67 I believe. She's born in 54. What's it like to be her for one day? Go on. Wake up. She's so smart. What's it like to be here for one day? God. Wake up, she's so smart. Knows everyone has so many plans. Maybe a little bit less is happening now than at a peak, but like at a peak, I'm having a way here, what a life.

I think it's funny also to think, maybe I've gone early on a report on her life. Probably like. She's not done. Like she's still like the Harry and Meghan interview. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, a couple months back Yeah, and like in the research, you know when you you'll get suck in alerts from I don't know my phone doesn't anyway. I've found news for things you've been searching and it's been a big interview with Elliot page that's Been big in the news recently as well. Yeah, so yeah, I was just like always super relevant big in the news recently as well. Yeah. So, Oprah's just like always super relevant

and in the news from the Guardian. It says Oprah recalls watching a grandmother. So really the first parent, full-time parental guardian, her grandmother. She remembers recalling, she remembers recalling. Watching her grandmother hunched over a basin and washing white people's clothes. Her beloved granny would tell her that the secret of success in her life would be to work for some good white folks, just like she did, who allowed her to take the leftovers from their dinner table. Oprah says, I regret my grandmother did not live to see,

I've got some good white folks working for me. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha going to talk about a bit was her, she had a long feud with David Letterman, but I haven't gone into that at all. It's quite funny in parts. And I'm going to, I think I want to do that as my next Patreon bonus report. It's huge. Yeah. I don't know anything about that. Yeah, I had no idea. Yeah, I think it was maybe a bit one-sided. But anyway, I'll look into that more and talk about that next month on the Patreon bonus episode.

And that was my report I wrote for you. And like we always say with these biographies for, you know, people wildly successful people, so much stuff that was missed out. And I'm sorry, your favourite obranic dough, it was not mentioned. Just can't fit it all in. But a lot of the there that I had, I did not know anything about. So.

Yeah, me either. That was really interesting. Thank you, Matt. Hey, thank you for listening. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Thanks, Matt. This was my Oprah Winfrey moment.

Do I get a car? Yeah. Is it the one I came here in? Yeah. It's better than no car check your pockets their keys in there No, there's my bag One second okay, I do nobody get my keys out of my bag and then you can put it in my pocket Do you want it? I have a little rust around in your bag

I think you'll find there's a set of keys to a car and that There is well, that's yours. And it already has my house key on there as well. Maddox first. Thank you very, very fast. Well, that brings us to everyone's favorite segment of the show, the fact quote or question section. The way this one works is you get involved at Patreon.com,

such do go on port or do go on pod.com and you sign up on the Sydney Sharnberg level. There's a bunch of different levels, different prices and different sort of rewards. Byron and Sepsides, we do three a month amongst other things like you get to vote on what the topics we do and all sorts of fun stuff. That is a Facebook group where people, beautiful community in there and other such things.

But this one that we're kicking off with today, is the fact quote a question section, which I think has a little jingle to go something like this. Fat quote or question. Boo. He always remembers the ding. Gotta say, it's great to be back in the room together for this. Yeah, all of us.

We're doing it for myself. That sucks so much. I didn't do it because I couldn't talk to be fair. Okay, that's a pretty good excuse. How convenient. You lost your voice. I'm actually, I think I'm losing. Oh, no.

Matt, do you want to take this over? So first up, our first fact quote of question it comes from Dave. You always help me with the pronunciation of his name, Jacobi Austin Dangerl. The angel. The angel.

And Jacobi has given himself the title, everyone gets to give themselves a title. He's his writer, director, actor, producer, executive producer, cinema, photographer, editor, gaffer, script supervisor, local manager, set decorator, art director, sound mixer, costume designer, boom, mic operator, caterer, and of course, best boy of the do-go-on movie.

Wow. I gotta say, Jacobi, you've gotta learn to delegate, you've gotta come on. We've said this before. It'll help you. It'll help you. It'll help you, Adj.

You'll be able to focus more on being your best best boy. You're stressing me out. If you give up that location, I'm not a girl. And I'm the talent. The talent should never be stressed. I assume I'm the talent that do go on movie. Yeah, wonder.

Oh wait, are other people playing it? You're an advisor, yeah. Oh, we're just like consultants. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Oh, I don't like that. Still got to catch a big check. Oh, okay. I thought you'd like one.

It's hot. Get Jessica Beale to play me. Oh, okay. I thought you'd like one. It's hot. Get Jessica Beale for play, mate. She's beautiful. Awesome. Who's gonna play you, Matt? Conan O'Brien. Fantastic. Dave, Bishim.

If Bishim is available, we'll take him. Okay. If not, Patrick Schwarzenegger. Thank you. Fantastic. Okay, so. Take that. Here is Jacobi's fact. Unfortunately, the production of the Dugo on Movie

has been put on hold and the set has been evacuated due to COVID-19. Damn it. So I'll go with a non-movie related fact and a bit of a question this time around. I'm writing this week out from my birthday, April the 14th. So that's not too long ago, which is also the day that Abe Lincoln was assassinated. The Titanic

hit the iceberg. Thomas Edison played the first movie on his canada scope, like the Soviet space dog disintegrates upon reenter oh my god, and reentry and spitting too. Oh, you're bleak. And that's a grim fact. And John Steinbeck published his seminal work, The Gropes of Wrath. Real depressing birthday said. That's an amazing date though. There was lots of other cool stuff too, but no time to listen to them all.

What are some interesting things happen on your birthdays? Wikipedia.org and other sites have big lists for every day of the year. The only one I know of the top of my head is that it's also McCollick Holkins birthday. Mine's also Shania Twain and Jack Black's birthday. Oh, hey, you've got good birthday buddies, I forget that, that's great. Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure mine's pretty, I don't think I have anything. I don't think anything's happened for me. I thought that my parents wedding anniversary?

You have birthday. Yeah. That's nice. Wow, that was a busy day for them. I was certainly overshadowed them as a child. Did was a pre-op post ceremony that she gave birth? Pre. Oh, I shared with mother Teresa.

So she could have had some drinks at the reception. And Melissa McCarthy and Chris Prah Spawn Mother Teresa shares my birthday. So that's pretty cool. In 1984 and August 28th the first known photograph of a tornado was made in South Dakota. Wow. That's a big one. Geez, how'd you get that? Thank you so much for that great fact and question, Jacobi. The next one comes from Drew Fawzberg, who's asking a question, Drew's given himself the title of Arch Duchess of Smarch Muscats. Oh, that's hard to say.

Hard to listen to. Yeah. Uh, Drew Wright, this question, have you ever experienced a co-vincidence outside of Orter Robert Vincers' Venceiverse? Okay, so this won't make any sense to you too. And Bailey makes sense to me. This is a primates reference. Yeah. So we love the work of Robert Vince directed films such as most vertical primate MVP one two and M XP most extreme primate. Wow. As well as the ones about he was involved in the dog ones. Airbud.

Airbud. Big fan of Robert Vince, I think you just want to look at us all to us. You know you're watching Robert Vids film because yeah. So I think maybe Andy Matthews, co-owner term, Co-Vincidence, because they're just like things happen in his films. Anyway, so let me just read this thing from true. He says, he thinks he has experienced some coincidences outside of the films of Robert Vince

in the Vince of Earth. But I'm not sure I was on a trip with my parents and we just so happened upon my aunt and uncle whilst outside seeing there was no coordination between the parties. We live in different cities and we're staying in different towns on the trip. If we hadn't come across each other at that precise moment, the chance of a run at any other point seems incredibly low. We had a lovely time.

I know that this was just a regular coincidence, but I wanted to be a cheeky bastard whilst referencing some of my favourite primates episodes. I think you're very much true. Yeah so I think I'm just trying to remember what the Covincidences were. I think it's you know in in films that are a bit loose they say coincidences to get you into troubles okay but coincidences to get you out of trouble is kind of shitty riding. Yeah But I think the great man really flips that on its head. Oh, yeah I think that's probably what we're referencing have you ever experienced any any cool incidences or coincidences? Oh If people want to go back up with some of the primates episodes about MVP one, two, and

MXP, all fantastic episodes, all with Andy Matthews and then also with Alistair, Tromba virtual, I believe. I tied on the spot to think of them. Yeah. Um, coincidence. I've probably told this one before on the show, but I used to work as an air conditioning salesman, and at the same time I was hosting breakfast TV, community TV in Melbourne, and

so I'd go get up at 5am, go to TV, and then go to do my job. And one time, one of the installs was installing one of the air conditioners that I saw as a sold. And the install was trying to figure out from the owner who quoted the job was. And he goes, I don't know, he's sort of like a lanky dopey guy. And then the installs sort of like a lanky, sort of dopey guy. And then, and then, so I was like, sort of seemed a bit stoned.

He's like, yeah, yeah. And he's like, actually, that's him there. And he pointed to the TV, I was on the TV at the time. That's awesome. He just happened to be watching Jonathan. Yeah. So that is a co-vincidence of our first one. You wouldn't believe it if it was you'd go

Rob Advance, come on. Yeah, come on. Even for you Rob Adv on. That's pretty silly even for you Robert Vince That's good Yeah, but great question. Thank you true and thank you so much for reminding me of Robert Vince. I don't think about him enough Thanks for putting him back in my mind She's still out there making movies. I believe he is got to be what a guy. He's created a whole I believe he has got to be. What a guy.

He's created a whole universe. What a guy. The next one comes from Julian Barnes, who's given himself the title. The guy at the live shows who goes, woo, really quietly, when he vaguely recognizes something that's just been mentioned. Hell yeah.

And I've probably attacked you for it. Nice real quiet. Woo. Julian has a question, which goes like this. I was recently listening to the high quantity and always entertaining phrasing the bar episode on the Patreon. Thank you so much. We appreciate that. Honestly, we don't get enough praise for the phrase in the bar. Yes, you know, please, if anyone likes praising the bar, but the bar. The bar.

But it's no September 10, come to the money. And this month's gonna be George of the Jungle, which I'm excited about. Hell yeah. Do you think we should do a spin-off show about phrasing the bar called phrasing the bar? When we just chat about episodes of phrasing the bar? We can just catch up if you want.

Like, it doesn't have to be in a podcast. What a waste. If you just want to get a coffee, just let me know have to be in a podcast. What a waste. If you just want to get a coffee, just let me know. We can just do that. And the microphones. We're on. In the coffee. We're on a...

What about us? Shakespeare podcast called Praising the Bard. Shakespeare Appreciation Podcast. Yeah? No. Okay, it would be a short one. Bit wordy for me. He's all right.

The end. Uh, end of pod. Julian goes on just before, so was listening to Frazing the Bard just before the now and then episode. Just mentions how much he loved the film. After she's done the rewatch, she's unsure how well it's held up with time.

Can you think of any other movies you loved or knew younger, but watching now has made you cringe a bit? To answer my own question, I remember not another teen movie being in the absolute pinnacle a few more when I was a kid, but going back and watching it now, it has me going, oh for every five minutes, that's interesting. I thought that was one that did kind of hold up or right. I watched that only a few years ago and I'm like, I loved as a kid and I reckon it's still, but I mean, maybe I should be saying that, based on every five minutes and oof. Oof.

I reckon primates help deliver a few for me. Yeah, I'm sure. And so I was phrasing the bar. I reckon in Cino Man, I thought was so funny as a kid. I also thought, I spent sure it was so funny as a kid. Oh yeah.

And that, they neither of those scaled up. I think the problem with those ones can be that you remember it so fondly. So you've set your own expectations up higher and then it doesn't meet those. But I think sometimes the nostalgia can carry it through a little bit too. Like George and the Jungle will be that.

Yes. You know, probably not, if I was watching it for the first time, I wouldn't be like, this is a masterpiece. And that's the case for like, Wayne's world, my partner's like, eh. But he saw it as an adult, where I saw it as like, it contains, with my brother and it was like a bonding thing.

So now I think it's very funny. I can't think of me. Hey, we're in Delaware. That's funny. That's good stuff. I'll get that in the house up a little bit. Good stuff. Show I mentioned earlier, scrubs.

I rewatched that maybe last year. And it's mostly okay, but there are some parts that's like, oh boy, oh no, like quite homophobic. Oh right. And pretty sexist at times as well. The there was a sketch with Lauren Michaels and I pro in her Saturday Night Live thing and that is a big woo. Really? Yeah. Yeah. You can find it online. Yeah. I think my one I absolutely loved the Kevin Smith movie Jane Silent Bob strikes back. And in year seven that was the funniest thing I've ever seen.

Doesn't another promakes episode. Really? Doesn't tickle me as much as it once did. Yeah I think that happens a lot. And I mean maybe it maybe it will maybe it should. Like maybe it because that at least means that we're moving forward. Yeah, comedy especially, it just doesn't take very well. It's just said, it's the kind of annoying thing about comedy is things aren't, you know, it has to be current and it has to be, well usually some stuff holds up over a long time,

but I'd say vast majority of comedy just doesn't take well. Yeah, not podcasts. Yeah. Not podcasts. No, not podcasts. Podcasts forever. Phew, we've always had some problematic things. Episode two though. We've got to keep going until 2050 people. Ha ha.

The final fact-corder question today comes from Izakio, who's given themselves a title of official do-go-on podcast before session headphones sterilizing in turn. Thank you! Very important gig. And we've got... I like to lick my headphones, so I like to know they're clean. Is Arco is given us a fact, and the fact is, unsterilized headphones will hamper you

from reaching your podcasting potential. Thank God you have a dedicated intern to take care of this task. The podcast would suffer greatly in my absence. Gotta go real refill my heavily diluted bleach sprayer bottle. Catch ya! Bless. Thank you so much. And it does make me feel better to know you're there. Fantastic work. In the shadows. Alright, there are fact quits and questions. Like I say, get involved at dogoonpod.com

or patreon.com slash dogoonpod and sign up on the Sydney Shambick Luxemememorial Edition level. But another thing we like to do is thank a few of our other long term supporters who sign up on a different level, the ASPROD level I believe Dave, is that all right? I don't know why I still don't know which one this is but get on the website you're working on it. That's proud. That is that's proud. Okay so and Jess normally comes up with a little game based on the topic we just talked about. She does

and she forgot because it's been a while. Be a talk show. Yes, yes we we're gonna name your morning show All right, I like this so first up this shout out comes Way, way late because I accidentally Thanked someone else two weeks in a row and ticked your name off the list Oh, so apologies for this and thank you for getting in contact and let me know my error But from hope town in Victoria. I'd love to thank Emily T'sdale. Emily T'sdale From Hopeton. Hopeton. What's Emily's podcast called?

Podcast Morning talk show morning talk show is Morning talk show. Morning talk show is... Oh, I thought if I just started something. What about like, cooking with gas. Yeah, cooking with gas. Sponsored by a gas company. And, co-host is chips, magaskin. Oh, yeah, so as we were talking about on a recent Patreon bone, I said chips. Chips. What a great name, bring it back.

Oh, I was so regret not naming the dog chips. That was a... Goose is a great name. Goose is pretty good and it suits him. He's very silly. Chips. Chips. It's funny on the first appearance on Letterman, which was in 86.

Letterman's like asking about it. What is the show? A bit of cooking, that sort of stuff. She's like, no, don't do any cooking. There's no fun. I'm like, has anyone researched? I know, have you done any research? Who are you and what do you do?

Is that how you used to do his interviews? But then I also, you forget that, you know, that was just a show that was on at 1.30 AM. You know, it's pretty loose. It's funny, it feels like it's got kind of the vibe of a community TV show. But with a budget. But with a budget and eight million people watching it.

Yeah. Thank you so much, Emily T. Zon. Thank you so much for your patience. I'd also love to thank from Forkland in Fife in Great Britain, Rebecca Steven. Rebecca Steven. Something about F about five maybe? Yeah. Five up your life.

Oh yeah, five up your life is fantastic. Oh I like that. Five up your life. That's fantastic yeah. So it's not of a chat show and a bit of a like a life coach sort of show, bit of an Oprah Winfrey type show. Exactly right. Only Rebecca Steven is actually qualified.

Yes, that one of my favorites. Dr. Rebecca Steven. One of my favorite symptoms episode is the Javitiah Sprungfeld episode where Homer walks into like the Springfield Historical Society. One, where's the five? Two, give me the five. Give me the four.

Oh, that was good. That was when your band and your children are banned and your children's children are banned for 12 months. Three months? Three months. And finally from me, I'd love to thank from Cattington in Bedfordshire in Great Britain, Gina Penning. Gina Penning. Penning pals. Penning pals. Is it like a letter writing show? It's a letter writing show, but the letter, so then Gina brings together pen pals

to meet in person for the first time. Oh, that's nice. That is nice. You go, wow. And also there's a little segment about how to improve your handwriting. And there's a segment about scrapbooking. Yeah.

This is a nice little aside. It's beautiful. Yeah, it's a nice show. It's really awesome. Thanks, Gina. David, would you like to thank some people as well? I sure would, Jess. Thanks for asking.

I would like to thank from. David, I have fired. I don't know if you can tell. Where are we keeping chemistry life? I sure would. From Lafayette. Joke nasty. Joke nasty.

From Lafayette in Indiana. I would like to thank Leah Freel. Freel and good. Oh yeah, Freel and good with Leah Freel. And it's a show where they use puppies to cheer people up. Wow, is it more everyday? Yeah, it's just like, you know, it's still like an Oprah-like studio,

but instead of floor, it's puppies. Oh no, so you have to walk across the puppies? No, you're the... I was imagining the audience would be puppies. No, no, you're lowered onto the puppies like Tom Cruise in that film. Oh, that would be funnier. Yeah, hence I said it. Well, so you're not much of a dog person, are you? No, this show is not for me. But I know the people love them and they get cheered up by puppies. Oh, they're fucking real, man.

They're okay. Thanks, Leah Freel. I would like to thank from La Puente in the California Abraham Guterres. Abraham Guterres. That's a fantastic name for starters. I actually love that. Ooh, hosts a morning show called... Hammond it up. Hammond it up with Abraham.

Okay, now I see where they came from, and I like it even more. So it's sort of a lighthearted talk show where Abraham has guests on and they just shoot the shit But it's all very light. They don't get anything too serious. It's just about Hamming it up. Hamming it up. Has everyone get it like a ham and cheese toast to you on arrival? No No, there is no ham. That's what I mean. There should be no ham here He's a vegetarian

spam yes The funny of me He's a vegetarian. Spam, yes. The funnier mate. All right, now from Ireland in Gory, pretty cool. I would like to thank Owen Fitzpatrick in Gory. Gory, Gory Holes. And it's where the guest comes in and they've got a person from their past who is dead or alive on the other side of a wall and there's only a hole there. There could be a corpse there. Yeah. That's where the gory nurse comes in.

Right. And they've got, all they can do is look through the small hole. Yeah. And then decide who it is. So it's like this is your life but through gory holes. Yeah, it's not like do you recognize this voice? Do you recognize this small part of someone from your life, dead or alive? Do you want a prize if you can identify them? No, they just use them to help tell the story of your life. So they're telling the story of life. Right. And then obviously the dead guests don't talk a lot,

but the living ones will then come out and sort of add to the story a bit. It's a really eagemic. None of them have ever been dead. That'd be full on. They're always alive. Well, that's good. Always alive.

Always alive. Just because of it. At time of recording. The paper works. That's why. 6,000 episodes in counting. The paper work of having a dead person on TV is... Yeah.

Nobody wants to do that. But the gory thing didn't really work without that. Yeah, it needs something. Something, yeah. So they do it like they slime people like at the Nickelodeon's choice awards. Yeah. It's much like that. Can I thank some people as well?

Yes, please. I would love to thank from Bradford in Great Britain, Jamie Chapman. Ooh, something in Chap? What about that? Dapper Chaps. Fuckin' L, Dave, don't even try now. Yeah, that's what he is.

Now, look, Dapper Chaps. I was gonna go with something to do with Chapstick. No, Dapper Chaps it is. But I could be involved. Oh, okay, yeah. It's a pitt Chapstick. So, that's what. Dapper Chapstick is. But that could be involved. Oh, okay, yes. That's a pity him. He had a shit suggestion. You had an amazing one.

Come on, Chapstick. So it's a, it's a chat show about grooming. Dapper Chap, yes. Fashion advice. Yeah. What if he signs off the show with, don't forget to Chap, and then he puts on some Chapstick as the audience.

And he goes, yeah, and he says, Who's here? Niddle. Who's this person? with don't forget to chat and then he puts on some chat stick as the audience and I go yeah and he says who's who's he? Nigel who's this person he's doing it yourself? Jamie Chapman oh Jamie Chapman no Jamie Chapman hosts the show it doesn't have to try out for the show. No it's not try out it's just that's just the catchphrase at the end of the show. Don't forget to chat. No Dave why have you gone on negative? Because that's a terrible suggestion, I'm just being honest. I think, well Dave, let's try it for the pilot. We'll see. I honestly think that that could become a big catch phrase. And like I said, the audience applaud. Yeah. So at home, you know, they love it. Yeah. I mean, admittedly, there is a warm up person going, fucking applaud.

And they turn the cameras around and they're crowdeded and just sitting there, it's don't you face, but the applaud sound track is... But we are sure Jamie that will fix it in post. Easy, never learn. Jamie's so disheartened, but you can't tell in post. No, that's right, we will Photoshop a smile on that dial. I would also love to thank thank you Jamie. I would love to thank from White Horse in YT in Canada. I don't know what that is.

Yeah, young Tony. Young Tony in Texas. I'd love to thank Dave Rogers. Dave Rogers has a show called YT. People come on and explain why they love T. Okay. It's Yukon. Oh, Yukon.

YT. Yeah, it's no, it's not. I think it's Yukon territory maybe. Oh, okay. Yeah, that makes sense. YT. So, and the show, the format is you come out and say, coffee, T, and they always have to say T, please.

Right. And then the host goes, well, YT and they always have to say tea, please. Right. And then the host goes, well, why tea? Why tea? And they tell a story about the first time they had a cup of tea with a big mouth. Exactly. And that could go anywhere from there. Beautiful. Four hours, daily show. Okay.

No ad breaks, no time. I don't want to miss any gold. Have you watched the, what's the show about the American God teaching the soccer team, coaching the soccer team. Oh, Ted. Ted Lasso. Ted Lasso. No, I haven't.

There's a, he hates teats, like a running joke through it. It's like, I just, it's yuck water. I don't, it's a bit of fun. Great show, real nice show. I think you might like it. Yeah, I've heard good things. I meant to check it out, so I will do that. I went in with lower-shakespectation.

Luckily, after I saw it, I saw someone refer to it as a perfect show. Oh, okay. And it was not. Right. There were things I'm like, wow, that character just totally changed for a scene, stuff like that. But. So you would have preferred the review in imperfect show. I like a really good show, but it's not a perfect show. It's perfect television. That's one of my favorite things to say. Oh god,

this is perfect television. As if I know anything. People are saying that about YT. Well finally for me, I would like. YT is my favorite. YT is amazing. Well finally for me I would like to see is my favorite is amazing But one tea and one guest says coffee and they're like Coffee why coffee Honestly why coffee you fucked they're like tapping the scent that has been let us You signed an agreement Finally, I would love to thank from South Yara in Victoria, Izzy McGraw. Oh, Doctor, Izzy McGraw?

Izzy McGraw? Izzy McGraw. Getting quizzy with Izzy. Oh, I love that. That's a quiz show. Is it a quiz show? Yeah, it's a morning quiz show. Thank goodness, it's a quiz show.

That's time. Why has no one thought of that before? Start your day with a bit of truth. Yeah, people love trivia. Yeah, there are all newspapers that have a quiz. People have sitting in a cafe. Yeah. I've had a cup of tea.

Why? Why not sit in a cafe yelling at a television? Yeah. Could be the sort of the craze that sweeps the nation. Hmm, why has anyone done this? Yeah. Well, is he has? Is he has? Is he has?

Is he has? On it, is he? Right, well, I'd love to thank one more time. Is he Dave, Jamie, Owen, Abraham, Leah, Gina, Rebecca, and Emily. And was I right there with Ian? No, Owen, Eo, Ian, you did that with that, everything to bed, and I thought it was a fucking bed,

I'll stay for a while. Well, sometimes you just roll the dice And the only people left to thank now Welcome in some people in other trip ditch club. We got two weeks worth of people to invite in because just voiceless We class week meant that a few people have been standing in line Luckily, it's a beautifully heated alleyway. Yeah, it's lovely.

Oh my goodness. It's like an indoor outdoor area. Yeah, fantastic. So they're worried. It's not funny because there are people who aren't in yet who are still like, I mean, it's just nice out here. So one of the few places that's actually nice to line up at. Oh yeah, for sure.

But even they think that until they get inside, they're like, oh, that line was a piece of sheep compared to in here. Okay. So there are a few who have got Dave. They think that until they get inside there like, oh, that line was a piece of sheep compared to in here. Ha ha ha. Okay, so there are a few of got Dave. You ready for this? Some encounter, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Nine inductees. Oh my God. I had to do nine on my own two weeks ago.

Yeah, I think I had to do something similar. Did you do some MC? I gave them my opinion. I think I, I think I feel like I gave them had something similar. Did you do some MC? I gave them my... I think I gave them all a fact. No, but that might have been something else. I'm not sure. I'm not sure what I did. Maybe I did do that.

Isn't that funny that I can't remember two weeks ago? No. Anyway. So, if you don't understand this part of the show, we induct some people into the Triptage Club. It's a club where people are be supporting us on the shout-out section. So I'm mispronounced one of those. If they're on the shout-out levels for three years straight, you get inducted into the Triptage Club, a

beautiful club where you once are inside, you get to really... It's like the corner club or something like that, you get access to it whenever you need it. Yeah, whenever you need it, we're there. And Jess normally is designing a cocktail and some all-doves and Dave's booking a band. I'm sitting at the front, the door man welcoming people in, I got the clipboard, I got the velvet rope ready to raise. You honestly have the easiest job. Do you want to switch, we switch jobs?

Yes, please. All right, so you're going to, you bring them in up. I don't want to do that. Oh, you know, I can do that. And Dave can... Oh, are you fucking kidding me? Matt has to try and hype me up. Yeah, he'll be good at it, Eric.

But he... All right, great. Because usually he's not on board with my hyping. Yeah. Okay. Down to that one. Yeah, great. All right, so now what are the roles? So, Jess is bringing me in. I'm going to design aping. Yeah. Okay. Down to that one. Yeah, great. All right. So now what are the roles? So, Jess is bringing me, I'm gonna design a cocktail.

Yes. Based on what's something, I can't remember. Any food related stuff for Oprah. Corn coach, you had a corn cob doll. So, we're gonna have corn on the cob in the shape of dolls with little faces on them. And our, all our drinks are gonna be corn based, corn based spirits in cocktails.

What's that purpose? It's a burban, maybe. So, a burban and coke. Nice. That sounds, is that an Aussie thing? No, that'd be an American thing. That'd be an everyone. That's everyone, that's something for everyone.

And Dave, have you booked a band? Yes, we do have, we have a common and John Legend, a teaming up who won the Academy Award for their song, Glory in the film Selma, produced by Oprah Winfrey. What's that interesting? I guess they weren't in the cast who were involved in that protest. So maybe, yeah, it's very strange. That whole thing about how they would just did not get voted for because of anyway.

So stupid. So they're also performing their own hit-stun legend in comments, so. Hmm. Oh yeah, great. So be great night. Probably a lot of fun. All right, well, uh.

I was watching a film the other night with comment in it. What was it? Can't remember, it doesn't matter. Okay. Thank you for that fun fact. Are you ready? Ava, it was not very good. All right.

Are you ready to hype? Yes, I'm ready to hype. I've made it look easy because everything done well looks easy. I mean, all swapping roles should not be hyping and I should be hyping him. Should he be hyping? Yeah, he's the hype person. Oh, I see.

For the inductees and then I hype Matt. Okay. Do you think you can do that though, after what I did to you in the past? I feel like I've done it. You want to take turns. But you better believe it, I'm going to be positive for Matt. Okay. Do you think you can do that though after what I did to you in the past? I feel like I've taken you. Do you want to take turns? But you better believe it. I'm going to be positive for you.

Okay. I was really ready to be positive for you. Oh, that's nice, thank you. All right, are we ready? Okay, yeah, what do we take turns? Okay. From Monroe in New York, in his Gino, Frato. Frato, your no, Brato, you're the best, welcome, Gino.

Very good. Love it. Yes, oh yes, I forgot to hype you back. Hells yeah, my man is in tonight. From, okay, in the US. Cool, yeah. Oh, mama. Jordan Reese.

Oh, Reese. A, okay. Very good. Dave, you nailed that. I felt real good. Thank you. That was a good. Dave you nailed that I felt real good that was okay yourself That was brilliant. Thank you from Ford in the ACT Edward Bassanelli Bassanelli Country grammar is a great song we're dancing to it tonight and Ford and what an automobile they make them on a

And what an automobile they make them on a plant and you are growing on me Oh man, I am boogieing with you For Brunswick in Victoria test Flotman Test more like best Yes Dave. Yes, you're the best. You're just equally good. Thank you For human hearts in Ohio know, I own his Harold Stutz Stutz. Stutz, I don't have to stoop down to you. You're right up on my level. If not above, welcome in my man. Yeah. From London is Luke McKennan. Oh, Oh, my legs are burning for my cannon. Yes, Dave.

That was a tough one, but you made it look easy. Three more to go. Doing so well. From Garland in Texas, John, ah, maze. John, ah, maze, you are a maze. You're the best, and there's no thing there. Good on you. Oh, my goodness.

You saw an opportunity and you're talking. From Millisville in PA, Pennsylvania? Yeah, all right, Ken. Benjamin Dalton, Joel. Ooh, I'd like to be your PA. I just so could follow you around all the time, because you are so cool. I don't want to be PA to you. Can I PA? Every my PA.

Just can be the PA. And finally, from Chicago, Illinois, Charlie, P-I-A. You mean me, P-I-A. Just can be the P-I-A. And finally, from Chicago, Illinois, Charlie, hey, babe. You don't make me feel Illinois. You make me feel awesome, Illinois. Welcome to the club. Hey, but yeah. Incredible, incredible.

We did it. That felt so good. That felt really good. I felt really good. I didn't mock any of them down. I didn't want to touch a computer. I don it, that felt so good. I felt really good. I didn't mark any of them down. I didn't want to touch a computer. I don't know where it's been. Nah, just kidding.

I've been unwell. But amazing work there. That was really inspiring to see from both of you. Thank you. Thank you, hey. Your reading out was beautiful as well. Thank you. Thank you for your honesty.

Stop it. You really? I can't handle this. Oh, very nice. It's too nice. You're a nice person. Stop! We do joke nasty. We also do joke nasty. Well, I think that brings us to the end of the episode. What a fun fun time we've had tonight. Or today. Or this morning. Oh, yesterday. Whenever you're listening. Yes, today somewhere in the world.

That's true. Is it? Yeah. Okay. I don't. Yep. All right. So, Dave, anything to tell us before we boot this baby home?

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