Two In The Think Tank - 59 - William Shakespeare

Episode Date: December 7, 2016

William Shakespeare - sure we're taught that he wrote some famous plays and poetry, but did he really write them? Do we know what he looked like, and how many words did he create out of thin air (thin air is one of the phrases he coined)? Dave will try and answer these questions, Jess's cough has now become a husky laugh and Matt will do some accents - some he has control of, others not so much. Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] the show and get rewards like bonus episodes:www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPod  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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is standing up. Do you think it's kind of intimidating? Because we have to look up at him now. Yeah, and he... Is it a pala play? He's the tallest man on the show in the way. He's already the tallest, yeah. Is it a pala play, do you think?

Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna take this. He's knee. He's having a sip of beer, so I reckon it's actually just so you can sneak out and get beers more easily. Which I'm okay with and get us ones when if you do one that. Great, thank you. I'm already getting tired. Do you want to sit down there? No, you're fine easily. Which I'm okay with and get us ones when if you do on that. Great, thank you. I'm already getting tired.

Do you want to sit down there? You're fine. Yeah, I want to sit down. Yeah. There we go. There we go, little buddy. You come back down to our level. What do you mean great, just if you'd pulled the chair out from under it?

Oh, no. And we heard him fall over a lot. Matt, maybe stand up again. Just no reason. Okay. All right. I mean, it's a little unconventional, but I'll give it a go. And he's up Tim.

If a Matt falls in a podcast studio, no one's around to see it. Did it happen? There's a thinker. I'll come back to you next week with a report on the topic. Jess, you're not coughing this week. Well, don't jinx it. I still am dying. Just a coughing moment ago. Hashtag was just health update, I think, which is very sweet.

We've had a couple of people ask. People look and somebody said pray for Bob. Hashtag pray for Bob. Probably one of my favorite hashtags that's ever happened. I am better, I'm on steroids and antibiotics. We have the real comic heroes podcast make a little we really enjoyed that. We put on the Instagram if you dressed as she-hawk. I've shown so many people that all roided up. Really you're quite proud of that I love it I think it's great I look great and green the man behind that podcast is a graphic designer and he message me a PM me it's a DM or PM well both both are I correct or private message I am I am he uh he uh he really messaged you he what now nothing okay is that what I am stands for anile message yeah yeah I thought I yeah it did come up through my butt so in my sense to you. He what now? Nothing. Okay. Is that what I am stands for? Anal message. Yeah. Yeah.

I thought I yeah. It did come up through my butt. So in my sense. But it was an anti-contemplar. He was saying he was a graphic designer and it was a bit embarrassed because he rushed it and it should have been a lot better. I'm like, oh that is a lot. Have you seen the ones I'm putting together? I've seen Matt's paint or whatever you do. Marked a soft paint. 1996. Let me do it. Mark the soft paint, 19906. Hey, look, I just laughed at him in the cough. So it adds your question. Yeah, I'm on the mend.

I'm actually interested by the steroid type thing. What's the, what's the go with it? I'll be 100% honest. The doctor did explain it, and I'm not entirely sure. It's just, it's a fairly normal treatment for asthma. I always tune out when the doctor has said we can fix it with this thing. I'm like, great.

If you've said enough. It's something to do with it. And then they explain thing. I'm like, great. If said enough. It's something to do with it. And then they explain and I'm like, yep, yep, yep, yep, prescription, please. And then I'll go. I'll just go and get it. Yeah, it's something to do with like opening up the airways better.

What the strength in the airways? It's not going to get ripped. I don't know what I'm going to be. Ripple, I'm in the ribs. I got rippled airways. I think a ripple to help. Hey, everything's worth trying once. Yeah.

That doesn't normally drink on the podcast. Yeah, and there's a reason why. But I, I was... Yeah, that's right, and I'm going to be reporting too, frivolous. He's getting absolutely rippled. He's going to be well rippled. Is that ripple your fancy? I was out for lunch with a friend before this and had a jug of pims, so I got some more drinks on the way, but you would have just continued the party.

I think you would have been able to handle that priest heroids. No, you could not lift that jug. It's changed me. Now, you're a she-hole-couple woman. That's a compliment. Yeah, thank you. This would be our hottest podcast yet, I think. What is it, 32 today? Yeah, it's pretty warm. Yeah, thank you. It's also a hot, this would be our hottest podcast yet I think. Do you reckon? What is it, 32 today?

Yeah, it's pretty warm. That's why... Celcius. Thank you. Yeah. Which I don't know what is in Fahrenheit. I think it's 3,06. Yeah, I think that's about right.

From my maths. Yeah, that sounds like the weird... You're the math one day. Fucked up scale that they use over there. I think it's like, is it at plus 30? And then some? No. Isn't it?

No. At some weird... It's 90, it's 89 degrees. I don't agree., is it at plus 30? And then some? No. No. No. At some weird, it's 90, it's 89 degrees. I don't agree. So it's not that hot. I did say plus 30 and then some. Oh, so I'm not wrong, am I? No, you're not wrong.

Dave. What was that, Nicola Shae? Dave, apologize. Sorry. But I will make it up with a Nicola Shae reference. What was that Nicola Shae group that had a degree? The guy who married to Jessica Simpson.

How many degrees was his band? No, I think. I thought that I was like an angle thing, more like a geometry. Yeah, rather than a temperature. Oh yeah, I definitely would have thought so. Oh 98, did you know I think that that was heat? No, I definitely would have thought. No, that they were slightly like it's a right angle gone slightly wrong. Yeah. That was a bad boys of the tree. Oh, the debut album was called Hypotanyu, so that's correct. Yeah. That was the bad boys of the tree. Oh, they're debut albums called

Hype Hot News. Is that correct? Yeah. Yeah. I think like a great shrieking amateur reference to break jess's in ad adoring. That's very funny. Hi. Well 98 degrees is 36 degrees. So we're nearly used. Oh, you don't believe the hype. You saw what you said. Enjoy that. No, you improved actually. I was going to say climate. I didn't think you said it, but then I thought, hang on, he would have said it because that was the joke, right?

No, I didn't improve it. I improved it. Well done. Thank you for always. I mean, I think you spoon fed it a little. I left a little work to be done. You're right. You set it up and I sparked it. I'm the little work to be done. You were right. You set it up and I spot it. I'm the

Ikea of comedy. It was an alley-oop. You built it yourself. It was an alley-oop. Matt sort of lifted it up and you just bang, dunked in. Is that one in alley-oop? Yes. It feels like we're taking it longer than normal to get to the show. I'm okay with that. Okay. And another thing that I've been getting a little bit of correspondence about is people are genuinely excited about getting Christmas cards with your toe print on it. I know that is going to be happening. If you are one of our Patreon supporters, nearly all of you will be getting a Christmas card from us with a personal message and a few weeks ago, if you haven't heard that one,

I promised to put my toe, what was the reason? I don't, well hey, we don't know. I think you're a riffing, but we're gonna put a toe print on there and Matt said, no one wants that, Jess said no one wants that, we've had several tweets saying that they only want it if it has the toe print on. And Dave also said, that's my contribution. Now the way we're gonna do it is Dave's gonna do his toe print. Is that your contribution? That's my contribution. Now the way we're going to do it is, that's going to do is toe print. And then, Justin and I are going to turn them into reindeer

and like little santa heads. And also, when you said nearly everyone will get them, is that like you're just picking out a couple of people you're saying not for you, mate? Oh no, so it's, I think it's if you pledge $5 or more, anyone above that, which is nearly all the pledges. Most people have chosen to go for that. And, or if you're not already involved,

you have to sign up by December 15, and that is only because we want you to get it by Christmas, because we don't want to send it on the 24th, and you get it next year. Yeah. So, and, Man, I tell ya, I fucking hate Christmas the day after. I love Christmas so hard.

And then you just hate it. But the day after, I'm like, I don't give a fuck. I'll wake up and I'll go out in the land and there'll be a Christmas tree. I'm like, fuck off Christmas tree. If anything, I don't care about you anymore. Get out of my house. You've got to take it down.

Well, leave anything. I don't want to fucking fuck it off. I just throw it out the front door. Fox thing, Dave, what you boys, get out of here. Decorations and all. Yeah. Well, if you think about it, a lot, Christmas, the boxing day should be the least Christmasy day of the year because it's the most time between now and the next Christmas.

It should be the least. I'm smashing bobbles against brick walls. I just hate it. I get nothing nothing you know There's very few things I get from love to hate so quickly Like right now fucking love Christmas right now. I'm going down the street and there's decorations in the in the trees or whatever And I'm like yes But in three weeks you would punch down from the salvation army in the face. Yes.

Whether they are or not referencing Christmas in any way. Just because of the principle. Yeah, the principle of it. They knew they were only recently excited about Christmas in some way. Do you just throw it because it's Christmas? Throw it out. Yeah, no, I'm joking about. I got no use for them.

Hey Dave, you're doing the topic this week, bro. And your topics go So long we should really get into it. Is that a complaint? No, no Complaint, Complaintment Matt's got his feed up complain. He's nearly finished his beer. He's wearing shorts Can someone merge complain and compliment together? I mean, okay, that's what you know he's done. Oh that's what you already done already done. I was not as I like Compliment yeah, that's way better. I'm not offended anymore But Jess Matt your words still fucked Jess saves the day you got a couple more weeks

You look you had a big punch in the face of dick head December 26th you're in the dick. Oh look to be honest I was gonna go for the face, but you know, I'll take requests this one. My dick is wide open. Oh my god. One day a year, boxing day. Have you heard about this Amazonian fish?

You're probably having your trivial. That it's like, I think it's a myth. I don't know if it's like a guaranteed myth. There's some sort of fish that goes a dick your e-thra. And if your dicks wide open on boxing ads, they clear the Amazon. Because they go in there and then their spikes come out and then they eat your dick from the inside out

and then maybe go up inside your body and eat all of you out. I'm pretty sure you've just exaggerated a lot. I think that they hook in with a barb and then you just can't get it out. Are you planning on going to the Amazon boxing day though? Oh, I'm good. December 26th, 2016.

Been counting down all year. Don't do it. Normally you dig something. Oh, day no. And I'm scared of pissing on planes but I love pissing into rivers. Oh, no, Dave, no. It's a recipe for this thing.

Wait, so you recognize true. Even the swimming up your stream thing. That's not possible. I don't think it's up the stream, but I reckon maybe you and I in the water. Uh, but then should I go on up for still, but I guess the piss is opening the urethra up. I want to stop talking about this now. If we could be honest, I was having a really nice time. Uh, okay, it's well, I'm fine until the Eurythra is coming out.

Yeah, all right guys, that has literally always been my say. Okay, we'll get on to the topic. Question is, who has the world's biggest Eurythra? That's another thing on the... It was a little while. On Patreon, the new target is... If we reach the new target, we'll put Ken for pain officially in the hat. And you can vote for it.

In the, yeah, in the, the pole hat. So it'll be a one and three chance of getting up for an actual topic, which will be, I don't know what I'll do with that. There's no chance of them not going for it. You realize that. You're writing off to other top. You may as well just throw out some. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know if everyone is that keen for pain. I reckon we're putting it I think they all think it's a bit of a bit of a funny joke

But when it comes down to it, do they want a whole hour and a half about me talking about Dix Just doesn't because we talked about Dix for about four seconds I already hate it exactly it and I think that's what people are Just not very inclusive. I can't really. Well, I think that Matt and I are going to start a new podcast. Everyone's got a urethra, right? Is that not true? That's right. That's just the P hole. Yeah, I'm keen for pain. I can't relate to that. Can I? Well, let's change it to keen for P hole. That's not like that either. Okay, there we go. Matt doesn't like poo jokes. I don't like your re-shrugakes. I love them all. Yeah, you're sick. Please do go on. Okay, I've got, we've got the topic

here. Now this is our first episode to be drawn from our Patreon Golden Hat. So the deal there is, if you sign up for Patreon to a certain level it's called the Sydney Shineberg Deluxe Package. Your topics go into a special golden hat. We are obligated contractually to pick your topic. It also says we're going order of who has who's pledged. Yeah. Who's pledged for that. But our first pledger, if you're out there, Zach Steinbacher, I've emailed you, what do you want to stop it? He was number one. Oh. So Zach Steinbacher, you were the number one city Steinberg to Lux Package signer upper of Jesus?

It's a mouthful get in contact if you would like us to do your topics We have to go it defaults the number two right sweet That's fair and the man the magic Rowan Epstein Rowan Rowan Epstein I feel it. He suggested a topic before that name rings a lot about ringer Bell Yeah, maybe he's a frequent tweeter. It's just a bloody good boy. Yeah, we know, yeah. We know you're wrong. We know, yeah.

So before I announce what your topic is, I'll start with the normal question. The question is, in April this year, we celebrated, celebrated, it's a weird bloke, of saying this, 400 years since whose death? 400 years. Celebrated. Wait, what, I missed the start, I didn't find it. April this year, it was 400 years since who died. April, what I missed the start, I did sign that.

April this year it was 400 years since who died? April this year, so what does that take you back to? 2016. To 16, 16, 16. What do you know about the 1600s, Jess? Sweet F.A. Oh, sweet F.A. Oh!

Yeah, 1600s. Oh, Ali. Is it like, early America? Is it like George Washington or something? Is it? It is not George Washington? Oh, are we talking about somebody British? They are very British.

Are we talking about somebody who perhaps wrote a few famous things? Chorcer? No, not Chorcer, but we are talking about a writer. Are we talking about somebody who maybe, I don't know, built a theater? It's a little bit something like a globe. I know who it is. Right let's let's let's let's imagine that. When a paltrow was in a movie about him. Yeah. That's right it is. Somebody can do it. Then Ray Fine. Ray Fine. What is he's brother?

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That's a great topic. I think that's been in the hat as well. And it was also a my list of just like good topics to do, but it's a big one. It's a tough one. I'm curious about him, because there's so much chat about him being maybe multiple people, or you know, like him,

him not being as good as people say you. Or inventing like 90% of the words in the English language. That's pretty good. It's pretty good here. I'm gonna cover all those things. I'm so full. Words like grape. Jessica.

And Darrell Oatson and Hall. Yep, he invented those. No. Not Hall's first name because I couldn't think of it. Darrell Hall. Oh, okay. I can. Because Darrell Hall and Oh, okay. I couldn't. Is Darryl Hall and Jon Oates?

Darryl Hall. Darryl, no, Darryl. Shakespeare invented my name. Just again. Really? Is that true? Yes. Are you absolutely sure about that?

It was first used in this spelling in the merchant of Venice. And his mum or his wife or his daughter or his cousin or someone has the same name as a current actor. Yes, alright, great. Congratulations. Thank you. His wife or daughter or mum or somebody who met once has a similar name to somebody who exists now. You already said it, Gwyneth Paltrow. Yeah, he was made to Gwyneth Paltrow, which is exciting.

I mean, what an honor. So it sounds like you guys know little little bits there I was a drama nerd. I know a bit of Shakespeare a little Shakespeare I went to the Globe Theatre three years ago when I was in London and I bought this little badge That said all the world's a stage which is one of my favorite Shakespeare quotes It's just his tiny little badge costs like 50 pay or so excited and then it was in my bag That was stolen later on the trip in Spain. So I don't have that bad joke. But I think about it often.

What did you think about how that criminal was also on the world stage? Wow. He was just a villain in your life play. Yeah. We all have many parts as the same goes. And did you, can I just ask, did you like that that because that line comes from as you like it? Very good Thank you Thank you also a drama nerd you you like you fully studied it I'm a bit of a and I was happy that I got to do that this topic came out but because it's it's

It's worrying opening up the golden hat to something you have to do yeah and then seeing that come through you think I'm having that yeah that's a good one that that's a good one well done I also want to the globe this year in August I saw Mick Beth oh that's great in the flesh what's he how's he doing he's looking pretty good for his age a friend of mine he had his head chopped off over 400 years ago bloody how friend of mine had his head chopped up over 400 years ago. Wow, he had a good friend of mine. His wife directed the taming of the shrew that was being done at the globe. And I was like, what?

He directing Shakespeare at the go, what? Very exciting. How did they do that? How did they do that? What do you mean? How did they get that? How did they get that? I don't know.

I don't know. I've never seen a very successful theater director. That sounds very cool. What do you mean? How do they get that? How do they get that? No, they get involved. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know.

I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know.

I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I He's directed a lot of Shakespeare. What do you like? You fucked it. I'm done.

What do you like to know about Kenneth Branagh? I'll make it up. Everything, please. All right. Well, just suggest it for the hat one day. Put it in the hat, man. You've got the power. You could just make it up.

Pretend someone put it in. We can add to the hat. If we add to the hat, it only means the show goes on longer than it needs. No, we're just trying to get through it. And how long does it go through? I'm sorry Matt, how long does this show need to go for? Well, at the moment, it's a few years yet. Yeah.

We are hundreds of topics away from finishing. All right, William Shakespeare. Shucka Spiaray. Was born in Stratford upon Avon a market town then featuring around 2,000 residents about 160 kilometers or 100 miles northwest of London The town at the time as I paint the picture was a center for marketing distribution the slaughter of sheep as well as for Hide tanning and wool trading. The main thing was marketing though. So their marketing of the sheep slaughter was on point.

Absolutely. They had posters. They were on Instagram. They were across social media. They were doing like flashmobbs with sheep in London. Bring them down for the day. They'll be like, oh, look at this sheep. And then everyone would join in

and then there was 400 people pointing at one sheep. Imagine seeing that at the station. That would make me want to eat a sheep. Yeah, you'd want to kill an eater. Maybe cook it in the heart. Yeah, really. What a town. It was a great time.

It was a great time to be alive. The exact date of birth is not known for William Shakespeare, but it's traditionally... It's because he doesn't really exist. We will talk about that. Traditionally said to be April 23, 1564, but this could perhaps be because he died on April 23, and makes his life even more Shakespeare-like. Sure, that he died on his birthday.

Yeah, people actually, that's one of the reasons they point to it. I think it's a pretty pissed. It's around that time. Sure. You'd be pissed off if you died on your birthday. Yeah. Don't you get to be worse than not make it right because you get to have another

number on your and Tally. Then again I do like when things are rounded up nicely. Yeah. That would probably make me quite happy actually. Jessica Perkins, date of birth, date of death. Oh, how good with that look. Especially if you're 100 exactly. Oh my god. So my husband was 99. I'd be so pit. That'd be dead. So I can't be that pissed. My brother got married on his wife's birthday, it was like her 30th birthday and they got married. And she was totally fine with that, she's like, it's great. But I was like, why would you want your anniversary and your birthday on the same day? She just, she doesn't like being the center of attention, we would never understand.

No, you're right, she's a selfless person and I don't understand that at all. I am, I'm born on my parents' wedding anniversary. Are you? I ruin their day. Oh, me. Because when you're a kid, you know, your fifth birthday's a big deal to you. How do I care about my parents' twelfth wedding anniversary? God no.

My girlfriend and dad. At least you mean you remember what it is. Yeah, I totally, it's very easy. But having said that, I often forget it because I'm thinking about myself. Because I too. Yeah. And myself is sharp and then 1990. My parents.

My parents. Jigs. Jigs. We parents... My parents... Jigs! We have the same parents, you go first. I was in mine, I don't know exactly what it is, but it's leading up to Christmas. Sure. I think they had a discount, right, because it was like on a Tuesday before Christmas. Yeah, nice. My parents got married on my dad's parents wedding anniversary, so they had the same wedding anniversary

every year. Not great. That's the weirdest one. Well, because then Mum had to like spend her anniversary with the same wedding anniversary every year. That's the weirdest one for five. That's the weirdest one. Well, because then Mum had to like spend her anniversary with her in-laws every year. That's really weird. Dad's parents, not that nice, so not not nice, but just like, didn't like Mum that much, so. Are they in a podcasting? Are they alive? They're gone.

They're gone. Yeah, it's good. And if any cousins are listening, you know, people their day there they hooked in a podcast all the time It's what happened. That's my idea of heaven. Oh now I'm gonna get out depending on how much you like this podcast Just this podcast. This is the only one that is on loop But it's just it's just cuts of my life Just cuts of your cough Anything that's the same over and over, there's nothing.

You know, whenever people say, if you have one CD, it's like, which CD do you want to eventually hate is what they're asking us? Yes. Yeah. That would, that would ruin anything. Yeah. Oh, for anyway, sorry, do go on. He is born around April 23 because he's baptized on April 26 and that is actually recorded. So it's somewhere around then. So he could have been, he could have died on his birthday

possibly. He was the first son and first surviving child in his family. His father, John Shakespeare, was a surviving son because I'm pretty sure he died. He was the first son. I thought you were good at researching. He was the first son to make it into his 50s. Do I have to qualify that? Yes. Yes. I wanted to read out all after this. Several sisters that died at 49.

It's a weird thing. His life is so fucked, eh? That is fucked. It's fucked, eh? His father, John Shakespeare, was a successful glove maker. Just a little different to a love maker. Love, I've been that. And then I've also written, but Paul can not slosh DOS.

Why not have both, am I right? You wrote that down? Yeah, it's fucking right there. And when you wrote that, did you like stop to pat yourself on the back? Oh my god, I'm done with waterkeeping. 200 words in the report and I thought, I've done it again. No wonder they say your episodes are the best, man. I'm gonna get us 200 words in the report and I thought I've done it again No wonder they say your episodes are the best man

Willie Shakespeare's mother was Mary Arden the youngest daughter of John John's father's landlord John's father John's dad's landlord has a daughter so he's like wait John marry this bird That's okay. Yeah, that's all right. Landlord. It sounds weird. At first, doesn't it sound like you're like, hang on. Brother and sister.

Yeah, no, it's fine. The family were quite wealthy. He's a good glove maker as well. Love maker. Not that there's any money in that, but it's still. Not these kids survive. Plus 49. Shakespeare had six brothers and sisters that did make it.

Six brothers and sisters that made it to 49 or above. So Shakespeare's father, although successful at glove making, was completely illiterate, and for his signature, just signed a drawing of a glove-man compass. I'm just saving gloves, just my hand. No, it was close. It was a thing that you used to make embroidery on gloves. He would just draw that little symbol. Man, that sounds harder than writing two letters.

Is there a name for a love maker? Just learn, Jay. Like what's a hat maker? Miliner? Miliner. Yeah, Miliner. What a love is. John Shakespeare, a literate love maker, love maker.

He was also appointed to several municipal offices and served as an older man, which is like a member of a municipal council and many jurisdictions. He was older. He was older. He was sort of like a judgey type person in the community. He worked his way up. He became a chief magistrate of the town council before falling on hard times for reasons unclear to history in 1576 when William was 12. I like to blame it on William. Okay. What happens when he's 12? William was gambling. Yeah, that's right. He got into gambling. William started pickpocketing. And then and then history doesn't say yes or no, so I can't deny that. And gambling. And pimping, which is weird. Pimping, pimping, drinking pimping.

Pimping. Okay. All right. Pimping. William's dad, John, was also prosecuted for unlicensed dealing in wool and mortgage and subsequently lost some lands he had obtained through his wife's inheritance that would have been inherited by Shakespeare. Still asking that guy, pain pain. Not funny to have lost Willy's inheritance. That's right, he fucked up Willy and his money. What are they called it? Bill?

Willy? Billy boy. Will. Billy the kid. Is he Billy the kid? Once again history doesn't say. So yes, Billy the kid. Although no record survived Most historians assume that William went to Stratford's guild school or he would have learned Latin Grammar and literature. So a bit of background stuff. Did he have to do Shakespeare? I roll. He's like a fucking Macbeth. Fuck. Can we just do something original?

As part of his education, the students were exposed to Latin play, so probably even more boring than Shakespeare. Students performed them to better understand the language. Although he almost certainly didn't go to university because later on people would attack him for not being university educated. Right. Physically? No, that would just bully him. Okay. Much like you do to us. All right. Even though we've all been university educated.

We studied Shakespeare at university. You did? I did some literature. Me too. And Dave obviously definitely would have, because he studied drama. What Shakespeare did you do, Matt? I did. The tempest.

Mm-hmm. That's one of his last plays. And yeah, that might have been the only one. I didn't make Beth and Romeo and Juliet at high school. Yes, Romeo and Juliet was the best. I did both of them. And Othello, I did it. Othello, yeah, I did it.

I did it. I saw. Othello done next. Next, what else you got, fuck it. My mom and I went up to Sydney. That might have been started this year. Just to see, like the main reason for us going was to see King Lear because Jeffrey

Rush was playing King Lear. Oh wow, that went so. So he went up and saw Jeffrey Rush. Was a fantastic. It was very good. It still shakes me. So you're still like, I have no idea what you're talking about, but he's very good. But you're very good at making me not know what you're talking about.

But through his acting, I understood. Do you know what I mean? You felt it. You felt his acting, I understood. Do you know what I mean? You felt it. I felt it. I felt it through him. I felt G. Rush and I connected. Was that the one where he was naked?

No, a little bit. Yeah, a little bit naked. What, like, you found little? Did you see his urethra? No. We were sitting like second from the back row though. Second on the back. So your people, the front did.

Front row. I've heard Jeffy Rush's urethra is one of the few things No. We were sitting like second from the back row though. Second on the back. So your people the front did. Front row. I've heard Jeffy Rush's, your answer is one of the few things you can see from space. Is that not true? Once again history does not say yes or no. So yes. We have to assume guilty until proven innocent as they say in the theatre. They do.

They do. They do that. That is a theatre thing. And listeners wouldn't understand. They're not theatre people like we are. Well, well. And we'll say, I'm sorry. You're right. Sorry. On the 20th of November 1582, Nia Stratford, the 18-year-old Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway. Anne Hathaway. Who was a star of Princess Diaries, Lémi Zouablure, and other... The Dark Knight Riser.

The intern, her best work, with De Niro. It's very good. She was not in Black Swan. She was not in Black Swan. As I was not a little bloat, I get them confused a lot. And Hathaway, who was eight years his senior 26 years old 26 Imagine being that age yuck Yucky not much is known and not married before them. Oh

You're bloody pig You're daddy bitch It's probably quite pig used to get married It's a not get married. She's obviously an alga, who's nobody married her before that. Ah! How about a viewer guy? It's cool to be single at 26, right? You're not!

Well, you have, well, unmarried. And not much is known about Anne's early life, other than her father died in 1581 and left his daughter the sum of Ten marks to be paid at the day of her marriage. Oh in her father's will her name is listed as Agnes Leading some scholars to believe that she would be referred to as Agnes Hathaway or that her father had no idea what I don't know why he would have made a promise. I may have added that last sentence. Okay.

Uh, the ceremony was probably arranged in some haste because their first daughter, Susanna, was born six months later. What? Oh, I see. Shotgun moving. Shotgun moving. So I thought you meant that like, I thought like, and parents had had a baby six months later. It was like, that's not my first child, but Williams.

And Anne, he's 18 months later. No, but she was like three months prem, right? Totally fun. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, how many months prem? Three, yes it. Three months. Yeah, that doesn't build well back then.

I don't know. I don't know what that prenatal care is. I thought you were questioning my maths. And then it made me question my maths. I was like, I'm pretty sure pregnancy is nine months, typically. And then take away what they said, six months later, so it's three. Is that what prenatal means? That's some sort of a baby thing, isn't it?

Of all, please don't do go on. Are there twin children? We're also born a few years later. 1585, they had a daughter, Judith, and their son, Hamnet. Hamnet? Hamnet. Hamnet. Not Hamlet.

Hamnet, H-A-M-N-E-E-T. Is that a name? Oh, well, Hamnet. Well, apparently that should be a name. Hamnet. Hamnet. Ah! I also enjoy that you-

Go check the Hamnet. Oh, we've got a fine catch Many a ham this Christmas I shall be a jolly good one Merry Christmas, too But what day is this December 26th? Fuck your hands fuck them all fuck them all. Let's free. Let's pray rungy. I also, I've got to pull you up there, Jess. You questioned whether Hamlet is a name from the man who invented your name.

Yeah, Hamlet. Look, he can't invent Hamlet, but he can invent his name. He can't invent Jessica. Well, OK, how many Hamlets do you know now? Follow up question. How many Jessica's do you know? They're not all going to take Jess. You know, you, you gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette or whatever they say, I think that's relevant here.

Yeah, we can't all be Jessica's, is what you're saying. Sure. You know, Paul McCartney wrote Hey Jude, but he also wrote, what's one of his shit songs? They're on and he's a genius. Alright, great. Oh, definitely, there's definitely some shit wings ones. There's some shit beetles ones, oh not, there's definitely some shit wings ones. There's some shit beetles on so not there's some not great ones Yeah, I bet that's subjective isn't it. It is hey just like hamnet my favorite new name

Prepare the hamnet Then we get to Shakespeare's lost years is When we get to Shakespeare's Lost Years, it's not Van Gogh. But it doesn't make him sound like he had an ice habit or something. Yeah, just a lost embossophy. We may have, because no one has really any idea what happened for a period of seven years of his life, and then suddenly he appears in London. Well, I had one of those. Seven years?

Six for me. Just didn't do anything. It's called high school. And I appeared. No, it's not high school. It was after high school. I just did nothing for six years. Then I appeared on the comedy scene

and have done very little since. Woo! Yes, Perkins. The Shakespeare of Melbourne comedy. I've always said that. Thank you for acknowledging it. What did Shakespeare written by the age of 26? So I've always said that. Thank you for acknowledging it. What did Shakespeare written? Well, they had your 26. So I think just as big hits are still to come.

Well, he'd written a couple you're on my side there. I thought you're going the other way and you were on my side That's really sweet. I never know with you. You go one way or the other whenever seems funnier at the time sure He had one his first play at 25 Fuck so I'm just saying but you've your first, you've done your first festival show by 25, so I'm trying to, you know. Try it. Try it, try it, try it. He could have been a schoolmaster in the country.

This is what people speculate. He may have run away after being caught illegally poaching a deer. It doesn't look like school, it's just sat around and made up stories. But my favorite theory, and from here on out a fact, because I like it, is that he joined a touring acting company called Queen Elizabeth's Men after the sudden death of actor William Nell. And the death of William Nell on 13th

of June 1587, the Queen's Men were at the beginning of a tour around the provinces, where Shakespeare lived, and where N now got into an argument with another actor called John Towne. Now Drew, he saw it in a tacked town who retreated to a small ridge in a place called White Town Closed. As now approached, Towne drew his own sword and self defense and stabbed now in the neck and now was dead within half an hour. Oh boy. Town got off on self-defense. Nell's wife quickly remarried. Go off on self-defense. Oh, what a horny bastard.

Oh. Self-defense. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Hey, whatever. Protect yourself. Oh, oh, buddy. Oh, oh, oh.

Tell me again, how was your property in there or a trespassing? So Town got off off until the fence. Nell's wife quickly we remarried and later on became we won a Shakespeare's Cluster's Friends because Shakespeare got the acting job. So everyone's a winner baby, that's the truth. We're all better off without Nell. Nell, Nell, Nell, Nell, Death.

No Nell, Nell, Nell, Death Nell, Death Nell, Death Nell. No one wanted Nell. Aries. Death now. Yeah, no one wanted now. Aries Wynne, Shakespeare may have been an actor as a married man, he was ineligible to go to university. What? It's a rule back then. What? He was also banned from taking up

several types of apprenticeships as a married man. You're kidding. Yeah, so being an actor may have been his only choice. That's so funny. And he may have said to himself, success is my only mother fucking option. Failure's not. Mum spaghetti, something. Something.

Am I right, Matt? Yeah. Did you get that young person's reference? Yeah, the reference from 2008. 2002. 2002, buddy. Oh. Time does fly when you're old.

What, Robert? Am I right? I've never seen it, but I've heard good things. Sure. You've never seen your mum spaghetti. Not on my sweater already. No. Imagine if being an actor was your only choice. Imagine.

And then you nailed it. By becoming a writer. There we go. Then in 1592, so we transport seven years because the last years, Shakespeare popped some in London where he's now a playwright with a few plays to his name including the taming of the shrew and Titus and Dronikus. That's what he'd written by 25. How about you Jess? She wrote that really good joke about heroin. Oh dear dear, that was probably one of the first ones I wrote and I haven't topped it since nice. Well, he only got better. So he used William Shakespeare

I quite like you on about the helicopter as well. You like that one. I think it's just because you like the line of Oh, it's a different. No, it's the same joke. Yeah What do you put the helicopter joke on the same like pedestal is Romeo and Juliet or She's not quite there. No, not Romeo and Juliet. It's more certainly Tartus and Dronecus. Hmm, wow. Do you know that? Do you know Tartus and Dronecus? I don't know that one. It is his most fucked play. Really? Am it like, fucked as in bad or fucked as in fucked?

No, it's really horrific. Oh. There's rape and killing and people having their arms and tongue chopped off and people buried up to their chest and left a die and the desert. And then at the end, this lady gets fed her two sons in a pie and then chop some. Yeah! It's really, like people are like,

oh, you know, Hamlet, everyone dies at the end, but this one is way more messed up. And that was one of these first ones. That's gross. Yeah. Well, actually, Al, this is probably love it because I love the serial killer episode. I love it. Maybe one day I'll just read that play. I'll do all the characters. You do. Imagine that man might just sit back. Shh. Every time you try and make a joke.

Shh. We have so much fear that I got. This is only act one. It's gone for three hours. Jeffrey Rosh has still got his pants on. Get him off, Jeff. Get him off, Jeff. Get him off, Jeff. Get him off, Jeff. So the musical's Shakespeare. People call him Jeff.

I couldn't, I couldn't call him Jeff. I'd call him Jeffrey Rosh. Yeah, you'd call him Jeffrey Rosh. I couldn't, I call him Sir Jeffrey Rosh. Certainly. I live in a Hawthornext to Campbellwell where he lives. Yeah, I call him Hines. Many't I'd call him Sir Jeffrey rush. I live in now. Hawthornext to Campbell, well where he lives Yeah, I call him Hines many I often drive past the hairdressers That my girlfriend points and says it's my when my grandpa gets his haircut

So there's Jeffrey rush. Oh my god. He gets a tender haircut. So exciting. No, it's not just like us He's just like Dave's granddad always more whatever I Don't spread further than law Always. Oh, whatever. Thanks, grandfather and law. We know Shakespeare was in London in 1592 because he had enough of a reputation as a writer for fellow successful player out of the day. Robert Green to take a swipe at him.

Who's a fuck's, Robert Green? Well, Robert. Robert heard of that piece of shit. The best part about it is Bob Green, fuck off. So Robert Green, he publishes the thing, describing Shakespeare as an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, which is... What?

It's pretty much apparently, he's criticising him as an actor, trying to have a go at writing plays. That's cute. So he says, and he also called him a Johannes Fak Totem, or a Jack of all trades. And the best part about that is that swipe at Shakespeare is the most famous thing Robert Green is remembered for now.

So cop that dickhead! Fuck you Robert Green! The him begging Shakespeare out is the only reason we even know who that fucker is. He's remembered for a hundred years later, imagine that. By late 1594 Shakespeare was a part owner of a playing company, two actors touring around known as Lord Chamberlain's Men, the group became popular enough that after the death of Elizabeth I, and then when James I replaced her as Monarch, the company became known as the King's Men.

The official seal of the group. The seal of the prevalent he started sponsoring them, and this made Shakespeare quite a big deal and very wealthy Oh Because he was part of and his company that's backed by the king The group before works written by Shakespeare and by other playwrights and by 1598 Shakespeare's name began to appear on the title pages of his plays as a selling point Oh a bit of a wrap people. That's cool. That's a Shakespeare He would like a Spielberg or a Steinberg. Yeah, from the director of George.

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and financial aid is available to qualified students, including the GI Bill. Now is the time. Mycomputercareer.edu. Cetera, etc. The men performed at the Globe Theatre in London and I mean men because all the actors of his day were men Sex set so even playing all of Shakespeare's very famous and many female characters It was man often some for example lady McBeth would just be a teenage teenage boy Dave you I can't be a great lady McBeth you still because like you're a fully grown man fully grown I say that in In what's this what do I do? Yeah, thank you., I say that in inverted in what's this? What am I doing here? Yeah, thank you.

I'ma say that, but you would still be playing the ladies. Out damn spot! Perfect. Very moving. Thank you. Do they have awards back then? Because he would have won them. How do you look in a dress?

World's best. Dressed. Bestive boy. Slash woman. That's quite a title. Good for you. Good for you. You put a wig on ya? Look at an address. World's best, dressed, festive boy, slash woman. That's quite a title. Good for you, good for you. You put a wig on, yeah?

Maybe a real pretty girl. And you can ask me to question, I look great in address. The Globe was destroyed by fire in 1613 and rebuilt in 1614. It was later closed, along with many theaters in 1642, because I went through a bit of a period where they didn't like theaters, so for about 25 years most theaters were shut down. But then Shakespeare's Globe Theater, which is the one we visited, is a replica as exact as can be, was opened in 1997 and is only 230 meters away from the original site on the Thames or as Jess calls it, thank you. I don't, I'm just never pronouncing it.

It feels like a real like I... It's not far. Yeah, to me that's like What's the point? You're not it's not the real building. It's not the real site. What do you draw the line? How many meters if it's 41 meters? Can it be it's gonna be on the site or they they had to move it not with a 400-year gap or whatever. Yeah, sure. So it's the fact that it's a replica and not in the exact spot the bothers you Yeah, I mean I saw as a little pager that that it wasn't the it wasn't it was a replica. I was like, Matt, let's be honest, you didn't go to Elkertras Island, you didn't go to Van Gogh's

Museum, you would not go to the globe. I didn't go to the globe in London. I've spent months and months in London. I never, I never crossed my mind. What do you do on your holidays? Just go to the people. You meet the people. In the bars. There we go. But I mean, we're drinking right now. It's about the people. You want to be there with the locals. You want to feel their culture. Not going to the tourist traffic. Do you think that Shakespeare is not the English people's culture? Not at all. What's their culture? Their culture is going down. Watch the APL at the Froggin Toad or something like that. The Froggin Toad.

That's probably one of them. It's definitely, surely. There's something in the Sluggin Lettuce. That's also great. Oh, I think that's a real one. There's those sort of bars that have the something and something that's London culture. Culture.

Culture. From North London. Culture. Yeah, big culture. Big culture. Give me London culture yeah big culture big culture give it a culture APL what else is there what else are they doing London some sort of like they got good music culture there show some life comedy you know did you do any of that culture well no no idea I saw some music of course you did anyway So some American touring bands. Please excuse my uncultured friend here and to go on.

Oh yeah. The uncultured swine, that's another pub I like to get it with, London. Well the early 17th century Shakespeare had become very prosperous, but most of his money was went to secure his family position in Stratford, so he'd send his money home, and Shakespeare himself seems to have lived in rented accommodation in London. Wait, so he's wife and kids upstairs? They'll back him. And you go home for a visit maybe once a year, they think. Oh, that sucks.

Absent dad. Cop that, haven't that? Yeah, sure. Shakespeare grew rich enough by now to buy the second largest house in Stratford. Second largest? The Buzz Aldrin of Houses. Oh yeah, did you write that down? What would another reference be to a past episode that counts as the second biggest?

Oh, the horse. Leonardo da Vinci's horse. It is definitely not the biggest anymore. Shakespeople, lots of farmland and rented it out and had large stores of grain and barley that people could buy from him if they were in need, which makes him sound charitable, but then you're like, what's the business? So he's still selling. Yes, he's running it.

That's just any business. If they're in need for the product I'm selling, you've got a shop there. No, you've got to know, it's, he, he, Shakespeare needs to know they need it, not want it, you know what I mean? He's not about just, just lazy consumerism. Okay. He's like, is this a need or a want? It's a need, please. Go for it.

Take some barley. Have some grain. See you later. What's that? You've got some at home, you just want some more. Fuck off. He's very un-poetic offstage. He's very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very Fuck off. He's very un-poetic off stage. Shakespeare is very... Which is weird though, because all the world is a stage.

And all the men and women merely fight. Right. Shakespeare... Shakespeare was... What was he? Shakespeare was fearful of death and retired to stratford some years before he died although he did continue to write some plays but that was all about death more about death well we started with that time andronic is a lot of death in June 16 13 Shakespeare's daughter Susanna was slandered by John Lane a local man who claims she had caught gonorrhea from a lover.

Susanna and her husband Dr. John Hall sued for slander. John Hall. John Hall, that is weird. What you want? Who got that mouth? Oh yeah, no, Dave took a while. Stereo Hall. Damn it. That's what I didn't get.

That's what I didn't get. Every time. Oh man, I'm so literal with things that I just, what are you talking about? That's not funny. Daryl Hall, it's John Oats. Sorry. It's not Dr. John Oats. Was he selling John Oats?

The people who needed him. Oh was he just sewing his wild oats? John Horsod, John Lane for Slander, Lane, I failed to appear in court and was convicted. Cop that John. John and John. In the last few weeks of Shakespeare's life, the man who was to marry his younger daughter Judith, was a tavernkeeper named Thomas Quenney, was charged in the local church court with fornication.

Oh, Quenney. Wait, he had sex. Yeah. That's the charge. Bad, bad, sex. Okay. Fornicated. Hmm. The marriage the charge. But bad, bad sex. OK. He fornicated. The marriage went through, but it did not begin well.

Quinney had recently impregnated another woman, Margaret Wheeler. Quinney! Oh. Oh. This next sentence is, Margaret Wheeler, who was to die in childbirth, along with a child. Oh, she died. Quinney. Just had no idea that I was going to say that.

Quinney, I only say this was there after disgraced and Shakespeare revised his will to ensure that Judith's interest in his estate was protected from Quinney her husband. Oh, brutal. It's not no good when your father-in-law doesn't like you at all. That's not good. Wait, so these are Shakespeare's kids. Yeah. I didn't know we had kids. You've been talking about his kids. Three kids, okay. Yeah, he had two twins.

That's not what the amount of twins you have. Susanna. Susanna, hamlet and Judith. So the hamlet's be Judith, so hang on. Judith and hamlet are the twins. Susanna's the oldest. There she's the first child, so it must be Judith and hamlet are the twins. Remember is the oldest. Though she's the first child, so it must be Judith and Hamlet of the twins.

Remember the time Dave won a key ask if identical twins are always the same gender? That was off-podcast and will never be spoken up here. He asked that. He asked that. You know, you're going through the list of things that are identical. Or I can write towards the top, sex of the child.

Yeah, that's gonna be the same. Shakespeare's scientist updated will, which listed him as having perfect health. He died one month later. Oh boy. April 16, 16 at age 52. There are no sources saying why or how he died. He was 52 years old, but that wasn't young like it is now.

So, that's a pretty good innings in that time, I think. Cricut reference there. There you go, I'm sorry. After half a century had passed, John Ward, the vicar of Stratford wrote in his notebook, Shakespeare, Drake... Well like Dead Spir. It did feel like he was leaving that kind of pause. LAUGHTER

Rested piece, Dickhead! And I already did wrote, was the Dreytonayton and Ben Johnson along with Shakespeare had a merry meeting and seems drank too hard for Shakespeare's diet of a fever they're contracted. He pretty much died of a hangover. Oh no! I had no to that. That's not good. Well, I reckon it would have happened to you by now, man.

I'm paying a bad picture of myself. Or you are. Yeah, we definitely helped you. Yeah, we helped you a lot. Drink responsibility. Oh. Drink responsibility. And at that bit out, drink responsibly, because otherwise my message might be under mine.

It sounds like you have a responsibility to drinking. Drink. I have a drink responsibility. Shakespeare was survived by his wife Ann, whom in his will he famously left, quote, I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture. A lot of pieces shit. People have debated that for a long time whether that's a nice thing because he gave his house to his daughter which the best bed comes with the house and the second best is still pretty good or that he didn his house to his daughter, which the best bed comes with the house, and the second best is still pretty good,

or that he didn't like Anne his whole life, so that was, because he said, I could have just given her no bed then. No, but he had such a way with words that people think that maybe that that was a slight, like fuck you, my second best bed. Well, that's mean. Don't leave her anything there if you don't like her.

You know? He was also survived by his two daughters, Susanna and Judith, but his son Hamlet had died in 1596. How did Hamlet died, you know? I don't know Let's guess the pigs ate through him He couldn't hold him Hamlet's called a whole few whole bunch of pigs, but they're hungry these ones. They're right for him and escaped He died of bleeding He died of bleeding

He died of bleeding The old it's how we used to say it now they say something else They found just a this is like a couple of ribs left looks like he died of bleeding God, please There's no blood here at all. He's lost all his blood What's a quick way of saying blood loss? Bleeding. Massive. Shakespeare invented the word bleeding.

He's last surviving direct descendant was his granddaughter Elizabeth Hall, who was the daughter of Susanna and John Hall, not Darrell Hall. But despite two marriages, his granddaughter Elizabeth Hall had no children. So the director, otherwise we could still have director's sentence of Shakespeare. Fuck sake. There's none left. So that's a bit sad. She was the only grandchild. Yeah, and she was the last one. And what was her issue was that like she was an hour ago or she had two marriages. She had two marriages, but her bits didn't get the job done or who you read through was too big. What open but just when so. Bitts didn't get the job done. Does the year the re-through come in play.

I see please stop. Shakespeare is buried in the chancel of Holy Trinity Church in his home town, Stratford upon Aven. He was granted the honor of burial in the chancel, not on account of his famous playwright but because he was wealthy enough to buy a share of the tithe of the church for 440 pounds, which was several thousand dollars at the time. So he's got a big monument because he was rich, not because he was famous at the time. Wow. A monument on the wall nearest his grave probably placed by his family, features a bust showing Shakespeare, posed in the act of writing, and each year on the wall nearest his grave, probably placed by his family, features a bust showing Shakespeare, posed in the act of writing. And each year on his birthday, April 23,

a new quill pen is placed in the writing hand of the bust. Oh, that's nice. Was he right handed? I think he was. That's disappointing. You hold the great saw. I liked him until then. All the great saw.

I liked him until I just then. You got Matt Stewart, Dave Waniki, William Shakespeare. The list goes on. Well played. Well played. It stops at this point of the table, but it goes on towards all the other greats. Takes a little day to pass me my seat. So now we come to William Shakespeare's reputation.

Now at the time of his death, Willie was rated as merely one among many talented playwrights and poets but wasn't the level he is today. He was not even as famous as poet Philip Sidney who was a contemporary of his who became a cult figure due to his death in battle at a young age. So he was a poet. During the battle he was shot in the thigh and died of gangrene 26 days later at age 31. As he lay dying, Sydney composed a song to be sung by his deathbed. Okay, well that seems a little. It's an overachiever. Well according to the story, whilst lying wounded, he gave his water to another wounded soldier saying, thy necessity is yet greater than mine. Fuck off. What a poetic fuck. Let's just say they talk

back then. They don't have all that good words now because shakes we're an inventor me you know what his deathbed someone was oh oh god yes I think I think did it chop back then oh yeah big time number one platinum. Lace on that chart they put at the end of the band. Takes a dramatic sip. Shakespeare's poems were reprinted far more frequently than his plays during his day but his plays were written for performance by his own company and because no law at the time prevented rival companies from using the plays, no copyright existed, Shakespeare's troop took steps to prevent his plays from being printed, so they kept it to themselves at the time. They're like, no, we're doing this. Yeah. What's that? You got that? Nothing. Nothing. Put

him back in the second. Just toilet paper. Just toilet paper with lots of poetry on it. Oh, it was wiping my, but there's a bunch of it. Because of the back of the theater just with a quill and parchment. That was the piracy of the day. Yeah. Like, you say that line again, please, Goya. Yeah. No flash photography or fountain pens in this performance, please.

Shakespeare was one of the first playwrights to have all of his plays published in one folio. This happened with the famous first folio in 1623s The 70s after he died which contained 36 of Shakespeare's plays 18 of which had never been published before Oh wow, so it was a bit of a hot scoop Less than nine years later it was reprinted due to its popularity and at the time that is pretty impressive. Cool Like now it would probably just be on the internet, yeah No need to reprint. you know what I mean? Save the paper.

In the 18th century. So the next century, after a year, Shakespeare started to dominate the London state with his plays, and they started to become a reputation that if you're good at Shakespeare, you became a star. Oh wow. Yeah, Kenneth Branagh. For example. Damn, Kenneth Branagh. For example,

Brandon's great great great great grandfather. Old Joe. Brownie Branagh. I think Dave made that up. What are you reckon? Hey trust me. What does it say there if you made that up or not Dave? Yeah. History will know another confirmed all tonight. There you go. A quarter of all plays performed at this time were written by Shakespeare. And one, at least two occasions, rival London playhazard staged the exact same Shakespeare play at the same time down the road from each other, Romeo and Juliet and then King Lear. And they still both commanded to sell out audiences. Wow.

So popular he was. Wow, that's crazy. But imagine being like, oh no, you're doing King Lear as well. But like which one, how would you make the decision of which one to go to? Which one's got Jeffrey Russian it? There we go. Yeah, I guess that's what at first would be like you'd go for the original Shakespeare group. But then maybe in the modern day, you know, maybe they've got the Leonardo DiCaprio or whatever you go. I'm actually going to guess it. Then this hot new thing. Do you think maybe you'd see both? I could see.

Oh, they compare. Especially if you are going there to par at the text. Exactly. We're helpful to see it again. A pinion of Shakespeare was briefly shaped in the 1790s by the discovery of the Shakespeare papers by a man called William Henry Island. Island claimed to have found inner trunk a gold mine of lost documents, including Shakespeare's

two lost plays. These documents appeared to demonstrate a number of unknown facts about his life that shaped opinion of the man, including a profession of faith which made him appear to be a Protestant and that he had also fathered an illegitimate child to the public turned on him for a second. One of the plays was performed and after one performance William Henry Ireland admitted that he'd made up the whole thing. It was a forgery. So everyone was like, oh no Shakespeare's cool, he's not a Protestant. Oh my god.

It's fucking weird. After one performance of the play, he was like, I don't think so. That was not very good. He was like, yeah, I made it up. I thought it would work. Sold some tickets, though. Yeah, Kenneth Branagh did a good job. He did as good as he could.

Now, you guys can imagine what Shakespeare looks like, right? Yes. Yeah, the guy from the Greenwich Pulture movie. Yep. Mr. Fondant. With Puffy pants, though.. Oh yeah. It is actually unconfirmed whether any portraits of William Shakespeare were painted during his lifetime. But several portraits have been claimed to be the bard over the years. The most famous

of which is called the Chandos portrait or the Chandos. I definitely chant those Chandos. Or Chandos. Is it Nandos? Is that what you're trying to say? It's not Nandoise. Okay, interesting. Parchugas chicken. What on earth are that axles? I would have wasn't even intending to do it, actually. So you just lost control of your order, did?

I started slurring my word. Parchugas chicken. This is the most famous portrait of Shakespeare. Portugese of Shakespeare. Portugese. Also Nenders is South African. That's not Portuguese. Not South African.

Not South African, but it's Portuguese. Style. Oh, fuck off. So I mean. It's the fact check over here. Technicality again. Well Matt is the fact checker. It's South African.

Yeah, it's the South African. It's not weird. That is weird. That's not weird. That is weird much agrees Got diplomatic immunity Everyone's going to now he's into character Butch again That's not a dodge yeah Yeah, I went up.

So it's either the two go to once to get into a South African accent out of the diplomatic community or um... South Africa. That's for me. To me, a grudge is just a place you pork your car. That was pretty good. Yeah, it was not bad. Now say, Portugese chicken.

Portugese chicken. That was getting better One more one more go he's done it Portuguese. No, it's a it's like it's such a fun act I love it a lot how would Michael Cain say Portuguese chicken? Michael Cain chicken Well, you missed a key word there Well you missed a keyword there. He doesn't even say it was a Portuguese. Ah!

Dave, you have a go. I'm Michael Cain and I endorse this Portuguese chicken. You've got to have the run up with his name involved from it. So you can't just go straight into it. I use Congo Shredding to it. Because otherwise people don't know what you're doing. So this Nando's portrait. It's probably the most famous portrait

because it was supposed to have been painted in his lifetime. And it was given to the National Portrait Gallery in London, which is that famous one behind Trafalgar Square. That's free, and so it's really, really popular. It's not determined whether it is actually real. However, the National Portrait Gallery believes it probably does depict the writer. And of course, they fucking say that, because it was the first ever thing in their

collection. It's listed as number one. Oh, that's cool. It's legit. Just like everything here is legit. Also in the Portrait, it looks like he's wearing a pirate ring. Pirate, pirate earring. What a cool dude. I'm pretty sure in the Grand Theft Portrait movies are on the pirate type earring. Hello. What's that movie called? Shakespeare and love. Shakespeare and love. You see it? Neither of you have seen it. I haven't seen it. No. It wasn't the Academy Award for Best Picture. I think I've seen this. I think it seems like they can't be right. I was also surprised to learn that. Judy Dentures in it. Oh, Dame Judy.

Dame Judy. Love it. Big fan. Big fan. Did you just call it Dame Judy? Because that is a great name. Dame Jude. Dame Jude. Big fan. Teach us a name, too, because that is a great name. Dame Jude. Dame Jude. Dame Jude. Dame Jude. Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh in the James Bond English of films. Oh, studying Shakespeare. And I enjoyed it at the time. I think it was because we got to watch a movie during school. You know that we didn't acknowledge you're singing. Yeah.

Sorry. I thought it was going to ask that we were, you know, if people turn their fade down to the left or the right, they'll be able to make their choice. That is not how this audio works at all. We have both. All stereo. We couldn't mix it that way if we wanted to. That would sound weird.

Yeah. Are the only two beyond confirmed, I love that, beyond confirmed artworks that depict Shakespeare and engraving that appears on the front of the first folio. This is the iconic Shakespeare image that you probably know, sort of with that sort of that. You're pointing at us Like where some sort of uneducated swine people you know that Bob here that he's got. Did you get that too?

Did you feel that as well? Did you feel really talk down to yeah? How and I always feel weird when such a small man Talks down. Yeah, it's like he has to stand up on his chair to talk down It's like man once an episode is up on his chair. It's weird, isn't it? We haven't addressed that though. I think we have, actually. Sorry, Dave, dig on.

It's hard to hear you up here. With your head in the clouds with all the other winners. At the young, the other confirmed piece is his funeral monument and his hometown, the one I was talking about before, which is also completed after his death. So in reality, the image we have of Shakespeare could all just be a lie based on one or two people's memories. How are you still looking? But in a way, aren't we all just aligned somebody's people in somebody's memory?

All memory is very fallible. Yeah, right. And like the way I see Dave maybe different to the way you see Dave met. So if you and I were doing a portrait, it may be very different. Yeah, right. And like the way I see Dave maybe different to the way you see Dave Matt. So all my memories You and I were doing a portrait Maybe very different mine would be all pump it or yeah, mine would be all eyes more about these big blues Matt at the start you questioned whether Shakespeare actually wrote his own plays Yeah, cuz I I'd heard rumors and I reckon there are a few people who are more passionate than I would be about this is like

The truth needs to be found. It wasn't all him. It couldn't possibly be. It must have been a team of riders or something like that. You know those people are called? Those people are collectively called anti-strat 40-ins. Oh fuck off. Really? Do you identify as an anti-strat 40-in? No. No. I don't care enough. I think that's a dumb thing to be anti. Yeah. He's a guy. I think, I don't know. If it turns out that there was a team of writers, then I think it should be found out. But there's no, I don't get the big deal. Well these people believe that Shakespeare of Stratford was a

front to shield the identity of the real author or authors who for some reason did not want or could accept public credit. Oh, an alien. I don't think anyone has ever suggested that, but that is quite interesting. That makes sense, because I can't do that. You're inventing these words, because I spoke a different language. You wouldn't want all that attention, because then people could figure out you're an alien. Cause like, this is your life would wanna come in and do an expose.

Yeah, who's your grandpa? Don't talk to him. Yeah. Don't get near that ship. I mean, barn. Oh, don't look in the barn. You don't want people twigging. Yeah.

Twigging onto your alienness. Cause you're extra-terrestality. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? To write. Do you know what I mean? Two right. So Shakespeare's biography, particularly his humble origins and obscure life, seemed incompatible with his poetic eminence and his reputation for genius, arousing suspicion to some that Shakespeare might not have written the works attributed to him. More than 80 authorship candidates have been proposed. The most popular are Christopher Marlow.

Marlow, that's the girl I was thinking of. So Francis Bacon? Bacon. That's the girl I was thinking of. The 17th Earl of Oxford? That's the girl I was thinking of. And William Stanley, the 6th Earl of Derby. Lots of Earls.

But only the 6th Earl. Yeah, he's only the 6th best. Supporters of alternative candidates argue that there's more plausible author and that William Shakespeare lacked the education, aristocratic sensibility, or for the familiarity with the royal court that they say is apparent in the works, which to me, it sounds like more fucking upper-class people saying that, oh, I used just the son of a glove guy, you couldn't have written this stuff. It's just son of a glove maker.

Except it. Thank you. Documentary evidence used to support Shakespeare's authorship, title pages, testimony by other contemporary poets and historians, and official records is the same use for all authorial attributions of his era. So everyone else gets the same deal as Shakespeare. So you don't question whether Christopher Marley was real because you go and look at the same stuff. But no such direct evidence exists for any

other candidate. So there's no evidence to suggest anyone else. They just think that, oh, he may not, he wasn't smart enough to do that. It's a bit of tall poppy syndrome, isn't it? Yep. And Shakespeare's authorship was not questioned during his lifetime or for centuries after his death. No, tall poppy syndrome. He's just people that want to sell a few fucking books. Yeah. Sounds like classism to me. You know what? Like, I don't have a fancy education.

Do you think people listen to this podcast and they're like, there's no way that she's not in this. That is not now, but 400 years from now. Oh, okay. 400 years from now, they'll be like, there's no way they're at that. When people are performing in these podcasts, at theaters, and reciting them in school classroom. We had things to do. They'll also Nick Mason wrote that. Yeah. He wrote all of that.

Yeah. And they'd be right to think he's part of the NAS. They only credited him on three episodes, but... That's a very good joke. Hahaha. Considering what I'm about to say, some prominent public figures that support that are anti-strap 40 and over history include Walt Whitman. The Chocolate Guy.

You think you have Willy Wonka? Willy Wonka. No, what's the chocolate brand? They do the Paynut Slabs. Whitman, isn't it? Whitman, and what's he, this guy called? Walt Whitman. And what's the Chocolate Guy called? He's thinking about Whitley's? Whitman, and what's his skycoat? What Whitman?

And what's the chocolate guycoat? He's thinking about Whitley's? Whitley's? Oh Whitley's, believe it. Ripley's believe it. What? I don't believe it. So people that some prominent public figures

that are anti-strap 40 and throughout history include Walt Whitman, Mark Twain. Twain Henry James, author, Sigmund Freud, Charlie Chaplin. Yeah, but Freud thought everybody wanted to fuck their mouth. Yeahain. Henry James. Author. Sigmund Freud. Charlie Chaplin. Yeah, but Freud thought everybody wanted to fuck their mouth. Yeah, that's right. Orson Wells. And the original home record herself.

Helen Keller. Oh, I love Jesus. Ah! If you haven't heard the episode of Helen Keller, that makes sense, I think. If you haven't heard it, it makes sense? No. It doesn't. If you haven't heard the M7 and Helen Keller, that makes sense, I think. If you haven't heard it, it makes sense? No. It doesn't, if you haven't heard it. If you haven't heard it, go back and listen to that one.

If you haven't heard it, comma, that makes sense, I think. I mean, either way, it makes sense. Outlook, I don't fully get why these are all people who should be busy with stuff. Yeah, you got better stuff. Why are they worrying about this? It seems strange. Roy, come on. Come on, mate. These are anti-strap 40s mainly rely on circumstantial evidence, like similarities in stories, etc.

But a lot of playwriting back then, they based a little different things on ancient Greek stories and they passed down. Heaps of the Shakespeare ones, when they based on other stories. Yeah, the things, yeah. Folktiles and stuff. Most Shakespeare scholars, on the other hand, rely on hard evidence, like I was saying before, actual things, rather than being like, ah, it sounds a bit like that thing that Francis Bacon wrote. He wrote all of Shakespeare.

Yeah, it's like, why? So he somehow Francis Bacon wrote a slightly different version of it, and then a whole different bunch of plays as well. Yeah, he was a Roman myth. They argue that his will was mundane and un-poetic and makes no mention of personal papers, books, books poems or the 18 other plays that remained I've published at the time, which is at the time of his death with the real Shakespeare really writes such a boring will Well, it's a will It's a boring document. I don't think mine's funny. I don't have one But I don't think it's gonna be funny to be honest. No, I'm starting to turn

No, here we go. No, I think No, I think that is a very good point. I hadn't think it's gonna be funny. To be honest, no, I'm starting to turn. No, here we go. No, I think that is a very good point. No, that is a very good point. I hadn't considered that. The will was dull. Why would he have written a dull will? He's one of them fancy writing boys. Why would he, all of a sudden he's got

my final ever piece of work that anyone's ever gonna read, the very end, and we're gonna like eliminate any sort of this flurry bullshit writing that I'm Famous for I don't think that doesn't make any sense It shouldn't be you get to have my second bed. It would have been thou Dill dodeon gets my What the fuck is a deal don't you? Well, it's just that's one of his words that he made up all right I can you define a deal don't know I can need to find a Dill Dodeon.

What did you do? No I can't, I'm not a Shakespearex, but I just know that's one of his words that he came up with Jessica, Dill Dodeon, drink bottle, lamp, lamp. Oh, they're endless. Deluge. Bonalana, later changed to banana. Yeah, he was quite drunk when you were What's this one called?

Pardon? Sorry But we're maybe we'll finish in the morning. No I caught right it down day day and day and day and day and there's an hell in there's And they ain't they ain't they. And there's an L in there somewhere. Blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah.

Don't let Bacon get his fucking fingers on this shit. I thought of this. Yeah, Bacon's fingers off my blue and I. Ha, ha, ha. Now, having said all of that, like most playwrights of his period, William Shakespeare did not always write alone. Way. So some of his plays have been credit as co-written, which I'm more, I'm

more up for admitting than someone saying that there's a conspiracy of people that... But none of the big ones were, were they? Did he, any of the big ones have a co-write? Well earlier this year, so still, they're still, there's still a lot of debate over this. A new addition of the new Oxford Shakespeare named Fellow Playwright, Christopher Marlow, you're talking about before, as co-author of Three Plays, the history play Henry the Sixth Parts 1, 2 and 3. But so people, and they only did that because they were able to analyze thousands and thousands and thousands of things that both men had written and they found similarities in the writing style.

So that's how they were able to do that. Bunch of nerds. So they didn't find that he actually, like, yeah, that's super interesting. It was like when it seems to be the evidence like, they found a diary entry that said today, yeah, it takes me let me take the reins and write acts four of this little place working on.

There was like that. How did it write and sish with Bill? Woo, Billie. How'd it come to play? Bloody great, good day. That's really interesting. Yeah, that seems quite bizarre to me. That they've given him a co-write based on some sort of a science thing.

Yeah, Anthony. You know? I don't really subscribe to any of this science stuff. I just feel it in me gut. I reckon you wrote that one, not that one, and that one maybe. Here in the list. Still dodiens. My fellow dildoians. Well, we're going to end with something we haven't had in a long time. No. It's fun facts. Fun facts, fun facts, fun facts, fun facts.

Here are some fun facts. Let's see the cute little class. Let's listen up, children. His first play written in around 1589 when he was 25 or so was called the Two Gentlemen of Verona. His last play written in 1614 when he was 50 is called the two noble kingsmen. He had no other place called the two something, just the first and last. I wonder if they're same dudes. What a life. Just as a fun thing. That is pretty interesting.

Hey, you start low and you build. Yeah, absolutely. You're going to save the best of last. I scroll through my document to make sure the best one is last. Very smart. I've done that many times. A statue and Moriel in Sydney depicts not only Shakespeare, but five of his most famous characters, Hamlet, Romeo, Juliet,

Portia, and Follstaff. Oh, yep. Who's Follstaff from, yeah, he's a Porsche from the well, there's a couple of the merchant of Venice. She's from a couple of the place. Well, not the, well, not the, he recycled names. Right, but this one, you don't know which one is that one. Because that's one of the most famous and what was the other one?

Full staff. Full staff. That's a great name. Who's a big, full staff, big fat guy from Henry the fourth. There's a big false stuff. Big fat guy from Henry the fourth. No, there's a big Henry. No, he wasn't Henry. He was Jack false stuff. But I bring this up because I imagined having a memorial in a country that didn't even exist at the time of your death. Oh, Sydney. Sydney Australia. Australia. Is there any other Sydney's? There's a Melbourne in Florida. Yeah, is there any other sickness? I don't think so. I don't know how to do any. There's a Melbourne in Florida. Yeah, there is. Wait.

Because they were both named after the same guy. There's a Melbourne in Florida. Yeah, Melbourne in Florida. They both named after the Queen's buddy, who's a lord. Lord Melbourne. Yeah, that's pretty interesting. That Australia didn't exist yet. And then we have a statue.

Oh, well, that's just how we're going to use. Australia existed. But not as a straight. Oh, well, okay, it's just how we're going to be. Australia existed But not as a settlement had Well, this wasn't called it wasn't cool. Yeah Sydney wasn't cool. Sydney the way it is now So yeah, why did they do that? They're just big fans. Well, just that he's just I just wanted to point out that influential He's everyone's a fan. He's got memorials all over the world. Oh, yeah, I think People know who he is. I think he's got real good brand recognition. That was real date. Yeah, I reckon His brand is what he is. Yeah, I think it's brand is with multi-billions

There is a famous scene from Hamlet where Hamlet talks to Yorick who was a dead-court jester whose skull has been exhumed by a grave digger And he holds the skull and talks to it. Polish pianist Andre Trakowski, not to be confused with the composer Trakowski, donated his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company for use in theatrical productions, hoping that it would be used as a skull of Yorick. It was used in rehearsal. This is in the 80s, but not for performances until in 2008 Trichowski's skull was used by David Tennant from a Dr. Huakta who was playing Hamlet in the Royal Shakespeare production in In Stratford upon Ava. Oh When there was a lot of controversy around it was later announced that the skull had been replaced because people were Focusing not on the play but people were thinking that's a real skull. That's a real fucking skull. Oh my

god. That's the act right? We're like, but it was untrue however what they continued to use the real skull that is didn't want people being distracted by it anymore. So I told them that we talked about. Now we swapped it out. David Tannet was probably still like now on this for. Because I'm a weeder.MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM records lists 414 feature length film and TV versions of William Shakespeare's plays as having being produced, making Shakespeare the most filmed author ever in any language. Kenneth Branagh actually stars in 1700 of those, which is more than they're actually up. So yeah.

He got it, got it. Kenneth Branagh. Once again, I imagine being the most filmed person in a medium that wasn't even existing for hundreds of years until after you died. Wow. IMDB list Shakespeare is having writing credits on 1171 films. The first was King John filmed in 1899. 1899.

You're good. What? That's one of the first films. One of the first feature films is supposedly the Ned Kelly one The Ned Kelly? The Ned Kelly? The Melvin which is like 1890 something as well I think. Whoa.

But it makes sense that one of the first things I've been feeling would be Shakespeare. Yeah, that does it does. Did he get a writing credit for 10 Things I Had About You? Yeah, I remember. Of the timing of the shrew. Yeah. He probably would own a IMDB I imagine. No, it would say written by loosely based on

Yeah, William Shakespeare And now we find that we're going to finish on the words he created when we've been talking and learning to a few of these Jessica Etc. Without the show he invented over 1700 of our common words by changing nouns into verbs Changing words into adjectives, connecting words never before used together and adding prefixes and suffixes and devising words wholly original. So someone that we're just completely,

pull it out thin air. Some of the words he invented include countless, oh, gloomy, addiction, bubble. Ah, good one. That's a great word. Gloomy, addiction, bubble. Ah, good one. That's a great word. Assassination. Bet. Not as good.

There we go. Yeah, you're up. Hobnob. Ah, fuck yeah. He invaded the bickies. Yum. Hobnobbing with the. The bickies.

Bloodstained. Oh, what? That's how he died, isn't it? It's too late. No, it's too late. hub nubbing with the the bickies blood stained I'll tell you died is it too much to know laughable lonely just laughable lonely the just back in story Olympian failed Olympian the match to a story. Torture. Torture to death. The table on key story. Uh, mimic, negotiate. And my personal favorite. I ball. I ball. I ball. Tim. That's all him. That's really shakes. What do people see with before then? He just felt he invented the eyebrow. What a, I didn't. I feel like that you I would have led with that With I want to talk about his silly little plays. Yeah, I'm talking about the fact that the invented eyeballs Shakespeare the most famous optometrist

In history wow, I'd love to maybe we can do this on the social medias during the week But I'd love to see a bit of a list of modern movies that are based on his stories. Yeah, that'd be cool. Cause I just thought of, because I remember hearing about 10 Things I Had About You, but there must be a bunch of them. Now I want to go and read, because I haven't read the Tami of the Shrews, now I want to read it and see if I can find the, or pick up the plot similarities.

You'll probably notice Act 3 opens with... I love you baby and it is quite alright I love you baby Well that much to be Nigel with the Brea That's what that should feel, isn't it? I know you can be overwhelmed and you can be underwhelmed But can you ever just be overwhelmed?

I think you can in Europe Can I map, give us one, you know this movie? I heard he ate a frog or something like that. Great, now that he's from Australia Hey, we're going paintballing I'm in the Matt If she's got black underwear, she's got it to be seen or something. Sure. Not true, it's just practical Does the Tammy of the show end with letters to Cleo standing on top of a school building singing cruel to be kind? No, I want you to want me, which song is it they sing?

Oh, they sing both, like, yeah they do. Both ring a bell. Through both. What was their name? Lullaby Clio. So that is William Shakespeare, and we must say a big, big thank you to the man, the magic that is Rowan Epstein for suggesting that, our first Sydney Shindburg Deluxe Package recipient of the Golden Man Award. Thanks so much Rowan, you big star. That's something that people don't realize as well.

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Such a- Sutton Lee 30. Fuck, that's better. Man, look at me so disappointed just then. I'm just, I was just really enjoying your weird husky laugh. It's pretty great. I hope it never leaves. What's Sutton's story? Did you look him up?

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All right, great. So thank you James Sutton for your pledge. Though if you aren't really an actor, you could probably pledge a little bit more. Am I right? Holly X probably doesn't pay that. Well, there does. All right, so thank you James.

Next. How's that, Holly X? I'm passing the laptop round to Jess Perkins to thank someone here. Okay. Okay, yes, okay. We also obviously need to thank a man and a legend who likes to stand on mountains

and just look off wistfully. Is that based on a profile picture or just a feeling you get? Does a feeling and a profile picture. Is that based on a profile picture or just a feeling you get? Does a feeling. And a profile picture. And that is of course the wonderful Alex Cossie. Oh, Cossie. Thanks Alex.

Thanks Alex. Cossie. You don't have to pass me the computer because I remember my pledges name off the top of my head. Matt just knows them all. He knows you all. Yeah, no, I don't need the computer because I remember them all off the top of my head. Matt just knows them all, he knows you all. Yeah, I know I don't need the computer because I remember them all off the top of my head. And today's one, I'm filled, I'm filled with pride to get to read out her name because she's one of the bloody best.

Really? There's no doubt about that. It's Hannah, Hannah Scholar. Oh Hannah. Scholar of the highest earned. Yeah, she's the best. She's one of the best listeners we've got. And I'm so bloody proud to get to thank her today. For everything she's done for us. Thanks so much, Hannah, you are a legend. And a world. Remember that time she had a cameo on Holy Oaks. Yeah, remember that?

That was quite a great episode. James Sutton and Hannah together at last. You too can contribute to our Patreon and have your name read it. You too can contribute to our Patreon. Oh no, they definitely can, from that. No, now they're fucking someone who can contribute to our Patreon and have your name in the room. You can contribute to our Patreon. No, they definitely can. But no. Now that they're fucking someone who can contribute more than $5.

Yeah, the edge. Oh, the edge has got money coming out of his bloody, like fitting beanie. Yeah, I thought you were going to say he's bloody urethra. Why would I say that? I mean, it would be distasteful. That would be a sign of riches, I wouldn't it? Right on the edge of his urethra.

Yeah, if you're pissing money, you've either got a problem or you're a billionaire or both. I'd say that's a good problem to have. But you too can be like you too by contributing to our Patreon, patreon.com. So let's do go on pod. Last, the weekend just gone, we released our first ever Patreon only episode and we're gonna be releasing one of those every single month So get on board if you want to hear some extra talking and jump in before the 15th of December if you want to get a Christmas card with Dave Want to keep to print and be so good also obviously you can talk to us on all the classics Twitter

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On the Australian, 69 reviews on the Australian iTunes, which kind of makes me not want anyone to do it, but please just get us off that and get us off 69. No, well, I think we'd like to do it. And we can just keep moving on with our lives. I'd like to encourage you to simultaneously do 200 reviews, so we are 269. I think that would be a much cooler number.

Why? 269. 269. That'd be cool. Yeah, okay. And we get 200 fucking reviews out of it. No, that's definitely, that'll definitely help, for sure. So if you guys could get together, all 200 of you, and just go reviewing.

There are more than 200 of you, so why do we only have 69 reviews? We should have 2069, and that's only just a start. Two million, no, sixty nine million. He really, all he can do is undersell or oversell a number. Just did not have any inclination to go anything accurate there, which I like. I want to find a close to his chest. That's right. Of the sixty nine million. That was close, Obviously. We have. Thank you very much for listening, and until next week, I will say goodbye. Well, thanks a lot, fucking back me up here.

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