Aunty Donna Podcast - Jimbo Randall Met A Wizard feat. Sam

Episode Date: April 1, 2025

Broden had an opportunity with old media this week so we asked Sam to come on instead. He and Mark meet a new fan of the Aunty Donna Podcast - a very normal man named Jimbo Randall who likes fried rice and The Office.  LINKS  Buy tickets to our DREM World Tour https://tour.auntydonna.com/ Follow @theauntydonnagallery on Instagram https://bit.ly/auntydonna-ig  Become a Patreon supporter at http://auntydonnaclub.com CREDITS   Hosts: Broden Kelly, Zachary Ruane, & Mark Bonanno   Producer: Lindsey Green Digital Producers: Nick Barrett, Jim Cruse & Tanya Zerek Managing Producer: Sam Cavanagh   Join The Aunty Donna Club: https://www.patreon.com/auntydonnaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A listener production. I don't even know what happens this episode, folks. Welcome to the Aunty Donna Club with special guest Sam Lingham. The hot, he's a hot, hot number. Sammy. Sorry for coughing. If you want to see the visuals of this episode, then head to Aunty Donna Club dot com and give us your money. If not, just enjoy this episode, enjoy your life. I'm not in this episode, so it's going to be even better. Enjoy. Hi, welcome to the Aunty Donna podcast. My name is Zachary Rulane.

I'm joined as always by Mark Bonanno. Broden Kelly couldn't be here. He had an opportunity with old media that he couldn't refuse. He could not turn it down. But we do have a guest, a friend of the podcast. It's been a while. So this is maybe a lot of our new listeners don't know this. This man is the head writer of all of our content. So he writes with us. He also directs

our live theatre shows and is head writer on them as well. You'd be very familiar with him if you are fans of the Aunty Donna podcast episodes 1 to 150. Around about that you would have experienced this man quite a lot but also if you are subscribed to the Aunty Donna club, patreon.com slash Aunty Donna. Or the Aunty Donna club dot com. Or the Aunty Donna club dot com. Which redirects to Patreon.com slash Aunty Donna. Or the Aunty Donnaaclub.com. Which redirects to... Redirects to patreon.com slash auntidonna, or theantidontaclub, or whatever it is. I really don't know, I don't know.

I don't know, is it patreon.com slash theantidontaclub? I don't know, but that's why we changed it to... ...antidontaclub.com because it's redirects. And also, you know, if Patreon ever fucks us, we've built a different brand. And good luck trying to fuck us, Patreon, you can't. We'll go straight to onlyfans. We will. We'll do lewds but no nudes.

And I've got a whole folder on my PC ready to upload of my lewds, not nudes. No nudes, but we'll imply that they're lewds. Yes. I will be wearing the tiniest of bikinis. I'll go, check out this sexy photo for $15, and then you buy it and it's a lewd. But it'll be a good lewd. Yes, and there'll be a second paid for one,

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Yeah, for the next three months, you can get a 30% off, $10 subscription to that. But enough about that. Enough about our OnlyFans. We have a guest in our midst who we've already introduced. Sam Lingham, hello. Hello, thank you for having me. It's a pleasure.

Sam, people- No, sorry. No, you go. No, you go. No, you go. Sam, people know you... No, I think you should go. Sorry, yeah, I will go.

Sorry. No, it's all right. You go, I don't actually have anything Sorry, yeah, I will go. No, you go. Sam. Sorry. No, it's alright. You go. I don't actually have anything. I had something but I forgot. Sam, people know you because you're from Aunty Donna.

Yeah, and if people are familiar with the podcast, episodes about 1 to 150 or if you subscribe to the patreon patreon.com slash Aunty Donna you will be very familiar with Sam. Sam often plays little games with us on their Mario Party. Also we should say Sam is our head writer. You did say it. I believe we did. That's a very head writer thing to say. He's keeping always savvy to... He's aware of the bigger picture at all times. Alright, actually we don't need to mention that. Narrative threads, that's been mentioned, so this would be a thematic tautology.

Okay. Those sort of things. Okay, tautology, someone, I'm going to go Google that. Oh, it's my favourite pasta. Now, Sam is here. Sam is here. Because... Tortology someone I'm gonna go Google that. Oh, it's my favorite pasta now Sam is here. I miss here because Sam is here a lot of people would be Pardon, they want to know they want to know a Lot of people want to know they want to know a

Lot of people want to know what's who's who's saying what makes him tick now Sam Why are you here Sam? I wasn't privy to this conversation. Why am I here? Yeah. Yeah also yesterday Mark was like Broden's got an old media opportunity Can you come in and I said and usually it's not usually it's like no, I'm And and I was like no I can come in I'm free let's let's go let's do this my Sam also said I He's off to Marl that there's a space available for you so that you can come in and you can do that I'll let you know by the end of the day and then I went home and I went into tidy my garage and I ended up playing Fleetwood Mac Dreams on the drums for an hour and a half and I lost track of time and then I checked my phone I had two missed calls from Broden and called Broden back and he said hey man I did I did that thing you said you were gonna do that you didn't do.

And I was like, I forgot. I forgot that I said I was gonna do that. It's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. Sam, you're famous for having played, let me finish. You're famous for having played a character. Actually, I thought of a fun way we could introduce this concept. I'm going to play a new fan of the podcast.

And you're going to play Mark. Okay. Oh, hi. Hi. Hi, new fan of the podcast. What's your name? My name is Jimbo. Jimbo.

What's your surname? Rand name is Jimbo. Jimbo. What's your surname? Randall. Jimbo Randall. And where do you live? I live in the CBD of Melbourne. What's the address? I live on Swanston Street, number 7, apartment 32. And what do you do for work? Wanston Street, number 7, apartment 32. And what do you do for work? I work in data processing. And what is your favourite character from the Aunty Donna podcast? Well, I'm a new fan. I haven't listened to the first 150 episodes.

So you've only listened to 151 up until... So my favourite characters are the new ones, like South African Sam's who I presume are new. Well, you know, they've been around for a while. And I think Silly Boy is funny. Ha ha ha. Well, yeah, Silly Boy is fairly new.

Yeah. Well, um... Who's this guy? Hi, I'm Sam. How you doing? Hi, Sam. I have some questions for Jimbo. Is that okay?

Please. What's it like living in the CBD? You know, I thought it would be like living in New York City, but the thing is New York City has more parks. Yes. I mean, you're a stone's throw from the Botanic Gardens, aren't you? Well, no, I'm more in the middle. I'm closer to Flinders True.

Black Star. You should number seven, yeah? Did I say seven? Yeah, you said seven. Yeah, so that kind of implies to me the bottom of Swanston. No, I'm closer to Southern Cross. You're closer to Southern Cross. Not many parks up there.

The Flagstaff Gardens is kind of there. Yeah, and it's a bit of a walk. I just would love a little park, you know, a couple of little parks and maybe some town squares would have done the same. You got to have seen how much? Yeah, mate. Yeah, what do you, what's your game? I love blackjack. little parks and maybe some town squares would have done the CBD well. You go to the casino much? Yeah mate. Yeah.

What do you uh, what's your game? I love blackjack. Yeah. Yeah. Have you won big? I've won big, I've lost bigger. Yeah. Isn't that always the way?

Yeah. Are you okay? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I live in the CBD and I'm sad. Do you have any other questions for Jimbo?

Because he's kind of making me uncomfortable. He's making you uncomfortable? Yeah, a bit. Why? Just the tone of his voice, the deadness behind his eyes. They appear to have glazed over. I go to the Kino, that's where I watch my movies. Or Hoyts, the Hoyts at Melbourne Central.

Yeah, that's good. What have you been enjoying at the Hoyts or the Kino? The Hoyts, what do I watch at the Hoyts? I'm excited for the new Godzilla versus Kong. Really? Godzilla and Kong, which might have already come out by the time this is out, but not that we're banking them. We're baking them? I thought you were a new fan of the podcast.

I'm the new Zach. You're the new Zach now. The new Zach. I'll replace Zach. All right. Well, there was a purpose for this character. Hi, it's me, Zach. You're the new Zach. I'll replace Zach. Alright. Well there was a purpose for this character. Hi it's me Zach. You're meant to tell him about Judith. I was getting to it. I just thought there was a lot of setup, there's a lot of exposition going on. Not that funny. To be honest. That's the head writer right there. Maybe we could explore Jimbo. That's

the head writer. That's really good. Oh hi it's me Jimbo. That's the head writer. Yeah, we could explore Jimbo. That's really good. Oh, hi. It's me, Jimbo. Jimbo, let's get straight to the... Let's just cut through the shit. Get straight to it. Yeah, let's get straight to the shit. Let's get straight to the shit. Jimbo, are you aware that on the Aunty Donna podcast we do characters?

I know you are. You said you love Silly Boy and that you love South African Sam's that you consider to be new. Have you seen the Netflix show? Yeah, I love the Netflix show. Sick. Did you say Coffee Cafe? No. No, no one fucking did. Sick. Did you say coffee cafe? No.

No, no one fucking did. What is it? No one fucking did. It's a fucking waste of time. It's free. It's free. It was a waste of our time. I love the Netflix show.

What have you guys been doing for the last three years? Fucking I can't even, don't even get me started. Alright, so anyway, so Sam is our head writer. Oh hi. Do you subscribe to the Patreon? Sorry, I just had a big gulp of coffee into the microphone. Lucky I'm not a professional podcaster. So Sam is our head writer. Oh hi. Do you subscribe to the Patreon? Sorry, I just had a big gulp of coffee into the microphone. Lucky I'm not a professional podcaster.

Yeah, you'll be forgiven. Sam... No, I'm not a... I don't subscribe to the Patreon. Okay. You should. I don't like you at that level. Yeah, I know.

Everyone has a different monetary level. Where do you listen to the podcast? Like what are you doing when you put the podcast on? I'm doing data entry. Data entry? Yeah and I laugh sometimes. I'm sit there at my computer and my co-workers go, what are you doing? I'm laughing. I bet they think you're nuts. Yeah they think I am, yeah. So Sam used to do a character called Judas on the podcast. Like the biblical character? Yeah and he'd talk about silver. The character liked silver. Loved silver. Oh, that's Judas, you know.

So you're just sort of reducing the character of Judas down to that moment where he accepted silver. It wasn't sort of a monetary thing. It was just he liked the element silver. But I don't think that's necessarily a negative. You often reduce wine into a delicious sauce for a steak. So I just don't think it's fair to say that. I'm not really a foodie though. What do you eat?

I go to Chinatown sometimes. I'm so close now. I love fried rice. Yeah, that's great. Sorry, I'm not an interesting guy or anything. No, but fried rice is delicious. I really like fried rice. I'm just like a regular guy that listens to your podcast.

I'm a little bit sad, but so is everyone. COVID was tough, man. COVID was tough. It was a while ago now. So we've done our part in terms of letting you know that Sam used to play a character on the podcast Where is this going? What do you mean? Where's this going? He said There was a point Jimbo you've come in for a reason

Yeah, and and I knew that the part that Sam and I had to play in sort of fleshing this character out making something happen Was to introduce Sam Let you know that Sam played a character early on in the podcast called Judas. Where's Broden? He had an old media opportunity. I love Broden, I love Caldwell. Yes, we all do.

He's my favorite. But now what do we do? Like, where is this going? What do you mean? Well, you came in and with the expectation of us introducing... To help introduce this Judas concept. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, but I can stick around if you want. Yeah. All right. That's good. I mean...

Stick around. Do you have any concerns about your job in data entry being replaced with automation or AI? Being replaced with robots. Well, I've moved up into management now. So I have a team of data entry people under me. And yeah, we're replacing a lot of them with AI. But I think there's going to be a place for people, you know, you have to tell the AI what to do.

Yeah, there's a lot of your job going into this data today, and then they just go off and do it. Sounds important. Well, you know, I do it for our government agencies. We're a contractor. So we're a private company. Oh, God. But we're contracted to the Victorian government and to a couple of other.

So yeah, and they do some important stuff, you know, and they, yeah. There's been a lot of talk at Canberra about the government relying too much on private contractors to do a lot of their work. How do you, do you think that's going to impact your sector? Um, yeah, I think they're talking more about like consultants and stuff. The problem is there's a big ebb and flow. So you know, if they were to do that, they would have a lot of people on contract. We can, we can get people on contract.

They would have to hire long time on contract. We can get people on contract. They would have to hire long time employees and that sort of thing. It just becomes very complicated. So yeah, maybe. I don't know. I'll just get a different job. I don't love my job. It's not a passion of mine. I've done it for about six years. What are your passions? None really. I play video games. What have you been playing? I've just been playing, well my, so my, the cord, the ethernet cord, yeah the back of my PS4 broke.

PS4? Yeah, yeah and I've got a PS5 at the moment, but my, it's at got her PS5 at the moment. Yeah. But my, it's at my mum's house at the moment. Right, the PS5. Yeah, yeah. Why don't, yeah, why? Well, because my half brother wanted to play with it.

So I was just being, you know, and I don't play video games that much. No, I don't really, I watch some telly. Yeah. I love Aunty Donna. Um, Data Ring True. I don't know it. Look, I'm a really regular guy. Okay. I'm not an interesting guy at all.

If you want to replace that ethernet cable, just go down to Big W. It's just down there. Pick up a new one. Yeah, no, and that's true. Yeah, I will do that. I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Okay. Well. Oh, do, and that's true. Yeah, I will do that. I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Okay. Well. And I, oh, do you know what I watched lately?

What did you watch? I watched that succession. That's good, isn't it? It's a creature. Really good, yeah. I didn't like any of the characters at first. No. But you kind of like them towards the end.

Do you think you like them or you feel for them? I'm not a writer. I wouldn't. You wouldn't know. I wouldn't know. But't know. I'd do a buddy on a devil's show. Showgun? You watching this showgun? No. Supposed to be good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I don't mind RuPaul's Drag Race. That's fun, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. I thought it was, but it was fun. Yeah. My ex, my ex liked it. Yeah, we watched it. I haven't watched it since We split up a few years back, but um

There's an Australian one now, yeah Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We were in it. Oh, yeah. Yeah in season one. Yeah, yeah I was off it by then. I'm not a funny character and I really think I Really think you should stop talking to me, because I'm not funny. Yeah, no, that's fine. But there was, I remember there being a point as to why you came in the door. Literally. That you hid from us. Literally just to help you introduce the idea of Judas, because I would be, you know, but

I just worry that you're hunting for the humour in me. I'm just, I'm concerned for you and your well-being long term. Like obviously, you know, you've not really, you've broken up with your partner and there's some lingering feelings around that. No, not at all. No, it was pretty good. It was fine. But you stopped watching Drag Race?

Well, it was more her show. Okay. So we asked you about what your passions are and you sort of said PS4 but I don't play, Succession was good and then you said RuPaul's Drag Race was the other show but you don't watch that anymore. I was just trying to think of a show that I like. But like what do you enjoy? Yeah you come home from work or maybe you've worked from home you log off on the computer

you've got all the time in the world you don't have to do anything you know it's five o'clock you don't have to do anything until you wake up in the morning At say 830 a.m. Yeah. What are you filling that time with? What makes you happy? I might check on some tally like I watch the office. I love the office. You wear one? Yeah. Yeah, you guys know Ed Helms. Ed Helms. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's cool. Egg sketch. We did that. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah What was that like? What doing Helm sketch. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. What was that like? What, doing that bit? Or just the, just doing that bit?

Yeah. It was fun. It was good. I remember the traffic being loud. Yeah, there was a lot of loud traffic. We were at a nice burger shop in LA. It's a really nice guy, really funny, really up for it. Zach kept riffing with him about egg thinking he was a natural egg.

Yeah. Which was really fun. Um, that's how I got into actually was the Netflix show. Was it? Yeah. Right. Yeah. So I might watch the office.

I just like scroll on like TikTok or Instagram. Um, go to bed. Like come like long weekend, what are you doing? Long weekend? I don't mind the footy, you know, I might watch the footy. Who do you go for? Do you barrack for? Yes, I do.

But that's like a regular weekend, like a long weekend. Oh, a long weekend? Oh, you know. Are you doing anything special? No. Fuck it, Alex. Jesus fucking Christ. Are you lost?

Are you like, what? No. No, I'm all right. You know, I'm a bit sad if I'm being honest. Nah. Fucking hell. Jesus fucking Christ. Are you lost? Are you like, what? No, I'm alright. You know, I'm a bit sad if I'm being honest. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just going through the motions. You sound like someone just going through the motions.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I go, I go, so long weekend. Yeah. Long weekend. Well, you've got, there's a long weekend coming up. It's Thursday. You're like, want to make the most of this. What are you doing? Well, you know, you're like, want to make the most of this.

What are you doing? Well, you know, maybe we'll do work drinks on the Thursday night. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and then, yeah, maybe I'll go, maybe I'll go, like I might go to Ballarat. Yeah.

What are you going to Ballarat? I don't know, you ask, maybe I'll go to Ballarat. I guess more what I'm getting, trying to get to, is, are you excited for anything coming up in your life? Yeah. Oh, it'll be fun when I'm, when this podcast comes out. Mm hmm. Yeah.

If it comes out. Yeah, that'll be pretty cool. I know. Like I'll be like. We don't release every episode. Oh, you don't? No, sometimes we'll review them and we're like if it's not I guess good. I've listened to your podcast I know that can't be true.

Well then just let me reassure you would be surprised by what hits the cut. Alright yeah. No this would be cool I'll tell my friends I was on the Andy Donner podcast. So this is what you're looking and this is is sort of, like you're sort of plucked out of the ether. Yeah. This wasn't a planned thing, this wasn't something you were working towards. No. So this sort of surprise happenstance is the one thing you're clinging onto in terms of

exciting things in the future. I'm excited for, I'm excited for the new Batman. The one coming out in like 2025, 2026. Yeah, the first Batman was pretty good, a bit long, but pretty good. Yeah, yeah. I like the Marvels, although I don't know about the newer ones. Yeah, okay. We're not gonna unpack that. What are you guys thinking about? What culture? Well, you know, I don't really want to talk about that because what we were originally... I think we should move on.

Why? Just because I can't even imagine the kind of things... You want to dig into this character? Okay, so what do you think? What do I think? Yeah. Like, what do you think? What do I think? Yeah. Like, what do you think? Do you think it's responsible for your pain?

No, no. I just reckon, can you like make jokes anymore? That's what I've read that you can't make jokes anymore. Well, you know, I just, it's not that you can't make jokes anymore. It's just that there are, you've never been able to say whatever you want. Okay. And I think that's a good thing. never been able to say whatever you want. Oh, okay. And I think that's a good thing. I don't really have a strong opinion either way. I just have heard work called, boat culture

in the ether. Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah. So it's just a buzzword to you. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Anyway. Okay. I like, I like the hangover. It's a great movie. Ed. Ed was in that, yes.

Couldn't make that now. Now. I think you could. Yeah, that's a great movie. With Ed. Yes, Ed was in that, yes. Couldn't make that now. Now... I think you could. Yeah, you could. You just would replace some of the crook jokes with ones that are just funny and not crook. Alright. You know, that's all.

I'm gonna go now. What? Don't go! We gotta tell you about Sam! I thought you already did. Well, we did, but there's a whole thing that's happening. You've just really stuck with this boring character. Yeah, but that's... Nobody's inherently's happening. You've just really stuck with this boring character

No, but no, nobody's inherently boring surely. Yeah, no one not yet. Everyone has something. Yeah, everyone has something It's just our job to find out what it is. Yeah, I guess yeah. Yeah Like what what do you think makes you special? I've got some nice shirts. You have some nice shirts. Where from? Where from? Where from? Where'd you get them from? I got them from? I just like muller and stuff. Okay. What color are they? They've got like a blue shirt with like a floral pattern. Alright that's a bit of personality there. When did you first get into fashion? Not really into fashion. I wanted to get a few nice shirts. Yep. Had my cousin's wedding.

How was that? It was nice. Yeah, it was really nice. Do you hope to get married one day? No. No. Any reason for that? It's just not for me.

I just think it's a bit of an old fashioned thing. She wanted it. What are your... She wanted it? If she wanted it. Like if she wanted it. What kind of... I'm a really normal normal boring guy and I'm just very digging... Well wait, well let's see.

What turns you on? What turns me on? Yeah. Um, like sex. Yeah. Just straight. Yeah. Missionary.

Nah, like I like interesting stuff. I'm probably like affected by pornography as much as you guys are. Yeah. So I like it a bit rough. Kinky, anything, any kinky? Depends what you define kink as. You know, like, do you like being choked or? No.

No. No. Do you like being called daddy or? No. That's weird. What? That's weird. That's weird.

Yeah. Just like good sex and stuff. Do you like low jobs? Yeah. Yeah, they're great. Trying to find some. I, they're great. I'm trying to find some. I'm trying to find some idea. I think the thing to do is just leave with this character. I don't think you should keep digging with this guy.

Well no, because I agree with Sam that everyone has something. Everyone must surely have something that makes them... What if a character is created specifically not to have something? No, well I just feel like no one would create a character like that and bring them onto a comedy podcast. They had a very small purpose it was to introduce Sam's character right and now you dig it into this guy but you brought that person in as a listener of the podcast yes and I think people who are listening this podcast there's something and I know I think there's many interesting listeners to this podcast. Most of our listeners would have fascinating stories to tell.

Yeah. This guy not so much. I didn't bring in one of the interesting ones. But I think the choice to keep them at that level of uninteresting is as much your fault as it is ours. Right. But I warned you so many times. Keep digging if you want. I'm sure we'll find something. Are you sure you will find something? Do you want. I'm sure we'll find something. Wait, are you sure we'll find something? Do you want me to add something to him? Are you sure we'll find something? Do you want me to add? Look, keep digging a little bit more.

Alright. See what happens. Okay. So, uh, sexual you're pretty vanilla, which is fine by the way. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. It's just, you know, I think it's more important to know what you like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, uh, than it is to have any kind of weird, you know, I like to clamp my dick

and the fucking put jelly up my ass or whatever it is that people are, which is all fine. No, no. Um, uh, holidays. Have you ever been on any holidays? Uh, went up to movie world when I was a kid. Yeah. And I went to Japan about four years ago.

Okay. How long did you spend in Japan? I spent two weeks and I went to every city in Japan in that two weeks. Every city in Japan. Every city. Just went city. Every single city. I was just constantly moving.

Major city, every major city. I went to. I was just constantly moving. Major city? Every major city. Major city. I went to, I was there for 14 days, I went to 14 places. How did you plan this trip? Jesus. Contiki. Contiki.

Contiki too, alright. You did Contiki Japan. Did you meet anyone interesting on that trip? I met an old wizard. You met an old wizard. Wait a second, wait what? You met a man familiar in the ways of magic and wizardry? Yeah, yeah.

Okay, did he conjure anything? No, he gave me his powers. He gave you his powers? What the fuck? The wizard gave you his powers? Al, why he passed them on to you before his untimely death? Well, he was a medieval wizard. It was odd that he was in Japan. Yeah. He was from medieval England, but he was a medieval wizard. It was odd that he was in Japan. He was from medieval

England, but he was immortal. And before he died he gave me his powers. Right and his powers, what is he proficient in when it comes to his powers? Well I still haven't. Conjuring? Yeah I still have to learn. He gave me his books to learn. Okay. But I, so I haven't found the full depth of my powers yet. What was the name of the wizard? I never learnt his name. Is that because to know someone's name is to know them?

To have power over them? No, he just never said it. No, he just never said it. He just never said it. Was he doing the Kentucky tour? No, he was just there. I was going for a walk around Tokyo. Yep. And he was in the Shinjuku district and he was there and I thought that's funny. He looks like an old wizard and he said, I've

got to give you my powers. I'm about to have my head chopped off. By? By his mortal enemy and now mine. So you took on his mortal enemy. Yeah. Because he wants the powers. His mortal enemy wants the powers. And the only way to get the powers is to chop off his head.

Who is the mortal enemy? I don't know his name. Do you have any details? Yeah, I've seen him. Do you want to describe him for us? Sure. Is that good? I don't know.

I'm not a podcast guy. I don't know what's interesting or not about this. But just to be clear for a moment, this is fascinating. Is it? Yeah, yeah. I would have brought it up earlier if I don't. Like this is the fucking craziest thing any normal guest has come on the show has had to say and has had happen to them.

Well you should have just asked. To say that you're not, you don't have anything interesting going on is wild considering a wizard in Tokyo gave you this power. Is that interesting? Yes! It's absurdly interesting. I just never come up, you're like the first two people I've ever told about it. It's supernatural.

It's the craziest thing I've ever heard. Well no one's ever asked, you know? It's hard to make friends when you're a male in your 30s. It is hard. I just think maybe next time someone's like, hey, what do you do when you get home from work? You can be like, I come home, I take my bag off, I put my coat up, I open up my old wizarding books. And I learn how to figure out what it is. But I didn't do it after I watched a couple of episodes of The Office.

Okay, maybe like I watch a couple of episodes of The Office and then I open up my wizarding books. Right. So I should have mentioned that when you asked, because I thought you wanted to know like what I did immediately after I got home. I think just straight out of the gate if you're on a podcast yeah I would bring up almost near immediately. Yeah, why? Because it's it's it's interesting. So when I say I go to Ballarat, yeah. What do you do in Ballarat? Why should I mention that? What are you doing? So I have something like a similar to, you know how Superman has a fortress of solitude? I have a fortress under the ground in an old mine in Ballarat where I practice my powers.

Mention that! That's interesting. Yeah, just going to Ballarat, lots of people do that. I would argue that very few have a hidden underground fortress. Mine. Right, so I should mention that when I talk about my Ballarat troops. Yes. Yeah, I mean, especially on a podcast, but in day to day life as well, when people ask you questions, they're just really trying to connect with you. They want to know what's interesting.

But no one else does that, so that wouldn't interest them. It would, but that is interesting about you. I think you'd be surprised. I think, I think. But that is at a good point of connection. I should talk about that. I think so. I think it is a good thing. And you don't have to- Should I mention it on my bumble? Uh, like if you're up for that, I think that'd be great. You know, like I love watching

The Office. I love getting fried rice in Chinatown and I love practicing the mysterious arts of magic. Yeah. That's not wizard in Tokyo. Yeah. Because I can change the very nature of reality. Okay. Really?

Yeah. In what ways? I've done this interview seven times already. Okay. And you kept this. And I got back in time. You've kept what was done. Well, this is the first time I've mentioned that I'm a wizard.

Yeah, right. What happened to the other ones? You guys got mad at me and I left. Six times? Yeah. What did you try to do to circumnavigate that? That's why I brought up the nice shirts. I thought that would work. The nice shirts? Yeah. The nice shirts. Yeah the nice shirts I hadn't mentioned. You're a fucking idiot. What do you mean? You're a fucking idiot. I've stopped two atomic world wars. That's really great. That's incredible. That's fantastic.

That's incredible information. So like a world war, like a bomb will be dropped, lots of bombs dropped. Then I'll travel back in time and then I'll fly to the place. You can fly? Yeah, like I fly, like Neo in the Matrix. And then I will take the nuclear, I'll mine, I'll use my mind powers to change people's minds. If the bomb goes, I'll take the bomb, I'll fly it into space and then I'll send it off

into Jupiter to explode. That's what I've done twice. Thank you for doing that. I really appreciate that. That's huge. I really appreciate that. That's huge. Yeah. That's really big, important, interesting stuff. Much more interesting than the cord, the ethernet cord on my PS4 is a bit broken and my PS5 is at my parents' house. Well, that's right.

And that's why I'm in no rush to change the big ethernet cord. Because you've got magic and you can sort of just... Yeah. You know, like a video game and you're just pretending, whereas I'll do that most nights. I'll go out and I'll fly through the universe. I'll fly through... I can fly to any corner of the universe. So you said you'd been to Japan four years ago, but you don't consider these other trips

to the universe like holidays? Well, in holidays I don't like organise it through an agency like Contiki. Because they're reconnaissance. Yeah, and I'll just go. Like, I only go for a few hours. But I've been to, I've seen the rings of Saturn. Yeah? What are they like?

Beautiful. A lot of rock and ice, I am. Yeah, no, they're beautiful. They're really beautiful, yeah. Tell me. Yeah. Dear traveller, is there life on other planets? Yeah, I've met them.

You've met them? Yeah, I speak their language. I can understand any language. Any language. Is it a language you would say that these other entities are speaking or? What the fuck? Yeah, at first I wouldn't have described it as language. Some of them don't use sound.

There's one people in the Andromeda galaxy and they use magnetic pulses to communicate. But it's as complex and beautiful, they write poetry in it. It's a beautiful culture. And I've seen them being born, I've seen their planet birthed, I've seen it die. I've seen this planet's death, I've seen all time. I've seen the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way smash together. So when you talk, having seen all that and then you talk about the fact that you like going to Chinatown and getting a fried rice, would you say that's you going, I enjoy the

simple, the small things, the humble things that remind me of life and day to day? Or what do you mean by that? Like do you enjoy the small things in their simplicity because you've seen everything in its grandioseness? It's just, I think what he's getting at is that it's odd to be like, what do you do? What do you enjoy? And the answer is, I'm not a foodie. I'm like a fries from Chinatown.

When you are from what I've gathered, all seeing, all knowing, powers of a wizard, much more than a normal man. Yeah, no, I do have the powers of an immortal wizard. Yeah, God-like powers. God-like powers. I've seen the whole universe and all of that. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know what happened before the Big Bang.

What? I can't, like, it's hard to, you know? It's just hard to describe. Yeah, it's very different. Everything was very different. Can you use your powers to sort of just put what's in your mind, what you've seen into my mind? I've tried it before.

I tried it with someone and they bled out of their eyes and I had the idea. It was too much for a human mind to comprehend. Alright, well, I think we should probably wrap this up. We did want to introduce a new character that Sam has been working on, but I'm afraid we'll just have to wait for the next podcast. Yeah, we'll bring you back in a few weeks or months. Yeah, that's fine. So I should have led with the fact that I'm a sort of god-like wizard.

Or at least not have had to make us push so hard and dig so far to discover it. Because it is, I would argue, and feel free to disagree, I would argue it's the most interesting, not only part of you, but of any, any, you know, real guests that we've had, any fan of the podcast. Well, maybe you didn't dig deep enough with them. Wow. Wow. Wow. That's, that's really interesting. That's really interesting. That's made me think. Wow. That's really interesting. That's really interesting.

That's made me think. And as we sit here and contemplate, contemplate such a philosophical realization, I think we'll... Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Wow.

Wow. Wow. Wow. All right. Wow. That's enough. We might leave you there, dear listeners. Sam, thanks so much for joining us on the podcast. That's enough. We might leave you there, dear listeners. Sam, thanks so much for joining us on the podcast.

That's okay. Thank you, Jimbo. Oh, that's all right. No worries. Yeah, thanks Jimbo. That was sick. Thanks, Mark. Very welcome.

Sam, we'll have you back in a few weeks or in a bit to introduce your new character. Yes. And what, how about you leave us on a cliffhanger? I like a little teaser what is the name or is that gonna give it away? One little hint one little hint the name is Bobby T Well, maybe we'll meet Bobby T and get to learn a little bit about Bobby T with a new Outlook on how to speak to guests and see if maybe they have the powers of a wizard or something just beyond fascinating has happened to them just by asking questions.

Thank you so much for being here. Thanks Ian. Thank you. Namaste. Namaste. Namaste. You've been listening to the Aunty Donna podcast. Thanks for joining us for another RIP episode brought to you by AuntieDonnaClub.com. See you next week!