The Little Dum Dum Club with Tommy & Karl - 199 - Allday & Josh Earl

Episode Date: July 30, 2014

Rap Battles, Stolen ARIAs and Public Urination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Adelaide mates, don't forget that we've got the live Little Dumb Dumb Club show plus both of our solo shows in the one night coming up on August the 12th. We'd love to see you guys there. It's at the Producers Bar and you can get tickets now from littledumbdumbclub.com. Also, if you're in Melbourne, our live 200th show this Saturday is now sold out. So if you missed out, sucked in. But if you still want to see some stuff, I'm doing a one-night return of my show, Pipsqueak, at Five Burrows on August the 27th.

There's two shows at 6 and 8 p.m. It's free. You just have to email me at tommydassolo.com and let me know what time you want to come along. And hopefully we'll see you out there somewhere soon. See you, mates. Hey, mates. welcome once again into the little dum-dum club for another week. Thank you very much for joining us. My name is Tommy Dasolo.

Sitting opposite me is the other half of the program, Carl Chandler. G'day, dear kid. Hey, I was away for the weekend, which I'll get into a bit later on but i used the have you ever used the long-term car park at the airport no no i i i'm not doing that well so no i wouldn't be yeah you got to be earning the big bunts to park your car for five days yeah 30 bucks for five days it's good oh really it's good right down there yeah okay yep um so i parked my car there and they give you a shuttle bus from the airport back to the long-term car park and there's a little kind of tv screen on the bus that's sort of you know because they've got bits at the front to store your suitcases and stuff and it's you know they're very particular about how

you know you put your suitcase on the racks and all that stuff so there's a little graphic kind of guiding you through how to store your heavier items and so it's all it's it's a little animation and it's sort of like you know someone's suitcase and then someone's travel bag and whatever and one of the examples that they have for like super heavy items is a little animated grand piano just like sliding onto the shelf which just blows me away because could they not think of a more relatable common large item? How often are people bringing a piano onto the shuttle bus?

That's for Tweety and Sylvester the Cat when they get on the shuttle bus. That's the sort of currency they deal in. But maybe that's a thing I'm not aware of. Like, you know, you come back through duty free. I just can't bloody help myself. I've always got to buy a bloody bottle of Jameson and a baby grand every time I travel. The amount of tax they put on those Steinways is ridiculous. That's why they end up in duty free.

Well, today on the show, we've got two guests we're very excited about. First of all, you know him as the host of Speaks and Specks. He's just done a weekend at Splendour in the Grass, which I'm sure we'll get into. Please welcome back into the little dum-dum club, Josh Earle. Hey, mate. Hey, buddy. I did the shuttle bus once,

and the bus driver were flying Qantas and just forgot to stop at Qantas. Oh. There's like 40 people on the bus who didn't get off and he just forgot to stop and had to go around again with everyone going, what, we're going to miss our flight. Oh. It was the worst because he's, oh, I can't stop. I can't stop anywhere.

I like that forgetting the big, like forgetting the biggest airline that there is. But the thing is he wasn't picking up anyone from Virgin or Jetstar. So there was no one getting on the bus. He was just dropping people off. He just forgot that there was 40 people sitting behind him all talking. Maybe he's like on the take from Tiger. Like they've just gone, just forget Qantas so that people get another look at the Tiger Terminal as they go past.

Also joining us for the first time, very excited about this. He's just released the album Startup Cult, which debuted at number three on the ARIA chart. Please welcome him to the Little Dum Dum Club all day. Yeah. Hello, guys. Hey, man. Thanks for doing this. Do we call you all day? Do we have to call you that

the whole time? That's how you have to refer to me. You can call me Tom. That's fine. That was going to be my first question too. Like how long do we keep that artifice going? But yeah, Tom. Tom Syne. Welcome.

Thank you. Does it then turn into, if people are calling you all day all the time, does that then turn into Olsy or Dayo or anything like that? Well, yeah, Old Easy.

Old Easy, yeah. Old Easy. See, I'm already worried we're in very, like just two men of my slash your age talking about hip hophop is going to get into, like, us just sounding like a couple of dads very quickly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It almost sounds sort of weirdly racist.

Oh, if I call you Old Dayo, is that bad? Old Dayo. That's Il Dago is what you're thinking of. What about Old Daywoo, the car? If they, like, came looking for sponsorship. Yeah, you know what? I'll sell out for that. That's Il Dago Is what you're thinking of What about Old Daywoo The car Old Daywoo That's a potential Sponsorship Yeah you know what

I'll sell out for that For a terrible car manufacturer Yeah But this is the thing So I don't know if this is Like a public People know this about you But you started in comedy

Because I met you In Adelaide One night Like doing the Rhino room And then Yeah And you were really good

And I was doing one linersers and then Kyle kind of... Yeah, yeah, yeah. He pushed me up against the wall and said, there's not enough space for both of us in this scene. It's me and Goblet and that's it. Oh, great. Because you were in a few years ago, or no, a couple of years ago,

you were in the Comedy Festival's Comedy Zone showcase, which for people who don't know, it's a thing that the Comedy Festival sort of handpicks a bunch of kind of new comics to do like a sort of a showcase show at the Comedy Festival. And, yeah, you were in that. And then not long after that you kind of – because you don't really do stand-up anymore, do you? No, I haven't.

It's kind of like I you know, I picked one thing because, I don't know, comedy does not, it's just, you know, it's like you have to think about it. You wake up in the morning, you think about jokes and, you know, I figure you just pick something. Well, that was it. Like, you know, I've said on the show before I run a couple of comedy rooms and whatever.

And like literally the last time I saw you was like you had just done a spot on a room and then you'd pulled out of a spot, I think at Spleen or something like that, you hit me up and said, oh, look, I'm really sorry, I can't do it. I need to concentrate on one thing. I need to concentrate on my music.

And, you know, now you're number three on the album charts. And so what I mean to say is, well, well, well, look who's come crawling back. Yeah. Well, yeah, I pulled out of, that was your room, Carl. Yeah. So, yeah, since on that day, Carl was not too happy with me. Yeah Well Yeah I pulled out That was your room Carl Yeah So Yeah I've sensed

On that day Carl was not too happy with me There was a burst of aggressiveness Coming through on the And you're like going Nah I just need to You know Pull out of the comedy gig

To focus on the rap music And Carl just desperately going Nah you can just do your raps At the comedy show That's fine with me Is it okay though Won't play my iPod or anything Yeah

Just do that Cause in hip-hop you're allowed to be funny in your lyrics as well whereas in rock and kind of like indie they don't like it they don't like it if you're funny because it goes against your like yeah grungy aesthetic yeah but in hip are you you can be like sometimes i am but you know the pressure to be funny in hip hop yeah is not as much as yeah when you're getting paid to be funny. But it's interesting because I think, you know, a lot of comics do like hip hop. And I kind of think that there are a lot of similarities in them.

Like they're both, you know, like rhythm and timing and use of language and stuff. Like very common throughout both of them. And they've got comedy skits on their albums. Yeah. Yes. Exactly. Are you going to do any of that? I didn't.

I haven't. I don't know. Like I remember when i was writing one-liners though sometimes i would like write a joke and be like this could be a joke or a rap yeah pick it please never do it like the skits in hip-hop albums what a dated like you know it's like the first time you listen through you're like this is cool and then you go i'm never gonna listen to these, this is just wrecking a party when you've got it on random. Wake up, Mr. Worst. He had a lot of skits in that album. Yeah, that album, College Dropout, had like four, I think.

Yeah, I dug out Stankonia, the Outkast album to listen to again before we went to Splendour in the Grass this weekend and none of the skits on that are even good the first time. They're all atrocious. They're really really bad but like you probably could like you know you've got a bit of a comedy back and you were good at comedy like if anyone was going to bring it back and do it well i would argue that it could be you yeah i don't know i think skits are dead in the age of itunes you know yeah people

barely listen to albums in fall anyway just chop up this podcast and put it in installments in between the tracks On the next album I like that In the idea of A tradition of hip hop When they talk about people Rappers' upbringings from the streets And whatever, where it's Bronx Or East LA or Detroit or whatever And I love that, because you're from Adelaide

I think it would be awesome If you were doing more raps about Adelaide. Yeah. Adelaide has got some, you know, Snowtown. I wasn't actually part of Snowtown. Thanks for clearing that up. Born in 1991. Worth pointing out that you weren't a part of Snowtown.

No, not active in Snowtown. But a lot of bad stuff goes down there. You could do a whole rap on just 24-hour bakeries. I'd like to see that. There's three of those in Adelaide. Yeah. Oh, we know. I'd like to pitch some lines in case you ever do that.

All right. Here we go. Carl's been spending his Google history show, the rhyming dictionary and Glenelg, I reckon. Well, hear me out. I got more rhymes than Barossa Valley's got wines. Oh, Christ. There you go.

There you go. Christ. My name is Carl and I'm here to say. Hey, Carl, you know how it's really annoying when you do a... I've got two to go. No, I know. You know how it's really annoying when you do a stand-up gig and someone comes up to you and goes,

I've got a couple of funny jokes that you can use in your act if you like. I'm well aware this is annoying. Don't worry about that. No, let's hear these. I got bigger brass balls than the ones in Rundle Mall. Oh, yeah. Brass balls? Yeah.

Is that saying that it's good to have as a human? Yeah, I think when you say you have big balls. It means like I'm a, okay. Yeah, but you're saying it's the material. It's not just the size. It's the brass. The brass. The fact that they're made out of brass. That just means you're cold, doesn't it? If you've got brass's the material It's not just the size It's the brass The brass The fact that they're

Made out of brass That just means you're cold Doesn't it If you've got brass I don't know I've never heard that expression Anyway continue Number three

Okay sure You're zero for two So Well Lucky for me I close strong So I'd rather kiss your daughter

Than drink Adelaide's water Now that's Hey that's actually good That's actually good Adelaide water has a Weird tang to it, doesn't it? Yeah. It's good. And Perth water.

Because you grew up there. Yeah. Because I can't imagine what that's like having that as your default water taste. Well, you don't know anything else. Yeah. So I drank that my whole life. And then I came here and I drank what is known around the world as water. Yeah.

And now I go back and I just have to drink out of one of those cardboard boxes. Yeah. Out of a cardboard box? It's called boxed wine. You're drinking goon. You know, like Mount Franklin or one of those boxes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's not really water either, that stuff.

Goon. That's pretty cloudy as well. Yeah, again, just doing those rhymes, That's pretty cloudy as well. Yeah, again, like you're just doing those rhymes. I'm petrified of just sounding like the most uncool people. Oh, yeah. I'm channeling my dad right now. I was thinking about this this morning.

There's a friend of ours who used to work on Triple M and he told me one time he was walking through the corridor while Eddie McGuire was on the air and he heard this snippet of Eddie McGuire cutting to a song and going, coming up next we've got a song by the band Fallout Boy. It's a pretty odd name for a band, isn't it? Anyway, good on you lads, here it is. I just think of that any time I'm trying to talk about music

and sound cool where I go, that would be my nightmare to have someone overhear me talking like that. Never say, this is a very easy easy tip never say that's a weird name for a band because it never is yeah whatever it whatever it is is a normal name for a band what would eddie mcguire name a band you know yeah well i don't know but another triple m story is uh tony martin was he introduced the band root who is damien from tism and he introduced him on stage just going oh this is the band Root, who is Damien from Tism, and he introduced them on stage. He's going, oh, this is the band, my favourite band, blah, blah, blah. But he said he tried to get them, this is when he was working on Triple M,

he showed it to the bosses and he played a song and the boss just went, well, it's no Fallout Boy. And Tony was like, exactly, this is why we should be playing it. No, but that was what the Triple M sound was like five years ago, Fallout Boy. Tom, because I saw a thing you put on Facebook the other day about how you've got like aims for the year. So like, and you've knocked off like quite a majority of those already. What did you have like a... You know, that's a heavily edited list.

Oh, really? That was a real list. That was just for Facebook. That was like the, I'm going to cut off this one, I'm going to cut off, you know, tongue kissing Alicia Keys. All these ones that I wasn't going to get this year. Just tongue kissing. So if you get just a proper little smooch on the lips, you're going to be unfulfilled.

Stop short of fingering. So you have like 10,000 Facebook likes? 100,000. 100,000, sorry, sorry. Sorry. Well, I earned them so yeah sure what were the other ones so um um debut at no did you have an aim for what number you debut at or i wanted see i didn't write that on the edited list but um yeah i was going for top

i should have put that in because i got it i wanted a top five. It's easy to write an aims list once you've done it. Yeah. Dumb Dumb Club, yes. Yeah. But yeah, so I had to cut a lot off because I just didn't want everyone to go, well, you missed all these. You're an idiot. Yeah. Yeah.

You suck. Still six months almost to go. What is it? Five months? Yeah. I don't know. Have you been asked yet to go and perform at your school you know what i don't know you guys know the comedian amos gill yes see we went to the same school right and so i'm good friends with him um but i went in raw the year before amos and then i

got a call from the school saying we've got this assembly and amos hadn't been in raw yet amos went on to i think do the same thing as I did in Raw, which was come second. But I got a call and she said, it's this lady from the school. I just want to know if you can do this. Come and do five minutes at this big assembly and there's all going to be old scholars and Olympians from the school there.

I'd really love you. It would be terrible, but I'd really love you to do it because Amos has pulled out. And I was just like, no, that's not. I like the idea of like you with Robert D. Costello. And they go, can you do a rap with him? Well, because I've been talking the last couple of weeks on this show.

I got asked to go back and do a comedy night at my school, which just seemed like it was going to be the worst thing of all time. And it was meant to be coming up this coming Friday. And I got an email while I was away over the weekend from the guy organising it saying, look, you know. We got Amos. Yeah. Due to a whole bunch of things we're going to have to, you know, cancel it, thanks for your time and everything.

But the subject line of the email was bad news. I went, not for me, it's not. Like I read that and went, oh went oh fuck the gig's happening then was that gig for the kids or for the just parents it was a fundraiser it was a fun yeah it was going to be at night it was going to be a fundraiser so it could have been okay it was better than it was better than being asked to go to like had a better chance of being good than if it was to be going into an assembly yeah but yeah it's oh it's the ultimate nightmare i'm so really because that was going to be my next thing as soon nightmare i'm so really because that was going to

be my next thing as soon as i go back from splendor was going all right i've got four days how can i get out of going to my school on a friday night and doing comedy that would be the ultimate though wagging that gig yes the final wag smoking cigarettes around the corner um so when you were doing tom when you were doing, Tom, when you were doing the comedy festival a couple of years ago, I remember a couple of people saying that they went and watched you do like a freestyle battle thing in Melbourne. Was that a thing?

Yeah, I did. Did you used to do a bit? Because I just moved to Melbourne in 2012, so that's when I did Comedy Zone. And the first thing I did was go to a battle, like a freestyle, like beat battle. And then like – you know, there's different rounds. So it's just – it's basically for you rad dads here.

It's basically like eight mile. Like, you know, you beat one guy, then you move on, you move on, then you move on. And that's like – so around that same time, music was getting bigger and I won that battle. And then, you know, I just ended up stopping comedy. Yeah, because I'm sort of fascinated with that sort of scene because I don't know anything about it,

but it seems like to me there would be a lot of similarities between that and sort of like the open mic comedy scene in that a lot of weirdos with delusions of grandeur and it's similar to comedy in that there's no barrier to getting on. Do you know what I mean? Like you don't have to have learnt an instrument. You just have to think you're good and go and sign up. There'd be hacks as well.

There'd be people like, you know, just saying before, you know, hey, my name is Carl and I'm here to say boo. Yeah, is there hack? What's like hack rapping? Hack rapping. So are you talking about hack in the sense of it's successful in a bad way? Hack? Not even successful, just shitty. Yeah, just the obvious. in the sense of it's successful in a bad way, hack? Not even successful, just shitty.

Yeah, well, people just bomb just the same ways in comedy. Like people come on and they don't know what to do or they're a bit crazy and they've just, you know, got off that, stopped taking their meds and they've jumped off on stage. And the same thing happens. And that's like why open mics are hilarious in comedy. And that's why it's the same thing as battles.

Like on that day that I was talking about before, I i battled like a 40 year old lady who yeah what was her name she looked like a cracked out j-lo and i don't i cannot remember her name but she went down in flame i hope it was cracked out j-lo that's actually a really good name because they always make it out like menopause they always make it out like it's just you find the faults in the person you're battling against and just pick at them kind of thing. Is that what it is? It is, yeah. When you've got a 40-year-old woman, what do you do? You must be going, oh, it's kind of like I'm battling my mum.

I can't really go hard at her. That's kind of what I said. You're my mother's age, you know, where's your kids? I had a tech for one of my shows, a show that Carl came and saw up in Sydney. It was a pretty tech-heavy show and the tech, she would have been 50, 60 and she just fucked up all the time. Damn.

And I felt bad going nuts at it. It's like I'm yelling at my mum for not knowing how to use the remote. It was like just that terrible, terrible thing. I couldn't. Oh, I see. Were you yelling at her? I had to nicely say, can you learn it? Can you do your job?

I went and watched in LA at the start of the year at the comedy store. They have this like monthly thing that's like a comedy hip hop battle where they have comedians rap battling and it's in this tiny little room and it's really like they just it's like some of the private conversations that go on with melbourne comedy on facebook it's just flat out sledging of each other it's a shame that carl's flow is not that good because he would be great at it he'd be so good just picking someone's weakness yeah but it was the one i saw was like there was this one dude who was great at it and he was up against this guy who was just like no good and so the the first guy was just tearing

this guy down so well like and like i didn't know who these guys were but you know it was just all people that sort of knew them in the room so just picking apart you've got your joke about this and that's hack and you still pretend that you've got a fucking girlfriend for your material and you don't and fucking oh wow you only get easy laughs by talking about this and really, really specific and just killing. And then the other guy would just go, oh, my name is Ray and I'm here to say that you're really gay. And then would like sort of turn to face the crowd as if like,

hey, here we go. And the whole like just booing this guy off the stage. It was really, and then they get judged on each round but it was you kind of what was a 40 year old woman saying about you like oh i she i don't think she rhymed very much she was very deluded some spoken word some spoken word just a lot of like gesturing and nervousness because the beat goes on and then they play it for about 45 seconds and if you choke,

you're just there in front of hundreds of people and you have nothing to say. That's insane. Because like in comedy, you can sort of go, you can see people probably think what they're saying is funny in their head. But if something doesn't rhyme,

like there's no delusion in your head that can go, nah, Orange sort of rhymes with Chakta. No, that's sort of there. Yeah, it's either rhyming or it's not. Yeah, that town of Orange has not got any good rappers coming from it. My name is Sam and I'm from Orange. Oh, dude.

You're out. Well, on your to-do list, on your aims list, I should say, you had a nomination for arias, I think. Yeah, so when do you find out? When's the nomination for arias? I don't know. I you find out when's the nomination for aria time I don't know I should figure that out yes you do

I honestly don't know it's in it's in around October Australian music month is October I thought it was October November okay that's not too far away

that's cool so have Hilltop Hoods released an album this year yeah because that's what you've got to think yeah so I'm they're about to release

an album I think they'll do it in time to win the aria that's why I said nomination yeah you. They're about to release an album. I think they'll do it in time to win the ARIA. That's why I said nomination. But Best Newcomer, you would count for? Well, Best Newcomer is across all genres. So I'm sure there's some hunk that will win that.

You should... That's it. If you build more skits in your album, because that's like quite famously the comedy category is very under... It's like if you release a comedy album in a year, you'll get nominated from naria so you could sneak in that way but not many people release comedy albums well they now accept dvds oh yeah which i think they now accept old american rosso albums yeah whatever's been out

in the last 10 years arch barker was nominated one year but you so you're a big chance to get invited that'd be that that's surely's surely going to be a good thing. To go there? Yeah. Yeah, that should be pretty cool. I can hang out with Home and Away stars or whoever the hell goes to those things. Yeah, Andrew G. You hang out with him? Andrew G.

I'm a vegan and he's a vegan. There we go, conversation already. How long have you been vegan for, very quickly? About four years. Okay, because my girlfriend is thinking of doing a month of being vegan, which if your partner does it, it's like, well, I'm probably going to end up sucked into this too. Yeah.

And I'm dreading it a little bit. Do you drink coffee? Yes. Do you have milk with it? Yes. That's where you'll fall down. Yeah. I can have soy milk.

Yeah, I'm fine with soy milk. It's Melbourne. It's the soy milk probably capital of the world. Josh, do you get to go to ARIAs this year? I don't think so. I don't think anyone – I don't think the ABC are forwarding on emails to me somehow. I don't know what. But no, I don't.

If anyone's listening from ARIA, yeah, I'll go. I'll come along. From ARIA. What is ARIA? Who is it? Australian Recording Industry Association. Like those nominations in a... Is it peer voted or is it a committee or is it... I think it's like industry labels and stuff.

Right. It's Glenn A. Baker. Yeah. It's Michael Gidinski. And it's Molly. It's John Michael Houser and Molly. And Wilbur Wild. He gets to chime in.

He's the wild card. Hey, Tom, I heard you tell this story on the radio a little while ago, so I'm sorry for getting you to repeat it, but about when you did comedy and you sent a script off to will ferrell is that a true thing that really happened yeah yeah because i came here when i moved to melbourne i was also doing like a screenwriting thing at rmit briefly which like i started and i would recommend nobody do because it's it's really easy it's about like year nine level work and i'd already taught myself like beyond the end is this the creative writing course and you have to send a folio in no it's actually screenwriting oh right okay um but it's

just really easy yeah so like the first i think i was 10 weeks in and they're like your first assignment is a 1500 word fairy tale and you can write about anything not even in the form of a script yeah you didn't even have to rhyme it either no exactly wow so yeah i was doing that and then at the before i entered that course i was like i've written this amazing movie yeah and i had envisioned danny mcbride and will ferrell i was probably like 19 as the leads yeah so i thought i'll send it to adam mckay and will ferrell yeah and they'll give me money and the movie will be made and you could totally get out of this fairy tale thing. Yeah, exactly.

So that's what happened. And then I actually did get an email back that said, yeah, your thing has been destroyed. Your script has been destroyed. They said, like, we don't take unsolicited things. We've destroyed it. Yeah, because I know, like, production companies are always very, like, if they say we read it and liked it and then in two years' time a film shows

up that has similarities to things you wrote, you can like you know sue them so they have to make a big deal of going no one saw this do they have to say destroy this seems like a pretty brutal way of saying we set it on fire we pissed on it we euthanized your script yeah yeah i've given myself a full frontal lobotomy just to make sure i never remember who you are but what was it about oh man there was a big there was a some plot issues with this script i'll tell you that much but they didn't read it so um yeah it was about like i honestly like it was just a coming of age story that's what all movies about nothing are called a coming of age story yeah um

like it was just these guys and they won this mission to find something and i you know i thought it was full of find something you can't even remember what it was no wonder they destroyed it yeah it was full of funny dialogue i thought but there wasn't a lot of character development how long did it take them to rip up these two pages of scripts it was 120 pages oh winded and like you know done in perfect like hollywood script form like you know there's all those specifications you have to make it as the font and everything i spent hours on it every day for months do you still have it i would have like it on a usb somewhere you should try and like you should try and like crowdfund to

get this up that would be the dream that or yeah rewrite it as skits for your next album and And, you know, if you win that R.E.A., you have it at pool, you go to Will Ferrell and Danny McBride and go, hey, boys, come on, do some skits in the middle of your new album. I like that it'd be like your 8 Mile, like Eminem comes up with that as a rapper. Your 8 Mile is Will Ferrell coming out going, we've got to raise money for the orphanage, everyone. Yeah, my pet project in a few years when i'm real rich will be making this crappy movie yeah finally bring it back well you know like uh seth rogan wrote

super bad when he was like 16 or something like he he wrote it yeah he originally wrote it for himself and his mate and then it just sat around for years and then by the time he got big enough that he could make it happen he's too old to play the characters. But, you know, that's a great story that's probably given a lot of false hope to a lot of very bad young writers out there. Yeah, it's like that thing we've talked about on the show before. Like a lot of people say, oh, when Yuzi started, he wasn't much choppy comedy. And then everyone goes, great, well, I'm not much choppy either.

So I might be the next Yuzi. Nah, probably not. So, Tom, you've just been around the country supporting, well, not around the country, I think like two dates, supporting Lily Allen. Yeah. What was that like? Did you get much FaceTime with Lily?

The FaceTime was very limited with Lily. Like I accidentally went in her bathroom and I was looking at myself in the mirror just before I went on and it was like, it said artist bathroom. I thought, I'm an artist i'll go in there yeah but um and then she came in she's cleaning her teeth and she gave me her like little like you serious mate kind of look but not in a rude way just kind of like you know and i was like i'm sorry and she's like you know that's cool and then i just kind of tipped her down there and then that was it that was all that was the meeting with lillian that was it that was it oh really? But then apparently she handpicked me

and she sent me a little card saying thanks for coming on tour. So it was nice. And I did walk past her dressing room and see the doors open and crack. That's as far as I'm going to go. Damn it. You did say crack. It's good. Just to know that she brushes her teeth before she performs.

Electric toothbrush. I do the same thing You do? I can't, I've got to brush my teeth before I go and do a gig Fresh feeling now Yeah Do you, because it would have been that thing like Did you have that thing when you got asked to do it where you think

Oh we are going to become best friends And she's going to go, I'm going to fly you over to America to tour with me there It's hard not to, you know you get asked to do something cool like that Where you're around people, you just imagine that you're going to fly you over to America to tour with me there. It's hard not to. You know, you get asked to do something cool like that where you're around people. You just imagine that you're going to have some chance or even at festivals, like you're going to have some chance encounter with. And it does.

I mean, it does happen to people. Yeah, it does. And it takes you just going, because like she's around, but there's kind of this unspoken, like, you know, you just leave her alone kind of feeling. Yeah. It takes you just going,

I'm just going to go say hello. And then she just, you know what I mean? I'm just not that kind of person yeah yeah i'll just stay my little um but going back to arias yeah if either of you guys get the invite here's my plan okay i sneak on the rider with you guys because this is this is one of my favorite things about the arias yeah because you'll be our first choice yeah yeah i'm not gonna take my wife no tom's gonna take his friends because well this is what happened see i i grew up with um the guys at the avalanches right and so when they like that was a big thing it was probably the only time i've ever watched the arias when they got uh nominated like 2001 or something like that

this is what happened they went up to sydney to do it and what i loved was they had this crazy old guy that was like a percussionist for a couple of dates on like a tour didn't have anything to do with the album anything like that just just played cymbals and maracas on a couple of dates in you know warnable or whatever yeah and then they go to the arias they're nominated for like 10 awards or something they go there this guy rocks up goes here i am boys just like you know we all planned and they're like what he goes in there he's not involved or anything just and they have to go okay not only this he's like 20 30 years older than them and he is dressed in like one of those cartoon chinaman hats

like a triangle you know those rice paddies sort sort of weird hats. But this is a very, very, very white 50-year-old dude who's come in going, yeah, time for the Ares. Everyone there like, oh, geez, can you tell him? No. All right, well, he's coming with us. They go in there. They win four awards. So he walks up on stage with them four times going, yeah.

And then because he's not part of the group, they've, you know, Ares have organized like four or five however many Aria's there are And there's one short for every time They win something because he's not supposed to be there So they miss out on an Aria Every time so this guy He's just gone in and got four Aria's And then gone see ya mate

And gone back to Bloody you know zone three in Melbourne Where he lives. So this guy played percussion a couple of gigs and he's got four arias in his talk. So what, you reckon he's still got the arias? Yes, he definitely does. They needed to somehow say, you're not in the avalanches.

Somehow, that's exactly what you say. That's what you said. They did get him back by not releasing another album for the next 10 years. So he has to answer, when's the new album coming out? And he goes, oh, I don't know, guys. I'm not really going to talk to the guys. That's just to keep away from him.

Just to make sure he doesn't win any more Arias. They probably do think we'll be winning more of these within another two years when the new album's out. So that's not a big stress. They're just waiting for him to die and then they'll put out another one. Oh, is that the scoop? Scoop direct from the avalanches. Oh, I love it.

They're pretty evil. Well, me and Josh were just at, I mentioned this briefly before, we've just been, we spent the weekend at Splendour in the Grass. Yes. It's pretty much a whole weekend in each other's company. We did, yeah, we hung out a lot. It was good. It was nice.

We did, so we were doing comedy in the Forum Tent stage. Yes. Which was a lot of fun. And then, yeah, what was your highlight? What was your highlight, Josh, of the weekend? I like – Bands was Courtney Barnett. My highlight, though, was – I'll just go straight into this so you don't railroad me and bring it up anyway.

Me and Dave Quirk and – Friend of the show. Yeah. Cam Knight and John Conway all went and watched – and Becky Lucas all went and watched Khalees. My milkshake. Yep. Yep.

Yep. And as we were walking there, you had to walk a fair way, and I accidentally just brushed hands with this woman because it was heaps of people. I said, oh, sorry, held your hand there. And then she turned on me and she's obviously peeking. She was so off her face and just stared me down, like looked straight and wouldn't leave me alone for the next two hours.

It was just like, oh, my God, I'm going to take you home. And I'm like, oh, no, I'm married. I've got a kid, blah, blah, blah. And then she goes, I've got a kid too. And I'm like, how old are you? And Dave was like, no, actually Dave Quirk said, how old are you? And she went, 22. He's two and a half. And I'm like, no, actually Dave Quirk said, how old are you? And she went, 22. He's two and a half.

And I'm like, okay. And so she went, me, Cam and Dave tried to pick us all up and just would go from one to the next to the next to the next for the next two hours. Although Cam did leave very early. He was like, no, I've got to go. I can't deal with this. Whereas Dave Quirk was very much enjoying it.

But he said to me, if I was on my own, I probably would have taken her back to the tent. Stitch him up. Because the reason I feel comfortable doing that, because he then the next day put a photo of me and her talking on Facebook. And my wife was at home with gastro going, oh. So I was just thinking, if she checks Facebook, she sees me having a great time with this woman who's very, very scantily clad.

And both of you are blurry in the photo, which suggests that something's either about to happen or just happened. It's a bad photo. As if your wife's going to check Facebook. If she's got gastro, she'd be in bed just, oh, no, that's exactly what she'd be doing. But yeah, it wasave not having any idea

that that's not something he should do yes putting it on and that was the only night i drank as well so that was my messy night it was when we saw outcast and uh the other thing was the next the next because so you tom you would have been you i guess you've performed at a couple of festivals now and i'm taking it you would have been along as a punter many times over the years. The Saturday morning, because you were staying off site, Josh, and I turned up to the little kind of artist area where all the comics were,

and the story that was being told was that in the middle of Outcast, you had knelt down on the ground and just started pissing because you didn't want to go to the toilet. And then the bit that I thought I'd done... Making a little stanchonia patch of your own. And the bit that made me think, I don't know if I want to believe this just yet, but I also really want to believe this because it's so good,

is that after you were done pissing you saluted into the air with one hand and yelled out Spicks and Specks! And I heard this and I looked, look I'm going to give Josh the benefit of the doubt here. I don't want to start rumours that are untrue and then you turned up and

you just, you copped to your credit, you copped to all of it. Yeah. You admitted all of it. I did. It was so packed. There was like 20,000 people trying to see Outcast. And I'm like, if I leave this spot now,

there's no way I'm finding anyone else. And I was there. And Dave Quirk also pissed in a can. And, yeah, it was just no one noticed. It was fine. It was just there was so much piss and vomit on that site that no one cared if, yeah, I did that. Well, the thing that got relayed to me was that you were all standing on a hill and Greg Larson was saying to me, you know, there were a bunch of young girls dancing in front of us. Yeah.

And it would have gone downhill and they would have been dancing in your piss. It was a grass hill. It would have just absorbed into the earth. It wasn't like we were on a cement. Someone gets like a flick of urine on them. What was that? Oh, it was Joshua on the grassy knoll. Can I wipe this off and sell it on eBay?

Dave was the second shooter. Have you ever had to do any kind of sneaky backstage anything like that? Yeah, I'm always weeing in bottles. Yeah, really? Backstage because sometimes there's no toilet and you can't ruin the illusion of the magic. Lily Allen won't let you piss all over her bathroom and you've got to do it in a bottle. Exactly, yeah. Wine bottles, whatever.

I've done it heaps of times. Really? But not near 20,000 screaming young girls on my knees. What song was it during? No, it was before that even started. Were they screaming before you started pissing? It was before that started So it was that thing of going Everyone's still piling into this area

Because you were down the front And I went I left you I said I'll go get a beer from backstage And I come out And I just thought I'm not going to I won't get in Just say you

And so I saw all those guys So I went back out And then yeah that's that's what I didn't know at the time was that night on the way home and I didn't know any of this until the next morning but on the night you sent a tweet out saying oh I'm on a bus leaving outcast I'm 33 years old and I'm on a bus and I'm like mate you're just pissed all over the floor that's bad at any age, let alone 33. You can take a bus whatever age you want. It is that thing of being on a bus. Buses aren't for babies. No, but you just feel like you haven't made the best life choices if you're on a bus.

Oh, wow. Especially when you're performing at the festival. Maybe lots of people go on buses just to not pollute or whatever. I know, but it's that thing of going, I don't know. It's the thing of going, I reckon when you were pissing, I shouldn't be pissing

in a field and catching buses. Yeah, I reckon they're pissing. That's what I believe. I don't have an issue, I just have an issue with you complaining

about the bus. It's more you should have focused on the bus. If Specs and Specs was still on, the festival would have had some respect and given you

your own golden bottle to piss into during all the gigs. Given you an honorary aria to piss in. David Quirk, though, David Quirk was like, he personifies the idea of live every day like it's your last. More than anyone else I've ever met. No, it's more like live every day like it's your first

because he has no idea what's going on. Like it's your first day on earth. You would have met David Quirk? I have, yeah. He just, every day he would say to me multiple times, It's your first day on earth. You would have met David Quirk. I have, yeah. Every day he would say to me multiple times, Tommy, are we on the same flight home? And I would go, I don't know, Dave, what time's your flight?

And he'd go, I don't know. This would happen five times a day for three days. He is just adrift in the world. He has no idea what's going on And he would definitely have thought That you should know What his flight details are as well Yeah Yeah exactly

Why don't you know? No why don't you know Dave? The other great conversation I had I witnessed too was Tommy and Dave Trying to Tommy trying to explain Who Lily Allen was to Dave

Like Dave just going So this girl She's English She swears a lot Is that her thing? She's the cutesy girl who swears. And we go, yeah, that's her. And he goes, oh, I've got to see this. Like it's

a travelling freak show or something. Like you wander up and she goes, oh, fuck. So we talked a little bit about seeing Outcast, which was great. It's such a great show and they had a lot of visuals going on So we talked a little bit about seeing Outkast, which was great. You know, I loved it. It was such a great show and they had a lot of visuals going on behind them,

a big screen with sort of videos going on. And, you know, we're talking a little bit about the merging of comedy and hip-hop and stuff and nowhere was this more evident than there was a bit during Big Boy Singing, The Way You Move, and he had this huge video of this girl's arse just gyrating on this giant screen for the whole thing, which we were then talking about the next day. And, Josh, you came up with the idea of during your comedy set that night because we had a screen in our venue.

And a projector. Yeah. I was going to do the same thing during my set, just for jokes, just have jokes and say it. And so I went on YouTube. I thought it was just footage of you pissing on the ground behind you yeah just um yeah so i went on youtube and found just typed in uh slow motion booty shaking and found one but as tommy mentioned like big boys one was so highly stylized

professionally done in a studio my one was done on a webcam with the woman's drawers open and just clothes on the floor. But it was probably the highlight of my set because I did not do great in those comedy tents. But you did do that? I did do it, yeah. No wonder you're not doing well. Who's listening to you when they could be watching that behind you?

No, no, that was the bit that went really well. Yeah. And then when I turned it off, they were like, oh, put it back on. So what joke did you use with the butt? Oh, just a really old joke. I don't want to do it now, but Tommy's actually got footage of it. I've got video of it. With your permission, we can put

it up on the Facebook page and stuff. Put it up. Because it's quite great. It's a spectacular moment. I also got, this is one of the last things I have is I was in one of the artist bars one have is uh i was i was in one of the artist bars one night and there was some music and i was a bit drunk and i was just kind of like talking to someone and sort of pretending to like drum along to the music and this guy who i didn't know sort of comes over and you know we start chatting for like a couple of minutes just about

bullshit and then he goes oh so you are you seriously the drummer for DMAs? And DMAs are a British band who are playing in the festival. And so I go, what? And he goes, oh, just because you were drumming just before, I thought you were in a band. And I go, yeah, but why did you specifically fill out the band DMAs? And he goes, oh, just because, you know, just from looking at you, because, you know, they've got that thing going on where they all dress like sporty children. So I just saw you and at you Because you know They've got that thing going on Where they all dress like

Sporty children So I just saw you And I thought You know Which I then I've had a few days To process this statement

And I can't fault him Like without meaning to Every day I've caught myself in the mirror And I've gone Yeah if it had been today He would have been right as well Were you

Yeah Were you dressed to go to Little Aths that day Or like Why were you so sporty Yeah Yeah, it was softball practice. So yeah, sporty, the sporty child look, which is now... Is that an

actual thing for that band? I sort of looked, I googled, imaged them and, you know, there's a guy in a jacket and a hat. That's what you're wearing today. That's what I'm wearing right now, yeah. A guy in a jacket and a hat. Which lends itself to that sport called what? Yeah. And also being specifically a child. That's the bit. But I now yeah they got a jack in the hat which lends itself to that sport called what yeah yeah and also being it specifically a child yeah that's the bit but i i googled some pictures of the band

and i looked at them all and went oh i'd wear that i'd wear everything that that guy's got on so i can't right i can't fault him but i also like this guy watching that band dmas and just you know their fashion really sticking in his head I like the idea that he was just this super drum fan where you're just pretending to drum and he's looking exactly at what you're doing going, that is a drum fill from DMA's song. He's going, oh, he's spot on. Did he continue talking to you after you said, no, you're not?

No. Yeah, what an arsehole. It's like the bloody hi-fi bar, isn't it? Found someone else more important to go talk to. He's pretty desperate. Oh, I'm going go talk to. Yeah, it's pretty desperate. Oh, I'm going to talk to this guy. He's a drummer. Oh, no, you should be happy that he's not a drummer.

That's a good thing. Yeah. Hey, should we take a quick break? Sure. We're going to have an episode now of Australia's favourite and most longest running serial. Most consistent as well. Most consistently shit radio serial.

Good theme song though Rad Dad It's Rad Dad here and I'm here to say I'm just riding around in the Rad Dad way Gotta wipe your kids, the cat and the dog Now see me be right in your catalogue Yeah Word to your mother way. Gotta wipe your kids, the cat and the dog. Now send me the rat in your catalogue. Yeah. Word to your mother

cause I'm Rad Dad. He's the raddest dad in town. Rad Dad. How cool is this, Jenny? Your old man taking you to see all day your very first ever rapping concert.

To be honest, Rad Dad, I'm just excited that we're going to a live performance that's not some shitty 90s band at a Westfield shopping centre. Hey, say what you will about Aqua, but don't you ever speak ill of the Westfield Shopping Centre Corporation. Rad Dad, there he is. It's All Day. Can you please- Get his attention?

Of course, Jenny. Hey, MC Everyday. I was about to say, can you please not do anything that makes me want to kill myself, but I guess you've taken that option off the table. Hey there, old man in three-quarter length camouflage pants and a young girl who looks a bit like a sporty child. Are you guys coming to the show? We sure are.

I bought 15 tickets through your fan club pre-sale. I sold the other 13 on Gumtree for 80 bucks each, so it's been a great rapping concert for me already. Hey, just so you know, some of your fans are real gullible idiots. Uh, right, uh, right. Uh, well, even though you seem like a complete arsehole, your daughter seems pretty cool, so how would you guys like some backstage passes today? Wow, this is even cooler than that time I took LSD and thought I was hanging out with MC Scat Cat. Remember him, Jenny? Remember that day you learnt that opposites do attract?

Yeah, only because you're constantly showing me that full back tattoo you have of him. This is going to be so great. Hey, Weekday, do you need someone to come on stage to tell people about putting their hands up into the air? Hey, I got this great idea. Jenny, how about you come side of stage and your dad can stay out here by himself? Well, dudes, that's fine with me. I really need to use the bathroom anyway. Maybe I'll follow the lead of this character over here. Hi, I'm Josh Earl from TV Spicks and Specks.

Here I am, pissing into the ground in public. Oh, Josh! Rad Dad is filmed in front of a live studio audience. Oh, let me say this. This is a weird thing that happened to me earlier. I was at the supermarket near here at Peter Monty's and there was a guy who worked there in the fruit and vegetable section. He was getting like this styrofoam container and emptying things out of it but he kind of kept rubbing his, you know, that awful sound of like.

Oh. Yeah, that. That sound of skin rubbing on a styrofoam container. Oh, the least favourite. It was horrifying. And everyone in the fruit and veg section was just shaking, going, like this guy must have been like born in a lab or something, like bred to not have it, you know,

feel the effects of this awful sound that he's making because he just kept doing it and doing it. So I'm in the line at the checkout and there's a guy in front of me and as that sound's happening, he turns to the checkout girl and he goes, sounds a bit like my missus. And she goes, what? And he goes, that sound sounds a little bit like the wife. And she just goes, oh, yeah, all right.

And this is Peter Monty's, which, you know, I don't know if people listening know it, but it is. It's the supermarket with the least enthusiastic staff in Melbourne. Right. Like I reckon. It's a bit boutique-y, isn't it? Oh, not. It's just Fitzroy North. Yeah. It's always. It's a bit boutique-y, isn't it? It's just Fitzroy North.

All the checkout people are so depressed. I think I've talked about this on the show before. One time me and my girlfriend were in line at the checkout. We were putting our stuff through and trying to have a bit of a chat with the checkout girl and midway through serving us she turns to her friend and goes jeez, I can't wait to hand in my notice of

resignation at this place like in the middle of like like this see the kind of shit i have to put up with on a daily basis but yeah that oh man just everything about that scene was awful yeah right well how was he out his shit though i did that for like three years then you check out yeah really yeah it's awful it's so boring and you don't get breaks like you only get like when you're in a normal job and you need to get to the toilet you just go

oh I'll just go or if you're at a festival yeah I can't kneel down are you kidding you would have been pissing on the floor at Woolworths did you have any

crappy Adelaide jobs before you yeah I had crappy Melbourne jobs too I was at a call centre in North Melbourne yeah until probably maybe six eight months ago it's all blurred now but yeah it's um so long ago but yeah that was that was like calling people you know being like hello can i anyone between

this and that age to talk about smoking yeah they'd be like oh yeah maybe you know and then you'd be like for 25 minutes they'd be like, no. So that was all right, though. Was that number one on the aims list for 2014? Get out of this call center job? Yeah, that was, wow. Get someone to talk to me for 25 minutes about smoking. As soon as I signed the contract for a record deal and I knew that I got an advance to last me a little while,

I just went, no. I had work that night and I just didn't show up. They called me, I just didn't answer. And I just i just never went back that's great did you tell your boss no record deal no they just what i don't know hopefully you just missed that one shift and they were like he's out yeah well they i had a there was a bunch of bosses but some of them were pretty cool someone would come up to me and be like oh daisy like that's and then is the ultimate like then your album being used as hold music in the call center that you used to work for i used to have this fantasy that i'd call someone and they'd be

like you sound like someone i know like are you all day and then it never happened i had that a couple of times i worked at a burger joint when i was doing comedy and randomly like the whole time i worked there two people who'd seen, who'd seen my comedy festival show, came in to get burgers from me and it was just, it's crushing because they're like, oh, hey, we loved your show. Like with that tone as if to say we did but clearly no one else has because you're here. Yeah.

Have you got any more of those sort of perks? Like, you know, now you're like number three, what, your first week in, you're number three brutal have you got any more of those sort of perks like you know now you're like number three what your first week in you're number three on RHR yeah

because it's about the first week and then afterwards you never hit that again yeah unless you know you die or something fingers crossed

yeah because if you die then you probably go number one so that's pretty sweet exactly if you die and I imagine

you might have some stuff you're working on on the hard drive at the moment we'll just we'll just do a sweet Michael Jackson with your unreleased things and Carl can rap, you know,

Justin Timberlake style. We can sort of patch him together. Do a bit of a little less conversation sort of style. Nat King and Natalie Cole. Oh, yes! That would be amazing. Just us jumping on the back of something just going,

we're a little dumb, dumb club and we're here to stay. Yeah, is that the consideration now if you're a musician? Not just like starting work on the new album, but just making sure that you've always got enough leftovers in the bank that if you perish, they can put together the posthumous album. That should be in your will, who you want to be remixed by. Who controls it. Yeah. Who's going to be the guy that raps with you in the afterlife?

Okay. So this is taking a turn for the morbid. A throwaway comment. That's become you actually deciding. That 40-year-old woman who we beat in that rap battle is going to come in and – Yes. Yes. Yeah, that'd be awesome.

She needs it. She probably needs it pretty bad right now. Yeah. So have you gotten anything like in the last six months or anything? Do you – what's your minor victories of being known? Like do you go in and like get free fish and chips or anything? Or do you – is there anything that – There's little perks.

Change your life? Yeah. There's been – I've got – there's a lot of the fries. I don't know because I mentioned before I'm a vegan. But I've already said I'm vegan because people say, how do you know a vegan? Who would tell you? I've just made that true.

But yeah, there's a place, there's a vegetarian burger bar that have given me VIP so I can eat there whenever I want for free. Which is pretty cool. I love Lord of the Fries too. That is a good get. That's amazing. So if they're listening, let them know. Do you have a black card

or anything like that yeah it's like a VIP card it's got my face on it oh can we see it yeah and it's like can you get them to get me one of those cards just for the month

that my girlfriend is vegan for me and her just so I can go somewhere good with her because we've heard these rumours of like the Nando's black card which is just like

free wherever you go yeah in the UK you have to yeah see it's not a black card it's just a laminated you go yeah in the uk you have to yeah this is actually it's not a black card it's just a laminated piece of paper but it's still it says 2014 honorary law oh yeah he's a very vip i'm a very vip oh yeah you got your face on and everything makes me feel pretty special that is oh man i didn't even know they actually exist well they actually there's

like none there's like one or two who's the other one yeah so they have to i i do not know the other one but when i go in there they're confused they're like oh really like have you just laminated this yeah because it looks like something that someone would make up yeah and then they would go well you know who's gonna go to that effort it's just it causes a confusion if there's two of them so it's you and who's the other one i don't know i think i i have a feeling it's like Prince or something. The actual Lord of the Fries. No, no, it's Prince.

You and Prince. He's got a purple card. So does that just free Lord of the Fries? It's free Lord of the Fries. So I just go there. I'm going to like blow out. Because it's like, for the people that don't know, it's like a vegetarian McDonald's. It's like it's like the fast food joint yeah yeah

how does this how does this happen though do you walk in one day and they go all day he's like how this is like how does it it already has your face on it it's great i think well i did like a when i was promoting my album i wanted to um do like i did like a bus tour so we hired a bus and then we got like the dedicated fans. We put them on it. We drove around Melbourne and played them the album.

Like the real, you know, like the super fans. And then, so we called up Lord of the Fries and said, you know, do you want to give us burgers?

Yeah. And they said, yeah. And also, oh, that's cool. Like you're a vegan, have this.

So that, yeah. And it's sick because I, that's like a staple of my diet. Yeah. How many Lord of the Fries like a staple of my diet. Yeah. How many Lord of the Fries are there in Melbourne? There are a fair few now, isn't there?

It's spreading. There's like three in the city, one in Brunswick, one in Chad. Could have been a pretty cool album launch to go to every single one. Yeah. And at every single one, there's a different song off your album. Oh. To play like, yeah, and just do it that way. You just have to keep going and eating more shit all the way around.

Yeah. See, this, it just sounds like it. I mean, you probably wouldn't know this, but we have been campaigning non-stop on this podcast for the last year. Everything else you've said about your career has just withered away in my eyes. I've heard that. A bag of cards. We had Nando's get onto us because we talked about them non-stop

and we had all our listeners tweet at them. Yeah. And then they offered us like what a couple of bags of free chips and a few wings that's a slap in the face it was still great

but it was you know it wasn't we initially thought oh we're going to get sponsored by Nando's oh they're going to cater like you know

we had 120 people at our show or whatever they're going to do it was like oh here's a couple of nuggets oh yeah that's cool as well I guess

and we had to go and get them well no no we didn't there as well, I guess. And we had to go and get them. Well, no, no, we didn't. There was a point where we were going to have to go and get them and the store was nowhere, nowhere near us. You know what? I'm willing to lower my standards to any fast food in poor areas. I want to get some form of black card like that. That's my aim for the rest of my life.

That's it. I'm putting up a to-do list for 2014 and beyond and there's only one thing on it and it is a black card at any fast food restaurant. It doesn't even have to be a chain, just a local crappy suva joint that's no good. I just never want to pay for a potato cake again in my life. That's what I want. It never feels good, forking out for a potato cake.

Oh, man. So if you're somewhere now and you want to get food and there's not a lot of the fries nearby, you just shit, you're somewhere now And you want to get food And there's not a lot Of the fries nearby You just I've got to pay for I've got to pay for my food Like a real player

So that's what you two need to Target the little business Because Nando's They've made their money They don't need to sponsor you guys They only need to target A little independent No but the little independent

Noticed that missing And you know That's a small thing Whereas the Nando's They wouldn't know If we got six burgers a week they wouldn't feel that six a week

yeah if you talk about you're planning almost every day I'm aiming low if you talk enough on your show about Wobbsies

fish and chips all your listeners will go there they'll be making their money you two just rocking yeah we're making like it's the run

DMC with Adidas they said they did their song My Adidas and then went in after we've just made you a million dollars. Very comparable. You're right.

Yeah, we've got to get... Maybe we should find a smaller place and start aiming lower. Okay, yeah. Somewhere near Five Burrows where we do live shows that we can... What about Zambrero? The burrito place. That could be the right size because they're in between. They're smaller than Nando's, but they're still kind of nice.

How about that bakery in Elsternwick with the no pies? Frank's Pies. Frank's Pies. Oh, yeah, we're going to get free no pies for the rest of our lives. Great, great. Tom, you've got like – I've just sort of noticed from your stuff on Twitter and Tumblr and whatever else, you've got a very passionate fan base. I think I heard you talking earlier in the year you were doing,

was it like a signing? Was it Groove in the Moo? And like people were trying to jump the fence to get over there or something? Yeah, that happened at a Groove in the Moo. Like the signing, like when you do festivals, they'll do signings, but there'll be like a 15-minute allocation period. And as Groove in the Moo, that was like a bit of a turning point. A lot more people were just like starting to notice my music and we would go over the allocated time so we did like

instead of 15 they'd allocate 30 and then after that we weren't done yep and then i'd had to go and then people just started jumping the fence yeah and like girls like a girl like fell on top of me and like like these like getting in danger or whatever and the security like was holding the fence and it was all very oh very hectic and that's happened a bunch this year have people been bringing you like gifts and stuff like that at these things yeah yeah food food people people are bringing me skittles because i wrote on some joke bio that i did i wrote oh like i eat a thousand packets of skittles for breakfast every morning and then everyone has just brought me skittles recently

oh there you go That's pretty good Again, more free food Yeah, free stuff Is anyone bringing you Lord of the Fries? And you're like, yeah, good one I've already got the card Thanks for nothing, dipshit Save your money

Yeah, how about a shop that I don't get for free? Yeah, that would be amazing Do you have a partner? Do you have a... Nah, I'm a sangle Yeah, right So, does it get does it get pretty hectic

does it get girls here we go um I'm only recently like split up but uh I split up

like I'm an adult like like um yeah but nah it's it's kinda hectic but like it's

I don't know like I'm not really I don't really like rail groupies or anything oh no no but there's excellent you I love the term rail by the way that's disgusting i can't excellent i gotta say that's the first time in my life i've said rail really i was just trying to impress a room full

of guys yeah yeah no you did well you won one you won this you you won the sporty child over that's a lot walking out of this room tonight thinking Rail and Free Lord of the Frost Well that's This is one last thing that I saw at Splinter That I very much enjoyed Because I don't know if you felt this Josh But you know you go to a thing like that And I kind of feel like yeah I know all the bands on this bill And I'm on at this music festival

You know I'm cool I'm with it And then you go there and you're just surrounded by Pissed roided up 20 year olds And you you go, oh, I'm David Attenborough. I'm never feeling this from the outside looking in. I have never felt more dweeby and pale than it's been in the grass. It was just so many buffed up bronze dudes. Really? Is that what guys do now?

Like is that a – I think it is. It seems like a thing. Everyone's on the peptides. Right. do now like is that a i think it is it seems like a thing everyone's on the peptides right yeah it seems like like it seems like guys really uh take a lot more care of themselves younger and really have got that thing where i don't you know when i was in high school i don't think anyone in my high school would have been to a gym no whereas it seems like that is a thing now isn't it yeah

yeah it was because back when i was going to music festivals as like you know 20 years old as a punt it was like just dudes in black t-shirts and jeans just being dweebs and just going, oh, I like this band. Oh, wow. And then now it's just like – It's all the people who used to beat up the people that went to concerts and now go to those things. It's a whole bunch of sporty children.

Yeah, yeah. Like when I went to a festival, it used to be like, you know, all the people – You've never been to a festival. We went to Harvest together. Oh, that's right, we did. I went to the first couple of big day outs. Oh, okay.

Yeah, it was all people that had been yelled at. Oh, when the Big Bopper was playing. Yes, yes. I saw Richie Valens die. His plane crashed into the second stage. Oh, wow, good get from them. No, it was great, but it was all full of people that had been yelled at cars all their life

by, you know, people saying, get your fucking haircut, you idiots. But now, all the bullies I think have long hair, have all the stuff that I like, that they would be yelling at in the past. Well, on the first morning that we were there, my girlfriend saw these two beefcakes in singlets when we were getting breakfast. And one of them goes to his mate, did you get a root last night? And then his mate just nods his head. And then the first one to his mate, did you get a root last night? And then his mate just like nods his head. And then the first one goes, oh, fuck.

Just like that, which is beautiful in its simplicity. I love it a lot. But yeah. Do you get a lot of – what kind of people are coming to see you at a festival, Tom? Are there – Wow. I haven't really looked at it in this David Attenborough way. You guys are just – A lot of different people

But yeah I've noticed like It's a very like buff gym culture and stuff Yeah These days Are you looking at the buff dudes at your shows? Not for me But I just notice people like my age and younger than me Like I have two younger brothers that are like

They're both like taller and more handsome and stronger than me Yeah So like they go to the gym and like You know take all the creatine and all that Yeah All the what? Creatine Creatine is that powder you gotta take before or after yeah all these new gym dude josh i'm not taking that i'm just i'm just going so i've got an hour out of the house to go and use the gym but yeah i am you're hitting the gym because you know i don't usually notice this but i saw you on stage the other day i went oh you've got guns now

spread that rumor out because i don't. I don't know. I'm better than I was, yeah, because I've been going six nights a week for two months. Do you go six nights a week? Yeah. Wow. I thought you only need to go three times. That's really devastated me. You can go as many times as you want, but it's literally 200 metres from my house, so

I feel guilty if I don't. And I've got an eight-week-old son okay and so it's a time to go out and actually watch tv so you're gonna be a couple months time you're gonna be this massive guy and it's like he really hates you it's just he needs to get out of the house and watch footy classified on on the oh yeah right just yeah run for an hour watching can you actually focus when you puffed out that's what I always wonder about. I've never been. Well, you don't need to focus too much though.

On Footy Classified. Yeah, they're not saying much. Yeah, you know, once you're done with The Wire, then you move on to Footy Classified because it's a pretty intense show. That would be awesome to watch The Wire at the gym. Yeah. What did he say?

Well, guys, I think that brings us to the end of the Little Dum Dum Club for another week. Josh and Tom, thank you very much for joining us. Thanks. So your album is out. Startup Cult is on iTunes and at actual bricks and mortar stores. Actual JB Hi-Fi. I don't think Sanity, for some reason,

people say Sanity aren't selling it. Really? Probably because they aren't selling anything. Yeah. Their days are numbered, let's be honest. You haven't released a computer game, so it's not that going they aren't selling anything. Yeah. Their days are numbered let's be honest. You haven't released a computer game so it's not that

going to be at Sanity. Yeah. So is it on vinyl as well? It's just about to be but I'm just trying to know how expensive that is to make. Is it?

Yes. It's like $8,000 for $500 or something. Anyway that's like very specific. You don't need it. This is turning into industry talk

very quickly. And you've got a tour that is on in what is it in a couple months October it's almost sold out Melbourne's almost sold out

yeah Melbourne's already sold out what are you doing in Melbourne I'm doing two corner hotels oh awesome that's huge

yeah that's right what's that five six it's like eight hundred eight hundred so yeah I thought I wasn't

gonna like yeah it's gone the Ronnie Chang of Aussie hip hop right here. Exactly. That's what I said before the show. I'm happy. I love Ronnie Chang. Everyone loves Ronnie Chang.

Everyone loves Ronnie Chang. You should get Ronnie Chang to support you. That would be pretty great. You'd need to... Yeah, the whole of Melbourne would be there. I'd like to see Ronnie Chang do some raps about backpacks and ergonomics. Josh, have you got anything to plug? I'm doing a Fringe show coming up.

That's a couple of months away, but I'm doing a new show, a brand new show called Square Peg. That's in Melbourne. Yeah, it's in Melbourne. And I'm up in Brisbane next week. Powerhouse? Yeah, Four Nights at the Powerhouse.

What's the dates of Powerhouse? Is it the 6th of August, I think? Right. Yeah, four nights at Powerhouse. What's the dates of Powerhouse? Is it the 6th of August, I think? Right. Yeah, until the 9th and then I'm in Sydney for a show at the store and

then down Hobart for four nights at the Backspace Theatre and then come back and do Melbourne. So I'm getting about, it's good. Awesome.

So joshurl.com? Yeah,.au. .au? Yeah. We've got the 200th episode of The Little Dumb Dumb Club is this

Saturday but it's sold out., but it's sold out. I think it's sold out. Maybe try and, you know what, try and rock up. If you're really keen, you don't have the money until Saturday, rock up and we'll see if we can squeeze you in maybe. But we've officially sold out. Let's scalp some tickets on Gumtree for like $400 and see how we go. Yeah.

We've also got the live show and our stand-up shows in Adelaide on August the 12th. Exactly. If you can't get in to Melbourne this Saturday, just drive to Adelaide. Easy. Yeah. Not the worst idea. Yeah. Good tap water up there, so you'll have a good time.

Yeah, all that information is at littledumbdumbclub.com. I'm also doing my show Pipsqueak for one night in Melbourne on August the 27th. Tickets are free if you email me at tommydaslow.com and I think that's it. That's it for Little Dumb Dumb Club this week. Thanks very much for joining us and we'll see you next time. See you mates!