The Little Dum Dum Club with Tommy & Karl - 256 - Sammy J & Randy

Episode Date: September 3, 2015

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Guys, this is it. Only a couple of days until our last minute live episode in Melbourne this Saturday, September the 5th at 4pm at the European Beer Cafe. Carl, what are we doing? Why are we doing this show? Let's do one because they're fun and because we've got a t-shirt to launch. We've got a brand new t-shirt. Just one?

Yeah. Just the one for sale and it's $400. Get in early. You don't want to be sort of second in. 7XL, so get on it. Yeah, so a bunch of you can actually buy it together and share it. Yeah, a few kids can buy it and pretend to be one adult in there. Yeah, you make your own Spiegel tent.

Yes, we've got these new T-shirts. They are pretty simple. They say, I am aware of the Little Dum Dum Club. It conveys all of your feelings. They look great. A lot of interest in it already. So this is the T-shirt launch. Has there ever been a T-shirt launch gig before?

I don't think so. We could be the first. Combined with the podcast, I don't think they've ever done that. It's also just an excuse for us to do our regular mucking around. We've already got a couple of great guests locked in. It's going to be heaps of fun. Tickets on sale now, littledumdumclub.com. We're implying that you are listening to this straight away

So yeah, if you are, get on to it If you're listening to this in 2017 You really fucked it Yeah I mean, you can come down But I reckon most of the shirts will be gone Well, very wishful thinking We've also got Adelaide and Perth

Perth is October the 18th Adelaide is November the 17th. Tickets for all this stuff at our website now, littledumbdumbclub.com. Enjoy today's episode and we'll see you out there. See you, mates. Hey, mates. Welcome once again into the Little D-dum club for another week.

Thank you very much for joining us. My name is Tommy Dasolo. Sitting opposite me, the other half of the program, Carl Chan. G'day, dickhead. Hey, what do you reckon about this? I went into the shops the other day to get some peppermint tea. I put the peppermint tea on the counter. The lady rings it up.

It comes up as $9. And then she hits a button and it goes down to $6. And I go, oh, what's going on here? Is it on special or something? And she goes, no, I just was listening to your podcast this morning, a bit of a fan. Yes. I'll give you a bit of a discount.

Yes. How's that? I'm getting $3 off my peppermint tea. How do you like that? Hang on, is there a podcast discount button on cash register? I should have went over to get a little look at the button. A bit of a friend of the show button there? Yeah, I liked it a lot. It was so, needless to say,

this is the closest supermarket to me. It's just a little mini-mart. Needless to say, I've been past several times in the need of items. Had a look in. She's not in there. I'm not going in. I'm never paying full price for anything in there. Tell me, let's make up a network of people that work in shops that listen to the show that are

willing to give just me and you a discount. See, this is what I was getting at. I want to know, what do you think is the strangest service that someone works in that we could get a discount through this show? You know what I mean? I like the idea that you go in and get your car serviced and the guy's like, don't worry about it, mate. Friend of the show.

Well, we're officially, the only thing that we've ever got, we've put out a play for free things in the past and what we got was a memory pillow. Memory foam pillows, yeah. That's pretty obscure. Yeah. But yeah, let us know. Let us know if you work somewhere. Which I still think was not an official like permission granted idea.

I think someone worked in a Captain Snooze and just flogged a pillow and put it in the post and sent it to us. Yeah, or they've come out of their paycheck. Like that kid in Brisbane who was like, I'll get you free Maccas. And then he was like, just take it out of my pay to his manager. Yeah. We're like, oh, send it to us. Yeah, or they've come out of their paycheck. Like that kid in Brisbane who was like, I'll get you free Maccas. And then he was like, just take it out of my pay to his manager. We're like, don't do that.

But pillows is pretty weird. If you work in Melbourne and you work in a shop and you can knock a bit off the top for old Tommy and Chando, we'll come in. Or if you're in Sydney or Perth or Adelaide, somewhere that we're going to soon, and we can just do a really good scab tour of your city and go around and get as many 15% off Manchester as we can.

See, that's it. It doesn't even have to be free. Just even the most 2% off. Because this mini-mart, to begin with, it's one of those kind of, it's a bit of a boutique-y kind of thing. Let's make a dum-dum shop a docket. That's what we want. But this place, like where I got the tea, everything's a bit more expensive in there

anyway. So realistically, all I've done is just, that discount has just knocked it down to kind of like a normal price and it costs. Right, right. But I'm still loving it. Like I'm not even getting a great discount. Also, the elephant in the room, what are you buying peppermint tea for, by the way? Because I like peppermint tea. Is that a good enough reason?

Nearly. What do you drink? You don't drink coffee. You don't drink tea. Anyway, who gives a shit? Let's bring in our guests. I imagine two men who may have tales now that they're on the telly of some sweet kickbacks.

Oh, yes. The world of the ABC is nothing but financial kickbacks. Just freebies on the taxpayer dollar. You know them from the new series Ricketts Lane. Please welcome Sammy J and Randy. Oh, yeah. It's so great to be here. Little dum-dum. dollar. You know them from the new series Rickets Lane. Please welcome Sammy J and Randy. Oh yeah! So great to be here. Little dum dum. That was some of the most high class

five minutes of begging I've ever listened to. Yeah, it's a slippery slope. Once you start, you're going to have to start mentioning it's going to be one of those podcasts with 25 minutes of ads at the start. Chucking a digital hat down on the ground and just tap dancing in front of it. Yeah, yeah. We want to be the human statues of podcasting.

Oh, very good. Doing nothing but getting money out of it. We had the opposite of freebies at ABC. When we were writing our show that you just referred to, I had my favourite Phantom mug. Now, not Phantom of the Opera, not Phantom Zombies, Phantom the Ghost Who Walks Purple Man. Oh, yes.

I've had it since I was 10 years old. Used it every day to have my little instant coffee. When it was time for us to depart the ABC, someone had nicked it. Someone at the ABC. And it was literally three months. I sent just a couple of gentle emails around. And then it became a bit more of a quest of mine.

And then Randy was going in there to do something and I got you to go to the kitchen and check it out for me. I went to the kitchen. I went to all the kitchens on all the levels. Undercover. And it's never returned. So I actually lost went to the kitchen. I went to all the kitchens on all the levels. Undercover. And it's never returned. So I actually lost out to the ABC. The cup who walks.

The cup that cannot die. So you're the one person that likes the Phantom. Yep, that was me. You're the one person that's kept it afloat. I literally massively. What are you a fan of? The Phantom comic strip in the paper? Or the comic book? Or the movie with Billy Zane.

I went to the premiere. Oh, wow. We went to where it was shot. Where were we? Was it in Brisbane? Brisbane Town Hall. One scene in the movie was filmed. We did a gig at the Brisbane Town Hall and Sammy walked in.

It was like he was at Graceland. Oh, my God. This is where Billy Zane stood and this is where it was awesome. Randy, your skin tone is quite similar to the outfit of the Phantom. We only literally realised this after we shot the series because Sammy reads Phantom comics in the series. There's a bunch of Phantom references. We managed to get permission to use Phantom in the series. From Lee Fork?

Yeah. From his corpse. Yeah, thanks a lot for reminding me, Carl. Sad day 1999. Oh, the cup's gone, Lee Fork's gone. No, but actually I sent King Features the photo of me visiting their office when I was 15 years old to prove I was a legitimate fan

and we weren't taking the piss and they let us use it, yeah. Because they must get that a lot. Hey, can I use your, your license thing in a thing? Now, just to be clear, I am taking the piss.

Imagine liking the Phantom. But yeah, we only realised like literally a few months ago after 10 years of working together. We walked off the set and it was like a few days later and I think you called me and said,

do you realise that you're purple and Phantom's purple? Because someone said to me, oh, that's funny, because they thought the reference was specifically because Sammy and Randy lived together so it'd be funny to put the Phantom in Sammy's bedroom. I was like, no, that's just what I grew up... Hang on a second. Wait a minute.

I grew up liking a purple man. What is it about the Phantom? Have you ever read any other comic books? It was literally, not in my defence or the opposite of that. You are on a trial here. I don't read the Phantom much these days. It's very much a youthful thing that I grew up. Nostalgic obsession.

Nostalgic little obsession. I've still got my Phantom figures and stuff at home. It was big a show bag. Was it show bags? That's where it started. I still got my Phantom Figures and stuff at home. He was big a show bag. Was it show bags? That's where it started.

I got a Fru Comics comic book in my Melbourne show. The story was called The Mob. I can just hear the sound of your listeners switching off. No, no, no. Anyway, long story short, I read it. It was just awesome. What I liked was it was fun. With our listeners, if you're talking about this,

that's their wheelhouse. We were talking about like real relationships with a woman. That would be what would lose them. Stick around, guys. We're going to have a dissection of snake tales after this. I think that it was the legitimate nostalgia because most of the great stories were written and illustrated in the 30s and 40s.

So it was just instantly you're just in this other little world. And then all the cool kids at school were reading Marvel comics, which were clearly better written, better illustrated, more violent. And better paper stock. Remember? The Phantom was that orangey. Yeah, it was on butcher paper. It still is. And better paper stock. Remember? The Phantom was like on butcher paper. It still is. You buy it still.

You can still, you know, your fingers are all just black from reading. The worst paper. You wouldn't even wrap chips in it. No. Just unbelievable. So, look, but I swiftly learned that I'd backed the wrong horse at school because no one else got into it. My one friend, Paul Cumming, dear friend, I got him hooked on the Phantom

and together we sort of fought the good fight for some time. Big shout out to Paul Cumming. Paul Cumming, dear friend, I got him hooked on the Phantom and together we sort of fought the good fight for some time. Big shout out to Paul Cumming. Paul Cumming. Great name. What were the Phantom's powers? Did he even have powers? What did he do? No, that's the thing.

He never killed anyone except in 1945 when the Phantom went to war and might have killed a quote Jap. So it's racism. Is that the issue that you got in the show bag? quote Jap. Oh! So it's racism. Hang on, hang on. Is that the issue that you got in the show bag that got you a little bit of US propaganda at the time? We're still in the fandom verse.

We still don't like to refer to the fandom goes to war issue. Very contentious. Apart from that, he's one superpower. It wasn't a superpower at all, but he wore, obviously he wears a skull ring.

I say obviously like everyone knows that. He wears a skull ring and when he hits the baddie, the skull mark inexplicably remains on their jaw for the rest of their life, which I think sort of doesn't really help the criminology sort of idea of mercy and redemption because someone just does

one bad thing and they've got a skull mark on their face He's basically like Batman without the money He doesn't have any powers, he's just a vigilante but he also doesn't have like a cool car or a He's got a wolf hasn't he? Yeah he's got a wolf but he doesn't live in the city either. He lives in the jungle with a bunch of natives who serve him. We don't talk about that a lot.

We don't talk about that a lot in the Phantomverse. The photo of you that you sent them to get the permission, are you blacked up in this photo? Hey, this guy's on our level. Was it you photoshopped into Hiroshima? Was it you photoshopped into Hiroshima? So the Phantom of Batman Is it sort of like a VHS beta thing Where just the right marketing got in at the right time

Because it's like One took off and one didn't It's whichever one Porno chooses Is the one that sticks the best out I remember my initial idea of the first glimpse of the fandom, I think, was because I think it was very much a comic book that your dad or your granddad would read. Are you into comic books? You read the fandom?

No, I don't. No, I'm not getting into that stuff. But I remember we used to go down every summer to Lawn to vacation down by the beach and just my first glimpse of the fandom was a parody T-shirt going into a shop and seeing a comic book T-shirt that says, fuck, it's the fandom. But with like P-H-U-C-K. Oh, great.

So it's not quite, so you can wear it at school because it's not real swearing. Yeah, yeah, and me going, oh, this looks good. And dad like, nah, nah, that's not good. That's awesome. I remember seeing a lot of the you know in the back of the TV guide lift outs had that always be the ads for those commemorative plates that you could buy yeah I remember there was

always had a phantom one for some reason he's a very crazy kind very likely because the new shops that was my heartland in Frankston they would have the Elvis section oh yes the Beatles section and they would have the Phantom section again inexplicably this I think not a lot of Phantom fans, but they've got deep pockets. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're the right demo as well. Yeah.

Who's those ads for those collector's plates that were like $500? Who's collecting plates? Sammy Jane Year 9. Really? Yeah. Had a mug, had the boxer shorts, had all the figures. Oh, so all Phantom stuff? All Phantom.

Right. Just Phantom, yeah. So you just had a What's New? You didn't have a Granny Maze? Oh, no, Granny Maze. I went to the city for Granny Maze, boys. Down to the big smoke. Yeah.

Oh, was that a big trip? Famous faces in Bourke Street Mall. That was, again, that was Marilyn Monroe, Elvis and the Phantom. Oh, right. Minotaur? Minotaur. I felt it was like, because they would have that sweet Phantom collection, all the Swedish Phantoms as well.

The Swedish phantoms? Yeah, the Scandinavian phantom, they like it almost as much as Australia. That's these two markets. I'm sorry, I'm just picturing like an ABBA version of the phantom with just four identical people. I'm just picturing now thinking of people who a minute into this were like, no, I'm not into this phantom talk. I'll just fast forward.

Surely ten minutes in they'll be done. And now we're talking about the Swedish Phantom. Hang on. Oh, fuck. These guys have got a TV show to promote. They can't be still talking about the Phantom. Let's plug something from 70 years ago. For those who came in late, we're talking about the Phantom

and that was an in-joke for anyone who reads the Phantom. Because every comic starts with for those who came in late and then talks about it. That's right. Because when it's just a strip. See how quickly he for anyone who reads the Phantom. Because every comic starts with, for those who came in late and then talks about, yeah, it was 21 generations later. That's right, because when it's just a strip, there's like a news... See how quickly he pulled it back to the Phantom. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We almost had an out.

I'm not going off topic here, Randy. We almost had an out. Okay, I choose to abort the Phantom conversation as of now. I just want one more. I'll give you one more bit. One more bit, which is, I understand the comic book of the Phantom, right? I understand that, how that's got a following

and all that stuff. What I hate is the comic strip, The Phantom. Yeah, that's what I was about to say. Because the idea of anyone doing, like some people bag Garfield and one of them, Garfield's great, Garfield's fine. The adventure strip is the turd on the comic book page. Yeah, yeah. Because nothing, there is no time for anything to actually happen.

There's three panels. One is what happened last time. Yes, exactly, yeah. The first one is like what's officially the only action of what's happening today. And the next one is a bit of a teaser of what's going to happen tomorrow. It literally takes the fandom like three weeks to land a blow and that's probably why Batman won. Yeah.

There's no room for any action. I used to read the Spider-Man one. It was like nothing ever happened. There's no room for anything to ever happen. Yeah, but the Sundays give you six panels. At least you can raise your fists during that time. And it's to be continued. Then he's landing a blow

and eating an orange and you're like, fucking hell, this is action packed. Thank God it's Sunday. Randy, what comics are you into? I was a Mad Magazine. Oh yeah, of course.

Thank you. The voice of reason. Yeah, so I was kind of just, I had a subscription. Oh, wow. I used to love getting the super specials. I've still got them all on my shelf at home. Yeah, but see, this is the thing. Like, I've talked about this dozens of times on this show.

So I was a fanatic. I was like, I was Sammy J level, if not more, with Mad Magazine. And so I've literally at home in Meribah, at my mum and dad's house, I've got a full filing cabinet full of Mad magazines, which I lost the key of in the bottom of Deep Creek in Carisbrook. Have you written a movie about this yet?

So has it been open? See if you've broken into them. No, no, no. It's just a sealed tomb of Mad magazines. You tell your parents that. It's actually just your porn stash. I wonder what condition those magazines are in in that safe. You know what I mean? They're all plastic bagged, mate.

Oh, they're plastic bagged? You got the little collector's things with a bit of cardboard backing? No. No, what I have got is a lot of GLAAD wrapped around Mad Magazine. Oh, really? That is awesome. Sandwich bags. You should try and get it.

It only takes one moth and that whole collection. Yeah. But it was the same. So did you have a subscription or did you go to the news agency? No, I went to the news agency. You should try and get it. It only takes one moth and that whole collection. Yeah. But it was the same. So did you have a subscription or did you go to the news agency? No, I went to the news agency. Do you get them specifically ordered? Because my local milk bar just wasn't into it.

I had to get them brought to the milk bar. And then I ended up just getting a subscription. They used to come to my house. It was the most exciting thing ever. I never had that and I should have. Alfred E. Ewan himself delivering it to your front door. But especially when you're a kid, getting any sort of mail with your name on it is amazing. So good.

Yeah. I got like Coronella. Do you remember Coronella? Yes, totally. Oh, yeah. Was that a country Victorian thing? No. No, it was in the Herald Sun or the Sun back then.

Oh, yeah, that's right. It was the kids' page on a Saturday. Coronella. Yeah. And I got into it a bit too late. Like it was a thing where you could get things sent to you. So I was like, that's exciting. But it was a lot of colouring in. And I sent to you. So I was like, that's exciting. But it was a lot

of colouring in and I probably got, I probably started doing it when I was like 10 years old or nine years old. Something where it was like, that's not cool to colour in anymore.

But that's when I got into it. So I'd get free stuff. I remember getting free stuff sent to me and then going to school and going, check this out, I got this free.

And they're like, how did you get that? I'm like, I coloured something in. You fucking idiot. I used to get annoyed by the kids' pages because I've always been into drawing

and illustration and stuff and sort of fancied myself a bit and I'd send stuff into the kids' pages and it would never get in and then the stuff that would get in would just be like a, just a squiggle, just a shit kids' drawing. I'd go, why? I want the glory of being in the kids' pages. You know what I mean? Yeah, right.

They thought you were some autistic elderly person sort of parading. Yeah, I reckon that's what they thought. That's what mum and dad would tell me to make me feel better. They were probably just thinking, adult did it. Thanks, dad. So we'll get off comic books for one second. I'm sure we'll be back in any second. But you guys,

you guys meeting together, am I right in saying that the first thing you ever worked on was you did a show at the Butterfly Club together? Well, that's the first project that Randy and I was you did a show at the Butterfly Club together? Well, that's the first project that Randy and I did together. But actually, we met at a comedy night on Smith Street in Melbourne. The wrong night. The wrong night.

Do you remember that? Kate McLennan. Yeah, Kate McLennan. And Josh Cameron and Mandy Mannion. So they ran a night and Randy was emceeing and I was just one of the guest comics. And so we've still got the footage, which is Randy introducing me for the first time. We had never met each other.

Ten years ago this month. Oh, really? Yeah. Do you shake hands as you cross each other on the stage and sparks literally just start flying off the hands? Yeah, it's like everything just happened in slow motion. Yeah, that's what everyone knew. For everyone in the room.

It's actually sort of we ignore each other at the start, but at the end, after I've done my Forrest Gump feather routine and the backwards song, Randy pops up and said oh that was fucking awesome that was your that was your first and only compliment yeah that's it that's since then i've just been get back to work fuck with sammy you have more footage of pivotal show business points of your careers than anyone else i know unbelievable like you have footage of your first gig on red faces i mean obviously because it's on red faces yeah you have this thing if first gig on Red Faces. I mean, obviously, because it's on Red Faces. Yeah, you keep that footage. I've got the one of Randy.

I've got, because my whole, you know, when I wasn't reading Phantom Comics, just like Randy, I was making films with my friends, you know. Like I've got nine hours of VHS stuff leading up to. Oh, your video eulogy is going to be fucking sick one day. I've already cut it. It's ready to go. I know it's all downhill from here, so I've already got the high point.

But, yeah, no, and then, you know, that specific. You know what, the early gigs from, you know from you know 2003 2004 it was pre-youtube and so a lot of sharks out there would come and film gigs yeah and then sell you still show you that it was a dvd still yeah but it was like hey 50 bucks or film your comedy gig that was how that's how i got the wrong night one i know exactly i think i know exactly what you're talking about yeah there was there was a there was a practice done back in the day where, yeah, you'd get a gig at what you thought was a good gig, but then they would film you and then try and sell you a really badly made VHS or DVD.

And not to mention the 27 hours of my life that Champagne Comedy own. Oh, I thought that that's exactly what we were talking about. Yeah, yeah. We were trying to sort of tiptoe around it, but no. No, no, Champagne Comedy was different because you got on TV at least. That was something to write home about. But this was a private gig that people would just sort of film. Champagne comedy, they would still do that.

They would charge you to go and get the tape. So just to be clear, champagne comedy was a TV show on Channel 31, on community TV in Melbourne. Community TV gig in Melbourne on Monday nights, the stand-up gig. Yeah. And when you got the spot on TV, it was very, very, what, very exciting. It was.

Very illustrious. Yeah, it was a highly sought after spot. Yeah, when I got the call, I was very excited. And I remember the first time I ever did it, I was about six months into stand-up and I remember ringing people and going, I'm only six months into stand-up comedy and I got rung to be on TV the other day and people were like, wow, that's awesome. And I'm like, man, that's sad in retrospect. Because for whatever reason, it was a show that people who didn't do stand-up knew about.

Yeah. Like people who didn't do stand-up knew about champagne comedy. When I was in year 12, this is like just before I got into actually trying to start comedy, I would stay up Saturday nights and watch it and it was like a portal in another world. Like, oh my gosh, people are here at a live event telling jokes. Yeah. And I got to know a few comics and stuff on the scene from watching it. It was a real thing.

Yeah. It's what got me into stand-up comedy. Yeah. And I got to know a few comics and stuff on the scene from watching it. It was a real thing. Yeah. It's what got me into stand-up comedy. Yeah. Literally because a lot of people are inspired by, you know, watching The Greats, watching whoever. I would literally go around to my friend's house on a Monday night and get drunk and watch it and laugh at how bad everyone was until my friend went, we've got to go to a live night of this.

We've got to go to a live night. And we went to this live night and we were just getting drunk. And we went there three weeks in a row until I thought it was a good idea to start heckling. And I was heckling. Do you remember what gig it was? What do you mean? Oh, you actually went to the champagne? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

At the Amadei. That is awesome. At the Amadei Live Night. And you started heckling. Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. Because there was some proper mental people on. So I was like, oh, no.

I was just crying, laughing and just yelling out punchlines and whatever to people. We have a lot of comedy fans listening and a lot of people who listen to this look up to you. Let's just reiterate, don't do this, kids. No, no. Don't think that you're better than everyone else and go along to shows and yell shit out.

Although at least, you know, Shaman Comedy, and I owe a lot to it, you know, but they never, one thing they didn't do was mic the audience. So you wouldn't have been heard on TV at least, you know, Sham Man Comedy and I owe a lot to it, you know, but they never, one thing they didn't do was mic the audience so you wouldn't have been heard on TV at least. No, no. The heckles wouldn't get heard

but neither would the laughs that you got. Yeah, yeah. No, I wasn't heckling during the TV bit of it. I think I was heckling because they'd only filmed the middle bit of it.

They wouldn't film the start or the end so I think I was heckling towards the end of the night when I was the most drunk and that's when my friend was like, alright,

you're going to be like this, you have to do this. I'm like, alright, I're going to be like this. You have to do this. I'm like, all right, I'm going to do this. I'm going to do stand-up. And then that was it. And now here you are. Wow. I just love the two Sammy watching and going, wow,

people go and see these live shows. Live comedy looks amazing. And imagine little old me one day getting to be. Meanwhile, Carl Chandler on the other side of town, look at these stupid cunts. Yeah, I'll show them. I'm going to go down there and ruin their lives. And it all came beautifully together when I did my first gig and Chandler heckled the

fuck out of me. Horrible night. No, well, here's a little bit of karma. This is what happened. So when I finally got the call up for Champagne Comedy, because I filmed two people a night, I think, and so I got the call. I'm like, awesome. I'm the second person on.

And that early on, like it's a five, ten minute spot. I'm six months in. That's all I've got. That's so I I got the call I'm like awesome I'm the second person on and you know that early on like it's a 5-10 minute spot I'm six months in that's all I've got that's all I've got that's all the material I've got so I get up there

I've got this tightly honed everything I've got chucked into this seven minutes and as I'm waiting to go on the set list

wheelbarrows moths balloons curtains so I'm about to go on and the previous act Does exactly

One of my jokes But I mean Clearly It's not stolen Clearly it's just a stupid joke That anyone could have thought of But it goes for like a minute And I'm like

Is that the one where you're wanking And your mum walks into the room No it's not Officially Let's get that on the record That is not one of my jokes So So

I go on there knowing That I've got nothing else But that So I just go on there knowing that I've got nothing else but that, so I just go on and repeat the same joke on TV, and then people just, you could just see the whole crowd go, what's happened? What just happened? Like, we're confused.

Is this how comedy works? People just go and say the same thing every five minutes? Oh, man, and just the whole, so I've got that on tape, just the whole crowd just going silent as they go, you just stole that off that guy from five minutes ago. You couldn't possibly drop that joke and be ten seconds down in your act. Yeah. No, no, I couldn't.

I couldn't. I didn't have anything else. Do you know the other joke that everyone made on Champagne Comedy was about the fish because after Champagne Comedy, they'd cut to the fish on Channel 31. Yeah. A lot of your listeners will know exactly what I'm talking about a lot won't

but they would just go to fish cam which was like every comic had some comments fish cam came back fish cam went off the air and then there was

a big campaign to bring it back Lewis from lessons with Lewis was like hosting it they brought it back with a host yeah

by then it had gone meta I guess but back in the day it was just literally people on TV just joking about the fish about to arrive On their screens

Yeah People How long Was fish cam on for like hours Did it just It always seemed like Whenever I turned it on It was just on

Was it a test pattern I thought it was overnight Yeah it was like Yeah right Melbourne sounds fascinating To anyone who's not But no but it is We are talking about

A video of a live fish tank Yeah but also If you're going to do It's like the low rent Version of Rage Like if you get home Drunk or stoned Or whatever And there's fish on TV You're going but also if you're going to do, it's like the low rent version of Rage. If you get home drunk or stoned or whatever and there's fish on TV, you're going to watch that. You're going to watch the fish.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I thought maybe the first gig, because what I remember you guys doing together was, was it the I keep thinking the wheelbarrow of freedom but that's not it at all. Oh, the wagon of friendship. The wagon of friendship. No, that was a couple of years in. That was a, I was doing

the wheelbarrow of freedom very close what's happening in that show that was my ill-fated attempt to do a variety

show at the Spiegel tent and so and I asked Randy because I was sort of out of gear

and said can Randy jump on board and we did a few we only did we only did that song

didn't we yeah we just did our song Ricketts Lane which is our first song we've written. I thought this was at the Butterfly Club. Well, I did.

I think I did a few at Butterfly Club, but the one that Randy, before that was Randy and I started a show called After School Snack, which was like our first weekly. And then we did another one. No, no, Sammy J's Week and Randy was the first one. Sammy J's Week and Randy, and week was spelt W-E-A-K. It was like there's too much going on in that title. It's very busy.

But you know how that came about? It's because we did it at the second gig we did together. Sammy was hosting and I was on the bill. But because it was at the Butterfly Club, Kate McLennan called me up and said the Butterfly Club wanted to have a cabaret element. Do you have any cabaret stuff? And I was like, no.

And then I found out he was hosting so I got his number. We hadn't even hung out at that stage. I got his number off McLennan and called him and said, can you just Accompany me on piano And I'll just wing it And we'll do a bit of Banter up top

Yeah so we started Just improvising And Neville and David Who run the club Were in the club At the time And Sammy You had a season coming up

I had a late night season thing And I was freaking out And they said Hey You should do it together The purple one That's an impression of Neville And he'd be proud of that

Yeah And then we just Then we just Met up at your place in Richmond and started writing. Yeah, and I got an email from Randy, still one of the funniest emails I've ever had. It was like the first thing. Hey, man, had some ideas. We need a backstory. How about we used to host a children's entertainment show in rural –

in Gippsland called After School Snack and then it all went horribly wrong when Randy spiked Sammy J's drink box and Sammy got his cock out on screen. That was our backstory winning. That was my first written communication from Randy. Wow. And it's from my old Yahoo account. And it kind of fizzled out and nothing came of it.

What a shame. Wait, Carl, what's going on? But Brandy and I have a sitcom. I like how you said that with shame. From my old Yahoo account. Still rocking Yahoo over here. Still doing it. Still got it.

Yeah. Because I remember I made an appearance in the Butterfly Club. Yes. You had little spots. Yes. That was at one of our late – yeah, that's right. That would have been one of the after school snack ones. I knew the only reason you were asking about this is because you're inserted into the story

in some way. I'm like, why is he so fascinated? I think that might be the first time we met. Yes. Probably. I don't think I'd really met you before. This was like 11.30 at night, drunk crowd, and we would be writing a whole new show every week.

Yeah. But we would never fill enough material, so let's get some friends and mates to come and do a five-minute spot. Yeah. Which is always a fairly jarring thing, because we'd gone from our jumping around, it wasn't like a normal stand-up night, and then we'd just send someone out into this drunk crowd.

Did you do five? Was it just five? Yeah, it was just five minutes. I remember, yeah, now that you say late night, I remember that. I remember sort of almost going to bed and remember, yeah, now you say late night. I remember that. I remember sort of almost going to bed and going, no, I've got to go and do this 11.30 stuff. And take us through your memories of the night.

Was it a good gig? Wait, very quickly. Was this in the days where you're still doing gigs in your pyjamas? Because if you're just about to get into bed anyway, that would have been. Was I? You were in your pyjamas. Oh, I may have been. I remember 100%.

That would have been the benefit of those if you're about to get into bed and you forget that you've got a gig on. It's like there's no change over time. You can just get straight in the car. Also, when I did my pyjamas routine, I had a bit of jazz music, so it would have fit in quite well with that. Oh, yeah, the late night cabaret. I could probably drag out the – I've still got all the cue sheets filed.

I would have Carl's CDQ number seven. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Light jazz. Yeah, right. Do you throw out anything? I'm a hoarder. But it's all digital. Yeah, not it's all digital yeah and it's all incredibly well filed i can go what were we doing in 2007 and it'll be like you were texting

me at 11 07 saying you needed some milk but why i have the footage why i remember this is because it was late at night and i was like oh this is a bit weird because you know everyone's on board with you guys i'm like oh this is you know i wasn't that far into doing stand-up at that stage i'm a bit nervous and whatever i'm thinking oh i don't know i don't know it's late people are a bit drunk and whatever what i remember the audience heckling the other act yeah yeah yeah what i actually remember from the gig was going okay maybe but i remember the highlight of my gig was the best the best heckle uh the best retort to the audience that i still probably have ever had which was

you had, and this is at 11.30 at night, it was so late, it was nearly midnight and there was someone in the front row that had brought along their baby that was honestly like two, three months old and I'm like what, and I think me and someone else were up at the back going, stressing going, why is there a fucking baby at this time of night

and I remember, I was going, oh god I hope nothing happens and I get up there and I'm like a minute in i'm like two jokes in or something and the baby starts crying and i'm like ah fuck and then i said hey mate shut up i don't come down to where you work and knock the tit out of your mouth and then it was like boom oh this guy's great and then the rest of the jokes was like oh oh, they were okay. It's like, haven't you got any more baby gags? What I love about that is for those who know the old Butterfly Club, that baby would have been practically on stage.

The front row, the audience's knees were up on stage. Yes. So that was – I think I know who that was. Yeah, you had a few friends with babies who would come along. Yeah, I think it was my ex-girlfriend's nephew. I think I know who that was. We've got to track down the kid.

Wow. Get the kid for an explanation. Because that kid would be like eight years old now. Yeah, he's like nine, yeah. That kid could be a listener of this show by now. And he's actually working full time as a titty sucker. We've got to line up an event where you sit there and the kid comes out and gives a retort back to you.

Yeah, yeah. And he's still breastfeeding from his mum as well. That would be good. Working full-time as a titty sucker. I stand by it. You've definitely cleaned that story up. I reckon the baby copped the C-bomb in there at some point. No, no, no.

I was on best behaviour back then. That was actually our final show at the Butterfly Club. They didn't ask us back. I made the papers, yeah. Local boob calls baby a cunt. No, no, no. It wasn't that bad. So you guys play housemates in the new TV show.

Now, I reckon, Randy, you would have had more housemates in IRL, in real life, than Sammy. Sammy, would you have ever had proper housemates? I lived with Fox. Yeah, Fox K. Melbourne comedian. For 12 months. That's right, you did too.

And I lived with a few other friends as well, same apartment. In Richmond, that's right. In Richmond, yeah. But no, back to Randy. I've lived in a multitude of share houses in this fair little town I reckon I've lived in every suburb almost Oh really? Well, not really

But a lot of the northern ones, heaps of them And on the other side of the river I've lived in I've lived in Richmond a few times And I've lived in Yarraville and Preston, Northcote, Thornbury, Brunswick All of the Brunswick's, Collingwood, Fitzroy. This is fascinating. Sounds like my train song. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, yeah. With heaps of weird fucked up humans. Yeah, awesome. I met a guy who's like my dad's age a little while ago and he was bragging to me that he's always lived on the same page of the Melways. Oh, that's awesome. No, that's sad.

That kind of bummed me out. It bummed me out a little bit. Like it was a source that's awesome Nah that's sad That kind of bummed me out It bummed me out a little bit Like it was a source of pride for him It's like Check it out And he knew the page number It's like What is that just framed in your bedroom

Map 59 Yeah An old man Live your life dude Yeah Cross the fucking river I live with a guy who used to come home And have a beer in the shower

I know that Yeah and then take a shit in the shower Oh okay And just smush it down the plug hole Yeah And he kicked me out after a week I mean you wouldn't I'm not happy I know that Yeah and then take a shit in the shower Oh okay And just smush it down the plug hole Yeah And you kicked me out after a week I mean you were not happy I like that

And he's in the same shower Like the beer and the shit are happening in the same Oh yeah No he wouldn't go into the other shower To take a shit No he would drink a beer while he was showering Yeah I was most revolted in that sentence

You go took a shit in the shower I'm like that's cool And then you said smush it As soon as you said the word smush That's the revolting bit Was that his like That was his post work routine So he enjoyed it Oh he would talk about it He would look forward to it Yeah a shit in the shower. I'm like, that's cool. And then he said, smush it. As soon as you said the word smush, that's the revolting bit. That was his post-work routine. So he enjoyed it.

Oh, he would talk about it. He would look forward to it. Yeah. I've got to say, a beer in the shower or a bath. But does that come up in housemate meetings or anything? Like no shitting in the shower? Yeah, I didn't last long in that house. Well, how did you discover this, that he was doing this?

He would talk about it openly Because I moved in there He'd already been living there So I'm like Oh I'm not going to I'm not going to rain On his shit parade So That's an established routine

I just used to avoid The plug hole It did get a storyline For episode four though Didn't it Yeah But you know what It was in Brunswick at the time

You know in Brunswick In summer time There's a few streets That have got frangipani trees Yeah And that smell Always reminds me of living in the shit house. Anytime I smell frangipani, I'm instantly just picturing someone schmushing with their heel, a dirty great big post work turd.

I remember when I was a little kid, I used to be so petrified of the plug hole, but I would have a lot more reason if I'd lived in that house. That's beautiful alliteration, Petrified of the plug hole Sounds really nice Yeah I had a housemate I don't think I ever talked about this on the show My last ever housemate

Like proper random person I moved in with I don't think I told these stories Was I moved in and he was extremely anal with everything And I moved in and I didn't have a lot of stuff in my house So he just moved everything in And then decided it was sort of his house. And the only thing I had in the lounge room was a fridge.

And I didn't have it plugged in because it wasn't the main fridge. And every day he would come in and go, what are you doing with that fridge? And I'd be like, yeah, nothing. I'm doing nothing with it. It's just sitting there. He's like, what are you going to move it? I'm like, never because it's a fridge. It's just going to sit there. Every day he would say it. What are you going to do with that fridge? What are you going to do with it? I'm never because it's a fridge it's just gonna sit there every day he would say it when are you gonna do that fridge what are you

gonna do i'm like it's a fridge it's gonna stay there that's what that's what happens what do you want me to do with it and so i went uh to perth and did gigs and i came back and the fridge was gone i mean what happened to the fridge he was like oh someone needed to uh borrow it so i lent it to them i'm like well that's not your fridge to... How do you lend someone else's fridge? And I just found out later, he just chucked it out because he hated it. He just threw away a fridge. The fridge of mine. How do you do that? There's a lack of sympathy

coming your way from the other three members of this group. I kind of like the idea that you left the fridge there to give him the shits. And he just bided his time until you left town. And then as soon as the front door closed, he's like on the phone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bring a trolley.

He won that round. He won that battle. But it was like, say this house, like every single thing in the whole house was his. The only thing I owned in that room was the fridge and then he threw it out. I have to say, if I heard the story from his side, I'd be on his side.

It's like, my fucking housemate has this fridge that we do not need. He contributes nothing to the house. It's just sitting in the lounge room, not even plugged in, taking up space. What's he doing with this fridge? Put it in a storage. You haven't mounted a very good case. I'm going to win you around.

All right. This is something he would also do. This fridge had been in my family for generations. Yeah, it has some of my family in it. Yeah, it has all my mad magazines in it. I'm trying to find the key. Yes. And he would also do this.

I would leave a bottle, like a bottled water, like a little 600ml bottled water, I would leave them in the fridge and he would throw them in the bin. He's got your own fridge. Put them in that. Who takes a bottle of water out in the fridge and he would throw them in the bin. You've got your own fridge, put them in that. Who takes a bottle of water out of the fridge and throws it directly into a bin? In like a court scenario, that is

not admissible evidence regarding the actual main crime of throwing. You're just trying to bring down his character now. I'm adding to evidence of him being a bad bloke. That's what I'm trying to do now. Sammy, you've actually studied law, so this holds up. Oh, all right.

This is a prima facie case of you being an arsehole flatmate. How? Oh, what, because I put water in the fridge? Sorry, everyone. No, that is weird. It's weird to throw it out. A full bottle of water? He didn't even tip the water out.

Is there a reason? No. Oh, he had some sort of OCD thing going on. Yeah, he did. Like, he just didn't want anything of mine in that main living area. But also you just heard a story about a guy shitting in a pub and smooshing with his foot and you go, he threw my water out. Where am I ever going to find more water?

But it is weird behaviour. I just want to say that. Well, yeah, we're talking bad housemates. You guys all just witnessed me get my housemate's name wrong. Oh, yes. Yeah. That was beautiful. That was really brutal. That was a bit of a, yeah, he really did take a shit in the shower there. Yeah, I really put my foot in the plug Oh, yes. Yeah. That was beautiful. That was really brutal.

That was a bit of a, yeah, you really did take a shit in the shower there. Yeah, I really put my foot in the plug hole, so to speak. Yeah. How do you defend that? How do you come back from that? Well, you didn't. I didn't. We all witnessed it.

You just went, oh, sorry, and then we moved on. Oh, sorry, I'm sick. Now, what I like, we watched the first episode of your show. Did you? Yes, I did. I honestly did. I loved it. It was awesome. You know what? This is the highest compliment the first episode Of your show Did you? Yes I did I honestly did I loved it It was awesome

You know what This is the highest compliment I will pay about your show I watched it That is a massive compliment Because I really don't watch anything Yeah But I thought it was

Very much like What I thought Is the best Australian sitcom Of all time Which is The Lena and Woodley Oh that is Show Exceptionally high praise Yeah we'll take that Randy and I both which is the Lena and Woodley show. Oh, that is exceptionally high praise.

Yeah, we'll take that. Randy and I both grew up with Lena and Woodley, you know, in terms of our influences and stuff. Yep. And we definitely, while the show is a poles apart, obviously, but we certainly, I think the one thing that they share is that they've just got no point to make about the world whatsoever. They're slow, so flippant, and there is no satire

or political commentary in our show. I love that, yeah. It's just world. Yeah. So flippant. And there is no satire or political commentary in our show. I love that. It's just bullshit. Yes. None of this Borat where he's trying to show you how the world reflects the world on itself. We have no opinions. We have no opinions.

I like to think of it more like Kingswood Country myself. Oh, great. I loved that show growing up. Right. Before I understood what racism was. See, I'm a generation removed. so I'm a bull pit man myself. I grew up on the sequel series when he's in the nursing home. That was awful.

Oh, jeez. So your show, what I loved in the opening credits, obviously it's got you guys and then it's got, which I didn't even realise, it's got our friend, big time friend of the show, Dilruk Jaisingar is in it and with a bit of, and Dilruk Jaisingar as Michael Jaisingar which is very funny. It's like one of our favourite jokes

a fictional TV executive could not handle the name Dilruk so made us change it to Michael but kept the surname. And Dil's in the show like for a combined total of about two minutes but we thought it was hilarious to give him an opening. He's got a great arc too. His character's got an amazing arc,

but also he's got a running gag. He's got a massive arc. He's got a running, his credit still is a running gag. I hate to hear the word running in reference to Dilrub, but yeah. It's an ambling joke. But it actually sounds like we're making this up. It's true. If you watch all six in a row, the credit sequence tell their own story

and in episode six, Dilruch's character has his final moment. Oh, right. This is what I couldn't believe out of the whole thing. As I watched it, I didn't even know he was in the show. The credit comes up and I'm like, oh, Dilruch's in this. How did this not come up in conversation with me and Dilruch before this? Because it's not like he's got a heap of stuff going on. How did he not say he was in your TV show and in the credits?

How did that not come up in conversation? He was waiting to see whether it was shit or not. He was waiting to actually watch an episode before he mentioned it to anybody. We're the only ones, Rennie, are the only ones who have publicly put our face to this show so far. There was like 100 people who worked on the cast and crew and producers. Well, there's heaps of cameos. There's heaps of comedians in it.

Dave Quirk's in it, Andy McClellan, Ann Edmonds. David Quirk, speaking of which, one of my earliest memories of you, Randy, is watching you perform at the Hi-Fi Bar. Oh, yeah. I was watching up from the top bar. I was standing there with David Quirk, a man who is, you know, not known for his...

He's an idiot. He's an idiot. He's a beautiful idiot. And I say that, and I constantly refer to David Quirk as an idiot, but not in the terms of someone saying, I don't like him, so he's an idiot. He's an idiot as in the technical dictionary term idiot. Just a kind boy with a unique view of the world.

Yeah, he's a fool. I love him, but he's a fool. Yeah, we were standing there watching you, and he stood next to me, and he world. Yeah, he's a fool. I love him, but he's a fool. Yeah. We were standing there watching you and he stood next to me and he didn't mean this to be a joke. He said, God, I love Purple Rodney. I go, what? And he goes, you know, Purple Rodney, the purple puppet. I'm like, wow, that's a clunky Twitter handle.

That has been Randy's nickname since that moment. Purple Rodney. It stuck too since that moment. Purple Rodney. It's stuck too. Yes. Purple Rodney. Purple Rodney. That's great. But yeah, a lot of cameos.

A lot of cameos in the series. I think I just listed them all. I was just thinking, you mentioned real idiots. I got called. I had an email from our producer yesterday because they Googled our show to see how the buzz was and the top ten news articles. I didn't interview, we didn't interview with like Herald Sun or something.

We were just taking a piece and I said, I just want to make sure no one watches this show. Please don't watch this show. It's terrible. And then because it's News Limited, syndicated to every single News Limited and the top ten headlines you search for Ricketts Lane is Sammy J warns you as not to watch his TV show

and I managed to just send a link to that and just said I'm going to assume you're an idiot savant. Yeah I did see that and I love that because I saw that and went oh this is a good little spin or whatever and then I went through the article and went I actually couldn't find the quote where you said don't watch his show I'm like I reckon they've taken liberties

with this. Or it's just you talking about some complete other show That you didn't like Like some really bad TV show Like yeah don't watch that Sammy J says don't watch our show It'll just get truncated You know like Google condenses names even more

So it'll just end up being don't watch Ricketts Lane Ricketts Lane terrible Terrible show That's going to be our internet footprint So it's great We've already had comments this morning on Twitter About various things But we have a lot of our friends Like you guys come on a show And you've got success tales to talk about internet footprint. So it's great. Like we've already had comments this morning on Twitter about various things.

But we have a lot of our friends like you guys come on a show and you've got success tales to talk about. A lot of people hit us up going, yeah, it seems like all your mates are getting really famous and successful and you guys are sort of still doing the same shitty podcast that you started five years ago. But anyway, good for you, I guess, with your little pretend radio show. They're not getting $3 off peppermint tea. You're right. We're back. Hey, speak for $3 off peppermint tea. You're right.

We're back. Speak for yourself, mate. I'm going bald, all right? So we've got stuff going on. Stuff's happening. Is that a credit? I don't know. Something's happening.

There's progress. That's straight to Ivy. There's forward momentum. No, there's backward momentum. Receding momentum. So hot off the breast of news this morning was Ronnie Chang, a friend of the show, great friend of the show, is one of the correspondents on The Daily Show.

Massive. Huge. Which is amazing. On Trevor Noah's The Daily Show, who is most well-known in this country for backing out of an appearance on this show a couple of years ago. 15 minutes before the scheduled appearance. What was the reason given?

None. John Stewart was on the phone. Could be fucked. How is he filing the stories? Does he do it from here? I don't know. It's literally breaking news. We haven't heard.

I just read the story. He has pulled out of some dates as a result. He's cancelled some Australian dates, so I thought that meant it needs to be America-based. I thought the correspondents did stay, you know, like... In their respective countries. Cancelled more Australian dates. Excellent. He hates this country and the podcasters that live here.

He's still doing Sydney and he's still doing a few other dates but I think he's bailed on Darwin and Perth, mate. Yeah, he's still in the big cities but not the... Yeah. Sorry, America. I've got to do a gig. Darwin can't take your kind offer. Yeah.

Got to do a gig to a lot of German tourists and a lot of people who are running from crimes. Slicing dates all over the penal colony. Yeah. Well, okay. So Ronnie is now going to be an official correspondent of the new Trevor Noah-led Daily Show. But what I love about Ronnie is he,

if you came to our last live show, what we did was, you know, Ronnie's a massive weirdo, obviously. We all know that, hopefully. He gave me a heap of clothes before he went off to Edinburgh and America, a heap of his clothes that he wears, like T-shirts, and went, I think that your fans would like this. Like he initially said to me, I've got all these shirts. I thought they were his merch.

They weren't his merch. They were just old T-shirts. So people are now walking around. Can I say the nerdiest collection of T-shirts I've ever seen? Yeah, yeah. Straight from the Granny Mae shop that Sammy used to go to in the city. Think of every Star Wars pun T-shirt. There's three Shakespeare T-shirts.

There's three Shakespeare ones. Every word-based pun you've ever seen a fat guy in Minotaur wearing. And you have distributed these shirts? Yes, we took them all to the live show and everyone took the shirts. And then he wanted evidence, so then he was like, man, you've got to give me pictures of the people wearing my shirts, you idiot. How hard is it to do that?

The worst impression anyone has ever done of anyone else. You're trying to do a Ronnie voice without being racist and you're really straddling the line. It sounded like Ronnie doing a bit of action in the shower. Toe halfway down the plug hole. So, he... But everyone was too scared to take a picture

of them wearing an old Ronnie Chang. Or maybe they just don't want to wear Ronnie Chang's old t-shirts. I mean, they're embarrassed to be seen in it. Because they want to have sex again. They're actually bad t-shirts. I mean, they're embarrassed to be seen in it. Yeah, exactly. Because they want to have sex again. They're actually bad t-shirts. So the stocks, you know, they've now raised a dollar on eBay, I reckon, the value of those t-shirts. Yes.

Thanks to this announcement. But here's the thing. So after all that, he sent me another message. After the success of me giving away of, you know, this podcast officially turning into The Salvation Army. Yes. And giving away his clothes. He sent me a message the other day on Facebook saying,

hey, I got some underwear I want to give away now. For real, Calvin Klein only used once. A whole stack of them in different colours and shapes. Only used once? Once. Calvin Klein underwear is not cheap. And plus, the question it raises for me is, why did you only use it once and now you want to get rid of underwear?

That's my question. Is he down to that level of, like, obsessive kind of just wear it once? Oh, yeah. Not going to wash it and wear it again. Maybe that was the underpants he was wearing when he got the call from Trevor Noah. Yeah. That's what all this, like this success in comedy has been about,

is just having enough money to fund the OCD that only allows him to wear a pair of underpants once. He's going full Howard Hughes. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. I've been saying this for a long time. It's only a matter of time before it happens.

So now officially, yeah, it's... You can never see his feet on camera on The Daily Show because they've got fucking tissue boxes. So I don't know how we're going to hook this up, but if he really wants to give away Ronnie Chang underwear, well... I don't want to be a part of this. That's disgusting. He should hang back and wait until...

see how much traction he gets on The Daily Show. And if he makes it, if he's huge, then yeah. What if he John Oliver's or Stephen Colbert's? It's a spin-off show. That's a very good way of looking at fame. You don't want to give away all your underwear before you find out if you're really famous. You're going to wait until you know if you've made it before you've given out your underderps. Yeah, that's pretty much my theory.

Not when you're just a correspondent. If you're a co-host, if you're a main host, then you can give away your underwear. If you're just a correspondent, hang on to your boxes, guys. Because how deep down, like if you go to an op shop and you buy clothes, how deep down in the garment thing can you get? You don't buy undies from an op shop. Yeah, well, can you? I don't think they're allowed.

I think socks, can you buy? Because a friend of mine works in an op shop and she said- For overseas listeners, that's a charity shop. Yeah, charity shop. And she said sifting through the store. Yeah, through shop. Sifting through the donation bin, she said the things that people think that you can give away. Yeah.

This is the worst example I've heard. Dildo. Someone's fully boxed. Someone's gone, here you go. Just on sell this. I'm done with that now. Isn't that? I've had my shot.

I've had my fun. Isn't that? It was Ronnie. We just stay yellow, my fellow written along the instead of it Yeah Ronnie's just using dildos once now and then giving them away That's how famous he's getting But who's the person who thinks Just the image of someone dropping that into the deposit bin

And just being like I'm doing a good deed The karma that they would have given themselves mentally No I like the conversation before that happens You know that conversation where you're going Honey do we still use this anymore? It's too good to throw out. It's too good to throw out. Put it in the pile.

Put it in the pile. Look, I put it on eBay. It didn't meet the reserve. Might as well just give it to the Salvos. Hang on. Yeah, it's probably been hung on to for three months before that because that three months before it's like, nah, we still use it sometimes though, don't we?

All right, we'll put it on probation. If we haven't used it in three months, then it's going. I swear to God, it's going. Better to have it and not need it. So I don't know. I don't feel like I want to be a part of giving away someone's underpants. It's disgusting. No one's forcing you to.

You don't have to. Well, underwear, they do. I think maybe officially forcing you to. You don't have to. Well, underwear, I think... They do. I think maybe officially they don't take them at thrift shops, at op shops. I don't think you can. I don't think you can go in with a stack of undies, even if you say you've only worn them once. Maybe I'm wrong.

Maybe you can, but I've never been to Savers for undies. But we're not an op shop. You're saying you could take Ronnie's undies and distribute them yourselves. Yeah, I'm saying we're now lower than an op shop. You're saying you could take Ronnie's undies and distribute them yourselves. Yeah, I'm saying we're now lower than an op shop. So if we open ourselves up to this, maybe... Do you think what's happened is, because he's been on a bit of a health kick recently and he's lost a bit of weight. Do you think that's what it is?

He just doesn't fit in the underpants. Oh! Because, in which case, I would say if you're going on a big health kick and your plan is to lose weight, don't be buying clothes in the middle of that. Or buy them that are the size that you eventually want to be. It's just giving me an image of Ronnie as like a secret agent that's just got massive wooden chest of drawers full of like all new shirts

in their wrappers and all new undies in their wrappers. Like when he's going to a gig, he just goes and opens it up and pulls each thing out nicely folded, gets it on, goes home. He's the biggest enigma in comedy. Like whatever story you invent about Ronnie in your head, there's a big chance it'll be true about his life. We've talked about this on the show before. When he goes to the toilet for number two, he immediately showers.

He doesn't just wipe his – Do one step better than Randy's old flatmate? No, I'd say one step behind. At least his housemate is condensed to be that one. Yeah, your old housemate's no middleman involved there. Yeah. Yeah, so what do we – no middleman involved there. Yeah. Yeah, so what do we, I don't know,

if people really want them, what they can hit us up, I guess. Let us know if it's worth us getting this underwear shipped to us from Ronnie because Ronnie's still in the States now. He's going to be. I don't think you have a choice. You know when you pitch this to me, Sammy, you're like, come around, we'll do the Dum Dum Club with these guys. They're going to talk about our show. It'll be a great promotion.

They won't spend 15 minutes talking about Ronnie's undies I'm into that yeah I mean sadly we all woke up

and saw the headlines that Ronnie's suddenly a big global superstar so his underpants are now a hot topic yeah they're more interesting

than anything we could discuss about our shitty little fledgling series maybe if he can just wear a pair of them and give it, you know,

have a little glimpse of his underwear poking up from his jeans on the Daily Show. Wait, what is the waistband that you just acted that out? What does the waistband say? Where did you get them from? Oh, they're Calvin Klein. You've been dipping into the honeypot. Someone's doing well for themselves.

Dipping into the Ronnie pot. Oh, man. No wonder I feelipping into the Ronnie pot. Oh, man. No wonder I feel so sensitive at the moment. Oh, these underwear are too tight. Oh. All right, guys. We better wrap this up for this week on the Little Dum Dum Club. Sammy, Jay and Randy, thank you so much for joining us.

It's been a hoot. Thanks, Dickens. Ricketts Lane is currently all streaming on iView. I was about to say Netflix because the words streaming and Netflix in my head are so linked together. Yeah, iView and chill, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you can check it out for the whole month in September, if you're in Australia, that is. And then ABC TV for Reels in October.

Yeah. But before then, have a big old binge watch. It is so addictive. You watch one episode, next thing you know, you've watched five. You just can't stop. How long does it take to watch the whole series? It's like two hours and 25 minutes. You can watch our entire life's work.

Bang. There you go. And stay tuned, just if nothing else, for Wilbur Wilde's cameo. I've said too much. Oh, wow. Very quickly, let me say this. So my cousin is getting married in March next year at Gippsland Way on her parents' farm. And she found out

that Willa B. Wild lives in the area so she's put in a hey hey saxophone player from a hey hey at Saturday and she's put in

an email to see if he'll come and do a bit of sax work at the wedding and so my dream is them their first dance as a married couple

is just to a ten minute long sax solo no band just a saxophone wouldn't that be marvellous stuff we wrote a very similar email asking for a 10 minute long sax solo no band just a saxophone wouldn't that be marvellous stuff yeah we wrote

a very similar email asking for a 10 minute sax solo in episode 5 I won't do any spoilers but it was the greatest moment of our professional careers when we were standing

on the streets of Reservoir at midnight the neighbours that all come out to see Wilbur on the roof oh really wow

it was like the Beatles playing Get Back Totally It was like because Randy I wrote that joke thinking oh this will never happen let's just put it in the script and the producer will tell us

to remove it It was funny for the moment and it happened It stayed in It sounds like the Bleeding Gums Murphy episode of the season Totally

You know what I saw Red Simons in the street He lives like a street away from me I'm always seeing him in the street I should ask him to come do this

Can you do it? He would Yeah sure Totally Well it's just good to have you on the show Sammy I feel ask him to come do this. Can you do it? He would. Yeah, sure. Totally. Well, it's just good to have you on the show, Sammy. I feel a kinship with you. Obviously, you

and me share something. We both work with Muppets that kind of look a bit like a dick. Wow. Jesus Christ. I thought of that one

on the way in today and thought I'd wedge it in somewhere. No, I thought that was gold. Hit it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Slip me some belt.

Does it count? Chandler, do you put your hand up his bottom? And up his arse? You're back on FM radio with Dicker, Wicker and the Mozza. Oh, finally we're warming up. All right. Let's start recording. Does it count as wedging it in if you just throw it out at the very end like a grenade?

And then just run. Guys, check that out on iView right now and then keep an eye out later in the year for it on the actual television. Give it all the ratings it deserves. It is excellent. Yeah, very great. We've got our live show this Saturday at the European Beer Cafe at 4pm. The launch of our t-shirts that we can guarantee

have never been worn by Ronnie James. I'm aware of a little Dumb Dumb Club. We've also got Perth on October the 18th, Adelaide on November the 17th, Sydney just announced November the 22nd. They're all going to be super fun shows. You can get tickets and all the details at littledumbdumbclub.com. Guys, thanks very much for listening and we'll see you next time. What a treat.

See you, mates.