The Little Dum Dum Club with Tommy & Karl - 345 - The Hunt for Dellavedova

Episode Date: May 16, 2017

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Today on the Little Dum Dum Club, Matthew Della Vadova question mark exclamation mark. Well, you're about to hear us go on a journey to try and find the Cleveland Cavaliers player. We are heading on the road, but before we do that, before we fire up the Dum Dum Mobile and drive on up the Hershey Highway, we need to tell you about a couple of things that we've got coming up. Why can't they sponsor us? Hershey Highway. Hershey's have no money. They spent it all on sponsoring that beautiful, glorious strip of highway.

Yeah, sure, sure. I thought it was named after the creator of Hershey. I thought that wasn't a sponsorship deal. It was just like, man, that was such good chuckle. Let's name this road. Just as a, what? Just as a charity act. Yeah.

Just as like a given props. Well, the Hume Highway isn't sponsored by Hume. It's named after. Lucky Hume. He took all the money for it. Oh, really? Yeah. Right, right.

Okay, I take it all back. So by the time people hear this, if you're listening to it, the day comes out two weeks until the Koh Samui International Podcast Festival. We are getting so revved up. We are planning more and more. We spent a bunch of today talking about what we're going to do over there. We've got a heap of stuff locked in, a few surprises that we're not going to reveal until we're over there with the audience.

It is happening May 31st to June 5th at the Ozo Chuang Samui Resort. If you want to come along, book a room through them through them their official website and enter the promo code podcast and you're going to get a sweet discount on your room that's it and you know now there's this close to it happening it is really just down to the wild childs out there of people who are going to book last minute so you crazy party animals this is your time all the time is gone for the safe, cautious sort of people. They're already booked in or they're not coming. It's up for you spontaneous fucking maniacs. We need to get proof of this.

Let's give a prize to the person who books with the least amount of notice. Oh, really? I want some absolute madman to book in the day before. That's what I want. I want some absolute fucking maniac. in the day before. That's what I want. I want some absolute fucking maniac.

Bring a screenshot of your boarding pass receipt from whatever airline you fly with and we'll rustle up something for you. The people who are playing chicken with this podcast festival, let's see who wins. So also, if you can't make it, we have a GoFundMe page set up where people – man, heaps of donations in the last week. It's so good. That is the only reason this thing is happening is because of generous donations from people like you. We wanted to get this thing off the ground. So the way that we've been able to do that is from you guys chipping in

and in return you're going to get all sorts of extra sweet bonus content that we're making over there. We're going to film stuff. We're going to do extra episodes. And if you chip in $10 or more to the GoFundMe page, you're going to get all of that stuff. And it's really going to be a huge chunk of awesome sweet stuff. Exactly.

And on top of that, of course, if you are already a patron of our Patreon page, patreon.com slash little dum-dum club, a lot of people have been asking, if we are a $10 or more donor to that, do we get the same stuff? The answer is yes. Yes, you do. So if you're checking in a bit of coin like that,

we'll give you all we've got from Samui. We are planning on, you know, I mean, literally me and Tommy here are planning on a holiday after Samui because it's going to be a lot of work. We're going to be filming a lot of stuff. I've been aware of that from day one. It feels like this has gradually dawned on you over the last two weeks.

Yeah, I was just hoping that the webcams could film me doing whatever I do and that's sort of it. So if you want to chip in on those things, the links to both of them, the GoFundMe and our Patreon page are at littledumbdumbclub.com. We also have T-shirts there that you can get that are helping to support the trip. If you're coming along, get one of them. We're not charging you for any of the shows that we're doing over there, but wear it with pride.

And show the locals that you're part of one of the worst overseas trips that has ever invaded their island. The worst bunch of Australian exports to an Asian tropical paradise since the Bali 9. The Bali 69.

Oh, yes. I like that. The Samui 69. I like it very much. Hell yeah. And especially because it would be nice for us all together to be wearing this sort of stuff while we're there. Totally. Just this army of fuckheads walking down the street.

Oh, man. It's going to be so good. Wearing the gear. So, yeah, if you can, do that. army of fuckheads walking down the street oh man it's going to be so good wearing the gear so yeah if you can do that if you're coming from

a location that is not Melbourne and you want to meet us over there and get pick up the shirts when you arrive there let us know

give us some private messages we can work that out there are a few little arrangements going around like that already because we do have man the exciting bit is

people from overseas like we've met a bunch of listeners from Melbourne and good for them for coming, very much encouraged. Thanks so much for your continued support. I'm excited about these overseas guys that we've never met before, that have never been to a live show. All of a sudden we're going to be stir crazy with them for five days.

Yeah, it's going to be cool. And, you know, in all seriousness, I've joked a lot about like I think I'm going to get fucking murdered over there by one of the freaks that listens to this. And, you know, look, it's all fun and games. But I genuinely am looking forward to meeting a bunch of the people that have decided to come on this thing. Because it's insane that this is happening.

Like, this is ridiculous. I am totally doffing my cap to anyone taking part in this. Yes. This is crazy. It's crazy that you guys are – and I guess we'll find this out, but what are the circumstances leading up to you guys deciding this is a good idea? You're not working?

Are you taking off a week for holiday? Are you honeymooning? You know, all of these sort of things. I'm interested in how you're justifying this. Any midlife crises? Yeah. Well, that's my reason. Damn it.

Got in just before me. Yeah, it's going to be great. It's going to be so much fun. So, yeah, if you're on the fence about it, you can go on our website and get more information about exactly what's happening over there. And, hey, if you've just started listening to the show recently, then, you know, come, you know, just I want someone to get into this show

in the last month. That is. Like I want to get someone with the least amount of prior knowledge about the show on board. Yes. Now, that is also an exciting idea that someone can stumble across this with two weeks to go. And a lot of people, we hear this story a lot of times

where someone stumbles across this and goes, fuck, this is up my alley, and then listens to 250, 300 episodes all in a row. Even if you've just listened to, like, this and last week's and you're worried, I don't know enough, hey, you know what? Book it in. You've got an eight hour flight. Yeah. Just catch up. Just catch up on the plane.

Sit next to us and listen to the episodes while you're sitting next to us. Hell yeah. So, okay. All of that stuff, littledumbdumbclub.com. We also, our Patreon account continues to tick over not just for the purposes of Samui, but year round.

We are blown away every month by the donations, the people chipping in to help keep the show going. We send out sweet rewards like a magazine, a bonus episode. And for $2 or more, we... We're changing it. Fuck that. Are we really? Yeah, let's do it.

Okay. Well, I haven't been reading it. Yeah, yeah. I've been prioritising. Scoop! I've been prioritising the fives and tens anyway when they come in. But, yeah, let's make the readout name a bit. Let's take it to five.

All right. Yeah. Sure. Okay, anyway, whatever. For chipping in, part of it is you get cyberbullied on this podcast. Yeah. So let's get into a bit of that, shall we? A few names that we have to thank off the Patreon

donor list. We're thanking people. Here's a list of people that this month are getting their little old names read out. Thank you to the dear people at thank you, Amy Hanlon. Amy Hanlon. And Amy Hanlon is one of these people that, God bless her, has complained

that her name hasn't been read out. That's right. She slid into DMs over the week and cracked the shits. Yeah. And she also made a point of pointing out to me that her name is spelt the, quote unquote, normal way of A-M-Y. Yeah. None of this A-I, none of this lucky you're with Amy shit going on. Yeah, which I'm well into.

Yes. But no, it's Amy Hanlon. Thank you, Amy. I, you know what, I think the very first crush I ever had was on a girl called Amy. Right. I feel like you may have said this before. I don't reckon I have because this is coming from the dark recesses. This is like as a very, very, very young – this is like kindergarten.

Me barely knowing what girls are and going, oh, that girl. And I remember she gave me a little Apple keychain. Right. Yeah. And so I've been looking for Amy ever since. Have you still got the Apple keychain? No, I haven't. Oh, well, don't tell her that if you ever find it.

Yeah, well, I'm sure I'll recognise her. Would you, if Amy came back into your life, would you leave your fiancé for her? Oh, definitely. She's got the other chunk of that apple neck. Oh, the amulet. Yes. Because I remember it was a little apple on a keychain

with a little bite taken out of it. If she's got a keychain with the bite of apple, well, then we belong together. You have to. It's like Cinderella. If it fits. It's like OJ. If the glove fits, you must fuck it.

It meaning Amy. Yes. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. I still remember how hot she was at two years old. I'm sure she's only gotten better since then. First crush I remember having was on a girl called Lisa.

Oh. I was just thinking that today on the way to – on our little road trip that goes on after this little bunch of announcements, we went through Ballarat. And I remember being in a nightclub in Ballarat in like first year uni and being really drunk. The 60s, what a wild time. And being so drunk, I wasn't even trying to pick this girl up, but I was just saying to her, in Spain, we would call you Linda.

And her just grabbing me and jumping me after. Really? Yeah. It worked. Yeah. And I didn't know whether she thought it was funny or whether she actually thought I was Spanish or something. But I was being so stupid.

That's great. I always remember Linda from that. So, hey, a lesson out there. I mean, I imagine we have some, you know, teenage listeners maybe, some people in school, just out of school, some horny American pie style teens wondering if they're ever going to bust a nut. Yep. Take that advice.

Do a bad Spanish accent and reap the rewards. What a name for a girl, Linda, though. I'm looking forward to a Linda. For a young. And by the way, her name wasn't Linda. Yeah. Right. Yep.

Thanks, Amy. Thanks, Amy. What a suitable tribute. It's great that we've got a, if the bit's not going anywhere, there's just an easy dismount. That's my favourite thing about these. Thank you to Teresa Goetz. And I'm sure that's not how you pronounce it.

Goetz? G-O-E-T-Z. Goetz? Goetz? Maybe Goetz. Goetz. There's no R in it though. She's Goetz by C.

Yes. And now she's Goetz by my bank account? Yeah. No. But yes. Yes. And now she's girt by my bank account. Yeah. No, but yes. Yes. She's, thanks Teresa. That is a... She has boundless planes to share with us. Of cash. Yeah. She, go

let's pronounce it go-ets. That's a bit easier to do. She, thanks Teresa for go-etsing and going at it. Go-etsing. Go-etsing for go-etsing and getting... Go-etsing. Go-etsing getting money. Oh, fuck. I fucked it. You know what Goetze is, right? I feel like I've mentioned

Goetze. Goetze was this old meme, this really, really early meme. It was a photo that did the rounds on the internet of an old bloke kind of pulling his butthole apart, and it was called Goetze.jpg. And a friend of mine on Threadless, you could buy a T-shirt that someone had designed and it was the words Goatsy, the text Goatsy,

and it had like a hand pulling it apart, mimicking the image. And he would wear it out to nightclubs. And either people go, what's that? And he has to go, oh, it's like a joke about this image of an old guy like pulling his anus apart. Or people know what it is and they go, what's that? And he has to go, oh, it's like a joke about this image of an old guy like pulling his anus apart. Or people know what it is and they go, why the fuck are you wearing this in public?

So I think he bought it online. We're like 19. He goes out the first night like, I'm going to be the king of the nightclub. And I think he basically got kicked out. We never saw the goatee shirt again after that. So shout out to him. There was a guy that – he wasn't a mate of mine. He hung out with my mates.

And I was always a guy who, I didn't like this guy. And he was a kleptomaniac as well. And he used to break into places and like he was, I've got nothing to do with this guy anymore, but he was crazy. Like he was, you know that sort of guy that you grow up with and you just go, oh, he's in my class. I have to sort of, you know, hang around with him or whatever. There's no other options.

But this guy, you would never go within a million miles of him now. And he was, he was a kleptomaniac. He, he broke, he came around to a mate's house and broke into their safe and everyone knew it was him, but they couldn't prove it. So he was just a guy that took all my mate's family's money. Oh, wow. Broke into like the tennis club. Wow.

Broke into all this stuff. Anyway, the point of the story is, apart from all that, the worst thing about him was he had a shiny hat. He had a very shiny hat. Right. And everyone hated his shiny hat so much. So they stole it off him and shoved up the exhaust of his car. Great. He didn't know about it. Racking something off the and shoved up the exhaust of his car. Great.

He didn't know about it. Racking something off the klepto. That's like the deadliest catch. Yeah. That guy sounds like a piece of shit. How is Fleety doing? Yeah, I went to school with Fleety. Oh, man.

I can't believe that some people out there have done something that bad and then just get to walk off scot-free and nothing ever gets pulled up about it. Totally. Amazing. Thanks, Gertz. Yeah, yeah thanks gertsy um thank you to patreon a listener is look i know you don't like it when i bring this up but this is three in a row female patreon subscribers you're correct i don't like it when you bring this up thank Thank you, too. Good on you, ladies. Yes. That's what I'm saying. Is it ladies night in the little dum-dum club?

Oh, wow. Bring a plate. Yeah, of money. With ten bucks on it. Thank you, too. Jessie Rook. Oh, Jessie's girl. Yeah.

And she's not a rookie when it comes to giving us money anymore. Nice. Very nice. Yeah. Rook with a R-O-O-K-E. Ooh, Rook. Could it be Rook? No.

Maybe it is. So the way you said that, I was like, is there brackets here? No, it's not pronounced Rook. Well, maybe it is Rook, but I don't reckon it. It couldn't be. Rookie. It's Rook. It's maybe it is Rook, but I don't reckon it. It couldn't be. Rookie. It's Rook. It's like Brook.

It's like Brook without the B. What is with spelling? What is with all these bullshit spelling rules? Well, they always say that English is the hardest one to learn because of all of our stupid little fucking rules. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, anyone else looking at that would go, sure, Rook. Rookie.

It's not. It's Rook. It's Jessie Rook. Well, thanks at that would go, sure, Rook. Rookie. It's not. It's Rook. It's Jessie Rook. Well, thanks, Jessie. I can't stress that enough. Jessie, good name. Great name. I'll tell you what.

I mean, look, say what you will. I'm just saying that these are phonetically nice names. But those three, Amy, Teresa, Jessie, all good-looking names. Don't you think? Yes. Okay, yeah. If you were writing a script and it was important, like a high school kind of, and it's important that you have like,

this is the cheerleader, this is the hot popular girl, those kinds of names, Amy definitely, those kinds of names as a writer, they're in your wheelhouse. Yeah, they're the queens of the prom. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, attractive names. Teresa, not as much in that. I don't think you'd see too many high school movies

where there's a cheerleader character called Teresa. Yeah, okay, all right. I'm basing that on the OC. There was a character called Teresa who was like a real povo girl. The main character's like dodgy old neighbourhood and he gets her pregnant. So that's just kind of forever linked with that in my head. Well, I take that back, Teresa, with you. Sorry, you were the odd one out tonight.

Thank you to – Sorry, Teresa, but hey, you shouldn't have fucked Ryan when he had a girlfriend. He knew what you were getting into. Why won't you be more like Jesse Rook? And on, let's break the spell. Thank you to Daniel John Smith, which is undoubtedly a fake name. Yes. So you reckon this is Daniel John's trying to let us know

that he listens to the show? Oh, well, he is a freak of nature when it comes to giving us money. Yeah, yeah. Give us money. Yes. The weirdo Yankovic of podcasts. I haven't listened to any Silverchair in a while, so it's actually taking me a while to remember any of their songs.

Yeah, yeah. Freak. That was their best film clip as well. They had those heaters. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's a good clip. You remember the film clip with the heaters and they had that spirally sort of design?

Yeah. That was my favourite thing about that song, just the look of those heaters. They looked cool. How about when Daniel Johns was photographed in the streets recently, just off his head walking around without a shirt on? Yeah. What a cool guy. We should get him in here.

He'd fit right in on this. You know what fascinates me about Daniel Johns, a knee lead singer of Silverchair is that he went from bogan to absolutely the other end of the spectrum. Like glam kind of like. Wanker. Yeah, yeah. Faye sort of. Yeah. He went from the guy, like if he had been in my high school,

he went from the guy that would have bashed his six-month future self in six months. Yeah, very good point. Yeah. It's a little bit hard. He was a little grommet. That's what he was. Yes, yes.

I think it's – I don't know what it is about this country where we don't really allow someone to try and reinvent themselves in the public eye. Yeah. Like you notice it in the States. I think it's like it's a big enough industry in whatever field you're in and there's enough going on that you can disappear for two years and come back out of the cocoon and be like different in whatever way you want.

But when people do it here, we just go, nah, get fucked. We remember. Like we're not – we don't accept evolution in any kind of way like that. You know when he was walking around when he was off his head and stuff? Yeah. Maybe it was because whatever alcohol he had at the time was very… Hard to drink. Very hard to drink.

I'm not familiar with that song. So that was quite a trip for me. You know who I like more than Silverchair? That other band that he's in that he only did one album with, The Dissociatives. Oh, yeah. With Paul Mack. That's a really good album.

Yeah, right. That's my music recommendation for any listeners. And I listened to it recently. It's held up. It's really good. You know what the thing is with him changing what we were talking about before is, you know what, because he was in the public eye

and he did that classic thing where if you weren't famous at that time, around that time, you know that thing where you leave high school and then you leave all your mates at high school and you go to uni or move towns or whatever it is and then you go, yeah, I'm going to be a different person now. Yes. I was the guy that shit his pants in year 11.

Yes. Now I'm going to be a beautiful unicorn. And that's what he's done. But we all, the rest of the world went, nah, you're a little dirty grommet, you fuckhead. I guess that is, yeah. I mean, people have that with just their mates. I mean, you must find that weird with the Avalanches

because you'd know stuff about them from growing up where it must be weird to see them on stage at Coachella and stuff like that. Yeah, that must be weird for them. Oh, man. And I've got a band that I know from my high school, which I don't care to name because I find that stuff to be a little bit abhorrent, strictly speaking.

Me too. Please don't bring it up. But one of them, they're a rock band, and one of them especially was in all the like you know the like the orchestras and stuff all the real nerdy music stuff that my school had and now he's there with his ripped jeans and his leather jackets and his long greasy hair and it's like yeah we know you mate you're fucking jacking it to bloody stradivarius back in the day we know you you fucking mozart fiddler oh well you know I mean, I haven't really put it on the record properly,

but fucking the guys in the Avalanches, I desperately want them and I've asked them a million times to be on this show and I get nothing but donuts back often. Yeah. Like before the album came out last year, like well before that was always like, yeah, we'll do it once the album comes out to promote the album. Then the album comes out, nah, nah,

we'll do it when some live shows are coming up. The live shows come and comes out nah nah we'll do it when some live shows are coming up the live shows come and go yeah we'll do it when the next set of live shows come up so we've got something to talk about

still can't get them you know and this cuts in very well with the theme of today's show of us chasing another person from Maribor to do this podcast why won't anyone else

from Maribor talk to me sounds like the problem might be you a little bit because we didn't say this on the show but I went backstage with you won't anyone else from Meribor talk to me? Sounds like the problem might be you. A little bit. Because we didn't say this on the show, but I went backstage with you after one of their recent shows, and I met one of them. Yep.

And just even in that little brief moment, I was like, this would be extremely good shit. Oh, yeah, totally. Because I've never met him. So I'm standing there with you, and he just looks at me and he goes, is this him? Is it? This is your little mate. Yeah. Is this your little mate over here?

And just starts going me and I'm like, I've never met you, dude. I don't know who you are. He actually started going you quite hard. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm like, look, this proves that you've got the chops, but this isn't what I wanted out of this interaction. Turn your focus slightly to my left if you could. Yeah, yeah, totally, totally.

So I continue to chase, but oh, God, fuck, it's hard work to get a mate of mine. Like, we've got heaps of people that are, you know, famous that we've never met before on this thing. How come I can't get personal? How come you can get the host of Family Feud, but not the guy you went to school with? Exactly. The guy who I'm, you know.

Again, it's you. It's clearly you. The guy who I very often go around and drink a lot with and fuck around for hours and hours. Just why can't I set a tape running? I think he clearly you. The guy who I very often go around and drink a lot with and fuck around for hours and hours. Just why can't I set a tape running? I think he hates you. He doesn't want to be involved with me professionally. Yeah.

Anyway, thanks. Daniel John Smith. Thanks. Wow. That was the longest we've ever gone from where we started, I think. Fuck. All right. Real good.

All right. What about one more? Oh, you reckon one more? One more, yeah. This has gone long enough. We need All right. Real good. All right. What about one more? Oh, you reckon one more? One more, yeah. This has gone long enough. We need to get people into this. This is a good, I reckon this is a good episode. No, this is a different episode.

We spent, literally we spent all of today recording this. Normally we just have to set aside an hour during the week to do an episode. This was all day. It was a full on OB, outside broadcast. Yes, yes. It was, full on OB Outside broadcast Yes It was It cost us to go there We drove across the state Yeah

So it's something different We don't have guests on I hope you guys enjoy it It is different Hopefully it's different good I think it is I think it's good Yeah

I think it's funny Yeah So alright And hey I think there's a pretty good outcome at the end That's going to make it worth listening to Yeah sure Sure It's all It's good. Yeah, I think it's funny. Yeah, so, all right. And hey, I think there's a pretty good outcome at the end that's going to make it worth listening to. Yeah, sure, sure. It's all, it's a nice journey. I enjoyed it.

Yeah. It's not about the destination. Yeah. So, well, especially when the destination is Maribor. Please forget about that. Speaking of it not being about the destination, let's get to this final name on the Patreon list. All right.

So, and again, let's remember, it's not about what happens at the end of this. Yeah, it's about what you learn along the way. Yeah, just remember the good times. Sometimes what we learn along the way is quit comedy. Remember the good times when we read out Amy, Teresa, Jesse's, and Daniel's name. That was a beautiful journey. It doesn't matter.

Those three beautiful women, Tim's angels. Yeah, yeah, and beautiful Daniel as well. And his glam years. So let's remember those times instead of the destination, which is this last name. What a great time we've all had. All right. So thank you to, and I'm not sure whether this is male or female.

It's one of those names that could be either way. Okay. So thank you. Open your eyes and look at me, Tommy. Why do you look so ashamed? Thank you to Sam. Oh, they might be Asian, actually. Sam Ui, it says here.

Thank you to Ms. Ui. Thank you for subscribing, for giving us money. Samantha Ui. Yeah, yeah, Samantha Ui. Well, I have to say I'm Are we Are we saying

That this officially means That we're not getting Any more out of The comedy family Well Look I don't know That's Maybe their

Maybe their transaction Got held up or something Yeah yeah I guess you know I've been trying to put together A family tree Of the comedy family So it'd be nice to know

At what point No more children of theirs Are going to be contributing Well maybe some of the older Members of the family Haven. So it would be nice to know at what point no more children of theirs are going to be contributing. Well, maybe some of the older members of the family haven't, you know, figured out how to work Patreon yet. Yeah, fair enough. There's a little bit of, you know, trickiness involved and whatever, but maybe the, you know, Mr Comedy, Mrs Comedy, Master Comedy

and Little Miss Comedy, maybe that's all there is in the family. I don't know. I'd like to think there's a baby comedy in there or a comedy junior. Yeah, well, I mean, look, you know what? This new subscriber, Sam Ui, I mean, that could be a married name. Oh, maybe. Yeah, interesting. Their name might be Sam Comedy and they've just gotten married.

To Ui. To someone Ui. So, who knows? There was an Ui family in Maribor, actually. Oh, was there really? They ran the only Chinese restaurant in town, or as my dad would pronounce it, the only Chinese restaurant in town, called Peach Village, which was the only place to go on special occasions. Yeah, I like it.

They had the little sizzling beef as it came out, which was very exciting for Maribor. There's a Chinese restaurant in Footscray that I drive past every now and then called Parrot House. Right. I like it. I like it too. Yeah.

I like anything that's called something house. Yeah. It's like, it's not a house. It's a restaurant. There was a late departed restaurant in Koh Samui called, not to be confused with this Patreon subscriber called Sam Ui, obviously. Yeah. Koh Samui.

The island. Yeah. Completely different. Different things. obviously. Yeah, Kosamui, the island. Yeah, completely different. Different things. Yeah, two different things. Different things are different. There was a shop called, there was a restaurant called Spirit House, which I always found funny. Ooh.

Yeah. It's like, it's not a restaurant. It's a ghost shack. Spook, yeah, spook chamber. Why do you want to, yeah, exactly. Spook share house. I don't know why you would call a shop that, but you know what? I was proved right because it closed down. Ah, well, thereook chamber. Why do you want to... Yeah, exactly. Spook share house. I don't know why you would call a shop that, but you know what? I was proved right because it closed down.

Ah, well, there you go. So we won't be going there on our little tour. Thanks, Sam. Yeah, thanks, Sam. Thanks, Mr. or Mrs. Uwe. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so all that stuff, the GoFundMe, the Patreon, the t-shirts, all of the information about the Koh Samui International Podcast Festival.

Sorry, the Rich Young is a fucking idiot in his shit-ass YouTube channel, Guru One. Koh Samui International Podcast Festival. We got there. littledumbdumbclub.com. Get into it. Try and find yourself a festival with a longer name than ours. Yes. You will be fucking frustrated.

Guys, enjoy this very special episode. 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 Daslow and sitting next to me in the driver's seat of this little vehicle called Friendship, it's Carl Chandler.

G'day, dickhead. So, people will have picked up already that this is already sounding a little bit different to how we normally do things in here at Dum Dum HQ. Oh, we're on the road. Yeah, we are on the road. We're in your BMW. What kind of, do you know the model or the make of this car? Yeah, 1990 318i. Nice.

We are totally jack-carawacking it up. Yeah. We've hit the road in terms of, you know, in search of dreams and, most importantly, content. Yeah. We're both finally having our gap year. Is that what you'd say? Just watching those white lines disappear under the dashboard,

oh, it's thrilling. We're going to ditch this car and get in the back of a train as well and just become like boxcar willies. We've got our bindles. This is going to be our life from now on. I'm looking forward to the complaints about how the quality of the audio of this episode isn't broadcast radio standard. That'll be good.

Yeah. So what we're doing today has really only been on the table for about 24 hours. You called me yesterday in an absolute flurry about this time. And, I mean, this is all kind of your idea. So do you want to talk us through what we're doing? Sure. Now, if you have listened to this show for a couple of years or especially been on social media, I guess,

you'll know that I, Carl Chandler, come from a little town in country Victoria called Miraburra. Now, it's a population of about 8,000 people. And for a while, I was sort of the most famous person to come out of it. So, but, now in the last couple of years, there has been a basketballer called Matthew Delvedova that has been drafted to the NBA and then eventually became an NBA champion. Yeah, his team won the finals last year.

Yeah, with LeBron James. He became a millionaire. And him being from Maribor, of course, piqued my interest. On hot in the heels of, like, Maribor has been a bit of a hotbed of success lately, in a way. I'm not talking about me. I'm talking about him. There's been some AFL footballers. There's, you know, the guys from the Avalanches.

I don't know if I've mentioned that before. And that's in a real cavalcade of stars. Well, that's pretty good for a town of 8,000 people. True, yeah. Statistically, I wonder what the smallest, like, the ratio of, what's the town with the best ratio of population versus famous people that have come out of it? Well, we've talked about this before, but Gunnedah, Gunnedah is this tiny, tiny town in New South Wales. And it's had two supermodels. Oh, okay, right.

And it's about 800 people, and it's got Tom Gleeson as well. Oh, right, okay. Well, there you go. So three supermodels. Yeah, yeah. So anyway, Matthew Dellavedova, NBA champion. Now, this is what I like about him. He still comes home. Like, he lives in America. He's a millionaire.

He still comes back to Maribor, which is something I don't do. Well, I was going to say, based on what you just told me, he comes home more than you do. Yes. He actually does. So in the off-season, he comes back to our sleepy little hamlet of Maribor, Victoria. Anyway, so the last... Call of him to go back and visit a town which, by the sounds of it, his teammate and friend LeBron James will probably be chased out of.

Yeah, totally. Absolutely. So, last couple of years in social media, we've been trying to chase him and go, look, I'm more interested in the fact he's from Maryborough that he has an NBA ring, to be honest. Yeah, you wouldn't know anything about this guy were it not for his hometown connection. You don't follow the basketball, you're not really a fan of it. Yeah, I'm of a vague interest in it, but yeah, not much. But the fact that he's from Maryborough, there's something we can talk about.

He's the most successful and richest person, I guess, to come out of Maryborough. Wow. So we've been hitting him up on social media. He's not a big one for it. He certainly hasn't been responding. We've been sending emails to his management, to anyone that we think, to his sponsors, anyone we think we can get anything out of for the last couple of years. And we've only got a small window every year because he comes back here for a week or two weeks or whatever it is, and he's out of there. and we've only got a small window every year because he comes back here for a week or two weeks or whatever it is, and he's out of there.

So we've never got anything. Anyway, yesterday, thanks to the power of the listeners of Little Dumb Dumb Club, we have a listener that lives in Maribor. You got a hot tip. Exactly. We got spotted. Yeah, the hotline. Spotted in the Maribor advertiser.

I get a hot tip. Matthew Delevadova is in town. Now, this is not in the press. This hasn't been in any form of media. But I get the message. Oh, so this is an exclusive on this podcast. Yes. Fantastic.

So we get the message on Twitter. I just served him. I just served him at the pub. He's in town. It's definitely him because he was with his sisters. So it wasn't just a lookalike or anything, unless his sisters have lookalikes as well. Yes, yeah.

So, which, you know, people could be that desperate in Mirabar, actually, just dressing up like the whole family. Or not even that. This guy could have just made this up. He's that desperate to have a reason to get in contact with us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. So, anyway, we've gotten that message, and I've rang you up and thought, you know, I've sent a lot of emails out.

I've got nothing. In fact, I've sent a message to the management of Matthew Delvedover. They come back with, sure, we'll keep it in mind the next time he comes back to Australia. They started playing it cool like he wasn't in the country. Ah, interesting. Yeah. So there's no official, I had a look through the internet, there's no sort of official news of him being in the country, especially in Maribor. Well, I mean, so we've gotten this tip off from a listener and if there's one thing we

know about our listeners, it's that they're all reputable, upstanding citizens. Yeah. Don't want to fuck us around or prank us. So why wouldn't we devote an entire day to a five hour round trip? Oh, I mean, we had to cancel a lot of business meetings and a lot of corporates, a lot of roadshow. Yeah. So we have decided to do it. We're in the car.

We are traveling to Maribor. Now, we're well on our way now. we have decided to do it. We're in the car. We are travelling to Maryborough. Now, we're well on our way now. We're actually, as we're recording this, we're about to pull into Ballarat for a bit of, oh, it's lunchtime. Yeah, we're about to pull in for lunch. Yeah. So, you know, I guess, so basically we're heading to Maryborough and we're just going to follow some leads

and we're hoping to track him down. Yep. And by the end of today, have an interview with him on this podcast. Yeah, that's the goal. I mean, now that we're saying it out loud, it does sound creepier than the original plan. Well, okay, let me, I'll try and put myself, try and put yourself into his shoes. Let's say you're, you know, you're famous, you're back in town for the day. Yep.

You know, two weirdos kind of turn up on your doorstep with some, with a bag full of recording equipment. Yep. And go, your mum taught me in prep. Can we sit and talk to you for an hour? How receptive do you think you would be to that? Well, that is a fact. Just so that's on the record.

His mum was my prep primary school teacher. So there is some slight connection. She has changed her name since then. Oh, really? Yeah. Well, she got married. Oh, okay. I thought you meant she was so...

She heard you talking about her on this podcast and went i gotta yeah i gotta dodge this guy that's fair um so there is there is a link um it is i know it is a bit weird because our main point of reference is if we get up there i'll be like saying yeah you gotta talk to us i'm from meribah it's like yeah we're in meribah yeah Everyone's from Maribor here at the moment. Sure, sure. Sure. So, look, I hope, you know, the main, I guess the main thing, the main hope I've got is that he's in Maribor.

There will be nothing to do. But so if two strangers from out of town come in and go, can we have a talk? Surely he's that bored by now. If it's anything like I am when I go back to see my folks. 24 hours in i'm like what the fuck is there to do well so how far through have you thought this like let's say we do get him have you at all thought about what like what questions are you going to ask what do you think what kind of hard-hitting journalism how's your mom yeah um what has she said about me? Have you been down the shops today? Hey, don't look

Have you heard anything about Sunshine Johnson? We've got to workshop this Don't give away all this content This could be the biggest interview of our careers We can't go in half cock We've got to work out what we're doing here What if this is like a 60 Minutes thing Where we get arrested in Maribor

And held in the Maribor jail cells Until our listeners can bail us out. Well, look, hopefully... We've got to put all the Koh Samui funding to getting us bailed out. This so far, this eight minutes that we've done, is already more interesting than the Missing Richard Simmons podcast, I'm going to say. Yeah, yeah.

Look, I hope it pans out better than that did. I hope there's a bigger payoff. But who knows? Look, hopefully there's enough along the way. Well, I'm excited that I finally get to see Maryborough. I get to see your hometown. Exactly. It's all about the journey.

And I'm excited that I'm getting to show you the hometown. And here's a little sizzle, perhaps something we'll talk about a bit later in the ep. You just very offhandedly asked me if I minded if we swing past your parents house on the way back I'm going to meet Mr and Mrs Chandler This is very exciting Do you think they would agree to be on the podcast? They might but I won't What if I just take, I've got the gear

You go for a walk and I'll just take them to a room and interview them without you there No, absolutely not But you are going on the full Chandler reality tour because we're going through Ballarat at the moment, which is where I spent about maybe six, seven years of my life after Maribor. Take me to where you lost your virginity. Well, you're sitting in it right now.

Literally sitting in it. You've got to get this thing cleaned. Yeah. Okay, so we've hit the main drag of... This isn't the main drag of Ballarat. We're stuck in traffic. Yeah. It's gridlock.

We've hit a pedestrian crossing. There's four cars in front, three cars in front of us. Yeah, it's gridlock in Ballarat. It's Friday lunchtime. What do you expect? Oh, yeah, of course. So what's the plan here? Are we going to stop off, get some lunch?

Yeah, let's fuel up. Let's make a few more plans for Maribor. We've still got a good drive in front of us to get to Maribor. Oh, do we really? Yeah. Right, right. This is literally, so we're in Ballarat now. When I first brought my girlfriend to Ballarat on the way to Maribor,

Ballarat's like 100,000 people sort of thing. She literally thought it was going to be one of those yokel towns off the movies where there's like one corner store with a guy with one tooth hanging out of his head and that was it. But it's like, have a look. There's three or four McDonald's. There's a pancake kitchen. Have a look. The pancake kitchen.

And they've got the logo of the lady from the pancake parlor. How does that work? This is one of the more confusing things of Ballarat. They have the pancake parlor, but it's not called that. It's called the pancake kitchen. So it's a bit like, is this just a rogue operation that they've just started off and used the same logo, but changed it or thought, you know what? People from Ballarat are such fucking idiots.

They don't know what a parlor is. They're going to think it's a whorehouse or something. They're going to come in and try and fuck a pancake. So if we say kitchen, there's no misunderstanding. They know that there's cooking involved. There's a kitchen. There's going to be no one... Going in, what would you like? A short stack? Fuck, this place is kinky. Yeah, there's going to be

no one waddling into the kitchen with his pants down going, have you got a ladle I can stick my dick on? See, this was worth getting out of the big smoke for. Banter like this. We should be eating at the Pancake Kitchen, but unfortunately... Well, where do you reckon we eat? This is what the listeners really want to know about.

There's a good bakery. I'm going to show you where a good bakery is. There's a drive-through bakery coming up. Is that where you lost your virginity? Yeah. In the car with a sausage roll. All right, well, let's log off for now, and, yeah, you'll hear us on the other side of lunch.

Hey, welcome back to the voyage to Maribor. We're back on the road. I'm back behind the wheel. We're in country Victoria. We're going from between Ballarat and Maribor now. It's not long now. Do you feel the anticipation? Flooding, all the blood flowing to your cock?

Look, I'm still digesting those two pies that I had at lunch. So I'm a little bit, the anticipation is being tempered by that. This is what the listeners really want. Should we talk about the pies? Well, we went to a drive-through bakery and we did not use it properly because we didn't drive through. We just sat down. Yeah. I liked it.

Your recommendation was pretty on point with this one. Yep. They had, I like any bakery that kind of colours outside the lines a little bit and offers you a few sort of like, you know, kind of weird, you know, options. Yep. Like we both had a bolognese pie. think of the bolognese pie yeah it was nice i liked it i liked it just minced but a little bit more of a kick to it yep i thought it was very good i had a chicken one yeah which is also very good much better than pie face here's my umbridge with pie face at the moment i don't know if this is a new thing but they're obviously cutting down on costs you go to a pie face now at any time of the day they've got all those trays where there used to be like you know 10 of each pie you go there there's lucky to be a pie there

anymore oh really they go they keep one just in case someone comes in ask for a pie i've said this many times and i'll say it again pie face has always been no good never been a fan of it oh it's a low quality they're yeah they're, they're not very good. So, yeah, that was good. You were saying that you were going to drive me past the two houses that you lived in. Oh, yeah. You then forgot to do that. Yeah. And I didn't care enough to chase it up.

Yeah. It would have been, I mean, you know, it would have been interesting to see if the house was still intact. We can go on the way back. Oh, we can go on the way back. That's true. Yeah, yeah. I've got some stories about the houses I lived in. But we're now on the road to mirabara we're in between ballarat and uh ballarat mirabara and um it's about oh it's

about a 45 to 50 to 55 minute drive we just drove through uh clunes the town of clunes which i don't know if you want this on the record but you were telling me that everyone from there is fucked yes no that's that should be on the permanent record. Please update the Wikipedia page of Clunes. But Clunesies, people that come from Clunes, are officially fucked. I liked the look of the town, I will say, though. You know what I love? You know what I've got a big heart on for?

Shitty, small country town motels. I love a good shit motel. Yeah, but you drove past that. We went past a really bad motel. In the daylight, fine. At night time, no good. A bit scary. I love a bit of like...

That's the turn off to Carisbrook. We're just driving past the turn off now, which is towards my parents' house. Ah, okay. That's where you go if you want to go to my parents' house. So now I'm getting an idea of how far out of the town they actually live. Yeah. How much of a bumpkin you actually are. Yes.

I love a bit of a small country town motel where you're getting kept awake by the fucking light from the neon sign outside filtering in through the curtains. Yeah. I love it. That would be, like, there would have been a lot of crime take place in that motel we just went past. But, yeah, Clunes.

Clunes is the home of, I was just explaining to you, if you go down the main street, Mad Max, bits of Mad Max got filmed there. There was bits of the Heath Ledger, Ned Kelly movie. There's a lot of ads and stuff. Yes. Ned Kelly is dead, you're right. He didn't die in Clunes though. Sounds likely given what you were telling me about the type of person that's from there. Yeah, well, I'm trying to think of some famous some some famous clunesies there was a guy there's a guy there's a guy in the year below me that was mates with my mates that were um he's from clunes his name was span span s-p-a-n great and so that's his name

span and my mate um got punched in the face by him because he went up to him and went, how are you going, Ban? And just changed his name from Span to Ban and so he punched him in the head. How do you get that offended from changing your name from such a shit name like Span? Oh, I cannot wait to see this town. And then on top of that, then Span also,

he never used to wash properly. So he'd come home from school on the bus from Maryborough, get to Clunes, and instead of having a shower, he'd jump in the Clark's outdoor pool out the back and just let chlorine take its place upon him. Yeah, right. I remember being that age where you need to be told that having a swim or being in the ocean isn't the same as actually bathing. Yeah, yeah.

What I did like about this whole trip was you come to my house this morning then we get in the car you start driving and all of a sudden you go so where am i going by the way as if i meant to know the directions to your childhood hometown but we're in your part of melbourne which i don't know at all i just need to know how to get out of melbourne okay fair enough i'm on your turf that's your hometown there yeah i don't know where the. I just need to know how to get out of Melbourne. Okay, fair enough. I'm on your turf. That's your hometown there. Yeah. I don't know where the fuck I'm going. I know, look, now... I just need to be like Soda, where you'd just be able to hear, like, just your fucked sensor would kick in.

Alright, you know what? And you just would automatically know how to get there. You know what? I'll do that then, later on. When we finish in Maribor, I'm going to take you to my parents' house in the middle of nowhere. Yep. And you watch me find where the house is without there being any marking. Okay, okay.

Now, that's a place I can find in the dark. And every time I bring my girlfriend there, she's like, how the fuck did you find this place? Yeah, right. Okay, great. So we're currently, yeah, like I said, we're sort of in the middle of nowhere a little bit at the moment. I will say it's very nice out here.

Yeah. It's very nice kind of, I don't know what I was expecting, but we're sort of, yeah, on either side of us, it's just pretty deep. We're flanked by gum trees. It's a nice, it's about, what, 2 o'clock, so there's a bit of shadow over the road. It's nice weather. Every now and then, it's a nice day.

It's cold, but it's still, like, the sun's out. Every now and then, we kind of come up over a bit of a hill and we get a nice kind of view of the vista out in the distance. We're on the road at the moment, which reminds me of my mate. When I lived in Ballarat and we were going back and forth between Maribor and Ballarat a lot,

my mate Jimmy is diabetic and he once got back to Maribor and realised he had left all of his diabetic stuff in Ballarat and he was on the verge of basically having a fit. Oh, wow. And then went, fuck, and got in the car and broke the record of how quick you can get from Mariborough to Ballarat.

Got there in nearly under 20 minutes. If you take your time, it's an hour drive. Yeah, right. Man. Wow. I'd love to have seen someone having a fit and driving that quick. Well, so now I'm starting to get the anticipation. Hearing about a diabetic nearly dying, nothing gets me harder.

What are we doing? Why are we stopping? Where are you taking me? We're going to go through Talbot. It's another town. Okay, all right. It's actually, there's a listener of the show that lives in Talbot. Oh, okay, right.

Let's try and find him. No, he'll be at work. Oh, okay. But I'll bring you through. It's very big of you to assume that a listener of the show that lives in Talbot. Oh, okay, right. Let's try and find him. No, he'll be at work. Okay. But I'll bring you through. It's very big of you to assume that a listener of this show has a job. We're going through... Talbot, a goldmine of history. So, when we go to Maribor, don't call it Talbot, you fucking out-of-towner.

What? We pronounce it Talbot. Oh, well, you're wrong. No. And I'll tell anyone, I'll tell any of these cunts in the main street that they're wrong. You come into the main pub and start throwing around the Talbot word, you'll get the absolute piss kicked out of you. Oh, well, fuck, I hope I'm not asked to just, like, name places I've been all the way up

here. You'll be in fucking trouble, mate. Hey, I will say, I, based on what you've told me, but for the little bits and pieces that I've picked up from you over the years about Maryborough, I have a winter coat that is kind of like a salmon-y, pinky, kind of terracotta colour. Chuck it out now. Chuck it out into orbit. This is my point. I got up, I was getting dressed, and then all of a sudden something resonated in my head where I went, yeah, better keep it a bit more muted.

I'm wearing a red beanie, which even then I thought, is this too flamboyant? Am I going to get bashed for wearing this? I think, you know what, when I was growing up, I think so. But now, I think, you know, I think Maribor's moved with the times a little bit now. It's not as, and I might be wrong, but there's a lot of, the bullies that live in Maribor now

are people that are... They all live in Melbourne running comedy rooms and doing podcasts. Yeah. So I'm trying to impress you by driving you through Talbot now, but it's literally vanilla sky in this town. Yeah, it's a very quiet day in fucking Talbot or however the fuck you want me to say it. And you're just briefly driving on the wrong side of the road here, which is cool. Well, there's no one anywhere, so...

Yeah, what's going on? I'm from the city. I can do whatever the fuck I want. There's a post office and there's a pub and that's pretty much the courthouse hotel again what a good country pub fuck i wish we should go in there but it not doesn't look open maybe in the way yeah it's 1 30 on a friday it's been rebranded that used to be the bull and mouth hotel so that's that's some pretty exciting news for Talbot. Yeah. Yeah, maybe we can go past on the way. As long as you don't have that fucking vest on or start pronouncing it. I didn't bring it.

As long as you don't start pronouncing their town Pooftaville or whatever you were saying before. Jesus. So look, I will say now that we're getting closer. Anticipation is starting to build because like... What is in your mind of how you think Mirror Bar is going to look like? Okay, so this is, you know, this is like what, six years that we've been doing this show?

I mean, it feels like about 15. Yeah. It's six, it feels like 15 with the career benefits of having done it for six months. Yeah, yes. I have just brought you through Tolbert, which is a particularly bumfuck town. Yeah, very small. Which is just a speck Which is just barely a speck on the radar.

So this is exciting because there's no turning back from this point. All this time that we've spent talking about it. We can turn back if you like. We're 14 kilometres away from it. But I mean, you know, this is the last time I'm ever going to exist in the world not knowing what Marybeth is like. Only having my Willy Wonka-esque view in my head of what you've told me about it.

Is there any chance of you pulling a full northern exposure, sea change, and we hit Maryborough and you go, that's it, I don't want to go home? Maybe. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. I really don't know what to expect because on the one hand, you do this weird thing when you talk about weird thing when you

talk about maryborough where you describe it in these real kind of like bumfuck podunk terms but then you know it's a bit like the n-word anytime someone else refers to it like that you're like nah you know we've got a mcdonald's now like we're pretty big yeah so i i don't i've kind of over the six years i've kind of had that to and fro in my head where I don't, like, I don't know, I really don't know what to expect in terms, because you say 8,000 people, but I don't know, I don't know what that looks like in terms of a main street. Like, I think I'm, I think it's, this sounds weird to say,

but I think I'm expecting it to look, to be nicer than I'm expecting it to be. Right, yeah. Does that make sense? Put it this way. So long-term listeners of the show will know of the, I mean, we haven't talked about this for years and years, actually, but Sunshine Johnson was the most famous crazy person of Maribor, which I talked a lot about in the early days of Little Dumb Dumb Club. I think I'm sort of out of stories that I personally know, so I don't talk about it

anymore. But I'm sure I've told this story before, but we used to tell all these stories to people we knew in ballarat and lived with in ballarat when i went to school in ballarat and so the people were the same as you they they were like what is this magical town of meribah we've got to go and check it out and then we were literally driving there in the same way as right now and they're going oh i can't wait to see this crate and it's like it's not disney world for fucking idiots by the way it's not like people are going to be jumping out of bushes and, you know, throwing things at us or whatever it is. But we literally did this. We get to the first zebra crossing in town.

We stop and Sunshine Johnson walks across it and kicks the car in the headlight. And that's the first minute we'd been in Maribor. So it's me going, just set your expectations down. But then again, dreams can come true, obviously. Yeah, so I don't know. I mean, maybe we should tweet, like put a pin in this for now. Should we go live when we first hit the town and I'll get my live reaction. So the next time, so guys, look, this is me basically signing off as you know me forever. This is a, there's a before, this is like a B, B M and then afterwards is A-M. Like, I'm never going to be the same again. I'm never going to be.

During Maribor. Okay, there's an in-between point. I'm never going to exist in the world as Tommy Daslow that doesn't know what Maribor looks like. Yeah, so what's going to happen next is you're going to be like those YouTube videos, those unboxing videos. Oh, yes. You're going to be unboxing Maribor. Yeah, okay. All right. Well, look, it's been great, everyone,

and this is me signing off forever. Before you transition. All right, you have given me the signal. We are rolling into the town of Maryborough. By the way, for about the last ten minutes, I have not had any phone reception, which does concern me somewhat. I have no link to the outside world.

I have no means of escape. Yeah, you're going to have to check Facebook on a landline as soon as you get in here. How am I going to upload my Snapchat of me as landline as soon as you get in here. How am I going to upload my Snapchat of me as the dog next to the Welcome to Maryborough sign? Oh, man, we've actually come in the other way, so there's no Welcome to Maryborough sign. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, we've come up the back passage.

Yeah, we've snuck in. Interesting. This is a good way to do it for out-of-towners because there's not like a bunch of yokels with nails on sticks waiting for out-of-towners to arrive. The welcome party. We don't get to like see the population sign that goes up by two people as we drive past. Yeah, exactly. Now, that is a motel. That's a good looking motel.

Yeah, but in terms of a shit one. Yeah. So, yeah, we are in the little entrance, the back entrance to Maribor. A lot of weatherboard houses. Weatherboard houses, a lot of very similar looking houses all lining there. I do like this style of house that's like right on a kind of a main street on the way into the city. You know, no fence, no gate, just there, just out there. Yeah. A funeral home, cool. Yeah, one of our bigger landmarks. One of the things that people strive for in this town. The most, yeah,

the most flourishing business in town. If they can't drive out of the highway to get out of here, it's get out that way. Yep. So we're about to hit the main drag. Okay, great. Anything you want to say to me to prepare me for this? No, no. I think this is, we're about to hit the main drag now.

And there's a few motels that I sort of dream. If we ever were going to do a live show, a live, you know, late show, you know, a nighttime show, I would be recommending people to be staying around. This is like a real motel part of town. Now, this guy over here in the overalls playing the banjo, what's his story? Well, I believe he's campaigning to be re-elected as mayor. Okay. All right, here we go.

So this is it. And we've finished the main street. I can see a bit of activity just kind of up ahead. We're heading toward, as Nick Cody would say, the street. The street. What we call, Cody loves it when I say, I'm just going to go down the street. Yeah. And that's what I'm still referring in my head to High

Street as the street. As he pronounces it, the street. Just going past the Highland, is this a bowls club? Now we will be going, that's called the Highland Society. We do have a bit of a tip off concerning the Highland Society so we'll be doubling back there. Okay, so that's our first port of call you reckon?

Maybe, yeah. Okay. So that's the Highland Society. It's a bowls club, but it's also a place to drink. Okay. And to give you another little link into the mind of Mirabar, the Highland Society nicknamed the Violence Society. Oh, here we go. We've got to go there.

Sue's Kitchen. Now, okay, first things first, some amazing font work going on. Yeah. Oh, the video store's closed down. You wouldn't read about it. My pizza... There's three pizza places in... What's that, 10 metres?

Two of them are next door to each other. Yeah. Just frames and more. Yeah. That's great. Microblast computers. Oh, yeah, you've misled me. This is a fucking...

It's bustling. This is a bustling metropolis. Look at this. I can see at least six people. I mean, it is lunchtime on a Friday. Yeah, there's a Target country. Yeah. Yeah, this is...

Yeah, this is... We used to go around to a lot of country towns and stuff when I was a kid. My parents love going around to holidaying at country towns. This is pretty standard fare so far. This is the Bull Mouth Hotel where there's been a lot of blood spilt over the years. Is that closed down? Yeah, apparently. Yeah, that's all gone.

See, a lot of this, I haven't been here for years now, so a lot of this I don't really know about. There's a lot of changes. Yeah, wow. So this looks, yeah, very kind of narrow main street and a lot of your chains that you don't really see in the big city, like Toy World. Toy World is a chain that no longer exists with their big purple bear mascot. You don't really see too many of them in the city. Yeah, KFC.

I mean, who ever sees that anymore? I mean, you... Now, I imagine that's the sort of... A subway and a KFC across the road from each other, I've just seen. I imagine that's the sort of thing you could have only dreamed about as a young boy growing up. Oh, man. Oh, my God.

Are you kidding? How much bigger would you be now if that had been.....if you could have only dreamed about as a young boy. Oh, man. Oh, my God. Are you kidding? How much bigger would you be now if you'd have to work that off? It was... We dreamed... It was always like... Like, we're about to go up to a McDonald's, but we dreamt about having a McDonald's, you know, back then. Like, it would be a guaranteed front cover of the Maribor advertiser every six months

or so. Like, if the circulation was coming down they'd go, let's pull out the McDonald's rumour you put that on the cover and people go, fucking hell, McDonald's in Maribor! Because we used to, everyone else would drive to Ballarat just to get a cheeseburger. Yeah, right. And now that I've done

that drive, it's not, you know, it's not quick, it's not close. It's an hour to go and get McDonald's and then people would try and bring it back to Maribor. Yeah, right. You fucking quick. It's not close. It's an hour to go and get McDonald's, and then people would try and bring it back to Maribor. Yeah, right. You fucking idiots. McDonald's does not keep. Jumbo's car wash.

This is, I don't know. Yeah, this is nicer than what I was expecting. Yeah, you wait until the sun goes down. Yeah, okay. And the freaks come out. Yeah, well, it is. It's quaint. It's nice.

Oh, there's an electronics boutique here. I wouldn't have expected that. Yeah. Video game store. Things have changed. There wasn't... Yeah, how... None of that was there when I was a kid.

How built up is this compared to what you had? Yeah, a lot more. A lot more than what it was. We literally didn't have any chains, I don't think, back when I was growing up. How... I just saw a sign pointing towards Castlemaine. How far away is Castlemaine? Half an hour. Okay, right.

Yeah. So here's McDonald's. I've never been to McDonald's, like Maryborough McDonald's, which is a... You're actually pulling into it for some... Are you going to go in? Where should we go? We'll go... Oh, here we go.

So Mark Twain Drive. Now that is a train station. Yeah, I see what the great man was talking about. Yeah. This is a train... Yeah, yeah okay i thought the main street was nice compared to the train station it's a pile of shit yeah totally fuck it and fuck you burn everything down apart from the train station yeah wow that's epic that is a huge train station for a shithole it's a big train station okay so well yeah look it's 1.30 in the afternoon. We know that we are now occupying the same, you know,

suburb, town as Matthew Delvedova. It's not lunchtime. I mean, we really should have gotten down here a bit earlier. We maybe could have done a lap of the shops, seen if he was at Subway or KFC or, you know, getting a Chinese meal or something. Well, maybe let's hit one of the shops first and see if we can get on the trail. Okay, so we, okay, we're going to, you want to do a lap of the main street?

Yeah. Or should we start with our tip off at the violence club? Well, let's go to the street first, I reckon. Okay. All right. Well, okay, let's check in from down the street. Okay, we're out here on the main drag. We've done a lap of the shops. So far, uneventful.

No sightings. And not only that, I've realised that I don't even really know what Matthew Deloverdover looks like, so I don't even know what I'm looking out for. Look, let me assure you, the freaks we've seen so far, we have not seen. Well, much like the navigation, I think

you're going to have to take the reins on this one. But, so we're just walking up and down the shops trying to work out what our first port of... Just so you know, none of the old women in wheelchairs or the bloke in the Cooter Lines one-stripe target tracksuit pants, none of them are NBA players so far, by the way. What about this guy dribbling a basketball? Is that him? Oh, that could be anyone.

So we've got our tip at the... What is it actually called? The... The Violence Society. Yeah, what's it actually called? The Highland Society. So we've got our tip down there where he was sighted yesterday. We're on our way up there, on the way.

But we've just seen a sports mart. Now, that seems like an obvious first port of call. But, you know, maybe he left his basketball back in the States and he needed a quick one, you know? If someone was looking for Tommy Daslow and they went past the comedy mart, that would be the first place to go and look. a quick one. If someone was looking for Tommy Daslow and they went past the comedy mart, that would be the first place to go and look. Yes, exactly.

And I'd be in there because I'm the owner and CEO. Yeah, and because you were out of town and you left your jokes at home, so you went into the comedy mart. All right, so should we just go in? Let's try and see. And surely, even if he hasn't been in there, you'd think you run this place,

you've got a vested interest in that sort of stuff. So you'd know, you'd have heard the rumours. Yeah. Alright, let's go check in. Okay. Okay, we're here at Sports Power in Maryborough with, what was your name? Mike. Mike.

Mike. You've already insulted the locals by getting the name of his shop wrong. Well, I was hoping to cut that out, but anyway. So we're trying to track down Della Vadova. We thought maybe he's been in here, it's a sports store, maybe he's needed a water bottle or a basketball. At the very least, you'd have to be a font of knowledge of sports-related stuff here.

So, I mean, you'd have felt it in your waters when when an NBA winner comes into town surely you're you're the first person to know about this stuff Mike well I did hear he was in town but I haven't actually seen him so the closest we've got is probably a signed basketball or a signed jersey oh really and where did you get those did he like when he won or something he sent them over no the last time he was in town he conducted a clinic and we had some articles we sent him up and he signed them for us. Oh, right, right. Awesome. How much do you want for them?

Well, they're actually the Cavs ones, so... Oh, well, it's his championship jersey, so I suppose it will be worth a bit. Oh, nice. Great, nice. That's probably the most valuable thing in Maribor, I reckon. In the store, yeah. No, in the whole town, yeah. That thing could probably run for mayor and it'd probably get in. So if we were trying to track him

down we've come down here to the day to try and find him where would you suggest we if you know he hasn't been in here where would you suggest we try? Well he's got relatives that his father owns a real estate agency so probably a chance to meet up with him there. Well if he runs real estate yeah if he runs real estate he'd probably know where he lives then. At the very least, yeah. Yeah, he could be up having a shoot up at the stadium, but who would know?

Oh yeah, the basketball stadium, of course, I didn't even think about that. And also it's named after him, I forgot about that. Well, if we do find him, is there anything you'd like us to pass on? Do you want more signed memorabilia for the store? Yeah, that'd be great. Get him down to sign a few Sherons down here as well while he's at it.

Okay, so two big leads there, which I dare say, you're a bit of a fucking idiot for not already being aware of. How do you respond to these allegations? No, to be honest, I do know about the real estate and I had that up my sleeve. Right. If I'm going to be co-detective with you on this, you've got to bring me in on any hot leads that you get. Like having at the back of your head that there's a basketball stadium,

even just without it being named after him, the fact that there's one here. basketball stadium, even just without it being named after him, the fact that there's one here. You can't blame me for not thinking of the Matthew Dilverdome basketball stadium. All right, well, you let me know who I can blame because I would love to start pointing some fingers. Jesus Christ. Well, look, that guy was, you know, very helpful.

Like I said, he shouldn't have needed to be, but, you know, I felt like we were coming in here starting at zero. Turns out we came in here starting at negative two. And he's just brought us up two points to be at base level. True dumb cunt detective. Season three. You know what I've noticed so far about Mirabar? And we were just talking about this. A lot of closed down pubs, which seems bizarre that that would ever happen in a small country town.

I know. That should be just the bedrock of the city. Totally. I mean, they're not downloading their beers. Where are they drinking? Is there some Netflix of beer that they're just trying out in the rural areas to get it ready before they unleash it on the city? All right, so where to now?

I think it's time to check in at the violence society. Yeah, and see how this goes. At the very least, have your first Mirabarra beer. Yes, true. And at the very least, maybe this guy can give us some piece of information that we wouldn't have gotten anywhere else. Like reminding you that you're related to him in some way.

Maybe he can tell us who my mum and dad is. So we're here in the Violence Society and there's a group of old ladies across from us doing little Irish jigs. So let me say, I can certainly see why it's got the nickname of the violence society. Very much living up to it at the moment. Yeah, this is pretty much a reenactment of my teenage years, just watching these pensioners,

and all female pensioners, that clearly don't have a guy that wants to dance with them, so they're just... No, I'm just saying, it's literally not happening they're all just it's nice i'm enjoying watching it it's so it's a i've been watching a lot of episodes of twin peaks lately and it's sort of i'm not sure if i'm watching another one or not it is it is a bit like that because there's tvs all around the place and they're all in the test

pattern yeah um so we came in here and one of the first things we see on the way in is that this venue you know we were talking about like, you know, could we ever do a podcast in a venue this size in Maryborough? This venue is about to play host to the Fawlty Towers dining experience. I mean, we are on hallowed grounds right now. Just think, in a month's time, a fake Basil and Manuel are going to be fucking tripping over their shoelaces in this very room. It's exciting.

I reckon they could get the the little dunlop club dining experience in here as well um just people trying to eat and then being crowd surfed on being called a cunt by the waiter yeah so we got but it's not us it's people pretending yeah yeah so hopefully the same actors like the manuel guy can play you so we got um we went and got a we were each having a beer um we both got told to take our hats off so I've been very triggered by being in here um we got told that it's because it's a club and not a pub club rules which I will say the only other time I've been told to take my hat off in a in a venue is at Clocks in that shit bar in the street station

I went in there as a joke and i you had to sign in yep and they said can you take your hat off and i said why and they said so that if you commit a crime and like bash someone that we can see your face on camera so so that's why that's my only other experience that's why it's like guilty until proven innocent like i just love that you you are going to bash someone so that when you do we need to be able to find you so this is we've been told to take our hat off just so we don't go over and absolutely king hit these old women who are dancing that's why it's for their security punish them for cultural appropriation um so yeah we're sitting here we've been told that the guy who tipped you off yeah now we're here for the red hot tip the the manager of the violent society is in his office and we've just bought a beer and i have to say it's my first beer since

the drunk ass it is exactly 20 days since i've had a beer so uh i figured i had to have one just for some reason just being in marabara makes me want to drink so just to fit in with all the other absolute rat bag pieces of shit that live here. And so this club that we're in now, this is apparently where he came. This is where Della Vadova was yesterday with both of his sisters. A couple of days ago with his sisters. Dropping them off at the Irish jig class and moseying on out of here. Just while they're dancing, Della Vadova's just slam dunking over the top of them.

Slam dunking the pokies. Yeah. Okay, so we've been told that our tip-off is in his office. We're going to go across to him and we're going to try and get to the bottom of what happened in here yesterday. All right, we're here at the Highland Society with Malcolm, who's the person who sent us the hot tip. The manager here. The manager here.

So talk us through it. What happened yesterday? And first of all, can you confirm the rumours that this is nicknamed the Violent Society? No, no, no, not the Violent Society. We've got way too old clientele for that one. Right, right. Yeah, so yesterday we had this strange call come in no no not the violent society we've got way too old clientele for that one but yeah so yes so we had this uh strange call come in from someone um with a her name was venka i think it was and uh

venko oh give me a second that's okay that's okay speculation speculation anyway um yeah asking to play balls i bring our bowl secretary see if we could get these three people out there. Next thing you know, at the front counter, we've got Matty Deliverdover here with his two sisters. Yeah, so... Slam dunking the bowls and just ruining the fuck out of your lawn? Not this time, but yeah, we kept it pretty quiet because we didn't want everyone jumping all over him. But as soon as he walked out the door, I was straight on to Twitter and let you boys know what was going on and, you know, that he was definitely in town.

There's people ringing up now either about me or about us. He's calling to make another booking. He had such a good time yesterday. He wants back in. We've got great bowl screens here, boys. NBA standard. NBA standard bowl screens at the end of the day. Should you be doing your job and answering the phone?

I probably should be. There was even a bit of subjection around the club here, whether it was him. I had my operations manager, Jay, telling me it wasn't because he wasn't tall enough. But I sent out our bistro manager, Nick, and he came back and fully confirmed. Oh, he confirmed.

What's the bistro manager confirmed? Oh, no, Nick was all over it at the end of the day. Would you say he's the Wikipedia of the violent society? Oh, well, I dare say so. He's a bit more of a local than I am. So, yeah, he seems to know everybody and everything. So, yeah. So you didn't get any indicators from his behaviour yesterday

about where he might be today, what he might be doing today? No, no, not at all. Like, all I could say... He didn't say same time tomorrow? All I could say is I think that his old man runs the professionals in town. So, uh... Professionals, okay. Because we also...

Right, right. Because that sounds like he's a madam of a brothel. runs the professionals in town so uh professionals okay because we're real estate agent right right because he's a madam of a brothel no no nothing like that so yeah so maybe that might be the next place to sort of go down and ask for um would you almost say location location location very much so if you've got that real estate type of brain which i definitely don't that's right so that's the next so yeah that's the next place you reckon we should go check out? Yes, yeah, for sure. For sure. I'd go down and see if we can see Mara.

It's frustrating that we've come down here based on your recommendation. The least you could have done is, you know, somehow like imprisoned him here or something for 24 hours for us. Well, you know, look, we have tried that in the past and it hasn't gone down that well. A lot of places in Mara go try it. Yes, yes. Look, we have tried that in the past and it hasn't gone down that well. A lot of places in Maryborough have tried that. Yes, yes.

Okay, so we love a good anti-ad on this show. And are we going on record and saying, professionals real estate in Maryborough? Get fucked. Well, look. Look, the trail has led to the professionals real estate company in Maryborough, and that's where Matthew's dad has now taken over. So we thought, right, all the roads lead to Rome, as it were. We went in there.

The old man wasn't there. He wasn't working today. We talked to a guy who we thought was the boss, the next boss in there. The old man wasn't there. He wasn't working today. We talked to a guy who we thought was the boss, the next boss in there. We explained. We said to him, look, we're looking for Matthew. You can say no comment. You can say whatever you like. You can give us any sort of clue as to where to go.

Absolutely not. Would not. Would not do it. Would not go on the record, which says to me they are fucking running scared. They know that we're on the case. He's covering. Like, I reckon he's out the back. Yeah.

He's probably... Actually, there was a blonde receptionist on the desk. I think that was fucking Deli in a wig. There is a massive cover-up operation going. Something about that didn't feel right. Fuck. The fact that he wouldn't... Like, he said, oh, I don't know. The old man isn't here today. going something something about that didn't feel right fuck he the fact that he wouldn't like he said oh i don't know the old man isn't here today he you know he's more of a consultant role now

you'd have to talk to him and we were saying just say this just just say exactly this on the on the on the recorder for 10 seconds wouldn't even do that professional cunts more like it well look that guy that we talked to then was in the throes of handing over the business to the Delvedovers. No, fuck him. Fuck the business. Fuck this town and everyone that's ever lived here. Fuck you and your fucking shit car. Look, he's on the way out.

He don't give a shit. He's not interested in any potential new customer. He could not give a fuck. He's probably trying to give houses away for five bucks. This is his last day in the job. The Deliverdovers are the ones taking over, so they're the ones that we, unfortunately, are not there to talk to. And this is, I mean, you know, it should be said that what we're doing today,

it's extremely, it's gonzo podcasting, where we've just thrown ourselves right into the mix of it. But this is new for us. You know, if we were more experienced, I mean, if we were like a John Safran or a Louis Theroux, we wouldn't be taking no for an answer from some old real estate cunt. We'd be barging back there and go and show it. Give us the old man's phone number. Get us his contact.

You know, we'd be a bit, I don't have it in me to be that kind of, you know, that pushy. Yeah. Now, so. So, we're pulling up here at the... This is our last... This is the throw of the die. This is where the lead... This is where our leads end.

Basketball-wise, this is the half-court shot, really. Yeah. The buzzer has sounded and we've just launched one from half-court. Yeah. Underarm. What we've just turned into is the Maribor Sports Leisure Centre, proudly proclaiming on the sign, the home of Matthew Delevadova. We found where he lives.

Yeah, he lives on the three-point line. Yeah. So we are now driving into the Leisure Centre, the big indoor basketball court in Maribor. So at the moment, this is, I mean, if you're an NBA basketballer, surely you'd be, you'd be, you know be keeping in touch. You'd be strong. Keeping it, yeah, keeping your skills up. Yeah, yeah. You can't just go to Mirabar and give up and then go back

and still think that you're going to beat Muggsy Bogues and Larry Bird one-on-one. You know? And Elmer Fudd and the Monstars when they come up here. Yeah. Okay, so this is it. We've pulled up. We are going in. That just reminds me of something.

If they were going to make an all-star Meribah Space Jam, I reckon I'd nearly make the team. You'd be like the Newman character in Space Jam. Oh, yeah. Or the Bill Murray character. No, Newman. Fuck. Okay, so we're going in.

This is it. We just have to hope and pray that he's not in here we have not thought through a contingency plan uh the us having wasted a whole day hinges on us finding that guy in there again i i do not know what he looks like so i'm gonna have to just read your facial cues and hope well there is a there is an orange barina parked out the front which i presume is his so all right we'll see you in there, guys. All right, we're here at the Maryborough Sports Leisure Centre with Dale. What's your role here, Dale?

I'm a lifeguard and I work at customer service. Oh, a lifeguard. Oh, yeah, because you've got the pool here. You're not a lifeguard in the basketball court. That makes sense, all right. So we're here. Look, this is the last resort. We've been looking around town for Matthew Delvedova,

and we figure, why not go to the place with his name out the front? Like, the sign out the front says the home of Matthew Delvedova. So which room is he in? Which room? If this is his home, surely he's here. Oh, you'd think he'd be in the basketball court. You'd think so. Yeah.

But we just looked in, and there's no lights on. Is it not on? Is that part of a cover? He goes in there, and you turn the lights off, so I can see that he's think so. Yeah. But we just looked in and there's no lights on. Is it not on... It's that part of the cover. He goes in there and you turn the lights off so I can see that he's in there. Yeah, exactly. That's him testing his skills, doing like a night round. Yeah.

Oh, man, that's an excellent idea. I don't know why more people don't take their cues from Maribor. Yes. So have you heard the rumours that he's... Because this is why we've driven up here is because we heard a rumour that he's in town at the moment. Have you heard any of these rumours going around?

No, I haven't actually. Right. He got spotted in at the Highland Society yesterday. Yep. We've been down there. He's been to the Bowls Club. You'd think he'd be

to his stadium, to his basketball club. Yes. No, I haven't seen him. Are you part of the cover-up? Is this what's going on? Oh, I can't say too much. Have you been paid off

by Big Deliver Nova? Does he come in? Have you been here when he's been in? I've seen him around, yes. Yeah, when he came in and talked to all the kids that he was here. Did basketball for them, showed them all about basketball and that. But he never just like pops in for a swim in the pool? No.

Pops in to have a, just to shine the plaque with his name on it or anything like that, just to make sure you haven't quickly changed it to someone else from Maribor's name, like, say, Carl Chandler, he does a podcast. No, I'm sorry. No, okay, right. I've got to say, if I had a centre that had my name on it, I'd be coming in, taking stuff out of the canteen. I'd be taking advantage of it a little bit more.

Yeah, come and get you to wash his car, stuff like that. So do you have any ideas? The trail's gone cold. This was our last port of call to try and track him down and get him on our podcast. We went to his dad's real estate company. They basically threw us out. They would not talk to us.

So have you got any leads, anything you can think of? Do you have his home address? No, I don't, though. I know one of his friends. You know one of his friends? Yes, Sally works here Give her phone number out on the podcast I can't do that

Sally's a friend, is Sally here today? No And final question, how come your name tag says Matthew and it's crossed out and has Dale written on the top in text Oh, sorry Stop dungeon for one second and answer This is like the end of Scooby Doo

we're going to pull this guy's head off and it's a mask and a deli of adobo was underneath the whole time well thanks for your help Dale it's a shame we couldn't get more of a prosperous result here

but yeah thanks very much for your help but I hope you know I hope for your sake you saved someone's life today I mean I hope you've been more useful to someone else

than you have been to us yes not really but we'll try yeah you have been to us yes oh not really but we'll try yeah okay so as you've just heard we didn't manage to find matthew delavadova at the uh at the sports and aquatic center and leisure center at his home at his home he was not home We've just had to settle for meeting a guy who's friends with a friend of Delictor,

which, to be fair, maybe that's all we deserve. Well, that's more than... He's doing interviews with the big media outlets. We know our place on the pecking order. You know what? I'll take that. That's more than I thought we'd get. So now we're...

You know, look, we've been defeated defeated we're on our way home we're heading back to melbourne via your parents house i mean no offense there's a part of me hoping that deliver dove has been rooting your mom and we spring him hiding in a hiding in a in a in a cupboard or something yeah i'll do some poking around i mean you know who knows yeah i'm i'm i'm that desperate now people are just walking along the side of the street i'm tempted to pull over and go have you seen him i know i'm still there's part of me that very naively still thinks that maybe we're going to get some kind of like fairy tale moment here and you know what like we'll get rear-ended by a car or something and

it's him drop you know what i mean like i just want there to be some kind of perfect outcome to this whole thing. But yeah, look, I'm excited now to... I don't know really anything about basketball. I didn't even know until I just saw pictures of him stuck up in the leisure centre what Matthew Deliver Dover even looks like. But what I do know in great detail is I'm a big enthusiast of the spawn of Mr and Mrs Chandler. So in many ways, even if we had met Deliver Dover,

this would be more exciting to me, meeting your mum and dad. Don't get too excited. And getting to see where it all began. All right, so again, this is a day of firsts for me. When you hear me again, you'll be hearing a different Tommy Dasolo. All right, well, we are officially out of Maryborough. We have just left my parents' home in sunny Charlotte Plains, as it's officially called.

I was too scared, so I didn't go in and meet them. I stayed in the car for the whole time. No, I met your parents. Very exciting. We had a good half hour chat with your mum. Had a good 15 seconds with your dad out the front. He did not seem very interested in engaging with anyone

from the outside world. Yeah, I actually got some uh kosamui recommendations from your mum yes what to go and do and eat there that was cool yeah um and yeah we thought we might get some kind of um you know we like we were hoping for a last minute you know deliver dover just walk and put through the backyard or something bolt of lightning but um yeah they yeah maybe i should have called on them first. They usually know a bit of that sort of stuff. But, yeah, they are aware that he was in the town.

Unlike the management, they didn't confirm that he was in town, but he is. Yeah, your parents were a better source than anyone else. Yeah. Your parents told us some, which we probably shouldn't repeat, but some private personal family details about the Delivered Dovers, which we could have used to our advantage. Yeah. But then I thought we were going to get a sort of a de facto kind of end

to this episode where you showed me your old bedroom and you showed me the filing cabinet that we've talked about on the show before that you bought in order to house all your collection of Mad magazines and that you then lost the key for, which is now down the bottom of a river or something. The swimming spot called Barry's Hole. Yes. So you go, there's the filing cabinet.

And it's a leery estimate that the filing cabinet is still taking up prime real estate within the main house, not relegated to the shed or anything like that. No, no, no. Well, who's going to carry it? It's a filing cabinet full of comic books. Oh, it's full. Okay, right.

At the moment, it's being used as a very tall perch for a little stuffed dog or something. Yes, for a teddy bear. So, yeah, so you point that out and I go, oh, yeah, the filing cabinet that you can't get into. All of a sudden, your mum turns around and goes, oh, I found the key the other day. And I get very excited because we've talked about this. Because mum's been swimming at the bottom of Barry's hole lately. We don't know where she's got a key from that. Well, we've talked about this, you know, multiple times over the years.

It might be one of the earliest things that came up on the podcast. I thought, well, this is some kind of closure. We finally cracked this vault of mad magazines. I can sit here and read them on the drive home. That's something. We've gotten something out of this. That wouldn't be happening, by the way. What do you mean?

Well, they're in plastic bags. They're not going to be locked up for 20 years, and then I'm just going to let you fucking dribble all over them on the way home. Again, this would have been content. I do have jam all over my fingers right now from the little donut I just ate. But, yeah, but then, you know, when your mum was, you know, called on to actually find this key, it was all of a sudden it was a different story. It was not as easy to locate as she made it out to be. But that was exciting for a couple of seconds.

Yeah, yeah. But, I mean, you did come out onto the farm because that's where mum and dad live, out on a farm. Your parents have a dog that has the same name as my ex-girlfriend. I know. She's back. I can see... Very triggered by that.

First the hat thing and now this. Maybe you should have taken a tip from mum and dad and put a chain on her. Fucking hell. Jesus Christ. Well, I'm saying that it's still there. I love your defence. No, all I'm saying is you should have chained up your ex-girlfriend. That's all I'm saying that it's still there. I love your defence. No, all I'm saying is you should have chained up your ex-girlfriend. That's all I'm saying.

She's still there is what I'm saying. Yes, yeah. My mum and dad aren't saying she'll be back. They're saying she's right there. So, yeah, we did all that. Yeah, you know what? We didn't get a good result, but a fun day. I'm glad I finally got to see Maryborough.

You know, meeting people's parents is interesting. It provides a couple of little clues. I, you know, meeting people's parents is interesting. Like, you know, it provides a couple of little clues. Yeah, yeah, sure. A few more pieces to the puzzle. Sure. That I'm gradually trying to work out. Sure.

We've just gone through Castlemaine. We're now on our way back to Melbourne all in one day. And we've just been through Castlemaine, which reminded me of when I was living in Maryborough, I did, me and some mates went and played for Castlemaine Soccer Club a couple of times or trained with them. And there's a prison in Castlemaine. And it meant that they were basically a prison site and we had to go and train with prisoners every week. Right.

Which was sort of weird to be kicking people and going, oh, yeah, you've probably killed someone for less than this. And you've taken that mentality of the prisoners and transplanted that onto your indoor soccer team that you now play with now. Totally. You behave like a bunch of hooligans on that court. I'm the warden, yeah.

And I did remember training with them and going and being sort of scared of them and going, oh, God, what have these guys done? And then seeing a guy look at me whilst jogging and look the other way, be looking at me, and then he ran headfirst into a goal post. By the way, you mimed jogging just then and took both of your hands off the steering wheel. The car started swerving all over the road. I'm in the country.

This is country rules. So how did you feel going back to, because you haven't been back there for a while, I feel like, was it a bit, did it sort of take you back to feeling like a teenager again a little bit a little bit i will say when we walked into the sports mart yeah we we went in there and i kind of i kind of figured well you know the lay of the land here you know how these people operate you'll you'll take the reins here we went in and you were very sheepish there was a man standing there behind the counter and we're both just kind of looking at the wall of shoes for about a good two minutes.

And I was like, how long are we going to stand here pretending that we have any interest in these shoes? Just two men in this shop in the middle of the day. You know what? And it wasn't until he went, can I help you? And then you launch into the whole spiel. And then you go, oh, I'm Carl. I'm one of the channelers.

And he goes yeah i remember you which i which which i loved like i i i don't know like it you've told me that it's like that but it is it's it's yeah it's it's crazy to be in the middle of it like a town where yeah small town same families for generations everyone knows everyone yeah like i'm not used to that yeah and you know what else what i had a bit of was the guilt of, because I've been brought up living in shops, because mum and dad always owned shops, and so you live in shops. I've always had this guilt in me of going into a shop, and because we were going in there, not planning on buying anything, but just asking this guy to be part of our little

shit fest. Yeah. I'm going in there knowing, he's looking at us going, oh, maybe there's a couple pairs of sneakers in these guys. We're just in there going, can you talk into our fake radio show? We're just being dickheads and we're going to waste your time. Is that cool? So is that why you were staring at the wall of shoes?

I thought you were nervously trying to kill time, but you were just trying to find the cheapest pair so that you could still get out of there with buying something. I do find, I do always find, I find it quite weird to walk out of a shop without buying something because I feel like apologising to people going, I'm sorry for wasting your time. You're supposed to come into a shop, buy something and get the fuck out.

Well, we walked past a local newsagent and they had a sweet little gollywog display in the front window. Sorry to the Maryborough Tourism Board for outing you for that, but that is still... The gollywog is alive and well in the heart of Maryborough. Yeah. Interestingly enough, perched up on a display in the front window, but then we went in there to have a look for them, and you can't, they're not anywhere in the actual shop.

Yeah. I think they just exist as some kind of, like, decoration in the front window. Yeah. That is a weird thing to not even, to just, the job of it is to just make the business look bad. Yeah. You can't actually make any money off it. Just to weed out, just to make sure there's only true believers in there. Yeah. Just to weed out anyone who's a little bit,

you know, a little bit too PC. It's exactly for you. It's for a visitor to come past and go, oh, this is this sort of tent. So that's the biggest tourist trap in town. Yeah. The gollywog display in the newsagent's window. It's just a bit of a sign to you to, so you know what you're getting into when you muck around in Maryborough. You're not in Kansas anymore. Yeah, exactly. So then, what about this? Because one of the big things that I know about you with Maryborough is you and your friends, you and your jackass mates, sitting out the front of the shops, you know, hanging shit on people that walk past.

And did you notice this? We went into a bakery and when we came out there was a group of young ruffians sitting out the front. And a part of me went, I reckon that's the new generation Chandler and his mates. Did any of that resonate with you? Did you notice that at all? Yeah, a little bit. Well, funnily enough. I heard a few snide remarks under their breath that made me think, this tradition is alive and well in this town.

That's funny because you know what? Where they were sitting was actually outside the business of one of my good mates from Maribor who we would do that with. So they're now sitting at the front of his business. Right, so it's all come full circle. Interesting, interesting. But hey look, so that's Maribor. We didn't quite get to the bottom of the mystery but you know what, given that we've done this, it's out there that we're that interested in talking to matthew delavadova hopefully this gets back to him we get some sort of window uh with him before he goes back to the states um that would be ideal

yeah retweet this episode tag him in it yeah um we we want him to hear this we want him to hear two freaks driving around a block of the city for a whole day. Yeah, we want more. We don't even want to talk basketball with him. We just want to talk Mirabarra fan fiction. Yes. You know, he's the mayor of Mirabarra. We just want to talk, you know, tiny towns with him, really.

I feel like, was there a bit of an ulterior motive here of you because we're two and a half weeks away from going to kosamui was part of your aim here to take me to somewhere like maryborough just to make kosamui seem even better is that what this was a bit of a palate cleanser before the kosamui podcast it's it's all part of the chandler reality tour you're you're gonna see you going to know what it's like to be me in the next month. So, oh wait, you told me, you said you had something good to say about the pizza place. Oh, that's right. That's right.

Strap in, listeners. We went past a place called, that used to be, do you know the chain Pinky's Pizza? Did that get to Melbourne? Yeah, yeah, yeah. the chain Pinky's Pizza? Did that get to Melbourne? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Pinky's Pizza. Were they the square ones? Oh, no, I think that's Eagle. No, Pinky's was the square ones.

No, no, they weren't. Oh, yeah, maybe they were thinking Eagle Boys. They just had a big pig as a logo. Yeah, we had Pinky's. Yeah, yeah, Pinky's, right. So, there was always Pinky's Pizza there, right? We went past Pinky's Pizza, but Pinky's Pizza wasn't there anymore. Just Pinky's Pizza.

But Pinky's Pizza wasn't there anymore. They'd just done this very weird rebranding where clearly they didn't have the rights to be Pinky's Pizza anymore. And if you looked at it, it said Pinky's Pizza, but just above it, it said old. Yes. So now it's called Old Pinky's Pizza. Yeah. So no longer affiliated with Pinky's Pizza.

It's just Old Pinky's Pizza. And that's a great start to your business where you can't even be fucked to get an entirely new sign and logo in. Yeah. You're just writing three letters above the old one. And putting old, like, yeah, this is not that good.

Yeah, exactly. By the way, you know what I found funny? You offhandedly to your mum, you mentioned Milan and she just knew who that was. Yeah. It's very funny to me that you've given your mum

the whole backstory of Milan. Well, you know, there's a lot of times where I've been drunk and hungover talking to her and she's going, what happened? And I'm like, well, I have to explain about this mysterious... I'll let you hear you in the middle of last year. Look, I know I'm 40, unmarried, no kids, but it's cool. I have this friend who takes me out and buys me shots every night of the week.

He's got a puff of... I'm doing fine in the city, Mark. He's got a puffer vest. You understand. So we... Have we said this on the show? We've been thinking about coming and doing... We talked ages ago about how we were wanting

to do a bus tour of Maryborough but it was going to be too much to hire the bus so now we've just been talking about well, what if we put something on... Well, this is the thought behind it. I thought that we would hire... We'd have to hire a bus from melbourne to take everyone up because no one would want to go individually because it's a long way to drive it's two and a half hours from melbourne um your closest hot spot i thought well no one's going to

put that much effort in but then again then we planned a trip to thailand yeah which proves that like for some reason i didn't think people had know, had the wherewithal to get themselves to Mirabarra. But it seems like people are going to a different continent. So maybe it's actually a possible thing. So the idea is what? Maybe we do it at, yeah, it would have been just like, yeah, drive around and not, and that would be the episode, just us driving around. But now the thought is, what if we did a live one at a pub and you all stay overnight yes that's kind of the idea yeah and then we could all get absolutely

get absolutely light maryborough we could do a bit of i reckon to be a mix of a live episode plus um plus a bit of driving around and looking at uh uh you at places where important parts of my life has happened or where really dumb things have happened. Yeah, so who knows? I mean, if you'd be into that, let us know. If enough people seem like they want it, we'd do it. I think now that I've been there, I think that would be really fun. Staying overnight, having a group of us, dicking around, I think would be great.

What's going on? What are you doing? We're dealing with weird traffic stuff so sorry i'm a little bit distracted we're in the middle of some kind of motorcade at the moment yeah of like cars with uh trucks with big flashing arrows on the back of them um okay so i don't think there is much more to say yeah look guys pump this episode tag deliverdover on the socials if you're going to share it around let's let's try and get this there is much more to say. Yeah, look, guys, pump this episode. Tag Delevadova on the socials

if you're going to share it around. Let's try and get this episode of the podcast. It's all about him. Yeah. It's all about us trying to find him. The true star, really,

of this episode is not Matthew Delevadova, but Maribor. And also friendship. Yeah. I mean, I think we were... And content. Hey, say what you will

about this episode but it goes for an hour no one can take that away from us I don't think it should alright guys well yeah thanks so much for listening

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to chip in to the show. And I hope you guys have enjoyed a slightly different episode. We didn't have guests this week. We sort of did in a little way. Like the town of Meribah was a guest and its occupants. You know what? This is funny.

Of all the people, we interviewed how many? Four people or something? Just a lot of them people that we just went up to on the street and said, hey, can we do this? And you gave a big pitch of what the podcast is and people that have been on it to try and, you know, kind of, you know, make them more interested in it. Of all those people that we talked to, not a single one of them asked for the follow-up information for where they could check it out. Not even to hear themselves back on it. A lot of, clearly there's too much to do.

There's too much to do in Meribah. I'm going to the Fawlty Towers dining experience. I don't have time to listen to a podcast. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look, it's... And I fully expected that to happen.

Who in Meribah wants to listen to a podcast? Yeah, well, okay. Yeah, we've had fun doing this. We hope you guys have enjoyed this slightly different episode. Thanks so much for listening and we'll see you next time.

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