The Little Dum Dum Club with Tommy & Karl - 358 - Paul F. Tompkins & Scott Aukerman
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This week on The Little Dumb Dumb Club, a brand new episode with Hollywood celebrities Scott
Aukerman and Paul F. Tompkins. But before we get into that, we are back in Australia as far as,
you know, this bit is concerned. And the next big thing we have coming up is our huge live show
at the Sydney Opera House as part of the Just for Laughs Festival. Carl,
what date is that on? Can you remember? You know what? I reckon I can. Let's try this. Let's find out together.
Let's try this. It is
Thursday.
Yes. September.
Yes. 15. No.
14. Yes. 14. There you go.
We're on a Thursday night.
We're at like 9.30 or something. 9.15.
None of it's been right so far.
I've nailed it.
So we're at the Opera House
awesome
amazing chance for us
to look like a legitimate
actual thing
what room in the Opera House
are we in
do you know that
the podcast room
the comedy room
it's great
yeah
the broom cupboard
yeah yeah
just like what we play
in the comedy festival
for our solo shows
no we're in a massive room
we're in a big big room
and it's at the Sydney Opera House
it's amazing
it's a pretty amazing event for us to do.
It's one of those things where you go, wow, this has really paid off doing a podcast for
six years or whatever it is.
But it's going to be heaps of fun.
It's going to be very unique for us.
So if you're in Sydney, there's always people asking us to come to Sydney.
Here it is.
Here's the one time we're there for the year.
So come and pack it out.
The biggest thing we've ever done and it's fair to say we're working on some stuff to make it a special show.
It's not going to be our usual kind of half-assed buffoonery, I dare say.
And it's, of course, part of the massive Just for Laughs festival, of which we've been part of in Montreal.
This is the Australian version.
It's the biggest comedy festival in the world.
So we're very proud to be invited along to be part of it.
And the Opera House is going to be chockers with a lot of comedy that week.
So, yeah, it's just a lovely chance to go up there and see our Sydney peeps.
So very exciting.
Selling very well already if you can just buy the remaining tickets.
We'll be just proud as a peach.
Is that the saying?
I don't know.
Yeah, I don't know. It is now. Is there a peach? Is that the saying? I don't know. Yeah, I don't know.
Is there a peach in there somewhere?
I don't know how easy it is to kind of loiter around
after a show in the Opera House,
as we tend to do with all the other kind of two-bit venues
that we perform in.
But we'll find a way.
We'll find a way to be saying hey to you guys
at the end of the gig.
There's really nothing in between, is there?
Because we just play a lot of shitholes, really, don't we,
when we do our live shows.
Yeah, so there's no like, oh, I'd better go out of the green room
and mingle with the fans.
Like the green room is just a bin in the corner of the room
next to the stage that we've just performed on.
Yeah, totally.
So there's no middle ground.
There's either we're in the tip, in a tip that's on fire,
and we're in the Sydney Opera House.
There's nothing in between.
So this is pretty salubrious.
This is pretty impressive for us.
So please come along and like Tommy says,
we'll try and hang out after the gig and, of course,
we will have shirts and stuff.
All the live shows that we do, we're trying to flog these shirts.
People are always asking for them.
So we'll bring along a big bunch of them.
Then we've got Melbourne, October the 21st,
Saturday, October the 21st at the Cro October the 21st, at the Croxton Park Hotel.
A huge live show.
We're doing it in a way that we don't normally do,
where we are announcing the guests for this one.
And the guests are Lawrence Mooney and Fiona O'Loughlin,
two favourite guests, the absolute favourite pairing of guests on this show.
It is going to be unfiltered.
It is going to be no holds barred.
Two absolutely brutal
titans of comedy going at it
for your enjoyment. And we would imagine that there's
a lot of stuff that you won't hear on the recorded version.
So definitely worth a look to
come down. It'll be a big show like
the 300th episode last time. This will
literally be the biggest show we've ever
done, I reckon, this one. It's selling very, very well.
You're about to say, it's not like you're about to say
we ever will do. It's putting a cap on it for now.
Well, it's a room bigger than the Opera House room that we're playing.
So it is going to be the biggest show we've ever done.
BYO vacuum cleaners, all of that stuff.
It's going to be great.
Oh, wow.
Imagine if a lot of people bring vacuum cleaners for Fiona to sign.
Fuck, can we do that?
You know how like you hear stories of like,
I think people used to do it a lot with like Ross Noble and Rod Quantock
where they'd come out onto the stage and there'd just be like a plethora
of gifts left there for them.
If we can come out to a stage cluttered with vacuum cleaners
that people have brought into the venue, I would absolutely love that.
A bit of set dressing that the audience have provided for us.
Just because Fiona doesn't listen to this or anything.
So just surprise her by bringing every vacuum cleaner.
Just, you know, go around Hard Rubbish Day,
find old vacuum cleaners, bring them along.
I know the Croxton is like a venue that, again,
is a bit different to the ones we normally play.
It's got a bit of security.
So we are going to have to remember to give the venue a proviso.
People are going to be turning up with vacuum cleaners.
So make sure you let them in.
Do you know what?
The person who's doing the door is a listener.
Is a listener, yeah.
So hopefully we'll be able to get away with that.
Yeah.
And a lot of people hit us up about saying if they are under 18,
if they're allowed to come along.
Yeah, hit up the venue rather than us because we don't really know
how it all works individually.
As far as I knew, I always thought it was like you're allowed
to be in a licensed venue if you're with someone who's overage.
But then someone told me you have to be eating a meal.
Exactly.
And because in the bit we're in, you can't get meals.
But maybe there's a way around it.
Yeah, there might be a way around it.
So either hit up the venue or just take your chances and just look older.
Or yeah, maybe I guess we'll try and help you out in some way.
Yeah, I don't know.
Maybe we'll work out.
Maybe we can like – because it's attached to like a very old school style kind of pub club
with a pokies room in it.
Yes.
That does have a kid's room.
Yes.
So maybe we can just beam the gig into the ball pit and you can just sit in there.
Well, there is a restaurant next door.
So if they go into that bit, they're allowed to go into that bit.
So maybe, who knows, if somehow they get backstage with us and then get into the real gig.
That sounds real fucked.
If you're super sexy.
And, you know, I don't want to punish people.
Oh, my God.
I don't know what's worse,
the public flagrant disrespect for the venue's licensing laws
or the subtle hint of pedophilia that you've snuck in there.
Yep.
I don't want to punish anyone for being under 18 and then, you know,
because you know what?
When you're a kid, you want to come in and see Fiona O'Loughlin talk about killing herself.
That's what kids are into these days, isn't it?
See, but that's our market.
Fidget spinners and old ladies killing themselves.
But the thing is like 16-year-olds are really the only people that would find this impressive in any way.
So we need those people in there.
People in their 30s have like worked out that it's probably a bit shit.
They're probably just spending the money on the ticket because they have pity for us.
Yeah.
But, you know, kids actually think we're cool, Carl.
We need them around.
Do you know we're on at the Croxton Park Hotel?
We're on there like a couple of days before Bernard Fanning sells out,
sold out a couple of gigs or something.
We should get him to come in a couple of days early and do something with us.
Yeah.
Just a bit of Fiona talking about killing herself just immediately followed by a bit of my happiness.
Did you see at Splendour in the Grass that they did like a powder finger reunion?
Yeah.
He was playing solo and everyone turned up except the drummer.
Yeah.
They just didn't tell the drummer that they were doing it.
And then he hears it on the radio driving around and he's like, what the fuck?
Wow.
That's brutal.
But how can you just like not tell him?
Because you've also then definitely told another drummer.
Well, I think it was just the drummer that plays solo for Bernard Fanning.
He just stuck around.
So that's brutal for them as well because it's like, hey,
you're in front of this huge crowd.
Everyone's loving it.
If you could just fuck off for five minutes so my old mates can come out.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean everyone, really the only person who doesn't lose out of this
is Bernard Fanning himself.
Yeah, totally.
I mean, these are all questions we can ask him when we get him on the show.
I can't wait till we break up and then do a reunion show
and people get that excited.
Oh, they're back together.
Oh, my God.
So you do it and you don't tell me that you're doing it.
She's some fat old woman in my place.
Great.
October 21, the Croxton Park, littledumbdumbclub.com,
four tickets.
We are also –
We should put on sale a Little Dumb Dumb Club reunion show.
That's not bad.
In ten years' time and, like, put it up on sale already now.
Great.
Yeah, great.
And do we want to just – and tickets, let's just cap it at 1,000.
Let's assume that –
Inflation has gone crazy.
Yeah, inflation has gone crazy.
Let's assume that there's enough interest for us coming back,
that it's a massive, massive venue.
Yeah, it's like a Rolling Stones sort of gig.
Wow, I love that, like a time capsule gig where we get held to it.
Let's figure out a date, like a Saturday night date,
and just put it on sale.
Yeah.
Just details TBC.
Great.
But the big reunion show in 2027.
But what if it's like January 2027 and the show is still going?
Yeah.
So then we very hastily have to break up like a month
before the reunion gig.
That's fine.
That's preferable
if anything. Yeah, just so
because otherwise people will be legitimately
pissed off
going to a gig going, but they haven't broken up yet.
This gig is fucked. And hey, look,
this is a big kind
of forward sizzle for these people that are
worried that they're underage and they're not going to be able
to get into the Croxton gig.
Yeah.
Buy a ticket to this.
You'll be 26 by then.
Yeah.
Unless licensing laws just absolutely blow up and the drinking age becomes
30 or something.
Yeah.
You'll be right to come.
You know who I feel bad for?
The seven-year-olds listening right now that go,
fuck, I'm still going to miss out in 10 years' time.
Boy, I can't wait to do a gig with you when you're 51 years old.
Good. Oh, I can't wait to do a gig with you when you're 51 years old. Good.
Oh, man.
All right.
So, yeah, littledumbdumbclub.com.
We are days away from announcing a Perth gig for 2017.
Fuck.
How have we not announced a Perth gig for 2017,
but we've announced a 2027 gig for Melbourne?
We should just do it for the whole country, to be fair.
We should do it.
I mean, an event like that, we'd be doing the whole,
we'd be playing all the major cities.
Sure, sure, sure.
We'd probably even go regional on a couple of them.
We'd probably even go to Adelaide.
Nah.
Yes, Perth, we were just talking about it then.
Probably there's a chance it'll be on sale by the time you hear this.
And we just talked about it then and said,
let's not say probably, it's on sale. We're being very positive about it. It's on sale by the time you hear this. And we just talked about it then and said, let's not say probably. It's on sale.
We're being very positive about it.
It's on sale.
When this episode goes out, go to our website.
Go to the social.
Go to your website.
Go to your own website and see if it's there.
johnsmith.com.
Check it out.
Yep.
So in the month of November, we are going to Perth.
Good news, everyone.
Go to the social media to find out exactly the date it is.
We're going to do a stand-up show
and a podcast, live podcast
like we usually do over there. Big bumper three
hour show or so. Drag over
some of our favourite guests
and friends of the show from Melbourne.
Sorry Perth Comics.
So that'll be great. All people that you've heard on the
show before and in the last few years
we've had excellent line-ups over there.
Yeah, totally. Last year Fleety, Dil and Beckyy lucas that was great the year before was edo josh earl and
dave cow i can't remember but we've had great ones yeah they're always great lineups we've had
mcgregor we've had yeah yeah lots of great people surprisingly enough a lot of people who are
prepared because part of the deal is come and spend a week with us doing gigs before yeah it's
always a surprising number of people that are happy to commit
that amount of time to doing it.
Yeah, but hey, it's because of you guys.
It's because you're a great crowd.
Yeah, and it's a fun little gig to be asked by us.
We sort of set them up with work and we pay them to be on our show
and all that sort of stuff.
An absolute honour to be asked, I think, is the way most people describe it.
I wish we got asked to do something as fun as that.
So, yeah, keep an eye on littledumbdumbclub.com.
Also, the Brisbane show is coming up soon, a reminder for that.
Are we announcing this?
August the 26th at the Hayabar?
Yes.
It's the theme of the show that we talked about doing.
Oh, sure, yeah.
It's because, you know, you're hearing a lot of American content in the show.
You're about to hear an episode with two guests from Hollywood.
You know, you've heard us live in New York, live in Montreal.
And there's a lot of episodes coming up still.
Yes.
So because this will be kind of the first thing that we do back home,
it's going to be the Little Dum Dum Club goes down under.
Wow.
That's right, all you bloody drongos and sheilas.
We're heading on down where the toilets flush the other way.
We're finally getting down there to you committed Australian fans.
Yeah.
We're going to hopefully hit up Melbourne and Brisbane.
We've got our cork hats ready to go.
We're finally going to come down.
I'm finally going to get a taste of this thing that your granddad invented,
Vegemite.
Wow.
I can't wait to get up on that stage at the Hayabar
and throw a couple of shrimps on the barbie.
Yeah.
I'm going to do a bit of local and find out what's happening in Brisbane.
I'm going to root Paul Hogan.
Wow.
That's cool.
That's not a knife.
That's your tiny little dick.
It's not.
You've gone against canon there because in the canon of this show,
it's massive, I think you'll find.
So that's August 26th.
Something to look forward to there.
We do need to do the Patreon readout section of the show.
As you all know, if you chip into Patreon and you keep the show funded
and flush with cash, and we appreciate it very much that we can make
a semi-living doing this show because of you guys.
So you know you get the magazine. A semi-living doing this show because of you guys. So you know you get the magazine.
A semi-living?
Yeah.
Well, you know, we're not.
That's a living, but we're half erect the whole time.
Yeah, we're half dead because of this podcast.
That's fair, isn't it?
It's half a life we're living.
We both look like we're half dead.
So as you chip in, you get a magazine.
If it's above $5 a month, you get an extra episode a month.
If it's above $10, you you get an extra episode a month if it's above ten
dollars and uh you get you also get your little name read out so this is the bit uh where we thank
you individually where finally some of you stop complaining because i finally read your little
names out how many would you like to do today i'm about to go out to dinner so i'd request that we
do not too many okay so well i was going to do was going to do ten. How about we halve it? Okay, five? Yep.
Just for a change, let's do five.
All right.
Okay, we'll do five this week.
Well, just because you're going to dinner.
Yeah, yeah.
You've made a special request.
I'm happy to meet in the middle.
Yeah, great.
We'll do five.
Thank you.
All right.
So, five names to go.
Thank you to Patreon subscribers.
Number one, thank you to Catherine Gately.
Catherine Gately. Catherine Gately.
What an elegant name.
It is.
It's very, it's very, it's something, it's like a character who would be,
I think would get murdered in an episode of Heartbeat.
Oh, right.
Don't you reckon?
Yeah, yeah, right.
So you never.
She's an elderly B&B operator or?
Yeah, I reckon she's, so she's dead on it.
She's like in the cold open you know yeah
yeah you know it must be a brutal call to get when you like you get cast in one of those cop shows
and you go fucking great it's gonna be good for my show reel and it's like no no you're the person
who's dead at the start of the episode so we make we see you in a couple of flashbacks but the whole
episode is about you but you're not in it at all but surely that's good like if you're an actor and
i have no experience with any of this sort of stuff but if you die that's surely that's a good thing when you
see that on the page and you go oh cool i get to die that's a thing to do instead of walking past
in a shop and going one scone thanks or whatever it is sure possibly i mean they're both brutal
because you're probably not getting paid like when you get the call hey you're being cast in
law and order you think oh here we go some sweet buns yeah but if you're dead you're not even
speaking you're not even you got to get a line out to get any kind of good money out of these guys.
Yeah, but it's not like you're playing a dead body.
You're dying at some stage.
Like you're living and then you get to die.
I think the ideal is you're like a suspect or whatever
and you get off halfway through the episode.
So you get the best of both worlds.
You're still getting some good screen time.
You're getting some good footage for that show reel.
But you're still getting the c it and then not have to do
all the dives. Well, I like the idea that a very
overly ambitious actor that's
like, has to die in one of these scenes
but he's still thinking, yeah, but if I
really fucking go well before I die
they might bring me back from the dead
and then give me a spin-off. They might
write out the death and just change the whole
plot. Yeah, there's just a big dream sequence in Law and
Order and I just get my own show from then on.
Even though I'm a criminal, for some reason now I'm –
they've brought me back from the dead and made me a detective
and now I'm acting with Jimmy Smits in the lead role.
That's actually not bad.
So if you've been murdered and you come back from the dead,
who better to solve murders than someone who's actually been through it themselves?
Yeah.
That's what made Dexter so good, but it's like the other side of that.
Solving your own murder.
Yeah.
I love this.
Now, fucking someone greenlight this show.
Why didn't we read this out before we went to Hollywood
and we could have pitched this in meetings with all these bigwigs?
Oh, well, next time.
Next time.
2018.
Yep.
Thanks, Catherine.
Thanks, Catherine Gately.
Thanks for inspiring our new murder-based show called...
Not Dead Anymore.
Called Detective Dead Cunt.
Number two, thank you to Patreon subscriber Louise Cutting Parker.
Double-barrelled surname, Cutting.
Cutting Parker, yeah.
Cutting Parker.
I see her pop up on the socials a bit and I've always been fascinated by that last name. I like it. Yeah, Cutting. Cutting Parker. Cutting Parker. I see her pop up on the socials a bit and I've always been fascinated by that last name.
I like it.
Yeah, Cutting.
Cutting Parker.
Something's happened and you've added the Parker and that's sort of good because Cutting is a weird name.
Again, there's a bit of sort of, you know, British kind of, you know, yeah.
There's a real – now, is there more double-barrelled surnames than ever in history before?
A lot of people are hanging on to those two names now.
I guess because it's – you'd say what?
It's the product of –
A broken home.
Well, yeah, divorce.
So divorce rates are higher than they've ever been.
Is that true?
Divorce seems like a thing that's just constantly going up
and that's never going to change.
Yeah.
I could be completely wrong here, but...
I reckon there's more than ever, there's more people going,
no, no, no, the names, you've got to have all the names in your surname.
It's like, oh, it's so bad.
So what's your...
So if your parents had decided to not, like,
if your mum hadn't taken your dad's name...
I'm not going to give my mum's maiden name
because that is a security password question on a lot of websites. So, no, I'm not going to give my mum's maiden name because that is a security password question on a lot of websites.
So, no, I'm not going to give that info out.
So, you mean...
What's the first name of your first ever dog?
So, you mean when you get asked for security questions on emails,
you're putting in the word huge cock and that's how you're...
Yeah, that was my mum's name.
That was my mum's maiden name.
This is Eileen Hitchcock.
Take thee.
Yeah.
Do you think my mum's name is Eileen, by the way?
Or did you just make that up?
I was just trying to guess.
That's very close to my mum's name.
Old woman name.
That's very close to my mum's name.
It's not Eileen.
However, you nailed the surname, but not the first one.
Thanks, Louise. Thanks, time. Thanks, Louise.
Thanks, Louise.
Thanks, Louise.
After that riff, probably wanting to be cutting herself, Parker.
Or parking off a cliff.
Thank you to men.
There's not really a lot of momentum when it comes to the act of parking.
Well, you drive off the cliff and then you chuck on the handbrake.
So you've driven off the cliff and you're like,
I want to make sure this takes.
I don't want this car rolling once it hits the bottom of the cliff.
I've got too much inertia.
I don't want to keep going.
Yeah, yeah.
So thank you to the Patreon subscriber.
Wow, Stephanie Price.
That's very close to Stephanie Rice, the famous swimmer.
It's also sort of close to Steve Price, the television ticket.
Right wing, shock jock, very small man.
Yeah, very small in stature.
Really, is he really?
He's very small in stature.
Is he?
I've never seen him IRL.
I haven't.
He's a tiny little man.
Not to play, I don't like to get into this too much,
but that is a – how is that head on television?
I don't get it.
You know, when you have strong opinions that appeal to a lot of fucking idiots,
then that's how it happens.
Yeah.
Man.
It's the opinion – yeah, look, I don't want to get into it
because it sort of is close to some things I work with.
Oh, those – anyway, yeah.
So Stephanie Price.
Nice name.
Well, the Price is right, you know what I'm saying?
Oh, yeah.
Don't stop any sending us money.
I'm putting the handbrake on that one.
I want to make sure I definitely die.
I'm already off the cliff.
Stephanie Price, it's a nice name.
You know what?
I'd be disappointed if she wasn't a good person with a name like that.
Yeah.
If I heard I'm going to meet someone called Stephanie Price,
I'd be like, good.
Sounds like someone I want to know.
It's a very kind name, Stephanie.
I can't imagine someone called Stephanie being, you know,
like a real piece of shit.
I think it's an attractive name.
Here we go.
Not too many stinkers with the name Stephanie, I'd like to think.
Stinkers.
Thanks, Stephanie.
What do you think is the most unattractive name?
Oh, yeah.
Because my theory is it's all based on like like my ones are based on like people from
high school like names of people i don't like are just based on totally fucked kids from my class
and then i've met people since then with the same names and i feel bad because i have to work really
hard because like oh this is a really cool person who i want to be friends with but i really have
to block out this years of prejudice.
And also, I think if you were to have a kid and say you have a girl and you're going,
okay, what are we going to name this?
And then you go, what about this name?
And it's like, say you think Stephanie's a really hot name and you go, oh, do I want
to give my daughter a really hot name?
How about an ugly name?
What about naming a daughter after an ex?
I'm sure that's happened.
How about an ugly name?
What about naming a daughter after an ex?
I'm sure that's happened.
I'm sure there's been couples where they've had a kid and one of them has kind of pushed for a certain name,
the partner not knowing that that's the name of an ex,
and then it's somehow years later it's come out and it's been a huge fight
because it's like that is so fucked up that you called our child after your ex
that you didn't tell me about, so clearly you've got a thing for still.
Yeah, and then you've named your kid after someone you've got a thing for
that you're still pining over.
You know what?
It's probably, you know, you could potentially do that.
What if you have a daughter and you name it after your ex-girlfriend
and then you go finally when she arrives, you go,
ah, I said she'll be back and she is.
Yeah, so I'm waiting there in the delivery room to just catch her
when she flies out.
She's back. Yep. But we haven't found out. Yeah, so I'm waiting there in the delivery room to just catch her when she flies out. She's back.
Yep.
But we haven't found out the gender, so it's a boy.
Yeah, yeah.
You're so desperate for she to be back that immediately
as it starts talking, you start going,
do you think you're born in the right body?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Then I'm having to introduce my son Eileen to everyone.
Is that my mum again?
I rooted your mum.
Eileen Massivecock.
Welcome back to the Rodney Rude Podcast.
The Rudecast.
Thanks, Stephanie.
What number was that?
And you're attractive arsed now.
Oh, my God.
Wow, wow.
We're about to go four girls in a row.
Really?
Is that a record in the Patreon read?
Well, it's pretty standard in this house.
This is like the bloody sex in the city of Patreon reads this week, isn't it?
All right, who have we got?
This is going to be the Samantha, I reckon.
Oh, really?
Yeah, a real slut.
Oh, God.
Jesus.
All right.
Okay, good luck.
Thank you to Patreon subscriber Josie Mackle.
Josie Mackle.
Macklemore.
Well, it's M-A-C-H-E-L-L
so is that
Mashal or Mackle
yeah great question
Michelle
oh maybe
the double L
the double L
is a bit of a
bit of a red hair
M-A-C-H-E-L-L
Josie
Michelle
I'd say
I'd say
I'd say it is Mashal
let's just say
in every way
so she can have a little message
that she can sort of record.
Great, and then she can just cut out the correct one.
Yeah, great, great.
Thank you, Josie Mashal.
Thank you, Josie Mackle.
Thank you, Josie Michelle.
Is that it?
Yeah, I think that's it.
Great.
Thank you, Josie Huge Cock.
You never know.
Maybe it's not Josie either.
I mean, it's J-O-S-I-E, but it might be Josie.
Josie. Josie. Yeah, Josie. Thanks. Thanks, Josie either. I mean, it's J-O-S-I-E, but it might be Josie.
Jose.
Yeah, Jose.
Thanks.
Thanks, Josie.
Thanks, Jos.
All right, so that's four down.
And we said, are we going to do ten?
No, no, no.
You've got dinner.
Oh, right.
Oh, so you very graciously said we'd do five.
Yeah, yeah. I've cut out five.
I've cut out five.
So, well, this is the last one.
This is the fifth one.
Okay, great.
This is the fifth one.
So, the last one.
Then you can go and have
Your precious little dinner
Okay alright
Fuck alright
Okay this is going to be hard
This is a difficult one
It's going to be hard alright
This is
This is
Well
Stephanie Price already made it hard
So
This is a difficult one
I don't even know
How to pronounce this
Okay
Right
The first name that is The second name I'm all over Okay So you're how to pronounce this. Okay. Right. The first name, that is.
The second name, I'm all over.
Okay.
So, are you going to do this first name and then second name as tradition or are you going
to go the other way around, which you were doing for a bit?
Yeah.
I will say this much.
It is from, I believe we've had this family contribute before.
Okay.
It is another entry from the most generous family
to ever listen to a podcast.
It is from the comedy
family. The comedy family? Yeah.
That's interesting. We haven't heard from them for a while.
So they're back
and they've got another family member
that has chipped in. These guys,
I don't know. You know what? I imagine the comedy family,
they must probably save. We
usually put the podcast out on a Wednesday morning.
They probably old school gather around the computer on a Sunday night
and listen to the podcast all together and they all, you know.
Hot off the internet.
Yeah, they play a little bit of Pianni before that
and then they listen to the podcast after it or the other way around.
The dog and the cat are dancing around like it's a Snoopy cartoon or something.
Yep, yep, yep.
This is like their little dessert after dinner.
They gather around, turn off
everyone puts their phones away
let's just listen to this. It is
refreshing to see where everyone in the
family feels the need to individually
chip in rather than just assigning the
patriarch of the family just going, you know what
why don't you just put in $100 on behalf
of all of us. I like that they all kind of want
to personally get it. They all want to hear their name read out.
That's admirable, I think.
I think when they probably get together or have a family reunion,
you'd sort of be embarrassed if you didn't have your name read out by now.
Absolutely.
Everyone's talking about it.
They probably pick on the people that don't have their names read out.
There's probably a couple that aren't even really fans of the show.
They've kind of just contributed out of duress
because they just feel like they don't want to get left behind.
Yep.
Well, they've tried to stump me this week.
I'll be honest.
They've made a rod for my own back for me reading all the names.
This is a tough one to read out.
So it is – I'm not sure if they were born with this name
or if they've changed it or whatever.
I've changed my mind.
I'd like to do another five after this.
It is – this is a member of the comedy family that's named after a very famous entertainer.
Oh, fantastic.
Yeah, yeah.
Right.
Yeah, so their name is – look, I believe it's pronounced the love symbol, comedy.
Like princes when prince change his name.
So it's that little squiggle. It's that prince symbol, name. It's that little squiggle.
It's that prince symbol comedy.
Yeah.
So big prince fans.
Okay.
So do you think this is a younger member of the comedy family?
I'd imagine.
When did he do that?
He did that in like the late 90s.
Was it the late 90s that he did that?
Something like that.
Yeah.
So even if they did it right around that time, that's still only like, what, 25 or something they'd be?
Yeah, maybe.
Probably younger.
No, not even 20, like 18.
I'd like to think this is a teenage, such a nerdy Prince fan that instead of naming themselves Prince Comedy,
they've gone all out with that little era of Prince.
Prince comedy, they've gone all out with that little era of Prince.
And, you know, I'm just interested in seeing when the listeners update the comedy family tree.
Yeah.
Just them managing to put the little squiggle thing in there.
I have to say as far as family trees go, this member of the comedy family
and their first name has really come out of left field for me.
Unrelated question.
What did you listen to on the way over to my house?
Nothing.
Nothing.
I don't have any music in my car.
Okay.
What was the last movie that you saw that had a compelling soundtrack in it?
Are you saying that I've been listening to Prince?
Yes.
No, I haven't.
I haven't.
You might ask the question,
have you been trying to think of a different angle on the comedy family?
If you asked that question, I would dismiss
that out of hand. Oh, so I was barking up the wrong tree.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like the
proverbial comedy dog. Is there a comedy
dog in the mix yet? There's a cat.
There's a cat. Mitten's comedy
cat. Yeah.
Is there a dog? Maybe there will be next week. Who knows? Who knows? This time next week. Hey, you know what? If a cat. Mitten's comedy cat. Is there a dog? Maybe there will be next week.
Who knows?
Who knows?
This time next week.
Hey, you know what?
If a cat is able to somehow work a keyboard and give us money,
who's to say a dog couldn't do it?
In many ways, dogs, on the record, smarter than cats.
Hey, maybe now that the love symbol comedy has listened to this shout out,
maybe he's got a pet and they'll, you know, they'll chip in.
He'll chip in for the pet.
So, hey, by the way, you got a cat recently.
Yes.
Well, you were all tempted to name it Mittens Comedy, the comedy cat.
Oh, shit.
Fuck, is it?
You know what?
It's not too late.
It's not too late.
It's not too late.
I don't think it'll go down great with my girlfriend because we've got a cat now.
Because it's her.
It's Mittens Comedy, the comedy cat is her security question on all of our accounts.
It's our safety word.
Mittens Comedy, the comedy cat.
Right.
Okay, I'll stop.
Oh, man.
Jesus.
All right.
So, well, thanks.
Thanks, Love Symbol.
Yep.
Thank you.
Thanks, the purple one
I wonder what your original name was
Or maybe that's a bit of a cruel name to give upon birth
But sure, why not
So you think they're such a fan that they've legally changed their name by deed poll
Maybe they've done what you've done
Well, you talked about it just before
Maybe the mum or the dad
Maybe that was the mum
Named it after they used to go out with Prince
Oh, right Now that is a brutal one to try and slide that one in the mum or the dad, maybe that was the mum, named it after they used to go out with Prince.
Oh, right.
Now, that is a brutal one to try and slide that one in and go, oh, we'll just name it the love symbol after an ex of mine.
Yeah.
No reason.
No particular reason.
But what happened when you were living in Paisley Park for a few years?
Was that in any way related to this when you were living in?
Well, what should we name our kid?
I think Wacko Jacko if it's a boy and...
Tommy Lee.
If it's a girl.
Alright, well thanks to all the members of the
comedy family that continue to contribute.
Human or not. Human or not and thank you
to all of the non-comedy family members.
I appreciate that
Mitten's Comedy, the comedy cat, is keeping
up the Patreon subscription
as well. I assume she
yeah or he
or he
hey it's 2017
exactly these days
cats can be any gender
these days
thanks guys for
chipping in
we really appreciate
all the money that you guys
send us
it really does mean a lot
that you care enough
about this show
to support it
financially
and a shout out to all the people
who don't skip this bit
who are genuinely entertained
by the names that are being
read out everywhere
This one's been good
Sometimes they're really bad but this one was fun
I enjoyed doing this
Guys
Sydney Thursday September the 14th
At the Opera House
Brisbane August the 26th at the Hayabar
Melbourne October 21
At the Croxton Park Hotel
Perth sometime in November
Head to the website littledumbdumbclub.com
for all those details and ticket links.
And two quick shout-outs before we go into the episode.
This is a great episode as well.
This is great.
And I don't know if you've heard this.
I wasn't there.
I don't know.
Right.
This is a reunion episode.
I haven't heard this yet.
Have you heard this or not?
Yeah, I've heard it.
I was there for it.
No, but, like, have you heard the episode back yet?
I've listened to bits of it.
Is it really good quality audio because it was recorded at Ewolf Studios?
Yeah.
Yeah, great.
Of course it is.
No, but is it –
They didn't like turn on the shit-ass filter just for us.
No, but my question is usually it's of a certain standard.
Like here, you're going to hear it and it sounds a bit like dog shit.
We're just in your house, whatever, through two mics.
But there we're in a professional studio.
So it turns from the tip right now to Buckingham Palace.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
There will be a change in – a shift in quality.
Yeah, it sounds like we're on proper radio.
It reminds me of every now and then I go back and listen to our old episodes
that we used to record in a radio studio.
Yeah.
And they're hard to listen to just because it sounds so good.
Oh, fuck.
It sounds – it's crisp quality for content,
the quality of which is not a patch on what we do these days.
Yeah, right.
It's a shame.
It's a damn shame.
Yeah, so –
But, yeah, Scott Aukerman and Paul F. Tompkins were very kind
to take some time out of their busy schedules to do this
and to let us in at Earwolf.
Yeah, and we're at the studio where we're on the desk.
We're sitting at the desk recording it with all these autographs of people.
It's like Zach Alphanacka's signature in front of you as you're doing this podcast and you're
going, oh, fuck.
I had the Edgar Wright seat.
Oh, right.
That's where I was sitting.
Yeah.
It was a little bit intimidating.
Very intimidating.
I want to do two quick shout outs.
Number one quick shout out is to all the people who have recently got into the show and are
binging.
And I get a lot of messages from people on text message or private message of people
that have got into it and just say, oh, I've been listening to three episodes a day.
Oh, people treating this like Orange is the New Black on Netflix.
Yes, exactly.
Just absolutely binging it.
Track pants on.
Yep.
Big bowl of ice cream.
This is a bit more brutal than Orange is the New Black, but yeah.
So big shout out to you guys.
In any ways, this show is a prison, for me at least.
So big shout out to all the people that are whizzing through all of these 350 episodes
or so and have finally got to this one.
Can I quickly say, because editing last week's episode, I didn't have a lot of time and it
was a long episode, so I did something I've never done before.
I listened back to it at one and a half speed just to kind of save time,
which a lot of people I've noticed will say that they do that.
Wow.
It sounds fucked.
Don't do that.
Don't listen to it at one and a half speed.
I can't believe anyone needs that advice.
That sounds ridiculous.
Yeah.
I see a lot of people mention that they do it because the comment is
it makes me sound even more fucked and it makes you sound
like I do normally.
Right.
Don't do it.
Listening to it last week was a nightmare.
I hated it.
That's ridiculous.
So thanks to those guys.
And also thanks to everyone.
And here's a proposal for you guys to do this.
Oh, a proposal?
Yeah, finally.
No, I've done that.
So thanks to everyone who pushes the podcast onto their friends
or brings their friends along to live episodes.
And we've heard a lot from people lately that came to live episodes
and then got into the show via that.
So really appreciate it for any of you guys to push it onto your friends
or to people that you think might like it.
Or even the people that retweet it on Twitter and try and get our show out
to more and more people because we appreciate the bigger we grow,
the more time we have to devote to this thing, the bigger guests we can get on, the bigger opportunities we get,
the more chance we've got to go and tour to your city, stuff like that.
So if any of you guys act as our street team in any way,
thanks very much.
And for people that don't, hey, we'd love you to help us out
and do any of that sort of stuff.
A lady on our Facebook page posted photos of herself going around
some local dunnies the other night.
Texturing on the wall saying, listen to the little...
I love it.
I love it.
Now, we've talked about that probably a year or two ago, but I would love for that to be
an actual thing.
If you do anything for us, bring your texter to the Dunnie next time, to a public toilet.
Draw a little ad for us on a public toilet because there are some of them that are still
being spotted.
Like, people did them a couple of years ago and they're still there.
So, every now and then we'll get a message from someone taking a big old borry
and then reading an ad for our podcast, which I would love to think.
But what we need to know is has that led to any listeners?
Yes.
We're still yet to hear from the first listener who first discovered this show
while dropping a fat one.
So that's what we need to get to.
I'd love to think that someone.
And it's a numbers game.
It's only going to happen with more and more of them out there.
I'd love to think that someone saw two messages on a toilet wall
and went with us instead of ringing a root.
Put us in some truck stops if you happen to be out that way.
Yeah, yeah.
Please graffiti us on...
Truckers are the perfect audience for us.
They're driving through the night.
They've got hours and hours of time to fill.
You're right.
We do hear from people a lot who their job is long, long hours of driving
that they listen to this.
Do we have any recent truckers that listen to us?
Let us know if you do.
What is it like to listen to us on speed?
Yes.
Let us know.
On heavy amphetamines, what's it like?
I imagine it's like listening to it like me, like at one and a half speed
the other day, but you haven't actually clicked anything on your phone.
It actually sounds like that.
Smoked one and a half speed. other day, but you haven't actually clicked anything on your phone. It actually sounds like that. Smoked one and a half speed, yeah.
All right, guys.
Enjoy this episode with Scott Alkermann and Paul F. Tompkins.
Hey, mates.
Welcome once again into the Little Dumb Dumb Club for another week.
Thank you so much for joining us.
My name is Tommy Daslow and sitting next to me is the other half of the program, Carl Chandler.
G'day, dickhead.
Let's get right into it.
What do you reckon?
Let's get our guests in.
We are recording this in the E-Wolf studios in Los Angeles, California.
Our guests today, Scott Orkerman and Paul F. Tompkins.
Hi, dickheads.
Here it is.
Yeah, all right.
Get it out.
Come on. We can take it. You say it so. Yeah, all right. Get it out. Come on.
We can take it.
You say it so fast now that it's not even words anymore.
You know why?
Because I said it in the first episode,
and then I've been regretting it ever since.
And then when we have international guests,
I'm like, I'm trying to even put parentheses around them
so that you don't hear.
The first 30 seconds of this show when there's people on it
who we don't know is brutal.
Where I'm having to sit there and go,
hi, mate.
Welcome to the Little Dumbbell Club.
Here's my little friend, Carl.
It's like we say four things and we go,
fuck, why do we have to say any of these?
Let's pick a number and then let's rebrand from like episode 400
or something.
Let's just reset the clock.
Seriously.
400.
We'll just do another 50, another year.
Give us another year to workshop new names,
new names for both of us, new identities.
Yeah, we can do a sweet farewell tour where we just get all the old shit out
and we really wring it dry and then we'll restart.
Like a Spider-Man reboot.
Yeah.
I mean, it's called the same thing every time,
but you're just like little subtle changes to everything. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's called the same thing every time, but you're just like, you know, little subtle changes to everything.
Yeah.
Like you guys are, you know, black next time.
What if the show was called Little Subtle Changes?
Oh, not bad.
Yeah.
Little Subtle Changes.
What would you start it off with?
What would the, give us some, give us some ideas.
Goodbye, dickheads.
Yeah, nice, nice.
So we are, like we mentioned before, we're here at the Ewell Studios.
Now, I was going.
I don't want to diss Ewell Studios, but it was quite hard to.
You're welcome.
Leave it there.
I'm a guest in your country.
So I'm not going to.
Hey, let alone the country, you're a guest in this office.
We were going to record in your shitty hotel room.
Well, yeah, so I was emailing your assistant,
and she said, where will the recording take place?
And I said, well, we've got our stuff with us.
We could do it here at our hotel, the Saharan Motor Hotel that Scott has been to.
I could not believe when she told me that you were back at that shithole.
I said, oh, we're happy.
Look, to be honest, we're happy to just go wherever's easiest for Scott and Paul.
And then the reply came back immediately.
We'll do it at Earwolf.
Yeah, yeah.
Scott and Paul have got a thing against bed bugs, so we'll do it.
Not there.
How do you guys know that place?
Because to us, it's just like, oh, that's a place in the main street of Hollywood or something.
That's the mistake that everyone makes when they come out here, even when they get an apartment.
When people move to L.A. and they get an apartment, they usually, when people move to LA and they get an apartment, they like think, oh, I want
to be in the center of everything.
It'll be central.
Absolutely.
Right in the action.
Have you got anything in the D of the Hollywood sign?
That's where I live.
Yeah.
I want to be on the, can you actually sleep on the stars on the, on the walk of fame or
whatever?
Many people do.
I was, I was talking to Akiva from The Lonely Island about that, and when they moved down,
they got this place like on Wilshire,
kind of by Fox, I feel like.
Weird.
And they were like,
oh, that's right by Fox.
It's right by, you know,
they're just thinking I'm constantly going to be at the studio.
I'll get discovered.
The studio head will just come into our house
thinking it's their work,
and then that's how we'll get a deal.
And it's so far away from where anyone else lives.
I mean, it was the original Lonely Island, that apartment,
but it's just so – it's too far.
Is that where the name comes from?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, from that tiny apartment they were in.
Wow.
Very poetic.
Yeah.
But that's where the new – that's where the rebranded little dum-dum club
is going to come from, the Sahara.
Saharan Motel.
Yeah.
To answer your question,
most people know
the Sahara Motor Hotel.
God damn,
why am I saying
motor hotel?
The motel.
Motor.
Motor.
Most people know.
Motor.
Come on, man.
Oh, motor.
That's man's
Chinese theater.
All right.
Oh,
motor. This is not my comedy
by the way
it's not what I usually do
it's not that far
most people though
know it as
the representation
of a shitty hotel
in movies
oh really
yeah they use it
in movies a lot
as like
because it is central
and it's not that far
from where people
actually are filming
and it's got that sign
and everything
but it's yeah it's often depicting from where people actually are filming. And it's got that sign and everything.
But, yeah, it's often depicting if there's a sleazy scene.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Somebody's down on their luck.
Must be a wonderful phone call for the managers to take.
Yeah, yeah, we need this real shit hole.
Somewhere where a guy's going to kill himself in the bleakest way possible.
They must have enjoyed it when we walked in because it was like,
oh, these two are only adding to the mystique of the hotel.
Were they like, these guys are back?
How long ago was it?
I honestly, I couldn't believe.
I mean, that's fine.
You went there once.
But how did you get tricked into coming back a second time? For me personally, this is my fifth time staying there.
What?
Yeah.
It is the.
It's like home for you.
You have literally not stayed anywhere else, so you don't know any better.
Is that the reason?
In LA.
LA, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
This is the devil you know.
This time I sort of went, I'm going to branch out.
I'll get somewhere different.
And sort of looked around.
It was just like, for where it is and for the price it is, it's like.
But for where it is, why do you care about where it is?
What are you doing while you're here?
Like your show is in Silver Lake. I'm a big fan of Ralph's, the supermarket. I love like, it's fine. But for where it is, why do you care about where it is? What are you doing while you're here? Like, your show is in Silver Lake.
I'm a big fan of Ralph's, the supermarket.
I love a good Ralph's.
To be honest, internet is so close, we're like,
that's one of the main reasons we're here.
Don't forget, these guys exist on
garbage.
Right.
You guys are like rubbish burglars.
Searching out the trash.
But it is a bit bleak because it was five years ago that we were here last and we're
in the exact same room.
We haven't even moved rooms.
But no, we keep coming back and getting the exact same guests on our show as well.
We don't like change at all.
We never meet any new people.
We just did a live podcast in New York with no people that live in New York, with all
people from Australia.
Yeah.
You guys are in a permanent stasis.
We're like the fussy eaters of podcasts.
Right.
We won't try anything else.
Although some people will say, like, why mess with success, you know?
Or what we do.
We say, why be successful?
But, look, it is a bit frustrating that we're coming here
and doing the same things every time and not learning anything.
So we thought you guys.
Don't shit, these guys have given up their time to come.
Don't sit here and go, oh, I'm just doing one with you guys.
No, no, no, I didn't mean it that way.
I didn't mean it that way.
But, I mean, we should be learning.
We should be growing in some sort of way.
And so you guys are like the kings of LA, right?
Right, yeah.
Absolutely.
Absolutely. Well, that's what you said. I mean, Paul is like the little prince of LA. And so you guys are like the kings of LA, right? Right, yeah. The surfers. Yeah, definitely. Absolutely.
Well, that's what you said.
I mean, Paul is like the little prince of LA.
Right, the little prince.
I'm a king.
Yeah.
Well, I live near a volcano.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
My friend is a fox.
Well, that's great because we want to learn.
Is that the plot of The Little Prince?
That's the plot.
Are those the two things that happen?
He moves. There's like a long The Little Prince? That's the plot. Are those the two things that happen?
He moves.
There's like a long moving scene.
Yeah, he moves apartments.
When I say scene, I guess I mean chapter.
How close is that volcano to Fox?
That's what I want to know.
It's not as close as you'd like it to be.
It's not central enough.
It is not central. I feel like that's the only thing wrong with the Saharan motor in.
It doesn't have a volcano next to it.
That's about it.
So we're in LA.
We keep coming back
and doing the same thing.
How do we make it big in LA?
What's the,
whose parties,
we've got four days.
What should we be doing
in four days?
You're trying to make it big
in four days.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Is that too?
It can be done.
Yeah.
It can be done.
Yeah.
Great.
I knew it.
I knew it.
Look at the chocolate rain guy.
Chocolate rain guy.
Yeah, exactly.
Are they Tays on Day?
Yeah, Tays on Day.
Yeah, just do it.
Anything Tays on Day did just do it anything Tays on
day did
yeah
just so just go
viral while we're
here
yeah
you thought about
covering the song
chocolate rain
not bad
I don't even know
what that song is
you don't know
chocolate rain
don't they have
YouTube in
Australia
no
they don't really
I don't watch
YouTube in Australia
okay
you only watch
where do you watch
you watch it here
I watch some of it you always leave in the country to watch it's YouTube in Australia. Oh, okay. You only watch it here? Where do you watch it? You watch it here?
I watch some of it.
You always leave in the country to watch YouTube? It's blocked in Australia.
We're not allowed in.
Yeah, yeah.
We'll get overstimulated with all the sweet overseas content.
So what sort of drugstores do we have to hang out at to get discovered here?
Oh, sort of like back in the day, the Schwab's.
Schwab's is not here anymore.
They tried to bring it back. back, but no one cared.
Nobody wanted to hang out in a drugstore.
Those days are over where you would go to a drugstore and sit at a counter and have malts or whatever
while people are buying suppositories.
I think this is going to rule out my next question.
What's the best mail rooms to work at to get discovered?
Certainly the Earwolf mail room.
A lot of success stories.
Well, I don't mean to, like I said before,
I don't mean to dis Earwolf, but we walked in when we were
struggling to find. I keep not
meaning to do it, though.
We went to walk in. We walked into someone else's office
and they looked at us and we're dressed like fucking idiots today.
You're wearing a t-shirt that
says Money Talks.
But in that sort of college, university font.
Yeah.
It doesn't look like Money Talks University.
Yeah, it's not cool.
It's just like you were on Sunset Boulevard
or Hollywood Boulevard in a t-shirt shop
and said, that really speaks to me.
This is my motto.
Worse than that, this is brought in Thailand
where this is like an impression
of what an American t-shirt would look like.
Right, right, right.
The best bit was you came out, you put it on,
you came out of your room wearing it with this real glow of like,
all right, time to ink some deals.
Once the execs see the t-shirt,
then they're going to know that I'm a real player.
We speak the same language.
On the back, does it say bullshit walks?
Fuck, that would be awesome.
And then you're wearing a t-shirt, Pamela Anderson t-shirt?
Yeah.
With two different Pamela Anderson looks.
So it's barbed wire, Pamela Anderson, then just like sort of. Playboy Pamela Anderson t-shirt with two different Pamela Anderson looks. So it's barbed wire
Pamela Anderson
then just like
sort of
Playboy Pamela Anderson
maybe?
Or just pinup?
Original Pamela Anderson.
And then not even
her last name
just the first name.
Just Pamela.
Oh wait no no
down below.
Oh in a different font.
In a different font.
Yeah yeah yeah.
What do you guys
think of that?
You guys have her here.
Is she hot over here
or is it like a metric thing?
Did you just get Pamela Anderson in Australia?
Yeah.
Yeah, we just got her at age 50.
And we're sort of like, what's the fuss about?
She's an old lady.
Who are you, Stephen Dorff?
She's an old lady.
We were finally able to look her up on YouTube now that we're not in Australia, where it's not blocked.
What is Stephen Dorff?
He started dating her when she was old.
Oh, really?
Yeah, anyway.
But the Pamela font is like the Baywatch font, isn't it?
Yeah.
Oh, I see. But the Anderson font is notela font is like the Baywatch font. Yeah. Yes.
Oh, I see.
But the Anderson font is not.
It's like the Miami Vice font
or something.
You know what it is?
It's like the Baywatch Knights font.
Oh, okay.
Maybe that's it.
It's like you guys
have never seen
two different fonts
on the same thing before.
Is this new to you guys?
It is new.
Okay, cool.
I mean, come on.
We're trying.
We're doing what we can.
Help us help you. We're trying. We're doing what we can. Help us help you.
We're two country boys.
Well, that's because we're rubes.
We're like what you would call hayseeds.
Is that what you call that here?
Absolutely.
So we want to like a guide to how to break LA in four days.
Yeah.
Who's like, we know this guy.
Well, you're here on a weekend, so that's a good start.
Yeah.
It's not like you came here on monday night and you're staying till thursday
you literally were saying to us out in the lobby you were saying that don't don't don't say what
i said that was private talk no what did i say i don't even remember uh oh i do you were talking
about how it's uh it's it's summer here and so you're like there's not really many meetings to
be had everyone goes away and we're like, well, we've done it again.
Yeah, you've come at the right time.
We've done it again.
Last time we were here, we put on a live episode of this on Thanksgiving weekend
where the people selling the tickets were like, yeah, it's a shame.
It's weird that you chose to do it on this weekend because everyone goes out of town,
and we were like, yeah, it's almost as if it's a holiday that we don't have back home,
so we wouldn't know that that's a thing.
Was it like on the Thursday on Thanksgiving itself?
It was, I don't know.
Thursday at 5 o'clock when everyone's cutting the turkey.
We tried to change it to Oscar night, but they were busy.
Because we have a real chance of getting Oscar nominees on our podcast.
I remember once I got called to do the improv,
and I was like, whoa, I'm doing the improv?
Okay, great.
And then I realized it was Oscar night.
I was like, ah, okay, I did it.
How was it?
No one was there.
How do you think it went?
Yeah.
I mean, it's a long journey, is what I'm trying to say.
I don't know.
I mean, when I first moved to la uh i would get
excited if anyone like had a party in the hills like uh dave foley had a party i don't know if
you ever remember when he used to live up in the laurel canyon corridor he had crazy parties and
they were a lot of fun and usually people ended up nude in the pool yeah yeah we have we have a
friend in australia that moved to la and it's like he i don't know what the term would be over here
but he got like a more famous friend and he's been sort of clinging
off the back of him.
Right.
And that famous friend-
That's a Kato.
Yeah, we call that a Kato.
Oh, a Kato.
Right, Kato Kaelin.
Right, right.
Now, this guy was famous.
He's not a murderer.
He's not hanging off the back of someone who killed his wife.
So that might be a slightly different term.
Well, to be fair to Kato, that's not when he became friends with OJ.
Hey, OJ, I heard you just killed your your wife do you mind if I move into your guest house
this guy's going places
well similar to that
it is probably similar to that in a way
because this guy's hanging off the back of Rob Schneider
that's probably comparable to OJ Simpson
similar to that
really
their careers are sort of going the same way I guess Oh boy. That's probably comparable to O.J. Simpson. Similar to that? Really?
Their careers are sort of going the same way, I guess.
One of them's locked up.
One of them should have been locked up, maybe.
Well, now, O.J.
Is Rob Schneider not?
He's free now.
Yeah.
No, he has not been released.
He's going to be released.
He's going.
My apologies.
Once you get paroled, it still takes like two months to release you for some reason.
That's actually secretly. They don't just go like, hey, man, there's the door.
Later, bro.
That's actually secretly why we're here.
We're hoping to be his first exit interview post-prison.
Yeah, yeah.
Hot scoop.
That would be awesome.
Who did we have on the show last week, a couple of weeks ago?
Andy Kindler.
At some stage, he believed that we were the hosts of 60 Minutes in Australia.
What? Wait, did he come out to the hosts of 60 Minutes in Australia. What?
Wait, did he come out to Australia?
No, we were in Montreal.
Oh, you were in Montreal.
Oh, just for you.
We were trying to do really bad things to him
just before he did his State of the Union address
and get mentioned in the speech.
State of the industry, not the State of the Union.
Well, whatever.
Why did he think that you were the hosts of 60 Minutes Australia?
Because you had told him that?
Because we said it in the middle of the Union. Well, whatever. Why did he think that you were the host of 60 Minutes Australia? Because we said it in the show, in the middle of a show.
Right.
And yeah, he just took it at face value.
What a diss to Australia to think that people look like this could be 60 Minutes.
Well, having been there, I have to say the entertainment industry there is not like a huge powerhouse necessarily.
I did some interviews there and they were all in little tiny buildings.
I was not invited to do
those interviews. We were there together.
I did a full press day.
I thought
I was part of it. Yeah, this is a big
bone of contention. I will never
forget this!
I wanted to be on the project.
Here's what happened. I wanted an interview in the
Billabong Times.
Here's what happened I wanted an interview in the Billabong Times here's what happened the
my publicist
here in the States
had set up
some interviews
and the publicist
in Australia
had said Paul
was a part of all of them
all mistakenly
I was cc'd on all the emails
because of it
and this is exactly
a year ago
when Comedy Bang Bang
toured Australia
yes and this was
the publicist for the tour
hired by the promoter,
the weirdo promoter that we had.
So they were not doing their job exactly correctly.
Yeah, that's the name of the company.
Weirdo Promotions.
Weirdo Promotions.
And so they CC'd Paul and I had a full day of press,
including a plane ride.
I did your show right after doing that full day of press,
including flying from wherever to wherever.
You flew from Sydney to Melbourne to do the project and then back again.
Right.
So I did half a day in one city and then I flew
and then I did half a day, then I did your show.
But Paul was CC'd on it all.
And so he got up at like 8 a.m. or something like that.
Not just CC'd, but like it broke down.
Like Scott's going to go here.
Paul and Lauren will go here, whatever.
Yeah.
And then – but it kind of – there was some information missing.
And so when I woke up that morning and I was like, hey, where do I go for this one thing?
They're like, oh, you're not doing that.
Yeah.
And he had – you dressed up.
Oh, yeah.
I had gotten like camera ready for the day.
Like I'm ready to go.
That's good. You get to be on holidays then, don't you?
Isn't that a good thing? Oh yeah.
Out of my mind with jet lag, but it was great.
It was great to lose more sleep.
What did you do instead? Go and live it up?
I went back to bed in my clothes.
Took a shower in my clothes.
Went to the show in wet clothes.
Caught a horrible cold.
Was that the city where the showers didn't work or was that?
Oh, my God.
That's the best time to take a shower in your full clothes.
That was Perth.
No.
I feel like that was the end.
Maybe it was Perth.
Yeah.
I don't remember.
We had a hotel.
It would have been Perth because New York, the city that never sleeps, Perth, the city
where the showers never work.
Yeah.
It would have been Perth because New York, the city that never sleeps, Perth, the city where the showers never work.
We had a hotel where we needed to shower before the show maybe.
Because we'd flown in.
We'd flown in.
It was scalding hot.
Scalding hot.
And we were like, and it wouldn't turn down.
And so we all separately had this experience where we were like, well, we need to shower.
So we all kind of like tried to dart in and out of the shower like you know without getting too much on us you know and and then at a certain point uh one of us called down and said hey i think the shower there's it won't cool down and
they said oh everything above the sixth floor all of the showers are broken they never had told
not just the water there was an issue with the water pipes.
All water.
Yeah.
Right.
And it was one of those things where we tried to change rooms.
It was like, then we went and did the show.
Then we came back.
There was still no water.
Right.
Yeah.
Hours afterwards.
Change rooms.
And it's like one o'clock in the morning at that point.
Our Australia trip was.
It was interesting.
It was interesting. It was interesting.
It sounds like a nightmare.
Yeah.
Look, we're in the Saharan motor in.
You sound like you found the equivalent.
Thank you for the perspective.
Yeah.
Thank you.
And to their credit, the water, I mean, the water works perfectly.
Water's quite good.
Got a pool and everything.
So back to you guys.
Have you tried going?
Any other careers?
No.
Tried killing ourselves?
Good idea.
Well, but have you tried going to the WB Studios,
not that too far away?
Have you tried just pulling in,
pretending that you have a meeting and just walking in?
That's not bad.
But then who do we have a meeting with?
Just point at my T-shirt and go, I'm with her.
Can we just get in?
Yeah.
I'm Tommy Lee. Where is my wife that Just point at my T-shirt and go, I'm with her. Can we just get in? Yeah. I'm Tommy Lee.
Where is my wife that I wear on my T-shirt every day?
I'm with her.
Not as successful a phrase anymore as it used to be.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Really had a day last year.
Oh, yeah, right.
Yeah.
Right.
Oh, that's right.
That thing that happened with America.
The incident.
We read about that.
Yeah.
Well, we did a live show.
You guys heard about that?
Yeah, it made it over.
Oh.
What did you think of those transcripts of the phone calls that came out yesterday?
Oh, with the Australian prime minister that just came out.
Yeah.
He came out looking pretty good.
A lot of people don't like him back home, and now he looks pretty good in comparison.
This is Trump's gift to the world, is if you don't like who's running your country, look
at that guy.
It's like, oh, I guess it could be worse.
Yeah. We're not doing so bad.
Because we've got some proper crazy politicians back home
that are very on the outer, and you just go,
but they're just sort of funny.
And then now that Trump did his thing, it's like, oh,
now we're actually getting scared of the crazy president.
What about that dude from Midnight Oil?
How was he?
He's back being Midnight Oil again.
Yeah, he's back there, but how was he as a politician?
I think he's sort of now.
I don't know a lot about there, but how was he as a politician? I think he's sort of now.
I don't know a lot about politics, but from what I know,
he had to sort of go back into the middle and try and get things done and not be like far left.
Not be as extreme as he was.
Yeah, yeah, like rein in all the hand movements and everything.
He just had to be like a normal politician.
That's him going back into the middle, rein in the hand movements.
He was doing Power and the Passion, but instead he had to move to beds are burning.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He distinguished the beds.
He had to grow hair.
He had to be a normal person.
He had to grow hair.
Well, I guess I better start this again.
That'd be great if Peter Garrett just all of a sudden overnight at his age
just all of a sudden got self-conscious about not having hair.
And he turns up at these midnight oil gigs
wearing a very big and obvious wig.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
With a huge pompadour.
It's me, guys.
That's like Maynard.
I've always looked.
I just stopped shaving.
That's like Maynard from Tool.
Does he have hair now?
Well, no, he just goes out in wigs now.
But he's not trying to pretend he has hair, but he's going out in like long hair wigs and stuff.
Oh, right.
Yeah, as a costume.
I don't know.
Not trying to trick people, but just having a wig on. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. That's what it feels stuff. Oh, right. Yeah, as a costume. I don't know. Not trying to trick people, but just having a wig on.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
See what it feels like.
Yeah, exactly.
What was I going to say?
So, yeah, with our friend that's buddied up with Rob Schneider,
who's a D or E or F list that we can attach ourselves to in Hollywood?
Who's someone comparable that's going to be –
It's sad that Rob Schneider is F list.
What does that make us? We're like
M-list? No, I was thinking
maybe R-list?
Remember R-list?
That show? Oh, yeah.
Well, yeah. Robert Wool is definitely on the
R-list. Is he around?
Is he available? He's around.
Who would live closest to the
Saharan motor in that we could go
and hang out with? Who's the sort of person that would live close to a bad hotel like that?
I mean, you know, Pauly Shore is always ticking around.
He's out there on the Sunset Strip probably hanging around the store.
He could probably be one of the weasels.
Is that what he would call his fans?
Or is he a weasel?
Pauly Shore and the weasels.
Excuse me.
He's the weasel. Oh, so sorry. But are his fans his a weasel? Paulie Shore and the weasels. Excuse me. He's the weasel.
Oh, so sorry.
But are his fans his little weasels, like he's Lady Gaga?
That's something I know.
His meerkats or something?
It'd have to be a different animal.
It could be the same animal, because then you're elevating yourself to the same status as him.
Hey, buddy, where's my meerkat?
What animal is the friend to the weasel?
Yeah.
Well, the weasel.
Ferret?
Ferret, yeah.
Same family, right?
His ferrets.
Paulie Shore and his ferrets Marmots
Little marmots
But do marmots and weasels
Would they get along
Or would they fight
I feel like they would fight
I feel like a weasel
Would fight anything
This is like the farmer
And the cowman
Yeah that's true
Yeah
They should be friends
They should be friends
They should
We gotta work this out
Before we befriend Pauly Shore
There's no use
Having this drama
Once we know
No no no
Get all this
Yeah taking care of it beforehand
So you can just
Start Straight into the middle Of the friendship What if that's your in With him Oh It's like Pauly having this drama once we know it. get all this, yeah, taking care of it beforehand so you can just start.
Straight into the middle
of the friendship.
What if that's your in
with him?
He's like,
Pauly,
have you ever thought
about having a collective noun
for your fans?
Yeah,
we were getting,
we need this t-shirt
printed down,
I need to get rid
of this money talk seizure.
That's right.
I need the Marmite
or whatever the fuck
you were talking about.
I imagine his first question
back to us would be,
what does collective noun mean?
Yeah,
100%. Buddy, maybe there is buddies. I imagine his first question back to us would be, what does collective noun mean?
100%. Maybe they're his buddies.
That's what he's calling everybody that makes the most sense.
That's what it is, his buddies.
And we're ready to go.
His air buddies.
That's right.
There's nothing in the rule book that says
Pauly Shore can't have a dog as a friend.
What are your fans?
What are the Tomkinites?
What do you call them?
Oh, let's see.
They've gone through many changes over the years.
Still haven't settled on one.
Oh, man.
Let's go through them all.
Let's see.
1994.
There's Tomkinsians.
Right.
Then Tomkinsiescalers.
That was, I liked that one because it was very inclusive.
What about early on when there was only two?
The Tomkin twins? That's right. Boy, that was early in your career one because it was very inclusive. What about early on when there was only two, the Tompkins twins?
That's right.
Boy, that was early in your career.
There were three, yeah.
All known by their haircuts.
That makes so much sense.
If it's like, okay, we're just going to have a, let's make sure everyone knows us individually.
Let's just make sure.
They're not like, Flock of Seagulls decided to all have weird hair, but the same weird hair.
I thought it was just the one guy had weird hair.
Did they all have that same haircut?
I feel like two of them did.
I don't know.
Maybe not.
If it's only two, that first guy must have been so mad.
Were they brothers too?
I feel like they might be brothers.
Are they from your neck of the woods?
No.
Where are Flock of Seagulls?
Maybe it's just the way their hair grew.
I'm going to look them up.
Continue on.
I feel like they're, weren't they American? Because that's, I'm going to look them up. Continue on. Weren't they American?
I reckon they were American, yeah.
That is weird if it's not a collective decision to go,
let's all have the same haircut.
And one of them is just looking at the other one going,
I reckon I'm going to get in on this.
I thought what would always be a great prank is, you know,
the cast of Lord of the Rings, after the completion of the final film,
they all got the same tattoo Lord of the Rings, after the completion of the final film, they all got the same tattoo
because it was a huge chunk of their lives
that they spent making the movie.
And I assume the four of us are doing that after this podcast.
Well, I thought, what if I got the exact same tattoo?
And if I met one of them, I'd be like,
huh?
Yeah, yeah.
Me too.
Just horn in on a thing that I had nothing to do with.
And then get very offended that they don't remember you and turn it into this big thing.
Make up your own character that was in there that got cut out.
I'm not trying to gaslight them.
All right.
Flock of Seagulls.
Although.
Flock of Seagulls is from Liverpool.
The Score Brothers.
One has really extreme hair and then one has One Almost like he was in there
And said I'll have what he's having
But then they didn't give it to him
Chickened out halfway through
Yeah
But you're right
Stop, stop, stop, stop
Just realized this looks fast
Cut it out guys
Liverpool, England
They're from Liverpool
Okay, well that's not us
We get a lot of that
People think that our accents
Are in English
They're not
It's continued
I keep
I just ordered something before.
Oh my gosh, you're so frustrated right now.
I know, but like this is how defeated I am.
Do you need to lie down?
This is how defeated I am.
My name is Carl, right?
So every time I say that.
I don't know what you're saying.
Yeah, I know.
Kyle?
Yeah, exactly.
Same thing when I first met you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I thought it was Kyle.
So I've now given up.
I just order things and it just happened then.
It just happened then.
I just said, my name's Carl.
They go, Kyle.
I go, yes.
I just, that's how I trade here. Now that's gaslighting. He's been things, and it just happened then. It just happened then. I just said, my name's Kyle. They go, Kyle. I go, yes.
That's how I trade here.
Now, that's gaslighting.
He's been gaslighted by an entire country into changing his name.
What would you prefer?
Okay, Coolop has to then spell it every single time.
I thought you were suggesting I'd be called Coolop. Oh, yeah, why not?
Why couldn't you be Coolop?
I know exactly what you're saying when you say it.
From the other marines.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's no...
That's not Kyle.
Yeah, you can't mistake that
i have a friend who's english and his last name is cut forth and so sometimes you'll hear him what
a doofus what a wanker if he's on the phone with some you know business or something like that and You will hear him go C-U-T-F-O-R-T-H.
F-O-R-T-H.
F-O-R-T-H.
And he has to put in an accent for one letter.
Hey, that's not a bad title for your show.
Adi H.
Adi H.
Adi H.
Adi H. It sounds good.
You say that's not a bad title.
Oh, sorry.
I meant to say that's a very bad title.
Adi H.
So I was trying to think of what, if I've done anything Hollywood-wise,
and I was telling you the other day,
now you guys have a show over here called Last Comic Standing.
Do we?
We did.
Oh, it did, right.
Did it come back and then go again?
Yeah, it's always in and out.
Right, right, right.
So it came down under.
It came down under like 10 years ago.
Did Jay Moore come with it?
Did who, sorry?
Did Jay Moore come with it?
No.
Oh, okay.
He hosted it.
What about Bill Bellamy?
Jay Moore also created it, I think.
Co-created it?
I believe he did.
Like when it first was out?
Yeah, when it first came out, yeah.
I believe he's-
I think you might be right.
Yeah, yeah.
10 years ago they came out.
Coincidentally, my friend, Mr. Cutforth, was the executive producer of that show. Oh, really? It was his production company, yeah. Ten years ago they came out. Coincidentally, my friend Mr. Cutforth was the executive producer of that show.
Oh, really?
It was his production company, yeah.
Wow.
Who is this Cutforth dude?
Yeah.
I can say no more.
How do you spell his name?
Yeah.
Can you set us up a meeting with Cutforth this weekend?
Yeah, what's Cutforth up to this weekend?
Is he away?
Where's Cutforth?
Cut the shit, Cutforth.
We literally have a spare bed at the Saharan Motor,
and if he wants to sleep over
and we can have meetings at night and in the morning.
Does Cutforth sound like an hour-long detective drama?
It really does.
From the 70s.
Yeah, or something on Netflix that you'd hear about and go like,
I hear Cutforth is good.
Previously on Cutforth.
You're a loose cannon, Cutforth.
Isn't it that great pilot that Conan O'Brien made or whatever?
Wasn't that that show, Cutforth?
That's right.
Exactly, with the late Adam West.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
So I did.
Last Comic Standing.
Last Comic Standing came down under.
Down under.
Cutforth's Last Comic Standing.
Yes.
To give it its full title.
Featuring Jay Moore.
They came to Sydney.
Now, I don't know who the host was, but what I will remember is one of the hosts.
You're going to remember this?
Wait, so it was not an Australian version of the show.
No.
The American show came to Australia.
Yes.
I think they did like a world version where they went and got the best comics from South Africa and England and Australia and whatever.
So it was still a competition.
It wasn't a tour of the people who won America.
It was like they were trying to put –
They came out and scouted and – yeah.
Right.
Okay.
And it was broadcast on Australian television?
No, no. It was just for the American show, wasn't it?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
But the show was on, the American version was on.
It was like an America versus the world.
Copy that.
They did their like.
Just like always.
Yeah, they did their like Captain Planet search of like everyone else
and then versus them versus you guys to see who was the best.
Got it.
So they did the Australian day and I was like literally one year into stand-up and I very
naively went, well, I might go and be part of this and flew to Sydney with some friends
and it was in the comedy store and it was a very dumb time for me to be doing this because
a year in, I'd been doing my little riddles of Errantown and it was okay.
My little riddles?
Yeah, my little riddle fest.
Do you look back at your act with embarrassment now,
having learned as much as you?
Absolutely.
Okay.
Absolutely.
What kind of person looks back on 10 years ago when they first started
and went, that was as good as it got?
You know, I'm sure some people are embarrassed,
but there were some people who did it a year in who were good, right?
I mean, like Nikki Glaser,
did she do it like relatively recently after she started?
Or am I thinking of someone else?
I think she was still kind of new when she started.
Yeah, you know, there are some people we know who are like, yeah, relatively new.
Anyway.
Well, I'd been doing stand-up for about a year.
And then I had this little thing where for about three months I started doing stand-up in pajamas.
And it was like with music on.
And it was all very –
With music on?
Yeah.
Like lullabies?
It was Dave Rubeck.
It was like a bit of Take Five behind me wearing very ladylike pajamas on stage.
Ladylike pajamas.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There were big love hearts on them.
This is the next half hour of this podcast taken up.
I'm glad you differentiated.
They were love hearts, not anatomical hearts.
Yeah, yeah,ical hearts not just pictures
like organs
right
yeah
no spleens in there
it's just
the cartoon
the Warner Brothers
type heart
everyone knows
what you mean
yes
great
alright
you could have
just said hearts
I've got another
five minutes
of explanation
if you need
but
so
I was doing
like one liners
with that
with a bed of music
under it
with pajamas
and it was
look it was
destroying I'm not going to kid around I'm not, with a bed of music under it, with pyjamas, and it was, look, it was destroying.
I'm not going to kid around.
I'm not going to have any false modesty.
It was great.
But, however, this is the timeline.
I decided it was just too easy to keep destroying with these pyjamas.
Yeah.
And so I got rid of them.
And so I started just doing the jokes without the pyjamas.
But the thing is I did this audition sort of immediately
after I decided to discard the pyjamas,
meaning that I'd been very lazy letting
the pyjamas do all the work for about three or four months
and I had lost all of my performing skills.
So then I went and did this audition thinking I can just give this
absolutely nothing and the jokes were very strong.
However, the jokes were not very strong.
It was the pyjamas doing the very heavy lifting.
Let's not count out Dave Brubeck either. It was the pyjamas doing the very heavy lifting. Let's not count
out Dave Brubeck either.
He was certainly helping. He's one of the greats.
I imagine you dropped the music as well. I did.
That would be very weird to walk out in
Money Talks t-shirts.
This is like if you were
Andy Kaufman and you decided to come
out and do the Mighty Mouse thing
without the music or
dressing up and just stood there
on stage.
Yeah, totally.
Totally.
So it was like, and I had my undeveloped performing skills.
It was like, you know, when you break your leg and then you take it out of the cast and
you're not very strong.
That was me.
I was the very weak leg that hadn't been used for a while.
So I went out and they had it in the comedy store and they got rid of all the audience.
I don't know why you would do this. Yeah. But they get rid of all the audience. I don't know why you would do this.
Yeah.
But they get rid of all the audience.
I don't know if they did that every week.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
They would do it in the afternoon or something like that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it's just the judges.
It's just the judges.
So, and one of the judges was-
Terrible for comedy.
Yeah.
Well, it's also, it's never how comedy is done.
No.
Yeah.
No, no.
Let's see where he's going with this.
He might kill in the story.
Hang on.
Hang on.
We literally did some open mics in New York
where that set up was very similar to that.
We played to three people.
So I went out there and one of the judges was,
I don't remember who the other two judges were,
but one of the judges was Alonzo Bowden.
And I will always remember that.
He won, I think, right?
Well, he was a judge on this thing.
Yeah, but I think he won.
Early in early season.
I was going to say,
that would be easy to win if you were one of the judges.
For sure. You know what? I still think I think he won. Early in early season. I was going to say, that would be easy to win if you were one of the judges. For sure.
Is it?
You know what?
I still think I was funnier.
Is there an investigation into this?
Because that seems a bit cruel.
Trying to keep an open mind, but I don't know.
I like what I did.
There is no system to impeach Alonzo Bowden, unfortunately.
There's no system.
It's always just run on the honor system.
Lock him up.
Lock him up.
So I don't remember the other ones because everyone else blended out of it
because all I could see was him.
And I've been told later that he's a very nice man,
but he just had the absolute meanest, most scariest stare of me.
So then he was just locked in on me,
and I think I did like three one-liners that got absolutely nothing,
and I got into my fourth one-liner.
And this had never happened to me before or since but my leg started involuntary shaking
oh my god you almost like you were Robert Klein you couldn't stop your leg no no I couldn't and
I was like shaking is he the first person to have restless leg syndrome the first documented case
yes first documented case so and he was very he. And he was very, he was shining a light on it.
He was up front about it.
He was up front about it.
He's like the Lou Gehrig.
Why don't they call it Robert Klein syndrome?
Oh, no, I'm Kleining up.
Shit.
Was he in the last comic standing as well?
Is that what happened?
No.
He has one famous bit.
I can't stop my leg.
Based on Elvis Presley, maybe?
Yeah. No, it's a bluesy number
oh okay
and he would play the harmonica
right
so he was like being an old
blues man
copy that
the Billy Crystal
yeah that was a big thing
with uh
with what's
white Jewish comedians
from the 70s
yeah let's make fun of blues
you know it's funny
to be an old blues man
an old black blues man
isn't that hilarious
yeah
um so
two more interruptions.
Yeah, that's
fine.
Go for it.
Your leg is
shaking like
crazy.
Yeah, it's
going like
crazy.
It's starting
to look like I
don't know what
I'm doing.
Just starting.
Just starting to
look like it.
So I do a
couple more.
Alonzo
Boone is
getting
suspicious.
Yeah, totally.
He's just boring
in on me with his eyes
and he's looking
really scary
and I'm looking
at the other guys
and they are like
super embarrassed
he's just still
focused in on me
but the other
sort of to check
their phones
like there wasn't
even smart phones
back there
they're just checking
yeah they're just
like rotary phones
they're just like
picking it up
going how do these work
zero's still at the
end of the dial
okay seems weird so we get at the end of the dial.
Seems weird.
So we get to the end and there's just this deathly silence like there wasn't before.
But Alonzo just looks at me and then looks at his notes
and then looks up again and says, it's weird because I'm looking
at everything that's written about you and your credits
and here it seems like you're a good comedian.
I'm confused.
I'm like, oh, I don't know what to tell you.
And I'm thinking I can't say anything more because it will be filmed
and then I'll look like an absolute arsehole if I start going.
Because it's a very hard thing to defend when you go very badly at comedy
and go, no, you guys are wrong.
Yeah.
Can you, I mean, look at it from his perspective, though.
Like, can you imagine being Alonzo Bowden and having to watch you?
Yes.
Oh, look, I'm starting to side with him in the story.
I'm starting to hate me even more.
Yeah, totally.
But the thing is, in that environment where it's just three judges
and no one else in the room, who does do well?
Yeah.
Who kills in that?
I guess then they're looking at the craft
maybe on it or something.
He makes it sound like
you're the first person
he's seen do badly at this
and that can't be the case.
The thing is,
it's,
of course,
they can,
if you're,
you know,
a professional comedian,
you can tell if a person
is funny.
Like,
you can tell if the
material is funny.
Yeah.
You know,
you have a sense of it,
but they also have to
play it up,
you know,
the American Idol style,
you know, meanness.
Honestly, I think it's just harder to
edit with a crowd in there.
That's the whole reason they do it
without a crowd. My favorite thing about
any filmed
stand-up is when they cut to the audience
and you see all these people laughing and there's always one person
who is absolutely miserable.
I don't know what's going on. So you've done this,
Paul, the gala for the Melbourne Comedy Festival
that is on every year that is filmed and broadcast on Channel 10.
Yes.
It's the same.
It must be the same guy editing it every year who's been burnt in the past
by a comedian in some capacity.
Maybe his wife cheated on him with a stand-up or something
because it's every year when the gala goes on.
Without fail, everyone's set will have a moment
where some guy's checking his watch
or just looking out the window.
It's unbelievable.
I've been in that position where I'm like searching reaction shots
for something to help me.
There's got to be other shots in there with everyone laughing.
And now you can like tighten it up where it's like,
okay, we can cut that guy out on the periphery.
We can just zoom in on these people that are having fun.
You can do composite shots.
We don't need to see one.
What's this idea that anyone's interested in seeing one individual person in the crowd and how they're enjoying it?
It's like, sure, you know, sure, on the whole, they seem to be into it.
But let's go really deep.
I want to know what kind of percentages we're working with.
I think instead of cutting to the audience, because I understand you have to edit the set down
to make it shorter than it actually was in real life.
Why don't they do what they did in old Hollywood?
Cut to a curtain blowing.
Yeah, that'd be great.
Or why not speed it up like the Keystone Cops?
And then you can fit it all in there.
Exactly.
I'd like my set in front of Alonzo Biden to be like that
where they cut to an audience shot
and just keep seeing an empty chair
because there's no audience.
Different empty chairs.
I reckon it'd be better cutting to backstage of the other comedians
watching the set on the monitor and talking shit about the person who's on.
Totally.
That'd be a good cutoff.
I think the opposite is actually worse somehow
when they put in a reaction shot of people dying.
It's something that people are obviously not.
Actually, I was watching that new gong show, and I watched the premiere as much as I could,
and Zach Galifianakis was a judge in it.
I saw a little bit of that.
Yeah.
And I taped this, and I texted it to him because Mike Myers said something, which obviously ate shit.
Hang on, who?
Oh, I'm sorry.
Now, this is the first step in getting inside. Oh, shit. Yeah. Please don't tell anyone back home? Oh, I'm sorry. Now this is the first step in
getting inside. Oh, shit.
Please don't tell anyone back home.
Please don't. I should not have said this
on this show. Well, it's out now.
We'll edit this out, but I'll tell you.
We're just chatting before the show. Will you make a note, please?
We'll make a note. We're going to edit all of this out.
In fact, edit the whole thing out.
Let's stop doing this and let's all
go home.
But what is his name?
Tommy something?
Tommy Maitland.
Tommy Maitland is actually Mike Myers in disguise.
Whoa.
Fuck.
Now, why do you think that is?
Do you think it was that?
What I'm trying to figure is they come to Mike Myers.
They want to do a new gong show.
And I don't know if Mike Myers is the first choice or if they go to other people and then they get to Mike Myers, they want to do a new gong show. And I don't know if Mike Myers is the first choice or if they
go to other people and then they get to Mike Myers
and then, or if like, first
they go to Mike Myers, he says no. Then they go around
to other people and they're like, this is not good.
We got to get Mike Myers. They go back to Mike Myers and say,
how about this much money? And then Mike Myers
says, I'll do it if I
can be completely unrecognizable
and you never say that it's me.
I bet it's not the money for him.
I mean,
to be,
to be generous to him.
I feel like it's do a thing.
I think he,
I think that they probably asked him to do it.
And he thought about it for a night and said,
you know what might be cool.
And he genuinely wanted to do this thing where like,
no one knew it was him.
And unfortunately word got out.
I mean,
there's no way to keep that. There's no way to keep that a secret.
You know what I mean?
I heard from someone.
Well, the trick to witness relocation is not to put them on TV, is it?
Right.
That's the thing.
They shouldn't have done it on TV if he didn't want the word to get out.
It should have been exclusively a live show.
But I was going to say, so they have Mike Myers saying something,
and then they cut to Zach
and he is dying at it
I know
and I know
he did not
and I sent it to him
and I said
you weren't actually laughing
at this joke was he
he's like
you should know
shitty editing by now
and it was like
an insult to me
yeah
who was playing Zach
on the show
he got you
he did
Mike Myers played all the roles
oh wow
yes
Mike Myers
and Eddie Murphy played about five of them too yeah wow. Yes. Mike Myers. That's great.
And Eddie Murphy played about five of them, too.
Yeah, that's true.
That used to, yeah, that's, is that, when was the last movie where it was like one person
playing like all the roles?
That was in Vogue for a while.
That was in Vogue.
Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy were the two.
They were neck and neck.
And I remember the voiceover guy on the trailers always used to love having a bit of fun with
Mike Myers and Mike Myers
and also Mike Myers.
Do you know where that started?
It was the old movie The Parent Trap.
The original Parent Trap with Hayley Mills.
There was a trailer for that.
Who played her sister though?
Now, okay.
Kyle?
Don't tell anyone in Australia.
That must have been mind blowing the first time seeing the trailer for that,
if that's the first time it was done.
Like, you'd be sitting there going, this voiceover guy's fucked up.
He said the same name twice by accident.
They should fire this guy.
They should fire this guy.
Heads should roll for this.
This is an atrocity.
I'm going to talk to the projectionist.
Straight to the top.
Excuse me.
Run this up the flagpole for me.
There would have been some union issues, surely,
when they said they saw two people.
Well, that's the thing.
I feel like if you're Hayley Mills,
don't you want to get paid twice for that movie?
Fuck yeah, man.
You know what I mean?
Get two salaries.
I'm sure she's getting scale.
Hayley Mills got to get paid.
Yeah.
But that was-
She got to get paid.
Because as we all know, money talks.
Yeah.
You can see that.
You can see that.
Money talks, full stop.
But that was Frank Sinatra.
He would only do one take of every scene in a movie
because he said, if I do two takes, that's me doing two movies,
and you should pay me for two movies.
Did he really say that?
He really did.
That's not two movies.
That's the same movie twice.
There are certain movies where you can see the camera fucks up and all that kind kind of thing and they could never do it again because he would refuse to do it.
That's why he was not in the movie Carousel because in the movie Carousel, the musical, he was supposed to play Billy Bigelow.
But they had to film it twice, once for Cinerama and once for actual real movies.
So the Cinerama version is actually very different than
the regular version and he said
he wouldn't do it because he wouldn't do two
takes of anything. That's great if you do two takes
of the film and then the sequel comes out and
all it is is just the second takes.
It's another movie.
Now you say that, it makes a lot more
sense because I started to see some
problems with the Cannonball Run movies. They weren't as
good as I thought they should have been.
No, he's in Cannonball
Run 2, I believe, and he is
so obviously not acting in a
scene with any of them. He's like reading off
a card. Yeah, he's behind a desk
and that's not so egregious
but what is terrible is
in the bloopers at the
end, they cut him into the bloopers laughing
at a Sammy Davis Jr. blooper like he is in the bloopers at the end. They cut him into the bloopers laughing at a Sammy Davis Jr. blooper,
like he is in the same room.
Sammy Davis Jr. does a blooper,
and he's like, ah, ah, ah,
and he kind of fucks up,
and then they cut to Frank Sinatra going, ha, ha, ha.
Oh, there's Zach Elphanacka scene.
Yeah, exactly.
Wow.
He must have gotten a text from a friend going,
you can't have been laughing at that.
I bet he was pissed about it.
Could you imagine if Frank Sinatra
had lived long enough
for Twitter?
Oh my God.
He just seemed like
the biggest asshole
in the world.
Yeah, who would be
the worst at Twitter
in history?
Are you using that, man?
Can I use that on stage?
Can I use that?
It's yours.
Hey, ding-dongs.
I imagine Frank Sinatra
on Twitter,
I think it would go
a little bit
like this.
I mean, I guess that's Trump is like the closest it would be pretty much that. He is, he's like Frank Sinatra on Twitter, I think it would go a little bit like this. I mean, I guess that's Trump.
It would be pretty much that.
He's like Frank Sinatra without the elegance.
Without any sort of talent or skill.
Constantly firing his own rat pack.
No, it is.
Trump is like Sinatra if Sinatra was like shitty at everything.
No, it is.
Trump is like Sinatra if Sinatra was like shitty at everything.
And you were just like, oh, I don't love your singing enough to deal with you.
If they did like a twins style experiment.
Right.
That goofus, that six foot eight goofus or whatever.
How tall is Trump?
He's 7'1", I think. Oh, boy.
Wow.
Pretty tall. Our tallest president. There's 7'1", I think. Oh, boy. Wow. Pretty tall, right?
Our tallest president.
There's always clouds around eye level for him.
That's right.
Trump Towers isn't really called Trump Towers to him.
It's just called Trump.
Yeah, it's just Trump.
It's like Chinese food in China.
Abraham Lincoln tried to get there with a hat,
but he couldn't beat Trump.
Cheating.
Cheating. Eden ain't cheating cheating Eden ain't cheating
it is
technically cheating
to try and be taller
than someone
who hasn't been born yet
so yeah
that is a big change
it is yeah
it's really the run around
but he had a time machine
as well
a lot of people
don't know that
that's why he knew
he was on the right
side of history
is this another
Hollywood secret
wow we're learning a lot
that's a Washington secret
we can talk about those all day.
You know that subway
that the senators get to use? The time machine is right next to it.
Oh, really? Sometimes they go in the
wrong door by mistake. Is it really a senator
subway? Yeah.
Like the restaurant?
They have their own private subway restaurant.
Wow, the perks.
They can get double meats. They can get an extra
scoop of tuna. Whatever they want. Guacamole's free. There's no extra charge. They can get double meats. They can get an extra scoop of tuna.
Whatever they want.
Guacamole is free.
There's no extra charge.
Those cookies are never hard.
They're always soft cooked.
Oh, I love it.
That's great.
I love it.
They fire them straight out of the oven in the oven so they're as warm as can possibly be.
The best artists in the country are working there.
When we were on tour, the American tour,
I forget where we were.
We were in the middle of nowhere.
We were driving from, I believe, the middle of nowhere we were driving from I believe
the middle of nowhere
to Chicago
right
so we're somewhere in the Midwest
and we stop at a stubway
a stubway
and a sub hub
it's like a subway
but it's got a weird curve
that's a knock off brand
and you always
bash your toe
you always bash your toe
and then
you go
you get in the restaurant
they're like we got you
it's weird to point that out
but go on why did I do it so we go to the subway I guess there's a little restaurant, they're like, we got you. It's weird to point that out. Why did I do it?
So we go to the subway.
I guess there's a little lawsuit and they're like, it's in the name, deep head.
How do you not see that coming?
So we go in there, we get our sandwiches, we sit down,
and we see the two women behind the counter are having this hushed.
By the way, this is a small, a very small town.
Very small town. Very small.. Yeah. Very small town.
Very small.
And there's two other people.
There's two people at a booth.
It's like a,
maybe a mom and her kid.
I think it's a mom and a kid.
I think it's a mom and a kid.
And they're like having one of those,
like,
it's a small town.
Let's have a loud conversation
with the person behind the counter
kind of thing of like,
look,
there's no one in this town.
We all know each other.
Hey,
anyway,
you know,
they're just like, they're chatting.
But then they start having like a very hushed conversation.
And I kind of could tell what was going on a little bit.
It became a little clear.
And then finally one of them comes up to Lauren Lapkus and is like,
excuse me, were you on Orange is the New Black?
And it blew their mind.
They never had anyone from television or anything go through this town.
And they took pictures and they were like laughing.
It was great.
They were like, what are you doing here?
That's what we're like.
That's us.
Yeah, we did a road trip through the States last time we were here.
We drove for like, it took about a week to drive from New Orleans
to like through Austin and then up to here.
It was amazing.
But, yeah, we would just drive until we couldn't be, you know,
just get tired at the end of the day, just stop off in whatever town
came up next.
And you'd go out for dinner and it was like being a celebrity.
Like you'd turn up and go, oh, just a beer, thanks.
And people would hear the accent and go, what are you doing here?
I don't know if you guys do that when you travel,
but for Australians, we tend to really amp it up when we come here.
It's like you find yourself really going,
G'day, mate.
Oh, yeah, what's going on, dingos?
I'm the opposite.
I try not to stand out.
I try to sound as much like the town as possible in order to not stand out.
You did a fantastic job in Melbourne, I have to say.
Do you know what I found in Australia is a lot of people ask me if I'm English.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Because they can't tell what the different – oh, that's interesting.
To me, I think I sound very American.
I think it's the visual thing.
I think it's how you dress.
Maybe it is.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
Because I'm not wearing a baseball cap and sweatpants.
Pretty much, yeah.
It is interesting because if you're from –
This must be the prime minister.
If you're from Australia and you're coming to the States, you're going to hit the big towns.
You know what I mean?
Because you only have like a week here probably.
Yeah.
So that's why – yeah, that's very – I've never thought about that before, about how small towns just never would see anyone from another country.
Well, that's it.
You go to New York and L.A. and it's not –. You try and do it here and it's like, cool, there's
eight people behind you.
Sucking each other off.
I don't know what
this fantasy is.
It's quite true
near the Saharan motor in, actually. There's a bit of that
happening down there. Look, this is not sexy. I'm trying to
spice it up. I'm trying to support you guys.
I'm not gay, but I get
here and I go, God, I miss Australian dick.
I just want to just...
Is that what hate dickheads is all about?
You're talking to dudes?
Not anymore.
Not that we've changed it.
After the rebranding.
Yeah, none of that going on.
We, yeah.
No, I was just going to say...
People on streets, people on streets.
Let's make people think their iPhones are fucking up right now.
She's been passed away seven years now.
Wow.
Wow.
Well, thanks for letting me tell that story.
Yeah.
That was very moving.
Let's get back into the fun.
All right.
Well, I feel like we owe you guys a bit of an apology.
Oh, I called it.
Finally.
Apology corner.
For wasting your time.
Ten years in the making.
Now, we had a guy who listens to our show on Twitter.
Oh, yeah.
Who was harassing you guys.
How does he listen via Twitter?
It's a different thing in Australia.
Podcasts are different in Australia.
Same names, but they're all mixed around a different thing.
Yeah, radio is television in Australia.
What's cake here?
Because they're home.
Yeah, so what we have is we've got a lot of weird listeners.
I'm sure you guys do podcasts, so you get weird listeners.
We certainly have.
Is there any other kind?
Yeah, totally.
Thanks for listening out there, by the way.
So, but we had...
Now, here's something that you might be slightly interested in.
We had this stupid, very stupid idea.
All right, I'm focusing on Paul now.
He seems a lot more positive.
What do you reckon about this?
We have five TV channels back on.
How do you like that?
G'day, dingoes.
So, we decided...
I'm a bit obsessed with going to Thailand.
I go to Thailand all the time, right?
I was just there.
Oh, were you?
Yeah.
Where did you go?
I don't even remember.
What?
I was there two days.
Thailand City?
What?
I can't remember.
Thailand City is not actually the capital of Thailand.
You'll be surprised to know that.
I don't mean to say I was just there.
I went like maybe two months after I saw you guys last.
Oh, were you Bangkok or? I wasn't. I passed through Bangkok, but I can't remember the name of the town that I went like maybe two months after I saw you guys last. Oh, we're Bangkok or an island?
I wasn't, I
passed through
Bangkok, but I
can't remember the
name of the town
that I went to.
Oh man, how
disappointing.
I'm obsessed with
it.
Okay, well it's
kind of close for
you guys, right?
I mean, we were
there in Perth,
people were saying
that they would go
to like Indonesia
and Thailand.
Yeah, Bali and
Christmas Island.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's like the
places you can go
without it just being like the other side of the world.
Yes.
Well, Perth is closer to those islands, so it's a lot easier for them.
We're on the other side of the continent.
But it's about eight hours.
So I'm obsessed with going.
I go probably two, three times a year.
It's way more than is reasonably expected of people.
Did you buy a cheap motorcycle?
That's what I found there were a lot of.
They're just like, hey,
buy this motorcycle for like
a hundred bucks. Are you hiring or buy it?
Buy it. Seriously,
they're like motorcycles and scooters and
stuff like that. They would just be, I mean, maybe I'm
getting the exchange rate wrong, but it just seemed
like they were super cheap.
I even looked at one going like,
I mean, that wouldn't be that bad. How much would it be to
ship it back? I don't even want to ride a motorcycle.
I'm just seeing a motorcycle for like $100.
But also at those prices, leave it by the side of the road.
Yeah, exactly.
Like, goodbye.
Push it into a lake.
The details about this trip that you remember versus the ones that you don't is fascinating.
You remember the exact cost of a motorbike, but you don't remember what town you were in when this happened.
Was this a dream?
It honestly felt like it.
It was the most tired I've ever been.
I'm so tired.
I think I'll buy a motorbike and ride that around.
That'll end well.
So you're going into your travel agent and going,
I'd like to go to Thailand.
What part?
Just wherever, man.
Just throw a dart.
Just cheap bike city.
Anyway!
For comedy's sake, I'll agree with all of you.
The real details are far more depressing.
So you go to Thailand once a week.
Yeah, once a week.
Once a week I go to Thailand once a week on a Friday.
So just on the weekends I can do meetings.
So I go there way too much.
Anyway, it comes up on the show a lot.
We had the great idea that we were going to go
and do a podcast festival in Thailand.
What a terrible idea.
Yes.
Here's the rest of the story. We created our own thing called the Koh Samui Podcast Festival. We, I remember. What a terrible idea. Yes. Here's the rest of the story.
We created our own thing called the Koh Samui Podcast Festival.
We were the directors.
Koh Samui International Podcast Festival.
Sorry, sorry.
Say the words again.
The Koh Samui.
Koh Samui.
Koh Samui.
What's Koh Samui?
Koh meaning island, Samui meaning something else.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Something else island.
That's where all the leftovers end up.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All the bikes that don't get sold.
So we make the Coastal Movie International Podcast Festival.
We only invite ourselves.
We make it up like it's a distinguished sort of proper festival
and whatever.
Then we get people to crowdfund it.
Then we get – so all the listeners like crowdfunded us being sent over there.
We invited guests over there.
A lot of people then decided to buy tickets to come over.
We ended up having like 80 to 100 listeners fly themselves over from Australia,
from America, from England.
So they paid for you to go and then paid for themselves to go.
Yeah.
Interesting.
Yeah.
But we gave them a lot of extra sort of stuff and whatever.
Anyway, so we did this big thing and we were crowdfunding it.
We got this very eccentric sponsor on board where he decided
to throw a lot of money, thousands of dollars at us.
Oh, wow.
And his name was Rich Young.
But as is the wand of a lot of our listeners,
he was very abusive towards us.
Most of our listeners sort of like us but they don't like to show it
so they like to abuse us and tell us that we're very bad at our jobs.
So this guy was certainly one of them.
He was giving us a lot of money.
So first of all, he just randomly donates $1,000 to the GoFundMe campaign. And we're very bad at air jobs. So this guy was certainly one of them. He was giving us a lot of money. So first of all, he just randomly donates $1,000
to the GoFundMe campaign.
And we're like, great.
And he goes, yeah, yeah, read out my name
and talk about my YouTube channel and have shit on me.
By the way, this sounds like a fake name
that a guy who wants to be rich and young.
Definitely.
That's what I said.
Like Peter Peel?
Young?
Yeah, yeah.
So he does that.
Handsome?
Yeah.
Instead of cool big dick, he didn't stop us, but he was next in line. So he does that. So he? Yeah. Instead of cool big dick, he didn't stop dress,
but he was next in line.
So he puts it as it and then we get on the show and we're like,
oh, this idiot wanted us to hang shit on him, so fuck you.
What an idiot.
Yeah.
Fuck you.
We do that.
And then the episode that we've done that on comes out
and then he messages us immediately going, I said hang shit on me.
You fucked it up.
You didn't go hard enough.
You fucking losers. Insult me, you fuckheads. Yeah. Oh, my God. Here's another $1 me. You fucked it up. You didn't go hard enough. You fucking losers.
Insult me, you fuckheads.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
Here's another $1,000 to do it properly.
Get it right, assholes.
I don't like this at all.
So, well, this is what's coming up.
So he keeps giving us money to abuse him and then keeps abusing us for our lack of abusing
him and it keeps going around in a circle.
He's donated a lot of money.
I am so hard right now.
Well, here's the next bit.
Here's the next bit.
So he keeps giving us money and then goes, here's the next step.
I want to give you more money.
But hit up Scott and Paul.
I want them as part of the podcast.
I want them over in Koh Samui.
And I said, absolutely not.
And he goes, why not?
I said, they have got better things to do than get involved
with whatever fucking weirdo business you have.
Like, it can't end well.
And this guy was, like, intimating to me that he lived in the middle
of nowhere, that he was a very huge unit of a being that would take me down
if I did the wrong thing.
And then he said, like, I insist you have to hit up Scott and Paul.
I'm like, I really can't do it.
Because it was like they won't do it.
They just won't do it.
Have you asked?
You got to ask.
That's a great point.
Have you asked us and annoyed us and ruined your relationship with us?
So we did not – I don't know whether he hassled you guys or not.
I don't think so.
That's not ringing a bell.
I think there were a few tweets where he was like,
fucking get him in and tagging you guys.
It does ring a bell because did you email me about this? I emailed you
a warning. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pretty much.
Yeah, just look out for this guy. This could
be some real hate coming your way.
So anyway, we're still
thinking about doing the second annual
Koh Samui International Podcast. When was this, by the way?
This happened, we did it, it was in June.
Oh, it was in June. This last June? Yes.
Oh, okay. Yeah, it just happened. So we did like
five days, five days in the beautiful island of Koh Samui.
Did you record five shows?
We did two podcasts and we did a stand-up show.
How many other shows came out to do it?
None.
Oh, just us.
They were the only ones invited.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Did you have other stand-ups or was it just the two of you did stand-ups?
No, so it was us and four guests who are on our show regularly who are all stand-ups.
So we put on a show that was like all six of us.
Plus a listener who flew over who's an open mic-er,
so we threw him a bone and put him in.
Is there a stand-up scene in Thailand?
No.
Absolutely not.
Well, there is now.
So the entire audience was people who flew in.
It wasn't locals.
Well, some people that we were sort of like, you know,
like throwing each other underwater in the pool and some people went,
they look funny, we'll go to their stand-up show tonight.
So the people from the hotel then came in.
We got complaints.
We got complaints from people that were walking past,
that were in the resort that were coming past going,
these guys are yelling cunt at each other and we have our babies here.
And so then the hotel owners were like literally saying to them,
are you buying 70 shots every five minutes?
No?
Then you're going to have to put up with it.
Sorry.
Yeah, this is the thing.
So we do these podcasts like at the resort and we're thinking,
oh, there'll be like a conference room or something.
And they go, no, no, just do it outside next to the pool.
So we start the first one and there's all these other,
there's like a guy on his balcony coming and we're all, you know,
we're amplified.
So these guys are like coming out on their balcony and looking down,
going like just with this look of.
Why is this happening?
I come here to relax and now there is absolute insanity being shouted.
I would be furious.
Boy, dinner would be good and it's blocked by,
like you literally couldn't get to the restaurant because of where we were sitting.
Instead of walkouts, there were people in the pool swimming away from us.
You had swimaways?
Yeah, yeah.
We swam the room.
We had a few drownings.
Yeah.
I've got to say, though.
People were drowning themselves.
I have to say, it's not, no matter how much money you were spending, I don't think it's unreasonable for the management to say,
guys, could you not say cut so much?
That's what we thought after because we were doing two.
So we did one the first night and then we did one on the last night.
So we had two nights in between.
We do that first one and then that's the response we get
from the other guests of the hotel.
And we're thinking, well, there's absolutely no way
we're going to be allowed to do this again.
What they do instead on the last night is we find out they go around
to all the rooms with a printed-up note going, just so you know,
there's going to be a, what did they call it,
a live streaming show happening in the restaurant this evening.
And, yeah, just anyway, appreciate you guys kind of putting up with it
and being cool.
There's nothing you can do about it.
Everyone else is, yes, yes.
And without telling us, someone got on their iPhone from the hotel
and filmed the entire thing and live-streamed it on Facebook.
On their page?
Six extremely drunk Australians yelling at a lot of C-bombs,
calling each other a lot of horrible things.
So if you go to their resort Facebook page, there's just this six.
The resort's fake?
Yes.
It has it up there?
Yes.
I can barely speak.
You are flabbergasted.
You're flabbergasted by this news.
What is this place?
It is, oh, look, the wonderful, oh, yeah, we can say it.
Well, yeah, you've already said where it is in your previous.
Blow up that spot.
Yeah.
The Ozo Chawang Samui Resort.
That place sounds amazing.
If you don't want to tell us, just don't tell us.
We don't have to make stuff up.
No, the wonderful folk there that put up with us, that don't tell us. We don't have to make stuff up.
No, the wonderful folk there that put up with us,
that told other nice people with their families to shut up and let the Australians do their thing.
That sounds so cool.
That's amazing.
I would never do that.
Please don't ever contact me about this.
2018, you don't want to block some time out?
No.
Cheap motorbikes.
Have a think.
Yeah, that's true.
This guy, Smart Handsome, where does he live? time out? No. Cheap motorbikes. Have a think. Yeah, that's true.
This guy, Smart Handsome, where does he live?
He said he wouldn't divulge exactly where he was.
Did he go? He didn't go.
I don't like this.
He spent so many thousands of dollars and he didn't even go himself.
It wouldn't have cost him that much.
Man, I'm scared because there's no way you just get two grand off this guy and just walk
away with no other.
Someday, somehow. You're going to owe him a favor. Yeah, this is and just walk away with no other. Like someday, somehow.
You're going to owe him a favor.
Yeah, this is going to come back to bite us. That was one of the last messages.
He sent all this money and then he said,
and you know, who knows, you can pay me back some of it someday.
I'm like, absolutely not.
If you're going to send us money, it's not refundable.
Why would we pay you even back?
Does he still listen to the show?
Is he listening right now?
Yes.
I guess we'll find out.
Hello, Dickhead.
But all of this was in service of us plugging his YouTube channel.
Oh.
Did you go on his YouTube channel?
Man, what it is, it's him, I think what he's trying to do is make some kind of new audio
editing software.
So the only videos on there are songs that he's taken.
How long was I out?
He's put them up.
He's like, look at this.
I've taken this YouTube song and just changed the treble on it a little bit.
Like that's all. It's just slight tweaks that it allows you to make to existing audio files. He's like, look at this, I've taken this YouTube song and just changed the treble on it a little bit.
It's just slight tweaks that it allows you to make to existing audio files.
He's like, I need to get the word out about this.
And it's like all these videos that just have about 18 views.
Does he ask people to abuse him in the comments?
No, he doesn't ask that, but people do that anyway. Say my audio software is a real piece of shit.
Seriously, people are doing that because they've come off the culture.
Well, that is YouTube.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
We just assume that's our fans.
That's just everyone.
Yeah, absolutely.
Let's all lay the boot in now.
Maybe we'll get another couple grand.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
No, he did because he – I don't think I even told you this,
but he messaged me to say, all right, how much do you need for LA?
How much do you need for LA?
Really?
Yeah, because he wanted to fly someone over to video all this.
And I was like, oh, man, this is getting weird now.
I'm happy to get thousands of dollars, but.
Hang on.
His demand for Thailand was, I want Scott and Paul there.
Then he finds out we're going to the place that Scott and Paul actually live.
And they don't even get a mention.
There's some new condition.
Yeah.
He'd be very excited that he got this for free.
He didn't even have to pay for anything.
We might be off his list.
What's up, Rich Young?
Listen, you idiots.
Fly Barry Humphries over to do your live gig in LA or I'm fucking out.
All right?
He just likes travel.
He doesn't like people where they live.
He needs people to be escorted to other countries.
He doesn't even have to do Dame Edna.
He could do the other guy.
Yeah.
The guy with the teeth.
The weird old homophobic dude?
Yeah.
No, no.
That's Barry Humphries
Oh we both tried to fit through that doorway at the same time
He's the
He's like the
He's on the
What is he?
He's on the board or he's the chairman or something
Of like an arts festival
Back home
And he's like
He's come out and gone
You know comedy
You shouldn't swear
You just shouldn't swear
Oh no really?
You shouldn't do anything rude
Oh come on
He's gone really right wing for a guy
that has dressed up as a woman for the last
60 years. He's got some very firm
views. Are we talking about Caitlyn Jenner?
Did you see that photo of her
wearing the Make America Great Again
hat just yesterday?
Wow. After the transgender
band. Anyway, sorry to bring down
the room. That's okay. No, I liked it.
You guys are crazy. You're a real piece of shit. Thanks, sorry to bring down the room. That's okay. No, I liked it. You guys are crazy. I liked it.
You're a real piece of shit.
Thanks, man.
Have $1,000.
Yes.
Are you sure this wasn't just you guys emailing back and forth,
trading money?
You share a Gmail account in the name of Reggie.
Yeah, and one of us just forgot for the day.
Oh, no.
He'll be very happy about all of this.
Yeah.
Well, I think we
better wrap that up
for another episode
of A Little Dumb Dumb
Club.
Paul and Scott,
thank you so much
for joining us.
It's our pleasure.
Always great to see
you guys ever since
the Earwolf Challenge,
which people may or
may not remember.
I bet your listeners
don't even remember
that you were a part
of that.
No, we've got a lot
of listeners since then.
So I don't know if
they can access that.
Can they get back
on our Facebook page the other day? I don't know if it's I don't even know. Yeah, I have since then. So I don't know if they can access that. Can they get back? Someone put it up on our Facebook page the other day.
I don't know if it's still there.
I don't even know.
Yeah, I have no idea.
I don't even know if people who know us would even remember it.
It was so long ago.
So long ago.
But you're part of Earwolf history.
Always great to have you guys here.
Pleasure to be on your show.
Thanks, guys.
You can check out all our stuff.
We've got dates coming out.
We've got t-shirts and all that stuff.
LittleDumbDumbClub.com.
And of course, check out Comedy Bang Bang, the great podcast
made from this room.
I would say check out Spontaneanation.
That's a great one.
Yeah, I have a podcast too.
Check them all out. Check them all.
Touch them all. Check out podcasts.
I would say check out Baywatch.
Great show. Baywatch Nights.
Two different fonts.
Check out the movie Money Talks.
Check out my t-shirt. Surely there's a movie called Money Talks.
I think Charlie Sheen was in it.
Let me check it out. Wasn't that Money Never Sleeps?
Wall Street 2? Yeah, but I think he's done two
separate Money...
Hold on. Here we go.
This is the big finish.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Here we go.
There's a wiki devoted to money talks.
1997, Brett Ratner starring Chris Tucker, Charlie Sheen.
There we go.
Yeah.
I knew it was a good idea to come to Hollywood.
Oh, say can you see.
All right.
Do you guys want to do the big sign-off with us,
which I believe we'll be retiring in 50 episodes
Oh yeah
Thanks very much for listening and we'll see you next time
See you
Bye
See you guys in Thailand