The Little Dum Dum Club with Tommy & Karl - 509 - Eddie Perfect & Joel Creasey
Episode Date: June 30, 2020Fresh from New York we're joined by one of the original Friends Of The Show EDDIE PERFECT, and JOEL CREASEY! We discuss Eddie and Joel's wild night out in New York before diving into the glittering sh...ow business resume of both Joel AND his dad. We also give a serve to old people not knowing how to use iPhones, and there's a deep, deep dive into what makes the perfect muffin! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Hey, mates.
Welcome once again into the Little Dum Dum Club for another week.
Thank you very much for joining us.
My name is Tommy Dasolo.
And with me, as always, the other half of the program, Carl Chandler.
G'day, Dugan.
Let's welcome our guests in. We have Joel Creasy and Eddie Perfect.
Oh, hello.
Separated at birth.
I know. Twins.
Yeah. Well, it's been a long time since you've been on the show, Eddie. It's been years and
years.
It has been.
You're one of our earliest.
It's your excuse.
I've been away. I've been busy. Doing what? I've had some things going on. I've lived in New York for two years. It has been. You're one of our earliest. It's your excuse. I've been away. I've been busy.
Doing what?
I've had some things going on.
I've lived in New York for two years.
I lived in Amsterdam for a few months.
I had a good time.
Yeah.
So I've been around.
A lot of traveling around, just kind of spreading yourself around the world.
Spreading myself.
In the last couple of years or so.
Interesting.
Yeah.
Bill Gates.
Yeah, you're right.
A couple of months in Beijing, I get it.
Yeah.
I have to find more creative ways to say no to doing this podcast.
You have to travel more.
That's what you need to do.
Get a new passport.
Well, it's been years since you've been on,
so I'll just get you up to date with what's been happening
since you've been here with the two of us.
I've gotten married.
I've had a kid.
I've organized three podcast festivals in Thailand.
And Tommy, his mum doesn't pay his rent anymore.
Wow.
Mine's actually more impressive.
Congratulations, both of you.
Thank you.
That's a big step.
Wow.
I mean, I know New York.
How's being a dad going?
You're asking the wrong guy.
You heard about the three podcast festivals right?
We'll put it this way
Last night I
Fuck
I
This is what I did last night
My
The baby's gone crazy
My wife's working from home
Yeah
So I was like
You know what
I'll take one for the team
I'll go out and just sort of
Go to the park for another
For the second time today
Yeah
So that was about four o'clock
She was going to the gym at five So I was like i'll just i'll go out and give you a
good run at your work for an hour good and i did that then came back just like one minute past five
my wife's already gone to the gym then i realized oh it would have been nice to have brought my keys
so then she's in the gym then for the next hour and then it's just me and my child my baby
just sort of acting like sort of a like a well-off homeless person for an hour.
Wow.
Just walking around Hawthorne just going,
what's good to do in five-degree temperature
when it's nearly dark but without actually going in anywhere?
No wallet, no cash,
so just hoping you can trade the baby to a locksmith.
Yeah, yeah.
It's open.
Yeah, yeah. Well well i mean imagine if
you really did need like 50 cents to catch a bus yeah yeah because i was like you know i've got
got a nice pram and you know i had you know the sort of nice-ish clothes on it was like
i i just look like a well-off sort of a scheme artist or something yeah and i've like pinched
someone's baby it's not like that thing of going,
oh, I need 50 cents for a Buster Warner ball.
It's like, I've got the baby.
Like I've made the effort.
Like I'm a qualified con man at the very least.
Yeah.
So what'd you do?
Just a few laps of the block?
Just, oh God.
Did you introduce yourself to the baby
to get to know each other?
Yeah, yeah.
We finally had some fun time.
We're going to be working together.
I was like, you've heard a lot about this thing called dad.
Here it is.
It's pretty good.
Here it is.
That extenuating circumstances have forced me into your life for an hour.
I actually went to the biggest, biggest oval bit of field I can find in Hawthorne
where I can actually take her out of the pram
and just let her run without me having to pay too much attention.
Okay. Do a bit of scrolling, a bit of online internet trolling a few people that i haven't seen for a while yep um but then so i had the full hour then i made my way to the gym to so
that my wife could like pick us up and then just as i got there she rings and goes where are you
i'm like i'm at the gym she's like oh yeah I finished that half an hour ago I just did half a session
and came home
I've been fucking just
just hanging around
letting a kid play in a gutter
for half an hour
when I came home
yep
Eddie
your children are a lot older
Eddie any advice for Carl
as the kids get older?
you know
don't get divorced
that's bad
right
because this is the thing, though.
When you have kids, and I can say this because I love my wife
and I'm still with my wife and it's all great.
But when we had little babies and you're up and you're tired
and the first baby we sterilized the bottle,
the second one we're like, fuck it, just eat dirt.
And the first one I'm like, what?
If you take too long to sterilize the bottle and the baby starts crying and your wife starts yelling at you
and you're like, shut up, I'm doing my best.
I'm not going to do my best.
It's four of you yelling at each other and you think, I hate you.
I despise you and I know you despise me
and we're just seething with absolute rage for each other
and that's love.
You know, that's marriage and you've got to kind of get through that
and know that you've got like excess in the bank
that you go, I'm sure when I wake up,
I will not despise this person as much as I do now.
Right now, it's bad.
I feel like when we fight, it's like,
you know, I know we've got like a young child and everything
and you blame it on that.
And it's like, then you go, fuck it.
Our baby's actually been pretty good.
I sort of feel like the baby should have acted up a bit more uh for us to be fighting but like and i get the impression that the arguing was there before the long before the baby came yeah
yeah so you just have a baby to just have something to blame the arguing on this will
this will help maybe i need to get a baby yeah you should get a baby yeah i should get a baby
in here just to force that on how much I fucking hate myself.
I saw an old post from my wife the other day.
It was like from ages ago.
And she put a thing like, you know, one of those sort of mum posts where it's like, you know,
dirty nappies, like late nights, three hours sleep.
But, you know, it's all worth it for, you know, this beautiful baby and all the friends commenting, oh yeah, blah, blah, blah.
It's like, come on.
It sleeps 14 hours.
Like our baby sleeps like a fucking dream.
She's just trying to get some love from her friends because everyone else is having a
ton of a time with their kid.
And we have nothing bad happening with our baby.
It's a fucking dream.
So any problems we have are completely on us.
That's good.
So your wife has gone full mummy Facebooking.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Was there a minion in this thing that she shared about play nights and everything?
No, no, no, no, no.
It was just short of that.
Okay, all right.
Mums rule Facebook.
They control Facebook.
Mums are powerful on Facebook.
Mums are good on Facebook.
It's for them Yeah
A lot of misinformation
Yeah
A lot of dodgy
Blown out
Like blurry
JPEGs and stuff
It's really
We now know
It was always for them
The unhappy middle aged men
Are giving it a nudge though
Oh yeah
They like to get in there
With a bit of outrage
About things
My mum called me up
The other day
She goes
How do I
How do I get that black tile?
I'd love to upload it.
Oh.
I was like, oh, mum, it's lovely that you want to do that,
but there are so many ways you can get the black tile.
You can literally take a photo of your hand.
You can take a photo of, like,
you can screenshot someone else's black tile.
It's very easy.
Hang on, why is she got a black hand?
No, if you push it down hard enough.
Oh, right, right, right.
The camera.
Yeah, yeah. No light comes through. Yeah. I got a black hand no if you push it down hard enough oh right the camera yeah no light comes through
yeah
I got a call
the other day
we have a day
where the in-laws
take over the
baby
and when I got there
she was like
the mother-in-law
was like
can you sit down
and sort of fix
my phone for me
you're like
I'm out of here
this is my time
yeah well
don't worry
I've always got
somewhere to go and something
very pressing i bet an appointment a lot of work yeah i'm doing and um so it's like okay i'll um
i'll do this no worries and i'm like fuck i'm no i'm no iphone expert but anyway i'll give it i'll
give it a go and she was like yeah it's um it's not it's not ringing it's not ringing properly
i'm like okay all right so what's the setting so i rang her phone it's not ringing, it's not ringing properly. I'm like, okay, all right, so what's the setting? So I rang her phone, it's not ringing.
I'm like, okay, it's either the settings
or you haven't got the switch flicked on the side, whatever.
And then she goes, okay, yeah, I'll do that.
And then, so I rang her phone and then two phones rang.
And I'm like, I don't understand what's happening here.
And she's got them, I don't know whether they were new phones or I don't understand what's happening here. And she's got them...
I don't know whether they were new phones
or they were...
I don't know how a phone made this much noise
but they felt like they were louder
than two phones together.
So there was two different phones
and they were both ringing.
Somehow she'd hooked two phones up
to the same number.
What the hell?
I've never heard of this before.
Is she a drug dealer?
Yeah.
I got genuinely scared.
Like I felt like a fucking haunted house movie or something like that.
The killer's in the house.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Every phone in the house is ringing when you ring one number.
Yeah.
And I was like saying to these two 75-year-olds,
what's happening here?
I'm really struggling to find a reason in my brain
why you would need to do that.
Not only why, but how you do it accidentally exactly
without realizing you've done it it wasn't on purpose i'll just have phones lying around
yeah and i might just be near one yeah yeah when it goes i'll put one in the car yeah when you put
it like that it actually doesn't sound all that bad
exactly you've got a phone in the in the lounge room you've got find in the dining room Like a landline Exactly You've got a phone In the lounge room
You've got one in the bedroom
It makes sense
You're right
One out there on the balcony
Yeah
One in the car
One next to the pool
She's really onto something
Yeah actually I fucked it
I fucked it by helping them
With that problem
That they didn't
They thought was a problem
Yeah can you get her around here
To do it for me
Yeah
My phone's never not on silent
Me too
I can't
The thought of it ringing
Why would you want
A phone to ring?
Yeah, exactly.
My girlfriend's iPhone, like every time she takes a photo,
the clicker sound still goes off.
I'm always going, turn that off.
And she insists that it's an old enough iPhone.
She's like, you just can't do it on these old models.
And I'm like, surely that's not true.
And she's like, try and do it then.
Try and turn it off.
And I haven't been able to turn it off we went on a holiday uh like a couple of
weeks ago and she's like taking photos and stuff we're at hall's gap and it's just it's just
mortifying because you're in a crowd and she's whipping out the iphone and it's in there and
it's like oh it's like being out with someone's mom i hate this what kind of monster are you where
you would deny a person the satisfying sound of a camera shutter going off?
What is wrong with you?
This is such a boomer hallmark.
Everyone turns around and goes, is that an 80-year-old woman?
I love it.
It's like everyone knows when it's over.
Click.
And that way you can't do the heaps where people are like.
Do the burst.
Get a couple of good quality ones and get out of there.
The clicker helps.
What about the typing noise?
If you've got the typing noise,
you are a monster.
Yeah, that's not,
I'm not into that.
See, this is what I'm going to get.
She can turn off the ring
and she can turn off the typing.
Those are off.
It's just the taking the photo,
that loud.
And we're in the Grampians,
so it's just like echoing
right across the fucking park.
It's brutal.
That's the thing,
I don't like going into
the whole boomer thing
of like, you know,
old people boomer.
It's like, okay, look, my in-laws, they're 75.
The number one thing isn't like how iPhones work.
Like you can give them that.
You've got other stuff to worry about, whatever.
I think they're busy trying to hold on to existing faculties
instead of learning new stuff.
You know what I mean?
Right.
It's a daily struggle to not shit your pants in public.
Yeah.
So, of course, the iPhone tech is going to go out the window.
And that's fair enough.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
Exactly.
So, it was all happening and I was like, fuck, this is just an interesting social experiment.
I want to find out how this got like this.
How did you get two phones ringing at the same time?
phones ringing at the same time and um so i said to the mom uh my mother-in-law i said now how old how old's this phone how's this phone and she's like oh that one's brand new
my brand new as in like today or yesterday or whatever she's like yeah yesterday i'm like okay
so this is they haven't found it this hadn't happened before right now they didn't know that
this was the thing like okay so how why did you
give both phones the same number and she's like no they're ones for me and ones for my husband
i'm like yeah i understand that but they've both got the same number clearly and she's like well
that seems a bit silly i'm like yes yes it is yeah that's what we're taking apart right yeah
she's like oh i don't know i don't know how that could have happened i'm like well let's retrace
the steps what What happened?
What happened when he bought that phone?
She's like, oh, he didn't buy it. Wow, you really got into it.
Yeah.
Where were you born?
Let's start there.
I said, what?
He didn't buy it, so you bought it.
Yeah, yeah, I bought it.
So why did you give it your number?
I didn't do that.
What happened in the store?
Well, he asked who I was and what my number was just as detail.
And then I gave all of that to him.
And then the phone got fixed and we were off to go.
I'm like, yeah, but what part of – at no stage did you give your husband's name
or his phone number to the tech guy, right?
I love the start of this story was you going, no, they're 75.
You've got to go easy on them.
And then now you're like, listen, you stupid bitch.
Tell me what the guy at Vodafone said to you.
This is like the weirdest episode of CSR Miami ever.
So she's just given all of her details.
I'm like, don't you think at some stage he should have asked for your husband's number
so that he could apply that to the phone?
Yes.
She's like, I just didn't come up at the time.
She goes, all right, okay, I'm going to go back in up at the time. I'm like, she goes, oh, okay,
I'm going to go back in
and sort this out.
I'm like,
do not go back in.
Yeah.
You've already done something
I thought was fucking impossible
to make this happen.
Yeah,
your phone gets pulled into it
and then your phone's ringing
when people are calling
your mother-in-law.
It just keeps spreading.
All of a sudden,
people are ringing my phone
thinking it's Lifeline.
I'm like,
fuck,
kill yourself,
fuck off.
Yeah,
yeah,
yeah,
that would be mortifying. It's like all the shit you've given me about mum paying my rent and then it'm like, fuck, kill yourself. Fuck off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That would be mortifying.
It's like all the shit you've given me
about mum paying my rent
and then it's like your phone is being paid for
by your mother-in-law
just through some technical hiccup from her going in.
So the husband gets the second phone.
Yes.
So they're like,
they just get called together.
Even if they're apart, same number,
you're going to get one of us.
Yeah.
That's the most married shit I've ever heard.
It really is.
It's like a joint email.
It's even worse than a joint email.
I remember joint emails.
I hate joint emails.
The problem is though, of course.
Chrisandbevan at gmail.com.
Fuck off.
Joint Instagram accounts.
Do you have joint Instagram accounts?
Oh yeah.
I've seen it on Facebook.
I've never heard of that.
Really?
And I go, who gets to check the DMs?
Who gets to check the thirsty DMs?
Oh, yeah.
I know a lot of gay couples have.
That could cause some tension if the thirsty DMs seem to be slanted in one person's favour.
Yeah, you're the star of the show.
Yeah.
Jealousy.
Me and my partner.
Yeah, do you have the joint, like, okay, you've got the joint Instagram accounts.
Do you have a tally of who's getting their photo on the most?
Or are you both in all the pictures all the time?
Well, I always wanted this.
I'm friends with those guys, the Stenmark twins, and they're male Australian models.
Of course, I've gone out of my way to make friends with them.
But they're identical twins.
So they both sometimes put individual photos up, even though their accounts are like the Stenmarks.
Right.
Oh, they can just share the workload,
like the Olsen's when they were kids.
Yeah, like the Logan brothers,
or Big Brother.
Are they like Instagram famous?
They're Instagram famous.
How many followers have they got?
Oh, they've got a couple of hundred thousand,
but then I remember they were both on Dancing with the Stars,
but obviously not together.
But one of them got voted out way earlier.
But you can't tell the difference between them.
Right, yeah.
You're so offended if your identical twin model brother
made it further
in dancing
with the stars
yeah
I want to separate
Instagram accounts
and then we'll see
go solo
launch a solo
twin career
that's intense
twin
twin Instagram
accounts
that's full on
I met an
insta-famous dog
which one but just kind of like starting out meeting him level so how many followers Instagram accounts. It's full on. Yeah. I met an Insta-famous dog. Oh, yeah. Which one?
But just kind of like
starting out,
like medium level.
So how many followers
is an intermediate?
Like a surprising amount.
Like they just sort of started
and they had about
like 70,000.
That's a really good
system.
Yeah.
For a dog.
But there were like dogs
with like a million,
two million plus accounts.
Yeah.
And it's like the, and the woman was like, what was it?
It was like a Cocker Spaniel.
It was pretty cute.
And they dress it up and she designs glides for it.
And she's like, oh, it's really stressful.
It's actually quite stressful.
It's time consuming.
And you know, there's a lot of people, there's some nasty people out there.
Yeah.
You know, it's like fucking hell.
So that's her job.
That's what she does.
I'm really not down with the person
who gets a dog
and then straight away
sets up the Instagram
account for it
day one of bringing it home
it's like
I reckon it's got to
prove itself on your page
first
you know you're going to
be getting a lot of DMs
like holy fuck
this is an incredible dog
and then you're like
you know what
it's time for him
to spin off and go solo
Joey style
no you're right
Frasier wouldn't have
existed by himself
someone pitching Frasier without the backing Existed by himself Someone pitching Frasier
Without the backing of Cheers
Exactly
Because it's
Especially when it's just like
A run of the mill breed
And you see someone
Set up the tag and everything
And it's like
Come on
No one gives a fuck
About this dog
Yeah
I must say
My partner and I
Do have an Instagram handle
For our dog
And we don't have a dog
Alright
What's the handle
She was coming
We were going to call her girlfriend
And she's a chow chow
Hey girlfriend
We got the handle
Ciao girlfriend
She's Italian
So you're just sitting on her at the moment?
Yeah we're just sitting on her waiting
Right
Getting a few strategies in place
Yeah
And finding the dog
Yeah
Gotta get the dog
Get some stories sorted first
Yeah
My friends I dinner with Have a pug Whose siblings And finding the dog. Yeah, yeah. Got to get the dog. Get some stories sorted first. Yeah, yeah.
My friends I had dinner with have a pug whose siblings,
the pug's siblings are Insta-famous and they had to fight very hard and do interviews to get this dog.
And now they've got it and their dog is not Insta-famous.
Oh, no.
So it's...
But they're like...
They still have aspirations that it might be.
So it's from the same litter as an existing Instagram famous.
And I think it's the Bondi pug.
I think it's called Bondi pug.
And it's got like millions of years.
And it's like their sibling.
It's hard to deal with.
It's like a Minogue situation.
Right.
What about this?
Now, your Twitter account got hacked, didn't it?
Yeah.
Didn't it get stolen off you?
It got stolen.
Yeah, it got stolen.
How does this work?
How can you get your Twitter account just stolen like no,
nothing happens off the back of that?
Because...
Because I was following...
All of a sudden this person popped up in my feed.
I'm like, why the fuck am I following someone this into computer games
that isn't that slow well i was like so thankful that it was just some kind of weird nerd and not
like someone that just ran ranted all this racist stuff in my name which is a lot of crossover with
those two things though to be fair yeah yeah well you know i was like that would be bad if someone
misrepresents me i was really worried about that but um i started that twitter account so long ago with an email that expired when i left
for america and so when it was all kicking off i was like oh i'll just go back into it and i couldn't
because the email address didn't exist and then i had to like try and escalate it with twitter and
they were fucking useless they did nothing they were like at the end they were like, sorry, there's nothing you can do.
And then by the time
the guy had changed,
I actually even got back
into my old email address
and the guy had changed
the original email
so I couldn't even get in anyway.
Oh, that's so annoying.
So I'm like,
it doesn't match.
I'm like, no shit.
So he was pretending to be you
but tweeting about computer games
or he just like changed the whole layer?
No, he changed the whole thing
because it was like some cool, he'd made some. Changed the whole layer. It was like some cool,
he'd made some sort of computer game playing identity.
It was like,
Wobbsy.
And then it was just all this stuff about
all these computer graphics
and it was like,
hey, I'm back everyone.
Fresh takes on video games.
I'm like,
why the fuck am I following this?
Yeah.
But I was like going,
okay.
Yeah, it was really weird.
And then Detective was back on the case again.
I was like, right, I'm going through who you're following,
who's following you.
I'm like, this is someone I know that's been hacked.
I can't figure out what's going on here.
So I was just going through.
I was like, guess who?
I was trying to go through with 20 questions.
It's like your child was running through a fucking puzzle.
You didn't have a child that day then.
It's like with the old abandoned train yards.
And you did eventually work out that it was Eddie?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because the big clue was when a new account popped up
called Eddie Perfect going,
hey, I've got a new account.
And I really didn't want to go back on Twitter
because I fucking hate Twitter.
It's so gross and it's like,
I've had some,
it's just awful people come out of nowhere
and just say awful things and you're like, I've had some, it's just awful people come out of nowhere and just say awful things.
And you're like, I guess we have to have a presence there.
And I guess it's useful.
And it was sort of annoying losing, I don't know how many, over like 50,000 people that I could communicate with.
Which is useful.
And so that was a bit of a bummer.
But Jesus, now I hardly follow anyone.
I'm like, I'm just in a corner on Twitter.
I had my website taken by one of those pirates. You know,, I'm just in a corner on Twitter. I'm like, just get the game. I had my website
taken by one of those pirate,
you know,
my website expired,
joelcreasy.com
and then they tried to sell it back to me
for like $10,000.
Yes.
So I went with.au instead.
Yeah, yeah.
I wanted to go.org
because I thought it was.org.
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.org..org. The same's happened to us. So you've let yours go, haven't you? I let mine lapse. And every now and then I go,
fuck, I've got to look into getting that back.
And it's just like, I don't know.
Websites are the worst.
Does anyone go to a website?
That's the other thing.
It does seem largely quite inessential.
Every time I've said to a manager,
people don't go to a website, do they?
My manager always says, yes, they do.
And I've been like, how would you ever know?
Yeah.
I think this happened on the show years ago,
but I let mine lapse
and then someone started selling fake Air Jordans on my domain,
which is just so funny.
And then what happened was then they started putting it for sale
and they want to sell it back to you,
except originally it was like $200
and now it's like 5050,000 or $100,000 or something.
Because then, because I was talking about the domain,
a lot of our listeners were then going to it,
which was driving up the traffic,
which then drove up the price.
Boy, this thing's a hot commodity.
Yeah.
A lot of people are buying fake Air Jordans at this place.
So, yeah.
You really snookered yourself.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Cal Channel is the name in fake Air Jordans.
So, yeah. So, you never want to back So you have more hits as a Fake Air Jordan site
than you did as an artist webpage.
Yeah, a lot of people trying to book these Fake Air Jordans for gigs.
I don't know if we said this at the time,
but it's sort of the perfect thing for you
because it's like that's exactly the sort of thing
that you would find in Thailand.
Yes.
The home of the fake Nike.
Well, now it might.
So then I did the same as you.
Then I went dot com dot au.
Yeah.
And then put all the links to different social medias down the bottom, including an icon
for fake Air Jordans.
So if you're a hardcore fan, you still really do want to buy fake Air Jordans, you can go
to my official website.
You'll deliver.
Yeah.
You're respecting your roots.
Yes.
You're giving a shout out to the people who've come before you.
Yes.
What are fake Nikes like?
Are they good?
No, they're terrible.
Don't look at me.
I go to Thailand twice a year.
What do they like?
What's a Nike?
How dare you?
They're terrible.
I did buy a pair in Thailand once and it's like, you know.
That's the thing.
They worry about the appearance and they get the appearance spot on.
And then you put them on and you go
this is half as good
as a Dunlop volley
it's fucking terrible
but they're lucky
to put a fucking soul
in them
fake anything's
going to be bad though
that's the thing
with the website
yeah I've kind of gone
I better get off my ass
and get mine fixed
but then I realised
all it would be
would just be the like
icons for all the
different social medias
so it's like
well you can just find if I'm just going it's like, well, you can just find,
if I'm just going to redirect people to fucking Instagram,
people can just find that easily enough.
Yeah.
It doesn't matter.
I've been finding lately, I've been finishing Instagram.
You know, when you watch everyone's Insta story and it's like, right,
you've all caught up.
I'm like, I follow 750 people and I regularly am caught up.
Yeah.
And I'm like, oh, I'm not on social media.
I fucking am.
I keep pretending like I'm not. People are like, you missed my birthday. I'm like, oh, sorry, I'm not on social media. I fucking am. I keep pretending like I'm not.
People are like, you missed my birthday.
I'm like, oh, sorry, I'm not on social media.
No, I tracked it on InstaStory the entire day.
What's your least, because I love talking about this,
what's your least favourite version of someone's Instagram story?
Like, what are the Instagram stories you hate?
Too much big block writing.
No, no, I need an image.
You know, people that just do like, you know. Wrong format. Yeah. Oh much big block writing. No, no, I need an image. Yeah.
People that just do like, you know.
Wrong format.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Long posts.
So then you have to hold your finger down on the Insta story.
Get a WordPress, you fucking clown.
Yeah.
Get a website, actually.
Get a website.
I feel like you're holding up Instagram by having your thumb.
It's just like, come on.
Traffic's building up behind me.
There's more Insta stories coming.
I just want to read it.
Just wait a minute.
Oh, and also, I also don't like a food, I don't mind a food photo.
I feel like they've got a place on Instagram, but you can't have had half the meal and then
put it up.
Like I want the meal untouched.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The moment's passed.
Yeah.
If you forgot, that's fine.
Yeah.
But.
Yeah, that's fine.
But I don't want to see half eaten meal.
Thanks.
Yeah.
That's about fine. Yeah, that's fine, but I don't want to see half eaten meal things. That's about it.
No matter what it is, no matter what the content actually is,
getting onto someone's story and just seeing each of the little dashes,
there's like a hundred of them.
You're like, fuck me.
Joel's on the project tonight.
Me in the makeup chair, me getting ready.
Joel was on the gala and a lot of people took photos of him
and put it on Instagram.
Or the reposts.
People who repost every shout-out that people give them on their birthday.
Do you do that?
No.
Okay, good, good.
From famous people or from anyone?
Just from anyone.
People just like all their friends who've gone,
oh, this beautiful, lovely girl, it's her birthday today,
and then they've shared every single one of them that someone's tagged them in on their story.
I think it's really bad.
It's psycho.
You buy someone a gift, like you buy someone a bunch of flowers, and they're like, thanks,
at Joel Creasy for the flowers, and then you repost that.
That's really...
I've got lots of friends that do that.
I want everyone to know that I did a good thing.
I bought you a gift, yeah.
Yeah.
I actually don't mind.
You know, why else...
Why get someone a gift?
You want the credit.
It's the big salad. You know, you else? Why get someone a gift? You want the credit. It's the big salad.
You know, you want people to know that you did this good thing.
Yeah, or that you said something nice.
People like having their niceness rebroadcast
by the person they sent their niceness to.
It's pretty pathetic when you think about it.
Like, you know, that's what we're like.
I went through a phase because I thought people would,
everyone on Twitter loves to smash airlines and bad, you know,
oh, my flight's delayed. Thanks, mama. Like the intern that runs the, you know, the smash airlines and bad, you know, oh my flight's delayed.
Like the intern that runs the, you know,
the Qantas account can, you know, fix the flight times.
So I went for about a couple of years, I would
make, go out of my way to do a positive
tweet about each flight I was on.
Like, and on flight QF482
did a great coffee.
Don't do that anymore.
Yeah, not lately.
What about, Joel, you You Now you've spent time
With Eddie in New York
You've
Yes
Yes
I went and saw Eddie
Do a show
With Ali McGregor
At the legendary
It was Joe's Pub right
It was at Joe's Pub
Yeah
Oh Woody Allen's hangout
Interesting
And I'd just been
I'd just
He's in the news sometimes
Isn't he
Yeah
Oh topical
Topical I'd just been through a break up And Eddie dedicated a song to me I just... He's in the news sometimes, isn't he? Oh, topical, topical.
I'd just been through a breakup and Eddie dedicated a song to me.
Oh, nice.
Yeah.
And then we all went to a nightclub called The Cock.
The Cock.
Yeah.
And there was a guy who was wearing nothing but shoot runners and a leather harness.
A leather harness and lots of nipple piercings.
Yeah.
Penis piercings.
Everything else was just out there. And the toilet was in the corner of the room. a leather harness a leather harness and lots of nipple piercings penis piercings everything else
was just out there
and the toilet
was in the corner
of the room
there was just like
one of those
what are they called
the stand up toilet
but in the actual bar
and it was creepy as fuck
no separate room
there was a lot of
leering
I mean that's heaven
not having to touch
a filthy doorknob
on the way in
there were plenty
of filthy knobs
but gosh we had
a good night didn didn't we?
Yeah, we did.
We had a great time.
It must be nice.
Imagine going to New York.
Imagine going anywhere.
Yeah.
Imagine going to Broome.
Yeah.
That'd be good.
You could go to Echuca.
Have you guys been to Echuca?
I went to Echuca a fair bit when I was a little kid, yeah.
My dad owned a pub in Echuca for a short time.
Jesus, I wouldn't see that coming.
Really?
Yeah. What was it called? What was the pub called? Oh, fuck. short time. Jesus, I wouldn't see that coming. Really? Yeah.
What was it called?
What was the pub called?
Oh, fuck.
I don't know.
I never actually went to it.
It was for a very short time.
I think I'm sure I've talked about this on the show before,
but my dad had a very old,
and I've seen this happen a lot of times,
but a partnership with mum where they would get a business
and then go, this is great.
Now you run it to mum.
You do all the work, basically. Oh, full on, really? Yeah, so it would be a bit like that. Your this is great. Now you run it to mum. You do all the work basically.
Oh, full on, really?
So it would be a bit like that.
Your dad had done this more than once?
Yes.
So she's like, your mum's sensing a pattern?
Yeah.
So I think that was the breaking point where he goes,
oh, I've always wanted to own a pub in Echuca
because he grew up there as a kid.
And mum's like, cool, cool story, bro.
So he just goes out and just comes back one day and goes, well, I did it. I bought the pub. I bought a pub. And she's like cool cool story bro and then so he just goes out and just comes back one day
and goes well i did it i bought the pub i bought a pub and she's like what he goes yeah i bought
the pub and she goes oh good luck with that and he's like goes to sort of start setting up and
well you'll you'll come and do it won't you and she's like i absolutely will not wow and so then
he had to go off and go he just sort of just assumed she would come to do it at some stage.
Oh, wow.
What a power move.
Yeah.
So she stayed home.
And like, you know, Meribah, where we're from,
is like quite a drive to Echuca.
So then he had to go up there and like stay by himself
and like run a pub every couple of days and like come back again.
Yeah, what's that like a four hour drive or something?
Living the dream.
Yeah, yeah.
And it fucking broke him.
It broke him. He was like, oh, I can't do this anymore. And like lasted 400 miles? Living the dream. Yeah, yeah. Fuck. And it fucking broke him. It broke him.
He was like, oh, I can't do this anymore.
And like lasted six months or something like that.
But just sort of was like, yeah, but you'll come up and run at some stage.
She's like, I'm fucking telling you, I'm not coming up there.
Jesus.
I've never been to a chica.
What a boss.
Am I missing out?
It's a river city.
It's a, is it a border town?
Would you call it a border?
Do you like paddle steamers?
I don't mind a paddle steamer.
If you're that into them, you could deal with them every day.
I like a vanilla slice.
I don't think you're a river person.
I think you're an ocean person.
I'm an ocean person.
Carl, you're probably a river person.
I don't think I am.
I don't think I'm an ocean person.
What is a river person and an ocean person?
It's like being a cat person and a dog person.
What's the difference?
As an ocean person? He's like a cat person and a dog person. What's the difference? He's an ocean person.
Well, there are people that I feel like go on vacations in the ocean,
and there are other people that go on vacations in rivers and lakes.
There's like freshwater people and saltwater people.
We'll put it this way.
All right, what about this then?
Maybe I am a river person because he's ties,
he was attached to Echuca because there's a place there called Bower's Bend,
which is my great great
grandfather
he was the first one
to run a paddle steamer
down the Murray
or something
so they named
a bend after him
or whatever
weird flex
yeah
totally
this is all I heard
from you
naming a bend
you're going to have
this fucked up corner
also naming
Bower's Bend
that could be
a lot of things could have happened in that
yeah
that's a club that's got a toilet in the corner
exactly
sounds like the cock
maybe you want to take Eddie to the bend
we'll go there
we'll go to the bend
that's all I fucking ever heard about when I was a kid
oh Captain David Bower
he fucking discovered
he discovered that bend
he went around the bend
he didn't discover the fucking the Murray he didn't discover paddle steamers he fucking discovered he discovered that bend he went around the bend he didn't discover the fucking
the Murray
he didn't discover
paddle steamers
he fucking just
was the first one
to take one out
so that's your
that's your Vegemite
yes
family legacy
hearing about it
all the time
you don't really give
too much of a fuck
about it one way or the other
we did a lot of family trips
up there to see the bend
or whatever
I'm like
oh fuck
I'm eight years old
give me a bit of Lego or something.
Have you got any amazing
historical family stuff going on?
Does he ever?
Oh, your dad is a solo man.
My dad was the solo man.
What am I fucking talking about?
You gotta keep in shape to be a solo man.
Come to think of it, I'm definitely an ocean person.
I'm a mountain person.
You're a fly person.
Hang on, so for people at home, we're all over excited. Joel's dad definitely an ocean person. I'm a mountain person. You're a McFly person. I'm a McFly-zer.
Hang on.
So for people at home, we're all over excited.
Joel's dad was the solo man in the 70s.
Yes, in the 70s.
The commercial's on YouTube because there's a few solo men.
I think it's like the 74 one or the 76 one.
And then he's the one that runs up the hill with the blue heeler chasing him,
as in the dog.
Not John Wood.
Not Lisa McCune.
Although I'd run too.
And then at the top of the mountain, he cracks a solo
and it dribbles down his chin all homoerotic.
That's Terry Crews.
Yes.
Hot.
That is fucking hot.
Yeah.
I love the solo man.
Well, that's what you feel like after a long run,
a sugary soft drink.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Never quiet enough.
Soft drink companies love doing that. That's what you feel like after a long run, a sugary soft drink. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Light on the beers, you can slam it down hard.
Soft drink companies love doing that.
Athletic endurance and then just pounding a fucking Fanta at the end of it.
It doesn't make any sense.
I'm a solo fan, though.
It's a good drink.
It is a good drink.
It is a good drink.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a good one.
And it is a good...
That slogan does stick in my head every time.
Like, I'll do something and then go,
oh, yeah, it is light on the beers, so you can slam it down fast.
That goes through my head. It it down fast that that goes through my
head that goes through
my head a lot more
yeah I drink solo
faster protected in the
knowledge yes that I
gained from watching
those apps yes is it
really lower I've always
thought that was just
bullshit I don't know
I believe it it is I
believe it I definitely
have done it after
running after working
out and gone let's see
if I can just do the
whole can in one go
I want one now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I do feel like a solo now.
There's a 7-Eleven over there.
Gotta crack a solo.
Love that theme song.
Yeah, solo man plus was in Empire Strikes Back.
Empire Strikes Back.
But both my parents were in Star Wars Empire Strikes Back.
You lived with solo man?
Yeah.
Yeah, but he is the solo man.
He is the solo man.
That's like his hand solo man. Well, so solo man. It's like he's Han Solo man.
Well, so do you know Star Wars well?
That was great.
I think I need to give that a bit more respect.
That was great.
I do know it, but which scene?
Which scene were they in?
When Princess Leia is briefing the snow speeder pilots,
my dad's the one with the orange moustache.
He looks kind of like a porn star.
And he's very clearly in shot as Princess Leia's directing.
Yes.
What to do.
Out of knowledge of Star Wars,
I think Joel might have hacked your Twitter, Eddie.
We've unearthed the nerd.
I'm happy.
Does your dad have an action figure?
No, he should do, though.
Because he's like an action...
He does have a speaking part.
Well, he was also the stunt double for Flash Gordon.
Oh, wow. Yeah. He was like the long shot Flash does have a speaking voice. Well, he was also the stunt double for Flash Gordon. Oh, wow.
Yeah.
He was like the long shot Flash Gordon.
Fuck, that's great.
I know.
Show up his family.
Yeah.
It's cool.
No offence.
Can we get him on the show sometime?
He would love it.
But the thing we've been, we're 510 episodes in.
The thing we've been focusing on all these years is he owns a McDonald's.
He owns a McDonald's store.
He does? He's got a franchise? Yes, he does. He's got a McDonald's. He owns a McDonald's store. He does?
He's got a franchise?
Yes, he does.
Which town?
He's got a couple in WA.
I've taken the boys.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
We went and worked there for a year.
Does he get on the tools?
Oh, yeah.
I make the best cheeseburger in town.
That's what he always says.
I'm like, well, it's very simple.
I think it's pretty hard to fuck it up.
He makes the best cheeseburger in town.
Yeah.
I used to work in McCafe.
Oh, nice.
I was the McCafe manager.
I was a nightmare.
You're lucky you're of a generation where McCafe existed.
For everyone else, it was just like,
I worked as a kitchen hand at Red Rooster
on the Pingin Highway in Mentone.
It was the worst fucking job I've ever had.
It was awful.
It was awful.
Mentone's all right.
You're on the beach there.
Mentone was all right, but had. It was awful. Minton's alright. You're on the beach there. Minton was alright
but Red Rooster was not.
Those highway adjacent
fast food places.
I love Red Rooster
though for hangover.
Yeah, me too.
That rooster roll
and dunk in some gravy
with a solo actually.
Yeah.
Quite nice.
The Pen Highway
is up there with highways
so I quite like it.
It's a good one.
It's not a bad little scenic route.
It's a good one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's not Barry's Bend
or whatever it's called.
Connect A to B.
What more could you want on the highway?
It's classic.
It's classic stuff.
Yeah, yeah.
But like you said, when I think of Nepean Highway,
I just think of, I used to have a girlfriend down there
and I'd drive up and down it all the time and go,
oh man, there's a lot of fast food on the side of the road,
a lot of things to look at, a bit of beach.
Not a bad highway.
I wrote a song about Nepean Highway
did you?
yeah I did
hit it
I did
okay
no it was all
like a song
to Evan Nepean
who was the
the guy that was
oh is he your
great great great
grandfather or
yes no
no relative
but that highway
is named after him
because it ends
at Nepean Point
which is right
at the end of Portsea
at the end of the
Merlinton Peninsula
there's Nepean River, which is right at the end of Portsea, the end of the Merlinton Peninsula.
There's Nepean River.
And he was like a civil servant.
I don't know a huge amount about him,
but I wrote a song about him and the Nepean Highway because that was like my lifeline
to get the fuck out of Mentone
and to get into Melbourne
and to other places in the inner north
and to kind of find my people.
So it's always weird going back.
Even now, I got a Nippian highway
and I always feel like I'm going back to Mentone.
No offence, Mentone.
But I think the same thing, Nippian,
because I think of that first girlfriend
that I went to see all the time.
Paul Kelly song.
You'll see a girlfriend now in the Nippian highway.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then I think of the Frankston line the same way
because that's the Frankston train line as well.
Yeah.
Which was sort of basically
my first Melbourne train line.
So I'd go that way all the time and go,
is this what all trains are like,
this fucking Frankston train line?
Yeah.
Which is a bit...
Well, I wrote a song called Frankston Line as well.
I've written a lot.
A song for every occasion.
Well, I wrote all about Mentone.
Did you sing a song about my ex-girlfriend?
Yes. Seems like you have good knowledge about my ex-girlfriend? Yes.
Seems like you have good knowledge of my age, 20 to 22.
Yeah.
We're parallel lives.
Fucking Chandler.
Yeah.
So, yeah, I wrote a whole show about Mentone,
growing up in Mentone and what it was like.
And I wrote about the Frankston Line.
I wrote about Plummer Road.
It was kind of a weird suburban song cycle.
Yeah.
But Frankston Line was like
a challenge
can I put
every station
from the city
all the way
to Frankston
and weirdly
Times Square
wanted something
about Beetlejuice
rather than
Mentone
I know
when I had to
find an agent
in New York
I had songs
from the middle
that was that show
about Mentone
and then Shame on the Musical about an Australian cricketer they were the only things I had to from the middle, that was that show, about Mentone, and then Shame on the Musical about an Australian cricketer.
They were the only things I had to give an agent,
and they were like, I don't know what any of this means,
but they still wanted to work with me, so that's nice.
I thought of that in the way, actually,
because you're probably, in Australian eyes,
you're best known for producing shows like Beetlejuice
and then Shame on the Musical.
It's like pretty similar main figures there,
sort of like dodgy old sex pests.
They can sort of do magic at the peak of their powers.
Yeah, I really connect with those kind of characters.
Who's next?
Who's the next figure?
I want to do...
I actually got offered a lot of money to write a Gina Reinhart
musical at one point.
Oh, I'd buy a ticket to that.
It was quite a long while ago.
I want to say it was like 10 years ago.
It was by this kind of rich entrepreneur guy.
He's like, here's a book, here's a biography on Gina Reinhart.
And I was like, this is going to be a legal minefield.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
And I didn't really have a take on it
and I'd just done Shane Warner musical
and that's why they were pitching it to me.
But I was like, I don't want to do another person.
But I did come up with a great title.
I was like, you could just call it mine.
That's as far as I got.
Hey, a lot of productions are put on with less behind them.
So that's not so bad.
Mine, the Gina Reinhart story.
I've opened festival shows with less than that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're a late writer.
Yeah, yeah.
Hey, Joel, we're talking a bit about your dad,
but we've got to get into some of your showbiz exploits.
Oh, yeah.
Because this is something we realise
that we've never talked to you about on the show before.
It's relatively recent.
So you were in Neighbours.
Oh, yeah.
You had a role on Neighbours. Now can you
tell us, what's your character's name on Neighbours?
So my boyfriend's in Neighbours.
His character's called Hayden Storm.
Right? That's the hottest name.
Yeah, so he's in Neighbours.
His character's called Hayden Storm. He plays the hot Uber
driver on Ramsey Street. My
character is called Mick Allthop.
Not Nick. Mick.
Right? Mick. And I'm not some
cool Uber driver. I'm the gay stalker
that comes to town. You don't look like a Mick.
I don't look like a Mick. I think all Mick's start life
at 40. A gay stalker comes to town?
A gay stalker comes to town. And I said,
how many people did you audition for this role? And they said,
we wrote it for you.
Well, you don't look like
a Mick. And also, no offence, you don't look like an Allsop.
Well, that's
I mean two things
One
I mean I think it's very stereotypical
That they go
Okay we've got a gay stalker
We'll get Joel Creasy
Yeah
It's up there with me
Booking Eddie Perf
For the show
Who's known for musical theatre
And then going
I wonder if we can get Joel Creasy
To come in
And talk with him
Because you both studied in Perth
That's the link
That's the link
It's all connected
But you know
Now you know I don't. But you know that,
I don't know if you know this,
but so your name,
your character name is Mick Alsop.
Yes.
Which we found endlessly fascinating.
Yeah.
Because as,
well, as Tommy Daslow is about,
or as you thought was Tommy Daslow,
his real name is,
of course,
if you want to read that out.
Thomas H. Alsop.
That's it.
That's his real name.
Is that your real name?
Yeah. Believe it or not, Tommy Daslow is the one with the made up name, Not Eddie Perfect. Thomas H. Allsop. That's it. That's his real name. Is that your real name?
Believe it or not, Tommy Daslow is the one with the made-up name Not Eddie Perfect.
Yeah.
So Tommy Daslow is a stage name?
Yeah, I'm pretending to be Italian.
I'm doing Dolmio Face.
Fuck, I might use that.
That's really funny.
I'm going to write that down.
I've got to kick tonight.
Wait, I did not know That was a stage name
Didn't you?
No
Interesting
It just proves
You've never listened to this show
Because I reckon
We've brought it up 499 times
Yeah you're such a comedy fan
This is live right
I don't even know what this is
What a weird coincidence
Yours is different though
Because I looked up
On your Wikipedia
Yours is
You're one of these
You're a 2L-er I'm a your Wikipedia. You're a 2L-er.
I'm a 2L also.
Well, my first scene in Erinsborough,
they don't show this but it's heavily implied.
I stalk one of the other gays on Ramsey Street.
Is it your boyfriend playing the other gay?
Are you stalking your own boyfriend?
No, my boyfriend gets to play a heterosexual role.
He's got range.
Oh, wow.
Hayden gets to pass Olympia forlympia as a straight man i don't
know how i feel about this i don't know how i feel about one of these homosexuals coming and
pretending to be exactly instead of him taking the role why can't one of me or tommy play this hot
uber driver yeah we need more representation on television my first scene i'm in the backpackers
lasseters and i point to one of the other guys and i go oi come here and then it's heavily implied representation on television. My first scene, I'm in the backpackers, Lasseters,
and I point to one
of the other gays
and I go,
oi, come here.
And then it's heavily implied
that I give him a blowjob
in the bathroom.
What do you mean heavily implied?
Well, we go into the bathroom
together and there's
a whole lot of noises.
Or maybe that's just
how I interpreted the scene.
Yeah.
Wow, that was your first scene?
Yeah.
Wow. And I also thought it was rehearsal, but they move so fast to Neighbours, they're like, right, right. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Wow, that was your first scene? Yeah. Wow.
And I also thought it was rehearsal, but they move so fast to Neighbours, they're like,
right, that's a wrap, let's move on to the next scene.
Oh, yeah.
I was like, wow.
Jesus.
Because they are cheap and cheerful, aren't they?
Yeah.
They've just got to get it going.
It's so nice.
I was really thinking I'd get some good gossip Neighbours and I'd get some stand-up out of
it.
Everyone was really nice.
Oh.
Yeah.
So you're still in the mix.
You've been, your character's come back. Oh, yeah, it pops in and out. So is it not killed off or anything So you're still in the mix. Your character's come back.
Oh, yeah.
Pops in and out.
Is it not killed off or anything?
You're still in the mix.
No.
I last appeared on their Mardi Gras special.
Mick Allsop was on Oxford Street stalking Courtney Act.
Oh, still was stalking.
Yeah.
Does he have any normal dealings with anyone?
No, he's a real stalky type of guy.
Never introduced himself to anyone?
No.
Just stalking.
And he always appears in the back of scenes like a panto.
Oh, that's great.
I don't like the family name being pulled into this kind of...
sullied with this kind of behaviour.
I'm so sorry.
I'll have to see if they can write me into a cooler storyline.
Do you get any neighbours' heads asking you to conventions?
Are there neighbours' conventions or anything like that?
Oh, I'd love that.
I think there are still in the UK.
Right.
In the UK, I'm obsessed with it.
I was working with a UK playwright who was writing a book to a musical I was doing.
And every time he saw me, he would just go,
Oh, I can't believe that, you know, Ron at Lasseter's did this.
And I was like, man, I haven't watched Neighbours for so long.
I think I slept with Ron,
yeah.
He was completely
up to date with it,
loved it,
obsessed with it
all of his life.
My friends love it.
They're like,
can you tell us
what's coming up on the show?
I don't read all the scripts.
That's great.
I just see where I have to stalk.
Yeah, yeah.
So you're still stalking.
You're still out there stalking.
You don't even read your own scripts.
You just look at someone else's script
because you're stalking that
yeah
totally
is it the kind of thing
where if like
you really nail it
and the audience
really liked you
they'll find a way
to legitimise your stalking
and bring you into the fold
and if they don't
you just go to court
and go to jail
yeah
they just kill me off
yeah
because it only exists
because of the English popularity
doesn't it
because it's on
a satellite channel now
it's on 10 Peach or whatever it is.
Yeah.
It's on Friends and Seinfeld.
Yeah, it's on before five episodes of Friends, which, fuck, I've never watched Friends before.
And now, under lockdown or whatever we're doing, isolation, I'm watching it every night.
Oh, really?
I'm sort of starting to get into it, weirdly.
Oh, God, I did not expect you to say that.
I didn't mean to bring up the fact that you've given yourself the Rachel in the last three months
you're such a Chandler
you are
you really are
yeah
is that why you've
never watched it
did you hate the fact
that the funny guy
like one of the main
characters has yours
no
no
I just hadn't come
across it really
like I just
I'm just not a big one
for those sort of shows
I hate sitcoms
hate them really hate them hate canned those sort of shows. I hate sitcoms. Hate them.
Really?
Hate them.
Hate canned laughter.
Seinfeld?
Oh, I hate it.
Hate it.
What?
Also hate cartoons.
Can't stand.
Cannot stand.
There's been no sitcoms
that you like?
No, like,
I wouldn't call it
a sitcom.
I don't,
or like,
no,
I like those sort of shows.
Like 30 Rock I really love.
Will and Grace?
No, I didn't like,
I couldn't stand Will and Grace.
Everybody Loves Raymond? Oh, yuck, no. So the canned laughter, just you're out. I'm out sort of shows. Like 30 Rock I really love. Will and Grace? No, I couldn't stand Will and Grace. Everybody Loves Raymond?
Oh, yuck, no.
So the canned laughter, just you're out.
I'm out.
Instantly.
Natural, organic laughter.
Right, right.
Yeah.
I mean, I'd be on one in a heartbeat.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
If Mike and Molly wanted you, you'd be there in a flash.
I was going to say, two years ago, I would have guessed,
I would have said, do you like Neighbours?
Fuck that.
Fuck it.
Yeah.
Second, there's some money involved.
Do you think it's within the realm of possibility for you and I, Carl,
to be in the background of an ep of Neighbours doing a live podcast?
I was thinking that.
If you ever had a podcasting storyline, you'd have to think we'd be in it.
Yeah, the Erinsborough Podcast Festival.
They would totally do that.
I love that podcasts are so much your life, that when you think about going on Neighbours, you think about doing a podcast festival and we can they would totally do that I love that podcasts are so much your life
that when you think
about going on Neighbours
you think about
doing a podcast there
that is amazing
hey I'll play a gay stalker
if they want
but I'm just trying to think
about something more realistic
we can't get the gay stalker
we can't get the hot Uber driver
we need to use
what we've got
exactly
it's not how showbiz works
it's not me
that's undervaluing me
it's the industry
you with your little
zoom box
and four SM58s.
Get a little earpiece in.
Okay, let's go podcast.
Trying to get an interview with Dr. Carl.
Yeah, right, dickheads.
I could see it.
It kind of feels like one of those things that we could put out into the world.
We just need some sort of nerdy neighbor's writer to get into it.
Because like we said, it's all quick.
They've got to just churn it out.
If we can just pitch an idea where...
What's Stefan Dennis' character?
Paul Robinson.
Paul Robinson starts up an evil podcast or something.
Maybe we can get...
An evil podcast.
Okay, right.
It's just exclusively about evil stuff.
He's giving out evil tips or whatever the fuck.
Even just wearing the background.
Yeah.
Or just doing an interview with someone.
Yeah, totally.
But that's our context.
If they do that up,
then it's not out of the question for us
to get proper podcasters in the background.
Yeah.
And you want proper backstory for your character as well.
I went on a bit of a Lou Carpenter deep dive the other day.
Oh, really?
Oh, yeah.
Just because we went to buy a car,
because that's our role.
We went to buy a car at like Mazda,
Max Kerwin Mazda in Essendon.
Oh, nice place.
No, Preston.
I don't know.
Not too bad for them.
Somewhere horrible.
And we had this guy,
finance guy there called Lou.
Yep.
No.
Lou?
Yeah, Lou.
And I reminded him of Lou Carpenter. I was like, what happened to that guy? So me and Lucy are like Wikipedia-ing him. Yep. No. Lou? Yeah. Lou. And it reminded us of Lou Carpenter.
I was like,
what happened to that guy?
So me and Lucy are like
Wikipedia-ing him.
Yeah.
And then it kind of got
into his dynamic
that we had with Harold Bishop
and then that led me
to watching a like
Sunrise type
breakfast TV thing
where the guy
who plays Harold Bishop
whose name I can't remember.
Please forgive me.
I love him.
He's amazing.
He was being interviewed.
He just quit Neighbours.
Yeah, yeah.
And they were asking him how it's been.
Yeah.
And he was like, I can't get any work.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I feel like I overestimated maybe my market value a little bit.
Yeah.
That people would see me as something other than Harold Bishop, but they don't.
Yeah, yeah.
And they're like, so do you feel like you made a mistake?
And he goes, a little bit.
Yes, a little. And I was like,
it was so heartbreaking.
And I was like,
I want to give him a job. I just want to put him
in a play or something. Put him in mine.
He could play Gina.
He thought he was going full Kylie
Minogue and absolutely did not
Yeah
Maybe he'll have to
Move to the bay
Have to move to Summer Bay
That's the other option
Yeah
It was a pretty cute story
You need to do it
The other way around
You need to have the cloud
And you know
Millsy style
Where he's already Millsy
Yeah
And then he's doing
Some shit on Neighbours
Millsy style
To answer slightly
Millsy
Doing it Millsy style
I saw it
I saw it
I love that
Really
Millsy's death on Neighbours Is one of One of the great TV deaths Yeah yeah Do it like Milsy. Do it a Milsy style. I love that. Really?
Milsy's death on Neighbours is one of the great TV deaths.
It's so good.
What's that?
Milsy's character dying on Neighbours.
Oh, what did he die of?
He's digging a grave because he plans to kill someone else.
And then he trips, passes out, and is like collapsed in the grave.
And then meanwhile, there's a hose that's been left running
and this grave
that he's dug
is just slowly
filling up with water
while he's passed out
and he drowns
in a grave
that he's digging
for someone
wow that's amazing
a couple of podcasters
off to the side
commentating
being in the background
one thing
but then if we can also
be killed off
in the same episode
from the background
that's it
you just see an arrow
come through the window
impale us in the skull.
Just the equipment
just malfunctioning.
We're just
dodging smoke.
Isn't the Maxim
Revenge
digs two graves?
He should have dug
two graves.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Idiot.
Well,
this answers
part of your question.
You're going down
your Lou Carpenter hole.
When we went to,
when we,
last year,
at the third and final
Coastal Mooring International Podcast Festival
that we manage.
Holy smoke.
You're just like,
we're just like Thailand.
I want to go to Thailand.
Yes.
Yes.
That's a real thing, by the way.
Everyone on this show knows about it.
Tony Robbins the shit out of it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We made it happen.
So,
last year when we went,
there's a couple of elephant farms there where they have rescued elephants.
Right.
And you go there and...
Ride them.
No, no.
I'm joking.
Well, there are some dodgy ones.
There are some dodgy ones.
So these are the real deal.
There are some really...
I thought they were mostly dodgy, but...
Yeah, no, this is the real deal, this one.
It's a good one because the hard thing is even some of the ones
that are purporting to be good ones are in fact dodgy.
You really have to do your homework.
It's a carabaskin.
Straight up, yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because we went there and I was sort of thinking,
oh, you know, we've got a little bit of internet clout.
Maybe we can be sort of minor celebrities that then promote this farm.
But then I checked their social media and it's like literally all,
every two days they've got some fucked up reality star from England,
someone from, what are they called over there?
What are those big reality shows in England called?
The ones where they're all like.
Oh, Love Island.
Yeah, Love Island where they're all orange and stuff.
Towie.
Oh, the only way is Essex.
Yes, all that.
You've got them fuckheads in there fucking every two days.
Oh, yeah, for sure. Gemma Collins and all that. Yeah, yeah, fuckheads in there fucking every two days. Oh, yeah, for sure.
Gemma Collins and all that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're there all the time.
It's like a bachelor date or something.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All that stuff.
Go ride the elephants.
Yeah.
And they're just getting ridden by bachelors all the time.
Imagine that from all over the world.
That's like dystopian.
Just these old elephants with these tangerine sort of stains down the side.
That's a good sketch it's like
the reality show
where they're going on a date
to what they think
is one of the good elephants
but it's a dodgy one
and it's just like
some beautiful girl
being forced to like
saw off a tusk
but it's like
super dodgy farm runner
you hit him
you hit him
you hit him hard
so we went to the farm
and so we were excited
about that
and we get there and and to start with,
you have to sit there and watch the instructional video.
Right.
Lou Carpenter.
Oh.
Teaching you how not to punch elephants and fucking shove bananas up their ass
or whatever.
It's like just him going, just keep it down.
Don't, don't.
Don't do anything stupid.
So that's what he's doing now.
That's what he's doing now.
Lou, Lou Carpenter.
Yeah, yeah.
Didn't find that on your deep dive, did you?
I don't know if he was playing Lou Carpenter in the instructional video.
It was just him as whatever his real name is.
Yeah.
Did we talk about this at the time, about how they were telling us that they,
so the elephants are allowed to kind of like roam free during the day
and then they do kind of lock them up, not lock them up,
but they keep them secured at night.
And they said on our tour, they used to let them just kind of lock them up, but they keep them secured at night. And they said on our tour,
they used to let them just kind of roam around the park
and do what they wanted at night.
But then one of them just went for a walk down the street
and where did it go?
To the local 7-Eleven.
The guys at the 7-Eleven call up and go,
one of your elephants is down here
coming for some fucking smokes and solo.
I love it.
That's sick.
Made me love that elephant. Yeah. Yeah. Now, yeah. That's sick. Made me love that elephant.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, now, interesting that he's a 7-Eleven guy
rather than a Family Mart guy as well.
Yeah, exactly.
Just like, middle of the night,
God, I'd love some Ben and Jerry's right now.
It's such an amazing place.
7-Eleven and Family Mart are the two competing places.
Yes.
But this is the thing that I always,
I feel like,
we've probably talked about this before
because we have talked about Thailand quite a bit,
but it just blows me away that that's the cheap
place to go in Thailand
what
you know
to buy anything
oh right yeah
7-11 is the last place
you go
to buy anything
over there
it's the first place
you go
right
the cheapest place
to go
oh really
it's like
just a weird thing
where like if Harrod
started up here
and it's like
yeah fucking 50 cents
a sandwich
you're not going to have a Thomas Dux.
You've got this all wrong.
The David Jones food court.
There's a new one of those down in South.
I know.
I love it.
I know.
I went there yesterday because you know why?
That's where I go for lunch when I work at the project.
I'm not working at the project anymore because I work for them, but at home.
You've got to work from home.
But I still crave that David Jones food court lunch,
so I drive to the project every day for lunch.
Long lunches in the Chandler household.
What do you get?
What are you ordering?
I get generally...
Here's the killer thing.
Burger rings.
One eclair.
You're not far off
250 grams
of smoked salmon
and a roll
and I just
they've got these
remarkable muffins
now
talk to me about muffins
what I don't get
what I don't like
about Australian muffins
is they're very dry
now when I go to
when I've been going
to England
big bacon battery too
yeah
this is what they do
they're all
they're dry I don't know what they do they're all they're dry
I don't know
what the fuck
they're doing
but in England
last couple of times
we went to England
they've got the thing
where if you get
like a choc chip muffin
the chocolate
in the middle
is gooey
Australia doesn't
have that
has never had
the gooey muffin
never had a gooey
centre for a muffin
I think I reckon
muffin break do
no
no they don't
no they don't
shut up Joel
like I've been to a muffin break don't. Oh, okay, no. No, they don't. Shut up, Joel.
Like I've been to a Muffin Break?
Don't talk back to the skit.
I'm sure they do.
I love your confidence.
I know. They make so many.
I'm sure they make so many.
Muffin Break company.
Mate, get your soft drink info off your dad and shut up, all right?
This is the shit I know about.
Okay, sorry, sorry.
I know chocolate mousse and I know chocolate muffins.
Oh, here we go, okay.
What shit I know about? Okay, sorry, sorry.
I know chocolate mousse
and I know chocolate muffins.
Oh, here we go.
Okay.
Yeah, so that's
good,
cheaply priced
mousse,
chocolate mousse
at David Jones Food Court as well.
But the substance
inside a muffin,
it's all gooey,
it's all super fresh.
Kind of fondant type situation.
Yeah, and I've never seen that
anywhere else
in Australia
in a muffin
in a normal retail shop
instead of like,
it's not homemade or anything like that.
You should get into baking because you're so particular
about what you like in your sweets.
The ultimate thing for you would just be finding out
roughly what those recipes are.
Just make them at home to your heart's content.
But here's the thing.
Here's the slightly smart thing about me
because a lot of people say,
oh, I love comedy so much, I'll get into it.
Yeah, you like it.
You're no good at it.
No, but I mean you're particular about it.
It's like you want it done a certain way and you're frustrated by not being able to have
easy access.
Well, if I could go professional at enjoying muffins, then I would do that.
But I just don't want to make them.
I don't know how to do them.
I don't want to do them.
But I do want them right.
Yeah, exactly.
If I could be a quality controller of muffins or something like that.
But that's worse because then you're having to sit through quality controllers.
You're going to have to eat so many bad ones.
But then I get to yell at people
for doing stuff wrong,
which is also in my wheelhouse.
This is the ultimate.
Imagine you rocking up
from muffin control
and you're like,
guys, I have no fucking idea
how to do this,
but there needs to be
like gooey chocolate in the middle.
What the fuck?
Do it.
Make that happen.
Hurry up.
I'd love to have all the stores
getting nervous
before Kyle from muffinuffin Control comes in
it'd be just like
open mic comedy
are the centres gooey
are the centres gooey
fuck it's gonna kill us
crank up the goo-o-meter
you're just breaking
them open one by one
what's this
what's this
absolutely
it's bullshit
do it again
just try it on
just get a hat made
that says Muffin Control
and just start turning up
to like bakeries
and places like David Jones and just be like yeah here says Muffin Control and just start turning up to bakeries and places like David Jones
and just be like, yeah, here for Muffin Control.
And the person behind the counter, they're going to shit themselves
because they're going to be like,
well, the boss didn't tell me about this,
but it must just be something that I haven't been made privy to.
So you know what happens.
So we've been in isolation for three or four months or whatever it is.
So I was in a big habit of...
Well, some of us longer.
So anyway, so me working the project over the road to David Jones Food Court. So I was in a big habit of... Well, some of us longer. So, anyway.
So, me working the project,
over the road to David Jones Food Court.
So every day I would go over and get a sandwich and get the...
Too much.
I'd literally get a sandwich or two
then I'd get a couple of muffins.
Because, like I said,
I only want it in Australia.
You've got to make the most of it.
We'll all be dead one day.
Get as many muffins as you can. You don't want that hanging over your head, do you? Exactly. You don got to make the most of it. We'll all be dead one day. Get as many muffins as you can.
You don't want that hanging over your head, do you?
Exactly.
You don't want that on the deathbed.
No.
Surprised you didn't go up there when you locked yourself out of the house the other day.
Yes.
Sprinting with the pram up to the David Jones.
I've got an hour.
You fucking amateur.
That was at five o'clock.
They're gone by 11.30.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You've got to be quick.
You've got to make your sandwich choice right. Yeah, you've got to go early. Right. You've got to go quick. You've got to make your sandwich choice. Right, okay.
Yeah, you've got to go early.
Right.
They go early.
So this is what I've been doing while in lockdown.
I've been going out of my way and saying to my wife,
I've got to go out for lunch,
and I've got to go and chase a muffin that's seven kilometres from our house.
Yep.
So then I go there, and I went there a bunch of times in a row,
and they're gone.
And I've got that respect where I go,
they're great muffins.
Like I said,
they're one-off muffins in Australia.
They should be gone.
Fair play to anyone that's got them before me.
So you should,
I'd be more annoyed if they sat there and no one else but me bought them.
You can't talk about this in public though
because that's going to be even harder
for you to get them.
You've put,
you're advertising the word.
And imagine it's the same people
that are getting them.
Like,
it might be like a group,
like a Facebook group.
Yes.
Yes. Appreciation society.
So this is what was happening.
This is what was happening.
I was going there and it was like,
by the time I could get out of the house,
it might be one o'clock and I go there and there's no muffins.
Don't even try.
And I'm begrudgingly getting a sandwich going.
I don't even feel like a sandwich.
Have you ever thought about calling ahead?
Ask them to reserve it for you?
I definitely have.
Like in the old days with DVD rentals,
I just come out, I want to make sure I can get it on Saturday night.
I definitely have, but I thought that might be weird.
Yeah, it's a douche move.
Because some people would go, put the muffin aside for me,
and then they don't turn up.
Exactly.
And someone that's like a dedicated muffin chaser.
And they're holding onto a muffin at like four o'clock,
and it's like, that's going to be stupid.
Yeah, that's going to be
stupid
if I was them
I would say no
so I didn't
try that
so I'd be gone
at 1 o'clock
they'd go on
I'd go full respect
whatever
so I'd sort of
creep earlier and earlier
to go there and get it
and I started going there
at like
11am
just lining up
out the front
like in Star Wars
episode 1
isn't that sad when you wait outside a store that's not open yet with other people?
Oh, yeah.
Waiting for your iPhone.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, the iPhone's something good.
This is muffins.
So, I'm there at 11.
I'm consistently there at 11 now, and I can't get any muffins there.
Still gone by 11.
That's where I'm going.
Jesus Christ.
All right, the respect's out the window. This is fucking Mick Allsop. I'm stalking the muffins there. Still gone by 11. That's where I'm going. Jesus Christ. All right, the respect's out the window.
This is,
they're being,
this is fucking Mick Alsop.
Stalking the muffins.
The muffin stalker.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So,
I'm getting jack of this.
I'm going,
fuck,
and I feel like I can't ring a head.
So,
I just sort of like,
start kicking off in the store.
I'm like,
here we go.
There's no surprises here.
We're Karen.
We're Karen.
We're Karen.
I want to see the manager.
You are, you are such a Karen you really do
Karen from Muffins
what did you say
what's the male Karen
it's probably Carl
so you went
have you got any muffins
and I'm like
oh sorry darling
we're sold out again
and you were like
you kicked off
this is great
it's your fault
that I wasn't here
in time to get the muffins
I go is there any chance
you're actually going to
have any muffins here
at any stage
this is textbook chandelier.
I've been going for weeks and weeks and weeks and there's been nothing.
And I'm like, fuck it.
I'm right on the verge of like, I think I'd given up for a week.
I got really mad.
I'm like, fuck the muffins.
And then after a week, I'm like, nah, I fucking want those muffins.
I come back.
Again, still nothing there.
And I'm like, they're just not making them anymore.
This is what's happened.
I don't know why.
They're not making something.
Why have you got rid of the muffins? I getting muffins all the time and i've got muffins
fucking months and they go and they just look at me and go you know we moved them don't you
oh my god oh my god and i'm like where where'd you put them and she's like there and they were
right in front of me they're on the counter oh me. They're on the counter. Oh my God. They're on the front counter.
Oh my God. You loser.
But this is the thing.
This is horrible.
You fucking loser.
They'd been there the whole time.
So I'm in there buying sandwiches I didn't even want.
And the muffins were fucking right under my face.
Yeah.
Right under my whole face.
They probably moved them there for your convenience as well.
I'd love to put you in a maze.
You know what I mean?
Just watch.
Yeah, muffin at one end,
sandwich at the other.
Where's it going to end up?
You'd be furious.
You'd kick off.
And to be fair,
it's a better system now.
I will put my hand up now
because they know
what they're doing.
They've got it under glass now
so they're keeping
the muffins even fresher.
Even gooier.
Even gooier, yes.
There's no chance
for the arid Australian wind
to like blow in there
and like dry the muffin out
or anything like that.
So it is a good system.
But for anyone listening at home,
do not go in before me
and get these fucking muffins.
You've got to start stockpiling now.
You've got to go in
and just get...
Yeah, I'm going in first thing
tomorrow morning now.
You've done it.
Everyone's going to be in there now.
Honestly.
It's going to be like your website.
Honestly, I've had plenty of three muffin days.
You've got to do a test.
You've got to get a big bulk order, put a couple in the freezer,
and then just to test, see what they're like if you reheat them.
So you can go in and just absolutely load up the canvas bag.
Yeah, yeah, that's not bad.
I think, I don't know, I think the most I've ever seen in there is like five or six.
So I think I'd have to do a week's worth to really stock up
and get maybe 30, 35 muffins.
I'll pop by next time I'm down there.
Yeah, nice.
I'll grab some for you, yeah.
That'd be great if I was working the project and everyone went,
does anyone want anything?
And me going, yes, six muffins.
Everyone that walks out the door has to come get six muffins
you know what I want
yeah yeah yeah
if you could just
get me every single
last remaining muffin
that you can store
cheers Wally
yeah
is anyone doing
a muffin run
yeah yeah
fuck that'd be great
everyone that goes
for coffee that day
I just ask them
to get me a muffin
and I just come back
with a backpack
full of muffins
that day
that'd be sweet
how much does a muffin
set you back
see they're not super cheap.
I think there's a game you wouldn't expect.
They're $5.
$5.
Oh, that's all right.
That's all right.
They're not those huge, big sort of mushroom ones.
They're sort of compact.
They're about that big, I reckon.
Right.
Yeah, but you're talking about, you know,
you've got the gooeyness.
That's a whole separate realm of ingredients.
That's what's pushing it up.
Yeah, yeah, no, totally.
And it's David Jones, you know, I respect him. I get it. It's prime location. It's on the corner of ingredients. That's what's pushing it up. Yeah, yeah. No, totally. It's David Jones.
You know, I respect him.
I get it.
It's prime location.
It's on the corner of Chapel and Church.
I think five is pretty good.
Five is not bad.
550 would be annoying because you're starting to eat into your tenner there.
And you're like, you're getting change.
Well, the annoying thing is that they've now gone cashless,
which I'm very much against.
So I've got to take the car.
What?
You're against cashless?
Yeah, I'm a big cash man.
I don't know if you've noticed.
What, are you going to billfold?
Do you lick your fingers and count out?
I don't know if you've noticed.
There you go.
Love boys.
I'm something nice.
I don't know if you've noticed this about myself,
but I'm a Greek nonner.
Yeah.
So I love getting the cash out.
Thanks for taking time out of hosing down the driveway
to do this podcast today, by the way.
No problem at all.
You just go to the bank and get a bit of cash out every now and then?
No, just, I mean, a bit of an old school under the mattress sort of a trick.
So, you know, when I'm going to get a muffin,
I want to get rid of a little bit of a wedge of, you know,
like if I got 40 muffins one day,
that'd be a nice little, you know, like if I got 40 muffins one day, that'd be a nice little wedge out of the mattress.
So you're doing a couple of favours at once.
You're talking about this like it's money laundering,
but it's just literally you paying for a muffin.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let's just say we call it this thing of ours.
Buying a muffin.
You're making this sound so much dodgier than it actually is.
Yeah, I know.
Well, this is what I, actually, I'll bring this up now.
I just keep thinking,
you're literally saying
you stuff cash in your mattress
so that you can use it
to buy muffins.
Well, not for that.
I can buy many things.
You're like anti-bank or something?
No, no, it's just, you know,
like sometimes you just
come across this stuff
in your line of work
and you're like,
you don't want to put it in the bank.
Yeah, you don't want that
to be accounted for.
No.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, let's leave it at that. line of work and you're like you don't want to put it in the bank you don't want that to be accounted for no yeah yeah
let's leave it at that
that was great
that's how you get
paid on Broadway
isn't it
yeah
they come out
little envelope
full of 20s
yeah
when Beetlejuice
debuted on Broadway
and they said
they wrote you
one of those
big monster
shacks
you're like
if you can just
put it in 50s they do they give you this a big you know one of those big monster checks you're like if you can just put it in 50s
yeah
well they do
they give you
this like
daily allowance
that's part of
the contract
so whenever I went
to New York
it was like
I mean it wasn't
a huge amount of money
but it was like
no it was something
like 80 or 100 bucks
US a day
they would give you
so if you're there
for two weeks
they just hand you
this fucking
wad of cash
and you'd be like
yeah and you'd be like yeah
and you're working
like almost 24 hours a day
so this isn't a no time
to spend it
so at the end of it
I would just like
furiously try and buy
Lucy some kind of gift
that was very expensive
that she always hated
always
straight to M&M world
bought her a
Michael Kors handbag
and she like
oh didn't like it
she gave that to the op shop
I think
oh wow
yeah
right fine for whoever's come across that yeah yeah handbag and she like didn't like it. She gave that to the op shop I think. Wow. Right.
Fine for whoever's
come across that.
Yeah.
So you know
I've got no taste
but I've got a lot
of money.
That's all you've
got to do.
I like a bit of
walking around money.
I love that term.
Walking around money.
Yeah.
A bit of walking
around money.
Walking around.
What does that mean?
Just like a
money do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What's the official
term?
What's it called like when you per diem. Yeah. Oh walking around what does that mean just like a money dude yeah yeah what do you what's it called like when you yeah oh walking around money yeah you're walking around money you know
i'll walk past david jones i'll see him after yeah a couple of 20s in the pocket exactly exactly so
this so before we were talking about this a while back at the start of sort of isolation whatever
was like i'm i'm a big cash man so any chance I can do
to use cash
I'll use it
and then once
this whole
you know
this little incident
kicked into the world
it's a bit more like
people don't want
to accept cash anymore
you know
so that's
David Jones' perfect example
and that stopped you
in your tracks didn't it
it did a little bit
no it didn't
well
a little bit
hey
I could have got rid of about a grand at the fucking muffin shop,
but I couldn't do that.
I've got it.
There's just too much evidence I eat a lot of muffins now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's all on my fucking bank statements.
But you did tell a story on this at the start of ISO
that you were getting into altercations in shops going,
no, you're taking it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're just taking the cash.
Oh, my God, you are such a cat.
Yeah, yeah.
But this is what I did on top of all that.
So this is, this takes the-
Does your wife know your daily spending activities?
No, and again, people-
She doesn't even get an app.
My wife got an app where she looks at everything we've spent out of that joint account.
Really?
It's everything, all the, like everything.
And I was like, oh, so she's like, you're spending a lot of money on wine
and you have to have that conversation
and you're like...
I'm in showbiz.
That's all we know about that.
Sofo Neal told us the other day
that his wife can trace where he is
and rang him up one day and went,
are you in the McDonald's drive-thru right now?
On Find My Phone, yeah.
Because she'd also been looking
through the credit card statements.
He told this on a bonus episode.
It was basically... She goes, what are all these transactions at mcdonald's and he was like
i was just in there getting a drink she's like it's for 8.95 yeah well i had to go through private
school didn't i thank you dave so so when this all went down i was like all right so some places
are not in you know not taking the Chandler Cash,
which is infuriating me.
Chandler Cash.
Chandler Cash is the worst.
This is what money is.
This is the purest form of money, and you won't take it.
You'd rather take a car than...
It'd drive me fucking crazy.
But I'm still trying to get...
The biggest victim of COVID-19.
It's just another thing that represents value.
It doesn't matter.
The thing itself doesn't matter.
Yes, yes. Well well so i went when we go into lockdown whatever you're kind of thinking you know at the start of all this you're starting to think man how long are we going to be down for how long
till things get back to normal and you know everyone's starting to go well maybe i'll learn
the guitar you know people are uh envisioning envisioning themselves yeah yeah but i guess
the overriding thing is like you know you're going
to be down for a while
so you've got a lot
of time to do
a certain thing
so that's what
people's aims were
guitar or you know
learn a different
language or whatever
it is right
what about you
meditation
anger management
yeah yeah
not so much
peace love and
understanding
muffinology
muffinology
trying to work
on my muffin
got my degree
so then I
this COVID literally
has been a muffin break
for you
yeah
not taking cash
I was just trying to
enforce a muffin break
on me
so then I was like
alright
this is
here's an idea
if we're going to be inside
for months and months
this is maybe what I'll do
and I've got a couple of friends that started to get their teeth fixed
or whatever through those, what do you call it?
Not online, but some of these companies you can send away
and they'll make a plaque.
They'll make a model of your teeth, a model of mould,
and you're basically doing it.
It's not braces, but it's doing the same job as braces.
Invisalign?
There's companies like that.
There's Smile World or whatever the fuck it's called.
Something like that.
There's a bunch of those sort of companies.
And I was like,
you know what?
Maybe I'll do that.
Maybe that's a good little project that I'll have.
Not that it's much of a project.
You just sit there with your mouth closed.
I didn't know that you could do that online.
Yes.
That you could just send away and do it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You totally can.
But once I looked them up
I was like
well a friend of ours
a friend of the show
got it done
and
I won't mention the company
or the name of the friend
because he got it for free
and was sponsored
and I didn't get
get jack shit out of it
so I'm not fucking giving
any details
so
yeah
so
I went
I talked to him about it
I was like oh is it any good
he goes yeah it's good
don't get this other version
because one of the companies
is like literally like
you make the mould
of your own teeth at home
send it away
and they send you back something
and no one checks you
for two years
and so after two years
it's like
why are all your teeth
upside down
oh yeah we made a mistake
at the factory
we gave you the other
wrong person's mould
yeah yeah
so no dentists actually
a lot of room for error here
yeah that's not good
I didn't actually talk to you
at all about it so anyway I didn't actually talk to you at all about it
so anyway I didn't do that
I went to the good one or whatever
and so when I thought
you know what
if I'm going to be down for six months
I might as well have all this junk over my teeth
and fix them up or whatever
so I go
great
so I go in there
and they go
cool here's the invoice
it's this much money
and it's quite a bit
because it's like an involved process
and you've got to get you know models made and all this much money and it's quite a bit because it's like an involved process and you've got to get
models made
and all that sort of stuff.
It's quite a bit.
It's all one lump sum.
I go, cool.
And I go, yep, no worries.
Cash?
Is that cool?
And I pulled it out
and they go,
ha ha ha.
And I go, no,
I've got it here.
And just gave them
this wedge of like,
like this.
It was like a big,
thick ass fucking wedge.
They must have known this was coming
when they saw you walk in with the sack with the dollar sign
on it flung over your shoulder.
Like emptied out the mattress,
like pulled it all out and go,
there you go, what do you think about that?
And they go, okay.
And they took it.
And I'm like, how the fuck is David Jones
not taking five bucks from a mother?
But a dental company.
Your wife must have been like the princess and the pea that night.
It's a bit of a flat asleep tonight.
This is unbelievable.
How come I'm not sleeping downhill anymore?
Clearing up my scoliosis, that's for sure.
Meanwhile, the dentist has shoved it all in his mattress.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He doesn't know what to do with it.
The cycle continues.
Yeah, so they took the cash
but you could
see them just
go fuck
at the moment
we can't be
fussy
it was literally
like one of the
first days they
were allowed to
do it again
and some idiot
comes in with a
sack of cash
and is like
yeah you could
be the last one
we get
and so you did
that all the
hot teeth stuff
how did it go
it doesn't
work in two
weeks
it's been two
weeks
no it's like
what's it been now three months or something like two months it takes a while though doesn't it in two weeks. It's only been two weeks. No, it's like, what's it been now?
Three months or something like that.
Two months, I think.
It takes a while though, doesn't it?
Yeah, it's like a long term.
A year or more than a year or something like that.
Unless you find out that they've given you the wrong one.
Well, now I'm a little bit worried.
Yeah, I dare say this is the equivalent of spitting in the food.
It's like, yeah, let's give this guy some fucking
a reptile mould
yeah yeah
give him some nice
little fangs
yeah yeah
it's weird though
because they send you
someone I talk to
they go
oh they send you out
a new thing every week
because basically
how it works is
they just give you
a slightly tighter
little mould
every week
and it just moves
your teeth
that's how
they're just squeezing
your teeth like a
fucking boa constrictor
which I believe
is the technical term
in dentistry
but
yeah
so they do that
and then
I've talked to people
like oh they send you out
things every week
or every couple weeks
not with me
they just
I don't know whether it was
because I paid cash
but they just gave me a box
fucking like this
of like
just
you know
all of the models
all at once
oh so you've got like
two years worth of teeth now?
Yeah, they're just sitting in my bathroom right now.
So they can't be bothered sending them?
Yeah, yeah.
So they're just all sitting in my bathroom right now.
That's weird.
It's terrible because then my baby comes in and just fucking starts playing with them
and walking around with fucking...
Their daddy's teeth.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Knowing you and your approach to keys and everything else,
I'm looking forward to you losing the one that's free to eight months' time
and just having to just skip ahead to the next one.
Scale back.
Teeth just like.
They'll get in there.
They'll get in there.
A little bit snug.
Do my teeth look fat in this?
A girdle for your mouth.
I can't believe this is a theme.
Yeah.
It's a full-on theme.
Wow.
But I feel better about it because
like I said
I looked up the
you know
I was looking up
everything and going
oh this one seems good
you don't even have to
go in anywhere
you can just do it
all online
and then all the
reviews were
this is about as
fucked as you think
it is
like you just took
a picture of your
teeth and sent it
somewhere and they
sent back a bit of
clay and you put it
in your mouth for
two years
yeah it didn't
fucking work
well we better wrap it up
for another week
on the little dum-dum club
Joel and Eddie
thank you so much
for joining us
oh pleasure
things that you would
like to plug
oh I'm so flat out
at the moment
I've got a lot coming up
we didn't even get
to talk about this
but of course Joel's
appearing on last one
laughing on Amazon.
Yeah, give that a plug.
Yeah, I'm already off.
We're obsessed.
I think I can admit that.
Spoilers.
I'm not allowed to say that.
I was the first one out.
Yeah, but you were sitting there.
The last episode we saw,
you were sitting on the couch
next to Rebel Wilson.
Yes, I got to hang out with Rebel.
Yeah, I missed all the shenanigans
in the room.
Thank God.
How'd you go with Rebel?
Did you get along?
Yeah, fine.
Yeah, I've known Rebel for a while
she's awesome
yeah
get along with
everyone else
in the house
did you
fuck no
I cannot
stand comedians
what was I
thinking
but we watched
episode one and two
with a bunch of
comedian friends
because we were
we were being obsessed
with the idea
of the show
and we heard some
let's say bad stories
about what happened
on the set
and we wanted to see
if any of them crept through to the on screen and a few highlights of the episodes that we
watched and one of them was definitely you not being happy about being in there the whole time
and then you getting you getting voted out and on the opening the door and then going this is the
best fucking moment of my life. I was also
tanked.
Because we were
allowed to drink
in there but no
one, everyone else
took it very
seriously.
You and Cody
were drinking.
Me and Cody
were drinking.
I was just
mixing Nick
drinks because
that would
distract me from
laughing at
everyone.
A few froth.
Yeah, a few
froth, froth,
frothies.
Because I saw
someone get out
a bottle of
rosé and I was
like, that's the
perfect wine.
Yeah, that was
me.
I started with
the rosé.
Yeah.
And then I made margaritas
and I can't remember
what else I made
but not a lot of jokes
and if you had done
something
if anyone does
something that's like
horrifying
or they really don't
want it to go out there
do they have any control
over the edit
well yeah
because it's not live
yeah they just ring up
Jeff Bezos
and go
cunt
can you take this out
yeah
so that bit where I yeah took a shit on the dying table Yeah, they just ring up Jeff Bezos and go, cunt, can you take this out?
Yeah, so that bit where I took a shit on the dying table,
can we not put that in?
Well, yeah, I was glad I was only in there for an hour because I didn't get into that real desperation.
You didn't get into the shitting in you.
It gets really weird.
And the last episode I saw,
I think it's the last one that's out at the moment.
Spoilers, Tommy.
Tommy, close your ears.
We haven't watched this one yet.
I'm not going to spoil anything, but she broke out a new character,
and it was really enjoyable.
She's amazing.
She was so great.
It really suited her.
She was so funny.
Yeah.
I'm sure this isn't legal, but we're planning on going out somewhere
and putting it on a projection screen
with a lot of
other comics this
weekend and I'm
pretty sure this is
one of those things
where you know at
the start of movies
they used to have
that sort of thing
where they'd say
you're not allowed
to show this in
pubs or oil rigs
or anything like
that.
I think we're
about to watch it
at an oil rig.
I think that's
what we're about
to do.
A prison.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm so glad I'm
not on it anymore
so you judgmental
fuckers can't
make fun of me. I'm not even judging. I on it anymore. It's like, you judgmental fuckers. Don't make fun of me.
No, but we were loving it.
I'm not even judging.
I legitimately love it.
My girlfriend's really into it.
Really?
It's great, yeah.
It's very funny.
It's very funny.
There's definitely bits that you can shit on,
but we were laughing a lot as well.
That's what I've been really enjoying,
like laughing at how good and how bad it is.
Yeah.
Yeah, there's a lot.
Oh, there was a lot of bad.
It reminds me of my 20s
when I would just be like
coming down off drugs
on a Sunday morning
hanging out with my mates
doing just totally random stuff.
It feels really druggy to me.
Right, right.
That's actually how it felt being there.
Like everyone's kind of lost their mind.
They've been on a band around
it's all just kind of coming apart.
Yeah.
But no one really wants to
like shut anyone down
it was very messy
in there
I couldn't deal with that
oh that was a bit gross
yeah
it's got messy and smelly
and I was desperately
trying to clean up
behind everyone
I know what you mean though
it's big like
5am energy
like kick ons
at your house
where you just
everyone
fuck off
please
I did find it
slightly funny
the idea of Joel
you being trapped
in a room with like 10 comedians or whatever
for a whole day or whatever it was, where it's like,
I've seen you at gigs.
You won't step into a room before every comedian's out of there.
I'll be like, you're on stage at 10 o'clock.
You rock up at 9.59.
Am I on yet?
What the fuck's going on?
Who's this?
What's the MC?
I did want everyone to wear name tags.
And what do you do?
Oh, you're a comic.
I can think of a thing that would have made it a worse experience, Joel.
You finish it, you step out of that room,
and then finally the paycheck comes.
Thank God at least I'm being paid well for this.
Oh, they paid me in cash.
Fuck me.
Nightmare.
Why's Chandler running this?
You paid me in cash.
Yes.
Nightmare.
Why is Chandler running this?
And Eddie, you've got a series that you've recently made,
Love in Lockdown.
Oh, yeah.
That was like four days of my life with the lovely Lucy Durack.
I've just gotten back to Australia.
Yeah, she's great.
And she was like, I've written with Robin Butler kind of a web series rom-com.
They're like five-minute episodes, and I'm like, great.
That's about how long my attention span is right now.
And we shot them ourselves.
You know, Wayne Hope directed
and sent us out this kind of rig to shoot ourselves with,
and we sort of filmed it on the phone to each other
and also, you know, shooting was kind of complicated, but we sort of filmed it on the phone to each other and also you know shooting
it was kind of complicated but we got a good role on and it was like a super sweet thing to make and
i did very little i just acted and it was great to do any of the organizing or the writing or
anything and that was super fun but apart from that i'm just like um uh trying to move back to
melbourne and it's really weird because you've been two and a half years away
and, you know, thinking about,
oh, you know, it'd be great to be back in Melbourne
and all of the reasons why it's good to be in Melbourne
and none of those,
well, not many of those reasons exist at the moment.
One of the first things that happens is,
come and do our podcast.
Oh, fuck, get me back to New York.
No, but that's nice, you know.
You know, they don't have these podcasts in New York.
They're very serious in New York, you know, like full on.
Talking about beef.
Oh, no, just like, yeah, just very intense.
Lovely people, very earnest.
They're not spending half an hour on a gooey muffin.
So, yeah.
Well, follow Eddie on Twitter.
He's really into Ms. Pac-Man at the moment.
Yeah.
I might. Sounds's really into Ms. Pac-Man at the moment. I might.
Sounds right up my alley.
All right, guys.
Thanks very much for listening, and we'll see you next time.
See you, mate.
See you, mate.
And they've done it again.
I agree, Tommy.
They did.
They did do it again.
I think Bernie kicked a big one big one yep that's the two
catchphrases yep that's both of them out of the way the end um how many do you reckon we could
eventually get up to for this segment will we cap it will we ever go that's two but that's enough
are we on the are we on the lookout for a new one yet? I don't reckon. I reckon two for the one segment is arguably too many.
Yeah.
As it is.
At the moment.
I'm fine with two.
I'm fine with still exploring the possibilities of those two things.
Bernie's still pretty recent.
Yeah, it's still pretty raw.
Yeah.
A little while until we'll be looking for greener pastures.
Yep.
Yep.
I agree.
Yes.
Fun ep.
Fun little ep
thing I notice about
eps like that is like
we're sort of like
an episode like that to me
is us sort of
it's like us driving around a city
and we're
sort of going
oh yeah
yeah that looks alright
and whatever
and then
and then it sort of gets to the bit
you know towards the end
where we're sort of basically
just talking about ourselves
and then we're like fuck we've hit it now here it now this is our top gear right here we go we've
found an open road yeah but good stuff great to see eddie again yes on a uh on a professional
podcast level and also just a personal him being one of our friends level i mean even before he
moved uh we hadn't had him on for quite some time. I remember we were trying to do something with him
when he was judging Australia's Got Talent.
I think we wanted to have him.
We were trying to, but we could never quite get it to happen
for whatever reason.
And then I think he moved not long after that.
Oh, fuck.
That's so long.
Yeah, you're right because, yeah, I mean,
I think we were vaguely going to talk to him about my experiences
hypothetically on that show
I think that was a
that was the thing wasn't it
I think so
I think it was just a funny angle
that someone that we knew
it's you know
interesting to talk about
but it
but I think it never
we can never quite get it
to line up
and then
and then he left
not long after that
so yeah
that's so long ago
that we've had him on I think
yeah that's ages well that yeah he was last on, I think. Yeah, that's ages.
Well, yeah,
he was last on,
we were talking about this
before we did the show,
but he came and did one
at my house
two houses ago.
Yes.
So, a very long time ago.
And also,
I mean,
if you go way back
in the archives,
you can find this out yourself,
but the first time
we had him on,
back in those days,
he'd listen to this show.
I don't know why,
but he used to actually
listen to the show. Yeah. I think he's on like episode five or something
stupid like that.
It was an early one.
Really early. So he was a listener. Very clearly he doesn't listen anymore, which is sad.
Yeah. Maybe he enjoyed doing this and he's like, you know what, I've got to get back
onto these guys.
I think we're doing okay. We don't need him. Back then, he was a quarter of our listeners. But yeah, now we're doing okay.
We're okay.
Maybe we can get him on Samui next time.
Yeah.
Well, what?
Wait, what?
What?
Nothing.
No one can lead the country, Tommy.
We can't do anything like that.
No, fun app.
Joel, good to see Joel.
One thing we didn't bring up with joel that i meant to
was yeah last time we saw joel was um on the last day before everything went to fucking shit he was
on the the live adelaide episode yes yeah that was a we had a nice little memory there of him and
fiona and tom ballard and then the shit hit the fan overnight.
That beautiful little moment in Adelaide shared
and then we went to Brisbane and then everyone shit their pants
and that was the end of it all.
I am glad that that was the beginning of my coronavirus experience.
There was something quite weird and thrilling
about travelling around the country on a weekend where it
was all being away in one place would have been enough,
but like literally going on this jaunt and seeing the tide turn and then
coming back to the,
into this very uncertain climate was,
um,
was yeah,
pretty,
uh,
pretty insane.
Yes.
A nice little,
um,
uh,
Corona tour.
Yeah.
And we got to have a little,
uh,
send off on that weekend.
I think we both could tell
Like oh fuck
Everything's about to be fucked
Yeah
Let's go to the
Garden of Unearthly Delights
And get absolutely
Sideways
Yeah
Yeah it was fun
It was a fun little
I mean
Hopefully it's all back
Sooner rather than later
It's not looking like that
Particularly
But anyway
Certainly
Not in the
Great state of Victoria
Yeah
There's some big
Breaking news In the process of us Recording that episode Which put a bit of A dark cloud over us but anyway certainly not in the great state of Victoria yeah there's some big breaking news
in the process
of us recording
that episode
which put a bit
of a dark cloud
over us finishing
and then getting
on our phones
and going
ah fuck
yeah
me literally
talking about
oh all these comedians
are going to get together
and watch
Laugh Out Loud
and whatever
it's called
Last One Laughing
Last One Laughing
whatever it's called
and then
we get on the phones
oh yeah
things are in lockdown
for certain suburbs where certain comedians live in.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, well.
Not in my one because I live in a cool suburb.
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I think at non-peak speeds,
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Right.
Which is really good, really good speed.
That is big.
Fibre to the building.
That is big.
They call that.
That is, on my internet my internet's better now it's uh my internet when i was dealing with the rush
well you know i was waiting for it to happen for them to bring it to my street and so now i've got
it and yours is like insane like insanely fast internet whereas mine's like caveman and i i tested it the other day it's like
when we finally got the nbn tested it's like it's now it's only twice as good as it was before
now twice as good as anything sounds good but when it's twice as good as
really a dog shit yeah yeah that's only two dog shit like if you get a one out of ten rating
yeah and then you double that score well guess Yeah. That's much of a muchness.
Yeah.
It's nearly like you've got one dead body in your room.
Well, now you've got two.
Yeah.
It's not that good.
No.
So, yeah, it's slightly better, but it's still pretty shit-ass, which is why we mostly record
at your house.
So, the UTA needs a better hookup than that.
Yeah, exactly.
Not even using Wi-Fi for it, just jacking it straight into the port.
Yeah, sticking it right into the TV and just hoping that does something.
Yeah.
Okay, well, let's kick this off.
Let's fire it up.
We won't go too long tonight because you've got to go and do your crunches.
Yeah, I've got to...
You've got to work on that little fanny of yours.
The pythons are going out for dinner.
Yeah, right.
What are you going to work on tonight, you reckon?
It's resistance on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
So you're not going?
Weight's work.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, no, I go out the front and they try and pull me in.
Right.
No!
No!
And then Matt builds up my core.
Just like arms like both on either edge of the doorway.
Just no!
That would be a good workout for everyone involved.
Trying to be dragged in.
Yeah.
Trying to drag someone in.
So they put, I mean, you can't really do it now in COVID.
But yeah, two people assigned to me to drag me into the building.
Me having to stay outside the building.
Yeah.
And whoever, if they get to the end of an hour and they've kept me out, they get that
class for free.
And if I manage to, no, if I've stayed out, I get the class for free if they get me in.
Right.
I get the class for free.
Yeah, see, I mean, you know,
you watch boxing and stuff like that
and people run out of fitness
like in the 10th, you know,
6th, 10th round, whatever.
That sort of stuff,
that's the most fitness.
Like, you can go in there
and lift barbells and whatever.
Who gives a fuck?
But you do a bit of one-on-one fighting.
Yeah.
That's the fucking shit.
That's the stuff.
Yeah, yeah.
Mental dexterity as well.
Yeah.
Needing to outwit an opponent, not just holding onto a rubber band and pulling it.
I love the idea of outwitting someone trying to drag you into a gym.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, you know, I'd go to ground.
You know, I'd have a whole bunch of people.
I'd grapple.
I might go prone, military style.
Okay.
Bit of UFC Gracie family style.
Bit of get them on the ground.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Okay, well, let's crack on because I want you to be as fit as you possibly can.
Well, hey, you know, you're the one that spends a lot of time looking at me,
so it's in your best interest.
Exactly.
What do I care?
Exactly.
I can't see myself.
I don't want to look at this like some fucking big blubbering
piece of shit over there.
Piece of shit.
Yeah.
Some fat cunt.
I want a bit of eye candy
while I'm doing this podcast.
Yeah.
In my little maid outfit.
Yeah.
Constantly just dusting around you.
Constantly.
Why are you dusting the floor
like behind you so often?
I don't know.
Anyway,
hey,
I'm not complaining.
I'm just asking.
All right,
let's kick off.
Let's kick off with
however many we're going
to do this week.
Hit the big red button.
Boom.
It's even redder this week
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man,
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It's looking like a baboon's
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Yep,
and that's all you can ask for.
Thank you to Patreon subscriber.
Our first cap off the rank
this week.
It is Brett Poole.
Brett Poole?
P-O-O-L.
Poole.
Brett Poole.
Brett Poole.
What's out there?
Yeah, Brett.
Yeah.
I mean, no, Poole.
A Poole.
A Poole, yes.
Yep.
This man's name is Brett Poole.
I like it.
Yeah.
I really don't mind it at all.
Yeah, it's not normal.
No.
But there's something to it.
It's out of the ordinary.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I wonder if he's...
Because he said this is phonetically similar to the comic book slash movie character Deadpool.
Oh, yeah.
I'm sure there's been sort of a bit of Photoshop work of like doing his name in the style of that logo.
And then putting his face onto the character.
Although the character wears a mask, but you know, you can still have a bit of creative license there.
That's what I call soup.
Breadpool.
Breadpool.
Put a bit of bread in there.
It's like a pool.
Yeah, it's a bit of a swim in there.
Not bad.
Yep.
Crouton.
Not bad at all.
But breadpool, that's slightly...
Where is your fucking soup?
Inside joke
for about three people.
I don't think,
one of whom listens to this.
Oh, we can say it.
There was a very funny thing
the other day
where certain people
were drunk
and Danny McGinley
was wearing a hat.
It was like a flat cap
is the style.
Milan,
friend of the show Milan
Said
What did he say?
He said
Nice hat
Where's your fucking soup?
Yeah
So the idea
Several things here
The idea that the hat
Is inherently linked
To enjoying soup
Yes
No connection there whatsoever
Very funny
He's just invented that
Yep
And I do like
Because I agree with him
Did I miss this?
Because I got there a bit late
Did I miss
Was he He was considering Ordering soup off off the menu at the pub that we were at?
No.
No, that was just an invented thing as well.
Yeah.
Milan was kind of alluding to that.
I figured that's what had happened.
Yeah, people kept talking about soup and I'm not sure why.
I think someone else, I don't know why that came up, but the idea of ordering soup came up
and Milan and someone else maybe got very angry.
I'm with it.
Ordering soup at a pub, at a restaurant?
Yeah.
And now people would say like, does Pho, does ramen fall into that?
No.
Not at a pub.
Well, not at a pub.
But I mean, going out to have soup, never understood it.
Just a straight up soup, a Western style soup.
Don't get it.
Do you know how there's like certain foods that you'll always
have like certain memories of like the best palmer you ever had or the best pizza you whatever
i remember going out one night in funnily enough new york in eddie perfect town um and it being
like a restaurant where you had to order two two courses like two a two-course meal for $40 or whatever it was. Right. And one of them was, you know, you pick your own.
You didn't have to.
Well, that was the deal.
Hey, this restaurant's got a two-course minimum.
Well, no, but it was.
It was like that.
To get the deal, though.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But it wasn't like if you're sitting down, you have to have.
Yeah, yeah.
I think, anyway, who cares?
But I do like the idea that it's like a comedy club.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We've got a two-course minimum in here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, especially if you could get entree and dessert, that would be good. But I do like the idea that it's like a comedy club. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've got a two-course minimum in here. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, especially if you could get entree and dessert, that would be good.
But you can't.
You've got to get the main and dessert or main.
Yeah, just get some calamari and then a...
Yeah, and ice cream.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, mix them together.
And I'm generally a sweet tooth, so I'm generally onto the desserts.
But I remember getting the entree and the main and just getting this French onion soup
and me just blowing my mind
and I'm forever chasing that soup.
That French onion?
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm not even sure.
I'm not sure the difference is between French onion
and onion soup maybe,
if there's a difference.
But that fucking soup,
I've been chasing it ever since.
Have you done much looking though?
Yeah, I've ordered plenty of like french onion and onion soup
at places and it's just never been anywhere you don't see it all that often no it is a very
american dish that's why i do grab it when i do see it but and i know that this is a real real
diss to the restaurant but have you would you consider maybe trying like a canned alternative
because maybe it's just the flavor of it that you like. Maybe it's got nothing to do with this
particular place's,
you know,
maybe even if you just
had a Campbell's can of it,
you'd be like,
you know what?
This is just as good.
It's just the flavour I like.
It's not what they
were doing to it.
But you see,
I have had it
at other restaurants since
and it hasn't been that good.
Okay, right.
So it's not like
that's the only time
I've ever had it.
Right.
I've had it plenty of times
after and just gone.
And I think the reason
I'm still chasing it is because the chasm between the quality of that soup
and every other soup I've had since is starting to make me think, did I dream that other soup?
Because why was that a 10 and every other soup has been a four and a half?
It's frustrating.
It's frustrating when you cut.
And at a certain point you accept, I'm never going to have anything that's exactly the same.
But even just being in the ballpark would be fine.
You know, you start to really, like, lower your criteria.
Yeah.
And even then, you're still not able to get close to that.
Well, like, you've just had a little weekend away in Halls Gap.
Mm-hmm.
Up in the, what was it?
Is it the northwest?
The Grampians region of Victoria.
Is it the northwest of the state?
Is that where it is?
It is the...
In the west, at least. Is that where it is? It is the... In the west at least.
Yes.
It's not towards Adelaide.
It's towards South Australia, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah.
I think it's kind of going the long way around towards Adelaide.
Well, that's the thing.
When I was a kid, I went to...
I think our first big trip away at school was the Halls Gap Camp.
Yep.
So you went away for a week or something like that and you know
you get your the first time i'd been away properly from home for a couple more than a day and you
know you get served up your your meals every night and we had this moose and it literally
started my fascination with with moose that was the day that started it right day zero
yeah and it was i hope i've never talked about this before but it was we got the soup and i
remember just i can still picture myself there eating this moose at fucking age seven and just
not knowing it was going to completely change my life for the next 35 years.
But just going, fuck, this is amazing.
And some other people around the campfire or whatever were going,
yeah, this is really good.
And it was strawberry mousse.
It wasn't even chocolate, the mousse that I'm known for.
Strawberry mousse.
So it was more the texture than anything else.
Yes.
It is, I will say, the very first time you have it, it's so, yeah, the texture of it, it's unlike
anything else you've ever eaten up until that point.
Yeah.
Because it looks kind of like ice cream.
Yes.
Or like yogurt.
Yeah.
You think you know what you're in for.
Yeah.
You're not expecting a fluffy texture.
Now, the other thing I remember about this mousse is that I had that, I'm going, fuck,
this is amazing.
This is amazing.
And, you know, could even be mixed in with the whole idea of being away from home
and this amazing new experience and whatever,
and everything sort of combining into this one sweet little dessert.
But on top of that, the whole camp's eating this chocolate,
this strawberry mousse, and going, fuck, this is amazing.
And then a bunch of us have gone back for seconds,
and they're like, there's no seconds.
And then we find out one person got seconds.
One person out of the entire camp was able to get seconds.
And then it was just a fucking revolt from then on.
So hang on, this camp made enough serves of moose
for the number of campers that there were.
Plus one.
Plus one.
Yes.
That is bizarre.
That's the weirdest bit of the story by one. Yes. That is bizarre. Yes. That's the weirdest bit of the story by far.
Yes.
That is insane.
Yes.
And this one guy
called Ashley O'Callaghan.
Oh, nice.
Still remember him.
Yep, get him.
Strawberry,
got the fucking
second strawberry moose.
Now, I,
again,
I've been chasing
that second strawberry moose
for the next 35 years.
He got it.
He got these two mooses
back to back.
I've kind of flipped.
I kind of love the people in this kitchen.
They knew what they were doing.
They've done this deliberately to throw a cat amongst the pigeons.
Imagine if they knew that I'd been thinking about this for 35 years.
So is this going to be you like never been kissed Billy Madison style
going back to this camp pretending to be a child
just on the off chance that they might still be doing
the strawberry moose in the kitchen.
I would love it if A, that camp was still going, if B, they hadn't changed the menu.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, I reckon if it is still going, they haven't changed the menu.
Yeah, yeah.
If a camp in Halls Gap is still there, they're still doing the same food from 30-something years ago, no doubt.
Well, the two main camps of my primary school childhood were the Halls Gap Camp and the Urban Camp,
which is when you come to the big smoke, to the big city, or as it was once called by
someone in my friend's class, Big Stinky.
And that camp got burnt down many years ago.
So I don't know whether...
That's definitely gone.
That's gone.
But no standout meals there.
No good desserts there.
So who cares?
Yeah, who gives a fuck?
Yeah, it doesn't matter.
Was that near the zoo or something?
It was probably me for them not having strawberry mousse.
I remember seeing those urban camp kids walking around my city when I was a little kid.
Do you?
Vaguely, yeah.
I remember driving past it at least and being like, what the fuck's that?
Who are these guys in the straw hats fucking with loosened sticking out of their teeth?
Yeah, exactly. They look poor yeah we we walked around and you know you had set things to do and
whatever obviously and fuck the city was so big when you're a little kid back then and you just
used to mirabar um but we i remember we went and saw crocodile dundee, but we saw it like a year after it was out.
Like it had been to the Mirabar Drive in fucking eight months before that.
And it was doing like a routine.
It was back in the cinemas.
I guess they used to do that longer.
Yeah.
Remember that back then there wasn't as many movies.
So like you could still find stuff a year later or whatever.
Well, the home video stuff took a long, you know, it's not like it has stuff on streaming
a month later now.
Yes, exactly.
There's like more demand for it to like keep staying in the cinemas.
But I think that was like a classic school teacher move where they've gone, what could
the kids watch?
And then some idiots like, yeah, Crocodile Dundee, without thinking, everyone's fucking
seen that.
Everyone's seen it.
Pick something that's just come out.
Yeah, even back in 1997, you've got discerning viewers. you've got kids know what the fuck's going on a little bit so they've just picked
this tiny little fucking shit theater that's still can't afford the rights to anything better than
that still and they've just found some 3 15 p.m fucking screening of a movie that everyone else
in the entire world has yeah so they've bought the print cheap from the Greater Union
up on Russell Street or whatever.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it's even like this class, this 30 fucking little kids
from Maribor aged like eight are walking in going,
oh, we've fucking seen this.
Imagine that.
You're not even living up to the expectations
of these bum fuck nobody little kids
it's bombing in front of
a bunch of fucking hill people
yeah
totally
brutal
well thanks bread pool
that's what I'm going to call soup
from now on
a bread pool
yeah yeah yeah
I like it
and do that every time
you go to eat it
go thanks bread pool
thanks bread pool
thank you very much
to Patreon subscriber Scott Johnson.
Here we go.
All right.
I bet he does.
All righty.
I bet he does.
That'll do.
Let's move on.
He's Scott Johnson, all right?
He's got a big old Johnson.
He's heard them all.
Has he?
I reckon.
That's pretty good. I think maybe think maybe that i mean you don't know
that's us was with look we've got a lot of comedy experience between the two of us you know and and
we've got fresh eyes looking at this thing it could be this thing where you know like friend
of the show i'm not friend what's i guess technically subscriber patron subscriber
and personal friend of mine childhood friend friend of mine, Peter Field.
Yes.
When I first read his name out, I was like,
I grew up with him all through primary and high school.
We never realised that his name sounds like Peter Field.
Yeah.
Peter Field.
Yeah.
Well, I'd never pronounced it like that.
I would say pedophile.
So I'd never realised that.
It was a bit of a long boat, but it was still pretty good stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's very funny.
Yeah. But, you know but even even not the scott thing just having johnson as the surname by the way peterfield i think was on the halls gap um camp and probably saw crocodile
dundee with oh wow so he's loving this app and he's getting a free little extra mention exactly
um but yeah and and we could we'll probably talk about kids in a minute and he'll probably get Wow. So he's loving this ep. And he's getting a free little extra mention. Exactly.
But having... And we'll probably talk about kids in a minute
and he'll probably get into that as well.
Having Johnson as a surname, though, this guy, surely.
There's no leaps to have been made there.
It's just all there, straight up for you.
Yeah.
There was...
Look, we still get hit up sometimes by...
In the early eps,
if you care to go back into the early, early episodes
of Little Dungeon Club,
some people, you know, get on board at episode 400
and that does them.
They just listen to it every week.
They don't go back into the archives.
Fair enough.
If you want to, though, like the old schoolers,
the people who do go back in,
people still do ask me about new stories
about Sunshine Johnson,
legendary figure in Maribor, folklore. A lot of fucked up stories about him in the um legendary figure in marabara folklore yeah a lot of fucked
up stories about him in the early episodes of this show um i would love to have new stories
about him but i just i'm always keeping an ear out but you know he went missing for a lot of
years and then he's been cited a couple of times blah blah blah but so sunshine johnson um obviously
i don't even know his real first name i don't even know if that was a nickname or his real name by the way sunshine okay yeah but i do remember that there was um a girl
not in my year at school maybe in my year or maybe a little bit below and i think she i think she
she came to a place i was living at at one stage,
because her last name was Johnson,
and someone just went,
your brother is Sunshine Johnson.
And this girl was like a good-looking girl,
and held herself in a very respectful way, shall we say.
Someone just said, that's your brother, Sunshine Johnson, the biggest fucking in town.
Yep.
And I think she got her boyfriend just to punch this guy.
Just for saying that.
That's pretty awesome.
That's pretty funny.
That's the kind of reputation that you want.
That's very Maribor.
Yeah.
That's pretty good.
Yeah.
But what if she was, though? You'll never know.
She didn't look like it.
There wasn't a lot of similarities between the two.
Okay.
It's like some very attractive.
She wasn't homeless and fucked up.
No,
she didn't.
She wasn't seven foot tall,
bald with a handlebar mustache.
Okay,
right.
Who punches horses in the face.
She does sound hot.
Yeah.
There are things she didn't have going for her.
Sometimes the things that you don't have going for you
that makes you.
Yep. Hot. so she uh so he must be he's dead or something right no he's not really no i hear i hear the little stories like i hear for a long time that the the trial went dead like
especially after talking about these stories on the show um no one would have any stories about
him but then i heard he popped up in Maribor a couple of times
and people would go, oh, he was here.
He's back.
He was here, you know.
I wonder if anyone's ever told him,
hey, you've been talked about a lot on a podcast that's quite popular.
Yeah.
Man, I'm not sure.
Because that sounds like something that a guy like that would make up too.
Yeah.
Like him saying, oh, they fucking talk about me on a podcast.
Like, yeah, right-o, chief.
Well, all these relatives, like he's got quite an extended family in Maribor.
So it's that thing where if you ever sort of thought to say, oh, you should track him down.
It's like, well, I guess I could because his extended family are in Maribor.
But they're the sort of family I don't particularly want to go and knock on the door of.
Right.
And go, where's, I mean, for starters, you go, where's Sunshine?
With the notepad out.
Yeah.
You go, where's Sunshine?
And immediately it's either, well, who's fucking asking?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Or are you the cops?
No, we're not the cops.
No, no, no.
I do a podcast where we make fun of him.
Okay, then.
Oh, wait, I mean, I am the cops.
Yeah, exactly.
So, yeah, it's hard.
So, I don't...
He's not on social media.
I mean...
Surprisingly enough.
Yeah, well, it's funny
because when you look up Sunshine Johnson on social media,
a lot of black women in America.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, we've talked about that before.
Yeah.
Well, maybe, you know, look,
maybe Scott is one of these relatives.
Yes.
And he can lead us to him.
Yeah.
Check in with your dad or you. Actually, you know what, Scott? That these relatives. Yes. And he can lead us to him. Yeah. Check in with your dad or you.
Actually, you know what, Scott?
That's you.
Yeah.
He's you.
He's you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If you've got...
I mean, Johnson is a pretty rare name.
You must be related.
You must be really closely related.
Have to be.
No chance.
You might even be him.
Might even be the real him.
Might be him.
Scott Sunshine Johnson.
Thanks, Scott. Thanks, Sunshine Johnson. Thanks, Scott.
Thanks, Scott Johnson.
Thanks, got.
Thanks, I have dick.
Scott Johnson.
Thank you to Patreon subscriber David Main.
David Main.
M-A-I-N-E?
No, no E.
M-A-I-N.
Main. The main man. So he wants to be, he's the main David. M-A-I-N-E? No, no E. M-A-I-N. Okay.
The main man.
So he wants to be, he's the main David.
He's sick of pretty common name.
He's like putting his foot down.
He's like, nah, I'm the main one.
I'd like.
Fucking hell.
You got one eye on the gym, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I got one foot on the treadmill.
Yeah.
I'd quite like it if he took the I out of Maine and his name was David Mann.
Pretty good.
David Mann.
Pretty good.
Just a suggestion.
Yeah.
I know you've got...
Have you ever thought about that?
I thought about that the other day where if you're planning, your loose plan, I know from
what you've said to me before, if you don't have a kid, your all-sort name dies out.
Have you got cousins?
I've got cousins, yeah.
I've got heaps of cousins.
Right.
Yeah.
Okay.
It's the Italian way.
Yeah, yeah, sure.
But your line of it then dies out.
My line of it dies out, yes.
Is that sad?
Not really.
I mean, the name does keep going
because I have a lot of cousins who've had kids.
If it was just me,
then if I knew that I was 100% ending the name,
then yeah, I'd be bummed about that.
What do you think about the idea,
just the concept of,
okay, so you've said to me before,
no kids and don't get married. What do you think about the idea that just the concept of, okay, so you've said to me before, no kids and don't get married.
What do you think about,
how do you think the single you
at age 70 is going?
What are you doing?
What's single Tommy Daslow
doing at age 70?
I don't plan to make it that far.
What if things go wrong
and you do?
I've never thought of this.
You really fuck it.
You really fuck up
and you're alive. It should be obvious from a lot of my behavi do. I've never thought of this. You really fuck it. You really fuck up and you're alive.
It should be obvious from a lot of my behaviours
that I've never really thought of this as a long-term prospect.
Life isn't a long-term project.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't want to get serious with life.
With a pulse.
Yeah, I mean, that's...
Yeah, I have had bouts of being single
where I get very disillusioned with dating and you kind of, you know,
and I think a lot of people have had this experience where they go,
fuck, that's it.
You know what?
I actually am fine being on my own.
I don't want to be fucked dealing with this anymore.
I can't be fucked being on the apps.
Meeting people is a bit of a nightmare.
Yeah, I don't care.
I've never cared whether I'm in a relationship or not.
But that is, yeah, that is always at the back
of your mind it's like fuck being being 60 and then it's like the people that you see just like
wandering the streets just fucking going insane yeah yeah that's iraq that's how that start i mean
not to say that all of them don't have families yeah but i think that there's like a big percentage
of like couple things went wrong they're a bit older, there's
no children to look after them.
So when you see, if you see someone on the train like screaming at themselves, screaming
into a fucking plastic bag, if you go up and say, how's the wife?
They're generally going to say, don't have one.
Yeah, that's a good test actually.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just a baby cracking the shits on the train.
Must be single.
Yeah, yeah. No children Just a baby cracking the shits on the train. Must be single. Yeah, yeah.
No children to speak of.
Yeah.
But that is, yeah, that definitely is a,
that's something I've thought in the past of like,
oh, that's setting yourself up for a gnarly life.
It's almost like you want to start a family at 30,
cryogenically freeze them all,
and then just thaw them out when
you're 60 and fucked and need someone to look after you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's when it kicks in, doesn't it?
Yeah.
It's when you really need it.
Family's like super.
It's like superannuation.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah.
It should be like reverse adoption.
Yeah.
Where you get a younger couple to just start looking after you when you're 60.
Yeah.
So maybe their parents are no longer in the picture.
They adopt you as their grandparent slash parent.
Yeah.
And they just come around to the nursing home and just pretend that they're your family.
Get the granny flat happening.
Exactly.
Do granny flats still happen much?
I kind of technically live in one, don't I?
Yeah, sort of.
Sort of.
The layout of my building is such that i kind of
live out the back of an apartment building i always think of it more as the as the the pool
room though like as the you know people the pool house pool house sorry um people haven't been for
the few of you listeners out there that haven't slept over at tommy's uh house um he's sort he's
at the back of an apartment building right next to the pool.
And I always think of the infamous Cato Kaelin in the O.J. Simpson case
where he lived out the back of O.J. Simpson's house and tended the pool,
had his own little house out the back.
And that's basically what Tommy lives in.
Yeah, more or less.
He's here just listening to murders go on in the main apartment building.
He's listening to Nick Giannopoulos stab multiple people.
Hell yeah.
And you're just out the back going, I didn't hear anything, dude.
Yep.
Yep.
It's the strangest apartment I've ever been in.
And it's definitely the strangest house I've ever lived in,
in the sense that just geographic-wise, how it relates to the building.
It is good.
It's cool to live in a building and sort of not really feel like you live in a building.
Like, it feels very separate.
But it is.
I mean, we just had it then.
Eddie and Joel had never been to my house.
And just every time someone comes around to do the pod that's never been here before, just them walking.
Because it's like they meet out the front of the building.
Then we go in the lobby. And you see them walking, because it's like they meet out the front of the building, then we go in the lobby,
and you see them thinking,
well, we'll be hopping in the elevator.
Yeah.
All of a sudden,
I'm going through like a fire escape out the back.
They're like, what the fuck?
Next thing we're in a car park.
Yeah.
It's like, what the fuck is going on here?
Yeah, yeah.
Then you're walking past the pool,
and it's like,
how have you got a pool if we're going at the,
are you the caretaker here or what?
Are we going into a fucking broom closet or what's happening here?
I mean, that is the best thing about it, that I have the pool on my doorstep.
That's great.
When it's summer, just popping out there,
not having to fuck around in my little bathing suit in an elevator.
It's great.
I can't believe I've still never been in your pool.
I mean, also, I don't think I've ever been in your house
when it's been a pretty good day for some reason.
I don't think I've ever been to your house
when it's been above 24 degrees.
Interesting.
I don't reckon.
Have I only ever recorded podcasts with you in the winter?
Did I just take eight months off at some stage?
I can't remember.
Yeah, we stockpile them.
Right.
And we hibernate.
Yeah, we freeze the podcast.
Yeah.
Right, right, right.
Okay.
Yeah, makes sense.
Well, thanks, David.
Whoever the fuck that...
Oh, David Mayne.
David Mayne.
Thanks, David Mayne.
Thank you to Patreon subscriber
Jacob Reiner.
Reiner?
Yeah.
R-E-I-N-E?
I'll stop you.
Okay.
R-Y-N-E-R.
What was the first name again?
Jacob.
Jacob Reiner.
I don't mind Jacob.
It's okay.
I'll give it like a five.
I'm not huge.
Out of what?
Ten.
Thousand.
Fifty.
That's bad.
That's really bad.
Yeah.
If you upgrade it to Jake, boom.
You got me seven.
Seven to eight out of ten.
That's a pretty...
I mean, that's a cool option that he has.
I like that.
I like that the option of the shortening is so wildly different to the full thing.
Completely what I was about to say.
You abbreviate it, and it's like,
isn't an abbreviation where you just change your name?
Yeah, changing most of the letters in it to have the abbreviation.
You jake it with a C, and all of a sudden you jake with a K.
You could say to people that it's Carl or Carl for short,
and the shortened version is Carl with a C.
Yeah.
Which technically is slightly sorted because a C aesthetically is slightly smaller than a K.
You're just getting rid of the end, you know, the big straight bit of the K,
and then you've just got the little loop.
So it's like, no, no, no, it's Carl with a C for short.
Well, if you're saying Jacob, I'm just abbreviating it to Jake.
It's like saying, my name's Darren, but just call me Dave for short.
That's not bad.
Yeah.
If someone said that to me, I'd have to pay it.
I'd have to be like, yeah, man, cool.
It's your life.
Go for it.
Yeah, I guess it's quicker.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
This is the thing.
I mean, people can do whatever the fuck they want.
And a lot of people out there can do whatever the fuck they want And a lot of people out there
Are doing whatever the fuck they want
And it's for evil, nefarious purposes
So why aren't we a bit more fine with people going like
Oh yeah, it's David, but Will for short
It's like, you know, people would jump on a person for doing that
But honestly, it hurts no one
Who gives a rat's ass?
When people are going I'm just choosing to ignore this law.
I'm doing whatever I want.
Just call yourself whatever the fuck you want.
I guess it's one of those things where we think we can have some sort of say in this, though.
Like if someone fucking just, you know, says gay people can't get married, it's like, what can we do about that?
But if someone called Darren says, I'm going to call myself Daveave we can say fuck head well you can't do that yeah but they could i mean you know they could have a plebiscite
on whether or not i'm going to call myself dave if my name's darren right and we all have to like
postal vote yeah right in yeah campaigning darren's out there just campaigning his little ring off on
the tv you know what when they have the plebiscite when they have one of those things they should do
it like the normal you you know, the big election
where you can vote above the line or below the line.
And if you vote below the line,
you just get all those billions of fucking options.
So it's like gay people should be allowed to get married.
Yes, no.
And then below the line is basically, but no no no not on these days of
the year no below the line is like can darren call himself dave yes or no can like you just
so all these other issues are coming in gay marriage is like yep that's the big one that's
the big boy yep and while we're at it while we've got you yeah we wouldn't want to call the full
plebiscite just for darren dave these smaller issues that have to sneak in because also otherwise yeah it's a waste of paper to print
all these ballots out again i actually don't mind that i'd love that yeah i would love that i think
we should go to the polls more often about more things why is it just like this who should lead
the country which in a lot of ways does tend to feel i mean i'm pretty politically apathetic and
i'm also quite jaded where I think well, my voice doesn't
matter. And also, I'm talking about
things I don't really understand.
But just like a bunch of
should this, should Blue Heaven
milkshakes be
outlawed? You know, things like that.
The smaller scale issues. If you have five
flavours available at the
coffee shop, should Blue Heaven be
in the top five?
And below the line is
what should they be?
Should they bring back Vidiot?
Yeah, exactly.
Things like that.
If you have like
a lot of things
that aren't that important
but if you have a hundred of them
and you get them out of the way
under the umbrella
of like a big important thing.
Exactly.
It's good.
Because the other problem is
in this country
where it's mandatory
that you have to vote.
Well, what you end up getting
is a lot of people
that don't know what they're on about,
don't follow it in any way closely,
making this blind stab in the dark,
and then that dictates who's running the country,
which there's a case to be made
that that's not really a good way of doing it.
But if you have these very broad things
about ice cream flavours,
you can't accuse anyone of being at the polls
and being uneducated about it in that case.
And also, look, the good thing, the good or the about australia is it's compulsory to vote so you
got to be there but in other countries like america and they go oh we've got a low turnout
yeah cool we'll put some more interesting questions in there right you know have the
below the line have all the fucking milkshake have the vidiot question have all that sort of stuff
get people back in with a bit of pop pop culture questions i'd love to see the um you know the whole like donkey voting thing where people just go like one
two three four five in that order so it's often like how i don't quite know how they do it but i
do know that they do have some form of thing into like it's obviously like to be like the top of the
ballot it's alphabetical is it alphabetical yeah i thought it wasn't i thought there was some other
okay well the idea that the donkey voting would lead to just these absolutely wild fucking new
flavours turning up in the stores.
I thought you would have worked that out after Prime Minister Aardvark got in the last time.
Yeah, right.
It's a bit before my time.
Right.
Right, right, right.
No, yeah.
It's...
Yeah, fuck.
Shake this up.
I can't believe we're the fucking first person to think of this sort of stuff, but anyway.
Once again, we give birth to so many good ideas on this podcast.
I know, I know.
This is a think tank.
I know, some we should even follow up with one day,
but yeah, we're slowly getting to a few of them.
Good luck following up on this one.
Changing the way things are voted in to society.
Yes.
Yeah, no worries.
We should be able to knock this one off in an afternoon.
Yeah.
Look, I think it'd be interesting.
I think it'd definitely be, like, in all seriousness,
if you could put, like, a few little bits and pieces in there
and just get them all done in one go, it'd be fucking good.
We could do one for this podcast not even it's
not even that's necessarily about anything in the podcast but we hold a pleb aside and we go here
are the issues and then we get people listening to vote on which one matters the most to them
we collate all those votes and then we start lobbying to make it happen so we go here's what
the people we've got this popular podcast we've got a decent sample of the population have told us
that they want to fuck Blue Heaven off forever.
We're now going to try and run this up the flagpole to Canberra.
I think we talked about this a little while back
where we were talking about having an AGM for the podcast.
I think this is it.
At the AGM, we have a vote.
The Dumb Dumb plebiscite.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
We have, I think, some questions.
I mean, of course,
having our listeners vote on anything
is just going to fuck everything up.
Yeah.
But I think we can sort of
dum-dum proof it somehow,
which I maybe just...
I don't know what the point of anything is then.
If you're just going to stop anyone...
I mean, I've done ballot counting before
In an election
And even just in that
In a general thing of the population
You see a lot of dicks just being drawn
On the ballot paper
So let alone it being let loose
On the freaks that listen to this
But maybe without me knowing it at the time
Those people drawing the dicks that I was counting
Grew up to listen to this.
Well, the good thing is, with our
ballot, is that it'll have pre-drawn dicks
on it. Ah, yes. Okay, great.
You'll be voting for which dick you like most.
That's one of the questions.
Okay, great. There you go. That's dumb-dumb
proof.
Just
on top of your
talking about Blue Heaven milkshakes,
what do you reckon is the most money you'd pay for a milkshake?
I don't drink them.
Oh, right.
Not one for them?
No, not really. Not something I ever really crave.
Okay.
I'm into them.
I don't know.
It says a stab in the dark.
Five bucks for a large one?
Oh, God, that's cheap.
That's a cheap milkshake.
Is it?
Okay.
Because they're real trendy now.
Every new burger place that starts up, it's like,
come have a burger with eight slices of cheese in it
and then wash it down with a thick old concrete.
Yeah, yeah.
I've got a shop near my house that i was before i saw and
all this sort of stuff i was getting right into that was my little you know morning break i'd go
over there and do a tiny bit of work and um sit in there and um they had and i'm you know i kind
of think i'm doing the right thing whenever i go to one of these tiny little cafes i think i'm doing
the right thing i'm supporting local business yeah know, a little bit pricey in there, but you know what?
You're doing the right thing.
A, you're getting out of the house, and B, you're pouring money back into the local economy.
So that's good.
A little bit pricey, but anyway.
So I got a milkshake there one time.
I'm like, fuck, this is one of the best milkshakes I've ever had.
Again, a little bit pricey.
So I paid $8 for this milkshake
I'm like
I think that's too much for a milkshake
That's a lot
That's a lot for a milkshake
Nudging 10 is a lot
That's a lot
For a drink
For a drink
Yeah
Then
I kept going in there and going
I'll get one
Because they are delicious
Okay
And they just kept making them smaller
And I was like Oh they've got you on the
hook yeah i was like they are absolutely taking the piss here it's now got to a stage where it is
like i've got a glass in front of me but are you sure what so just you're getting smaller glasses
every time yeah i was getting a smaller glass and then it went from a bigger glass to a smaller
glass now this is the sort of glass where if you go to someone's house and they give you the glass and you go well that's not a beer glass
because you put basically it's only a water glass because you wouldn't only put that much of anything
sitting in front no smaller than that more than that wow smaller than that jesus so you know what
like a small glass like there's shot glasses obviously that that's the smallest glass yeah
but then the next up you never really put anything other than water in there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Because you think, well, if you're going to put something worthwhile, make it a bit bigger.
Yeah.
So that's like a bedside glass, really.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, anyway, they're giving me fucking milkshakes in that for eight bucks.
Wow.
So it went from a bigger glass into one of these fucking bedside water glasses, but then they'd give me a bit of the off spill, like, because it made it, and then put it
in the small water glass, and then, oh, here's the rest of it.
You can top up yourself.
It's got to be out of the fucking big metal thing.
Yes.
Or nothing.
I agree.
I don't get, there's no room for error here, because there is a standard unit of measurement.
It's one of the, it's like a beer.
We all know pint glass pot.
Also, but I'm watching them make it, and they're making it in the big fucking milkshake thing. Yeah. standard unit of measurement it's one of the it's like a beer we all know also pot but you i'm
watching them make it and they're making it in the big fucking milkshake thing yeah they're making it
in the thing that they should be serving it to then pour it into some pissy little fucking medicine
bars yeah and then and then and then you can see that they've made two because then it progressed
or regressed to um they give me the off spill then they didn't even give me that and i'm like
so what the fuck are you doing you're making a milkshake giving me the off spill then they didn't even give me that and i'm like so
what the fuck are you doing you're making a milkshake giving me half of it then taking
out the back and fucking sculling it yourself so what's going on here you're not taking this
lying down no i don't know anything about you i know it was i was like going because they're
really nice in there so i'm going like there was once where i got upgraded back into the normal
glass and so that that did me for ages then I was like, well, this will come back.
And then it just never did.
Right.
It just went, and then ISO hit and whatever.
And so I just haven't been back in there again.
But I like the people in there and I like the food.
The fucking, they're just absolutely taking the piss
with a milkshake.
You got to say, I reckon what you do is you say,
hey, I got to be honest, I'm a real,
I'm a bit of a milkshake traditionalist.
I love the metal.
Can I just have it out of them?
Can I be having it out of the metal thing?
Because it's just like, that's to me, it's like a childhood,
you know, you just like paint a picture for them.
And then there's nowhere to run.
That's a good idea.
Because I was thinking, don't worry, I was thinking,
how do I confront them?
What happens here?
But you've got to be very careful, obviously,
because someone that's in charge of your food and drink,
and you're going to piss them off.
You know what's going to happen.
You're going to get more milkshake,
but there's going to be less milk in it, if you know what I mean.
There's going to be a lot of other, yeah, it's not blue heaven.
It's going to be yellow hell.
So I'm like, fuck, how do I do this?
How do I do this?
Because I'm like, I was thinking.
That's what you do.
You just make the, you've got to make the, you to say, hey, I, you know, not to tell
you how to do your stuff, but I just, I love the metal thing.
I just have it.
Or just say, hey, look, or you make it sound like you're doing them a favor.
Hey, like, don't worry about getting another glass.
Hey.
Just, just give me, just chuck me the metal thing straight out of the mixer.
You know what?
Don't worry about not giving me fucking enough.
Yeah.
Just give me all of it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
Maybe that's it.
All right.
I'll try next time.
All right.
I'll try it.
Thanks, Jacob.
Thanks, Jacob.
Oh, yeah.
We sort of got near that name, I guess.
All right.
We've got two minutes before you have to go to the gym.
Yeah, exactly.
Here we go.
Do we really?
Yeah. Oh, boy. Yeah. Okay. We better do this one quick. we've got two minutes before you have to go to the gym yeah exactly here we go do we really yep oh boy
yep
okay we better do this one quick
so sorry in advance
for this next person
we're not going to riff on your name
as much as we have
for the rest of them
so I'm sorry about that
but Tommy does have to go
and absolutely shine his rig
so let's go
to the
fourth or fifth one
for this week
thank you very much
to Patreon subscriber Blue Heaven Comedy.
Oh, wow.
What?
A really contentious flavour of comedy.
Oh, right.
I love it.
Not for everyone.
Yeah, yeah.
It tastes a little bit like vanilla and caramel comedy mixed together.
I guess if you had to vote whether Blue Heaven Comedy should be in the top five names this week.
Yeah.
I guess in a way we voted yes.
Chuck that on the plebiscite.
Yeah.
People can work it out.
And again, not much of it as well for your $8 a month.
Not much of it because we're about to finish it.
A lot of it going in the bin.
Yeah, as it should.
All right, guys.
Thanks very much for listening.
Thanks to everyone who supports the show on Patreon,
littledumbdumbclub.com,
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info about other stuff we have going on.
Thanks very much for listening,
and we'll see you next time.
See you, mate.