The Little Dum Dum Club with Tommy & Karl - Episode 151 - Adam Rozenbachs & Anne Edmonds

Episode Date: August 28, 2013

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Hey, mates! I think that's how it goes. Thank you very much for joining us. This is the Little Dumb Dumb Club. Welcome aboard. My name is Tommy Dasolo. Sitting opposite me is the other half of this show. I think his name is Carl Chandler. Hello, fuckwits. It's been ages, actually, hasn't it? It's been a good... It actually, yeah, this is the big reunion special. It has been a lot longer than what you think. People have been waiting for

a couple of weeks. We actually haven't done one for a month, so this is the first time I've spoken in a month, so this is new for me. And how was that trip that you took to being... I'm a fully-fledged monk now. There it is. That's the one I was looking for. It's a bit early in the morning.

I couldn't... I was in my head going, trying to build the tracks, going, you know the thing where people go and they don't talk? What was that sweet show we used to watch on Channel 10? Undercover Boss? No, Monk.

That's it. People don't know this about me, but I'm a huge Monk fan. We're sitting here in the glow of my huge frame-signed Monk poster. Yeah, and you've got your whole bookshelf full of monk fanfic. Yep, that I write. It's been a while, and there's been a lot of response on the Facebook and the Twitter from people.

Just responses ranging from kind of gentle begging for us to restart the show to just outright abuse. Like it's a great betrayal that we've done on people. We owe it to people. I'm sorry, everyone. You know, we went into that contract. I'm fully aware of that. But it was nice. We're owned by you.

It was nice to feel a bit wanted, you know. It was nice to, because that would be the sad thing if we just hadn't done one and there had been zero correspondence whatsoever. If we had had a lot of messages going, the last two of you have been your best yet. Yeah, exactly. I don't know what it is about the show, but something about it is just finally the gears have all clicked into place. You guys have really worked out how to do it best.

Yeah. Yeah, cool. Your voices have never sounded better. Well, today on the show, two returning old mates. First of all, you may have seen her recently on Wednesday Night Fever on the ABC. Please welcome back into Little Dundum Club, Anne Edmonds. Hello. Hello.

You jogged here. You jogged here. I jogged here, yep. I like jogging. Yep. Thank you. Thanks for asking. You jogged here, so the big bucks on offer at the ABC, obviously. Yeah, yeah.

I've had to sell the car. To finance the show. Yeah, yeah. Pretty much. You are wearing a pair of gold sneakers, though, to be fair, so that's probably where all the money went. We've got two stars of television here today, haven't we? Yeah.

A super... Well, one ABC very non-commercial star and one very, very, very commercial star. Oh, yeah, this is very appropriate. We're kind of straddling the tracks of commerciality. Seven cents a day over here to a million bucks a day over here. This guy. Captain Coles himself, Adam Rosenbach. I flew here. So good to be here. Good to be here.

For people that aren't familiar, you are of course at the moment, you're playing the role of Captain Coles in there. Is it Captain Coles? Is that your name? No, it's not. That's just the name that everyone's given it. I think it's just Cole. Cole. You think it's just Cole? Well, I haven't seen it labelled as Captain Cole or Mr. Coles or whatever it is. I think it is just Cole. Yeah.

Here's a little lesson in reading the fine print. I didn't know that before I signed the contract. What do you mean? I didn't know it was going to have a character name. I was like, yeah, yeah, all right, I'll do it. Just anonymous superhero you thought you were. Yeah. Yeah, I did.

Really? And they're like, oh, you put the thumb up in front of the E and then you call. And I was like, oh, fuck. I hadn't picked up on any of that. Me neither. It's one of those things where people write an ad and they think, yeah, people will really get that it's this and then people go, is there an ad on it at the moment? They're kind of pressing that.

The more ads that I've recorded, they've made a bigger deal of people yelling that out. Hey, Cole. Hey, Cole. That kind of thing. But yeah, I don't think anyone would pick up on it. It's just so subtle. Because I was in Coles the other day getting some groceries and there was like a big, you know, there's big signs of you in the supermarket.

Is there? Yeah. So I haven't been into one of those yet. I had to do my shopping the other day. I thought they were One Direction. So that's what I was going to say to you because I was like looking at it and I was going, if that was me in that position, I just don't reckon I'd be able, I just wouldn't be able to go in there anymore.

Well, it was weird. I went into, because I go to the one in Barclay Square in Brunswick and it was my first time back because we'd obviously been in, Carl and I had been working in Sydney and it was my first time back, because we'd obviously been in, Carl and I had been working in Sydney, and it was my first time back in a store since it had kind of broken. Just to clear it up for the people at home, I have not been working in Coles in Sydney.

I have not been on the checkout with Rosie. They're just desperate. There's some kind of checkout chick shortage up there. Someone said, there's a month's worth on the express aisle up in Sydney. Do you want to move up there for a month and ditch the podcast? And I'm like, yep. Put me on the first flight out.

You know what the unreal deals are, mate. I've run you through all those. So I walked into the store and because when I filmed another ad, like what was it, about a week and a half ago at the store that I was at, out in like Hoppers Crossing, there were pictures of me on the end of every aisle. And so I went into this one

in Brunswick just thinking please don't have done that here and I hadn't so I was kind of wandering around like I had a hoodie on

I'd just been to Pilates so I wasn't actually man the embarrassing stories just keep coming in yeah superheroes need a tight core yeah

you've got to limber up for when you need to spring into action and let people know about a discount yeah do you've got to limber up when you need to spring into action and let people know about a discount. Do you not want to do a handstand? Wow. You look like a fucking idiot.

So what more about Cole? Do you know the back story? Is this the sort of thing where you have to get into the... immerse yourself in the role? I don't know any back story. Obviously, my parents were killed by a tucker bag. I'm out to avenge their death. But no, I don't think there's a backstory.

I actually don't know. Back on your home planet, it's like your powers only work here with a yellow sun, don't they? Yes. Like you can't spot the bargains on your home planet. No. I'd like to see a crossover, a fight between you and the Woolworths mascot. I don't know if you guys have seen him. So Coles have gone for a superhero where they've given him a name and they've come up with a story.

The Woolworths mascot at the moment is just a little green dot. Really? It's just a talking green dot. The ad is just him walking through the supermarket and going, here's a bargain. Like just spitting in the face of creativity. A bit of respect to my nemesis. I want to see you take on the little green dot.

That is your Lex Luthor. Yeah, he knows my weakness. He knows he's just going to have a jar of crunchy peanut butter and I'm fucked. Oh, yeah. He's a man of the lactic. But I thought they were red spot special. So why is it a green spot? I don't know.

I think because their W now is green and all. I have no idea. I shouldn't be talking about this. I don't know. We always had this weird. That's a very off brand of you. Yeah, I know. We always had this. Didn't they have something in thes had this weekend. That's a very off brand of you. Yeah, I know. Woolworths had this,

didn't they have something in the papers where like you could, they were going to give out special stickers in the newspaper that you could then

take into the supermarket and put on the product and if you took your own sticker in and put it on it was like a... Geez, you've done

your supermarket research haven't you? Not a lot going on. Hang on, hang on. Did you audition for the Green Dog? He is the Green Dog. Yeah, it does have quite a high-pitched voice, so it could have been me.

But I find it funny with Coles because how many different campaigns do Coles have going at the moment? So they've got you, they've got Status Quo, and then they've got that Little Red Quote song that's on every... What's Little Red Quote? Oh, for the car thing. Yeah, for the car thing. And then there's One Direction, and apparently there's another girl who walks the car thing. Yeah, for the car thing. And then there's One Direction and apparently there's another girl

who walks around the store. Yeah, yeah. Oh, she's a comedian? She's in the deli. Is that right? Something like that. I haven't seen it but people kept going,

oh, I like you better than her which is... I don't know where that... I don't know where that puts me on the scale of things. Oh, you're better than Hitler. In the top five spokesmen for Coles you are definitely...

I haven't seen her. Maybe she's just like Tasmania or somewhere. No, I think I've seen her because she's like an attractive girl and she's well-spoken. I know what you mean. She could be a comedian, I think. Yeah, I thought she was like a starting out comedian. I don't know her. And all I've seen is pictures of her like, you know, they have those little cards.

Oh, I know who you're talking about. Yeah, she is a comedian. Her name is... Oh, you're a big fan. Yeah, Emily something. But she does character stuff. I've no idea. I don't know her. I don't know her character or anything.

It's sort of weird that they've got so many different campaigns going at the same time. I think so you don't hate one entirely. Oh, I hate all of them. You hate, hate, come on. You're no coal out of this. That's why I don't go to McDonald's anymore because there's only Ronald. I'm like, not enough. Since, yeah, come on. You know Cole out of this. That's why I don't go to McDonald's anymore, because there's only Ronald. I'm like, not enough.

Yeah, because McDonald's have pulled back on all the game. We used to be a whole team, didn't we? Yeah, Birdie and the Grimace and the Hamburglar. What was Birdie? Birdie was a bird, a female bird. Yeah, from the same naming school as you, Cole. But Grimace, let's go through Grimace Yeah, it's, well, on the little red quote thing Which I'm sure if you've watched television for three seconds

You would have seen the, you know, the singing The Cole's ad for, it's like a car insurance thing Because they're doing car insurance now Yeah, yeah, and it's the song It's Cole's little red quote No, it's the song. It's... Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da- who hadn't seen it, they had a TV on playing that song on loop and then all the people there waiting to audition were sitting there singing through it, like singing over it. So I was in there for half an hour in this waiting room just going,

this is the worst thing of all time. And then when I finally went in to audition for my thing, I said to the girl, honestly, if I had to be you sitting at this reception all day listening to that, I would kill myself. And she goes, yeah, look, it hasn't been great. But yeah, it was some kind of torture. That's one of my top 20 least favourite things about auditioning, sitting in the waiting room and hearing the person before you

give it way too much. And just sitting there going, I don't want the job anymore. Yeah, or other people walk in and you go, what a bunch of fucking retards. And then you go, oh, hang on, I'm't want the job anymore. Yeah, or other people walk in and you go, what a bunch of fucking retards. And then you go, oh, hang on, I'm in that basket as well. These guys are going for the same role as me. Or just, yeah, who they're comparing you to. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I look like him. Yeah. Not that age. It hurts. You were like this, and I'm going to drop the name, but I was once in an audition with Jimmy Lomados, and I thought, oh, I'm in a good bracket. So you've been the electricity guy.

Yeah, yeah, the guy who's deliberately overweight and sort of dumb looking in an electricity ad. What sort of stuff did you have to do in the coal audition? Was there, because it's superhero based, did you have to, you know, because they love you, you need to act out stuff that you know probably won't end up being a part of the actual ad. Was there a chop scene before the ad where you get bitten

by a radioactive dickhead? Nothing like that. It was really strange because they couldn't say anything, you know, when you've been into an audition and they can't give you any information about it. Yeah, in case you leak it, in case you call up Mumbrella when you get home and tell them the whole ad. Yeah, exactly.

It's on the room of 413W. I just want to say very quickly that Anne Edmonds has been on her own TV show on the ABC, and we are focusing primarily on the bloke on the Coles ad. Yeah, but she didn't look like a dickhead on it, so that's the difference. That's the difference. But, mate, she's never sold a punnet of strawberries in her fucking life, has she? Yeah, yeah. Hey, am I supposed to know when twisties are on sale with this bitch over here,

hey? This bitch. Poor Edo. I'm asleep. That was the character I was playing. Oh, right. Called Carl. So anyway.

Having a BL on his T-shirt. Back to the audition. Yeah, so basically they just did a bit of, oh, can you do a bit of thumbs up and then, you know, hands on your hips, sort of chest out kind of superhero stuff. But nothing, didn't have to do anything like pretend to fly or anything. It was almost just like they wanted to see the look of my, you know, superhero range. Because it was really strange. I hardly did anything and went away going, I'm not going to get that.

But that's the thing of like every time in those auditions they make you act like a dickhead is because they know as soon as you walk in whether they want you or not because it's always a look. What about for Wednesday Night Fever? Just finished on the ABC. Yes. Well, very quickly, I just want to say about Rosie because I was working with Rosie.

I tried. I tried. I really tried. I promise, Anne. Wake me up. Yeah. Because when Rosie's ad went out, we were working together and you were very, very quiet that day. I really tried. I promise, Anne. Wake me up. Yeah. Because when Rosie's ad went out, we were working together and you were very, very quiet that day and hadn't told us

and then just went, oh, look, just to tell you, just to warn you, this is on the face of coals as of now. I was very hesitant just because I... Did you have a date that you knew it was going to... Yes, they told me, they go, look, this Wednesday is when it's coming out. If you are planning to kill yourself. Yeah. Maybe the Tuesday.

And basically all I was worried about, I wasn't worried about it being in Coles or anything like that. I was worried about my quote mate. Yeah. And then just the shit storm that came in that day. Well, the good thing is that because you were playing that character, you did know what specials on knives there were. Yeah, exactly.

No, but Ratsack was cheaper that day. Yeah, because I was working in an office with a lot of people that know you and was having to read the news and got to Paige because it was – Paige A. Paige A. Paige A. The Herald Sun. Big Paige.

Did a bit of a double take having my morning coffee and then it was immediately chopped out and stuck up on the wall. I think too it looks – well, I'm going to say it looked a lot worse because you just think, is that all he's done is just stand there in a costume like a dickhead and the print one, at least in the TV, not that it's much better, but at least I'm doing something half normal, whereas this one I'm just standing there pointing like a fool. How much money have you got, Bart?

Enough to do it. Bring out NetBank right now and let us know right down to the cent write it on Tommy's wall right now how much it is we won't say anything because when yeah because that day

there are a lot of people in that office that know you and someone made the good point of looking at that photo is especially funny knowing you

because this person said they had an image of that selection of clothing the Captain Cole uniform kind of folded up

sitting on a couch and you there in your normal clothes just looking at it and having this moment of inner turmoil where you're sort of saying to yourself, it's not too late. It's not too late to back out. That was the fitting. That was the fitting that I had those feelings. Because I'd come back from Sydney where we were working and they said, you need to go for a fitting on the Wednesday night.

So I came in from the airport, went home, jumped in my car and went out there. And then when they're going, oh, can you try this bit on? Can you try this bit on? And then I was just like, oh, my God. And then I was like, I've signed a contract. And with how bad the clothing is, does it really matter if it doesn't fit you?

Well, that's the point. Yeah, I think they needed to look... This cape's too big. I can't do this. You look like an idiot. This is embarrassing. That would be funny if you were a real comic book nerd and you could bring in the weight and fabric

that a cape has to be made out of. Everyone knows this. You're not going to be able to fly with this kind of drag behind you. And I like the... You've got a utility belt? I definitely have a utility belt. What's a utility belt? Yeah, unfortunately, nothing.

Pricing gun? No. The only stuff that would be full would be to, like, pinch stuff from the supermarket. Oh, mate, if I do ever want to steal stuff from Coles, I've just got to get that outfit and walk around. Because people aren't going to question it. They'll go, no, it's fine. I'm just getting these eight slabs.

I'll do it before Grand Final Day. No one's going near you because you've got those big white platform sneakers on that make you look like Baby Spice. Yeah. Because you have stand-up material about the self-serve checkout and making the link between doing that and having to work at the supermarket.

Now it's kind of come full circle and you sort of are working for the supermarket. Was that your audition piece when you went for it? Not sure if they've heard that. You just need to do bits now about just rooting heaps of hot girls. Yeah, when you audition for sex. I'm bang up for that. Edo, you've been on TV.

Speaking of rooting hot girls. The look that Anne gave Tommy after he said that sentence is just like, what the fuck was that? Look, it's been a while, all right? It's just warming up the podcasting muscles. Yeah. Did you do – because Wednesday Night Fever was a lot of characters and stuff like that.

Yes. Did you have to do intensive audition process? No. Can I ask you just quickly, what was it like because the show hadn't gone to air when Julia Gillard got the ask? Yeah, I know. What was that feeling like in the writers' room? Because that would have just been a complete disaster for that show.

Can I just quickly say, while Rosie asked that excellent question, which is obviously going to yield a lot of fruit and be very interesting for people, one of the hosts of this show was just looking at his phone. No, I'm looking at questions that I had written previously. I'm preparing another piece for later on, guys, as we're speaking. Right, so the questions were... No, ignore mine. Just go to Rosie's.

Yeah, so Julia Gillard was stood down and then they had to pretty much rewrite the show. So they just... I mean, there was a writer's room that I wasn't in. Because that happened like the day before you were filming the first episode. Yeah, that's right. So some of it wasn't effective. Still held.

But I reckon, you know. But obviously you'd planned for the long term for the series for her and Rudd to have this kind of friction. Yeah, totally. But then that friction just got broken. Yeah, and Amanda Bishop, who plays Julie Gillard, was just like, oh. Yeah, that would have been shattering. Oh, I'm the... But yeah, so they had to do some quick rewriting.

Yeah. Yeah. I thought it was shattering. Oh, I'm the... Yeah, so they had to do some quick rewriting. It's funny, there were still some sketches in there calling Kevin Rudd a red-headed tart. They didn't pick up on everything. One of them they could just pretty much switch. Like it was Julia Gillard giving Kevin Rudd a hard time and then they just switched it around. Oh, sweet. Yeah.

But no, yeah, there was a bit of franticness going on. Yeah, but I kind of... They seemed to get there was a bit of franticness going on. Yeah. But I kind of, they seem to get off on that, those writers of topical stuff. Oh, the pressure's on. I love it. Yeah, every time I've worked on a show where something has, for whatever reason, something has gone wrong at the last minute. Yeah.

There is like, there's an outward thing of like kind of complaining about it and going, oh, this is really fucked. But at the same time, just that energy that's in the room. And you would have had this on things, I'm sure, Rosie. On Slideshow, yeah. Thank you. Now, Slideshow, I did it because you've been working. You were working on Slideshow?

Yes. The smash hit. The smash hit TV show. It is. It started off as a smash hit. Oh, has it dropped a bit? I think it has dropped over the last, I think it's been on three or four weeks. It has like dropped a little bit.

It's still going okay. Wow. Okay. What I did like, I watched the... And there's people I know that are on the show and I don't want to bag it too much and not that I would want to bag it. We're all working in TV shows, you know, whatever.

Tilt the podcast. Don't worry, it's going downhill. Don't worry. We're way ahead of you. Everyone, pull your iPods out and turn them to a 40-degree angle. 22.5. Oh, 22.5, sorry. It's crazy.

I watched the first ten minutes of it, and the first thing I saw on the show was Grant Denya saying to whoever the first guest was, and as you'll obviously notice, you can see that that room is tilted to exactly 22.5 degrees. I'm like, I don't know how obvious that is. Well, you're not very good at maths, are you? I thought you were going to say you heard him say that

knowing that Rosie was working on it, going, that's a classic Rosenbachs right there. Some of that angle humour that he loves. The 0.5, that 0.5. Like, anyone could go with a full round number, but Rosie's got to be real specific, doesn't he? Yeah, that's what separates him from the pack, his attention to detail.

Do you write on every TV show that's on the telly? How many? I'm trying. Yeah. I'm trying. You're up there. You are one of the go-to guys. You're up there.

Yeah, I've actually worked on a few this year. That was just writing for Grant Denyer. That was weird. I'm not even sure why I got asked to do that because my thoughts on improv are fairly well known. Positive? Yeah, really positive. Too positive, actually. So I need to bring it back a bit.

Pair it back a bit. All your lines for Grandinho was, this is amazing, you guys. Did you just think of that? That's Captain Cole's kryptonite is the space jump island. He can't go anywhere near it. That's his danger zone. So I just had to write his links, you know,

in and out of the breaks and this game is and that game is. So I didn't really have a lot to do with any of the kind of content of it at all, just writing his stuff. So that was just... So you didn't write any of the people falling over? No. No.

Nothing to do with me. Nothing to do with me. I would have claimed that if I was you, but anyway. That's the bit that makes everyone laugh. It does. They do hit that wall hard when it slides. Yeah. It looks like it's painful.

That's a show that I really want to be on for no other reason than just it looks fun. I want that show to get big so they set up, just even if they had a theme park attraction of slideshows so you could just have a go at that. I just want to be on that room. I just want to fall over. I'll push you over if you want.

Why don't you put it next to the Docklands wheel, mate, because it's about as well as it would go. That's what they should do. They should turn the Docklands wheel into a big slideshow set. That would be heaps of fun. So you've had another thing that I wanted to bring up with you, Rosie, is you're a dickhead. Yeah, well, we're just condensing the segments now.

No, you met, you were doing some radio fill-in, and you met, you were dealing with Michael Winslow. Yes. Yes. Yeah, yeah. Really? The sound effects guy from Police Academy. Oh, now I do.

Yeah. You know, that was him. Yeah. So that was the week, actually, because Mick Malloy has a segment on Triple M, Clown of the Week, and he gave me Clown of the Week for the Colesat. Oh, right. And so I said to him, why don't you do that, and then i'll come in and i'll try and defend myself so they brought winslow in to do the the jingle yeah and so he was on after after i was and i um was in the kind of

you know holding area triple m before he went on and he is one weird cat like really strange like always just always on, always with the... You know how when people can't do Australian accents, they just do British? Yeah. And just keep at it? Yeah. And you're like, we're not poms, mate.

Like, it's just not working, and he just kept... Especially with... You're not a pom firing machine gun at me. Yeah, yeah. What's with that? He was just on the whole time and everything around, he was just doing sound effects. To be fair, though, you're in there wearing your Cole superhero costume.

Yeah, I know. He was wondering who I was too. But he got Matthew Hardy, who's another comedian who books the Yarraville Club, brought him in. And so when they got into Triple M, they somehow got into the doors at the front, but you need the swipey pass to get in to the lift to get up. Oh, I can see where this is going. Yeah, they get in and Winslow starts going, boop.

And Hardy thought they'd gone up a couple of levels. He'd been Winslowed. Wow. Did Hardy also think that they were in a submarine or something?

Hardy thought they arrived by chopper. That would be one of the few hidden camera shows I would watch, getting Winslowed. It's basically him picking on blind people for an hour.

It's him turning up behind them and making sound effects to make them think that. That's so annoying. Imagine how many girlfriends have left him to do those sound effects. Shut up! Yeah.

And he's like that. He's on the whole time. So when they interviewed him, I was driving home and I thought I'll tune into this. It was the most like insane interview you've ever heard. Because they'd try and ask me a question and just be...

Yeah, yeah. Oh, fuck, dude. Back off. I saw him interviewed on... Last time he was out, he was Sunrise or one of those shows. And it sort of seems like a thing where people start talking to him and he's obviously worried that there's not going to be a natural way for him to do the sound effects.

So he's like, well, I'd better just wedge it in anywhere I can. And then a minute later... In case helicopters don't come into the conversation. But then later on they're like, oh, can you do one of them for us? And he's like, oh, fuck, I've already done five minutes of it. But he was really friendly and lovely and a really nice guy, but just, yeah, it was relentless. I'm sure he would have been better than the next guest, Hightower.

Wow, yeah, he's dead. Oh, he's dead. Okay, well, that wasn't a true story then. He died flipping himself under his own car. But he, yeah, so he's come out here the last, every couple of years and does a stand-up show. Apparently he blew the monitors at the Aeroville Club, which no band has done.

Hang on, hang on. Did it just sound like he blew the monitors because he may have just done that? Yeah, apparently the sound he's there, I reckon no band has ever done it, but he did it. Wow. All the audience think they've got, what is it, tinnitus? Yeah.

Because it's just him. He's just at the house. That would be a sweet break. And actually very impressive. If he could get to that register, that would be amazing. It's just him going over the loudspeaker himself, like just going, Ah, everyone, the loudspeakers have been blown.

And they're all like, oh, wow, did you hear that? No, that's the only noise he can do is the noise of a speaker blowing. So all of his gigs go for a minute. So he just does that. And then they're like, oh, wow, did you hear that? No, that's the only noise he can do is the noise of a speaker blowing. So all of his gigs go for a minute. So he just does that. And then they're like, sorry, guys, we've got to call off the Michael Winslow concert. Oh, man. Yeah, because I saw him. When I saw him on Sunrise, it was like, yeah, he was doing like a routine.

But like, you know, like any stand-up would do. Like, oh, and then I walked down the shops and then I saw this guy. But every single bit of it had. So I walked down the shops and he's like, does the sound of someone walking. It's like, yeah, we get walking. That's not that impressive. We could do that ourselves.

But what was he walking on? When's the fucking Apache turn up? That's what we want. Then I met Frank Spencer. Oh, I did a whoopsie in my hat or something. That's not his impression. That's my impression. That's Carl Winslow.

So, Edo, yeah, you've been in Sydney for the month, hanging out, working on the show. So it seems like, did you get up too much? You had a lot of free time. I had a bit of free time. Yes, I went to the beach a lot. Did you go to that famous Sydney beach that you were telling us about one of the last times you were here? I don't ever come on here after I've been in Sydney,

so I can talk about the beach. Yes, I did a lot of going to the beach. And what else did I do in Sydney? That's probably about it. Yep. Went running a bit. It's not bad, though. It's beautiful up there.

Did you do, getting back to auditions, did you do like full-on proper auditions for Wednesday Night Fever? No. They just went, no, that's it? Well, I've been doing, the last show I did, The Quarter Cabbage, was a character show. Right. And about, and also I'd done

workshops for the show about I don't know, six months before that as well. So I think that was, I've got a bit of stuff on YouTube. I think they found me kind of that way. Yeah. Right. So no, I didn't really have to audition. Right. I've had this up my sleeve for a little while Which I think is an appropriate time to bring this out now

Now, we've talked about auditions in the past You've got this, I mean you've been talking about going for an audition lately Which I don't know about But before that I think you had like a record of basically You went in for that one Commonwealth Bank audition and got it And then they didn't audition you again, you just won for one Well I've got, since you've been gone, I've actually – yeah, because we were talking and it had been a year since the Commonwealth thing

and I hadn't – you know, you do something and you think, oh, this will be it. This will be hopefully a bit of a rollout. Springboard. Yeah. I hadn't had anything else. Up until the last month, I've gone in for a few and I've actually got a horrific one to tell you about a bit later on.

Okay, sure. But, yeah, it had been a dry, because that's the depressing thing. You think, oh, maybe this will be, yeah. You've got an ad or you've got an audio? I've got a story. I've actually... Are you in an ad? Are you coming?

After this, I've got a callback, guys. But no, something I definitely did not get a callback from. I've got a horrendous story about. Well, yeah, because you had that one for one, whereas I've just got a record of just going in and not getting anything and just continually going in and going... And, like, I'm rotten at it as well. Yeah.

I just go in and I don't know the lines and I'm like, oh, I'm not going to get this and then I watch other people and I'm like, I don't want to be that guy. Yeah. So I just... I don't want to be in Coles. Yeah, yeah.

That attitude does sound very Aldi, though. So if they ever have a superhero It sounds a little bit NQR Aldi's would have to be like an Aryan kind of Nazi superhero I don't know what it would be NQR though, I like NQR NQR would be like Hoggish Greedly from Captain Planet Just a pig or a little rat or something

Well that's the thing that blows me away with NQR Because that stands for not quite right. It used to be called not quite right, which is just an amazing thing to call a shop, you know, and all the contents in it. But people would all the time go in there apparently and just go, so what's wrong with this? Like, what's wrong with this food?

Is this like, you know, has this got poison in it, this food? It's like the laws of Australia or any country, I don't think you're allowed to sell poisonous food. Like, I know it's called NQR, but that basically means it's cheap. Yeah. Not it's going to kill you. Yeah, yeah. Or it's a weird brand or the can is dented or something.

Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, I've never got callbacks. I've never got any sort of role. I've never gone close to it. When we were in Thailand. Yes. I got a message from the casting agency saying, have you got time tomorrow?

Because you've got something. No auditions? You've got it. All right. They just want you. No way. Do you just want to come in and do this? Because it's yours.

What? I'm like, oh, I'm in Thailand. Oh, I can't do it. And they've sent me the thing going, here you go. Your role's in here. And I went, okay. And so I opened the PDF and I've looked at it and it's like, right, it's an ad.

It's a print ad. It's a catalogue ad for Target that they've said, you've got the role. You're in the Target catalogue. So you guys at home could have been getting to your mailbox, opening it up to see the Chan man modelling the latest in casual apparel. Yeah, what would you have been modelling? Here's the thing. I didn't say specifically what the role was.

So it would have been something but tracksuit pants. They sent me all the people in the ad. So all I could do is just basically go through and try and figure out myself who it would have been. So we've got a six-year-old boy, probably not. A ten-year-old girl, no. I got that one. Yeah. That was for the radio ad.

Asian woman? Early 20s? Fit? Cool? No. You're a late Asian woman. Yeah. Cool guy? 20s? Fit? Stretch? Not even close to any of those. Hey, guy, I'm close to that.

Mum, 30 to 35, blonde, maybe pushing a pram with baby. No, look, I'm going to say I can't. Maybe with a baby. We're getting up in the ages now, aren't we? We've skipped the cool ones. We've only got a few to go. If Carl was the baby like Baby Herman in Who Frames Roger Rabbit, just in there with a cigar.

I'm saying, let me guess, 46-year-old predator. They need them a lot for the target of selling mace now. And Chandler's a guy in a hoodie. Just in the back, you know when you get through all the clothes and all of a sudden you're selling tie irons and stuff in the back? Some date rapist up the back. Chlorine and brake fluid bombs.

So there's only four roles to go here, guys. So it's Aboriginal woman in her 30s. I'm going to rule that out. You've stopped doing that. I'm going to rule that out.

That's a good character you have. Baby number one. No. Backup baby. Couldn't even get the role of backup. Here we go. This is it. So this is it. This is the role that I't even get the role of backup. Here we go.

This is it. So this is it. This is the role that I must have... By process of elimination. This is the role. Dad, 35 to 45, brackets, rad dad. Yes. Rad dad Chandler.

That's awesome. If you'd have let me know that this was on the table, I would have paid for you to fly back from Thailand to do it, Adam. I would have started a Kickstarter to get you back over. I just want to know how rad I would have been in this. I've just been dressed in some quicksilver ensemble just encouraging your son to smoke ice or something. Yeah, cap on backwards.

Oh, my God. I'm up at a casting agency, finally found one for you. Like, rad dad. Oh, hang on. Put the phones down. Put, my God. I'm up at a casting agency, finally found one for you. Like, rad dad. Oh, hang on. Put the phones down. Put the phones down. I didn't even audition anyone else. Well, the way he's always turning up to these auditions and saying it's shit and that he

doesn't want to do it, that is thumbing his nose at authority. That is a pretty radical dude. I wonder what his son has to think about that. Oh, no. That would have been so good. Oh, no. That would have been so good. Oh, no. What a shame. So, because I wonder, like, have you been keeping an eye on, like,

the Target catalogs and stuff that have been coming out? Yeah. Because I want to know now who his rad dad is. If my internet porn was down, I would have been. But my internet is working. For the backup, baby. Edit. I was in my head going, which is worse to imply?

Anyway, whatever. Yeah, that's... Oh, fuck, that's so amazing. I know. But that's always the way, isn't it? It would have been my gift to everyone. Yeah, as soon as you go away, that's when you get asked to do something. That's the rule.

Whenever you go away, you get asked to be a rad dad. Yeah. I'm never going away again. Just at the airport, you're signing a form that's waiving your right to be rad dad for two weeks. Imagine that. We could have been down at the advertising icon club. Just Cole, rad dad, Ronald McDonald. The C.

The C. Oh, the C, yes. The Goldwell Banks. The Edo. The little superhero thing from the Nip in a Nat Rad ad. You know that thing? What? Jimmy Lomato. Jimmy Lomato, yeah. Nipin and Natrad ad. You know that thing? Jimmy Lomato. Nipin and Abel are great.

Gilbo from the Midas ads. But his name's not Gilbo from the Midas ads. No, that's weird. I find that very strange. Yeah. This is what I did an audition for the other day. I got a call a couple Fridays ago and this woman goes, I want you to come in tomorrow for this audition.

It's filming next week. And I won't name the organisation, this woman goes, oh, I want you to come in tomorrow for this audition. It's filming next week. And I won't name the organization, but she goes, yeah, it's for a pretty big gambling organization. So you're probably going to have an ethical objection to it. Those are her exact words in trying to convince me that I should go do it. So I go in and the ad basically, oh, look, I'll just say it and then. You go in, you'll leave your kids in the car park

in the car yeah yeah basically the ad is a guy who has abnormally large hands and how difficult everything is for him

so I had to go in hang on hang on that's already encouraged me to put 50 in the pokies so yeah

so I had to just to beg with come on mate come on mate I need to get back to Bendigo all better ideas so far than what the actual ads are so I had to... It's to beg with. Come on, mate. Come on, mate. I need to get back to Bendigo. All better ideas so far than what the actual ads are.

So I had to go in and do this audition and I had... Like, it's the guy on a date with a girl. Yeah. And so this kind of... This assistant at the casting agent had to sit and be the girl and there was a bit where I have to make it look like the date's gone well and I'm going in for the kiss and trying to take her glasses off and kind of move her hair out of her face. Just imagine doing that with huge hands.

You don't try and finger it with the giant hands. Yeah, pretty much. So they're going, just make it as awkward as you can because imagine doing this with big hands. But you don't have the big hands. No, I don't have the big hands. So I'm just basically just touching her in the face a lot Right

And she's clearly had to sit And just cop this all day From you know Gorm Like it was one of those briefs That you get where You think oh this is great I'm going into the audition

And the brief is like A hapless looking fuckwit comes in So it's like So it just would have been Reams upon reams of guys like that So like I'm just So no rad dads around? No rad dads in sight.

Nary a rad dad in sight. So I'm just having to poke her in the eye and stab her with the frame of her glasses. And it sort of has to start with this kind of romantic kind of lean in. And we go for a take. And I'm like, oh, I feel like I'm a bit far back. Should I maybe move the seat in a little bit closer? And she just goes, no, thanks, that's fine.

Like just hating it so much. It was the worst. Just to be clear, this is an ad for a gambling organisation? Yeah. What do the big hands do? Press the pokies. It's for an iPad app. Right.

So it's easy to bet we give big hands on you. You don't want to give it away For all the gambling ad fans out there that don't want to put spoiler alerts. Yeah, no, I don't want to. I saw how angry people got when we didn't do an episode for two weeks. I don't want to see what people are going to do if I ruin the ending of an ad

for a major gambling organisation. You saw how angry people got from Rosie being cast after Christian Bale played Cole in the ads before that. So what's the reaction been off the Wednesday Night Fever? Have you...

Is it a thing where you get stopped in the street yet? No. Is there anything like that? No, no. Well, one, I'm in character, so... Okay. I mean, I look a little bit like me in the characters, but no, I don't think it's...

It's not one of those shows where you... When you're dressed up as Andrew Peacock and Don Chip, you can't really... You can't really recognise them in there. Don Chip. I think he's dead too. No, because it's not, yeah, like I don't think many people,

it's one of those shows where you don't really know who the people are behind the characters. Right. I wouldn't have thought. No, haven't been stopped in the street. Maybe no one's watched it, I don't know. Second question, is there room for a little character by the name of Rad Dad in season two if that gets up?

We've got to make Rad Dad edition. We've got to see if anyone out there is like, if anyone listening is making a short film or is casting anything. Or owns a multinational company that they need a new logo for and they need a pretty cool fatherly figure in there. Have you thought about calling your next comedy festival show that yeah that rad dad well they're just completely misleading everyone that'd be the uh i have about as much material as that as i have for anything else at the moment so that's when i realized i love my rad dad in a way aren't we all the rad dad

in a way don't I have a child? And I'm cool. Thanks, everyone. I've been rad dad. And then what do you walk off to? You walk off to some cool song from the 80s. What's cool? You're failing the audition right now.

No, Cats in the Cradle? Yeah, that's a good one. That's pretty sad. No, but a rad dad would listen to Limp Bizkit or something. Oh, yeah, yeah, Nookie. Okay, sure. Yeah, that's a good one that's pretty sad no but a rad dad would listen to like limp biscuit or something oh yeah yeah nookie okay sure yeah that is a red dad rad dads are also um divorced oh yeah because they're like and they're like he's trying to get back out there yeah yeah and he's also just rad dad on the weekend you know with all the special treats yeah yeah all i can all i can picture in my head is poochie from itching the simpsons just the

human form of Poochie it's funny you say that because yeah there is that joke in that episode where they talk about introducing characters that no one cares for

and there's that kid that's just living with the Simpsons called Roy they have that running gag that's exactly what I'm picturing as well red baseball cap

on backwards sunglasses indoors yeah skateboard yeah oh man brush up your skateboarding skills shoes bought from a camping store.

Because they've got to be comfortable. Yeah. Yeah. I really want to know what I would be dressed as in the Target catalog to be rad. I'm going to go later today to a Target and get a catalog and have a look. Because it'd probably be in there now, wouldn't it? Just be a t-shirt with some crazy font on it. Yes.

Just like some sort of... Yeah, yeah. He is pretty rad considering who he's hanging out with. An Aboriginal woman in her 30s. Babies. Heaps of babies. But a backup baby. Hanging out with a backup baby. A cool Asian woman. And a six-year-old

boy and a ten-year-old girl. This sounds sort of like Brad Pitt's family at the moment. And then in the same way that people are getting very excited about this Batman-Superman crossover movie, people could get excited about the inevitable Captain Cole-Rad Dad crossover. If Target and Coles ever merge together. Yeah, can I be the Rad Dad in the new Coles ad?

And I just come in and I'm just buying Milky Ways and Mars bars for my kids. Whatever you want. Here's dinner, boys. There you go. No, we'd meet in the food court. And we'd discuss what needs to be done in the complex that we're in. Yeah. No, I'd be saying, no, I think I'd be coming up to you looking for advice going, what do you reckon? I've got a couple of six-year-olds.

Can you do me a special on these Zoom magazines? Because I'm a rad dad. I want the boys to be happy. Which way to the condoms? Because the kids are at mum's for the weekend. Unreal deal. I'll tell this quickly. This is actually something that I would actually like the listeners to get involved in if they can.

There's no way to tell the story without doing a quick plug. I've been doing a little YouTube series called Cheap Lunch Etta, you're in one of them There's a couple of them up on YouTube at the moment And if you haven't looked at them yet They're on my YouTube channel So go and check that out But I was thinking it'd be good to have a website for them

Just a dedicated thing to send people along to Try and drive up the views and whatever So I went and had a look to see if I could register cheaplunch.com Which of course it's parked But it's parked in that way where, you know, there's people that will just buy web domains to just sort of sit on them. So on the site there's a form that you can fill out to request to have that domain. So I thought, you know what, this is probably just going to go to nothing or it's a robot or whatever.

I'm never going to hear back, but I'll fill it out. Fucking robot. Yeah, fucking robots coming over here. Eating cheap lunches. Filling out web domains. or whatever or I'm never going to hear back. Fucking robots. Yeah, fucking robots coming over here. Eating cheap lunches. Stealing our web domains. So I fill out the form and there's a bit where you can put what you're prepared to pay for the domain. And I don't want to really spend anything on it.

And also I'm thinking I'm not going to hear back from this. So whatever, I just put in, I just put $10, right? Yeah. So I put that, I send it off. Don't sell out the big dollars. Cheap lunch and cheap domain. Yeah, exactly. So I just honestly thought I'll never hear from this again.

So a couple of days later I get an email from this guy and he goes, mate, that amount is not even worth bothering to begin negotiations over. Like went me, like had a crack. But he started negotiations with you. Yeah, exactly. So then I wrote back, well, out of interest, what would you want? And he writes back $5,000. So then I wrote back, well, out of interest, what would you want? And he writes back $5,000. Wow.

And so I wrote back and go, come on, mate, don't be daft. And then he writes back and goes. Did you write daft? Yeah. Wow. He writes back and goes, you have seven days to decide. And so I go. Or what?

Did he cut off the ear of the domain name and send it to you in the mail? He just sent me a picture of an H just in there. So then I wrote back to that and went, can I have eight days? Because I'm probably going to need a little bit longer to raise that money. And then he didn't respond. So anyway, what I would like for the listeners to do, if you can get onto CheapLunch.com and register your interest

in having the domain, but offer him $3, $7, anything as long as it's under $10, so that suddenly my $10 offer looks like a great deal, and hopefully we can maybe help to sort of smoke this guy out. I'd really appreciate that. Well, maybe we've got someone who can

give you a better deal on this domain name sitting right here. What, they sell domains at Coles? Yes, we do. Yeah, sure. We do now. Car insurance. Coles Little Red Domain.

Where is he from, the guy, do you reckon? I have no idea. From CheapLunch.com. Do people do – is that a thing? It's a thing. People get like – people will jump on SurreyCruise.com or they'll jump on whatever. What did you bid for that?

That's my next web series I'm doing. Yeah, that's a thing. And that would be this guy's whole racket would just be – because, yeah, Cheap Lunch, of course, that's a thing that someone's going to want for weather. But can't you go to CheapLunch.co.biz or.nz or something? Yeah,.tv is free, so I can get that. But it's a point of, I want to wear this guy down.

I really want people to go and make some shit off this. Yeah, you want to bully him. I want 10 to suddenly be a great deal for him. Yeah. $5,000. Who's paying $5,000 for probably organisations? Yeah. I actually thought that was quite cheap.

No, seriously. In terms of what people would pay for that kind of thing, if you really were busting to get your own domain name. But I like how he hasn't even talked me through, gone, look, mate, this is generally how it works, and gone gradually. I've gone $10,000 and he's gone $5,000. Like, he's up to the ante pretty quickly.

I just parked raddad.com. So if anyone needs that. Is that what you were doing on your phone that whole time? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because Cheap Lunch, to be fair, you're going, oh, I'm just doing like a little, you know, vodcast or, you know, whatever. It's like, you think about Cheap Lunch,

that could be bought by maybe a cafe, maybe a lot of restaurants. I think there's actually going to be competition. Don't give them ideas. I want that for me. I'm going to, where's my phone? I'm going to see if raddad.com is available. I'm going to go in there and say yes. Yeah.

I'm going to get right out there. Really? No, I reckon there'd be something on Rad Dad. It's probably some sad single dad's organisation. A dating site. Yeah. Raddad.com. It answers your questions.

Can I wear Crocs on a Sunday? No, Rad Dad. No, not when you're picking up the kids. Oh, man. Instead of Ask Jeeves, it's Ask Rad Dad. Yes, you can. Don't tell your mum. This is actually awesome.

It goes straight to a guy's web store that he set up, and he's selling Get Out Rad Dad T-shirts. So there's a silhouette of someone in a Jeep with the word Rad Dad at the top. Oh, what? And then he's also selling that same design on a tire cover. There's the tire cover. That's $52. That's awesome.

And the t-shirt there. How did he miss out on the target? Yeah. Why didn't they just Google Rad Dad and get this guy? It's $18 US. So we should... Oh, what? That could be yours.

That is so dumb. That is so dumb. That is so you, mate. We need to get you one. Someone who's bought a T-shirt from Chandler and now has his address. If you want to get on raddad.com and buy him the T-shirt and send them to his house. This now sounds like those porn stars that are just putting out their wishes to their fans. Wouldn't it be great if you finally get rid of all the dum-dum T-shirts that we've got printed up and they're just instead replaced by an equally the dum-dum T-shirts that we've got printed up and they're just instead replaced

by an equally huge stack of Rad Dad T-shirts? And then I'd just resell them with a dum-dum sticker on top of them going, there you go, official merchandise, Rad Dad. Yeah, we change our slogan from Hey Mates to Hey Kids, Hey Groovers. Hey Trendsetters. So, yeah, anyway, get on cheaplunch.com, make a bid, and let's get this domain back. For sure. While we're plugging, I'm assuming we're getting to the end of the show.

Perth, guys, there's a lot of Perth people that I don't think we've ever done shows and stuff over there in any sort of way. So I'm doing a one-off show on Friday, October the 4th. I'm doing my Carl Channel has literally 1.5 million jokes. I'm doing Friday, October 4th at 7 p.m. at the Brisbane Hotel. So I've just put that on Facebook not very long ago, but it's on Try Booking. And that's a Friday night?

It's a Friday night, yeah. Call me in Perth then too. I'll come. Are you really? Yeah. Edo. Edo. That's a great room.

Yeah, yeah. That's a really good room. So now we just need To fill it up But yeah Come and see Edo in the front row I'll be wearing A rad dad shirt

Yeah Wear your rad dad shirts I'm also going to be In Perth from the I think it's the The 16th of September For the week Doing gigs all over the place

TommyDassolo.com Has all those details Lucky Perth We've gone from Never having gone to Perth. Oh, you've been once since we started the show. Yeah, I think so. So now it's going to be complete saturation within two months.

Dumb Dumb Palooza in Perth, yeah. Rosie, when are you going to be in Perth? I haven't got anything booked for this year. But, you know, Chandler and I spoke about things. Disappointing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll get over there. I think Carl Woodbury's going to be there with me when I'm there.

Oh, right. Yeah, I think there's a lot. Well, to be honest, the person who books those gigs hit me up and I have recommended a lot of people. Yes, you have, Carl. So I think you're going to be dum-dum guest spoilt. Not enough running gigs in your own town. You've got to start running them in other towns as well.

That's it. And I still haven't recovered from the night rotto fest pub gig. Oh, yeah. From last year. Yeah. I've heard Chandler's trying to start running a gig in Tacoma in Victoria and they're furious about it. They don't want comedy up there. Yeah.

I'm up there protesting against the protesters. I'm like, let's get another McDonald's. What are you doing? Guys, it's great, haven't you had it? Double cheeseburgers? Are you idiots? What are you eating? That's what they should have done instead of Maccas calling the cops on the protesters.

They should have just given everyone on the picket lines a free Big Mac. And they'd come around. There'd be some people left standing for the cause, but there'd be 80% of the people would have... There's always idiots out there that don't know what's good for them. So they're just more of them.

Well, guys, I think that does bring us to the end of the Little Dumb Dumb Club for another week. Thank you very much for listening. Edo, have you got things coming up apart from Perth that you'd like to plug? Probably. Keep an eye out for that. Rosie?

I am taking Eurodad on tour. Awesome. So the first one that I know is booked is Horsham, November 2nd on a Saturday night. Great. Have we got country Victoria fans? Yeah. Yeah, cool.

Well, if they're in the hood great come on down what is it on rosie.com.au I really need to that'll help I've done that cheaplunch.com I bought that domain

for 12 bucks raddad.net yeah cool yeah my web series cheaplunch is on youtube.com slash dasolo we've still got

how are the t-shirts going are we getting through them yeah we're getting through them and we've got those extra badges now we've got those extra badges now. We've got a bunch of lovely badges to give away. With every T-shirt purchase, we've got... They've got our heads on them, but don't worry, there's good ones as well.

Yeah. There's the logo and there's... What is it? Dumbos. Friend of the show. Friend of the show. Yeah. And we'll be doing...

We haven't probably talked about this, but it's coming up on the third anniversary birthday thing we'll be doing something in October we should do that October is it October yeah end of October

alright last week of October I believe alright we better get onto that we'll be doing something in Melbourne some kind of

third birthday thing live show for that for sure alright thanks very much for listening guys and we'll see you next time see ya mates

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