The Little Dum Dum Club with Tommy & Karl - Episode 173 - Josh Earl & Ella Hooper

Episode Date: January 28, 2014

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So please, if you're in either of those places, come down. We're going to have more stuff on sale soon and announced soon, including our solo shows at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and other places. But for now, littledumbdumbclub.com for tickets to the things that are on sale right now, and we sure do hope we see you there. Hey, mate. Welcome once again into the Little D-dum club for another week. My name is Tommy Daslow.

Thank you very much for joining us. Sitting next to me is the other half of the program, Carl Chandler. G'day, Dickie. Hey, you've talked a little bit about how you recently tried to get you and your girlfriend into, was it The Sopranos? Yes. And your girlfriend tried to get you into it and wanted to start with season four. Yes. Because as the great lady once said, you've got to start somewhere.

Yes. We had a kind of similar interesting viewing experience, my girlfriend and I, recently. We have Netflix and the talented Mr. Ripley was on there, a film which I have never seen. And so I said, oh, do you want to... The famous movie that Pete Sharkey, friend of the show, woke up in the middle of in England once. Yes. Didn't know how he got to the cinema, but woke up in the middle. I understand.

It gave me a grand new appreciation for that story. But I said to my girlfriend, oh, I've never seen this. Do you want to watch this? And she goes, nah, nah, I think I've seen it, but nah, I've seen that one. I've seen that. Yeah. And then looks at it a bit closer and goes, oh, no. No, no, no.

I'm thinking of Good Will Hunting. Yeah, no, I haven't seen this. Let's watch it. I'm like, okay, great. So we watch it. We're like, you know, it's a pretty long movie. We're like 45 minutes to an hour in, and she goes, boy, this is not what I thought this movie was going to be like at all.

I go, what did you think it was going to be like? And she goes, I thought it was going to be like Good Will Hunting. So a very confusing rabbit warren of logic there. Well, I've got a very similar, not too similar story, but a similar set up. And this sort of blew my mind. I sort of thought, should I be saying this on our podcast,

this story? You killed your girlfriend and then impersonated her in Italy for a little while? And then Pete Sharkey woke up in the middle of it. Yeah. No, this is,

we watched, my girlfriend and I watched Thelma and Louise the other day. I'd never seen it. Now, what year do you think that is? That that came out? Yeah. Ooh.

What's that? Young Brad Pitt? What's that? No, 90, 93? I'd say 80. I always thought late 80s, but. Yeah? Yeah, 89 maybe?

Yeah, maybe. Okay, all right. We were watching it. This is a great case of anyone who's listening who knows that off the top of their head. Yeah, infuriating. Yeah, screaming right now. Yes. If only This is a great case of anyone who's listening who knows that off the top of their head. He's infuriated. Yes, screaming right now. Yes. If only we had two other people we could check with at the time.

No guests today. What a shame. We've run out of time, guys. We're too busy picking what movie Susan Sarandon movies were made in. So we're watching that movie. Let's say it's 89. Let's say it's 90, something like that. Yep.

Watching it, Michael Madsen walked in to the scene. My girlfriend said, is that Elvis? Wow. So in your... And how old... I don't know who Michael Madsen is. Michael Madsen's... He was the guy in... The big guy, the big mean guy in Reservoir Dogs.

He's in quite a few Terrence Dino-type movies. Roughly how old is he in this film? In that film, he'd be like mid-20s. That is incredible stuff. He did have an Elvis hairdo, so that's something. At least he had that. If it was just a random guy without the Elvis haircut, that's insane. Elvis trademarked that hairdo and no one else is allowed to ever use it.

So I can see why your girlfriend would get that confused. Yeah, she's a big fan of the case Roe versus Presley. So she knew that rule. Oh, that is just exceptional. Yeah. And so when did she think? When I started laughing insanely, she figured it out. And then went, oh, no, no, no, no, no.

Don't ever tell that to anyone again. In hindsight, I haven't listened to her. What I meant to ask was, is that the big bopper? Yeah. She also said, very quickly to round up, Carl's girlfriend watched this week. Smooth name. We were in the car going to the doctor's just for a checkup and she started feeling really ill on the way there and went, oh, my God, I feel so sick. What am I going to do?

Like, continue what we were doing? I think it's very sweet that you guys go in and have your little check-ups together. That's very nice. I don't know why we did that, but we did do it. It was lucky. It was lucky I was there. A couple that have run out of activities. That was date night.

Yeah, you can bulk bill. Knowing how much of a tight ass you are. You get to bulk bill your dates. Well, guys, today on the show we have two guests, one first timer. You will know her as being one of the team captains on the upcoming reboot of Speaks and Specks. Please welcome into the little dum-dum club, Elle Hooper. Yay! Well, I said I wouldn't scream into this microphone and I just lied. Thanks for having me.

Just let loose. And also joining us, taking a sip of pub squash, you know him from that, as the host of the reboot of Spicks and Specks. As the composer. More importantly, composer, singer. Hottest 100 loser. Hottest 200 loser. Hottest 200 loser. You didn't make either of them.

It's Josh Earle. Yay! And because I work for the ABC, we can't say the brand of what that pub squash is. Oh, really? We can't say if it's Kirk's or another brand. But you do not say anything outside of the ABC as well. No, if I say it is... Because you're not on the clock now.

No, but I'm still representing ABC as someone who's... It's like when you go on school excursion in your full uniform. You are representing the school all over the world. No, we've been told in no uncertain terms. We are now. We had a two-hour lawyer session about it the other day. So it was Ella and I and Adam Richard reading over Adam's tweets going, you can't have this one.

You can't say that one. But if I say a brand, I have to say there are alternative brands to that one. So if I say, oh, Coke or Pepsi. Yeah, you've got to go through all of them. I like Bonsoy, but you might like So Good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you can say the name of a pub squash because how many there's just Kirk's and that's it, isn't there? I'm sure there's another pub. Isn't there

just one called Lift? I don't know what they give you when they don't have pub squash. Come on. So you guys are just like a really cheap private school. That's what it is. So could you have gotten into trouble? Look, I don't want to drop too many names and get you in too much trouble, but tonight, just before this podcast,

we had McDonald's together in the front window of the Elizabeth Street, no, the Bourke Street McDonald's. But Ella had Hungry Jacks, so that counts as out. As long as you do both of them, it's okay. Classy. Mark, Scott, we'll have no problem with this episode whatsoever. So yeah, we launched a campaign to get you to do the theme song for a little sketch that we do on this show. We launched a campaign to get it into the hottest 100 and it didn't make it in that.

It didn't make it in the... They do the 200 to 100 as well. Just a disappointing result, you know. It's not our fault, though, us four people in the room. It's your loser listeners. Well, I mean, you know, there's been a lot of talk in the papers recently about how maybe Triple J isn't as in touch as it likes to think it is

and maybe it's catering to a demographic that's perhaps not there. And, I mean, I think this could be the final nail in the coffin for a lot of people. I think Rad Dad has the Triple J sound, though. It makes it even more of an outrage. Well, because, you know, we did it and we started getting some responses back from people saying they'd voted.

And, you know, it's just fun to imagine that it could happen. And then I was listening to the that it could happen and then i was listening to the countdown on the day and very early on they said huge number of people voted today you know we had 1.5 million people voted in the hottest 100 and i went oh i know of about 19 we could be in trouble here someone voted eight times they said they created eight different uh email accounts so they could vote eight times for it. I just love the idea of thinking that someone had to look at, because there would have

been enough for someone to go what is this? Like the image of someone at the ABC just having to go into the office and going look, I don't know if I'm going to lose my job for this because I'm not on top of what the cool indie music is, but what's Rad Dad think? I'll tell you, we could have got it if only we had someone on top of what the cool indie music is, but what's Rad Dad thing?

I'll tell you what we could have got. If only we had someone on the inside of the ABC. So maybe, you know, you would know from you would have been in the Hottest 100 before Ella. Yes. Oh, what are your stats? Do you know the stats? Do you get told that?

Number two. Number two to Powderfinger people. Powderfinger. Oh, that's good. Almost won the Hottest 100 before. But that's great. And number five for another song that year, number 17 for another song some other year.

Not that I'm remembering. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know which songs they were. And you get told how many people vote or is that all? No, I have no idea. I never listened to that bit. I was too busy playing gigs at the time going,

woohoo, that sounds good, great. Do you get any money? No. Okay, cool, carry on. Because they call you if they can. They like to get the top ten people they like to chat to. Presumably it's Australia Day, so you're pretty gassed by the time they – because, man, they drag out that top ten.

But you probably weren't gassed when you were 14. No, I wasn't. Exactly. Good point. It was on my 17th birthday, I think. It was a very momentous day because we were not only playing main stage Big Day Up for the first time ever, getting second in the Hottest 100, and it was my birthday same day,

and I got brought a cake on stage, and then a Red Hot Chili Pepper proposed to me. Whoa, whoa, whoa, let's go back, let's go back. What sort of cake? I was very... A homemade cake by my best friend with sparklers in the top. Man, how did you get that? That was awesome. Did they, were they at the Big Day Out with with you or had they had to pay for a ticket and then work their way up the front of the mosh?

Happy to say I had an entourage by that time. I actually had a legit entourage of like 16-year-old girls. Which chili pepper? It's too embarrassing. Chad. The drama. Chad. He's a good one.

Yeah, the Wolferell one. Not my type. Not my type. Really? You're more of a Cadis kind of girl? I'm not really a chili pepper kind of girl, actually. Oh, quickly, just to interrupt this. Carl's got his hand up.

I just remembered the third part of my girlfriend quote update at the start of the show. This is a trifecta. I was watching the Grammys. So sort of a related story here. I was watching the Grammys. So sort of a related story here. I was watching the Grammys highlights this morning where Daft Punk were playing, playing Get Lucky. You're a cool guy, Carl Chandler.

I'm here for that. Why aren't I in the hottest 100? Just as a person. You're in the hottest 100 of cool dudes. So I was watching that and Pharrell Williams was singing. My girlfriend walked in and went, is that Will Pharrell Williams Was singing My girlfriend walked in And went Is that Will Pharrell

Oh that's awesome That's great That is something I would say Now that's a good Comedy character Will Pharrell Williams That's awesome

Will Pharrell Williams I love it Yeah so you do You could do You singing Get lucky But you're like You're really shouting it

Yeah You know Yeah with plenty of cowbell. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And this has got legs. Everywhere. This has legs.

Cowbell and cowboy hat. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty bad. Topical. So you're, now what we share is we're both from tiny country towns. Now, I'm from, I think my- We share more than that.

You've eaten a cake before. Oh, yeah. Yes. Yes. On Australia Day. Because you come from Violet Town. I come from Maribor, which is, look, I think we probably dwarf your town. We're 8,000.

Are you 1,000? I think we're hanging around 1,000, Mark. Maybe even a few more. But it's hard to tell because most people don't live in town. They live on the farms outside the town. So going on the primary school population figures, let's say 2,000. Yeah, right. And so were you still living in Violet Town when everything first started happening for Killing Heidi?

Yeah, totally. I was doing the long trip up the Hume to the city for gigs and then scooting back for high school and, yeah, somehow making it work. Did you get the lead in all the productions? No, I totally did not. Really? Nuh-uh. Uh-uh. Musical theatre, I mean, I liked it.

I had to go. But I got two lines in my first play that I worked so hard to get into. It was South Pacific, you know. You've got all these great songs like, I'm going to wash that man right out of my head, da-da-da. We have to pay for that now, so thanks for that. Give us the other option for the Rogers and Hammerstein canon. You know what they gave me, though?

I was Islander Girl 2. Not even a name. Islander Girl 2, and my line was, Boat! Boat! I got to say, that was it. Was this a high school production of Fantasy Island? That's what that sounds like. That was the Benella Junior Theatre Company's production

of South Pacific circa 1997, I think. And who got number one? Who was the number one? The producer's daughter. Oh. And where is she now did she got number one on hottest 100 let me just check facebook two cakes no i didn't get the leads in anything so that's why i started a band and do you have do you have still like a big connection to violet town now yeah i go back all the time yeah yeah yeah do

you actually still have friends that oh yeah oh definitely my mom lives there, so I'm back there every other weekend, going to the market, picking up my honey and my handmade bread and soaps and all the good country stuff that you just can't get in the city. I do love any town that has the word town in its name. I think that's great. It's like living in a – it's like a Richard Scarry book or something. It's awesome. There's not enough of it.

Especially Violet Town. Like, it's such a Willy Wonka sort of imagery. It gets better, you know. All the streets are named after flowers. So I, for quite some time, lived in Pink Street, Violet Town. My friend lived in Rose Street. There's Lily Street. There's Tulip Street.

Hyacinth Street. It goes on. It gets more and more Willy Wonka. My goal is to get so big in the entertainment world that I go back to Maribor and I've made a difference in Maribor. What's your difference in Violet Town? I thought you were going to say you want to see a statue of yourself in Maribor because Nick Cave's done that. He's from Waracknabil.

Tiny little town, probably as small as Violet Town, Waracknabil. Nick Cave, he's going to get a massive brass statue of himself on a steed rearing up. He's like, I only want it if it can be like three times life size. Just something ridiculous like that. So, yeah, I haven't really got anything like that to commemorate me coming from Violentown. Not an alleyway or a shop or a sandwich in the local deli? We have lanes.

Violentown's probably not known for its You know A goat track named after I did have a goat Did have a pet goat R.I.P. Clancy My favourite pet goat Clancy the goat Yeah Clancy the goat No no

It would be highly embarrassing to have When you go back to town You just want to blend in You don't want every second person to stop you And go What's going on now But that's not up to you Because you belong to Violet Town now

Like surely they want The people that drive through They want to snag people in For their you know Vanilla slices or whatever They want a bit of Hooper action That's not up to you because you belong to Violet Town now. Surely they want the people that drive through, they want to snag people in for their vanilla slices or whatever. They want a bit of hooper action on the sign at the front of the town. Something. There must be something. Yeah, well, I try to keep it low profile.

I really do. Maybe the Spix reboot. Maybe that's the thing that finally makes the mayor of Violet Town sit up and go, we've got to get, you know, look. The key to Violet Town. You want the key. Number one's record success and all this kind of stuff. Being on a taxpayer-funded broadcast. I heard Miff's hometown's got one of her, so.

Oh, awesome. Oh, oh, oh. All right, then, maybe I'm doing it. Home of Ella Hooper, she knows the bloke who wrote Rad Dad. Yeah. And is this Rad Dad as in the song that used to be Rap Dad that I've heard an earlier version of? No, I think Rap Dad started before.

We'll tell you after. Carl is Rad Dad. Oh, you're Rad Dad. You'll be Rad Dad. This could be some people's first time. We can go into it. Okay, yeah, sure. I'm learning Josh's oeuvre and now I know that you're involved.

Yes. into it. Okay, yeah, sure. Quick recap. I'm learning Josh's oeuvre, and now I know that you're involved. Yes. Very quick recap is that in the freelance world that myself and Tommy live in, and Josh used to live in before he got to the top tower of ABC Towers. Could get there again. Give it three weeks, we'll see. Well, I just got the job dressing up as Grimace down at the local McDonald's, so you are on your own in freelance world, my friend. I was you when we were getting dinner.

So we go for quite a few auditions. I go for a lot of failed auditions. I was requested to be in a Target catalogue as the character Rad Dad. So I was overseas at the time, so it broke my heart to decline. But I fell in love with the idea, and a lot of people that listen to the show fell in love with the idea. So we sort of do a little show called Rad Dad in the middle of the show,

and Josh wrote the theme to it. So that's me. I'm Rad Dad. When you look at me, you think cool fatherhood, don't you? I mean, I didn't even know you had kids, but yes, yes. That's what I'm so rad about. That's where I got confused. I know that Josh has the kids, you have the radness.

I say, he brings the dad, you bring the rad. Yeah, we're like the Voltron of rad dad. Click, click, click, Voltron. Excellent. The Mary, Kate and Ashley. They're all coming together. Yeah, but it was great when the Target catalogue did eventually come out and we were able to see there was a guy, cool looking youngish guy with a little baby Bjorn thing on his chest.

Yeah, a million degrees away from it. As if that guy was the second choice after me. Like, it was some sort of Roger David model. And it's like, I don't think I was in before this guy. I think it was some weird prank. Hey, since we've mentioned Rad Dad, because the ABC thing, have we now got to mention all the other sketches

that are on other podcasts as well? Even-handed, guys have we now got to mention all the other sketches that are on other podcasts as well? Even-handed, guys. We've got to mention Con the Fruiterer. How Green Is My Cactus? What? Oh my god, memories! I love it. On the school bus. I don't know what that is. It was a radio comedy.

I used to listen to it on the school bus as well. Rocking the Borders and the Valleys. They would drop us in that bus and make us listen to How Green Was My Cactus? It was a syndicated comedy radio series. It all starts with Guido Hatz's For Me, yeah. Rocking the borders and the valleys. They would drop us in that bus and make us listen to How Green Was My Valley. Yeah. It was a syndicated comedy radio series. It all starts with Guido Hatz's For Me, guys. You would have loved it.

It was like scything parodies of Bob Hawke and company. Yeah, it's right up my alley. Exactly what you want to hear on the way home in year seven on the bus. Mate, if Timbo and Bedders didn't do it, I've got no interest. And it was often like so far over year six or seven's heads. It's just not funny. Because there's a play on that movie, How Green Was My Valley. Have you guys seen it? I didn year six or seven's heads it's just not funny because there's a play on that movie How Green Was My Valley.

I didn't realise that until now. It's an amazing classic. Watch it one night with your girlfriend. Elvis isn't in it but it is a classic. It is a classic.

I don't think it was aimed at primary school kids though. Not even at that was going to be a very controversial thing that I just said. It was too smart for kids let alone most country adults.

Here we go. That's no way to get that brass statue of yourself. I say it with love. Ella Hooper thinks we're all idiots. Well, that would include me. That would include me as well. Stop for the Lamingtons. Big brass statue of you giving the town the finger.

That would be good if you angered the town so much in what you were doing publicly that they put up a hate statue of you. I'm pretty sure I did when I was a teen. I've mellowed a lot. I don't know if I was – I wasn't persona non grata, but I was definitely a shit-stirrer. Oh, really?

Yeah, yeah. They've learned to love me. Yeah. Well, Josh, to bring it to a sadder note, you've got some news this week. Yeah. I got robbed on Friday. My house got robbed.

Did you have bad luck? Yeah, I can't. The fires, the robbing. Yeah. Fires? Years ago, my house burnt down. Oh, yeah. Before I knew you.

Oh, wow. Oh, that sucks. Pre-KC. Houses are unlucky. I'd get away from them if I was you. No, I got home on Friday and then was home for about an hour and a half. And my wife and child were in Perth. And then I went out for dinner and then came back home that night.

And I realised that I should have all these signs pointing that I'd been robbed because the cat was out when I got home the first time. Oh, the cat did it. Classic. The cat did it. And the back door was unlocked. And then I got home and could see the curtain waving in the breeze and thought, oh, what's happened?

So I opened up the curtain and the window was smashed. And I thought, oh, they're in the house. And so the first thing I did was grabbed a knife from my chopping board and I went, oh, I better put that back because they will stab me with that. Like I am not going to be able to do anything. The number of times through paranoia when I can't sleep that I've done a lap of the house with a kitchen knife is ridiculous.

I thought that was just in movies. No, I'm that. I think that's bad, but I think what I do is probably worse because I get up and I sleep in the nude and I get up and don't have anything in my hands and just walk out without any pants on.

And it's like, this will deter them. Highly effective. I am never doing the pop in on either of your houses. Either. You know what? When I sleep nude, I do think, what if I get murdered? Like, what if someone breaks into the house and murders? And just the image of the cops finding your dead nude body is very distressing to me.

What's worse for a burglar to come in and is that better or worse to see a man completely unarmed and you know he's unarmed if he's got no clothes on? Yeah, yeah. Is that better or worse to see someone in the nude? Yeah, I don't know. Do you think what, crooks are sitting around and gearing each other up going, okay, man, get ready. We may see

a dick don't let that deter you just keep going for the goal i'm still back at carl uh tommy worrying about being killed in the nude oh how embarrassing i'm in the nude it is my penis is going to be so red it's all the same on the slab guys they do take your clothes off you know like that is the best pickup line I've ever heard. You can have that. We've got a dog and he barks when people he doesn't know come into the house. And we were in bed a few weeks ago and the dog in the living room just started going crazy, which he's never done before.

And it, you know, was really freaky because it was like, oh, this must mean someone's in the house. So I'm in the nude. I get up. I go for a walk just to investigate what's going on. And the dog's just losing it. So it was nothing. Well, he's in the house. So I'm in the nude. I get up. I go for a walk just to investigate what's going on. And the dog's just losing it. So it was nothing. Well, he's in the nub, not knowing how that's going to go down with the burglars. Me and him really bonded.

So I go, okay, it's okay. And then I go back and walk to the room. My girlfriend's like, is everything okay? And I'm like, yeah. And she goes, is that what you were going to defend yourself with? And what I'd done i'd grabbed the only thing i could find on the way out of the bedroom which was the lid from a small plastic esky oh yeah you just you know you just take what you can find you go well this will look this might not actually save the day but it'll at least buy me a couple of minutes yeah it makes you less pathetic

and you know more street cred when you die and you've got the lid in your hand yeah you don't have to worry. The cops come by and go, he's nude, but he had a go. No, my backup plan was with my dying moments, I can use the Esky lid to just shield my junk so that when the cops do come in, it's like a little censor bar. Even in death, Tommy didn't like to show his dick to anyone. Yeah, and then the Esky lid, they've got the little cup holders on some of them, little ridges where the cops can come in. You haven't really planned this out, have you?

Yeah. I'm just wanting everyone to not have to suffer too much. So, I'm in the house. Yep. I put the knife back. Fully clothed. Fully clothed. Fully clothed.

And I'm like, okay, I'm scared. It's late. I can't sleep. So, I go on Facebook going, hey, guys, I've just been broken into and now I can't sleep. Straight away, Claire Hooper's husband, Wade, lol. Yeah, lol. Someone else likes it. On that comment, there's five likes.

My brother came in and went, that's shit house. Better get new toothbrushes. His thing is straight away, you know the robbers have shoved the toothbrushes up your ass. I've heard that before. Is that sympathy? Look, Facebook, not the place for sympathy. If you go brush your teeth and it smells like a human ass, you go, get onto the jackass crew

because I think I know who did this. Oh, quick, we've got to get out of the house. Quick, quick, quick. It's like the wet bandits. Oh, quick, we've got to shove this up our ass. Get the cops in and fingerprint, ass print the toothbrush. It's the butthole bandits. I knew it. That really is so crap.

Are you insured? Yeah, we are. They only, well, this is the thing. They stole all my wife's jewellery and they stole my son's money box, which had like 20 bucks in it. They stuck all of that up their asses. Are you sure you weren't robbed by like a five-year-old. They stole your kid's money box.

Yeah, money box, which was right next to my camera, but they didn't take that. It was weird. It was so bizarre. But they also cleaned up after themselves. Like they broke the window, but then put all the glass on the outside of the window. Well, stop your fucking bitching.

Yeah, so I couldn't. They broke the window for a week. And then closed the curtain, so I didn't notice straight away because it was a small kind of... So they checked the glass on the outside, so they didn't notice straight away because it was a small kind of... So they checked the glass on the outside, so they tried to make it look like it was an inside job. It was the cat.

Josh, having just signed up for an ABC salary, is this an insurance claim by you? I lost my bike and some skis. I've never been skiing, but I totally lost some skis. They took all me gold bullion that Tony Jones gave me as a welcome to the station present. They have raw computers. I've only been robbed once,

and they stole something that I was borrowing from you. My data projector. I told you he's got bad luck. I've been hearing his trash stories. The first time I moved out of home. But quick question. Yep. How are the toothbrushes going?

I didn't get a new one. It didn't smell. It smelled like mint. So it's fine. That is a sweet ass burger. Minty fresh. Not the wet bandits, the ass bandits. But I got robbed before when I was 17. The first time I moved out of home, I moved from Burnie

to Launceston and we unloaded everything. The big smoke. Yeah. Me and two mates unloaded everything and then went back home that day to get some more stuff. We got back up there the next day and all our CDs had been wiped and all the covers off our Dunas were taken off. And then we found all our CDs in the Duna covers in the backyards.

Obviously, they either got stopped or they were like, this is too heavy, fuck it, we'll just go. We don't need three copies of Lives throwing copper. What a bygone era when CDs would actually fetch something for resale. I got robbed once. Again, the first house out of home sort of thing, probably that the door won't open. But you know what they stole that really shattered me?

All my Monkey Magic DVDs. They too just stole CDs and DVDs back when those things were valuable. Yeah, I remember. I had the complete series of Monkey Magic. It took me ages to get it all gone. That's an old ABC show, so you better get it back now. Excellent. Merry Christmas, me.

You get let into the magical dungeon of DVDs now. It's fine. What do you get at the ABC? Do you get anything for free? Is there any? No, we get nothing. There's nothing? No.

There's not even mugs. It's not like when you used to go on the panel and stuff and there was a mug. Oh, yeah, we know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Relatable. Relatable stuff. You know.

You know what you get for number two on Triple J's On The Hotter 100. You guys know. Most TV shows would give you a complimentary mug like Rove or The Battle or whatever like that. No, no, we just have a good time at the ABCs

what we have. Look, we gave you a glass of lemon squash on the Little Dunbun Club. Thank you very much. That's something. That's more than the ABC apparently.

Great. We are doing very well. I know we have a sweet green room. We have some sushi, some tamari almonds. We can put your toothbrushes up our asses if you want.

Would you? Would you? Even if you don't want it. Now, Spix and Spex, you guys have started filming already. Yep. And it's all going very well. Yeah. I hear.

Everyone's very happy with it. Everyone in the office, Carl, you're writing for it. We can say that. Yeah, we're doing some work for it. Yeah, yeah. I must be responsible for at least a third of a percent of it, I reckon, by the time they chop out all the jokes and everything. But that's fine.

Good plug for the show. They've cut out all the jokes. Tune in, guys. They cut the jokes out. It's not funny anymore. No, they cut the jokes out because the conversation was so funny. Exactly. Yeah, exactly.

Who needs scripted crap? And that's how I'm going to justify my job there. But no, it sounds, I haven't seen an episode yet, but everyone seems abuzz. I think this might be the first successful show I've ever worked on, fingers crossed. I get nervous about saying that too soon. Like we really do want to wait and see whether people, you know,

it gets as warm a reaction as the first ones. It might take some time. A couple of haters, we'll fend them off. Oh, yeah, we're getting so much love on Twitter. Oh, are you? Yeah. I'll just log on right now, guys. I've just done a quick little cut and paste of just what struck my fancy this afternoon.

On our Twitter feed. Yeah, while you were being paid by the ABC to write jokes for the show. No, no, no, no, no, no. You put the glass outside the window of the ABC as you left. I also checked Facebook and Twitter, just to be fair on both sides of it. Now, what have we got here?

Deborah Traylor says, Ella, you rock, girl. Guy in the middle, nah. That's me. Don't know who you are. Oh. Go in the middle. That's me. Don't know who you are. Go away, expansive dude on the right. Oh, no. Expansive dude.

That's harsh. Adam likes superheroes. I think he'd be happy. Expansive dude sounds like a superhero. I didn't mean to do anything towards Adam. I just like the term expansive. I thought that is a weird way of doing things. Now, I haven't been reading these, but Adam has is a weird way of doing things. Now I see.

I haven't been reading these, but Adam has been saying, don't read them. And Josh has been like, don't read them. Now I see why. I haven't picked any too bad ones. Just the ones that have struck my fancy because they're just weird. Really bad. They're just really weird. But there's good ones as well.

Give it a chance, guys. People didn't think ACDC would last after Bon Scott. So that's a great comparison with you guys. We made that joke in the first episode. That's the one that every review's picked up on that joke. They said it was a beauty. They were like, oh, and he put it perfectly. Adam Hill's, of course, famously dying recently face down in his own vomit.

And everyone in Perth visiting his grave every day. Pneumonia in the car, Tommy. Oh, really? That's just a folk tale that's lasted a couple of days. Tony Ralph on Facebook says, great to see such a great show being revised

and been hearing the rumours about the new show. Sounds great. Love watching the reruns every night, but looking forward to Ella and Adam, who were great guests previously. Ella has such a knowledge for music, and Adam is very funny. Not sure who the other bloke Alan is, though. Alan? Alan. Two Alans.

Alan. Alan Earl. Oh, dear. Not sure who Alan is. People getting names of things wrong on the internet is bewildering, because it is all there. It is so easy. But it is a perfect question.

Not sure who Alan is. Yeah. Neither are we. Unrelated. Maybe that's just unrelated. A totally different stream of consciousness going on there. That was meant for the Growing Pains Facebook page. Not sure who Alan Thicke is.

Alan Thicke, Alan Elder. What's this guy? Yeah, the mash page. Yeah, exactly. What did you say that guy's name was? Tony Ralph. Tony Ralph. Good name. Not sure who Tony, exactly. What did you say that guy's name was? Tony Ralph. Tony Ralph. Good name.

Not sure who Tony Ralph is. Wasn't the one before Deborah Traylor? Yes. Some excellent names coming through. I love our fans. We love you. We love you. We love you out there.

You need to make your studio audience wear name tags so you can really pull these people out. Let's see a bit of Josh Earl feedback here. Robin Muller on Facebook says, I love Adam's wit. Could be interesting. Ella is pretty smart as well. Don't know who the kid in the middle is. Yeah.

The kid. The kid. I got told I'm a weasel. The weasel looking guy. Yeah. You don't look anything like a weasel. Someone said, I'm looking forward to that weasel looking guy

doing all of Adam's lines. And I was like, oh. Oh, that's not fair. All of his lines like asking questions. Yeah. Oh my God. His shtick. You're more of his lines like asking questions. Yeah. Oh, my God.

His shtick. You're more of a... Like a little Justin Beaver. Justin Beaver. You're not that sort of vermin. You're the other sort of vermin that people don't like. Teresa, Peter says, Josh Earl will be a tryhard. Oh.

Is that good or bad? Oh, well, you don't want someone going, Hey, it's good. I've already got the job. you can't stack me now. Exactly. Actually, I saw something on Twitter about try-hards. I wish I could just reach for my phone and check the retweet now. It was like, what is wrong with being a try-hard?

It's trying too hard. It's not cool. But trying hard is indeed fine. Yeah, because that's why I read that one out, because I can't see how you can see that as an insult. Because, you know, when you see someone, you go, oh, what a try-hard, because you've seen them try hard and it not be good. If you say he's going to be a try-hard, how does that work?

How can you predict? Isn't that what you want? Yeah. It's like seeing someone at the tennis, like they're, you know, they're about, like they've been playing for hours and their body's shutting down, so they have the massage, come out and do their legs, go, look at this loser. This try-hard loser.

Look at this guy in the car on the way to the tennis. Probably going to try real hard. What a dickhead. Yeah, God. Todd Griffiths, he's very positive as well. Other shows have had different hosts, and I've still watched them, like Sail of the Century. I'm Glen Ridge, yes. Oh, Glen Ridge.

Yep. I love that as a comparison. And, Elle, you're in the gift shop, obviously. Hang on, which one? Does that mean I get to... Elise Platt. Elise Platt. Which one was Adriana Xenadig?

Oh, that's the wheel. Yeah, I want to be that one. Yeah. Can I do that one? You can be that one. Yeah, sure. Go for it. And Cookie Gamble Fernandez.

There's another spectacular Facebook name. It says, it's like saying the Beatles are coming back Gamble Fernandez. There's another spectacular Facebook name. It says, it's like saying the Beatles are coming back and you show me the kids from One Direction. Oh, jeez. Please. They even tried to make it music trivia. You know what? You're not getting a gig writing questions for the show.

Yeah, yeah. Again, Alan Brough famously got shot on the steps of his house a couple of years ago. And those poor old One Direction kids are struggling. famously got shot on the steps of his house a couple of years ago. And those poor old One Direction kids are struggling. So they are down in the dumps. They couldn't buy an album sale, I don't think. But this is like, you know, I guarantee within six months all these people will not remember that they ever even wrote these comments.

Do you know what I mean? Like things just become... This is my favourite thing of it. Like all those comments are all from Facebook. They've said that when the announcements have rolled out in the last couple of weeks, couple of months, and stuff like that. And they're all, like, there's a lot of them saying

negative things and saying, like, oh, I'm not going to watch or whatever. Why are you still a fan of the page? I know. Exactly. You're just, like, you just want updates from a show that was on three years ago. What's the update going to be? Hey, guys, still not on. You literally have to push a show that was on three years ago. What's the update going to be?

Hey guys, still not on. You literally have to push a button that says, like, well now that I'm in here, fuck this. It's weird pre-hating. I've never really seen it before, but the show hasn't even been on yet. It's a weird form of fandom. It's a very rare kind of thing,

especially in this country, that that happens. What if there was a new Killing Heidi and they had new people in there? And then you would be, and there'd be haters going, Ella, we wanted Ella. What if I was the new Ella Hooper in the reboot of Killing Heidi? You guys are just giving me a rad idea. I'm going to totally still get the opera from having some band touring, playing my old song. I don't want to play anymore. This is genius.

Do you want to be the new one? Absolutely, sure. Can we have all the rights? No, no, no, no. Killing Heidi-ish. Oh, yeah. Yes. Yeah.

I love it. Do you have any, are there any Killing Heidi-specific cover bands or not? I don't think so. I've seen a few YouTube clips of bands covering various songs and a lot of people seem to do them for their musical examinations because, believe it or not, some of those pop songs were actually pretty hard to play. What about your idols and your stuff like that?

Have you ever tuned in and seen the voice and stuff? There have been a couple of weirs on Idol and X Factor. People jumping up there. It was very funny. It was probably about two or three years ago. They even made the chick dress up like what they thought Killing Heidi looked like. Oh, great.

But I never did wear ripped stockings in a tutu skirt. I get that it was a punky, grungy look, but the girl had like, she kind of looked like... That sounds a bit more Ace Ventura when he's in the mental house in the first Ace Ventura movie. He looks like a punky Brewster gone golf, like Evanescence punky Brewster. Kurt Cobain.

Which many people will probably say, yeah, I thought you were punkunky Brewster, Evanescence. But hey, I didn't say it like that. Yeah, yeah, sure. That girl's still getting asked questions about her dreadlocks too, the one who did that. Oh my God, no more dread questions. Oh, is that what you get? It drives me a bit crazy.

What are the three cliched questions you get? Oh my God, so you've gotten rid of the dreads. Yes. And I say yes like 15 years ago. That's actually a really long time ago. Have you got a statue in Violet Town? Have you got a statue yet? I love just saying you've gotten rid of the dreadlocks as a question

because where does that lead from there? There's no follow-up to that. It leads to my face going like this. Sweet treat at home for the listeners. Scowl. That was an uber scowl for you listeners Yeah the other ones Oh yeah do you get along with your brother?

A million times How do you get the name? Chick chick chick tick tick These are all questions I've Who's Heidi? When I became a sort of a music interviewer Journo person I would never ask Nancy's questions

I hate to say that I actually have gone back on that Good to know I won't do that then No no no I totally can't That won't be one of your trivia questions to Ella. How did you get the name of your band? That would be great if you did a You should do

like an April Fool's episode where you prank I mean you can't do it now because I'm saying she's in on it now but like if you did an April Fool's episode where you pranked Ella and the whole show was questions about killing Heidi and then every time she answers you go, I'm sorry, that's not the answer. And then just something completely different. Yeah.

I did that. I like that. On the Facebook page, there was a quote. I don't think I can find it now, but there was a bit where they said, oh, I'm not sure if I like the new actors on the show. So you guys are playing Josh, Ellen, Ella Hooper? I'm playing Ellen and I've been working on it. Ellen L.

Are you doing any kind of, not that I watch it, but like Doctor Who style where, you know, is there a thing at the start where Adam regenerates into you? It was touted, but then it was almost like, no, we want a fresh start. So we all thought it would be great. Oh, was that really? Yeah. You know what we should do? If we make it to Christmas, this is like, if we make it to no, we want a fresh start. So we all thought it would be great. Oh, was that really the idea? Yeah, yeah. You know what we should do? If we make it to Christmas,

if we make it to Christmas, we should totally bring them back on for the Christmas episode and do something like that. We're there all of a sudden sitting in what will be now our seats. That would be great if Alan Brough had regenerated into you. What a hybrid that would be. Lock up your trivial pursuits there. Speaking of you reading out weird criticisms of things,

what about this for a... This is maybe one of the most fascinatingly confusing pieces of being angry at something I've heard recently. You would have been watching the cricket affair bit. Yes. Where they've got KFC, of course, a sponsor, and they've got the ads where they've got people wearing the KFC. And McDonald's are a sponsor.

Yes, they could be. Other sponsors could sponsor it. And Pizza Hut and Smorgies and Lazy Mo's. And Ollie's Trollies. So, you know, they've got the ads with people wearing the KFC buckets on their heads. Yeah, the Guns N' Roses fans, the bucket heads. Oh, yeah. But what they've done is for the ad, for the sake of having it look good, the kind of the art on the bucket is sort of up.

It's sort of upside down. Do you know what I mean? You had that sitting as an actual bucket. And my friend was telling me his dad, he's been watching the cricket a lot with his dad, and his dad, every time that ad comes on, is going insane about it, going, that's not what an actual bucket would look like. The colonel's head would be the other way around.

And he said it's like 20 times he's seen it. Every single time it comes on, he still just can't stop himself from going crazy about it. Now that is, that's wasted energy. That really is. That's some OCD happening. That's a classic dad though. I love it.

Yeah, it is a real dad. I love it. You're getting... Yeah, I'll do that in about five years. What do you reckon you'd be? What would your dad bugbear be when you get a little bit older? Probably table manners. I think that would be the big one of just Ollie getting up too quick

or not using the right manners at the table. I think that's what will make me – Your kid's like an angel. That's never going to happen. I've met Ollie and he's just like – he literally has a halo. Yeah. Ollie or another name. But yeah, I think that'll be it.

Because my dad would go nuts at me. My dad was a very angry man for many years. And his big thing was if I would get ice cream with topping and swish it around and make it all melted and kind of thing. Yeah, I love it too. That's the best. Yeah, but dad would go nuts at the table. I'm with you, dad. You hate it?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Are you like, just get a milkshake if you want one? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, exactly. That's great. Had it many times. Because we didn't get Maccas as a kid, and so that was how I would do a thick shake. Yeah, yeah.

It was like chocolate topping and that, and that would be a thick shake. And he would lose his mind. The other thing I don't like, though, is milk in a glass. That drives me batty. See, I love this OCD. I don't know if that's OCD or just a thing or whatever, because I was at Luke McGregor's house a few weeks ago, and he's very OCD with a lot of things.

But the weird thing was, there was three of us, and the other person was sort of going, oh, gee, you're weird, McGregor, we're doing all this sort of stuff and i'm like i do all that as well i don't like eating with the serving spoon yeah do you do that i i eat dessert with a little teaspoon oh yeah that's my i always ask for a teaspoon when i always if i get dessert when i'm out i get a coffee as well because i know they'll come with a little spoon oh Oh, yeah. I don't have to be a, oh, can I actually get a little spoon from my little baby mouth? Because I'm a bit weird. Is that to like to prolong the enjoyment of dessert?

Because that is smart. Yes. Yeah, that is very good. And as a woman, I like to prolong the enjoyment of dessert very, very much. Oh, as a man. As some form of a man. I'm the same. Cake.

It's going right. We're coming full circle back to the love of cake. Yes. That did really sound like an ad. As a woman, I'm the same. Cake. It's going right. We're coming full circle back to the love of cake. That did really sound like an ad. As a woman, I like to prolong the dessert. As a single mother with a daughter, I find. I'm a single mother with a daughter. Actually, I really don't know.

That is Violet Town coming out there. I can tell. I can do it. What you said before, I find it very weird, the idea of just drinking a glass of milk. Just drinking straight milk. I used to. It's very weird. idea of just drinking a glass of milk. Just drinking straight milk is very weird. I used to always buy a litre of milk and drink that after basketball. At the basketball, I'll be just sitting drinking a whole litre of milk. There's something about teenage boys and milk.

I have a brother, obviously, and two years older than me, and there's something about boys and milk. Every teenage boyfriend I had and my brother would just chug on milk. Oh, you dated teenage boys? Yeah. Have you met Tommy? Right now. She said boy.

Young boys on my weekend. Just joking. But there's a thing where when you see tradies or truckies or whatever and they're like, they're going to crush you and then you're like,

get me a little strawberry milk, guys. How about that? A pie and strawberry milk is the national meal of the builder and the truckie, isn't it? Flavoured I get, but just the idea of just drinking plain. I think it was American because in American sitcoms, I would drink milk from the carton or juice from the carton.

And I always wanted, instead of having a lunchbox, I wanted a brown paper bag to take my lunch in because that's what they did. That's what Rudy did or whatever. He was going to him, why aren't we doing this right? Because I used to get my school lunch in a plastic bag with a knot in the top. That ain't slick like a paper bag just folded just so crisply. That's not showbiz. That's bugging.

You know what I used to do is, you know when you'd have a pizza before bed and it'd be very salty and you'd wake up in the middle of the night and you'd be, you guys have had pizza. Do you mean pizza for dinner? Pizza before bed. A little bit of a nibble. You guys have had pizza. Do you mean pizza for dinner? In my head, you're in bed, you're new. The pizza's not even in a box, it's just resting on your naked chest. I'm spooning the pizza. Like Josh, little spoon though.

Tiny little spooning. You want to prolong the pizza. If you're the little spoon. You hear a noise, you go, oh, is that a burglar? No, I've got a pizza. I can't get up. I'm in the news. Is that a burglar? No, I've got a pizza. I can't get up. I'm in the news. Is that a burglar or is that Dougie bringing me another pizza?

So, you know, you get that really too much salt in a pizza and you wake up in the middle of the night and you're struggling as to whether you get up. We call that the Capitosa thirst. Oh, really? It's got a name. I've got the Capitosa thirst. Yeah, right.

Yeah, well, you know it. Because I reckon this might be one of the very first conversations I had with you when we worked on Studio A. It was one of our first nights and they got pizza delivered during the filming and we were eating it and you turned to me and you went, you know what, this pizza, I reckon this is going to be one of those pizzas where you're waking up all night thirsty. And I was like, what a weird thing to say to someone. So we've finished this relationship now.

That's it. And then every night. We've run out. And then that night I kept getting up and just so dehydrated. And the next time I saw her I was like, you're onto something with that pizza, buddy. Yeah, let's be mates. So if this is the end then, can I replace you guys?

That's how it works, right? That's why I'm here, right? Yeah, your voice is a bit too deep to replace mine, so let's not go crazy. This is Adam and Miff right here, and you guys are replaced? Yeah. So you know that thing where you wake up and you're struggling to decide whether you get up or not, whether it's worth it or whatever, and I would lie in bed and have these fantasies of what I'm going to drink.

I'd be 5, 10, 15 minutes in bed just going, oh, when I do get the gumption to get up, I am going to drink one of everything in the fridge. And I would get up and I would pour like three drinks. I'd be thinking, oh, just a clean glass of water would be, that'd fix everything. But what if I want a bit of content? I'll get a milk. We've got Coke in the fridge as well so I'd pour three of them

it's almost like you're not in your own house you've forgotten that these are yours I'd plan it out it all made perfect sense it was like some sort of Neapolitan of drink and I'd get up there and I'd pour them all out and then I'd drink one and go yeah that'll do I don't need the rest of it

what am I thinking why would you have a gut full of Coke, milk and water? So you were lining them all up, getting them ready to go like shots at a bar or something. Yes. I'm really thirsty from that salty pizza. I'm going to have a drink with sodium in it. Coke. I do like what you just said though, the Neapolitan of drinks. Yeah.

I think that's exactly what drinking just straight milk is the best for. Straight milk can shut that shit down. Like for a hangover or anything that wakes you up in the middle of the night and you're like, I don't feel so good. For a hangover? No, not for a hangover. Yes, really. For me, I drink red wine, so I'm getting a bit acidic, getting a bit,

oh, help me, something jokey. But that makes sense because you have milk with curries and stuff like that. You don't drink water as much. Yeah, it actually cools it down. I'm a massive fan of milk, but my mum put into my head that I shouldn't be drinking milk just because she hated it so much. She would not. If you put a teaspoon that had been used in a cup of coffee that had milk in that coffee

and you put that in a new black coffee, she would not drink it. She was like the princess and the pea, but with milk on teaspoons. The thought of it, though, is we're drinking cow's milk. That is the, yeah. But if you break everything down, you know, you're eating a Pizza Hut, that's human shit, you know. We all know that, don't we? Domino's is human shit as well, as is Pizza Haven,

as is Eagle Boys, as is Pinky's. Well, not Pinky's. Pinky's is pretty good. Pinky's is square human shit. Yeah, did you have Pinky's in Violet Town? We had it in Vanilla where I went to high school. Well, not pinkies. Pinkies is pretty good. Pinkies is square human shit. Yeah, did you have pinkies in Violet Town? We had it in Vanilla where I went to high school. Oh, yes, pinkies ripped in pizza.

So how big is Vanilla? Vanilla's much bigger than Violet Town, still probably not very big, but I did have a guitar for a while that was completely covered in pinkies pizza stickers. That was the actual finish on the guitar. It was completely wrapped. And that's what kept you off the number one spot. Yeah. It was a mistake.

Too much advertising. It was a mistake. Vegetarians. Those two vegetarians just didn't like it. Bernard Fanning had his Domino's pizza going. I've got it. Way cool. Damn right.

All we had access to was pinkies. Yeah. I love that. Every available bit of surface covered with... You know when you're a teenager, you like to put stickers on things? Yeah, absolutely. And if you're a teenage muso, you put stickers on your things. Yeah, I played bass for a while and it was covered with stickers of bands

that I was into at the time. Yes, that's much cooler than being a musician. Well, but then it got on and those bands dated very badly and I was trying to start up a band with some people at school and I bought my bass along and they're like, yeah, if we play gigs, you're probably going to need to get a new bass that doesn't have the Cat Empire logo on it.

Yeah, I totally feel your pain. Who does stank? I know. I have gaffer taped over a few band stickers on my guitar cases. I was like, you know, that was a good sticker. Not such a good band. Yeah. Like as I've grown to realize.

What was the most embarrassing band you've ever been into? Gee, I really can't say. There's been a lot. Like I have a high turnover. Did you ever play a homecoming gig at Violent Town? Or at least Benalla? Yeah, a couple of times. We've played there quite a bit.

Not for a fair few years. Probably a few for another. When you were massive, first time you came back, was that like a... Because again, I have little fantasies about – all I think about is my hometown, basically. Yes, yes. On the same stage where I had my two lines in South Pacific

on the town hall for Boat, Boat, as Islander Girl 2 in the Benalla Junior Theatre Company production of South Pacific, that's where I came. On that very same stage, came back to have the big rock concert that was like, rah, see, I showed you all. Yeah, exactly. That was pretty sweet. Was it full?

Were you headlining the rock instead for there? Yeah, it was pretty damn full. It was pretty damn full. It was just a gig, just a legit gig. Killing Heart had a gig and, you know, tickets to a box of pop or whatever it was back then, supported by some, oh, my brain is trying to remember. The Chad Smith Project.

Late 90s. Yeah, my hubby. It was a band with two bassists in it. Oh, what? And they were like... Primus? They were a band that wanted to be Primus, but were from Melbourne. Oh, I think I remember them.

Did they have a song called In the River or Down the River? I think so. In the River. If you're at home, Shazam it now. Go back. They felt good. river or down the river so in the room if you're at home shazam it now go back yeah two bassists i've never heard of that in a band that's pretty that's excessive 90s i love the two drummer bands two yeah that is like you're just showing off two drummers is there's no need for two bassists i'd argue even less money for rope yeah great two drummer band i saw modest mouse live once and they had two drummers

and they were doing a bit of swapping over drums, just lobbing a drumstick over their head to the other drummer. It was awesome stuff. I'll know I've made it when I've got a drummer and a percussionist. Oh, yeah. I want a percussionist. I want a Sheila E, like out of Prince's Band, just going crazy on the timbales.

Yeah. But I don't make that sort of music. Tommy, we talked about something on another medium not long ago, which I'm deliberately saved up to explore a bit more now. Now, you used to be into, who was it? Who was the band? No idea what you're talking about. I'll give you a hint.

That's all the time we have for this week on the Little Dumb Dumb Club. To Miracoy. Why did you start doing that? It's not fucking Scatman John. I am right there with you. Went to see him live a couple of times. A couple of times. I've been like four or five times.

Yeah, he puts on an amazing show. Yeah. Well, he hasn't toured here for a long time. Look, I'm fine with the music. What I want to explore more is when I asked you if you, I thought, you know what? I reckon you would have dressed a bit like him. I reckon you would have gone into the top hats and so. Yes, I did. And you gave me a bit of affirmative. And that's when I bookmarked and went, you know what, I reckon you would have dressed a bit like him. I reckon you would have gone into the top hats and so.

Yes, I did. And you gave me a bit of affirmative. And that's when I bookmarked and went, you know what, I'll save this for another time. Yeah, why waste this on Dave O'Neill's radio show on the ABC? You can't really embarrass him about things he's worn when I'm sitting here because I've probably worn everything just as bad or as fluffy or as ravey or as top-ass. Not the answer Carl wants. No, no.

I'm going to ignore that. Yeah, I did. I was big into the – he wore a lot of stripy shirts. Adidas, he exclusively wears Adidas shoes and got a bunch of Adidas. Did you get into fur coats? Nah, no fur coats. I remember him looking more like a bit of a cyber pimp, like, you know, big fluffy hat and jacket.

Yeah, the fluffy hat. Well, because he started out, you know, like early days, he would wear just a poncho on stage. Right. And then it got more and more on and he was just wearing, like, an expensive suit plus a big metal style Indian. A Viking sort of hat thing he rocked there for a while. Viking Indian kind of headdress thing that he stuck with for,

because this is pretty nerdy, but it was kind of like every new tour that they did for every new album, there'd be a new hat. And so then he did, when he did A Funk Odyssey, okay, terrible name, that was when he had the big silver one that he then just, he's just worn that ever since. So the next album came out and he was like, yeah, here's the hat again. I was like, I'm like, yeah, it's a new hat. He now exclusively wears a silver hat.

Yeah, it's got the big spikes, the big furry things. Don't pretend I know anything about it. This is way before Empire of the Sun. They too have a whole album about the power of their headdresses. Yeah, see, they somehow pull it off a little bit better. Yes, they do. Or they kind of get away with it, I guess. Why is that?

Now, did you get into, like, you know, because he loved his cars as well. Yeah, I do own a lot of expensive cars. He's Jamie Oliver's favourite artist. Oh, really? Yeah. That's a big claim to fame Because you know Everyone respects Chefs Musical taste So

I would have sold a lot of units I wonder if they're mates But I did hear that Jade and Rekha Are just a speed freak Anyways They're probably never hungry I heard that Killing Heidi

Was Peter Russell Clark's Favourite band So That's true It's true They brought out a thing Recently That is

Amazing That I hope they do more of They reissued A bunch of their earlier albums with kind of a second disc on each one of like, you know, remixes of live tracks and stuff. This is Jamiroquai. This is Jamiroquai, yeah. But then a new, like he wrote, JK wrote liner notes for each album kind of about the making of the album.

And you'd think, like I got them thinking, because I had just lost my original copies of those albums, like, oh, I'll buy these all again. And I got them thinking, oh, this will just be a bloody puff piece where he talks about, oh, and it was so inspirational doing that tour. He just absolutely tees off on people who aren't in the band anymore. He talks about how just off his head he was the whole time. Does he bitch about his old hat? I'll have to read it again.

He probably does. But for some it's meant to be a celebration of like, you know, oh, the 20 years of the music and it's just him going, yeah, this was the worst month of my life. I honestly tried to kill myself several times during the making of this. Anyway, enjoy this reissue. I remember this drummer yelled at me as I was burning past him in my Ferrari.

I was like, you arsehole. Sounds like he's wearing the Edward de Bono black hat there. Edit that out. I'm so used to being edited out now with all my fuck-ups from doing the show. Me too, me too. I just love a guy that went from being first album, singing about the world and how we've got to save the planet and everything, to two albums later there is a track that opens with a minute and a half

of just the sound of him driving his Lamborghini and going up the gears. Just with no music, just a minute and a half of me. This is a study in how money changes people. I started wearing a new hat that was just like a smokestack. It was just halfing, spewing pollution out of it. So yeah, that's my embarrassing... That's not so bad. I'm pretty sure I had a Jamiroquai sticker.

One of the great band logos. The little buffalo man. What was the music store in Violet Town? There's no music store in Violet Town. We had a jam night sometimes. That was fun, round the fire. Not even a Brash's? I think it was a Leading Edge or a Brash's.

Yeah, I was going to say, it would have been a Central Music, a Leading Edge. A what? Sounds. Was that a store? There's one in the

Northcote Plaza or something like that. Oh, right. Leading Edge. Yeah. Boy, didn't they? Wow. Were they exclusively

Country Victoria? Yeah, they were a pretty small one. Like your network video. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So dismissively. Whatever happened to video stores? I mean, I know what happened to video stores.

They stopped. But when I was a kid, that was $6 for a new release. And they've never changed prices. Yeah. How does that work? Really? Yeah. They've never changed prices.

And that's 25 years ago or something that's or more they've never gone up so that means the equivalent back then it was like 25 30 dollars for that because dvds have come down in price as well that you can buy because i remember the michael jackson uh thriller the making of which was a half hour cassette was like $70 or something like that it was like a half hour that was it $70 to own that VHS yeah yeah right well I just feel guilty when I think back because you know the equivalent of $6

back then 25 years ago and more what it's worth now that must be $30, $40, $50 or something these days I cannot believe that I put my parents through so much pressure to give me the equivalent of $40 or $50 to rent out Porky's for the revenge. For one night.

Just to rent them. Yeah, just to rent. I can barely remember that sort of era because we didn't have a video store in town or anywhere nearby. So that seems excessive. Yeah. What did you do? What did you do in Violet Town?

That's why we started a band. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We. What did you do? What did you do in Violet Town? That's why we started a band. Yeah, right. We didn't just live in the country. We lived out in the hills in the forest like 40 minutes out of the little town. So, yeah, there was really no written videos. Oh, 40 minutes out of Violet Town? Mm-hmm. The mountains.

My, just quickly on network video and video, so there's a network video near me and me and my girlfriend went in there the other night. I don't know why. We've got an Apple TV, but we just, you know, sometimes it's just easy to walk through and look at the shelves. Like going through lists on the net is kind of hard. A lot of my childhood

was just looking at video covers in the video shop and going, wouldn't it be cool to watch that one? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And just over and over again and never watching it.

Also, you just skipped over the fact that Tommy said going through lists on the net is hard. Buzzfeed, man. I'm working up a sweat. Totally. We have Apple TV

at home as well and I can't for the life of me think what to get I get into a shop almost just write it down on a notepad go back home

get it on the Apple TV that's pretty much yeah that's pretty much what we did the inspiration but we the lady who works in there behind the counter

is she knows she knows that it's months away from the post office next door being able to finally expand so she's trying to she's trying to give you full service but it's just it's months away from the post office next door being able to finally expand. So she's trying to give you full service, but it's got the opposite effect to what she wants it to.

She's just going way too hard. My girlfriend's got the account. She didn't have her card, so she's had to give over her license. And she's like, oh, it's got a different address on your license to what it is on your account. And my girlfriend's like, yeah, I haven't changed it on the license yet. She goes, well, when you get it changed changed you'd better make sure you come back in here because it's just going to be easier for us and we're like yeah maybe we'll just put that back on the shelves and go rent this off itunes instead you know steve's jobs doesn't pop up on your

screen and go good day guys yeah we'll fix we'll fix that and bring it back in on friday are you guys still open then or are you done by that? Yeah, it's sad. I can't go in. It's the end of an era though. Yeah. The end of an era for a few things. Staff pics.

Like, you know, the weird, cool sort of nerdies. There's a breed of people that work at video stores and I really happen to like them. I've always got crushes on the video store guy. Like, they're just knowledgeable about this art form. I was going to say, there was a girl who worked at Missing Link Records. Her name was Beck. In Missing Link, they used to put little coloured stickers on all their choices

and I pretty much bought everything she put a sticker on. Just because I wanted to date her. Exactly. There was this guy called... That did sound as weird as it was. You could have just taken one of the coloured stickers, just put it on you and then walk up and go, G'day.

G'day, Trenton. G'day, colours and stickers. Do you like me now? We had the same thing, my girlfriends and I, one guy called Felix, I think his name was, who was always making the mad stuff, picks just incredible films, so impressive. You know, those days are over.

Yeah. Yeah, it's been replaced by previous Oscar winners, more stuff by Woody Allen. How's this fit? We have Netflix, and Netflix is really good at kind of like looking at what you've watched and then recommending kind of similar things. You know, you've watched this true crime show,

here's all the other true crime shows. And it's sort of done by category, so it's like more true crime shows, more romantic comedies. And then we've been watching it a lot, and my girlfriend said this depressed her so much. The other day it came up up with why don't you watch one of these shows again now it's just telling us to watch movies for a second time we've gone through so much and it's like look guys you get to the end of this world we thought it was infinite but what about by just getting sick of you why don't you just go down the video shop? Go and hassle them instead of us. You've seen everything here.

Maybe you should go outside for a conversation. Go outside for a walk. How about getting off your fat ass? Yeah, we come home and we see that there's broken glass that's on the outside of the house and we think it's been a burglary and then we notice the Apple TV's gone. Nah, it's grown legs and just done a runner.

It's become aware and just left us to our own devices. Oh, no, that's about it. Let's do some plugs. What do you think? Yeah, sweet. So, guys, Spics and Specs, the new season starts. Wednesday the 5th.

Wednesday the 5th of February. 5th of February. So, one week from this going up. If you're listening to this in 100 years' time, we're talking about 2014. Yeah. No, we're talking about 2014. Oh, yeah. That's another story for another podcast. Sounds like a great one too if you were listening

to this 70 years 100 years in the future we're talking to the people who were on Spics and Specs 70 hosts ago before they regenerated

just before Heelsy came back we had a crack in there we were like number 30 you'll really love that talk about videos we've got a bunch of stuff coming up. I'm in Brisbane very, very soon doing my show Dreamboat at the Brisbane Powerhouse.

Tickets are on sale now if you go to TommyDassolo.com. We've got our live Little Dumb Dumb Club on the Saturday, March the 8th at the Southside Tea Room. Yes, it's at 4pm. You can get tickets on LittleDumbDumbClub.com. Big guests already lined up. You're then immediately after that doing your show. You're going to take off for your show. So it's a good chance for people that want to see both of us on the one night.

You can take off, follow Tommy to his show, or I'm in the same venue immediately afterwards with the first performance of Carl Chandler's Got Talent. The first time. It will never be as shit as that again. So why don't you come in to see me get really fucking angry with the world. And so with that in mind, it is free to get in, of course, isn't it? You'd think so.

No, Qantas aren't sponsoring me for the trip to Brisbane, so it's for the low, low price of $8. How much does your show, Tommy? Well, mine will be fully worked up by that point and actually have some thought and consideration put into it. But with that in mind, $6. We've also got our Melbourne stuff on

sale. Again, littledumbdumbclub.com. If you're in Los Angeles or San Francisco, I'm doing some gigs there. Next week,

tommydasslow.com for the dates of that. Come down. There's one person on the Facebook, as I already said, they're coming to see me in San

Francisco. Great. And especially with the Melbourne live podcast, we've got what, four of them? Just to fully explain, it's four of them, and you can get a season pass.

It's, I think, three... It's a price of three for four podcasts, basically five podcasts, because we're going to do our famous drunk cast on the final night of the festival at late night. So that'll be... Come down, Ella. Yeah, Ella, you'll be well and truly invited to get plastered.

Oh, house band, house band. Yeah. Okay, this is anything to go by. Just add some alcohol. Let's you and me do some Jamiroquai covers. Yeah. You may get to see Tommy and Carl's back. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Paralytic Heidi, maybe. Yeah, we can do that. So, yeah, hit us up. It's the one time of the year that we ask guys to come and say hi and come and see shows and contribute a little bit over the door to come and see us up. It's our one time of the year that we ask guys to come and say hi and come and see shows and contribute a little bit over the door to come and see us live. It's awesome to meet you freaks and not just feel like we're shouting into a void that no one's listening to.

Exactly. You know what? We miss the laughter on this thing. We only get the laughter of ourselves. So come along to our live shows and give us a few laughs. That would be awesome. Come and say hi. Sometimes people are a bit scared to come and say hi sometimes people don't a bit scared to

come and say hi as well so come along come up and scream whatever you want at our stupid faces Josh and Ella thank you very much for joining us

such a pleasure and thank you guys for listening and we'll see you next time see you mate see you mate