The Little Dum Dum Club with Tommy & Karl - Episode 43 - Declan Fay

Episode Date: July 27, 2011

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Hey mates, welcome into the Little Dumb Dumb Club. My name is Tommy Dasolo and sitting opposite me, my co-host Carl Chandler. G'day dickhead. Now... And I mean that today. Right, now... I mean that today. Let's talk about what's going on here.

Let's explain the situation. Today our guest in the studio was... studio was Sean McAuliffe. He was in here for about a good hour. We had a good chat with him. We heard about the unmade Milo Kerrigan movie that never saw the light of day. We heard about... Let's not just talk about it. Let's play the clip now.

Well, interesting you bring that up because something happened with the system at the end of it and it's gone. It's what, Tommy? It's gone. So we don't have that anymore? We don't have it. It's lost. That beautiful hour that we shared will never be heard by anyone except for the people that were in the room. Wow. So we've officially got a lost episode of the Little Dum Dum Club.

All because you didn't hit play and record at the same time on the tape deck. I pushed the right buttons. I don't know what's happened. Jesus. But we've got a friend of the show in here. You may know him from The Sweetest Plum on Triple M. The next best thing to Sean McAuliffe. He's interviewed Sean McAuliffe before, and he's worked around here for a little while,

so maybe he can sort of troubleshoot what's going on, and just also what's going on wrong with our lives in general. It's friend of the show, Declan Fay. Yay! Now, be very careful how you bandy about terms like friend of the show because to my knowledge, you have asked just about anybody in Melbourne, anybody and everybody who has ever walked past a microphone and farted has been asked to be a guest on this show, including my co-host, including Yumi Steins, including bloody some asshole from down at the Comics Lounge. I have never been asked to be on this show until.

To be fair, we are putting this episode to air unlike Sean McAuliffe. So, you know, you're in rarefied air there. No, the only reason you're putting this up is because you have completely cocked up your Sean McAuliffe interview and you've seen me walk past the window and you've said, Oh, can we do this thing with you? We'd really love to do it. To be fair, we asked a few people before we even asked you today. Yeah, I know. Yeah, we asked the bloke in the canteen when he was closing up shop.

Yeah, that's right. We asked Orion Stamps in. The legendary radio duo. Yeah, you have asked every arsehole, and I happen to be the last person walking past the window, and you've asked me to come in. So, yes, I will. Happy to have you in there the window and you've asked me to come in. So, yes, I will.

Happy to have you in there. Yeah, you're carrying on like this. Can you blame us for not asking you? No, actually, that's fair enough. Well, look, Sean McAuliffe is an interesting one because did it go well? I think it went well. Yeah, it was good. Yeah, I mean, I feel like... Not that we've got any evidence to show that.

Yeah, I feel like as time goes on, I'm going to build up more and more how good it was in my head just to really depress myself. You know, at the moment, I'm trying to be like, you know, when you break up with someone and then you instantly just convince yourself of all their faults. You're like, oh, but she did that thing that was really fucked. So I'm now trying to go, oh, he wasn't that good. He was just all right. It wasn't that good an interview.

Yeah, she had a lazy eye. I did. Can I say that? just all right, it wasn't that good an interview. Yeah, she had a lazy eye. I did. Can I say that? At uni I had a lot of trouble here. I had a girlfriend who you sometimes don't notice those things when you really love someone. You don't notice these things. Absolutely.

And there's some little thing wrong with her or, you know, like because you're just in love with her. Yeah. But I remember one of the early times that I slept with her, I seriously, I'm not making, her eye started to boggle off to the side. And being a bit drunk and a bit immature, I remember, and you think when you're younger that you're better at sex than you are, like you're better at sex than you are, and you're not.

You're absolutely rubbish at it. But it's because you just always have it when you're drunk. And I remember my exact thought was, oh, fuck the riot. That is weird because that is the same thing that Sean McAuliffe said a couple of hours ago. Hang on. Are you telling me McAuliffe's doing fuck the riot gear? That's my gear. That's my gear, McAuliffe.

I would hazard to guess. I don't know. but I would put, I'm a gambling man, I'd put a lot of money on the fact that McAuliffe has never fucked anyone's eye out. So, I mean, you've chatted to the man on your show a couple of times. I have, yeah. And how have you found that as an experience? Oh, this is just depressing, getting somebody to replace McAuliffe and going, what's McAuliffe like? Why don't you, like, there's so many other things you could ask me.

You're asking me what's McAuliffe like. Look, I don't, honestly, I don't get that. I don't, for some reason, I get daunted performing in front of people, but I don't get daunted in interviews. But I was daunted by McAuliffe, who's one of the few people who I genuinely, genuinely look up to. Oh, you're telling, I was daunted by McAuliffe, who's one of the few people who I genuinely, genuinely look up to. Oh, you're telling. I was daunted so much I fucking deleted the whole thing.

You forgot to press record. It's terrible. The only person I ever forgot to press record with was Miff Warhurst. And then she did it again, and it was fine. See, that's the dilemma we're in now. Do we say? Do we tell him? There's no dilemma. We will never

speak of this again. We shouldn't even put this out. No, I'm... Jeez, Dec would love that. What do we do? Do we, you know, just do we... My thinking is we say thanks so much for coming in. Something happened that didn't work. That's, you know, but we appreciate

your time so much. And sort of leave it in his court. Do you know what I mean? If he wants to say, I'll do it again, then great But if not, no worries We haven't asked, we've just informed him Just let him know, sorry it's not going to go out He's not going to catch the ferry over from Williamstown To come and do this again

What I think is that you actually can't ask him to come in again But I think that you could If you've got two roving mics And you could say, we'll, like, you know, two, like, roving mics, and you could say, we'll go and meet you, because we stuffed this up, we'll take the bullet, and you go and meet him, and then, like, maybe somewhere that he eats. He won't want you in his house. I wouldn't want you in my house.

Carl gave me a lift the other day, and I didn't like the idea of him coming to my house, so I told him to meet me at a coffee shop down the road. Let's talk about this, because this has been of interest to me since I heard the story. How did this come about? How did it come about that Carl was driving you to a public speaking engagement? Yes. My job before I, well, the job that I had for quite a number of years was talking in

high schools. It was doing theatre shows. Then they said, would you talk about writing? And then they just said, would you just talk about anything? Sure. And so I did that for a number of years, and occasionally it still comes up. And I don't have that. I don't have a car at the moment.

I'm in a mutual agreement with the Victorian police that I shouldn't drive for a while. And so I did have a friend who was going to give me a lift, but he called the night before and he said, I can't do it. And I got really angry and I said, I told you, this is the one, you can't pull the pin on this. I have to be at this school at 10.30 tomorrow morning. He saw McAuliffe on his TV, got nervous and accidentally blew up his car. No, he saw McAuliffe on his TV, got nervous and his cousin died. So that was the reason.

And he then said, unfortunately, my cousin has died. And I went, oh, all right, you don't have to give me a lift. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so anyway, I then literally went through my phone and thought, I know enough unemployed comedians that if I ask them, they'll give me a lift. The exact same way that we've got you on the show today. Yeah, that's right.

The only difference is I thought about you beforehand for a lift and made a conscious decision to ask you. I didn't wait for you to walk past my fucking house and say, oh, you were just there. Do you want to drive me? Interestingly, Tommy, I don't know if you've ever, you probably have had to ask Carl for a lift numerous times. Yeah, I've been in Carl's car.

This is how you pitch to Carl if you want a lift. I rang him and I was really, I was very, and I said, look, this is a bit weird, but I need to lift in the morning somewhere. And it's in Frankston. It's about an hour away. It's going to be an hour back. I can give you some money. And then he goes, and I was really embarrassed.

And he goes, like a road trip. And I go, I'm not really a road trip. It's more it's my job and I need to be driven there, probably wait for an hour. And he goes, you mean like a road trip? And I said, oh, sort of, but I can give you some money. And he just went, road trip. So I'm convinced the only way to get him to do anything is to go. And I swear to God at the end, and I did give him some money

because he got me out of enormous difficulty. At the end, I said, I wish I could give you some more money, but I don't have any more. And then I said, I feel really bad. And he goes, no, I love road trips. So anything. That's the secret, okay. To be fair, I only just beat you to be able to drive you out there

because you've lost your license and my license runs out in about two weeks. Yeah, it never bodes well when you say to someone, hey, I've lost my license. Can you give me a lift somewhere? And then he says, I've also lost my license. And then I said, well, maybe you shouldn't drive. And he goes, no, no, I've got it for another two weeks. And then, but it didn't. So as many road trips as I can in between now and then.

That's the plan. You're just cramming it in. You're like a person before. Do you guys want to go to Horsham after the show? So you're a good bloke. You kicked in some petrol money. No, I gave him. I let him drive in my car so there wouldn't be damage done to his car.

And he spent, look, I'd say 40, 45 minutes just slamming you. Yeah, of course. That's usually 45 minutes 40, 45 minutes just slamming you, Tommy. Yeah, of course. That's usually 45 minutes I use on the podcast slamming him. You say that like it's a joke, like I'm going to be somewhat, oh, but I would be more surprised if you hadn't said that. No, but it was, look, I actually, he was a very good driving partner and so good I've asked him to do it again next week. Well, how could I not be a good driving partner when you were telling me every indication

and every break and every traffic light that was coming up? No, it is. Well, look, the thing is, I haven't gotten used to the fact that I'm not driving and I used to like driving a lot and I didn't know. And so when, and yeah, I did, I was being very specific to cars saying, you can change lane now, change lane again, turn on the windscreen wipers. And so I. Try and turn them off, but I couldn't.

Yeah, that's right. They got stuck. They got stuck. Yeah. Yeah. And then the other, well, that's right. Your own car, which then when you drove me just and gave me, we dropped my car off and then you dropped me somewhere else.

Your own car has central locking that can only be opened from the boot. That's right. And it has windscreen wipers that when they squirt the detergent, it just keeps squirting. That's right. Which suddenly made me feel much better about the fact that I'd let you use my car to get us to Frankston rather than yours. Yours is just a metal coffin on wheels.

It got nervous. It just got nervous. And correct me if I'm wrong, but is there a Soundgarden cassette that's wedged permanently in the tape deck? It's the only tape I've got. That's fascinating because we had a VW Beetle. It was my family car, and I love the cassette that gets wedged in there. Ours that got wedged in there was Dean Martin's greatest hits.

And every time, the only real place I went with my dad in the car was to go to Waverley Park to watch the footy. And every time I go on the Southeastern Arterial, I swear to God I can hear, Everybody loves somebody sometime. When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's Chris Mew? Is that the song? pie, that's Chris Mew? Is that the song? Yeah, that's right.

That's a little-known B-side that Dean Martin recorded. So, yeah, I was consequently the only person who knew Dean Martin's entire back catalogue in year nine at Marcelin College. So, yeah, that was our road trip experience. But Carl must have talked it up, Tommy, because you came up earlier today before I was involved in this, and you said, can I come on your next road trip? I'm like Carl.

I just love a road. You know what? I don't think it's specific to Carl. I think it's any, quote-unquote, quotation marks, working comedian. Yeah. Because you're getting out of the house for a day. Yeah. I mean, you're sitting around at home.

There's nothing else. You can't watch TV. You can't do anything. the house for a day. Yeah. I mean, you're sitting around at home. There's nothing else. You can't watch TV. You can't do anything. You've just got to talk crap. But you know that you can't, at your next trip to Centrelink, when they said looking for jobs, you can't write road trip. Road trip! With an exclamation mark on the end.

Spring break followed by eight exclamation marks. Yeah. You know that that doesn't, you can't just put my number down on there. And when they ring and say, do you run a company called Road Trip? Did Carl Chandler or Tommy Dasolo both come to you for work during that time? Do you run a company called Fake Sean McAuliffe Inc? Yeah, that's right. Do you run a company called Cocked Up Sean McAuliffe Introduce?

So when you, getting back to it, when you said Miff did it again, how did that come about? Honestly, I just, I rang her and I said, could you please, could I, something, I lied and I said that the computer had crashed and had wiped it and she went, oh, God, that always happens. Oh, yeah, ask me anything. And she was absolutely lovely about it. I think, I mean, I think it would be a very big manoeuvre

to get Sean McAuliffe to come back in here. Double coup. I do too. I think it would be a big manoeuvre. I think what you aim for is you aim for to go and meet him. Yes. I think ask him before you turn up at his house. And I think it would be, but then I think if that can't happen,

then I think you just, you ask, you talk to him over the phone. Yeah, well, I mean, it wouldn't even be that much of an issue had half of the team that's not this half tweeted that we were interviewing him four days before it had gone down, which we got into trouble for before with 1G Fleet when we publicised that we were interviewing him. See how this has worked? It's my fault for not hitting play and record now.

Yeah, no. That's my fault. But you're learning. You're learning one of the important rules of radio, which is just blame the other asshole. Yeah, that's it. It's better, though. You guys haven't worked out. Blame them when they're not in the room.

Simultaneous blame tends to cancel itself out. Yeah, well let's, you and me, we'll do a road trip on Tuesday and then you and Carl can do a road trip on Wednesday and we'll just, we'll get it all out. I have to say, I actually, I want to roll you, Tommy, but I can't. He was actually extremely, I did throw a few

fish hooks out there to get him to say stuff about you and I was like, oh yeah, working in a partnership, it's really hard when the other bloke doesn't pull his weight. And he didn't. He refused to buy it. And you just ended up selling out yourself because then you just made it quite clear that you're unhappy in your partnership. Then I went on a road trip with Nick Maxwell from the Swedish Plum,

and he got told a few tales. Well, have you guys mastered the passive aggressive silence yet? Does that only happen when money's involved? We're super great mates. Yeah. Nothing could come between us. Well, that's basically, that's when you decide to do it professionally. You're not deciding to have a career.

It's basically deciding how much are you willing to be paid for the slow degradation of your friendship when it just rots down to a nub and then you're just left with a nub? And then you're a success. Right. Yeah. You have to get out before you've been nubbed. So this is, maybe we should give a bit more context for listeners that aren't aware. You and Nick Maxwell, who's been on this show previously, you do a show.

Yeah. He was asked before me. Yeah. That's fine. Yeah. Several weeks, but who's counting? I can bring up the number, but there's no need for that., do a show. Yeah, he was asked before me. That's fine. Several weeks, but who's counting? I can bring up the number, but there's no Nick. To be honest, I'll just put my hand up here and say, when we asked Nick, I said, shouldn't we ask Dick as well?

And he said, no, don't worry. You did not. Don't worry about that. You're not in his car. You did not say that. That's fine. I mean, you asked Nick. I did.

You did not. I did. You asked Nick to come on this show. You've asked him to do stand-up at your stand-up night. That's all fine. I think you even had him in your comedy festival show. He was the best man at my wedding and I'm not even married. That's right.

I can't even get Nick to answer my text messages at night. I don't even know if he's going to turn up when the show starts. So you do a show on Triple M now. Before that, you did a podcast together. And then before that, you wrote together on several shows. We did. On Rove. We did.

For Rove, we wrote for a few abominations at Channel 7. Go on. Say let's hear it. Let's have it. No, no. Look, I enjoyed the actual experiences, but I didn't enjoy the shows, if that makes sense. I'm just reading through your bio here. You worked on Channel 7's The White Room.

I don't. No, look. Yes. He's gone on a road trip with IMDB and found out what he needs to know. Yes, we rode at Channel 7 on a few sort of more difficult experiences. And I think it's one of those things. We actually genuinely didn't realise how lucky we had it when we worked at Rove. And I think that Rove was a really good place to be a young writer.

Yeah, you shouldn't have convinced him to throw it in. I didn't. Mate, that was a sweet gig. And there was a lot of us that would have preferred that he didn't wind it up. But, yeah, so that finished. We went to Channel 7 and then that left us sort of on the precipice of a terrible depression. seven and then uh that left us sort of on the precipice of a terrible depression and um we then uh started doing a podcast which was honestly there was no commercial intent it was just purely that you know as you guys know you have to you have to get up and make something like you have

to you have to do something yeah yeah i mean you know you have like for carly he has to get up and do a road trip every day and so that i've got to get up and not record things. Yeah, that's right. You have to get up and not press record. But it's in the act of doing that that you feel like you're contributing something. And so, yeah, and we honestly genuinely didn't have any sort of commercial sort of – we didn't think it was going to be any sort of way to make us famous. And it was ironic that the one thing that you don't try at is the one thing

that ended up sort of having a relative degree of success. So, therefore, I think the lesson is you cocking up the Sean McCaleb thing may end up sort of inadvertently having – With me hosting talking about your generation. Yeah, he might be the guy that gets famous for not recording things. I don't know if that happens. What an awesome show that would be. If you come on a road trip with us,

are you going to be constantly clearing the taco? The, um... Yeah, the tachometer. I thought you were mispronouncing taco. Like, I'm there with a flat bottom old El Paso just emptying ingredients out the window. Yeah, emptying it onto the ground. Now that, I mean, in itself, that's a great performance project.

But I'm sure that some arts council would be. That's a great comedy festival show. Tommy Dasolo is emptying tacos. Emptying the tacos. Yeah. I mean, that, basically. The pose is me looking into a camera with a look on my face that says, where's me dinner gone?

Yeah, yeah. I mean, emptying the taco does sound like a terrible metaphor for doing a shit. What you can do is, I think we've talked about this before, is that people, when they can't afford to keep making new festival posters, they just use the same photo, like four years in a row. But they'll change the title and superimpose a new thing on. So like one hand's up and one's down going, and then what you can do is have an empty taco in one hand.

That's all you need to. But it's like you've clearly stolen it off the internet. Like it's like a really bad. It's JPEG. It's a bit mapped. It's a badly pixelated. It's watermarkG. It's a bit mapped. It's a badly pixelated... It's watermarked. It's got getting images stamped across it.

That's right. And I've no doubt that show will get in the access of two or three people. I'm going to chew in for a grand, if nothing else. Some sweet sponsorship. Old El Paso will get on board. Given the good numbers that I had this year at my festival show, I might actually have my show within a road trip Just get in the car and have the two or three punters in the back seat

What, Quantock style? No, there was a show at the Fringe that did that a couple of years ago It wasn't called Road Trip I can't remember what it was I actually can't remember what it was called But legitimately it was a show that you buy a ticket And only three people can go to the show. And seriously, they put you in a car.

Actually, one person can go to the show and there's three actors in the car and then they act something out. Oh, really? Seriously. And this happened about 2005. And they actually, there's like five cars going simultaneously. One play happens in one, one happens in another. And a friend of mine went in one of the cars because they didn't have someone to go in

it. And so he went in the car and then they drove it outside a house and they, they're playing it out like it's a crime thing. And they're going, you stole it. You stole that thing. And as they're yelling in the car, a neighbor called the cops on the car and the cops turned up as this thing is going. So he's now freaking out going, are the cops meant to be here? So, yeah, no, they've beaten you out for that.

That's awesome. Yeah, the great thing about a car is you don't have to pay any venue costs. It's just in your car you'll be going through a lot of detergent. Similar to that, comedian Mickey D, a few years ago in the Adelaide Fringe Festival, his venue at the back of it had two big doors, like a fire escape thing that kind of flew open onto the main street, right? Oh, right. And he would end his show by walking through the crowd, kicking the door open and getting

his audience to do a game of Ring-a-Ring-a-Rosie in the middle of the main street of Adelaide, right? So he does this for two weeks and everyone loves it. The final night, he does his show, he goes out, does Ring-a-Ring-a-Rosie in the middle of the main street of Adelaide, right? So he does this for two weeks and everyone loves it. The final night, he does his show, he goes out, does Ring-a-Ring-a-Rosie. He's organized for some mates to come past in a car, pull up, grab him, bundle him into the boot and drive off. His family is in the crowd and he doesn't tell them that he's doing this. No way.

So they flip out and they're like on the phone to the cops, and then he's running around late that night going, how funny is this? What a great prank, boys. And everyone's like, you know your parents think that you're dead? That is actually awesome. Yeah, that sounds like a sweet road trip to me. That is a show.

That is a show that I would want to be in. Yeah. Well, look, I can contribute you one weird show that Sean McAuliffe did, Anecdote, and this may make up for it. Thank God. I remember. Hang on, Tommy. Press stop.

No, look, it's nowhere near as good as being bundled into the back of a car. But I remember interviewing him years ago when I was still at uni and saying, oh, you did Melbourne Uni Law Reviews, and I'm in the Law Review. Everyone's always trying to make weird concepts. Did you do any weird concepts? And he said, yes. And he said, we had a stage that was painted all white with a white chair on it that was all white except one leg was black.

And he said, and the audience didn't find that very funny. That's all I can offer you by way of Sean McAuliffe anecdotes. I'm pressing stop right now. Unfortunately, that's all I can offer you. Wow. I want to tell you a quick story. I haven't told this on the show before, and I think you would appreciate this story. And it comes to mind because of this sort of thing.

This sounds like a performance piece, what I'm about to tell you, but it's not. In my last office job, I met my girlfriend at my last office job, and she used to work with this other girl. Her boss was telling her this story. to work with this other girl, her boss, her boss was telling her this story. They just, she'd just gotten together with a, with a, a new boy and that was, you know, it was all very lovey dovey and romance and whatever it was. And I'd been going out with my girlfriend for maybe a year or two or whatever, you know,

where it's not quite as romantic as it was. So the new couple are like doing all these romantic things and then she's saying to my girlfriend, oh, look what, what's happening. Then she would come home to me and go, oh, how come we're not doing anything like that? And I'd be like, oh, great. This is great. So this one Monday, my girlfriend's boss came in and was saying, listen to this. This is what happened this morning. We got up.

My boyfriend said, what are you doing this Friday? And she said, nothing. And he said, keep your plans open. Something's going to happen happen i'm not going to tell you what it is but just keep it open for friday and she's like oh oh okay okay he goes i'm going to give you a clue every day as to what's going to happen on friday here it is today's clue is beijing and she went okay and then went to went to, and she retold the story to my girlfriend. Went, oh, it's so romantic, and there's like a clue every day, and today's Beijing.

Oh! And then she came home, told me the story. I'm like, why don't you do anything like that? I'm like, oh, great, all right, awesome. So the next day, same thing happened again. The guy said, the clue is number two. And then she went to work and went to my girlfriend. Oh, you know, Beijing, oh, it could be a flight to Beijing, and number two is

like the gate number or, you know, whatever it was. If this ends up with her getting a plate of lemon chicken. Well, what happened was she came home, she went, oh, here's the new clue. So I was copying it every day. Why can't you be more romantic like this? It went on Wednesday, Thursday,

Friday. Anyway, I forgot about it and it got to like Monday. And I went, hang on, I haven't copped it for a few days. What's happening here? Yeah, yeah. So then I said to my girlfriend, what happened with that story? And she goes, oh, nothing. Don't worry about it.

I'm like, oh, no, let's worry about it. I want to hear what happened. What happened was it got to Friday. She cleared the calendar, cleared the weekend, this girl. The boyfriend comes and picks her up outside of work on the Friday afternoon. She's got her bags packed. She's got everything. She's all done up, whatever.

They get in the car. They drive about a kilometer. They pull over. And he goes, well, here we go. And she goes, what do you mean? He goes, we're just pulling over. We're parking. We're waiting for this.

Waiting for what? I've made a booking for the restaurant tram. Let's jump on. No way. And she started crying. Oh, no. So the clues were like something like Beijing. It was like the Beijing hut.

They were parking outside the Beijing hut. Number two was like the tram stop. This is terrible. I mean, this is actually a metaphor for relationships, but also for life. Because everybody is always over-promising. Yeah, exactly. They're raising the bar so much. So there's no way that unless they end up on a plane to Beijing by the end of that week.

Exactly. The thing is, I sort of went, well, she shouldn't get so upset and go crazy because she's still getting something for free. But then on the other hand, you don't say to someone, watch out, watch out, watch out for a year and then give them a Mars bar. Yeah. But what you've inadvertently done is, like all great storytellers do, you've told a metaphor that actually sums up your own scenario, which is you spent all this time over promising that you had,

that you were going to have Sean McAuliffe on the show, and you've tweeted it, and you've told everybody. And here we are with a tram restaurant of interviewees. Yeah, that's right. Now you've ended up with the fucking tram restaurant of guests. Ding, ding, ding. Oh, now we're both crying. You've ended up with a 40-year-old restaurant that just drives around in circles with very

full of disgruntled couples. We don't even get the lemon chicken. Yeah, that's right. Telling terrible anecdotes. Lemon chicken's off. Telling terrible anecdotes about girls' lazy eyes that they went out with at uni. So I hope that out of this, that something has been learned. I should have learned my own lesson first.

That's right. Right. So I hope that out of this, that something has been learned. I should have learned my own lesson first. That's right. And you've still got Greg Fleet angry at you for tweeting that he was going to be on your show. But invariably, that anger will wear off when he eventually asks you for $20. That wore off a long time ago. Yeah, that's right. Well, look, we talk about it a lot on this show. We always joke about going down to the casino after we're finished,

but, jeez, if ever there was a day to do it, I believe this to be the day. I think it's the last day to do it. I think our luck is out. There's no way. Yeah. God. So what is this?

If you're going to put a cryptic name for this podcast, it can be the Joy Luck Out Club. I'm not sure. We have truly earned our title, the Little Dum Dum Club, today. This is like an audio suicide. Yeah, yeah. I mean, how shit is this episode? This is terrible.

This is a suicide prevention episode in that we've both got each other here in the studio, so we both don't go out and neck each other. Well, look, I would love to go to the casino with you. I do occasionally, while I'm waiting for the tram, think I'll try and win my tram fare. But I can't. I unfortunately can't do it today. And I have a feeling that if I went in with both of you today, I'm going to walk out wearing a barrel with a tap on the side.

We've got about 20 other people to ask before we get to it. Yeah, no, I know. I don't think that I don't know that you've gone through. Sean's meeting us there in 15 minutes. We'll invite Floody down. Unfortunately, we'll have lost 20 bucks before we walk in know that you've gone through. Sean's meeting us there in 15 minutes. We'll invite Fleety down. Unfortunately, we'll have lost $20 before we walk in. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Well, thank you very much for having me.

Yeah, thanks for popping in, Declan. Look, thanks for listening, guys. And look, you know, this was still fun. You still got something for free, all right? It's bloody cost you nothing, so stop your bitching. Don't be getting at us on Twitter. Don't be. Or don't aim it at Carl Chandler. Aim it at Dashaling. Don't be getting at us on Twitter. Don't be... Or don't aim it

at Carl Chandler. Aim it at... No, aim it at neither. Aim it at technology. If this somehow comes back to bite me, that would be a great metaphor for my career. Well, if anyone listening has an in to Sean McAuliffe, see what you

can do. Send us an email, littledumbdumbclub at gmail.com. Thanks so much for listening, and we'll see you next time. See you, mates. See you, mates. Goodbye.