The Little Dum Dum Club with Tommy & Karl - Episode 59 - Ronny Chieng & Josh Earl

Episode Date: November 16, 2011

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, mates, welcome into the Little Dumb Dumb Club for another week. My name is Tommy Dasolo. Sitting opposite me is my co-host, Carl Chandler. G'day, dickhead. Thank you for joining us for another week. Thanks for listening in. We should mention again up the top here, our second ever live episode recording, December 4th, Sunday, December 4th at Soft Belly Bar.
Starting point is 00:00:26 6pm. Is it 6 or is it 5pm? I think I wrote 5pm on the invite thing. I wrote it at 5pm. We'll just turn up whenever and someone will be there. A couple of people have asked us how they get tickets. It's all on the door. It's going to be free, so just rock up
Starting point is 00:00:41 and we'll see you there. It's going to be a lot of fun. We've got some stuff in the works. It's going to be great. Thanks also to everyone who came out and checked us out at the Harvest Festival in Melbourne on Saturday. It was a bit of a weird time. We're usually much better. We're much better when we're not
Starting point is 00:00:59 sandwiched in between three bands playing around us in a semicircle simultaneously. To be fair. Yeah. I don't usually need that much bass behind me to tell jokes, but yeah, there was a bit of that happening. Yeah, it's just a perfect environment for comedy when the laughs are just sucked off straight up into the air, straight into the ether, never to be heard from again. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:20 I've been saying we were the only thing in the whole festival that there wasn't a line to. Yeah. That's how we were going. I can't believe I just said the phrase when the only thing in the whole festival that there wasn't a line to. Yeah. That's how we were going. I can't believe I just said the phrase when the laughs are sucked off. What is wrong with me tonight? We've got a good show for you tonight. We've got two guests. Our first guest joined us at the Harvest Festival on Saturday.
Starting point is 00:01:37 He's a previous guest on the show. He hosts the Lime Champions on Triple R. Please welcome into the Little Dumb Dumb Club once again, Josh Earle. Yay! G'day, dickhead. Is that the first time someone's ever tried to get in with their own g'day dickhead? That's the first time someone's dickheaded me. Yeah, wow.
Starting point is 00:01:54 How did it feel? It felt inclusive. It's fine. I like that. I wouldn't have done it if it was my first time on. Yeah, yeah. That's the sort of confidence you get after ep 2. Well, especially because usually the people that come on have never heard the show,
Starting point is 00:02:05 so they're usually like, what are you saying? Why are you insulting people? Our second guest today, it's his first time on the program. You may have seen him in the... Don't you dare dickhead me, by the way. You may have seen him in the Comedy Zone at the Melbourne Comedy Festival this year. You may have heard his podcast, The Ron Effect. Please welcome into the Little Dumb Dumb Club, Ronnie Chang.
Starting point is 00:02:25 Good day, mate. Oh, that's good. We have to point out at the moment that Ronnie is Asian, so he's trying to acclimatize. Thank you for having me on your podcast. Did we need to point that out? Yes, because I felt he was doing a very good job speaking, you know, the way that he thinks that we speak.
Starting point is 00:02:43 Is that something? Good day, mate. Yeah, see? you know English the way that he thinks that we speak is that something good day mates yeah see he's making a point of you know trying to show his identity or acclimatizing or something
Starting point is 00:02:52 aren't you is that what that is yes that's what it is I'm trying to what's the phrase integrate that's right never before
Starting point is 00:02:59 have you bullied a guest so aggressively in the opening was I bullied I'm surprised no wonder people think I'm such an asshole. I thought I was being nice to you. That is Kyle being nice.
Starting point is 00:03:09 I appreciate it. Thanks, Kyle. Thank you, Kyle, for not calling me. I thought we were not supposed to swear right off the bat. What did I say? Yeah, but that's not a swear word. That's not a swear? No, no.
Starting point is 00:03:17 Don't pull back the curtain too much. Oh, I'm sorry. Now when people listen to this and we do swear, they go, man, that's them trying not to. They can't even control themselves for 45 minutes. I'm sorry. I'm pretty impressed that, Tommy, you even know my podcast. That's pretty.
Starting point is 00:03:33 Yeah, I know your podcast. Well, the thing is, because you, me and Carl, as listeners will know, have recently been overseas, and you uploaded it, I think, right after we left, and we discovered it while we were away. Not that we've listened to it. We didn't listen to it at all. Thanks. I was and we discovered it while we were away. Not that we've listened to it. Thanks, I was trying to fill the vacuum when you left. I was trying to come in there with my own thing.
Starting point is 00:03:51 I listen to it now and it's all about me. We're aware of you. Here's what we were discussing. What is the Ron effect? What does that mean? I was trying to think of a name. I couldn't think of a name and the Dum Dum Club was taken. I just went the Ron effect. I want to put? I have no idea. I was trying to think of a name. I couldn't think of a name and the Dum Dum Club was taken and so I just went the Ron effect.
Starting point is 00:04:07 I want to put this out there that we found out because it was on Ronnie's Twitter page but I want to encourage people not to follow him because he's one of these people that just puts himself out there
Starting point is 00:04:17 and follows no one and goes, I'm just here for you to follow me. Well, the problem with following anyone is that once you follow one person you have to follow everybody. Yeah, that's called being a good wife.
Starting point is 00:04:28 I'm taking an interest in people. I have to admit this to you, Ronnie. There was a period of about a week on Twitter where I was very uncharitable towards you
Starting point is 00:04:35 because I realized because you didn't follow anyone, I could say whatever I liked about you and it wasn't going to matter. So at least once a day I would take time
Starting point is 00:04:42 out of my schedule. I've got multiple internet searches with my name running on Twitter. If I mention, I know and out of my schedule. I've got multiple internet searches with my name running. Any time, so on Twitter, if I mention, I know. And I just respond there. I just don't follow anybody, but I'm actively using the website. So what you just log on, you don't read anything?
Starting point is 00:04:53 I don't read. So you miss out on all the good conversation between these two. Do you even know what happens on Q&A on Monday night on the ABC? No, I don't. What is that? Oh, wow. What a lifestyle. You are not using Twitter properly at all.
Starting point is 00:05:06 I don't think anyone is because what are you supposed to do? Like when you use Twitter, are you supposed to, like when someone responds to you, do you retweet
Starting point is 00:05:11 and then reply or do you just reply straight? Let me tell you, I'll tell you what you're meant to do on Twitter. You are meant to set up an account for your cat is what you're meant
Starting point is 00:05:19 to do on there. I actually know what you're talking about. You are meant to follow a lot of people and then read through your scroll and go why do I follow these people? How do I get out of it?
Starting point is 00:05:29 Karl, you're meant to feel like you have an obligation to follow people that you've met twice and then constantly get angry about the fact that you can't unfollow them Is that fair? That's completely not unfair For the record, I do actually read a lot of people's Twitter I read Karl, Karl's is a great Twitter page.
Starting point is 00:05:45 So hang on, this is on the record. Well, why don't you follow me then? I just can't. Like I said, if I follow one person, I have to follow everybody. If you follow one person, just make it me. I can't do that because then people will be like, you follow Kyle, but you didn't follow me. That would be cool though. You can be like Kanye.
Starting point is 00:05:59 Didn't Kanye for a long time just follow like one dude? Like he just picked one of his followers at random, just this bloke, just no one in particular, and then all these people were getting at this guy going, who are you? Wasn't that Conan? Yeah, wasn't that Conan? Was it? Yeah, it was like some girl in Louisiana or something. Right, okay.
Starting point is 00:06:15 Or Conan? I mean, you can see why. Oh, Conan just followed his wife. I remember. I remember that. He just had one follower. How would you know? Oh, you've got a Google search on Conan and you.
Starting point is 00:06:26 That's why. So we're talking music festivals. Josh, you, of course, joined us. I did, for half a percent. The inaugural dum-dum appearance at a music festival. Now, before we go into the actual festival, when you called me out to book me for the gig, because it was you, you said,
Starting point is 00:06:43 Oh, I just hope we're not on the same time as TV and the radio. We were smack bang in the middle of TV and the radio. We were. And two things about that. When we were organizing it with the woman who booked it all in, I said to her, under no circumstances book us at the same time as TV on the radio, which I was being tongue in cheek, but I still hoped would be at least in some way taken partly seriously. And then I feel like we were scheduled at the same time as them,
Starting point is 00:07:09 almost out of spite. You know, we'll see about that, you little so-and-so. Classic example of me trying not to swear. So-and-so. You're always using those words on stage, stand-up gigs, backpackers. You dirty so-and-sos. But I will say I did enjoy it in knowing that we're on the same time as TV on the radio that you opened your set with a very specific
Starting point is 00:07:34 and clear reference to TV on the radio, and then you looked bewildered when it got no response, which of course the people that get that joke are going to be watching the band. I looked bewildered all through my set. I got no response whatsoever. No, you got response. It's just like we were saying, you know, you perform in a field and you can't hear anything.
Starting point is 00:07:52 You just have to. You perform in a wind farm. That's what it was like. Our stage was solar-powered as well, which great in hindsight, thinking, oh, not even hindsight, just thinking, oh, this is going to be great, solar-powered stage. And then halfway through my set, it just cut out. Right. in hindsight thinking oh not even hindsight just thinking oh this is going to be great solar powered stage and then halfway through my set
Starting point is 00:08:08 it just cut out right yeah brilliant yeah and it wasn't even like you know one of us if we were talking
Starting point is 00:08:13 we could have at least tried to get up close to the people you had your guitar going and everything we were struggling to get our sound over the top of three bands
Starting point is 00:08:21 at once near us let alone no amplification at all. How many people were in the room? There was no room. We don't even have any fancy room.
Starting point is 00:08:32 I don't know what sort of festival gigs you do. I guess if you look at it in that way, in the room that we were in, there were like billions upon billions of people because our stage, our performance area, was just the earth itself. You know what I mean? There were no walls around us.
Starting point is 00:08:48 So it's like we had this really spread out audience across, you know, the whole globe. It felt like we were real accidental hippies. It felt really wrong that we were just on the ground. I didn't like it. There was a lot of weird stuff on our stage. I mean, when we got there at about one in the afternoon, Dave Callum was just doing stand-up. And we thought, okay, this is a stand-up stage. This will be good. And then right before us, there
Starting point is 00:09:08 was like some kind of hootenanny. Did you see who was on after us? Yes, I saw that. The people that were on after us were like people getting in touch with their chakras and stuff like that. So Dave Callan came back. No, no, no. There was people dancing or whatever and there was someone on stage
Starting point is 00:09:23 going, oh, you just, I'm getting in touch with my water animals now. And then there's someone just lying on the stage, and they went, do you want to do any transformations? And this girl just got up and put her hands around her head and sort of mimed being birthed again. And then she goes, what was that? And she was like, I'm a monster. And that was it.
Starting point is 00:09:44 And people were dancing to that. Wow. Well, when I will pass, what was that? And she was like, I'm a monster. And that was it. And people were dancing to that. Wow. When I will pass, there was a woman on stage just like spilling her guts. Just going, oh, I love everything about today. This is the best thing I've ever been to. I love you. I love all my friends. Who cares if I've got hairy armpits?
Starting point is 00:09:58 Who cares? And then she was going, it's just hair. It's just hair. Then she got off, Mike. And then she ran back on and said, but my vagina doesn't smell, and then walked back off. It was amazing. See, where was the sun cutting out there? Was she part of the line-up or was she just some random person?
Starting point is 00:10:14 No, because I was just inviting people up on stage to say whatever they wanted. See, the electric razor was solar plowed, so that's why it didn't work. It would have been great if there had been a misprint in the program and it said that we were on an hour later than we were and people were turning up for that thinking it was us going, man, this show has just gone off the rails. They come back from America and they think they're all artsy and crazy. They found themselves over there.
Starting point is 00:10:39 The other great thing on our stage was the closing performance on our stage was Ghost Stories at the terrifying hour of 6 p.m. in the evening. It wasn't quite late enough to have dinner yet, but it was late enough to have ghost stories. I mean, if you'd been lining up for lunch at one of those food vans out there, you would have only just been finished in the line by 6 p.m. I'll tell you what, after hearing those ghost stories, and then I went to bed about five, six hours later, gee, I was scared. I vaguely remembered the stories I'd heard by then. So Josh, you've done a couple of music festivals in your time.
Starting point is 00:11:15 Yes, I've done Falls Festival and Southbound and those. Right. And Ronnie, you are about to do Homeback. Yes, sir. Will this be your debut music festival appearance? Absolutely. And from what you guys just told me, I'm a bit worried. Have you actually been to music festivals before?
Starting point is 00:11:30 No, I haven't. Ah, I see. But I do know it's like open air and I just, you know, I'm trying to figure out how stand-up's supposed to work, like when it's sun's out and it's open air and everyone's there for music. Like, I don't know how, not that I'm complaining, but please come and watch me. It sort of feels like the promoter's constantly trying to get you off stage because there's just this big light the whole time.
Starting point is 00:11:50 Is that the sun? Yeah, that would be the sun. No, you work that out. You're going to be okay, Ronnie. Cool. Well, Ronnie, we did... We've moved... Sorry, we were talking about your podcast before
Starting point is 00:12:01 and we got off it for a second. That's okay. There's nothing to talk about. No, no, because we were discussing it while we were in Las Vegas and we were trying to work out what the Ron effect meant. And then we spent a good 45 minutes coming up with alternate names for your podcast. I believe the winning one, and I can't believe you didn't go with this. What about this?
Starting point is 00:12:18 The one Ronnie. Hey, what about that? Why? I don't. What? I think that's why we said that you wouldn't have gone with it because we realised that you probably would have never heard of it. Gee, that sounds sad.
Starting point is 00:12:28 We were in Las Vegas thinking about podcast titles. Thanks for thinking of me in Vegas, first of all. Sin City. We were having this conversation in the middle of Holly Madison's peep show. What should we name? What is the one Ronnie? Can you explain that? I immediately thought the one ring.
Starting point is 00:12:45 That's why I was... The one ring? Yeah, what were you guys... No, it's like the two Ronnies in old UK. I'm so sorry. Because there is one of you. Okay. And your name's Ronnie.
Starting point is 00:12:53 All right. The two Ronnies. Look it up. It's well worth your while. Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker. I wanted a name that appealed to people born after 1985. Right. I thought that would be more...
Starting point is 00:13:02 Yeah, the Ron effect. People love that reference To nothing What about The other idea we had Was Ron Air You could have gotten The poster from Con Air And put yourself on Nick Cage
Starting point is 00:13:11 That would have been good Ron Air is cool You could do talk back And go hi you're Ron Air That's good But people might just think I'm really My English is really bad
Starting point is 00:13:22 If I just Well the Ron effect I think English is bad Well I'm not on air That's the if I just well the Ron effect I think English is bad well I'm not on air that's the problem that's the thing with podcasts now right
Starting point is 00:13:29 that's the new generation we deliver straight to people's homes we don't have to you tell me you were born after yeah so what happens
Starting point is 00:13:37 on your podcast for those that haven't heard it including you guys who have not listened to it so my thing was I wanted
Starting point is 00:13:42 because everyone has a podcast now everyone and their dog and their cat has a Twitter page everyone and a dog and a cat has a Twitter page and podcast and can I say Steel Saunders?
Starting point is 00:13:49 Am I not allowed to say that on there? It's very touchy. Friend of the show Steel Saunders. Don't mention the cat. Don't mention that he pretends to be
Starting point is 00:13:56 his cat on the internet. It's very touchy about it. Well I didn't yeah I didn't say anything bad about it but anyway so my whole thing was everyone has one of
Starting point is 00:14:03 these things so I want to make it as different as possible and the only thing I could think of was just instead of having guests, just have me and instead of it being good, make it not so good.
Starting point is 00:14:17 Such a point of difference and lack of quality. Lack of quality. So it's just me talking and I figured no one's going to listen to me for more than 20 minutes. I wouldn't listen to me for more than 20 minutes. So I made listen to me for more than 20 minutes.
Starting point is 00:14:25 So I made it 20 minutes long. I advertised 20 minutes just so people would listen to it. So you just talk to yourself? Yeah, I talk to myself. It's the hardest thing ever and it's good training. Good training for insanity? Yeah, I was going to say that explains the Ron effect is in fact a mental illness. Mental illness, yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:42 The Ron effect is talking to yourself for 20 minutes about all sorts of stuff. And so I had a lot of fun doing it. It's going to be like Lou Gehrig's disease. You're inventing the disease for yourself. Yeah, just every week or whenever you feel like it, you just talk for 20 minutes to yourself. Do you do characters or anything like that?
Starting point is 00:14:56 No, I just talk to myself for 20 minutes. And I think it's been going surprisingly well. But that's just my thing. What, you're cracking yourself up? Yeah, I'm cracking myself up on the thing. And last time I checked FeedBurner, I had five subscribers, which is awesome. Wow. I'm surprised I only have one.
Starting point is 00:15:14 You're not subscribing back to any of their podcasts? No, I'm not subscribing. And how many of them were cats? I don't know. I didn't check that. So Josh, last time you were on the program, I believe you were an expectant father. Yeah. And you are now an actual father.
Starting point is 00:15:30 Yes. Six months. Without sleep. Yeah. Because you did the double burden of you had your set cut out halfway through. Yeah. You braved the sun and the crowds, and then you drove us all home. And I must apologize.
Starting point is 00:15:42 I'm the worst driver, I know. Were you? Yeah. Remember, I didn't have my lights on for a fair bit. Oh, no, but that was fun. Well, I fell asleep for half of the trip. Yeah, Tommy, like a little kid, as soon as the car starts moving, he just falls asleep. And then we stopped off to get petrol and then I got a Maxi Bond, so I was focused on
Starting point is 00:15:58 that for the rest of the trip. Not like a little kid, he had four litres of alcohol inside. I was about to say, he seems like he's drunk. But yes, Josh, so you drove us all home. We got back. I got to my house at about two in the morning. You got home, I imagine, after that. Actually, we got lost on your street.
Starting point is 00:16:14 You live on a weird street. I was doing donuts around your little block. I couldn't get out. I missed the turn. I was so tired. Anyway, I dropped Carl off, not at his house, in Brunswick Street. He doesn't live anywhere near it. Nowhere near his house.
Starting point is 00:16:25 Yeah. And I got in the door at about quarter past two and just heard my baby screaming his head off. So it was like, great. And then he slept for about 45 minutes and woke up again. 45 minutes, woke up again. And it was just like, great. So I didn't really sleep until the following night. So what was more annoying for you that evening?
Starting point is 00:16:44 Your child crying or me, Carl and Xavier, quoting YouTube clips in the back of your car for an hour and a half? He's not annoying. He's just... Okay. I'm talking about you here. No, it's not annoying. It's just frustrating and you get really cranky
Starting point is 00:17:01 and you fight with your partner and it's not fun. I wouldn't have a kid for fun. Well, you did to start with. Yeah. No, it's really, it's, it's, there's nothing funny about it yet. I'm sure it will be funny once I've had a sleep and I think about it. So you're not. Six months, I've not slept.
Starting point is 00:17:20 You're not, you're not planning the wacky dad show for the comedy festival next month. I've got one joke. Because last time you asked me, will I do any jokes? I've got one joke. Because last time you asked me will I do any jokes, I've got one joke, and it works all right, but that's about it. I'm not going to be going, so, you know. Well, I think this may have come up on the podcast last time you were on, but my big suspicion about you was that before you had a kid,
Starting point is 00:17:37 you would be pre-writing kid material, getting ready for when he came along. That was accurate, wasn't it? No, I don't think I did. You're so busy. What happens, though? You do all the classes beforehand, and the people who do those classes, it's so depressing. The men have to go off into a corner and talk about what they're scared about.
Starting point is 00:17:56 I can talk in front of people. It doesn't scare me, but these men were seriously scared about talking in front of other men. Then we got back, and the woman who was doing the course, she just got out a placenta to show us what it looked like. And if you haven't seen one, it's like a big red meat beret. Where did she get it from? Or was it like frozen?
Starting point is 00:18:17 The day before. No, a woman birthed it the day before and they say, do you want to keep this or can we have it? And you go, you have it. We don't want to do anything with it. What? And then they put it in the fridge and then they do it for the classes next. How long can it last? Does it ever expire? It's just like meat. It's like, you know, a couple of days before it goes a bit grey.
Starting point is 00:18:36 But then my wife is one of, like, she's like a mature age student. She just wants to ask questions all the time in those things. And so she asks a question, what happens if, you know, it's a bit torn? What would happen then? And the woman goes, oh, if it's torn like this and just starts ripping in to this placenta. And she was doing it for effect because she could see some of the men were a bit like, oh, I don't know if I can watch this. I would say my wife is like a mature age student does not sound like a compliment.
Starting point is 00:19:01 No, it's not. It just sounds like your wife is really annoying and no one likes her. Just in classes, she would ask a lot of questions. And, you know, that's good. Sometimes you need people to ask questions because you don't want to walk out. But she is annoying. You don't seem perturbed by this placenta thing.
Starting point is 00:19:15 When you see a human come out of another human, you don't get perturbed by just meat. That is all on Ronnie. That placenta thing being there, like them having that constant supply of placentas, that always gets me with the movies. Like when they have, you know when someone gives birth in a movie or a TV show and they've got someone that's really just been born.
Starting point is 00:19:35 It always freaks me out that they must, you know, base an episode of Family Ties near a hospital at some stage and as soon as someone comes out, quick, Alex P. Keaton's just had a kid on the show, can we whack little Felix in for five seconds or whatever? You know what I mean? The way that you think things work is so fascinating. By the way, Ronnie, Family Ties is a show.
Starting point is 00:19:56 I have no idea what that is, but I was just laughing. Do you do that in the run effect? Just quote shows that you don't know and then laugh at them as well? No, no, no. I only quote post-1990 stuff. Right. Hanging with Mr. Cooper, the big one for you. What is that?
Starting point is 00:20:13 Even Family Guy season one is too ancient. What? Family Guy season one? I've never heard of that. Oh, season two. Yeah, yeah. That's like over here. Someone younger than him having a go.
Starting point is 00:20:24 That's how it goes. That's like the go. Oh! That's how it goes. Dasslo, the oldest statesman. That's how it goes. Well, that's the funny thing. Like, someone, we were at Spleen Comedy last night. I was on. I was at the back watching afterwards. And someone, the emcee, Danny McGinley,
Starting point is 00:20:37 was making fun for a girl in the crowd because she was born in 1993. Whoa. And everyone was like, oh, she's born in the 90s, and doing all that gear. And I was standing next to Tom Gleeson, and he goes, I remember when I was starting out, and the MCs would go, now this guy was born in 1976. So, you know, I feel like in the last year, I've crossed that line, you know, where there's like...
Starting point is 00:21:03 Well, that's freaky because I remember 1993. That's weird for me anyway. We all remember 1993. What's so weird about that? Because I'm still young enough that I'm still experiencing that for the first time. When were you born? I was born in 1985. Oh, that's not that young.
Starting point is 00:21:17 Yeah, not that young. You're older than me. What do you mean you remember being eight years old? I'm sure you've got earlier memories than that. No, I just mean, she's like, oh, this girl was born in 1993. And in my mind, I'm like, I remember 1993. I remember before you were born.
Starting point is 00:21:31 I like the idea of you not having a memory before grade five. Just your only idea was waking up one day at play lunch and going, oh, yeah, right. I'm going to pick out what high school I'm going to go to. This is really interesting, actually. I'd like to ask what you guys, what was your first memory, your first conscious? Because I've been thinking about this lately.
Starting point is 00:21:49 What was your first thing? I was 13. That was your first thing? Mine was my dad waking me up to see The A-Team. That was the first thing, really? Really? Yeah. Because we had to go to bed early, like 7, but The A-Team would have been on at 7.30,
Starting point is 00:22:03 so he woke me up so we could watch it. Okay. I don't know what year it was, but it was in the old house. Oh, the old house. Yeah, the old house. Oh, right. You know what my literal first memory is, which I find funny, which is me being in the water in a creek somewhere, and I know where the creek is now.
Starting point is 00:22:20 I've solved the mystery after all these years. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And seeing my dad, and that was my memory. And I remember saying that to my dad once, and then him going, oh, yeah, that's right. When were you a baby? I took you down the creek, and you walked in nearly drowned. I was like, jeez, I better go and pick you up out of the water. So my first memory is a near-death experience.
Starting point is 00:22:41 And your whole life flashed through your eyes. That explains so much. It's like your origin story. I just saw a test pattern there for a second. I was like, oh, that'll be something one day. I can't think what my very first memory is. I don't know. Really?
Starting point is 00:22:56 I do remember the first day of prep. I remember falling off a piece of wood and knocking some teeth out. Really? Not going first? That's your earliest memory? No, it's not my earliest, but that's one. I can't, I don't know. I honestly don't know.
Starting point is 00:23:08 You don't remember kindergarten? Oh, no, I remember kindergarten, yeah. Okay, well, there you go. That's the one that sticks out. That was before prep. Me injuring myself is the one that really sticks out. Right. No, I don't have like a good, I don't have a good first memory.
Starting point is 00:23:23 Oh, man, this is a terrible episode of the Dassault Effect. I'm going to have to try and make a really good first memory from my kid. Yeah, that's right. That'd be funny if you tried really hard and did all these absolutely stupid things and he just wiped it all out. He didn't remember until he was, you know, a clown. Yeah, but his first memory is you storming in at 2am after the Harvest Festival, reeking of cider going, Daddy's gig didn't go so well!
Starting point is 00:23:52 I hate you, son! No, no, not you one! Not that son! The one in the sky! Yeah, no sons are working for me today. You are no son of mine. Hey, I've got something a little bit off topic, but I am doing a bit of work at the moment with a few people I used to know,
Starting point is 00:24:11 and it reminded me today of something he told me last time I worked with him. It was probably about two years ago. My friend, should I name him? He's a long-time listener of the show, Guy Shields. Uh-huh, yeah. You've met him before. He came to the festival. Met him for the first time on Saturday.
Starting point is 00:24:30 Guy Shields. Shieldsy. He went to a, I find this very funny, he went to an audition for Wheel of Fortune. So what's that? I think it was like two years ago. And of course when you audition, there's not much to audition. You basically play the game because that's all there is.
Starting point is 00:24:49 You look at the letters up there and you work out the hangman thing, whatever it was. So you know how they have the double puzzle now? Like back in my day, Ronnie, you wouldn't remember. But back in my day, there would just be a word. There'd just be a noun that you'd have to figure out. But now it got a bit tricky. They sort of jazzed it up for the Ron generation. And they'd have like two different things, know an animal and where it lives or whatever you need to
Starting point is 00:25:09 solve two puzzles effectively um so anyway i'll i'm gonna i've spelt this out on on paper here and i'll show you and i'll spell it out so that the listeners can configure this out for themselves so what the puzzle is this is what he got given as a test to get onto Wheel of Fortune. The puzzle was an actor name and the character he played in a famous movie. Okay. So first of all, the first one is the actor name, four letters and eight letters. First name, G-N- That's the first name
Starting point is 00:25:48 G-N- Second, his surname H-C-K-M-N So that's a pretty obvious one Would we say that's an obvious one? You can solve this Who wants to solve it? Gene Hackman That's right, Josh Earle Would we say that's an obvious one? You can solve this. Yeah. Who wants to solve it? Gene Hackman.
Starting point is 00:26:05 That's right. Josh Earle. You can go to the gift shop. So they gave that to him. That's the first part of it, right? Yeah, but he didn't gradually turn those letters over. They gave those bits to him. No, no, no.
Starting point is 00:26:16 This is a written quiz. Right, okay. Yeah. Right, so he's got that. Gene Hackman. We solved that pretty easy. The character he played in a movie, right? First name has three letters.
Starting point is 00:26:29 Second name has six letters. First name. Character in a movie that Gene Hackman played. Dash E X. Surname. Dash U T H dash R. Do we know that one? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:47 Famous movie? Yeah. Daslow hasn't figured this one out at all. I have no idea. Really? No. It's probably a movie I haven't seen. No.
Starting point is 00:26:55 Royal Tenenbaum? No. Before that. No. Way before that. Can I solve it? You can solve it. Lex Luthor.
Starting point is 00:27:01 Yes, correct. Okay. So it says dash E-X- U-T-H dash R. You know how he sold it? He was like you. He didn't know it at all. You know what he thought that was? He thought Gene Hackman played a character called Sex Author.
Starting point is 00:27:23 Sex Author. Sex Author. Sex author. I want to know the answer of what the name of that movie was. Oh, my God. How? If we had access to a time machine right now, forget tampering with the past and what it may do to the present.
Starting point is 00:27:44 That is the first thing I would do. Go back and convince the makers of Superman to have his nemesis be sex author. So did he get in? He didn't get in. I just wish he had have got in and that would have been a YouTube clip. That would have been amazing. Don't have 10 million hits and I'd be like, I know the idiot who did that.
Starting point is 00:28:03 So what's, I mean, what's sex authors, is he like a disgruntled like Mills and Boone like writes those books, you know, like those romance novels and somehow he's got a ray where he can bring the characters to life and they just start trying to have sex with Superman all the time. Yeah, sex author, something went wrong when he was writing a book with his girlfriend. She died and he flew around the world to turn time backwards. And it was all good. And then he went to live in his crystal home in the North Pole.
Starting point is 00:28:32 Oh, God. That's got to be dumb-dumb merch, hasn't it? Sex author t-shirts. T-shirts. Not only that, but we know what the people that listen to our show are like. Gene Hackman's Wikipedia page will be vandalised within the hour. Yes. I think there'll be people going back, changing it to sex author, and then someone else will
Starting point is 00:28:51 come back and change it back to Lex Luthor, just so they can change it back to sex author again. Sex author, yeah. Well, I mean, Shieldsy himself, the man behind that story, he's an illustrator. I'd like to see his illustrator representation of what he thinks sex author would look like. Maybe that can be, if he's got the time, maybe that can be a thing we can put on the Facebook. I like the idea that it's not an occupation, that's his name.
Starting point is 00:29:12 Sex author. Mr. and Mrs. Author had a kid and called it sex. What's the baby sex? That gives me an idea. There must be, someone must have called their kids sex. Like statistically there must be someone who's done it. Because it must be, I think sex, like it'd be, this is the Ron effect in action right here.
Starting point is 00:29:37 There must be. Have you ever said anything that's made you react this hard to yourself? No, not yet. There must be like some kind of a culture where there's an elongated name that is sex for sure. You know what I mean? Like sextopolis or something like that. Sex bastions. Oh, God.
Starting point is 00:30:03 I think I know this guy Shields if he's the illustrator, right? Yeah. Okay, he illustrated a thing of you two for Dum Dum Club? No, no, no. Oh, that's a different guy? That's a different guy. Man, we got Dum Dum based illustrators coming out the wazoo. Because that guy, he illustrated both of you.
Starting point is 00:30:17 He drew like an actual... He drew me as a cock coming out of Carl's head, yes. So much for not showing. Oh, now I know, because he is currently trying to illustrate pictures of all his favorite podcasts. Now I know what you do on The Run Effect. Yeah. Oh, yes.
Starting point is 00:30:31 Yeah. You just want a little picture of yourself, don't you? No, I was just because as soon as I saw that photo after being mortified for a second, I actually, this is a true story. I emailed him immediately. I just said, hey, I love your work on. I did that. I emailed him immediately.
Starting point is 00:30:43 He replied, thank you. Yeah, right. You didn't follow him on Twitter. No, I didn't follow him on Twitter. You emailed him. No, I'm your work on... I did that. I emailed him immediately. He replied that. Thank you. Yeah, right. You didn't follow him on Twitter. No, I didn't follow him on Twitter. No, I'm sorry. He's done a lot since then. He's done... Many friends of the show. Yeah, Hamilton. He did Bart and Cody just recently. Because he listens to the show.
Starting point is 00:30:57 James Fosdyke? Yeah, let's put in the request now for what we want the RonFX podcast art to be from two people or three people who've never listened to it. I think it should just be heaps of Ronnies, just like six of them, just bickering, like fighting with each other. I reckon it should be one Ronnie in just an empty room, like maybe a padded cell talking
Starting point is 00:31:17 to himself. In a straitjacket. Yeah. I reckon it should be a sex author. With a whole bunch of DVDs that he doesn't know what they're from. Family ties. It'd be funny if the art for Ronnie's podcast is all just full of references to stuff that he's done on this podcast. Actually, I do want to see the sex author illustration.
Starting point is 00:31:35 Yeah, let's get Shieldsy, get onto it, or if not someone else. So Josh, on the way in here, you were telling us that today, big day for you, the water has gone out at your house. I'm sitting away from you guys because I haven't had a shower because the water has broken again. The water has broken, yeah. Because you kept saying when you were coming in here that the water had gone out at your place and Ronnie kept offering you a glass of water. Yeah, I kept on, he just said, I have no water.
Starting point is 00:31:58 I have no water. I'm like, oh, I've got water. Do you want to have a bath in my bottle of pump? Well, I was just sitting in our bedroom, and I just heard this water just start gushing everywhere from the bathroom, and the hose from underneath the thing just exploded, and so everything underneath the thing is just wet, so all our electrical stuff and all that kind of stuff is just done.
Starting point is 00:32:21 Sorry to burst in. Just in the middle of just a quick little bon mot. The gas has gone off in my house as well. I've been having cold showers the last two days. That happened to our last place we lived in. That's like, they were 35 degrees, which is actually quite cold to have a shower in. It sucks. Everything's great where I am, guys.
Starting point is 00:32:39 I've got a PlayStation. We don't have a phone, though. It's back on. But three days, I've just been getting up, having a cold shower, and going, oh, I cannot let this happen again. And then getting home and going, oh, I did. I did let that happen. But we didn't have any water. We had to turn it off at the mains, otherwise it would just flood everywhere.
Starting point is 00:32:53 And you just forget how much stuff you use water for. Flushing the toilet. Good God almighty. It's like you're back at the festival again. That's another thing about festivals. Take away the bands. It's just 15,000 people shitting into wheelie bins. That's something for you.
Starting point is 00:33:10 But yeah, so I've got no water. Like the plumber was meant to come between four and five and they just didn't turn up. And I was wondering why you were so keen to come in and do this podcast. Are there showers here? There actually are. Yeah, so tomorrow morning, because I rang the real estate and they're closed after five, and so no one was there. And so I was like, tomorrow morning the plumber called me
Starting point is 00:33:32 and said I've been held up. And so tomorrow morning between eight and nine they're going to come so I can take a shower. What about the electronics? It's all gone? Yeah, that's when we're in a hat. Maybe this can be your son's first memory, the time my degenerate dad
Starting point is 00:33:46 Allowed the water to go out of my house My first memory is dad having fluffy hair all day He's going to be a bit like Ron He'll grow up and go I must have been born ages ago Because I remember there was no running water When I was growing up My first memory is my dad taking me around to Ronnie Chang's house
Starting point is 00:34:04 For a bath. My dad couldn't get through a whole song on his guitar. It didn't cut out. There wasn't much electricity back then. You did mention my phone just before. Now, I do want to bring this up. Oh, yes. So my phone, I got back from overseas just over a week ago.
Starting point is 00:34:21 I got back. I got a text from my phone company saying, here's your bill. It was quite large. It's what I was expecting. And then they said, give us a call to work out payment to avoid your service being suspended. Before I could even do that, literally half an hour later, I get a text from them saying, anyway, your service is cut off now. Like right after I'd got the bill.
Starting point is 00:34:40 So I hadn't had time to do anything. So I pay it straight away. And then a whole week goes by and my phone still hadn't come back on. So I took to Twitter to just start ragging out the phone company, and then I got a private message from an anonymous friend of the show who listens to the podcast who said, Hey, I work at that phone company. What's your number?
Starting point is 00:35:01 I'll take care of it. Five minutes later, I get a call. I'm back on the air. On the inside. Finally, this podcast is paying off. I'm just thinking, what are the... I currently have a problem with my garage. It's still not full of a new Mercedes Benz.
Starting point is 00:35:18 Someone can sort us out. What else is going on with my life at the moment? I don't really have work, so if anyone's got a job for me... Well, Josh has a water problem. Josh has a water problem. Can you come and solve that? Ronnie hasn't seen heaps of stuff, so we can give him DVDs. If there's any fans of us at Melbourne Water,
Starting point is 00:35:34 they can hook Josh up. Some water, don't they? No, the water's coming through. It's just coming onto the floor. We just need a plumber to come. Oh, a plumber. Okay. Okay, I'm going to be out of my house on Sunday, so I'm looking for somewhere to live, so if you've got a room for me to live floor. We just need a plumber to come. Oh, a plumber. Okay. Okay. I'm going to be out of my house on Sunday, so I'm looking for somewhere to live.
Starting point is 00:35:48 So if you've got a room for me to live in, this is a real test of how much I trust our listeners. Let's just see how much stuff we can get. What about a cleaner to clean your house for you before you get your bond back? Is that what you want to do? I'm getting my bond back. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:00 That could be a cool thing. It's like, I think we've talked about this before When there's been porno actresses that have just gone Hey if you're fans of me, here's my wish list And then people just send in DVD players and stuff like that Well I've got to move all my stuff on the weekend So if you work for a moving company If you work for a man with a van or whatever You can give me a hook up, that'd be good
Starting point is 00:36:17 Yeah right What else can we try and come up with? Think about it guys, this is the one opportunity I need a new computer, I'm not fussy I need a new computer. I'm not fussy. I need a ride home tonight. I can drop you somewhere else. I need some stand-up material, so if anyone can send me some. Oh, okay, okay.
Starting point is 00:36:37 You need some people in your podcast. Some people listening to my podcast. Oh, some guests on my podcast? Yeah, something. Maybe I should have some guests. Someone at least. But they'll become the Dum? Yeah, something. Maybe I should have some guests. Someone at least. But then it'd become the Dum Dum Club, man. I don't want that.
Starting point is 00:36:48 Oh, yeah, we're the only multiple person podcast out there. That's for sure. Yeah, so if anyone can just give us anything, just get in touch, man. Are you moving house? Yeah. How was the renting experience? How was the finding a rental place?
Starting point is 00:37:02 A new one, was it terrible? Oh, have you found one? It's hard. I haven't locked one in. I went to one just before I came here that I think might be it. Hopefully it might be it. Because it's interviews. It's like a job interview. It's interviews, yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:15 It's weird because it's so much worse than a job interview or a date because you're being judged on such an intensely... A job interview can be like, you're not right, you don't have the job interview can be like, you know, you're not right, you don't have the skills. A date can be, oh, there's not a connection, whereas a house interview, if they don't want you,
Starting point is 00:37:29 it's like I never want to see you again. I don't want to see your face when I wake up in the morning. I don't want to ever be around you ever again, please. Do you have to bump up your CV like it would be in a job interview? Do you sort of go, yeah, yeah, I can fix a toilet and I've got a dog made out of chocolate? Feel that way. I mean, I started.
Starting point is 00:37:46 That would impress me. I started telling people that I didn't have a girlfriend just because I felt like that. I've done that too. I felt like that would count against me because I think they'd be going, oh, she's going to be ran all the time. I've done interviews with girls where girls have run into houses and I've left my girlfriend in the car and gone in and gone, yeah, you know me, single life, you know.
Starting point is 00:38:09 Just in case that would be a deal breaker. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just in case I went, I want this guy to be attainable. I've never done the interview for a house. I've always lived with friends and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah. I moved out and the people who were still living there had to interview people and it was just guys going, yeah, well, I'm a DJ,
Starting point is 00:38:26 as if that's going to help. Yeah, I like to play some music really loud in my room. So, you know, that's going to be great. And they just went, no, next. It's hard to know what to do. Like it's hard to know how you like pitch yourself. Do you tell them you're a comedian? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:41 I say writer and then I say I do a bit of stand-up as well. Well, is that a good thing because when I last time I had to sort of audition for houses or whatever I would say that I do some comedy
Starting point is 00:38:52 and that means I'll be out of the house at night quite a bit which I think is a selling point like is a good selling point if someone said hey I'll move in
Starting point is 00:39:00 and you'll be able to do whatever you want with this house at night time I'd be like yeah yeah absolutely but I get the feeling that with a couple of places I'll move in and you'll be able to do whatever you want with this house at nighttime. I'll be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Starting point is 00:39:06 But I get the feeling that with a couple of places I've looked at, I feel like they think that's a negative because you know, some places they're looking, they're like, they're really into like to social house. We like to be here at night and have a little joke around. So you know what I mean? Like some,
Starting point is 00:39:19 some places don't want that. Some places want you to be involved, but no, I'm like you, I'd be wrapped if I was, if I was living somewhere where I was working days, coming home at nights
Starting point is 00:39:27 and then vice versa, the switch around. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Coming home and watching Celebrity Apprentice new jocks, that'd be awesome. I don't like the
Starting point is 00:39:35 communal house kind of thing where everyone just shares everything because I don't like sharing food. I don't either. Even when we go out for a meal and a banquet,
Starting point is 00:39:43 I hate having to share that. I'm a bit the same. I hate people. I'm with Kyle on that. Well, Ronnie doesn't like sharing airspace on podcasts. Of course he's on board with that. Yeah, no, I've never been a food sharer. I'm always like, I don't want to eat what you want to eat.
Starting point is 00:39:58 I want to eat what I want to eat. It's, you know, did you live in many share houses when you were going through? Did you go to uni? Yeah, five years of uni, so five years of share houses. Then two years of share houses in Melbourne until me and my wife moved in together. Yeah. But I had one girl who would write her name on her oranges. Like it's just like.
Starting point is 00:40:18 That is crazy. It's just, why? Like if we're going to steal something, we're not going to steal an orange. And another, what else I had? I lived with three girls. They were the best ones. Yeah. When I moved to Melbourne.
Starting point is 00:40:32 But they were really fun. We had a competition where a running joke in the house was just going, oh, bullshit, bullshit. And so our joke was, if any of us, because the the walls were thin While we were actually doing it If one of us yelled out And so about three months after we set this thing My flatmate Tash just yelled out And then I heard her boyfriend going What are you doing?
Starting point is 00:40:58 Us all laughing So that was a good one That's good Have you had bad or good? I've only had bad I've had super weird ones Oh? I've only had bad. I've had super weird ones. Oh, man, I've got heaps of... I've just got to think of the stories I've already told on the show.
Starting point is 00:41:11 See, I've only really lived with two different people in the one house. I lived with my cousin, which was real good, and then I lived with a couple, which wasn't bad, but just sort of neutral. You know, not bad, but not good. But that's the risk now, because I'm going completely unknown territory. I'm looking at places and meeting people going, this could be it. You know, this could be the first like real bad experience.
Starting point is 00:41:33 Well, my last housemate, he was the most anal person I've ever met. I can see the wheels turning as you're talking, trying to work out if he listens to this. He must have a hidden way of tracing it back. I know, I know. No, I think I can say all this stuff he was the most anal person I've ever met and he moved in
Starting point is 00:41:51 and just transformed the house and everything in the house was his and all the stuff was like all my stuff was like moved
Starting point is 00:41:55 into my room or whatever right so the rest of the house was his and you'd put something down and he'd go where are you going
Starting point is 00:42:01 to leave that I'm like where it is nah that's not going to happen so I left a bar fridge there was a bar fridge in the main room and every day he'd go what are you going to leave that? I'm like, where it is? No, that's not going to happen. So I left a bar fridge. There was a bar fridge in the main room, and every day he'd go,
Starting point is 00:42:09 what are you doing with that? I'm like, it's there. I'm not doing anything with it. It's just there. Every day, every day he would ask me that. I went away for a week. I came back. It was gone. And I went, where's the fridge?
Starting point is 00:42:22 And he's like, oh, someone come around and they really needed a fridge and I didn't think you'd mind, so now they've got it. And I'm like, right. And it never come back. I was like, where's that fridge? Oh, yeah, it's coming back. He had just, I swear, he'd put it out on a hard rubbish day. He just didn't want it, didn't want anything that wasn't his in the house.
Starting point is 00:42:39 I used to put bottles of water in the fridge. I'd come home and have a bottle of water in the fridge. I'd come home the next day. He had taken it out, emptied the water down the drain, and then put the bottle in the bin. Why would you do that? He's going to do a podcast on his own. My off-lutner used to live three days with us
Starting point is 00:43:01 and then four days with his girlfriend. But on the third day, same with us, they would have because she was there and they would have a massive roast dinner and just leave all their crap all over the kitchen and then just go to her house
Starting point is 00:43:12 for four days and take us to wash it up and then they'd also have chops for dinner and leave the chopped bones
Starting point is 00:43:20 on the arm of the couch and just leave for four days yeah oh yeah oh man and obviously you don't clean it on principle right because it's not on the arm of the couch and just leave for four days. Yeah. Oh, man. And obviously you don't clean it on principle, right? Well, no, I did because it was like I have a bit of a thing about bones. I don't like food with bones in them, so I just had to get it out. That's it.
Starting point is 00:43:37 I would always try and stay away from living with friends because you live with friends and you go crazy, but at least if they're strangers you can go nuts with them and who cares? You'll never see them again. Right. So this found its way into my Facebook inbox today. This is my girlfriend suggesting a place that's looking for a housemate that I might like to hit up and try living in.
Starting point is 00:43:59 So I've got it here. I'll read through it for you. The borough is in need of a fantastic new housemate. Here's your chance to live with amazing housemates, Puppy, Monty, Marcy, Keanu Reeves and the read through it for you. The Burrow is in need of a fantastic new housemate. Here's your chance to live with amazing housemates, Puppy, Monty, Marcy, Keanu Reeves and the cast of 90210. And sex author. No pets, potentially chickens though,
Starting point is 00:44:20 and maybe a duck at some point in the future. My God. We don't have a TV. We make our own soy milk, drink lots of tea and coffee, and have a steady supply of hummus and pickles. So, you know, at least there's some positives in there. Did they provide the sound for Josh's guitar on the weekend? Yeah, I was about to say. We have a communal wardrobe in the hall and love doing the occasional
Starting point is 00:44:41 fashion shoot in the lounge. Communal wardrobe? Uh-huh. There's so many parts of this where, I will say this as I go on, you dip in and out of it where you go, well, this is a joke, and then it picks itself back up again and you go, oh, no, this is for real. We have heaps of board games. We skid across the floor in our socks.
Starting point is 00:44:58 And occasionally we throw moderate parties. What sort of house is it when that's one of the positives that you think you should write down? We skied across the floor in our socks. Yeah. We're slowly replacing the advancing agapanthers with veggies for all of us to enjoy and you can
Starting point is 00:45:17 totally have a say in whether or not we get chickens. That sounds to me like worth applying for just for the great the great chicken house meeting that goes down that's better than moving into a house where someone just goes we're getting chickens whether you like it or not imagine the questions they're going to ask you at the interview though yeah go to the interview yeah i'm thinking it here's uh your lovely future housemates we are all queer tmi friendly what. What's TMI friendly?
Starting point is 00:45:46 Too much information? Yeah. That's all I could think. Isn't that TMI friendly? What? What are you saying? The friend's name is Lee? I don't know. I don't even know what's going on with that. I heard Tiana Wee. You don't have to deal with other people saying things usually.
Starting point is 00:46:02 TMI. Too much information friendly. So it's the letters TMI in caps and then friendly. So they're friendly towards TMI. Towards everything being said. Yeah, I guess so. Right. Smokers. Well, that's something to think of when you go in there and they say,
Starting point is 00:46:16 what's your name? And you go, Tommy, and I have an erection. Smokers, student slash creative slash activist-y types in our early to mid-twenties. We all eat meat occasionally but rarely cook it in the house, if ever. Vegans and vegetarians welcome. That would be weird if you didn't cook meat in the house that often and you didn't want vegans and vegetarians in there, you know. But I'm thinking about applying just to shake things up in that joint, you know.
Starting point is 00:46:44 Just to really bring that joint, you know, just to really bring that joint, you know, like they're saying they don't have a TV, like I bring my TV with me and then I just keep it in my room. And this thing goes on about how tiny the room is, like there'll be no room for it, like none of you are getting it. Go and put some ridiculous clothes in the shared wardrobe. Yeah. Put an astronaut outfit in there Put a G-string
Starting point is 00:47:05 You're not allowed to watch the TV There's not enough information on it But my girlfriend was telling me She lived in a hippie house at one point And she didn't have a TV when she walked up Also was this a serious suggestion from your girlfriend by the way? I can't tell Is there running water?
Starting point is 00:47:20 I might move in Let's see Here we go In caps lock down the bottom Conspiracy theorists welcomed I might move in. Geez, I wonder. Let's see. Oh, here we go. Encapsulock down the bottom. Conspiracy theorists welcomed. Oh. All right.
Starting point is 00:47:32 Well, I think everyone that lives in there is a dickhead. My girlfriend was telling me she lived in a hippie, moved into a hippie house at one point, where when she turned up, they didn't have a TV. She bought a TV along with her and put it in the living room, thinking hey, you know, for whatever reason, you guys haven't got one. And then they just moved it into her room. She was out one day. Off you go.
Starting point is 00:47:50 Along with the fridge. Get your little. Yeah, I know them type. That is so passive aggressive. That is very passive aggressive. Man, it's crazy, isn't it? So what do you reckon, guys? Passive aggressiveness.
Starting point is 00:47:57 That's sheer house. That's what sheer house breeds. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's crazy. It's its natural habitat. Yeah. And that conversation with your girlfriend, oh, we don't want the TV in the lounge room, that's not saying a bad thing.
Starting point is 00:48:07 That's saying you can watch whatever you want, anytime you want. You're trying to be a good person. You're trying to be polite. I know that. Hey, don't worry about it because we actually don't want to watch it. So just have it in your room. Unlike just giving someone your bar fridge. But that's the biggest advertisement for marriage in my head because it's like I don't want to go back and share house again.
Starting point is 00:48:26 It's like I don't want my girlfriend to leave me just so I don't have to go and move in with hippies like that again and bloody have to wear their tank tops or whatever they've got. Wear their fisherman pants. Don't you love the stories that you've gotten out of it? I do, but it's always that thing where you're in the middle of a story, hating it, and the only thing that's driving you on is going, this is going to be so good when it's in the past.
Starting point is 00:48:50 I will say, new listeners, you did tell a lot of rental house stories on the episode where we had Geraldine Hickey. So if you're new to the show and you want to hear Carl's previous rental house experiences. I'll do a quickie, a quick story that I haven't told. Yeah, do it. Let's go out on this one. Give us this. It's not strictly a share house. It's more of a,ie, a quick story that I haven't told. Yeah, do it. Let's go out on this one. Give us this.
Starting point is 00:49:05 All right. It's not strictly a share house. It's more of a, well, no, it sort of is. A guy used to live with. If you were crowbarring something and you just wanted to talk about it anyway. So anyway, I was in space one time. India. Yeah, I was in India one time.
Starting point is 00:49:20 So, I had a housemate and he worked at a comic book shop, and every day there would be this absolute weirdo that would go in there, and he would just point at every comic in the shop and go, What's this one about? Hey, matey boy, what's this one about? Every day he would say, Matey boy, what's this one about? Hey, matey boy, what's this one about? And every day would say, matey boy, what's this one about? Hey, matey boy, what's this one about?
Starting point is 00:49:46 And every day the guy would, because that's the whole thing about working in a shop. That's why people like that go into shops, because people in shops have to put up with them. They've got bosses and they have to be looking like they're looking after the public and trying to get business into their shop and whatever. So every day, what's this one about, matey boy? Hey, matey boy, what's this one about? So he said, my husband said he was having a really bad day one day. He came home and said, this is what I did.
Starting point is 00:50:11 That guy that always says, what's this one about, matey boy, came into the shop. He was in a bad mood. And he goes, hey, matey boy, what's this one about? Hey, matey boy, what's this one about? And he goes, shut up. I don't want to hear it anymore. You come in every day.
Starting point is 00:50:24 They've got the Donald Ducks on the front of that comic book. You know what's in that comic book. Every day you just say, matey boy, what's this one about? You know it. It's called Donald Duck. It's got a picture of Donald Duck on it. What do you think it's about? And he goes, ha ha ha, matey boy! And that person was you,
Starting point is 00:50:42 wasn't it? And that is the origin of Hey Mate. The angriest that anyone's ever gotten about Donald Duck. and that person was you, wasn't it? And that is the origin of Haymates. The angriest that anyone's ever gotten about Donald Duck. Donald Duck's normally the one that's angry. That's great. Guys, I think that brings us to the end of the Little Dumb Dumb Club for another week.
Starting point is 00:50:57 Let's just quickly go around the table here before we sign off, and if anyone is listening who can give us stuff, based on that's what seems to happen now, what do you want, Ronnie? What do you want the listeners to give to you? And if anyone is listening who can give us stuff, based on that's what seems to happen now to our listeners. What do you want? What do you want, Ronnie? What do you want the listeners to give to you? I just scratched my iPad screen.
Starting point is 00:51:13 I was really relieved that it was just the screen cover protector. So if anyone has a screen protector for their iPad. Screen cover for an iPad for Ronnie, what do you want? Care of the Ron effect. I'll have an iPad if anyone's got one. Okay, yep. An iPad for Josh Earl. What do you want, Carl? What do I want? World peace.
Starting point is 00:51:27 I want a free car wash. That's what I want. A free car wash. I'm not just going to give you an iPad. Someone might give me a car wash. You want someone to come round to your house and wash your car. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:39 Which is filthy because it's been undriven because you've lost your licence. Is that it? Yeah. Wow, okay. So if someone wants to come round, if you can hook us up with any of these things, I particularly want to see the car wash thing go down.
Starting point is 00:51:50 That's an episode in itself. littledumbdumbclub at gmail.com. We're on Twitter, at dumbdumbclub. Check out the Ron Effect. I'm aware of how pathetic we sound at the moment. Check out the Ron Effect podcast. Check out Josh Earl's Lime Champions podcast. Check out, this is something I haven't said. I'm going to be on the Ron Effect podcast. Check out Josh Ell's Lime Champions podcast. Check out This Is Something I Haven't Said.
Starting point is 00:52:06 I'm going to be on The Circle on Monday. It's happening this Monday. I'm on the couch on whatever the date will be. For real? I have to see this. I have to see this. Hang on, what's the challenge? Is it guest hosting or is it makeover?
Starting point is 00:52:23 No, I think I'm on for a segment. I think I'm on for a segment. What's the challenge? Is it guest hosting or is it makeover? No, I think I'm on for a second. I think I'm on for a second. What's the challenge? I'm selling a bra or something? You're one of those guys with no shirt on on the Ab Circle Pro thing. Exactly. What's the challenge that we're going to give you to sneak into the circle? What are we going to get?
Starting point is 00:52:38 Guys, we've got to think up a good one. Let's have a think now. Let's also, if you're on this early enough, get onto it. Let's see what we can get. I reckon a hey, mate, I'll see you, mate. Oh, yeah, that's good. That can be good. I probably can't call Denise Drysdale a dickhead.
Starting point is 00:52:54 That's probably out of the question. That'd be good. That'd be really good. You can't say hello, ding hand. G'day, ding dong. How about you suck? I'll just look like a real... I'll just look like Ronnie that I've been born way too late
Starting point is 00:53:06 that I don't know who Denise Drysdale is. Here's Ding Dong. Okay, Ding Dong. Sorry, I was born in 1987. How about you subtly scratch your crotch? No. Okay, guys, if you've got any suggestions for what Carl can try and sneak in, get us on Facebook, littledumb little.com.gmail.com.
Starting point is 00:53:25 Josh? Sex author. Sex author. That's a good one if you can try and get, because you're plugging a book. Because I'm plugging a book. You're plugging a book. I'm plugging a book, so they'll say, what are you doing? I'm like, oh, just sex author.
Starting point is 00:53:36 Yes. You've got to try and work that in. All right, guys, so check that out. That's Monday the 21st of November, I believe it is, if you are on this early enough. No, the 20th. Oh, no, you're right. Yeah, okay, good. I hope the appearance got better than that.
Starting point is 00:53:52 Guys, thank you very much for listening. We will see you next week. Thanks so much, Ronnie and Josh, for joining us in the Little Dum Dum Club. And we'll see you next time. See you. Bye.

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