The Little Dum Dum Club with Tommy & Karl - Episode 86 - Ronny Chieng & Sean Lynch

Episode Date: May 15, 2012

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey mates, welcome once again into the Little Dumb Dumb Club for another week. My name is Tommy Dasolo, thank you very much for joining us. Sitting opposite me is the other half of the show, Carl Chandler. G'day Dickhead. A bit of an update on some stuff we were talking about at the top of the show last week, thanks to people who are continuing to buy our live episodes from thelittledumbdumbclub.bandcamp.com. I found out the $7.60 came from a friend of the show,
Starting point is 00:00:33 James Fosdyke, who did that illustration of us. Oh, really? He was the one who chucked in $7.60. Right. I've also, I mentioned this last week, we've upgraded our subscription plan with Libsyn. Yeah. So I now get more updated stats of what's going on.
Starting point is 00:00:46 Exactly what countries and all that sort of stuff. So I've got it in front of me now. There's a whole bunch where there's more than you would think there would be. Right. Like there's 20-something listeners in places like the Czech Republic. Of course. There's 23 in Croatia. There is not.
Starting point is 00:00:59 There is. 22 in the United Arab Emirates. What? Something called satellite provider. There's 22 people. the United Arab Emirates. What? Something called satellite provider. There's 22 people. Well, I knew that. 22 people listening to us on a satellite. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:11 Well, I've sent quite a few t-shirts to satellite providers, so I was aware of that. Fiji. 21 listeners in Fiji. I want to get to the bottom of this. This is not true. Maybe that's Australians traveling who are just getting their latest know, getting their latest episode from, you know, the wireless in the Sheraton Denneroo Resort. Any of those countries.
Starting point is 00:01:29 I just want proof that one person listens from any of those countries. Okay. All right. And then when we get into where we've got three in Slovenia, and then we've got one, we've got Ecuador, Costa Rica, Bahrain, Jamaica, Nicaragua, New Caledonia, the Cook Islands. One listener in the Cook Islands. Spread the word, Cook Islands. And a single Slovakian.
Starting point is 00:01:57 One in Slovakia, giving it a listen. What was the other one? Jamaica, did you say? Jamaica, yeah. Nicaragua, New Caledonia, St. Lucia. I reckon they're remixing a set of steel drums over there. One in Trinidad. But no one from Tobago?
Starting point is 00:02:12 Yeah, no, Trinidad and Tobago. One between the two of them. One between the two of them, yeah. Tonga. How many Tonga? One. One, yeah, yeah. Brunei Darussalam? I can't even know what that is. I've never even, places I've never even heard of before listen to this show.
Starting point is 00:02:28 Is that near satellite? I don't know, yeah. Anonymous Proxy, there's one there. Oh, right. One Anonymous Proxy there into it. Shout out to the Anonymous Proxy listener. Yeah, so we, I mean, we did a bit of a call out a little while ago and it got some results, but we need to push this further.
Starting point is 00:02:41 We want anyone. I don't believe any of these stats. So if someone can prove that they listen to us in Bosnia or wherever it's said. Who would we most like to hear from? South Africa? I'd like to hear from our South African listeners. Fiji? Fiji is the most... Fiji, yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:57 All those ones you said up the top? Because you said like 20-something in those places. Oh, yeah. So there's 20-something in the Czech Republic, Greece, Croatia, United Arab Emirates. See, that's not real. What do you mean it's not real? There's just statistics that have come in. 20 something?
Starting point is 00:03:10 How can 20 something people be listening to us in Greece? 25 in Barbados, 35 in Aruba. Are you sure you're not just checking the weather forecast for the next couple of days? The world weather forecast? 171 in Indonesia. That is very hot. That's Fahrenheit. That's hot.
Starting point is 00:03:27 Wow. Global warming is true. Okay. What have you got for us at the top before we bring our guests in? Well, hey, let's just introduce the guests and we'll talk after that. Okay, great. Making his debut appearance on the show, you will know him from The Shambles and from The Circle.
Starting point is 00:03:43 Please welcome Sean Lynch. This is such a pleasure because not only am I a huge fan, it's such a great thing to be on a podcast with the kings of Mykonos here right now. You guys and Nick Giannopoulos have that country coming. Oh man, they can rebrand it. One of us has a tank top, one of us is not wearing anything. Maybe it can be that thing, you know, like in the 80s, how they do a cartoon of a movie. The cartoon of the Ghostbusters was like the real Ghostbusters or the new Ghostbusters.
Starting point is 00:04:09 We can be the cartoon version, the new Kings of Mykonos. Or maybe we can reverse it, you know, when it was like the Facts of Life Down Under. It can be the Dum Dum Club does great. Yeah, I like it. I like it. What's your hair level, chest hair level, though? Mine's surprising. Yeah, mine would really surprise you.
Starting point is 00:04:25 You look like you'd have some pretty thick chest hair, don't you? It's horrible down here. You've got a good head of hair. Well, it's transplant. It's disgusting. You're in the studio topless, we should point out. Wearing several gold chains. I thought that was the way it goes in this crazy podcast world.
Starting point is 00:04:43 Yeah, no, I'm very hairy. I've even had it waxed. I had it waxed once for the circle, like half of it done. For the circle? For the circle. But surprisingly, I only got half of it done, but the half that I got done grew back to the exact same level as the bit that wasn't done.
Starting point is 00:05:00 So it's like your hair knows to stop. So now I just do it in little patches. It's like that thing where if you put a grasshopper in a glass jar, and then you take it out, it'll only be able to jump up to the height of the jar that it was in. Really? Yeah. Is that true?
Starting point is 00:05:13 That's a thing, yeah. You're just obsessed with trying to destroy grasshoppers. Yeah, I'm really brutal. Did you read that or did you find that yourself? Huh? It's a lot of trial and error. What other facts do you know about dogs and cats and missing children? He's just reading the Dr. Carl tweets.
Starting point is 00:05:30 I'm working on a possum theory at the moment that is really going to take this podcast into the stratosphere. When you say you got it waxed for the circle, was that for something that you did on the show or was that just in preparation? Was that just for Yumi? Just for Yumi? Yeah, because I like to keep Svelte. No, it is pathetic.
Starting point is 00:05:45 I have such a crush on Yumi, and I still do. Yeah, she's awesome. That's not pathetic at all. We got her in here on the show for that very reason alone. If you listen to our podcast with her in it, you can actually hear a sweat. I did listen to that podcast once, and you're asking yourself, oh, so what sort of guy are you into? It was literally not even – it was like, you know,
Starting point is 00:06:07 the girl has a best friend that is clearly in love with her and she knows it, but then like she just, and that's what I was like, oh, so what other skills do you look for in a woman? First question in the podcast was, what are you doing after the show? And the only, I can only imagine that she left this studio quick, like left there like a cloud imprint of her body.
Starting point is 00:06:26 Yeah, put the sunglasses on real quick and got on the phone. But then we called her back to get a photo with her. Oh, can you come back and have a photo taken with us, please? She'd already forgotten who we were. It's no good. It's no good at all. Making his second appearance on the show, he's just recently had a very successful season
Starting point is 00:06:42 at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival where he won the Best Newcomer Award Please welcome back into the Little Dumb Dumb Club Ronnie Chang What up bro Thanks for having me You did give us a warning just before the show Ronnie Yes I did
Starting point is 00:06:56 He gave us a warning What were the exact words? I'm trying to be more interesting on podcast No you didn't say that You did not say that You said you were going to be more of an arsehole to us and you started
Starting point is 00:07:06 by calling me bro and I'm offended I'm really hurt you said sorry sorry in advance by the way my chest is completely smooth
Starting point is 00:07:14 I have no chest hair and my skin is naturally very soft oh really naturally soft skin naturally very soft I don't moisturise at all is that like
Starting point is 00:07:21 is that off the back of what Lynch was saying about his or is that an ad for you that's off the chest of what Lynch was saying about his or is that an ad for Yumi? That's off the chest of what Lynch was saying about him. Yes, thank you. Thank you, best newcomer. You just want Yumi.
Starting point is 00:07:32 By the way, I have to point out that Sean Lynch is like, he's obviously from TV because his hair, look at his hair. He's doing a radio show. Man, that is stunning. I've just been watching Mad Men all day and eating Cadbury. You know that new Cadbury? Have you had that Cadbury Marvelous food yet? No.
Starting point is 00:07:47 It's called Marvelous Creation. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, when someone's gone, let's just go full Willy Wonka with it. It is literally got crunchy bits in it, pop rocks in it, and bits of snake and chocolate. So if you're a stoner, it is the number one food in the world. It's like Sunday night leftover meal night at the Cadbury factory. Yeah, it is.
Starting point is 00:08:04 Floor sweeping. It's the bubble and leftover meal night at the Cadbury factory. Yeah, it is. Floor sweeping. It's the bubble and squeak. Sounds like guaranteed diabetes. Yeah, it does sound like that. Is it any good or is it too many cooks spoiling the broth? No, well, so far I'm enjoying the number of cooks and the broth, surprisingly nice. Keep up the good work, all you cooks. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:22 You say madmen. I want to quickly say this. Keep up the good work, all you cooks. You say madmen. I want to quickly say this. I went, you know, we go, we talk about, we go to various auditions. And I was invited to an audition the other day. I don't know whether, you know, because we all tend to get sort of invited to the same sort of things, I think.
Starting point is 00:08:35 But I got invited to an audition where I was told that it was madmen style, but for jogging. What? And I went, I don't really know. That old chest. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're at last. Bang, F4 on the keyboard. That's just the easy template there. mad men style but for jogging what and i went i don't really know that old chest yeah yeah bang f4 on the keyboard that's just the easy template there um yeah mad men and i sort of went what what does that mean and they went well very um you know slick back hair a lot of wax in the hair and you know a tracksuit and whatever i'm like okay they go you know and just whatever
Starting point is 00:09:00 tracksuit like you know i think 50 60 style mad, you know, just get your pastels, like a pink or, you know, if you've got pink, green sort of tracksuit, you know, velour, just grab that and come in with that. And I'm like, I don't know who you think you're talking to, but I'm coming in with a pink and pastel and green velour tracksuit for an audition. Because you've got all those colours, but just in, like, synthetics. Yeah, in suits. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:27 Not in track suits. So I just cut the arms off them and came in. That's incredible. I get those auditions because I think we've been on, you guys have been on, you did that McDonald's one, did you? Yes. We certainly did. And I think everyone had a chance.
Starting point is 00:09:40 We nailed it so hard that I don't think they made the ad in the end. They abandoned the ad. What happened just here in this room was so perfect that we don't want to ruin the magic by even attempting it again. It was like when you point a telescope at the sun. It just sort of busted it. It was like, we can't film you guys. What was the ad for?
Starting point is 00:09:59 For McDonald's. Oh, okay. Oh, for real? Yeah, for some burger. I don't know. It was the BLT range they have at the moment. Yeah. There's a completely different ad there now.
Starting point is 00:10:09 But every single time, every single time I've gone into one and I stop going, I refuse to go to one now because without fail, the audition lady will always say, every single time she goes, all right, maybe we can, can we try that again, but just not as, just not as big. Really? I have not done an audition that hasn't ended in that. We should combine because I think every time I get to the end of mine, they're like, can you? Wake up.
Starting point is 00:10:33 Yeah, yeah. It's sort of like you can hear them think, what's a better word for saying can you do this one but act at this time? Stop being awesome. Yeah, yeah. Just stop. Stop. What's the opposite of sleepwalking?
Starting point is 00:10:45 Do that. Fabagastify the Mad Men jogging thing. Like, I don't... It sounds like... And we were talking about video games just before the show when there was that thing of, like, where they'd get, like, a company would have a license to whatever show and that would be the video game.
Starting point is 00:11:00 Like, Nickelodeon Racing. Like, it sounds like that. Like, Mad Men jogging. Like, let's just get the brand and just put it into some shit activity. Mad Men tennis. I do like that they were expecting someone to come in in any, you know, for any audition to come in in costume. It's just ridiculous.
Starting point is 00:11:16 It's like, just, you know what, guys? You imagine me in a velour. You know, I don't have to go and get one. But I like the idea that they've just asked you, obviously knowing you, but throwing out a phrase like, just any pastels. Yeah, yeah, pastels. Like that's something that's part of even your vocabulary. But also the idea that your ability to get a job hinges on your previous wardrobe choices.
Starting point is 00:11:40 Like how far you've been with accruing ridiculous costumes over the years. Because this is like a 5.30 at night phone call for an audition at 11 in the morning. Yeah. Just whip it up. Just whip it up, you know. Just get it together. Yeah, go down to – where are you going to that night? In any way, how could you get access unless you broke into John Michael Housen's house or something?
Starting point is 00:12:01 Have you done much auditioning, Ronnie? No, I've not auditioned for anything. Oh, really? Thanks for coming. What would you like to audition for? This is like an audition for a better podcast. Is you saying no part of you trying to be an asshole? No, I haven't.
Starting point is 00:12:16 No one has asked me to ever audition for anything. What would you say no to, though? What would be your line to not to cross? I don't know. For enough money, I'd probably say yes to anything. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Some people, yeah. Cause we've been to some embarrassing ones where it's like, yeah, Luke, my friend on the show, Luke McGregor, he's a knock some back where we just, just very bizarre reasons and whatever. Just, yeah. I'm not, I don't want to do that. That, that, that might, you know, stop me
Starting point is 00:12:41 from getting on Saturday night live or something. Oh, right, right. To add for ice cream worth three grand. Oh, well, you know, out of context, I guess it's very hard to... You're right. Like, there is stuff I'd probably say no to, but just I can't say... I can't tell what it would be right now. I have to see the offer. I didn't...
Starting point is 00:12:57 Would you Mad Men jog? No, that would definitely say yes to that. Yeah. What about Game of Thrones jogging? Would you do that? Wonder Years jogging. You have to have a voiceover over the top of you at all times. Now, I want to say this as well.
Starting point is 00:13:13 This is news for both you guys and listeners of the show. Well, he's done it again. The little bloke opposite me has done it again. I think you'll remember Sean McAuliffe, the episode. Well, it's happened again, hasn't it, Tommy? We did an episode with just some bloke that we could probably get in any second now, Will Anderson. Yeah, it's gone.
Starting point is 00:13:31 And that's gone, isn't it? It's completely gone. That's gone. They cleared out the system and it's gone. That's gone. Can't find it. So, guys, yeah, Will Anderson, we had a big, nice hour-long chat with that, but that's gone.
Starting point is 00:13:42 It's dead forever. So it's just good that – Whose fault is it? Well, it's Dassler's. No. It's dead forever. So it's just good that... Well, it's Dastlo's. It's completely Dastlo's fault. I'm not wearing this one. It was saved. It was there. I saw it. And you saved it as what file name? Something's happened in the system.
Starting point is 00:13:57 It automatically saved as untitled. It automatically saved itself. Well, they could find that one pretty easy, couldn't they, on the system? I'm not copying this. I'm not copying this at all. No, you're right. It is my fault. Well, they could find that one pretty easy, couldn't they, on the system? Oh, no, I'm not copying this. I'm not copying this at all. No, you're right. It is my fault. I had nothing to do with it. Well, it's not my fault either. I did everything
Starting point is 00:14:12 as I normally do it, and then it disappeared into the system. Well, at least it's, you know, Sean McAuliffe, Will Anderson, just the non-important ones. Why couldn't we have lost this one with you guys? So this is a sign of how little you guys are on the soundscape, on the big
Starting point is 00:14:27 scheme of things. Exactly. If this goes to air, you guys are nobodies. Because Daslo only deletes the very best. That's right. You know you're in trouble when you get a text from Carl about an hour before he's like, have you got nothing going on in your life?
Starting point is 00:14:44 Really, come on down. Not only that, it's Mother's Day today, so we just tried to pick the people who clearly don't have good mothers. You guys are bad sons. I'm happy to be the Dum Dum Club B team. I'm always here when you guys delete a podcast. When you guys delete an episode, I'm there. I like the idea of you just sitting on a bench.
Starting point is 00:15:04 Just waiting for the call. I like it, I like the idea of you just sitting on a bench. Just waiting for the call. I like it. It was actually good in a way because Will really did go to town on me and my relationship with my girlfriend. So I'm pretty glad that my girlfriend is not going to hear any of that. Well, look at the transcript from the Dumb Dumb Club stenographer and we can put that up online sometime. Well, lucky for you, Ron's already agreed to be an arsehole in this. So he might be able to fill that void. So how is you and your girlfriend, Carl?
Starting point is 00:15:26 Oh, come on, that's touchy Let's talk about this So you're treating yourself to a little holiday to Thailand Yes In about, what is it, about a month's time? Yes And so surely that's I mean, you brought this up to me the other day
Starting point is 00:15:38 Yeah Now, the expectation here You know, the girlfriend's been on you about not proposing about wanting to get married. Well, this is what was brought up weeks and weeks and weeks ago about that I treated my parents to dinner and we went along with, my girlfriend and I went along and then I paid for the parents
Starting point is 00:15:57 and then she sort of just expected me to pay. We've talked about this a few times and I think that's a grey area. Like why am I automatically paid for her as well? Because it's like there was no sort of like her asking going, oh no, you know, should I, oh no, I'll chuck in money or whatever. It's just like, yeah, I'm just going to jump on the back of Mr and Mrs Chandler here and get the free steak, get the free onion rings or whatever it was. And I think it's worth bringing up.
Starting point is 00:16:22 It's worth sort of broaching and going, are you going to pay for this? Oh, I should probably pay for some of it. Anyway, I think that's a thing. I think that's an issue. You keep bringing it up and pleading your case on every episode, just waiting for us to have a guest whose standards are low enough, who's enough of an asshole to get on board with you. Or at least someone who doesn't have a girlfriend that wouldn't understand
Starting point is 00:16:43 going, oh, yeah, I guess on paper that makes sense. Even on paper it doesn't make sense. Well, so anyway, we're going on holiday and I organized it all and I went in and paid for the whole thing and everything for both of us and then came home and she said, so do I have to pay for this? Just threw her hat in the ring of getting a free holiday getting a free
Starting point is 00:17:08 couple of thousand dollars worth of holiday out of me which I don't know are you talking your girlfriend yeah that's what my girlfriend oh you paid no no he's us
Starting point is 00:17:15 he's taking us yeah yeah you paid for something for your girlfriend I went we organised the holiday and so someone's got to pay for it at some stage
Starting point is 00:17:22 so I went to pay for it thinking we'll work it out later and then come home and sort of went, yeah, thanks for that. Do I have to? So you paid for something for your girlfriend, right? For both of us. Yeah, okay. For me, that's a Monday.
Starting point is 00:17:34 That's what you do. Has she paid you back yet? Not yet. It'll happen. Okay. Yeah, all right. It's all fine. Because it sort of becomes that thing where the longer it goes on,
Starting point is 00:17:45 the more petty you look when you do finally bring it. Yes, right. I did that the other day where my girlfriend owed me money for a concert ticket, and I thought that she still owed me the money, and I brought it up and went, hey, by the way, it's been a couple of months now. Can you maybe give me the money for that ticket? And she's like, I did pay you.
Starting point is 00:18:03 I paid you like two weeks after. I'm like, ah, so you did. Oh, good. Yeah. She did say last night that we bought an engagement present for Friend of the Show, Pete Sharkey, and it cost like $50. Now, I told you I'd go in for that, but we're fine for that, aren't we? We'll just cover that.
Starting point is 00:18:19 Is that all right? Yeah, add it to the list. So I paid for that, and then I said I said, oh, well, you know, whenever you want to give me the money for that. And she goes, oh, right, do I owe you for that, do I? Oh, okay. Well, just take that out of the power bill that I paid the other day. All right, how about you take that out of the $2,000 that I paid for you
Starting point is 00:18:41 to go to Thailand? Why is money, oh, my God, when I just say I don't have to go to Thailand. Why is money... Oh, my God. I should say I don't have a girlfriend right now. What about now? No. Not right this second. Oh, wait.
Starting point is 00:18:55 Now I do. Oh, wait. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, I don't. That's Sean. He's got good hair. It's a tumultuous relationship.
Starting point is 00:19:01 But yeah, you just pay for shit. That's what you do, right? But, you know, a holiday. But you can use that as leverage. You do realise that. You can use that as... How far into the relationship are you? Plenty. So using...
Starting point is 00:19:17 Because, you know, early on you can use that as sex leverage, but then later on into the relationship you both just... You both clearly just want to go to Thailand Later on into the relationship, you both just... I always use sex leverage. You both clearly just want to go to Thailand at this stage. I always use my personality as sex leverage. So you don't have sex a lot then.
Starting point is 00:19:38 Oh, man, sex leverage, it sounds like a physical lever. Isn't that the latest Mission Impossible film with Tom Cruise? Mission MI6 sex leverage. Sex leverage. Gentlemen, I'm initiating sex leverage. From now on, all the sex you have is off the books. The government doesn't want to know about it. And you get hung by wires while you're doing it.
Starting point is 00:20:01 My favourite bit about Mission Impossible sex leverage is having Simon Pegg coming in and showing you all the gadgets you get to use. Now, speaking of cinema, you and I, several months ago, Lynchie, we went and saw a preview screening of Adam Sandler's Jack and Jill. Which went so well. This is the first time I've seen you since then. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:24 I've been avoiding you. It was pretty bad, though. It was pretty bad. And at the time, I remember you said that it's the sort of movie that once it hits DVD, we'll get the... Has that happened? I haven't watched it yet, but the reason I bring it up is because this man over here, Carl Chandler, you came home the other day to find a stack of rentals from the video
Starting point is 00:20:43 store that your girlfriend had rented. Yeah. She paid? One of which was... She did, yeah. She rented Jack and Jill. Yes. So you told me that and I actually saw her last night and I found out the even sadder part. I don't know if this makes it sadder or not, she didn't even get round to watching it.
Starting point is 00:20:58 Yeah. What's worse, like paying for Jack and Jill and watching it or paying to have watched it and not actually watching it? Yeah. I don't know which is quite worse. She watches The Cup instead, which is even worse. What the hell is that? That's the only thing I enjoyed.
Starting point is 00:21:09 What a baffling combination to be rocking up to the counter with. She watches anything. It doesn't matter. Yeah, but that would be a great thing about working in a video shop, just looking at the kind of the combos that people go for. I'll just cleanse the palate with a bit of Stephen Curry after Jack and Jill. Is the cup as boring as it sounds? It's about horse racing, so yes.
Starting point is 00:21:30 Stephen Curry plays the jockey and the horse, though. So I can see maybe where the link came from, yeah. That movie is just filled. I don't know if you have seen it. It's 90% just cameos of newsreaders because they're trying to make it seem realistic. So it's basically just Tony Jones popping up at random points. I don't know if that's a movie or not.
Starting point is 00:21:49 Pete Sharkey is a cameo in there. He's like a, I think he's an extra. Friend of the show, Pete Sharkey. Oh, really? Yeah. What, he's an extra in the cup? Yeah. Really?
Starting point is 00:21:58 Yes. Wow. I'm not sure if you see him, but yeah, he definitely spent some days shooting as an extra. It's a weird thing to bring up because I want to know more about it now that he's not here. I know. Have you done extra work? I haven't.
Starting point is 00:22:10 No, no. I stand out too much. People just look at me and want to know what extra number seven, what his backstory is. But, yeah, when you say that, Pete Sharky, we went to his engagement party last night. We did. You and I and several other friends of the show. And Diane did come back and say, I was talking to Tommy last night and I feel a bit bad. Do you know what a zine is?
Starting point is 00:22:33 And I went, yeah. And she goes, well, Tommy's girlfriend brought that up. And then I said, I don't know what it is. And I went, how could you not know what a zine is? And I was like, don't worry, Diane, you're not a nerd. You don't need to know. No, it wasn't quite brought up like that. Because me and my girlfriend were walking around the city
Starting point is 00:22:50 and we found this little zine shop underneath DeGrave Street. Anyway, we walked in there and my girlfriend was like, oh, I want to make a zine now. So I don't even know how that came up in conversation with your girlfriend. But then your girlfriend goes, oh, well, I'm in publishing so I could probably get it out there and give you a hand with it. And Alice is going, it's going to be a photocopied black and white thing about a cartoon goat. But I mean, sure. And then I'm like, I've clocked what's going
Starting point is 00:23:14 on. And so, you know, your girlfriend's picking up all the stuff that she's going to be able to do for my girlfriend, Zina. I just had to go, look, guys, I'm going to just put a wedge in this one. I've got the full eagle eye view of what's going on. I'm going to step on the cylinders here. Yeah, yeah. Our plan is pretty much to coat the floor of a tram somewhere on the 96 or something. That's about it. That's the distribution plan.
Starting point is 00:23:33 Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Hey, here's a little bit more cleaning up of something that was on the show a little while ago when we had Sam Simmons on the show. Yes. Ah, yes. He was talking about the, what do you call it? The guy at the front of the town hall.
Starting point is 00:23:47 Oh, the usher. Yeah, yeah. The usher complaining and what did he say about the usher? He said he had a go at the usher because he sat old people in the front of Simmons' show and he asked them not to do that. He said he got a bit of attitude walking up the steps of the town hall one day. That was off the back of me saying a similar thing. I got a bit of a weird comment from one of the ushers during one of our dum-dum shows
Starting point is 00:24:12 in the festival. What's the follow-up? Well, that all sort of came back because very quickly we found out that that sort of spread through the usher world, like that episode. Because the thing is, we make fun of people when they come on the show and we sort of say, oh, it's like you didn't know this was going to be anything. It's like you thought three people listened to this and, you know, you just said whatever and didn't give a shit.
Starting point is 00:24:31 But then we many times are guilty of the exact same thing. Yes, yes. I heard that Usher found out about it straight away and was like, oh, Simmons thinks he's so big, does he? So he made a plan. The plan apparently was they held, he went, well, I'll get him back. And they, his plan was he held Simmons's audiences back for like five minutes in the Peter Cook bar to get him back for that slur on a podcast.
Starting point is 00:24:57 That's great. But the other thing was, then I ran into another person who, a recent listener, a new listener to the show, who said to me, I really like the show. I'm like, oh, cool. And as you do do when you run into a listener you go well how did you find out about it and he went well i heard you know that sam simmons episode where where he complains about the usher and whatever i'll go yeah he goes well i heard that usher that usher was complaining about it and like making up this threat and going this is what i'm going to do and saying i'll fix his wagon i I'll fix Simmons' wagon and his little rhubarb that he sticks up his ass
Starting point is 00:25:26 in his show or whatever he does. And he goes, I'll fix him. I'm going to do this. And this guy just goes, oh, yeah, right. That's very interesting. What podcast is that on? Little Dum Dum Club. Okay, see ya.
Starting point is 00:25:38 And then he started listening. So we got a new listener off that after playing it in public. It seems like we always get listeners off of beefs starting on the show. Negativity and anger and hatred seems to be the only thing. Oh, for sure. Yeah. So that's a good strategy coming on here, trying to be an arsehole, Ronnie. Who do you want to take on?
Starting point is 00:25:58 As a B team, let's start some controversy. Take down an A team. Who is the A team? Who is on the A team? Well, you just said you're the B team. Who's the A team? Who's on the A team? Well, you just said you're the B team. I am the B team, but there's no... Well, if you've picked that you're on the B, then surely there must be some sort of hierarchy.
Starting point is 00:26:11 I feel like everyone else is the A team. I can't just beg. You're so self-deprecating. You're not angry enough at all. It was a false warning at the start. I was just thinking, how did a tiny conversation that you mentioned in Dum Dum Club become such an epic?
Starting point is 00:26:25 Let's be clear. It's not that epic. It was just a nusher. A nusher complaining on steps. One person overheard him. I got pulled up about it as well. I got pulled up by the front of house manager for making disparaging comments on the podcast. What?
Starting point is 00:26:37 For real? Yeah, for real. Really? What did you say? I just said I didn't say anything. It was just all Sam. I told the story. What did the usher say to you?
Starting point is 00:26:46 We were waiting to go into one of our Dum Dum Live shows, and I was at the front of the town hall, and our audience had gone in, and Usher goes, yeah, you're from that little Dum Dum club. Yeah, Dum Dum, tell you what, your audience really live up to your name. What does that mean? I love it.
Starting point is 00:26:59 I actually only found out about the Dum Dum club because I heard an Usher complaining that he paid for tickets to Carl to Thailand Thailand and Carl hadn't paid him back yet. Wow, that was just a weird mash-up. Yeah, that was a weird mash-up. I don't know why I'm doing that. Trying to pull everything together. Yeah, sorry guys.
Starting point is 00:27:18 This is why I'm at the VT. Ronnie, well, I gave you a call. I gave you both a call to get you on the show today. You were my first choices, definitely. The first choice of the second choices, yes. Yes. First choice of the Bs. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:33 And you did a gig last night. Instead of going to a friend of the show, Pete Sharkey's engagement, you did a show in Ballarat. Ballarat. And I asked you how it went. And how did you say? I said it went terribly. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:44 What was it? Well, here's the exact phrase that you used, which I found very interesting. You how it went. And what, how did you say? Oh, I said it went terribly. Yeah. Yeah. What was it? Well, here's the exact phrase that you use, which I found very interesting. You said, you said it went terribly. I went, really? You know, you're a very good actor. You do well in Ballarat. And you said, sometimes the country doesn't like angry Asian. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:59 Sometimes it doesn't fly with them. Yeah. They just look at you like, wait a second. Why are you, why are you talking down to us we should be we dominate you did you warn them at the start of the show
Starting point is 00:28:10 that that's what you were going to be angry so you need to warn them like you did with us like warn you guys before I just go on stage okay so I'm just going to be a bit angry here
Starting point is 00:28:17 with you guys just go with it alright it'll be funny we'll have a good time you should have warned them you were going to tee off on Sovereign Hill and everything
Starting point is 00:28:24 how do the people Of Trinidad feel About Angry Asians We should probably Put a warning Up the front of this show Do you think that Stats at the start
Starting point is 00:28:31 Do you think it's just People just pressing play And then just go Oh and then just Stopping it I mean it could be It's very I mean it's just
Starting point is 00:28:37 You don't know how long They've been listening to Yeah it's just one It's one download Across the whole thing Of each of those What are you most proud of? Which one?
Starting point is 00:28:46 What country? We've got more in the US than I would think. But 24% of our listeners are from the US. Really? That's pretty high. That doesn't sound right. It seems high. That doesn't sound right.
Starting point is 00:28:58 Well, you guys have a good podcast. So stop... Stop being such an arsehole, Ronnie. Stop questioning the numbers. Stop breaking character. What are you doing? The wall has come down. And also, you should just get everyone who's a foreigner to just email.
Starting point is 00:29:12 Just email in. Yeah, we're trying. Man, we're trying. Don't pick. You're picking. You're like, hey, we want to hear from the people from Greece. Oh, okay. We want to hear from everyone.
Starting point is 00:29:20 Just get everyone. There he is. Angry Ronnie. Stop picking. If I lived in central Victoria, I'd be hating this guy. I have to go to
Starting point is 00:29:29 Yarrow, Mawanga, whatever it's called. What is it called? Upper Pashtun. I can see why the country people like you so much. Hey guys,
Starting point is 00:29:38 welcome. I'm here in Bellarmorad or whatever the fuck you are. Imagine someone going over to China and going,
Starting point is 00:29:44 here I am in bloody Chingy Chong. That's the exact... No, exactly. It's the exact you are. Imagine someone going over to China and going, here I am in bloody Chingy Chong. That's the exact... No, exactly. It's the exact same thing. I am going to Bala Marat or whatever it's called. What were you saying before? Yarawanga?
Starting point is 00:29:55 Yeah, I'm going to Yarawanga. And when I go there, the only thing I see is... I don't even see the gig. I just see new laptop, new laptop, new laptop. That's all I'm seeing.
Starting point is 00:30:05 You're playing to laptops? No. I might as well be playing to laptops. You're doing a gig at an internet cafe? What's going on? No, I'm saying it'll pay some cash and I can get a new laptop because my computer broke. I need to get a new laptop.
Starting point is 00:30:20 I'll say this. I saw Ronnie last week. He emceed at Spleen. And it was a couple of days after Made an amateur mistake on that one No no I wasn't going to say that I was going to say you did a good job Okay continue
Starting point is 00:30:30 Okay good MCA MCA died Yes Adam Meouch It was very sad It was It was
Starting point is 00:30:39 It was sad for me I had a really sad morning when that happened I had to go to a wedding Sadder than usual? No yes I was really sad Because it's like, that was the music of my like late high school university sort of thing. It was like, I used to play that a lot. And it's like, you know, it's very linked to your, not childhood, but is that formative years,
Starting point is 00:30:57 I guess? Yeah, absolutely. So it's like. If JK from Jamiroquai died, I'd be devastated. Yeah, exactly. So I found that very sad and I put together like a, it's my ham-fisted lame-ass tribute from last week. No, no, no. All I did was I just put Beastie Boys songs on and I just played them at gigs that we were running or whatever. Like at Spleen, it was just all Beastie Boys all night as the music. And Ronnie said, oh, you got Beastie Boys on.
Starting point is 00:31:23 Oh, yeah. He was really important for your people wasn't he and I went what white people he goes no people in mid 30s I have actually tried to I got the Beastie Boys album to listen to after that paying your respects
Starting point is 00:31:41 paying my respects was it worth it, they're good. They're great. We can get more of it. iTunes, have you heard? Or you can come to Spleen and listen to the music. Every time a Beastie Boy dies, come in. I'll have some sweet tracks.
Starting point is 00:31:55 Carl's crying in the corner. Leading retailers, I believe, have them. A friend of mine is really into the Beastie Boys and the morning that that had happened, I was hanging out with him and his dad had texted him that morning to say, hey, you know, because his dad knows he's a big Beastie Boys and the morning that that had happened, I was hanging out with him and his dad had texted him that morning to say, hey, you know, because his dad knows
Starting point is 00:32:08 he's a big Beastie Boys fan, he's like, hey, pretty sad about MCA. And my friend spent half the day thinking that the Museum of Contemporary Art had closed down. What? What the fuck, Ed? Well, I said to you the other day,
Starting point is 00:32:20 it was like this, it's like because it's so linked to your formative years or whatever, it's like, you know, with him dying, it's like to me's so linked To your formative years Or whatever It's like you know With him dying It's like to me Masturbation had died Such a strong part
Starting point is 00:32:28 Of your teenage years You know That's one of the verses In American Pie Isn't it The day Wayne King died Classic Don McLean
Starting point is 00:32:40 So Carl You were from like Country Victoria right Yes In your formative years Near Ballamarat Near Ballamarat. Near Ballamarat. Back up
Starting point is 00:32:48 in that place or down in that or whatever that place is. In the well that you grew up in. Where there are just people dancing to Beastie Boys. How does it... That's where everyone listens to Beastie Boys. And is it just hip-hopping down the street or what was it? I'm trying to...
Starting point is 00:33:04 What planet are you from? I'm trying to get... What planet are you from? Where's this one? Is hip-hopping a verb all of a sudden? I'm trying to reconcile the image. Where do you come from? Were people hip-hopping down the street? No, no. I'm trying to understand how Beastie Boys fits into how you grew up
Starting point is 00:33:17 because I can't imagine... Beastie Boys is such an urban city kind of thing. I can't imagine it outside the city. Yeah, no, I think it's a very teenage boy thing. I think that's more what it was. So how did you express yourselves in Beastie Boys? Just, you listen to it at parties and stuff like that. That's it? Alright. When you were drinking Stone's Ginger Wine and other
Starting point is 00:33:33 things that you could acquire illegally. What did you first start drinking illegally? What is that? Does that even exist anymore? Stone's Ginger Wine? Yeah, I think so. It's like car wax now, I think. It's the worst.
Starting point is 00:33:50 It's now known as Mr. Sheen. Yeah, yeah. You can't. I could not drink. I can't even smell that stuff. Oh, man. Because you could buy it for like $7 or something, and it was easy enough to require.
Starting point is 00:34:02 It sounds like something Graham Kennedy would advertise on IMG. Yeah. Is that a live ad yeah Stone's Ginger Wine I used to when I started drinking I used to think beer was awful and I could never
Starting point is 00:34:11 imagine drinking it yes I was big on the Woodstocks yeah and there was a period where I flirted with the Bacardi Breezer
Starting point is 00:34:18 for a little while yeah nice fruity little taste yeah well I liked that anything that was you know a bit sweet and whatever I wouldn't drink beer
Starting point is 00:34:23 but it would just yeah too much you get to the end of a night if you're just drinking like scotch and coke or bourbon and coke or whatever it's just you've just drunk a couple of liters of coke yeah you're just wired yeah yeah it was like when like i like if i uh would have work in the morning when i was like you know 20 or 21 or whatever i'd like drive out to a club with mates and go i've got to get an early. So you're just in the club and just drinking Red Bulls. And then you get home and you may as well have just gotten shit-faced because you wrecked the next day because you're just shaking all night
Starting point is 00:34:54 and then you get that Red Bull hangover where you've just got that awful sugar headache. Yeah, my life's upside down with drinking because at the start, I wouldn't drink beer. I'd just drink spirits and whatever. Whereas now, I just only drink beer. I don't drink spirits and whatever. Whereas now, I just only drink beer. I don't drink any of that stuff. But it's like this is the time I can afford spirits.
Starting point is 00:35:10 Now, I've got all these sweet podcast bunts. But back then, I'm at uni with my friends, and they're just wanting to go out and buy whatever the cheapest beer is and whatever, and I'm going, yeah, boys, who wants to go halves in me with a bottle of Absolute? And they're like, what are you talking about? We're on the dole. We get $5 a week.
Starting point is 00:35:30 Yeah, I think I've talked about this on the show before, but I've got friends who are into getting shit-faced on cough syrup. And I go, man, you're 26. What are you doing? Really? Sort your life out. They do that now. Yeah, they do that now.
Starting point is 00:35:40 That's a little ween thing. You shouldn't do that unless you're a little ween. He's got a guy who's in charge of that. To verify, my friend is a little... Yeah, he's a little Wayne thing. You shouldn't do that unless you're little Wayne. He's got a guy who's in charge of that. To verify my friend needs a little... Yeah, he's got
Starting point is 00:35:48 a syrup man. To verify... I'm serious. One of his entrees is called the syrup man. His job is to administer the
Starting point is 00:35:54 cough syrup as and when required. Administer. So he just carries a spoon around with him at all times. He carries a
Starting point is 00:35:59 spoon and a bottle of cough Does the airplane. Yeah. The Mary Poppins or the hip-hopping And then there's
Starting point is 00:36:04 a flag man, the guy who's just on stage. He just waves the flag. I only found this out the other day. You know how when you see live hip-hop, there'll be a guy that's not a known collaborator of the artist, just on stage being the hype man. I found out recently that those guys double as the weed guy for the rapper. So when they're on the road and stuff, it's this guy's job in the entourage to just have the weed on him at all times so that if they get busted, like Snoop's not going down for drug charges. Old Dummo or whatever his rap name is. There's
Starting point is 00:36:35 a guy called Spliffstar who's been doing that for Busta Rhymes for like 20 years and he's like owns a house, like he's like mega rich off the back of it man that's a job isn't it if this is so well known why has he never been busted like he clearly yeah it's a good point he's the worst
Starting point is 00:36:51 the worst criminal I've ever heard of we have the same thing where we employ Luke McGregor to hang out with us and carry our shaker fries at all times shaker fries
Starting point is 00:36:59 oh what about this we were talking about the comedy festival before in the I think you'll enjoy this in the comedy Comedy Festival, Michael Williams, who hasn't been on the show, but he's a very good comedian, I went to see his show and I really enjoyed it.
Starting point is 00:37:13 And it was his second last show and I thought it was really good and it was worthy of actual people watching it. Because when I saw it, there was four people, including me. No one had paid to get in. And it's a very elaborate show with projections and stuff like that. And I got really mad because he's such a hopeless character. Like, he's great, but he's just hopeless. Are you talking about on stage or in real life?
Starting point is 00:37:33 No, off stage. Okay. Off stage. I'm not belittling his persona on stage. I'm saying he's a bad person. Okay. No, he's not a bad person. I got mad because he's such a hopeless case.
Starting point is 00:37:41 Yes, I did. I got mad. I got very frustrated. So the next day, I did a thing where I went to the town hall and I flied for him. Oh, okay. And just went, I'm going to do the right thing. With his knowledge? Yeah, I told him my word.
Starting point is 00:37:53 So I went and did that. And the whole run, he'd got eight people a night, hopefully. Really? And on the last night, and it's a big issue room. And on the last night, anyway, he had about 40, 40, 50, cause I went really hard and got all these people in and it was like, great. Cause the last show and, um, whatever. And I thought, you know, this is a good thing to do. And he was really thankful and it was very, you know, he finally got to do this, this great show to a great crowd and went great. It was his last show that
Starting point is 00:38:21 there ended up being judges for the comedy festival that came in. He got nominated because of that. And he got nominated for an award. And so it was great. He got the accolades he should have done. And I sort of thought, you know, that was great. And I'm not saying, oh, gee, what a great guy am I? But I thought, I'm doing the right thing, you know. And I got out of there and I felt good that I'd done the right thing. And then I went, you know what? I reckon, you know, good karma is coming my way. You know, I did this for karma. I did it. You know, I thought this will be good.
Starting point is 00:38:47 Here we go. But seriously, like the next day I went and played soccer with some comedians and I parked my car and it was, I put enough money in it for like three o'clock and I got carried away was playing soccer and I came back and I went, oh, it's three 30. Shit. I got back away with this playing soccer and I came back and I went, oh, it's 3.30. Shit. I got back to the car. Someone had bought a new ticket and stuck it on my windscreen and paid up until four o'clock.
Starting point is 00:39:15 It was probably Michael Williams. Wow. I was like, it's working. I was dumbfounded. I looked at the ticket. I full on for a minute just trying to figure out what had happened. Wow. No one does that.
Starting point is 00:39:25 No one does that. No one does that. Yeah, it was awesome. So then I got like high on, you know, the good karma. I went, this is working. Easy. This is like an easy transaction. Like all I have to do is do some good stuff into the universe. Oh my God. And I'm going to get all this good stuff back.
Starting point is 00:39:38 You're 35 and you've only just worked this out. Jesus Christ. No, but it's a direct, I saw that as a direct correlation. It wasn't just a vague thing. It's like, bang, I got it within 24 hours. Let me tell you how life is supposed to work. People are supposed to reach, people generally reach this conclusion at the age of like maybe 15.
Starting point is 00:39:56 15 at the latest. You're getting bad karma for saying this to me. This is a bad thing you're doing. So, anyway, what I did next, I went, right, this is great. I'm going to keep doing this. I walked down the street with my girlfriend near my house and it was like about 8 o'clock at night
Starting point is 00:40:12 and there was this like 60-year-old lady, this tiny 60-year-old lady at the front of a bakery and they'd brought out 20-plus garbage bags full of bread rolls and bread loaves and stuff like that and this little old lady was trying to like put them in the back of her van. I don't know whether she was a farmer or this was going to a charity or whatever it was. But we walked past and I went,
Starting point is 00:40:34 Diane, I'm going to turn around and go back and do this. She went, what are you talking about? I'm like, I'm doing this. Turned back around, picked up all 20 huge garbage bags full of bread, stuck it in the back of the van and went, there you go, love. Don't worry about that. You sit in the driver's seat and I'll take care of this.
Starting point is 00:40:49 Put them all in the back and went, look at this guy. Hey, where's the good karma coming from this guy? Next day, couldn't get out of bed, did my back. Couldn't move. This is like an episode of a sitcom, the one where Carl discovers karma. It's so basic. It's such a simple man. Karma works.
Starting point is 00:41:11 I'm going to do good things from now on. We'll be right back after the break. Yeah, except then I couldn't get out of bed for a day. It wrecked my day. What were you lifting? You were lifting bread and you've done your back. How old was the bread? You think of a garbage bag.
Starting point is 00:41:22 Of bread. You know, a huge garbage bag full of bread. Bread is mostly air. I worked at a bakery for two years and had to empty giant garbage bags of bread every day, and I can qualify very light. No, they're not. Very light. You've done it once.
Starting point is 00:41:36 You've done it once. They're heavy. No, I think there was some butter in there as well. That new rock bread there, mate. It's really intense. So then my girlfriend's laughing at me going, because you thought it was so easy. It doesn't work like that.
Starting point is 00:41:50 You know, it doesn't, you don't just normally get something straight back for it. It doesn't work like that. As we're walking to the train station, I walk into the train station, like the next day, we're in the train station. This guy just walks up to me, out of me and my girlfriend, just walks up to me and goes, do you want this? And just gave me a daily ticket. Oh, there you go.
Starting point is 00:42:07 Very good. Yeah. Very nice. All your karma basically comes in the form of public transportation. So just start parking illegally. You know it'll come back. I'm going to do something. If I give a shout out to someone in this episode that's really nice, will someone give me a
Starting point is 00:42:23 car? Yeah. Help Barry Humphries sell out his run when he's here soon, and then maybe you'll get some roller skates. Yes. That'd be good. Well, speaking of transport and stuff, I, on Friday night, Frank Woodley taped his live DVD, and I did a little walk-on role in that.
Starting point is 00:42:40 As? Which is very, as holding a vacuum. As? As myself. What's the title of your character? Untitled, but it was a role that I reprised from his 2010 festival show where someone outside the venue
Starting point is 00:42:55 pointed at me and said, there's that gay vacuum dude. I just want to ring a bell for the 10th time that's been brought up on the show. I like hearing it. Anyway, so I did that. Can you be on the DVD as Gay Vacuum Dude number one? Really?
Starting point is 00:43:09 I should try and push that. Anyway, so we did the show. It was great. It was very nice of him to include me. It was a lot of fun to do. And then the show finishes. Most of the audience have left. I've got my things together.
Starting point is 00:43:18 I'm walking out. I'm walking to my car. I'm getting into my car, and a guy that's been in the audience is walking past me as I get into my car. And as I'm getting into my car, and a guy that's been in the audience is walking past me as I get into my car. And as I'm getting into the car, he makes eye contact with me. He goes, oh, hey, you going near Johnson Street? Can I get a lift? Just some old mate who's just seen me in a show
Starting point is 00:43:35 and now thinks that we're somehow mates. He's entitled to a lift. Did you give him a lift? No, I wasn't going anywhere near Johnson Street. And also, more importantly, I don't know him. It should have been more like, I would have expected more, hey, the floor of my car's pretty dirty. Do you want to come and give it a once over?
Starting point is 00:43:52 Yeah, it was very weird, like, just someone assuming, like, that makes me think that he's tried that on before and it's worked. You know, it's like really lazy hitchhiking. You're not even bothering to, like, be near a moving car. I worked with Stephen K. Amos a couple of weeks ago, so I'll try it on. Now, Ronnie, let me ask you about this. I was on your Facebook the other day, and I noticed you're a big fan of commenting on posts
Starting point is 00:44:14 by former US President Bill Clinton. I noticed you were doing that a number of times. How did you know that? Wow, you've been really doing your research. No, I just looked on your page. I can't explain this. I went on your page and there were just several occasions of you going, great stuff, Phil.
Starting point is 00:44:26 Thank you for bringing this up because I thought no one would ever know about this. This is what I do. Holy shit. This is what I do. If I'm on Facebook
Starting point is 00:44:32 and I don't like a lot of pages because I don't like a lot of things but if I do like a page You famously follow no one on Twitter. I follow nobody.
Starting point is 00:44:40 And you also, on top of that, I've noticed you retweet every single thing that he said about you. Yes, I retweet. That's how I use Twitter.
Starting point is 00:44:47 That's how I use it. Wrong. Okay, good. No, I use it the correct way, which is you retweet and then you reply so that people who come to your page know the conversation. Okay? You don't just reply and no one knows what the hell is going on. That's why. Because you have to click into the thing and no one knows.
Starting point is 00:45:01 So you just retweet and then reply. Everyone knows what the conversation is. Is that what Bill Clinton does? No. So this is the Bill Clinton thing. So I like Bill Clinton's page. And sometimes, occasionally... So is that it?
Starting point is 00:45:12 You won't follow him? It's just like former US presidents. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bill Clinton, that's it. And then... No, not chief secretary of staff. You don't go down that low. It's just number ones.
Starting point is 00:45:21 Just Bill Clinton. And when you like his page, you get updates from him on your news feed and if you happen to be using Facebook when he updates like within a few seconds this guy will get
Starting point is 00:45:30 like you know 400 likes and so occasionally I'm fortunate enough to be the one who sees it as it goes on and so I'm like
Starting point is 00:45:37 you know that thing where you first you comment first right so I just go great because I'm under pressure if you wait
Starting point is 00:45:42 more than 5 seconds some other guy's going to comment first so I just go great and just see what happens so no matter what he posts what do you mean and see what happens like what happens after you write great oh then you just see people like your great or you know propose but you're the first one to comment on bill clinton's freaking update how awesome is that come on that's pretty awesome right what's his updates like it doesn't matter what he's talking about.
Starting point is 00:46:05 He could be having, you know, picnic and whatever. But as soon as he updates his thing, you just type great. And then you just watch it. Yeah, that's what I do. Thank you so much for bringing it up, Tommy. It's just a weird thing where I went on your page and I just saw that come up once. I was like, oh, cool. And then it's like on there about three more times.
Starting point is 00:46:21 Yeah, notice I say great every single time. Yeah, exactly. Like, he loves these. Bill Clinton's killing it. No, it's just because I think one time he met with Obama and just said great. And then five people liked my great. And then that's what I do. It's what I do.
Starting point is 00:46:34 Is that some sort of marketing for you? People will see your great and go, I wonder what else that guy likes. Oh, he does comedy. Okay. I might check out his podcast. How about this? The next, this is a challenge I want to set for the listeners.
Starting point is 00:46:46 If you can get on Facebook, like Bill Clinton's face and you can beat Ronnie to a grave, send us a screen cap of it and you'll get a prize. We'll send you, we'll send you a free t-shirt
Starting point is 00:46:57 if you don't have one. If you've already got one, we'll think of something. You don't know what you're messing with here because Bill Clinton's page, dude, he gets like,
Starting point is 00:47:04 as soon as he posts within 10 seconds, he just gets comments and likes and blah, blah, blah. You can't. I wasn't going to say what secret servicemen have come around to your house.
Starting point is 00:47:12 What do you mean by that? Great. Was that sarcastic or was that for real? No, it's, yeah, you post first. It's an achievement
Starting point is 00:47:19 to post first on this comment. I reckon you've got to send us a picture of, you have to have beaten, like you can't have, you can't have a great on there with no Ronnie. You've got to be, you've got to have a great before Ronnie. You've got to send us a picture of you have to have beaten, like you can't have a great on there with no Ronnie. You've got to have a great before Ronnie. You've got to have gotten on before Ronnie does.
Starting point is 00:47:30 That puts a lot of pressure on Ronnie. That's exactly what I wanted to ask. This is the first time we've ever done a listener-based competition. Can you beat Ronnie Chang at Bill Clinton? This is great. Can you beat Ronnie Chang to a great on a Bill This is great. I want to see this happen. Can you beat Ronnie Chang to a great honour of Bill Clinton?
Starting point is 00:47:47 No, but just to clarify, you have to be first. It doesn't matter if you're... Oh, hello. You're changing the rules. I reckon as long as I beat you, yeah. What?
Starting point is 00:47:54 Yeah, that's all we're interested in. I don't care about anyone else. You won't be able to tell. You won't be able to tell if they beat me at all because you'll be overrun. You are backpedalling at a furious rate.
Starting point is 00:48:03 No, you can only tell if you're first. You can't tell... Who cares? There's like 10,000 comments. Sorry, you can only tell if you're first. You can't tell. Who cares? There's like 10,000 comments. Sorry, I didn't know the rules of commenting on Bill Clinton's post.
Starting point is 00:48:09 Yeah, that's some very... I'm telling you, you guys don't know what you're messing with here. You guys think it's all fun and games messaging on Bill Clinton's post. Dude,
Starting point is 00:48:17 do you know how hard it is to get the number one comment on Bill Clinton's post? It's difficult. If you think you can do it, why don't you try just try to get number one Just try to get the first one
Starting point is 00:48:26 I've done it three times And that was Out of how many attempts I don't know I don't know I've done it three times I haven't sat down Waiting for it
Starting point is 00:48:35 Okay maybe once I did Do you get to be a senator now? What's the What's the prize here? Do you ever read What his comment is before Or you just get in straight away Because what if
Starting point is 00:48:44 One of his mates Has hacked his Facebook account, and we're like, oh, I hate Asians, and you're like, hey. Yeah, great. Yeah. Oh, damn it. What if Donald Rumsfeld is one of those guys who just gets on there, Bill Clinton, I love cock, lol. Great.
Starting point is 00:49:01 Great. Big announcement from the White House today, guys. I'm gay Oh what a good time we just had Hey Lynsey you do a lot of For the Circle which we mentioned before You've gone and you do a lot of You do a lot of field stuff for them
Starting point is 00:49:22 Do you ever get recognised in the street like Tommy did? Do you? Yeah recognised in the street like Tommy did? Yeah, that is a native guy. No, I don't really ever get recognised at all because most people have jobs.
Starting point is 00:49:32 So no one actually watches it. So to be clear, you do the field reports. So basically, it's roving reporting which is one step up, one step down
Starting point is 00:49:40 from Wacky Weatherman and one step up from... Playing the keyboard at the end of the music. Yeah, yeah. Playing the keyboard. It's not-
Starting point is 00:49:48 No, the only reason I like it is because it's a great job. I mean, it's a good job, but the best bit about it was Pam Barnes is the producer, and she used to- She used to be on Hey Hey. She basically ran Hey Hey for 28 years. And so I grew up listening to Hey Hey, and my favourite joke ever, and basically I got the job because I pretty much stole an idea I saw on Hey Hey once
Starting point is 00:50:11 because I knew she was doing it, which is just like have people feed lines into your ear. That's how I got the job. We once did a thing with you on The Circle. You came out and did a roving report of us doing emceeing a Jenga competition. Do you know what I like the best about that? Because you're quite mean to me a lot, right?
Starting point is 00:50:27 And I just love, like, just you're a bit of a prick. Great bloke. You are. But it's all jokes. You make me feel so uncomfortable. You're the only person that can make me feel and look and act more awkward than Luke McGregor. And I was standing next to Luke McGregor. That was more awkward than him.
Starting point is 00:50:46 No, but you basically take the piss out of me all the time and then you're on the circle and you're like, yeah, I'm on the circle now. And you're like, well, come on, man. What? I don't know what that's for. No, but Kyle Chandler is one of Kyle Chandler's many strengths. One of his greatest strengths of many.
Starting point is 00:51:04 He has many, but one of them is trashing other comics. That muscle's very strong. That's why I listen to the podcast. I'm trying to get trashed by him all the time. It's jokes. People laugh. What's your number one
Starting point is 00:51:19 main thing you've ever said to anyone? Are you serious? We just talked about how his karma is changing for the better. We don't want to change it. This is only one episode thing you've ever said, Tony. Are you serious? We just talked about how his karma is changing for the better. It's not changing. This is only one episode of that karma episode. You notice how that story, the karma thing, it sounded like it was a great two-day period and then you just went straight back to normal.
Starting point is 00:51:35 You started stabbing children. What was the last nice thing that you did? Playing for a trip to Thailand excluded. Hey, well, when's the last nice thing anyone did? What? Today I saw a lady pushing... to Thailand excluded. Hey, well, when's the last nice thing anyone did, you know? Oh, what? Today I saw a lady pushing... That's not a good thing.
Starting point is 00:51:49 What? I saw a lady pushing a baby. That's not a good thing. Down a flight of stairs. Can you let me finish? You're pushing a baby on the street and I didn't, you know, disrupt her in any way.
Starting point is 00:51:59 I'd love to continue. You're a great bloke, see? It's harder than you think to remember great things that you've done. I haven't done anything bad. I've done good things, surely. What than you think to remember great things that you've done. I haven't done anything bad. I've done good things, surely. What do you think will be the best thing?
Starting point is 00:52:09 Oh, you know what I did? It was good yesterday. I organised a present for Pete Sharkey. Oh, there you go. People wouldn't have given it away. What a great guy. Yes, it is. That's an obligation.
Starting point is 00:52:15 That's an obligation. What did you do? I got involved with the thing that you were organising. Oh, no, you put money. Well, you haven't put money in yet, but you will because I organized it for Pete. So don't tell me that's not a good thing. That's a good thing.
Starting point is 00:52:28 That's a good thing. But that's not like, yeah, okay. It's a good thing. You asked and that's a good thing. Have you done that? Was it like a, have you done that thing where you could give 20 bucks, but you're giving 50 bucks, but it's still coming under the same present balance? Oh, I don't like that.
Starting point is 00:52:40 I don't like when it's a group thing and people are chipping in everyone for what they want. I feel like there's got to be. That's what you're doing. No, I'm not. Isn't it everyone paying the same amount? Everyone put $50 in and we got him. We don't need to name the price. No, let's name the price.
Starting point is 00:52:54 I don't like it when it's a thing where some people are putting in $20. Everyone's getting the same credit, but some people are putting less. I think if it's a group thing, you've got to have a fee where it's like everyone's chucking in a 50 and that's it. I've been waiting a long time to get that off my chest. Hey, just quickly, I noticed a bit of maroon poking out from under your jumper there. Oh, yes. You're wearing a gift that I got.
Starting point is 00:53:15 A good thing I did yesterday. I bought you a gift. Oh, yeah, there you go. All right. Do you want to take your jumper off and show Lynchie and Ronnie what I found you. Previous listeners will enjoy this. What is it? What I got for Carl.
Starting point is 00:53:30 I found this walking down the street the other day. Can't read it. It is an official Video Busters t-shirt. It's a maroon t-shirt with yellow text that says Video Busters, all movies and DVDs, $2.50. And the print is huge and it says the same thing front and back. Now, we've talked on the show before about Video Busters on Smith Street in particular.
Starting point is 00:53:51 Just being a no-man's land. They've got videos and then in the corner of the store. They've got Trash and Treasure now. That's it. We walked past last night and now it's just gone full garage sale. They're not even good stuff. Like on the floor, there was a filthy pair of soccer boots that someone's left there. There's literally, I'm not making this up, there was a kitchen sink there on the floor
Starting point is 00:54:12 with a $15 price tag on it. I had to go buy a present the other day for a mate, and we went in there because the bar was across the road, and we walked out with, this is a good tip for buyers, under $10, across the road and we walked out with for under this is a good tip for buyers under $10
Starting point is 00:54:24 a three DVD movies one of which was called The X-Ray Kid classic film and one of them had George Costanza
Starting point is 00:54:33 on the front cover with holding a rose in between his mouth don't know what it is did he ever do anything that was good apart from Seinfeld or that movie
Starting point is 00:54:41 whatever that's called everything he did touch turned to crap I think apart from Seinfeld sure but he made like $100 million off Seinfeld so no that movie. Whatever that's called. Everything he did touch turned to crap, I think, apart from Seinfeld. Sure. But he made like $100 million off Seinfeld
Starting point is 00:54:47 so no one cares anymore. Yeah, for sure. But he would care though because he'd want to be more than just that guy. He nearly caught Rocky and Bullwinkle that time though.
Starting point is 00:54:55 You've got to give him that. Oh no, he was in Pretty Woman. He was too, you're right. He was in Pretty Woman. He was in the movie about the prostitute. That was good.
Starting point is 00:55:01 George Alexander. That's a classic movie. But that was pre-George. Was that pre-George? Yeah. Or during. Well, this is off topic even for us.
Starting point is 00:55:08 So you bought those two things. Oh, no, no. There's three movies. A poster of Lethal Weapon 3 Mel Gibson head. Oh, that's good. Is that the subtitle
Starting point is 00:55:20 of Lethal Weapon 3? Mel Gibson head. That's exactly what it's called. Not sex leverage. That was a fourth it's called. Not sex leverage. That was a fourth one. And just a leather hat. Sure. This is in a video shop.
Starting point is 00:55:33 Let's clarify. And a 2009 Hawthorne membership pencil case. Yeah. What is going on? And that was all next to new releases. I know what it is now. Video busters busting your preconception about what a video shop can be. At the moment, they've got laminators, but really, really, really old laminators that must be like fourth hand now.
Starting point is 00:55:57 And they're huge and old. They look like they'd barely work. Are they selling the laminators? Yes. Yes. It's honestly the best product integration since McDonald's. Yeah. How about we say this?
Starting point is 00:56:10 How about we make this the prize? If you can beat Ronny Chieng and you can send us proof, if you can beat Ronny Chieng to death, no, at grating a Bill Clinton status, we will send you, we'll go down to Video Busters and we'll send you a Video Busters gift pack. What about that? We'll get you, because that T-shirt I got you, Carl. We'll send you a laminator.
Starting point is 00:56:28 They've got dozens of them. We'll get you a premiership tin. We'll get you, yeah, we'll go down, we'll spend like $20. We'll get you a copy of Batteries Not Included from 1987. Yeah. So where did you get this t-shirt? What? From Video Busters.
Starting point is 00:56:42 Oh, so they're actually selling their own. They're selling their old stuff. They've got polos. They've got about 20 of them there. Are they closing down or are they just What? From Video Busters. So they're actually selling their own. They're selling their old stuff. They've got polos. They've got about 20 of them there. Are they closing down or are they just selling?
Starting point is 00:56:48 I don't know. It's hard to tell when they're closing down. It's such a state of chaos. It's a huge place. It's one of the last
Starting point is 00:56:56 Video Busters. Because Video Busters I used to go to all the time as a kid in Watsonia, right? And it had a certain smell, there were stains on the floor
Starting point is 00:57:01 and there were always videos that have faded covers. Is that part of the franchise? Do they come in to be a video buster? I think it is. Do you have to bring in the certain stains? There is.
Starting point is 00:57:10 There was always a stain. Yeah, that smells in a bottle. They just spray it around the job. It is. Every video, I question anyone else to find a video buster. That's like the Cadbury Blue. Yeah. It's copyrighted.
Starting point is 00:57:17 That doesn't have it. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So get on it. Try and beat Ronnie at liking and saying great On a Bill Clinton Facebook update Send a photo to us at littledumbdumbclub at gmail.com
Starting point is 00:57:31 Guys, that brings us to the end of the Little Dumb Dumb Club for another week Thank you so much, Ronnie Chang and Sean Lynch for joining us No problem, get a website Whoa Now he decides to be an arsehole I think we need to get a website No, get a website The podcast is going good, you guys have done live shows Can you get a website. Now he decides to be an asshole. No, I think we need to get a website. No, get a website.
Starting point is 00:57:47 You guys, the podcast is going good. You guys have done live shows. Can you get a website? Yeah, we should. I'm working on it. I'm working on it. We just looked at Kyle Chandler's T-shirt. No one knows what the hell we're talking about because you can't put it on a website.
Starting point is 00:57:55 Oh, my God. Put it on the Facebook. Put it on the Twitter. No one looks at Twitter. So, Ronnie, you... Except Bill Twins. No, you don't look at other people's Twitters. That's what it is.
Starting point is 00:58:04 I actually look at everyone's Twitter. I just don't follow anyone. I know... You look at every single person's Twitter. Oh, absolutely. Why don't look at other people's Twitter. I actually look at everyone's Twitter. I just don't follow anyone. You look at every single person's Twitter. Why don't you just follow them? No, I don't follow anyone. I just prefer to... I don't want to be forced into... I want to do it at my own time.
Starting point is 00:58:15 I don't want to be forced to look at... How do you remember everyone's name? You just go. Just go through everyone's name. It's simple. Bookmarks. That is simple. That is simple.
Starting point is 00:58:22 Instead of following people, just go through the yellow pages of Twitter. Also, I have an ongoing Google alert search, as you know, on my name. So anytime anyone mentions me anywhere,
Starting point is 00:58:32 I'm there. So you don't even need to tag me properly. That's the bad signal of Google. Yeah, bad signal. You could spell my name wrong, I'm still there.
Starting point is 00:58:38 Great. So check Ronnie out in that. Leachie. Check Ronnie out on Google. Leachie, anything you've got coming up you want to plug? People can see you on The Circle. Yeah, pretty much. Just going to watch Mad Men now.
Starting point is 00:58:51 Yeah. Prepare for the audition. You've got websites? Do I? Oh, yeah, Watch Out For It. It's called watchoutforit.com.au. That's like movies and comedy. Oh, that's you?
Starting point is 00:59:00 It is. Yeah. Guys, that's a good site, but don't bookmark it. Just look at it with all the other sites. Just remember to look at it. No, there's that, and there's that, and that's about it. Excellent. Guys, thank you very much for listening.
Starting point is 00:59:13 We've still got t-shirts for sale. Little Dumb Dumb Club at gmail.com. And we've got a few DVDs left from Punchline Entertainment. Oh, yes. Punchline DVDs. So we'll ship some of them out if you want a t-shirt. Don't forget, you can still get our live episodes, thelittledumbdumbclub.bandcamp.com.
Starting point is 00:59:28 Go check them out. They're great. Andrew O'Keefe, Tony Martin, all sorts of great people. Thank you very much for listening, and we will see you next time. Whoa, what up, bro? See you, mate. That's not how we end it, Ron. Sorry.
Starting point is 00:59:40 Asshole.

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