The Little Dum Dum Club with Tommy & Karl - Episode 97 - Sam Pang

Episode Date: August 1, 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, the other half of the show, Carl Chandler. G'day dickhead. What have you got for us today, buddy? Well, I'm just very excited to be in here. So, you know, it's good. You know what?
Starting point is 00:00:26 I like it when we haven't really seen each other for a few days and then we get to do like the thing. Yeah. This thing. It hasn't been that long, though. It's only been a couple of days, really. Oh, it's been like, seems like months to me. In internet world, it's been a full week.
Starting point is 00:00:38 Yeah. But in reality world, where we live. Yeah. Just good to be mates, isn't it? Mm. Having friends is nice. Yeah. Positive. Anyone listening, if you don't have friends. Yeah. Just good to be mates, isn't it? Having friends is nice. Yeah, positive. Anyone listening, if you don't have friends,
Starting point is 00:00:48 which I suspect is a lot of our listeners. We're a great advertisement for mateship, aren't we? We're unofficially sponsored by mateship. The TV show Friends sponsors us. We were inspired by that show. We weren't even friends until we watched that. I had never had an acquaintance in my life before I saw that show. I never liked anyone.
Starting point is 00:01:09 I never had any warmth for any other person. And then I saw them getting off with each other and just hanging out, cracking wires, and I thought, damn, that looks like a good time. And then I remember I walked out of my house and I just bumped into you in the street. You were the first person I saw. And I went, have you seen that show Friends? And you said, yeah, I was just watching it trying to find a friend.
Starting point is 00:01:29 And that's how this show was born. It's like when you're a kid, you know, when you watch Knight Rider or Dukes of Hazzard and you want to drive cars around straight away. I just watched that show and went, I want to be close to someone now. I did not watch those shows when I was a kid. I actually watched those shows today as well. I watched those shows today. So I did watch them when I'm a kid. I actually watch those shows today as well. I watch those shows today. So I did watch them when I'm a kid, yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:47 Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, hey, I ordered a pizza yesterday because I, speaking of cars that can carry pizza. What a plot twist. Yeah. Sweet segue. The one where Carl orders a pizza. The one where Boss Hogg eats five pizzas.
Starting point is 00:02:05 I ordered pizza right... There's a pizza shop near my place. Is this the one that's made you sick before? It's not. I've gone down the road. Okay. Yeah, that one I sort of don't trust as much. So I went down the road, but I rang first, because you don't want to go down there and
Starting point is 00:02:18 sit there looking like a dummy for 20 minutes. God, no. I mean, you don't know what kind of magazines they're going to have. Exactly. Yeah, disaster. And, you know, you can get there and someone else is reading the one copy of the newspaper that's there, and I get very mad at that. Yeah, yuck.
Starting point is 00:02:30 You're left with the cars lift out or some shift. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're not interested in the greyhounds. No, thank you. Yeah. Who's on a 520 Adapto? I don't want to know about that. So, anyway, so I ring ahead.
Starting point is 00:02:41 I ring the place. Right, pizza. Take away pizza place. I ring the place. Hello, let's say, I don't know the name, Wobbsy. Wobbsy's Pizza. And I went, yep, I just want to order a pizza. And the woman goes, oh, I'll have to just grab someone else.
Starting point is 00:02:57 What are you prepared for if you're not prepared to take the order of a pizza? I need to get the one person in the store who has a bit of paper and pen on them. Yeah, what's she doing there? Is she a concierge or is she a switchboard operator where she's, like, there's one line that goes to pizza orders and one line to anticipating wrong numbers or, like. So then what, did you get put on hold or did you just have to. Really?
Starting point is 00:03:21 Yes. Did you get actual hold music? No, no, no, no, just nothing. And then a completely different person. Wow. That's only small. Like, how are you justifying your position at the pizza shop if you're just the person that pick up the phone and goes, I'll have a large cup of chocolate.
Starting point is 00:03:34 Oh, hang on. I'm in way over my head. I need to get someone else. How far into the order did you get before she realized that she couldn't? Because that's my pet peeve of when you call me. No, that was it. I'd like a pizza. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Starting point is 00:03:44 Slow down. Slow down. Cool your jets you call me. No, that was it. I'd like a pizza. Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down. Slow down. Cool your jet, Scott. Let me get the CEO. I don't know what you think goes on in here. I'm pretty sure I've told this. What do you think? This is some sort of pizza show?
Starting point is 00:03:52 Oh, shit. I'm pretty sure I've told this story on the show before, but I think it was my friend Sam ordered a pizza and the delivery guy rocked up and got to his front door and just had nothing in his hands and just goes, oh, shit. And she got his pizza and had to get his car and go back. Oh, that's good. That's great. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:10 Sorry for the repeat. No. The one where Sam doesn't get a pizza. I've never heard that story before. Oh, okay. And I would have heard that because we're good mates. Yeah. Probably the best mates.
Starting point is 00:04:20 I'd remember that. That anyone's ever had. Yeah. I'm your moniker and I'm ironically Chandler. Oh boy. That is my pet peeve though with anytime you call up like Telstra or whatever, where you go, this is the problem. They let you give them the whole problem and then they go, oh, we can't handle that.
Starting point is 00:04:36 We've got to transfer you to another department. It's like, didn't you know when I started saying it's a phone, oh, we're the internet division. I don't know why I've called them up. And you give all that information and then you get palmed on to the next person, and then they pick up and go, hello, what do you want? I'm like, what? I just explained for fun.
Starting point is 00:04:52 Don't you talk? Don't you? Is there some sort of communication issue? I just want a goddamn super supreme. Yeah. Yeah. God, life is awful. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:59 I guess on the show today, you may know him from the Breakfasters on TripleRR, from Sports Fever, the Match Committee, from Eurovision. Please welcome into the Little Dumb Dumb Club, Sam Payne. Wow. Thank you. Hello, boys. Great to be here. You've done a lot of stuff. Yeah. Well, I don't know if we've heard from the Breakfasters. I haven't done the Breakfasters for a long time, Tommy. But have you got any friends, hey? I loved the way that you two met. Just watched that and then went out the front and then played in a giant water fountain and then just became friends. It's great.
Starting point is 00:05:33 What a show. Aren't you looking forward to the next time you're introduced on another show and they say, and you may know him from The Little Dumb Dumb Club? This is just like a big snowball your career at the moment. I've been trying to get on this show. You have not. I've been trying to get you on the show. Yeah, I've looked at the line-up, boy. I don't know why.
Starting point is 00:05:51 I don't even know how I even. The line-up? Yeah, I've gone past. Previous guests? Previous guests. A lot of music festival. I'm mildly concerned about, you know, like if you look at, say, I'm sure you do and many listeners, you know when you look at
Starting point is 00:06:03 Marron's podcast and you go, I wonder who he's got on this week? Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a couple of ones you might not have heard of. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure you too, and many listeners, you know when you look at Marron's podcast and you go, I wonder who he's got on this week? Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a couple of ones you mightn't have heard of. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Eh. Well, he said nearly. I don't know if I'll download this week, you know what I mean? And just, I'm very concerned that I may...
Starting point is 00:06:16 You're one of the local LA Circuit comics equivalent this week, you reckon, instead of... Yeah, exactly. And, you know, who like, who Marron, you know, he's a big fan of, but no one's, you know. Well, not even LA Circuit, when he's just doing people that he's clearly have just done support for him in Idaho or something, that he's gone, oh, two a week, it's episode 350, come on in. Or they did drugs together about 20 years ago, it would seem, you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:06:39 Yeah, yeah. That's another way, that's another good way of getting on that podcast. Well, Mark Marins is just, you need to have had a fight with him at some stage. I mean, he comes back on to make up. That's right. Yeah of getting on that podcast. Well, no, Marins, it's just you need to have had a fight with him at some stage. He comes back on to make up. That's right. You reconcile on air. But anyway. People have probably just made up in his head like a fight between them just to get on his show.
Starting point is 00:06:54 Remember back in 85 when you called me an arsehole? No, but I better have you on the show just in case. Are we cool? Are we cool? Yeah. So let's start a feud, boys. Okay. You want to start a fight with us or with Marin? No, with you guys. And then in about three years' time, I'll come back and we'll? Yeah. So let's start a feud, boys. Okay. You want to start a fight with us or with Maren?
Starting point is 00:07:05 No, with you guys. And then in about, you know, three years' time, I'll come back and we'll make up. Yeah, great. Well, how about maybe this will start. I've just got to pull you up on something you did just before. When you said download, you sort of did it and you did the air quotation marks. Like, check out this crazy new term I'm chucking around, boys. Tommy, come on.
Starting point is 00:07:22 I am not, you know, I mean, I'm on board with the new media. Right. And I was searching for that word, the quotation marks, the air quotation. That was a big mistake. I apologize. I just wanted to let the listeners know what was really going on. Yeah, Tommy, but I'm trying to remember, is it, you know, like I said at the start of the week, what you, you know, the podcast is available and there's that little button
Starting point is 00:07:45 that you press, but I don't think it's download. I think it's get. Yeah. Is it get? It's get episode. There. So I was searching and you know what I meant. Wow.
Starting point is 00:07:55 The internet sounds like an ordeal for you. Is it like Tron every time you log onto Google? To be fair, it doesn't seem like a very tech term if you go, hey, did you get that episode last week? Did you get with that podcast? Are you going with it? Are you going with that episode? I really feel as though I should have started with stronger anecdotes. You know, with a beautifully crafted
Starting point is 00:08:16 narrative and then with a big zinger at the end and I'm just nothing. We just wait for our guests to fuck up and then we jump on top. But we're getting that. There's that tension. There's that Mark Maron tension already. So this is all going to be great for in whatever, 2015. We'll be having it back. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:08:30 Yeah. I want to do a live one. I would have liked a live one. I know. When we were going back and forth messaging me trying to line you up through your agent Twitter, you were saying you were auditioning today for a live episode. I've got a question for you, Tommy. I'm going to say it's not going well so far.
Starting point is 00:08:43 No, I know. I'm well aware of that. Don't worry. But if, you know, I've got to question for you, Tommy. I'm going to say it's not going well so far. No, I know. I'm well aware of that. Don't worry. But if, you know, I've got to ask a question for Tommy. If you've got someone's mobile number, why would you continually go through Twitter to get in contact with them? What kind of a fool? I don't understand
Starting point is 00:08:58 the thought process. I couldn't get any of your text messages. I was trying to get them and they wouldn't download. See, that's a callback to something we said. Look at us, just like Chandler, Joey and Ross, aren't we? The three of us
Starting point is 00:09:08 just gabbing back and forth. Well, I was talking about the Mark Maron podcast. Everyone would know WTF, hopefully. W-twee-f. Yeah, you know that. It's a nicer version
Starting point is 00:09:18 where he's always working a cardigan. W-twee-f. He's working a pipe. Yeah. His fights are mostly over potpourri. Yeah, it's who's stolen a cupcake from him. Come on, I want to talk about other podcasts.
Starting point is 00:09:34 I like yours. Yeah, good. Okay, I don't want to do any more. What about the one when Dave Thornton rolled up blind? I like that one. Oh, yeah. That one? In the live one.
Starting point is 00:09:42 In the live episode. Oh, right. Okay, yeah. Tommy weren't even there. Yeah. Yeah. Tommy was blind too. Oh, blind. Sorry. In the live one, in the live episode. Oh, right. Okay, yeah. Tommy wasn't even there. Yeah. Yeah. Tommy was blind too. Oh, blind.
Starting point is 00:09:47 Sorry. I thought you meant the live. I thought you meant a live WTF where Dave Thornton was on. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I was thinking. How do you get that? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:54 I'm not on that. I was speed dialing him straight away. You went all calculated. You asked why didn't you hook me up? No. Now, I was following your Twitter adventures. It must have been a little while ago, but I haven't seen you since. You're in the US, and I was very jealous.
Starting point is 00:10:09 Well, you're in San Francisco, and you saw an amazing stand-up lineup, including one of my heroes, Norm MacDonald. Yeah, I saw Norm. Oh, man. Actually bumped into Norm. Oh. I know. I know.
Starting point is 00:10:19 And I tell you, because I've seen you two do stand-up, so I know I kind of have some sort of appreciation that you might. You've been in the presence of greatness before. I loved one of you. I can't remember which one. Oh, great. Oh, the feud's going well. I'll get a feud out of us by the end of it.
Starting point is 00:10:35 No, I was in the States, but it's purely on holiday. None of this whole is just, you know, just auditioning for pilot season. I was just there on holiday, right? And I went up and down the West Coast and I saw Norm Macdonald, Louis C.K., Don Rickles, and Bill Cosby. Oh, great. Wow. This was all at the Playboy Mansion? All at the Playboy Mansion.
Starting point is 00:11:02 Bill was our driver. It was weird. But Norm. Hey, what's up with the boobs and the... Can you imagine Cosby at the Playboy Mansion? Just in one of those big sweaters. In the pool with the multicolour sweater on. Norm, though, we were seeing Norm Macdonald on the Saturday night and on the Friday night, though, we walked past to pick up our tickets, which we ordered online months ago.
Starting point is 00:11:25 You got them? Got them. Yeah, got them, downloaded them online. And so we're at the ticket box, got the tickets for tomorrow night's show and just turned around and there was Norm. And I just said, wow, Norm. And he goes, hey, I don't do it. Oh, do it, do it.
Starting point is 00:11:40 No, I can't do it. And then he just, I said, we're seeing you tomorrow night. We're from Australia. And he goes, cool. He looked ripped. He had no idea where he was. It was great. But it was weird because it was about the time of the show.
Starting point is 00:11:54 So I don't know what he was, you know, man. He might have been so ripped he was getting tickets for his own show. Oh, shit, I'm on stage in a minute. I better get a ticket otherwise they're not going to let me out. I didn't put myself on the door. Shit. It worked out why he sold out every night. He goes and buys tickets for his own show.
Starting point is 00:12:11 But he was great. But it's weird, though. Norm's like, you know, I think that the three of us, we're there, and we would just marvel at the fact that Norm Macdonald is, you know, 10 metres away from us with a mic. Yep. And yet, you know, over there, it's a bit different. Because you can see those guys.
Starting point is 00:12:28 It's pretty easy to see all those guys. Yeah, it's easier. Anyone listening, if you're not familiar with Norm Macdonald, do go and put him into YouTube and check him out. He's great. Especially his fake news on Saturday Night Live, I think. That would be a highlight of his career, or his talk show appearances on Letterman.
Starting point is 00:12:47 Anyone who listens to you guys and doesn't know Norm, that would be weird, I think. No friend, certainly not about to dance in a waterfall or water fountain. No way, or fall into each other's arms. You won't be sipping on any lattes at Central Perk with us. any lattes at Central Perk with us. Hey, that reminds me. That reminds me. In Sydney, my favourite, probably my favourite venue there,
Starting point is 00:13:13 there's a Backpackers in the middle of the CBD. Called Central Perk. The Central Perk Backpackers. Yeah, I saw that on Monday. There's just so much wrong with that. Like, you could not get it more wrong. Like, it's not a coffee show. It's just trying to appeal to an international audience, be a recognisable thing. It's not a coffee shop. It's just trying to appeal to an international audience, be a recognisable thing. It's not near a park. It's just so-
Starting point is 00:13:30 It's just Scandinavians trying to get off with each other. God, it just amazes me that that was the idea. That's so weird. I did see that the other day. Yeah. And the exact logo. They must have got, I wonder if they've ever gotten in trouble for it. I wonder if you can get sued for a make-believe coffee shop. Is that a thing? Yeah, I mean, a store that they visit in a place would be,
Starting point is 00:13:49 that'd be under the copyright. Would you bother trademarking that? It must be under, but surely it'd be under the big creative license of the whole thing. Did Neighbours trademark Lassiter's so no one else could make a hotel called Lassiter's? Let's find out. Will they go into business together?
Starting point is 00:14:03 Was I the only one who just really wanted to have a beer at Lasseter's? Yeah. I didn't want to have a beer. I just wanted to go and hang out near those opaque glass walls. You know, like in Paul Robinson's office, there was all these opaque glass walls. How far, you know, you can judge people. How far in Neighbours do you go back? If I say the words Des and Daphne to you.
Starting point is 00:14:23 Yeah, for sure. Yeah? Tommy? I keep forgetting. Put it this way. You're a child. You don't even know what we're talking about. I had never watched it until I worked on the television show TV Burp,
Starting point is 00:14:33 and it was my job to watch it every week. So I actually got really into it because I had to keep up with it and watch it with a really keen eye. I kind of became a bit obsessed with it, and I was a bit sad when the show got cancelled for, you know, beyond the reason of not having a job anymore. And you weren't allowed to watch it on your own time anymore. Yeah, they came and they blacked out my TV.
Starting point is 00:14:53 They put some weird thing on my antenna where it would just go to fuzz at 6.30 every night. Did you work on TV, Bep? I worked on TV, Bep. I worked on the pilot. Did you? Because I was going to say I found that on your Wikipedia page. Sam Pang was also a writer for TVBurb.
Starting point is 00:15:08 And I was like, I didn't remember seeing Sam Pang in the office. No. Well, no. I was the early days with the pilot. Yeah. You got it online. I got it. What is it?
Starting point is 00:15:19 I got it commissioned. I got it up. Yeah, you got it up. With Collegia and Subbie Valentine. Have you ever had either of those two on the show? No. Wow. Feud? No. Feud? No. Ed? Ed's going to come on
Starting point is 00:15:33 at some stage, he says. Actually, there's plenty of salads around. He likes to eat salads while he works. I think he's got about 16 movies to edit and finish off before he has the time to come. I think he's even going to work on Fle and finish off before he has the time to come. I think he's even going to work on Fleety Show to try and get that up as well for us. Were you in that?
Starting point is 00:15:50 Did you make an appearance in that? No. I don't think so. We're going to be in the second season, we've been told. I wanted a few ones. I don't owe Fleety money. Really? I feel left out.
Starting point is 00:15:59 Me either. Me either. Really? Yeah. That's, again, why we're such good friends. Actually, he technically owes me money at the moment. I'll have to say that. Love it. Really? Yeah. That's, again, why we're such good friends. Actually, he technically owes me money at the moment. I'll have to say that. Love it.
Starting point is 00:16:07 Really? Yeah. God, what a legend. Yeah. I wish I knew Fleety better than I do, which is not at all. It is a bit of a rite of passage. Yeah. Legend.
Starting point is 00:16:15 Icon. Yeah. Yeah. It's not that good when you keep getting calls, but yeah. But still, it makes me feel wanted in a way. Yeah. Maybe next time I see him, I'll just put money on the ground and he can take it. And then in my head, I can claim that I've owed him money.
Starting point is 00:16:27 Yeah, sure. Or next time I get the call, I'll just say, you know what? Dassler just got a Commonwealth Bank ad. He is rolling in it. And here's his number. Sure. Sounds good. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:38 Just anything to fit in. I like, so Tommy mentioned that your IMDB page, that's sort of the limit to our research. IMDB? Yeah. I'll tell you what, do you know that IMDB in Australia, if you guys would be involved in this, do you know who was responsible for everything on IMDB? I think we know. I think we found this out on this very show.
Starting point is 00:16:57 Did you? Did he say? Mr. T-Mark. He is out of control, by the way. I'm telling you. I think your parameters for someone being out of control are pretty weak. That's all it takes. How many hours on IMDb?
Starting point is 00:17:12 This is not just looking, though, Tommy, in terms of actually administering it. Well, he tries to claim that he doesn't really do it anymore for his thing. Is that not true? I reckon. Scoop. Yeah. Don't try to get him on a Sunday. Put it that way. I reckon. Scoop. Yeah. Don't try to get him on a Sunday. Put it that way.
Starting point is 00:17:27 Right. I reckon he does some serious time every week. Well, I think I've said this on the show before, but one time I was in contact with him and he went, oh, hey, yeah. So just so you know, I put up the two weeks that you worked on Good News Week in 2008. And I was like, oh, yeah, that probably comes up in conversation all the time. Or no, it doesn't. Why do you know that? Well, the best one is you mentioned the match committee before, which was this online series
Starting point is 00:17:51 that we did last year with Lawrence Mooney. And that was a good thing for Tone because it was a real test because we had kind of little cameos from AFL footballers past and present, of which, of course, if you know Tone, has no interest in sport at all. But he took it as like a little challenge to find out who these players were. And then he'd ring me and say, Tommy Haifey. I got him, Tommy Haifey. Well done, Tone, well done.
Starting point is 00:18:18 The club. Another big week for you. Tommy Haifey was in the club, you know, like not a big role. Yeah. Not a, don't think he had a line Yeah yeah yeah But He was just hanging around
Starting point is 00:18:28 In a t-shirt I re-watched the club recently That has Stood the test of time Yeah Other than the actual The football scenes Yeah
Starting point is 00:18:36 Do we remember them I don't like those Sports movie scenes Where there needs to be A bit of action And clearly there's There's a close up of a player Clearly there's no one
Starting point is 00:18:44 Within a hundred metres That's the club Yeah Yeah There needs to be a bit of action and clearly there's a close-up of a player. Clearly there's no one within 100 metres of him. That's the club. Yeah. When he takes the mark with the silver seagull or whatever, it's like, no one's in that ground. No, no one's there. There's not even a seagull there. With Tony, he mentioned Ed Cavill, the recent movie that he did that I believe you had a part in as well, Sam? Is this the one you're in as well, Tommy?
Starting point is 00:19:06 Yeah, Border Protection Squad. I think I'm in the other one. Oh, okay. I don't even know. My role in his recent one was up on my IMDb page about two weeks before I'd even gone in and filmed it. So Martin's gotten the script, he's gotten the call sheet and just gone, I may as well get a bit ahead.
Starting point is 00:19:21 Is that how you find out if you've got a role these days? You hear from Tony Martin on IMDb. Yeah, how'd you get that? I checked IMDb and Tone was feeling generous that day. Did you get the call from the Commonwealth Bank or did you just find out? No, yeah, it went up on my IMDb. I'm trying to get Tone to put me in the new Batman
Starting point is 00:19:40 because he's a very powerful man because he said that IMDb actually really trust him. So you can really, you know, you can go places as long as Stone says. That's funny that he's gone undercover when we asked him directly and he just went, IMDP? What? Sorry? Yeah. How do I get that?
Starting point is 00:19:57 The International Mutant Ninja Turtles. Wow. There's some really undercover operations going on. He doesn't want- We need to get him back in here. We need to get him in here. How long has he been in? He was on our live show during the Comedy Festival. Imagine you got him and Ed to come in.
Starting point is 00:20:13 That'd be great. I'd love that to happen. If you can get those to win, that's a big show. Or Tony Martin and Mick. That'd be an even bigger show. It's like when Sinatra brought Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin back together. You boys could do it. If we didn't tell them.
Starting point is 00:20:29 If we didn't tell either of them that it was happening. They'd love that. As long as we didn't add it to IMDb early and then he got wind of it. Well, you'd have to. That's the law, isn't it? You've got to create it on IMDb. If you IMDb about it, they will come. Just be careful because if he turns on you, he will just erase you.
Starting point is 00:20:45 Oh, no. He'll bar us from showbiz. Shit. Great Schwarzenegger movie that was. I thought I was doing well. I haven't done anything. What's happened to my IMDB page? Maybe it's him who keeps deleting us off Wikipedia.
Starting point is 00:20:57 People keep trying to put us on Wikipedia and Wikipedia goes, no, not these idiots. Yeah. Is he going to pull on Wikipedia, I wonder? Yeah, I wonder if it's like a- Or is that him, Tony Martin, is the Julian Assange
Starting point is 00:21:07 of Iron Man 3? Yeah. I wonder if they're... I wonder if there's a bit of cross-dealing going on or whether it's strictly you work for... Are they competitors
Starting point is 00:21:16 or are they sort of... Are they Ford and Holden or what are they? Or are they, you know, fighting a similar fight kind of thing? Ford and Holden. What a rivalry.
Starting point is 00:21:24 Or are they the Air Force and the Navy working together sort of? Yeah. I reckon it's more like that, Air Force and Navy. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Other things on your IMDb page. What is this?
Starting point is 00:21:34 Just this is your life, Carl? Is that what we're doing? Okay. I'm trying to take an interest. You haven't asked me any questions. I thought I'd better. Well, because I'm trying to be sincere. Well, because I'm trying to be sincere.
Starting point is 00:21:54 You worked, you wrote on the L'Oreal Paris 2008 AFI Awards and the 2009 Samsung Mobile AFI Awards. Was there any difference? So Tony Martin says. Yes. Was there any difference in the different sponsors that you, did they have any different creative pull on the AFI Awards? I've got to get this right. They are both the AFIs, weren't they? Yeah've got to get this right. Both the AFIs were there. Right. I had no idea who the sponsors were.
Starting point is 00:22:08 I know that the first one was the one that Steve Curry hosted. Right. And Adam Zwar and Curry and I were the writers. They got me in. I didn't really do that much, to be honest. But then – Time's furious. Yeah, yeah. I can hear him from here. I, to be honest. But then. Tony's furious. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:25 I can hear him from here. I prefer to take Mr. Martin's advice on that one. Bad news, Pang. Looks like you were never in the match committee after all. I've got to be careful. I always joke with Tony. I go, look, I'm just enjoying this time as we have it because I know eventually, you know, you're going to turn on me.
Starting point is 00:22:41 It's always going to be. There's a feud moments away, Tone. I just enjoy every minute that we've got together. Has he got a lot of feuds? Is it more than just Mick? I joke. I think it is just Mick, isn't it? I don't know. See, well, this is what we started talking about before the show. So you've infiltrated the
Starting point is 00:22:57 secret society. You are behind the big red door of Working Dog, this mysterious offshore entity that runs half of comedy. Yeah. And you're... What do you mean? I mean, I run it now, don't I?
Starting point is 00:23:10 Oh, you're... Well, I don't know. Isn't that not on your Wikipedia? Who knows who the real boss of the Masons is? I don't know. No, I've done... God, who would know? What a...
Starting point is 00:23:19 What a... You can eat at the spaghetti tree whenever you want. Used to work there. Did you really? Used to be a waiter there, Tommy. Huh. Don't try the bolognese. Oh, really?
Starting point is 00:23:29 Well, unless you like it served out of vats that have been on the floor. Oh, no. No one wants to hear this. Long time ago, though. I'm sure it's fine now. No, no. No one wants to hear. This is a classic trick of working dog to get you away from the inner workings of working dog
Starting point is 00:23:43 and they trick you with spaghetti. Talk of spaghetti. That's trick number one. What do you away from the inner workings of Working Dog and they trick you with spaghetti. Talk of spaghetti. That's trick number one. What do you want me to know? It's like, what do you want to know about them? They're just, you know. There's like one email address for Working Dog. You don't know where, you know.
Starting point is 00:23:55 Is that for real? Yeah. Wow. They're all unlisted numbers. They all live in the mountains somewhere. Like you can't talk to any of them. Wouldn't it be, do they all live together? That would be great.
Starting point is 00:24:03 Yeah. Just in a big, in a big lodge. They all meet at a coffee shop once a week, and they all met at the front of a big fountain, and they just splashed around, and then they started driving. No, I haven't done anything. They used to be the Rembrandts. Is that the rumor? Are you the-
Starting point is 00:24:19 They sang that song. Are you the El Polos boss out of Breaking Bad? Is that you? Gus. Gus. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I, uh, no.
Starting point is 00:24:27 I'm more, um, who would I be? I'm more, uh, Mike. Oh, yeah. Right. The silent killer. Yeah. I like Mike. He disappeared for most of season four, didn't he?
Starting point is 00:24:36 Oh, don't. I'm halfway through season four. Sorry. Catch up, mate. Come on. It's 2012. Catch up. Can we edit this podcast?
Starting point is 00:24:42 Catch up. It's season five. They're all dead now. It's completely new cast. Too late. You've had your chance. How good is Gus? Is Gus your favorite, Tommy?
Starting point is 00:24:49 He'd be, yeah, he'd be, yeah, I reckon. I like Mike. Yeah, Mike's good. You know what? You know why I like Mike? I, because it was the first time I'd seen Mike in anything since Beverly Hills Cop. I've seen Beverly Hills Cop. He played a henchman.
Starting point is 00:25:02 He's a guy, he got, he's a guy, Eddie Murphy. He actually, well he killed Eddie Murphy's mate to start that whole movie and then eventually I think it was at the Harrow Club where Axel threw him across the buffet at the Harrow Club. Did he stuff Mike up
Starting point is 00:25:17 an exhaust pipe? Was that him? Did he play that banana? Is that all that stuff that you said is that from Tony Martin's original draft? You're in Beverly Hills Cop too, by the way. Oh, great. Wow. I really enjoyed you. No, that's Mike.
Starting point is 00:25:30 Right. Yeah. Wow. I haven't watched that in a long time. Beverly Hills Cop, nothing. Not one of yours? No. I haven't watched that in a long time.
Starting point is 00:25:38 No. There's an amazing amount of movies that I've never seen and have no idea about. Many, many blockbusters I've no idea. Oh, I'm the same. What's the biggest movie that you've not seen that you should have? I reckon you look at the most successful movies of all time, the top ten. I reckon I would have not seen nine of them. Give me one of your biggest.
Starting point is 00:25:56 Avatar. Avatar. That's recent. That's number one. That's number one. But that's recent enough that, you know. Avatar, Titanic. Titanic.
Starting point is 00:26:03 How'd you escape Titanic? Matrix. Matrix. See, how know. Avatar, Titanic. Titanic? Yeah. How'd you escape Titanic? Matrix. Matrix. See, how old were you when Matrix came out? I don't know, but everyone I know has seen it. I just never saw it. You know what I did see?
Starting point is 00:26:13 Yeah. I saw Matrix 3. I think you've told me this before. How could you even follow the story, by the way? Well, I couldn't. I very couldn't. I very much couldn't. What makes a person think? My friends wanted to go and see it, and they were all together,
Starting point is 00:26:25 and I went, okay, how hard could it be? And then I saw how hard it was, and I walked out and went, you know what? Pretty hard. That was not as good as the first two. I can tell. That was not as good as not watching stuff. That's a weird thing, though. You know, like the classics that you haven't seen, and yet you have,
Starting point is 00:26:42 you know, like, for instance, I haven't seen Gone with the Wind. Oh, yeah. But I've seen Revenge of the Nerds. Right. In terms of if you're a theatre lover, that's a bit. Yeah, well, I haven't seen Titanic. I haven't seen Beverly Hills Cop. I haven't seen any of that.
Starting point is 00:26:57 But I watched The Muppets three times on Monday. But see, I reckon you can get away. Avatar and Titanic, you know, they're not like Titanic was a big film, but no one sits around now and goes, oh, you haven't seen Titanic. You've got to see it. You know what I'm not going to say? You know what I'm not going to say? I reckon I know what you're not going to say.
Starting point is 00:27:12 I think you do know. Yep. The new Batman movie. Yeah. I'm not seeing it. Wow, I've already seen it. Why aren't you seeing it? I'm just too annoyed by everything going on about it.
Starting point is 00:27:20 I feel like. Classic, great Carl Chan. Was that behind Titanic and The Matrix as well? Was that the same thinking? I just don't have a big interest in this stuff. I don't know. Have you seen the first two? The first two, Titanic's.
Starting point is 00:27:35 I don't think much would have happened in those. It was building, loading cargo. They were really weird. No, it was just they loaded cargo and then they had a successful journey and reached their destination. It was really bad. Imagine that if James Cameron went Star Wars style, did Titanic prequels, where it's just a young kid just playing with a little boat toy in the bathtub.
Starting point is 00:27:57 And black people building the boat going, Hey, mister, I sure am making this rotation device good. Yeah. I wish people could see your face as you're pretending to be a black. Racist. Racist. I knew why you didn't do impersonations. Carl, now I.
Starting point is 00:28:14 Hey. I reckon I've probably got the biggest of, like, truly great films that everyone has seen that I haven't seen. Godfather. Any of them. Never seen it. Really? Well, there goes my Fredo references I was going to. Godfather? Any of them. Never seen it. Really? Well, there goes my Fredo references I was going to do for the rest of the podcast.
Starting point is 00:28:29 Ghostbusters? You've never seen Ghostbusters? Never seen Ghostbusters. Wow. What if he crossed the lines? Yeah. Okay. What else?
Starting point is 00:28:36 I doffed my cap to you. That's pretty disgusting. Yeah, I know. I'm not. Actually, because you're that age where you could have missed. Have you seen Ferris Bueller's? I've seen Ferris Bueller's. Okay.
Starting point is 00:28:44 I've seen Ghostbusters 2. Right. Yep. You know, Tony's age keeps coming up as if he... Oh, you would never have seen it. How old are you? Are you six years old over there, Tony? I'm nearly 26.
Starting point is 00:28:56 26 in a month. Wow. That is quite young. So, listeners, get your presents ready. Yep. Maybe for my birthday we can hang out and watch Ghostbusters. That would be good. Yeah? You know what? Because Ghostbusters That would be good Yeah
Starting point is 00:29:05 You know what, because Ghostbusters is the number one movie that I've seen the most Ah, really? Yeah, so together The number one movie that I've seen the most times Yeah, yeah, that's a sentence Now you're 12 years old Very consistent What's the one you've seen the most then?
Starting point is 00:29:18 What movie would I have seen the most? Probably Ghost Dad? Maybe Space Jam? Uncle Buck? Maybe Space Jam Hey, Buck? Maybe Space Jam. Hey, I saw Uncle Buck plenty of times. You would have.
Starting point is 00:29:28 It was the mascot of Channel 10. Never seen it. It was on every Saturday night for three years. Was it the The Devil Wears Prada of its time? Yeah. Because The Devil Wears Prada seems like it's on every week now. Well, The Devil's Wear Prada is the updated... The Devil's Wear Prada.
Starting point is 00:29:44 Both of those devils and their Prada. That's a sequel. The Devilils Wear Prada is the updated. The Devils Wear Prada. Both of those devils and their Prada. That's a sequel. The Devils Wear Prada. It's like Alien and Aliens. And then the third one is all these devils wear Prada. Where the Prada is. So in the sequel, there's two devils that are sharing a Prada between them. But then for the third one, they both get their own Prada.
Starting point is 00:30:04 It's not the original devils. They couldn't get the original between them. Yeah. But then for the third one, they both get their own Prada. It's not the original Devils. They couldn't get the original Devils. Yeah. Wow. It's, yeah, Devil Wears Prada is the new version of Back to the Future 2. Oh, yeah, that was. Or no, Back to the Future 3. 3, yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:19 3 is the cowboy one. There you go. Never seen Back to the Future. Oh, wow. Alien, never seen it. I've never seen that. Alien, Aliens? No, none of them.
Starting point is 00:30:27 Alienses? Alienses. No, none of them. Star Wars? Those aliens over there. Star Wars? Seen Star Wars, yeah. Return of the Jedi?
Starting point is 00:30:36 Yeah, I've seen those three. Get the Rocky franchise covered? No, no Rockies. No Rambos. Lord of the Rings? No. I had no interest. No, No Rambos. Lord of the Rings? No. I had no interest. Unlike you with Batman with Lord of the Rings, no interest at all.
Starting point is 00:30:50 I wouldn't have seen it. You know what? That was due to me having a girlfriend that dragged me along. Oh, okay. Yeah. No, I just never. I tried with one of them and went, forget this. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:01 Notebook? Yes. Actually, forget what I said Space Jam before. That would be the one I've seen the most. American Pie Reunion? Have I? No. Was that the recent one? I don't know. The recent cinema one? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:31:16 I've seen the first three. The rebooted one. The one that's dark and gritty. Yeah. Where they have sex with each other and then kill them afterwards. The one with Christian Bale fucking a cake. Which was originally an episode of Friends. So, you know, it all ties in.
Starting point is 00:31:33 It all comes back. Now, Sam, just to get off this ridiculous conversation. I know we like this show to seem like just a chat between mates, but this has just, this is the most friendly territory it's ever gotten into. Wow, I'm enjoying it. Yeah, I'm enjoying it a lot too. I like how you said, I'm enjoying it as you looked at the clock.
Starting point is 00:31:50 Well, I was going to go with it and how long to go, but when are we going to take some calls, Carl? I can't wait. Yeah. I'm getting back to the IMDb. Look, I don't even need the IMDb for this one because this is the show that I have most enjoyed lately, Agony Uncles on ABC.
Starting point is 00:32:06 Yeah. Not that I've watched it on ABC, but I watched it on iView, but I really enjoyed it. Agony Uncles? Yeah. That you were part of? Yeah, I was in it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:16 Well, that's how you become part of a program. You're in it. You've had the creator of it on the show. Yes. We have indeed. We talked to him about that. Yeah. I was happy for him.
Starting point is 00:32:29 As in, you know, it wasn't, we all sat down like about a year and a half ago. It seemed ages and just one afternoon. And then he goes away and puts it all together. But it was quite a, I was happy the way, you know, when it came out, it was great. For the listeners that haven't seen it, you can get it on DVD. Agony Uncles, it's like a, what would you say? It's like an advice show from people experienced with a matter of ladies, giving advice on how to deal with ladies.
Starting point is 00:32:54 And then there was the sister show, Agony Uncles. Agony Uncles, which Tommy was great in. Come on, E. Come on. No, so I suppose it's a look at modern love. And I think the tagline on the poster, which I thought was quite, was when you've got absolutely no one else to turn to. Right.
Starting point is 00:33:12 And it was a range of uncles. Yeah. You know what I thought was a missed opportunity? I would have loved to have seen Barry Humphreys on Agony Uncles and Dame Edna on Agony Uncles. See, this is why Zwar is a hack. This is why Zwar, poor man. You know, he's a battler.
Starting point is 00:33:28 Plus, I would have made Wilfred a cat as well. But anyway. Yeah, exactly. Or put the cat in lowdown and do something. It's a shame. No, it's just a shame that Adam just battles away, getting hit show up after hit show. But I don't know.
Starting point is 00:33:43 Yeah, I was one of the uncles. It was a good cross-section. Is there any advice that didn't go to air? Because I'm sure it seems like hours and hours of footage would have been just clipped into like little 30-second sound bites. My big one that didn't go to air. So I question whether, because it got legal. Oh, right.
Starting point is 00:34:00 Well, this show does not go, clearly does not go to legal. So you're fine here. So my answer, basically, when I said that. Unless they don't say that Deslo's not allowed to say that he's never watched Ghostbusters, I'm not sure. Yeah, the censors have some problems with how much you're talking about movies. Warner Brothers will come in and not like the way that their brand has been used. Or Harold Ramis will come on the next show and he won't believe that Tommy hasn't seen
Starting point is 00:34:21 Ghostbusters. I would love that. I sat down, when I was sitting down with Adam and he went through a series of questions, right, my stock standard answer to every one of them, because like you said, Carl, they're about, it's the questions on modern love and it's questions about relationships and heartbreak and everything that's involved in that, you know, crazy world.
Starting point is 00:34:38 My stock standard answer to everything that Adam asked me was, look, I live by one rule, and I always think in a situation, what would Gary Nguyen do? And then I do the opposite. And that wasn't allowed to go away. So you should probably just consider that, boys. Gary Nguyen, like a cyclist from 15 years ago? Yeah, he's been in the news more recently.
Starting point is 00:35:02 Oh, yeah, that's right, because he did do bad stuff, didn't he? What did he do? I said to Zora, he should have been an agony uncle. That would have been great. That would have been like a, I don't know how the DVD's got many bonus features, but if Gary Neewand was on it, it'd be great. What did he do? He did bad stuff, didn't he?
Starting point is 00:35:19 Yeah. I can't remember. I don't know. Something with a glass of champagne or something. Oh, that's, yeah, he like stalked an ex-partner and stuff like that. Yeah, right. I thought you were just being silly. Just taking the temperature of the room, by the way,
Starting point is 00:35:31 I can see why he didn't go with it in the series. I thought it was hilarious every time I said it. He said, this is not going to happen. Suddenly I've started looking at the clock after you brought up that. Yeah, look at the clock and also just mark that. You won't want to mark that bit, Tom. I don't know if I should going to happen. Suddenly, I've started looking at the clock. I've just brought up that very new one. Yeah, look at the clock, and I'll say, just mark that. You might want to mark that bit, Tom. I don't know if I should go to air. Okay, 3540.
Starting point is 00:35:48 What I've noticed with you, Carl, anytime someone brings up someone committing crimes on the show, you're very hesitant to talk about it as if you can be an accessory to the crime just by mentioning it on a podcast. Is that a new law that came in that I don't- No, you know what I think? You know what my actual thought is, is that, hang on, I'm not going to waste gold on this subject if it's going to get clipped out. Why would it get clipped out
Starting point is 00:36:10 if it's gold? Well, if it's you know, if we go through Dumb Dumb Legal and we're not allowed to talk about it. This podcast could be about seven minutes long. Just be careful, boys. I reckon we're going to risk it that out of the people that listen to this show, no one's going to tell Gary Neewand about it. What if Gary Newand about it.
Starting point is 00:36:27 What if Gary Newand, he listens? They wouldn't imagine that. I just want to know what he did with his champagne glass. That's what Wikipedia's for, Tommy. Yeah. Arse tone. We can find out. Arse tone. Did he go to air what he did with his champagne glass?
Starting point is 00:36:38 I think it went to air, but it went to air at about six o'clock on the three channels. Right. Like about that time, early on. Look up champagne's IMDB page. She's become interactive all of a sudden. There's a little extra homework for the listeners to go and do. It's like pop-up video, that old show. Yeah, Agony Uncles was great.
Starting point is 00:36:57 Yes, in conclusion, to the end of that story, Agony Uncles was great. It was great. Gary Nealon, not so great. I enjoyed seeing my friend Tom Elliott sit next to his dad for... Oh, yeah. Wasn't that weird? Oh, that was hilarious. That was...
Starting point is 00:37:11 Tom just... He was about six years old sitting next to his father as his father gave advice. Yeah. Amazing advice, too. Yeah. He's just from a different... He literally is from a different era, isn't he? John Elliott.
Starting point is 00:37:24 John Elliott, yeah. Unbelievable. It's, yeah. Unbelievable. It's pretty amazing. Another show that we will all know you from, ADBC. Why would you laugh at your own show? I like the intro. That's what we'd all know you from. That's how people talk.
Starting point is 00:37:40 ADBC, yes. Yes. I can't remember. Were you two on it? No. Were you right for it? No. Were you right for it? No. We were busy working for the White Room at the time, I think.
Starting point is 00:37:50 Again, you laugh. Yeah, the White Room. The White Room and ADBC, they're kind of, well, at least ADBC, all the episodes ran. Right. As opposed to the White Room, which I know. Don't bring that beef in here. No, no. I'm getting towards the missing episode
Starting point is 00:38:08 that never aired, Tommy. Isn't that like a... It is, yeah. Yeah, that's what's out there. I had a good joke in that. I had a good joke in that episode as well. Wow. It's the only thing I had anything in.
Starting point is 00:38:16 In the Phantom missing episode of the White Room, can you tell us what the joke was? The joke was, and it's really not going to translate to where, but the joke was there was this ridiculous scene where it's taken from some, like, All the Rivers Run or something, where Sigrid Thornton's wrestling someone down a hill, and it went on for, like, way too long. And then I went, you know, it'd be funny if you just kept cutting back to it
Starting point is 00:38:38 and going, are they still going down that hill? And it would cut back to them going down the hill more. Did that not make it onto one of the ones that went to air? No, I don't think so. No, no, no. And it kept going through the show, and that was my joke. And it got a really big laugh in the studio audience, and I'm like, yes, and then it got cancelled. May it rest in peace.
Starting point is 00:38:57 Well, you're right, Carl. It didn't translate on air. I think we've done more for The White Room on this very podcast than the Channel 7 publicity department did for it when it was on air. Is that fair to say? But going back to you saying ADBC, at least it went to... ADBC, yeah, ADBC was great. That was the first ever thing I did in television.
Starting point is 00:39:17 It was great. Having said that, you said it all went to air, but it went to air in a multitude of formats. I think at one stage it was just running in 30-second increments at one stage. No, no, I know what you're talking about. It was the five-minute bite size on a Monday, which people seem to enjoy much more than the 25-minute version, Carl. I think it ended up in a stocking stuffer in Children's Christmas.
Starting point is 00:39:45 Yeah, Christmas crackers. It's just a picture of your head on a bit of paper when you pull them open. Well, it was – I'll tell you one thing I'm proud about at ADBC was the guests were great. Yeah. The guests, we had basically – speaking of the man who's – it's lucky we should have had a chair for him. But Tony Martin did 13 of the 24 or something. Well, he put them on his own IMDb page. That's what started his obsession with it, Tommy, I think.
Starting point is 00:40:11 Did he basically get on there just because it was easier for him to update IMDb as he looked next to him on the show? As the questions would go out and the actual professor would answer, Tony was on a laptop just updating. It was perfect use of his time. The best thing about Tony Martin doing 13 episodes was the first ever one he did was only because Dave Thornton pulled out. Oh, Thornton.
Starting point is 00:40:35 Wow, that's a good get for Thornton to go, my fill-in was once Tony Martin. It's a diamond, Dave. He just always says, it's good to give a young kid a little leg up in the industry. And then Tone liked it so much that he just kept on coming back. Oh, really? And I think we went back to Dave once, but after that, it was all over. Yeah, really. He was like, he didn't even know who was in MacGyver in the second episode.
Starting point is 00:40:56 He couldn't update anything. You had him on once and went, why did we ever even bother with this idiot? Yeah. But it was... Oh, classic professionalism. Wow. Who is it? Is it someone good? It's Gary Neew idiot. Yeah. But it was. Oh, classic professionalism. Wow. Who is it? Is it someone good?
Starting point is 00:41:06 It's Gary Nealon. Unbelievable. He knows a bacon here when people are talking about him. It's Dom Perignon. Yeah, the champagne sales have gone right down since we started mentioning it. So, yeah, we're in trouble. Anyway, Carl, yes, ADVC was a great show. It was a fun to do
Starting point is 00:41:25 It was a quiz show about history Yeah, a quiz show about history So I learned a lot And And I had great All these academics were great guests And they were put next to
Starting point is 00:41:35 You know Tony Martin Dave Thorne George McEncroe Once Judith Lucy I think Santo came on Santo, who doesn't do anything
Starting point is 00:41:43 You know, he came on Part of the Brisbane Part of the Secret Society. I wasn't at the time. My mate. He'd be here, but he's parking my car right now. And it was just great. It was just fun.
Starting point is 00:41:55 And at the time, I learned things. I just haven't retained much. Although, you know, like the great London fire of 1666 started in a bakery. Oh, yeah? Yeah, yeah. I've got little bits like that. That's good. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:09 Well, you don't need to know that stuff now that you're in the secret society. Now you're part of Working Dog. You create history now. Yeah. Maybe it's less like the Masons. Maybe I made a mistake. Is it more like Scientology? Do you get audited to be part of Working Dog?
Starting point is 00:42:22 Is that a thing? Carl, if it is anything like Scientology, we are going to be sued for this podcast. That's true. What number are you in Working Dog? They have numbers. Don't they assign numbers? Yeah, like the stone cutters. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:39 The more uncomfortable you get when Carl brings these things up makes me think it's true even more. All you get when Carl brings these things up makes me think it's true even more. Tommy, what is your question other than Carl is looking at IMDb going, so you did this? What is your actual, is there a question anywhere to Carl? I'm happy to answer it. Okay, what about this? Let's talk about this.
Starting point is 00:43:00 It's not a question. This is something I'm interested to hear about. You, now, we mentioned this at the start. You, for the last few years, have been the correspondent. Is that the correct term for Eurovision? You get to go to Eurovision every year and broadcast live for SBS. That's an awesome deal. Tommy's question is, how did you get that? My question is, can I come next year?
Starting point is 00:43:26 Tommy, I bump into so many people that just want to go and would actually just be great at it. So you doing it with Julia would be fantastic. It's clearly not happening. I want to do it with you. Kick her out. It seems like a pretty dream gig to know that you've got that coming up every year. You get to go over and it's pretty, you know.
Starting point is 00:43:46 I think the official title is co-host of SBS's coverage. Ah, okay. And that's just, that's what Julia and I get to do over there. Once you get there, it's just massive. Yeah. It's just, it's so big. It's such a. Oh, I mean that stadium that it's in, I've never seen anything of that size before.
Starting point is 00:44:05 Yeah, well, you know, whoever wins it, they've got a year to – they know that they're hosting it the next year, so they've got a year to get ready. So it's usually – the stadium is pretty new, fresh coat of paint at the very least, and it's a true extravaganza. You get there and it's the scale of it blew me away. This was the fourth one we've done.
Starting point is 00:44:29 I think it seems as though it's getting bigger and bigger back here, and not because of the two of us, just because I think there's just more. I think Twitter plays a big part in it. I mean, I'm pretty new. I've only really started watching it last year, but it's exciting because you genuinely don't know what's going to happen next. When you're seeing all the competitors for the first time, it's not like someone just comes out and sings a song.
Starting point is 00:44:49 Like it could be anything. It could be an old woman. It could be a baby on roller skates. You really don't know what's going to happen. What country was that? Which is, that was, that was, uh, it was Armenia. They mix it up. They mix it up every year.
Starting point is 00:45:02 Um, I'm keen to hear about these positive things Because to be honest It's like those movies we were talking about before It's a show that I've never had any interest in Because it seems like the ad is Hey, everyone watch this show It's full of stuff that's really bad And I'm like Oh, I'll watch something good if that's alright
Starting point is 00:45:19 It's a good point And I think that I don't know I think that The one thing I would say about the fact that Julia and I are over there has changed the coverage a little bit in terms of, you know, we're backstage, we film stuff backstage with the artists and you kind of, you kind of get a little snapshot of, of the craziness that's backstage.
Starting point is 00:45:38 And then, you know, of course you see them on stage perform and yeah, I don't know if it's, it's getting past, it's getting past a niche thing. I think that just people, more people are watching it. And I wonder, and Tommy, if you're actually, you know, you watch it and you just become, like you're invested in these performers. I mean, you go in thinking this will be a laugh. Yeah, and then within one song, you get that. And I learned that early in terms of, you know, I thought, because I was lucky, Carl, I had no, I didn't grow up with it.
Starting point is 00:46:09 Julia did, and it's quite obvious in terms of, you know, our enthusiasm and knowledge of Eurovision's past. Right. But I thought, okay, I'll just go over there and, you know, make smart-ass comments after every song. But it gets very, well, I didn't do that, but just because you can't. We're just more there to celebrate and have fun. And when it's time to make fun, make fun.
Starting point is 00:46:30 But you've got to pick your spots because, you know, there's a lot of, there's just a lot going on. And they're kind of. There's a very positive vibe on the ground there. Like, is that, I mean, I think some people probably watch it a bit ironically here, but over there, it's just a full on vibe of like, this is great and this is fun. And serious.
Starting point is 00:46:52 Yeah. Yeah. I think back, well, see this, I can't even comment on how it is back here. I'm sure that there's some people just tuning in for a laugh, but then again, I know there's massive parties and. Yeah. There's bars that have big screenings of it and stuff. It's pretty.
Starting point is 00:47:03 Which I, you know, which I unfortunately miss out on because I'm there. Oh, yeah. That's a shame. Yeah, I feel awful for you. Yeah, but every year I've actually enjoyed it more and more. Yeah. And I actually reckon if you can get to one, it's hilarious. To a live one?
Starting point is 00:47:18 Yeah. Yeah. If you happen, you know, Aussies travel a lot. If you happen to be in the country where the Eurovision's going to be. I'm an Aussie. Belong to. I could go there. You don't look like you've travelled much.
Starting point is 00:47:27 I'll tell you. I haven't travelled that much, but I've travelled a little bit. Have you been to any of the places that have hosted a Eurovision? Has Thailand hosted a Eurovision? Wow. I'd hate to think about the opening act. Has Ballarat KFC hosted? Tommy, did you watch it this year?
Starting point is 00:47:50 Do you remember the Russian grannies? Yes, I did like them. You know what I loved, who I became a bit obsessed with when it was on, and I enjoyed watching you introduce them? The Track Shitters. Track Shitters. Actual group called, I forget where they're from. Me too.
Starting point is 00:48:07 It must mean, you know, something else in their native tongue. Yeah. But you trying to work your way around going, here they are, The Track Shitters. It was great, Telly. Thank you, Tom. It was a lot of fun to watch. I did my best to keep, you know, to keep it straight.
Starting point is 00:48:22 Yeah. To say things out loud. It seems like what that was. Yeah. The track shitters. Carl, you just, you know, if you're backstage and you're standing next to some, you know, some. A track shitter.
Starting point is 00:48:31 A track shitter and the backup singer is dressed as a swan. You just let them talk, mate. You know, man, there's nothing I can do. That's what's prepared you so well for this podcast because we've never talked about this before, but when we record, I do dress up as a giant swan. Which was off-putting for the first time, but now I'm feeling much more comfortable. Now that you've loosened up.
Starting point is 00:48:52 Now that you've started ignoring Tommy and just focusing solely on the clock. You don't notice it. The clock is next to the big swan head that I've got coming off my back. You can just move your bill for a second there. Terribly sorry. Eurovision is funny. I can't believe the people that when I get back,
Starting point is 00:49:12 they want to talk about it. And I've got no great anecdotes about it really. I heard Zwarri on your show, just these magnificent sweeping stories that should be written down. But having said that, they were about blue heelers rather than being overseas or anything. Did he say about playing a baddie in Rush? Did he say that come up? No.
Starting point is 00:49:33 Oh, yeah. You listened to what you said, so you should know. No, not all of it. Oh, sorry. Wow. I like how you've had the decency to tell us that you don't have any good stories 50 minutes into the recording. This could have all been good when we were outside waiting to come up.
Starting point is 00:49:48 I've got nothing. Why don't you tell Adam Zwa's bad guy in Rush Story just to take us home? I don't even, yeah, I'd stuff that up as well. I'm not really a very good storyteller. Probably should have led with that. Yeah. I should have tweeted it to you because that's how you booked me on the show. That's classic Ross, though.
Starting point is 00:50:04 He's classic Ross. Well, guys, that does bring us to the end of the Little Dumb Dumb Club for another episode. Sam, thank you so much for joining us. Tommy, Carl, thank you so much. I doubt that you'll have me back, but I really would love to come back sometime. Of course we'll have you back sometime. What have you got coming up?
Starting point is 00:50:20 You were saying you're doing some radio stuff coming up. Hey, when will this go to air? I don't want to lock you into a date. Soon, yeah. All right, well, this is the first ever time. This is a world exclusive. This is a world exclusive. Can you clear this with Working Dog first?
Starting point is 00:50:39 Because we're unrelated to Working Dog, so, you know, I can do whatever I want. Up yours, Santos. Santos. We finished shooting and just finished editing a little five-minute series, 10-part five-minute series for ABC called Kane and Disabled. Oh, and it's got a big friend of the show. Is Lawrence Mooney a friend of the show? He certainly is. Yeah, Lawrence Mooney plays the lead friend of the show. Is Lawrence Mooney a friend of the show? He certainly is.
Starting point is 00:51:05 Yeah, well, Lawrence Mooney plays the lead character in this show. He plays Ernie Cain, who is the host of a fictional show called Ernie Cain's Paralympic Heroes. Yeah. And I play his producer, Noah. And every episode there is a real Paralympian on the show. Put it this way. A real one. A real one. A real one.
Starting point is 00:51:26 My character, obviously, is fine with disability. All Lawrence's character can see is the disability. So it's magnificent soil, and it's going to wear, and I think in about a couple of weeks. Awesome. Great. I look forward to seeing Lawrence Mooney on Twitter attacking anyone who has an opinion
Starting point is 00:51:46 about it. Yeah. Are you having a launch party? Can we go to the launch party just to watch Lawrence slowly get drunk, then check Twitter, and then flame anyone who doesn't give it five stars? We'll be Mr. Mooney's minders for the evening for a small fee. There is actually nothing funnier than that man drinking and tweeting. That's the funniest thing in the world.
Starting point is 00:52:08 Literally, I've said this on the show, but it got me into Agony Uncles. Him defending it? Yeah. Yeah. Got me into it. I wasn't going to watch either. But after seeing Lawrence's tweets that first night, I thought, I might just get ready.
Starting point is 00:52:22 Guys, thank you so much for joining us for another week. We have got our live show coming up, our 100th August the 14th at Softbelly. Check out Facebook and Twitter and stuff for more details. Thank you very much for listening and we will see you next time. See you, mates!

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