Aunty Donna Podcast - Granny Bingo!

Episode Date: June 9, 2026

Zach's "Sick" but luckily we've wrangled Edith and Maureen from Areola Gardens to sub in for a week!Watch "Another Cuppa" here: https://youtu.be/nI9YO4k2c8Y?si=enhdpau2U4b4f0zI Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a Grouse House podcast. All right. Welcome to the Auntie Donna podcast. Woo! Yeah. Some people are very excited that we're back. Some people not so much. Some people aren't in the room, but that's nothing to worry about.

Zach's sick, but he's going to be back next week. And hey, Tom. Hi, mate. How are you? We've got some great special guests this week taking the place of Zach. Incredibly special, incredible and special. It's the, can we say the gals from Granny Bingo? Yes, we're definitely women.

Yes, you say whatever you like. Okay, great. I don't know. I love that attitude. We've got two pensioners in from, where are you from? We live in a sort of a lifestyle option for the over 50s. It's called Ariola Garden. Yes.

And it's somewhere in the South. east of Melbourne. We haven't really nailed it down. So you live in an age where retirement community? It's a retirement community. The slogan is where people go to die. And I don't know if it says on the box. I don't know if you're across the budget cuts at a state level recently, but yes, it's really living up to its reputation. All right. That's wonderful. So Edith and Maureen are here. Yes. Yes. Yeah, Edith. We got Edith. Yes. And we got Maureen. Yeah, put it on my And viral sensations. Can we talk about this viral hit?

I don't fully understand it, to be honest with you, but we've got Gwen in the IT department at Granny Bingo. Granny Bingo's become a bit of a conglomerate, quite like Auntie Donna. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so we've hired Gwen from IT. It was a NEPO hire. I'll say it straight up. It's Maureen's cousin.

How old is Maureen's cousin? Gwen, she'd be, what year was she born? From Bellarat, 1940. It was after that, and decimal currency came in 14th of February, 1966. Abba won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974. 74 it was, yes, there must have been after that. It's all right. It doesn't matter.

No, I'll get there. She must be about 80. She's 89. 89, 89, yes. So Gwen found the password to our Instagram account the other day, and she logged in. Oh, bloody, Millie. millions of views.

We had no idea. Yeah, it's good. This is great. This is great. We're killing it. It's great with this dynamic. We're thrilled to be here to help you out. I was hoping that the Batman.

Yes. I would think that Grand Designs Batman. Grand Design's Batman would be here. That was a silly thing we're doing and we're moving on from that. Yeah, it was a little unprofessional. Yeah. I wouldn't have thought that that really lit something up in me. I am a big Batman.

fan oh really yes but only the 60 Adam west of course after that it just got a bit silly for me yeah this is that that's the inverse I think I think that's the like that's the Batman from the 60s is known and Mark's thrown by this

is that the 60s Batman is the silly one and then in the 80s Tim Burton who is the father of Batman he made it he's Batman's father I thought he didn't have a father the father got killed slow down Like Batman is he made it serious.

Right. But for anyone who's needed that joke, if anyone needed that joke explained, there it is. No, but Maureen, Mark's going to tell you about Frank Miller. No, no, no, no, no. I was just saying that, you know, in that pre-Tim Burton, Frank Miller released the comic book that really... Is it the same Frank Miller that wrote Wizard of Oz? No, that's a different Frank? I don't know.

I don't know. I'm just trying to be late. Now I'm thinking Frank Oz, who is Grover. I'm thoroughly confused. Can we go home? Do you? No, stay, stay, stay. All right.

You know, Frank Oz. Yes. From the prison show in the mid-2000s. No, he's at, no, that's Oz. Frank. Sorry to drop this thrilling conversation. It is good, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Edith, are you eating a mandarin? Sorry, you were having a chat. I didn't want to interrupt. We're doing so many. We're doing this. Press junker at the ab. so contractually obliged us to be here. I'm having a time for Amanda in today.

Do you want something? I've got something for you. Hang on. I might be right. I also might be wrong. Yeah. What would you like? I've got a Bertie Beatle for you there.

Are you right, wouldn't it? Sorry, to be honest with you, if I had the choice, I wouldn't have been here. But apparently, we're contractually obliged. Gwen is also our lawyer. She's signed a contract on our behalf. And so I'm here in body, if not in mine. So you keep chatting about your Frank Lloyd, right, Oz.

Well, I want to do full context for why we've got two old women here, right? Yeah. The ABC's, like Tom and Lucy are helping make these podcasts. Because Tom's trying to become an empire, right? Yes. Because he's seen. He's usurping. Yeah, and so he started making other podcasts,

and he made a podcast with these two people, Mark. Can you just put the fucking whizze down for 10 minutes? I think he's looking for a straw. I'm trying to explain to you. You're trying to explain to me that. that Tom has a podcast company and made Granny Bingo. Yeah. Like I'm not in every fucking board meeting and I'm here every fucking day.

But I'm fucking telling you, Hey, aye, aye, aye, aye. Sorry, sorry. So I'm telling you C word that. Oh, you can call him a cunt. Just don't raise your voice. All right. I'm telling you cunt.

Right. That you're the audience, right? And I'm talking to you. And if you're not listening, what chance do I have? I just wanted to try the extra sour show. And what do you think, isn't it nice? I wish I had a whizfizz like that. Sour as I would like, ladies.

Oh, really? I expected it to be a little... No, no, no, no. We are on an ABC budget, just so you know. I was just being a cheeky monkey. I think it's pretty sour. You're an anti-donor as well, aren't you? Sorry, I've just realised who this is.

No, it's totally fine. That's why he's here. I thought he was setting us all up. Have we started? Oh, I understand now. Hello? So, Mark, these are heightened characters. These is Grady Bingo, right?

And they are produced by Tom and Lucy. Right. And they're doing a podcast for the ABC. You remember the ABC. I'm well-versed in ABC. Yes, you had one season on there, I believe. Yeah, just one. Just the one.

But we had a Netflix show too. Yes, just the one. We joke about that in the tea room at ABC. We did another pilot for the ABC. What was it about? I was about the life in times of Auntie Donner. Yeah, yeah, you know. It was like a Lano and Woodley, Adventures of Lano and Woodley, but with three of you.

Yeah, and we, and less thought through all good. I see. Yeah, yeah. Not, um, uh, our film stuff wasn't quite there. Right. It's what the ABC said. That was, yeah, no, they too. I was, we, we were having tea in the room, in the room, the, the TV room at ABC and we were laughing about it.

God, they were, they had some jokes. Hang on. You should have heard what Sean McAuliffe was saying about you. What do you say? Oh, I wouldn't want to repeat it on air, but, and then Virginia Trioli. She was, oh, they're talking about Auntie Donna. Don't know, I heard about that pile. Hey, newsroom.

Come on in here. They all piled in, yeah. Oh, it was so funny. So we're a laughing stock at the ABC. Oh, not on a mean way. You know, it's just more of a running joke there. It's sort of shorthand for if you, you know, Maureen that tripped the other day,

they said, oh, you auntie donned it, you know. I don't think they mean to be rude though, Mark. I hope you're not offended. No, no, no, not offended at all. We've been doing this podcast for 10 years and you don't do it podcast for 10 years willy-nilly. Actually, I don't reckon you- Well, you can.

I mean, keep going, just keep recording. Just keep doing it. Well, who do you know who's done a podcast for 10 years?

Oh, I'm sure Mick Malloy probably would have. That's called radio. Which is the Everyman podcast, I suppose. That's podcast if you can't

afford an iPhone. I'm just saying where it counts. You've done well? I think so. You've done badly. I'm just saying the ABC that you've done badly.

I've given a lot of feedback behind your back. What's funny is that this is true. true. I can concede that, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That we're a joke at the ABC.

Yeah, yeah, for many years, we were not liked. But, hey, we're not here to talk about how shit we are. Yeah. Although we can. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's mainly why I... Why do you think we never made it? Yeah, break us down.

I don't know, you had a lot of shots, didn't you? It wasn't that you weren't given a chance. Wasn't one thing. I don't think it was one. What are we missing? What are we missing? Yeah. And it's open to you too. Well, because we're hard workers.

Like even outside of this, Oh, no. Outside of this, Auntie Donna, I worked hard. In every job I had, I was on time. What was your favourite job? I used to work at the Art Centre, Melbourne. Oh, yes. Right?

In the box office. And I was employee number one. You may be again one day. Well, that'd be nice. We could do our show there. If we bring Granny Bingo to the Art Centre, I'll put in a good word and see if they'll hire you again to sell tickets for us. That'd be lovely.

I didn't leave in the best way. Now, I don't know how to tell this story without breaking the fourth wall. My grandson, of course, worked with you. And I remember him telling me you didn't really leave. Did you just sort of stopped showing up? And then we saw you on the telly. And thought, well, we'll clear his story. We'll clear his locker at.

In fact, I think he's got a box of your things at home, if you need them. So you're telling me you have a connection to someone who used to work with Mark truly and really at the art centre. And they were his boss? They were his boss.

Yes, that's my grandson, if that makes sense to that. That was the only story in which Mark just fizzled away. Disappeared. My favourite story about Mark working at the Arts Centre, which we can cut later

after this ad break, because we're not at the ABC. We have to make money. Yes, no, of course. It's very nice. One day Mark was working in an area on the boardwalk or the South Bay Walk? When the Hema had the downstairs box office.

But it was a box office down at Hamer Hall. Is that right, Mark? Yes, that's great. What happened? They decided to do something with, isn't it? Yes, it's, yes. Go on. I don't know what story you're talking about.

We could always cut this, but he was working down there and doing the taking money on the tickets and stuff and then working. Working. Taking people come up. and say, what blaze would you like to see? Doing my work. That'll be 2850 things.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cash or, yeah. And then I finished the shift and went home and left the float just sitting on the bench. Yes. I remember that performance review very clearly. How much was in there? Because it's the art center. It would be full of bloody cash.

Oh, you know, it was the downstairs one. So you didn't get a lot of traffic. No. But, you know, it wasn't, it was less the amount of money and more the, uh, the stupidity. and the embarrassment of the lack of fiduciary responsibility. Yeah, yeah, a little bit.

But I was, you know, I turned up for a lot of my shifts. At some point, yeah, at some point throughout the day you'd often rock up. There was this. I do remember you were actually turning up for a shift you didn't have as well.

Which was a surprise to all of us. For several reasons. And when you say us, you mean your grandson? My grandson. And I think I was early that day. Or like, for the day before the news. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I have a vivid memory of also, like, there was a day, and it was like, like, New Year's Eve. Like, it was a big day for the arts end. Yes, well, that the New Year's Eve, Pop's Orchestra. Yeah, right. And we had got an email from a random company saying, we want Auntie Donans before. We got to remember early days. Yes, early Korea days. We all have to start somewhere.

Some of us have had several starts, yes. Yes, we have had 15 chances. Yeah. And someone's like, hey, we want you to. give us some sketches for a television show like pitch us some ideas to be on TV and we were like fuck we need to get together it's like the 31st of December and we need to write these and give them a deck so Sam can't like Sam can't we went to Sam's house I had no job so I was fine Mark cancelled day of I think day off and I think you're oh I'm sick

sick for work or a did a daughter very very very low immune system I think. So we took the day and wrote all the, you know, gave them all these sketches of ours and none of them

got through. Of course not. Of course not. You could have been a supervisor at the Arts Centre now. I, I watched every person I started with, every single person I started with

get promoted above me. And it wasn't even one of those things where I was like, no, you know what? I'm happy where I am. I don't want it

because, you know, I like the freedom. No, it was never sort of, I also ended my way, which is fair enough. I have a memory of also, because back in the early days, our only platform was Facebook, like the Auntie Donna Facebook page. And I think at the Art Center from memory,

that was one of the websites that wasn't blocked that you could get into. And so we would get these bot emails from like people from other countries that were like, would try and bait old people into replying. And this is a true story, is there was one. I got in and was reading, you know, messages from fans one day. And we had like 2,000 fans or something at this time. And there was a message. It was like, help me with my pussy.

And what should I do? And I looked under it. And Mark had written like an eight page response to this person going, we're happy. Happy to help. You just need, and then talked about like sexual health. And like just this stream of consciousness to like a bot account. That was the funniest thing I'd ever read.

What all the phones in the box office? Ring, ring, ring, ring. Everyone's just dying to get a ticket to the nutcracker. But sorry, I've just, I've lost. You've derailed a little bit. Are we still in the ad? Yeah. How do you host Granny Bingo?

What is that? Great. Good question. We host a lovely evening. We do a, well, we have originally started with our live shows, which is, we do play bingo at some point throughout the night, but most of it is just us having fun. If you like bingo, you'll be severely disappointed.

You will be, yeah. But we've also branched out into podcasts with the help of Gwen in the IT department and the ABC. Of course, the ABC has gone very, had for a while gone very left wing, lots of bloke's prancing around and frost. Do you know we were, do you know, Pauline Hanson put us in a sketch once?

Good on her. God, she's wonderful. She's got a finger on. on the pulch, hasn't she? I've gone off her a bit, I'll be honest. Oh, why? I think she's a bit batty. Batty?

Yeah, like, I don't know. 1960s batty? I used to think that everything, I would think it and she would say it. But lately she's been saying more than I'm thinking. She's gone further than you. Yeah, she's pushing the... I love it. I think she's fantastic.

When she did that animation about us, I was off her. Yeah, she put us in a cartoon of hers. And it was... Was it mean to you? We were an example of how the ABC is wasting money for dopey people. I would hate for them to do that. That's shocking. Well, that's why I think they've got us on to go back to a bit more of a traditional kind of program.

You know, you mentioned before that the ABC asked you to put some sketches together and put them in. You'd all chipped in. We didn't have that. They just said, you can have a show. Yes, whatever you want to do, really. Whatever you like, yeah. And... Well, we're fucking...

All right, great. Oh, it's not a competition. It's just different. And it's great because we're now able to give a platform to people. We had Broden on our show. Yeah, it was awful. Look at you now. It fucking sucked.

You prepared, you wrote a list of shit to make fun of me. No. Like, it was about how, the main two things that came was a redhead and I was bald. I think you got a bit. That's what we left in. You're leaving out all the stuff we had to cut. I wasn't going to say anything to it. I didn't want to embarrass you in front of your hairy little friend here.

But we had two hours this went for. an hour and 40 minutes was brode for a 14 minute episode for a 14 minute an hour and 40 minutes we had to cut of broodin crying really he was crying

he felt he said I'm getting bullied I don't know if I want to be an anti-donor anymore Mark and Jack they gang up on me and and I had to hold him he was sobbing sobbing yeah just get me on next time

we want to I think I would you say about Mark what I was worried about was you know we're very fond of the new Australians but I didn't realize you spoke English. So beautifully, yes.

Yeah, yeah, I was, I was born here, you know. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, where do you think I'm from? What would you? Well, the beard is ambiguous. Yeah, it covers a lot, I suppose. It does, yeah.

Could be the south of Italy, or it could be Hobbit Town. I'm not sure or all. From New Zealand, the Hobbiton. Specifically, Hobartown. You nailed the south of Italy. South of Italy, whereabouts? The soccer ball from. My father is from a town called Francofonte in Sicily,

and my mother is from a town. Franco. Yeah, Franco Cozzo, a little bit different. Drug in the chairs. They, they, they, they had accusations of drugs in the, in the, in the chairs. Right. Yeah. Your father or?

No, no, no, Francozzo in Brunswick and Footscray. He's dead now. Yes, yes. Probably from all of the sitting on so much cocaine. Well, we don't know. No, we don't know. But the Brunswick store is still. Coming back.

It's still coming back. It's still there. It's still full of stuff. They're opening day. How old were you in the 60s? Oh, it depends what comedy festival show you're talking about. Probably, I think we're about 40. Any of nowhere well and truly into our 40.

50s. He cuts the figure of a sort of a John Lennon or one of those free loving types in the 60s, the beard and the hair. What are you doing? I'm just saying you're like, you know, it's trying to bring you down to his level. Yeah, right, right. I'm just trying to help him.

roaster. I don't mind. Look, we've got to have representation and things like that. So it's nice to have you ticking several boxes. It's actually nice to be around people who do consider me the minority that I am. A new Australian. This is what I thought before when you said, why don't the ABC have us, you know? I think it's because you've got too much diversity.

On our show. Yeah, within the new group, the three. I agree with that. Too much diversity. Right, right. For once, you might think you're a minority, you're a minority out there, but in here, you're the minority. Me, as a white man.

With the hair. And the balding. The thing. And the red. Well, like, I choose to shave firstly, my head. That's an active. You should have put that in your pitch for the ABC. That would have got you a show.

You could have a full head. I choose this. Really? No. Really. Like, like, like, like Heston, a blue. Yeah, because I like to cook. And also there's so many, like, there's so many moments in my life where, like, getting to the gym, the aerodynamics of it.

And, like, being able to streamline my hair in the way. You'd be like Kathy Freeman. Yeah, that's right. I, I just, this is just for day-to-day life. I'm just, I feel like I'm streamlined. Get back on a mark, I reckon, about, like, why is it always coming back to me? Tell me more about you. So, your parents, where were they born?

Are they born in Sicily? Sicily, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, my nonnas, that's grandmother. Yes. Yeah, yeah. We know of you. Yeah. We have no one called Angelina.

Is she here today? No, Angelina passed away, unfortunately. She went to God. Yeah, she went to, she went on. With Grand Design's Batman. Yeah, yeah. They're in that room. You can always tell when Edith's checked out.

She starts chomping on that mandarin. Do you, why are you, what? What? What are you doing? I'm just having a little mandarin. I'm sorry, you were having a conversation. I didn't want to eat. Well, just about, you know, my non-ness.

This is crazy. This is crazy. This is going to slow your friggin' mind. All right, here we go. My non-ness. When they were five years old, little girls, both named Josie, right, lived across the road from each other and played together as little girls pre-war. Yes.

The World War II. Yes. The war comes. They split up. one of them moves to different towns, right? They grow up 16, they get married, they have a child, right? They have a couple of kids. They both immigrate to Australia to Werribee, down the road from each other,

bump into each other one day. I remember you from when I was five, and then their kids get married and then later divorced. Gettos, this is the problem. They're all, they let too many of them in. They're all here now. But this is, I think it's exactly what Pauline's been. They've taken the wrong thing from my story.

Of course they ran into each other. Of course, they ran into each other. They're all here. How could they not find each other? There's no one left in here. They're probably on the same boat. Did they look for each other on the boat? No, different boats.

That happens more often than you think Mark a pair. They don't know if it does. It does. Mark loves video games. That would... That explains a lot. That checks out. That's an inbreeding thing.

What do you mean? I was going to say because I'm sorry. They don't know they're related and they end up together and that sort of thing. Family tree is probably more like spaghetti than branches. Look, I can't defend the inbreeding, unfortunately. Unfortunately, that is. I think you actually use that as an excuse for leaving the float on the counter at the arts. My grandmothers are sisters and their brothers.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you find kids today, like kids like Mark, their friends are all on the internet, right? So they're not going out to the street and playing. What do you think of that? That's a great question. I think it suits me to some extent because I can get around. Yes, I don't really like children, to be honest with you. And I think the more of them indoors playing video games,

the less I have to deal with it. They could, not just playing video games. They might, some of them, a couple of them might be listening to your podcast, one or two. And music. And music. They might be singing, you know, Morning Brown, Morning Brown, you know. Oh, you guys know Morning Brown? Yeah, they drew.

Oh, we know the whole catalogue. Yes. When they interviewed me, they kind of used it as a way to cut down what we do. Really? Sort of like, oh, you're trained and you went to drama school and all that and said. And what's more? And I was like, I feel like I'm being ambushed here. Well, no, we finished drama.

Welcome to my fucking world. Yeah, because that's how I felt. Like, because they're like, oh, yeah, the morning brown. It's about rooting and so, oh, that's high art. That was the kind of sort of cut down of us. And can I ask you a question? Yeah, Maureen, yeah. Do you, did you get the same thrill that I get when you talk down to people?

It feels nice. Broden insisted that we bring you guys on for an episode. And what do you think about that? Well, I think I'm starting to realize why. I needed a rebuttal. It's a revenge. No, it's going badly. Your revenge.

I've got to go. I've got to go harder. Broden, I want to give you a chance to go harder, right? Reclaim your power. Come at me. Because you are a powerful man. You're a beautiful man who chooses to shave his head. Yeah.

Because it's better for you. Yeah. Steadily. And do you choose to die the beard too? What's all choice, isn't it? Stand up. It's naturally red. Don't actually, because we can't move the cameras.

Stand up on your own two feet and give them out. All right. Edith, Maureen. I deserve it. I'm good. Deserve what? Give more detail. I'm a good person.

I'm funny. I have a head. I choose to shave my head. And when you said I wanted, I wanted. to be bullied because I was drama captain. Yes. That was out of line. Okay.

And I deserve an apology. And I deserve to be here. Yep. Anything else I should say? Oh, I think you're setting yourself up for more failure. Yeah. What you need to understand is that you're now already rich and famous and we've been trying that for the last 75 years.

Famous I'll take to an extent in a very small pocket. I think you'd be surprised how little we may. You are funded by more than. the ABC so it's more than me. I can tell you this right now. It would genuinely be. Shut up. Shut up and get away.

Can you see it? You're a little, oh, I'm oppressed. You know, get over yourself. They have been pretty prudent. I just, no, I think you went too far. I know I told you to go hard. Yeah. I feel like you took it a step too far.

I went hard on the other way. Yeah. You just talked yourself up a bit too much and that's an Australian. Oh, I go. I got to get back. Poor Polly syndrome. I accept that. Yeah.

I feel good about myself again. Tall poppy except a poppy blooms from the top. I don't know if you know this, Mark, but when Broden came on our podcast, he had a big swollen face because he'd received a golf ball to the face. That's true. And at the time, I was very nice about that. I was very sympathetic, wasn't I? I don't. I'm starting to understand why that person angled that golf ball in that direction.

I think it was purpose. I think it was on purpose. To be honest, I don't remember if you were empathetic. I have a really bad brain recollection from that week. He's starting to slip a little bit day to day. We're getting worried. So why didn't why didn't we try this? So we've got Edithyn Maureen on today.

I appreciate your feelings and I hear you. You're seeing. You are seeing. Okay. Thank you. That's very modern of you. But what I'd like to propose is that we come back again next week when Zach's here and you're not and just see how that goes. You know.

next week. We'll see what happens with Zach. Yep. We don't know. He should be back. He's sick now. Should be back next week. Yeah.

I'd listen to that episode. He's sick. He's sick. He's sick right now. Do you have a, do you, do you have a show that you wanted, I don't know. Yeah, the granny bingo one. Well, we also have the podcast. We're talking about our live shows earlier.

What's a Friday night like for? Friday night for us. Do you, are you familiar with ketamine? Yeah, the horse tranquil. Yeah. I think that's one of its many uses. One of its many uses. We live at the nursing home.

What is it a nursing home or is it a retirement? It's a retirement village with some assisted care as you sort of ascend that staircase to the end of life. Yes, right. And so they have got a locked up drug cabinet. But one of the doctors who does the Friday evening shift, he is in a little bit of financial trouble. As we all are, as some people do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We sort of pull together our pensions and we have a little deal going with him.

Friday night is Ket Night. And we watch Better Homes and Gardens. Oh, you, oh, it's so, you should come over. You take Ketamine and you watch, too. I don't know how I'd be on Ketamine. Oh, well, you'll enjoy the better homes and gardens at the very least. That's very, that's still running. Oh, Joanna Griggs.

Joanna Griggs is fabulous all the time, but wait till you're fucked on Ket. It really adds a lot. Wonderful. Another dimension. Wonderful. I went on the Better Homes and Gardens website one time. I bought a $50 worth... Probably while you're being paid by the Art Centre.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was an Art Centre dime. Giving guidance on someone's pussy. And I... Excuse me? Well, that's what the message was. Right. And then I bought $50 worth of Scrub Daddies.

Oh, yes. Turns out it was a fake website. Oh. I don't know if you're aware of this. Yes, I don't think Better Homes and Gardens does... It's a scam website of Pet Homes and Gardens. And you know what that's... They got me.

Yeah, which is sad because that scam is very specifically designed for people around. Yeah, I know. I know. You've fallen. Oh, I felt pretty fucking stupid. How many scrub daddies do you get for 50 bucks? Oh, you get a box that every box has four. You get a big box of them.

I think you get about 10 boxes in it, about 40. For 50. About 40s. Yeah, scrub daddies. I've never seen someone so distressed talking about scrub daddies. Well, look, I love scrub daddy. Aren't they one of scrubb? I love a scrub.

Mama. Stick your fingers in. You buy brand, scrub daddy brand. Well, yeah, I don't. Oh, do you get the knockoffs? No, no, no, no. I think there's not one we can all the ground. Scrub daddy's sick.

This is one thing that spreads across the generations. The talented and the untalented. The bald and the non-baled. Not bald. When they're hot, when they're soft. When they're cold, they're sharp. It's rough. It's just wet.

I don't think heat. The heat doesn't matter. Yeah, it's wet. Is that true? Lucy. It's wet. Hot makes it warm. Hot makes it soft. No. Lucy, Lucy. I mean, if you put it under a flame, it would go soft.

No. In fact, it would actually probably stay. It would melt and then go hard again. Put it under cold water. It goes soft. I'm pretty sure. No, Lucy. Lucy, Lucy, come here. Lucy's going to, Lucy's going to set a straight. Hello, Lucy. Am I wrong? If I'm wrong, I apologise. No, Lucy, we'll go find out from the youngest person in the room. But you have you met Lucy, by the way? Yes, we know, Lucy. Nice to see you, Lucy.

I'm good. How are you guys? Good, I'm all right. What have you been? Here's your mum. Come over. Come over, Lou. You come sit with me, darling.

I'm here. Go for it. Set them straight. Hot water makes scrub daddy's soft and malleable. And cold water makes them hard. So like if you want to scrub a pan, like a you've burnt something on the bottom of a pan, you use cold water and you scrub it. I thought we were fringe.

Why the fuck are you going against me? Are you serious? I better go. You better go. Are we wrong? Brodham, can I... Can we get a fucking scrub daddy on here? Can we get...

Can we... Can we... Can we... Just a bowl of water. I want a bowl of hot water, a bowl of cold water, and I want a beer. And then a few scrub daddies and we'll test some things.

I'm sorry to interrupt. I think we might be wrong, Warren. Brodyn, just on your... You're talking about your financial issues earlier. I was? I just know we don't get... You don't have enough money. You hire this girl to come in

and research scrub daddies and that sort of thing I've seen her sitting in that chair doing nothing until that point I'm going to suggest we might have a look at your books we might have Gwen in. No, no need to look in there. Quinn's also not looking at our books. Oh right. Too many scrubbeddads.

A lot of scrub daddy books. If you think we're hemorrhaging money having Lucy in the room doing nothing, I'll tell you after this better thing we're doing called Grousehouse TV. Oh, yeah. Now we've heard of it. Yeah, here we go. that, yeah, which is available for all you to stream some great Australian shows. I'd like a season two of Hug the Sun.

Oh, yeah, that's a great show, Shadow Man. We have an offshoot. We have a, it's not a sequel, but it's a, you know, it's something that was made at the very least. It's like, you know, in one spot of time in Hollywood, the guy, Brad Pitt, and then Paul Thomas Anderson. No, who's making. No. Frank O. Seven, the man who direct Fincher.

Fincher's making a one about him. that's what it's like. Yeah, look. Wait, no, please don't, don't get to,

don't get the promotion. Please don't check out. I'm sorry. We'll just talk, it's, you know, it's just, if you were going to come to

come to us with a grasshouse to the idea, what would we be doing? That's a great idea. Well, once the ABC can cancel's your show, you can come be on grasshouse.

Yeah, yeah, I mean, you else will take you. Unless you're the 730 report, like it's like, We're all moving the same way. Yes.

On to Grousehouse. Hopefully. Unless we make it on Media Watch. Well. And then we are in forever. One of my favorite shows. I love it. I don't know if you make shows on Media Watch.

Make it on to Media Watch. Like the achievement. I thought you thought Media Watch was going to be your distribution platform. And I was going to say, ladies, I got some news for you. I see it is more of an achievement getting at the award. That's where it's the, for. It's the show where if you do something corrupt or... Yeah, some crook.

Or dodgy, they go and... They ridicule you. Oh, they ridicule you. Commercial TV's on it quite a lot. Yeah. But, you know, they check themselves. They will check themselves too. They will check themselves.

They will check the ABC. Oh, yeah, you got it. Well, they're... That's an awful... And that's your taxpayer money at work. If you're in Australia, yeah. Do you have a lot of people watch from overseas? Yeah.

South of Italy? Well, sometimes... I don't think many there. Right. We did a whole sketch which heavily relied on this idea called Chicken Tonight. Which you know is a stir-through. I feel like chicken tonight. Like chicken tonight.

Like chicken tonight. Mom, can we have chicken tonight tomorrow night? Shut the fuck. That was the ad. And so we used to talk about Chicken Tonight. And then a bunch of people were like getting Chicken Tonight tattoos and stuff from us. That's real. And they're like, oh, it's a thing.

Like they didn't know about Chicken Tonight. Oh, they had the tattoos. and then they found out the chicken tonight. How disappointing that they would have then had it and realized, I wish I didn't get the tattoo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think getting a loaf. What's your favorite chicken tonight flavor?

I like the Alfrader. Oh, it's too sparse. Creamy. Do you, I do have a question of your eyes at you tonight. Do you do a full breast? Or are you chopping that chick up? I do it in chunks because I'm impatient. As soon as I start eating,

as soon as I smell food, I find it cooks a little quicker. Cooks quicker, but it will dry out if you're not careful. Yes. The timing is, Bron. I'm sorry. We're still talking about how we do our chickens. No, go on, please.

I was saying Tom is, like he's going, like he's desperate for us to stop. He's got that job. Not at all. It's just a wrap up for time. Is it? Right. You can go as long as you want to us. No, finish the thought.

I don't know if there's much. I mean, where you put in with a pat. You put in pasta or vegetables? I think we should wrap it up. Yeah, right. I think that's wrong. That's fair, that's fair. Well, you know.

What else is going on? No, let's not start a new conversation. Yeah, no, what else is going on? Yeah, is there anything? Got children? Yeah. What do they do? I don't.

I'm honest I heard. I'm not sure. Yes. Both of us have got what's called fractured familial relationships. Yeah, I know that feeling. Yeah. And I bet. I fractured my nose.

Well, you didn't. Are the jokes, the funny ones normally pre-written? It's an improvised podcast, so sometimes we'll, you know, once in a blue moon will strike something gold. But mostly it's... It's this. It's this. It is, to be fair, it is...

But it's been going for 10 years. Look, and the slogan is, this is not entertaining. I just wanted to clarify this going for 10 years thing. There's no one approved. There's no... No one said, oh, congratulations, here's another season, have they? You're just choosing to continue doing it for 10 years. Yeah, but only because...

It's viable. If no one was listening, we probably wouldn't do it for as long. Right. We would have, you know, there's a sense of self-denial. This could be the last episode of the Auntie Donna podcast. Well, we're going to keep going. No, we're going to keep going.

We're in the... I think we're about... At least top 50 Australian comedy podcasts. I'd agree with that. Australian. Yeah, I get, yeah, like, you've got to add a couple of things to get into that 50 zone. Paul, Courtney Act's going to be upset.

She got kicked out. Courtney Act from Australian Idol? Yes, famously from Australian Idol. Paul doesn't like it. Courtney Act, has she surpassed Australian Idol? Does the average punter think Courtney Act, Australian Idol? Or do they think Gay Eurovision? That's right.

I always forget that she was on. Because she auditioned out of drag and didn't get in on Oz Australian Idol. and then came back as Courtney Acton got in. Yeah, that's pretty similar to our lives, I think. I can relate to that. We tried doing it as us. Edith and Moran, thank you so much for coming on to catch granny bingo. Thanks for having us.

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Yeah The what The pill The pill The pill Is it called the pill Because that's the shape of the ball The pill

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Yeah Well thank you all so much I'm sorry I'm just trying to do my I'm pretty rattled by this episode and I just try to do my, I just kind of fall on the old. What would make you feel kind? I want you to leave this experience feeling shaken or rattled or stirred.

Yeah, but the skin of a mandarin might help you. You know, they say there's a segment. You know, the only thing better meeting a mandarin. No, a segment of the mandarin. This is the mandarin segment. And they call that in England what? A clementine. Set sumer.

Oh, I thought it was a clementine. Do they really? I never. knew that. Set summa. Set suma. Set sum is an English word? Well, no, but I don't know if you're familiar with what the English have done over time, but they do borrow a lot of things from a lot of countries. That's a very good point. Thank you so much. Thanks so much and a big bono Natale to Mark's

nonners. There you go, Mark. She very am arrested, Josie. See you, Josie. See you, Josie and Jacey, the sisters. We'll see you next week with Zach, who's sick, and you'll be back. But you've taken his key ring off the front door. Don't worry about that. Don't worry about that. You've been listening to the Auntie Donna podcast.

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