Who Knew It with Matt Stewart - 194 - Mish Wittrup, Kyran Nicholson and Osman Faruqi
Episode Date: June 1, 2026Who Knew It with Matt Stewart is a comedy game show podcast hosted by Australian comedian Matt Stewart. Episode 192 features comedians Mish Wittrup, Kyran Nicholson and Osman Faruqi!Buy tickets for th...e 200th episode: https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/7bb3026b-b8a8-40b8-8693-2cadee9f423cSupport the show via http://patreon.com/dogoonpod and you can submit questions for the show!Check out Matt's stand up special 'Best Man': https://youtu.be/ZgukEPerWZc?si=SW8PttGAB-ly_GF8And his stand up special 'Live at Stupid Old Studios': https://youtu.be/cWStRpI-BhESee the podcast/Matt live: https://www.mattstewartcomedy.com/Check out Matt's podcast network: https://dogoonpod.com/Theme song by Evan Munro-Smith, Logo by Murray Summerville and edited by Connor Schmidt! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Hey, mates, it's the titular Matt Stewart here in 2026, letting you know about the 200th episode.
It's happening live in Melbourne on the 27th of June, 4 p.m at basement comedy club.
And I've announced the first three guests, Jess, the Big Bopper Perkins, Mish, Big Wet, Whitrop,
and Dave, the carryover champ Warnocky. There'll be at least one more guests announced.
But in the meantime, grab your tickets.
Welcome to Who Knew with Matt Stewart, the show where the guest write the wrong answers.
I'm the titular Matt Stewart and our first guest is a founder of Melbourne's Best Comedy Club, Comedy Republic.
Oh, that's very generous.
As well as host of Wax Quizicle and Fuen's podcast, it's Kara Nicholson.
Good to be on a podcast for once.
It is great.
I'm wearing your business as merch.
You are actually.
People love these hats.
They're great.
It's just a hat.
It says jokes.
Well, I only literally, because I was here.
Charge through the roof for that.
I was here heaps early
And I saw the hat
And was like, I just realized
That's merch
And I asked and he said
It was Comedy Republic merch
And I've got to get me
Some of them hats
Yeah, is it good?
There's a whole new range of jokes
Merch coming in
To the country
Does it say
A small war
Happening in the
Oh, okay
I haven't been keeping up
With the news
There's one going on
But yeah
Are you going to put any
Branding on
Or you're going to keep it
Mysterious
Because people are like
What is it?
What does it mean?
I kind of like that there's no branding on it
and it's a little kind of like, who knows.
Yeah, it starts a conversation.
Yeah, that's right.
Comedy Republic, the one and only venue
I've ever performed at, believe it or not.
Oh, really?
Do you know what you guys, like COVID?
There was like some sort of storytelling.
Yeah, it was not a comedian famously.
Yeah, well, for the listener, we don't even know who you are yet.
Oh, I don't know.
It got carried away.
Not to put any radio skills into this show.
I was just about to say, I'm like,
you just that bubbled right up from you.
Over to you, Matt.
Everyone's clicked on an episode with everyone's names in it.
And we're going to announce, that's true.
That's true.
That's true.
That's true.
We're going to announce who this is right after this song from the Veronica's.
Oh.
Our second guest this week is an award-winning journalist and editor,
having worked at the Sydney Morning Herald,
the 7 a.m podcast and the ABC is the co-founder of independent media company LameStream.
It's Osman Farooke.
Hey.
Yo, yo, hey, that's me.
That was me making the comedy.
Republic story. Right. And I did go through a few of your credits there and none of it was comedy.
No, this is a funny thing. I met you, Matt, I think just a couple of days after I had performed at the Melbourne
International Comedy Festival. On a bigger stage than I. Yeah, on the comedy debate event. And I had to tell
everyone who invited me. You know that I'm not a comedian and they seemed aware of that. I think maybe,
and I'm not trying to say, you're a master debater. And I don't think this is intended. This was
intended from them with any disrespect to the world of comedy. But,
they were very clear like, we just need to broaden things out a little bit.
I don't know whether ticket sales have not been going well.
We're moving.
Here at this comedy festival, we're moving slightly away from comedy.
We just think it might be best for the fest.
It's been too funny for too long.
Exactly.
Our third guest this week is a real hero.
Who could it be?
She's appeared on Fisk, Aunty Donner's Coffee Cafe and Sam Pang Tonight.
It's Mish Whitrop.
Hello.
How are we?
I have appeared on Sam Pang.
tonight. That's right.
Did a little sketch for that, man.
There you go.
How do you do?
I did, the first two guests did, uh, have a business they started and I couldn't
find, have you started.
The mission Zach, the mission Zach podcast is a business.
Sure.
That's an ongoing concern.
Do you have you formed a partnership?
Do you have legal documents?
So you do you have a company?
Yes.
No, we don't.
We're part of, no, we did.
And then we stopped it because we joined Grasshouse.
Oh yeah.
So you don't need it anymore.
You got sold to a man.
You know, every quarter.
The bass.
Yeah.
No, so I don't.
For the mission Zach pod.
Exactly.
No, I don't really.
I don't have a...
How many staff you got?
Zero staff.
Oh, unless you count Lucy,
but I don't pay her.
Okay.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I wouldn't be able to.
I hardly pay myself.
Okay.
You know?
God it's...
All the money goes to Lucy.
Well, what are the winnings on this show?
Oh, they're pretty big.
I think, yeah, the jackpot has gone up every week.
You know.
Yeah.
I've never mentioned this before, but 20 cents per episode.
And this is episode 194.
So you do the math.
You do the maths.
There's one, someone's going to be able to get there.
20, no, no, no.
Well, what's 200?
What's 200 times 20 cents?
20, 40.
I shouldn't have said 20 cents.
Is it 200 bucks?
Yeah.
Can I say, can I judge it's a $0?
I think it's like 40 bucks.
It's 40 bucks.
Yeah, yeah, 40 bucks.
Almost, almost.
Yeah, nearly 40 bucks.
Yeah.
So you're going to, Gabe, you're going to pay one of us nearly 40 bucks.
38, I think you've got to, I think you've got to get the perfect score.
Which has never been done.
That's why it's jackpotted everywhere.
Oh, very good.
I guess.
as I make this up as we go.
Well, let me explain how the show works.
Two first-timers here, Karen and Oz,
so I can let you know that I ask a relatively obscure trivia question
our contestants have to write a convincing fake answer
and then read their answer as well as the real one,
and I have to guess which one is correct.
And the first one comes from listener Kayla Hodquitz from Maine in the USA.
The question is, what does the Victorian slang term church bell mean?
And while they're writing their answers,
I'll explain how the scoring works.
You get one point if your fake answer is guessed by the other contestant,
another point if you correctly guess the answer.
By the way, I'm also playing as the house.
I'm not putting two of my own fake answers for each question.
We are thinking, Matt.
This is the...
Certain personalities do not enjoy the talking over the writing.
Go on, tell us what you've got to say.
I think that personality is comedians.
Look at Oz is very professionally.
He's used to hearing the clickety-clack of typewriters in the newsroom.
I just can't spell...
I shouldn't say that.
That's right.
So, yes, I'm also playing as a house.
I've put in two of my own fake answers for each question.
With the help of the question, right, and we get a point for each one of those that
are guests choose.
So each of us can go up to three points per round, which seems fair, but it probably actually
favours me, apparently the House.
And the House always wins off.
You've listened to previous episodes, you'll know that is nearly never the case,
to be honest.
I've overcompensated by giving the guests triple points in the final round, and that's meant
that I don't think I've won a game in about 10 weeks.
Oh, I can tell you, though, listeners, that most of the questions come from our great
patron supporters.
If you want to submit a question, sign up on any level by Patreon.com
slash do you go on pod.
All right, the answers are in for question number one.
What does the Victorian saying term church bell mean?
Here are your options.
A circumcised penis.
Someone who put up the facade of church going purity while quietly maintaining a hedonistic lifestyle.
A nosy priest.
Someone who wasn't very smart used interchangeably with dunts.
Sweet biscuits served.
two guests at christenings, birthdays and funerals,
or a derogatory term for someone,
usually a woman who talked non-stop.
A real church bell.
There was a lot of options.
There's a lot of options, yeah.
Mish, what do you reckon?
Oh, I think I like the second one,
but I do like the penis one.
I just don't think they would be that clever.
And no one would have discussed it.
You know what I mean?
This is straight slang.
Yeah, circumcised penis.
Yeah, also, no, it's not that.
And also, wouldn't a church bell end, I assume that's where we're coming from here,
but a church bell end be an uncircumcised penis?
Oh, I see.
You think this is.
Because in the Catholic, I'm assuming, in the Victorian era, that they weren't.
What's a Jewish church called in?
Tabernacle.
No.
A tabernacle?
Synagogue.
What's a tabernacle?
What's a tabernacle?
Is that a beer?
I think it's a brand of beer.
You know what I'm talking about, those fluby-dubs?
Synagogue bell.
What is a tabernacle?
Anyway, I'll figure that out next time you guys are writing something.
So you're going to go penis?
No, what was the second one?
You're going to go someone who put up the facade of church ground purity
while quietly maintaining a hedonistic lifestyle.
No, I don't think it's that either.
Can you read the others?
Nosey priest.
Yep.
Someone who wasn't very smart like a dunce.
Sweet biscuits served at christening's birthdays of funerals
or a derogatory term for someone usually a woman who talk nonstop.
It's got the last one.
Fuck it.
Where do you get these from?
Who's asking them?
Listeners.
Do we know, do we, did we know who this listener is in particular?
Yes, this listener in particular is Kayla Hodkits from Maine USA.
Okay, great.
Kayla Hodquits.
Yeah, Cala Hodquits.
I'm just wondering if she would like to throw, like,
if that sounds like someone who would throw in a cheeky little penis one.
Yeah.
That's what I was trying to ascertain as well.
Where's the cheeky little dicky come from?
Yeah, exactly.
Oh, is what do you reckon?
I'm sort of torn between the last two.
I think the biscuit one, it feels too specific to not be real, if you know what I mean?
Like, who the fuck's coming up with that?
Like, that's good thinking.
I'm allowed to have the same answer to someone else?
Yeah, because my initial instinct, I'm not just aping you, Mish.
You can if you want to.
I'm very good at this game.
To be very clear, I'm not endorsing this kind of terminology for loud, annoying women.
I wouldn't personally call them church bells.
No.
But I have a feeling others might have particular.
you're doing near it.
So we're going with that one.
All right.
Yeah,
you definitely can choose the same.
The only thing you can't do is choose your own.
Gotcha.
Unless you're doing it tactically,
but then you'll have to change it last second.
What's really cool, though,
is if you do keep picking all of mine,
you will win.
You'll equal win.
There's no downside.
We can split the 38, 40, whatever.
Yeah, exactly.
We can come out of this with $19.
I was picking between those two as well.
Oh, interesting.
Between the Bickey and the,
Shrill bitch
The shrill bitch
And I think I'm going to lock in
Shrill bitch
Oh the three of us are going to
Well then should I change my answer
No no one I thought it would be good if we're all three
Yeah
Okay well sure
This is going to be okay
Why don't know it
Every right of very wrong
Lock in guys
I think one
I like how you blocked the change as well
I was going to say sure
But I could switch
I can switch to Bickey
Would that be easier
No all right I'll stay
Let's just fuck it
Let's just stay.
Yeah, we're all for one, one for all.
Yeah.
It's not much of, let's do it.
No.
Okay.
Change your fucking answer then.
No, no, no.
Give it the bicky.
No, I don't want bickie.
I want the one I'm pissed.
Because it is shrill bit, surely.
All right.
Here's the right.
The answer.
Circumcised penis, that was Oz.
Hey.
Just on this one for a second.
Yes.
Not to get too weird.
Yeah.
But when you said that's more likely to be an uncircumcum,
can you step me through thinking on that one?
Well, because did the cat,
I didn't think because Victorian era.
Oh, they weren't.
They weren't circumcising in the church.
I understand.
I was just thinking what a bell looks like.
Yeah.
Like in the fact that a circumcised penis looks like a bell.
Yeah.
Yeah, right.
That's why I was sort of stumped for a second.
Right.
I was going like, okay, so if you're saying,
oh, they got a church bell.
Yeah.
They go down on the church.
They got a fucking dumb from hell.
I'm so glad you pulled him up on that because I didn't say anything because I was just like,
well, you've got one.
So I don't, can't really argue with someone who looks.
I don't have a church bell.
Jesus.
Dong.
I know how much you love church.
So I didn't want to argue with you.
I looked up tabernacle.
I wasn't miles away.
Apparently it's a sacred portable tent or sanctuary used by ancient Israelites to house the Ark of the Covenant.
Oh, wow.
I don't know why that was in my head.
Okay.
Wow.
Pretty almost impressive in a way.
It's not bad.
Also, what a fun, like, side question that you've had.
Not for the group.
You've had a nice little time over there.
You've had a little time over there.
You're a definition game with some word that nobody knows.
Good for you.
Because this isn't enough.
Yeah, no, not at all.
Two hours of this is enough.
We have to simultaneously play the game again.
Well, that's how we get to the two hours.
I'll be playing like three games deep eventually.
Great.
So the one about the putting up a facade of church going purity, that was the house.
A nosy priest was Kiron.
The one that's like a dunce, that was also the house.
the sweet biscuits, which Mish almost moved over to at the end, was Mish.
That's classic Big Wet stuff.
You were trying to get me to switch.
You're saying, no, no, all right, fine, I'll take the bickie.
I just wanted to see what I was up against.
This is like traitors level fucking naked.
There's a whole later.
This one's inception.
Big wet revealed herself early to you two.
Sometimes, you know, sometimes.
I know, I'd be honest, I doubted you.
But you're worthy opponents.
Let us play.
And that does mean all three of you are correct
It is a shrill woman
Bitch
Bitch sorry
You can say it
I give you permission
Oh thank you so much
As a bitch
I give you permission
As a church bell
Yeah as a church bell
Alright question two comes from Haley from Calgary
And this one you've just
Basically got to come up with a
Main Calgary
Global Pod you've got here
Well I mean they're pretty close I think
you're just really
this question
basically is just going to want you to come up
with a fake name for a plant
but the question is
what is a common name for the plant
and this is the Latin name
Gomphacarpus
Pfizer carpus
but basically just come up
with a fake name for a plant
and while you're writing your answers
here's more info on church bells
Buzzfeed writes in Victorian street slang
a church bell was someone who talked
nonstop a label they mostly threw
at women because of course they did.
Cop that.
Cop that Victorian culture.
And her culture.org writes,
Churchbell is used to describe a woman who doesn't shut up.
We all know one.
I like how they both went with different kind of angles on that.
All right.
The answers are in for question number two.
What is a common name of the plant?
Gonfocarpus.
Cycphisocarpus.
Doesn't really matter.
And I'm confident that's not right.
I'm feeling a lot of pressure now doing this in front.
No, no.
The wax quizzical host.
You take your time.
So the question is, what is the common name of the plant?
Comforcarpus, cypacarpus, or something like that.
Bishop's balls.
Fish flocks.
Large leafed camamile.
Please, Darren, no.
Wyatt Earp Fern or crackophilia.
Okay.
Oz, you'll go.
The idea of crackophilia being the common name for that other's plant is.
Yeah, and what was it again?
What's the, what's the Latin name again, Oz?
Gennacarvisis, phazacarpus.
That amazingly is way better than I'm.
Matt Stewart, can you read them out for me again?
Sure, Bishop's Balls, Fish Flogs, Large Leafed Camamile, Please Darren No,
Wyatt Earp Fern or Crackophilia.
Well, I mean, just to be clear, the ball-related one was not me, but the...
That's what Big Wet would say.
I can't.
read it, so I don't know if this is like gina, like large, but hearing large, large leaf,
I'm thinking maybe there's something there. And then the last, what, tell me what the last one was.
Crackophilia? That was the one that I think doesn't make any sense. Okay. Was there something white? Was there a
white? Wight, Earp firm. Which is the name of like a Wild West guy. Yeah. Why? Yeah. I feel like
that could be some, you know, someone discovered a plan. That's their famous actor. I'm going to go
Alan. All right. What up Fern for us? What do you think, Karen?
Oh, I just don't care.
Oh, you, you guess like your host.
I think, I wonder whether Bishop's Balls is a carry-on from what we've just done.
Yeah, yeah.
It's very carry-on film style, isn't it?
Bishop's Balls. Is that a, is that a, the carry-on films?
The carry-on films? Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Very carry on.
Ooh, Bishop Spoh.
Oh, Bishop Spills!
So I don't know if it's that.
Can you quickly run through them again?
I'm sorry.
Fish flocks, large leaf.
See, I think the fish flocks, someone's seen the carp in carpus and gone.
Oh, maybe it's a fish thing, but I think it's more a Latin thing than a fish thing.
So I think probably not that one myself as well.
Large leaf camomile.
Please, Darren.
No, white, Earp, Fern, Crackophilia.
Some roses and things have names like Please, Darren, no.
Do they?
They're like ridiculously named things.
They're often featured on the show.
And so I'm going to go out on a limb.
How brave.
Go with the Please, Darren, no.
Yeah, I love it.
What do you think, Mish?
So I was going to go Bishop's balls confidently
Until Kiren started saying how that makes no sense
Because then I go, he knows my game is good
And perhaps he is now playing a bit of my game
I'm going to go with Bishop's balls
Because if that is what he did
Then he deserves the point
You think he might be negging his own answer
Yeah, I think 100%.
That's real, that is very big way
That's some, that's like
Yeah
There's a whole chapter in my book
about that.
What's your book called again?
I don't fucking know
something about being
fat and wet.
That's a great name.
That's a great name.
I don't fucking know
someone about being fat and wet.
That'll look good on a cover.
I'm gonna go,
I'm gonna go Bishop's Balls.
All right.
Yeah.
Locked in.
Here's the answers.
Crackophilia,
which was absolutely rinsed by Oz.
That was corins.
That was means.
But then also,
but some plants have like philia
as like,
common name.
Yeah,
I thought it was a perfectly fine answer, Cara.
I mean, to be clear, it wasn't the fucking answer.
I was right and saying it's wrong.
Large leaf camemile, that was Oz.
I knew that was you.
Yeah, I tried too hard there, didn't I?
I knew.
That was very cute of you, Oz.
What you just did there?
Just threw it.
Fish flocks, that was Haley, the question writer.
So I didn't pick it, but that is almost definitely what the logic was.
Yeah, carpus there.
Okay, white, irp, fern.
and Oz went for that.
I'm afraid that was Mish.
Oh, nice one.
Thank you.
Nice one.
Please, Darren, no.
Coran went for that.
I'm afraid that was the house.
Oh, dear.
But it is totally, there are definitely weird things like that.
And you're like, that's a sentence.
So it's the bishop's fucking balls.
It is the bishop's balls.
No shit.
Got correct.
Thank you.
So two points for Mish and one point for the house.
Meaning that after two rounds of scores are Oz, Karin and the house
and one point Mish out in front on three points.
Fuck me.
All right.
Question three comes from
Micklehensey Peterson from the middle fuck
No but see I don't
It's ridiculous
Because now I'm like I feel comfortable
I feel good
But then at that point at that moment
Where you said you're on three
And like he said Mitch gets two points
I completely forgot that my job is to be funny
And I just went
I'm beating you
I want you to know that I'm winning
And sorry did you say the next question is from
Mickalhensey the Peterfile
No
I mean roll back the tape
I'm pretty sure that's what you said
Was it from Newfamlin?
Where's his mind?
Mickle Hensey Peterson
Okay
From Middle fart Denmark
Middle fart
Middle fart
And Mickle's question
Is which comic book character
Was introduced in Fantastic
Four issue 11 in 1963
Just want their name
And a short description
I guess I don't need to know
And a short description
Yeah, just like a character's name
And a sentence description
Or what they're about
Can you read the question again from please?
Which comic book character was introduced
In Fantastic 4, Issue 11 in 1963
While you're writing your answers
I'll let the audience know a bit more about Bishop's balls
According to Wiki
It is also known as hairy balls
Balloon Plant
Balloon Cotton Bush
Nailhead or Swan Plant
The plant is native to Southeast Africa, but it has been widely naturalized as it is often used as an ornamental plant.
And according to Haley, in Germany it's known as Papp Stolden, which translates to Pope's testicles.
All right, the answer in question number three.
Which comic book character was introduced in Fantastic for Issue 11 in 1963?
The Green Shooter, a man who could grow vines to strangle villains.
Carl the comb wiggins, a barber who can control hair with his mouth.
mind. A power he uses for good, in fact, really good haircuts.
Option three, Willie Lumpkin. A male man with no superpowers who delivers fan mail to the
Fantastic Forum becomes their friend. Oh, I love that. Option four. Bingo McSnort. A pigeon who
insists he trained Spider-Man but refuses to explain how. Option five, Comrade Steel.
Soviet Russia's answer to Iron Man, funded by the communist government as a response to the pro-U.S.
pro-capitalist Iron Man, also known as Tony Stark.
Or finally, Venus de Mango, a 500-year-old woman who charms men with her beauty and her wit.
All right, Karen, you got the green shooter, you got Carl the comb Wiggins.
You got Willie Lumpkin.
What was Carl's big thing again?
He can control.
Notes, that's helpful.
He can control hair with his mind.
Control hair with mind.
Yeah.
I got Willie Lumpkin, male man and friend.
You got Bingo McSkill.
Bingo Midsnores.
A pigeon who reckons he trains Spider-Man?
Comrade Steele, the Soviet Russia's answer to Iron Man,
or Venus de Mango, a 500-year-old woman who charms men with a beauty and wit.
500-year-old woman.
And what year did you say that The Fantastic Four was looking for a new character?
63.
63, hey?
Good year.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, it's a good year.
It's fantastic.
Mom was three.
Yeah.
That's nice.
Six for my mum.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, there you go.
My mom was seven.
Zero.
Yeah.
Six.
She wasn't even born yet.
Not yet.
Oh, wow.
Well, I guess she was born in 63.
She'll never know how great 63.
Oh, she was born in 63.
Well, what day did this come out?
Issue 11, I think.
You still have to work backwards.
All right.
Issue 11.
I mean, I find it hard to believe that they're bringing in new characters this early into
French characters, you know.
French characters, but this says to me that they don't need to really mine that deep.
You know, so they probably don't need like a pigeon called Bingo McSnort at this point.
That's an 80s.
That's an 80s one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It would be more so.
A later edition.
It would be more so a character, I think, that would just be for that edition, right?
Like.
Probably, yeah.
Rather than an ongoing.
Yeah.
But I still think they've probably got some fresher ideas than Bingo Mix Nort.
60s is acid ideas.
Bingham Exhaughts 80s Coke.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's 3 a.m.
Yeah.
We need something.
We need something.
It looks like it came out on February
the 1st, 1963.
Did you mum board yet?
Not yet.
Wow.
She was actually a huge Fantastic Four Comics fan, though.
If she's listening, she'll be stoked.
I brought her up in this.
Is there a phone a mum segment of the show that you can...
So, I mean, and is Soviet Russia in the...
early 60s, is that really the thing that they're thinking about in America?
You know, maybe it's that.
I can't, uh, comrade steel.
That feels a little, I think I'm going to go with the 500-year-old woman.
Okay.
Venus de Mango.
Venus de Mungo.
Beautiful name.
All right, Mish, what do you think?
I like the,
mailman.
Yeah, but what's your answer to the question, Mish?
Well, I don't, I'm, I'm not a mother.
We really need to keep you on track here, Mish.
We can talk, we can talk about the posty later.
That properly tickled me.
Much like I wish the mailman would, yeah.
I'm going to go with the mailman.
Willie Lumpkin.
Willie Lumpkin.
I'm going with Willie Lumpkin.
Did you write that one?
No.
You have to say.
This is like a half-in-com.
No, I just kind of like the vibe of that.
And I'm not a big comic book person.
And so I'm just going to go with the one that I vibe with my...
Like, I think the green shooter, that sounds like something.
But I also feel like I could have written that one.
But maybe you did.
Possibly.
Oh.
No, I'll go mailman.
Again, this is going to sound like I'm just aping you
because you seem to get things right.
instinct when Matt was reading them all out was, was Lumpkin the mailman. But then when you Mish said,
ooh, I thought that could have been one of your textbook. But then you read out Venus de Mango
and that does sound like something you made up. So I'm going to stick with my original
Lumpkin, mailman. We're going to be in the same page on this. Oh my God. I feel so assessed.
Okay. Here's who wrote the answers. Comrade Steele. That was Oz.
I knew that that came, that was straight from a newsman.
man.
What about Kairn being like,
1963 was the Soviet,
that was the peak of the Cold War?
Yeah,
no,
yeah,
totally.
Yeah.
No,
but you weren't able to jump in too hard.
J.
F.
J.
Fereux.
It was a year earlier.
What are you talking about?
That's actually what I was thinking.
I was thinking that the missile crisis,
so maybe they would be talking more about you,
anyway.
That's true.
Are you trying to catch me out?
You were,
I was on the fucking out.
The Green Shooter,
the misreckons,
even she could write.
That was Kiron.
Yeah.
Do you repeat the criticisms before you read out every one of the answers?
It wasn't a criticism.
It was that I thought it was a good answer.
I was like, oh, that sounds like a comic.
Yeah, it's good.
But then I'm like, it's too good.
Okay, I'm starting to understand the game.
Yeah, I guess it's got to be noteworthily something.
Yeah.
Maybe.
Okay.
So who else do we have?
Bingo McSnaught.
I think noteworthy.
And that was written by the Danish question writer, Mikkel.
The pedophile.
Wow.
That is.
Certainly not Peterson.
No, the middle fart, middle fart.
Middle fart.
Yeah.
Peterson.
Again, go back and listen to the tape.
I'm pretty sure you said you went to say peter and then you said fart, fart and that sort of.
Connor, Connor, chuck it in right now.
Mickle Hensie Peterson from middle fart.
Yeah.
Right.
Thank you.
And I know this is, mickle were not casting any aspersions or way.
I thought bingo micksonort was fantastic.
As was Carl the Cohn Wiggins, which Mikkel also wrote.
mind power on their hair
That's a bit of fun
Oh one of us got it
Now
Karen went for Venus de Manga
That was Mish
As Oz said
Oh yeah
I'm scared now
And that means Mish and Oz
Are also corrected
Is Willie Lumpkin
The Mailman slash friend
Must be nice to just be
Jumping on my good game
So another two points for Mish
I do find it easier when I go last
I'll say that
Yeah
It's great having the other people
like sort of talk through their thinking.
Yeah, which, yeah, you did help them out there.
So they'll return the favour next time.
You'll ask next.
Okay, here's question number four.
Comes from Nick Slater from Cambridge.
And the question is, what is the name of a village?
There's a university there.
Well, there's a bit of intel.
Next question.
I'm just saying.
Cambridge, Massachusetts or Cambridge?
I believe it's Cambridge in the UK.
He didn't specify, but his question is about Cambridge in the UK.
Well, there's also a university.
Anyway, doesn't matter.
I think that's why it's called Cambridge.
Yeah.
Nick Slater's...
Nick Slater from Cambridge.
Nick Slater sounds like a skater.
Nick Slater's a skater.
Go on.
Nick Slater's question is,
what is the name of the village
8 kilometres northwest of Royston in rural Cambridge?
Basically, it's just come up with a name
of a village that would be in Cambridge in the UK.
While you are writing your answers,
here's a little more info about Willie Lumpkin.
According to Mickle,
Willie Lumpkin is played by one of his
creator Stan Lee in Avengers Age of Ultron where he delivers a package to Tony Stank.
So you were, I was with your Tony Stark reference in there.
Yeah, you didn't know Tony Stark was Iron Man?
I did, I did know that.
But I mean, this is.
Yeah, the fact that's fantastic four, I see what you're saying.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know.
Age of Ultron, I'm going to stop before I out myself,
I'm saying way too much about these freaks.
No, I think it's fantastic.
You go, I don't know if you know this.
but comic books have gone mainstream.
People love them, man.
According to Marvel fandom,
Willie does have one special ability.
He can...
Oh, tell me what Willie's special ability is.
He can wiggle his ears.
Mm, okay.
Hey, well, you're still writing your answers.
Let's go for a quick break.
All right, we're back.
The answer is for question number four.
What is the name of the village
8K is northwest of Royston in rural Cambridge?
Drag Show Hill.
Egg upon face.
Holy moly roly-poly turnly
Shingay come Wendy
or fleshed-on upon cam
Can you go again please?
Drag-show Hill
Egg upon face
Holy-molly-Roly
Turnly
Shingay come Wendy
or Fleshden upon Cam
Shingay come Wendy
Come-Spelled
C-U-M
Okay, all right
The proper way.
The proper, yeah.
Yeah.
What was the last one?
Fleshden upon Cam.
Fleshden upon Cam.
What do you think, Mish?
Oh, am I first?
You are.
I think it's one of the last two.
Shingay or Fleshton?
The come one maybe?
Shingay, come Wendy.
Yeah.
Fleshden upon Cam.
I think it might be come Wendy.
You don't think it's holy moly.
rolly-poly? It could be.
It could be. Because the upon ones
there's a river, right? It's like, stratford
upon Avon. Avon's a river.
So, upon Cam, there is a
Cam River. I don't know if there's a face river
for Egg-upon-Face, but that's a bit of fun.
Maybe someone just says it. I like Egg-Upon face.
I have a feeling I...
What do you reckon? I have a feeling
Egg-upon face was written by someone on this panel.
Okay.
Panel? I think this is a panel.
It's not insiders.
Calm down.
I know you feel important in this room, but come down.
Not a panel.
I think whenever,
whenever Oz is sitting in a row of people becomes a panel.
Yeah, we can call it a panel.
You've got mad panel vibes.
Like, when you wake up, do you just feel like you're, like,
I belong in a panel?
So are you going with...
Whichever one involved coming on Wendy.
Yes.
Well, that's my mum's name, by the way.
Is it really?
Yeah.
Well, I don't reckon Karen wrote it then.
Born in 1960.
Hey.
Hmm.
They could have gotten that comic book when they were three.
Yeah.
She was bought in 1960 when Hugh come upon Jill.
Upon?
Yeah.
That's not how it works.
I don't know.
I'm gay.
It's not my area.
I'm working beyond my brief.
It's always a pawn.
It's always a pawn.
Otherwise it's a terrible day.
What do you think, Oz?
I, I, straight away, the holy.
Polly,
rolly moly.
Holy moly roly poli.
Yeah,
just it's so out there
and too many a pawns.
I'm like,
we all know that
cute English towns have got a pond.
None of those really hit for me.
Okay.
Let's go holy,
roly.
Polly.
And Karen?
I think that it could just be a dull answer.
Mm-hmm.
Like Turnley.
I just,
did you say Shingay upon Wendy?
No, she can't come Wendy
Fleshed in a pond cam
In all the time that I've been in the UK
I have never seen like a cum
Outside
You never saw any cum in the UK
No not once
You haven't seen any cum in the UK
I'm actually now I'm just thinking
Lots off
Not English come anyway
Yeah
So I just
Whereas like you say there's a ponds everywhere
And moly rollies
There's cum everywhere too
if you look close enough.
If you get the right kind of black line.
So I feel, I sort of feel like I'm going to seem like a bit of an idiot if I say
turnly because it's just a really simple and it doesn't mean anything.
But I don't know the show enough to know whether you ever let some really dull answers
through.
It's my first time also.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, no, I wasn't looking at you for assistance.
No one said anything.
So, no.
Well, I don't know.
I mean, I don't, I mean.
I'll say this.
There's a reason I didn't go for the dull answer.
Yeah.
But maybe I wrote it.
Yeah.
Fuck.
Just can't take anything you say.
All right.
I've always been a big fan of cum.
I'm going to lock in the cum one.
Lock in and come.
I'm going to, basically because.
You like cum.
Oz, you've had a huge amount of success in just saying whatever mission is.
And.
But if he,
But if Oz wrote the cum one and it's roly moly holy-poly,
they're about to get smacked with so many points.
I'm going to drown in place.
I don't believe Oz wrote the cum one.
You know what?
You know part of why I don't think because shin gay,
putting gay in there and not being gay is a wild swing.
Yeah.
So.
You can't just be talking about gay without being gay.
One does not simply discuss gay.
Yes.
Just say you have a look around.
I'm sweating right now.
I don't ever consider that that was...
I just think it's a swing.
It's a swing.
Maybe it's a perfect swing that worked out brilliantly.
But, okay, so I'm going to lock in the shingay come Wendy.
All right.
Here's who wrote the answers.
Drag show Hill.
That was Mish.
Agapon face was the house.
Turnley, which Karin was so close to going.
That was Oz.
I had him until you came in.
I'm so sorry.
Had him, I'm like, I don't want to talk you out of it.
Yeah, yeah.
No, appreciate it.
But it is.
Flashden upon Cam is Karen.
And you knew of the Cam River?
Well, it's Cambridge.
It's the bridge across Cam.
Oh, shit.
Yeah.
That's why I was like, well, it's on the Cam River.
If one of you think about the Cam River,
you might fall into that trap.
You're trying to trick me.
You probably read something about that.
Once Matt had said,
Carmi.
That was all I could think about.
Holy moly, roly-poly.
I was going for that.
I'm afraid that was Nick the question.
Oh, I thought that was the answer.
Yeah.
No, that means that mission,
Kora and I'm not correct, is Shingay, come
Wendy. I think I'm having a fucking
wonderful run. You might be in for $38
80 here. No, but someone
DM'd me. Oh,
the answers. No.
No, someone
DM'd me months ago now.
No, it wasn't a DM, it was a comment
on something, on like a video on
social saying that they think
I might cheat. And it's like, it would
How? You can't.
Like, unless, the only way I could cheat
is if I was given the questions beforehand,
or I'm a genius and I promise you from the bottom of my heart, it's not that.
Like, I am of average intelligence at best.
I was going to say, no one, comedians don't cheat at these kind of shows.
You've written your book.
No, I never wrote a book.
Well, you've titled a book.
Oh, yeah, that's true.
I did write, yes, I have titled a book, yes.
Corin, I was about to say comedians don't cheat on these sort of shows.
But famously, Geraldine Hickey did cheat in COVID times.
How?
Because it was all over Zoom.
So she was just at home Googling the answers.
This is for your pod?
Yeah, and got 10 out of 10.
Did you call briefly forgetting that it doesn't matter at all.
Did they admit to it?
Much, much later, Jez admitted to it.
She did not admit to it there, or for weeks or months.
And I would talk about it on the show, actually, we've only had one 10 out of 10.
Geraldine Hickey.
People would be surprised.
And then it was discovered many years later when she outed herself.
Very good.
Were you upset?
He just comes out late.
Were you mad?
No, because like I say, it does not matter.
No.
I think it adds to the mythos.
Exactly.
It's part of the law.
It's so funny to me.
It's part of the law.
Yeah, what's more bizarre to me is that you obviously aren't cheating.
I don't know how you would cheat.
I still don't understand how you get these right all the time.
I don't know either.
You've got an instinct for it.
Always go with come.
That's what I say.
That will always be a way.
And you have played the game, what, 15, 16?
How many times have I played this, not 10?
It would be something like that.
Yeah, wow, okay.
Wow.
But yeah, I mean, I think Miss just gave you to a really good hint there.
Always go come.
If your next answer doesn't have come in it then.
You're not trying.
All right, the penultimate question here comes from Brie Stafford from Oxnard in CA,
either California or Canada, I guess, or somewhere else.
And the question is, what does CA stand for?
The question is
Come, come, come, come.
Come again.
What is an interesting
non-baseball fact
about Major League Baseball pitcher
Madison Bumgarner?
An interesting non-baseball fact.
Yes, an interesting non-baseball fact
about Major League Baseballer
Madison Bumgarner.
While you're writing your answers,
here's some more info about Shingay-Kumwendi.
Nick writes that
shingay come Wendy is the combined parish of shingay and Wendy.
They came together, you could say, and I'm not 100% sure how to pronounce shingay,
but apparently it means beautiful people.
And I'm just looking at up a little further, I found that Neighbors other kind of fun-named
villages like Waddon, Bassingburn, Abington Piggots, and Steeple Morden.
Just love all of that.
Answering for question number five, what is an interoper?
interesting non-baseball fact about Major League Baseball pitcher Madison Bumgarner.
Here are your options.
They own a bakery that makes Tom Cruise's favorite coconut cakes.
Cruz purchases dozens of them to give to all of his family and friends each year at Christmas.
Option two, he once dated a woman also named Madison Bumgarner.
Option three, he's a quintuplet.
Option four, they hold the Guinness World Record for balancing a rolling pin on the top of their head,
3 hours and 29 minutes.
Prior to that, the record was only 2 hours and 13 minutes.
Then we have...
His real name was shared by a local serial killer,
so we had to legally change it
and it was selected by an online poll.
The runner-up name was Gary Cum-Guzzle.
Come!
Or finally.
Always go with come, I remember you saying,
so let's see what happens there.
See if, yeah, to stick by your rules.
Fuck, you're up last this time, aren't you?
Or finally, he holds a record for most walnuts cracked betwixt his butt cheeks in a minute.
Two records to pick up.
Two records?
If you don't go come, you should always go butt cracks.
Okay.
Yeah.
Or anything with betwixt.
Yeah.
Oz, what do you reckon?
The fact that there are two records is kind of throwing me because on one hand that seems like you'd think mathematically one of those might be right, but it could just be two idiots making up record things.
or two wonderful people
with full and satisfying lives
I'm actually just annoyed at whoever came up with
because I was trying so hard to figure out
how to do a cum thing that also made it
like it could be the answer
and I failed so props to whoever came out with gum guzzler
the Tom Cruise one
I know that Tom Cruise sends coconut cakes
to family friends, family members, friends
and like people in the industry
who he
likes to work.
So either someone has just combined that fact,
that real fact,
with Madison Bournem Gowder,
or it is the real answer.
I think it might be the real answer.
The Tom Cruise thing.
All right,
going to Tom Cruise?
Yeah.
Locked in.
Carran?
Um,
well,
I am suspicious of the way that Mish went.
Hmm.
When you were saying the coconut
Well, no, because I know it's true.
Yes, but...
It's my problem.
I should have been looking at you more.
Oprah, Oprah got one and then did it on Oprah's favorite things show.
I just remember that.
But she knows this now, so I know that it could be fake.
That kind of gave it away.
Can I change my answer?
No, see, this is why I paused because I was like,
no, you said it's locked in.
I'll cop it.
I mean, whether we...
We'll all hit have fun.
Sorry, I'm so sorry.
I've just forgotten it doesn't matter.
You can absolutely change it.
I just briefly forgot that it doesn't matter.
I would say that the first line.
in as a soft lock.
Yeah.
Although before when Mitch wanted to change, you said no.
And thank God, because you ended up getting that right.
That's true.
Yeah.
So you can't change if you want to change.
No, no, look, I'll own.
I'll own it.
I'll learn it.
We'll see what happens.
Once dated a woman with the same name.
What's the full name again?
Madison Bumgarner.
Bumgarner the surname.
Madison Bumgarner.
Madison is unisex.
Madison's unisex, but Bumgarner.
What are the odds?
What are the odds?
of stumbling another bum garner.
But then it's pretty noteworthy if it happens.
Yeah.
Maybe someone would email a podcast across the other side of the world about it.
Yes.
What has that bum garnered?
And the Guinness Rolling Pin one was that?
Record for balancing rolling a pin on top of their head for nearly three and a half hours.
Smashing the previous.
See, now he's a baseballer.
So he's spent time with a baseball.
rolling pin of sorts. Yes. And they can, yeah, they, they, they, they grow up with them. Yeah.
The bum garner's of the world. I always think it was more a baseball thing than a bum garner thing.
Oh yeah, no, that's true. The baseball player has a bat. Well, I think of the bum garner's as a great
baseballing family. Of course. It's like two, there's a bakery reference there too, isn't it?
Rolling pin, that's true. There's all, what's going on here. Yeah. Yeah. But I'm not sure now
whether Mish was like drifting off because this has been going for some time or whether you were,
like sort of hoping that I was going to lock that in by looking over in the distance there.
I'm not scared of,
I'm not scared of looking you right in the eye car.
And not adding anything.
In fact,
you're not threatening at all.
This is quite nice.
I feel safe with you.
Um,
um,
um,
so I don't think betwixt that feels overwritten.
Over written.
Um,
um,
okay.
Okay.
All right.
And Queen Tuplet is simple.
Elegant.
Yeah.
But it's too,
it might be too simple
because, as Mish said before,
that you actively avoid the simple answers.
Right.
And so I guess I'm no closer.
You've ruled them all out.
Yeah.
What's the gut?
The gut is saying Tom Cruise originally,
but I think I'm going to.
to go with the once dated the woman with the same name on the thinking that no one would
write that because, I'm not digging my own hole here, because it's too extreme.
Like there's no way there's another bum garner.
So to write that would be like, are you, you know.
Yeah.
All right.
That's my logic.
Here, oh, hang on, Mish, have you answered?
Yeah, no, I haven't answered.
I was going to move on.
This is how she cheats.
I was going to, I think I just assumed she'd already got it right.
I was either going to lock in cake or rolling pin.
But I just to keep, I could do cake and we just keep doing the same answers.
But I'll go with rolling pin.
Only because my reasoning behind rolling pin is it gave two times.
Yes.
I'd like to change my answer.
Rolling pin.
I'm going with rolling pin.
I know.
But you can't go with that.
It was fantastic logic.
No, no, you can't.
That's not fair.
All right, fine, I'm going with cake.
No, I'm going, no, I'll stick.
I'll stick with what you wrote.
All right, fine, I'm going to go with what you wrote.
All right.
Here's who wrote the answers.
I'll stick with what you wrote.
Most.
You can't just keep picking the one I pick
because you know I didn't write that.
Let's see how that all worked out.
Holding the record for most walnuts crack betwixt his butt cheeks.
That was the house.
Yeah, good stuff.
I do like the word betwixt.
Love that.
Yeah, no, overridden.
Gives it away.
I changed it as you were writing yours as well.
I had it betwixt late.
Oh, did you?
I had it too much.
That's what I mean by it was overwritten.
You'd already written something great.
It was a third draft.
What did you say? Between?
Yeah, it was, no, it was head butted.
It was just, that would have been great.
Betwixt.
Betwixt is bad, I mean, pretty impressive.
It's a great word.
The cum guzzler one, that was also the house.
I added that in as well late.
Nice, nice, nice, nice.
He was a quintuplet.
That was Kairn.
That was me.
Oh, you were doing a little.
a little bit of a funny there.
Yeah.
Now, Oz went for the Tom Cruise one.
Fuck off.
And that was Mish.
Karin called that beautifully.
I kind of knew that when she did the Oprah thing.
I'm like, you just pull that fact.
It was, mm.
And,
but I don't know what to contribute to this answer that you're,
this logic that you're going through that won't give me away.
That could, that could help.
So I'll just say, hmm.
I was really, it was really nicely observed there.
But in a nice little turn of events,
Mish went for Oz's, the rolling pin.
There you go.
And I nearly got you two.
Great.
And that means Karin is correct.
We all got a point.
All got a point.
Why are we?
That's lovely.
We all sort of figured it out.
Everyone has.
Everyone with the house.
All right, we can cut that question out because it doesn't contribute to the results.
No, no, the house, you all got one up on the house there.
So the scores going on the final round, which is worth triple points.
It's still truly anyone's game.
But the house's on two.
Oz and Corin on three.
but Mish way out in front on seven.
I'm kind of proud I stuck with my logic there.
I mean, I was, I'm like, Corrin, don't change you.
Oh, when you said, when I said, when I tried to do the fake out with I was going to pick the cake or the rolling pin, and he went, I'd like to change my answer.
You have absolutely no idea how fizzy I just worked.
I was like, he's going to pick the cake.
He's going to pick the fucking.
I did it.
I did it.
And then you didn't.
I was like, fuck, fuck, Karen's too good at this.
You could be great at this.
I see such potential.
I got to get more experience.
You got to get under the wet wing.
the big wet wing.
All right.
So,
final question.
It comes from Betsy from California.
Hi, Betsy.
And,
yeah, the question,
this is a movie synopsis.
We always finish with some sort of synopsis.
So this would be your longest answer,
two, three,
you know,
not huge,
but a short paragraph.
The question is,
what is the synopsis of the film?
Boy, did I get the wrong number?
What is the synopsis of the film?
Boy, did I get the wrong number?
While you're writing your answers,
here's some more information
about Madison Bumgarner.
for SB Nation, Grant Brisby writes,
you should read Tom Voducci's profile of Madison Bumgarner
for Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year award
because it's fantastic and well written,
as well as because it's a compelling look into the personal life
of one of the best pitches in baseball.
You should read it for other reasons as well,
because Varducci really buried the lead.
And here's a paragraph from that article.
It's all true that he was so good, so young that he started playing coach pitch baseball at the age four against seven-year-olds.
And he was so adept with either hand that he shoots a bow, bats, rights and ropes right-handed, but throws from the left side.
That his father Kevin wouldn't allow him to throw a curveball until he had a driver's license.
And that before he dated Ali, he dated a girl named Madison Bumgarner.
The baseball of Madison Bumgarner insisted no relation, I'm sure of it.
Madison Bumgarner would pick up the phone and ask Madison Bumgarner on a date.
Madison Bumgarner would hold hands with Madison Bumgarner on their way to a burger joint,
where Madison Bumgarner and Madison Bumgarner were looking to each other's eyes.
The night might have ended with Madison Bumgarner giving Madison Bumgarner a polite peck on the cheek.
Madison Bumgarner dated Madison Bumk.
Did you recall this later, please, Matt?
I felt like I was going insane there.
Forgetting it.
In your own time, I remember.
Yeah, that went on in favor
because I'm wanting to ask you to tell me
the final of the movie again.
But I'm already fucking nearly done, so it doesn't matter.
The movie is called,
Boy, did I get the wrong number?
Okay, cool.
Brie writes,
apparently the town that Madison Bumgarner is from
has a lot of people who are not related.
with the same last name as his.
A lot of bum garner's.
Found another article that does a bit of odd style journalism
where they try to get to the bottom of it.
Is this true?
Oh, yeah.
And there's, like, they weren't able to get to the bottom of it.
There's some people saying...
That never happened.
Technically, this point is maybe not even a...
I know it seems like we're not busy.
But we're all...
I'll shut up.
All right, the answer in for the final question.
What is the synopsis of the film?
Boy, did I...
I get a wrong number.
I'm not going to be able to write these down.
There's too many of them.
There's only one house answer here, so there's only five options, which helps you out a little bit.
Here are you options.
Valma Digby just can't catch a break.
Accident prone and unlucky since birth, Valma has scored an interview for a dream job,
a gardener for Dreamboat Grant Goodman, who she has loved since the day she met him.
But Grant isn't what he seems.
He's put a curse on Valma to make her forever without favor.
but it's only to keep her safe from the fiddle twins from Neptune
two men who wish to use Valma for experiments
that's option one option two
when two gardeners respond to a newspaper advertisement
to maintain the property of an abandoned house on the outskirts of town
they get more than they bargain for
with a house booby trap to kill
and defend themselves with the gardening tools they arrived with
option three Tom Mead a married realtor
accidentally connects by our phone with a famous movie style at Diddy, or Didi,
who is hiding from her film studio.
Well, Diddy's in prison, so it can't be.
Tom offers her his remote cabin to hide,
causing chaos misunderstandings and comedic desperate attempts
to keep her secret from his wife and eccentric housekeeper.
Option four, Jonathan finds herself in a downward spiral
following a devastating medical diagnosis punctuated by his fiancée,
leaving him. In his desperate state, he attempts to reach out to a suicide hotline, but
accidentally connects to a sex chat line instead. On the other end of the line is Amber,
also struggling. She finds herself drawn to Jonathan's plot in this dark romantic comedy
whose life is truly being saved. Well, finally, Brian Rafferty is a middle-aged salesman
living in Southern California. The economy is down, and as a result, his marriage is strained.
In an attempt to revitalise some kind of spark inside himself, he turned to.
turns on a sex chat hotline.
But instead of getting a telephone set...
Sex chat and gubernus.
Is that what you're saying?
He suddenly diles into the White House,
sparking a series of comedic events
that involve the president, a French butler,
and Brian's boss,
one of the wealthiest men in America.
All right, Karen.
I don't remember any of that.
So you've got Valmu's unlucky since birth
and the fiddlet twins from Neptune are after.
You've got the two.
gardeners respond to a newspaper ad but they find a booby-trapped house and they have to defend themselves
with the gardening tools you got the married realtor can you take me through the married
wheelchair accidentally connects by a phone with a famous movie starlet Diddy who is or die die
who is hiding from her film studio in Oregon and he offers her his remote cabin which causes chaos
then you got jonathan in the i'm sort of almost skeptical of the one that
that are too like, this is about a number.
Right.
You know, because the name of a film doesn't necessarily
sort of respond to the plot so clearly.
Yes.
But when you are looking for inspiration
in the writing of something,
perhaps you take it literally.
So hit me with the Neptune one again.
The Neptune one.
Does this happen all the time
of people like constantly asking you to repeat yourself?
Valma Digby just can't catch a break.
Accident prone and unlucky since birth.
Valma has scored an interview.
for a dream job, a gardener for dreamboat Grant Goodman,
whom she has loved since the day she met him.
But Grant isn't what he seems.
He has put a curse on Valma to make her forever without favor.
But it's only to keep her safe from the fiddle twins from Neptune,
two men who wish to use Valma for experiments.
If you really listen to that one, it makes no sense.
That is not a plot.
Which is, I feel the ooh that they actually collect these from.
But it sounds like,
movie description.
Like I can imagine reading the back of a VHS and seeing that one.
Yeah, exactly.
It's the fiddle twins that put me off.
Do you really call the characters the fiddle twins?
Yeah, from NetTune.
And then the final one.
Why are there so many gardeners?
I don't know.
You had the trying to call the suicide hotline end up with the sex chat line.
And the final one, uh, the,
no, what's the second one?
Oh, the second one is,
Two gardeners respond to the ad
And they find a booby-trapped house
And I have to defend themselves with gardening tools
All right
I think I'm going to go with the fiddle twins
Oh I'm worried
Yeah it was the most obvious Mishand
Sorry I'm sorry
I'm sorry
Is that a lot of being about eight seconds into
Not even yeah
Yeah I just I said it and looked over it immediately
To see what your response would be
And I can't lock in the fiddle twins anymore
Don't look at it
Don't look at it
Don't look at it
Don't like it.
Damn it, this game's good.
Could you run through them all one more time?
Do you want me to lock in mine before you lock in yours?
All right.
I can play this game.
That's just me giving you points, but that's fine.
No, no, you'd go first.
No, I'll go first.
That's the rules.
The third one was...
The third one was the married realtor.
Accidentally connects to movie style it
and gives her a hiding spot in the cabin.
What was the sex line one?
There's two sex line ones.
The suicide tried to call suicide hotline,
but ends up with the sex chat line instead.
And Amber is on the other end,
and she's drawn to his plot.
And the last one is the sex chat hotline
accidentally dials into the White House.
That's fun.
That's fun.
It's a romp.
Yeah.
It's like three of them.
these I would watch.
Yeah.
And two, that...
I don't think could ever be brought to screen, honestly.
No, I think I'm going to have to go with the fiddle twins.
Back to the fiddle twins.
What a roller coaster.
Mish, what do you think?
I don't know, I don't know, I don't like it.
I don't like it.
I don't like it.
I'm in here.
I'm in here.
Okay, so I think it is either the third or the fourth one.
Okay.
I'm going to go...
I wanted to be the White House one.
it's just not, but I love that.
I'd watch that.
I think it is the famous movie star one.
Okay.
God, you've watched a lot of shitty films too.
I've watched a lot of shitty films.
Yeah.
Also leaves you.
Hey, you picked one that sounds very shitty, to be fair.
The second last, the sex, the White House sex line, and then there was a sex line, but suicide line.
Yes.
Yeah, give me that one.
The suicide sex line?
Yeah.
Oh.
Did anyone get it?
No, do it.
Run through the answers.
All right.
I can wait.
Here's the road the answers.
Brian Rafferty,
accidentally calling through the White House.
That was Oz.
That was very good.
Not a bad.
I think that's the one I would watch of all of them.
Yeah, thank you everyone.
The other one I would like to watch was the Home Alone with Gardner sort of thing.
The booby traps.
That was Carran.
I thought that was you.
Yeah.
No,
thanks.
But why did you think it was me?
Because it was really like it just had a new vibe.
But no,
because it was well written.
It sounded like it could be a.
movie.
Yeah,
damn it.
Okay.
I'm learning more
about this game.
Karin went for the
fiddle twins.
That was Mish.
Yeah.
Which you,
it felt like you were
quite certain of that.
Yeah,
what happened to it?
Quite certain.
Like,
what kind of weird
mind games
have I played with you three?
This is real big wet stuff.
I don't know how she does it,
but she'll make people guess her answer
even when they know
that she wrote it.
It's wild.
I don't know how it works,
but you're a freak,
Mish.
In brackets,
compliment.
I'm just a big old church bell
Oz went for the one
where the guy tried to call a suicide hotline
but ends up on a sex chat line
that was Betsy the question writer
okay the house
and that means Mish is correct
it is the married realtor
who accidentally connects to the movie
style at Diddy or Die Die Die
It's probably Diddy but I think they had Diddy first
This is a movie
Bob Hope was in it
He's the realtor
Get Out of town!
Yeah
So you didn't know it?
I thought you might have no idea.
There you go.
No.
Well, I mean, you've really made a sure thing of it in the end.
But I can tell people that, yeah, the movie is meant to be really bad.
About a 38% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes from the audience.
What a title.
And a review by Dennis Schwartz reads,
There's No Hope for this Bob Hope Bomb.
And Betsy says,
It appears in the book, The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
It has, the title of that.
that film has the same vibe as someone's first hour.
You know what,
their first comedy festival show?
Like,
do you know what I mean?
It's like,
yeah,
it's got that vibe.
Well,
that brings us to the end of it.
It's no mozzy that show.
It's no mozzy.
I mean.
But if they stick out it,
if they stick out it for 15 years,
they might get nommed.
Yeah.
Nommed for a mozied.
Yeah,
that'll be the best day of their life.
They finally got a laurel.
Nommed by a mozzi.
All right, Mish, where can people find you?
Hey, what's the point?
Who won?
Oh.
I mean, I'm going to do this first.
I started doing this first.
Keep people on the hook for the plugs.
We're not quite sure.
A lot of suspense.
No, so what did you say?
Where can people find me?
Yeah, yeah.
At Mish Wittrop or you can check out my podcast, the Mission Zach podcast.
We do episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.
Currently, when this is being recorded, we're doing Jersey Shore.
But we change it every few weeks now.
Nice.
Awesome.
Just a bit of fun.
I was worried about you.
Yeah, you can find me at Lamesstream Pod everywhere.
Our podcast is also out Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Hey, direct competition.
I have a feeling just from the bit I know about you, probably quite different.
Yeah, you can start with one.
One's a pallet cleanse.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Please don't find me.
But you can, because I don't really use Instagram anymore.
Is anyone, do we still, are you still using it?
Yeah, I have to.
Privately, privately.
Like, I watch, I lurk.
But I'm not, I can't be bothered posting anymore.
No, I very much have to do that.
Hey guys, I'm coming to Sydney.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm still there.
Okay, so definitely follow Mish.
That'll be a treat.
Oh, my God.
If you go to Comedy Republic Originals on YouTube,
you can find the stuff that I've been making lately there
because there's a wax quizzical,
which is another quiz show.
If you like quiz shows,
we have one where the experts are idiots,
that is very, very stupid.
It's so funny.
It's a fun thing to do.
It's such a fun pod.
And then also with George Rune and Reese Nicholson, we interview people about their friends.
We had Ben Shuri on the show and Eric Jensen.
They talked about each other.
That's beautiful, man.
Yeah.
And then also, this is something that's really cool that just came out by the time this comes out a week ago, a couple of weeks ago.
The Witchie Girls is a web series that Comedy Publix produced, a very first.
First Comedy Republic original and lazy Susan winner of drag race down under along with her drag
sister Zelda Moon have created a it's like teen witches sort of you know it's sort of um aping those
sorts of shows from the 90s Sabrina yeah yeah um taking a piss out of those but also celebrating how
incredible they were so it's awful teens with magic and um yeah it's really special some of the
cameos that are just out of this world Hannah Gadsby is in it Judith Lucy uh
Jordan Bar, Hot Department, Reese Nicholson, Tony Armstrong.
It goes on and on and on.
And the first couple of episodes will be out by now at Comedy Public Original.
So if you go subscribe to that, you'll see them all.
Awesome.
All right.
So here is the final scores.
In equal second spot on three points apiece, it's Oz Coren and the House.
Woo-hoo!
But way out in front on 13, it's Mish, Big Wet, Whittrup.
Well done.
It's nice to play with newbies.
Lambs to the slum.
That was absolutely adorable
what we just did here
for the last couple of hours.
What a cute way to spend an afternoon.
So good.
I mean, it's kind of went pretty much
full of the script of whatever I thought.
No, I will say this as well.
I don't think, I think that might be my best score ever.
You were picking them from nowhere.
Yeah.
Was it a perfect score?
Do we get $38?
It was 80.
It wasn't slid across the table.
Fortunately not, even though the three of us together didn't beat Mitch.
Still wasn't the perfect score.
I will say this, though, fascinating how quickly you picked up on my...
I was going to say, I do reckon I've sort of figured out the mechanics.
You know, get me on 13 more time.
I reckon if we were to come back here tomorrow morning, you two wouldn't beat me, but I'd get maybe a little nervous.
I think what I would hope for is to start to recognise your response and not lock it in.
Yes, that would be, you did the first feel really well.
Good growth.
It was like three times around, I think this is Mish.
I'm locking me.
She's in my head.
Thanks so much for joining us.
And thanks so much for listening, everyone.
Cheers for tuning to Who New with Matt Stewart?
Now that you know it, I've been Matt Stewart.
Goodbye.
No, no, I got the nickname from Braz.
Wasn't it Braz or Danny Walker?
One of them said, it was just a joke.
And then all of his listeners really, like, lapped it up.
And people yell at me from cars.
Oh shit.
Yeah.
They like, it's a whole thing now.
Many times.
At least,
at least half a dozen.
Oh my God.
All through comedy,
every comedy festival I get it all the time.
I did Josh Earl's podcast live last week.
And someone in the audience in the middle of the pod just went,
I love Big Wet.
Or like,
we love Big Wet.
And everyone was just like,
that's,
well,
people assume that they're being really creepy and awful to me.
Right.
But that's actually really sweet.
Hell yeah.
That would have been prime era.
Veronica's, they would have got.
Triple J.
Oh, yeah.
For my time at Triple J, the Veronica's.
Be more like MGMT.
2010.
2010 and...
Come on.
Yeah, MGMT.
That was when Skins came out.
MGMT was 2010.
Well, Electric Ear was like 2005.
Yeah, that's like five years early age to tell you.
Okay.
The black keys.
The black keys.
We were playing it as a gold track.
But, yeah.
Anyway, that place isn't cool anymore.
It's gone to the dogs.
They used to play great games.
Now they play shit.
The Veronica's did last year get voted like the number two song on the Australian countdown.
On the Australian countdown.
Yes, they did.
Which made me think it must have been a car and classic.
Oh yeah, I'm in there.
I'm rigging the system.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's so funny.
Matt and I had a drink and here I am.
That's right.
Mish was there.
She was nearby.
It was the A-Cast, whatever it was.
I was.
Yeah, that's right.
Pub takeover.
Yeah.
Couldn't get a word in with Mish, though.
There was a line of people wanting to chat together.
Oh, you have no idea.
The line up was huge.
I was told, hey, everyone.
I was told at this A-cast event, right?
What do they do for our podcast?
They distribute it.
Yeah.
They host it.
They host it.
They host it.
They host it.
And I was told by my producer that, oh, you should go.
Like, it's a really good networking event.
When I tell you, they couldn't have given less of a shit about me or who I was or what I was doing there.
on the wall they had all of the podcasts that they host
except mine
no shit yeah
because they must host millions
yeah
they didn't have ours either and I think it
I think we
oh they didn't have yours up either
I feel better now
I'm pretty sure they asked us to send their artwork in
and I imagine you also didn't
oh there is no way any of us did that
okay that's probably what I was
so I don't think that was necessarily a disrespect thing to you
even though I'm sure they do disrespecting
I feel bad because I don't want to brag.
I got shouted out on stage, you know, I got name checked.
It was good to be.
For which part?
At the A cast.
For the mainstream for our point.
I didn't see our artwork though, maybe.
Yeah, we didn't, I don't mean if we even got asked.
Damn.
I think, well, as far as networking goes, which I'm obviously very good at it, if people could tell that, I mean, I'm at Oz there and now he's on the show.
So there you go.
Such joy.
Such is the way that booking podcasts work.
And if you'd like to be on the show, run into Matt at course.
So this is the way the show works.
3880 on the lines.
Maybe.
Is that what you get for insiders of?
It's actually pretty lucrative.
Oh, you're on insiders recently?
Yeah, just last Sunday.
Yeah.
Oh, you guys know insiders.
I guess you're old.
I was a big, right into the Barry era.
Oh, yeah, iconic era.
Yeah, I mourned it a little bit after that.
I've slipped off a little.
Well, you could listen to The Two Barry's.
What?
A podcast featuring Barry and Tony Barry.
Whoa.
The two Barrys.
I didn't realize.
It feels like the main reason they greenlit that at the Guardian is just because those two guys are called Barry.
Yeah, exactly.
They sort of worked backwards.
Yeah, we'll figure out the show later.
Yeah, when they were like, this is going to sell itself.
Two Barry, two of them?
Two Barrys.
It's already good if you've got one Barry.
Yeah.
We've got two Barry.
Well, they don't actually.
They have a Barry and a Tony.
But Tony's so.
Her name is Barry.
Yeah, and they made it work.
They made it work.
And in comedy, you can't win two Barry's, can you?
You can only win one.
You can't win any anymore.
That's a good point as well.
Why is that, Matt?
I don't know, I think, you know, time.
Yeah.
Different time.
Yeah.
It's time.
I think they decided to give someone else to go, and they decided to give, what was it
called now?
It's now called the, I believe it's now called the, I'll get this wrong,
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Most Outstanding Show Award.
Yeah, there you go.
So that was time for them to get it.
Jesse off the ground
because most outstanding show is Mozzie.
She's tried to get moz.
A bit of buzz around.
The mozzy.
Mozy.
Oh, I like that.
That's cute.
The mozzy.
Yeah.
I think that should get happening.
Yeah, great.
So a lot of that will be edited out.
I have seen that some of these episodes go for nearly two hours
So the idea that they are edited to me
Is like I've got dinner
You know tonight
So
It'll be edited out and put at the back
It's a part of the show
Behind the curtain at the back of the video store
That's where you put all the films
This is definitely behind the curtain
What's the first question Matt?
I'm glad you ran through the rules and the points
the last episode of this podcast I listened to, which was also the first, you forgot to do that?
And they were like two, two questions in.
And I'm like, surely someone explains what the fuck's going on.
What episode was that on?
This was the bird, bird Pokemon with grace.
Oh, no.
You did eventually explain the rules.
Connor, I would have assumed Connor would have shuffled that for the appropriate spot.
Connor knows awful things about my private life.
I've discussed things on this podcast that have been cut out that are horrific.
Okay.
But Connor, Connor knows.
Horrific's overselling it.
Don't, you don't want people yelling out from their car.
Big wet.
Tell us.
Tell us your.
Tell us your.
That would be really.
And I'll say, how much?
Yeah.
You'll be on a first.
I don't have a business.
I don't have a staff.
Pay me.
I don't know what you're talking about because I was focused on writing out my little
definition.
I did mine ages ago.
Yes, same.
I had time for a nice chat with my friend.
Go on.
Oh my God, okay.
And this bit will probably be at it out where I'm cutting and pasting.
I think you should cut that bit out, Connor.
And put it at the very end.
Turn it into a remix song.
Where did you message me, Mish?
Messenger.
Oh, yeah, great.
Where would you prefer me to message you, Matt?
Well, if you got Instagram handy, but I'm almost like in now.
I can make the switch.
I went to text you, Matt.
But then I realized the last time that I texted you
was to say that you might have COVID having done a gig
at Comedy Republic.
That's circa 2021.
That's fun.
That's funny.
I just panicked and you're like,
no, leave that one in the past.
I've switched to Instagram.
That makes your answer make way more sense.
Let's have a look at the last...
Victorian era.
I'm going to look at the last message I've sent each of you.
So, Matt, the last thing that you sent to me on Instagram,
no, was this Messenger, this is Messenger,
was two first timers to take you on tomorrow.
Oh, yeah.
Pretty good.
Wow, Big Wet.
Yeah.
Oz, I've never messaged you.
I just met you today.
But we can change that.
Just a lot of the slaughter, really?
There you are.
What did we say?
We've never done Messenger, but I think we've done text.
I think you've done text.
We've done text.
I'm more of a text.
This is going to be cut out.
bit? Oh no, no, they can keep all this.
This will probably put, I don't know, I don't know what.
The last time you messaged me was
in December saying there was a dropout at Comedy
Republic, could I get there in 20 minutes?
And I said,
I'm sorry, I can't. I won't be
able to make it in time. I hope you find someone
and then you wrote all good, exclamation point.
And I, at that point, I'm almost positive
went, well, they're never going to put me on again.
Because I couldn't make it. That was a test.
Yeah.
Whatever, I'm, now
I am C, bitch.
Whoa. Yeah. I really stepped up.
Whoa.
Yeah.
You know it's a crisis if I'm getting involved in those texts.
Yeah.
If Karin's getting involved and they're asking me, you know they're fucked.
I love Mish Bigwet's clickety-clack.
This is really going to bring Oz back to the newsroom.
More dick chat newsrooms, believe it or not.
Oh, really?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Fuck yeah.
Well, it makes sound.
I mean, you want the one of them goes to say.
straight to dick chat in newsrooms.
That's a bit of fun, isn't it?
Hmm.
Well, I guess it's quite heavy.
Like, you're dealing with heavy shit in newsrooms.
True.
Might as well split it up with a bit of dick chat.
Yeah.
Sorry, I've tapped out of this.
Just I'm stuck on coming out with...
You just looked up dick?
If there's an answer, that's dick plant.
It's not me.
Dick plan is really funny.
The dick plant.
The dick plant.
That sounds like an old-school talk show host name.
Dick Plant.
Tonight show, Dick Plant.
Okay.
I mean, I love your show so much, and it really makes you laugh when you, because you're all like, you host it more like an asshole than I do.
Yeah.
But you'll be like, all right, let's move on.
You know, when people are in the middle of a riff that's going nowhere, whereas I'm like, let's see where this goes.
I've got heaped to edit it.
Yes.
I love editing.
Yeah, no worries.
Love editing pods.
Have you ever had a situation where you've asked that
and someone's known the answer to that question
and just sort of like fucked it?
Yeah, it happened a few weeks ago.
Ben Russell just, like, he just sent through the answer
in like incredible detail.
And it really stuffed up, it stuffed up the show.
So yeah, if you do know the answer,
Just still write a fake one.
Yeah, yeah.
Have you?
I would never admit to knowing the answer to that question.
Clever.
With the movie.
Oh, just a lucky guess.
With the movie questions.
Do you ever have Alexi know them or someone know them?
Yeah, he's known a few.
He's insane.
He's a bit of a freak.
I don't understand how his brain operates like that.
He remembers everything.
He's not right.
He's not right.
Sorry?
Within a category.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He remembers everything within film.
Yes.
There is a name for that, isn't it?
A cinephile.
Crackophile.
No, I was going more.
Let's not go into that.
Oh, yeah, no, I understand.
All right.
The answer is the question number three.
Like, they diagnose it.
Yes, no, I understand.
Yeah.
Trains.
Yes.
Films.
Yes.
Yeah.
Listeners of this podcast.
I love Alexey, obviously, for the record.
Guests on this podcast.
The comedy industry.
We get it.
Yeah.
When you're ready, Matt.
Karen has dinner at home.
Are you cooking tonight?
Don't answer that.
Why?
Because he wants to get home for dinner.
Or spend time discussing.
I don't know.
In the amount of time or you scolded him for doing nothing wrong then.
He probably could have told me, oh, meat and three veg.
No, Reese is cooking.
Oh, are they a good cook?
Oh, yeah.
That's great.
I could imagine they would be good.
Yeah, very, very good.
They wrote a cookbook.
Oh, wow.
Of course they did.
Yeah.
Well, they wrote a book.
because it's got some recipes.
Yeah.
Dish.
Dish.
Available now.
It is.
For cheap, probably.
In a bargain bin somewhere.
English towns, I'm worried I've accidentally,
just accidentally gotten the answer right?
Because English towns are so, you know.
Yeah.
Specific, aren't they?
Yeah, and stupidly named.
And they sound...
I had a bit of fun with this one.
But maybe I didn't.
Maybe I did.
Jesus.
Because it is...
They do...
They do sound pretty...
like gibberish to us
but I imagine a lot of Australian
like Woolo Maloo and stuff
probably sound silly to them
so you know but
but that's just that's local language isn't it
that's local language
as opposed to gibberish
really
that has made me think
yeah
shouted this was in the break
because it would have been nice
to be added in public
I'm sure Connor will bury this bit
although the fact that I never listen back will mean I'll never know
you'll know of this one
oh yeah you'll know yeah yeah how do you feel about the way
that insiders is dealing with David Spears getting back to the couch
these days because previously they dealt with that by taking a wide
David would stand up walk to the couch and you'd be in the distance
and now they're dealing with it by taking a single of you
looking like awkwardly down the barrel of a camera.
Incredible firstly that you have picked up on this.
This is the most important thing happening in broadcast TV in Australia right now.
I was thrown.
So yeah, you're right.
You used to be, you'd see the walk,
you'd see everyone on the couch.
Maybe they'd fill up the coffee.
And look, it wasn't good for David.
He doesn't, he's awkward.
He doesn't know how to stand up on camera.
He is clearly shifted.
So we shoot these before the show starts.
I can tell that as well.
Just look down and like you don't know what the context is.
It's like you look.
caught this two second look down the camera.
It could be the minister announcing that, you know,
he's fucking killed 17 people.
And he's like, now back to the panel, I'm smiling with my last.
With a little half wink, a little.
And then when they cut to the wide of the panel,
whoever was last and was looking down the barrel of the camera,
is now looking at David in profile.
Very clearly.
Very clunky.
This is great.
Next, if I get invited back on,
which I may not after this conversation,
I will raise that it's been noted.
Well, I know that there is a new EP at Insiders.
And I know that you're getting there.
You want to make some friends.
fresh changes, put your fingerprint on it.
Yeah.
I like the wide.
I like the wide walk.
I would.
That was one of the tarts of the show that I loved.
You always tuned in at 9 a week.
Every Sunday morning to watch David.
Stand up from an interview with a high profile pole addition and walk back to the couch.
Very good.
And the walk was live.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
It's a live show.
Wow.
I think, yeah.
I think they have lost something.
I mean, that's it.
It's a live show, right?
It's a live show.
It's a live show.
It doesn't feel right to not have every element of it.
Are you sure it's not David Spears saying I don't like the way I walk.
Can we cover this somewhere?
Well,
well-being.
I think that's probably what it is.
He needs to suck it the fuck up.
Because that is a national treasure of a walk.
Yeah, exactly.
You're walking in Barry's footsteps.
That's right.
That's right.
Be confident in those footsteps.
Wear the shoes strong.
Yeah.
But also, you can see him still breathe in before getting up for the walk because they
still capture him almost stand up.
So you know he's about to do it.
You know he's about to do it.
And you see David's mind go, oh God, here comes the walk.
and also because he has to remember three names as well
as he's walking back and say them in full.
So he's got to get up, walk back, say three full names.
Can I tell you one fun fact from the recording of that show?
And I really hope no one involved is listening to this.
You know the theme song quite iconic?
The theme song that had a long time.
Which was by what's the jazz musician?
Dum-dum-Dum-Dum-Dum.
He's very famous musician who wrote that.
Yes.
David Spears, I learnt this.
I'm sorry, David, again, if you're listening to this.
When he has, like, a tickle in his throat, he coughs to the rhythm of that tune in the lead-up to that show.
Yeah, honestly, I don't know if he knows it.
I don't know if anyone else.
It's happened to be standing quite close to him, and that was playing, and he was doing it in time.
That's so funny.
Yeah, I'm never going back on now after having it out in.
Herbie Hancock.
Herbie Hancock.
Oh, that's Herbie Hancock.
It's Herbie Hancock.
There you go.
There you go.
Yeah.
Hey, Kar and what we're hanging out.
I'm just reading the news.
Yeah, I would, I just want to, do you want to tell listeners,
I know a bunch of listeners who come to Melbourne to listen to my podcast,
they'll end up spending time at Comedy Republic.
Oh, great.
Oh, thank you for that.
People haven't been to town, and if they're coming to town,
it is, it's now gone to, what, six, five, six days a week, is it?
It's now six or seven days a week, depending on Monday.
So Monday's the only day now where you've got to check if there's a show,
There's a show on every single other day.
So cool.
Which is great, except for sort of, you know, Christmas or whatever.
So, yeah, it's, you know, it's good.
There's always something on.
There's shows every night.
Stand up or improv, a lot of improv.
It's a best of you in Melbourne.
Love it.
It was sort of, it felt missing.
Like Melbourne had such a thriving comedy scene.
Like, you know, it's got the biggest comedy festival in the world.
And all the pub gigs are some of the best in the world as well.
and the open mic scene was really strong and everything.
It just sort of felt like it was missing a kind of, I don't know,
that sort of like home, like that one place that has like a stage designed
specifically for stand-up and everything.
And a green room that you don't have to.
Like a green room that's got its own toilet.
It's got two.
I think that's the cool thing about comedy, as I've told people,
there's like friends that aren't in comedy about why I love,
this is just me being very, very honest.
I like that it doesn't matter what kind of comedy you do.
they really embrace all different types of comedy.
Like if you're really into weird, absurdest, crazy, weird Greg Larson shit,
you'll get that there.
But if you want to catch...
Just not an 8pm on a Saturday.
No, that's right.
Generally speaking, that's the 1145 on a Friday kind of show.
But then if you also want to catch like a comedian that you've loved since the early 90s
that, you know, that's where you can get them too.
I just think it's like every line up I've ever done at Comedy Republic.
It's the group of people that I'm with is always like super-duty.
diverse and in terms of like the comedy that they make.
And I think that's really cool because I don't think you get that in other rooms.
I'm just saying.
Yeah, because otherwise.
Why are you looking at me like that?
No.
I just,
it was really nice to see the big wet mask slip for a second there.
And just for you to let us in.
Yeah.
No, but I do.
I think it's really like to experience the big dry.
Yeah, there you go.
No, I just, I think it's so great.
I think that it is, I'm not just blowing smoke up your assy, but we've all worked there.
Not you was, but one day.
No, the only place.
I have.
Excuse me.
I'm so sorry, how rude.
Right, that's it.
I'm so rude.
Cal Wilson used to host.
But like I just think it's so great that we have that there now.
It's really cool.
Yeah, I agree.
And great espresso martinis.
I was going to say the bar is great.
Great chippies, but their best chippies as well.
Love those.
Yeah.
And all the staff there are really, really nice.
Yeah.
And that's what,
that's who has made it.
And the compliments that you have are really for the staff that have made it what it is.
Yeah.
Do you want to tell the listeners about Lamesst?
Stream. Well, do you know what? It's a good timing. When is this episode going to be out?
Probably in a few weeks. Yeah, great. So Lamesream is a independent podcast covering the news, media,
current affairs. What's happening in Australia? What's happening all around the world? It's hosted by me
and a colleague of mine, Scott Mitchell. We met working together at the ABC. And between us,
we've worked for pretty much every, in fact, I think every media outlet in Australia except for Channel 7.
and not for any particular reason.
Just turns out Channel 7 has not been
that's your white while.
We're willing to employ either of us.
And the reason why I asked when the episodes
coming out earlier is we're going on tour,
our first ever national tour.
Cool.
In June and July.
We're taking the show on the road.
It'll be kind of like a live podcast.
We'll break down kind of like a mid-year analysis
on what's going on in media and current affairs
in Australian globally.
We'll have some segments, some fun, special guests,
hitting up the Nightcat here in Melbourne,
the vanguard in Sydney.
go to Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane and Canberra.
Really looking forward to it.
Awesome.
We're just about, we just turned 12 months actually.
So we're one year old and the tour is our first birthday tour.
Is it, are you nervous that the news will move fast and you'll have to, or is that that's all part of the fun?
I mean, look, honestly, that is, it's sort of part of the fun, but it is part of the stress because we want to prepare these shows.
We want them to be good, but we also want them to be responsive to what's going on in the world.
So having to wake up every day for like nine days in a row and be like, all right, the fuck are we talking about today.
Yeah, yeah.
So each show will be different in different cities.
Yeah, exactly.
We want it to be, you know, there'll be sort of similar, similar vibes, similar segments, but we wanted to be as fresh as reactive to what is happening that day.
That's possible give people what they, you know what they want.
Awesome.
Thanks for letting me plug that.
Hey, no worries.
I just, I just only discovered the 7 a.m. podcast recently.
Oh, yeah.
Which I guess has been around for why.
You used to produce that?
Yeah, I was an EP on it when we started.
My cousin's a cousin.
Eric Jensen.
Oh, no shit.
Yeah, he was my Boston Melbourne fight.
He comes up every time Karin's in a room.
Yeah, that's so funny.
Because Karin knows Eric too.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So it looks like I'm fucking obsessed with my cousin.
It does seem like that.
He's up.
Hang it on about your cousin, Mish.
No, well, I wish I was obsessed with my cousin
because then I'd be able to go to Attica because my cousin's really good mates with Ben Shuri
and I really want to go to Attica.
We can get you.
So am I.
Have you been to Attica?
We can get you in there.
You can get me into Attica.
How?
I mean, you'll have to pay.
You can make a booking online.
I'll send you the link.
No, my other thing is restaurants is my other thing that I do.
Oh, get out of town.
I know Ben a little bit.
What's Attica?
That's a fancy restaurant.
Oh, it's like the fanciest in Melbourne.
But it's run by this dude who I don't know.
But he just seems really cool.
Oh, yeah.
Like really properly loves food and people.
feeding people and like he just gets food really good and I just want really want to go but it's like
five hundred dollars a head and it's like I just can't justify it right now it is it is the best
meal you'll ever have in that it is it's a meal it happens to be a meal it's art first and then
it's like and then also you're full yeah but it's not like it's not like you're going for a meal
you're going for this extraordinary walk through whatever
I will go one day.
He's decided he wants to walk you through.
But also I'm a vegetarian, so I feel like I'm wasted there.
No, no, no.
He makes it all work.
It's in town somewhere.
It's out in, um...
It's like down by Balaclova.
Yeah, that's what I meant to say.
Ravens, not Ravenswood.
No, what's it called?
It's out that way.
St. Kilderish.
Yeah.
Elwood.
Right.
It's not that either.
It's, um...
No, it's out that little pocket, though.
Rippinley.
Ripin Lee.
It's Ripinley.
I thought I had a booking like literally in a week.
I'm trying to brag about that a little while away.
Ben, we're friendly with Ben as well.
And Kylie, his wife.
And they report that they never get invited around to anyone's house for dinner
because nobody wants to cook for Ben.
Yeah, can I understand that.
And so in a few weeks' time, they're coming,
this is how good a cook Reese is.
They're coming around to dinner.
And Reese will cook them.
Is Reese shitting themselves?
They are absolutely terrified.
Yeah, they would be so nervous.
I'd be so nervous.
Yeah.
They,
they are,
they are shooting themselves.
That's awesome.
And I find it funny.
I've eaten your food before
and you're a good cook.
Oh, thank you.
What did I cook for you?
It was a while ago.
I had dinner at your old place.
Yeah.
And I just remember it being pasta of some kind.
Are you sure Reese didn't cook?
I love pasta.
Well, it was really good.
I'm pretty sure Reese cooked that.
Okay.
Oh, yeah, of course they did
because I was in,
doing your podcast with Zach.
Yeah.
I just remember,
I remember going,
that was really yummy.
Yeah,
that was race.
Do they do pastor at Attica?
I love that.
It's like a pastor.
They probably wouldn't do like a spag bowl.
Yeah.
Although Ben did,
Ben wrote a book where he,
um,
researched the like Bolognais,
um,
for one of the chapters.
And it's,
um,
it's like this incredibly,
like he researched this for like nine months about the origins of
bolonaise,
all the different types,
how it's all happened.
All that came together for,
um,
for his lasagna,
which is the best,
as I know I've ever had my life.
And so I told Ben about my spaghetti Bolognese recipe,
which was handed down from my grandma,
or great-grandma, my grandma, mom, and down to me,
which is two tins of Heinz tomato soup.
Tipped in.
That's pretty much, there's other stuff that you do as well,
but that is pretty much it.
And I discovered a Bolognaise recipe that Ben has not tried.
So I think at this dinner,
I will also, I will also, um, my great grandma's, um, clearly depression era.
Oh, 100%.
Heinz tin soup, Bolognese recipe.
100%.
Yeah, sweet as, very sweet.
Full of sugar.
Well, the way I look at it is that everyone likes cocoa pops.
You know what I mean?
Even if you've got like the best pallets, you know what I mean?
Yeah, put some cocoa pops in there.
Yeah, you've had some cocoa pops and that's my ball.
Right.
Yeah.
