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Ratbag with Mel & Sam

Australia’s most exciting queer comedy duo: Mel & Sam host their brand new podcast: RATBAG. Join them as these besties and also quasi-reformed-theatre-kids host weekly episodes every Monday and Thursday. With everything from unpacking conspiracies, to riffing on their always-open-always-caring-about-you hotline, it’s vital this podcast is in your weekly listening rotation. In this pod, Mel & Sam bring the late-night-kick-ons chats to you but rather than it being 3am and you’re wedged between

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30:43

Is White Lotus REALLY That Good??

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/04/30

HELLO U RATS!! Now. You better be watching this episode on a 70metre long cinema screen in your house because this is CINEMA, baby. And you deserve it!!In today’s episode, we chat all things TV and cinema - c’mon rebrand!! Sam introduces a brand new campaign to stop a phenomena that is RUINING movie-going across the nation (#SayNoToPanasonic), the girls unpack their thoughts on White Lotus (over-rated?) and Adolescence and we celebrate the beginning of Tom’s influencer era. We also unpack what the

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1:00:23

Nerdy Ass Wizard Rock with Charlene Kaye

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/04/27

Oh heeeeey! Welcome rat to another Guest Ratbag! (Sorry that we have so many friends!!!). This week we are joined by American singer-songwriter, comedian and actor, most widely known for her solo work under the name KAYE: Charlene Kaye!!! In this week's episode we chat with Charlene about everything from her first big tour with 'Starkid', to ranch camps, to her relationship with her mother and much much more. As always we opened the 'Bring Bring Bitch!' so all of your questions could get answered

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34:48

OMG!! Tom Proposed To Another Woman!!

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/04/23

Hello to all u riggity-riggity-RATS!! How’s everyone’s week going?!In today’s Ratfood, we sit down to chat some of our most fucked eating habits (including a stack of saliva-sucked Shapes: no questions until the end pls), Sam tells us all about her much-awaited 30th birthday at La Porchetta and the birthday gift to trump all birthday gifts, Tom tells the story of how he accidentally proposed to another woman and we chat some of the rogue-est gifts we’ve ever received.It’s a really giggly and joyful

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58:32

Seahorses Are Cucks With Chloe Petts

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/04/20

Hey there! It's time for another guest episode! This time we are bringing in our first International Guest (!!!) and they are the beloved stand up comedian, football fanatic and genuinellyyyyy the best dressed person from the UK: Chloe Petts! This episode is packed with everything from queer awakenings & love languages to Chloe's millenial coat that they only wear in Melbourne. We also wasted no time in asking Chloe our fav 'Kick Ons' question surrounding 'personal hells' and our 'Bring Bring

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32:53

California Gurls In Space & Suddenly 30 Sam

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/04/16

It’s Sammy’s birthday, bitches!! And not just any birthday!! But the big 30!! Go wish her happy birthday IMMEDIATELY or may you all be cursed with being stuck in an overstimulating corridor until the end of time.Today’s ep is a gorgy laidback one chatting all things from the pressures (or lack thereof!) of biological clocks ticking to the power of a good laksa, Katy Perry girlbossing a little too close to the sun (literally in space) and lots in between!Sammy chats the struggles with pressures on

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48:00

Can We Chat On Instagram I'm So Much Better There Hahav

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/04/13

Hey there you Rats!!! We're coming in hot for yet another 'Ratbag' episode hosted by your favourite queer comedy duo Mel & Sam. In this weeks episode Mel brings in a necessary unpacking on the obligatory social media follow we do with those we meet on dating aps, and how connected we feel to their lives, despite sometimes having never met them. We then open up our 'Bring Bring Bitch' hotline where a gorgeous listener has asked us how to navigate a certain queer conundrum they are in. There's

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36:12

Tits Out For The CCTV!! Cos We’ve Been ROBBED!!

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/04/09

If anyone has any information on our stolen pasta necklaces, or saw anything suspicious, pls call Crime Stoppers on 1800 HOWISTHISOURLIFE. Thank you so much. Any tips off on the case will be greatly appreciated.This week’s Ratfood, we unpack the greatest injustice of all time … folks, we have been ROBBED. Thieved. Swindled. If u will.We also chat some of our worst cases of foot in mouth disease from the last week, we tell you all about our mate Yve Blake’s INCREDIBLE new play reading ‘Mackenzie’

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1:07:36

Aunty Donna Want To Build A Theme Park

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/04/06

Oh heeeeeeey there. Yeah. Nah. Yeah. THIS. is a big one boys. Why? We have THE Aunty Donna joining us on the pod today. We know Aunty Donna need no introduction but if you haven't had the pleasure and JOY of seeing them live, or watching them on your screens, then you are in for an absolute treat. Mark, Zack and Broden are the beating heart of perfectly silly Australian comedy and today's episode is super-charged with chats all about worst gigs, Andrew Lloyd Webber, MCC Memberships, Edinburgh Fringe

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34:48

We Hired A Beta Incel To Work In Our Panini Shop

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/04/02

Welcome to a brand new Ratfood!! Hope you’ve got a plate of rubbish to nibble on, cos there’s lots of giggle in today’s ep and you’re gonna need the SUSTAINANCE!We’re almost half way through our Melbourne comedy festival season and so today we come to you with sore bodies, fucked up tummies from eating chips for dinner and maaany silly chats. Topics covered include - but are not limited to - The drop kicking of a green Thai chicken curry. The meeting of Sam’s two dads. A fucked breakfast of

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41:51

Attention Theatre Kids: We Have Watched Your Showreel

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/03/30

Hey hey cuties! There are a lot of things you can do on the internet but today Mel & Sam are coming clean with two pretty niche ways they use the internet for their own entertainment. If you have a vimeo link thats unlisted, you've been warned. In today's hotline we asked our listeners 'What is something you have lied about?" and good GOD did you all use us as some form of a confession box. Mel then comes clean wiith her own long winded lie she told through Primary School and Sam laments on a

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32:39

Whatever Happened To Gabriella Cilmi?

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/03/26

HAPPY MELBOURNE COMEDY FESTIVAL SEASON, U RATS!! We are opening our show ‘No Hat, No Play!’ The Cabaret’ THIS VERY NIGHT, and we spend a bit of today’s ep telling you allllll about the show! We also chat out-of-pocket wedding singers, chat about our experiences performing at Gaytimes (a queer music festival) on the weekend, Haiku Hands being our entire sexuality, Cody Simpson’s musical theatre debut (wasn’t he literally only JUST at the Olympics??) and more!!We’ll see you for a brand new Ratbag on

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45:27

A Bathroom Door Lock, A Croc & A Fish

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/03/23

Oh HI there rats!!! Hope you've locked your bathroom door as you listen to this episode on the toilet! Now that previous sentence will make sense as soon as you listen to the episode, we promise. In today's episode, Mel opens the ep with a mind-boggling-realisation she has had about etiquitte in the bathroom. There's a hotline question that has us putting Gen Alpha on the chopping block and we then chat through a list of things that made us finally feel like an adult (Sam's still on her family

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39:34

700 Caps In The Mail & Academic Mommies To The Front

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/03/19

Hello to our fave rats!!! Today’s episode is a gORGyyy one - packed to the brim with tales and anecdotes from our week in Adelaide on tour: including but not limited to chats about the closet being glass, Mel & Sam being academic mommies, our most outrageous fuck ups on stage, our CANCELLED merch, ultimate Fringe Brain moments, our favourite things we’ve seen this Fringe and so much more!We’ll see you for more VERY important content on Monday, and if you’re a Naarm cutie and want to come see our

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1:01:35

The Musical Theatre Sickness with Karis Oka

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/03/16

DING DONG! That's the theatre foyer bell. It's time to get your arse into the theatre, you're sitting in the dress circle, and the show is about to begin. We are joined by the most divine star of Australian Musical Theatre, and our dear pal: Karis Oka! This is a mammoth episode and we cover a lottttt of ground. From authenticity in audition rooms, to Karis' recent casting as Lydia in Beetlejuice to her love of spooky things, this episode is a very special one.We then open up our hotline for all you

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31:47

SAY NO TO BULLYING: Live From Adelaide Fringe

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/03/12

Mel & Sam coming to you live from their 73 degree accomodation at Adelaide Fringe to chat all things tour life, specific challenges they face when on the road together and within their growing friendship/partnership, some rogue flyering experiences they’ve had so far at the fringe, the joys of seeing the new generations of feminists join the ranks (let’s go gen alpha!!) and more. The girls also read a hotline question where they give advice to performers thinking of producing their own show for

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49:58

Why School Of Rock Is The Greatest Film Ever Made

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/03/09

Hey there you rats!! Today we are travelling back to 2003. The year the greatest fiilm (according to Mel O'Brien) was made. Much like Mel's 'Sam-Hasn't-Seen-This-Film-Quiz' from some episodes back, this week the tables are reversed and Sam is quizzing Mel on a film she knows inside out: 'School of Rock but these questions are hard. Very hard.The girls then unpack moving out of home and their experience with housemates/ rent inspections. There is then a brilliant question in the 'Bring Bring Bitch'

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31:26

Dykes On Bikes (But It’s Dykes On Cunty Pillow Chairs)

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/03/05

Guys, Tom FUCKED it and didn’t book our regular podcast studio so two things are happening Number one, he’s FIRED. And number two, we’re serving you a different look for today’s Ratfood - deal with it!!! Welcome to our white padded cell!This week we are chatting all things Mardi Gras, Oscar wins, going to Build A Bear as a fully grown adult, getting trapped in bus doors, fighting ticket officers with our viscous, viscous words and we even touch on some queer history! Get you some dykes who can do it

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53:55

#SayNoToCoolBaristas

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/03/02

Heya you little legends and welcome to another 'Ratbag' by your favourite queer comedy duo: Mel & Sam. In this week's episode Mel comes in all guns blazing with a bold take on baristas. If you're at a cafe rn we ask you to look around and play along, 'Where's Wally' style and see if one is amongst you too, we then ask you to look within and join our movement #saynotocoolbaristas. This episode also includes a very important listener question about queer sex which we loved unpacking. Sam then

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35:23

GIRL DAD RETURNS!!!

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/02/26

Guys. All is right in the world. Oldies are coughing and spluttering in the theatre. Sam is dropping everything to become a full time WAG. And most importantly. Our fave girl Dad is BACK IN THE STUDIO, BABY!!!In today’s Ratfood, Tom catches us up on everything we’ve missed including the unbelievable story of how his daughter came in to the world (strap in - it’s a BRILLIANT story) and the details of his entire futuristic GADGET collection, Mel chats moving in with her partner, Sam declares her new

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58:49

Lazy Susan's Hit And Run With A Ninja Turtle Wallet

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/02/23

Oh get readdddyyy you little rats because NEE NAW - Guest Alert!! We are absolutely stoked to be joined for our very first guest on the Ratbag couch, the immensely talented and crackingly funny WINNER of Drag Race Downunder: Lazy Susan! This episode is a longer one and for good reason...there is so much juicy stuff we cover! In this episode Mel & Sam chat with Lazy Susan about everything from worst gigs, to what Michelle was like as a host of Drag Race Down Under, from twinks needing the aircon

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