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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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45:29

Our Official Call Out To The Slime Community

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/11/23

In today’s episode Sam brings an ancient artifact along to the studio for Show & Tell, also known as the Primary School Self Portrait Tea Towel. A listener then asks Mel & Sam for advice when it comes to auditioning, and from camera set up to picking your line reader, we hope the advice we share helps you even just a little!Whether you know absolutely nothing about the Slime Community or are in it yourselves, today we also open up Sam's brain to the fact that Slime & Slime Influencers is

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35:16

The Humble Beginnings Of The Knee Nudge

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/11/19

Hello rats it’s time for another Ratfood and this week Mel is taking us right back to the 200 seater high school lecture theatre… yes we are chatting !!The Musicals We Did In High School!!From the productions that should not be done in High School that we unfortunately did, to Sam being banished to the wings and being denied an on stage moment, this episode is packed with enough tales to fill your thespian cup. No seriously, this entire episode we are chatting the musicals of our past and we hope

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42:13

The Ultimate Ranking Of The Arnott's Assorted Creams

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2025/11/16

Hello rats and welcome to another episode of Ratbag! In today’s episode Mel unleashes the ultimate ranking of the Arnott’s Assorted Creams and this segment, to our surprise, unlocks an Oreo conspiracy and a horrible realisation about Teddy Bear Biscuits, a staple in the O'Brien household.Our hotline brings a listener dm (ps - thank you for these please keeo em coming!!), who seeks some advice around their housemate having very loud sex. Then we answer the questionn "how long would society last if it

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32:21

Crash Outs & The #1 WAG At The Wag Fest

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2025/11/12

Guys. Nobody panic. But simply EVERYTHING has changed. Samantha Andrew attended the DOG LOVERS FESTIVAL and loved every. Single. Second of it !!!Love makes you do crazy things, and in today’s ep Sammy tells us all about her weekend at the dog festival (can’t even believe I’m writing these words right now), whilst Mel leans in to her gaming influencer alter ego.We also chat crash outs and moments where we can be the biggest sensitive Sallys and lots, lots more! So stick around and we hope this ep

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40:27

Pink Walked So That Chappell Roan Could Run

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/11/09

Hey rats!! Welcome to another episode and today we are taking the 'swing' practice in musical theatre to a whole new medium and assigning the perfect covers/swings for the pop stars of today. Then we discuss, probably to an academicWe then take the time to unpack the gayest instruments in the orchestra and we go in hard thanks to a listener dm for our 'Bring Bring Bitch! Hotline'. We then share our irrational fears including silent discos and morning alarms.Thanks once again for popping us in your

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29:12

Halloween, Chatty Kathies & Hooking Up With Austin...

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2025/11/05

Hiiiii cuties!Welcome to this week’s Ratfood (on the road!) Sammy is coming to us live from her currently-falling-down hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam and Mel is coming to you live with sleepy eye bags from her living room.This week, it’s a gorgy laid back catch up vibe as we chat all things Halloween weekend, ‘The Talented Mr Ripley’ (Sydney Theatre Company), a misunderstanding on the Yarra Bridge with a VERY chatty MTC subscriber (or was it?), a film at the Jewish International Film Festival and so much

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44:42

Get Your Lesbian Feet Out Of My Shoes!!!

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/11/02

Heyaaaa! Welcome to another ep of 'Ratbag' with the ONLY Mel and Sam you need to know in your lifetime. To open the episode Mel brings to the pod studio, the other Mel and Sam duos that exist online and their business ventures. From witches to teachers, the collection is eclectic, and truly perfect. Our "Bring Bring Bitch!' Hotline inspires a conversation about the perfect movies that are yet to be turned into musicals. We then design our perfect music festival set lists and spoiler alert - Mel is

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32:06

Love Is Blind Season 9 & A 3D-Printed Cadbury Twirl

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/10/29

A YEAR OF THE POD. Can you believe it, Rats??We can not BELIEVE that we’ve been doing this for a year and we’re oh so grateful for every single one of you that has joined us so far - whether that be for 1 episode or 105 episodes.Today to celebrate we are going IN on our ‘Love Is Blind’ Season 9 thoughts - because it wouldn’t be a Mel & Sam pod without a shameless reality TV deep dive! We talk about the political undertones of the season, the representations of masculinity, the good, the bad, the

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50:10

The Dude-if-i-cation Of Where's Wally On Halloween

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2025/10/26

Trick or TREAT you absolute rat heads!!! Welcome to the first EVER Halloween episode of Ratbag, and by Halloween episode, we mean, the first segment is Halloween based. Hell yeah.In today’s episode, Sam brings the best of the best costumes that are copyright free, found on the internet and riffed on today for your pleasure. Once going through the selection, Mel and Sam then toss around their own copyright free versions of some classic characters including Aunty Donna, Virginia Gay and many more.The

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27:48

Louvre Heist, Ass-Eating Pirates & A Full Bush

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/10/22

Hey cutie patooties!!Welcome to today’s Ratfood where we’re chatting allllllllllllll about the Madagascar penguins most recent successful project (aka the HEIST of the Crown Jewels at The Louvre). Mel has all the details and we are SCREAMING at how it all went down.We also chat the girlification of RACV on the precipice of Mel finally getting her license (shout out to that dexy), SKIMS new release of the full bush underwear and being full dolphin-mode for surgery and the ins and outs of having a Go

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43:49

Our PHD Analysis On The 'Courtney Take Your Break'...

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2025/10/19

Study pads out. Phones down. Welcome to your lecture. Today we will be going in deep on the 'Courtney Take Your Break' effect that rose to cultural relevance in musical theatre a few years ago. If this means nothing to you, don't you worry by the end of this episode you will be noticing this moment in every musical you watch.We then take the time to both share our coming out stories in our 'Bring Bring Bitch!' hotline segment because we realised we have never done it on this pod!! Our 'Kick Ons' is

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38:39

Depop Drama Diaries & Trans IVF Chats with Ollie...

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/10/15

Hey babies!Have we mentioned we LOVE YA?! Welcome to today’s Ratfood - she’s an absolute jam packed one with a bit of everything!Sammy opens up about her Depop era - doxing, Gen Z validation and all - and we then launch in to a very giggly chat about some of our worst marketplace and depop experiences including a horror story involving a lemonade can and a trip to the hospital, an Elsa dress scam and an accidental therapy session.We then have our second ever ‘Grassrats’ segment (thank you for all

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46:23

Our PHD Analysis On The 'Courtney Take Your Break'...

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/10/12

Study pads out. Phones down. Welcome to your lecture. Today we will be going in deep on the 'Courtney Take Your Break' effect that rose to cultural relevance in musical theatre a few years ago. If this means nothing to you, don't you worry by the end of this episode you will be noticing this moment in every musical you watch.We then take the time to both share our coming out stories in our 'Bring Bring Bitch!' hotline segment because we realised we have never done it on this pod!! Our 'Kick Ons' is

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34:27

The Life Of A Showgirl & Mel’s BBL Surgery

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/10/08

Hi bbys!Welcome to another Ratfood. Today we’re going IN on the Taylor Swift chatsssssssss. We’re unpacking ALL our thoughts on the album on everyone’s lips, what we liked, what we didn’t (spoiler alert!! It was a lot!!) and what we would’ve loved to have seen instead.Mel also chats briefly about her stint in the hospital - nee naw!! BBL alert!!!Let us know your thoughts on the album in the comments below.Lots of love, and big fat cheese cubes to you all.xxMel & Sam—You can watch the full video

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53:03

From Page to Stage With Vidya Makan

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/10/05

Buckle up cuties because it's time for another guest ep! If you have been to a mainstage musical in the last few years, odds are you would have seen this star on the stage, whether it be playing the role of Eliza in Hamilton or Catherine Parr in Six, she is a force in this industry and she's joined us today... it's Vidya Makan!In today's episode Vidya chats all about the process of writing her musical 'The Lucky Country' which is opening for Melbourne Fringe this October and for Melt Festival this

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39:12

The Musical Theatre Agent Whose Agency Didn't Exist!

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/10/01

Hey there you rats!We soldier on into another week of pretending we aren’t hosting the biggest music-theatre-loser-pod of all time as Mel finally shares the long (one week) awaited story of the agent from hell! This story is absolutely WILD so get ready because what we are about to tell you, you will absolutely lose your minds over.This then leads into chats about the industry as a whole and just how vulnerable it can be when auditioning / when you put faith in the industry and it lets you down.We

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41:44

Putting The Instagram Fonts On The Dance Moms Pyramid

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/09/28

Hey hey dear listener and WELCOME to another 'Ratbag' episode!Have you ever wanted a deep unpacking of the Instagram Story Fonts? Well you're in luck because today we are doing the very necessary ranking of IG Fonts using Mel's important ranking scale. We then chat in our 'Kick Ons' about the items that would bring us back to life (someone get Mel her potato gems) and our 'Bring Bring Bitch!' hotline is a creative prompt sent in by a listener. We then improvise our creative pitch in our 'Hit It

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32:31

The Toxic Side Of Music Theatre Fandom ft. The Carrie...

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/09/24

Hello ratties!It wouldn’t be like us to not do SOME kind of music theatre deep dive once every now and again, so please enjoy today’s Ratfood where we unpack a video made by West End darling Carrie Hope Fletcher in which she talks about some of the more toxic sides of music theatre fandom.We chat about how strongly it feels like those within the entertainment industry are expected to ‘take’ more when it comes to public criticism - or even bullying - and we talk about the really interesting line that

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43:57

No More Wooden Boards At Cafes!!!!

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/09/21

Hey there rat! It's time for to another 'Ratbag' episode!Today is HOT TAKE HEAVY sowe hope you are ready for it! In this week's episode we chat everything from cars needing police sirens for when you're running late, to Sam's obsession with public pools. Mel also brings to the pod, a very fair observation about the 'reading glasses Olympics' and get ready because you may be read for filth.As always thanks for listening, we are v grateful you have this pod on your weekly rotation.Love ya guts and see

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30:35

Ed Sheeran Shape Of You?? More Like ED SHEERAN SHAPED...

Ratbag with Mel & Sam ·

2025/09/17

Hello ratlings!!In today’s Ratfood, the girls unpack all things first concerts: the forever new tops, the floopsy-doopsy buns, the rogue artist choices and everything in between.Sam chats about her DESPERATE ploy for Ariana Grande tickets and Mel chats about an unbelievable musical she saw in Sydney this week. Thank you so much for joining us <3Lots of love and we’ll see you for another Ratbag this coming Monday!Big fat cheese cubes to you all.xxMel & Sam—You can watch the full video form of

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