Charlie Choccie & Willy Wonka Unpack The 2023 Mitre 10 Brand Campaign, Respond To Reports Of Oompah Loompah Deaths And Have Their Say On Cost Cutting Within The Factory

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Really, when we think about it.

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Time, Broden.

What?

Today, when I woke up and I looked out the window, I saw a

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And that's time.

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Good night.

Great job, guys.

Really good.

You didn't even let us speak.

Well, that's live TV.

It always goes a lot faster than you'd expect.

No, but

I was told.

I was told like...

That was an hour-long show.

That was an hour long.

That was an hour.

That was an hour?

Yeah, that was an hour, man.

Time flies past when you're having fun.

Is this your first time doing television?

I've done one.

I did.

Thank God you're here.

Oh, yes, yes, I saw.

Very good.

And you're so, I mean, you're an experienced old hand at this.

Great work.

Oh, thank you.

No, same as always.

Yeah.

The hardest part is finding a park.

You just, I've got a, there's a little IGA around the corner that has a park open until like 2 a.m.

I just park there free parking.

Really?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Genuinely?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Just around the corner.

Listen here.

I should.

No, no, no, no, no.

No, I'm always scrambling for a park when I come to go to Coles come to here you got your park at Coles yeah yeah it's where I got dropped off this morning I uh the old the old one and thank god it wasn't too far thank god you're here

yeah jeez listen I shouldn't be saying this but um I uh I'm having a coked up Illuminati fuck party at the Melbourne Club uh now after why Illuminati we just go there we all do coke fuck and um watch boys kill each other um are you a member of the Melbourne Club are you a member of of the Illuminati?

Not the Illuminati.

I just call it Illuminati.

What is it?

I am a member of the Melbourne Club, though.

I was wondering if I could get you in as guests if you wanted to come along.

Oh, yeah, that'd be great.

Yeah.

And the boys whisk their way from the ABC studios to the Melbourne Club, which I believe is on Flinders Lane.

It's just across from the Mitre Tavern, which is a great little venue.

Oh, yeah.

Get to the Mitre Tavern.

Really?

Get to the late, your nearest Mitre 10.

The Mitre Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta Mitre 10.

The Mitre 10 still exists.

Yeah.

But do you know MITRE 10 is named after the MITR 10?

It's where they came up with the idea, which is a little pub in the middle of the city.

Really?

Across from the Melbourne Club, which we are at.

What does MITRE mean?

It means you want to hammer at a good price, you got it.

Well, that's what Mitre 10 means.

But what does MIT?

I'm going to look up the word MITRE.

And this is a discussion I'd like to have with two experts.

What is MITRE?

And what does that pertain?

What does that mean for Mitre 10?

Hi, my name is Jeffrey.

Jeffrey, you are an expert in MITRE and MITA 10.

Yes, yes, yes, I am.

I don't know what the word means, though.

So how are you an expert?

I can tell you.

I can tell you so much about that.

You'll have your turn.

You'll have your turn.

Jesus.

You'll have your turn.

All right.

I can tell you about the cost of things.

I can tell you about

how many shelves they have at every Mitre 10.

I can tell you the...

different occasions MITRE has been used.

I just never thought to look up the definition of the word.

How many times has MITRE been used?

Twice as far as I know.

Mitre Taven and Mitre 10.

Wait a second, but you said that you can tell me how many shelves there are at every Mitre 10.

At least 10.

Well,

I mean, yeah,

but I thought you could be a bit more exact than that.

That's not how that works.

Well, I can tell you what MITRE means.

I can't wait to find out.

Joining the affirmative is his name is Charlie.

Not Charlie Bonon.

Charlie Chocolate Factory, Charlie Chocolate Factory.

Oh, and it's Willie Wonka.

Yeah, no.

And Willie Wonka's here, folks.

Why you do your definition, but afterwards.

It's just something our audience needs to know: is whenever we do bring in Charlie Chocolate Factory, he is

chaperoned by Willy Wonka.

He gets my factory after I'm dead.

Yeah, he gets to.

That's why he changed his name from Bucket to Chocolate Factory.

Charlie Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka, you're here.

We will get to you.

It's a strange family they always change their surname based on what they own at that time so we meet charlie when he's a when they got a bucket all he owns in the world is a bucket it's the only thing he owns uh now charlie chocolate factory you are not an expert in mitre mitre 10 but you have done your research

and you have that's what that's all i ask of people with my far out there opinions is just do your research yeah yeah yeah um and i ask that of my science students as well where i teach at viewbank college oh you teach science there?

Yes.

What's your favourite thing to put in a test tube?

A peanut.

Really?

What do you do with it in that nut?

Just show how much oil is in one nut.

I bet I would be.

I bet I would

have been.

There's a lot of oil on my nuts right now.

Why did you?

Willie Wonka has a lot of oil on his nuts.

What kind of oil?

Canola.

Yep.

I bet peanut oil, I imagine.

Why?

Because it's on his nuts.

Oh, right, right, right.

No, no, no, no.

From jerking it.

Wait, you have, so it's like a massage oil.

Yeah, I'd jerk it with it.

No, I jerk it with a peanut oil.

He was right.

But it's got nothing to do with the nuts.

It's just a wild.

Well, it's funny.

I got like barrels of peanut oil in my life.

Do you think even

subconsciously you're like, what nut oil should I put on my nuts?

I'm Willy Wonka.

You're like, nuts.

Peanut oil.

But there's so many nut oils.

Macadamia and I have a nut bar.

at my factory, so we have a lot of peanut oil.

Right.

Not your your factory, though, is it?

Well, it's his now, yeah.

I'm still running it, he's just like you know, like a boy prince, you know, Charlie Chocolate Factory.

So, we uh, we got rid of the oil with the peanut oil because of the allergies and everything.

So, we replaced the nut bar with the macadamia oil, yeah.

Uh, so we had to.

I've come in hard with cost cutting because I, once I had a look at the books, I was

what right do you have to fucking?

Why own the fucking I'm Charlie Chocolate Factory.

We call you a 10-year-old boy, yeah, but he did come in hard, man.

I, uh, we, we've uh slashed R ⁇ D.

You're not making new chocolates.

No, no, no.

We got rid of 20% of the workforce, mostly Oompa Lumpers.

But no one lost their job.

We just stapled them on top of each other.

So now

each pair of Oompa Lumpa,

now they get one wage.

They work for one wage together.

Well, the factory is more of an office and a tour thing now.

We make most of our chocolate offshore since he's come on board.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

He's just pissing money away.

Pissing money away.

You're a 10-year-old boy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm a 10-year-old boy.

But like, I grew up in

filth and famine.

Yeah, you famously had four grandparents sharing one bed.

All sharing the same bed.

All sharing the same bed.

And

they would make love at night.

And we would have to hear it.

Yeah.

We would all have to hear it.

Has that fucked you a bit?

Like, not as much as you'd think.

It does make me want to.

Ah, you.

Well, let's just say he's okay.

Can I just say, I know.

Yes, Willie.

Can I call you Willie?

Yeah, yeah.

God damn right, you can.

He thinks he's okay, but I genuinely think

it gets to it.

Well, I don't know if it's related.

There have been times in my life where I've felt borderline addicted to pornography.

Have had an unhealthy relationship with it.

But whether or not that is connected to having to hear my four grandparents all make love,

they like fucking it.

But only by accident, because some of them are getting on a little

and they do it at night out of respect.

Sometimes it'd be like, oh, Martha, didn't realize that was you.

I thought you were Christine.

When I met you.

And then, you know, so it's, but it's always funny.

They're always laughing about it.

When I met your granddad on that tour, the first tour you did, and it was you and your, what do you call it?

Grandpa Joe.

Grandpa Joe.

I was like, this guy fucks.

I didn't know what it was.

Yeah.

But I was like, he's got at least one on the side.

And they try to, they, they do, out of respect, try to keep it down.

Like, they do it on their side you know like they roll over on the side and they try and do it quietly but we all

my bed is right next to theirs

what does mitre mean right so mitre Charlie Chocolate Factory here

is a tall headdress worn by bishops and senior abbots as a symbol of office tapering to a point at front and back with a deep cleft between

that thing i get what you say or

a joint made between two pieces of wood or other material at an angle of 90 degrees, such that the line of junction bisects this angle.

As an example, a mitre saw.

Okay, well, that's it.

Okay, now,

Willie, Charlie Chocolate Factory,

which of those definitions do you think the Australian hardware store

gathered its name?

Mitre

10 10 from well actually it got it from the tavern so there's a pub in Melbourne called the Mitre Tavern well then where did the Mitre tavern get its name get its name from the hat or the joint and please call me Charlie Chucky probably the joint you just said I was okay for me to call you my friends call me Charlie Chucky can I just tell you a little bit about what this guy's been doing over at the factory can I give you a bit of an idea so I'm I'm now chairman and he's CEO

Oh, so you're running the show.

Yes, and let me tell you, in my first six months, we have already increased profits by 5%.

So when I was CEO, I would make a new chocolate every year and I would spend so much money developing these chocolates.

He's and you would, and like, the death toll was high.

Children would die often in the pursuit of

some sort of taffy that makes you fart music.

And I was dealing with the, so the umplemp is unionized, right?

And I was struggling with that.

They were saying we don't want to die anymore, making chocolates.

And I was struggling with that.

That was really why the board ousted me in the end and brought in Charlie Chocolate Factory early.

Can I, but interesting what you say there, right?

Because I've just looked up the Mitre 10 website.

Yeah.

Yep.

MITRE 10 formed in 1959.

Oh, so close.

10 years away.

From 1949?

No, no, no.

Other way.

Say it.

Say it.

I don't know what you mean.

Oh, no.

You'll say it.

You'll know when you're older.

Well, if you've got grandparents sleeping head to toe in a bed, I'm sure you're very familiar with 1969.

Yeah, yeah.

Myder10 formed in 1959.

It's a large player in the Australian home improvement and hardware industry.

MITA10 Group Compromise is Australia's largest independent home improvement and hardware wholesaler to the industry.

Yeah.

And an iconic independent and local retailer to over 300 Mita 10 and true value hardware stores.

Okay, sure.

They're actually our biggest competitor.

When you went on the website and revealed that you're on the website, you did it in like a smoking gun kind of way.

Well, I think it's definitive.

What is?

What is

MITA 10?

That it exists.

There is no reference to the name there.

Look up MITA Tavern.

Look up its Wikipedia.

And then what do you want to do?

What do you want to talk about?

Because we can tell you all about the factory.

I don't really give a fuck about

it well you don't want to talk about the factory it's been really interesting like since he's taken over yeah there's there's been a lot of saving what i was going to say is we don't develop new chocolates now we'll just take the nut bar put some smarties in it instead yeah yeah we're just sort of like we've gone we have enough stuff

and now it's just about combining stuff it's like oh you like getting turned into a blueberry with that candy now you can get turned into a blueberry with this uh you know this putting chocolate around it willie yeah willie can i ask you

in sort of a dried fruit one second

charlie chockey you should see what we're doing with humbug charlie chockey give me one moment willie

when you came in and said that mitre 10 got its name from the mitre tavern in melbourne i'm not questioning that i just want to know how do you know that i think i saw it on a sign at the mitre tavern when i was having a beer there maybe said mitre 10 was invented here maybe off the wikipedia

i can't find a wikipedia for mitre tavern

just look up where does the name mitre 10 come from you're so fucking fixated on this well you just look up mitre tavern no worries an australian retail and trade hardware store chain operations are based on a cooperative system where the store owners are members of a national group and each has voting rights the chain references the mitre joint

where does the name come from the chain name references the mitre joint Yeah, but what about the, where does, what does, where did it, there are over, can you look up Mitre Tavern?

Oh, so you, oh, oh, so we just found out that he doesn't know what he's talking about.

Well, this Wikipedia claims that the name references the mitre joint.

Which it could well, right?

Well, definitely does.

Willie Wonka.

I don't, what, do you live in Australia?

Do you live in Austin?

I went there the other day.

I'm also a member of the Melbourne Club.

Oh, right.

Yeah.

And are you Charlie Chockey?

No, I don't.

I don't.

He's on the wait list.

I don't partake in such

temptations of the flesh.

I'll put him in the waiting list anyway.

Yeah.

Yeah, right.

One more about a nice.

You truck up Mita 10, Mitre Tavern.

Just put both of those things into your search.

And did you have any questions about the chocolate factory, my recent

ousting as the CEO?

Do you know about the

punch-on I got into with Tony Cockelone?

He was leaking to the press against me.

I found on channel.

You look shocked.

It looks like you've just uncovered.

I found an article.

Oh, okay, here we go.

The right name in hardware for over 50 years in Australia.

It was on 29th of June, 1959.

Nice.

That our founding fathers met in Reg Buchanan's home in Balwyn, Victoria.

The Mitre Tavern.

No, it doesn't say that.

You said it's in Melbourne.

Where they made the historic decision to form a hardware building supplier group.

Legend has it,

Willie, that the MITRE 10 name was born out of a subsequent visit to the reknown drinking premises, the Mitre Tavern.

But our founding fathers would say it comes from the carpentry term to join two pieces of timber together at a 90-degree angle.

So, you know, I'm happy to take that.

I'm happy to take that I had heard this sort of

urban legend.

What's the word?

It might be, there's a word for it, but I can't think of it.

No, no, no, no, I can't think of it.

But, you know, I'm happy to say that is a story I had heard.

And I'm happy to also own the fact that it didn't.

Because I can also see them calling it Mitre 10 because they're at the Mitre Tavern.

But why 10?

I don't know.

But I can just see, you know, think of a naming party.

You're at the meeting and it's at the Mitre Tavern and you're deciding the name.

And then like...

You're doing an interview five years later and they're like, where'd you get the name from?

And they're just sort of like,

and you just slowly start putting

the joint into it?

Were there 10 founding fathers?

And do they actually refer to themselves as the founding fathers?

Yes.

That's embarrassing.

Yes.

Yes.

Why do you both care about this, by the way?

And what are you doing?

Yes, man.

Mida 10 are our biggest competitor.

So we chocolate.

Yeah, cunts moved.

He just bought Bunnings.

He just bought the controlling share in Bunnings.

Yeah.

So we now own 52% of Bunnings.

Yeah.

What?

Yeah.

They're owned by West Farmers.

Okay.

Well, we bought 50%.

We bought 39% from West Farmers.

We did stock.

You own Coles?

No,

we bought Bunnings from West Farmers.

Wow.

So West Farmers still are, they have two seats on the board.

They own 20% of Bunnings.

Yeah.

We own 50%.

Why do you fuck around, man?

I came in when I was given this opportunity.

I wasn't going to fuck this up.

Folks, I came in like a Bob Iger.

Folks, I'm buying Pixar.

I'm buying Marvel.

You're buying Bunnings.

I'm buying Bunnings, right?

I'm not going to just fucking...

Yeah, I'm 10, right?

Yeah, I've got barely any hairs.

You do have.

You have the energy of someone who has seen their grandparents fuck every day.

Yeah, it makes you...

What did I do in that time?

I didn't want to hear that.

I didn't want to listen to that.

So what did I do?

I read business books.

I read books about business.

I got a PhD in business on my own.

And now I know what I'm doing.

You got got to understand, man.

I was hemorrhaging cash.

Cadbury, Nestle, they were fucking coming for me.

It was either die or become this.

So now, yeah, when you think Willy Wonka, right?

What's the name of our company?

Chocolate factory.

When you think chocolate factory, you probably think of a factory that makes chocolate.

Yeah.

That is

10%

of our 2% of what we do.

But there's when I think of the chocolate, I think of like magic and whimsy and oompa oompas.

And yeah, we've retained all of that.

And you were chosen because you were true of heart.

Yes.

When we moved the corporate offices, which I did vote against, but I think it was right when we moved the corporate offices to Seattle.

It's just cheaper.

It's cheaper land.

He said to me.

It's like Boeing, they moved their head office to Chicago because they bought their old offices.

Right.

Because they were like, Boeing were like.

Get your people building the plane

away from your head office because if they are near each other, then they tend to listen to each other and talk to each other.

And we don't want that.

So we moved to Seattle.

And when we moved to Seattle,

he got me to write up a five-page document about how we can keep that spirit of whimsy,

fun, magic that you described in the corporate culture of the business and throughout all of our brands.

And it was things like, look, I love the idea of a glass elevator that goes to the moon.

I love that.

But is it a health and safety issue?

And the answer is yes.

And then you remove that,

you take the money from that

and you put it into other things.

You understand?

Where does MITA 10 come into this?

They're our chief competitor.

Yeah, they're our number one competitor.

We both sell things that people like to eat.

And also we own Bunnings.

Pardon?

We also own Bunnings.

And we also own Bunnings.

Yeah.

Any other questions about the business at all?

Well, I'd like you to break down MITRE 10's 2023 brand brand campaign, this ad here, and tell me what you think of it as the major competitor.

Well, I'm the CCO.

It's people at a bar.

It's a guy putting some wood together.

Oh, yeah.

This is a fun ad.

I can see the and all the tradies are watching him from the bar across the road.

He's got a chainsaw now.

I see an ad like this, and I'm on the set.

And they're like, it's just a bit of fun.

Expert advice?

Trusted by experts.

Yeah.

Get the job done right first time at mitre 10.

so the notion here charlie chocolate and willie is that if you choose mitre 10 chocolate either call me by my full name or yeah it's charlie chocolatey charlie chocolate factory or just call me charlie chockey charlie chocolate factory the mitre 10 are saying that unless you use mitre 10 products

Tradies won't respect you.

Can I respond to that?

Please.

Yeah, so you're the chief teriyaki officer.

You know, absolutely.

There's going to be a lot of jibes and jabs

in their marketing.

I think it's telling that they're coming for the chocolate factory

in their advanced.

Probably more so Bunnings, I would say.

Well, yeah, but Bunnings is one of the chocolate factory companies.

In my mind, we saw them lose a 0.25% of the market share last quarter.

We gained a 0.3%.

So whatever they're saying doesn't reflect in the market share, in the share price.

I think Chocolate Factory is a very exciting company.

And

I look to it.

We have a very bright future ahead of us.

And

we're investing in things that are going to surprise and delight our shareholders, I believe.

In a chocolatey way or in a sort of...

No, not necessarily.

Well, I guess...

But, you know, it does all, you know, it all comes like, you know.

We own West Farmers now.

Farmers own cows.

Do you own West Farmers?

So it is complicated.

It is a complicated sort of system.

We don't own West Farmers.

We own the West Farmers Holding Group.

Okay.

Do you own Kohl's?

No.

Answer the question.

Well, we don't answer the question.

We don't own Kohl.

Do you receive a profit from, if Kohl's cuts a profit and it goes to the West Farmers Property Group, are you receiving that profit?

So the West Farmers property group is a group of groups.

Yes or no?

Was our colour

we created?

We own 45% of it.

I don't own a single share in Kohl's or in West Farmers.

But are you receiving the profit if Kohl's make a profit in Australia?

Is West Farmers Holding Group receiving the profit?

$10 for cheese, Mr.

Wonka.

$10 for tasty cheese, home brand at my local Coburg.

His job is a lot harder than you understand.

Yes, he is paid well for it.

Of Australians, day-to-day Australians who can't make ends meet,

is that money, that profit that you are making when you put in a $2 billion profit or whatever your shareholders receive, is that going in your pocket?

We have

three seats on the board of West Farmers.

There is only so much you can do.

The shareholders spoke.

We tried to get two more seats in the last vote.

The shareholders spoke.

They didn't want us.

Now, we have talked at length about innovating that space.

We want to create cost savings.

We want to fire many more workers, create cost savings in the West Farmers group.

That's not what the shareholders want.

And we want more expensive cheats.

And we're also trying to develop a nougat that lets you breathe underwater.

You know, we're doing all kinds of things.

So you take, you eat the nougat.

Why are you doing that?

Because it's whimsical and fun.

Why are you doing whimsy?

Because

this company was built of

fun,

whimsical, bizarre ideas, things that

make children smile.

That's all we want to do.

And, you know, if we're making a bit of profit on the side, then great.

If we can increase profits every year, wonderful.

If you were to go, I have a question for you.

You feel like a piece of chocolate.

How are you going to get that piece of chocolate?

I'll buy it from a chocolate shop.

You're going to go to the chocolate shop.

Are you going to buy that piece of chocolate?

Have that chocolate?

That's what I said.

I mean, we have Uber Eats now.

Would you consider Uber Eatsing chocolate?

I wouldn't.

No, I would probably, it would be an ancillary purchase, potentially.

Why wouldn't you get it on Uber Eats?

Because it's not a mate.

Well, I try to avoid Uber Eats or any of those to begin with.

Sure.

So I think what you're going to find is they've got those markups, and they're actually a very

ineffective.

Yeah, they were great disruptors.

A very ineffective company in the way that

they get one piece of food, they deliver it.

They're even doing the bulk things now.

What I'm saying is I envision a world in the next 10 years where if you want a piece of chocolate, it's going to be in your hand within one minute.

How?

You think it and it comes to you.

A combination of magic and whimsy, that is obviously a key part of our approach.

Yes.

Also, chips in the brain.

Chips in the brain.

Yes.

And a lot of migrant workers on scooters.

A lot of underpaid migrant workers on scooters.

Very underpaid.

And we have a sound magic kid.

We had a kid come to our factory, gave him a new kind of potato chip, turned his brain into a potato chip.

And he's got chips in the brain now.

So he's just all potato chips.

That's not what we wanted.

That was a mistake.

We apologize for that.

And the family's been compensated very, very well.

All right.

But if you want

interesting, if you want, you know, snozberries that taste like snossberries, kids are going to die.

Do you know what?

And I'll tell you this: the Snozberry wallpaper, this is a really great example of the way I was running the business.

When do you think the Snosberry wallpaper wallpaper became profitable?

I mentored that in 1967.

When do you think it became profitable?

1969.

No.

Guess again.

Never.

Never.

We are projected to make profit on the Snosberry wallpaper in 2027.

Okay.

2027.

How is that going to look for shareholders if I make that kind of investment again?

I can't do that.

That's not how the market works anymore.

So now we'll just do snosbury wallpaper with a fucking strawberry stuck on it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Charge 50 bucks.

For me as a consumer, it feels like the magic's gone.

Oh, no, no, no.

We still do magic.

We have a cereal bar in the office.

You can get any cereal you want for free.

Yeah.

But is there a chocolate river?

Well, we've we cut.

It's more just brown water now.

Yeah.

Just brown water.

Brown water photos.

Yeah, looks like it's.

Yeah, it's just it looks, it's more for show.

Oompalumpas.

Do I touch on the umpalumpas?

Well, there are umpalumpas.

So we've got the chocolate river, the brown water river, and a lot of people think, well, I'm not getting chocolate, but there is an umpalumpa there with a tray of small chocolate treats.

You can have a try of the chocolate.

So you're still getting that experience of the brown river and a little taste of chocolate.

But we do have a gobstopper that makes, that turns your piss into freshly squeezed orange juice.

So

do we know what we're going to do with that yet?

No, because with magic and whimsy, you've got to sometimes just find those things.

We know there is a market.

Fizzy lifting drink.

We tried that.

We tried that.

Yeah.

Didn't quite work for us.

Yeah.

You.

Why do you think it didn't work for us?

Because it dirtied up the roof in the area where...

No, no, no.

We had no issue with that.

And surprisingly, the lawyers found if people are choosing to drink the fizzy lifting drink, if you do a good enough warning, people can float away, float into fans.

It's not your fault.

Yeah.

No, the problem for us is that we have shares in Qantas and people were just floating to Sydney.

Yeah.

We found when people were taking, they were drinking the fizzy lifting drink,

the flying, the drop in

ticket sales

for airlines was so much more than we could ever make in fizzy lifting.

So we discontinued it.

Wow.

And what's more magical and whimsy than that?

Yeah.

Well,

that is food for for thought.

And look, I'd like to thank Charlie Chocolate Factory and Willie Wonka

from West Farmers for coming in today.

We're not from West Farmers.

We're not.

Please don't cut it.

No, no, no.

To discuss.

Can you cut when I said we own West Farmers?

I don't mind that.

If you could cut that.

Why?

Just.

I don't want to.

Can we.

I'm going to go.

No, I'm going to go.

I'm done.

No, this is.

No.

No.

This is an open interview, Mr.

Chocolate Factory.

That reminds me of what the Woolworths guy did.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's bad.

But don't worry, we're going to replace him tomorrow.

Well, in six months, he's still around.

Yeah, we're just going to replace him tomorrow and we can just pretend that it was all his fault.

All right.

Thanks, Willie.

Hey, thank you so much.

And I just have to say, I love this show.

I love being on this show.

And if you ever want some chocolate, give us a call.

I believe you have Linda's number.

Yeah, I'd love some free chocolate.

Yeah, just give Linda a call, send her an email, she's got FOMO.

We can send

FOMO.

He came back in the original interview as well.

Yeah, I know.

I was just saying that he can get in touch with Linda.

We can send all the chocolate.

Please, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Talk to Linda.

And if you need any joinery or anything from Sunnings.

Oh, or this episode is brought to you by Mitre 10.

Yes, our new sponsor.

Get your nails and screws

from MITRE 10.

Named after the European Beer Cafe in Melbourne, the home of all your joineries.

We're not sponsored by Mita 10.

No.

We could be that.

At the start of this, we were unsure if they still existed.

Well, at the start of this, we had no idea for what this podcast would be.

But we found that it was Willy Wonka and Charlie Chocolate Factory.

I'm so sorry.

I have to run.

Oh, he's still Willy Wonka.

I have to run.

I have a.

I'm going to

an event in the city, a fundraiser.

Fundraising for

Peter Costello.

Nice.

And we'll see you all next week for another improvised comedy episode of the Spoofin Boys.

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