The Aunty Donna Podcast Top 10 Moments of 2024 – Part 2 (5-1)

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Hello, everybody.

You asked for it, you voted, and here it is.

The very special episode of the Auntie Donna podcast.

That's right, we are counting down the top five Auntie Donna podcast moments of 2024.

Numbers five through one.

Get on it, you're gonna have a great time.

Thank you so much, and have a good one.

My name is Zach, Auntie Donna Club.

Go watch DRAM.

Go to DREM, buy tickets to Drem, our live show that we're doing this year.

Otherwise, thank you so much.

Thanks for all your kind comments about my haircut.

You're all very kind.

Otherwise, here we go.

That's my punchy little intro to top five podcasts at 2024.

You're listening to the Auntie Donna Podcast.

The greatest fucking podcast in the world.

Bro,

sometimes a guest.

We hope you enjoyed the motherfucking

I haven't got the top five.

Have you got them?

No, they're in the lock and safe.

You go to an armor guard.

Can you bring them in?

Are they on the other side?

Is it a dog guy?

But don't look.

Can you get Lindsay to bring them in?

Yeah, I think that's really funny.

Please tell me.

Please bring in a fake piece of paper.

Please tell me you didn't cut because that's so funny.

All right.

Hello, folks, and welcome to the Brownlow Medal Night of Nights for Auntie Donna.

What do we call it?

Oh, wait, well, yeah, it's not the Brownlow Medal.

What do we call it?

Top five podcast moments of 2024.

The puddies.

The

top five podcast moments.

The topcast moments of 2024.

And we've got an armed security guard bringing in those final votes.

Thank you, Lindsay.

Lindsay from Armour Guard there.

Here they are.

Put together by Price Waterhouse Cooper.

We have not seen these results.

They went straight to Price Waterhouse Cooper, and then they have been locked in a safe supplied by Armour Guard.

Lindsay brought them in now.

We We are looking over.

I'm seeing them for the first time, and I've just seen number one.

And let me say something.

Wow.

Wow.

Wow.

And just to remind you all, folks, this is how the voting works.

It was done by you.

It is only podcasts from 2024.

The umpires at the end of every game.

Sit down.

The umpires being the audience.

You are the umpires of this of the podcast.

You are the umpires of this podcast.

No, the audience is.

I would say that the Redditors think they're the umpires of the podcast.

Well, they are some of them.

And much like the Reddit community community of the AFL, they believe that they are the

orbiters.

Yes, arbiters.

Arbiters.

Not the orbiters, because that's spacemen.

And we have to do that.

Yeah, moons are orbiters.

The morn.

Reddit communities often think they're the arbiters of truth, I think, across Reddit.

Moon orbits Earth, Earth orbits Sun.

Sun orbits within the galaxy around a supermassive black hole.

Which Muse sung about to great effect.

Yeah, you can hear it on Triple M on your work day drive to work.

Or I believe in Twilight.

And then M83.

That first movie has a ripper soundtrack.

And baseball scene to boot.

I know.

Radiohead and the over-the-closing credits.

Get out of here.

Death Cab for Cutie.

Oh.

Paramore Decode.

Oh, beautiful soundtrack.

General.

Fun.

Fun, fun, fun.

Great film.

Now.

Fun film.

What was it?

What was fun film?

What a great year.

What a great year.

What a great year for podcasts.

I wouldn't know, but I know that, what was it, 2009 when Twilight came in?

Well, yeah, it was first generation of podcasts.

It was

a year for podcasts.

I know Tony Martin, a friend of this pod, you know, very famously on his Triple M show, Get This.

Get This.

Would say, Do you know we can make a comedy album a month where we clip all this up and put it out?

And people are like, Don't fucking do that.

It's stupid.

That's you ahead of his time.

Tony's so smart.

He's so smart.

He's the smartest man in the world.

I'm in love with him.

Yeah, me too.

What?

I want to kiss him.

Okay.

Oh.

If you're listening,

Tony.

Just email me.

Tony.

I know it's a kiss you.

Email me.

Tony,

I want to kill you.

I can do it before I get married.

Put that tongue in, Mark.

Can we let someone write this down?

Podcast where...

Tony responds to Mark's desire to kiss him.

Yeah.

Just a soft smooch on the lips.

Oh, if you don't know Tony Martin, Tony Martin, listener, if you're international.

Tony Martin is one of the icons of Australian comedy.

He's been on our podcast before.

He did the 3AW.

He is also responsible for entering nearly every every single New Zealand and Australian film information into the internet movie database.

There's a couple of things about the King of Comedy Tony Martin.

Now,

these are the top five that our fans voted.

Oh,

we are in the top five.

Now, last week there was a little bonus episode of some five above them.

But this is the only episode that goes to the end of the day.

This is the episode.

This is voted by the most special people in the world, people who do something that the three of us could never do, and that's listen to this podcast.

Yeah,

it's admirable.

And that's what's exciting.

It's the coolest people in town.

That's so funny.

That's really funny, right?

A lot of people ask me if I listen to comedy podcasts, and I just say to them, I'm like, that is, I do two of them.

I'm inside two

comedy podcasts.

All right, mates.

Mission Zach is much better than this.

It's much better than this podcast.

No, it's not.

No, no, no.

It's the greatest podcast ever made.

That was the tagline that I came up with as a joke and thought Mish would rewrite at some point, but didn't.

It's great.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And it's such a thrill

that you both listen to it every week.

I don't.

I do.

I don't.

I don't.

Really?

I listen to Footy every week.

Really?

Yeah.

I'll listen to the Mission Zach every week.

My favorite episode of the week is when you get Manny and talk about the news.

But I love the deep dives of the Sundays.

Money and the news.

money you took go money money i thought you said money i was like we didn't make money

here is number five

number

ten

so the fourth run around

a hint don't just say it you're gonna give us a hint so we can guess this was voted on by 19 000 people no

No, I don't have any numbers here.

I've got no idea what it is.

But

this was a classic.

And this is Zach at his best, I reckon.

This is Zach when all the chips are down.

We're cornered by the Nazis in deep in France.

I remember recording and releasing my performance in

An Actor Prepares.

Oh, I consider this better than your work in our second year university production of the adaptation of Stanislavski's An Actor Prepares.

What a wild concept for a show.

Weird thing to bring up.

Weird thing to bring up is our acting school, drama school, 2009 half-year production of the adaptation of an actor prepares by Konstantin Stanislavski.

I think it is apropos that before we introduce a segment that you believe to be Zach at his best, I do Zach at his worst with that fucked reference.

Give us a shout in the comments if you saw An Actor Prepares.

Not just.

It was a limited run at the Black Box Theatre in Ballarat.

I was there for it, and I thought Tanith Webster Otto did an incredible job.

I did a monologue about sense memory, which is an acting technique, in which I talked about seeing a monkey on the street.

And I never learnt the words to it.

I never understood what the point of the monologue was.

And I would get someone before I stepped on stage each night to tell me a made-up word and I would incorporate it into my improviser version.

Yeah,

I made it made him say scrollific.

Nice.

Nice.

And it was that kind of attention to detail and that wanting to be great.

I was 50s like e.

I was like, I've never seen a monkey so scrollific before.

And please know that I say this with the full weight of someone who has been in shows that were not in any way, shape, or form good or enjoyable.

But what an awful show.

What an awful show.

But

was it awful?

Or was it the first step of a bloke called Zach on his way to greatness, which happened in episode five?

I'd say it was a plateau somewhere in the early stages.

Sure.

But

an episode called...

What was the episode called, Lynn's?

It was called...

I've got to hear in Brackett's non-verbal episode.

I think I just came in.

The morning after the Artie Donald Rewards show in Brackett's non-verbal episode.

So I came in,

It wasn't off to a good start.

There was just some random shit going on.

And then Zach brought in a new character which became an icon.

I don't remember this one.

This character's called the Man with the Hands.

Oh, the Man with the Hands.

The Man with the Hands.

I love the Man with the Hands.

There have been songs written about the Man with the Hands.

The Man with the Hands.

Man with the Hands.

He would give you hands for a fee.

Yeah.

Hands of men.

I think dead man.

It's a shame that all my best stuff happens from like a weird turn of phrase that's 27 minutes into the podcast.

No one's ever heard Moogie happen like 40 minutes in.

Man with the hands is great, though.

Yeah, that's a great one.

So, top line, Zach is a man with hands.

He has an important meeting with Maya, who will start stocking his hands.

And I believe we called Maya Hobart.

Yeah, Zach.

That was a very good one.

Zach asked where the brunetti is.

And then we recreated

the conversation that you had with them because we were worried we were going to get in trouble from Maya.

Yeah.

And then what would have happened after the phone call?

It's a very funny event.

Proof that we could never be commercial radio people.

Yes.

You can't call up Maya Hobart and ask where the brunette is and then hang up.

Here it is.

You think these hands right now are my hands?

No, I assumed they weren't.

These are the hands of a dead man.

So you're putting on hands that aren't your hands.

Yeah.

Like you did with the mouth.

Yeah.

Are you eating hams with those hands?

Yeah, yeah.

Am I eating hams with those hands?

No, I'm a vegetarian.

Right.

When you deal with the meat of hands as much as I do, it puts you off.

And mouths.

The mouths are more of like a...

It's a side hustle.

Yeah,

they're like,

you know how the Hort Couture brands also do like, they'll do a Gucci t-shirt.

That's what the mouths are to me.

I'm not passionate about mouths.

This reminds me of the Devil Where's Prada.

She was an awful boss, but wonderful with fashion.

Yeah, what about that?

Or fashion.

So, my question is: are you going to buy any more hands or can I make sure I'm nice and early to this Maya meeting?

It's the role she's most commonly remembered for, I would say.

They've offered to put me near the Brunetti.

Right.

Yeah, there's a little Brunetti in Maya.

I know the Brunettian Maya's, yes, in the middle of the day.

I think, no.

No, I think, I don't know what it is.

If I was to hazard a guess, I would say level two.

Level two or three.

Of Maya.

They're just going to do like a glass case of hands, I guess.

Right.

Well.

Dacor, I think, is where they're going to put it.

Right.

That's always been the problem.

You've got to think of a snappy name for your hands.

The man with the hands.

What about

talk to the hand?

Ah, you and your talk to the hand.

Oh, what are you doing?

Where's the Maya?

A brunetti.

Don't fuck this up for me.

I don't think he's actually speaking to Maya.

Maya Hobart.

No, no, no, not department or products category.

Then you ask us.

Just go with it.

Go with it.

Hello?

Which of these departments would you like?

Just go with it.

Maya Brunetta Brunetti.

Brunettes.

I didn't get that.

Please say one of these.

Accessories.

Beauty.

Children's wear accessories like hands.

Accessories and hands.

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Hopefully, this ask about the Brunettis.

Yeah.

Ask about the hands.

I will.

Maybe take it off loudspeaker and just take the call.

So that

what's that?

Just so it's not someone being on a podcast that they

maybe just,

yeah,

how do I do it?

Hi, I'm the man with the hands.

I'm the man with the hands.

Where's the brunetti?

I'm the man with the hands.

Where's the brunetti?

Hey, Mish, say hey Mish.

I didn't put my phone in private.

I don't think you can get in trouble for ringing up Maya and saying I'm demanding hands.

I don't think you can get in trouble for that.

I really don't think you can.

And the amount of trouble that you can get in for that, I think, is minimal.

So I wouldn't be worried.

I definitely wouldn't be worried if I was you, Zach.

I'd be a little worried if I was you because it was your phone, but not to the extent that I I can see in your eyes.

I didn't say anything about like dead hands or hands in a box.

I just said I'm the man with the hands.

Which he's

fair.

To be fair, he is.

And then I said, where's the Brunetti?

Which is a fair question because there is one in Maya.

So we've done nothing illegal.

And nothing wrong.

I'm a man with hands.

I wanted to know where the Brunetti is.

She was...

Pissed.

There is nothing wrong with that.

I think I'm going to go to jail.

You're not going to go to jail, Broden.

I don't want to go to jail.

And if you do, the bail will be small and haven't, you know, well, productions will cover it.

But then, like, what about my court trial?

You won't have to go to court, man.

It will settle out of court.

You'll settle out of court.

I'm so sorry.

I just.

Should we call back and apologize?

No, I don't think so.

There have been no repercussions thus far.

All right?

So I can't imagine

that there will be any from here on.

If they haven't called back immediately, if that was me and I was looking to get the person that called me in trouble, I'd call back immediately.

I'd say, what do you mean you're the man with the hands?

And I'd demand to know who I was speaking to.

Because everyone has hands.

Now, what you should have.

Well, not everyone, but most people have hands.

There's nothing wrong with being a man with hands.

Yeah, she doesn't know that.

It's like 50% of the population, just under.

They didn't know they were in a box.

She doesn't know that.

She doesn't know.

I was talking about a box of dead man's hands.

Now, if I said hi, I got a box of dead man's hands.

Where's that for an eye?

That's a little bit scary.

I'm just a man with the hands.

Most men have hands.

I think you played it cool.

I think you played it cool.

And there it was.

Very good.

Number three, runner-up, number four.

Number three, number four, third runner-up, number ten.

Number ten.

What number is it?

Number three.

Number four.

It's an episode that's already featured, but a separate section of that.

Wow.

Holy fucking shit.

This is great.

This is good.

No, can I just say what?

This is an old episode.

Before you mention it, before you mention it, I just saw there's a video outside our window playing footage.

Playing footage from...

Because Listener is a part of the SCA network.

And there was footage of Carrie Bickmall

and fucking Tommy Little.

That fucking Tommy Little.

With a microphone recording live on a fucking boat.

What?

Have you seen this?

Dogs.

Well, we're going to have to fucking figure that out, aren't we?

We're going to have to dig into that.

Sorry, listeners.

We're going to take this offline.

But also, we're not going to go back at them in like a fun rivalry kind of way.

It's not going to be like, oh, we're enemies.

I'm just going to fucking soothe them.

We're going to suit.

I'm going to talk to our higher-ups.

You'll You'll not hear about it on the podcast.

No, no, no, no.

This is done here.

We're going to talk to our higher-ups at listeners.

And say, can you talk to someone over at the radio division?

How did this happen?

Was there...

They can't just fucking do that.

The first thing, the only thing you might hear from here is if you listen to that show, you might hear an apology from them that they've legally been mandated to say because we've

sued the shit out of them.

And can I just say to the listener, if you want to help us with this and dox them, do not because that can get in the way of the legal process.

Yes.

If you are commenting or attacking them, that will get in the way of our legal process.

You need to leave this.

Let this go.

We have to do this through the proper rules.

And please refrain from saying Luigi Mangioni is innocent until proven guilty.

Absolutely.

He doesn't get proven guilty between now and like a couple of weeks from now.

Well, then, yeah, this guy's on.

He's Italian.

He'll be fine.

Yeah.

I I don't know what that means.

I don't know what that means.

But the episode four

is guess what's back, Detector Inspector.

Really?

Really,

really.

Zach and Mark are trying to record a podcast telling stories from the road.

So we come back from the tour and we're doing stories and it didn't work.

They're interrupted by a series of detector inspectors who have come to test their smoke.

So it's the start of the episode.

The start of the episode.

When Gene, Warren, and Darren.

It's 4 a.m.

Hey, if you're a listener,

if you're a listener and you had this experience of lots of detector inspectors last last year, let us know in the new Spotify comment section.

We want to hear from you in that Spotify comment section.

I wonder what that's like.

I haven't been there.

I haven't ventured into there.

I wonder.

Do we use that, Lindsay?

Do we use the comment section in?

I mean, it's available, right?

Like, I don't think it's a feature you can turn off unless it is.

Yeah, I think it's available.

I think it's just...

Do we use it?

I'm going to go on our thread right now.

I'm going to have a look there.

Yeah, I just thought it'd be funny funny to be like to to imply which didn't happen that we there's comments there's 24 comments wow under the 3 aw special eight wow

oh here they yeah oh don't worry don't worry about it oh no good oh no good

oh no good just let it go man just let it go badge

bad it's all good it's all good oh my god bad stuff oh it's it's fine

oh you don't need to oh jesus bad stuff we move on You want to move on?

What are they saying?

What are they saying in the comments?

I'd rather.

I'd rather leave this.

Mark, trust me, you don't want to see this.

Why?

You do not want to see this, Mark.

Why?

Just trust me.

Is it about me?

It's a good amount of comments.

Like, people are commenting in that section.

I'm not looking at it.

Oh, these are lovely.

And I just want to be very clear.

I'm not looking at the comments.

I didn't want you to get a big head.

One says perfection.

Yeah, i thought i didn't want you to get a big head

oh i see oh i scrolled down a little oh what is it

oh what is oh jesus christ you know you know what i can zach don't don't

i can't i don't have internet access in this podcast studio do you know what i the journey

jesus christ you know the journey of this joke mark that is unkind we do this right yeah

and then someone like sees this in January and then they start commenting like intense shit and then we read it and then we we go, you're a fucking arsehole.

You're a fucking dickhead.

Don't do that because

we forget that we make jokes like that and then we just read nasty stuff.

We just read that as nasty stuff.

Never repeat a nasty thing we've said about ourselves because we forgot we did it.

Yeah, so like I'll make a character called No Dick Jim.

Yeah.

And then you're like, you got no dick.

And I'm like, you fucking cunt.

Yeah, yeah.

Don't call me a dumb cunt clutching at straws.

That's my, that's for, I said that about me.

That's me.

But you forgot that.

But I will have forgotten that I've said that.

So

please don't.

And here's the Tetra Inspector.

That's my sincere piece for the podcast.

Please don't.

Also, people like...

Please, please don't.

And people might be scrolling through podcasts, go, oh, what's this?

Top five?

Great way to be introduced to a rather inaccessible podcast.

What's this in the comments?

Nasty stuff?

I think every comment on Spotify, every single comment, or at least 70% of the comments should be this exact phrase.

Wow.

These guys are really funny.

There are a few in-jokes, and it's obviously improvisational, so you do have to spend a bit of time with the podcast.

But after listening to two or three episodes, it really can't be beaten for comedy, sincerity, and hilarity.

If that was the only comment under everything we ever did, at least 60% of the comments, I would be so.

And it'd be funny.

That'd be a funny bit that we, you as a community to listen, can get behind.

I just don't think it will ever happen.

And it would be hilarious if you gave us

five stars wherever you listen to your podcast.

That'd be a good bit.

And it'll be hilarious to listen right now to Detector Inspector.

Even to go to Detector Inspector.

Where are you?

We're at the front of Mark and Zach's.

I can be there in 10 minutes.

Rhino.

Wax drop down from Marumbala.

We just ticked over.

We just ticked over.

We got to do it all with the app now.

Yeah, it's all over.

We just ticked ticked over 415 so we've got to do 430 now can we i got 433 i would love to uh who's listening this is mark oh i'm yeah

we're out in the front i know yeah well you just come in now no i can't do that right no you gotta you gotta do a whole we're doing tours through the app now well you gotta do you gotta fill in you gotta fill in a form first so you if you go through the portal the portal there's a portal you go in there and you give out address you know covered certificate Uh-huh.

Then I come in.

And that goes through Susie, right?

She's in the office.

There's also the inspector detectors on her ass.

So

she's in the office, right?

Yeah.

She's in charge of the apps and everything.

She's a young un and she does all the apps and whatnot.

Right.

Got to go through her.

So I used to, we used to just do it.

Remember when it was just paper?

Yeah,

yeah, yeah, yeah.

Or dashboard.

Yeah, you know, and the walkie-talkie.

Passenger seat dashboard, that's a perfectly fine desk, you know?

Yeah.

You understand that?

You know, no.

kind of, I'm gonna be honest, I kind of just blanked out in the middle of that.

Start again then.

So you probably got uh, you probably got a desk in your study.

I do have a desk.

I'm gonna concentrate this time.

Yeah, I do have a desk.

Podcasts and stuff through there.

Well, we were doing a podcast.

My friend Zach and I,

my lover and friend, were doing a podcast this morning about stories from the road.

We went on.

At 4 a.m.

You were doing that.

You and I were at 4 a.m.

Well, you know, we're night owls, which like if you were to talk to Demi Lardin, I would tell you it was just a regular owl.

No, because it's the morning here for us.

I was up at two.

I go to bed, so I'll do my day.

I'll come down from three hours.

I'll start my day

around four if there's any extra work.

They only book them in at six.

I don't sleep much anymore.

A piece of toast for dinner, that's all I need.

And I'll wrap up.

I'll wrap up around midday.

I'll try and get many, many, many, many houses in I can before I have my hot dog at six.

Yeah, and then I get I get so I do me full day by about midday 1 p.m.

The young fellas I'll go to the gym then they'll do because they're they're doing the gym and everything there and oh yeah they'll go and lift and then bloody they'll bloody go in there and lift and carry on and then I go I don't need that cooked yeah you know the young fellas I'll go down to the gym and I go oh no don't bug that so I'll just go down you know I'll get home I'll try maybe I'll do a bit of a I don't know

he was going yeah I get home to the mission about 6 p.m.

Nice.

You started

at 2 a.m.

Wake up at 2 a.m.

And then he's done by 6 p.m.

No, I'm done but

done by 12.

And then he did something in between those hours.

Jove around, you know, that sort of thing.

And then I'm

just drive around.

Yeah, drive around, you know, go

for six hours?

Chuck in 20 at the pogies.

That's for sure.

Maybe I'll have a couple of beers, you know, get a couple of tennis and drink them in the car.

Yeah.

And then I'll be home by about six.

In the car.

And she'll, you know, and she'll have some dinner ready for me because she's she finishes around three.

She works in

a teacher.

No, she works in she's a mental health nurse.

And then I'll get to get to bed about six thirty.

Yeah.

Up by two.

Okay.

My hands.

They've touched that many smoke detectors, mate.

Getting a little battery acid, you know.

Yeah, that's right.

Well, guys,

can I come in?

Yeah, it's 4.15.

Well

who is it?

One second, I got to get off the phone.

Who is it?

Warren.

Hello.

Hello?

Wanganine.

A detective inspector.

Oh, of course, the detective inspector.

Let me just open the front door, but not the security door.

Hello.

Hello?

It's me, Wanganine, from the phone.

Oh, we were just talking on the phone, Warren and Wanganen.

We got Darney.

He's now he's going to detect the inspect the us.

Yes.

We're going to detect your smoke, dick.

Danny with you, got him.

It's just sort of formality.

You've caught me at a bad time.

I'm in the middle of doing stories from the

tours from the road.

Good on you, Mike.

Our audio.

What do you do for a job?

I'm, you know, I'm sort of like

a freelance

rider.

Are you more Or like comedian or something.

I used to do a bit of riding back in the day, but the horses are just too expensive to maintain.

No, you're thinking riding.

Yeah, I had a horse.

I was bought in with a couple of mates.

We had about 400 bucks each.

This is when I was married.

And you'd go and see it up at Randwick or you'd see it doing the rural horse racing.

Werribee, ever make it to Werribee?

There was a mate out there, yeah.

My one was my daughter's, right?

She wanted a horse from, oh, geez,

seven years old.

She watched that

saddle girl.

Saddle Club.

Saddle Club, yeah.

She always wanted a horse, and we got her one, and she would go out on the Saturdays and the Sundays and go for a ride.

Yeah, right.

It was good because that was near the gun range, so I'd go shoot some targets, shoot some clay.

Yeah, nice.

All right.

I mean, do you want to come in?

Five minutes.

Absolutely.

You want me shoes?

Air with shoes?

Yeah, take the shoes off if you could.

You mind if I'd do a poo?

No, that's fine.

There's only one toilet.

Detector inspectors.

I know.

Why you do that?

I'm going to do a quick poo because I can't.

I don't have a, you know, I've got to.

This is my work, you know.

Yeah.

So I'm going to do a quick poo and then I'll come inspect a detector.

All right, here I go.

Beep.

Yeah, that's good.

All right here.

I'm done with me poo.

Let me have things.

We are going to change it back.

Sorry, boys, I missed it.

I missed it.

Can you do it again?

I'm booked up now.

Oh, fuck all right we're gonna have to come back all right when are you free mark um

and we're back and we're back okay mark you were gonna say something I was gonna say even if you go on to a Google Maps and like Google reviews go to the triple M studio and leave five-star reviews for the Auntie Donna podcast

like that it'd be sick yeah I reckon that'd just be funny love this building it's where they make the Auntie Donna podcast which is my yeah my favourite

for for comedy for sincerity they should be paid what Fifi Fev and Nick are getting on Fox each anywhere they like combine what they're getting paid and pay them each

a Fifi Fev and Nick or just the FIFI fee I'd be okay with the fee fee fee I'd be stoked I'd be stoked with the fee fee fee split three ways yeah oh my god yeah can I can I just say if you're listening um I also think it would be really funny I want me that one-third of that fee-fee fee I'm so sorry no no that's fine I think it'd be really funny as well because I just realized that that's where we record the podcast one place

but people listen to the podcast in many places a couple of places uh so i think if you want to jump on the google reviews and review like things like um uh ate my breakfast here while listening to the auntie donner podcast uh the staff were very understanding with me keeling over in laughter

you just reminded me of positive reviews of places but mentioning that you were listening to the auntie donner podcast i think that'd be cool it just put into my head that people where people listen to this podcast, I never really thought about that.

And I thought about it when I was in Tokyo.

There was a jazz bar that I went to, which was the size of

a fucking cupboard.

You walk in, not allowed to talk in there.

He's playing out of speakers that you face, a jazz album.

He just points to the menu and says, what do you want off that?

No, no talking.

Do you think somewhere in Japan there's an Arnidon podcast bar where you're going, not allowed to talk?

And he just plays.

No.

I doubt it.

I'd be pretty confident that.

I know they've

niche stuff.

Whatever you're into, you can get in his pants.

Not that.

I think they're referring more to like the, you know,

not smelling the underwear underwear.

Can I just say,

can I just say,

I'm really big on this idea of Google reviews where you do a positive review for the place, no negative reviews.

No.

Positive review for the place and talk about either listening to the podcast or buying tickets to our new live show Drem

or both

in positive reviews of the place and try, try to make the review good so that they like give it a bug.

You can become a super reviewer.

Absolutely.

I'd love to drill down and getting a third of the fee fee fee because

that would change up a lot.

Change my lifetime.

Change my fucking lifetime.

I would say just hold back.

Chill out.

We'll have a conversation about

this Tommy Little on a boat thing.

Yeah.

And maybe they can make things go away by a third of the FIFI fee.

Because I would take if they gave us, if they misunderstood and gave us a third of the FIFI fee, and then we divided.

One third of a third of the FIFA fee.

So we each got a ninth of the FIFI fee?

That would change my fucking life.

I think.

I don't know if I'm going to be able to do that.

I'm not exactly sure at that point.

But I think a ninth of the FIFI fee would still be a good thing.

It'd be a nice fucking chunk of change.

Who are you calling?

Calling Nick Cody from FIFA Nick.

Wow.

Just see if we can start the ball rolling.

Let him know you're on the podcast.

He's on the podcast.

Yeah, of course.

No, I would never.

I wouldn't want to.

Broden Kelly.

Cody, you're on the Andy Donna podcast.

How are you, mate?

Gello, Legends.

I've just come back from Thailand.

Hell yeah.

Hell yeah.

Dilly Gash.

Hell yeah.

Now, we were just talking about...

We were just figuring out if, like,

if we were...

Oh, yeah.

So, Tommy Little, we're going to sue Tommy Little because he was on a boat.

He was on a boat with Carrie Bickmore.

But

we're the the boat guys.

Because

we're the boat guys.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

But then, secondly,

how would we go about getting the FIFI fee for us and split into three?

Like, how would you...

How would we go about getting the FIFI fee?

Not to three.

Can we split

it?

Split this to three.

Nick, Nick.

Hold on, the FIFI fee split to three.

So FIFI's fee for FIFI Fev and Nick on your drive to work in the morning's breakfast.

We were saying, Nick, that if we got a...

I don't know what her fee is, but I know she drives a Range Rover and I ride a pushbike in.

It might be different.

That's what we're getting at.

But if we're not.

We're not asking for the Nick Cody fee.

No,

I wouldn't say no to the Cody City City.

No,

I wouldn't say no to the Cody fee, but I need a full Cody fee.

I'm telling you, say no to the Nick Cody fee.

Look into the fee-fee fee.

Where would I start with a third of the fee-fee fee?

Probably with fee.

Okay.

Okay.

But, Nick,

do you think we would be happy and set up for life

if each of us had a third of the FIFI fee?

Mate,

I don't see Fee doing other job.

Yeah, that's the one.

She's not on the project panel, cracking jokes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Or she is sometimes.

She's not doing stand-up and doing stuff with the UFC and the pro figure.

She's not on Arnie Donna's podcast

a few hours after returning from a holiday.

I don't know what this fee is, but

if it's a bit of fee, fee speech, that'd be great.

Great.

Well, I've got some exciting news for you as well, Nick.

Wet Hogs from Come Here.

Wet Hog is the third episode on the Auntie Donna Best of.

Excellent.

As it should be.

All right.

Hey,

Nick, Kopkun Krap.

And I hope you had a great trip and have a great break.

Bye.

Bye, Nick.

Wow.

Beautiful man.

I want to kiss him.

Wet hogs.

What?

Oh, I'd love to kiss him.

You want to kill

me?

You're going to get the kissing disease.

What is that?

What's that?

Meninger croup.

Meninja cockle.

Croup.

Is it meninjococcal?

Meninja.

The kissing disease.

Croup?

Herpes?

Herpes is one.

I mean, that's one.

Type one.

And in rare occurrences, type two.

Diabetes.

I think type two is for the it is, but in rare occurrences, it can jump.

Wow.

Wet.

Wow.

Hogs.

Here's number three.

Number 10.

Wet hogs from come here, wet hog.

We will do something with that one day, I promise.

Meltman is back.

A table read of the Meltman movie.

Wonderful.

Meltman reveals his close relationship with one of his hogs, Gooboo Luboo.

This is great.

This is one of the best.

This is one of the best.

One of the best.

Self-explanatory, I believe.

I think if we were to ever do a fake table read again, I would write some real

big print.

Hard to improvise big print.

I learned that day.

You can improvise character.

Hard to improvise big print.

I would love one day to

turn that into some sort of

short film or

a feature film.

I really believe in Meltman.

If we make it into a movie and it costs us fucking $10 million to make and no one goes and sees it, can it still end with, you mean there's more?

Dun, dun, dun.

Yes.

Meltman will return with the full knowledge to never

return.

We've already did that with Tony Medal.

With everything we've ever done.

Yeah, we love it.

We love AR.

We love.

I almost, as soon as I put a cliffhanger in something, I hope it adds a little bit of hope that we won't get more because I love an unresolved cliffhanger.

These are the podium ones, and please enjoy your bronze medalist.

Wow.

In a year of Summer Olympics, here enjoy wet hogs from come here, wet hog.

Oh, this is number three, second runner-up.

Yeah, yeah, wow.

The husband is feverishly drying his hogs when he notices one last wet hog, but his arms are tired and weak.

Gooboo Lubu, the wettest of my pigs, the moistest of the swine.

You are a liquidy boy, Gooboo Lubu,

pig of mine eye.

I wish I could kiss you, I do, but the laws forbid it.

The laws forbid a man and a pig wedding because of the pig freak men that result from it.

And your titties are large and full of pig milk,

which is wet.

And if I get that pig milk on you, goodness knows what will happen.

Everyone's saying the meltman will come, but meltman doesn't exist.

I feel like I can talk to you, goo boo.

I feel like I can say things to you I can't say to my wife.

I can talk about the things I wish I could put up my ass.

I feel like, you know, just small things,

things that'll come out again.

Tiny rocks.

It's like an OCD thing.

Gooboo, Lubu.

Yes, you are wet.

Yes, you are.

All the synonyms of wet.

Damp,

you know, moist,

searching,

liquidy.

But I like you, wet.

They want me to dry you.

The sundown man, in particular, he comes, he stands a couple meters away, speaks as if he's yelling from a great distance.

But you, goo-boo, not you, you just hoff and hog and roll around in filth and

just get all get all wet.

Come have a shower with me.

Come have a shower with me under the moonlight.

Let's get...

Fuck it.

Fuck the world.

Fuck God and all his commandments.

Exterior.

Come farm.

No.

Husband and Goo Boo are having a shower.

Husband is down nude.

He has a shower with goo boo.

It's not sexual.

He just washes goo boo like a child.

Soap up, you swiny hog.

Soap up and get wet and clean and eat your own shit.

God, I wish we could wed.

Not for any sexual reasons,

it's because I feel like you understand me.

I'm wet, you're wet, the sun is dry, the moon is wet.

A wet moon.

Let's boil some sausages.

Come inside, have tea with me.

The wife is asleep, and

I know how much you love a wet sack of meat.

So come,

wet hog,

Come with me inside.

Interior.

Cottage hut.

Night.

The wet hog stands before the sleeping wife and virgin daughter and baby.

Licking his lips, ready for a meal.

Husband is preparing some boiled sausages by a fire.

Gooboo Lubu, we will have many sons.

We will have ten boys and eight girls.

Let me list their names.

Shubu Mugu,

Timothy the wise,

Lippy Lubdubs.

The wife wakes.

Jeremy Iron.

The wife wakes and sits up.

Sorry, I must have a different

draft of the screenplay because I've got ten more names I list before.

Oh, I'm so sorry.

No, no, this is right.

This is right.

The wife wakes, sits up.

He doesn't notice and continues to list names.

Timothy Sharamu

Grifty the wise

Shablob Dibbleb

Ding Dong the brave.

Oh, you are too dry for my liking, Gooboo.

Come with me to the tub.

To the tub.

I need to boil the water

for a bath.

Get it lukewarm

fetch me a ale from the ice box goo boo I've trained my pig

I've trained this pig

to be dry but also wet

I must rest the day has been large and long and the summers are

you know quite warm and I'm tired and this pig is wet and

I wish to rest now.

And there there it was.

Wow.

Amazing.

Beautiful.

Good one.

Hard to think of what would be 201 if I had to have guessed.

Ubu Luboo?

Lubu Boo?

Luboo.

Gooboo.

Goo Lubu.

Gooboo Luboo.

If I had to have guessed, Gooboo Luboo would have been my guess for number one.

Well, and if I can say something sincere right now,

you boys,

Mark, you might be short of stature, but you are tall in your heart.

And Broden.

I'm average height.

Broden, you may.

Yeah, people don't know that about us.

People always go to me, oh, you're tall.

And then I see the clock

click and they go, oh, Mark's not 4'11.

Mark, you were offered a college scholarship to play for Duke

because you're a...

a tall busker.

Mark's seven foot tall and me and Broden are eight nine each.

Yeah, we both have walking sticks to walk.

Yeah, we're like,

we're Guinness World Record holders.

No, I'm short, but I am the tallest in my family.

No, you are quite normal height.

Yeah.

And like I said, people go, I get this.

Oh, you're taller than I thought.

And then I go, huh?

Huh?

Yeah.

How small did you think Buck was?

If you thought I was 5'5

and Broden, something sincere to you, that blue is doing wonders for you.

Is this sincere or is it even the

rhymes?

I don't think it can be sincere.

Blue is doing wonders for you.

Yeah, I really like your shirt.

And broadly, I think you've been very well dressed the last year or so.

I think you've matured into a fine man.

You're moving into sincerity with great aplomb and ease.

Yeah, thank you, thank you, thank you.

And number two, silver medalist, first runner-up, runner-up.

Runner-up.

Runner-up, the runner-up.

Runner-up.

Let's talk about what's something we spent the majority of the year doing.

Do we need to do the

like the music?

Yeah.

Number 10.

Number two.

Number two.

And some da-intense, like, da-da-da-da, music.

I have no idea.

I have no idea.

What did we spend most of the year doing?

Hint?

Tom.

Tom's panicking.

Tom's stuff.

Tom's stuff.

But I don't know.

But what are we talking about with the podcast?

What?

We were doing Tom's stuff for most of the year, but that was private.

We don't talk about that on the show.

Oh, Tom's stuff is

what we call.

Anyway,

now, when Tom came on the podcast, we redid theme.

He never came on the podcast.

Yes.

Oh, but

he never came on the podcast.

I was genuinely confused for a bit.

He never came on the podcast.

Oh, yeah, no, yeah.

He never came.

He never squirted.

When we were doing Tom's stuff.

Jesus.

Jesus.

What?

He never had a squeeze.

Can I guess?

Yeah.

Which particular one?

When Tom

first

when Tom...

I don't know if this has anything to do with Tom, but

when

they first started improvising Uptown Funk as a warm-up.

Who?

Like the band for Bruno Mars.

What the fuck are you talking about?

So Bruno Mars,

the song, the early versions of the song before Mark Ronson got involved, the early versions of it was a riff they would do.

What has that got to do with Tom coming on the podcast?

My guess is that maybe the episode we did about that.

We didn't do that.

I'm thinking of a different podcast that breaks down the creation of songs that I listened to.

Song Exploder or something?

No, it's similar to Song Exploder.

It's a different podcast.

And that would not make sense for them to be on this list.

If you're just joining us this year,

a large portion of the year,

we brought Tom in and said, we'll do an episode, A Singular episode, about Tom making a new theme song.

Tom being our music guy.

Sure.

It took up 51 of the podcasts for the year.

I had forgotten that it was such an epic adventure.

This one

is part of the series from theme song part one, two, and three.

It must be

the top two must have to do with this.

Yeah, that's right.

That's what I'm saying.

Also, both two are.

No, I'm saying this is the runner-up.

Yes.

And I'm saying the winner must also have to do with this because I feel like now I know what the winner might be, unless it's this.

And if what I'm thinking is the runner-up, then I'm surely confused as to what the winner could have been called.

Shook to the core.

This is Chicken in a Bag.

Oh, yeah.

From New Theme Song.

Two, three.

Started the year trying to write a new theme song with Tom.

Chicken in a Bag was one of the options.

Worked on it over multiple episodes, and here is a little clip from it at number two.

Yeah, no, I think this one's gone a little.

I think you're

I think you've approached this one like milk.

It's gone a bit past your head

past your head uh over your head pastured pasture

i i i gotta stop pretending to not get his so that i can just say that i don't like yours

pasture past third third song

i need to hear it

like his voice purer like milk just no vo just give it to me if you want a little chicken you gotta put it in the freezer talky bit this is the talky bit

it in the freezer.

Loud.

Put it in the freezer.

Yum, yum, yum.

The last two days easy.

This freezer.

Last three days.

In the fridge.

Put it in the fridge.

It's good.

Sling chicken now.

I need to hear it pure, Mark, so I'm just going to listen.

What's the next one?

I really like that.

That's top of the list.

How long have we gone?

You just hit 30 minutes.

Wow.

So we've got two more.

Three more.

Three more.

Give us a minute to work on them.

Give us your feedback on.

And luckily, we're not banking them.

So we're doing this.

You give on these two.

We will take into the next episode.

We will bring it in.

We're going to listen to that feedback.

We're going to consult it.

We're going to hear another three.

Get your feedback again.

And then with your feedback as fans,

we're going to make this.

All of us together, we are going to make this intro.

And I would also like to apologize unequivocally for banking them.

No podcast banks.

There isn't a podcast on earth.

Every guest.

podcast we've ever done when we've gone on someone else's podcast like it's come out that way well like like the next minute yeah where we're done we finish recording and then it's out to the public because most podcasts operate that way so on behalf of everyone at auntie donna we will never bank again and we we aren't.

Can I just ask quickly,

before we go to the next episode, can everyone bring back their Nerf gun?

Can you bring the DVDs back next week?

I'll make sure I bring this incredible but true Space book.

Just, and if you could all wear the same outfits, I would really appreciate it for continuity.

See you next week for the part two.

Oh, we're going out with it.

Freeze your chicken when it's in the fridge.

Get your chicken, freeze.

Freeze your chicken.

You can stay for three months in the freezer.

If you're looking after chicken, it doesn't go bad.

Wait till frozen lets his guard down and then you can poach it from the ice man.

Alright, so yeah, week one is this.

Week one is week one is this.

Hey everyone, welcome to the Auntie Gonner podcast.

On away, no chicken in the bag.

Chicken in a bag.

Chicken, double dam, double dam, double dam.

Stop, start again.

And the lyrics are chicken in a bag, frozen chicken in a bag.

And that's all we get, all right?

Yeah.

Chicken in a bag,

frozen chicken in a bag.

Hey everyone, welcome to the Auntie Donna podcast.

This week, Frogman goes on an adventure with Pizzaman into the world of unknown, or maybe it's Italy.

Why don't we go and find out right now in a second when it happens because it's going to be cool.

Wait for that.

And I love Auntie Donna so much, and you're going to have the best time.

Let's check in with the boys right now.

Chicken in a bag.

Frozen chicken in a bag.

So that's week one.

And then by week two, let's do it.

It's this.

Chicken in a bag.

Frozen chicken in a bag.

Chicken in a bag

Frozen chicken in a bag

Hello, it's me from me.

Oh, you see me

Great.

Well, why are we putting it to a vote?

I don't know

Just keeping in the lazy ineptitude.

Why are we putting it to a vote?

Yeah, and I think we recorded the vocals.

Because I literally did everything.

We are the opening piece.

Well, thanks for going on this journey with us, everyone.

We hope you enjoy the new Archie Donna theme tune.

Join us next week.

That'll be the new theme tune.

Great.

Hit it, Tom.

Tom, where did we...

Last time we had five demos.

We hit it.

Last time we had five demos and hit it.

What am I hitting?

Make some music.

See, what happened was we landed on the rock tune last time and that's what the bag was.

So do we want to change, go for a different tune or do you want to stick it?

Let's play that and we'll sing the lyrics.

Okay.

Because I think we got over doing the intro after a week as we said we would.

Yeah, we did.

We got too bored and hit it.

Hello, welcome to the podcast.

This week it's Michelle Frazier.

Not this week.

No.

I don't think we should argue in this bit.

I think we should actually just figure out what we're going to say and then just have someone say it.

Unless this is a good vibe.

No, this is terrible.

Is it?

Yeah.

Well, I mean the podcast is funny though.

I think it's going to be chicken in a bag.

Frozen chicken in a bag.

Chicken in a bag.

This is good.

Frozen chicken in a bag.

I think it's great.

It's pretty good.

So that's a song about when you bulk buy chicken and then you put individual chickens into the Ziploc bag.

And remember to put the date on it.

Oh, I don't, yeah, I don't date my meat, and I should.

You should.

You really should because you'll regret it in like however many months later.

But the thing is, is that

the song doesn't quite resonate for me anymore because over the holiday period I did this with ribs.

So would you like to make it ribs in a bag?

Either that or make it about the podcast.

Wow, good clip.

I remember

I was trying to bulk by chicken at the time and freeze it.

What's that got to do with chicken in a bag?

Well, because that was in my brain.

Freezing chicken and putting it in a bag.

Oh, I see.

Sorry, sorry about that.

Sorry.

That's how it's relevant.

Wow.

Only five more to go and we'll know number one.

I have no idea.

I have no idea.

I would have thought chicken in a bag would have been number one.

Now I have no idea.

Well,

that's really interesting.

Lindsay, to put you on the spot, do we have some notable mentions?

From other ones that

let me I can leave you for a moment to think about that.

I'd like to first say thank you all for coming to the award ceremony for what is number one of 2024.

I believe my favorite year of pods.

Yeah.

I've really enjoyed it all year.

And thank you for being on the journey with me, Zach.

And thank you, Mark, for doing it with me.

So thank you for

kind of just putting Zach and I as secondary kind of members of the podcast.

I don't think I did that.

I think I was just...

Thank you for doing it with me.

Thank you for doing it with me.

I misinterpreted.

And for coming on my show.

Thank you for doing it.

The best year.

Well, there it is again.

There it is.

And the last year of the podcast was

this is...

No, it's yours.

Yeah, I'll give it.

No, no, no, I don't want it.

No, no, no, no, no.

I don't want this.

I'm on.

Don't put this on me.

He's along with the ride.

Don't fucking put this on me.

It's Lindsay's more than anyway, really.

No, I wouldn't blame Lindsay for this.

It's Lindsay's fault.

Lindsay's done a lot of great work to, you know, have us know what we're talking about.

Picture us in tuxedos right now.

That's not what we're wearing.

No, no, no, no.

Are you ripping apart a nerf bullet?

Yeah.

Well, that's outrageous.

I know, I'm sorry.

What are you, fucking Luigi Mangioni, riding all over a bullet?

Roden, you are dating this podcast.

Well,

he's an Italian icon.

I am seeing the evergreen quality of this podcast slipping away.

Well, Luigi Mangioni, the

on crime on trial for shooting the CEO.

Now,

you're in a suit.

You're in a suit.

I'm in a suit.

I'm not going to lie to our audience.

We're in a suit with Carrie and Tommy, though.

Oh, you were in a lawsuit with Carrie and Tommy.

What a great year.

Any last words?

I can't wait to find out who the winner is, and I am going to have a guess after a hint.

And I will not have that right taken from me.

That's fair.

As Luigi's day in court is also, he will have that right.

Lindsay, and Mark, do you have any last thoughts?

No.

For the MyPod?

No.

Try getting a jury that'll convict that man.

Lindsay, any of the sort of notable mentions?

Notable mentions.

Big Linoleum from when you went to Paris.

Big Linoleum went to Paris.

When you sung Man on the Moon.

Man on the Moon.

Man on the Moon.

Mr.

Sexy.

Mr.

Sexy.

He didn't get a Goonzie this year, but Mr.

Sexy will be back next year.

City Gym.

Checking Charlie.

These are great characters.

City Jim was when Maddie came on.

KFC.

Oh, KFC.

A sponsored pod goddess.

Yeah, that's great.

And that was great.

That one was good.

Maddie was great.

We should have been a good one.

Big Thick Mark.

Big Thick Mark, Greg Larson.

And you, Mark, rapping as a dog in Gardening Restoration.

Well, that I don't remember at all.

The fact that Gardening Restoration had both something in the top 10 and a runner-up is why.

With Vaughan Monk.

Because

that was a tough 40 minutes in your life.

All right.

All right.

All right.

All right.

Wow.

Number one, are we ready for this?

You ready, Lins?

Are you ready, Mark?

The zeroth runner-up.

You know, just a very quick thank you to Lindsay for all the work that Lindsay's done on the podcast.

She's an absolute icon out there.

And then also to Nick, who does all of our great social assets and reels and things like that.

And also to Tanya and to

Jim and to Sam.

And everyone back at the office.

Everyone back at the office who make this podcast what it is.

Of course, they'd be nothing without us.

Yeah, yeah.

They wouldn't have job.

I don't have a job without us.

I don't want to put on them this podcast, though, either.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And can I just say thank you to you two?

I wouldn't be here without you.

And this journey has been crazy.

I was thinking the other day about the fact that RuPaul is a fan of us.

And I remember I said it in a show, and people were so blown away.

And I thought, it's these little details of our career and our life, these things that I will be so proud of when I'm older, that sometimes you forget when you're in the grind of it.

And what a joy it is to be on this journey and how grateful I am that you have helped elevate me as a performer, and together together we've gone on this journey.

And there it was.

The moment of sincerity came at the last minute.

That was beautiful.

Wonderful, Zach.

The fact though, the fact that I did it for the bit makes it insincere.

Yeah.

But it was good though and I do appreciate it.

And it's with that wonderful moment that we announce it.

Give me my guess though.

It gives us a hint.

Well, I think your thing just touched on it.

It's about the friendship.

It's about being friends.

Is it, I want to be more than friends?

Well, that's your guess.

My guess, that's a good guess.

Is it really?

Mark, that's a good guess, but can you allow me a guess?

Sure.

Now, I was going to say I want to be more than friends.

Well, you can't.

That's my guess.

You can't now because Mark jumped in.

So you have to guess something else.

So I'm going to guess the episode where we improvise.

I should just say at the moment,

the winner of the best guess gets a million dollars.

Wow.

Okay, yeah.

I'm going to go.

From whom?

From your third of the FIFI fee?

Jesus, can you imagine?

I don't want, you're not touching my fucking fee-fee fee.

That's for my kids and my family.

The fee, fee, fee.

I'm going to go with, I'm going to go with my guess, which again, I would have guessed that one,

but I'm going to go with a guess where we did an episode of Friends, where we improvised an entire fake episode of Friends.

I don't think we've done one.

Which, again, Lindsay, could you write that down?

Pretty finally.

Pretty finally.

Pretty finally.

We have to do one more episode today, so.

Yeah, let's do that today.

The episode is The More Than Friends theme song from Four Men Who Are Just Friends writing music with Hans Zimmer featuring Tom.

That's a genuine surprise.

And that's lovely.

I loved that.

This bit received almost double the number of votes as number two.

Wow.

Zach is Hans Zimmer, classic Zach character.

Tom is here to help write a new theme song.

He creates a song based on friendship without listening to it.

He just picked clips and put them in the thing.

And here it is, folks.

Enjoy number one.

Number 10.

Can't wait to hear Tom's music now.

Yeah, I made a song about friends without listening to it.

Okay, sure.

I can't wait to hear it.

I can't wait to hear this.

That's new wave.

Yeah.

Beethoven when he was deaf.

Yeah, this is a little bit.

What genre?

Well, I've gone into the sample libraries and I found stuff about friends.

Yeah.

And without listening to it, I've put it all together.

Wow.

Wow.

This is going to.

All right.

I've guessed a mix here.

Yeah.

So it might be awful.

Go for it.

Shall we have a listen?

Let's do it.

Maybe just wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Wait one second before you hit play.

Let's see how well we're doing with potentially going to an ad or not.

Ah, this is a shame you didn't have an ad this time.

I know.

We're back.

Tom, play us your crazy, unlistened to

tune.

I wanna be more than friends.

I wanna be more.

I wanna be more than friends.

I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be more.

It's three friends, you know?

This is,

it's, it's, it's, it's, I know it's about friendship.

Friendship

on one level.

Yeah.

I would argue it's about

not just like being friends.

Can I ask you a question about your podcast?

I don't listen to it often, you know.

Yeah, except on the way up.

I'm trying to tiptoe around.

Yeah, no, and this is, I think, I think the feedback that I'm going to give is dependent on the answer to this question.

So I was on the way in, I had to listen to the last episode, so I knew what I was in for.

Was there an ad?

There was not.

I'm afraid.

Oh, fuck.

Now, my question is to you, too.

I know that you're friends.

Is there homerotic undertones to the friendship?

Yes.

Well, for some,

more for some than others, we don't talk about it because it's gotten us in strife before.

No, I'm not asking if any of them are closeted.

I'm asking, is there Homer erotic

energies between them?

Oh, yes, yeah, absolutely.

But it just, you know, some people are more comfortable talking about it than others.

Sure, okay.

Sure.

Well, then this song is entirely appropriate.

Okay.

It is actually quite good because it does speak to, I guess, what's happening under the hood.

Can I?

For all of us.

I think that it would be a shame if you didn't at least include it for an episode.

Yeah, I think so.

Okay.

Okay, great.

Could you add a little bit where it's like,

add a little bit where I can introduce what the episode's about?

Absolutely.

So what if I gave you like...

If it was just guitar for the future.

I actually really like this.

Yeah, I think maybe.

I actually think there's something in this.

I think it let it settle for a month.

Yeah, four episodes.

Yeah, what I love about about this is you've had exactly the same realization I had with my interstellar moment.

Yeah.

If I had just gone and done a piece of music for sci-fi, it wouldn't have been the beautiful piece of music it is.

Whereas this is, yes, this is really elevating the podcast.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I want to be more than friends.

I want to be more than friends.

And I think

people will re-listen to it with a different.

Well, what it does is, I mean, it'll make people go back and listen to this podcast from the start with this context.

Because that changes changes everything.

Let me do a little bit of a character.

It's like re-watching Fight Club, knowing

that they're the same character.

I won't give it away.

You haven't seen Fight Club?

I was busy composing music for other films at the time.

No, if you haven't seen the...

If you don't know the twist in Fight Club, it's 2024.

The movie's been out for 25 years.

You fucking ruined it for me.

Oh, fuck you.

I might have even composed Fight Club.

God know for sure.

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I want to be more than friends.

I want to be more.

I want to be more than friends.

I want to be, I want to be more.

I'm sorry, but I can't believe we found it.

We fucking nailed it.

Well,

we fucking nailed it.

Hans, you're a genius.

That's me.

Can you

put in just at the very end, just like a

welcome to the Auntie Donner podcast?

Sure, sure, sure.

Something like that.

Sure, you know, is that just what you want to do?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think that just adds to the

welcome to the future.

Yeah, just with that, with that, with that in.

That's what it needs.

What even opens was that?

So it goes, welcome to the future.

No, I think right at the end, right before we go into it.

Welcome to the future.

It's like we spent so long

trying to find the right thing

and that was the wrong thing, wasn't it?

Hans, I I can't believe you came in and you cracked this with one note, one simple note.

Don't try and write around the idea.

Don't try and write on top of what it is what you do.

Just get to the core.

Well, yeah, kind of.

Get to the core

of what it is that you're trying to say.

Don't go under the idea.

Don't go over the idea.

You've got to go through it.

You always say that.

And there it was.

And what a year it's been, 2024.

A year of ups and downs politically.

uh ups and we saw brisbane break a 20-year drought and win the flag and the men's and fall short in the w right and run podcast north oh yeah north won the w and then can i i'll have a go let me yeah yeah what a year it has been we've got just 40 films or television shows to go

uh we got retweeted by leguazama himself exact zach you're nuts out oh

i know oh there you go beautiful and thank you for joining us on this journey, everyone.

We'll see you in 2025 when

it's probably going to be worse.

Probably worse, worse.

I'm tired.

Yeah, so probably unsub.

And hey, don't forget to comment on Google Maps.

Yep.

At AMMM

Shooters.

Anywhere you've listened to the point.

You can make it up as well.

Yeah.

And thank you.

The most important person to thank is

me.

Zach.

Zach.

No, no, I meant like me.

Oh, me.

Thank you, Zach.

No, no, like, you thank you.

I thank me.

Ah, thank me.

The most important person is me.

It's me.

Because you've got to put yourself number one.

And that's for you too, listening.

It's for all the mothers out there.

Thanks to all the mums.

That's who it is.

Happy Mother's Day.

Thank you to all the mums because what you do does not go unnoticed.

And we'll see you in 2025, which is we're in now.

We're in now.

It's the start of it.

So we are seeing you in 2025.

See you this year.

We'll see you now.

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And we'll see you in 2026 as well

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