Damian Callinan

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast

Comedy EN ↓ 43 episodes

Welcome to the Bodgy Creek Roosters Universe. Comedian Damian Callinan takes you into the clubrooms of the Roosters Australian Rules Football Club & for a wander down the main street of Bodgy Creek. Based in the world created in The Merger, the hit one man show that became an acclaimed award winning feature film of the same name, the podcast was first created in the lead up to the film's release and re-emerged as a welcome divergence during the Covid Epidemic. Winner of the Silver medal for Comedy at the 2022 Australian Podcast Awards, it is now being re-released on Substack, for those that mi...

Author

Damian Callinan

Category

Comedy

Podcast website

damiancallinan.substack.com

Latest episode

Jul 2, 2026

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Episodes

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast - Ep 43 - You Are Now Leaving Bodgy Creek 02.07.2026

The finale of the Bodgy Creek Community Podcast, goes out with a decent roost over the silos. Recorded live at the Comedy Republic in Melbourne on July 1st, 2023, Troy, Warwick & Stan are joined on stage by Rusty Berther, Michelle Brasier, Tim Lancaster, Ben Knight, Tony Wilson, Stephen Hall, Zillah Morrow & Emilie Collyer. Thanks for listening everyone. I’ll see you at the Bottom Pub Get full acc...

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast - Ep 42 - Reverse Raffle 25.06.2026

In the penultimate ever episode, you’ll learn how the always resourceful Bodgy Creek Roosters playing list negotiated their way through the multiverses & back to current day Bodgy Creek. On their return, will Almond Milk forgive his wife for selling his Golden Book collection on E-Bay; Will Hip Flask remember where he lived? Will anyone come to Warwick’s Sami Joik singing workshops? With a live st...

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast - Ep 41 - Lady Doodles Minstrels FNC 18.06.2026

Having taken refuge in a perpendicular universe in a seemingly endless agricultural show ground, the exiled Bodgy Creek Football Club Community fall foul of the belligerent woodchopping community & make a hasty exit. However, their escape leads them through a series of increasingly perilous multiverses. After a close shave with a marauding order of pool noodle flailing nuns, they are finally able...

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast - Ep 40 - The Perpendicular Universe 11.06.2026

After the entire Bodgy Creek footy team seemingly return from the dead, the town folk votes to exile them, fearful that ‘weird s**t’ will start happening. With nowhere to go, the Roosters take refuge in the Multiverse & find themselves living in a world that appears to be an endless agricultural show. Will Porterhouse finally fulfil his dream of becoming a rodeo clown? Will Matt Nelson be able to...

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast - Ep 39 - The Lightning Premiership 04.06.2026

Why did the Bodgy Creek Community Podcast suddenly plunge into radio silence after taking out the Silver Medal for Best Comedy at the Australian Podcast Awards? What caused the disappearance of the Roosters Footy Club playing list, all club officials & the training bag of footies? Why is Matt Nelson trying to flog Aeroflot Safety Cards at his struggling Emporium? All this & more in the return of A...

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast - Ep 38 - Carols in the IGA Car Park3 28.05.2026

How do you get invited to the Conger Creek Hotel Dickhead’s Christmas Lunch? Will Snap Printing take out the local business, Giant Bauble Roll for the second year running? Is Poplarville the only regional town to adopt the principles of German Expressionism & Immersive theatre in their community Nativity Play? Join Troy Carrington & the Bodgy Creek gang as they celebrate Christmas & winning the Si...

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast - Ep 37 - The Caxton Valley Podcast Festival 21.05.2026

The unfortunate cancellation of the Caxton Valley Podcast Festival sees Troy Carrington extend a collegial hand & play excerpts from other podcasts produced in the region, including – Extreme Scrapbooking with Pauline, Mary Mary Stationary & Tyler Talks to his Dead Dad Bryan. Meanwhile Warwick Randall describes the historical background of each of the origin teams that make up Kirriwup Blaxland Ma...

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast - Ep 36 - The 1972 Bodgy Creek Church Swap 14.05.2026

With the 2021 footy & netball season in indefinite hiatus & the time portal in Mutton Gully still leaking, the Caxton Valley adapts to the fact that Fidel Castro now works at Hudson’s Flat Aldi, Tsar Nicholas lives on a canal boat on Wingnut Dam & Marie Antoinette has shacked up with Mr Football, Ted Whitten in an onsite van at Mt Stuart Caravan Par . There are new segments including ‘Ghost Adviso...

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast - Episode 34 - The Mutton Gully Portal 07.05.2026

With the help of the sympathetic Uploots, the human population associated with the Caxton Valley Australian Football League manage to escape the war torn planet of Greshloot 7, thanks to a diversion created by stars from the Australian soap ‘A Country Practice.’ As they return to Earth through a portal to the township of Mutton Gully, they find that they are unable to play their finals series due...

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast - Ep 35 - The Dead Sea Goals 07.05.2026

After a season like no other, the Caxton Valley League Grand Final between Bodgy Creek & Mutton Gully is played at the Bethlehem Colosseum around the time of the birth of Christ. Will the Gladiators tidy up after their pre-match entertainment? Will Mutton Gully fit all 3 Magi King into their line up? Will the Roosters have to share a dressing room with the lions? Get full access to The Complete Pe...

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast - Ep 33 - The Subloots Strike Back 23.04.2026

Despite the planet of Greshloot 7 erupting into full blown civil war, the visiting country AFL teams of the Caxton Valley League, manage to complete the final round of matches for season 2020. Will the Clairveux Abbey Monks once again renounce their faith when they find out that the apparition of the Virgin Mary, was just Mattress Legs in drag? Will Matt Nelson’s Emporium’ manage to shift 9 pallet...

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast - Ep 32 - Dodgy Landing 16.04.2026

Coated in high impact gel, the entire Bodgy Creek Community manage to survive the crash landing of the Fiblup 14 on the planet surface of Greshloot 7 & settle into hub life in a biospheric facsimile of Bodgy Creek. Will the community cope with the Top Pub being built on top of the Bottom Pub? Will the 3.2 metre high gutters pose an access issue for the elderly? Will the Mt Stuart Poplarvile player...

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast - Ep 31 - Cosmic Dust Bunnies 09.04.2026

After taking a disastrous wrong turn out of the exit of a Malperian Hyperway fuel stop, the Fiblup 14 Spaceship, finds itself spinning through a worrying number of black holes. Will the seemingly imminent death of all on board cause the Round 11 AFL games to be delayed or even cancelled? Will Frogfeet recover from the embarrassment of the team learning that his afro isn’t natural? Will Mr O’Farrel...

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast - Ep 30 - Footy in Space 02.04.2026

Half way through their week journey to the planet hub of Greshloot 7, the relocating Caxton Valley AFL teams are able to play their first real round of AFL for the season in simulated recreations of their home grounds. Will the Hudsons Flat players emotionally recover from the sustained abuse from the sentient goal posts? Will the on-ship ‘Phillip Island Experience’ be closed down after the giant...

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast - Ep 29 - The Greshloot 7 Hub 26.03.2026

As the Caxton Valley football season reaches the half way point & anxiety grows about the global pandemic, the league accepts an offer from the distant planet of Greshloot 7, to relocate all teams to a hub, 98,006 light years from Earth. Will the players adapt to the constant meterorite showers & 300 degree celsius daily temperatures? Is there a Bunnings? Will the pub be open? What night is bin ni...

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast - Ep 28 - The Membership Drive 19.03.2026

As the club staggers through yet another membership crisis, the Bodgy Creek Roosters are emboldened by worldwide pledges to become club members to help the club & the podcast survive. To help with the drive, celebrities call in to throw their way behind the club. Will John Howard be happy with a non crocheted scarf? Will Stan ever stop accidentally ringing Cal Wilson? Will Eddy Perfect get over th...

BCRP - Ep 27 - A False Dawn 12.03.2026

Will Vin Garner’s Parking Ticket Museum meet social distancing requirements for the reopening of tourist destinations? Will Stan’s Jerusalem Artichokes grow back after Denise’s brutal pruning? Will the installation of LED training lights be enough for the Roosters to take out their third straight Carbon Neutral Country Footy Club of the Year title? In this episode we announce news of Bodgy Creek R...

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast - Ep 26 - The New Normal 05.03.2026

As Covid 19 restrictions begin to ease, tensions arise in the Caxton Valley League as rival teams battle it out with live streamed, one act plays loaded with Black Lives Matter peaceful protests. Troy previews the Daleglen Lookalike Museum; Warwick talks us through how close Cate Blanchett came to attending a 21st in Bodgy Creek in his ‘Near Misses’ segment & Stan has a yarn to comedian Cal Wilson...

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast - Ep 25 - Target Country Music 26.02.2026

Will Stan be able to sell his impressive collection of orchidometers or will the testicle measuring devices keep taking up space in his shed? Why did the Mt Stuart Poplarville Tiger Snakes set their Virtual Reality Footy Experience in a Target Country store? Why does the Bodgy Creek Memorial Hall have 9 urns? Join host & Roosters coach Troy Carrington, as he talks through the implications of the B...

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast - Ep 24 - Screenplaying Through The Corridor 19.02.2026

Desperate to keep the season going, the Caxton Valley Football League resort to a short film competition that ignites controversy when the Cougars recruit Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki to create ‘Hobbo’s Moving Clubrooms;’ a restless ghost curates a new exhibition in the closed Bodgy Creek Regional Art Gallery & Matt Nelson’s Emporium have to front the consumer watchdog after trying to hoc Virg...

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast - Ep 23 - The Siegfried Back Line 12.02.2026

In a week of controversy, the Bodgy Creek Roosters ANZAC tribute backfires when the League takes away their points for playing unregistered players after the team took the names of the local fallen of WW1. Will the town take on board Warwick’s self isolation tip of pretending your family are trapped in a siege situation? Will ‘The Hunger Games’ style selection process for prep enrolments at Bodgy...

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast - Ep 22 - The Spanish Lady 05.02.2026

As Troy’s alternative football season gains traction, the nation turns its attention to Bodgy Creek to see if they have the panacea for our sport starved country. We also discover – that the township Mutton Gully exists on its own geographical & temporal plain; why Simon Telfer’s inflatable Parliament House was banned from school fetes & how to discourage benevolent ghosts from reviewing your attr...

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast - Ep 21 - The Land of the Long Good Friday 29.01.2026

With the Caxton Valley League in hiatus due to the Covid 19 pandemic, Roosters Coach Troy Carrington, comes up with a novel idea to keep the season alive; Stan starts selling famous people’s stuff on Buy, Swap & Smell & we hear what comedian Danny McGinlay would have said on stage, had his gig at the Bodgy Creek Memo Hall not been cancelled. Get full access to The Complete Perks of Damian Callinan...

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast - Ep 20 - Isolating The Already Isolated 22.01.2026

Will the Roosters ever get to implement the Konmari Method in the clubrooms after their pre-season workshop with Marie Kondo? Will Kristof’s aggressive hand sanitiser, made from his illegal Krupnik Still, reduce the Covid 19 contagion in Bodgy Creek? Will Bernice Campbell be successful in trying to sell her husband on Buy, Swap & Sell. All these questions & more will be brushed over in ‘Isolating...

Bodgy Creek Roosters Podcast - Episode 19 - The 9th Crusade 15.01.2026

The Roosters go into the Grand Final against unbackable favourites Clairvaux Abbey & find that their trademark high pressure game struggles against committed Religious Fundamentalism. Will the pilgrims gathered at the apparition of the Virgin Mary on the Tennis Club practice wall, distract the players? Will ‘Opus Dei’s’ corporal mortifications behind the goals at the canola field end, put the Roos...

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