Ratbag with Mel & Sam

Helloooo darlings!!  We hope you’re having a beautiful week, and welcome to your platter full of ratfood! This week, we go all in telling you about one of the best weeks of our lives that we spent doing our first ever workshop of our musical ‘G-RAVE’. We also talk about the confusion around IKEA’s level of boujee-ness and the thrills of a dine in experience experienced by Sam this week. We al...

Hello gorgeous darlings and welcome back to another episode of ‘Ratbag!’. In today’s episode Sam brings a completely cooked program that exists in America that will leave you going “come again???”. Broden Kelly then joins us for a story time about his first acting gig post Uni. Next we have a write in from a rat sharing a cursed story about after school care. Then we end with a ‘Hit It Toots’ voca...

Helloooo darlings!!  We hope you’re having a beautiful week, and welcome to your platter full of ratfood! This week we are in absolute FLOW state chatting everything from our thoughts on the most recent Melbourne Theatre Company show ‘Losing Face’, to our thoughts on Olivia Rodrigo’s new album, to how we feel about doing the first ever development of our musical and lots in between. We also t...

Hello rats! New studio just dropped and she's our new home! We hope you love her as much as we do! In today's episode Mel begins by talking about some things that 'Piss Her Off" and we're starting with "Gut Heath". Next we have a write in from a rat about how to prepare for a national musical theatre contract. Then Mel gets us modernising Glee with the pop songs of today. Then of course we end wit...

Helloooo rats, It’s a sad one for musical theatre lovers this week, as the news of the Beetlejuice tour cancellation has come crashing down on fans and members of the show alike.  We - like most - were absolutely gobsmacked by this news and thought we would have a chat about how we think we got here, what the future of musical theatre might start looking like, what we can do to help and lots,...

Heya loves! Are you ready for an incredibly important deep dive? GOOD, because we are begining the episode with an investigative look at where in the world Gabriella Cilmi really is. Next we chat different music theatre characters that we would cross ship thanks to a fab Hotline question from our fav, Zarli. Then there's a slightly flop-tastic Kick On's but you'll forgive us I'm sure and then we s...

Helloooo rats, Welcome to another episode of your platter full of ratfood. Today is serving 4% depression and THAT’S OKAY.  We hope you enjoy these low key chats about what we’ve been watching, what we’ve been loving, Sam’s late in life sport diagnosis, our parents joint inabilities to be silent , our deep love of musical theatre showcases and more. We will see you for another Ratbag on Monda...

Heyaaaaa! Welcome back or maybe just welcome! To kick start the episode Mel brings a segment on ""words that don't mean like they feel like they should mean"" and get ready for a mind f**k. Next it's time to rename all of the zodiac signs, aka - it's time for Mel to uncover more of her hidden language and we can all just be along for the ride. Our 'Kick Ons' has stuck on a heinous 'would you rathe...

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Hey there darling pies! Welcome to another episode of 'Ratbag' and Sam is simply bursting with excitement to bring something very special for the first segment of the episode. If you haven't heard of Queering the Map, get ready because once you stumble across this gem you wont wanna stop looking. We'll save Sam to introduce it to you on mic... Next there's some more hotline questions and this week...

Helloooo rats, Welcome to another episode of your platter full of ratfood. Today, Mel goes innnnn on recounting one of her most outrageous, most embarrassing stories set at a cinema, and Sam talks about how she was similarly blessed by the presence of 14 year old boys at the cinema this week. Mel also talks about ways in which she loves to keep things fresh at ‘Heathers’, an onstage fuck up and mo...

Hey lil cuties! It's time for another episode and we are so happy you are here!! We kick off with a Tech Chat surrounding if we would install the ultimate accounts 'microchip'. Then we have a write in from Papa Tom as he has a devestating realisation about the sanctity of Shorts and Longs. Then we create some new gestures because the wave is out, and the scissor jazz hands are in. We finish up sin...

Welcome to another episode of your platter full of ratfood. Today we are talking about Sam’s new hyper fixation, whilst Mel serves in a DEEPLY sick day coded style and we chat all things from sentient Beanie babies to millennial happy food dances and more. We will see you for another Ratbag on Monday, and wishing you love and cheese cubes wherever you are in the world this Ratfood day. Okay! Love...

Heyaaaa! It's time for another guest episode and today we are joined by one of our favourite stand up comedians in Australia... Kirsty Webeck! If you don't know Kirsty, then GET ready for this, Kirsty is a XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX In today's episode we hear Kirsty's story surrounding a time she floated in a float tank and then got accused of lying about what transpired in said tank. We then open up our h...

Helloooo rats, Welcome to another episode of your platter full of ratfood. Today we are talking about the absolute LORE of Sam’s time in the Australian Girls Choir and Mel’s time in Young Australian Broadway Chorus (shout out to the money making machines that raised us!!) We also chat about all our fave pre and post show rituals and what vocal health looks like for us on the road and Sam shares a...

Hey there darlings and welcome back for another episode of ‘Ratbag’! I can't believe we are back here AGAIN yet it's happened. Guys. Today we are talking all about the go to movie that one selects when they are flying, as Sam brings a viral moment to the pod surrounding one certain film we are ALL scrolling for. Next there's a beautiful write in from a rat who is asking for some big sister queer a...

Helloooo rats, Welcome to another episode of your platter full of ratfood. Today we are talking about why escape rooms are our hellscape, and what it is about them that goes against every fibre of our beings. We also talk about missing flights, the art of rolling our charisma dice, Katseye’s pop up performance in Melb, a LIFE CHANGING theatre recc from Sammy and so much more. We will see you for a...

Hey cutie pies. SORRY CAN'T STAY CALM WE ARE FREAKING OUT A LIL!! Today we are joined by Jade and Miranda, aka - two of the three members of THE girl group: Blusher!!! (we missed you Lauren!!). We cannot tell you how excited we are for this episode, our Hotline blew up, and we cover a lotttttt of ground. If you don't know already Blusher are a pop-girl-band who are known for their electronic-pop w...

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Hey rats and welcome to another weeks episode of ‘Ratbag!’. Today we are banging into the episode with a list of places that people just become hotter. Think the Airport, The Pool, even A Lift?? ;) Cue story about Mel and Sam in a lift…. Next we have a write in from a rat about a conundrum they are having with their mate and a baby name. Then we riff the house down and end with a riff off!. She’s...

Helloooo rats, Welcome to another episode of your platter full of ratfood (or if you’re Christian from the cruise - welcome to our episode where we exclusively chat the ins and outs of #cruiselife #research). Today we are coming to you with a thrilling update on Lucy’s cruise crush, as she sits in studio with her perfect straight-out-of-a-Dyson-air-wrap-ad new hair. We chat judgy hairdressers, sel...

Hey there rats and welcome back for another episode of ‘Ratbag’!. Now LOWER your larynx and get out your sheet music and pencils because Ms Masters-Of-Music-Mel-O’Brien is taking us back to the Conservatorium of Music. You know who we bag out too often? Classical musicians!! And it’s time we put some respect on their name / craft as Mel takes us there one Mozart fun fact at a time. Next the girls...

Are we gonna have a problem?!? Because today we have THEEEEE absolute megastar Calista Nelmes who is currently playing Heather Chandler in the Aus/NZ tour of ‘Heathers: The Musical’ in the studio with us to chat alllllll things Heathers. From the hype around her absolutely insane ‘Candy Store’ riff gone viral, to why she thinks Heathers resonates so much with teen audiences, this episodes got it a...

Hello cutie pies and welcome to another weeks episode of ratbag with your hosts, and a potential friendship on the rocks it’s Mel & Sam. In today’s episode Sam brings in a table (from TikTok) regarding the unspoken rules of each age and where they sit on the age chart. Then Mel shares your write ins of your nicknames you all call your friends and it is wholesome af. There’s a spine chilling ‘k...

Hey gorgeousssss rats! We hope this Ratfood finds you so well and with lots to nibble on today. We are going innn on talking all things from the Heathers Australia opening night. Mel chats about what the experience has been like so far playing Martha Dunnstock in the production, with everything from fan interactions to general wellbeing, relationships with the cast and everything in between. We al...