Ratbag with Mel & Sam

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

Hey rats!! Welcome to another episode and today we are unpacking something very interesting and NO one is talking about it - the unspoken rule of gift giving, and what is appropriate to gift someone vs what is not! We then take the time to both share the people that inspire our art, and our lives, thanks to a listener dm for our hotline segment. We thought why not shout out the people who make who...

Hi bbys! Welcome to another Ratfood. Today we’re going IN on the Taylor Swift chatsssssssss. We’re unpacking ALL our thoughts on the album on everyone’s lips, what we liked, what we didn’t (spoiler alert!! It was a lot!!) and what we would’ve loved to have seen instead. Mel also chats briefly about her stint in the hospital - nee naw!! BBL alert!!! Let us know your thoughts on the album in the com...

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

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

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

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

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

Hello ratlings!! In today’s Ratfood, the girls unpack all things first concerts: the forever new tops, the floopsy-doopsy buns, the rogue artist choices and everything in between. Sam chats about her DESPERATE ploy for Ariana Grande tickets and Mel chats about an unbelievable musical she saw in Sydney this week. Thank you so much for joining us <3 Lots of love and we’ll see you for another Ratb...

Hey there rats! Thank you for joining us for another episode! Today we are putting our fav girl dad under the chopping block as we test him, quiz style with some photos of some popular 'women's*' products and see if he knows what they are. Our 'Bring Bring Bitch!' hotline is once again a dm from a listener, and this week we are building our hellscape musical theatre playlists. There's then a 'Kick...

Hello sweet ratlings!! So happy to see you here for yet another Ratfood. Today - inspired by the recent news around the impending social media ban - we go on a deeeep nostalgia trip in to our earliest days on social media and what they looked like; the earliest emojis, the earliest scandals, our introduction to the concept of a digital footprint (life-changing info!!) our first forays in to bullyi...

Hello my loves!! Thank you for joining us for another episode! Today we say some things we cannot take back, as Mel brings to the table a segment where we build our own 'Here Me Out' cakes, ie- the characters that deserve the spotlight for being hot - in our eyes, but maybe not the general public. Our 'Bring Bring Bitch!' hotline is a gorgeous dm from a listener, and gets us chatting all our tips...

Hello ratty-rat-rats!! Coming to you today with an absolutely jam-packed Ratfood, and our dear mate Paddy back on mic with us! We start the episode chatting about the hugely pivotal moment in AFL history this week with Mitch Brown’s coming out, and we talk about the support (and lack thereof) from community and other clubs and why this is so important. We then launch in to an unpacking of Sabrina...

Hello my angels! It's a bit of a different one today so buckle up! After many questions to our Hotline surrounding this topic specifically we have decided to dedicate an entire episode to Long Distance Relationships. We both have oodles of experience in this relationship structure so thought it was worth spending an entire episode talking about it! We talk everything from tips and tricks, to candi...

Hello our treasuressss! We hope this episode finds you so well - wherever you are! We’re coming to you with a gorgy lil Q&A Ratfood packed to the brim with giggles and a healthy sprinkling of earnestness (warning!! TEARS ALERT!!) all answering questions that you guys sent us on Instagram. We cover everything from our birth charts/star signs, to what we think the opening musical number to our l...

Hello dear listeners! Today's guest is a true jack of all trades they are an actor, model, performer, host, content creator and BLM, queer and radical body acceptance advocate/activist! Drum roll PLEASE for...Milo Hartill! In today's episode we chat about the first time Milo was scouted for modeling, the music theatre industry, coming out and content creation. We then naturally put Milo's burlesqu...

Sweetest rats. Coming to you live from the absolute UPHILL CLIMB of the last week of Edinburgh Fringe. Today we’re low energy. Sleepy girls. Serving floating head and navy toe. But here to deliver you an unpacking of our thoughts on the Netflix documentary ‘Fit For TV’; the exposé documentary centred around ‘The Biggest Loser’, as well as our thoughts on straight male comedians with the personalit...

Hi hi! It's time for another 'Ratbag' episode and boy oh boy do we start off with something that passes the bechdel test! To kick start the ep we are chatting about the daily choices we make to engage in 'micro feminism', we're talking things you can bring to the workplace or for the home "tell a buddy Jackson!". We then massively pivot to unpack why all dads seem to love the most bizarre confecti...

Hello to all our treasured rats!! Coming to you live from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival today with simply storiesss upon storiesssss upon storiesss. We hope this ep gives you a fun little insight into what it’s like to be on tour in the biggest arts festival in the world. We’ll give you a clue … EVERYONE’S A LITTLE BIT FEISTY. EVERYONE’S A LITTLE BIT TIRED. EVERYONE’S A LITTLE BIT SELFISH!! But mo...

Hello my loves!! Thank you for joining us for another episode! Today we bang-open the episode unpacking an extremely popular column from the London Tube known as the 'Rush Hour Crush', and Sam has brought in the best, the creepy and the biggest clangs from the column to chat about. Our 'Bring Bring Bitch!' hotline asks the question about the best characters from film that would be better as butch...

A big week in gay music news, rats!! Coming to you all the way from the other side of the world with an absolute YAP-a-thon on all of our thoughts on Renee Rapp’s album drop (‘Bite Me’), Chappell Roan’s long-awaited release of ‘The Subway’ and Cynthia Erivo’s portrayal of Jesus in the Hollywood Bowl production of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’. We also chat about the trend we are seeing in expecting mor...

Hello angel pies!! Thank you for joining us for another episode, we hope you are ready for a GAY one because we are joined by THE aussie lesbian tiktok couple, the gorgeous Taz and Alessia! In this episode we chat The L Word, their HUGE 24 hour live streams, Team Tanda, lesbian stereotypes and much much more. We of course open up our 'Bring Bring Bitch!' Hotline and ask them all of your questions,...

The saddest coffees of all time in our hands. Unwashed hair for days. And a game of theatre sports happening outside our window? MUST BE EDINBURGH FRINGE SEASON!! Wee lassies. We are in Edinburgh (for our second year!) and we wanna tell you allllll about it. In this first instalment of a series that we’re calling ‘Edinburgh Fringe Diaries’, we tell you all about our living conditions here in stude...

Hello my loves and welcome to another episode of Ratbag! Thank you for joining us In this episode Sam brings in a theory surrounding aeroplane food and why it tastes like garbage when up in the sky. There is a reason aeroplane food tastes the way it does, but there is ALSO a reason a certain flavour completely changes itself when sky high.  The 'Bring Bring Bitch!' Hotline opens up the most o...

Oh, rats. We’ve found the show of our girly pop, sing-song, bubble gum, y2k dreams. It is KATSEYE: POP STAR ACADEMY on Netflix and today we are doing a phaaaaat chat on it all. As well as unpacking why this K Pop girl-group-forming-competition-show is up there with our faves of the year, we also chat the ins and outs and comedies of voice over work, our fave and least fave kinds of ads, our fave K...