Ratbag with Mel & Sam

Hello to all u riggity-riggity-RATS!! How’s everyone’s week going?! In today’s Ratfood, we sit down to chat some of our most fucked eating habits (including a stack of saliva-sucked Shapes: no questions until the end pls), Sam tells us all about her much-awaited 30th birthday at La Porchetta and the birthday gift to trump all birthday gifts, Tom tells the story of how he accidentally proposed to a...

Hey there! It's time for another guest episode! This time we are bringing in our first International Guest (!!!) and they are the beloved stand up comedian, football fanatic and genuinellyyyyy the best dressed person from the UK: Chloe Petts! This episode is packed with everything from queer awakenings & love languages to Chloe's millenial coat that they only wear in Melbourne. We also wasted...

It’s Sammy’s birthday, bitches!! And not just any birthday!! But the big 30!! Go wish her happy birthday IMMEDIATELY or may you all be cursed with being stuck in an overstimulating corridor until the end of time. Today’s ep is a gorgy laidback one chatting all things from the pressures (or lack thereof!) of biological clocks ticking to the power of a good laksa, Katy Perry girlbossing a little too...

Hey there you Rats!!! We're coming in hot for yet another 'Ratbag' episode hosted by your favourite queer comedy duo Mel & Sam. In this weeks episode Mel brings in a necessary unpacking on the obligatory social media follow we do with those we meet on dating aps, and how connected we feel to their lives, despite sometimes having never met them. We then open up our 'Bring Bring Bitch' hotline w...

If anyone has any information on our stolen pasta necklaces, or saw anything suspicious, pls call Crime Stoppers on 1800 HOWISTHISOURLIFE. Thank you so much. Any tips off on the case will be greatly appreciated. This week’s Ratfood, we unpack the greatest injustice of all time … folks, we have been ROBBED. Thieved. Swindled. If u will. We also chat some of our worst cases of foot in mouth disease...

Oh heeeeeeey there. Yeah. Nah. Yeah. THIS. is a big one boys. Why? We have THE Aunty Donna joining us on the pod today. We know Aunty Donna need no introduction but if you haven't had the pleasure and JOY of seeing them live, or watching them on your screens, then you are in for an absolute treat. Mark, Zack and Broden are the beating heart of perfectly silly Australian comedy and today's episode...

Welcome to a brand new Ratfood!! Hope you’ve got a plate of rubbish to nibble on, cos there’s lots of giggle in today’s ep and you’re gonna need the SUSTAINANCE! We’re almost half way through our Melbourne comedy festival season and so today we come to you with sore bodies, fucked up tummies from eating chips for dinner and maaany silly chats. Topics covered include - but are not limited to - The...

Hey hey cuties! There are a lot of things you can do on the internet but today Mel & Sam are coming clean with two pretty niche ways they use the internet for their own entertainment. If you have a vimeo link thats unlisted, you've been warned. In today's hotline we asked our listeners 'What is something you have lied about?" and good GOD did you all use us as some form of a confession box. Me...

HAPPY MELBOURNE COMEDY FESTIVAL SEASON, U RATS!! We are opening our show ‘No Hat, No Play!’ The Cabaret’ THIS VERY NIGHT, and we spend a bit of today’s ep telling you allllll about the show! We also chat out-of-pocket wedding singers, chat about our experiences performing at Gaytimes (a queer music festival) on the weekend, Haiku Hands being our entire sexuality, Cody Simpson’s musical theatre deb...

Oh HI there rats!!! Hope you've locked your bathroom door as you listen to this episode on the toilet! Now that previous sentence will make sense as soon as you listen to the episode, we promise. In today's episode, Mel opens the ep with a mind-boggling-realisation she has had about etiquitte in the bathroom. There's a hotline question that has us putting Gen Alpha on the chopping block and we the...

Hello to our fave rats!!! Today’s episode is a gORGyyy one - packed to the brim with tales and anecdotes from our week in Adelaide on tour: including but not limited to chats about the closet being glass, Mel & Sam being academic mommies, our most outrageous fuck ups on stage, our CANCELLED merch, ultimate Fringe Brain moments, our favourite things we’ve seen this Fringe and so much more! We’l...

DING DONG! That's the theatre foyer bell. It's time to get your arse into the theatre, you're sitting in the dress circle, and the show is about to begin. We are joined by the most divine star of Australian Musical Theatre, and our dear pal: Karis Oka! This is a mammoth episode and we cover a lottttt of ground. From authenticity in audition rooms, to Karis' recent casting as Lydia in Beetlejuice t...

Mel & Sam coming to you live from their 73 degree accomodation at Adelaide Fringe to chat all things tour life, specific challenges they face when on the road together and within their growing friendship/partnership, some rogue flyering experiences they’ve had so far at the fringe, the joys of seeing the new generations of feminists join the ranks (let’s go gen alpha!!) and more. The girls als...

Hey there you rats!! Today we are travelling back to 2003. The year the greatest fiilm (according to Mel O'Brien) was made. Much like Mel's 'Sam-Hasn't-Seen-This-Film-Quiz' from some episodes back, this week the tables are reversed and Sam is quizzing Mel on a film she knows inside out: 'School of Rock but these questions are hard. Very hard. The girls then unpack moving out of home and their expe...

Guys, Tom FUCKED it and didn’t book our regular podcast studio so two things are happening Number one, he’s FIRED. And number two, we’re serving you a different look for today’s Ratfood - deal with it!!! Welcome to our white padded cell! This week we are chatting all things Mardi Gras, Oscar wins, going to Build A Bear as a fully grown adult, getting trapped in bus doors, fighting ticket officers...

Heya you little legends and welcome to another 'Ratbag' by your favourite queer comedy duo: Mel & Sam. In this week's episode Mel comes in all guns blazing with a bold take on baristas. If you're at a cafe rn we ask you to look around and play along, 'Where's Wally' style and see if one is amongst you too, we then ask you to look within and join our movement #saynotocoolbaristas. This episode...

Guys. All is right in the world. Oldies are coughing and spluttering in the theatre. Sam is dropping everything to become a full time WAG. And most importantly. Our fave girl Dad is BACK IN THE STUDIO, BABY!!! In today’s Ratfood, Tom catches us up on everything we’ve missed including the unbelievable story of how his daughter came in to the world (strap in - it’s a BRILLIANT story) and the details...

Oh get readdddyyy you little rats because NEE NAW - Guest Alert!! We are absolutely stoked to be joined for our very first guest on the Ratbag couch, the immensely talented and crackingly funny WINNER of Drag Race Downunder: Lazy Susan! This episode is a longer one and for good reason...there is so much juicy stuff we cover! In this episode Mel & Sam chat with Lazy Susan about everything from...

Hi bbys! Welcome to today’s ep - thanks for being here! What are we all eating for Ratfood today?! This week’s Ratfood is a veeeery relaxed (very jet lagged) one as the girls tumble straight from the airport into the pod studio to chat all things from their Perth tour (hecklers, a front of house family they wish would adopt them, an accidental job as Fringe showgirls), recent MAFS chats (is Jacqui...

Greetings dear listener! In this weeks 'Ratbag' the girls chat their friendship including a confession about their show 'High Pony' that we can only call 'High Pony Gate'. There's then a discussion on Mel & Sam's foolproof ways to flirt with women (you MAY get butterflies listening tbh) and then Mel then shares a CURSED 'pussy eating playlist' that has us fearing for the gals in Dallas, Texas....

Hello treasures! Welcome to today’s very first ‘Ratfood On The Road’ - filmed straight from our hotel room in Perth as we are currently on tour with our live show! So happy to have you back for another ratty ratty rat-food! This week, we heavily unpack our own thoughts on the infamous Tim from MAFS and the danger that behaviour like his can caused when aired on national television. We also unpack...

Hey you little rat, stoked you have chosen this pod for another week of your guilty listening pleasure. In this week's episode we are actually chatting guilty pleasures, with Mel coming clean about some extra rummaging she has been doing in her friends bathrooms to Sam sharing an odd collector habit from her childhood. The girls then chat things in their eyes that are 'not quite right' from Rita O...

RATS, RATS, RATS!! Hi cutieeees! What a monster week it’s been - for music, for Mel & Sam and we hope you too have also had a glorious week. Let us know in the comments what you’ve been up to! In this Ratfood, we chat everything Grammys from Doechii’s performance to Beyonce breaking records, Chappell speaking up for artists’ rights, and everything in between! We unpack the pros and cons of sit...

G'day lovers!!! Consider us rats a bit romantic cause today we are chatting 'falling in love'. Aside from love, Mel brings in a hot take about 'apples that taste like apples' versus 'apples that taste like apple juice'. Now if you aren't already sold on the *range* this pod has to offer then hopefully we sell you with our bursting 'Bring Bring Bitch Hotline' with all of your takes on the things yo...

Hello little rodents of our dreams!!! Welcome to today’s Ratfood where we fiiiiiinally unpack our thoughts on the HEAVILY OSCAR-NOMINATED musical film ‘Emilia Perez’ (the discourse is DISCOURSING!!!), we chat public protesting, the Saddle Club, our number 1 diva: Dr. Marijuana Pepsi Van Dyke and most importantly … we chat about the newest little bombshell to enter the Ratbag villa!!  Thank yo...