Ratbag with Mel & Sam

Hello you rats and welcome to another 'Ratbag' where today Mel and Sam open up a bursting mailbox full of 'late life discoveries'. From not knowing giraffes are real to pretending to understand the toaster dial on ones toaster, we are airing your DIRTY confessions and wasting no time to share our own. Mel also forces a completely necessary part game part crash course on film trivia with Australia'...

IT’S SLEEPOVER TIME, GWORLS!! We have the beautiful Lucy (Tom’s replacement) in studio with us this week to chat all things from the most theatrical event of the year (the Aus Open) to the power of TikTok and the ramifications of it’s potential ban, Aussie audience culture, Sam’s fragrance obsession, Mel’s awkward nannying encounter and heaps, heaps more! So crack open a Mt Franklin lightly sparkl...

Aw hello there you lil' rapscallion! In this weeks 'Ratbag' Sam decides it is time to lose the podcasts listnership with one take... and it all has to do with 'man's best friend'. The girls then unpack a listener story including a vitally important can of lychees and a crochet babydoll (yes, we also wish there were common threads in our episodes, trust us). Mel & Sam then join each other in a...

Hello treasured rats. Feel free to make as much noise as you like as you listen to this ep. Why? Because we’re HAPPY YOU’RE HAVING A GOOD TIME, AND DON’T CARE IF WE HEAR YOU THROUGH THE WALLS!! This week, Mel’s in Sydney on a theatre-seeing and friend-seeing trip, and Sam has single handedly shot down the careers aspirations of a 2025 up and coming Class Clown at the local bagel shop. We chat ever...

Hey hey you little rats and welcome to another jam packed episode of 'Ratbag' hosted by Australia's biggest child star: Mel O'Brien and America's most promising gymnast: Samantha Andrew. This week's episode is all about owning up to our biggest blunders including a trip to a cancer ward, a persistant stain and a famous baby ad throwback starring Mel O'Briens baby body-ody-ody. In today's 'Ratbag'...

Mel will no longer be reachable via the usual channels. We don’t know if you heard but … she got bangs?? She will now only be contactable via Anna Wintour herself (her new agent!) In this week’s Ratfood, the girls chat desserts (who in their right mind is enjoying COOKED fruit?!), late-in-life personality/hobby rebrands, their thoughts on Anora, re-connecting with old friends, queer partying and o...

G'day cuties!!! Hope your new year is going splendidly so far! In this weeks episode we are asking the big question (meta alert): 'Why do some people not ask questions?' From group hangs, to being a plus one at a work event - we unpack this topic and deep dive into how some people don't ask questions and why. This week also brings a juicy mailbox question that has us chatting weddings and their ex...

Alright gworls. We’re in matching sunset tops, our millennial-ness is millennial-ing and we’ve survived the doomed INTERIM WEEK - HAPPY NEW YEAR, DIVAAAAS! In this week’s Ratfood, the chats are music-heavy! (We GET it, you guys have music degrees!!) The girls chat how TikTok has changed the music industry, our recent faves we can’t stop playing, Sam is infiltrated by a cringe Millennial bug, Tom r...

Well, well, well. The year 2025 is almost here and we have one thing to say to you: DO NOT BUY THAT $49 DIARY. YOU WILL NOT USE IT! This weeks episode is pretty chock-a-block for one reason only: there's a lot to unpack from the year that was! Sam opens the ep with a year in review, from Pantones colour of the year, to the most streamed song - let US review the year whilst you PUT. THAT. 2025. DIA...

Put Christmas in the bin. It’s vetoed. It’s over. It’s cancelled. We had our fun. Now it’s time to sit and watch the cricket (apparently people do this by choice?), load a plate up with yesterday’s ham and buy a new gadget that you don’t really need cos this is the Boxing Day Ratfood of your dreams, baby!! In this week’s ep, Mel & Sam chat near death experiences, what would happen if they had...

Happy Holidays you little rats and welcome to the very special Christmas episode! This weeks episode is absolutely multi-purpose. You may use her to high-tail it to the shops and brave the last minute Christmas shopping (don't do a Natio giftpack!! We believe in you!!). You may also use her to wrap your presents (please for the love of god, you better not have picked up a Natio giftpack Jason). Yo...

We’re sorry. This could be our rattiest Ratfood as yet. Yes, we go on 373 unlinked tangents. But yes, this is what you signed up for so we won’t be hearing any COMPLAINING, OKAY RATS !!! In this week’s Ratfood, we’re cracking open a cold one and chatting all things from shoplifting (something we’ve personally NEVER done!!!) to the Better Man film (low key slapped) and a million things in between....

G'day cuties!!! Stoked that you are here and that you have either a) returned for another episode of bullshit, or b) have stumbled upon this pod for the first time - to both we say "heeellllll yeah!" Welcome! After listening to today's episode, you may never watch a Disney Film the same again, because today we unveil the REAL meaning behind the cult film 'Frozen'. In this weeks episode, the girls...

We personally think that sitting and chatting about coping strategies for our brains and unpacking ways to get tasks done that most people find really easy in their daily lives is something that two people who definitely DON’T have ADHD would do in the podcast studio!!! In this week’s Ratfood, Mel is running on 0.3 morsels of energy after coming back from a weekend at Meredith music festival, Sam...

Toot toot! We hope you aren't listening to this whilst waiting for your mate to get out of the house and slowly gander to your car?! You deserve better!!! Thanks for joining us for another completely-important Ratbag episode! We are stoked to be your new favourite podcast hosted by Mel-will-get-her-licence-when-pigs-fly-O'Brien, and Australia's most impatient-hatchback-owner Samantha Andrew. In th...

Alright, lil rats, this is a safe space. Raise your hand if you have ever listened to a song just because you KNOW it’ll make your Spotify Wrapped just that liiiiiiittle bit cooler (we see you <3 ) In this week’s Ratfood, Mel & Sam chat about a rapidly growing makeup trend that they OBVIOUSLY single-handedly started, they unpack the unparalleled horrors of self-taping (in which Mel shares a...

Hello you rats and welcome to another jam packed episode of Ratbag! In this episode Mel waxes lyrical about the joys of squirting, followed by a true life story only a splash blanket could solve. Sam then shares a horror story from the time her Hinge date had her completely confused … for someone else … Mel then brings a bonkers "would you rather" question involving a butch lesbian who can only ta...

WE PROMISE IT’S THE LAST WE’LL TALK ABOUT WICKED!!! WE PROMISE. IT’S ALMOST OVER. Welcome to Ratfood Week 4, lil ratzzzzz. First thing’s first, if you haven’t checked out our Wicked Parody music video yet, GO HAVE A LIL LOOKSEE! It’s our favourite thing we’ve ever made!! Nobody freak out! It’s not a big deal! GAY WICKED PARODY MUSIC VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuYKrPZPWr4 In this...

Enter at your own risk because what you're about to hear, we can't take back... In this episode Sam yanks Mel down millenial-memory-lane with an unpacking of Myspace and it's top friends feature, followed by a hard hitting question around ranking ones real life friends. (God its uncomfortable yet here we are!!! Doing it to ourselves!!!). Mel's entire body gets taken over by NASA for opening up a c...

It’s Week 3 Ratfood time, and this week … BOOKSHELVES ARE BANNED, BITCH!! In this Ratfood, Mel & Sam unpack Jojo Siwa’s new shit-hot-pop-track (we never thought we’d be heard sayings the words “Grind on my Jojo Bean” out loud either, but here we are!) they chat the ever-outlandishly growing world of baby names (from Isobel to Ice Cube), share the ins and outs of their lesbian getaway (and the...

Welcome to Ep 5 of your new favourite podcast hosted by Australia's biggest ghost denier - Mel O'Brien, and Australia's most cleanse-the-room-before-you-walk-inside diva Samantha Andrew. In this episode, Sam has had enough with the lies in a very famous kids TV show, Mel shares a spine tingling ghost story where a family meet an unlikely babysitter and the girls attempt a salsa number for their fi...

Cheese cubes for ALL! It’s Ratfood #2!!!  In this Ratfood, Mel & Sam discuss the most cursed Airbnb host who would stop at nothing than to get Mel in his art studio, Sam shares her love of sparkly eyed boomers and Mel laments on a tech mishap in the theatre that can only be described with 2 words … “#Bark Gate”.  Thanks for listening you rats! We love you dearly and we’ll see you on...

Welcome to Ep 3 of your new favourite podcast hosted this week by the one and only Samantha I Haven’t Seen That Film Andrew and the biggest The Greatest Showman Apologist this side of the equator - Mel O’Brien! In this episode, Sam opens up about a life changing self-diagnosis (decision martyrdom is real! Believe women!!!), the girls launch their brand new segment ‘Girl Dad’ (someone tell Tom he c...

*drum roll please* Because it’s time for our very first Ratfood!! Our shorter episodes hitting you every Thursday that are a bit less ‘ON A FILM SET’ and a little more ‘just two gals chatting about their weeks’ (there’s something for everyone!!) Get those crumbs, girl! Welcome to the first ever Ratfood where we chat the global Wicked premiere (spoiler alert: it was life-changing), the ins and outs...

Ohhhh, well if it isn’t HAPPY EAR-HOLE DAY TO YOU ALL! Cos we’re bloody BACK, babyyyy and this time - here to stay! Welcome to the very first episode of besties and queer musical comedians Mel & Sam’s brand new podcast: RATBAG. The podcast where we quite frankly do … whatever the fuck we want! In this episode, the girls open a monster can of worms in the realm of breakfast foods (Be brave! Don...