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Ratbag with Mel & SamOur Personal Message To The Ball Kids Of The Australian OpenRight. If anyone knows a ball kid. Or knows someone who KNOWS someone who knows a ball kid. You know where to send ‘em.It’s Australian Open season rattieeeees, and we have felt INSPIRED to chat all things sport today (nee naw - new content alert, when have we ever talked about sport before?? Hahahaha) We’re chatting all things from the reasons why ball kids are famous to us, the sports we grew up playing, our fave sporting stereotypes (net ballers, we’re lookin at youuu), our different experiences going to all girls and co-e...
2026-01-2835 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamThe Yuh-sification Of ‘Sunday In The Park With George’ & Becoming Foster Parents !!Greetings to the rat den!!! Today’s Ratfood is a juicy one, boys. We chat everything from Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey’s casting in ‘Sunday In The Park With George’ - what we’re keen for, and what we’re not so keen for - Mel tells us alllllll about her foster kitty, Tom tells us about the predicament of his resting bitch face, and we learn about a natural phenomenon that has made Sam’s blood CURDLE.Hope life is good wherever you are in the world reading this. Sending lots of love and ch...
2026-01-2131 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamOne Hour In Of Our 24 Hour Live Stream"Hey fam anmd welcome to a kind of different ep this week! If you didn't know, we recently went live for a whole 24 hours, to raise money for Gaza, and today we bring to you a slice of this live, as we recorded a podcast ep as part of the stream, when we were as fresh as a daisy, one hour in! In this episode we chat 'the rules that exist when riding hot air balloons', our hot takes on Wicked - For Good, Sam gets passionate for a second about perfume and much much more. We hope you...
2026-01-1854 minRatbag with Mel & SamMs Hannigan Would Top Daddy WarbucksHey rats!! Welcome to another Ratbag episode. In today’s episode we begin with the near impossible game where Mel tests Sam to see if she can tell the difference between a text from Sam, or from Mel’s girlfriend Sara. Our hotline asks the question 'what are the rules when it comes to online dating ettiquite?' and then there’s a wildly unnecessary unpacking over which celebrities top and which don’t. To finish our ‘Hit It Toots’ has us singing as the Ginger Bread Man and Pinocchio. Hope you enjoy divas!!See you on Thursday for...
2026-01-1140 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamA Holographic Pop Socket Held For RansomHiiii cutie pies!!Happy Ratfood day to one to all. Hope ya ready for a lil nibbleeee on some silly silly stories in this giggly, giggly ep because we have packed them IN today.We open the ep unpacking Lucy’s cruise romance (can’t beLIEVE we missed the opportunity for a joke around Lucy Bain/Bain Marie but - here we are!!) and we absolutely FAIL to craft her the perfect message. Sammy then opens up a curious can of worms to do with penne and planes (flight attendants pls explain yourselves in t...
2026-01-0731 minRatbag with Mel & SamMary Poppins Without Her Bag Of Bits, Is Merely Just A WomanWell hello there bbys! Thanks for joining us again!In today's episode Sam gets inspired by Tyra Banks' recent Hot Ice Cream venture which encourages a conversation around inventions and the ones we need, and really do not need. Our hotline asks us the vital question 'what cars would musical theatre characters drive?' and someone get the cast of Matilda OFF the e-scooters please!!! We then head to school and imagine we are a principal hiring staff for our teaching cohort, but the spanner is, we can only cast celebrities. She's a super silly one...
2026-01-0443 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamDeath To Music Theatre Merch & Pantone Colour Of The Year!!Can’t believe we’re here you guys. We’ve arrived. It’s 2026, and we PERSONALLY couldn’t be more thrilled to see you all here! Thank you so much for joining us over the past year - we can’t wait for another lap round the sun with us in your ear holes chatting shit!In today’s Ratfood, we chat all things from our attitudes towards 2026 and how we feel entering her, to the colour and words of the year gone and the year to come, our fave pop culture moments, tv shows of the year and o...
2025-12-3127 minRatbag with Mel & SamHappy 2026!!! Now go talk to your neighbours!!!Hello there rats and welcome to the new year... well... the week of the new year!!!In today's episode we bring back our 'ins and outs' for 2026, and from Mel's desire for us to chat to our neighbours and Sam's interest in bringing 'toe socks' back, our lists are packed! We then reflect on the year that was, the highlights, the lowlights and the things we are grateful for (a huge one being you) in the bumper year that was 2025. Our 'Kick Ons' has us designing our own dream NYE party whilst skipping NO details, and...
2025-12-2846 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamJanette & Janelle Rogan Have Depression (Welcome To The Interim)Your plate is stacked high with leftover ham. Things are lethargic. The fan is whirring in the corner of the room. All bets are off. Nothing counts for anything. Welcome to the Interim.Rats rats rats. This is our giggliest Ratfood in a whiiiiiiile hehehe. Let us guide you through the most CAVENOUS week in the calendar year - the week between Christmas and new years.We chat all things from a revelation about why men are REALLY going to the cricket, Mel’s most adult purchase to date, Sammy’s childhood trauma from...
2025-12-2428 minRatbag with Mel & SamThe Second Ratbag Christmas SpecialHo, ho, ho!!! Happy Holidays rats and welcome to the SECOND (yeah the tradition!!) Ratbag Christmas Special!In today's episode we begin with a much needed unpacking of the Glee Christmas Episode, be prepared, Mel has pages of notes. We then sing the 12 days of christmas but fill in the blanks with what we would gift eachother and, can't lie, we definitely present different projects to one another. Then we riff on what celebrities would sound like singing their own original christmas carols, which naaaaaturally leads into our hit it toots!Whether you...
2025-12-2146 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamThe Mum-Ification Of Mel AbroadHi beauties. It’s been a really dark and heavy week in Australia this week. We hope that this half hour of silly, light chats can help to provide the tiniest reprieve. We are sending an extra bit of love to all our listeners this week after the atrocities that occurred in Bondi on Sunday night. We love you. In today’s ep, Mel goes innnnnnnn on some of her silliest tales from her incredible trip to Thailand, Vietnam and Laos. It’s giving “ask not what you can do for your Fatphobia, but what y...
2025-12-1732 minRatbag with Mel & SamSiri Is A Nimwit, And Some Other Gripes With TechWell HIIIII rats! Thanks for joining us yet again!In today's episode Mel brings her heated list of her current gripes with technology, and from forms and their inability to accept an apostrophe, to maps hating when you 'add a stop' we hope this list feels cathartic. We then get right into a listener story involving a ghost and Mel tries her best to pretend she belives in ghosts, and let's just say this, she needs to work on her acting. There's then a fun riff around the things we hated as kids that we now...
2025-12-1439 minRatbag with Mel & SamFresh Haircut and a Piss TroughHello there ratties! Another Monday, another Ratbag, gotta love a routine!In today's episode we venture down the metaverse and unpack the hillarious ways users have 'misread social cues' and from a driving instructor becoming a headrest to a prison guard completely misreading the vibe, these entries are just too good. Our 'Bring Bring Bitch!' Hotline opens up a gorgeous reflective space for our listeners to share their stories on how they knew they were in the right career and its truly very wholesome. Then Mel brings an earth shattering observation about fresh...
2025-12-0751 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamOur Unpacking Of ‘Wicked For Good’Yes rats. We teased it. You waited. We could not fit anything else in this episode because it’s WICKED WEEK!So we present to you our unpacking of Wicked For Good. Spoilers ahead of you haven’t seen the film yet and are going to, save this episode and come back to it. Please hit us with your thoughts, we wanna hear them because here at the house of Mel & Sam we livveeeee to unpack musicals!!See you on Monday for another ‘Ratbag!’xx
2025-11-2649 minRatbag with Mel & SamOur Official Call Out To The Slime CommunityIn today’s episode Sam brings an ancient artifact along to the studio for Show & Tell, also known as the Primary School Self Portrait Tea Towel. A listener then asks Mel & Sam for advice when it comes to auditioning, and from camera set up to picking your line reader, we hope the advice we share helps you even just a little!Whether you know absolutely nothing about the Slime Community or are in it yourselves, today we also open up Sam's brain to the fact that Slime & Slime Influencers is a trend that co...
2025-11-2345 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamThe Humble Beginnings Of The Knee NudgeHello rats it’s time for another Ratfood and this week Mel is taking us right back to the 200 seater high school lecture theatre… yes we are chatting !!The Musicals We Did In High School!!From the productions that should not be done in High School that we unfortunately did, to Sam being banished to the wings and being denied an on stage moment, this episode is packed with enough tales to fill your thespian cup. No seriously, this entire episode we are chatting the musicals of our past and we hope you find...
2025-11-1935 minRatbag with Mel & SamThe Ultimate Ranking Of The Arnott's Assorted CreamsHello rats and welcome to another episode of Ratbag! In today’s episode Mel unleashes the ultimate ranking of the Arnott’s Assorted Creams and this segment, to our surprise, unlocks an Oreo conspiracy and a horrible realisation about Teddy Bear Biscuits, a staple in the O'Brien household.Our hotline brings a listener dm (ps - thank you for these please keeo em coming!!), who seeks some advice around their housemate having very loud sex. Then we answer the questionn "how long would society last if it was run by only our mini-me-clones?" As a...
2025-11-1642 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamCrash Outs & The #1 WAG At The Wag FestGuys. Nobody panic. But simply EVERYTHING has changed. Samantha Andrew attended the DOG LOVERS FESTIVAL and loved every. Single. Second of it !!!Love makes you do crazy things, and in today’s ep Sammy tells us all about her weekend at the dog festival (can’t even believe I’m writing these words right now), whilst Mel leans in to her gaming influencer alter ego.We also chat crash outs and moments where we can be the biggest sensitive Sallys and lots, lots more! So stick around and we hope this ep gives you so...
2025-11-1232 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamHalloween, Chatty Kathies & Hooking Up With Austin PowersHiiiii cuties!Welcome to this week’s Ratfood (on the road!) Sammy is coming to us live from her currently-falling-down hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam and Mel is coming to you live with sleepy eye bags from her living room.This week, it’s a gorgy laid back catch up vibe as we chat all things Halloween weekend, ‘The Talented Mr Ripley’ (Sydney Theatre Company), a misunderstanding on the Yarra Bridge with a VERY chatty MTC subscriber (or was it?), a film at the Jewish International Film Festival and so much more.We hop...
2025-11-0529 minRatbag with Mel & SamGet Your Lesbian Feet Out Of My Shoes!!!Heyaaaa! Welcome to another ep of 'Ratbag' with the ONLY Mel and Sam you need to know in your lifetime. To open the episode Mel brings to the pod studio, the other Mel and Sam duos that exist online and their business ventures. From witches to teachers, the collection is eclectic, and truly perfect. Our "Bring Bring Bitch!' Hotline inspires a conversation about the perfect movies that are yet to be turned into musicals. We then design our perfect music festival set lists and spoiler alert...
2025-11-0244 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamLove Is Blind Season 9 & A 3D-Printed Cadbury TwirlA YEAR OF THE POD. Can you believe it, Rats??We can not BELIEVE that we’ve been doing this for a year and we’re oh so grateful for every single one of you that has joined us so far - whether that be for 1 episode or 105 episodes.Today to celebrate we are going IN on our ‘Love Is Blind’ Season 9 thoughts - because it wouldn’t be a Mel & Sam pod without a shameless reality TV deep dive! We talk about the political undertones of the season, the representations of masculinity, the good...
2025-10-2932 minRatbag with Mel & SamThe Dude-if-i-cation Of Where's Wally On HalloweenTrick or TREAT you absolute rat heads!!! Welcome to the first EVER Halloween episode of Ratbag, and by Halloween episode, we mean, the first segment is Halloween based. Hell yeah.In today’s episode, Sam brings the best of the best costumes that are copyright free, found on the internet and riffed on today for your pleasure. Once going through the selection, Mel and Sam then toss around their own copyright free versions of some classic characters including Aunty Donna, Virginia Gay and many more.The ‘Bring Bring Bitch!’ hotline gets them talking about...
2025-10-2650 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamLouvre Heist, Ass-Eating Pirates & A Full BushHey cutie patooties!!Welcome to today’s Ratfood where we’re chatting allllllllllllll about the Madagascar penguins most recent successful project (aka the HEIST of the Crown Jewels at The Louvre). Mel has all the details and we are SCREAMING at how it all went down.We also chat the girlification of RACV on the precipice of Mel finally getting her license (shout out to that dexy), SKIMS new release of the full bush underwear and being full dolphin-mode for surgery and the ins and outs of having a Go Get as a geta...
2025-10-2227 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamThe Life Of A Showgirl & Mel’s BBL SurgeryHi 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 comments below.Lots of love, and big fat cheese cubes to you all...
2025-10-0834 minRatbag with Mel & SamFrom Page to Stage With Vidya MakanBuckle 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 musical 'The Lucky Country' which is opening for Melbourne Fringe this October and for Melt Festival this November! We also...
2025-10-0553 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamThe Musical Theatre Agent Whose Agency Didn't Exist!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 just how vulnerable it can be when auditioning / when you put faith in the industry and it lets you down.
2025-10-0139 minRatbag with Mel & SamPutting The Instagram Fonts On The Dance Moms PyramidHey 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!' hotline is a creative prompt sent in by a listener. We then improvise our creative pitch in our 'Hit It Toots' and the only...
2025-09-2841 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamThe Toxic Side Of Music Theatre Fandom ft. The Carrie Hope Fletcher Of It AllHello 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 when it comes to public criticism - or even bullying - and we talk about the really interesting line tha...
2025-09-2432 minRatbag with Mel & SamNo More Wooden Boards At Cafes!!!!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 always thanks for listening, we are v grateful you have this pod on your weekly rotation.Love ya guts...
2025-09-2143 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamEd Sheeran Shape Of You?? More Like ED SHEERAN SHAPED ME!!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
2025-09-1830 minRatbag with Mel & SamEyebrow Curlers and the Cool Massage-y Push Something ToyHey 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 Ons' where we chat all the things we would do if we woke up in eachother's bodies and of...
2025-09-1440 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamThe Social Media Ban & Mooning Princess Diana At Northcote Aquatic CentreHello 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 bullying (oops) and the glory of My Space and MSN.Sam also tells a story from her week involving some ultimate rascal behaviour in...
2025-09-1032 minRatbag with Mel & SamWhat's Going On With The Bear In The Big Blue House?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 and tricks on writing a solo show.There's then a 'Kick Ons' where we salivate like there's...
2025-09-0735 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamMitch Brown’s Coming Out & Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best FriendHello 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 Carpenter’s newest album drop of ‘Man’s Best Friend’, sharing our initial takes on all the songs and what we lo...
2025-09-0335 minRatbag with Mel & SamThe Long Distance Relationships EpisodeHello 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 candid chats about the hardest parts from our experience, and how to honour your love languages when theres an ocean between you!Whether you...
2025-08-3147 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamAstrology & The Fally-Ship Of The Ring (Q&A)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 lives would be to even (for a brief moment) SPORTS. This ep really does have it all.We also op...
2025-08-2733 minRatbag with Mel & SamWhy Did We Stop Saying ROFLCOPTER?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 confectionary.Our hotline opens a conversation surrounding a big question we asked our listeners "what age so far, has been the best...
2025-08-1744 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamThe Most Fringe Stories To Ever Fringe StoryHello 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 more that anything … here if you need.XxTIX TO ‘...
2025-08-1332 minRatbag with Mel & SamAll Aboard For The Rush Hour CrushHello 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 lesbians.There's then a 'Kick Ons' about things people love that we can't stand (it's giving soap-box once again) and our 'Hit It...
2025-08-1039 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamRenee Rapp’s ‘BITE ME’, Chappell Roan’s ‘THE SUBWAY’ & Cynthia Erivo’s JesusA 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 more morally from our pop stars, why people are feeling in two minds about Renee’s album and how much honesty we can take in our fave pop...
2025-08-0635 minRatbag with Mel & SamCrying On A Three Day Live Stream with Taz and AlessiaHello 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, there's then a 'Gaydar' segment where Sam tests Mel, Taz and Alessia on pinning the gay quote to the queer celeb.
2025-08-0352 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamThey Hate To See Two Women With A Thriving Cap Business! (Edinburgh Fringe Diaries Pt. 1)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 student accommodation, we chat long haul flights (and the shows that got us through), dribbling showers, contraband caps, pork in the window sill and so much more.
2025-07-3028 minRatbag with Mel & SamThe Search For Elle Woods Was TV GoldHello 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 obvious question we have never answered "what are our favourite musicals?" and boy do we wax lyrical. We then do a s...
2025-07-2742 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamKATSEYE, Pop Star Academy & A Revenge-Seeking SultanaOh, 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 Kristen Chenoweth TikTok and so much more.Oh. Also Mel is hoodwinked by a suspiciously placed pa...
2025-07-2331 minRatbag with Mel & SamThe Airbnb Story From HellHey hey bbys! If you're ready for some quick-sticks-mind-blowing facts then you're in luck because Mel has brought in some 'Ripleys Believe It Or Not' facts that sends the podcast studio into a spin.Our 'Bring Bring Bitch Hotline' brings us a listener story that stars an overseas trip, a cousin, a scream and a mystery guest and it's just that good it becomes our 'Hit It Toots!'. Mel & Sam (& Tom) then take a moment to reflect on themselves and talk positive qualities in eachother and one another, and ngl it's a little bit sweet.
2025-07-2044 minRatbag with Mel & SamLife Is All Just Caveats and CaviarHello divas! If you could download your dreams... would you? Well today a 'Kick Ons' inspires a chat about dream downloads and a USB Pillow. Sam then comes in hot as she has one goal and one goal only, to hopefuly revolutionise your showering experience with 'The Completely Relevant Shower Tier System' . Here at the house of Mel & Sam, we embrace loving something hard, and showering is one Sam indeed does love hard. This (subtle) system aims to change the way you shower, whether in a small way or a profound way - that choice is up to you.
2025-07-1344 minRatbag with Mel & SamParasocial Relationships, P.D.A and Privilege with Olga KochHey hey bbys!! We are back with another guest episode and this time it’s with the wonderful Olga Koch. Olga is a Russian-British stand up comedian, writer, podcaster and a previous recipient of the ‘Best Newcomer’ at none other than Edinburgh Fringe Festival.In this weeks episode we chat with Olga about many things including her PHD in Computer Science, laughter as currency, when couples engage in PDA and the best places to find gorgy vintage clothing!Mel also shares a bizarre audition brief she once received and the three riff on a bunc...
2025-07-0751 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamThe Ultimatum: Queer Love IS Our SUPERBOWLIt’s a miracle we managed to pump out this episode considering the fact we have been literally GLUED to our screens this past week watching ‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’!!So you guessed it rats, this week we are unpacking our thoughts on the first lot of episodes, as well as telling you all about our time in Sydney on tour where we found ourselves at the Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre on a random Tuesday, Sam fell in love with a Swedish intern and lots lots more.We hope you enjoy this chilled out Ra...
2025-07-0238 minRatbag with Mel & SamBlueberries, Hueberries, Blasphemy!Hello darlings and welcome to another episode of Ratbag!In this episode Sam reflects on her book of love letters that she received for her 30th. Mel then spirals about the colour of blueberries based on a recent conversation at a party that sent her over the edge. The girls then chat horror first crushes thanks to a listener dm, where Sam shares a story about kissing the wrong man, and Mel shares her first kiss story that HAS to involve a high school production… naaaaturally. Tom then brings a ‘Girl Dad’ that l...
2025-06-2946 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamAhhh Yes! The Movie To Musical Pipeline!Hi our beautieeeees. Hope this Ratfood On The Road finds you all having beautiful weeks - we’re coming to you live from our hotel room in Sydney!Thanks for joining us for this gorgy lil chat and unpack of all things MOVIE TO MUSICAL. In this ep, Sam unpacks her thoughts on 3 West End shows in particular that she saw on her trip and we chat about all things the good, the bad and the predictable when it comes to movies that get turned in to musicals.Let us know your thoughts in...
2025-06-2534 minRatbag with Mel & SamMel & Sam Force Sentimentality on Flo & JoanHello there rats and get ready for another beautiful guest ep with two women that are kind of Mel and Sam but in a different, more stoic-&-British font: it’s Flo & Joan! Rosie and Nicola are the two sisters behind iconic UK musical comedians ‘Flo & Joan’ who have made a name for themselves performing all over the world with their witty songs. They are the two writers behind the critically acclaimed show: ‘One Man Musical’ and have an upcoming Amazon Original 'Alive On Stage' hitting screens in August! In today’s episode the four musical gals sit down and chat eve...
2025-06-221h 02
Ratbag with Mel & SamGod Forbid A Gal Likes Her Hair Pulled?!Hey cuties!! Welcome to today’s Ratfood where we’re pretty much just having a big fat catch up, guvna! And you’re invited along for the ride - zoom lags and overlaps and all!This is the longest we’ve ever gone without speaking (not an exaggeration) and boy do we have THINGS TO CATCH UP ON! Sammy tells us allllll about her time at Prima Vera Sound in Barcelona, about how she got fyre-festivaled, how the sets were of our top 3 pop girlies and some of the things that really surprised her about some of the a...
2025-06-1845 minRatbag with Mel & SamSend Us Some Woodland Creatures Cause Today We're Chatting Whimsy!Hey rat! Hope you're reading this with an undercurrent of fluttering flutes and shimmery strings because today's a whimsical solo ep!! Sorry about it!! To kick off the episode Sam brings in a gorgeous list where people share the ways they bring out whimsy in their day to day life, and this list is actually adorable. Mel and Sam then continue to insist theatre sports are cool by playing a round of two truths and a lie and there is also a wonderful dm for the 'Bring Bring Bitch' hotline where a longtime fan asks for some help in...
2025-06-1543 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamPropaganda We ARE Falling For with Dwayne The Rock AndrewWhere is the hottest place for a piercing? Is costume jewellery really worth the green rim of doom that comes with it? Is black mirror really as good as everyone says it is? All of this and more life changing content on today’s VERY CURRENT Ratfood recorded THIS WEEK in VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA. DEFINITELY.It’s a super fun one today bbys! We’ve got our beautiful Luce stepping in to the studio and Sammy leading us on her expertly thought out list of the propaganda she absolutely IS falling for right now.We cha...
2025-06-0438 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamSinners, School Reunions And The Matcha Extension From HellHello angel pies. It’s that time of the week. Thank you oh so very much for joining us for another gorgy lil’ laid back chat where we get to catch you up on our weeks and what’s going on in our worlds!In this episode, Lucy poisons Mel with the drink from hell before sharing the iconic story of how her boldness got her a job at the Aunty Donna office, Mel tells the story of how she almost didn’t get cast in ‘Fangirls’ and the girls collectively unpack their thoughts on the film ‘Sinner...
2025-05-2834 minRatbag with Mel & SamPerformative Double Dipping Has Gone Too FarHey cuties! It's another solo 'Ratbag' today (just what the doctor ordered) and this one is a fun one! To kick off the episode Mel asks the question 'Is This Gross Or Is It Not That Big Of A Deal?' about a variety of situations that has us calling out 'performative politeness'. Sam polls the listeners on what apps they are using to communicate with mates (ok private Twitter account!) and the girls realise that Lucy seems to have the touch of an oracle. Finally and naturally there is a 'Hit It Toots!" where Mel & Sam try and...
2025-05-2541 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamFatty & Fatgirl Go To The UnderworldHello to all of our treasured rats out there! We hope this episode finds you having a glorious day or night, whenever you may find it!In today’s wrap-up of our weeks and what’s been on our minds, we tell you alllllll about our INCREDIBLE night at the theatre at the Melbourne opening night of Hadestown the musical, Sam tells us all about a costume party to end all costume parties, we chat about how we used to flex our creativity in our early ages and Tom opens up about how he IS the prob...
2025-05-1437 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamWinning A Green Room Award In A Nightie From Peter AlexanderYou guys. This episode is absolutely crazy!!! Coo coo bananas!!! Mel LITERALLY EATS her fidget toy (NOT CLICKBAIT!!! OMG!!) And we definitely say a lot of things in this episode! Things that are worth saying. This one’s absolutely STACKED with facts and stories and things and discussions and unpacking and is definitely NOT a hodge-podge of next to nothing-ness!! In this ep, the girls celebrate the election win, unpack how and why voting feels a tiny bit NQR (not quite right), Sam chats about meeting and filming with Greens leader Adam Bandt, Mel chats her the...
2025-05-0731 minRatbag with Mel & SamAre We Just Joe Rogan With C*nty Eyeliner?Hey hey darlins!! Stoked you are joining us for another 'Ratbag' today! To kick off the episode Mel is coming in hot with a segment surrounding her dad and a motorbike saga that sent him over the edge. We then riff on some different business ventures that could be in our future for the house of Mel & Sam, including a fashion line, and a business in building physical (not metaphorical) bridges. We then unpack moments when we have 'followed our gut' and finally we end the episode with a 'Hit It Toots!' that follows femimism being sent back 20...
2025-05-0443 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamIs White Lotus REALLY That Good??HELLO U RATS!! Now. You better be watching this episode on a 70metre long cinema screen in your house because this is CINEMA, baby. And you deserve it!! In today’s episode, we chat all things TV and cinema - c’mon rebrand!! Sam introduces a brand new campaign to stop a phenomena that is RUINING movie-going across the nation (#SayNoToPanasonic), the girls unpack their thoughts on White Lotus (over-rated?) and Adolescence and we celebrate the beginning of Tom’s influencer era. We also unpack what the fuuuck has happened to our attention spans and why we thin...
2025-04-3030 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamOMG!! Tom Proposed To Another Woman!!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 another woman and we chat some of the rogue-est gifts we’ve ever received.It’s a really giggly and joyful one so please go...
2025-04-2334 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamCalifornia Gurls In Space & Suddenly 30 SamIt’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 close to the sun (literally in space) and lots in between! Sammy chats the struggles with pressures on celebra...
2025-04-1632 minRatbag with Mel & SamCan We Chat On Instagram I'm So Much Better There HahavHey 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 where a gorgeous listener has asked us how to navigate a certain queer conundrum they are in. There's then a mind boggling conspiracy about glitter and a 'Kick Ons...
2025-04-1348 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamTits Out For The CCTV!! Cos We’ve Been ROBBED!!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 from the last week, we tell you all about our mate Yve Blake’s INCREDIBLE new play reading ‘Mackenzie’ that we had the humongous honour of...
2025-04-0936 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamWe Hired A Beta Incel To Work In Our Panini ShopWelcome 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 drop kicking of a green Thai chicken curry. The meeting of Sam’s two dads. A fucked breakfast of champions...
2025-04-0234 minRatbag with Mel & SamAttention Theatre Kids: We Have Watched Your ShowreelHey 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. Mel then comes clean wiith her own long winded lie she told through Primary School and Sam laments on a time she ran walking...
2025-03-3041 minRatbag with Mel & SamA Bathroom Door Lock, A Croc & A FishOh 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 then chat through a list of things that made us finally feel like an adult (Sam's still on her family medicare card). Then, there's a juicy 'Kick-Ons' question that...
2025-03-2345 min
Ratbag with Mel & Sam700 Caps In The Mail & Academic Mommies To The FrontHello 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’ll see you for more VERY important content on Monday, and if you’re a Naarm cutie and want to come see our live...
2025-03-1939 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamSAY NO TO BULLYING: Live From Adelaide FringeMel & 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 also read a hotline question where they give advice to performers thinking of producing their own show for the very first time, and chat self care, shows they’ve seen in the last w...
2025-03-1231 minRatbag with Mel & SamWhy School Of Rock Is The Greatest Film Ever MadeHey 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 experience with housemates/ rent inspections. There is then a brilliant question in the 'Bring Bring Bitch' Hotline that centres around 'How to navigate non-monogomy'. To bring it home there...
2025-03-0949 minRatbag with Mel & Sam#SayNoToCoolBaristasHeya 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 also includes a very important listener question about queer sex which we loved unpacking. Sam then shares a life hack that gets her through the day...
2025-03-0253 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamGIRL DAD RETURNS!!!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 of his entire futuristic GADGET collection, Mel chats moving in with her partner, Sam declares her new and proud WAG status and mo...
2025-02-2635 minRatbag with Mel & SamLazy Susan's Hit And Run With A Ninja Turtle WalletOh 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 worst gigs, to what Michelle was like as a host of Drag Race Down Under, from twinks needing the aircon OFF and much much more, this is an...
2025-02-2358 minRatbag with Mel & SamYou've Liked My Story, Now Kiss MeGreetings 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. As always there is a juicy 'Kick Ons' question and a ridiculous 'Hit It Toots!'. Hope you're in for a pretty gay episode! See ya on Thursday for another 'Ratfood...
2025-02-1638 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamTim from MAFS, Belle Gibson & Swimming In A Dead Skin PoolHello 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 the notion of themed parties, how neither of us are hostesses-with-the-mostesses in our blood (even though we wanna be!), we chat how we scamme...
2025-02-1339 minRatbag with Mel & SamLe Freak! C'est Chic! Bandaid!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 Ora (who IS she? realllyyy?) to the backrooms of florists... (what... happens...back...there???). As always there is a 'Kick Ons' hypothetical and this time, we're leaning into the absurd...
2025-02-0947 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamGirl Power At The GRAMMYs, AI In Music & Flashing Our Tits At Gumbuya World 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 sitting in specific genres in music as artists and launch in to a lengthy chat about the ethics and complications that can come with usi...
2025-02-0543 minRatbag with Mel & SamFalling In Love & A Big Red ButtonG'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 you think are 'The Biggest Scam of All'. All of this and more is waiting for ya, so chuck us on for that commute to w...
2025-02-0247 minRatbag with Mel & SamToaster Dials Measure The... Anyway!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's biggest "I-haven't-seen-that-film-Samantha-Andrew". There's a 'Hit It Toots!' about an insufferable theatre troop and Tom share's a hellscape Auntry Donna rebrand. As always, we love, love, love ya f...
2025-01-2647 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamTikTok Is OUT And Theatre (The Tennis) Is INIT’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 sparkling, pop some lip gloss on and join us for another episode of zoomy chats, talking over eachother and sharing a brain cell!We’re also...
2025-01-2240 minRatbag with Mel & SamMan's Best Friend, Or Woman's Acquaintance?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 metaphorical elevator, for some completely unecessary theatre sports and if you're STILL listening then good god you must like us (love u). This episode also contains a...
2025-01-1941 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamWe Are Sex Positive Neighbours In This House!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 everything from early 2000s lunchbox snacks through to the ‘bean soup’ theory, sex through the...
2025-01-1535 minRatbag with Mel & SamOut Damned Spot! (But If Lady Macbeth Wore Blue Mascara)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' we share some spine tingling ghost stories that will have you avoiding mirrors for the forseeable future, before launching into an impossible FMK involving mommy Julia Gillard because its always important...
2025-01-1255 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamThe Bangs That Broke The InternetMel 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 of course … the bangs that broke the internet (and much more).We’ll see you for more VERY important content in next Monday’s Ratbag. And remember. Ve...
2025-01-0832 minRatbag with Mel & SamAsking Questions Is Sexy!!!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 expected twin sister: wedding gifts, because wedding season is truly upon us. We then round out the ep with Mel sharing a reoccuring dream...
2025-01-0441 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamThe Late In Life Aubergine DiagnosisAlright 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 reveals himself as an operatic tenor and Mel shares a hot new allergy who’s just entered the villa. They also chat girlhood, festival camp set-up supremacy, Molly Grac...
2025-01-0132 minRatbag with Mel & Sam2024's Short-'n'-Sweet-Brat-Femininomenon-Summer 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. DIARY. DOWN. THAT. YOU'RE. ABOUT. TO. BUY. PUT. IT. DOWN. The girls also chat 2025 ins (fake flowers, grow up...
2024-12-2941 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamChristmas Is OVER & Swearing Makes You Smart!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 access to every random statistic in their lives, they find out that only geniuses swear (obviously), th...
2024-12-2531 minRatbag with Mel & SamWalt Disney's Studio Apartment (aka - The Freezer)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 unpack the hit TV show "Love Is Blind" - fall in love with us for our voice, not our face THANKS. Mel tests the ultimate level of extroversion...
2024-12-1544 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamNot The Peer-Reviewed ADHD Diagnosis!!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 wins unlimited Girlfriend Points for booking tickets for the overseas concert of a lifetime and Tom has officially welcomed the first day of ‘Shorts’ season with a shaved...
2024-12-1134 minRatbag with Mel & SamI'm Not Your Uber, I'm Your Mate With a CarToot 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 this episode, the girls rapid fire some important hot takes including finding a new event like the races, minus the animal cruelty (we need somewhere to watch men fall over in Gazman suits!!). Mel wastes no time...
2024-12-0835 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamGive Us Our Spotify Wrapped, Cowards!!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
2024-12-0429 minRatbag with Mel & SamPortrait Of A Squirt On FireHello 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 talk in bouldering metaphors (we know our target audience, thanks so much for playing). The two then send it home with a disco number featuring a Renee Rap rap.
2024-12-0143 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamHolding Space For The Lyrics Of Defying GravityWE 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=KuYKrPZPWr4In this Ratfood, Mel & Sam unpack the global Wickedmania, their own thoughts on the film, the queer undertones...
2024-11-2731 minRatbag with Mel & SamHumpty Dumpty didn't fall, he was pushed.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 conspiaracy she probably should have left unexplored and the girls ponder if they would ever want to meet their real life doppleganger? (Hot, we're in).These...
2024-11-2441 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamJojo Siwa’s Bean Grind & A Sleigh Boots AdIt’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 board game that nearly tore them apart) and the girls cover the controversial Christmas ad that has sent the internet in to a tizz!Thanks for...
2024-11-2033 minRatbag with Mel & SamSome ghosts have adhd!!! And that's ok!!!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 first and only time.All of this and more is waiting for ya so go for a walk you rat and let us keep you company!!...
2024-11-1748 min
Ratbag with Mel & SamPaint Me Like One Of Your Bark GirlsCheese 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 Monday for more VERY important content.xxMel & Sam—You can watc...
2024-11-1332 minRatbag with Mel & SamCan’t Two Suitcases Just Bro Out At Bahn Mi, Man?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 can not let his daughter play golf) and they unpack some of their listeners’ hottest takes (was the rock silent? Or was the rock silENCED?) Mel...
2024-11-1042 minRatbag with Mel & SamHappy ear-hole day!! WE'RE BACK!!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’t be a sheep! Say no to eggs!) Our ‘Bring Bring Bitch’ hotline brings us a spine-tingling ghost story th...
2024-11-0335 min