Hi 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 your Fatphobia can do for YOUUUU”. We unpack the Chatty Kathy effect while travelling, what it’s like travelling with a partner (fights included - OBVIOUSLY), the devastation of saying goodbye to any hope of looking hot in a travel photo and of course … the Mum-Ification of Mel O’Brien. Steps 1, 2 and 3. 

We hope these travel stories make you giggle! 

Love and cheese cubes to you all this Ratfood day, and we will of course see you for another Ratbag on Monday.

Go gently this week, treasures. 

Love,

Mel & Sam

xoxo

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You can watch the full video form of this episode on YouTube HERE: https://youtube.com/@themelandsam?si=jzeN-E_-DcE-DGHS

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Mel & Sam would like to acknowledge that Ratbag is being recorded on Stolen Land.

The original custodians of this land have had a rich history of storytelling for over 65,000 years, and we pay our respects to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation whose land we are recording Ratbag on.

Treaties were never signed. Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

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A Grouse House Podcast

Recorded at Haven't You Done Well Productions

Produced by Thomas Zahariou & Lucy Bain

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