Hi everyone, Happy New Year 2026. We are heading to New Zealand for some live shows in Auckland and Wellington at the end of this month, January 2022 and 24. In the year 26, we've added an extra show in Auckland and an extra show in Wellington and tickets are on sale now at dogo onpod.com.

We're also doing some live podcasts at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival

in March and April on Sunday afternoons, and those shows, including discount season passes,

are also on sale now via our of do go on my name is Dave Hornicky as always, I'm here with Jess Perkins.

Hello!

And this week we are also joined this week. I said this week twice.

There's the third time. And a fourth this week, it's Marcel Blanchter. Well, yeah, baby.

It's a thrill to be back. A thrill to be in the studio, a thrill to be

the B team. The B is for Blanche de Wilt, my surname. I think, and I say this with praise,

I think you would be part of the B team. Great. You know, like a, we frequently go to you and

we need a guest. I'm thrilled to be called upon. Yeah. Who, who, if all of you were struck down, God forbid, of course, who would be in the whole B team? Have we ever done an episode where there's only one of the originals? I think we've called it, we've got to have at least two. Yeah. I think it's hard of that before.

Yeah, which is, I think, is correct. Otherwise, last thing you want is the audience going, oh, you know what? Oh, there's B team. This is great. This is better. If we get a second team going, we can have two pods a week. Yeah, franchise it. Oh, shit.

Yeah, or just do every second week, us and then have the others.

You know, we've got Marcel's here.

Yep.

So, like, you're making a third profit. They want to get paid. We're doing it for exposure. Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah. Right. Quickly mention your comedy group. Quick. Yeah. No, you can. I don't like when you say edit point either side of my plugs. No, it's great to have you here. At the time of recording. It's just pre-Christmas, but this is coming out in early January. So you doing anything fun over the summer? Oh, I do love this time of the year, but as a freelancer, I probably will be getting back to work pretty quickly. But I'll be doing it in a chilled fashion. That's nice. I have a margarita in my hand or something. But it's that time of you where you don't feel as guilty as a freelancer to be just a little bit gentler on yourself. Maybe I'll play a video game. Yes. Maybe I'll watch a film during the daytime hours. That sort of thing. That's lovely. That's beautiful.

But yeah, I'm going, hey, I'm self-employed. I've got to be making sure I got wheelers and dealers happening. I'm wheeling and dealing. Yeah. I got to make sure there's some wheels in my future. And deals. And deals, yeah. That's right. So great to have you in Marcel. Jess, do you want to explain to Marcel and anyone who may not have heard the show before

what it is we are doing here?

Yes, because I've done this podcast many times before, but I did hit my head on the way here

and I've forgotten everything.

That must happen to you a lot because you're gigantic.

But we could hit your head on the way out and you do that cartoonish thing where you're,

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