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LET THIS DAY LIVE IN THE OPPOSITE OF INFAMY! Because for the first time in Medallica's history, one of our feature minnow athletes has actually medalled! It's a bumper edition of the show! We obviously go off like porridge in a sock with the news that Huge Fab has won Burkina Faso's first ever Olympic Medal, but we also come good on an ad we were paid to do, take a geeze at the Minnow Medals and cover ornithology, latin and the old country switcheroo. And that's not even the top of the porridge-filled sock! Make sure to get your listening gear around it.
Selling a dream is a lot like selling yourself. Get you a podcasting duo that can do both. Hi, we're Gus and Rig from Gus and Rig. We are releasing this special presentation to you to let you know where we've been, what we've been doing and what we have planned for the Tokyo 2020+1 Olympics on our other podcast Medallica. We hope that you laugh, but more importantly, we hope that you badger the powers that be in a company that you either work for and/or own, to get right behind us in terms of sponsorship of our shows, various content and media appearances. There's a whole bunch of options available but there's only one underdog like you in your business and/or industry that can help out the underdogs that be us. Have a listen, dust off your cat paws, head to gusandrig.biz and help if you can, or jump over to Medallica on your favourite podcast app and hit subscribe. Let's get dot bizzy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/shitshowpod/message
This week the boys start a sporting franchise and introduce new segment 'The People's Postbag', as well as a fresh installment of Trainwreck Trophy.
The lads bring you all the trainwreck tidbits you've come to know and love, along with another installment of 'Iso Horny', where listeners bring us the worst parts of online dating.
Gus introduces Conspiracy Corner (a collection of the most insane conspiracies circulating about Coronavirus), the boys bring you some all-time trainwreck trophy nominations, and a long-time listener unveils that Pornhub Premium is even weirder than we all thought. Buckle up!
Gus and Rig are back with a special release season to get you through the pandemic. Join them in Ep I for Trainwreck Trophy, and an expose on dating apps in the time of the Rona.
At a time of year when you find yourself bracing for shit presents and even shittier interactions with immediate family, the boys are here with a festive feast for the ears that will remind you that someone always has it worse. Jump in the car, lock yourself in your childhood bedroom or “put your kids to sleep”, and prepare to listen, laugh, and not murder a cousin or two.
Gus brings us the story of the Danbury Trashers, a professional hockey team owned by a mobster and run by his teenage son.
Rig brings us the story of Australia's crusade to keep scholar Egon Kisch out in the 1930s using any means necessary.
Gus brings us the story of Martha Marek, the woman who was just addicted to insurance fraud.
The boys trade Trainwrecks under strict time conditions, and create Rig's dating app "Rigularity". It's everything you never knew your life was missing!
Rig tells us the story of one of the least thought-out heists ever pulled off.
This week Gus brings us the story of Wendy Brown, the 33yr old mother who pretended to be her daughter to go back to High School.
Gus has the segments and Rig brings us the skinny on a bloke who we all thought just made triangles do maths stuff. But throw in a cult, five years of silence, and a bizarre fear of beans, and you’ve got one hell of a kooky bastard who you won’t be able to look in the eye. Mainly because he’s been dead for 2500 years.
This week Rig has the segments and Gus takes us to New York for the 1930s story of Mike the Durable.
To change things up and certainly not due to being underprepared, the boys bring you a special edition Shtorytime Smithereens, which is chock full of main course tales. Dig in, and lick the plate clean when you're done.
Gus has the segments and Rig brings forth the tale of William Walker a.k.a. Slick Willy, who spent his lifetime trying to convince the world how awesome slavery was.
Rig has the segments before Gus brings to your ears the story of Carl Tanzler, Deutsche psycho/all-time sex pest.
It’s a brand new Smithereens Ep and it’s Trainwreck Central, which means there’s more tree biscuits, butthole licking, ketamine and PSA’s about safe sex than ever before! Get your listening gear around it.
Gus has the segments, while Rig brings the story of how one little girl's penchant for spirits broke the hearts, minds and wallets of an entire nation.
This Ep, Gus takes us on the tale of 1500s astronomer and all-round psycho, Tycho Brahe. This bloke was the full package - a drunken elk owning lad with a nose made of actual gold, who employed a psychic midget and was most likely killed by his assistant. Oh, and to top it all off, he was the inspiration behind Hamlet. We've also got all your favourite segments, and at least one missed sting. Wrap your earholes around it.
WE BACK.....AGAIN. After a mid-season hiatus, Gus and Rig are back with an Ep chock full of Uranium theft, drunk teachers punching on in a burger joint and a woman with a seemingly magic vagina. None of this is a misprint.
Meth squirrels, frozen tree chickens and why the vehicle of choice for zombies is a 2006 Honda Odyssey. It's all this and more in this installment of special format Trainwrecks that didn't make previous eps. Dig. In.
Rig has the segments, and Gus tells us the story of Fernando Martín Vicente a.k.a. a man who systemically cheated at the Paralympics for his own financial gain. He is just the actual worst.
Gus and Rig are back for the next installment of Smithereens, this time focussing on Stories that didn't quite make the cut for a full Ep, with a strict 10-min time limit. Get onboard as they navigate space and time to bring you the very best in full-blown yarns of human idiocy.
With an impending federal election, Gus and Rig unpack everything you need to know about the bland v beige contest this weekend. Enjoy this irreverent look at our nation's future through the eyes of two complete idiots.
Gus has the segments, and fresh from Europe Rig delivers the meaty portion. He brings us the story of the 18th century French eating machine, a man whose eating capabilities were literally used by the army as a weapon.
With Rig galivanting around Europe, we bring you our first installment of Smithereens - a bite-sized episode that features 30 mins of Trainwreck Trophies that were left on the cutting room floor due to a combination of circumstance and censorship.
Rig has the segments, then Gus brings us the story of Turkmenistan's weird AF dictator who makes Kim Jong-il look sane.
Gus has the segments, and this week Rig brings us the story of how Milan went absolutely ape with fear in the 1600s and the government tried to keep them at bay using some....unconventional methods.
Rig has the segments, and in Shtorytime Gus brings us the tale of the USS William D. Porter, a.k.a. The Boat That Sucked.
This week Gus has the segments, and Rig brings to the table a yarn about how the French screwed the pooch dealing with the Bubonic Plague in late 1800s Vietnam.
Rig has the segments this week, and in Shtorytime Gus delivers the yarn of 'Count' Victor Lustig, one of the most brazen conmen in history.
Gus has the segments this week, while Rig brings us the story of Pepsi's 1992 promotion in the Phillipines that went wrong. Fast.
This week Rig has the segments, and Gus tells the story of Aussie lunatic Reg Speirs.
Back after a 12-month hiatus, Gus and Rig hit the mic to bring you Season 2 of Shitshow. Featuring all your favourite segments as well as some fresh new sponsors, S2E1's Shtorytime focuses on how the US government had a red-hot go at killing all their citizens during prohibition.
WE'RE AT THE POINTY END NOW! People are realising the end is nigh for the 2018 World Cup, which is why they're jumping through glass bus shelters, drugging and robbing people blind, and fining the bejesus out of people for wearing different socks. We cover all that and make a visit to our now beleaguered resident psychic who has shat the bed in the quarter finals. Only a few shows left so make an effort to get around the latest episode of Medallica on your way into/from that job you are indifferent about!
Our Week 2 Wrap Show is here and it's chock full of all the goings on, direct from the icy homophobic tundra of Russia. You want death threats? World Cup's got em. You want racism? Russia's got it in the bag. What about pseudo-funerals for national football teams? It's all in a day's work. It's also crammed full of our favourite minnow moments so far and everyone's favourite unwilling psychic. Get your fix of Medallica right here, right now.
WHAT A WIN BY THE BOYS! A 1-0 result to the Socceroos over the French is the best! To hear more about the handicap that the Frogs faced, give the newest episode of Medallica a listen!
It's been a number of weeks since we landed back on Australian shores, and we're only now being considered medically stable. We dive back into the Games to recap the Closing Ceremony and our top 15 memorable moments, as well as look ahead to the World Cup in Russia and Tokyo 2020 Olympics. It's got a bit of everything, from train station squid snacks to Canadian car thieves, and a special outro courtesy of one of our Kul-De-Sac to Korea patrons. It's been our absolute pleasure bringing you the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, pop over to our instagram @gusandrig or check out Medallica on Facebook to stay abreast of what's happening next for us. Churr!
It's Monday in Korea which means most things are closed for no discernible reason. That's not the case with this episode of Medallica though. NZ go hard in the paint in the minnow medals and also have a legitimate medal shot in the Team Pursuit Speed Skating event, starring Peter Michael Michaels. Our desire for Riggustani legitimacy sees Rig become a curler on Tinder based on sage advice from Steven Bradbury and we talk dried pressed squid, our hotel maids who hate us and the dumbest doping scandal you've ever heard
Today's episode is brought to you by zero sleep and a hundred per cent weird Korean caffeine drink. Thanks to this liquid horse tranquilizer/kidney destroyer, we've served up a cast full of Shaun White disses, Minnow Medal excitement, and justice in the first ever People's Games. It's willing and able so get your latest fix of Medallica now
Welcome to our feature-length 10th Episode! Rig has the segments this week, and puts together a ripping Trainwreck Trophy that covers Sam Newman of Footy Show fame, the Hungarian Transport Commission looking a gift horse in the mouth and the unbelievably unprepared Wendy Williams/Billy Ray Cyrus interview. We have a listener-submitted Poos in the News courtesy of a fan, and after a unique One Star Reservoir, Gus delves into a deluxe Shpotlight that looks at the man behind Fyre Festival, the worst festival ever.
It was our pleasure to join Matt Okine and Alex Dyson on Triple J to discuss Rachid Sidibe (Burkina Faso), Kim Collins (Saint Kitts and Nevis) and all things Medallica, as well as fielding some slightly curly calls from the public re minnows they'd like to know more about. Enjoy!