Shaddap You Face - Joe Dolce

Pitchfork Review – Joe Dolce: Shaddap You Face
Score: 8.7 (Best New Meme)

Joe Dolce’s Shaddap You Face is the kind of song that makes you question not only the nature of music, but the nature of civilisation itself. In 1980, while the rest of the world was contemplating the looming nuclear winter, Joe Dolce decided to weaponise a mandolin and a catchphrase to wage war on taste.

Dolce’s delivery—equal parts comedy uncle, regional theatre understudy, and man who’s just been told “the karaoke machine’s broken, can you sing it a cappella?”—is the song’s driving force. The accordion wheezes like a pensioner after walking up three steps, while the rhythm plods along with all the swagger of a Fiat Panda in second gear. It’s not music you dance to so much as music you gesticulate wildly to, preferably while wearing a checked tablecloth as a cape.

Lyrically, it’s a work of minimalist genius. Dolce doesn’t waste time with metaphors or subtext—every line is a conversation between him, his mama, and an imagined chorus of Australian radio listeners in 1981 who were too polite to turn it off. The repeated hook, “What’s-a matter you?” isn’t just a question—it’s an existential howl, a postmodern critique of the immigrant experience, or maybe just a man yelling at a cloud.

When it was released, Shaddap You Face dethroned John Lennon’s Woman on the UK charts. Yes, Joe Dolce beat a Beatle. That’s like if Subway released a tuna melt that outsold the Mona Lisa. It’s a reminder that sometimes, the masses don’t want enlightenment—they want an accordion, a bad accent, and a chorus that gets funnier the more you sing it.

In the end, Shaddap You Face is not a song you listen to because you want to—it’s a song you listen to because it will find you. In the supermarket. In a taxi. In your brain at 3am. And you will sing along, because resistance is futile.

Verdict: A masterpiece of cultural persistence. Like herpes, but with a mandolin.

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Transcript

01:04.32
Chibbs
Oh yeah. This is a thousand and one songs that make you want to die. The podcast we talk about songs so bad and makes you want to build a time machine and go back to 1980 and jam your dick between an accordion.

01:16.60
Mad Dog
1980 specifically?

01:18.29
Chibbs
Yeah.

01:19.21
Bevo
It's a...

01:20.52
Mad Dog
Was that a big year for accordions or?

01:22.84
Chibbs
No, it'd just be rate weird.

01:25.56
Mad Dog
Yeah, it's fair enough.

01:28.49
Chibbs
Yeah. You could have picked any time. It's like, yeah, but I had to definitely know an accordion would be around. If I went any further back.

01:34.17
Mad Dog
Yeah.

01:34.77
Bevo
I was saying to Gavin before, if I had a time machine, I'd go to like September 12th. They'd be like, there's going to be a terrorist attack September 11th. everyone will be like, yeah, we know.

01:49.57
Mad Dog
Oh, Jesus.

01:50.33
Bevo
like They'll be like, you got the date wrong, Matt. You had one day too late.

01:52.27
Mad Dog
Yeah.

01:53.01
Bevo
And um I'd be like, no, I knew.

01:55.12
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:56.42
Bevo
knew.

01:56.63
Mad Dog
I'm from the future and I need to let...

01:56.65
Bevo
Yeah.

01:59.15
Mad Dog
oh shit.

02:02.52
Chibbs
No one would believe me anyway.

02:04.00
Mad Dog
Yeah.

02:05.33
Chibbs
ah Well, speaking of liars, we're doing Shut Up You Face by Joe Dolce.

02:18.53
Mad Dog
Hey! Hey!

02:34.13
Chibbs
Fucking enough, enough, enough, enough. and

02:36.36
Mad Dog
Why you look so sad?

02:36.24
Chibbs
Fuck.

02:36.89
Bevo
Novelty. Novelty hits.

02:41.04
Chibbs
This is fucking, this is so.

02:43.28
Bevo
Anyone who's who's ah sensitive about accents better turn this episode off immediately.

02:48.13
Mad Dog
hey

02:47.98
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:49.08
Mad Dog
This is about to get very ethno-racist.

02:52.80
Bevo
you know yeah let's let's Let's keep it safe.

02:54.48
Chibbs
We'll get there. Anyway.

02:55.58
Mad Dog
Let's tone it down. Okay.

02:57.60
Chibbs
I didn't write the lyrics. I don't know how I can tone this down. I don't know. Anyway, Bevo's here.

03:03.72
Bevo
ah Chow?

03:05.25
Chibbs
yeah Mad Dog.

03:08.16
Mad Dog
Waffy waffy!

03:09.72
Chibbs
ah Good stuff.

03:10.16
Bevo
Did

03:10.56
Chibbs
gavin Gavin's not here. He had a baby or some shit.

03:13.76
Mad Dog
He had a baby.

03:13.64
Chibbs
I don't know. He posted something.

03:14.34
Bevo
you say gavo?

03:14.72
Mad Dog
Congrats, Gabbo.

03:15.24
Bevo
You did say gavo.

03:16.53
Chibbs
Yeah.

03:17.30
Mad Dog
Yeah.

03:17.40
Bevo
What's a gavo?

03:19.80
Chibbs
Gabbo.

03:20.41
Mad Dog
Did

03:23.63
Mad Dog
Did I say Gabbo?

03:24.99
Bevo
it it's like

03:26.73
Mad Dog
Shit.

03:26.86
Bevo
what's a gavo I figure it's some guy's name, some guy named Gavo.

03:33.53
Chibbs
ah We got lyrics. Lyrics to get into by old Joe.

03:36.89
Mad Dog
Jesus.

03:37.19
Chibbs
is it Dolce? Dolce.

03:39.21
Bevo
Dolce, Dolce, Dolce.

03:39.29
Mad Dog
Dolce. Dolce.

03:40.35
Chibbs
Dolce.

03:41.05
Mad Dog
Dolce.

03:41.27
Chibbs
Okay. All right.

03:42.31
Bevo
I think Dolce might be right.

03:42.50
Mad Dog
Like Dolce. Dolce.

03:45.02
Chibbs
Okay.

03:46.12
Bevo
Joe Dulse.

03:46.30
Chibbs
Cool. Yeah. Joe Dulse.

03:50.21
Mad Dog
Joe Dalkey.

03:51.97
Chibbs
ah Okay, the lyrics. It goes, Hello, I'm a Giuseppe. but I've got to

04:03.84
Bevo
Yeah.

04:06.83
Mad Dog
You've already set me off.

04:08.66
Bevo
yeah

04:10.61
Chibbs
i I got a something special off for you, ready? Uno, due, tre, quattro.

04:22.75
Chibbs
It's like he just wrote lyrics and just dropped the letter A in between everything and went, now it's Italian. Yeah.

04:29.65
Mad Dog
He's really hamming this up.

04:30.23
Bevo
this um This predates Super Mario by like five years as well.

04:34.69
Chibbs
I got something special for you.

04:37.93
Bevo
Checking the guy who did the voice of Mario is like, this is what I've been looking for.

04:42.68
Chibbs
God damn it. Get me Joe Daltz. Yeah.

04:47.62
Bevo
I know I ran this joke into the ground, but imagine like Joe Dolce performing and fucking the guy who did the voice of Mario is on the phone like, you know the voice from Mario you've been looking for?

04:58.44
Chibbs
Listen to this.

05:03.83
Mad Dog
No.

05:03.76
Chibbs
What's the matter with you?

05:04.89
Mad Dog
You, hey!

05:05.12
Chibbs
ah ah

05:08.61
Mad Dog
Hello, I'm a Giuseppe.

05:08.54
Chibbs
um It doesn't, yeah, it doesn't, there's no verses or choruses, it doesn't seem. It's just a rolling fucking manifest of racism.

05:17.07
Bevo
p

05:20.38
Bevo
is it Do you reckon he's putting on this accent or is it genuinely his accent?

05:22.92
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah, I'll get there.

05:25.24
Bevo
ah Okay.

05:25.44
Mad Dog
these days These days it's called cultural appropriation.

05:25.39
Chibbs
yes

05:28.98
Bevo
Appropriation.

05:29.00
Chibbs
Appropriation.

05:29.64
Mad Dog
Anyway.

05:29.66
Bevo
Yeah, yeah.

05:29.88
Chibbs
That's right. Yeah. yeah Yeah. In 1980, it's called a fucking hit.

05:34.68
Mad Dog
yeah

05:35.90
Chibbs
Yeah.

05:37.09
Mad Dog
Gotta get this really popping. Yeah. All right.

05:40.44
Chibbs
Okay. When I was a boy, just about the eighth a grade.

05:47.44
Chibbs
Fuck. Yeah.

05:50.20
Chibbs
Mama used to say, don't stay out of late with the badder boys. I assume he means Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.

06:00.33
Bevo
Yeah, yep, yep.

06:01.03
Chibbs
yeah Always shoot a pool. Giuseppe going to flunk a school.

06:08.27
Bevo
Is that what was bad back in the 80s?

06:10.41
Chibbs
it's

06:11.26
Bevo
Pool.

06:13.62
Chibbs
like this eight-year-old's always down at the pool hall.

06:16.76
Bevo
ah

06:16.76
Chibbs
Like, what?

06:17.22
Mad Dog
okay and Just pool sharkin?

06:18.36
Bevo
No, eighth grade. Eighth grade means he's, what, 14.

06:21.79
Chibbs
Okay, he's 14. He's running through racks with heroin addicts in a pool hall. Like, ah what's this?

06:28.07
Bevo
he's shoot at a pool.

06:30.84
Chibbs
Going to our school.

06:33.65
Mad Dog
What's the matter?

06:37.46
Chibbs
um okay so he's about 14.

06:40.80
Bevo
yeah staying out late with the boys play pool

06:40.82
Chibbs
He's just staying out. Staying out with the bad boys. And you know what bad boys do

06:45.36
Mad Dog
They shoot at the pool.

06:46.79
Chibbs
They play pool. Yeah. You would be fucking stoked now if your 14-year-old was like, you've been out so late, what have you been doing?

06:54.63
Mad Dog
Oh, yeah.

06:55.44
Chibbs
Oh, we were just playing pool at my mate's house.

06:56.51
Bevo
shoot and pull yeah Dapto Leagues Club

06:58.55
Chibbs
You're like, oh, oh, okay.

07:00.44
Mad Dog
Yeah, that's very wholesome.

07:01.33
Chibbs
Well, you know, you know, you shouldn't.

07:03.00
Mad Dog
That's good.

07:02.98
Bevo
I did pool for school sport in year 12, would you believe?

07:05.59
Chibbs
You could do pool.

07:05.98
Bevo
ah snooker, actually. Yeah.

07:08.78
Chibbs
Yeah.

07:09.64
Mad Dog
That's sick.

07:09.63
Chibbs
This is a, this is what, yeah, that is.

07:11.13
Bevo
That was like hitting the jackpot.

07:13.32
Mad Dog
Did you go to the legs club for that?

07:14.88
Bevo
Yeah, we sure

07:16.36
Mad Dog
You did!

07:16.20
Chibbs
Yeah, bloody oath.

07:16.89
Mad Dog
Yes!

07:18.63
Bevo
And one ah one of the guys got so cranky, he snapped one of the pool.

07:18.48
Chibbs
The...

07:22.06
Bevo
He like pretended to like snap it over his knee and he accidentally actually snapped

07:26.67
Mad Dog
and he did I remember we did lawn bowls and like the degenerate like kind of drunkard teacher Kelly Mr Kelly used take us down there and then just fucking stay in the club yeah just fucking pump Winnie Reds yeah yeah

07:28.44
Chibbs
Happy Gilmore.

07:29.44
Bevo
He wasn't allowed to do that anymore.

07:32.90
Chibbs
Yeah, it's little while, sir.

07:33.29
Bevo
Oh, yeah.

07:36.92
Chibbs
Yeah.

07:39.18
Chibbs
Yeah, Mr. Kelly used Yeah, used to...

07:43.91
Bevo
Sink the schooners. Yeah,

07:45.91
Chibbs
He sat up on the balcony sink in schooners while he was watching us play.

07:46.21
Bevo
Yeah.

07:49.97
Bevo
It was good for everyone, wasn't it?

07:49.96
Chibbs
Yeah. It's on the clock. Yeah.

07:53.06
Mad Dog
yeah

07:53.35
Chibbs
um Yeah.

07:54.84
Mad Dog
No one said a word.

07:55.29
Chibbs
I remember when I worked at West Silowarra for a while and they used to have snooker competitions and you realise that there's this entire subculture existing right under your nose of people that are just fucking hardcore snooker players.

08:10.41
Mad Dog
no Really in snoker.

08:11.30
Chibbs
Like...

08:12.61
Mad Dog
Yeah.

08:12.79
Chibbs
Yeah, they have their own, like, I guess, what are they called?

08:16.48
Bevo
Chalk.

08:16.80
Chibbs
Sticks?

08:19.75
Mad Dog
like and they And they're screwed detachable. Like they come in little...

08:23.80
Bevo
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

08:23.69
Chibbs
They are, yeah. They come in a little suitcase.

08:24.72
Bevo
It's in a case.

08:25.20
Mad Dog
Yeah.

08:25.71
Bevo
Yeah, yeah.

08:26.49
Mad Dog
ah

08:26.47
Chibbs
Yeah. But they would, like, in uniforms and shit and stuff.

08:27.28
Bevo
Could have could have been me.

08:29.52
Chibbs
And it was, yeah, it was all, and

08:31.79
Mad Dog
If old mate didn't snap a fucking cue over his...

08:34.43
Chibbs
Yeah, and ruin it for everyone.

08:35.08
Bevo
yeah.

08:36.07
Chibbs
Yeah.

08:37.85
Bevo
the

08:39.21
Mad Dog
Anyway, it's it's strange we got on the snooker out of all of this.

08:39.26
Chibbs
ah

08:42.79
Mad Dog
There's so much...

08:42.96
Chibbs
Well, he's always, she's out, Giuseppe's out, Giuseppe's out shooting pool.

08:43.70
Bevo
Oh, it's in the words.

08:46.56
Chibbs
He's going to, he's going to drop out of school. It's the next bit goes, boy, it make me sick, all the ting I gotta to do.

09:00.67
Chibbs
What the fuck is that?

09:02.87
Mad Dog
Is this Padua?

09:03.45
Bevo
All the thing we got to do.

09:07.91
Chibbs
I can't get a kicker no kick. Wait. I can't i get a no kicks. and Always got to follow rules. Boy, it make a me sick just to make a lousy bucks.

09:23.83
Chibbs
Got to feel are like a fool. And a mama used to say our time... all our time Fuck me.

09:33.53
Bevo
difficult should have done some race

09:33.78
Chibbs
It's like, I swear I'm not this retarded. Like I am not so dyslexic that I can't read this. That's what's there. It doesn't, I don't know how you'd sing it.

09:41.33
Bevo
um has he flashed forward or is he making bricks at the age of 14 yeah boy at make a me sick just to make a lousy bricks oh no lousy bucks

09:48.63
Chibbs
Where's he making bricks? Was he making bricks in here?

09:55.64
Chibbs
No, Bucks. Yeah. I was like, fuck me. Is that the Brickworks?

10:02.75
Bevo
How did I get bricks out of that?

10:05.54
Chibbs
um How's he making the Bucks? At the pool hall?

10:09.05
Bevo
He's making bricks.

10:10.59
Chibbs
Yeah. Okay, right.

10:11.25
Bevo
I don't know.

10:11.37
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah. Got to feel like a fool.

10:12.63
Bevo
At the pool? Oh, yeah.

10:13.34
Mad Dog
He's at the kiln.

10:19.45
Chibbs
Yeah. got to feel a like are full yeah

10:25.50
Mad Dog
Damn.

10:26.08
Bevo
Make me sick all the things I've got to do. That's so funny.

10:30.98
Mad Dog
To make a lousy box.

10:32.51
Bevo
You gotta make it lunch.

10:35.17
Chibbs
Ha ha ha ha

10:40.69
Mad Dog
They're making me sick, mama.

10:41.73
Bevo
You gotta make...

10:42.39
Mad Dog
Yeah.

10:45.02
Bevo
Giuseppe.

10:46.89
Mad Dog
yeah

10:47.85
Bevo
You gotta make it to bed. o

10:50.88
Chibbs
ah

10:51.70
Mad Dog
a Mum, gotta go out and make the buck.

10:57.95
Bevo
I'm sorry.

11:01.89
Chibbs
Fucking sickly Giuseppe. Okay. What's the matter with you? That's not even what it says!

11:12.63
Chibbs
That's not what it says!

11:14.21
Mad Dog
What's the matter, you

11:16.34
Chibbs
What's the matter you? Hey! Gotta no respect!

11:24.73
Chibbs
What are you think you do? Why you look ah so sad? It's a not a so bad. It's a nicer place.

11:36.61
Chibbs
Ah, shut up, a you face.

11:41.30
Chibbs
That's a my mama I can remember. Big accordion solo. Aha! Played that thing. Really nice. Really nice.

11:53.22
Mad Dog
Jesus.

11:55.24
Bevo
um So, what's he, is this his mum? Yeah, his mum, mumma used to say all of the time.

12:01.53
Chibbs
Yeah, all the time.

12:02.51
Bevo
What's the matter here? Yeah.

12:04.02
Mad Dog
So I feel like like this is kind of like, hey, I've bought ah brought you to America.

12:12.02
Bevo
Is he American?

12:12.04
Mad Dog
This is a nice place. Yeah, I feel like they're in New York somewhere, like in an Italian kind of ghetto.

12:19.02
Bevo
I thought he was Australian.

12:19.89
Chibbs
It's like the godfather. Yeah, I think it's Australia.

12:24.57
Mad Dog
Is he Australian?

12:26.30
Chibbs
Yeah, I think it's Australian.

12:28.51
Mad Dog
ah

12:28.54
Bevo
American, Australian singer, songwriter, poet, and essayist.

12:28.49
Chibbs
Yeah.

12:29.21
Mad Dog
or

12:31.01
Chibbs
Yeah.

12:32.26
Mad Dog
um fuck it He's...

12:32.04
Chibbs
Yeah.

12:32.45
Bevo
According to Wikipedia. Hmm.

12:33.24
Chibbs
I'm more and more into his essays than his songs, to be fair. But the the fact that he's like, you know...

12:36.46
Mad Dog
All right. Maybe he's in Leichhardt then.

12:41.28
Chibbs
Well, shes she said, like, do you look so sad? But she's also just said, like, you know, you're a piece of shit that's got no respect.

12:48.71
Mad Dog
Yeah. Just going to slap some sense into this kid.

12:53.15
Chibbs
Yeah.

12:53.99
Mad Dog
but this is

12:54.69
Chibbs
Shut your face up.

12:56.58
Mad Dog
This is the equivalent of I'm going to give you something to cry about.

12:57.03
Chibbs
Yeah.

13:00.41
Mad Dog
Yeah.

13:00.85
Bevo
ah kids Those kids are starving in Africa.

13:04.91
Mad Dog
You ungrateful little shit.

13:07.03
Bevo
Yeah.

13:07.42
Chibbs
Out playing pool until late.

13:07.69
Mad Dog
Yeah.

13:10.41
Mad Dog
Yeah.

13:10.95
Bevo
Making a buck.

13:12.69
Chibbs
Yeah.

13:13.58
Mad Dog
Yeah.

13:14.50
Chibbs
ah Okay. Sooner come a day, gonna be a big a star. Then I make a TV shows and a movies. Get a myself a new car, but still I be myself.

13:29.65
Chibbs
I don't want to change a ting. Still a dance and a sing. I think about a mama and she used to say, mum's dead.

13:42.37
Mad Dog
Is this Steven Seagal singing Padua?

13:47.52
Mad Dog
Like this this verse is very Seagal-ish.

13:47.54
Chibbs
It's been known to do it.

13:51.17
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah.

13:52.34
Mad Dog
Yeah.

13:52.81
Bevo
Did you see the annotation for the chorus?

13:53.13
Chibbs
So,

13:54.93
Bevo
I forgot to mention it before. Dolce was not the first to sing Shut Up At Your Face and It's A Nicer Place. Jewish comic singer Alan Sherman, you know him from had al marta Hello Hello Father,

14:07.03
Mad Dog
Ah, yes.

14:07.97
Bevo
sang it in his 1964 song, America's a nice Italian name.

14:07.84
Chibbs
Right.

14:08.10
Mad Dog
Yeah.

14:11.57
Bevo
I live in Italy.

14:12.08
Chibbs
I thought that was Harry Belafonte.

14:12.45
Bevo
The sky is sunny. It's a nicer place. It's a nicer place. And if you think the way I talk is funny, shut up at your face, shut up are your face. So he, it's not even, yeah, it's not even original.

14:22.35
Mad Dog
ah

14:22.70
Chibbs
So it's stolen.

14:23.13
Mad Dog
Ah, stolen.

14:26.19
Bevo
Come on, Joe.

14:26.47
Mad Dog
Okay.

14:27.01
Chibbs
God damn it, Joe.

14:29.21
Mad Dog
Stolen.

14:29.18
Chibbs
God damn it, Joe.

14:30.60
Mad Dog
Another thing stolen from the Jews.

14:31.98
Bevo
i You let your mother down again

14:34.91
Chibbs
Yeah, your dead mother. Yeah. And this is the thing. Like, he thinks back about his dead mother like, ah, mum... She used to say that i she used to tell me to shut up and have some goddamn respect.

14:43.26
Bevo
He's telling me to shut up.

14:44.71
Mad Dog
Yeah. Used to tell me to shut the fuck up.

14:50.05
Chibbs
I miss

14:51.42
Mad Dog
Yeah. Oh, mama. Coda. Ah.

14:58.24
Chibbs
Yeah. fat you It's the same shit. The chorus, the, there's two choruses, two choruses.

15:00.92
Bevo
Two choruses, two repeats here.

15:03.58
Chibbs
Okay. We get to the, ah don't know what it is. Another bit.

15:08.17
Mad Dog
code

15:08.24
Chibbs
This ramble.

15:09.49
Bevo
In verse 3.

15:09.96
Chibbs
hello Hello, everybody. Interesting. Oh, okay, right.

15:13.43
Bevo
Spoken word section, actually. Yeah.

15:15.89
Chibbs
He's just he decided now to talk to everybody.

15:16.40
Mad Dog
ah

15:18.98
Chibbs
Right, this part of the show.

15:19.38
Bevo
Hmm.

15:20.82
Chibbs
Hello, everybody. At Outa Dare in a radio and a TV land. Did you know i had a big ah hit ah song in ah Italy with this?

15:34.39
Chibbs
Shut up, a you face. I sing a diss song. I still don't judge a binks. Is this George R. Binks?

15:43.39
Mad Dog
George R.

15:44.40
Bevo
Do you remember that um that that to Twitter meme that was like, Kanye, I'll never make a diss track.

15:45.78
Mad Dog
Binks.

15:46.79
Chibbs
Or...

15:48.70
Mad Dog
Sorry.

15:53.86
Bevo
It was like, I'll never make a diss track. It was like Italian Kanye.

16:01.65
Bevo
I'll never make a diss track.

16:09.44
Chibbs
Italians, the last people you can be racist towards.

16:11.70
Bevo
Sorry, sorry, car carry on.

16:13.24
Mad Dog
sorry

16:13.60
Chibbs
All all of my fans applaud. They clap at their hands.

16:21.16
Chibbs
That ah make me feel a so good. you' on you obsole You ought to learn a diss song. It's a real simple...

16:31.94
Chibbs
it's a real ah simple See, I sing, what's the matter, you? You sing, hey. Then I sing the rest, and then at the end, we all, we can all us sing, shut up in your face.

16:49.96
Chibbs
Okay, let's ah try it really big. Uno, due, tre, cuatro. ah Sorry, like...

16:57.94
Mad Dog
What?

16:58.11
Chibbs
this is This is like the village people deciding to get the verse three of YMCA and then explaining to people what to do with their arms.

17:05.22
Bevo
how you do the YMCA.

17:05.87
Chibbs
and yeah Okay, yeah.

17:06.54
Bevo
Yeah,

17:07.68
Chibbs
So what when we get to, okay, now you're going to put your arms up in this like this and you do you like this.

17:12.11
Bevo
yeah. yeah

17:14.56
Chibbs
No, you can't put that into the lyrics of the song.

17:16.62
Bevo
Especially this far in.

17:18.55
Chibbs
You're so in. You've done it fucking three times already.

17:19.69
Bevo
yeah Yeah. And also, like, that's cool to teach everyone the dance the song for the first listen.

17:22.11
Chibbs
Yeah.

17:26.66
Chibbs
The dance.

17:29.61
Mad Dog
That's cool.

17:29.39
Chibbs
but Shut up for your face, Stance.

17:29.69
Bevo
that Yeah. It's all it's all good to to learn this for the first listen, but every time you listen henceforth, you don't need this bit.

17:38.51
Mad Dog
Yeah, exactly.

17:38.47
Chibbs
na No, no, no. It's null void.

17:39.67
Mad Dog
Yeah.

17:39.81
Bevo
Like, put it on a pamphlet in the CD singles.

17:42.19
Chibbs
Sure.

17:42.59
Bevo
Yeah.

17:43.03
Chibbs
um The radio edit it probably cuts this bit out, I imagine.

17:45.86
Bevo
Yeah.

17:46.49
Chibbs
Yeah.

17:47.54
Mad Dog
What's the matter, you? Hey! Gotta know respect.

17:51.86
Bevo
Also that he feels like he needs to teach everyone as if it's not the biggest earworm of all time.

17:57.51
Mad Dog
Yeah.

17:58.04
Bevo
One listen is all you need.

18:00.75
Chibbs
ah

18:01.50
Mad Dog
Just

18:01.45
Chibbs
i think that's I think that's it. I think that's... You know, he chucks a couple of, like, that's a great... Okay, one more time for mama, everybody. But he just...

18:10.59
Mad Dog
for mama.

18:12.06
Chibbs
Yeah.

18:12.57
Bevo
Joe.

18:12.98
Mad Dog
So are you trying to tell me this guy is Australian? and

18:16.46
Chibbs
yay Yeah, all such a yeah, Yeah.

18:18.87
Mad Dog
Does he identify as an Australian or a Yank?

18:23.44
Chibbs
Yeah, it's, it's released October 1980, 1,124 days before the towers Before.

18:30.46
Chibbs
october nineteen eighty one thousand one hundred and twenty four days before the towers fell four

18:37.58
Mad Dog
A long time.

18:38.58
Chibbs
yeah um he is joe old joseph dolch he's the sole rider which is bullshit that we found out because he stole most of it like the hooks anyway um yeah he's originally an american from ohio he moved to australia in the late 70s um

18:45.58
Mad Dog
Dolch.

18:52.50
Mad Dog
Yeah.

18:58.74
Mad Dog
There you go. So he's he's an American at this point.

18:59.32
Chibbs
um He was an American. He would have had an American accent because he moved to Australia in the late 70s, and this is 1980 that it came out.

19:03.66
Mad Dog
Yeah. Yeah.

19:08.01
Mad Dog
Correct. Yeah.

19:08.90
Chibbs
Yeah. um Yeah, so it's ah it's considered to be a novelty song, but I was going to throw it to you guys and be like, do you think this sort of song, like, could, could and like, a Chet Hanks style, like...

19:28.13
Chibbs
where I am Jamaican, like I'm a white American dude, but I'm just going to release a song that's in Padua.

19:35.45
Bevo
Italian patois.

19:39.61
Chibbs
Can you get away with this? Can a novelty song come out where, um let's say, a white dude is doing a Chinese accent?

19:48.83
Mad Dog
um

19:49.79
Bevo
I feel like on the spectrum of accents, Italians italians still kind of okay as far as they go.

19:51.24
Chibbs
Or is this gone?

19:56.29
Chibbs
But why?

19:59.23
Bevo
I don't know.

20:00.33
Chibbs
yeah yeah

20:00.95
Bevo
don't rightly know. I think it's because because because, and I'm treading very carefully here, Italians are not a minority.

20:02.97
Chibbs
Could you do a song in a Russian accent?

20:12.92
Bevo
You're not punching down the same way you are if you do a Chinese accent. or Well, I guess Chinese aren't.

20:17.77
Chibbs
China are the superpower of the world.

20:18.71
Bevo
It's not a minority either. Yeah.

20:20.93
Mad Dog
yeah

20:21.24
Bevo
um I don't know. don't. Yeah. but it's It's a sensitive topic, isn't it?

20:25.53
Mad Dog
Yeah, why why is this okay? um Actually, it reminds me. oh So, Lib and I have somehow gotten back into international house hunters.

20:37.71
Chibbs
Oh, yeah.

20:39.45
Mad Dog
And last, yeah, and last night we were watching one and there's this British guy that was born and raised in Thailand.

20:39.58
Bevo
Is that a TV show or?

20:39.56
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah, it is.

20:42.17
Bevo
Yeah. Okay.

20:47.03
Bevo
Yeah.

20:51.98
Chibbs
Okay.

20:52.71
Bevo
Mm-hmm.

20:52.90
Mad Dog
Okay, so he was born in Thailand, raised, went to school in Thailand and has just thick fucking Yorkshire accent.

21:03.08
Chibbs
But he looks tight.

21:03.47
Mad Dog
And no, he's a Brit.

21:06.86
Chibbs
He's white pasted dude that sounds like an Asian.

21:07.51
Mad Dog
It's amazing.

21:11.87
Mad Dog
That's the discrepancy. No.

21:13.87
Bevo
Yeah.

21:13.94
Mad Dog
But I was thinking, how weird would it be if there was just like an Anglo guy, like all of us, but they had like that Asian accent.

21:27.48
Chibbs
Well, this is the mind trip of people. i remember on Instagram or TikTok or something a few years ago, there was this, like, people, like, going, it's blowing their mind because there's Asians in Mexico that speak Spanish and it freaks them out.

21:41.72
Chibbs
And they're like, wait, what? It's like, yeah, of course there are. Of course there's Asian people who live in Mexico that speak fluent Spanish.

21:48.00
Bevo
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

21:49.38
Chibbs
But it's like but they filmed them. Like, holy shit! Like, filming them talk. It's like, that's just their language, because they're from Mexico. Yeah. Yeah.

22:00.77
Mad Dog
Crazy.

22:00.99
Bevo
it's Yeah, it's a hard one. like Did you guys see, there was a big thing about Apu from The Simpsons. like ah An Indian guy made a documentary about how

22:07.27
Chibbs
Yeah.

22:12.74
Bevo
he spent his whole life dodging like jokes about being Apu the 7-Eleven guy kind of thing.

22:19.82
Chibbs
yeah Yeah, they got rid of the character.

22:20.30
Bevo
And so much so that they stopped, like the retired the character. like yeah.

22:25.41
Mad Dog
Yeah, right. Okay.

22:27.59
Chibbs
But every goddamn 7-Eleven person is Indian.

22:31.49
Mad Dog
correct. You could be driving through.

22:34.07
Chibbs
I'm sorry. They know.

22:37.20
Mad Dog
It's a fact. Like you could be driving through like the Pilbara.

22:39.63
Bevo
But no, I think it's not that. It's not that so much as like the white guy doing the voice of Apu.

22:42.05
Chibbs
Yeah.

22:45.55
Chibbs
Oh, because Hank Azaria was doing the voice of him.

22:45.89
Mad Dog
Yeah.

22:45.91
Bevo
I think it's the hang of Zeri.

22:46.59
Mad Dog
Okay.

22:48.16
Bevo
Yeah. And even he was like, even he stepped down and was like, okay, I never thought about it that way, but because you've brought attention to it, I'm going to retire it.

22:48.60
Mad Dog
ah kai Okay. Okay.

22:57.89
Mad Dog
Sure.

22:58.56
Bevo
Yeah.

22:58.60
Mad Dog
Okay.

22:58.76
Bevo
This is, we're getting deep now.

23:00.66
Mad Dog
Yeah.

23:01.35
Bevo
i don't want to.

23:01.77
Mad Dog
We are, but but, yeah, like, if this guy, if this Anglo guy was born in Thailand, is a Thai citizen, raised, went to school in Thailand, why does he not have a Thai accent?

23:02.65
Bevo
Yeah.

23:17.37
Chibbs
Maybe you went to international school.

23:19.27
Bevo
I think you can, you can, to some degree, you can kind of change the way you speak consciously.

23:19.29
Mad Dog
ah Well, I'm assuming.

23:25.03
Mad Dog
Yeah.

23:26.05
Chibbs
I guess.

23:27.70
Mad Dog
Yeah, ah like he would have gone to private school, international school, whatever.

23:32.99
Chibbs
Yeah.

23:33.93
Mad Dog
But if you're immersed in that culture your whole fucking life and you're 30,

23:39.84
Chibbs
You'd think you would have picked up a few little...

23:41.81
Mad Dog
yeah, few twangs.

23:41.76
Chibbs
manner

23:42.67
Bevo
Well, you notice like kids, a lot of kids these days have like American and British affectations because they watch so much Peppa Pig and yeah.

23:47.75
Chibbs
Yeah.

23:48.54
Mad Dog
Yeah, pisses me off so much.

23:49.92
Chibbs
ah YouTube videos. Yeah.

23:51.75
Bevo
yeah

23:52.48
Chibbs
Yeah.

23:53.38
Bevo
it's yeah

23:53.31
Chibbs
Um,

23:54.00
Mad Dog
Anyway, yeah.

23:54.06
Bevo
Accents are such a funny thing.

23:56.05
Chibbs
ah So apparently after a decade without success in the music business, Joe moved to Australia with his then wife and they came up with a mixed car cabaret act that included an italian an Italian character named Giuseppe.

24:09.78
Chibbs
yes um And that's such a Giuseppe that he sings about. So it's a character he made up for his cabaret show. In April 1980, he then split with his wife.

24:19.33
Mad Dog
We're not making scratchy. Let's go to Australia.

24:21.47
Chibbs
he split He split with his wife um and apparently he was given a $2,000 grant by the Australian Film Commission to test to test a segment of his one-man act.

24:36.16
Chibbs
So he recorded Shut Up Your Face in a Studio and made it a music video and shopped it around to every record label.

24:36.39
Mad Dog
Jesus.

24:44.61
Chibbs
Apparently ah this Asta Records did sign him and release it. um And a morning breakfast show aired the song and it was so immediately bombarded with phone calls, like celebratory phone calls for it.

25:00.80
Bevo
In Australia, I'm guessing.

25:02.35
Mad Dog
Thank you.

25:02.71
Chibbs
Yeah.

25:03.52
Bevo
Yeah.

25:04.29
Chibbs
And it led to a bit.

25:05.11
Bevo
Big, um big Italian immigrant population too.

25:07.76
Chibbs
Yeah, for sure.

25:08.17
Bevo
Like kids, kids of Italian immigrants would be loving this.

25:10.20
Chibbs
Yeah.

25:11.81
Bevo
I reckon.

25:11.99
Chibbs
Loving it. And it led to a TV performance on the Don Lane show, which was really popular back then in Australia, and it just fucking went everywhere. After that, it was all over Australia.

25:23.89
Chibbs
But before this became a hit for him, he was making $70 a performance.

25:30.79
Bevo
hit

25:31.04
Chibbs
um And then when the song hit its height, 1980, he was getting $2,000 after this.

25:33.95
Mad Dog
That's good scratch back then.

25:37.89
Chibbs
so ah performance

25:38.97
Mad Dog
Oh, Rich.

25:39.42
Bevo
Yeah.

25:40.17
Chibbs
after this

25:41.10
Bevo
I'm reading the same thing as you at the moment. At the height of the song success.

25:45.01
Chibbs
Yeah, the height.

25:45.26
Bevo
So like 1981.

25:45.65
Chibbs
that so So a few weeks.

25:47.39
Mad Dog
What's the matter, you?

25:48.42
Chibbs
Yeah. he he got He got paid that at least six times. And um all of his other singles flopped big time.

25:56.94
Bevo
Yeah. I like, i like the way they wrote it. He later called them bad photo copies of the first one.

26:04.59
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

26:05.39
Bevo
This one's called ah Consider Being Quiet. Shut up, you face. Yeah.

26:13.88
Chibbs
um

26:14.85
Mad Dog
Shut up, EF.

26:16.88
Chibbs
Apparently in 2001, a rapper called KRS-One incorporated aspects of the song into his track. Shut up.

26:25.74
Bevo
shut up a you face

26:25.67
Chibbs
Shut up, a you face.

26:27.37
Mad Dog
Shut up.

26:28.14
Bevo
yeah

26:28.21
Chibbs
All right, okay, there you go.

26:30.35
Mad Dog
Shut up.

26:35.02
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah, he never had another hit.

26:36.93
Bevo
Did you read this?

26:37.07
Chibbs
Fucking Baron hit.

26:37.49
Bevo
ah As of 2002, he was still living comfortably off the proceeds of Shut Up You Face.

26:43.43
Chibbs
There's no way that's true. He's added that.

26:45.94
Bevo
The royalty checks.

26:47.50
Chibbs
He's added that. He's added that. There's no way he's living comfortably off it.

26:50.31
Mad Dog
That's hilarious.

26:51.50
Chibbs
There's no fucking way.

26:52.92
Bevo
Comfortably.

26:52.83
Chibbs
No one's playing this song anymore. No.

26:55.48
Bevo
But having said that, I reckon you could talk to any Australian over the age of 30 and they would know the hook of this song.

26:56.57
Mad Dog
Define comfortable.

27:04.35
Chibbs
Yeah, but it's not on the radio or anything.

27:06.22
Bevo
not then that doesn't that doesn't mean That doesn't mean he's getting money, but like it's a household song.

27:06.72
Mad Dog
Well, you've heard it.

27:06.65
Chibbs
Like, what are you what are you making royalties from?

27:08.93
Mad Dog
You've heard of it. Yeah.

27:10.86
Chibbs
Yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He produced it as well. So he's the producer behind it.

27:17.01
Bevo
It's one of the big two Italian stereotypes in the world.

27:19.86
Chibbs
yeah it was Yeah, it's recorded heaps cheap with a drum machine and a basic synth. um The accordion sound is the synth.

27:32.44
Chibbs
There's no accordion on it.

27:33.43
Bevo
Yeah, not even a real accordion.

27:35.30
Chibbs
Nah, nah. And he released it under Joel Dochi Music Theatre as he originally performed musical skits and characters. That's what he did. Okay, there's a video, Bevo.

27:48.65
Bevo
There is Mad Dog, hit it.

27:51.99
Mad Dog
Shut

28:06.26
Bevo
Bevo, you need to change that picture. It's finally, finally changed.

28:09.97
Chibbs
ah For years years, I had the wrong one. Now I don't know where I put it.

28:14.42
Bevo
um

28:14.61
Chibbs
ah

28:15.94
Bevo
Joe performs in the seediest of crack dens to an audience who finally answered the question, why are you look so sad?

28:26.14
Bevo
Because they're in the crack den listening to Joe.

28:27.72
Chibbs
you

28:28.12
Mad Dog
It cracked it.

28:28.64
Bevo
Yeah.

28:29.65
Chibbs
Yeah, listening to him. They can't even get high, you know. Happy happy place.

28:33.96
Mad Dog
This is...

28:34.02
Bevo
Actually, you mentioned before you watched the one where he's on with Molly Meldrum. I think it was Countdown.

28:38.90
Chibbs
It was Molly Meldrum, hey.

28:40.45
Bevo
I thought it was too.

28:40.43
Chibbs
Like, I'm just like, is this Molly Meldrum?

28:41.37
Bevo
Yeah. It's on Countdown. So that makes sense.

28:44.27
Chibbs
Yeah, okay, right.

28:44.56
Bevo
But there's so many funny things that happened in that Countdown video. Like he misses a court. He comes in early on the chorus and he goes, whoops. Yeah.

28:52.61
Chibbs
Fuck. Says this a thing. ah i'm I have a serious stage show. I do serious things.

28:58.67
Bevo
Yeah. yeah

28:59.23
Chibbs
It's just like, you're not even fucking good at that.

29:00.95
Bevo
Yeah, and all the audience is clapping on the one and three, which is pretty bad. And then um and in comes Molly Meldrum with the fucking one of those accordions that's just like in and out. It doesn't have any notes.

29:14.08
Bevo
He's like full shredding the solo.

29:14.29
Mad Dog
you?

29:19.11
Bevo
Yeah, lots of funny things happen.

29:19.17
Mad Dog
Hey!

29:20.55
Bevo
And then at the end, all the the lyrics come up on the but lyrics come up on the screen.

29:21.01
Mad Dog
It's like a jellyfish.

29:24.60
Bevo
Like he is really, he really wants you to learn these lyrics.

29:28.60
Mad Dog
Right.

29:29.22
Bevo
That's his thing.

29:29.36
Chibbs
Okay.

29:29.70
Bevo
I think it's like, yeah, if this isn't a sing-along, this does not work.

29:30.28
Chibbs
Okay.

29:31.20
Mad Dog
Yeah, he's leaning into this. Yeah.

29:35.74
Bevo
Yeah.

29:36.05
Chibbs
I've got one really good YouTube comment for it.

29:39.07
Bevo
Oh, yeah. yeah

29:42.35
Chibbs
It's from um Joanne McDonald two weeks ago.

29:42.90
Bevo
It's from Giuseppe's mama.

29:46.97
Mad Dog
She wants you to shut at the fuck up.

29:49.67
Chibbs
And it says, government control, no bridge to Terabithia, the Hogwarts, come and punch it. I'm a medicine ball.

30:03.77
Mad Dog
Two weeks ago?

30:08.87
Mad Dog
Who are these people?

30:10.30
Chibbs
I know. I even tried to sing it to the song to be like, she's just trying to do different lyrics, but I can't figure that out.

30:12.26
Mad Dog
ah

30:16.47
Bevo
I

30:16.51
Chibbs
Government control, the bridge to Terabithia, the Hogwarts, come and punch it, I'm a medicine ball.

30:17.12
Mad Dog
Hey!

30:21.46
Mad Dog
Whoa!

30:25.40
Bevo
like this one.

30:26.94
Mad Dog
No, it's just a fucking schizophrenic that's chosen this particular song.

30:30.45
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

30:33.96
Bevo
I like this one. ah This is from Radio Rob 7543 one year ago. oh to be Italian from about 1975 to 1982 was a good thing.

30:44.44
Bevo
As Martha Stewart would say, i can say I lived it. Italians were considered sex symbols and desired lovers. Unfortunately, I was only 8 to 15 years old. Then it was over. missed it.

30:55.91
Bevo
you missed that

30:56.60
Mad Dog
that That very specific seven-year window. what

31:03.04
Bevo
And he just, he missed it.

31:02.85
Chibbs
this was And this this was the height of it.

31:03.28
Mad Dog
That was the time to be Italian.

31:08.06
Chibbs
Shut up your face was like the peak. It all was downhill. Crumbled.

31:15.87
Mad Dog
Some fucking shy star that emigrated to Australia.

31:21.11
Chibbs
It's not Italian.

31:22.48
Mad Dog
Yeah. It's like, this is the peak of Italian culture.

31:23.13
Chibbs
Yeah.

31:24.85
Bevo
Oh, here's another here' another great one.

31:25.68
Chibbs
Yeah.

31:27.36
Bevo
Stephen Martin, 5, 3, 4, 4, 1 year ago. Apparently a deeper song than it sounds and deeper than the song Vienna, Billy Joel, that it was that it famously kept at number two.

31:34.79
Mad Dog
Come on.

31:37.47
Mad Dog
Oh, Jesus Christ.

31:39.11
Bevo
um Midge, you're admitted that the lyrics to Vienna were meaningless, whereas the masterpiece Shut Up A Ya Face explores the clash between first generation immigrants' values and their children's.

31:50.05
Bevo
But you probably already know that. And then the the reply... Yes, quite ironic, but ultimately Vienna is a great song. Shut up at your face is a piece of novelty dog dirt.

32:03.17
Chibbs
Yeah, Vienna is a good song.

32:06.83
Bevo
Might be one of the best songs of all time.

32:07.63
Mad Dog
I don't think you can compare Billy Joel.

32:08.81
Bevo
Yeah.

32:12.58
Bevo
yeah Well, this kept it off number one.

32:14.78
Chibbs
Yeah, that's right.

32:15.26
Mad Dog
Yeah, that's nuts.

32:17.38
Chibbs
yeah Who used an accordion better?

32:17.64
Mad Dog
Okay. Yeah, ah okay.

32:21.91
Chibbs
Is there a set list for Joe Dolce?

32:24.44
Bevo
Nah, the only one I found was um June 27th, 1981 at Salone della Feste Casino della Valle, St.

32:25.40
Chibbs
Thank Christ.

32:33.15
Bevo
Vincent, Italy. has one song in it. Shut up your face.

32:36.04
Mad Dog
to Italy and sang this.

32:37.56
Chibbs
Fuck, this guy is gay. This guy has balls.

32:41.68
Mad Dog
What's the matter, yo?

32:43.49
Chibbs
And they're like, yeah are you Italian?

32:44.69
Bevo
Well, he says in the song that he had a hit in Italy with the song.

32:49.48
Chibbs
Sure.

32:50.77
Mad Dog
Yeah, that's true.

32:51.13
Chibbs
I think I've got a feeling the whole thing's a lie. Like all of it.

32:56.68
Bevo
um I'm still reading YouTube comments here.

32:59.63
Mad Dog
Wow.

32:59.41
Chibbs
Okay. Okay.

33:02.33
Bevo
This is from Goose6457. Six years ago, edited. This song is so good, I'll add it to my dot, dot, dot, dot playlist. It's called Shit 80s Music.

33:17.05
Mad Dog
Shit. 80s. eighty

33:18.61
Chibbs
Ah, that's great.

33:23.04
Chibbs
ah It went to number one in Australia, the UK, New Zealand, France, and Germany. Fuck me. Maybe he's living off it. um It beat John Lennon's woman to number one on the UK charts.

33:38.78
Chibbs
Do you know that one?

33:39.86
Bevo
Yeah, yeah, That's after he died.

33:39.74
Chibbs
that one.

33:42.68
Chibbs
Really? is A post-death John Lennon song was kept off the charts.

33:47.01
Bevo
Yeah, that album that album, which is really good, Double Fantasy, kind of flopped and then he died and then it just fucking shot up the charts.

33:50.98
Chibbs
Yeah.

33:54.72
Chibbs
ah That'll do it.

33:56.03
Bevo
Yeah.

33:56.16
Chibbs
this This sold over 6 million copies worldwide. um Apparently, it's still played at Italian weddings a lot.

34:05.48
Bevo
Mm-hmm.

34:05.49
Chibbs
um And apparently, it's universally regarded it as either a charming novelty song or the song that killed Australian taste in the eighty s

34:18.47
Bevo
ah oh Yeah, because it would have been like the the revolution of like um Crocodile Dundee and Yahoo Serious and this this is killed at all

34:24.19
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah.

34:27.01
Mad Dog
Yahoo!

34:26.97
Chibbs
so yeah Did you say Yahoo Serious just got evicted like on live television as a special?

34:33.64
Bevo
Oh,

34:34.10
Chibbs
yeah Yeah, yeah.

34:35.96
Mad Dog
What? Is he still alive?

34:39.30
Chibbs
Tonight live special. It's like the eviction of Yahoo Serious.

34:41.86
Bevo
Evicted. Wow.

34:44.73
Chibbs
I'm like, what the fuck? Yeah.

34:47.80
Bevo
Oh, okay. So I've just looked it up. In March, 2025, Sirius was accused of refusing to leave the home of an elderly man who had found him homeless and sleeping in his car. Do

34:57.81
Mad Dog
Jesus.

34:59.25
Chibbs
Oh, don't know, they evicted him.

35:01.01
Mad Dog
Hang

35:01.61
Bevo
and you know Yahoo! Sirius sued Yahoo! in 2000 for trademark infringement?

35:05.67
Chibbs
Yeah, I do remember that. I do remember that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I do remember that.

35:11.94
Mad Dog
So this guy has had a big fall from grace.

35:16.46
Chibbs
Who?

35:16.82
Bevo
Yahoo or Joe?

35:16.78
Chibbs
Well, Yahoo or Joe?

35:17.94
Mad Dog
um Young Einstein.

35:20.21
Bevo
Yeah.

35:20.15
Chibbs
Yeah, Yahoo's not looking.

35:21.46
Mad Dog
Yeah.

35:21.55
Chibbs
Yeah, Yahoo's looking.

35:21.79
Bevo
The case was thrown out because Sirius could not prove that he sells products or services under the name Yahoo and therefore could not prove that he suffered harm or confusion due to the search engine.

35:31.01
Chibbs
confusion

35:33.34
Mad Dog
Well, I think it's clear that he is harmed and confused.

35:36.96
Chibbs
well you know surely a lawyer could have told him this in advance what

35:40.85
Mad Dog
Yeah.

35:41.64
Bevo
and Just that, whole situation, like Yahoo, have you heard of this new website search engine also called Yahoo?

35:47.08
Chibbs
the fuck

35:48.36
Mad Dog
What the fuck?

35:49.94
Chibbs
what

35:51.24
Bevo
The fuck?

35:52.42
Mad Dog
yeah but

35:53.81
Chibbs
um

35:54.32
Mad Dog
Yeah. 25 years later, he's waking up in old mate's fucking Commodore and, like, on his driveway.

35:59.86
Chibbs
All right, games.

36:02.16
Mad Dog
Yeah.

36:15.55
Chibbs
Now he's living off it comfortably. We know this. That's what we know.

36:19.76
Bevo
10 and 2 was the,

36:19.88
Mad Dog
This is in 2001 though, yeah?

36:20.09
Chibbs
so

36:23.11
Bevo
you know,

36:24.71
Chibbs
Yeah, it was 2002 he was living comfortably.

36:25.48
Mad Dog
2002, yeah.

36:26.44
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah. What do you think Joe Dolch's net worth in 2025 is mad dog?

36:34.61
Mad Dog
Is he alive?

36:35.89
Chibbs
Yeah.

36:37.67
Mad Dog
Fuck me, Dad. Where does he live? Do know?

36:40.44
Chibbs
Nah, don't know.

36:41.57
Mad Dog
i I assume the Sunshine Coast.

36:44.39
Chibbs
but okay

36:45.92
Mad Dog
that's That's where all of these types end up.

36:50.96
Mad Dog
ah

36:51.11
Bevo
want to know. I'd love to know.

36:54.14
Mad Dog
um Okay, so he's in Toowoomba.

36:56.77
Bevo
no, he lives in Melbourne, I think.

36:59.26
Mad Dog
Oh, that's fucking, that's heaps worse.

36:59.75
Chibbs
It's far from the Sunshine Coast.

37:03.97
Mad Dog
um

37:03.89
Chibbs
Probably holidays there.

37:06.60
Mad Dog
Fuck me. Comfortable these days. All to be comfortable in Melbourne in 2025, you need a net worth of million.

37:20.16
Chibbs
You do. Yeah, that's true.

37:23.34
Bevo
going to say 10 million. Okay.

37:25.02
Chibbs
Bevo? 1.2 million Australian.

37:27.71
Bevo
you know who's selected as the August 2020 Melbourne Poet Laureate?

37:27.96
Mad Dog
well it's in poverty

37:27.80
Chibbs
Yeah. He's not living comfortably.

37:31.61
Mad Dog
na

37:35.50
Mad Dog
ah kidding

37:35.59
Chibbs
When?

37:37.42
Bevo
twenty twenty

37:38.61
Chibbs
Yeah, apparently lives from royalties, poetry books and licensing shut up your face to every second TV show needing a lazy stereotype. There. There.

37:52.10
Mad Dog
Just live, just unashamedly live your whole life.

37:53.85
Bevo
ah can Can I just read you his list of singles?

37:58.86
Chibbs
there

37:59.65
Bevo
There's only five, so you shouldn't take long.

38:00.94
Chibbs
yeah

38:02.31
Bevo
In 1979, he came out with a song called Boat People, followed by 1980, Shut Up of Your Face.

38:06.10
Chibbs
Good. Yeah. Okay.

38:10.20
Bevo
1981, he had If You Want to Be Happy, which I think is like a Trini Lopez song. ah Then Christmas in Australia. And then my favorite, 1982, You Touchin' My Car, I Break Your Face.

38:25.95
Chibbs
God damn it. ah

38:29.21
Mad Dog
Touching my car, I break your face.

38:29.00
Chibbs
Save that one.

38:30.39
Bevo
You touch it my car, I break your face.

38:30.28
Chibbs
so

38:33.39
Chibbs
save that Save that one for a live episode.

38:39.29
Chibbs
That's good. right, let's rate this shit.

38:52.34
Chibbs
Alright, what are we going rate it out of? Like... um

38:57.29
Mad Dog
How hard your mama slapped you across the face.

38:58.91
Chibbs
Yeah, okay, fair enough.

39:00.56
Bevo
I'm sorry.

39:01.37
Chibbs
Ten is to death.

39:06.71
Chibbs
Like slap to death, like those slap fights sort of thing.

39:11.05
Mad Dog
Yeah, just fucking whack.

39:13.34
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, dead.

39:13.96
Mad Dog
Yeah.

39:15.17
Chibbs
One is um like you kind of manage to duck away a bit like a Trump shrug and it just flicked the top of your ear.

39:23.26
Mad Dog
Oh, victory. Yeah.

39:25.10
Chibbs
Yeah, nicked your ear. All right. What do you give it out of 10, Bevo?

39:30.71
Bevo
This might be the hardest one I've ever had to do. I just don't know.

39:33.23
Chibbs
hardest one I've ever had to do.

39:34.16
Bevo
to

39:36.78
Bevo
Well, it's not like... i don't like it, but it's it's got to be one of the catchiest earworms of all time. But also, there's not enough substance in it to make it any good.

39:49.04
Mad Dog
Yeah.

39:49.30
Chibbs
Half of it was just describing how to copy the words.

39:52.27
Bevo
Yeah. yeah egg Here comes the chorus again.

39:56.49
Chibbs
Yeah.

39:56.72
Bevo
ah Let's say seven out of ten.

39:59.86
Chibbs
Fucking loves it. my God. All right, doggy.

40:05.85
Mad Dog
yeah I actually came here tonight with a number in my mind and then then when I learnt more about the song, I hated it more and more.

40:10.55
Bevo
yeah right

40:20.66
Mad Dog
The number didn't get lower, it got larger. um I'm actually a seven as well.

40:27.36
Bevo
yes

40:27.61
Chibbs
Jesus!

40:28.66
Mad Dog
Yes.

40:28.45
Chibbs
All right. Okay.

40:29.96
Bevo
Hang on quickly.

40:30.15
Chibbs
Oh,

40:30.48
Bevo
Just, ah I need to correct myself. The Vienna that had beat off the number one song was Ultra Vox, not Billy Joel.

40:37.30
Mad Dog
Oh, thank God.

40:37.40
Bevo
I apologize. Yeah.

40:37.55
Chibbs
okay. Good. All right. Good.

40:39.13
Mad Dog
Okay. ah Faith in humanity still there.

40:41.88
Bevo
Yeah.

40:41.81
Chibbs
Yeah. Okay.

40:43.47
Mad Dog
yeah

40:43.47
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah. This is so fucking stupid and shit. And it's not like, um yeah, i

40:50.14
Mad Dog
What's the matter, you?

40:52.81
Chibbs
and I feel like I hate it more because I had to read the lyrics out. So I'll give it a 10.

40:56.48
Bevo
yeah

40:56.77
Chibbs
Yeah.

40:58.92
Bevo
Fair enough.

41:04.07
Chibbs
Also, he must be an absolute piece of shit. um We should try and track him down and get him on the podcast.

41:10.29
Mad Dog
matt Massive, yeah. but hey

41:12.66
Bevo
justify himself.

41:12.83
Mad Dog
He'd have to be 90 years old.

41:13.31
Chibbs
We all know. We all know. we all know I've now got a matter of weeks to get him on before he hears this.

41:15.34
Bevo
Well,

41:19.41
Chibbs
We're not going through another fucking... Who life who did we get? Who did I...

41:22.33
Bevo
like Conrad Sewell or something.

41:23.64
Chibbs
Nah, it wasn't Saul. It was the fucking... The scatting dude from Australian Idol. Scat... Scat...

41:30.01
Mad Dog
Whitehead.

41:31.70
Chibbs
Axel Whitehead.

41:31.95
Bevo
that Yeah, right.

41:31.97
Mad Dog
Whitehead. Yeah.

41:33.22
Bevo
Yeah.

41:33.72
Chibbs
Yeah, where called him the fucking stupid cunt and went on and then i was talking to him on Messenger and then the episode came out where we just fucking got the town on him and he just went radio silent.

41:41.73
Mad Dog
Then he listened to

41:47.99
Bevo
Disappeared, yeah, as you would, as you should.

41:49.13
Chibbs
Yeah.

41:50.00
Mad Dog
Saul advertised the podcast before he knew what it was about.

41:54.91
Chibbs
Yeah, a few people have done that. I think we could get Saul.

41:57.19
Mad Dog
Yeah.

41:58.14
Chibbs
I think we can get Saul.

41:59.66
Mad Dog
Nah.

41:59.68
Chibbs
Right about Rhys Masters.

42:01.78
Bevo
Yeah.

42:01.90
Mad Dog
I reckon we could get Mastin.

42:03.63
Bevo
ah I don't know. I can't remember how he comes across in that one. I'm still listening to it, actually. I'll check back in.

42:10.99
Chibbs
Yeah, okay. All right.

42:12.79
Mad Dog
to give you a race and a maston.

42:14.69
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

42:16.45
Bevo
ah We did say beats up it's some women.

42:16.67
Chibbs
Left, right, goodnight.

42:19.22
Bevo
I don't know.

42:19.95
Chibbs
Well, I think it was... No, yeah, we did. Okay. ah um

42:24.37
Bevo
Yeah.

42:24.52
Chibbs
Thanks, fellas. Everyone else, go fuck yourselves.

42:31.42
Mad Dog
What are you doing? Hey.

42:45.69
Chibbs
American.

42:49.35
Mad Dog
It's so but