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Hey Jordie, great video, but you might want to edit out the kid "they come from overseas" comment at 12:18. The kid is talking about foreign property investor-owners but it might look like he's talking about fair dinkum immigrants. He's a kid and you don't want something like that to stick with him for the rest of his life (as happens in the digital age). You saw what happened to Michael Daley 4.5 years ago.
Bloody hughezy! 😡 He's a 50 year old, millionaire, vegan dating a 25 year old model! He should be arrested for cultural misappropriation of bogan culture! 😆
As a lifelong Wollongong man, I feel like you missed a crucial aspect by not setting up hunting show-type motion cameras at Bellambi train station to monitor Wollongong's natural fauna of Eshays and Crackies interacting in ritualistic tribal warfare.
Lifelong Wollongong Junkie biologist here. Bellambi junkies are typically tame, shy creatures who stick to the shadows and only attack if provoked or encountered on the 24 hrs before pay day. They may shout at you, but this is a defence mechanism or they may possible want to induldge in your Parker and Simpsons. What you speak of is the Berkeley-Warrawong-Port Kembla, a much larger and fiercer junkie, the Uruk to the Orc you could say.
Fun Fact, Damo and Darren was shown to us in Uni by our very hesitant animation teacher for the sole purpose of how recognisable the station platform was as a setting
@@HOTD108_ we were talking about settings that feel like their own character and like he said in the video, lots of people say the station in Damo and Darren feels like every station and that’s what our teacher was talking about
I fucking laughed out loud when the kid was interviewed and he was saying all the right stuff only to end it with "people from overseas think they own the place" haha classic australia.
@@davidataturk4357 as a child of immigrants and Australian born - I’ve had wayyy more issues with bogans 😮 I’ve had 0 issues with immigrants - Hence the saying goes NOT ALL IMMIGRANTS- NOT ALL BOGANS But personally I’d be happy to replace most these racist , ‘my country’ bogans with refugees and immigrants… They are insufferable Let’s not forget every single culture has their scumbags 😂😂 Literally talking about Eshays and derros in this videos 😂 Clearly the hero’s of humanity…😂😂
Fun fact, i got a glass bottle thrown at me passing by a crazy crackhead as i was passing through Piccadilly/wollongong station😂 it hit me on the ankle and sliced me open straight away!! blood everywhere! It was 2 am and i was alone so i walked myself to the hospital with my t shirt around my ankle and half my tendon attached in my ankle, i ended up needing surgery that morning
It was like an acid trip watching it. Going to clip it and send it to people saying it's ai content to make them paranoid about technology's progress and hurt their mental health.
We can't even get our own shit on time. I swear Australia is the precedent case for black market downloading being acceptable. We're always the uncool kid that couldn't watch the cool show cause we can't get Foxtel. 😭
After moving away from one of the worst places in New South Wales, Mt Druitt, i'm happy to say that my experience living near Wollongong train station and Piccadilly mall continues to enable my nostalgia, captivating my memories of drug addicts shooting up on a platform and Eshays rolling kids below their age for their Nike TN's, Wollongong is truly a lovely place.
Mum and I play a game called 'Hospital Bingo' whenever we drive past Wollongong Hospital. There's always several patients smoking out the front, and you get bonus points if they're 1) Still wearing a hospital gown 2) In a wheelchair or 3) On a drip. The holy grail is to spot a smoker with all 3 at once.
Jordies did appear in Cusack's Koala Man, wouldn't be surprised if he ends up in Smiling Friends. It's one more step closer to Jordan showing up in The Simpsons.
Worked at the gongs BWS for many yrs. It had such a bad reputation that getting any other employee from the surrounding suburbs to cover a shift there was impossible. The guy called "Wazza" would hold up the store every 3 years or so, just whenever he got out of prison. One day I wasn't told I was rostered on one of my days off and he held up the store with a box cutter while a fresh 18 year old girl was covering someones shift, alone. I was at the gym while it happened and got a call from my manager asking if I was okay as they assumed wazza attacked me outside of work and that's why I didn't show up or call in, I came in asap afterwards. On my very first shift, the very first customer I served as a youngin was a lanky 40 or so year old that looked like he slept in a dumptser his whole life. (During this time was when woolworths and bws took away plastic bags) I politely asked the man in my innocent voice if he'd like one. His face became filled with rage as if I asked him to fuck off and replied by screaming "of course I want a fucking bag you cunt you always give the customer a fucking bag cunt when I worked at maccas I always gave them a bag cunt!". I couldn't help myself but laugh really hard, my senior coworker came over to ask if she could assist and they got into a screaming contest resulting in him banned for life. During peak covid we had the automatic hand sanitisers at the entrance. We had ran out of the gel sanitiser and filled it with 70% medical alcohol. One bloke kept getting it to spray out sanitiser on the pad below until it was pooling up, then lit it on fire with his lighter and ran off. When everyone was panic buying sanitiser one lady came in and asked me for our highest percentage alcohol to use as sanitiser, I said we got 60% Absithne. She bought all of our stock. One bloke came in shirtless (normal here) and stared at the spirits for 10 minutes straight (normal here). I asked if he needed any help but he said 'nah mate good ere'. He then grabbed as many as he could and just walked out. I asked him to please not walk out but he didn't stop. Atleast he said "Sorry man". After reporting it, getting the evidence and handing it to the police, he then came later than night (I didn't recognise him because he had on a shirt and sunnies) mumbled under his breath "fuck i gotta stop this" then proceeded to grabb 300 dollars worth of spirits and run out. There's so many more hilarious stories that I cannot seem to remember rn but it was honestly the best job I've ever had and will have. The team were the coolest people ever and the job itself was shit easy and hilarious. It great for character building. Shame I have to grow up and get a real career..
I work at one of these stores currently in VIC. It’s good to know these kinds of customers exist interstate. We had a regular that would come in and thieve $3 bottles of wine. When they got banned, the customer started coming in wearing disguises, one was one of those shitty costume wigs from the $2 shop. We didn’t see them at first but as soon as we recognised them we told them to get out. They then proceeded to kick over all the display boxes of wine sending shit flying everywhere. We had another one who would come in and steal the most expensive bottles of champagne from the fridges. We watched the footage, and they were kissing each bottle before placing them inside their jacket. What for, not entirely sure.
Actually, have an alcoholic ex who got locked in a Dan Murphys after closing time. Whether this was an accident on their behalf or not is open to speculation.
Honestly glad you did this. Feels like between the ABC and Murdoch press lately so much of Australian culture gets left out to dry, and is largely ignored by media. We've got a really distinct thing going on, but we import so much foreign media that even representing Australian life feels alien. Like yeah we've got a few shows, but the only thing that really came close is Kath and Kim, most other stuff has 9 degrees of seperation and feel more like something written by someone who doesn't live here.
Yeah Australians culture has always been about laughing at ourselves through the good and bad. There is a real special feel to it that the media seem to think unimportant, they are almost afraid of showing how beautifully messy Australia can really be
@@TheRealFallingFist That's also the thing, like I swear to god, there is more australian media on the internet, compared to australian media on australian media.
As a lifelong Wollongong local - the rough, depressed side of the city definitely exists as depicted here, but the junkies/eshays represent a very small (but highly visible) part of the Wollongong experience. Like any city there are a few areas that are best to avoid (Piccadilly/Wollongong station etc) but I’ve managed to go the better part of 4 decades without being punched, glassed or mugged. It should be noted however that I don’t use public transport so your experience may vary.
I lived in wollongong for a few years for Uni and made extensive use of public transport (the train stations are a bit scary). Gotta say the Damo and Darren sketch the most Wollongong thing I've ever seen. The lady at the end is just a bonus.
The fact you went and filmed at dicey's is hilarious, every time i've gone, usually you'll see about 2 or 3 patrols of cops every night and maybe the occasional sniffer dog chasing down a dealer out near the pokie room.
Very glad to see you in my hometown, I work in the heart of Wollongong and get harassed by countless amounts of junkies and dickheads, wouldn’t have it any other way.
Finally! I've had a mate trying to convince me that the Damo and Darren video was set in some backwater melbourne station, and I've been telling them for years it's dapto. Confirmation and proff, can't wait to send this to em
Damo and Darren was a real polariser. My mate and I loved it because we could so-relate. His wife was extremely uncomfortable watching it because “I don’t get the joke”. 😂
5:54 is amazing basically shows australia's opinions on celebritiesfor the most part lmao. Adam Sandler could have walked into JB-HI-FI Wollongong and nobody would bat an eye but, walk up to some random tatted up cashier and "oh your the voice actor of Mr Frog? this the greatest day of my life".
There was a children's program where kids had to write their favourite things about Wollongong. Someone simply wrote "I can get to Sydney" and then scribbled an ugly butterfly in crayon.
This takes me back to my uni days, sticky floors and all. I was never brave enough to go to any of the train stations though - probably why I am still alive today
The first psychedelic mushroom strain I ever tried was called Wollongong. They were massive - one mushroom was nearly 2 grams - and they were crazy potent. Best high of my life.
My favourite thing about Wollongong is just that it has a quidditch team(Wollongong Warriors), along with Thundelarra, and have a famous move called the Wollongong Shimmy.
@@esmeraldagreengate4354 Its not a real thing. Its JK writing weird stuff. Basically they started zig-zagging so no-one could hit them, just a good ole serpentine maneuver.
Big popular cities are almost always overrated. It's these medium sized cities with an undeserved/overblown "bad reputation" that are the real gems imo. The "bad reputation" more often than not seems to mean nothing more than "there's mostly lower middle class people" which is dumb as hell and brazenly classist
Nothing about Frank Arkell or the De Gruchy murders? Okie dokie, no Bellambi or Bezerkly... Or on the flip side. World 500cc Motor Cycle Champion Wayne Gardner and World Superbike Champion Troy Corser. At least you didn't feature the Sea Cliff Bridge.
2:05 I worked security for a convention center and I often couldn’t tell the difference between the homeless and the union workers just trying to make it day by day. I didn’t want to try and kick out an actual worker since it’d obviously be saying “You look like shit, dude,” so I used a trick. I’d ask, “Hey, aren’t you with the AFN guys on the other side of the building?” If they say yes, I kick them out since AFN stands for Absolutely Fucking No one.
Oh yeah, I went to uni down there. But I wasn't bougie enough to finish my Arts Degree, even hung out at the good games...Maybe I should have the VTMB game I'm running (set in campbeltown) take a sojourn down there.
I lived here as a kid in the early 2000s so I have rose tinted glasses for the place, haven't been back since that time too. Fond memories of mum driving down Bulli Pass with Outkast Roses playing on the radio
So that's what you were doing at dapto train station! I hope you enjoyed your brief trip into this part of the state, and I hope it didn't scare you away from coming back
Born and raised in gong. I was a big fan of Piccadilly kebabs after a big night out at the Glasshouse, this was 20 years ago. Glasshouse was a brutal place. I got king hit at the kebab place randomly, the kebab owners helped me out, never forget how nice they were, unfortunately some real dirtbags as well in the gong. It's a place you love and hate.
We used to call it The Glassed House. That place was terrible for very brutal kind of fights. Often people would get bashed or glassed for no reason at all.
What a pleasant video to come across! Wollongong to Sydney is what Geelong is to Melbourne. Close enough to the big smoke, big enough to have everything you need but far enough to feel completely different And that ciggy-butt brain re-enactment was classic. So good.
Ive lived in Hastings, Armidale, Kiama, Albion Park, Berry, Cairns, Canberra, Sydney and often visited Frankston. Ive studied in Nowra, UoW and UNE. As far as I can say for my experiences in Wollongong ... its not that bad, you can certainly do worse. 100% stay away from Piccadilly Centre though.
@@mybyhiphae8072 I watch every one of Jordans vids haha. I think this weekend coming up will be my first weekend off from filming and editing since Christmas 😂
Australia sure is fucked up politically, but being a German, every vid I've seen now with conversations with other australians they seem chill as hell. It's either a cold hearted f*ck off, with nothing afterwards or they're nice and tell you their life story. Love it.
Haha, it's neither really. As an Aussie with German background - we just realise there's a bunch of Muppets in "power" and we'd rather enjoy the food 🤪 We are pretty chill though, & probably, definitely will tell you our life story...after we take you to see the drop bears of course.
Creepy historical fact about Wollongong is that a female cleaner was murdered in that Piccadilly shopping centre back in the 70’s-80’s. She was attacked while cleaning the place overnight & murdered. What makes it worse is the person who murdered her chopped up her body & put the pieces of her body all over the centre which they found the next day… also, they have never found the attacker… And, a creepy historical fact about Dapto is the first Station Master at the train station murdered his wife & crippled his son with an Axe in their house which is still there, the one right next to the station, that now has a family living there
Hello, found your channel not to long ago from another youtuber showing the video of your house getting bombed, finally caught up from there, I have been enjoying your content, I hope you don't get bombed again, stay safe and the opposite of being dead.
If this is a weird, dodgy, scary town, Australia is a very successful country! I live in South Africa and this looks super safe and chilled compared to a lot of places here lol. Absolutely loved the reenactment of Ciggy Butt Brain!
@@jayl5032 I love where I am here. The crime is very concentrated in specific areas and that makes the average crime rate look terrible everywhere. Been here for more than 30 years and haven't ever had a break in. Oh and I am an Australian citizen and could move back there easily but prefer it here :)
@@Stratocaster42 it’s all taken in good fun too, I lived in Canberra from 1995 to 2008 then to Wollongong ever since and I promise you Wollongong is waaaay more laid back and friendly.
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perfect reenactment
can you cross your legs any harder #NoBalls
I never met a judgemental gay Australian
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Hey Jordie, great video, but you might want to edit out the kid "they come from overseas" comment at 12:18. The kid is talking about foreign property investor-owners but it might look like he's talking about fair dinkum immigrants. He's a kid and you don't want something like that to stick with him for the rest of his life (as happens in the digital age). You saw what happened to Michael Daley 4.5 years ago.
I love that for the ciggie butt brain re-enactment, Jordan just did the Dave Hughs voice.
Wow you hit the nail on the head 🤣
If someone walked past and didn't recognise Jordies I'm 100% sure they would have thought "business as usual at Dapto traino".
Literally all I could picture was Hughesy 😂
Bloody hughezy! 😡 He's a 50 year old, millionaire, vegan dating a 25 year old model! He should be arrested for cultural misappropriation of bogan culture! 😆
Do I even know you mate?
As a lifelong Wollongong man, I feel like you missed a crucial aspect by not setting up hunting show-type motion cameras at Bellambi train station to monitor Wollongong's natural fauna of Eshays and Crackies interacting in ritualistic tribal warfare.
Lifelong Wollongong Junkie biologist here. Bellambi junkies are typically tame, shy creatures who stick to the shadows and only attack if provoked or encountered on the 24 hrs before pay day. They may shout at you, but this is a defence mechanism or they may possible want to induldge in your Parker and Simpsons. What you speak of is the Berkeley-Warrawong-Port Kembla, a much larger and fiercer junkie, the Uruk to the Orc you could say.
I feel any cameras left unattended would be stolen.
Ah Dont Worry Mackays Queenslands Version. Meth Sugarcane and Coal Heaps of Fucking Coal
@@HecTechFPV or stared into unsettlingly by an eshay tweaking 😂
I catch the trains a lot and Bellambi/Corrimal are the dodgiest
Fun Fact, Damo and Darren was shown to us in Uni by our very hesitant animation teacher for the sole purpose of how recognisable the station platform was as a setting
That's amazing. 😂
My Yr 12 students showed it to me! We quoted it for the rest of the year. Actually we still do!
i've successfully lived to see the day where silly pastimes of newgrounds australians are used as case studies in a college setting
Why would a Uni teacher care about a station platform?
@@HOTD108_ we were talking about settings that feel like their own character and like he said in the video, lots of people say the station in Damo and Darren feels like every station and that’s what our teacher was talking about
I fucking laughed out loud when the kid was interviewed and he was saying all the right stuff only to end it with "people from overseas think they own the place" haha classic australia.
that moment was just great, words of wisdom coming out of the mouth of a babe
he's well taught
Long history of coming over the seas and making it their own; literal fabric of Australia. Nothing could be more true blue.
"Why do people look older here?" "I think it might be the heroin." 💀
Also Jordan you're a bit too good at playing that character.... 😂
Sometimes it's JUST a stressful life. Like most bogans have
@@OffGridInvestormostly it’s smack
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Guaranteed its heroin
Wild seeing a live re-enactment of Damo and Darren at the OG train station
Did not expect you to be here hahaha
"....and they come from overseas" was the best line.... LMAO
Future “fuck off, we’re full” bumper sticker 😂
Michaels face was priceless
I'm glad someone else noticed this. I had to rewind a few times to make sure that's what he actually said lol
He's not wrong. As a 90s kids I was stabbed by a Viet, jumped by Afghans and now I can see our freshly imported African kids acting gangsta.
@@davidataturk4357 as a child of immigrants and Australian born - I’ve had wayyy more issues with bogans 😮
I’ve had 0 issues with immigrants -
Hence the saying goes NOT ALL IMMIGRANTS- NOT ALL BOGANS
But personally I’d be happy to replace most these racist , ‘my country’ bogans with refugees and immigrants…
They are insufferable
Let’s not forget every single culture has their scumbags 😂😂
Literally talking about Eshays and derros in this videos 😂
Clearly the hero’s of humanity…😂😂
Fun fact, i got a glass bottle thrown at me passing by a crazy crackhead as i was passing through Piccadilly/wollongong station😂 it hit me on the ankle and sliced me open straight away!! blood everywhere! It was 2 am and i was alone so i walked myself to the hospital with my t shirt around my ankle and half my tendon attached in my ankle, i ended up needing surgery that morning
Doesnt sound fun
That’s my ideal evening
Come on man, you don’t need to brag. I do this every week
What an experience, lucky you!😂
Fawkin' legend, mate.
jordies and Cusack are the perfect IRL representations of Damo and Darron.
It was like an acid trip watching it. Going to clip it and send it to people saying it's ai content to make them paranoid about technology's progress and hurt their mental health.
I've never seen someone match Jordans character so well. These two have chemistry and I want to see more.
Still insane how long it took for YOLO and Smiling friends to actually be released in this country
Woah, I would've assumed it to get simurelease. I should know better than that though.
Fucking Finally, I was waiting for that
Probably under review by the Classifiction Board -_-
@@NekoBoyOfficial international licensing is a bollocks too
We can't even get our own shit on time. I swear Australia is the precedent case for black market downloading being acceptable. We're always the uncool kid that couldn't watch the cool show cause we can't get Foxtel. 😭
After moving away from one of the worst places in New South Wales, Mt Druitt, i'm happy to say that my experience living near Wollongong train station and Piccadilly mall continues to enable my nostalgia, captivating my memories of drug addicts shooting up on a platform and Eshays rolling kids below their age for their Nike TN's, Wollongong is truly a lovely place.
Mum and I play a game called 'Hospital Bingo' whenever we drive past Wollongong Hospital. There's always several patients smoking out the front, and you get bonus points if they're 1) Still wearing a hospital gown 2) In a wheelchair or 3) On a drip. The holy grail is to spot a smoker with all 3 at once.
This comment makes me want to move there. True Australia
Comment is unbeatable. Well played.
The game I didn't even know I played
We used to have something like that at the pokie venue that I used to work at. Beer in one hand, ciggie in the other, red blood loogie in the ashtray.
I represent that :-) I've participated in 1) & 3) at the same time. Wollongong's such a great place to live, it's got everything.
Michael doing the Mr. Frog voice saying "I like your tattoo" made me smile ear to ear
Bros mind was BLOWN 😂
Put Jordan in smiling friends
A universe with Jordan and Mike Stoklasa is just too powerful and should never exist
Put Jordan mr Frog
Jordies did appear in Cusack's Koala Man, wouldn't be surprised if he ends up in Smiling Friends. It's one more step closer to Jordan showing up in The Simpsons.
I'm sure its something Zack would do too
This.
Worked at the gongs BWS for many yrs. It had such a bad reputation that getting any other employee from the surrounding suburbs to cover a shift there was impossible. The guy called "Wazza" would hold up the store every 3 years or so, just whenever he got out of prison. One day I wasn't told I was rostered on one of my days off and he held up the store with a box cutter while a fresh 18 year old girl was covering someones shift, alone. I was at the gym while it happened and got a call from my manager asking if I was okay as they assumed wazza attacked me outside of work and that's why I didn't show up or call in, I came in asap afterwards.
On my very first shift, the very first customer I served as a youngin was a lanky 40 or so year old that looked like he slept in a dumptser his whole life. (During this time was when woolworths and bws took away plastic bags) I politely asked the man in my innocent voice if he'd like one. His face became filled with rage as if I asked him to fuck off and replied by screaming "of course I want a fucking bag you cunt you always give the customer a fucking bag cunt when I worked at maccas I always gave them a bag cunt!". I couldn't help myself but laugh really hard, my senior coworker came over to ask if she could assist and they got into a screaming contest resulting in him banned for life.
During peak covid we had the automatic hand sanitisers at the entrance. We had ran out of the gel sanitiser and filled it with 70% medical alcohol. One bloke kept getting it to spray out sanitiser on the pad below until it was pooling up, then lit it on fire with his lighter and ran off.
When everyone was panic buying sanitiser one lady came in and asked me for our highest percentage alcohol to use as sanitiser, I said we got 60% Absithne. She bought all of our stock.
One bloke came in shirtless (normal here) and stared at the spirits for 10 minutes straight (normal here). I asked if he needed any help but he said 'nah mate good ere'. He then grabbed as many as he could and just walked out. I asked him to please not walk out but he didn't stop. Atleast he said "Sorry man". After reporting it, getting the evidence and handing it to the police, he then came later than night (I didn't recognise him because he had on a shirt and sunnies) mumbled under his breath "fuck i gotta stop this" then proceeded to grabb 300 dollars worth of spirits and run out.
There's so many more hilarious stories that I cannot seem to remember rn but it was honestly the best job I've ever had and will have. The team were the coolest people ever and the job itself was shit easy and hilarious. It great for character building. Shame I have to grow up and get a real career..
The dickhead with the plastic bags sounds like my downstairs neighbour
I work at one of these stores currently in VIC. It’s good to know these kinds of customers exist interstate. We had a regular that would come in and thieve $3 bottles of wine. When they got banned, the customer started coming in wearing disguises, one was one of those shitty costume wigs from the $2 shop. We didn’t see them at first but as soon as we recognised them we told them to get out. They then proceeded to kick over all the display boxes of wine sending shit flying everywhere. We had another one who would come in and steal the most expensive bottles of champagne from the fridges. We watched the footage, and they were kissing each bottle before placing them inside their jacket. What for, not entirely sure.
Actually, have an alcoholic ex who got locked in a Dan Murphys after closing time.
Whether this was an accident on their behalf or not is open to speculation.
Bloody life story
Honestly glad you did this.
Feels like between the ABC and Murdoch press lately so much of Australian culture gets left out to dry, and is largely ignored by media. We've got a really distinct thing going on, but we import so much foreign media that even representing Australian life feels alien. Like yeah we've got a few shows, but the only thing that really came close is Kath and Kim, most other stuff has 9 degrees of seperation and feel more like something written by someone who doesn't live here.
Yeah Australians culture has always been about laughing at ourselves through the good and bad. There is a real special feel to it that the media seem to think unimportant, they are almost afraid of showing how beautifully messy Australia can really be
We got Kath and Kim, Koala Man, and Bluey
Mr Inbetween is great, more independent projects coming out which is dope
@@taynestreet8877 Big Lez Show
@@TheRealFallingFist That's also the thing, like I swear to god, there is more australian media on the internet, compared to australian media on australian media.
As a lifelong Wollongong local - the rough, depressed side of the city definitely exists as depicted here, but the junkies/eshays represent a very small (but highly visible) part of the Wollongong experience. Like any city there are a few areas that are best to avoid (Piccadilly/Wollongong station etc) but I’ve managed to go the better part of 4 decades without being punched, glassed or mugged. It should be noted however that I don’t use public transport so your experience may vary.
The crossover that we all wanted. Can we get more live action Damo and Darren please.
As a Wollongong local and also someone that was at Dicey Riley’s twice last week this felt like a fever dream
Oh fuck yeah. Two titans of Aussie online culture collide. Pls do Big Les Show next.
Fuck yes please. Would love to see Jordan and Jarrad to have a chat
Jordan on shrooms
Imagine if he finds Trent...
TRENT FROM PUNCHY
Oh yes Big Les show,😂
That lil blonde kid at the skate park! 😂😂
"When people think they own the place.....
And they come from overseas..."
Jeezus 😂
12:17 the complete 180 from that kid had me audibly yelp with laughter. nothing more gong than that
Then the zoom in on Michael's face 🤣
Caught me so Fucking off guard 😂😂
Haha, me too.
His dad's probably yelling at the telly about foreigners when watching the news
So funny. Poor kid. I'm sure he's heard his dad say that to the TV on more than one occasion.
I lived in wollongong for a few years for Uni and made extensive use of public transport (the train stations are a bit scary).
Gotta say the Damo and Darren sketch the most Wollongong thing I've ever seen.
The lady at the end is just a bonus.
The live action ciggy butt brain was the most magical thing I've seen all year
The fact you went and filmed at dicey's is hilarious, every time i've gone, usually you'll see about 2 or 3 patrols of cops every night and maybe the occasional sniffer dog chasing down a dealer out near the pokie room.
I’m agoraphobic too ✊✊✊
Ayy saaaame which is why even though I live in the middle of Wollongong I'm classified as a cryptid at the Warhammer store ✊✊✊
@@GrimFelArt Cryptid? Did you mean personified Nurgling?
Tay....I've seen you now on about 10 of the people im subbed to. What a man of culture you are.
Surprised to see a Legendary peep like Tay commenting under a video about two Aussies being bros
I love that even from across the sea, you'll come enjoy a friendlyjordies video
12:05 The interview with the smallest of the three boys absolutely cracked me up.
rather fitting, as wollongong sounds like something michael cusack would make up for a cartoon
I never knew I could be injected with such a lethal dose of australia
Very glad to see you in my hometown, I work in the heart of Wollongong and get harassed by countless amounts of junkies and dickheads, wouldn’t have it any other way.
Finally! I've had a mate trying to convince me that the Damo and Darren video was set in some backwater melbourne station, and I've been telling them for years it's dapto. Confirmation and proff, can't wait to send this to em
I love how that one dude on the street at that table just immediately assumed that it was about John Barrilaro because of Jordie being there.
Bruz
As an American it's crazy to me that they went around talking to people in a small town/city and none were absolutely insane or belligerent.
300,000 people isnt a small town mate
As bad as Australia can be with crazy people I'm glad I don't live in an American city, 3rd Avenue in Seattle was absolutely insane
Aussies can talk to anyone bro. I bet even in your town, they'd chill out when they heard the accent.
@troybailey9524 bro, he had /city. Besides, Wollongong is always dead at least half the time, so it feels like a town.
@@corvanphoenix c
Couldn't have put it better myself. Still scared from growing up there in the 60s and 70s.
I had forgotten what an absolute masterpiece Damo and Darren was.
Damo and Darren was a real polariser.
My mate and I loved it because we could so-relate.
His wife was extremely uncomfortable watching it because “I don’t get the joke”.
😂
Jordan I was at your show at City Diggers and I gotta say, you handled that heckler like a pro. Thanks for coming to our little town.
5:54 is amazing basically shows australia's opinions on celebritiesfor the most part lmao. Adam Sandler could have walked into JB-HI-FI Wollongong and nobody would bat an eye but, walk up to some random tatted up cashier and "oh your the voice actor of Mr Frog? this the greatest day of my life".
Bro this is 💯 percent on point.
that darren and daimo renactment genuinely warmed my heart, so much love for Micheal, hes been absolutely killing it consistently for so long.
Incredible, he's like an Australian less depressed Dan Harmon.
That re-enactment was a fine piece of Australian art and should be nationally archived for all to enjoy
Honestly impressed with the boys live action Damo & Darren. Put it on future tours Jordy
it was epic
"Trees _in_ the air?"
Absolutely killed me
Gotta support the trees mate.
Up a street light's a bit different but she does the job
Jordan makes a good travel show host lol
Jordan Shanks' Parts Privated
@@fives.this made me laugh way too hard, thank you
The average Aussie pub has more screens than NASA mission control
Well yeah. And?
Let me just say that handshake from Jordan at 16:45 was unholy.
Low-key I loved it haha, just standard Jordan doing whatever
For those who don't know, jordies is the old man in the opening episodes of koala man, great show!!!
He was also Chippy the Tradie & a bunch of randos.
Oooooooh now this video makes sense.
That show is creepy.
Hes also in the snuff film at the end of one of the eps too *spoilers*
There was a children's program where kids had to write their favourite things about Wollongong. Someone simply wrote "I can get to Sydney" and then scribbled an ugly butterfly in crayon.
This takes me back to my uni days, sticky floors and all. I was never brave enough to go to any of the train stations though - probably why I am still alive today
The first psychedelic mushroom strain I ever tried was called Wollongong. They were massive - one mushroom was nearly 2 grams - and they were crazy potent. Best high of my life.
My favourite thing about Wollongong is just that it has a quidditch team(Wollongong Warriors), along with Thundelarra, and have a famous move called the Wollongong Shimmy.
I grew up in Wollongong and have never heard of the Wollongong shuffle. What is it?
@@esmeraldagreengate4354 Its not a real thing. Its JK writing weird stuff. Basically they started zig-zagging so no-one could hit them, just a good ole serpentine maneuver.
@@its-aydonus6842 like a dero capoeira?
@@esmeraldagreengate4354 no like on a broomstick, its a quidditch move, just zig-zaging so you dont get hit by bludgers. Its a Harry Potter thing
@@its-aydonus6842 oh I see!!!!
Did not expect to see these two roast where I live for 25 minutes but I am 1000% into it
“…When they come from overseas.”
Good lord, I was not expecting that 😅 (12:25)
Ah good ole Aussie racism
@@haruhisuzumiya6650 We’ve only got a couple of hundred years of history and most of it can be summed up as drinking and racism. Onya Australia.
@@dan.94. the irony is that the colonies did exactly this
Was feeling bad for him for being bashed until that moment
I spat a beverage
"intrinsic beautiful area" woollie, "intrinsic beautiful area" friendly's face. Loved the edit. Love you guys.
>unironically existing in Woolongong
I wish I could help it
Big popular cities are almost always overrated. It's these medium sized cities with an undeserved/overblown "bad reputation" that are the real gems imo. The "bad reputation" more often than not seems to mean nothing more than "there's mostly lower middle class people" which is dumb as hell and brazenly classist
As an American, the Ciggy Butt Brain bit at the end somehow makes absolutely no sense at all, but also perfect sense.
That's kinda exactly how we all communicate to each other. It doesn't really make sense, but we all understand each other implicitly.
@@Tt-qm2xg Australian is an interpretive language
We think the same when we see videos of people from Alabama or Texas.
Nothing about Frank Arkell or the De Gruchy murders? Okie dokie, no Bellambi or Bezerkly... Or on the flip side. World 500cc Motor Cycle Champion Wayne Gardner and World Superbike Champion Troy Corser. At least you didn't feature the Sea Cliff Bridge.
Michael just being a chef how could you not absolutely love this
I think you'll find they are called sandwich arrrrrrteeeests
Chef is a hell of a stretch
Great one! Michael seems like a damn genuine bloke. LOVE the live action re-enactment. I'd watch the show.
2:05 I worked security for a convention center and I often couldn’t tell the difference between the homeless and the union workers just trying to make it day by day. I didn’t want to try and kick out an actual worker since it’d obviously be saying “You look like shit, dude,” so I used a trick. I’d ask, “Hey, aren’t you with the AFN guys on the other side of the building?” If they say yes, I kick them out since AFN stands for Absolutely Fucking No one.
Oh yeah, I went to uni down there. But I wasn't bougie enough to finish my Arts Degree, even hung out at the good games...Maybe I should have the VTMB game I'm running (set in campbeltown) take a sojourn down there.
JORDIES! Jordan Shanks! This has gone on long enough! You MUST get a Warhammer 40k tattoo! You promised at 1 million subs! I demand it!
I've been waiting a decade for this moment
Oh shit I just realised that too!
As someone who's just getting into 40k I can imagine some badass tattoos and I probably don't know the most bad ass stuff yet
Still got my poster from the Parkway Drive myspace secret show at the youthie in 2007. Thanks for coming down lads.
Was not ready for Jordies' "Damo" outfit! 😂
He slips back into male modelling just like Michael slips back into making sandwiches
I lived here as a kid in the early 2000s so I have rose tinted glasses for the place, haven't been back since that time too. Fond memories of mum driving down Bulli Pass with Outkast Roses playing on the radio
So that's what you were doing at dapto train station! I hope you enjoyed your brief trip into this part of the state, and I hope it didn't scare you away from coming back
Born and raised in gong. I was a big fan of Piccadilly kebabs after a big night out at the Glasshouse, this was 20 years ago. Glasshouse was a brutal place. I got king hit at the kebab place randomly, the kebab owners helped me out, never forget how nice they were, unfortunately some real dirtbags as well in the gong. It's a place you love and hate.
We used to come up from Nowra for a big night in the Gong around 20yrs ago 😂
We used to call it The Glassed House. That place was terrible for very brutal kind of fights. Often people would get bashed or glassed for no reason at all.
Your Darren sounds an awful lot like your Hughesy impression. Pretty spot on.
Back in the early 1970s “The Aunty Jack Show” used to take the piss out of Wollongong.
What a pleasant video to come across!
Wollongong to Sydney is what Geelong is to Melbourne. Close enough to the big smoke, big enough to have everything you need but far enough to feel completely different
And that ciggy-butt brain re-enactment was classic. So good.
Yea, but you are a Victorian, weird crazy people. The Gong or Wong isn't quite as crazy or strange as anything from Victoria.
@@darrenthorne1 Mate the Gong puts Frankston to shame lol.
@@darrenthorne1 Geelong is okay, but...
@@PyjamaLlama ...Frankston is really weird. The people in Melbourne aren't right.
Wollongong gives me flashbacks of my home town Bega. Beautiful countryside, but filled with depressing locals and the occasional stabbing...
i live in wollongong and seeing the re-enactment of damo and darren at the original spot made me incredibly happy
Ive lived in Hastings, Armidale, Kiama, Albion Park, Berry, Cairns, Canberra, Sydney and often visited Frankston. Ive studied in Nowra, UoW and UNE. As far as I can say for my experiences in Wollongong ... its not that bad, you can certainly do worse. 100% stay away from Piccadilly Centre though.
Packed a fair bit of advertising into that one! nice
Good to see Michael in person and especially in the gong!
That's where he lives?
@@diondicello161 I knoww dis, just good to see him walking through his hometown and mine.
Yeah he lives in Melbourne. Melbournites coming to laugh at their hometown. 🤷🏼♀️ Idk at least Michael showed a bit of love for the place.
@@diondicello161 nah Melbourne for years.
@@spededucation8564but was born down in Wollongong
CCTV footage of that re-enactment would have been fucken classic.
From the U.S but lived in the Gong for for over a year, nothing is dodgy here. I just laugh because it's so safe.
This was the re-enactment of the decade.... nay.... century. Dude, you nailed the Damo, even down to the cap 😂
Yo Chris! Fancy seeing you here. Hope you're getting some rest after your series and trip to Thailand. Keep it up, love your content man! 🙏
@@mybyhiphae8072 I watch every one of Jordans vids haha. I think this weekend coming up will be my first weekend off from filming and editing since Christmas 😂
@Chris Booy That's wild haha. You earned the weekend off that's for sure!
Can't believe they brought up the Amigo's body but not the Piccadilly mutilation slaying of 1966
Australia sure is fucked up politically, but being a German, every vid I've seen now with conversations with other australians they seem chill as hell. It's either a cold hearted f*ck off, with nothing afterwards or they're nice and tell you their life story. Love it.
please don’t take our politicians as any indication of what Australians are actually like, some of us are pretty cool
Haha, it's neither really. As an Aussie with German background - we just realise there's a bunch of Muppets in "power" and we'd rather enjoy the food 🤪 We are pretty chill though, & probably, definitely will tell you our life story...after we take you to see the drop bears of course.
Australian politics are fucked like anywhere, but man I love the people.
we vote for them tho..
@@Vespyro I'm pretty sure the German is understanding of the concept of not wanting to be judged by one's political leaders.
That live actionciggy butt brain enactment was pure art. Two of the best Aussie UA-camrs atm. Sorry Chad and Max
This is the best episode yet. Gong represent. Its wild seeing you just walking down crown street and having a bev at diceys.
i think its safe to say we need more content like this. this is pure gold. best content i have seen in a long looong time
I live in the Gong and gotta say, Dicey sums up how the Gong is
Creepy historical fact about Wollongong is that a female cleaner was murdered in that Piccadilly shopping centre back in the 70’s-80’s. She was attacked while cleaning the place overnight & murdered.
What makes it worse is the person who murdered her chopped up her body & put the pieces of her body all over the centre which they found the next day… also, they have never found the attacker…
And, a creepy historical fact about Dapto is the first Station Master at the train station murdered his wife & crippled his son with an Axe in their house which is still there, the one right next to the station, that now has a family living there
Unanderra Station is my local. we're all excited it finally has a lift.
Glad to see my hometown in one of your videos! Hope you enjoyed it here, and didn't run into too many eshays.
21:00 hands down your best work to date.
You've gone from Coffs to the Gong. Basically the same towns, but one's got bananas.
So sad to see that Michael's shows didn't kick off and he's back to working at a Subway. 😢
Hello, found your channel not to long ago from another youtuber showing the video of your house getting bombed, finally caught up from there, I have been enjoying your content, I hope you don't get bombed again, stay safe and the opposite of being dead.
If this is a weird, dodgy, scary town, Australia is a very successful country! I live in South Africa and this looks super safe and chilled compared to a lot of places here lol. Absolutely loved the reenactment of Ciggy Butt Brain!
@Stratocaster42 Please escape for your health and safety. Truly.
I have seen some videos of people being followed home by bandits
Houses looking like fortifications
@@jayl5032 I love where I am here. The crime is very concentrated in specific areas and that makes the average crime rate look terrible everywhere. Been here for more than 30 years and haven't ever had a break in. Oh and I am an Australian citizen and could move back there easily but prefer it here :)
@@Stratocaster42 it’s all taken in good fun too, I lived in Canberra from 1995 to 2008 then to Wollongong ever since and I promise you Wollongong is waaaay more laid back and friendly.
The blue lights in the train station are lovely
I gotta say that ciggy butt brain reenactment was mint.
I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR THE RE-ENACTMENT XD absolutely fucking stunnin xD
Jordan talking about sticky floors just to flex his shoes 👟
Dude Dicey Reilly's bottle shop! I was there yesterday and to many times before that!😂
There would be nothing greater in this world than if Jordies, Mislav, Michael and Zach made a 2-3 hour podcast
You don't know how much I love Damo and Darren 😍
Watched Koala Man just to see more of them