There Is A Brand New Australian Podcast That Is Entirely About Poo, And We Spoke To Its Creator

If you’re the kind of person who cackles like a banshee at the crassest of poo jokes — or takes unholy pleasure in tales of friends’ poo-related humiliations — your day is about to be made.

Allow me to introduce the most excellent new edition to our illustrious podcasting scene: Poo Tales, a weekly show dedicated entirely to poo — poo stories, poo facts, poo songs and even poo poetry.

Naturally, something this ridiculously awesome could only be created by an Aussie — so please give a round of applause for Melbourne audio producer and voice actor Danny O’Grady. He launched Poo Tales after Melbourne’s Radio Training Institute asked him to teach a podcasting course – and he figured he should probably create his own show first.

“My brain squeezed out Poo Tales as the very first idea. Pleased with that, I backed it in,” O’Grady told us, disgustingly. “I can positively blame my Dad — who’s Irish as fuck; just look at my name — for the poo story obsession. As kids, Mum would recount fairytales, and Dad would recount Irish limericks with the occasional poo twist.”

O’Grady warms up the first episode with a delightful tale, told via song, of shitting his pants at Falls Festival. From there, it’s all entertaining stories of other people’s shitty misfortunes and educational definitions of highbrow terms like “spine breaker” and “reverse kanga”.

“The night before I launched the first episode there was a huge moment of, ‘Hang on, I’m 29 and this is what I do? Talk about poopy?’ But I got over that after people started complimenting the idea and sending in their stories,” O’Grady says. “Anytime I mention that this is what I do, people laugh and rip straight into a story.”

Four episodes in already, the whole shebang is slickly produced thanks to O’Grady’s two-year stint as a radio producer with comedy duo Hamish & Andy. His girlfriend is apparently less than impressed, but kind of dug her own grave by helping O’Grady build the Poo Tales website, which you can visit here.

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Subscribe to Poo Tales on iTunes here; and if you want to submit your own story to his “beautiful sick brown fantasy”, get in touch with the good man over here.