29/3/25

It just keeps getting better. El and I are amazed.

Handing over the MC reins to Lana was very easy. Under her confident guidance and beautifully crafted into, the crowd could fully relax,they were being led into WhaBam 4 by a true spirit guide.

Jeremie opened with a brilliant story about the beyond epic journey to be at the birth and then take home his daughter. His ability to convey the struggle of dealing with Colombian bureaucracy, with razor sharp comic timing, stating the obvious, that the center for Melbourne Jewish day care emirates from yochi on Carlisle st.

Laini took the stage and took us on her iVF hell ride from Australia to israel. With the difference of care from Melbourne to Tel Aviv was wide as the distance travelled. Having to carefully inject yourself while your crazy neighbour screams at his wife.

Then over to Ash's version of a drunken sing-along to George Michael's Wham Bam, that i don't think he would ever do again.

Closing the first set, Hanna gave us all a lesson in the female teenage boarding house education, which was both traumatic and enough to make any father want to lock his daughters away from any male youngster and ban them from ever using tampons.

After a classic fress and drink, we gathered again. For the second round.

Jess came out strong, hard and straight up...was so absorbing in his tale of measuring up to himself and confronting the red eyed beast of teenage shame

Then we were all able to experience the journey of Elianas groundbreaking participation in a study of people doing hard, daily exercise while going through Chemotherapy. Which ends with her having a stronger heart, being able to leg press over 220kg, being cleared of cancer and leaving us all with stronger hearts by being witness to her story.

On to Mat, who like a true spoken word artist was able to craft the story of accidentally buying a fake gun on Temu, then absent-mindedly picking it up, while being on the phone to the superstar meteorologist Rob Gell, pacing outside his home discussing the benefits of AI, being spotted by a scared neighbour who thinks there is an armed man in the street. Days later being interrogated at home by the special operation police force, while gently keeping the cyberslim mushroom experiments out of their line of sight.

To the man who closed the night. Idor....did i spell it right...telling us that not only was he not going to tell any stories about his wife, but tonight, with the help of me(ford) we were all going to know what it's like to take a incorrect dose of a new and very lucrative male sexual aid, which he shares with the newly departed CEO of Phizser. Only to find out the next day that it was in fact just a triple dose of Viagra mixed with cheap herbal tea.

We can not put into words how happy we are that WhamBam delivers in so many ways.

Our cups runneth over

Love to you all, thanks for coming

El and Ford