08 / About
Two mates. One mic.
1,022 conversations.
The Daily Talk Show is an Australian podcast and video show with 1,022 consecutive daily episodes to its name. Every one unscripted, unfiltered, and completely real.
The Hosts
Tommy Jackett
Co-Host
Creative director, entrepreneur, and professional conversationalist. Tommy brings the energy, the wild ideas, and an unmatched ability to find the interesting angle in any topic. A driving force behind Melbourne's creative community.
Josh Janssen
Co-Host
Technology enthusiast, deep thinker, and the voice of reason. Josh brings thoughtful perspectives, a love for great questions, and an instinct for turning casual chat into meaningful conversation.
Journey
Three years of showing up.
16 Jan 2018
Episode 1
Tommy and Josh hit record for the first time. No plan, no script.
Jan 2019
365 consecutive days
A full year without missing a day. The streak becomes the identity.
2019
The Gronk Squad
The listener community gets a name and becomes family.
Apr 2021
Episode 1,000
A milestone most daily shows never reach.
May 2021
Episode 1,022
The daily streak wraps on the boys' own terms — every episode lives right here.
Oct 2026
In Guns We Trust
The team's first feature film — Josh directs, Tommy and Josh star. Streaming free worldwide on YouTube.
The format
What they built.
The Daily Talk Show launched on 16 January 2018 as a daily audio podcast and grew, piece by piece, into something there wasn’t an Australian template for: a long-form daily talk show, produced independently, published across audio, YouTube and live video — with its community built into the format. The show described itself on air as the first daily podcast and video talk show in Australia (episode 388). What that meant in practice:
Daily, long form
An hour-ish conversation every scheduled day for three and a half years — 1,022 episodes and 811 hours, none missed, including a four-month stretch recorded on the road in Europe. Weekdays from launch; seven days a week from July 2019 (episode 385).
Video on YouTube
On-camera episodes from December 2018 (episode 231) and a video edition of every episode on YouTube from January 2019 — treating YouTube as a primary home for a podcast well before that became standard practice.
Live production
Live streaming built into the workflow: remote live shows within days of the March 2020 lockdown, twice-daily episodes through early COVID, a 24-hour livestream, and episode 1000 delivered as a 1,000-minute live stream.
Audience as infrastructure
A named community — the Gronks — with its own segments, PO box, membership, Zoom events and a sold-out episode-500 live show. Format decisions were tested with listeners on air; when a weekly format was floated, the audience argued it down (episode 482).
A real production company
A purpose-built Abbotsford studio and a full-time team — producer, editor, GM — behind an independent daily show, plus a network of spin-off podcasts launched during the 2020 lockdowns.
Everything on the record
Format, money and growth decisions discussed openly on air — from monetisation experiments to the choice to end at 1,022 — leaving a complete, searchable record of how the show was made.
Segments
More than a podcast.
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Fat Fridays
Every Friday was about food. Burger debates, restaurant reviews, and the eternal chip-to-burger ratio question.
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Weekend Banter
Monday catch-ups about the weekend. Travel stories, life updates, and the kind of chat you'd have with your best mate.
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Gronk Squad
The show's community. Not just listeners — family. Built from people who showed up every day.
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