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Fridge in good condition
Tommy finds out his son Bodhi is left handed, bogan haircuts and a great price for a fridge.
Show Notes
The Daily Talk Show — Thursday May 24 (Ep 93) - Josh Janssen & Tommy Jackett
Tommy finds out his son Bodhi is left handed, bogan haircuts and a great price for a fridge.
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At a glance
From this episode’s transcript.
- –Josh and Tommy say they've already decided not to chase monetisation of the podcast, prioritising connection and enjoyment over income.
- –Tommy's 15-month-old son Bodhi appears to be developing as left-handed, which sparked a discussion of research (real or dubious) linking left-handedness to creativity, health risks, and career tendencies.
- –Both hosts are moving house this week, leading to practical chaos: selling furniture and DVDs on Gumtree, and the logistics of disassembling large items like a crib and standing desk.
- –The family fridge, upgraded for free after a moving company's insurance payout, is being sold for roughly $800 ahead of their move, advertised directly on the show.
- –Tommy is becoming more conscious of swearing around his son Bodhi as the toddler starts mimicking speech.
Questions this episode answers
Why are Josh and Tommy selling their fridge on the podcast?
They are moving house and don't want to pay for storage, so they are selling a fridge that was upgraded for free (worth $2,100) after an insurance payout from a previous move, listing it for around $800 and promoting it to listeners.
Does The Daily Talk Show try to make money from the podcast?
Josh and Tommy say they've essentially already decided not to prioritise monetising the show, framing it instead as something done for connection and enjoyment, with Tommy noting he has a separate job for income.
What signs suggest Tommy's son Bodhi is left-handed?
Daycare staff and Tommy noticed Bodhi increasingly using his left hand with more power and control for writing and drawing, even though he throws with his right hand.
Episode TranscriptShow
Josh: It's The Daily Talk Show. I'm Josh Janson.
Tommy: I'm Tommy Jackins.
Josh: And this is A Conversation Sometimes Worth Recording, episode 93.
Tommy: You come in really quickly after I say the name.
Josh: I do, I realise that.
Tommy: So just watch it.
Josh: It was actually, you know what, I listened to it. No, it's because I get excited.
Tommy: I know.
Josh: And it's almost like maybe because I'm bored of it already. Yeah. I'm just like, we're just gonna get through it.
Tommy: Fuck, you're the one who was banging on about doing it at the start, so at least let me say it.
Josh: Because yeah, I feel like it's almost a, um, yeah, it's not great. We're talking about the podcast again.
Tommy: I know, and that was my fucking fault. No, that's okay. Hey, uh, edging close to 100, some good feedback coming through. We thought we'd just, um, give a few people a shout out for writing in.
Josh: Yeah, we, um, uh, yeah, we've got a few emails. hi@thedailytalkshow.com if you are listening.
Tommy: B-Mac, I love you. I just get an email that says "Top 3 words used on the podcast: fuck, podcast, and Shepparton." He's got a point. I wrote, "Fuck yeah, we love a good podcast from Shepparton." It's true.
Josh: It has been a very— like Shepparton has been a big part of the story. But we got an email from Sean. He writes, "I want to wish you and Bree an enjoyable holiday. I heard you say in an earlier podcast that you would be wearing clothes like a Euro.
Tommy: Please don't." White pants, I imagine.
Josh: No matter what you're going to be spotted that you're on holiday, stick to JJ wear, mate. You'll be right. Thumbs up. Yeah. Yeah. No. So, I think I'm just going to wear, I don't know, like the funny thing is I'm going from winter to summer. So, this whole getup that I've been wearing this top like for the last 2 weeks.
Tommy: I know.
Josh: But it's like pretty good, isn't it? Like it's like there's no—
Tommy: Well, I mean, what's pretty good about it? It's a black top.
Josh: No, but it's great that it doesn't like smell.
Tommy: Well, okay. I haven't noticed you smelling.
Josh: Exactly.
Tommy: So, can you notice anything?
Josh: No, no, it's perfect. The one annoying thing is the deodorant. I use a roll-on deodorant and it's— And when I turn around my like inside out, you can see that it's gone a bit sort of crusty. Oh, no. But a mate of mine was saying that Mr. Pitts is really good. It's like a balm. I think it's all natural.
Tommy: Why don't you use spray?
Josh: 'Cause asthma, I get real—
Tommy: Do you?
Josh: Yeah, I hate it. And I find that, yeah, when I spray it, I'll notice after a few days, like in the bathroom, there's like a film of like the powdery shit. It just feels carcinogenic. What are you doing with your deodorant, bro? It just feels a bit carcinogenic.
Tommy: Are you doing it like the ad where you do it across the front, like the Lynx effect, like down across your body with your top off in front of the mirror?
Josh: Lynx is fucking gross. But no, Sean had a question for you. He asked you about, whether you're gonna be sharing the time-lapse that you took that not long ago on the trip.
Tommy: Yeah, I'll put them out. It's all client work, so I'm focusing on creating the video. This was from the Outback, Queensland.
Josh: Have you started editing?
Tommy: Yeah, yeah, yeah. 60% in.
Josh: Really? Fuck, I haven't seen anything.
Tommy: No, I say 60% in. Editing can sometimes be, the analogy is we're actually creating the pieces for the puzzle and now it's just putting the puzzle together.
Josh: Yeah, sure.
Tommy: So it's like finding the best bits of the interview, the best footage, the right audio, blah blah blah. And now it's just like, it can be pretty fast putting it all together.
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: Um, so yesterday we're talking, um, about people who have same names as us. Fuck, I looked on my LinkedIn, you know, you can see who's viewed your profile.
Josh: Tom Jacket looked at your profile?
Tommy: Yeah, a guy named Tom Jacket yesterday looked at my profile.
Josh: Do you reckon he's listening to the show?
Tommy: I don't know. No, big shout out to Tommy boy, Tommy Jacket, if he's listening. Surely he'd be furious about you cutting off my name.
Josh: Yeah, it's— no, it was poor form. I apologize.
Tommy: That's all right.
Josh: It's— no, I, uh, we could— we can— I feel like we can start, um, shifting it around so you can do the intro if you can remember the line. Yeah. Um, but we, we yesterday were talking about, uh, search engine optimization.
Tommy: Yeah, Digital Chubby.
Josh: Yeah, how to rank on the old Googs.
Tommy: You got real hard.
Josh: Yeah. And, uh, bloody Michelle's popped in. She was saying Google is irrelevant now. I think that's slightly strong.
Tommy: It's really not a business.
Josh: It's slight— slightly strong for Michelle, but I get where she's going. She says, um, if you're trying to reach an audience through a search engine— um, sorry, through a search engine— uh, then you've probably lost the fight. 100% agree on that, which is like, um, the, the types of people who are searching for video production company aren't necessarily the people I want to be working with because they they're essentially, it then becomes this commodity like hiring a cleaner.
Tommy: Yeah.
Josh: And then you, and then it's, you know, they're doing the whole, I need 4 quotes to get this thing across the line.
Tommy: Plenty of businesses that have built their business purely out of, yeah, Google. Absolutely.
Josh: I reckon, yeah, that I, I get a lot of emails through it, but, um, you need to have some sort of methodology of going through them to decipher.
Tommy: Maybe the point around you're trying to reach an audience, maybe that's not how— I get it, that's not the way to create the audience. Yeah, because it's a bit impersonal, the kind of people that would be there.
Josh: Yeah, I think it's just a secondary thing. Yeah, I think like you have, just like you have social media, stuff like that. And that's where I know, like, that's where Google is going anyway, right? To Michelle's point, you know, it is about that word of mouth.. And the thing is that Google, for a very long time, they tried to do it with Google Plus. Do you remember Google Plus? It's like their social media. It was going to be like the Facebook competitor. It was shit. But the idea behind it was it was trying to add a social element to Google so that the— your Google Plus friends, they'll visit websites. And so that would all like play into— and someone could, you know, it's looking at your connections and all that sort of thing and helping serving you with content that is most relevant.
Tommy: Well, they got YouTube as their platform.
Josh: Yeah, it's fine. Yes, second largest search engine in the world is YouTube. Yes. Um, and then so Michelle went on to say, uh, you and Tommy have got what the majority of YouTubers, bloggers, etc. haven't— each other. You already have the magic and the spark needed to create a pairing necessary to grab an audience. That's like super nice. And, um, One of the concerns that she does have for us.
Tommy: Okay, here we go.
Josh: She said, I'm still sitting here pondering as to how you're going to monetize the show or whether you ever reach the point where you formally say, fuck this, we can't make money without compromising ourselves. So, we're just going to keep doing this because reaching out and connecting with people is worth doing.
Tommy: Yeah. Two things here. We're talking about the podcast again, but some nice compliments coming through. So, I'll bear this one out.
Josh: No, the, it's the The fact is, I think we've made a choice already. I reckon we— I think we're already at the fuck it.
Tommy: We're done.
Josh: No. I think we've already said fuck it. Like, we don't need to monetise this thing.
Tommy: Nah. I mean, when we get people like BMAC sending through his interactions with Sandra Sully, which we spoke about on the show, it's magic.
Josh: Yeah. I don't think we even spoke— We didn't speak about BMAC yet and his Twitter interaction, but that did happen. If you go back to 2012, search BMAC on Twitter, you can see the interaction there. It's pretty hilarious. But yeah, so, I mean, that's my view on it. What do you think?
Tommy: Yeah, I'm not fussed. I've got a job. I make money doing something else and we wouldn't do this if we didn't like each other.
Josh: It's like Michelle sent us some books, which I'm saving mine for my trip. And the thing that she was talking about is she makes fuck all money from it, right? She was showing like tax returns. The money that the taxman gave back because she, you know, made so little on it. And the point is, it's like most authors don't make money off their books. It's the whole other thing. It's about having a book rather than that being the thing. Yeah.
Tommy: Yeah. There's always people talking at events that have written a book. Yeah.
Josh: You're not gonna be rich. I don't think the aim of the game is to be rich doing a podcast. Maybe rich in connection. Having fun, doing what the fuck you want.
Tommy: Define what is your purpose or what you're actually wanting. If that's money, there's probably other ways to go about it.
Josh: Well, that's what Michelle was saying. She's like, you know, what do you want in life? Money, fame, fast cars? And then she says Craig Harper was such a good listen.
Tommy: We had Michelle on the podcast if you're wondering who Michelle is.
Josh: What episode was that? 60th?
Tommy: Maybe.
Josh: I can't remember. Yeah, I can't remember.
Tommy: It all blended.
Josh: 70 maybe. But it was one of the milestone episodes. Yeah, but Michelle's been listening since episode 20. She found you through the Obike video that you made. She bought a t-shirt.
Tommy: Obike thing just never gives up. I did an interview this week about them.
Josh: What was it about?
Tommy: It's a— so when you're doing like a journalism degree, these schools have like an internal news program. One was called Mojo, and this was from Monash, I think.
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: And some kid came out and interviewed me about the videos I made. It's like, fuck, geez, this doesn't—
Josh: this is—
Tommy: I just need to get a No Bike tattoo or something.
Josh: Yeah, but it's good. You can use it if you can get backlinks to our website through that. That'd be amazing.
Tommy: SEO.
Josh: You should have said that.
Tommy: Michelle doesn't give a shit about it.
Josh: Yeah, no, I understand.
Tommy: So yesterday I went to pick up Bodhi, my little boy, from daycare, and fuck, he's great. He's such a good kid.
Josh: When are you going to get rid of his mullet?
Tommy: Nah, I'm growing it out. We have now given him— He's 15 months old. We've never given him a haircut and he has grown a natural mullet that is very impressive.
Josh: What is that like? What's the desire to allow that mullet to keep going?
Tommy: Well, we just can't be bothered cutting it. There's no real reason. What's wrong with having a mullet?
Josh: It would just be like just a bit of a cleaner sort of corporate look.
Tommy: No, I want to give him a real funky haircut. If we're going to give him a haircut, he'll keep the mullet. Shave the sides down, keep the top, bit of a mohawk into a mullet.
Josh: Just in case people didn't know that his parents were a bit bogan. Is that the idea?
Tommy: We're cool parents, I think. They tell us that at daycare. You guys are such cool parents. Well, we don't worry as much. There are parents like, you know, Bodie has had a few incidences with other kids and the reaction from the parents is full on.
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: And our reaction is, oh yes mate, let's go.
Josh: Like what sort of thing?
Tommy: Like, oh, like a kid, you know, like hit him in the face because he was trying to take their toy, whatever.
Josh: Rough and tumble. And so, the parent was freaking out.
Tommy: Parents freak out.
Josh: That their child's a little aggressive fucker.
Tommy: Oh, yeah. Or that they're being, you know, attacked. Like Bodhi's been bitten.
Josh: Okay.
Tommy: And it was like, I didn't give a shit.
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: It was like, as long as he's fine, as long as there's not an actual chunk taken out. Yeah. He's a kid going to daycare and this shit happens. I'm sure he dishes it out. Yeah. But I got there yesterday. And the, uh, he started speaking so much, and the woman said to me, um, the daycare lady, uh, she said, oh, he's, he's definitely a left-hander. And what we've been noticing— and you don't even think about this because, you know, what do you write with?
Josh: My right hand.
Tommy: Okay, so you're right-handed. So we've been watching Bodhi, and as he sort of started developing his motor skills, he's like been grabbing things with his right hand and then his left hand, and, and You could start to see it slowly go towards left, and now he's like picking up pens.
Josh: Could you course correct now so that he's multi-handed, whatever the fuck that's called?
Tommy: You can't course correct any kid.
Josh: No, but leave course be. Not course correct in the sense of so he's right-handed, but just if he naturally has that left hand, if we start him young. Do you like how I've brought me into the circle? I'm happy to help develop him. But no, but if we— What is it? What's that thing called? You know, where you can do with two hands.
Tommy: Yeah, ambidextrous.
Josh: Not multi-handed. We're all sort of multi-handed, I guess.
Tommy: But he throws things with his right as well, but he's got real power and oomph with his left and he can write and he can write. He's writing novels.
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: No, but he's drawing with pencils with his right, with his left hand. And the woman said, oh, he's going to be really creative. Yeah, Sean, I was thinking, fuck, I have heard all this stuff around, you know, left-handed people or right-handed people. There's some meanings behind it. So I did a bit of a quick search, and of course, you know, articles out the wazoo.
Josh: Can I guess that it's just a self-fulfilling prophecy? So it's the thing of like, okay, if he's left-handed, everyone's just gonna think he's creative, so they're more likely to put him into art class.
Tommy: Maybe. Craig Harper's left-handed. So, if there's someone to model yourself off, little Bodhi.
Josh: Bit of fucking annoying that he has the whiteboard lessons because left-handed people tend to smudge the board because when they're writing, you need to be, you need to sort of make sort of a stronger effort to be away from it.
Tommy: Well, there's a few things like cups and there's scissors.
Josh: All for left-handed people.
Tommy: So, there is, I mean, I don't experience it.
Josh: Are you referencing Flanders from The Simpsons?
Tommy: Flounders. Flounders?
Josh: Is that his name?
Tommy: Flounders.
Josh: No, Flounders is the fish and chip shop. Flanders is the— Ned Flanders.
Tommy: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Josh: He had a left-handed shop. I'm excited because I don't know any Simpsons references normally, even though I've watched them all. Anyway, so what did they ask?
Tommy: So, it says what being left-handed says about your personality. Number 1, left-handedness and your health. So, they're talking about things like lefties have a higher risk of psychosis.
Josh: Sure.
Tommy: Fuck, I mean, where this comes from— lefties make up about 10% of the general population, but researchers have found that in populations with certain mental disorders, that rate goes up.
Josh: Sure.
Tommy: Okay, uh, your hand— your handedness may determine your health. Um, so they're talking around increased risk of dyslexia and ADHD. Fucking bit depressing.
Josh: So Dad over here is going to be a left-handed ADD with a mullet.
Tommy: This—
Josh: We've really painted the picture. Go on.
Tommy: Lefties hear speeches differently. People who use their left hand.
Josh: Speeches or speech?
Tommy: Speeches. Yeah. So, people who use their left hands when listening may more easily hear slowly changing sounds than those who use their right hands.
Josh: Maybe we need to get him that Lanny thing to do what he hears.
Tommy: So, what's the next one?
Josh: That's very topical. We never do topical.
Tommy: Nah. Left-handed, lefties make better artists.
Josh: So, based on what? What did they say?
Tommy: Okay. Southpaws have been bragging. Do you know what southpaws are? So, like, you would fight, say, if you punch with your right hand, you'd, you, as your power punch. I'm more of a southpaw in boxing, is the person who punches their power punch with their left hand.
Josh: Okay.
Tommy: So, it's like the opposite.
Josh: Southpaws?
Tommy: Southpaw.
Josh: Southpaw. Yeah. Yeah.
Tommy: Okay. It's interesting because then if you snowboard with your right foot forward, that means you're goofy.
Josh: Yeah. I've heard that.
Tommy: Goofy and natural. It's a bit fucked when you say like you're a goofy motherfucker.
Josh: Yeah, it does have that vibe.
Tommy: So, Southpaws have been bragging about their creative clout for years, but it is true. But is it true? Being left-handed means you're more likely to be artistic or innovative. According to research published in the American Journal of Psychology, there is some evidence that left-handed people have the upper hand in at least one creative facet. They're better at divergent thinking, a method of idea generation that explores many possible solutions. To determine whether lefties were more likely to pursue creative careers than righties, the folks behind the Left-Handed Club— fuck these groups, support groups— this is a pro-lefty group dedicated to left-handed research and product development This is why.
Josh: So they just get it.
Tommy: I just think that they're, uh, they surveyed more than 2,000 left-handed, right-handed, and ambidextrous participants and found that lefties tend to find advantages and be drawn to careers in the artistic, music, sports, and information technology fields. Very fucking broad.
Josh: But it's—
Tommy: we take this on as rhetoric. We believe it. Like, oh, it's creative. I'm, I'm now telling you, but he's gonna be fucking real creative.
Josh: Well, so this— But this is that self-fulfilling prophecy, right? It's literally like, are we— And that was, you know, on a very early episode, I think, talking about feminism and stuff like that. The point is it's like, you know, if we tell people, hey, you can do this job, this is the thing, they might— And they end up doing it. It's like, oh, well, like, see, chicks just want to be nurses. But the reality might be that that's what they're seeing. That's what they see day to day. That's what they're fucking like. You know, when they're a kid, they're the nurse, that type of deal.
Tommy: Maybe.
Josh: But no, on this subject, the— I saw an article about the industries most likely where psychopaths mainly—
Tommy: Yeah, I saw this too.
Josh: You saw it?
Tommy: Yeah.
Josh: And so, the top lists, media, TV, radio. Yeah. CEO. It's basically like, I feel like I'm sort of very close to picking all the psychopathic things, but fucking Jules Lund is on fire.
Tommy: Why?
Josh: He's gone from radio, media to being like the— Actually, he's not a CEO, he's a founder.
Tommy: No, he's a founder.
Josh: He's all good. He's all good. But yeah, CEO, lawyer, media, TV, radio, salesperson, surgeon, journalist, police officer. Clergy person. So clergy, so like priests, more likely to be psychopaths. Title of the show.
Tommy: The— but, um, oh, just on the left-hand thing, wrap it up. There's, um, I know somebody who experienced, um, teachers at a school trying to make the kid use their right hand.
Josh: Well, that's exactly what I was just trying. But the thing is, I—
Tommy: No, no, no, you were saying encourage them to use both.
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: No, this was stop doing that.
Josh: Yeah, that's fucked.
Tommy: You use your right hand.
Josh: I mean, so you're already getting— isn't it funny how empathy and all these things develop where all of a sudden you're like, this is just bullshit? Like, you're already like painting this picture around like Left-Handed United, like we need to support this.
Tommy: Well, fucking let a kid be who they are is more to the point. I think you've lost your mind if you're trying to tell a kid how to— what hand they should use.
Josh: That's true.
Tommy: That's fucked. The other thing I did pick up on as I was leaving is that I'm going to, and it's big for me, watch how I talk around Bodhi, because he's starting to parrot. Really?
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: As much as I just want to—
Josh: He's replaced "ums" with "fuck" now? I think, you know, because you have— That's what I do. I was watching this YouTube video. Go cheque it out. What is it called? Tommy Jacket Quit His Job or something like that. It's about quitting your job. Yeah.
Tommy: And it was an interview with me about how I quit my job.
Josh: And the first like 3 seconds, you're like, you know, fucking, like straight into it. So, yeah, it'd be good to, I think that naturally I noticed like if we have guests on, maybe we swear less. I think that we'll, as we go, we'll just try and, you know, like we're not censoring ourselves, we're not filtering ourselves, but we'll just say fuck less.
Tommy: Watching yourself back is a way to really see how you are coming across. And I like to be myself and whatever that comes out as, I'm okay with.
Josh: With a mullet.
Tommy: With a mullet.
Josh: When is—
Tommy: Bodhi's the extension of me, this kid with a mullet.
Josh: So when is Bodhi— No, just close the loop on the haircut.
Tommy: Yeah.
Josh: When is Bodhi getting a haircut?
Tommy: Episode 200.
Josh: Sandra Sully will give him a haircut. It's—
Tommy: I mean, he will go mad. And I don't think—
Josh: Well, he'll go mad in the sense of getting the haircut.
Tommy: Yeah, I couldn't imagine him enjoying it one bit, but I will take him to the dude who cuts my hair, who has—
Josh: Like a family thing. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Knows how to deal with mullets. Yeah.
Tommy: I've got a photo of my first haircut from this woman.
Josh: Gabrielle. I feel like I would like— So, you're just going to let him keep growing?
Tommy: Well, there's nothing. It looks fine. Do you think it looks bad?
Josh: It's a little bit bogan, maybe.
Tommy: Have you seen how cute that kid is, though?
Josh: Yeah, he's so cute. But he's so cute, like, you see his face and then you're like, what the fuck is behind his head?
Tommy: Mate, it's a party up the back, business at the front. He came out with George Costanza hair, meaning hair around the side of his head and bald on the top. So, he was George Costanza for the first probably 9 months, and then he just— his hair just started exploding. And it's not even that long now. That's the thing. It's like, takes a long time.
Josh: It's all long at the back, though. It's sort of like, it's like George Costanza if he was to have a mullet.
Tommy: It's so cute.
Josh: He is very— Despite the mullet, he's a very sweet kid.
Tommy: Well, if he has a mullet and he starts swearing, I'm in trouble.
Josh: Yeah, that's the thing. Then he becomes— But as you said, he's liked by the daycare people.
Tommy: Yeah, they love him.
Josh: He's not feral. But the— Yeah, the talking, like what you're saying in front of your kids is interesting, isn't it?
Tommy: Well, my brother's pulled me up quite a few times and Jules has pulled me up in front of his kids because I mean, they swear, but then I've never sort of understood that filter.
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: And it's very much a learning curve when you have your own kid.
Josh: Yeah.
Tommy: Around that, because I'm like, oh, okay, I really understand what's going to happen.
Josh: Actually, I had a mate—
Tommy: Because I don't give a shit about someone else's kid.
Josh: I had a mate who was watching our live, you and I did a live stream and you were eating with Bodhi on your lap.
Tommy: Oh yes.
Josh: He's like, oh geez, he swears a lot in front of his kids. Oh, Bodhi's a bit young though.
Tommy: He's super young, but now it's amazing. It's literally been 3 weeks where he started— yesterday I picked him up, bye-bye, bye-bye, and he started saying bye-bye, bye-bye.
Josh: Cute.
Tommy: Oh no, oh no, oh no. So he's— it's, it's very quick for them. It's, it's amazing watching his development because he can understand what I'm— what we're saying, but can't talk to us. So we'll be, where's my nose? Where's daddy's nose? And he points to my nose. And can you go put the bag in the room? And he sort of looks and you can see him just processing and he picks it up and he walks into his room and puts it in there. It's crazy. It's like when people—
Josh: Does he pick it up with his left hand or right hand? Left hand, probably.
Tommy: I made him use his right. No, but they are. Amy put it quite nicely. It's like when you learn another language and never have, Tried 4 times, but you can understand people talking, but you can't talk to them in their language because that's another ball game of actually speaking fluent French to somebody. But hearing, you're getting a sense of what they're saying.
Josh: It would be nice to be able to. I wish I knew multiple languages. Unfortunately, I did buy that course to learn Italian.
Tommy: How's that going?
Josh: It's not so good.
Tommy: How long is your flight overseas?
Josh: How long is the flight? Or how long till we go?
Tommy: How long is the flight?
Josh: I don't know. It's to Europe.
Tommy: So, it's to London, Melbourne.
Josh: Yeah, it's 2 flights.
Tommy: 20 hours.
Josh: Maybe like 12 hours on the flight to Singapore or something. 9 to— I don't fucking know.
Tommy: If you're a real man, you'll be able to learn it in 18 hours.
Josh: It's going to be a disaster. Before we go, I wanted to talk about, you know, the whole Gumtree thing.
Tommy: I mean, we're in your house and it's the messiest I've seen it, and it's not even because you've purposefully been messy, it's because you're packing up boxes because you've got the same idea.
Josh: Yeah, it's so unlike— like, not liking the vibe.
Tommy: Is Bree freaking?
Josh: Yeah, well, I said to her, do you want to work from home today? She said, fuck no, because there's boxes everywhere. I mean, it isn't— it's not a fun place to work with boxes and shit like that. You sort of feel like you're sort of in this sort of no man's land, transient.
Tommy: It's all coming coming to an end.
Josh: Yeah, but we, um, we're being selling stuff. Gumtree, it's like eBay sort of thing. Oh, it's more like a directory, you know, Facebook Marketplace sort of stuff for people outside of Australia that doesn't— that don't have Gumtree.
Tommy: Yeah.
Josh: And, um, oh, just that experience again, you know, like on a previous episode I talked about the guy who bought an IKEA shelf from us and then like, oh no, you didn't even buy it, we gave it to him for free. And then we're getting messages, it was missing a screw, and then we had to organise for the screw. And I was like, hang on, How's this turned into a full-time job? I'm dealing like—
Tommy: And so have you put stuff up and you're making money?
Josh: Yeah, so we've been selling a few things. Sold chest of drawers. Bree's been a champion. She's been doing a lot of the selling of stuff. I tried to sell DVDs, 130-odd DVDs for $250.
Tommy: Anyone?
Josh: No one's interested.
Tommy: No one wants them. I had a bunch and I was going to do the same and we ended up just giving them to the Salvos because they'll sell them there. It's so annoying. What about so much money on them?
Josh: Yeah, what about like, uh, Final Cut Pro and all that? I've got like the old boxes from like 2006.
Tommy: Bin 'em.
Josh: I was thinking like it could be a cool installation where you take— because there's so many DVDs, you could like put them onto some art piece where you like cut them all up and join them all together.
Tommy: You think you're some really rich guy who's got a lot of time on his hands. That sounds like a lot of fucking work. You can keep them for our secret big project.
Josh: Yeah. And it could make sense, but do we need that shit in our lives? I don't know. Maybe it will just clutter things up. But yeah, as Tommy mentioned, there is something big, but we probably won't announce it until I'm back, until November or something.
Tommy: Yeah.
Josh: We'll see. That was a pretty good tease. But anyway, I said, so Bree's been stressing about the fridge.
Tommy: So, I laugh because I've heard two conversations.
Josh: The fridge has just been like, I went into— So, Bree's work had a games night and I heard like four conversations that she had with different people about the fridge. And I was just, I just, it was one of those moments where I was like, Bree, no one cares about the fridge like you do. And it's annoying for people.
Tommy: So, I know the history of the fridge. You moved house previously, your fridge got damaged, you got a payout, you bought a new fridge.
Josh: No, so we didn't get a payout. We got the insurer, insurance of the moving company. They got us a new fridge. So, we went from having a fridge that was, that we paid $900 for to they replaced it with a similar size fridge, but that fridge was worth $2,100.
Tommy: Yeah, it's a ripper fridge.
Josh: Yeah. And so, the thing was, though, I'm just sick of having shit. In the house and store. I don't want to have to, for us to, we've got like a 2-meter by 2-meter storage unit that we're paying for.
Tommy: Tiny.
Josh: Yeah. So, I don't want to have to deal with the fridge.
Tommy: And so, here's where it was left and I thought it'd been worked out because the conversation went a bit like this. Bree said, "Are we selling the fridge?" You said, "Yes, we're selling the fridge." And then she said, "Well, just promise me that we'll get a good fridge like this next time we get one." And then you said, "Yeah, sure." That's the end of it. You're selling the fridge.
Josh: Well, so we're selling the fridge, but the problem is that with the price that we're wanting, we're just not getting. Well, the thing is, well, so—
Tommy: All you need is $900.
Josh: Yeah. We're not getting $900. We put it up for $900. Yeah. Russ Keys, friend of the show—
Tommy: He wants it?
Josh: No. So, he was looking for a fridge, but he's in like a smaller apartment. And so, he was like, "I only want to be spending like $500, $600." But the— We've had interest for $700,000.
Tommy: Take $700,000.
Josh: Yeah, I think I would say this is my vibe, but Bri's like, let's just give it, uh, let's— we had it set at $900,000. She's now put it down to $800,000, and then we'll just play it out. But Bri said— I said, I'll mention on the podcast, and she said, haven't you mentioned it yet? Like, I— like, for some reason I would. Anyway, so it's a silver fridge, So, this is a promo for the fridge. Yeah.
Tommy: Here it is.
Josh: So, it's a great fridge. It's got one of those lights which keeps the produce fresh.
Tommy: Nice.
Josh: Don't know how that works. It knows— Bree describes it as it knows when you're sleeping, so it saves energy. Okay. And it's— Yeah, it's—
Tommy: It's double door, it opens up.
Josh: No, it's not double door. It's huge. It's a really big fridge. It's got like a great freezer compartment at the bottom, which I like. But yeah, the reason that we're not keeping it is because Fridges are fucked when you store them, like you have to make sure that you keep them open and stuff like that. And yeah, so where if you're in Melbourne, you want to look, special deal, $800 for anyone from the Daily Talk Show who would like, you have to work out how you're going to get it.
Tommy: Use the promo code, take my fucking fridge off my fucking hands.
Josh: It's a bit long, but it's what we went with. Yeah. So, yeah, that's the fridge. So, hopefully we sort that out because we move in What's today? Thursday? We move on Saturday. And then it's like we've been here, this is like we've been here for over 3 years.
Tommy: It's pretty good.
Josh: This is like the longest we've ever been at a place for. So, it'll be sad to see it go, but there is something fun in that journey of like finding a new place.
Tommy: Yeah.
Josh: When we come back.
Tommy: Just not the moving into it.
Josh: I don't mind it, but the thing is maybe I don't mind it because I'm not stressing about it.
Tommy: Because you're not packing the boxes or unpacking.
Josh: Well, I'm like, I just—
Tommy: You're directing traffic. Is that what you do?
Josh: No, I was good. Like yesterday when we sold a chest of drawers, I said to Bray, like they rung the doorbell and I just like quickly ran into like the home office, like sort of working away so I didn't have to interact. And then like, oh, how are we going to— You are so weird. I love it. How are we going to get— I heard the conversation of like, oh, how are we going to get this down. And I came out, I'm like, oh, do you guys need a hand?
Tommy: Hi.
Josh: And then I just ended up lifting it, which I probably, with my fucking back, I probably shouldn't have.
Tommy: But anyway, we bought Bodhi's crib, cot, yeah, whatever you call it, his bed. And we bought it off a couple that lived near us, so maybe 5-minute drive. And I went over there to cheque it out, we bartered them, you know, gave them $150 less than what we what they put it up for is great. She was happy with it. And then they were like, oh, we'll help you down. So, we took it down to the car and nah, too big for the car. We'll have to take it apart.
Josh: No. So, this was the whole thing.
Tommy: Okay.
Josh: I don't take shit apart. Like that's everything. And that's probably why we're not selling. Like we're a bit slower on the selling.
Tommy: Yeah.
Josh: It's just like everything is prefaced with you need to take it out. Like even if it's fucking huge, just have a big car. 'Cause I can't stand just trying to Putting shit together is hard enough. I don't want to have to put it apart.
Tommy: Well, then there was this apprehension of them taking it apart. Oh, okay, we've got a truck, we can get it. And so anyway, we got it to our house and it wouldn't fit through our front door.
Josh: Fuck, so you had to take it apart anyway.
Tommy: Well, he left it with us and we were up the top of our stairs and I was like, mate, just go, I'll work it out. The point is that they didn't want to take it apart because they didn't know how to take it apart and they didn't know if they could take it apart. So that was more of the point. It was like the— so what happened? Oh, we nearly broke the thing to get it in. I ended up being able to take some of it apart. Now I can do it with my eyes closed because I've done it so many fucking times. But it's, um, yeah, we nearly— it nearly ruined our marriage and the crib.
Josh: Well, this is, um, yeah, this, uh, standing desk.
Tommy: It's gonna be a nightmare.
Josh: Yeah. And because last time, it's 2.2 meters, it's super heavy. Last time Bri and I were carrying it, she cried. It was pretty funny though. Like, we laugh at it now because she was going, she said, my back, my back. That's why she was like, she said, sorry, she's like, I don't know what happened. Because it was quite stressful because we had like turned over. It's like, so I think to get this out, we're gonna have to go through the fucking balcony. Unless we take it apart, I feel—
Tommy: Take it apart. You're not— That's fucked. You have to take this apart. Alright, this is getting annoying for people, I think.
Josh: Okay. It's a daily talk show, everyone. Please send us your emails, hi@thedailytalkshow.com. The reviews do help on iTunes through the podcast app. And we are also getting more and more active on Instagram or trying to anyway. We have our The Daily Talk Show Instagram. Yes. But then we also have our personal Instagrams. Tommy's is just Tommy Jackett and I'm Josh Janson. Have a good one, everyone.
Tommy: See you guys.
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