Walking The High Line In NYC

Tommy: Wait a minute!

Josh: Crossface!

Tommy: The Daily Talk Show. A conversation sometimes worth recording with Josh Janson and Tommy Jackett.

Josh: It's a daily talk show live from New York City.

Tommy: Mate, you're not in Times Square with a million people watching.

Josh: Sorry, but we are, we are live from New York City.

Tommy: And we're out and about, which is why I think you amped up the—

Josh: I didn't amp up anything.

Tommy: You amped up the presentation of the intro, but rightfully so. We are at the High Line, which is like this amazing walk above New York City. It's only above because it's on an old train line that runs sort of straight down alongside the Hudson River, which is what we're looking out to now. It's a very New York scene right now.

Josh: It's converted into a park. It is. And we're going to have a bit. We're going to walk down.

Aaron: Yeah.

Tommy: Should we start walking?

Josh: Yeah, let's walk.

Tommy: This is our first episode where we're actually walking on it.

Josh: Yeah. You've already warned me about my breathing.

Tommy: One thing I will mention already, I don't have headphones on, so if you turn away from me, you can't hear me. I can't hear you.

Josh: I can hear me really well. But yeah, so we, we're on the High Line. It's actually— there's a big area. Do you reckon this used to actually be a station?

Tommy: Well, so what you're describing is we're going underneath buildings. So it must have been like a tunnel. They must have just had buildings above the train, or they just thought this is good real estate, let's just build above the train line. So I asked someone today— oh, yesterday in the cab— yeah, what was that like, train line? What was it for? They said it was cargo. Yeah, so cargo trains used to run along this, and now it's just an awesome hipster tourist attraction.

Josh: I feel very radio-esque doing this, what we're doing right now.

Aaron: Do you—

Josh: what was the closest thing you did to this in your days?

Tommy: It's happening. As an outside broadcast?

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: See, the ones that actually stand out are the depressing ones. Like the time that we drove an hour and 10 minutes to Echuca and did it from this, like, it was like a Harvey Norman, but imagine Harvey Norman first year of trading. So it was like just this store that sold random electrical gear. And it would just— no one came. It was freezing cold. We'd set up the sausage sizzle. So the best probably time that we did this stuff was the House Party tour that we went on just before I finished up on air. So we did it from different listeners' houses every Friday.

Josh: All around Shepparton?

Tommy: Yeah, but I think we would have got— we would be able to do the same now and get more people to the houses.

Josh: Can we do that once we get back to Melbourne? We need to do some form of something a little bit more gimmicky. We don't have enough gimmicks, if you ask me.

Tommy: Well, the thing about this podcast is— oh my God, there's a guy just eating. Wow.

Josh: Was it a Pop-Tart?

Tommy: He's just cracking open a Pop-Tart.

Josh: Good on him.

Tommy: That seems very American.

Josh: So you don't think it would suit the podcast, do you?

Tommy: No, but I've always felt like you've given pushback to having this translate really like a radio show.

Aaron: Yeah.

Tommy: But hey, I like stunts.

Josh: I say that, but I've been Googling soundboards. I'm going to have wacky sound effects very soon that I'll just be— I could actually imagine right now. So I'm wearing like a bag with a mic, like an audio recorder. We're all cabled up. We're walking quite closely. We'll put a photo up on our Instagram of what it's like. But I could imagine even just having a bit of an extension that's like a brace that I could wear holds an iPad, I could just sort of with my finger just tap any sound at any moment.

Tommy: You'd basically become a human cyborg. Part man, part machine.

Josh: The cyborg thing interests me though, because I wonder from a fitness point, how much is fitness gonna actually matter?

Tommy: Well, I mean, if you've got bionic legs and they never stop running.

Josh: Exactly.

Tommy: I guess not much, but no, I don't know. I think it's like saying if I could just take a pill and I could eat whatever I want.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: But then the, the, you'd be removing feeling from your body of having like awareness of what you're feeling like.

Josh: So very true.

Tommy: There has to be some sort of counter result from just using something that's not your own body. Maybe you wither away.

Josh: Well, the exercise, the idea of exercise is that you're, I guess, exerting energy too, which is good for your mental health.

Aaron: Yeah.

Josh: So if all of a sudden, but maybe it's the feeling of being able to, like if you run and don't have to exert much energy because you've got fake legs, do you get the same sort of endorphins? Maybe you do.

Tommy: Yeah, well, or I think you wither away. I think something slows down. Like think about it, your heart is a muscle. And so every time you go for a strenuous walk, it's beating harder and you know, keeping its strength. And then, so I think it would wither away, become heartless.

Josh: It'd be the equivalent of sort of being on one of those motorised cars or whatever all the time.

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, I think so.

Josh: Okay, so, so it's—

Tommy: should we talk about Trudy and Steve?

Josh: Oh yeah, absolutely, yes.

Tommy: I think the thing about America, I guess it's anything, you've been away for the last 3 months. You pick up an Aussie accent pretty— like, you hear them in your ears. They stand out like dog's balls.

Josh: Well, talking about dog's balls, this guy— good segue— had a very interesting looking dog.

Tommy: I just saw a guy with his hands down his pants touching his nuts.

Josh: That's the stuff that you do though. I'm always picking that up on you. You love doing that.

Tommy: No, but he had the most, the most interesting dog. What was that thing?

Josh: It was like a dreadlocked sort of thing. I didn't actually know that he was Australian. Did you pick up straight away even before?

Tommy: I, yeah, that because he said something to me. Oh, I was Snapchatting his dog.

Josh: Oh, that's right.

Tommy: When I say Snapchatting, you mean Instagram storeys because no one uses— It doesn't sound so good as Snapchatting. Instagram storying his dog.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: And I was saying, look at this, look at this mop on the ground because it literally looked like an end of a mop, like a giant end of a mop that was dreadlocks just plonked on the ground. You couldn't even see this thing's head, um, eyes or face or nose, and it was a dog underneath this mop of hair.

Josh: Just think how much a dog would be worth, like having a freak show dog. Yeah, that'd be so expensive, don't you think?

Tommy: Yeah, I reckon there's a lot of freak show dogs in New York.

Josh: Yeah, it's amazing. Like, I want a freak show dog, but I feel like it's a—

Tommy: you are a freak show dog, but it would be a premium, right?

Josh: It would cost a bit of a premium. Do you know what's really hard doing a podcast and being able to overtake people? Are you finding that?

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, dude, we gotta slow it down. I'm gonna start walking.

Josh: Well, so this is— hang on, I'm gonna talk about Trudy and Steve.

Tommy: Steve. And so when I was filming their dog, they said, "Oh, you can take a photo," or something. And so I got it. I was like, "Aussies." And then we got a bit of banter, and I immediately think like, people sort of looking like they're having a long lunch and they've got a dog like that that's really peacocking at the moment. Yeah, I'm like, oh, they could be really rich.

Josh: Yeah, and rich, rich person vibes.

Tommy: Yeah, and they were super lovely and friendly. And I think Aussies are like the, the thought of— even if you just saw another guy put his hands down his pants. What's with this?

Josh: I don't know.

Tommy: In New York City, um, you're seeing a lot of it. I think Aussies translate really well overseas. Except at pubs. But it was really lovely because they were so up for a chat. What are you guys doing here? And they asked us what we're doing and I kind of, and I wanted to get in there and say, what do you guys do?

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: And I got it.

Josh: Well, you did. I wasn't comfortable asking. Like I think I asked. You wanted to ask? I asked what they do. I was the one that asked, but then you were the one. So I asked, you know, what do you do? And they said, we're chefs.

Tommy: Yeah. And do you know my thinking?

Aaron: What?

Tommy: I was like, they seem like they're probably well off. They're both chefs. They might own a fancy restaurant. And so we asked, well, I asked, so what restaurant do you work at? Can you recommend anything? Did I say that?

Aaron: Yeah.

Tommy: And they said, oh, we're private chefs.

Josh: Another word for unemployed.

Tommy: Well, it turns out they're the complete opposite.

Josh: Not for themselves.

Tommy: The complete opposite. We've got paparazzi for us.

Josh: We've got Bree doing an excellent job trying to get photos. Yeah. But because we are such quick walkers, every time she gets ready for the camera, we've already walked past.

Tommy: So yeah, they, turns out they're chefs, private chefs for two very rich people. I said, are they celebrities? And they said, no.

Josh: He said celebrities were a pain in the ass to work for. Yes, he did.

Tommy: So these just are two uber rich people, but they were telling us that unlimited budget for cooking, they get to have freedom in what they cook. And it's a dream job for a chef, you would think.

Josh: Do you think these rich people who hire them don't know anything about Uber Eats? They can just, you know, you can just get Jimmy Grant's ordered.

Aaron: Yeah.

Tommy: But when you've got unlimited money resource, Steve, he probably knows his gyros. Yeah, he's probably got meat on the spit most days just in case boss says, mate, I'm about to fly out first class tomorrow. I need a souvlaki ASAP.

Josh: So it's amazing how many— let's just look up.

Tommy: Let's just look up.

Josh: Are we looking up?

Tommy: I lift my— there's just some— so there's some amazing artwork along this.

Josh: No, it's good. Visually, it's hard for the podcasters to really take it in. But what I'm seeing is some form of sort of— what's that bit? What's the chick name with the— she holds the thing?

Tommy: Oh, Statue of Liberty.

Josh: Yes, Statue of Liberty. They've done sort of an artwork of that where it looks like a clown. Is that what you would sort of say?

Tommy: Yeah, they've really— they're taking the piss.

Josh: Yeah, it looks good though.

Tommy: Taking the piss of Statue of Liberty.

Josh: But the— no, so yeah, meeting interesting people. In New York specifically, there do seem to be a lot of Australians.

Tommy: Yeah, 100%. Well, there's some of the best bars and restaurants here, cafes are owned by Aussies. Yeah, we do it well. We've tended to do this trip, go like, not go for anything fancy. Yeah, but go dingy. Yeah, which is, I think you get the real experience.

Josh: I think dingy food in general tastes better. Like, I prefer sort of a hole in the wall versus— I reckon we start walking this way.

Tommy: We're gonna not be able to get back out. Let's go back.

Josh: Yeah, but so we, we're, we're, uh, currently it's like what, a quarter to 4 right now, and apparently they're closing the park at 4 o'clock. Yeah, so they're, they've got all these sort of, uh, ranges I'm guessing you'd call them. Yeah, just sort of out and about telling everyone to get off the High Line.

Tommy: Yeah, it's quite rude actually. They're kicking us. No, there is some event. It's Mile Long Opera, which is, I don't know, it's probably, you could probably guess for a mile long.

Josh: Oh, so that's what's happening this evening, obviously.

Tommy: Between today's date and, I don't know, a week from now.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: They're just doing opera.

Josh: Do you know the thing that I haven't done on this trip and I want to know if you are one to do it? Going to the cinemas when you're in a different country or in a different city. Yay or nay? Waste of time?

Tommy: If you are there for quite a while, yes, it's fine. But on this trip, it's too short.

Josh: You don't see any novel appealing going and I guess it's a very similar screen. You know, you're not really getting much. Yeah. For me, I see it as an excuse to get some American candies and just be a bit of a pig.

Tommy: You know, in saying that I've been in London when I was there for not that long. And I was, I went in Auckland when I was there years and years ago. So I've, I've done it more than I haven't in the scheme of trips.

Josh: But I think that, like, I remember it was a big— maybe used to be a bigger deal because I feel like there was a larger gap between when US films came out. Yeah. And when Australian— when it came out to the Australian cinemas.

Tommy: Well, yeah. Well, I don't think there is anymore, right? Maybe a little bit.

Josh: Only, only small. But DVDs used to be the big thing. My brother went to the US for a basketball tour and he came back. We got a Universal DVD player so we could play any of the—

Tommy: That's right, they were regions. Oh dude.

Josh: Well, they still are. I think some of them still are, but they've definitely— I think it's a lot more open than what it used to be. But yeah, we had a Universal region DVD player and my brother James just like got like dozens of like a lot of DVDs.

Tommy: What did he get?

Josh: Did you watch Sandlot, which was called The Sandlot Kids? What happened to it? But, um, no, I think it's, I think it's just called Sandlot here in the US.

Tommy: Interesting. There is, that is a, that is an interesting thing because in different countries there is different titles. Yeah, um, there's one with Tom Cruise. Yeah, um, End of Day and then, um, Stop Repeat. It's like there was two different titles. America had a massively different title.

Josh: I wonder how they— should we turn left here? The, um, there's a whole collection thing too in it. So, um, a guy I know, Dave Lee, he's got this, um, Dave Lee Down Under YouTube channel. Yeah. And he posts all the— does these big YouTube, uh, big YouTube videos where he shows all the Blu-ray. He's got the biggest Blu-ray collection the biggest DVDs. He's got all the— he used to just do Disney DVDs and doing reviews and all that sort of thing. Anyway, he has a, um, basically different versions of the same film. So for instance, he's like, I want the COVID art of the American— the American version of The Office. Or sorry, that's a terrible example because there's an American version. But say the American version of Star Wars has a completely different cover art, or there's a— in the UK there's a specific style.

Tommy: So who have multiples of the same Blu-ray or DVD, like these were collector's items, and I'm sure there's sort of a niche, uh, tribe of people collecting this stuff.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: Do you think they'll go down in value based on DVD players becoming extinct, or up in value because it's like you can't even play these on a thing anymore? Yeah, this is This is unbelievable. What do you think?

Josh: I sort of, I see the appeal. I like the physicality of just like having a book or something like that. There is something cool about having a DVD and having the option to play it. But do we need, like, do you own any DVDs? Have you just got rid of all of them?

Tommy: Amy kept, I think, 3, but she's whittled away and she's thrown out lots. There was What was it? It was, um, no, what I was thinking, the people I feel quite sorry for is the guys in Times Square, the rappers. And we've spoken about this before, the dudes handing out mixtapes.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: And it's gone from being the CD, handing out a mixtape of legitimately a tape for a tape player, to handing out mixed CDs where they still call them mixtapes.

Aaron: Yeah.

Tommy: Or, here's my single, but not referring to them as, here's my DVD. Here's my mix DVD. But they're in trouble. Like, I couldn't believe there were still dudes doing it.

Josh: Surely they just need to yell out now, cheque out my Spotify.

Tommy: Or at least hand a USB out.

Josh: Yeah, I mean, even USBs is a bit of a pain in the— USB dongle on a MacBook Pro. It's all getting a bit hard.

Tommy: Bro, does it come with a dongle? I've got a MacBook Pro. Yeah, I've got the brand new MacBook Pro. There's no dongle? Yeah, I don't want it.

Josh: Yeah, what were you going to say? You're going to talk about this massive hole and the construction?

Aaron: How did—

Tommy: do we not see this before?

Josh: No, we've walked further. No, I don't think we've walked further. I think we literally just maybe missed it.

Tommy: Holy moly.

Josh: Yeah, so it's like, that's one thing about New York is it's just everywhere there's construction, there's people with hard hats, there's stop signs and a lot going— pickup trucks. Like, it's actually, given it's like an urban area, there's a lot of like, uh, it's a lot of trades people.

Tommy: Well, I think this is like— most people have asked, where do you live?

Josh: Yeah, I've all said Brooklyn.

Tommy: One guy said the Bronx.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: And I was thinking about that in terms of everyone coming to this city to get their money. This is like, if you could look up in the sky and, and it was— there was a representation of where people are earning money, it'd be like a storm cloud, just over Manhattan, because I think like there is so much money. Oh yeah, we found out from a local. Yeah, I said, what's the average wage? And I think, uh, what do you say, $150,000? $150 grand.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: Rent is between $5,000 and $10,000 a month.

Josh: Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, and that's for a 2-bedroom. He was talking about the fact that he's actually created— he's got some Russians over to his house and basically created a third room. Because what happens is, genius, depending on if you've got a, um, a 2-bedroom versus a 3-bedroom, it can be the exact same size, but the 3-bedroom will require an extra couple of grand a month in rent.

Tommy: It is absolutely outrageous. And do you think what I said to you yesterday about what the minimum is that people are earning there, so it's higher, you just need to be making more money to even survive here. Creates a mindset shift where people then are able to work and earn that money and charge more. Do you think it does flow on?

Josh: I don't know, look at the homelessness, look at the poverty. Like, I think that's— I think one of the things that I would struggle with living in New York is Being okay with making bank and seeing the people around me not being able to have that opportunity.

Tommy: Well, I mean, people are ignoring the homeless more so than I've ever seen here. Well, what do you—

Josh: like, I feel a bit helpless. I mean, it's very— it seems a bit rich to be complaining about how you feel about someone else's reality. But I definitely struggle with that. I mean, there are some movement, I think slowly maybe towards fixing that because Amazon last week just announced that they're going to be bringing up their minimum wage to $15 an hour, which is—

Tommy: What was it at?

Josh: I don't know. It was like, it was very, very low. We've got 5 minutes for being told, 5 minutes.

Tommy: For how much long?

Josh: 5 minutes. 5 minutes. 5 minutes. And that's good.

Tommy: Just wrapping up the podcast. It's great to have producers along the wall dressed like rangers.

Josh: But the, um, no, the— what were we just talking about? The 15—

Aaron: the—

Josh: okay, we're getting told the nearest exit. The nearest exit.

Tommy: We're staying at the hotel down there. Can we walk?

Josh: To walk that way?

Tommy: Just quickly. We'll be quick.

Josh: We'll be quick. Yeah, perfect.

Tommy: Hustle, hustle.

Josh: See, this is what's great about Tommy is he's just gotten a ability to talk absolute shit.

Tommy: So no, we're not saying— okay, I may have stumbled across my— upon my— I stumbled my words like I just did then. I accidentally said we're staying at a hotel. What I meant to say was we're getting a drink at the hotel down there at the rooftop bar at the Standard in Meatpacking District.

Josh: Oh, it worked a treat though, didn't it? Well, it's the truth.

Tommy: We are going for a beverage.

Josh: You do have an ability to just interact, engage, get involved. I don't know if we've spoken about it yet, but you in Central Park just grabbing a frisbee and just getting involved.

Tommy: Mate, the frisbee thing, there was a guy that— and if you've ever used an Aerobie, which is like a— it's like a ring, it's a frisbee with a hole in it, a massive hole in it. If you were a frisbee diehard, you probably wouldn't call them a frisbee. Oh, really? They're just aerobies. They're a much easier thing to throw. But what I love about them is that you can throw them so far. And this guy was throwing this big, muscly dude, top off, athletic, sweating, absolute hunk, was throwing this thing. And I thought—

Josh: So that's you. But what about the guy?

Tommy: I'm impressed.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: I walked over to him and I said, mate, he had his headphones in at that point. And he saw me coming in from behind trying to grab this thing. And then he saw me, I said, can I have a throw? And he threw it to me, said, yeah, just gotta throw it flat. And then he said, hang on, hang on, hang on, throw it to me. Yeah, because he was testing me to see if I had the chops.

Josh: Yeah, well, because it was about 80 or 90 metres away where his, his frisbee, or what did you call it?

Tommy: It's an Aerobie, that's the brand. I've threw that thing as the furthest I've ever thrown a frisbee. It was Central Park, 5 PM, like no wind, just the most ginormous green patch of grass, like bright green, like so healthy, surprisingly for the city.

Josh: You did a Matty Lloyd and picked up a bit of grass and threw it up. Can you just, can we all just appreciate my AFL reference there?

Aaron: It was solid.

Tommy: I'm pretty sure it's the second Matty Lloyd reference to that exact moment on this show.

Josh: I appreciate it. Thank you.

Tommy: It was so long ago.

Josh: But so you are comfortable with just getting involved, interacting. Do we have to go down here?

Tommy: Do we?

Josh: We're just going to the Standard.

Tommy: We're just staying at the Standard. Can we just walk down to the next one?

Josh: Ah, bummer. Worked the first time, didn't work this time.

Tommy: See, sometimes you just can't push it. It's worth a second shot though.

Josh: Yeah, the confidence really makes a difference. But yeah, so how many What is probably the biggest— have you ever had a big rejection where you've gone in for a situation where you think, hang on, like, this is like grabbing someone's frisbee or vortex or what's it called?

Tommy: Aerobi.

Josh: Aerobi.

Tommy: Aerobi. Like aerobics.

Josh: Okay. Aerobi. Yeah. So grabbing someone's aerobi can be pretty risky, especially given the fact that he had the universal sign within an office context of don't speak to me, which is wearing headphones. If you wear headphones and top off, yeah, masculine, don't bother me.

Tommy: It's also don't fuck with me.

Josh: Yeah, exactly. So have you ever had, can you think of any moments where that sort of Tommy Jacket style has backfired on you?

Tommy: I mean, it backfired on me at the airport trying to get into the Qantas lounge.

Josh: You actually tried it?

Tommy: I tried, I tried this. This, um, the strategy that we spoke about, which was tell them that I had a card that was given to me by someone from the PR department that was a pass into the lounge. And here's the thing, I had apprehensions going up, which is not a good sign. I mean, I was negative before I even—

Josh: negative self-talk.

Tommy: It was negative self-talk because here's the thing, Amy plants the seed in my mind, uh, What if they've changed their process? Like, what if there isn't any cards anymore?

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: Last time I used this was 2012 and I got into the lounge. So I ended up using it and she knew, she knew. She said, here, but here's the thing that is where I almost could have got away with it if she was a, you know, more kind person helping out the needy.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: Like me.

Josh: Well.

Tommy: They still use the cards because they're still having a flow on from all the old cards that we've given. She's like, most of them are digital now, but we still need the cards.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: And I felt a bit like a dick when I then said, I've been saving this up for so long and this is the trip I was really hoping to use it on.

Josh: And what did she say?

Tommy: Oh, I'm sorry, Dale. And I was like, I walked off and I was like, Yeah, I sort of did.

Josh: You do a bit of a half step where you're like, it's like when you're, uh, you're in Bali and you're trying to get a good price on something and they say, you know, they give you the price, you're like, oh, too much, too much, you start to turn around but you do sort of a half swing. And the idea of the half swing is by the time you actually fully turn around, yeah, they're going to have said, oh no, no, no.

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, it was No, there was no barley bartering happening from her end. I would have definitely committed. Yeah. Oh, we're here.

Josh: So we're outside the stand-in. Can I just say, I am so wrapped. The other day— you're worried about the wind. Don't stress about it. Don't worry about the wind, TJ. I'm so pumped because when we got into New York, there was a big race around for us to find these windscreens and they're working. Just foam on top of a microphone. It's been one of those things I've had on my list on my list of things to get for a while, and I hadn't.

Tommy: I just realised this is a perfect opportunity to do a Vox Pop. No, to have the, like, have this setup that we've got going on. We've got a producer following us, i.e., your girlfriend, and we've got microphones in our hand, audio equipment, people are looking at us. This, we could walk in, this could be the ladder trick where you walk up to somewhere with a ladder in your hand. Say, sorry, am I going to get through and do a bit of work.

Josh: So you're thinking we just, we could get into the Standard just with having these mics?

Tommy: It's the new vlogging setup. That's, it's maybe not now because I know the anxiety it will bring.

Josh: For you? For you? For me, to be fair.

Tommy: Yeah, so maybe, wait, what Bree saying?

Josh: You were saying you couldn't even get special access at the High Line.

Tommy: Like, I don't think you can. We've been trolled. We've been, Amy, Amy was in my, I mean, Amy told me not to do the last thing.

Josh: Yeah, and we've just had We've had troll breathing. The devil on our shoulder. So I think before we go, let's do one Vox Pop. I want you to lead with it.

Aaron: Yeah.

Josh: What can we ask? Let's think of something that we can— why don't something that could potentially be a little bit topical. Maybe should we say, do you listen to podcasts or something like that? So Tommy's just— I've given Tommy the the job of it, and I'm just sort of moving away because of my anxiety.

Tommy: I'm attached to you.

Josh: Can you stop getting closer? We've got someone tooting. They're not tooting at us.

Tommy: I'm attached to you.

Josh: Um, so what are you gonna ask?

Tommy: What's something about the podcast? I'll make it up as I go.

Josh: No, don't make it up.

Tommy: Excuse me, guys, we're just doing a podcast. Do you listen to podcasts?

Aaron: Uh, every so often.

Tommy: Who do you listen to?

Aaron: I couldn't even tell you right now. I have to cheque on my phone first, so I don't know.

Tommy: What app do you use?

Aaron: What app do I use for podcasts?

Josh: No idea. That's like, that's okay. Is that using an iPhone? Is it the iPhone?

Aaron: Yes.

Tommy: Are you a visitor in New York City?

Aaron: I live here.

Tommy: Ah, so you're a local.

Aaron: Here we go.

Tommy: We need an answer to a question we've had because we're not from here, obviously.

Aaron: Okay.

Tommy: As much as I sound American sometimes. FedEx trucks, they're everywhere and they're pulling over and there's no parking in New York City. They're all getting fines, and this one truck was getting a fine, and he got his camera out ready to film.

Josh: I thought it was a moment, right? I thought I saw like the police officer going up and giving the fine, and I got my camera out like, this is going to be like United where someone gets dragged off or something like that.

Tommy: But what I said to the guy was, mate, you're going to get a fine. He said— and then he walked off.

Aaron: It's the cost of doing business, right?

Tommy: That's what I said to you. I said, I bet you it's the tax. It's the cost of doing business in New York City. Is that, is that what happens?

Aaron: Yeah, it's, it's, I guess they assume some kind of operating cost. Yeah, right within their budget. Well, it makes sense.

Tommy: They're delivering shitloads of stuff every day. So it's just the, you reckon FedEx tell their drivers don't even worry about it?

Aaron: Yeah, I don't know for sure, but that's what I would guess. Yeah. Yeah.

Josh: Well, and I nearly, I wanted to move to the US mainly for Amazon Prime. For someone who lives in the US, How often do you use Amazon Prime and what is the one thing that you get the most often delivered?

Aaron: Groceries.

Josh: Groceries?

Aaron: Yeah, I don't know, I guess groceries.

Tommy: Amazon Fresh.

Josh: So that's exciting. Yeah, is it Amazon Fresh? Is that what they call it? Yeah, we get excited. We're Aussies, we get excited about dumb shit.

Aaron: They've been to you guys already?

Josh: Yeah, they've come, but there's nothing there. It's like really sad. Like you can get sort of like a book but it's like 3 times the price.

Aaron: I thought they partnered with one of your major chains out there, right?

Josh: There was Book Depository.

Tommy: Amazon's owned by Book Depository, but they've launched their factory and it's, I mean, underway, but it's not like the States.

Aaron: Yeah, I'm sure it's coming. I know they bought some warehouse space out there and I'm pretty sure they partnered.

Josh: Do you work at Amazon?

Aaron: I do not work for Amazon. This is not a plug for Amazon. It's just really convenient and That's about it.

Tommy: Have you got a business or anything you'd like to give a plug on our show?

Josh: We get 300 listeners per episode, so this is a huge opportunity for you, obviously.

Tommy: Shout out to a family member.

Aaron: Uh, it's my wife Ariella. That's it.

Josh: Thanks so much. Have a good one. Awesome. Thank you.

Tommy: Bye. See you guys. What was your name? Aaron.

Josh: Aaron. Thanks, Aaron. Good job. Very sweaty, but that's okay. I'm sweaty. It's all good. It's the Daily Talk Show, our most extensive vox pop that we've done, I think.

Tommy: Yeah, I'm so glad I got that question answered. Well, pretty much answered.

Josh: And we actually had Bree as well, filming Bree. Did I do a horrendous job? Was I covering the camera the whole time? Yes. Okay, all right.

Tommy: She said yes and stopped recording.

Josh: It's The Daily Talk Show, everyone. Hi@thedailytalkshow.com if you want to send us an email, or get on our Reddit. It's fucking going off. Reddit.com/r/thedailytalkshow. Have a good one, guys.