Our 1 Year Anniversary

Tommy: The Daily Talk Show.

Josh: It's The Daily Talk Show and it's episode 262 and it's our first birthday.

Tommy: I knew keeping this— oh shit, oh no, don't do that. Hang on, we're doing it. Oh geez, don't do it at the camera, I'm selling it.

Josh: That is funny. How are we going everyone?

Tommy: My ears are ringing, are yours?

Josh: No, I would— what the fuck was wrong with mine?

Tommy: It's—

Josh: no, why do I sniff everything?

Tommy: And it's one of the dumber things to sniff. So what we just let off, as you could have heard, would have heard, some twist poppers. Yeah, they're like 30 centimetre long confetti cannons and there is, there's some shit on the lens, I can see it, but I don't think it's on the actual video.

Josh: No, it's fine, it's absolutely fine.

Tommy: I can't wait to watch that back, but you can watch it at youtube.com/thedailytalkshow. But happy birthday. Thank you. What is it, 16th or 17th?

Josh: 16th of January.

Tommy: 16th of January, far out.

Josh: And it feels weird. I don't think I would be very good if I was a twin.

Tommy: Sharing birthdays. I mean, sharing it with Santa is also hard 'cause all the other kids have got the, they're excited, but it's not for you. For them. Well, Bodhi's birthday is Valentine's Day.

Josh: Yeah, I feel like that's a small enough sort of event, like not Bodhi's birthday, but Valentine's Day. It's not Christmas.

Tommy: My grandpa lived beyond 100 years old. And he's—

Josh: Like 101.

Tommy: And one of the things among many that I took away from his life, other than the fact that he survived a prisoner of war camp captured by the Japanese and lived there for 3 years and half of his mates died, was that before, like in his lifetime, Valentine's Day was not a thing.

Josh: Really?

Tommy: So he's seen the birth of, you know.

Josh: That's the thing that you remember?

Tommy: I know, that's why I said, along with all these amazing feats that he had. Okay, there is shit everywhere now.

Josh: It's getting very sticky. Good thing is I don't have headphones on. We discovered that part of the reason that I was getting so hot had something to do with the headphones.

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, you do sweat a lot. For this special occasion, got out the Obike Fishing t-shirt. There is, there's one thing about this. So is this like, do I, is this tight? Does this look tight to you?

Josh: Yeah, a little bit.

Tommy: Does it look, uh, sort of unusually tight?

Josh: Like, well, there's your nipple there. There's a, there's a YouTube thumbnail. Get that, Mason. It's just like, oh, oh, there we go.

Tommy: So I used to be into tight t-shirts. It's so weird thinking about that. Like, I remember back in the days, and if you were a club rat in Melbourne, there was a shop called Stevie, and Stevie was huge at one point. It was a fluoro t-shirts.

Josh: Was this the scratch and sniff stuff?

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, the scratch and sniff t-shirts. You just sniff the cannon again.

Josh: Yeah, the, um, well, we were wondering whether these are actually legal. Yeah, because there is like a little bit of, um, firecracker sort of stuff going.

Tommy: It was gunpowder, dude. That's what it's called, full gunpowder. But do you think in in terms of tight t-shirts, I think the fashion now is moving away from the, either it's my age or it's just the fashion is trending away from super tight t-shirts.

Josh: Well, I can't wear them because for one, I'm fat, but two, I pull. I just constantly, like I just feel uncomfortable. So I'm just doing this all the time. I get it.

Tommy: The thing is, you're not drawn to wear a tight t-shirt if you have body issues. If your rig's not for it, but I even, I don't think my rig's that for it at the moment.

Josh: Are you a medium? Would you ever get a medium? This is medium. Okay, yeah.

Tommy: This is medium.

Josh: I never got to medium and feeling comfortable, always large. But what I would love is a t-shirt that was large everywhere, but like a small in the arms.

Tommy: Yeah, God, you're specific about your tees, aren't you? It's called a custom tee.

Josh: 'Cause it's, I think that is, so I wanna feel like I'm jacked on the arms. Yeah, true. And so it really fills it out.

Tommy: You know how Matt D'Avella's t-shirts really, fill out these biceps that you love so much. Yeah, it's interesting. Hey, um, at one year in, yeah, it's fucking crazy.

Josh: It is weird.

Tommy: It's, uh, I mean, it just feels like another day, but when you think about it, it's like, it's like when you're with a partner, like in a relationship, you're like, it's already been 5 years.

Josh: Yeah, we've experimented with everything. Like, we've sort of— I don't know what else is there to do as a, as a podcast. I mean, doing video and stuff is our version of anal, really, isn't it? It's sort of the, you could, a lot of people will go through their whole lifetime and not record video on their podcast. And as a couple, we've decided to give it a go.

Tommy: Yeah, I guess I'll give you that.

Josh: And we decided, discovered when we do film the episodes, I sweat more, which you would never have known.

Tommy: I'm definitely sweating a lot more.

Josh: We're talking about before the show, my blackhead.

Tommy: Yeah, it's, um, you don't have a completely black head, it's on your nose. There was a dot yesterday and it was a real like, it was a moment where in the office, in this space, we're in kind of work mode at our desks and the one thing I love about you is the, um, the theatricals of everyday life which bring a colour and a, you know, a vibe.

Josh: But also annoys the fuck out of you.

Tommy: Yeah, definitely when we got shit to do.

Josh: Everything's a content opportunity maybe.

Tommy: —just a tiny little black thing there. Yeah, I would never really bring that up, but now we're doing video. There. So this is a—

Josh: there's so much pressure. There's so much pressure. And Tommy is 100% the mate that will tell you—

Tommy: Oh dude, I'll just quickly— I'll get back to the theatrics of you, but the other month we were at a serious shoot for a, you know, a really sort of sensitive topic, sensitive, sort of precious topic. Topic for a lot of people. And this one woman who we were filming, I just took it upon myself to just like, I thought if no one says anything to her, it's our problem when we get back to edit it and she's got something on her tooth, not in the middle of her teeth, but on her tooth. I said to her, "Oh, you've just got a little black thing there. You'd probably just grab that and get that off.

Josh: I knew I had to tell you." She said, "No, it's a stain." But the thing is that she would be so used to dealing with that. It was like when I made a joke about carbohydrates, to Craig Harper who we had on the podcast early last week.

Tommy: How many times? He's about 3 times now on the show? Yeah, maybe 4. 3 or 4? 4 with the episode where I was spewing and it was 6 episodes in and I was the weak link in the duo.

Josh: It did happen. But no, I made a joke about, I said, "Oh, do you want a croissant or anything, Craig? We're just paying." He said, "I'm all good." And I just sort of said to Tommy when Craig left, I'm like, that's a good bit of gear, bit of sort of, you know, a harper who probably wouldn't touch them. And you made a point that it's sort of like when people make fun of your last name Jacket saying, hey, where's your jacket, Tommy Jacket?

Tommy: Like, if you think that's original, good luck to you.

Josh: 'Cause people would get it all the time. I'm guessing whilst it feels uncomfortable for you with the lady with the black tooth, she's dealing with it and she must be comfortable with it.

Tommy: But you know me, I'm the ultimate at, justifying and owning the fuck up in terms of like, it's almost doubling down. Well, you know, I would've hated myself if I didn't do it. It's like a justification. But the theatrics of what Josh did with the blackhead incident was we're working and then whoop, up pops Josh from his seat, hands on nose, just almost yelling, oh, cheque it. Is this a blackhead? Is this a blackhead? It's so fascinating. And I'm like, oh no. Oh no, here we go again.

Josh: I'm trying to sort out my nose because we, like, it's been, it's gotten sunburnt over the years and I just worry that, um, so you worried it was a sunspot?

Tommy: Yeah, I did sense that, but I, but I, I try to sort of like, it's almost like reassure you because a blackhead's something you can—

Josh: Conspiracy Jimmy did a shocking job of that.

Tommy: He's— I showed it, he's like, no, he didn't say sunspot, he goes, could be cancer.

Josh: Oh geez. So he doesn't hold back. But the— so I was showing him like, what do you think it is? He's like— and you initially got the mobile, the iPhone torch.

Tommy: Well, yeah, we block out the light in the studio and I mean, I fell into the trap. This is the thing, if someone says, dude, can you cheque this out? I'm checking it out.

Josh: I'm curious. Can I just say, I love that on our one— sorry, I keep going to say 100th episode. On our one year anniversary episode, we actually have some inspectors of asbestos here who are actually the audience of the show. It's awesome.

Tommy: We've got, I mean, initially I thought they were police officers. They're holding like a pad and pen diary.

Josh: They look like they work for the ATO maybe. They're after, we've cooked the books, they've found out.

Tommy: They know we spent the money on the twist popper and we claimed it.

Josh: And so I showed my blackhead and you were saying Just don't fucking touch it.

Tommy: From what I could see, you were squeezing it and I'm yelling, "Don't squeeze it, don't squeeze it, don't squeeze it." Because I, you know, the fate of something that gets squeezed when it doesn't actually come out. Like I think there's something to be said that something, if a pimple or a blackhead is ready to go, getting rid of it is probably a good thing.

Josh: Or at least— How do I know if it's a good thing? If it's like ready to go?

Tommy: Yeah, blind pimple. There's a, you're playing. You're flipping a coin because it could go or it won't. And so you've done it, you flipping a coin, you were pulling your nose to the side and saying, here it is, here it is, but you'd already squeezed it. So that's the one thing I didn't know because I'm saying don't squeeze it.

Josh: We're talking about flipping a coin. Don't squeeze it, just have my coin on me. Yeah, good. And so last night I could feel it sort of having some issues and I had a shower, like, I don't know, I think I've mentioned it. I had never really washed my face. Never been a face washer type of guy. I rinse, like I rinse my, but I'm like with my New Year's resolution of scalp health and sort of it's going into the area of face health as well. And so I've got nice skin, but I feel like I could do some work on the face. And so— And where's it landed? Well, it lands on me using, I've got like a coconut body wash.

Tommy: No, no, no, no, where's your nose landed?

Josh: The nose has landed, if you're watching the video at YouTube, youtube.com/thedailytalkshow. It's turned into what could only be described as a nasty scab.

Tommy: It kind of looks like you're sunburnt, and I don't know how it got to that because it's an unusual sort of thing.

Josh: It's like a burn because what I did was I—

Tommy: Yeah, it looks different.

Josh: Well, I got my thumb into my nostril and was pushing it to try and almost like you would, say if you had a dint in your car and the panel beater took the panel off and was trying to push it through. I was trying to with enough force push the— and I've sort of, I think what we're seeing is a bit of bruising as well. Yeah, I know. But one of the things on personal, not necessarily personal hygiene, don't know what category you'd put this in, aftershave.

Tommy: Yeah, I mean— Are you an aftershave guy? I'm 100% not, but I kind of wanna be. I've got a couple, I've never like committed to it. My brother's very much, always wearing aftershaves. Tommy D wears aftershaves. There's something very thoughtful in it. Um, here's the thing about dating.

Josh: In the dating world, we're an aftershave guy.

Tommy: Yeah, I mean, here's how I got my favourite aftershave. Went to a local Priceline chemist and I stumbled upon this lovely lady that worked there. She's like, oh, darl, I've got the right one for you. And she fucking nailed it. It is unbelievable.

Josh: I didn't know what links— which links Tiger. For people playing at home, I think it's called— what's it called in the States? Axe? I don't know, I didn't know that. I think it's called Axe.

Tommy: So links, you can get like deodorant spray which smells like the boys' locker room at a local footy club. So it's Axe. Yeah, so this woman put me onto Dior Homme. Unbelievable. It's my favourite one, I still got it today. I always get compliments about it. But I just don't— it's not a regular occurrence. I see it as something that's special occasion. Like, I'd feel like now I'd be sweating and I'd be hot and smelling up the room with my aftershave.

Josh: And so that's not good? Is it not better than body odor?

Tommy: It's better than body odor, but I think the solution is just, uh, deodorant so you don't have any. So when do you use the aftershave then? Nice occasion for me, when I go out, out for dinner, even like Amy and I going out. There's like, I mean, here's the thing, I'm triggered by some of Amy's perfumes And she's same, she's, "Oh, you're smelling something, you smell great." It's like from our early days when I'm trying to impress, ch-ch-ch-ch. And so there is that element.

Josh: Is it not like an easy life hack then?

Tommy: It's just a routine, right?

Josh: But is it like one of those things where do you think that if you are wearing the aftershave, it's a bit of a come on? Like Amy's like, okay.

Tommy: Amy has said to me like as a joke, whether she thought it or not, might read into it. I had it on once, I'm just, it was like out of my norm going down the shops wearing my aftershave. Where the fuck are you going? I don't think it was that. It was like, oh, you got aftershave on, right? Oh, why you got that on? It makes sense. You're breaking a pattern of being a stinky.

Josh: Why were we wearing it?

Tommy: Mate, I don't know. But I felt like I was about to do something naughty, but I didn't do anything naughty. I tell you, there is one thing, like I know you're not an aftershave guy, Well, I used to be a heavy aftershave guy.

Josh: Did you? Traveled around the world wearing aftershave, like carrying that shit around.

Tommy: CK1 was your flavor.

Josh: CK1 I think might've been— CK1?

Tommy: CK1, sort of like a fogged out silver leaf.

Josh: Ah, I did do CK1. Yeah, mate. I did the one that was— Barley. No, that one I had in little bottles. There was a green aftershave. I've just literally typed in green aftershave into Google Images.

Tommy: Some of it was like Dunlop or like Davenport or something.

Josh: Fuck, I was a big Joop guy. Yeah. Do you remember Joop Blue Polo?

Tommy: Did you get a Polo? Yes.

Josh: Yeah, that was good. Oh, this here, the Polo, that one there.

Tommy: I mean, they trigger things for people. So Issey Miyake was one my brother had. And the thing is like older brother having sort of all these nice colognes. He's that guy, still that guy. Me and my mate Karim would be going, ready to go out on Saturday night. We'd go in and fucking steal these little things. Conspiracy Jimmy would come in, fucking get a little ch-ch.

Josh: 'Cause don't you think there's a bit of a, like they can be slutty, like not to, you know, use the derogatory. The Britney Spears? Yeah. Like do you think there is a certain— Fruity flavored.

Tommy: I will say on one thing I've just said it's slutty, on the other thing I fucking love it. It reminds me of all the girls at school when I was about to say, all the young girls, but that would sound— I was a young kid and all the girls growing up were wearing it, so it reminds me of that. Shredophile. No, but the Issey Miyake thing, I did myself a dirty— What are they called? Just write Issey Miyake. Issey Miyake will come up. Yeah, that's it.

Josh: Oh God, it looks like an ARIA. If you're in Australia, like the music award, it's a very pointy—

Tommy: Oh, that's the female one. The other one, this one, that's the Mayo one. Great, I love it still. I can't go near it though. 'Cause we would get so pissed spewing all morning. And when you're still in the clothes from the night before and you're vomiting, you're getting a whiff of this sort of smoky aftershave 'cause you got smoke on your top from when you could smoke in clubs. And I'd just be, and just smelling it and just fucking, it serves me right for stealing my brother's aftershave. Well, Brie has like one that's a, Some sort of oil. Oh yeah, I'm into that.

Josh: And it's strong. Like if you smell someone who's got the same perfume as your partner, should you say, "Oh, you smell like my girlfriend." What's it do for you?

Tommy: 'Cause I think there's an honest conversation. Or it's just like, "Oh, you smell familiar." My wife, yeah. But I mean, what's, so for instance.

Josh: What's there to gain by smelling?

Tommy: I get a bit out of smelling my wife's perfume. Sounds so fucking—

Josh: What does she wear?

Tommy: Stella, there's a really nice Stella one that she wears and I fucking love it. It just reminds me of just that sort of like, you know, that explosive chemistry that we, you know, the initial—

Josh: We have. We had at the start and, you know, different now.

Tommy: It's great. But it reminds me of that. And so—

Josh: Does she still wear it or no?

Tommy: I love it. Yeah. She's run out of it. There's another one. I'm a big perfumed guy for my wife. I love it. And so my point is, if you're saying something like, oh, it's the same as my wife, yeah, I think it's okay. I mean, there's a, there's a conversation around now there's perfumes that are good for men and women together, which is a kind of new thing. When I was younger, I'd never heard of that. That one there, that's it there. Okay. Yeah, what is it called?

Josh: It's a, yeah, it's called the Stella perfume by Stella McCartney.

Tommy: Yeah, it's fucking, it's always the one that Brie gets.

Josh: Like she goes like a perfume, like a—

Tommy: So it's like an oaky, piney, it's like a woody. My brother uses it, Bree uses it.

Josh: I think Gemma Watts has it too. Not to sound creepy, Gemma, thanks for listening.

Tommy: But no, that's the problem. You can sound a bit creepy going, "Oh." And so this is the thing, it probably feels a bit creepy when I say it 'cause now I've admitted that I get off over it a bit. Not like that, but just, yeah, like that.

Josh: And so, but I think there could be a skill in being able to tell a certain perfume. For instance, I went to a— Can I smell you now? Yeah, I would have nothing.

Tommy: It's slightly, slight sense. Have you used some sort of aftershave?

Josh: No, no. But the thing is I do have like a deodorant that's Jason Fox got me a great Mr. Pitts, which was like an all-natural one. And I ran out of it while I was trying to—

Tommy: I'm getting a lot of messages. But there's a scent to it that's not bad. It's like a, it's almost like a, It's either a masculine clothes wash. What do I smell like?

Josh: I said, "Be sniffed." It sort of smells like a mix of like, it's a washed t-shirt, but you haven't worn it in a while. Exactly right.

Tommy: Yeah. He's got a good schnoz on him.

Josh: A little bit. There's a slight bit of dust. Yeah.

Tommy: As you sniffed, I smelt mothballs. Let's be honest. Question. Why the fuck do old, why do teachers, like when I was growing up in primary school, they've got this perfume. It's like, think about the teacher that was old and wore that perfume that stunk like shit. I mean, subjective, smells are subjective, right? But do you remember a teacher that back in the day that would wear a scent you like? How do you think that is good?

Josh: Samantha, who's a teacher who listens listens to the show, she should—

Tommy: well, I think she's young, she'd probably be Rock and Stella or some sort of like that new Woody Oak one, but the old school sense of like—

Josh: I remember my favourite teacher used to wear a perfume that reminded me of like a car scent, but a good car scent. Yeah, that seems to be gone out of fashion, the whole car scent sort of thing.

Tommy: Well, yeah, they're still around. They're— my brother offered me one the other day, the thing that hangs in the middle of your—

Josh: yeah, Christian Hull. Has Christian Hull, he's gonna be on the podcast next week. He sent, I support him on Patreon and he sent me some keyrings and stuff and it included some car.

Tommy: Christian, you gave Josh asthma.

Josh: It was like we had to get rid of, the problem was I—

Tommy: But then again, you get asthma from a fucking deodorant can.

Josh: Well, I don't like you spraying deodorant in the office. No, it smells like a boys' locker room.

Tommy: It's not Lynx. But the thing, it's close enough.

Josh: No, but the thing with, that whole being able to tell a scent. I had a, I worked out I like something in restaurants and I think that I wanna double down on it in 2019. And it's, I went to a Persian restaurant, love Persian food. One of my best mates, Naysan, is Persian and he taught me all about the different types of Persian food. So there's koobideh, which is like a minced lamb or beef and it's like with, mix it with onion and they grill it on a, like a fire thing. Then there's kashkhan bademjun, which is an eggplant dip with this like cheese curd thing. It's fucking delicious.

Tommy: We'll be back on another food diary. 100%.

Josh: And so we ended up, Bree and I found this Persian place, which is starting to inform where we're going to live potentially. Because I'm like, I like to soak up—

Tommy: You need to decide on where you purchase your house or live Persian joint.

Josh: Yeah, restaurant. 'Cause there's not many, like if you're in LA or something, a lot of options. Melbourne, there's like 3 or 4 Persian places. Anyway.

Tommy: So what country is? Iran. Okay.

Josh: And so I ordered, the waiter said, have you been here before? I said, no. He said, I'll talk you through blah, blah, blah. Anyway, it came to ordering and I closed the menu and I said, could we please have one koobideh and one kashkhan bademjan? He's like, "Oh, I thought you hadn't been here." I said, "Oh." He's racially profiled you. I said, "Oh, I haven't, I've had Persian before." He goes, "Oh." And it gave me this real tingle where I was like, it's the same feeling of when I went to Thailand and I learned, you know, Sawadee krup or khob khun krup.

Tommy: So you got an in. Yeah. It's impressive though, I think. I mean, if there was a foreigner that came in here, you totally, you knew they were like, so I'd already thought they're coming in, They don't know, they're French, they got no idea about how we swing around here.

Josh: So what would impress you? What would they have to say to impress you? Um, go fuck yourself.

Tommy: I mean, oh hey guys, oh that's the A7S Mark II, that's a great camera.

Josh: That's less Australian. So you're just talking in general?

Tommy: Yeah, I think, yeah, I know what you mean because the dish is quite out there, but maybe, but there's something, this is their food, it's like They just see their food as their food. I think he's impressed by your pronunciation. It's quite good.

Josh: Well, so what I'm hoping for is I was starting to think maybe I could get, learn all these different dishes so that when I go to all the restaurants, I can, doesn't matter what food I have, because there's something very bogan about getting a Thai green chicken curry. Yeah, mate.

Tommy: When you get, I think like a butter chicken. When you, if you go to an Indian restaurant and get butter chicken. A bogan, Josh. You're an Australian. Who is thinking they're eating Indian food. Which I think it is a dish, but butter chicken is the most bogan Australian dish you could eat.

Josh: And it's lovely. So there is something about the perfume, like knowing someone's perfume is a little bit like that. It's like, I'm in the know, I know what's happening. And there's an intimacy to it too, because they're doing a little secret spray before they come in. And I'm saying, hey, you know how you're secretly spraying? I know.

Tommy: General knowledge is impressive. Like the person that knows the random shit.

Josh: What is a bit of general knowledge that you know?

Tommy: What do I know? Mate, I don't know much. Come on, when you get put on the spot, you need to give me like—

Josh: Could you tell me what I'm good at general knowledge-wise? Maybe tech, startup culture. Tech, so I think it's agile.

Tommy: I guess maybe it's not general knowledge because it's not, it's specific knowledge. Yeah, because like you know founders of businesses and their background. You like know someone's resume, which is impressive. So that's like freaky knowledge because you've done a bit of work there. It's like the general knowledge is— I find history— is that someone cringing again? Someone knows, um, maybe not. Someone knows, you know, they're savvy with their history on something.

Josh: Yeah, I can't remember because the thing is history seems like a hard one because you fucking have to know everything that happened.

Tommy: Like, to understand history, it's why I like conspiracy theories, because someone spent a lot of time thinking about a certain angle on a certain matter.

Josh: But that's why I don't feel comfortable with it is because they've gone, 'cause I don't know all the facts. So someone could say something about, you know how World War II happened? Well, I think that they were doing this. And it's like, well, I don't fucking know.

Tommy: My uncle is a very smart man, very book smart. And is this the leisure centre owner? Yeah, he owns Albert Park Indoor Sports Center.

Josh: I wasn't gonna say specifically.

Tommy: I mean, I'm giving him a plug if you want to play indoor netball or soccer. I don't know anything about what. He knows lots about, I just ask him shit. So when you are prime ministers, who was in power then? Why is this place called this? Like general knowledge around sort of Melbourne, South Melbourne Football Club. He could give you the history there, AFL, just like all this shit, which is like, I could just come up with a bunch of questions and he's got answers for them.

Josh: I think Scooter Derek, I reckon, would have a bit of that. He seems like he knows, he'd be able to say, "Oh, that person owned the milk bar and then it became this person and that person owns the lease of that place." Well, local knowledge.

Tommy: I mean, do you just wanna learn another language or you wanna—

Josh: No, no, no, no. I don't have the time to learn another language.

Tommy: Well, I'm saying, but if I could— We've got 5 days of podcasting to do.

Josh: But if we could learn something more specific in the culture, Say it's like woven things made in Turkey. And I could say, oh, that's a fucking side stitch you've done there.

Tommy: Who's it for? I mean, are you, because there's an element of, and maybe I don't know if people who possess all this general knowledge, it's their thinking behind knowing this stuff. And that's, I can impress people.

Josh: I'll give you an example.

Tommy: 'Cause are you doing it to impress people?

Josh: I try to impress. It's impressive. It did a good, I did a good job of it the other day. We had bowls. Which I've spoken to already about.

Tommy: Hang on, are we— this is the bowls? Bowls meaning lawn bowls. I thought the bowl from 2 days ago with Jack.

Josh: I picked up the bowl from Jack's place. No. So, uh, Bree asked me, she said, do you want to come to, uh, my friend's got a party, we're going to lawn bowls, do you want to come? I said no, and she said okay. "Kate, will you come?" I said, "If you want me to come." She goes, "No, you have to want to come." I'm like, "Okay, I'll come." That's the hint I was getting. So anyway, that was fine. That was one bit of it. Anyway, then she says to me the next day, she says, "Oh, by the way, it's a white theme. You have to wear all white." She said, "I've spoken to the birthday girl and she said that you can wear what you normally wear if you want." 'You just can't be in the photo.' And I'm just like, 'I don't want to be that fucking guy. I don't want to be the one.' Like, so I'm like, 'Okay, if I'm fucking doing it, I'm gonna have to.' So I ended up dropping $110 on some Van White shoes.

Tommy: That's why you've been getting all that spam mail from Vans. And then the—

Josh: do you want to try and fix it, Mason? We've got like a little flicker. Just try turning it, turning the light a little bit. Just the little connector. I just don't want it flickering. We should use the battery in the future. Anyway, so I got some Vans shoes, some white Vans shoes.

Tommy: Which are 110 deep.

Josh: Yeah. Then— On a party you don't wanna go to. And a linen white shirt from Uniqlo. Fuck, Uniqlo. Shout out to Uniqlo, great products.

Tommy: But are you gonna wear it again?

Josh: Yeah, so potentially, I think so. So the Uniqlo thing was $70.

Tommy: I just threw out a white shirt that I bought for a party that I've never used again. Chance, like very specific white short sleeve?

Josh: Long sleeve. So I can sort of—

Tommy: If you haven't got one, it's fine.

Josh: I think it's a little bit like Richard Branson-y on the, like I could be, you know, on a fucking holiday somewhere, chest open a little bit, maybe a little bit Italian. Anyway, so I bought all of these stuff and then I said, who's going to the next day, the day before on the Friday, it's happening on the Saturday. I said, who's gonna be there? And Bree goes, oh, I'm not gonna know that many people. I'm like, why? And she said, it's a joint party. There were two fucking birthdays.

Tommy: So Bree knew one of them. Yeah. And then there's this, okay, yeah. And so that's, I mean, for you, that's anxiety.

Josh: I fucking nailed it though. The friend wrote back that I was the MVP, which is great. But one of the things I did with the lawn bowls is we were getting shown how to use the lawn bowls and stuff. I said to the old guy, I said, "Is the lawn running fast or slow?" He goes, "Oh, this one's a bit slow, that one's fast." And so you'd read up on something and worked it.

Tommy: I like it, I like it. Bit of general knowledge for the circumstance and environment you're in is a good way to learn.

Josh: One year. That's the final bit. Thank you for listening everyone. Shout out to BK. Yeah. For sending us an email. He says, congrats on one year. His favourite bits, Fat Fridays at Easys, Hamgate, Hamish episode, Jules episode, hurtful 'cause they happened early on. Anyway, it's the Daily Talk Show, hi@thedailytalkshow.com if you wanna send us an email. Otherwise, see you guys. We're off to blow some whistles.