AirPod Sucker

Tommy: It's The Daily Talk Show, episode 327.

Josh: What's going on, guys? 3 PM it is here. We just went on a bit of a scavenger hunt and it all centred around coffee, and I came back with no coffee.

Tommy: So I thought you said we weren't talking about food at all.

Josh: The coffee's not food, you imbecile.

Tommy: Imbecile has real cut-through, doesn't it?

Josh: Yeah, it does it, because it's not, it's not like calling you the C-word.

Tommy: It's just outrageous. I used to get that a lot from Mama.

Josh: I can imagine. Can you do the— do a Lynn Jansen? So, Mom, um, where is the doughnuts that I wanted?

Tommy: Josh, you're being an imbecile! Ah, damn it, that was a pretty good impersonation.

Josh: Anyway, so I, um, we were walking down the street. I left, so I— because I wanted to go and get a few little groceries.

Tommy: Well, because I, I actually, uh, for, for lunch had, uh I made my own lunch.

Josh: Yeah, good on you, mate. I know where you're trying to go with this. But as I was walking off, I got a message from Mr. 97. All the message said was, "Show that on your way past, lol." And so that was it. I was just like, I all of a sudden thought these guys are following me and they're doing a covert operation. I started getting paranoid about, for some reason I just started thinking, 'cause all I saw was text messages.

Tommy: Well, 'cause Mr. 97 and I were together. So you thought that he was watching you. I thought you guys were like, I formed a story.

Josh: I'm tired, I need a coffee, and I thought— I'm not thinking straight— and I thought, they're going to be just following me. I thought, I don't know, I just—

Tommy: I had the biggest— like, it shows you how big our egos are because I remember at the radio station, yeah, when I was working there, everything that was happening, like on a weekend at like 7 AM, yeah, something would happen, it might be like, this is a stitch-up, like I would get a funny call.

Josh: Yeah, yeah.

Tommy: Or like there would be a guy who looked like a weird parking inspector. Yeah, I just assumed everything was a of gear, and it never was.

Josh: We've started— well, I mean, if we started doing pranks, we'd definitely start just getting so suspicious. We were in the city a while ago, it looked like Santa. I'm pretty sure he was homeless, but he had his top off and he had like a Santa hat. Remember, we walked past and you're like, I reckon if you go press his stomach, you win a million bucks.

Tommy: Well, because it seems like something you would, you would see, you know, like the push the button Fed Square style. No, but it's like if you go over and offer him 50 cents Yeah, so basically it didn't happen.

Josh: I was imagining it. I was in the supermarket looking around thinking, fuck, where are these Gronks? And then I came out and I got the actual message, the—

Mason: I'm—

Josh: or whatever it is, the MMS, because this bloke's rocking Android over here. Green dot, green bubbles all the way. So I get this 5 minutes later.

Tommy: So what was the message again?

Josh: The text? Show that on your way past, lol. And then I found it. He'd sent me because what we'd done is to go, we wanted coffee, so we went into 7-Eleven and there's the machine being cleaned. 20 minutes they were saying it took. And so I couldn't get my coffee, couldn't get my dollar coffee, can't get my caffeine hit. So I gave up until this little bloke sent me that. And I did, I went back in on the way back past because Mr. 97, explain what you sent to me, the photo.

Mason: Yeah, so the photo, someone took a photo and it's a little note from 7-Eleven saying that if the machine is in progress, if they're cleaning, you can get a voucher for a free $1 coffee.

Josh: Yeah, and so you found this, you little scumbag, on OzBargain.

Mason: Yeah.

Josh: Did you find it personally?

Mason: Yeah, well, I was— I didn't actually submit that. No. I was scrolling through and I saw it a few days ago, and then the machine out of order just reminded me. I was like, oh, Tommy can get a free coffee.

Josh: It's pretty good.

Tommy: Perfect.

Josh: The person who did submit it, their username is PennyPincher.

Tommy: That's actually a pretty— that's a strong one for OzBargain. You'd think that PennyPincher is up there in regards to Penny Pincher.

Josh: Anyway, so I took this in. I've got— I mean, I've— me and 7-Eleven haven't seen eye to eye, and I've really, I've really—

Tommy: you rattled them.

Josh: I've rattled them. And so, you know, I kind of feel a bit sorry for them. I've become quite friendly with the woman behind the counter.

Tommy: Yeah, she wasn't working there though.

Josh: No, she wasn't. I would have just gone straight up and said what's up because we're mates now. Anyway, I went up and I showed them this. I was like, excuse me, is this a thing? The coffee machine's being cleaned out, can I— is that a free coffee thing?

Tommy: Lacking confidence.

Josh: They just looked at it and went no.

Mason: Did you click on the photo there?

Josh: I clicked on the photo, so he also sent through a photo that clearly is a sign that was hung. So here's the, here's the thing, I got a free coffee. I didn't get the actual tangible coffee, I got a piece of paper that's given me a voucher, a one free.

Tommy: Of course, you fucking idiot, it's out of order, the machine's not working.

Josh: My point is The point is they said to me this is not a thing, and I actually have to agree with them. Every day across all 7-Elevens at 2:30 PM they clean their machines. So if this was a thing and you were just a penny-pinching tight-ass, you could just go in at 2:30 every single day and say to them, "I want a coffee." That's a life hack.

Tommy: Wait, so what do you mean it's not a thing? They've given you—

Mason: How'd you get that?

Tommy: How'd you get a voucher then?

Josh: Because he's like, uh, He's like, he literally was like this. They've got a whole bunch of them sitting there, so obviously for some reason they have them, things going on. Why? I don't know, but he said to me, this is not a thing. I said, so this sign that this person's posted about, is this a thing? I specifically made him say the words, and he said, no, it's not a thing. And so I said, okay. And then he said to me, all right, here you go, and he just gave me the thing. So either he's, he's undercover saying it's not a thing, but it actually is a thing.

Tommy: It is a thing.

Josh: He can't say it's a thing. So it's a thing without it.

Tommy: If it's an official sign, it's a thing.

Josh: It's official sign that was on the internet.

Tommy: There's a lot of things that have been on the internet, mate. Okay, Penny Pincher is good. I wonder if Barefoot's on OzBargain. I'd love to see just Barefoot submitting stuff.

Josh: No, mate, don't buy shit for people from people you don't like. Well, that's the thing, stuff you don't need.

Tommy: That's the thing with OzBargain is whilst It's sort of prefaced with the idea of saving money. I have spent more money thanks to ozbargain.com.au than I have before it.

Josh: I mean, the problem is even with the learnings from making that video about 7-Eleven, you're just a real tight-ass at the end of the day if you are going in to get your $1. Like, there's usually a homeless person outside of most 7-Elevens. You should just give them a dollar.

Tommy: Did you not see one?

Josh: There was not. No, I got harassed on the way through. Here's another thing. Tell me if this is too much. I didn't do it, but you know the people that collect— they're not even collecting money.

Tommy: Oxfam or whatever?

Josh: Yeah, it's like Oxfam or Save the Trees or something where they're just like, excuse me, sir, can I have 5 minutes of your time?

Tommy: I feel like they're never like that. They're always like, hey, how you going? They gotta shake my hand. Absolutely not.

Josh: So that causes anxiety in so many people. I just thought of saying this to them as I'm walking past. As I'm walking, I don't like the way you make me feel.

Tommy: Did you say that? You should have.

Josh: But I was thinking, if I got— if someone said that to me in life, I'd just be like, I'm so sorry. Yeah, I've got to choose. I've got to look at myself in the mirror and just think about what I'm doing.

Tommy: Maybe if we just said— what about this is a line? Just, uh, you're giving me anxiety.

Josh: Yeah. The world is filled with anxiety, filled with things that are causing anxiety. We need less of that.

Tommy: Yeah, in fairness, they like— some of them are very full-on. Yeah, but the thing is, it is for a good cause, but I don't like how they go about it. I feel like there's other ways.

Josh: There's definitely other ways. There's other ways. There's a million ways to make money. It's an interesting one why you end up doing that.

Tommy: Do you buy anything from a sales point of view, like waiting for something on sale? Do you have certain items that you only ever buy on sale?

Josh: Um, protein bars. That's about it.

Tommy: Oh, that's true.

Josh: That's about all I— I don't think about like toilet paper and things like that. Would you? There's a few things that you— like buying chocolate not on sale. It's usually these lower-end items. Why would you ever buy them not on sale?

Tommy: Yeah, or you just pick— you just, uh, move between brands.

Josh: Yeah, yeah. Never buy a rug that's not on sale. There's always a closing down rug sale, isn't there? Well, actually, I met a Persian guy the other day who had stereotyping rug people.

Tommy: No, but he's Persian and he— one of Naysan's mates, and he had a rug store and it was closing down. But I was like laughing like, haha, they're always closing down. He's like, no, I've like— I owe $16,000 to the supplier and I'm a bit worried for my life.

Josh: That's honesty. Yeah, he was— was he doing some radical honesty?

Tommy: Well, yeah. So I was like, okay, well, either— so it was, it was interesting. I was like, ah, well you know, and what do you say to that? Sorry, bro. It's like it doesn't really go with— I wish that it went with my aesthetic.

Josh: Persian rugs, yeah, very specific look. I think we had a Persian rug. Can you just pull up a Persian rug on your phone, Mr. Nice7? I'm just thinking, I think we had one running down the main corridor.

Tommy: I think if you were to go all in with it, it could look sick, but it's just like just having a Persian rug, it sort of reminds me of the wooden elephant that I got from Thailand that Bree hated because it just sort of— you have all these minimal IKEA shit and then you've— it looks like you've inherited a rug, like it doesn't sort of fit. What, what does it look like?

Josh: Can you just show me the Persian rug?

Tommy: Um, I mean, I bet it's just going to look like a rug.

Josh: Just what is it? They're like— it's like ready.

Mason: Yeah, yeah, a lot of patterns, triangles, uh, shapes and stuff.

Tommy: This is the best bit of podcast audio we've ever done. Can you keep describing describing it for another 10 seconds.

Mason: Yellow, red squares, like a border around the side.

Josh: Nice.

Mason: Yeah, we've got them at home.

Josh: Do you really?

Tommy: I reckon it's a Baldwin thing maybe.

Mason: Well, no, Mum and Dad have had them for years.

Josh: Yeah, usually that's the thing.

Tommy: Well, that's the whole thing. You buy a Persian rug, you invest a bit, but you have them for a lifetime.

Josh: Oh God, I was, um, secondhand rugs, I've got no interest. I bought one, like a secondhand mattress, and it was rolled up and I got it online and it just stunk.

Tommy: Like what?

Josh: Ah, mothballs.

Tommy: Well, that's like the problem that I've got with—

Josh: so annoying—

Tommy: the first book that I haven't liked the smell of.

Josh: I haven't brought it home.

Tommy: No, it smells like cigarettes. It's the Rolling Stones interview.

Josh: It's cool.

Tommy: It looks cool, but the thing is, it's— every time I smell it, I cough, which you could argue don't smell it, but it's got like—

Josh: how did you deal with that conversation with the bloke who's $16 grand in debt to the supplier? What is that like? That's— it's pretty honest interaction.

Tommy: Yeah, I was just like, because he's like, oh, you should come down. And then I just, I quizzed him on the business a bit more. He said it's a good street, but he's on the wrong side of the street, which is a problem.

Josh: It's hard to be— if it's, if it's just the street, yeah, there's backstreet businesses that are killing it.

Tommy: Yeah. And so I did—

Josh: the rug business.

Tommy: I did feel, feel bad for him.

Josh: I was thinking like, I think the three of us are probably quite tired. I can only speak for myself, but I think we've, we've gone pretty hard the last couple of days and what we're doing. I was thinking about how we all sort of, I guess, communicate or cope. We don't non-verbally communicate that we are tired because I think it's, how are you? Yeah, I'm absolutely exhausted and don't feel like doing anything. It's not what people say, right? So yeah, how do you, Mr. 97, communicate, do you think, that you were tired? Like the non-verbally, non-verbally, just what, what would, how do you come across? What's the experience like being around you when you were tired?

Tommy: What a 2019 question though as well. Like we're on a podcast us talking about how we non-verbally communicate that we're tired. It's really nice.

Josh: What's the Mason experience? What's the Mr. 97?

Mason: Probably some more complaining. Just, yeah, just like, oh yeah, but like, I mean, like if the chair's like not comfortable, like wriggle around and stuff and be like a bit like fidgety and stuff. Irritable. Yeah. And like I'll have to go for like get up and go for walks or go to the bathroom, fill up a water bottle or something like that.

Tommy: I've definitely said that I drink, I, I drink a lot.

Josh: Um, uh, no.

Tommy: Well, that's just annoying trait.

Josh: No, that was just annoying trait of yours. I think what I mean, the experience of Josh is you actually become annoying. It's a weird one.

Tommy: Or maybe you're— wait, is that if you're tired or if I'm tired?

Josh: Well, this is the thing, we're both tired. If we're both tired, maybe I'm just more irritable like Mr.

Tommy: 97, and I just lean into it.

Josh: Well, I think so. I think the difference is I, I know I go inwards and you go outwards in the most annoying possible way. And I think my inwards-ness wouldn't cope with that. But you've even said like when you're tired and you've been that little brother that's a little fucking shit.

Tommy: James and Jake would definitely be able to relate. Yeah, the thing is, but I was also considerate. Mr. 97, what did I say before Tommy came into the office before?

Mason: He wanted to quickly finish all his carrots so you didn't have the chomping noise when you go in.

Josh: That's fine, that's fine. No, like, and I'm not saying, I think my inward focus when I get tired, I kind of shut off, isn't great to be around, right? I was just thinking about how it's interesting we work in such close proximity, how we all do it. What is— what's your partner's? What's Bree's?

Tommy: Uh, what's Bree's? Um, she likes to clean.

Josh: It goes—

Tommy: I reckon she'll— yeah, she'll be like, oh, we need to tidy right now.

Josh: Yeah, okay, so there's a bit of anxiety around, like, wants to get it done now. Yeah, I think Amy's a bit like that.

Tommy: Maybe put it like it's the putting a load of washing on or whatever.

Josh: Yeah, I think that, yeah, Amy might just go a bit like sort of, not, it's not brain dead, but it's like, you know, you just kind of like you zone out in everything.

Tommy: Or she'll ask, uh, can we watch— it would just be mainly pushbacks on my routine, I think. So it'll be like, hey, can we watch something other than YouTube right now?

Josh: Um, so she'll be like, finally having a voice against your bloody non-stop YouTube.

Tommy: She'll be like, come And it always— funnily enough, it always falls on a current affair. Seriously, Channel 9, like every time it's like— and I get it, like I love watching Peter Hitchener or whatever. Yeah. Um, but you said— yes, I think that Bree's thing— I think it's also like this with the— Bree wants to switch off. My thing is that probably I want to, um, I have specific audiobooks I keep going back to. Yeah, daily rituals. I've listened to that probably, fuck, maybe 50 times.

Josh: I don't know what that is. What is that?

Tommy: It's like a book where they go through all like successful people or artists and stuff and describe their day.

Josh: Far out.

Tommy: So it's like, you need to put some action in, bro.

Josh: If you listen, you've got— you've, you've created a daily ritual of fucking listening to the book about daily rituals.

Tommy: It's super calming. There's something really calming about it because it's like, you know, John wakes up at 10 AM, has one cup of coffee, walks for 20 minutes.

Josh: Didn't you speak to Seth Godin about how it's a bit of bullshit? It's a bit of a—

Tommy: what's the whole thing of, um, what pen does Stephen— Stephen King pushes back on what pen he uses. Yeah, like when people ask, hey, what pen? Because they think that they're going to get that pen.

Josh: There's a bit more to the pen.

Tommy: I definitely rabbit hole, like I definitely like obsess on individual things when you're tired. Fountain pens at the moment.

Josh: Okay. That requires ink that you need to add to the pen.

Tommy: Yes.

Josh: Why put a barrier in front of what you need to do?

Tommy: I don't know, but I'm thinking that the rest of the Seth Godin book that I'm writing, I think there might be a fountain pen.

Josh: Cool. If you just— I think you're putting excuse in front of one after the other.

Tommy: You get more critical when you're a father.

Josh: Maybe, maybe, or I get more practical and honest.

Tommy: No, I get it. No, I think that there's definitely—

Josh: because you could type the rest of it and I wouldn't be upset.

Tommy: I think that probably one of the things is maybe I communicate when I'm tired, which is not a good idea. Maybe my emphasis is, you know what, I'm feeling a certain way, so I need to communicate. Everyone needs to feel my way right now.

Josh: Well, I think there's, you know, when you hide feelings, and I know, I reckon I did this a bit when we were travelling around America, because you go, okay, I feel like this right now I don't want to burden people with how— with my shitty feeling.

Tommy: But you still end up communicating.

Josh: Exactly, by proxy. By not wanting to communicate and hold it back, you end up showing something. And that's what I mean by non-verbal. Yeah, it's like we all have our tell. I mean, your eyes stopped twitching, by the way.

Tommy: It has, hasn't it?

Josh: I mean, I look at you a lot because we do this podcast.

Tommy: I don't know what— like, I notice things will, stop and start for me from like a— and I guess maybe it's caffeine, like I've had too much caffeine today but I'm still fine like in regards to my eyes. But I freaked out, uh, last night because when I was walking home I put my AirPods in and I couldn't hear one side of my ear. And Bree's been complaining about our, um, the pressure of our apartment She says that when all of the windows— you okay?

Josh: Yeah, just a hiccup. I'm just drinking fizzy water.

Tommy: Uh, the— no, when all the windows are, um, done up, there's sort of almost like a pre— it feels like weird pressure and actually fucks with their ears, like we're in a fucking plane.

Josh: Interesting. Well, there's a big problem with big, like, big tall buildings and maybe getting the whistling. Yeah. Oh, that's so hard from a— in—

Tommy: I don't know what you could design. Sort of thing. Yeah, but, uh, yeah, but the AirPods, yeah, the left ear. So you're blind? Why couldn't work? Yeah, I thought that because I had— when I was in the Philippines, what, 3 or so years ago, I'm doing a film on fireworks and we were filming. This was just a day when we were like walking around and just chatting to locals and they all got really excited and they'd straight away be like, oh, we've got fireworks, so they want to let them off.. And so we weren't planning it, and so I didn't have ear protection with me, so I was just holding the camera and put my sort of hand, arm over like this. But the thing was, it wasn't— I was trying to cover my ear, but it wasn't filming while filming, it wasn't covering at all. And so anyway, they let off this massive fucking firecracker. Jeez. And, uh, I hear ringing, like intense ringing.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: And then I'm like, ah, can anyone hear that ringing? And as I said it, it echoed. Back to me like I was talking to a tin. I was like, oh fuck. Yeah, it's like what, like war movies or whatever, when you hear like the—

Josh: don't compare your experience with a little small firecracker. It was a fucking flashbang grenade in war-torn Afghanistan, but similar.

Tommy: No, I know, I ended up going to the doctors and they said my ears were fine.

Josh: In the Philippines?

Tommy: No, I went in Melbourne as soon as I got home because all the— I was also like straight after that, like, yeah, 5 days later or whatever, got onto a plane And so I've always had ear issues ever since, but when the AirPod thing was happening, I thought it was my ears. And it's really hard to, with the fucking AirPods, try and switch the ears around the way they're designed. Oh yeah, so I'm like flicking them reverse, trying to— I'm like, I think it's fucked. I got Bree to try them on and she's like, oh no, the left ear is fucked. So anyway, I Googled what the issue was and then I remembered you telling me about— I don't know if you remember this.

Josh: Yeah, I told you I had an issue because I thought I had an issue with my one of my ears. It turned out that it was— I'd blocked up the fucking, the ear hole of the AirPod.

Tommy: And so how did you clean it?

Josh: Well, I did some Googling too. There was, um, uh, hand sanitizer on an earbud that you'd sort of just clean around so that kind of loosens it up with the alcohol. And then what you do is get an old toothbrush, um, or you just get someone else's toothbrush.

Tommy: I wish that I read your article.

Josh: Yeah, what did you land on?

Tommy: Well, to suck, suck on it and that it would just like the wax would come through. And so that's, that's what I did and it worked. And so I just like— no, I just, I spat it out. Don't do that. It's like, it's all like, isn't it? It's all in my body.

Josh: Yeah, I get it. Do you pick your nose and eat it though?

Tommy: No, but this is a very rare case.

Josh: You scratch your bum and lick it?

Tommy: No, absolutely not.

Josh: Then that's all from your body.

Tommy: Yeah, but so I ended up, I did that and then I actually like, it worked a treat. I couldn't fucking believe it that worked. Just, and so just like Bree was already in bed. I think we must have—

Josh: Where are you when this is going on?

Tommy: Like Bree's normal. Yeah, well Bree was—

Josh: Where are you?

Tommy: Oh, that's right. So Bree was reading. I buy all these books and I get into the habit of like, let's all, let's read. And Bree was reading.

Josh: With you?

Tommy: Yeah, but I was tired, so I did an audiobook. And so that's why I'd— You just start listening to Rituals of Awakening.

Josh: I'm gonna sack off my AirPods.

Tommy: Yeah, yeah. So, but it works.

Josh: No, I've got to give it to you. You've done it. It's, uh, so there's something called— is it tinnitus?

Tommy: Tinnitus.

Josh: Tinnitus. So Amy has it, and it's that sort of perpetual hum in her ears. So it's— well, that would be like— that's like a high pitch.

Tommy: It's just like a— that's what tinnitus is.

Josh: So it's like a— it's almost like a rumble. It's almost like a microphone if you just turned it on and you were quiet, you just hear through the speakers like a— and so some people have it really bad. I know Sean, mate of ours, he's got on his key ring, he's got like a little canister, and in the canister you just unscrew it and then out pops two little earplugs. And so this is a concert, so when you go—

Tommy: like, because I remember clubbing as a young man I'm actually just going to turn our headphones down a little bit. Yeah, I feel like this is a whole thing, right? Like, yeah, keeping them— yeah, keeping— radio people notoriously fuck their ears.

Josh: Yeah, I definitely— like, I've not worn, uh, I mean, that time that I was in Shepparton, um, I had mine on every single day, but I definitely remember the heat and yeah, it fucked with my ears.

Tommy: But have you done the wax— have you done the wax thing where you light a candle and then—

Josh: well, it's not any candle, It's a specific earwax candle.

Tommy: Have you ever done that?

Josh: Yeah, I did them back in the day. It's like anything, they were pretty popular at one stage.

Tommy: It's bullshit because it's actually the wax is sitting, I believe, inside the candle. So you think, oh, this is all coming out of my ear, but it's actually just hidden.

Josh: Anyway, but he's the guy that believes you suck off your AirPods.

Tommy: But if that works, that's actually extremely practical. If I was to have meditated with the AirPod and expected it to change, that's different. But so Amy with the humming, does it happen just when she's tired?

Josh: Oh, she said we were in bed the other night and she said to me, "Do you have like the humming? You know, do you have this thing?" I knew she had it, but she's like, "When I focus on it, I really notice it." But most people have some form of ear injury.

Tommy: It's a psychological thing.

Josh: Is it?

Tommy: So it's— you can— some people that have tinnitus experience it worse based on things like being tired and stuff like that. But also the doctor, when I had the ringing in the ears, he said it's like because you're focusing on it, you actually just need to stop focusing, which is a real fucked up sort of thing. But it's constantly damaged. Yeah, like, you know, the ears are essentially damaged and you just need to like disengage.

Josh: Yeah, one of the funnest things growing up was my old man being deaf. He's like—

Tommy: How deaf?

Josh: Oh, he was like before, like he's injured his ears from surfing in seriously cold water and probably using machinery.

Tommy: What's the cold water thing?

Josh: Uh, from surfing you can injure ears from like always being in cold water and sort of like if you can go under waves and pressure, it's just like punching in and out. And so you can, you can blow an eardrum from surfing, like when you That's why I don't surf. There's plenty of other reasons why I don't surf.

Tommy: But do you like that surfing photo, by the way?

Josh: That's funny. That was funny. Instagram, the Daily Talk Show. Josh, fuck, who were you?

Tommy: Do you think I feel like the same person though?

Josh: You're not though. I mean, you are, but you're not. You've changed anyway.

Tommy: So your dad being deaf.

Josh: But we used to troll him. It's such a little shit thing to do as a kid. But Bodhi, I wonder what Bodhi's version to me this will be in the back, Timba, Timba.

Tommy: And he wouldn't be able to hear you. Did he have hearing aids or anything?

Josh: Not for ages.

Tommy: Because hearing aids are cool now.

Josh: Oh, Dad's got one.

Tommy: I think Ginsberg's got like a real fancy one. He can probably fucking use iPhone and shit, just like use it all, like connect it all.

Josh: So Dad's got these micro ones now.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: And they're tiny. And I said to him the other day, I said, what, do you sleep with those in? No. But he's like, I was like, do you hear anything at night? He's like, oh, I'll tell you, I wake up to more things than Joanne, my mum. But he was just saying how he hears different things, like different things will actually get him out of bed. He's like a bat. So he can't— yeah, he's on a different frequency.

Tommy: He's walking into rooms.

Josh: But it's all Timbo, like it was always one of the things between me and Conspiracy Jimmy would just just retrolling him constantly.

Tommy: It's pretty mean. Do you remember, um, there was a ringtone for a while that I downloaded actually to my phone, but it was at a frequency that only made you shit yourself. No, only young people could hear. Really? So like when you get older, certain frequencies, um, and it was actually used within the context of like security and stuff. So if you've got issues with like kids hanging around your shop front. Basically, you put this like a high-pitched tone, interesting, and only certain ages can hear it.

Josh: Mr. 97, can you see on YouTube, just search that and see if you can find anything that's like that and play it and see if we can just see if we pick it up.

Mason: We did it at school, or like people did at school, like old teachers and stuff.

Josh: They couldn't because you could have it as a phone thing.

Tommy: So you'd basically, your phone would go off and the teacher wouldn't hear.

Josh: God, I want to get in this. The thing is, if I'm old enough yet, there's no point. I wonder what age you just end up— it's so—

Tommy: Mr. 97 could just play it for you, but it's not going to work through the microphone because there's all the frequency stuff and all the compression.

Josh: Oh, it would change it up.

Tommy: I think so.

Josh: Interesting.

Tommy: I have a feeling so he could really troll us though.

Josh: He'd be like, guys, I'm playing it, I'm hearing it. See, ba da da da.

Tommy: Have you found anything?

Josh: Imagine if we couldn't hear fireball.

Tommy: Leon Shergren would be in trouble. Um, but there's definitely like, uh, on that security thing when we're in LA, there was, um, an extension of that is strobes and shit. I feel like we don't have that in Melbourne. It's like lights. So when you go up to someone's like house, yeah, it just like strobes and like it almost gives you an epileptic fit.

Josh: I tell you, it's probably when I was tired. I did go down a rabbit hole.

Tommy: I could hear that.

Josh: Oh, that's—

Tommy: could you hear that?

Josh: Yeah, it's like real high-pitched. Fuck, we're still young, Josh. Okay, yeah, we're still young. Oh, it's—

Tommy: I can't hear that.

Josh: I can hear it. It makes me feel something in my inner core.

Tommy: Gives you a tingle in your dingle.

Josh: It feels, um, it sounds like a TV.

Tommy: I can't hear that.

Josh: You can hear it? You're old as fuck.

Mason: I can't hear it. Hang on, I actually can't hear it.

Josh: I heard it before.

Mason: It was like— it's playing now.

Tommy: You—

Mason: I can't hear it.

Josh: Oh, we're all done.

Mason: That's at 18,000 Hz. Under 24 you can hear it. Under 20 you can hear it. I can't hear it.

Josh: You're done, mate.

Tommy: He's got old ears as well.

Josh: Should I test it out on my 2-year-old?

Tommy: What would he say?

Josh: I don't know, but Daddy, my ears hurt. He's been getting into my AirPods. He's comes up to me and he's, AirPods, Daddy. He puts them in and he's been putting them in. I've put it—

Tommy: Is that a good idea?

Josh: Well, I put it on very low.

Tommy: But would he swallow them?

Josh: Oh, you definitely would, but I'm watching him when he's got that, so I put them away. But in fact, I can't find them.

Tommy: Maybe they're in the shed. I wonder, um, look at this poo, it looks like an AirPod. And you could speed it up by—

Josh: I'll just give it to Josh.

Tommy: That's pretty gross.

Josh: Um, no, I did go down a rabbit hole, uh, um, superyachts. The security system on a superyacht for the pirates, because it's a real problem.

Tommy: Fucking guns and shit.

Josh: No, not the guns. They've got safe rooms, but then they they have supersonic sound. So it's like on all the deck, and so you'd be in this chamber and it's all sealed off, and you'd probably put headphones on and you just—

Tommy: whoa, whoa.

Josh: I don't know what it'll be, but it's like this— I've heard you can hear it because it's not—

Tommy: when you actually hear the recording, it's almost the equivalent of like a pepper spray. Have you ever been pepper sprayed?

Josh: Uh, no, but I've pepper sprayed a bunch of people, so I had a can of pepper spray.

Tommy: From where? Oh, someone— mace is illegal.

Josh: Someone gave it to me and then there was a big brawl in Lawn.

Tommy: Oh, so you used it for its preferred method, which—

Josh: and I— and there was— yeah, this guy, this guy, he got punched. Anyway, I sprayed and I got bottled.

Tommy: I've never been bottled.

Josh: You've never been in a fight?

Tommy: Yeah, I was in one fight.

Josh: No, you, you brought in— yeah, and this Kickboxing, mate, that's not a fight.

Tommy: It felt like a fight. Anyway, have we got any emails? I'm just trying to think.

Josh: Bernard. Oh yeah, so Bernard sent us a photo. He actually, he must— is he a designer? He sent us— so basically, um, we're trying to work out for people who've been on the Daily Talk Show more than 3 times, they, um, we wanted to sort of have a name for the family.

Tommy: Well, the thing was, I think that this was almost going to be initially what we actually said was this is what we call people who just listen to the show. Like Lady Gaga has her little monsters.

Josh: Yes. We could think about something slightly cooler, which was the Gronk Squad or Team Gronk, which were the two names, and we're trying to work out which one, Team Gronk or Gronk Squad.

Tommy: But you did change it the other day when we were talking with— was it Pete? Pete Shepherd?

Josh: Yeah, well, I was just sort of road testing. I'm going to get used to it too, guys.

Tommy: So what do we— so, uh, Bernard basically did a, uh, he did a sticker mock-up. Yeah.

Josh: And so these are— this is awesome. So he's mocked up Team Gronkh, and then he's also mocked up, um, Gronkh Squad.

Tommy: What do you think looks better?

Josh: Yeah, look, I will have to say Gronkh Squad looks better. Like, I think just because you're leading with the, the word Gronkh.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: And then the squad looks cool.

Tommy: I reckon I could get gronksquad.com. You reckon? Should we get it? Yeah, definitely. I told you, um, yesterday Gronk Global was available if you wanted to start your own like little side hustle.

Josh: Yeah, I mean, we could get sued by Gronk, who was an NFL footy player, because I think he's quit. But you know, it'll be fine.

Tommy: Uh, so the free coffee thing, I want more. I want clarity on it.

Josh: Well, if he's just— the guy said to me storewide, Australia-wide, 2:30 PM is when we clean our machines.

Tommy: I think that if you are in Australia, yes, and you have a 7-Eleven at 2:30, did you say 2:30 till 3?

Josh: So 2:30 till 2:50.

Tommy: So at 2 minutes cleaning, if 2:40 PM, yeah, go to 7-Eleven and if they do not have, uh, the coffee machine working, if it's out of order, yeah, ask and say, hey, I saw online that if the coffee machine's out of order, I get a free $1 voucher. The thing— where you went wrong, TJ, is thinking that they would somehow fix—

Mason: make your coffee.

Tommy: Make a coffee.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: Could you imagine if McDonald's did this with the soft serve machine?

Josh: That'd be amazing. And this is why I don't think it's a thing.

Tommy: Like, one of the most upsetting things when I was a kid— soft serve machines not working specifically Pizza Hut. When the fuck was that thing actually working?

Josh: No, I always had it. That was my favourite thing. It was— I mean, my Pizza Hut was in Brarton, or in Elsternwick.

Tommy: Yeah, mine was in Dandenong, just near Dandenong Plaza.

Josh: It's because it had been absolutely abused for 7 hours straight.

Tommy: Do you know what actually replaced that Pizza Hut?

Josh: As what?

Tommy: Souvlaki Hut. Do you remember Souvlaki Hut? Owned by some footy players, I think.

Josh: Oh, oh, they had people—

Tommy: yeah, they had blue branding.

Josh: Andrew Koutafidis?

Tommy: I don't know, one of them.

Josh: Yeah, I think he, I think he bought, and he was doing TV ads. Yeah, that's right, Koutafidis. He was a, he was a good player, good name. Anyway, that's, um, bad business.

Tommy: Thanks for that.

Josh: Yeah, so the thing, I think we'll put this up on Instagram and see who, see what people like out of those two. We can say Bernard's put it together, we can do a poll. It will do a bit of a poll. But yeah, I want to know this free coffee thing.

Mason: Are we gonna— are we gonna link that somewhere?

Tommy: Just with free coffee?

Mason: No, just Google photos, like, because they need— I guess you could just walk in and be like, yeah, I saw this online.

Tommy: Okay, maybe we take the—

Mason: I'll put the link in the show notes.

Josh: Yeah, you're, you're the penny pincher. Yeah, I know that. I know it's you. I know that's you using it. You don't have to— penny-pincher69 is his URL.

Tommy: It's a Daily Talk Show, everyone. HiTheDailyTalkShow.com is our email.

Josh: Tomorrow Oscar Gordon is coming on the show.

Tommy: He is an ex-radio guy and now he is the king of the slopes in Canada. It'll all make sense tomorrow.

Josh: He's all— I've got close family connection. He's cousins of Jules Lund.

Tommy: That's right.

Josh: And my— I know his mother and my mum and she married— grew up together.

Tommy: And Oscar's mum married you and Amy.

Josh: Yeah, she's a celebrant. So, so fucking funny. It was so good.

Tommy: Did she ask a lot of questions before?

Josh: Like, oh, you do the sit-down catch-up, comes over for a cup of tea. We got some nice little cakes and biscuits. Yeah, yeah, we got some—

Tommy: like, as in she provided?

Josh: No, no, no, we supplied, um, what do we have, a caramel slice and also another nice little tart.

Tommy: A lot of food chat. Did you, um, what was catering like? I didn't go to your wedding. Yeah, it was good. It was good. It was It was sort of pre-us being friends, which is cool.

Josh: It was great.

Tommy: Mexican paella, churros. And so, and from a catering point of view, were they, were they wedding caterers that you went with, or you just went with any random—

Josh: just paella makers?

Tommy: Okay, just in one of those, the big woks.

Josh: And yeah, they did it, did it all sort of around the back and brought it out. It was amazing.

Tommy: Did you do bombonneries?

Josh: No, mate, we didn't fucking do bombonneries.

Tommy: Okay, it's a daily talk show. We'll see you tomorrow, guys.

Josh: See you guys.