Tommy's Stripper Box

Tommy: The Daily Talk Show. It's a Daily Talk Show episode 403.

Josh: What's happening, guys? What's happening?

Tommy: Clap it in. It's— I'm gonna make it— let's make clapping a thing every single episode. Alex is currently clapping the microphone with her hand. Alex is sitting in with us now.

Josh: Alex is a part of the Gronk Squad. You may actually— you didn't eat them. We remember her cookies from a Fat Friday where she baked some of her gran's recipe.

Alex: Was that right? Yeah, Grandma Evanson's recipe.

Josh: And, um, your sister dropped them off to the studio and we had them on Fat Fridays. They were fucking good.

Mason: They were delicious.

Josh: And there's more here and it's not even Fat Friday.

Tommy: Well, so these, these are different. These have got, uh, M&Ms.

Alex: Oh yeah, yeah, these are just like— I was feeling it, the M&Ms are on special, so I just whipped up a batch.

Josh: Oh, I'm feeling it.

Tommy: That's such a good— isn't it? I reckon if I baked having— because M&M's on special already, all these things on special already rock my world. But also I feel like you can— it's guilt-free if you put them, if you bake them into something, right?

Josh: Well, it's a banana bread. You put 7 bananas or something. There's a lot of calories going into that. I mean, that's probably more healthy than this, but these taste better than banana bread.

Mason: So thanks.

Alex: I've got a good recipe for banana bread and people are raving about it.

Tommy: Really?

Josh: Now you say it.

Tommy: Far out. I've only— I haven't actually had unhealthy banana bread in like 5 years. Bree makes it with all like coconut stuff, like it's all like mealy thing, like it's—

Josh: anyway. This is good. Well, thank you for coming in. You've made a bit of a trek down here because you wanted to sit in and see how the Gronks do it.

Tommy: Yes, all the way from Warrigal.

Josh: You just mentioned before you went to a gig last night by yourself. Yes. I mean, most adults struggle doing anything by themselves.

Tommy: We're all probably a big baby.

Josh: If you've got a partner, you become slightly codependent. Absolutely. I think there is something though about putting yourself out there. Was that you putting yourself yourself out there?

Alex: Yeah, I've done it quite a bit because it's just, I want to go and then I just go by myself and then that's it. Like, it's just, I just want to go.

Tommy: Do you talk to people?

Alex: No, I don't. I pretty much sit there by myself. I buy a ticket, I buy a ticket, I buy a t-shirt, I buy a drink, and then I just sit myself. I just kind of like, yeah, I want to go, so why buy a ticket?

Josh: I love it. Very, very me, but It's a big step up from going to the movies by yourself. I think a lot of people do that. I quite enjoy that. I mean, I don't go now because if I went by myself, my wife would be shitty because we both can't just go out because we've got a baby at home. Like, we can't just leave at night.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: Which we would have. So it would be very selfish of me to just go by myself. One day I actually was walking past, and this is, you know me, I'm always looking out for the moment that I could get something for free. Hence why I'm happy about these cookies right now. But I walk past Gold Class, uh, Jam Factory in South Yarra. It's like a, you know, movie theater, and they have a Gold Class.

Tommy: Boost Juice there as well.

Josh: Yeah, they do. Salsa's Fresh-Made Grill.

Tommy: Oh, they've got some Nando's.

Josh: Anyway, I knew the guy.

Tommy: I saw a guy rollerblading Uber Eats the other day.

Josh: I saw that guy too in St Kilda.

Tommy: Do you reckon— I wonder if that's actually legally allowed. Whether he says that he's on a scooter but then rollerblades.

Josh: Yeah, definitely. I reckon it's probably not the ultimate form of transport.

Tommy: It just didn't seem that safe.

Josh: I saw he was in the rain running this Uber around. Anyway, I walked into Jam Factory and I knew that my brother's good mate works for— he manages like Gold Class in Victoria.

Tommy: That's a good connection.

Josh: He doesn't work there anymore. Saw him at the supermarket. I was pretty devo'd when I said, you still at Gold Class?

Tommy: He's like, mate, I'm wearing a Woolworths shirt. I'm glad he's checkout.

Josh: Anyway, he, um, that day he's like, what are you doing? Because I asked the woman behind the counter, is blah blah blah here? And he said—

Tommy: I love doing that shit everywhere.

Josh: I feel like, yeah, I just wanted a convo. And then he's like, what are you doing? I was like, oh, not much. He's like, you want to see a movie? I was like, yeah, sure. I'll get you a gold class. And so I went in by myself. I think that was the last time I went by myself.

Tommy: Wait, this is when he was working there?

Josh: He was working there, just printing me out a ticket. And I was like, oh, that's shit. Yeah, just went in by myself, kicked back during the day. It's something— there's something very indulgent about just cinemas during the day, isn't there?

Tommy: Yeah, yeah. The, um, I mean, Bri and I saw, uh, Toy Story in the evening. Yeah, it was sort of like a different crowd at that point, I guess, like being a '90s kid.

Josh: It's also a child's film.

Tommy: Yeah, but I think if you go at like 8:30 at night, you don't get that, like you don't get the kids, you get sort of the, uh, the nostalgic loving.

George: Yeah.

Tommy: People.

Josh: Bodhi, Amy has been thinking, wanting to take Bodhi to the cinemas for, since he was born.

Tommy: Why would she want to do that to herself, mate?

Josh: It's exactly what I thought. Yeah, why would you want to do that at this moment? Like, why would you? I mean, there's like kids cinemas and shit where they've got slides and they have a break halfway through.

Tommy: It's not a cinema though at that point, is it?

Josh: It's a fun centre for children. Yeah, and so anyway, she, she's gonna do it pretty soon. I think it's gonna be a nightmare.

Tommy: Could you go to a cinema like that, like one of the kids sessions, and get annoyed if kids are mucking around?

Josh: No, you're an absolute gronk. It's the other way around. If kids came into just a normal session— so they do, like our friend—

Tommy: that makes sense.

Josh: Bodhi's little friend who's just a little bit older than him went on.

Tommy: Would it be weird if Bodhi had a mate that was like 18 that you didn't actually know through any—

Josh: I saw the Michael Jackson documentary.

Tommy: That got real dark.

Josh: That did.

Tommy: Jesus.

Josh: Anyway, it's, um, it will be— he's on to another cookie, Josh number 2.

Tommy: We're not counting, we only leave that for the, for the video episodes.

Alex: Correct amount though, there is a correct amount for Josh and I, or there should be about 8 in there. I think I packed 8.

Tommy: Oh, what, so are you cutting me off now? Is that what's going on? Well, we do also have— are these called doughnut dots or what are they called? Yeah, just doughnut holes because doughnut holes, I think she called Okay, because they're like, um, the middle of the— I wonder what they were doing before they started, because like a circle, and by what you're describing, it's the bit from the middle of the donut.

Josh: I think that's what— just how they sell it.

Mason: You know what we call them in Canada? What? Timbits.

Josh: What? Say again?

Mason: Timbits.

Tommy: T-I-M. T-I-M. Why is it called a Timbit?

Mason: Because I don't know.

Tommy: Mr. 97 just threw up his hands. That's the Google— that, that's the point to it.

Josh: You have a microphone, bro.

Tommy: You can interrupt.

Josh: Even Alex is just jumping in.

Tommy: Yeah, Timbits. What do Timbits mean?

Mason: Well, Timbits are from Tim Hortons.

Tommy: That's why they're called Timbits.

Mason: That's why they're called Timbits. But they've become so like widespread. Everyone calls them Timbits, even if they're not from Tim Hortons.

Tommy: It's like McMuffins.

Josh: Timbits.

Tommy: Yeah, Timbits. I do like that from a branding point of view. But what you're saying, TJ, is you think that they're not actually—

Josh: I don't think that they're throwing out the middle bit. I think that it's not right now. No, but I think that's how they're sold. It's like the middle bit, where's it gone? We have them, we're selling them. It's like, nah, they're probably just dropping bits of, you know, they're just doing a little squirt of the paint.

Tommy: It's a great idea.

Josh: Um, did you find anything, Mr. 97?

George: Uh, it's exactly what Dill said.

Josh: Okay, got anything to bring to the table that's not what Dill said?

George: I mean, they were first introduced in April 1976.

Josh: Why don't you leave with that, mate? We're a show about hard facts.

Tommy: That is, that is a good fact though.

Mason: That is a good fact.

Tommy: I love that you like that. I've got nothing, but you knew the exact year that it started. You definitely had something. You've got things to bring to the table.

Josh: We were just before doing a shoot for Vegemite, and we were doing little sock puppets, and it was kind of— it was, it was a bizarre shoot. It was Vegemite releasing a range of socks for Father's Day, which they did last year. Yeah, which is cool. And so we have a few pairs over there, but Dylan and I were doing a clean out of the garage.

Tommy: Yeah. Before you go there, can I just say you were doing the puppet stuff. You were on the ground.

Josh: How would you rate my puppeteer skills?

Tommy: Where you— So, first of all, I'll say that the client, the guy from the agency said something along the lines of like, oh, it can't be that hard because you were complaining about holding your arm up.

Josh: Mate, it's fucking hard to hold your arm up.

Tommy: And then he said, oh, it wouldn't be that hard. He goes, And then you said, well, you do it for the rest of the shoot.

Josh: No, no, no. I said, well, how about you hold your hand up above your head for the rest of the shoot?

Tommy: Which was— I was playful. I was playful. I was like, naughty but playful.

Josh: Well, it just seems like I do that. It's not. But then when you— I mean, Dyl was my psychic puppet.

Mason: It was painful.

Alex: Yeah.

Tommy: Which I don't think that they— And so I nearly said like, Tommy's actually quite fit. Like I was going to come to your defense, but I sort of enjoyed you having it out because you were doing it while you had a sock on your head.

Josh: You can't take anyone seriously.

Tommy: You looked like a bit of a baby doing your puppet. Anyway, what was in the garage?

Josh: As cleaning, uh, I realised that I've got this box. Hang on.

Tommy: I don't know, last show, this feels like a stitch-up.

Josh: No, no, but okay, this is, um, you might have seen this in a video that I made with Amy.

Tommy: This is the, um, I'm glad it's got nothing because when I walked in the other day, I said the fucking garage stinks.

Josh: What's wrong with this box?

Tommy: Yeah, well, you straight away said it's because you had your Guzmán y Gómez and you just put it in the bin.

Josh: I mean, baby did the right thing and put it into the recycling bin.

Tommy: Did I do anything wrong in that scenario or not?

Josh: No, no, no, no. I mean, people would be like, oh, it had a little bit of food on it. Don't put it in the recycling. Mate, we're in the 21st century. If they can't clean that off, we're in trouble.

Tommy: I believe they're just like, they burn it all anyway.

Josh: No, I don't think they would. This is recycling. I don't think that's, that's not how it works.

Tommy: Didn't one of the recycling businesses just go out of business or something? Alex, do you know anything about this?

Alex: I think there's like issues because we sent it overseas and they're not taking it, so there's collections of recycling.

Tommy: So should we not bother anymore, or should we just start using them?

George: Definitely bother.

Mason: I just found a news article, the state government braces for recycling giant shutdown.

Tommy: Yeah, so I'm gonna—

Josh: Oh, we're a bit fucked if Vizzy goes out of business. Yeah, but it's— He's one of the— Mr. Vizzy, the, um, is that his name? It's not Mr. Vizzy.

Mason: Pratt.

Alex: Pratt, but he did pass away.

Josh: Yeah, and his son is the richest man in Australia. Richest person in Australia.

Tommy: Who knew that recycling was so—

Josh: I went to a Vizzy plant back in the day, high school. It was an excursion.

Tommy: I went to a J.R. Richards. Is that what it is? Or Rich— R.J. Richards? What are they? Cricket bats? No, it's the bin. Is it called—

Josh: Oh yeah, yeah, I know. Yeah, I can— I'm It's coming to me when you say things about bins.

Mason: You put more sort of suburban— Yeah.

Tommy: Do you know what it's called?

George: Yeah, Waste and Recycling Services.

Tommy: What are they called?

George: J.R. Richards.

Josh: J.R. Richards, yeah. I mean, what's the new— I mean, it would have been cool to go to a radio station years back as a kid. What's the new place where you take— Because I think back in the day it was probably almost slightly priming kids to be able to get on front line and work at these—

Tommy: Industrial age.

Josh: Yeah, the industrial age. Just, you know, like, here's what it is.

Tommy: This is what you could do for work.

Josh: Is the car factory. We need people on the car line.

Tommy: Well, I remember that was a big discussion point. I'm just going to let you hold that box for a few minutes. Oh my God. Between the sock puppeting and the fucking holding a box, he can't handle it. Alright, we'll just quickly get to this.

Josh: But I thought like, so I made a video that was when my wife was at Bible college, I was a stripper.

Tommy: Did you know this, Alex? Have you already heard? Yep.

Josh: She did her due diligence before coming in.

Tommy: Did you know that he also had a radio show in Shepparton?

Alex: Oh, that one.

Tommy: She knows it enough to make a joke about it.

Josh: She doesn't know about it.

Tommy: Okay, anyway, so in the box, can I open it?

Josh: Yeah, it's a bit dusty though.

Tommy: It's very dusty.

Josh: And this is, I mean, I've just, I've kept this, um, at the studio because I've got nowhere at home to put it.

Tommy: Amy won't let you keep it at home.

Josh: She doesn't really want one at home.

Tommy: Can I?

Josh: My first feeling is it's clean.

Tommy: I was gonna sniff it.

Josh: It's clean. You can sniff it.

Tommy: Okay, can you just watch the Um, what I find most interesting is the stamp.

Josh: Okay, but he's, he's just— so I just brushed over— Velcro all up one side to be able to rip off.

Tommy: Oh, actually, that reminds me, you know, like walking home last night, there was the guy who always walks around in camo in Collingwood. Yeah, I just went around on the other side of the road. I'm sure he's like not going to do anything, but just camo, it has an intensity to it, right? It feels like there's fucking— there's a war happening.

Josh: I mean, that's why I was in it, but they came off quite quickly.

Tommy: Did you ever wear Did you ever wear camo as a kid? Gotcha. Did you ever wear camo as a kid?

Josh: It was in when we were young.

Tommy: Harps loves a bit of camo shorts.

Josh: Yeah, loves a bit of camo. Anyway, you found the stamp that is—

Tommy: We don't even have stamps here. Why don't we have stamps?

Josh: Yeah, I paid $50 for that. Give it a little stamp. So I got this.

Tommy: Only $50?

Josh: This was for when we ran ladies' nights.

Tommy: It works really well. It works really well. Seriously, why don't we have stamps?

Josh: There's the branding, Aussie Sharks.

Tommy: Can we have stamps?

Josh: This is, I mean, yeah, let's get one thing at a time, right? Let's get one thing.

Tommy: The stickers are coming.

Josh: Anyway, have a quick look through the box, Josh.

Mason: Okay.

Josh: Tell us what you find.

Tommy: All right.

Josh: Because we—

Tommy: So did you make these, um, pants?

Josh: Source them from a, um, this epic costume shop out in Spotswood or something. And it was like unbelievable old building. What's it smell like?

Tommy: Dust.

Alex: Yeah.

Tommy: So it's giving me asthma.

Josh: Anyway, but I sourced it and then we had the Velcro applied. So they were real pants.

Tommy: Oh, so the Velcro was added after the fact?

Josh: Velcro was added after the fact.

Tommy: You could have gone to Aussie Disposals.

Josh: No, because they don't sell stripper pants.

Tommy: But you added the Velcro.

Josh: Yeah, what's your point?

Tommy: So they're normal pants and then you added the Velcro that makes them the stripper bit?

Alex: Yeah.

Tommy: So you could have just used— you couldn't have just used Aussie Disposals?

Josh: To then what?

Tommy: I don't know, I feel like you would have paid more for cost. No, they—

Josh: because they did it all for me too.

Tommy: Oh, they actually did the Velcro and shit?

Josh: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Tommy: Okay, all right, interesting.

Josh: Um, anyway, so you got the pants. What else you got in there?

Tommy: Oh, these are— should I smell it all? Yeah, you can smell it all.

Josh: These are some hot pants.

Tommy: Okay, and they've all got like— so how do you feel when you're picking up Velcro pants from a shop?

Josh: What do you mean?

Tommy: I don't know.

Josh: I mean, I knew what they were for.

Tommy: I mean, I love specialty stores. Growing up, my favourite stores, hobby shops for kites. Because the thing is, the thing about kites is you can be an absolute baller from a kite industry perspective and only spend under $100.

Josh: Really? Nah, I remember back in the day kites were $300, $400, getting the real good ones.

Tommy: Alex, have you ever used a premium kite? Okay, no, that's a nice one. Yeah, well, the— I had a, um, I did the premium one that I did go for, had 2-string, very hard to fly, 2-string kites.

Josh: But if you're starting to go into the premium area, yeah, Mason, what's a kite worth?

George: Uh, just looking on the website now, the website, well, it's kitesmart.com.au.

Tommy: Sounds right.

George: Ranging up to $370.

Tommy: And what are you going to get for a $370 kite?

George: One that looks pretty flash, goes 30 kilometres an hour.

Tommy: I mean, it's like a dry wind.

George: That's the wind range that you can fly it up to.

Josh: Okay. Yep, yep.

George: So I can fly in that sort of, um, that speed. Yeah, that speed.

Tommy: Uh, you don't just see kites much anymore. Yes, you do.

Josh: You just don't go to the beach. When was the last time you went down to St Kilda? They're there every day.

Tommy: Really?

Josh: When there's wind.

Tommy: Every day. Not like swimming kites or whatever.

Josh: These are like fucking—

Tommy: these are like surfing kites.

Josh: Um, big, big like, uh, paragliding kites, people practising on the flight.

Tommy: Might start a club in Collingwood. All right, so, oh, and then there's the, the G-string, which in the US they'll call a thong.

Josh: I just had an image. Can we get you to put it all on?

Tommy: I feel like this— did you only just have that idea now?

Josh: I just had it then. I want you to put it all on.

Tommy: How about I wear the g-string tomorrow on the show all day? But we don't. Yeah, we don't even—

Josh: just whale tailing out the back.

Tommy: Yeah. And we will all know. Yeah, I remember. Yeah, it's interesting, isn't it?

Josh: If you know, you know. That's the name of the episode tomorrow.

Tommy: I think that. Yeah, definitely. I could do a whole show in a g-string if I was wearing pants on top.

Josh: You wear pants on top. But can we just get some footage of you trying to put pants on?

Tommy: Well, I do have my jeans. The hole in my jeans. So there might— maybe we will get in trouble with the whole thing.

Josh: Mate, fucking most uncomfortable thing.

Tommy: Oh geez, it was a real povvo, like sort of venue, RSLs. You could tell, it looks like it would smell of bleach, stuff like that.

Josh: It's not a brothel.

Tommy: And what were you hoping for keeping this stuff?

Josh: Well, I don't know, I just—

Tommy: your trauma box?

Josh: I just kept it. I was like, oh, it's pretty funny.

Tommy: Or is it not? That's very, uh, you had a good rig.

Josh: Much bigger, better rig than I have now. I was 19 too. I was, um, I was in much better shape.

Tommy: But you're at a radio station there?

Josh: Yeah, lost the competition, had to run down the main street wearing a man's jay.

Tommy: What competition?

Josh: It was a push-up competition. It was like we went on to the radio show and, um, we did it on air.

Tommy: Why is it that people who win either streaking competitions or anything that's involving this sort of stuff, like have a rig like that, right? Like you never see me accidentally ending up having a stroke. It just doesn't happen. Like it's like the biggest trauma for me growing up was having to play skins in like footy, you know, where they take off like, all right, you guys go take your tops off. It was an absolute nightmare. Anyway, this is, this is full on. Can we put up one of these photos on Instagram? Can we put up this? The photo, this photo on Instagram, or do you think we'll get taken down?

Josh: Just blur out my, uh, yeah, blur out my penal area.

Tommy: I think it's, I think it's tasteful. I don't think you'll get in trouble.

Josh: That's tasteful?

Tommy: I mean, the amount of pubic hair I don't think is offensive. Like, anyway, you've got Cookie in your teeth, but that's another thing.

Josh: I've, um, I've had lunch 2 days in a row, uh, and today's lunch is Cookie.

Tommy: Yeah, but I think that's pretty good. I'm normally pretty like Victoria Street I find quite hard where we're, where our office is.

Josh: You're just fussy.

Tommy: I know I'm not fussy. I just don't know what is good. It's very like, you got like, for people who don't know Victoria Street, how would you describe it?

Josh: Vietnamese epicentre. There's lots of great Vietnamese restaurants. You just don't try. Like, I took you to dumplings.

Tommy: Yeah, I loved it.

Josh: Would you have gone in to think, I'll go try dumplings there? Because what I've done, and I know the places, I've just gone in and had them. So there's a risk. I mean, you like knowing exactly what you're going to get.

Tommy: Yes, I guess that's part of it, which is like, I remember travelling with Yelp. Yelp used to be my best friend. Well, not my best friend, but it was an app that I used and I could just— well, because it sounded like I was overstating the relationship with Yelp, but I would select what to eat Actually, 3D Dill. Yeah, you're true. You know, you're traveling. How do you work out— how do you work out what you're going to eat in Melbourne?

Mason: Um, I'll go whatever's closest to me depending on where I am. I'll see like what's around on like Google Maps. I'll just search up restaurants and see what pops up. And then sometimes if it's a place that I'm like, oh, that could be good or it could be really bad, I'll like try and look at the menu, see what it is. But most places I just I'll walk past it and I'll say, oh, that seems like a good place. Like with 3121 Burgers, I had no intention of going there. Passed by it.

Josh: I think there's, there's some sort of surprise and delight in that.

Tommy: I don't like bubble tea.

Josh: But you don't like surprise. I think you do, but you also don't like—

Tommy: I like delight.

Josh: You like the delight without—

Tommy: Surprise and delight.

Josh: You like the two combo. You like it surprising and ending in a delight. I get that. But to get to the delight, you have to be potentially surprised that it's actually really shit.

Mason: Yeah.

Josh: Like, I see how you're on your phone, you like cheque in the— checking the venue and shit. Like, you do your due diligence, right?

Tommy: Oh yeah. Bree will look on Instagram and she'll click through, but she does ruin some of those. Like, at a safe cafe where I know it's all going to be good.

Josh: But I think that is a pattern of behaviour that gets us into the place where it's like we're— we end up like, it's not going to be as good as what it is.

Tommy: But I like to consider myself as well-traveled, so it's disappointing because it's not really fitting into my brand. Yeah, I went to Pakistan and they were just feeding like different foods and they said, oh, do you like lamb brain? I said, oh no, thank you. And they're like, no, that's the one you've been eating. And I ate like I was being real fucking greedy. I was eating this thing, I thought it was like eggplant. I was just eating it like crazy. And they actually said, they're like, oh, you ate too much, because it's like, it's apparently super fatty. But funnily enough, like, I was fine.

Josh: Macronutrients of brain.

Tommy: Yeah, well, yeah, that's, um, lamb brain.

Josh: Yeah, absolute animal. But, um, I mean, this is different, you're in a different country.

Tommy: Um, but then I was fine, and then I went to fucking London and then got food poisoning off some peri-peri chicken. That we got for free, by the way, from Naysan. Naysan walks into this place, Dr. Sugar walks in, and he, um, the guy's Persian and they fucking chat. Yeah. And then before you know it, he's like, I have a takeaway date. Yeah.

Josh: No, I don't want it. No, no, I have it. I don't want it. Okay, I'll take it. I tried to look up for us the other day, where is, what's the worst rated place around? And we get our Fat Fridays food from there. So it's like the opposite of like, what's the best? It's like we want to find the worst.

Tommy: Shit Your Pants Friday.

Josh: Yeah, but I struggled to find like places with seriously bad reviews. I was like, what's the worst pizza? You know what? And I couldn't find— I found a few places with some bad ratings, but like some good ones.

Tommy: Could we search Yelp for salmonella? Just any reviews that mention salmonella.

Josh: It's a roulette.

Tommy: Diarrhea. We have 6 keywords that you have to know. I actually had a— I think I told you about this idea, uh, it's called One Star Reviews. And what we do, it was an original video series idea where we contact someone who's left a one-star review at a restaurant, and then we tee up for them to go to the restaurant and they have like a, a conversation about the, the whole thing with the owner. Yeah. And there's a chance for redemption potentially. Yeah. Or not.

Josh: No, I do like it. What I mean, who's the person leaving a 1-star review? Mr. 97, can you pull up a few 1-star reviews on, on restaurants, cafes? I mean, what kind of a monster is doing that? Like, I've left a—

Tommy: we should read out my 1-star review.

Josh: Is that from the hotel? That's not a restaurant though. I get your 1-star review, but I'm saying for food, like what I mean, staying somewhere, I think it's— you're actually staying in their place. Like, it's— you're living there. You're not just having one meal.

Tommy: Most people wouldn't have heard this story, but because we were doing the show during this time, this was about a year ago because I was at, um, I was in Europe at that time, in Munich, and I had this terrible experience where— I mean, it's— now I just sound like a fucking asshole because it's not that terrible. I was in Europe, I was on holidays, whatever. But I, uh, I rock up to the hotel and we're there early, and, um, this lady was like super rude or whatever, and I was like sort of hinting to speak to the manager or whatever. It turns out that she was the manager and she owned the place, and then I left a review where I called her out by name. And, uh, the thing was that we still had 2 nights staying there.

Josh: Dummy.

Tommy: And she was— and she was like, ah, Mr. Jansen. She's fucking got these fucking eyes and it's just like, she's like, is there anything that you wanted to say? Whatever. I was just—

Josh: So she was calling you out.

Tommy: It was a standoff. Yeah. I said, no, everything is fine. Thank you.

Josh: But your heart was racing.

Tommy: Yeah, it was. I can't believe how much energy she took from my Munich trip. Adrenaline just rushing.

Alex: Yeah.

Tommy: I was worried about like, I was convinced she was going to steal all our stuff as well.

Josh: Yeah. You start getting paranoid.

Mason: Yeah.

Josh: I mean, what was the—

Tommy: The lesson was leave the review after you leave the place.

Josh: Definitely. Do you think it's worth leaving the review though? Like, in hindsight, because I can't even remember the—

Tommy: I mean, hurt people hurt people. And so maybe I was a little bit hurt at that time.

Josh: Mr. 97, have we got any 1-star reviews? You can sort by 1-star.

George: No, you actually can't sort by 1-star.

Josh: Maybe they've got like— I mean, what the platform enables is people jumping on board negative reviews, right? The negative review train. How can I sort and find— like, it used to be when we were talking about this early 300 episodes more, 350 episodes ago, it, um, we were sorting by place. And so what have you found?

George: So there's, there's a restaurant called Cotta on South Bank, uh, they've just got horrendous reviews. There's like 4 1-star reviews just talking about, uh, bad customer service, dry, bland, parmesan, uh, very, very ordinary, overpriced food.

Tommy: Dry bland Parmas is an interesting one.

Josh: Dry? They've just cooked the Parma too long?

Tommy: Not enough cheese on it? Bland? Like, I feel like Parmas is one of those— this is part of the thing, which is like there's certain cuisines, and maybe this is just because I'm fucking a bit naive and dumb, but there are certain cuisines that I feel potentially safer for me. It's very hard to fuck up a burger. The only time I've ever shit my pants from a burger is at a hotel, to be honest. Like, hotels tend to have more sort of—

Josh: then I still wouldn't even blame it on the burger because you'd been probably consuming about 70,000 calories by the pool, drinking fucking mocktails. Yeah, just big fruit, big dose.

Tommy: Any others?

Josh: Any other good ones?

George: Um, there was one saying that you guys should get better chefs and better customer service staff.

Tommy: I mean, that's a full, yeah, this is the problem with these fucking idiots. It's like, I, I, as in the reviewers?

Josh: Well, I actually, I side with the restaurant because I understand how hard it is when you want to change everything. Like, there's— because then I can go, I can go in the mind of the, the person who's there, the consumer, right? But it's like, the business is— there's so many things at play.

Tommy: That's why I'm more likely to give a 2-star rating it seems less vindictive. Yeah. And so people will then hold it with more clout, but then I can be more stinging.

Josh: I mean, we got a 3-star review for our podcast, but it was really positive, which confused me.

Tommy: Was it— or no, it was a 4-star review. Yeah, I think it was. I like to think that someone had just accidentally pressed it.

Josh: Um, uh, Alexandra, can you tell us of a time that you've left a 1-star review? Hold the mic right up to your mouth.

Alex: No, I was thinking, sorry.

Tommy: Um, don't tell her what to do.

Josh: That was just an add-on bit too.

Alex: Um, I just kind of get angry and go on their Twitter.

Tommy: Oh, you're a— oh, you go on Twitter?

Alex: Yeah, it's probably Twitter and like rant. I just— I'm not really that person. I'm afraid of confrontation, so I usually just—

Tommy: that's why Twitter's great.

Alex: Exactly, that's why I'm anonymous on Twitter.

Josh: Hasn't even hatched the egg yet.

Alex: I think I got annoyed once to like Starbucks because like I just asked for something, they fully like rolled their eyes at me and I was like, there's nothing wrong with what I've asked for. And so I like, I just went ham on their Twitter. I got nothing back.

Tommy: Do you remember what you asked for?

Alex: It was like a green tea, but they're like, green powder. I'm like, no, I want a green tea, tea bag. And they're like, gosh, like how rude. I'm like, no, it was fucking, it was just really hard. I just couldn't understand what was so wrong. And then she like rolled her eyes at me and I was like, no, no, no, absolutely not.

Tommy: We can set the whole Gronkh Squad out on Starbucks now if you like.

Josh: I'm gonna do that.

Tommy: We could set the mob.

Alex: I was in Starbucks in Melbourne, so I was like, I'm not gonna make a thing of this.

Tommy: I mean, yeah, that's an interesting thing. Starbucks in Melbourne. What, what, what brought you there?

Josh: Why'd you go there?

Alex: It was just there.

Tommy: You don't drink coffee?

Alex: No, I don't, but it was like at night.

Josh: Okay, what did you want?

Alex: I didn't listen. You feel to judge me. I don't know why I was—

Tommy: No, no, no.

Josh: It was really awful. I was at Starbucks ordering green tea. Something was wrong.

Mason: All right.

Josh: I know it.

Tommy: Collis and Cyan, who are good friends of mine who founded Envato, very people with a lot of taste. Yeah. Designers.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: Obsessed with Starbucks for many years.

Josh: Obsessed with the brand? Obsessed with the coffee?

Tommy: They would go to Starbucks in Melbourne. Where is it? There was, there's one on Southern Cross Station.

George: Yeah.

Alex: Yeah.

Tommy: Like in that, like in the Deaf phobia.

Josh: Dude, they closed down so many. There is one when we drive up to Sydney to Amy's mum's house. It's way out in the burbs.

Tommy: There's a photo. We've got a photo of you and I at Starbucks.

Josh: Oh yeah, but that was in America. Yeah, I think they're actually different. I mean, people in the US, a lot of them think they're like, it's bogan to go there. It's the equivalent of like, ugh. But they also have so many people going there. I love Starbucks in the States. I love it. I love the fraps and the shitty fucking $2 for a venti coffee. It's just percolated, but it's not even strong stuff, so you can just down a heap of it.

Tommy: What's the go-to in Warragul? What's the go-to, like, from an Uber Eats or delivery? We don't do Uber Eats or anything. But do you have Menu Log or anything, or do you not use any of that?

Alex: I haven't used it yet. I don't really, I kind of just If I want takeaway or I can't be bothered, I usually go to my parents' house.

Tommy: Perfect. Yeah, it makes a lot of sense.

Alex: It's pretty much, uh, can I come in for dinner? Mum's like, sure. I'm like, so when are you getting in? 7:30. She's like, just pop around and it'll be in the bench. So I literally rock in, take it, and off I go.

Tommy: You literally like take it? That's, that's solid. It's like a whole takeaway service.

Alex: Yeah, and I have a collection of takeaway containers that I give back to her.

Tommy: This is perfect. Did you ever not do your washing?

Josh: Yeah, definitely. I mean, I'd get stuff washed at Mum's place for sure. Amy even called me out on it.

Tommy: Really?

Josh: Like, I don't think you just start doing it. So I bring it down. Didn't have a washing machine, but I did have a washing machine in a couple of my places. I definitely was.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: But then a big lie, I'd just take it down, get it, get it done.

Tommy: Yeah. I mean, what I was going to say before about the lunch thing, the two lunches that I've had is I've gone to like Asian places, I've had chicken schnitzel like cut up and they put like a sauce on it.

Josh: Katsu curry, something like that.

Tommy: They call it chicken schnitzel.

Josh: The problem is half of it is really salty.

Tommy: Can I have chicken schnitzel every day?

Josh: Yeah, I mean, it depends on how it's cooked. You could do homemade schnitzel, pretty lean.

Tommy: I don't think it's, yeah, I don't think it's lightly coconut crumbed schnitzel. It's a little bit more.

Josh: I mean, I've ended up having about 7 of these biscuits.

Tommy: How many did you really have? You're meant to have 2.

Josh: How many? I stopped at 2.

Tommy: 4, 6, 8.

Josh: 6, 7, 8. So there would have been 2, 4.

Alex: Maybe there's more. Maybe I packed more, but I just—

Tommy: Okay, so maybe we have room for one more each.

Josh: Exactly what she said originally. Now there's 8. It's— I mean, we haven't had any according to Alex.

Tommy: There you go.

Alex: Uh, I was gonna bring in the deal, um, Honey Joys. Dylan, have you ever had them?

Mason: No.

Alex: It's basically just cornflakes and sugar, but I didn't have time.

Tommy: But do you have cornflakes in Canada?

Josh: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, he had—

Mason: of course we do.

Josh: The kid had a bowl of cereal and maple syrup just before. Yeah, he's living the absolute dream.

Mason: No, that was oats.

Josh: Oh, is that oats?

Mason: But no, I had cereal.

Josh: Oh, because it's so much healthier.

Mason: I had maple syrup and cereal on Friday.

Tommy: Did you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, there's a few things. Dill has 1 month and 5 days, I think it is, or is that 4? Far out. Yeah, it's not long until you leave, what's on the bucket list? What do we need to tick off specifically on food? You were literally going to pull out something out of your pocket, like a list, like an actual bucket list.

Mason: Yeah, but no, I don't have it on me.

Tommy: Um, it's good to have a bucket list.

Josh: You had it on him earlier.

Mason: That sounds like we should do like a meat pie eating contest or a competition, see how many eat meat pies.

Tommy: I mean, have you had—

Josh: You just to do that?

Mason: Yeah, I'll just do that.

Tommy: I mean, what about the, um, Fairy Bread. Have you had Fairy Bread yet?

George: Oh, you're gonna have that?

Mason: No, I know nothing.

Josh: The one thing you say on this show is that he should have Fairy Bread.

George: Yeah, it's great.

Tommy: What do you like about Fairy Bread? What does he like about— what does he like about Fairy Bread?

George: It's just nostalgic.

Tommy: Also, can you stand up for a second, please?

Josh: Oh, he's— so we're just trying to identify— no, they're lovely.

Tommy: Is that t-shirt, uh, pre—

George: I've literally worn this t-shirt for months now.

Tommy: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, what happened to the rebrand?

Alex: You go on day one and you're no longer I'm still wearing my pants.

Tommy: Okay, so you're half Rebranders still.

Mason: Yeah.

Josh: Is that a G-string you got on? No, um, mate, I tell you what, just before we get back to these bucket lists, the attention Mr. 97 gets with his Rebrand photo.

Tommy: Lots of love.

Josh: I've never seen these girls. I didn't even know where they came from. Love hearts, we're getting double taps. Alex, did you send a double tap? No, no double tap.

Tommy: I never heard— like, people say the word thirsty. I never knew what that meant.

Josh: And then Yeah, it's amazing, isn't it?

Tommy: His milkshake is brutal.

Josh: Yeah, it's good girls.

Tommy: I mean, should we have done some form of like— I thought, um, it was tasteful that I just posted the photo without a poll, but that's because it's amazing. Well, I mean, that was the thing, like, do we like the new look or whatever?

George: Yeah, nah, you should have done the slider.

Tommy: Oh, the hot slider.

Josh: Yeah, yeah, hot slider. We've got the approval from Alex. I reckon we get the hot slide. I reckon we go back up.

Tommy: But what if we do this? Why don't we do two different looks? Have you got— so has your rebrand got more than one pair of pants or no?

George: Yeah, I've got 3 pairs.

Tommy: You've got 3 pairs of pants?

Mason: Yeah.

Tommy: Fuck, this is why Mum's still gonna be working until she's fucking 80. What sort of pants did you get?

George: I got like black jeans and then I got like more cargo pants and more cargo pants. They're like, they're like light, lightish sandy sort of color.

Tommy: You're describing the same colour as your— grey ones. Yeah, your current cargo pants. What is the appeal of cargo pants? Comfy. Okay.

Mason: Lots of storage.

Josh: Yeah. They actually cargo with the pocket on the side?

Tommy: No, it's more just like chinos.

George: Yeah, they're sort of like chinos.

Josh: They're chinos.

Tommy: Yeah. Are they chinos?

Josh: Don't ever call them cargo pants.

Tommy: Have they got pockets on the side or no? No, they're not cargo pants. No, it's a big deal because cargo pants were '90s, early 2000s.

Josh: Or so cargo pants. 2019, if you're Craigy Harper, we love you.

Tommy: Yeah. I mean, Craig's fucking—

Josh: Mate, it's his. Don't ever wear cargo pants. You'll offend fucking Craig again. That's actually ridiculous.

Tommy: I feel like I've never seen Craig's wallet, but I feel like you'd have a big fucking leather wallet that's hitting that cargo pants pocket.

Josh: But you know what, actually, nah, I see him with cash.

Tommy: Yeah, and you need a fucking wallet for the cash, don't you?

Josh: Cash card? No, I don't know.

Tommy: Yeah. And so the black pants that you got, 97s, are they the exact same design as the blue ones but just black?

George: No, no, they've got like, um, no, they've got like a different texture running down.

Tommy: Are they denim still?

George: Yeah, denim.

Alex: Yeah.

Tommy: Okay. And they're from industry?

George: Industry, yeah.

Josh: Okay, full getup, 3 outfits from industry. Yeah. Can we— would you bring all, all of it in tomorrow and we'll do a little, little swipe right for the— just cheque out what your different looks are?

George: Yeah, I can bring them in.

Alex: Yeah. Yes.

Tommy: Oh, that's good. What do they do, some form of deal? I remember like growing up and being lucky enough to like go shopping and you go to DFO or whatever and mum would go to the surf shop and you'd buy a few things It always felt when you were going to buy a few things, it was you'd buy multiples. Like, retail really pushed that.

Josh: Like, the 2 for 1.

Tommy: Yeah, exactly.

Josh: Yeah, yeah.

Tommy: You get like 3 t-shirts and some shoes.

Josh: This jumper and 2 others I bought.

Tommy: Yeah. Were you taking advantage of some form of deal? Buy 2 pants, get a shirt free?

George: Nah, they had, they had that deal on like knitted jumpers though, but there wasn't the other knitted jumper in the right size.

Josh: So, oh, you wanted that one?

Tommy: So what happened?

George: I just got one of them. Oh, instead of two.

Tommy: You know, there's an industry just on like near my house.

George: Yeah, well, I would have had to go there instead of Doncaster, so.

Tommy: Okay.

Josh: All right. Anyway, well, we'll, um, we're gonna work out what Dyl's gonna strike off his bucket list.

Tommy: Yeah, I think, I think something, I think the fairy bread's an easy one. I would, my favourite thing about school was Multicultural Day.

Alex: Yeah, why?

Tommy: The food. They would have like, um, yeah. What? I feel like multicultural your day would have been literally like Lamington's. Yeah. Was there anyone of anyone outside of being white at your school?

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: What?

Josh: Um, was there?

Tommy: I feel like there was, like, we had like a low socioeconomic— yet, I mean, we had everything from fucking, yeah, people who had, uh, refugees. She had the best fucking food.

Josh: A few, a few Asian kids. Hiroshi, he, his, um, catchphrase was, no way, fuck you. And he's, yeah, he's so funny. He's my mate. We were young, but, oh, some Aboriginals.

Tommy: Oh yeah, yeah.

Josh: Uh, who else? Greek.

Tommy: We had heaps of Australians.

Josh: It's like Greek background, not, no, I know what you're saying. This, where you grew up, there was, it was more multicultural, which I think it's good.

Tommy: What's it like in Warragul? Is it like multicultural in Warragul or no? No, no, just Aussies, which is brilliant.

Alex: In high school we didn't really have multicultural, so I went to school in St Paul's, so I actually We didn't live in Warragul, we lived in Moe. No, we hardly ever had it. It was pretty white out there. Like we had like a couple of years later we got like a person of colour and like he was like the coolest guy. Everybody loved him. One guy was always that token one guy. Yeah. No, we didn't really do it that much.

Tommy: So Multicultural Day would have been leaning heavily on him because fairy bread gets old real quick. All right. It's the Daily Talk Show. Hi@thedailytalkshow.com. What needs to be on 3D Dills' list?

Josh: I think, I mean, this is my suggestion. So a bucket list usually is what you desire, what you would love.

Mason: Yeah.

Josh: I'd like to send you up to Sydney for a day because you can do Sydney and Melbourne in one day. So Melbourne to Sydney, Sydney, Melbourne one day. You leave first flight, come home last flight.

Tommy: With Trev.

Josh: To meet Trev. To meet Trev Long.

Tommy: Oh, that'd be great.

Josh: No, none of us have met him. Yeah, he's a good friend of the show. He's been on a bunch of times. He could do a mission. See the Opera House, see the harbour.

Mason: Yeah, let's do it. And Trev gets sick cars as well because EFTM, like, he roll around in a Tesla.

Josh: Yeah, that'd be sick.

Tommy: All right, all right, so baby— so Trev's gonna babysit you. This will—

Mason: I'm gonna babysit Trev.

Josh: I mean, Trev, he only needs 2 hours with Trev. He doesn't need too long. I mean, no, no, I think the whole day, the bridge, into the city, back, 2 and a half hours.

Tommy: Okay, well, when are we doing that?

Josh: Oh, I don't know.

Tommy: No, I know we're not doing it, but we're doing it.

Josh: I don't know, we've got a month.

Mason: Okay, work that out.

Tommy: Yeah, we got—

Josh: Perfect.

Tommy: All right, well, let's, let's chat to Trev. Anything else, Alex, that he needs to eat other than Honey Joys and, uh, rumbles? Australian?

Mason: Yeah, I mean, I've had rumbles, so they're not—

Tommy: Okay.

Josh: I mean, you can tell he's a food obsessed because all he's bringing to the bucket list suggestion is food.

Tommy: Well, isn't that— What have you got?

Josh: Sydney, iconic locations in Australia.

Tommy: I get that.

Josh: Probably be— I'm sure you'll enjoy it more than fucking Rumble.

Tommy: We'll go Great Ocean.

Mason: We'll go Great Ocean Road.

Tommy: So that's good. I mean, yeah.

Josh: Um, for, uh, lastly, thank you, Alex, for coming, sitting in with the Gronks.

Alex: Thanks for having me.

Josh: How'd you find us?

Alex: I think Gemma Watts, I think, so I follow her. Queen Gronkh, big skincare girl, so I was like following her. I think she was on, and then I've kind of known about you, Tommy, for ages.

Tommy: Oh, her phone.

Josh: I've been recognized. Here we go.

Alex: Sorry, I just, I remember watching one of your YouTube channels.

Tommy: He's got a familiar face. You probably haven't watched it. Yeah, I'm not saying he was in one of my videos, so it could have been that as well.

Alex: But yeah, I just love a big podcast. I I have so many podcasts to the point where I'm now like overwhelmed and I need to like—

Josh: Really?

Tommy: What's one podcast recommendation that you'd give if we were to listen to one?

Alex: Um, uh, at the moment it's called Off the Menu. It's about two comedians who talk about food, um, and it's basically any one-star restaurant review.

Tommy: It's your mate!

Alex: No, this is by two comedians in England. I have a lot of English podcasts I listen to, um, and basically they're just have a guest on and they go, what will be your ultimate meal from entree, drinks to dessert? So anything in the world that you want. So they've had chefs on, they've had comedians on, and yes, it's James Acaster and this other guy, sorry, I can't remember his name, but it's really good. And it's Ed Gamble.

George: Ed Gamble.

Alex: Yes, yes, exactly.

Josh: Don't look at him like he knows.

Tommy: He just googled it.

Josh: Good boy.

Alex: And then I mean, I have a million, like, if you want like dumb shit, listen to the Dumb Dumb Club.

Josh: I love the Dumb Dumb Club. Yeah, they're great. All right, so Off the Menu and the Dumb Dumb Club.

Tommy: Also, I mean, Off the Menu, I feel like I could really get behind. Yeah, because you know, we're constantly talking about— can we not talk about food so much?

Josh: I just gotta give it a pushback, otherwise we'll have Off the Menu as it's our show.

Tommy: It could be, I don't mind that idea. Uh, if you, if you have listened Take a screen grub— grab—

Mason: grub—

George: grub.

Josh: Yeah, take a screen grub, uh, and send it through, you Gronk.

Tommy: Yeah, today's talk show. We'll see tomorrow, guys. See ya.