It's Time To Party

Josh: The Daily Talk Show. It's The Daily Talk Show, episode 467.

Tommy: Happy Thursday.

Josh: Hope everyone is, uh, doing well, mate.

Tommy: I'm just sipping on a bit of a coffee. Hey, um, not to virtue signal, but what did I do? What was the kind gesture I did just, you know, a few moments ago when we're walking down the street?

Josh: Um, I can't think.

Tommy: Oh, I gave a dollar. To a man who needed it, who wanted some cash. No, you didn't. Yeah, I did. See, now he's trying to—

Josh: No, you did. No, it was very nice. You actually had the dollar there. You were holding it. Was it because I paid for your coffee and so you had the dollar from that?

Tommy: No, I mean, to be honest, we want to get into the coffee thing. I bought you a $4 coffee yesterday and you backed it up with a $1, so you technically owe me 3 more coffees, or a coffee and then I'll pay the rest.

Josh: It was your choice to get some money.

Tommy: Anyway, I don't really care. The dollar though, I've been holding on to for about a week.

Josh: In your actual hand or no?

Tommy: No, I had it in— I had it at home for a while on the bench, saw it there, and I thought, I'm gonna start carrying that dollar around. I don't know what I'll do with it, but I'll carry it around. Mr. 97 and I, we got that dollar. We got that dollar last week. Well, technically I did, but I'll bring him into it. So we were filming down in Geelong, and I was, um, uh The thing about—

Josh: so, shout pokies, is that what it's to do?

Tommy: No, no, think about towns like Geelong or Shepparton or Bendigo. Stitch up, mate. Don't make people pay for parking. Like, I know you're trying to raise some cash for your local municipal— municipality.

Josh: That's right.

Tommy: But it's just like a pain in the ass. You gotta like always have cash on you. Not all the machines have, uh, EFTPOS, you know. Pay as you go, tap and go. But anyway, the machines in Geelong do, which is why I was able to pay for parking. I never carry coins. And so I went to this machine to get my parking for an hour in Geelong, and I'm standing behind this woman who got to the machine before me. I was a bit annoyed, you know, when you see someone just get to the thing before you.

Josh: Bree and I will— there's a a cafe that we go to and where we walk is sort of a shortcut and you can see other couples walking. And so we just fucking go real quick and get a seat.

Tommy: And you have some legs on you.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: You start striding.

Josh: Sometimes I'll be like, oh my God, what's happened? I do have a strong stride. But anyway, so the lady, did she leave the dollar?

Tommy: So she's putting the money in. She's trying to, you know, working it out more, more, more, more, more minutes.

Josh: It's such an annoying process, like that plus thing.

Tommy: Well, some of the dodgy machines set it for the full, and then you have to minus, minus, and then you get a minus. So they're hoping you just buy the top dollar parking.

Mason: Have you seen the ones with like 5-minute increments?

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: Oh mate, if you want to get, if you want to get real, the noise boxes, it's the worst thing is now you have to put your number plate in, and so it prints it out and your number plate's on the ticket. So you can't just, you know, you can't give back, you can't just say, hey, excuse me ma'am, would you like my ticket? Because I bought 4 hours and I stayed here 2. No, you can't do that shit no more.

Josh: It was one of my favourite things to do when Bri and I would go to the Stoke House in St Kilda. Yeah, yeah, the, that parking across the road, you could do that. And so it was one of the favourite things to do, pay for parking, and then you sort of go to a family and sort of pretend like you're fucking handing over a novelty check. It feels, it feels real good.

Tommy: So they've stopped that shit. We're all feeling crap about it now.

Josh: I don't even know my licence plate number. That's one thing. Like when we went to Bob Jane Kmart to get our wheels aligned, remember that?

Tommy: Oh, you went? Yeah.

Josh: Yeah. Luckily Bree knows the number.

Tommy: Yeah, you actually got to know it more now than ever.

Josh: Why?

Tommy: Because these kind of things. Parking, parking at the airport, that kind of shit. You got to—

Josh: What about our favourite shop-o? Doncaster Westfield, they just do it automatically.

Tommy: Oh, mate, that's heaven.

Josh: Unless you stay for more than 3 hours.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: In that case, it goes bad. But I love Westfield and that shopping centre specifically.

Tommy: It's good. It is good. Anyway, so this woman is putting her cash in, her coins, and she drops one and she just starts stamping her foot and going, damn it, damn it, damn it. And she was really angry and she was just getting a bit flustered putting her coins in.

Josh: Do you think maybe she had like mental health issues?

Tommy: Well, the coin was still on the ground. She didn't pick it up. And as she finished, she got her ticket printed out. I said to her, oh, um, do you want— do you want your coin? No, no, no, you can have it. I can't pick it up. I said, oh, do you want me to get it for you? She said, no, no, no, I can't pick things up if I drop them. And I was like, whoa. I just— first thing I said was, what happens if you drop your phone? She said, I haven't dropped yet, so it's all good.

Josh: Fucking like a germaphobe.

Tommy: Yeah, but what it sounded like, it was a new thing, because if you haven't dropped your phone ever Maybe if you have that, like, I feel like she might have, yeah, the same obsessive compulsive disorder. And so it is just a thing. I said, what about if you drop $50? I just— she was lovely. We were just having a little bit of banter and she's like, oh, my husband usually gets it. So anyway, I've had that dollar.

Josh: So you had the dollar?

Tommy: I've had the dollar.

Josh: So you picked it up in front of her?

Tommy: No, she was like, yeah, it's yours.

Josh: I was like, but she didn't pick it up and give it to you?

Tommy: No, but she said Mr. 97 was there. Did you see the full interaction?

Mason: I was so strong. I was, I was shocked. I didn't, I didn't know what was happening.

Tommy: Yeah, I was, I just wanted to keep talking to her and understand this.

Mason: Well, because you, you asked, yeah, would you pick up your phone? And then, because I was, I was sort of like half listening and half not. And then once we finished the whole interaction, I was like, tell me, what if she drops her phone? Yeah, yeah, we'd already gone through it, but yeah, yeah.

Josh: I mean, there is something, um Coins, annoying, but good to, uh, it's nice to have cash.

Tommy: Mate, it's always good to have cash, but it's not good if you have cash and then you can't pick it up and you drop your cash.

Josh: I mean, that's annoying. Are you, um, I feel like you don't really have cash that much.

Tommy: Dude, I haven't, like, we're trying to buy a washing machine. We don't have one yet.

Josh: And are you gonna go, um, front load?

Tommy: Uh, yeah, yeah, I think we'll go front load. You can get some really great front load ones.

Josh: We've got front load. I think they're easier to put things in. Like, you don't have to— like, when you're doing top load, you have to lift it up over the whole thing and put it in.

Tommy: I think they actually spin better. I think it's known now that they're much better than the top, than the old school ones.

Josh: Wait, so which is better?

Tommy: Front load.

Josh: Yeah, good. I don't know if that's true though, to be honest, because I think that they can wear and tear. 97, can you look and confirm?

Tommy: Oh mate, I had so much banter with my brother around. He's Gotta get a good one, gotta get a good one. And then he was telling me about front loaders. No, you gotta get a really good quality one that lasts you 10, 15, 10, 15 years. Front loader though, he was saying.

Josh: Okay, and so good guys, yeah, but anyway, pay less, pay cash and we'll slash the prices. Yeah, dude, do we believe that to be true?

Tommy: It is true, they do.

Josh: What are they doing? Are they not, uh, declaring that?

Tommy: Here's the thing, as a business owner, I know that, and I had a cash business as a personal trainer I took some, I took check. One guy, uh, Noel, he was a lovely bloke. Only he literally paid to come in to run on a treadmill and I'd stand there. So he's old school, just wanted to get it done on the treadmill.

Josh: Very old school because he had a checkbook.

Tommy: But he paid me on checks.

Josh: And so could we get a check, chequebook for our accounts?

Tommy: Yeah, it's a checking account.

Josh: Okay.

Tommy: And so you could get the chequebook with it.

Josh: That would be fun to do.

Tommy: I wouldn't accept check. If someone wanted to pay cheque right now and we had to do the work and they wanted to pay the cheque first to then— it's like, here's a horrible, horrible moment, and I don't know if my friend at the time realized, but somehow it's just kept with me. We were riding our scooters down this main street, went past a toy shop, and the guy who owned the toy shop came out because we're kind of like slowed down around that area. He said, hey, talking to this guy, this kid that I was hanging out with, he said, um, tell, tell blah blah blah, tell Brian, who was his stepdad, tell Brian to get in touch with me because he's cheque bounced.

Josh: Interesting. What did his dad— what did his stepdad Brian do for a living?

Tommy: No, they were, they were, they were, um, Aussie battlers from the, uh the Housing Commission across the road from our school. And so, they had no money, like they had $0. And so, I think it was probably the old, here's the cheque.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: And because I put it in and then it's like you literally have to wait till it clears, like the bank puts it into your account pending. And if it doesn't actually clear, they suck it straight back out.

Josh: Well, it's when— Yeah, it can be dangerous even for people who aren't necessarily trying to be dodgy. It was like when I sponsored my first ever award. Remember, I've told this storey before, but you know, what big business did you have sponsoring? Mediaflex. So my old business Mediaflex when I was 19, so the year after I finished school, and I'd won a multimedia award when I was, um, in year 12, and I got a $100 cheque from like a multimedia production business. And so I thought when I am 19, like when I'm finished school the next year, I'm going to pass it down and Mediaflex is going to present an award.

Tommy: And I thought I was virtuous.

Josh: And so this was the time, remember I tell the storey of the awards night that they didn't give me a time limit on how long my speech could be.

Tommy: You blew it out to a keynote of 45 minutes.

Josh: 45 minutes.

Tommy: It was an Apple announcement.

Josh: I literally had a lady come up to me and she said, cook, don't, don't worry. I don't care what anyone says. I think that was amazing. It's like, what is everyone saying? But yeah, that was the time where I, the final slide was a photo of me on an elephant in Thailand being like, this could be you. But anyway, I gave a cheque of $100.

Tommy: A novelty cheque or?

Josh: No, it was just a small sort of standard check.

Tommy: So you had a checkbook?

Josh: Yeah, I did. Mediaflex. Like, and that was only what, 10 years ago?

Tommy: Most businesses back in the day, you used to.

Josh: It just comes with it.

Tommy: Checking account.

Josh: Yeah. Well, you can have a checking account now, but it doesn't, you actually don't have the book.

Tommy: It's just called the checkings account.

Josh: And so, yeah, but I didn't have the $100 in the account yet. A client had to pay. So, I was hoping, I was like really hoping that he would have to at least, you don't want to say it. You don't want to, as you're handing over the cheque, say, just give us a few days. So, I just had to hope that the kid didn't go that day and bank the cheque. And it was fine. It ended up coming out of my account. So, I know it was fine.

Mason: You got it.

Tommy: You got it.

Josh: Yeah. So, he was fine.

Tommy: We can cash cheques as well. He doesn't go in and just actually retrieve the cash from the bank. Such an old process. God, I haven't done that in a long time. I used to have like a bit of a ritual when I wasn't stashing the cash to not declare to the tax department so I could go to Hollywood. I would, um, I had a bit of a saving system. I used to, um, sort of have it in this spot. Anyway, all my notes. But sometimes, most Fridays, I would drop cash off to the bank. And so remember the old, like, you'd rock up You'd put your cash into the thing and they would like—

Josh: No, I don't.

Tommy: You don't remember it?

Josh: No, I never had like even—

Tommy: You had a checking account, bro.

Josh: I had a checking account. I did do a—

Tommy: It's like a drawer that they'd send out to you, and so it would be open, then you put your cash in, and then you'd send it back to them through the screen.

Josh: No, I remember my relationship with cash. I could probably count on two hands how many times I've been paid for cash. I remember I did, um, an event. It was the— can you look this up, 97? It's the Newminster, N-E-W-M-I— I'm not good at spelling— N-S-T-E-R, Newminster, uh, wedding expo. So, um, Newminster I think was some sort of wedding business, and, um, I did a fashion show. I was emceeing a fashion show for Big W How did you get all these? Well, so the— can you see? Is it coming up, by the way?

Mason: You mean, uh, I've just got the Melbourne 2019 Bridal Expo.

Josh: Yeah, that's it. Sponsored by Caulfield.

Mason: Was it in Caulfield?

Josh: Uh, it was Western Suburbs, I believe, but I wasn't very good with suburbs. It could have been Caulfield, but, um, I can actually have a look on my emails. I wouldn't have media flexed. Maybe not. But anyway, uh, I was emceeing a, um, a Big W charity event at our school shed. And the people were so impressed that they came up to me and said, would you emcee our wedding expo for the fashion show? And so as a, as a 16-year-old, I did that, or 15 or 16.

Tommy: And so did they think novelty, we get this kid?

Josh: I don't know. Yeah, I guess I was so nervous though, because I had— they obviously had all these paid sponsors, like people like Couture. I remember The couture one, couture, really stuck with me. There was one that, um, where the— it's something a bit sexy, they're going out in lingerie. I just had to keep my cool as they're walking. Tuck it up. Yeah, just not panic. And because it felt like the young 15 or 16-year-old is the one everyone's looking at when that happens. But I do remember I think it was like $300 I was getting paid cash. Anyway, they gave me the envelope at the end of the two— it was a two-day event and, um, it was $300. Anyway, got the cash, started counting it. They had paid me $300 a day. It was $600.

Tommy: Oh, you thought it was $300?

Josh: I thought $300. I think they told me $300 and it's like, oh, we're going to look after this kid. Oh, that's nice. And so I ended up with $600 cash. The other time was when I was getting filmed. I was filming a, um, for a golfer. I was getting paid okay, and it was like a, um, this sort of charity event, and I was putting together this video for them. And, um, he just came up to me and sort of shook my hand. He shook my hand. He just gave me like a wad of cash and said, mate, thanks so much for all your, your work. And there's probably like, I think it was like $800 cash.

Tommy: What's the most cash that you've had in your hands? I remember this question as a kid. I mean, Mr. 97, you're in the digital space, you tap and go.

Josh: And yeah, how much cash have you had?

Tommy: I don't reckon that much.

Mason: Uh, upwards of like probably like $800.

Josh: That's all? $800?

Mason: Yeah.

Josh: That's sad.

Tommy: Wow.

Mason: It's all been— it's all in the bank, everything.

Josh: Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's not sad, uh, but do you remember it was always like there was a question when you were young Do you—

Tommy: what's the most money you've had in your hands?

Josh: I was very lucky as a kid of— I would get a bunch of cash for my birthday. My parents— I was stupidly spoiled. I think I got like, when I was 15, I would have got like $300 cash, which I thought was pretty good.

Tommy: $300 cash.

Mason: Yeah.

Josh: Not bad. Wasn't not good. Oh, I mean, I was in the suburbs.

Tommy: I didn't even mean yours. It could be just like the, you know, there's something about how much.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: Wow. Like I'm holding heaps of cash.

Josh: I mean, I was obsessed. To the point where Mum and Dad had given me cash for my birthday. It was when I was younger, so I had two 50s, and I just was obsessed about them being flat. And so I ironed them and melted them together, and they were like— they fell apart. And so Dad had to, um, put them amongst a bunch of other cash and go to the bank and get it.

Tommy: Oh, I'm trying to get it.

Josh: And it was fine, but it was damaged. Damaged, mate. Yeah, but to answer your question, Uh, I don't know, probably, uh, probably, yeah, $3,000. I reckon, like, um, I bought— man, I've bought some dumb shit. I bought a $3,300 plasma TV with cash. Yeah, when I was a kid, like when I was like 19.

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, this is the one where you—

Josh: it's a Panasonic—

Tommy: you told them that you were—

Josh: yeah, yeah, it was worth it, mate.

Tommy: That's, that's the BMW purchase for you.

Josh: Yeah, no, I've never done any like dumb cars or shit like that. Um, yeah, but that's right. What's it— how much cash?

Tommy: Oh, I hung out with some people that, you know, had some unsavoury businesses that I used to see $20 grand cash. This is like a big pile.

Josh: I loved the smell of money when in reality it's people wiping their bums and then playing with cash.

Tommy: There's something about American cash, like the paper, paperback, like it's—

Josh: the other day, um, There's actually a photo of— do you see the Donald Trump photo?

Tommy: No.

Josh: Of him walking onto, um, what's their— the jet called? Jet One?

Tommy: Oh yeah, yeah, Air Force One.

Josh: Yeah, Air Force One. And he's just got cash in his back pocket and people are like, what is he doing with it? Why is he needing cash? It's a good point. But Jack Post, I remember hanging out with Jack a bunch when I was in the radio days. He was always someone who would get $160 out Every time, like anytime he'd go to an ATM, he would get $160.

Tommy: Why?

Josh: Because it gives you all different types of notes. Oh yeah. Uh, what are you seeing? The photo?

Mason: Yeah, yeah, it's just, yeah, the wind like blew his jacket up and there's like a little, a whole bunch of cash coming out.

Josh: Cash is trash.

Tommy: It was like, grand card though.

Josh: It was like $20.

Tommy: Yeah, why do you— I've always thought about royalty, you know, the, um, the prince, royalty, these people who are just Money isn't a thing, right?

Josh: What do you mean?

Tommy: Your face is on a note. You're the Queen of England. It's like, what does money mean? You don't need money at that point. So I think about Prince Harry and these people.

Josh: They don't need money.

Tommy: What do they need money for? As in, how do they— how often are they actually physically going to the shops anyway? Because they're so famous.

Josh: So you're thinking they shouldn't put them on the note because they're not using them?

Tommy: No, no, they can be on the note. I mean, if you're on the note, you shouldn't have to use it. Yeah, because it's your note.

Josh: Or dead. I wonder how many people are alive. I don't know, I couldn't tell you. Could you tell me who's on any of the notes?

Tommy: Queen, $5 note, she's on there. Um, the other side of it, $20. Uh, $20 bucks. Yeah, the guy with the hat. Who is that bloke? Can you find him out? The Australian $20 note, tomato. Uh, what is it? Who is he? Is it old? Is it one of the My guess is he is an old prime minister of Australia wearing his top hat from the 1930s. I don't know, that's what I'm going.

Josh: I think there was, I remember when the Aussie dollar was really good, my parents having US money. Do you ever do that?

Tommy: Where like, nah, my friend's dad did. This is so scumbaggery. Gronk, it's a Gronk move. My mate's dad when the dollar was real. No, it was, maybe it was not great. Like back when we were, when we were young.

Josh: Was it used to be like 55 cents?

Tommy: Yes. Yeah. So we took a 50 from his drawer and a 50 USD went to the city and exchanged it. You know how there's just those shops that just have a screen.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: The closest thing to the experience of the old bank sliding it through.

Josh: You never get, I remember It's so complicated going overseas and using those things because they're all trying to rip you off. So you have to get them to count it all and make sure, like, if they've got commission.

Tommy: Yeah, it's such dodgy industries. Did you find out Mr. 97?

Mason: Banjo Paterson on the $10.

Tommy: The $10, the $20. What about the $20? Banjo Paterson.

Josh: What do we know about Banjo?

Tommy: Uh, Tiny Kangaroo Down.

Josh: Is that him?

Tommy: Banjo Paterson wrote the song.

Josh: No, Tiny Kangaroo Down is Rolf Yeah, I just—

Tommy: Banjo Paterson wrote a famous song. I think there's a connection to Rupert, who I flew up in Longreach. He wrote the song. Is that in Longreach? In, yeah, in central Queensland. And so he, I think he wrote, wrote a famous song up there. What does he sing? I mean, he's probably—

Josh: he sings the banjo sound. Is that a stage name?

Tommy: I reckon I can pull this up quicker than Mr. Matilda. What, Sing Matilda?

Mason: Yes.

Tommy: The fucking famous one. Yeah, so he wrote that. Look up where he wrote it from, please, because I think there's a connection to on Rupert's property, or he wrote it within the region where he was living. I remember having a conversation. I was a bit pissed, to be honest.

Josh: Wait, when was— oh, this was last year. Are you going— so you're, um, I was talking to, uh, Human Periscope, uh, Tall Grump.

Tommy: Yeah, Tall Grump.

Josh: Uh, he was saying he's thinking about stopping drinking.

Tommy: Yeah, good on him.

Josh: And I was, I was saying the one annoying thing about drinking, which when you're a non-drinker you talk about a lot but then it sort of goes out of the conversation, was when I used to not drink, I'd always talk about how much money I was saving. It would sort of justify my other silly purchases. Oh, Uber Eats. Well, I don't drink, but, um, it is expensive. I keep forgetting that every time we go to Dan Murphy's, it's like $24.

Tommy: But how often you been going to Dan Murphy's?

Josh: Once a week. Yeah, I, uh, Bree and I actually— there was champagne at Daylesford. Oh, free, free champagne in there, in there. And so we didn't drink it, but we were doing a bit of a 3D Dylan grabbing everything that was possibly free.

Tommy: Oh, to take with the— take, not to— I mean, 3D Dylan, he ate it all. Yeah, he poured it on himself.

Josh: Yeah, but so I, uh We were about to take it. We're like, well, we shouldn't waste that. And then I Googled it and we said, okay, if it's more than this amount, we'll take it. If it's less, we won't.

Tommy: More than $50, you'd take it? Is that— was that the amount? Or $70? $50 or $70? Because if—

Josh: $20.

Tommy: I mean, you wanted to take it, so it was worth more than $20.

Josh: It was $107.

Tommy: Oh, that's embarrassing for that The place where you stay.

Josh: We're not saying which place it is, but the funny thing is they're like a primo, like a really— it's like a $370 a night place or whatever it is. The, um, they, they've got this—

Mason: how much?

Josh: $370 a night, I think.

Tommy: I thought you said $307.

Josh: So where the $7 went. Um, yeah, no, and they, um, or maybe it was $340. I don't fucking know. But they, their amenities are quite strange in general. Like, they've got some nice stuff. Like, they've got the guys obsessed about talking about some of the things that he has. Like, he talks about we had the choice between the room with the rain shower. That's like a, it's like a proper massage one. So, you can change the settings. Oh, yeah.

Tommy: Rain shower head.

Josh: Rain shower head, but it's like a— it's not remedial, it's not the right word, but it's like Bri was always talking about.

Tommy: I thought a rain shower head is like a wide, so it's like a big circle and there's lots of holes, so just like falls. Maybe that's a— just falls.

Josh: I'll ask Bri. Hey Siri, call Brianna Phillips.

Tommy: This is riveting.

Josh: Calling Brianna iPhone.

Tommy: Did she get her name right?

Josh: She said Brianna, which is wrong. Brianna is double N, Brianna is one. Um, this is really important.

Tommy: What are we trying to work out? Rain shower?

Josh: What is it called? Hey babe, you're on the podcast. Very quickly, what was it called? What's the, what's the shower head called at Daylesford?

Tommy: The rain— oh, um, a chromotherapy shower.

Josh: Thank you.

Tommy: A chromotherapy.

Josh: Is it, is it the same as a rain head? Rain shower? Rain shower?

Tommy: No, it's different because it has different like massage things that you change. It also has like lights and stuff.

Josh: Yeah, great. Thank you. Love you, bye. Okay, love you.

Tommy: So a chromotherapy is the one you went with?

Mason: I think it's aromatherapy.

Tommy: Aromatherapy?

Josh: No, aromatherapy is the smell.

Tommy: Aroma.

Josh: Aroma therapy. What does aroma mean? Aroma is scent.

Tommy: Yeah, yeah.

Josh: It didn't smell of anything.

Tommy: You just typed the wrong thing in.

Josh: Give baby a break. Aroma? Maybe look up the place.

Tommy: I heard a chroma.

Mason: That's what I heard as well, but then I typed that up and it wanted to change to aromatherapy shower.

Josh: Did you spell it with an E?

Mason: Eroma?

Tommy: Echroma?

Josh: I don't fucking know. Anyway, so he had the shower head. You could pick the shower head.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: One, there was another— these are, um, what is it called? The shipping containers. There were shipping containers that were converted. Very cool. Uh, there was one place that had a the world's best pinball machine.

Tommy: How do you make the world— What's the—

Josh: Well, it's like, it's one of the best. It's like the top, like it's an AC/DC one or something. Okay. Yeah. Or this is in Daylesford, which is— How would you describe it? It's like sort of spa or Hepburn Springs. It's like a spa country, like it's like where a lot of bed and breakfasty sort of things. Anyway, there was that and then there was a massage chair. And so something straight. Like, I don't like the massage chair, weird.

Tommy: So what did you go with?

Josh: The pinball machine, weird. So we went with the shower head, the one with the— and so he would talk about things. He's like, oh yeah, he was always pointing out the price. He's like, oh yeah, the, uh, the, uh, the tap, the— or what's it called? Not a tap. No, it is a tap. If you've got a bath and then you turn on the water, comes out of a tap. The tap, the, the tap, um, accessory, what's that called?

Tommy: The knob?

Josh: No, no, no, not the knob.

Tommy: The head?

Josh: No. Think about it. If you're looking at a bathroom and you're like, oh, geez, they have really good—

Tommy: I don't know what you're talking about. You got two, like the two tap handles.

Josh: But what is that called as a general thing?

Tommy: And then the—

Mason: What do you mean? The tap?

Josh: Yes. If you've got like real good finishings or whatever on an apartment, like—

Mason: Fixtures and fittings.

Josh: Fixtures and fittings. I think that could be it. But anyway, he said it was $5,000 for the tap.

Tommy: We know where he didn't spend the cash.

Josh: And so then he also— so then there's a note about the TV is not swivel, right? It's the best. Actually, I need to log out of my YouTube account. It's still in there on the TV. But they— that happened to me as well on Netflix in fucking Amsterdam. I set up my Netflix.

Tommy: Well, Craig Harper is still running off my Netflix account.

Josh: Really? What's he watching?

Tommy: Is he? Well, I just gave him the login and then I set up a little Craig thing, so he might be.

Josh: I haven't asked him, but he messaged me like ages after I changed your password.

Tommy: No, he messaged me ages after I actually got the subscription and he said, mate, what's the password again? Well, I had that, I had that from a, um, he's done a lot for me, Craig. You know, you can have that one.

Josh: I had some neighbours who I really like, but they, um, when they moved into our apartment block we were the first people to ever move in and we're the first ones to have internet. And so I put up a sign saying, hey guys, the internet's going to take— What are you counting, by the way?

Mason: Oh no, I was just— I found it. It's a chromotherapy head, shower head.

Josh: Okay.

Mason: And it uses the science of, um, they use colours to adjust body vibrations.

Josh: So sure, that's fancy. Anyway, but what were you doing with your mouth?

Mason: No, I was trying to figure out how I got aromatherapy from Bree saying a chromotherapy shower head.

Josh: Okay, and how did you—

Mason: well, because she said a chromotherapy shower head.

Josh: Okay, thanks. Um, and so the— oh yeah, when we were moved into the place, got the internet set up, set up a guest Wi-Fi, put up a sign saying, hey guys, I know that the internet takes ages to get set up. There was a company called Opticom one of the worst businesses in Australia. Uh, they're sort of like a competitor to the, the NBN. So they'll go to estates, or, um, so say if you buy a place in Cranbourne or something, or, you know, Pakenham, or any, anywhere, they'll say, we're gonna install the fiber, uh, for all the homes. But they don't put enough, um, they don't give it enough bandwidth. So they end up, they'll run like one cable that's white, like, and so you get terrible speeds.

Mason: Yeah.

Josh: Anyway, so I knew that it was going to take a while for people to get set up because they have to deal with this business and they had terrible reviews. And, uh, and so we had at one time 30 different people all using our internet, and I felt— I thought it was great. Um, and one of the— I finally turned it off, and it had been like a year and they like knocked on the door and asked, hey Josh, like the internet's just gone down. I was like, oh well, it's been like a year.

Tommy: Oh, so they've been using it for a year.

Josh: So they've been using it for a year. Like they just didn't bother getting internet. And so that was taking the piss.

Tommy: But what did you do? Well, because that can be an awkward conversation because it's like, yeah, I think I was like, I've shut it off.

Josh: No more. Maybe they're like, ah, the power.

Tommy: Yeah. Make them just addicted and then just No, no, no, no.

Josh: I could have actually, I could have charged, like I could have completely subsidized.

Mason: You could have been an ISP.

Josh: Yeah, I could. Yeah. It's a no. You would do that. Definitely. But going back to the TV in the Daweswood place.

Tommy: No swivel. No, no.

Josh: Yeah, no, no swivel. And he had a sign. He's got so many signs about like, you know, smoking, the cleaning fee is going to be this. And it's just like signs everywhere. Oh yeah. Do not put hot logs because it had like a log fire. Do not put hot logs on the ground, like on the tiles.

Tommy: I mean, owning these places, you almost have to. It's like seeing—

Josh: Gronkh proof.

Tommy: Gronkh proof. It's like seeing the signs on the toilet saying don't stand on our fucking toilet.

Josh: Yeah, that's a cultural thing as well. Yeah, true. But they— But maybe not. Like, but also don't do it. So, yeah. So, there was that. But with the TV, it was like, do not try and swivel the TV. It is a $12,000 TV. And so, Bree got obsessed with it. We went to JB over the weekend and she was like, that TV there is $6,000. He thinks he paid $12,000 for that one.

Tommy: He probably did.

Josh: He got ripped off. Yeah. Anyway, but he's very obsessed. But the hilarious thing is he's got like a little amenity section. There was a bit where it's like, you know, breakfast and some amenities are included. So, uh, Bree's like, oh, I don't know, we're gonna go to the shops before we got there and get some cheeses and stuff. And he's like, oh, well, let's hold off, we don't know what could be there. She's expecting like some fucking platter or some sort of thing, and it was like, uh, chicken noodles in like, in like a Maggi. Like, it was real. Yeah, it was—

Tommy: dude, drop all the cash on the shower head and the TV The massage chair, the ping pong, like, that's all you can afford is $7.

Josh: Pinball, thank you.

Tommy: $7 for a bottle of champers.

Josh: Yeah. Which I didn't know. Yeah, I thought that, that would— yeah, if you're not going to do it, um, yeah, because like you think about, um, going to the Oval and think about like how good that experience was. Anyway, so, uh, that was, uh, that was interesting. Uh, episode 500, mate, not far away.

Tommy: We've just wrapped up all of our episodes that we did in Sydney. And that's over.

Josh: Yeah. Let us know who your favourite episode was. Send us an email. But in regards to 500 episodes, 29th of October, Gemma Queen Gronkh messaged. She's been doing scouting of the creek.

Tommy: We were down there, Coonung Creek, which has got a few mentions on this.

Josh: Have you hung out with Gemma since you moved to Bulling?

Tommy: No, but, um, will you? We just missed her because we were at Coonong Creek with Bodhi on the weekend, hooning around on his bike. And then Gemma messaged Amy because she saw that Amy was posting storeys about it and said, I've just been down there too. So it was after, so we missed her. But no, we haven't.

Josh: And so she was, um, yeah, she was saying that she did a recce for us, a recce, because we talked about doing an episode from down there.

Tommy: She's, uh, to be honest, one of the things I've noticed about The Burbs, super dark, like at night. So if we were ever doing something at night, you can't see shit anywhere. Like, I feel like, God, I was privileged. Grew up in Brighton.

Josh: Yeah, always St Kilda.

Tommy: Yeah, lit, like so lit. Like, you're walking, I don't feel worried, I'm just cruising the streets. I said to Amy, I don't want you out there walking, like, unless you have a big torch. I got scared.

Josh: Could you buy a good torch? I'd love a good torch.

Tommy: No, no, you don't need a big torch anymore. My brother has a head torch. He's a sparky, so he's up in roofs. Dude, the brightness. Bodhi puts it on his head and we crank it up. These are just LEDs and they're just casting the most fucking light you've ever seen. And he's like, that's a weak one. You can get whatever, 1200 amps or whatever it is.

Josh: Is it the same as, is it nits?

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: Because you know how like they're saying that with the new iPhone.

Mason: I think it's lumens. Lumens.

Josh: Yeah. What about the iPhone though? It's like lit, nits, 1200 nits.

Mason: Yeah, that's the brightness of the screen.

Tommy: Yeah. And so yeah, Ant said you don't— you can get like a serious head torch, which you could get, but you have to wear it on your head. You can hold it. I hold it and just have it for Bodhi. Like, you could take it out of its mounting thing.

Josh: I'd like one of the— my dad had one that I think it was like what the police use, a Maglite. Yeah, big black.

Tommy: Yeah, but I don't know. No, no, I don't think they use those. I remember when we were kids, it was always Maglite. We had one. You could get the longer ones. Remember the batteries?

Josh: What are they called? The B3s or something? Or the D batteries?

Tommy: Yeah, but then you had to use in them, you had to use little globes. Yeah. So now the technology is, you know, it's just like it's all battery. You can charge them by USB-C or whatever it is, but you can— we can get you one of those. But it's dark as shit around there. It's hard to see. And so you'd have to set up a marquee or, you know, get floodlights.

Josh: Floodlights would be great. What I'd be worried about is bugs. Yeah.

Mason: Oh, yeah.

Josh: Did you see there's a great radar photo in, I think it's South Carolina. If you type in radar dragonflies, where the dragonflies are starting to move to different climates to the south of South America.

Tommy: Dragonflies. Weird thing.

Josh: And they're showing up on the radar. It's covering the whole radar. So, the weather people are like, hey guys, like, A lot of dragonflies. I thought that was interesting.

Tommy: That is weird. So yeah, a bit dark down there. You'd have to do some kind of day thing.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: Do some sort of fitness thing. But I think episode 500, which is why you're talking about the recce for the event or something, something to celebrate.

Josh: Well, she was saying, yeah, I think I must have said the other day that we should do episode 500 from the creek. Yeah. But you've been speaking to AU79.

Tommy: I think we can do it from an actual lovely venue, we can put on a 500 party.

Josh: So that's in, um, Abbotsford.

Tommy: Good location, great spot, awesome function venue.

Josh: But for our, uh, Doncaster audience, if you don't have to get on the freeway—

Tommy: nice, easy, off the M1, off the M3.

Josh: But could we do maybe a, um— so if episode 500 is on the 29th, which is a, a, um, Tuesday Could we maybe do a weekend episode for people who don't want to do weeknights and that want to do a Sunday?

Mason: Do a little—

Josh: I'm sure they've got like outside broadcast.

Mason: But there's a barbecue area, maybe potentially.

Josh: Could we hire out that?

Mason: We could just get a barbie.

Tommy: Nah, nah, you just rock up. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Josh: These public things, you can have a sign.

Mason: I mean, no one's going to kick us off once we've got a bunch of people.

Josh: But then does that mean that you need to be there the day before manning it?

Tommy: Mate, if—

Mason: who's gonna, who's gonna wait overnight?

Tommy: It's like—

Josh: that's why you're gonna have to, because otherwise if someone gets there early in the morning—

Tommy: it's not New Year's Eve, we're not—

Josh: what, it's not just a Sunday, it's, it'll be great weather, October, end of October, beautiful weather. And so what I think we do is we do a Sunday event, more of a family event. The kids can come down, room for a jumping castle or no?

Tommy: Too hard? I don't know if you can.

Mason: No, you'd probably need a permit for that.

Tommy: Public areas, you would need a permit.

Josh: So now we need a permit.

Mason: Yeah.

Josh: Okay, so no jumping castle. What sort of things could we do for the kids?

Mason: What are those races?

Josh: Face painting?

Mason: No, what are those sack races?

Josh: Oh yeah.

Tommy: Old sack race.

Josh: We could, or we could get Leah. What about Leah on the face paint?

Tommy: I, Lee, used to do face painting.

Josh: Yeah, yeah. And once a face painter, always a face painter. My mum actually was very good at face paint.

Tommy: I think we just— not everyone has kids, and most—

Josh: I don't have kids, but I'm—

Tommy: yeah, but I'm saying most parents are trying to get away from their kids, so maybe a night out.

Josh: But are we doing the Sunday option as well?

Tommy: I don't think we have time. I think for the babies, it's like one thing is more than enough to have to organize. Because you like to throw a few things out there and then sit back and see how it all gets put together. Yeah. And then rock up.

Josh: Okay, well, so 5 times. Can we do the creek sooner then?

Tommy: Yeah, I'll do an episode from the creek on a weekend. It's lovely.

Josh: On a Sunday?

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: So we're doing the same thing, but Sunday morning?

Tommy: Yes, but it's just bacon and eggs. If 3 people come.

Josh: What about the start of, uh, start of October? No, you— no, we can't do it. No, that's— let's—

Tommy: right now. That's this— that's next week. That's next Tuesday.

Josh: Okay, so we can't—

Tommy: that's too soon. Yeah, I'll be away. Yeah, so anyway, 500, 29th, Tuesday night, we're gonna do a party. That's what we're gonna do.

Josh: Yeah, so that's all good. The Creek. In all seriousness, what about, what about the Sunday the 13th of October? Yeah, yeah. Could we— would you be— I mean, it's no skin off your nose, it's in your suburb.

Tommy: Yeah, it's very close, it's close by.

Josh: And so maybe if we, um, we'll have Gemma there. Ah, maybe that's the— is that when—

Tommy: look, let's not just do fucking logistics.

Josh: When is Gemma's—

Tommy: yeah, but we're not organising it here. What we're going to do is we're sticking with 500.

Josh: If you want to come to the 500, Ryan John said we should be organising more on air, remember?

Tommy: Yeah, no, no, no, he didn't say to fumble through to cheque people's schedules.

Josh: What was he saying?

Tommy: He was saying let people in on us organising things. So one thing—

Josh: what am I fucking doing?

Mason: Gemma's on October 10th.

Josh: Okay, so Gemma's got an event on October 10th. Is that the one in Melbourne in St Kilda?

Tommy: You're a pain in the ass.

Mason: No, that's the one in Sydney, the Bumble Buzz.

Tommy: Oh, come on, guys.

Josh: Where's the one that Amy and Bri are going to?

Tommy: It's got nothing to do with this.

Josh: Well, it does because Gemma's going to have to go if we're going to the— doing the creek.

Tommy: All right, I'm done. I've got to go home.

Josh: So you don't— you don't want to do the creek? Okay, that's fine.

Tommy: But we're doing one thing at a time. Ryan didn't say open 5 things and talk about them.

Josh: Okay, so we'll do, um, AU79, the 29th. Can we make it Halloween themed or no?

Tommy: Yeah, look, we'll get there. We'll work it out. The barrier needs to be low for people to come.

Josh: So easy costumes. Should we get Leah with the face paint?

Tommy: We can do face painting.

Mason: I like that.

Josh: Anyway, great. We'll, um, can Hayden do the tattoo?

Tommy: Yeah, I want the tattoo done during the show. I want all the Gronks in Melbourne, if you want to come from Sydney, if you want to come from anywhere, should people email us now if they want to, um, email us saying 'it's time to party' in the subject line. Yeah, yeah. Gronkh wants to party. It's time to party.

Josh: It's time to party. Okay, we'll put that in, in the subject line. We're going to— we'll only have limited availability.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: Um, but it will be Tuesday the 29th of October.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: Uh, in the evening, probably kicking off at 7 PM.

Tommy: Yeah, it's a good time after work, get there 7 till 10. Wrap it up.

Josh: And so, um, we'll, uh, finger food.

Tommy: Yeah, there'll be more details as it comes. We'll start revealing. I mean, if you just tell them everything straight away, well, I'm just trying— there's actually nothing to tell them the next day.

Josh: Yeah, I get it.

Tommy: So I mean, also we're going to work it out.

Josh: And if you are in— if you, um, uh, if you can't make that event but would like to go to the creek, do a subject line, count me for the creek, and we'll try and work out a date for for that.

Mason: Great.

Josh: I think that'll be— it's— I think we can keep the barrier to entry with the creek easy. No marquee, no sack racing, all that sort of stuff.

Tommy: Look, if you want to come, episode 500, it's time to party. In the subject line, we'll let you know where it's all happening, right? And so we'll respond with some details.

Josh: It's a daily talk show. Uh, hi@thedailytalkshow.com is the email address, uh, to be able to send that email at time to party It's time to party. It's time to party is the subject line. Have a good one, guys. See you tomorrow.

Tommy: See you guys.