The Stolen Knucklebones

Tommy: The Daily Talk Show.

Josh: It's The Daily Talk Show, episode 473.

Tommy: What's happening, guys? What's going on?

Josh: It is absolutely beautiful in Melbourne right now.

Tommy: Cracking weather to come home to. I mean, I flew in this morning.

Josh: You were yesterday, you were in Singapore.

Tommy: Oh, cheeky little 24 hours in Singapore. You know, the funny thing is, uh, the Qantas plane I flew over on The staff, friendly, lovely. Same staff when I got back on the plane. So, they would have just stayed there.

Josh: Oh, cool.

Tommy: And then waited a bunch of time, you know.

Josh: Same people that you spoke to, like they were giving you the meals and stuff?

Tommy: Yeah, the girl who gave me my meal. I walk on, I was like, hey, you took me here. She's like, what were you doing here?

Josh: What, like? Oh, really? So, she didn't remember you?

Tommy: No, no, no. She remembered me. She was trying to work out why I was in Singapore for such a short time. Like she I mean, she's probably not— Maybe like Singapore is a business hub and so heaps and heaps of people are flying in there. Mate, that place.

Josh: Wow. You were saying it was hot. I was straight away, because you're doing some client work, I was straight away worried about your deodorant application because sometimes—

Tommy: Oh, no, I travel smart. Travel with roll-on.

Josh: Which one?

Tommy: It's like a Dove. I've got it somewhere here. Oh, no, it's at home. But it's beautiful. It just rolls on, not too much smell. And just, I was, you know, I was a, I was a well, a good smelling human.

Josh: Are you still using the natural stuff? 97, Mr. Pitts?

Mason: Well, I think, uh, I had, I had a problem with it.

Tommy: What, that you stunk?

Mason: No, irritation. No, it's great for smell.

Tommy: You had irritation to the natural deodorant?

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: Oh my God, you're a boy in a bubble. Get in the bubble quickly.

Mason: Andre had it as well.

Josh: Really?

Tommy: Yeah. Is it?

Mason: It was only under one arm. It was under my left arm.

Tommy: You know, when women hang out really, when they're like besties, sometimes they get in their menstrual cycles together.

Josh: Aligned. Yeah.

Tommy: The coconut crew.

Mason: Just, I mean, Andre was like a month ahead of me, but yeah.

Tommy: No, I know you got to catch up. It just takes time to get in sync and now you both got the effects.

Josh: So you're not using the same stuff anymore?

Mason: I've had to detox from the natural product.

Josh: So what are you using? Chemicals. Okay. Just chemicals. Just everything. Just bleach.

Mason: A little bit of bleach.

Tommy: Tommy, can I have some of your spa chemicals? Quick fix.

Josh: Florian, how did you go? So I was at the US consulate, consulate, this morning sorting out visa stuff.

Tommy: Mr. America over here.

Josh: Yeah. When I, when it came to security, I just feel like I want to chill out, like I want them just to calm down a bit. So I want to crack jokes.

Tommy: Oh, well, yeah, it's well guarded, the embassy on St Kilda Road, but they're not there. The thing, like, so Singapore, like customs, right? They're the, the one that are like straight. They can't really show emotion.

Josh: Yeah. And so, that's why I thought the security guy, there was a few different sections where there's security. The first guy seemed really friendly, a bit of banter of like, who's going next. So, that was good. Yeah.

Tommy: You can't— They're humans, right?

Josh: But he didn't laugh at one of my jokes, which was—

Tommy: What were your dumb jokes?

Josh: Well, because the—

Tommy: Okay, we're dumb.

Josh: So, it was meant to be— I was— My appointment was at 9:00 AM.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: They, um, didn't end up seeing me until like— I didn't actually get to the front of the line until 10, which then I had to go up. So I didn't actually end up speaking to someone until half past 10. And from about 45 minutes in to standing in line, I was like, I really need a piss. And I couldn't do anything because I'm like, I don't want to lose my spot in the queue. There's a specific sign that says Sorry, no public restrooms. And so, I was just like, well, what do I do? And so, the joke that I made to the security dude was, has anyone pissed their pants in the line?

Tommy: That's actually quite good.

Josh: Yeah, I thought it was. And so, he didn't say— He was inspecting, he had like people going through the security detector things like you'd see, like you'd see at the airport. Yeah. He just sort of turned back around, like he didn't give it anything at all.

Tommy: I mean, it's not your— it's not an audience for a setup. I guess what can he say?

Josh: What can he— what could he say?

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, actually 3 people last week.

Josh: Yeah. So like I was more projecting of like, oh, it's crazy that like there's no toilets, but there ended up being a toilet upstairs. Yeah, upstairs the security guy was looser. They wear like, um, like America is known for a good uniform. They've all got like—

Tommy: Well, we know you like the short, short—

Josh: UPS.

Tommy: UPS boys.

Josh: But the, no, like mall cops, anyone who is in security has great uniform and there is no exception when it comes to the consulate. And they had like the full sort of black security guard thing with like a really nice badge. It was just funny because when I was in line, in like the final line upstairs, to have the appointment, I saw the security guy standing at the door and then a guy who obviously works there but isn't in security, had like a lanyard on or whatever, just does this action like a—

Tommy: Guns?

Josh: Like a gun sort of like, "G'day," you know, like almost like a wiggle sort of thing, but not like jovial, but just like, "Hey, hey." And so, he did, "Hey, hey," and then the security guard did it back and then the— The guy said to the security guys, oh, we probably shouldn't do that here. And then the security guy doubled down on it and was like, and then he actually like blew out the gun. He went, oh geez. It's like, okay, so this— so some are loose, some were serious.

Tommy: So yeah, I mean, the woman who allowed me to enter Singapore was lovely. She smiled and she was a customs agent. The one before her, like the man at the front, He seemed mean, but they had lollies on the counter.

Josh: What sort of lollies?

Tommy: They were some kind of local lolly.

Josh: And were they in a packet? I'm guessing so.

Tommy: Yeah, it's like a, you know, the single-use Mentos. It was like, I smashed one of those and I said, ah, this is chewy.

Josh: Was like a chewy?

Tommy: No, it was like a hard thing.

Mason: Hard thing.

Tommy: Anyway, that place is so clean. Singapore is so clean.

Josh: I've heard that you can't spit. No chewing gum. Is chewing gum allowed?

Tommy: Yeah. Wasn't a shitload of people smoking either. It's just the streets are all manicured. They spend so much money on the look of it. It feels futuristic. Like if there was a place that was to have flying cars first, it feels like it will be there.

Josh: Really?

Tommy: Oh, yeah. Like it's set out for it. Not many people drive. Like the traffic is not bad.

Josh: Do you know if they're planning on doing the Uber flying there?

Tommy: There's no Uber there.

Josh: Yeah, you told me that there was Uber.

Tommy: Uber sold to a company called Go— oh, sorry, Grab. And so they— it's pretty cool. They've got everything. They've got like, uh, you can send parcels through it, you can get people to run errands, you can get shopping, you can— it's— would you imagine living there like that? Um, it's apartment living and it's high.

Josh: I mean, you've only been in a—

Tommy: nah, but like, it's like CBD everywhere, like the whole And then out, like, I mean, to drive from one side of Singapore to the other is like 45 minutes or 50 minutes. And so we were— so where the airport is, we were like 50, almost. Yeah, we were the furthest point.

Josh: You can say 50 minutes because you said it would take 45.

Tommy: Were you 40? They got— they said the way they said it's 45 minutes, like no traffic to drive. If there's zero traffic, do they use a metre on the taxi? Yeah. Yeah, it was like, it's like $35 to get to—

Josh: Oh, that's good.

Tommy: The furthest end of Singapore, right near Malaysia. I could see Malaysia in the distance. You could see the sky rises in Malaysia.

Josh: What's the dollar?

Tommy: What's the currency? It's 90-something.

Josh: So, it is dollar, Singapore dollars or whatever?

Tommy: Yeah, so it's 97, I think.

Mason: 93.

Tommy: 93 to our $1. So, it's a good rate. But yeah, this, I went to this dry dock, which is like, Picture an industrial area by the water where the shipping, you know, containers like in Melbourne, but it's like boats get repaired.

Josh: And when I shouldn't say boats, they're ships, you know, when they're mini cities on water.

Tommy: My God, on this thing, which I was there to film the refurbishment, there was 3,500 people living on it. So they bring this thing in to refurbish it in 41 days. It's like, imagine trying to do a— it's like, it's like redoing a whole skyrise building in 41 days.

Josh: What were the big— what was the big thing that they were promoting? What were they— they get like a new fountain?

Tommy: Oh mate, they got a new water slide. It's sick. And they had— mate, it's got ice skating. Wow, that's ice skating at sea. And then what they do is they're bringing out— I don't know how much I can actually say of this stuff, but they're gonna have laser tag. The ice skating's been there, but laser tag is sick. Laser tag, adding a whole bunch of cool shit.

Mason: Dark Zone, Dark Zone on a cruise ship.

Tommy: I mean, it's— oh, and we were in one of these suites. Like, I've never been on a cruise ship before. Have you?

Josh: Have you? I filmed at one, that Volendamme ship.

Tommy: How big do you know?

Josh: Um, can you have a look at the size? What can we compare the size? Hashtag compare sizes. Yeah, what was your one called?

Tommy: Uh, Royal Caribbean, um Voyager. Voyager of the Seas.

Josh: Yeah, yeah, look at the size of Voyager of the Seas and then look up, uh, 4,000 capacity.

Tommy: 4,000.

Mason: Is that with the refurbishment? It says, it says here it's 1,300.

Tommy: What, they're doing a little, uh, no, they have— the guy was saying 4,000 guests they have capability for.

Mason: Sorry, 3,100. It's—

Tommy: yeah, so I think they're gonna— maybe they're going to 4,000.

Josh: Yeah, squishy.

Mason: So what's your one?

Josh: Uh, Volendam. Volendam. Volendam. The— spoken about it before. It was the Dutch ship. They came to, um, Melbourne.

Mason: Oh, much bigger.

Tommy: The Volendam?

Mason: Nah, the Royal Caribbean. Double the size.

Tommy: Yeah, it's— these are— yeah, you said it's like a small little city on the water. Anyway, this thing I, I, like, I, I, it's mind-blowing.

Josh: Where is it going to?

Tommy: It's coming to Sydney.

Josh: That's cool. Do you reckon it's too big for Melbourne? Uh, do we need to do some more dredging or whatever the fuck they call it?

Tommy: No, maybe they could get in here, but Sydney, I met the captain of this ship.

Josh: Well, I feel like captains always have accents.

Tommy: Oh, he was, um, he was Asian. He, he might— I don't think he was from Singapore, but he'd been a captain for a, you know, a long time, and he's so friendly, so lovely, just loves what he does. Loves it.

Josh: Was he all dressed up?

Tommy: No, he was in like a white jumpsuit. And so, yeah, he wasn't rocky. He wasn't the traditional captain of a ship that you'd think, you know, just like a bit sort of toffee, you know, like, we're going to the high sea.

Josh: Like, he wasn't like that?

Mason: Not at all.

Tommy: He was like, you know, super friendly.

Josh: Like, is it so cool to think that it's like, it's a huge responsibility? Dude, I mean, the guy in Italy fucked up. Was it Italy?

Tommy: Oh, the one that Casey Neistat went to. Oh, that's right. Went onto a reef and then—

Josh: Yeah, it was the one that he wasn't the last one out, you know, like the rule is like, oh yeah, yeah, you've got to fucking make sure everyone's off. Yeah, he's just like, no, we're going down.

Tommy: I was thinking about that on the plane. Um, I was thinking about like, what if I just like— the fire started and I just wanted to be first one out, you know? I just wanted to get—

Josh: You're a captain?

Tommy: No, just a passenger. Like, you think about when an emergency happens, how people just get into survival mode. And so they disregard the gronk to the left, the gronk to the right. They're just like, I'm out, I'm getting out, I'm going to climb over all you other gronks to get straight out.

Josh: No, I get that. I remember watching one of those flight crash investigation things and they talk about the— where a lot of people go wrong is when they crash into the water, everyone's too premature on the inflatable life jacket. Gotta wait until you're outside the plane before you—

Tommy: That's so funny.

Josh: People would put it on and the water's gonna— it's a nightmare.

Tommy: Well, because last night I was looking at the guy that as he's doing his thing, his name is King. His first name was King.

Josh: The captain?

Tommy: No, the stewardess. Oh, the stewardess. Yeah, the steward on the, on the plane, on the flight attendant. Um, his name was King. But anyway, he put the life jacket on And then the audio was saying, only inflate when you get out. And I was thinking, imagine—

Josh: I was thinking that, imagine if you're so annoying you can't get through the fucking window. Ah, it'd be a nightmare.

Tommy: Anyways, good trip, but I enjoyed seeing little Bodhi when I got home because he's just— he's fully talking now, just saying so many words.

Josh: What's he saying?

Tommy: Where's my bicky? Where's Josh? But he knows, he knows he gets the bickies from Josh. Yeah, that's crazy.

Josh: I wanted to set up—

Tommy: you're his bicky dealer. But he, he's been saying a bunch of stuff and some of it's like nonsensical, but a lot of it's becoming sensical. I mean, very much like his dad. But he says this one thing where I've actually thought it's, it's a good— it's a— it makes sense why he uses it. So the, the phrase is last morning. So he says, oh, um, last morning, uh, you know, I did this. And I was like, why? Yeah, why isn't it last morning when it's Like last night. Yeah, yesterday morning. Why is it not last morning?

Josh: Yeah, it's a good point, Bodhi.

Tommy: Mate, you know, we're having this conversation, I was like, he's got a good point. I see what— where he's stuffed up. He's just using last night.

Josh: Can you try and find out, 97, what that would mean?

Mason: Yeah, I've actually got another one for you as well. It's sort of on a similar vein, but it's why is goodnight written as one word together but good morning separated? Interesting. Why?

Josh: Why?

Tommy: Let me click on it.

Josh: He went halfway there. While he does, while he tries to work that out.

Tommy: What did you do last morning?

Josh: No, this morning.

Tommy: This morning.

Josh: How about this morning? I'll tell you what happened this morning. Was driving the car, your recommendation, rather than getting an Uber.

Tommy: Oh, yeah.

Josh: Worked out fine. Overstayed in the car spot, didn't get a fine, so it was all good.

Tommy: That's winning.

Josh: But got to the garage door of our place at home and was fumbling for my keys. I keep, when I wear my hoodie, I've got my hoodie off now because it's quite warm.

Tommy: 25.

Josh: When I had my hoodie on, I keep my keys in there and I was sort of fumbling for it and then just pressed the remote button and it went up. The thing is that the remote that I pressed was our office garage remote.

Tommy: You're way too far away.

Mason: You—

Tommy: it's a suburb away.

Josh: No, the door opened. The garage door went up.

Tommy: Okay, hang on, hang on. So you— they're different frequencies. It shouldn't have happened. Did you— is there any way—

Josh: you know it's different frequencies. You don't know how it works, do you?

Tommy: So the, the— it's set to a So inside, it's like our fans, they have a frequency. So it's like on its own, like it's— But so the thing is, it could be the same for the door, but it's highly unlikely. That's super unlikely.

Josh: And so then I drove through and I was like, I've got to cheque this again. So I'm like, maybe someone behind me. No one's behind me, whatever. Go through, park. Press it again, it goes back up again.

Tommy: So our office remote, which—

Josh: So then I tried when you were downstairs meditating in the car.

Tommy: Annoying, interrupted my meditation.

Josh: I was trying to use my house key to try and open the garage, not working.

Tommy: And it didn't work?

Josh: No, it works the other way.

Tommy: So I need to cheque again because if that's the case I'd love it if there's just some guy in his car just watching you do it and he's just pressing it every time you press it.

Josh: It's pretty outrageous though. Have you— I mean, as a kid, I feel like that was the dream. I feel like the very first time we had a remote control for our garage, I would take it out and just go to straight like houses and it would never work. Never worked. But you hear storeys of it working.

Tommy: It's probably— that's probably— it's— it is probably an issue. With the remote.

Josh: Well, what about, remember the, um, analogue phones?

Tommy: The analogue phones.

Josh: If you turned up when the old wireless analogue phones, like landlines, you could turn off the base station and then it would just connect to another base station. And so you could basically, uh, unplug— like, I would unplug our base station and then press the talk button and you could hear If someone had the same phone nearby, you could hear their call. Oh, that's cool. It was so much fun.

Tommy: The— There used to be wristwatch, wristwatches that you could—

Josh: Remotes.

Tommy: Yeah, you could dial into the television.

Josh: They were so— The number, the dial, like the actual keypad was so small. Very impractical.

Tommy: Oh, stupid.

Josh: So, I did have the TV Be Gone, TV-B-Gone, that was a A remote that could turn off anything.

Tommy: You can do, you can do, there's an app on a phone.

Mason: Yeah, on Samsung phones they had infrared receivers and senders or whatever, transmitters, and you could go to TVs and in the city and stuff and turn them off.

Tommy: Did you find out about last morning?

Mason: Yeah. Okay, so last morning means this morning.

Tommy: Okay, because the last one.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: Was last night. So, tonight, can you say No, because you're amongst the night. You can't say last night referring to the now.

Mason: So that's why, because it doesn't make sense if you say last morning because it's the morning that you just had.

Tommy: Because as soon as it ticks over 11:59 AM, it becomes noon.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: Into the day.

Josh: And so what about that good night/good morning thing?

Mason: Yeah, I couldn't find much of an update on that.

Josh: I mean, you brought that one up. That was the one that you—

Mason: Yeah, but it was on Quora and the bloke answering it.

Josh: Had no clue.

Mason: Yeah, he had no idea.

Josh: What other questions is he answering?

Mason: Let me go to his account.

Tommy: Some weird units on Quora.

Josh: Quora, I, um, I like Quora though. A lot less scumbags on Quora than Yahoo Answers.

Tommy: I thought you were going to say than the scumbags on Wikipedia, Wikipedia altering the Wikipedia.

Josh: Wikipedia is fine. No, but Yahoo Answers, low-level quality of answer.

Tommy: I don't like— I've never gone actively just for something. It's usually in a search when I've searched into Google.

Josh: No one goes to Yahoo Answers and then types in. It's like Urban Dictionary. No one goes to Urban urbandictionary.com, you go to Google, type it in, and then you end up there.

Tommy: I mean, I have done— I've looked up some shit on Urban Dictionary, but it's only because you're trying to get something out of it. Like, you're trying to find it.

Josh: Like, what's the definition of Tommy?

Tommy: What's the definition of gronk? That's, that's on Urban Dictionary. Um, this— I want to lay out a scenario of— it could be gronk behavior, might not be, but I want to see what you think, Mr. 97, also. Um, I didn't do this, I'll preface, but I thought about it. I wanted to do it. I was driving to the office today and I was eating a mandarin. Good mandarins at the moment.

Josh: They're very good, aren't they?

Tommy: This mandarin, riddled with pips. Like, riddled.

Josh: 107 wouldn't have been able to cope.

Tommy: No, mate, try drive— I mean, you don't drive. Try driving and de-pipping. In your mouth while thinking about what you're doing, while trying to stay safe.

Josh: And how many are we talking?

Tommy: Every single thing had 2 minimum. Minimum.

Josh: That's not bad.

Tommy: Minimum. Minimum. Some had 3. You can do—

Josh: okay, minimum.

Tommy: Minimum 2.

Mason: No, but the pieces in the mandarin, the slices aren't that big. 2 to 3 pips is like—

Tommy: I, I had a handful by the end of it.

Josh: What's the deal with pips? Why are they there?

Tommy: I don't know. The seeds, isn't it? The seeds?

Josh: Are they the seeds that have been used to grow it?

Mason: I think so. Yeah.

Josh: And they just sort of stick around.

Tommy: A fun little fact, Amy pointed up at a, like a guttering that had grass coming out of it up on a roof.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: And she said, you know how that happens? I said, how? She said, birds are shitting out seeds that they eat and then it grows the grass when they're pooing.

Josh: That's cool.

Tommy: In the guttering. But anyway, so I spat these into my hand, but I was like, Is it okay, or is it a Gronkh move, Gronkh behavior, if I every pip spit out the window? I can't— is that—

Josh: yeah, collect and then throw.

Tommy: Collect and throw. Yeah, I'm glad I did.

Josh: Hashtag collect and throw. Grab and throw. Grab and throw.

Tommy: I'm glad I did that. So you wouldn't spit? No, because then the thing about the spitting bit is that people see you like, like doing this full-on, like, because then you could just be spitting furiously. Viciously. But I did. I mean, the other Gronkh movies that I pushed in the line at the airport this morning.

Josh: Why?

Tommy: Oh, it was just a bloody bottleneck at customs getting out. My bags fucking took forever.

Josh: So how did you cut through?

Tommy: Oh, they sent us on this wild goose chase, like around the back of a—

Josh: Where did wild goose chase come from? Why did we, why do we say that?

Tommy: Why do we say that? Yeah, too many questions today. So I went Anyway, I followed this thing. Actually, I jumped ahead because I was like, I need to get to that spot where the bags will then be sent and I can grab it and quickly get into the new line. And so there wasn't anyone in this new line yet, so I went around. But then my bags took 15 or 20 minutes, so this line had just bloody increased. And then I just got my bags and just slipped in.

Josh: Yeah, I wouldn't do it. Wrong move. Why not? Yeah, no, just because everyone's waiting. Yeah, I even had an issue the, um The way that the consulate works is they— Consulate? Consulate. Consulate.

Tommy: Consulate.

Josh: Consulate.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: Anyway.

Tommy: Look at Mason, but he—

Josh: He has no idea.

Tommy: He's still trying to work out good night, good morning, whatever you say.

Josh: No, but they— The way they do it is you're lining up and say you're in line and your appointment's at 9:00 AM, they'll say anyone for 8:45 and then those people come forward. So, it descends— incentivises people coming late because they can just go through to the front.

Tommy: Yeah, I wouldn't make—

Josh: It's like, you know, when you go to the airport and they'll start yelling, anyone from the 6 PM flight to Sydney? 6 PM flight? And then there's always a couple.

Tommy: They get you through. So, yeah. So, then the line doesn't really matter at that point. But for like airports, usually there's no like that. You can't push into the consulate.

Josh: No, it's not gonna happen. A lady tried to. She was— they kept saying 9 AM and she was 9:15. She was in front of me.

Tommy: Oh, yeah.

Josh: And she just like, they'd say, oh, 9 AM. She'd be like, ah, like she'd just like act dumb or whatever and then start doing like, no, 9 AM, like, oh, 9:15.

Tommy: But then, oh, my thumb was over the 15.

Josh: Every single time she— it happened every time. But what about when we were leaving Melbourne to go to Sydney? The, uh, the fact that we nearly missed the flight. Like, when I say nearly, we, uh, we didn't have, um, lounge access because I only have access to give one person lounge access, and we weren't gonna let Mr. 97 stay on his own, baby stay out on his own.

Tommy: We should have, in hindsight.

Josh: I know you're pushing for it. You did a whole scissor, paper, rock.

Tommy: I would have been happy if I, if I was left out to fend for myself in the airport based on a paper, scissors, rock, I would have been fine with it. If I lost that, I would have been fine with that.

Josh: I think I literally did say, I did say to them, can these two, can these two babies, especially Tommy, because he's got to go in otherwise he'll be upset, can he go in and have the salami and I go out? They said no. So we, so I, so we, it was either we all go in or none of us. But, um, the thing is that when you're in a lounge, you get used to people them saying over the announcements, final call, anyone flying Sydney, you know, would they have done a final call for us or just close the doors?

Tommy: Because we had bags checked, some of us, you did, or one.

Josh: Yeah, so they would have, I'm guessing they would have probably called out our names, but we, um, we started walking, we're like, ah, it's like, um, we're, we're meant to be boarding or something soon, let's just go over. And we got there and it said there was no one there, no one in the whole gate, and it just said gate closed.

Tommy: And you don't want to see the fucking gate closed. You were, uh, because I've been the person at the front counter where I got in within a minute to spare and the person rocks up behind me and they barred her.

Josh: So you had to—

Tommy: it can literally be one minute. Like, if they weren't— if they were just a bit shitty. Yeah, this is the thing, these are all humans.

Josh: If they'd gone through and said— well, it's also process-driven, so if they'd said, oh, we've actually taken— your bags are being taken off right now, we've just found them. There is probably a benefit to having the checked bags because it's—

Tommy: yeah, it helps.

Josh: They can't fly the plane with luggage if the person—

Tommy: yeah, I've been exceptionally lucky, but I don't like lines. My wife said it to me, the person I was travelling with even said it.

Josh: It's something you don't like.

Tommy: I don't like lines. I got to Aldi the other morning, mate. What is a line out the front of Aldi doing on a Saturday morning? 9:00, like it opens at what time? 8:30? Uh, 8:30, 20— it was 8:25.

Mason: It's because they released their special savers.

Tommy: Oh, don't they? You should have seen these gronks all running in.

Josh: What were they trying to do?

Tommy: And all of a sudden I see them lounge or something. Yeah, yes, yes, mate, they were pulling fucking sun loungers off. This person's like, I want two of these egg, egg things that were the big egg, um, egg chairs. Yeah, that are hanging on a chain.

Josh: Yeah, sure.

Tommy: Oh my God, you should have seen like, oh, just—

Josh: that's funny.

Tommy: Middle-aged, overweight, just like nearly doing their back. Oh, can we get more of these? And then one was like, oh, do you have any left? And then they're calling around stores. It's like a thing, right? Is that a thing at Aldi?

Mason: Like, oh yeah, you should, you should see when they've got, um, the ski sales, the snow, snow. It's ridiculous.

Josh: Just like toboggans or what are people—

Mason: Yeah, you can get toboggans, you can get helmets, you can get, uh, snowboard and ski pants and jackets. Ridiculous.

Tommy: It'd be great to have like a, um, Mr. 97. He goes every special, he goes every month, brings back—

Josh: When is the Aldi special?

Mason: They do them on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Tommy: Okay, Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Mason: Wednesdays.

Tommy: When is the—

Mason: Usually like Wednesdays are sort of like basic sort of products that no one really cares about, and then they do all their big releases on Saturdays.

Josh: When do people get their dole payments?

Tommy: Thursdays. There are heaps of kids in school, they're just like, I can't do anything until Thursday. I get it. Um, how do you find out about the special though?

Mason: You can sign up to their newsletter and they'll send it. So next weekend they've got like ceiling fans and light bulbs and solar fence lights.

Josh: A lot of stuff, isn't there?

Tommy: So just like, just just anti-minimalism, like these, these lounges, like these, like this is when you drive through a suburb that's doing—

Josh: We're laughing at—

Mason: No, I think, Josh, you'd love it. I reckon you'd see something, you'd be like, oh yeah, motor oil, we could do with some of that.

Josh: Oh, $10. Yeah. I mean, OzBargain, I do like OzBargain, but I rarely— I'm more of a window shopper. I don't actually buy the stuff.

Mason: Yeah.

Tommy: But the thing is, you No, because you love to go and find the cheaper version somewhere else. And then now there's a chase.

Mason: No, you'd like the aisle in the middle. It's like window shopping. You can just walk past and look at all— Oh, there's something over there. There's something— You'd love it.

Josh: Yeah, we did go to the $2 shop to get the US flags. Oh yeah. And I just randomly asked the lady, do you sell yo-yos? Nearly bought a yo-yo.

Tommy: No, you had no intention of buying that yo-yo. You were just in nostalgia mode.

Josh: Yeah, I just wanted to see it. If it was one that I recognised, I would like a glow-in-the-dark one. Was it called the Spot?

Tommy: There was a specific one I'm trying to I remember what it was called.

Josh: If you know, hi@thedailytalkshow.com.

Tommy: Um, oh, oh, oh, oh, fuck, the Brain, the Brain.

Josh: Was it called the Brain?

Tommy: The Brain yo-yo.

Josh: Can you type in the Brain yo-yo?

Tommy: Brain yo-yo.

Josh: And how much for me?

Tommy: Dude, they got banned in school, like yo-yos.

Josh: They were pre— they were primo.

Tommy: Kids were stealing them, kids were fighting over them.

Josh: It's not called the Spider?

Tommy: No, the Brain.

Mason: No, I reckon the Brain. Yeah, there's literally a brain on the side. Is that the one?

Tommy: It was just called Brain, the Brain.

Josh: Oh, Inspector Green.

Mason: Is it green?

Tommy: There was many colors.

Josh: Color in the dark maybe?

Mason: Yeah, $12 to $24.

Tommy: Some of them spin down the bottom for longer.

Josh: Actually, the one and only time I've ever stolen anything. Oh yeah? No, it wasn't even at a shop. I've never stolen anything at a shop in my life, but they were the— fuck, what were they called? They look like teeth, like little monster things, like they were—

Tommy: Fake teeth?

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: Or the things that chatter?

Josh: No, no, no, no, no, no. It's almost like big molars. They're like—

Tommy: Oh, like fake ones that you wear? No, costume?

Josh: No, they were— What were the big things?

Tommy: He just— He wasn't— He didn't grow up when we did.

Josh: What's it— They're plastic and they could be different colours and you would like throw them.

Tommy: That's slap?

Josh: Not Tarzos. No, no, no, they were like hard. Anyway, I, um, it's gonna annoy me until I figure out.

Tommy: We'll spend the rest of the day thinking about it.

Josh: Uh, but I Basically, I got right into them. You have like glittery ones, like all that sort of thing. And, um, I just remember, uh, some kids were playing a game and I was like, these, they're so dumb, they're not looking at them. And when they were all arguing over who got them, I just grabbed them. Anyway, I was so guilty about it, I ended up throwing them in the bag room.

Tommy: Oh yeah, that's a good one.

Josh: Just then it's like, oh, and then some other kids like Yeah, I can't remember what they were called. Monsters? No, not monsters.

Tommy: Knuckles. Knuckles.

Josh: Knuckles. Knuckles.

Tommy: Yeah, they were weird, man.

Josh: Yeah, you know why I thought like molar, like they're sort of similar sort of vibe.

Tommy: They could look like a tooth. Yeah, yeah, but they were— yeah, they were green. There was the green ones, red ones. You got like a little bag for them. What weird shit the, the stuff nowadays is like.

Josh: Oogies.

Tommy: Ooshies, mate. They're Yeah, they're ridiculous.

Josh: Uh, '97.

Mason: I had these, I remember them.

Josh: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're great, weren't they? Yeah, I loved like the, the bags they came in. You'd like tear it open and stuff.

Tommy: It's the same now as the little shit, they're called Jacks. Yeah, it wasn't called it now, time, buddy.

Josh: I don't even know if it was called Knuckles actually, it was something like Knuckle Bones. Bones, not bones, bones, Knuckle Bones.

Tommy: Definitely, they were Knuckles or Bones. Knuckle Bones, like it's replicating the knuckle bone. I can't remember.

Mason: Yeah.

Tommy: That weird little thing.

Josh: Uh, '97. Uh, LA's in a few weeks. We were going to do a fun LA fact every single episode leading up.

Mason: I completely forgot about that.

Tommy: I mean, bury it. Just say, yeah guys, I actually was thinking about just Yahoo Answers. Ask a question.

Mason: Los Angeles means the angels in Spanish.

Tommy: Yeah, City of Angels.

Josh: That's shit.

Mason: One more.

Josh: Maybe something this time.

Tommy: I don't mind that. I actually didn't know that. Did you know that?

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: You knew that Los Angeles was angels.

Josh: If people asked what does it mean, I wouldn't know.

Tommy: But if someone said that's what it means, I would be like, yeah, you cannot say you knew. I knew it was called the City of Angels, but that's just it.

Josh: He prompted the bit in my mind where I'm like, actually, I do know that.

Tommy: I just— nah, that's so much bullshit. That's like me giving you a maths equation and I answer it, you're like, yeah, exactly that.

Josh: No, like, I know if it's right, and that is right. But I can't— couldn't remember it. It's like the knucklebones thing. So you had in mind you had heard— I knew the answer. It doesn't help you with Los Angeles.

Tommy: Spanish. It's a Spanish term for angels. You actually had heard it. You heard it packaged up like that.

Josh: Spanish for City of Angels.

Mason: The Angel.

Tommy: The Angel. So yeah, we've heard City of Angels. It's in like, you know, they talk about in songs and shit.

Josh: So I'm sure I've heard that fact, which is what I'm saying.

Tommy: Well, but he can't come. Well, I don't think you can confirm. I didn't mind it. I liked it.

Josh: It was nice. Do you have another one?

Tommy: Great.

Mason: Well, it's not on this day, but while in February 1978, a foot of rain fell in 24 hours across the city. Poor geez, foot of rain. Jesus Christ, so much.

Tommy: I mean, if it's my foot, it's unbelievable.

Josh: Your foot, 12 and a half. I heard an interesting quote the other day, uh, An inch is quick, a foot isn't. I can't remember, it was something very good. It's basically like, can you look that up? An inch is a cinch.

Tommy: What happened to the quick bit?

Josh: Like, so, standby.

Mason: Inch by inch, life's a cinch.

Josh: No, it's not the same. There's some sort of saying where it's like the Going a little bit is easy. Yeah. Going a long way is hard.

Tommy: Yeah. Oh, give an inch, you'll take a mile.

Josh: No, no, an inch is a cinch, a yard is hard. It's all old.

Tommy: An inch is cinch, a yard is hard.

Mason: It's actually— I mean, my one was correct. Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life is hard.

Tommy: That's the long—

Mason: so I had the—

Josh: it was more so poetic. Anyway, that's good. Uh, thanks for the—

Mason: no, I got an even better one. It's illegal to lick a toad in the City of Angels.

Josh: Really? Being Los Angeles.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: Would you lick a toe?

Mason: No, I wouldn't.

Tommy: No, you don't want to fucking lick a toad.

Mason: Toad. Not toe.

Josh: No, toad.

Tommy: T-O-A-D. So it's— I wonder if that's based on people getting high from licking toads.

Mason: Would you get high?

Josh: Was that a Simpsons— that was just a Simpsons episode? No, that actually happened.

Tommy: That's a real thing.

Josh: The thing.

Tommy: Okay, you can— yeah, there is. But why would you lick a toad? Like, that's Like, just really at that point, risking licking it.

Josh: I mean, heroin.

Tommy: Yeah, I mean, I think it'd be safer to take a bit of heroin under supervision.

Josh: Under supervision, yeah. But a toad, I don't know, that seems like a thing that if you've got a toad that it wouldn't be under supervision.

Tommy: Yeah, because you're gonna have to creep out the bushes fucking—

Josh: oh, toad! Unless it was sort of administered by—

Tommy: dogs get fucked up from licking toes. Look it up, man. Look at dogs licking toads. Dogs licking toads as a YouTube video getting high. Anyway, yeah, they excrete something out of their glands that then— it's weird. Toads are fucked.

Josh: Um, anyway, do you find anything on that or no?

Mason: Oh yeah, I'm just watching the video.

Josh: Okay, all right, well, uh, it's personal time over there now. Uh, if you want to send us an email, hi@thedailytalkshow.com. If you've got any suggestions where we should go into, uh, go to in Los Angeles, if you've got any suggestions of people that we should have on the show, we've got a big list that we're currently working through.

Tommy: It's happening. Yeah, that's about it.

Josh: Yeah, that's it. That's the Daily Talk Show. We'll see you tomorrow, guys.

Tommy: See you guys.