Party Planning

Tommy: The Daily Talk Show. It's The Daily Talk Show, episode 484.

Josh: And if you aren't watching this and you're listening to this, you've made the right decision.

Tommy: Uh, if you're wondering why I'm breathing heavily, I just— I did a dab as a way to represent weekend banter. It's, uh, it's Sunday.

Josh: Uh, we're dedicating this to BK's Tesla, this episode.

Tommy: I didn't realise BK, we, he used to work across the road.

Josh: We used to work across the road from him because he technically still works there.

Tommy: So, so, so he works on Easy Street. He actually, his office is a train.

Josh: It's amazing. It's in one of the old recycled trains which they've put on top. Easy's Burgers is in one of them. It's a, it's a good spot.

Tommy: And so BK has a business around salary sacrifice and stuff, but it's sort of an environmental spin on the whole thing, trying to do good, good for the world.

Josh: And he went vegan, full vegan.

Tommy: Yeah, I think he still is. I'm guessing.

Josh: Well, as in, like, I remember him transitioning to the vegan, you know, you always hear it. Well, sorry, BK, but it's a mate. Hats off to you. Like, sticking at that.

Tommy: I mean, during Christmas, he was saying that he was going to turn off the show because we were giving away a turkey.

Josh: Mate, no, we gave away a ham.

Tommy: Ham. I'm so sorry.

Josh: And we had to do it. And will we give away hams in the future?

Tommy: Maybe. But anyway, so there was a bit of a— it wasn't a joke at first, but you had told me, yeah, BK has a Tesla.

Josh: Well, no, I think, I think I legitimately— maybe he like was trolling me. Maybe he mentioned something. Oh no, no, he got a Tesla given to him.

Tommy: He won one. No, no, no, for a week or something.

Josh: Oh, did he? Yeah, maybe. Because I saw on, um, yeah, the test drive Tesla.

Tommy: What's his business called again?

Josh: Simply Green.

Tommy: Simply Green.

Josh: Salary package. Yeah, so he had he had a Tesla in his possession for some time and he was taking photos of it. So I was like, he's got a Tesla. I don't know anyone that's got a Tesla. That's cool. BK's got a Tesla.

Tommy: And so that was the thing that when you talked about BK ever, it's like, fuck, we need to get in his Tesla, mate.

Josh: I want to get in a Tesla. Still do. Haven't been in one.

Tommy: And so I've been in one. It's great. But the funny thing is we caught up with him once and I made some reference about the Tesla and he was like, guys, I don't have a Tesla.

Josh: Because he heard us talk about us talking about him having many times.

Tommy: And so he was— there was an embarrassing moment where we had to— we sort of realised this.

Josh: But we doubled down on it. We doubled down on the whole Tesla thing. It was the joke, you mate. You know, I get it. You do have it.

Tommy: He's just playing.

Josh: Yeah, whatever. Where's your Tesla keys?

Tommy: But anyway, we We got an Instagram DM from him the other day, just this week. And it's a, um, it must have been Monday or Tuesday, and it was a photo of a Tesla and the number plate was BK. And he said something like, it's finally happened.

Josh: He's a part of the Squeegee Keyring cult.

Tommy: Yes.

Josh: So he's an OG Gronkh.

Tommy: And so he sends that photo. What did you, did you see the photo? 97?

Mason: Yeah. It's literally like the front of the Tesla and his number plate.

Tommy: And so what did you think when you, we got that?

Mason: Well, I mean, I saw the number plate and I was sold when I saw his number plate because it was his.

Josh: It's— yes, it's—

Mason: it's personalised hyphen BK.

Tommy: And so I thought, uh, I reckon, um, he must have found a Tesla that has BK on it and these mates have sent it to him. But then on Friday we regrammed the storey of him like the Tesla steering wheel, and then it's us on YouTube on the screen.

Josh: I didn't know Teslas had TVs. I want to go on a Tesla even more now, and I want to go on BK's Tesla. Did we bully him into doing this? Did we like, did we say— it's like, yeah, I think pretending like this kid has got a holiday— he's always talked about a holiday house that he has, and then he just— his parents bought one.

Tommy: Is that— has that happened?

Josh: No, shit analogy. Yes, I brought it up.

Tommy: Terrible.

Josh: I mean, we can just use this, this case study of our mate who we said had a Tesla and finally got one. Yeah, no, but it's unbelievable.

Tommy: I think it'd be great to maybe do an episode from the back of the Tesla. That would be, that would be good fun. Episode 500, the, the tickets, the tickets have sold out. However, we are doing an extra Sunday ticket run. So there's a couple— we've done the classic thing of spoken to Lawrence from AU79, mate, can you fit more seats? And so we're doing— it's like 20 more.

Josh: Yeah, it's happening.

Tommy: And so I guess we need to figure— so fucking, we know that we said tickets are basically gone on Friday and they have been gone on Saturday, but we've released some more. Now we need to actually sort out what we're doing for the event. So what have we got dialled in? What have we worked out so far?

Josh: So I will be attending the doctor, as will you. We'll book you in, and you, Mr. 97, will book you in, and bulk billing clinic, which will be fine. And what we need to do is go and get our referral, and this referral is so that we don't have to pay to then go and get a blood test at a pathologist. So we can go to pathology.

Tommy: Pathology.

Josh: Yeah, pathology. And so we'll get a blood test. Yeah, and, um, so the GP doesn't actually take it themselves? No, GPs don't take—

Tommy: no, that's what I was saying. I'm fine.

Josh: Depends, like, a GP can take blood, but they're not going to. You need to go to a pathology clinic. They send it off to the lab and stuff. So then we got to go back to the doctor because the—

Tommy: to analyse it.

Josh: Well, they'll give us a result sheet.

Tommy: So the issue, can we actually do, like, I know we want to see who's got the most amount of testosterone. How do we feel about having a few other key health indicators? Vitamin D?

Josh: Sure, sure, sure. I mean, this is—

Mason: do you want to do cholesterol?

Josh: Well, the thing is, one of us needs to go to actually start this to see what they'll provide us in the one.

Tommy: So I've definitely—

Mason: I'm happy to go do that. I was on Friday, I was just sussing out, I was just calling a place around the corner to cheque it out.

Tommy: There's a place around the fucking corner, I think, to get our blood test.

Mason: I don't know, like the place around the corner thing Mate, they've got a place in Richmond.

Josh: It's a bulk billing. You just go to any of them, they're clean. We're in Australia.

Tommy: I know, I know, I know.

Josh: What's your problem?

Tommy: So I just think that potentially the idea of just going to a medical place and doing it versus like, we know Harper, we know all these things.

Josh: I asked him, he said the exact thing to do. I've asked him a long time ago. Harper said go to a GP, tell them that you want to get your testosterone levels tested but with a bunch of other stuff. And that will do it for you.

Tommy: I don't know, I just thought that maybe there was an opportunity to— if there was a podcast listener who has a hookup, is a pathologist or fucking, I don't know, a GP or something, just so I don't have to go to the fucking— I don't go to the doctor for anything.

Mason: Where is your— do you know, do you have a GP or do you just—

Tommy: Dr. Borm, my—

Josh: I don't—

Tommy: my family doctor.

Josh: I—

Tommy: he would be like, oh my God, God, like, uh, you've changed a lot. Like, the last time I was there was probably like fucking 13 years old.

Josh: I mean, I bumped into the GP, local GP, who's inspected my penis that many times as a kid. Uh, that sounds weird. I've never had my penis— I had my balls twisted once, checked them out. Is there—

Mason: did you have to go into surgery?

Josh: No, luckily untwisted, bro.

Tommy: So we talk about— I mean, Amy criticised the other day about smut, and you've gone straight to balls.

Josh: No, but it was the actual sack. No, the whole intestines, certainly intestines, testicle. So then there's a twist. It is the most painful fucking thing. Oh my God, I know a kid who had to do surgery to get rid of it. But you gotta man up, you gotta stop being a baby. We're going to the GP, we're getting it. On the balls thing, Mason and I, you just, me and you will do it. Yeah, and then he'll just be a fucking idiot if he doesn't.

Tommy: This is the thing, so you guys are all going to go together?

Josh: No, no, no, no.

Tommy: Okay, I'll just fucking do it. No, but my point is the Victoria Street. I don't know, any— so the thing about GPs, no, but it's just a referral, mate.

Josh: You're literally going and saying, hi mate, I want to get my testosterone tested, can I have a, um, referral for blood test? He says— she says thumbs up.

Tommy: Yeah. Do you reckon we could, um, maybe there's something in the folliculitis thing as well?

Josh: I mean, you don't want to bog it down. You could have it.

Mason: I mean, swab your head.

Josh: I mean, you could find out, you could find somebody to come and do a diagnosis on the night. Which is a bit much. We don't— I mean, we're going to release the testosterone thing and whoever wins gets $10 grand.

Tommy: That's not true.

Mason: And so, and Gemma was announcing that?

Josh: No, I wanted the kid from, um, ah, Nathan. I want Nathan, who announced on the video that we made at the athlete's foot of who has the bigger foot. So I thought he could just be our, our go-to guy who announces.

Tommy: Maybe Gemma could Announce vitamin D or cholesterol?

Josh: No, I think, I think Gemma will work out what Queen Kronk Gemma is up to, but I think to start with—

Mason: Great, so I gotta message Nath to—

Josh: Let's lock it in. I mean, it might even be a trip to Shoppo to tell him in person, really just ambush him. Ambush him, we go to Shoppo. This is— So the story, backstory is Josh and I had a silly little tiff about who has a bigger foot, and we were walking past the Athlete's Foot and we thought Fuck, how, how good would it be if we actually got it measured? One of those machines. I thought it was going to be the old school thing. Turns out it's some digital footprint thing. And so they give you really accurate. And this young bloke, he was just—

Tommy: Nathan.

Josh: Nathan was keen.

Tommy: Is it Nathan?

Josh: So Nathan was up for it. Turns out we got moochies.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: And so, and so, yeah. Anyway, he gave us the announcement of who has the bigger foot.

Tommy: And so you, you won by like a very small number.

Mason: It's a whole size.

Josh: Yeah, it's not a small number. Small number is 0.5 or small number is like we're the same on both sides.

Tommy: Well, the funny thing is that I think—

Josh: Whole size bigger on both feet?

Tommy: No, not on both feet, I don't think. Anyway, I don't give a fuck.

Josh: Actually, no, no, no.

Tommy: Why? It's funny.

Josh: So I think we keep it to this specific— we keep it specific for the reveal. And then we've also got Hayden Dibb, who's getting a tattoo during the show of the Daily Talk Show.

Tommy: And so we need to organise the tattooist. Yeah, we need to, um, what else do we need to organize?

Josh: We're trying to crowdsource, we kind of crowdsource or crowd organize. I wonder if that's a thing, get a bunch of gronks on to help organize. Yeah, so if you've got any suggestions for the 500th, you can let us know at hi@thedailytalkshow.com.

Tommy: Do you think that we have a projector on the night where we can play out— so I was thinking, I, I did that video, live video behind— well, no, so I did the EP400, uh, highlights video. I feel like I should spend like a day putting together an EP500 video with all some of the 400 stuff and some of the new things We had the bleaching of your hair and a bunch of other stuff that we did.

Josh: A lot of requests to have that done again.

Tommy: Yeah, that's good.

Josh: I think you should.

Tommy: And, but how do we feel about having a mechanism to be able to play video clips on a projector?

Josh: I'd love that. I'd love that.

Tommy: Okay, so I can organise that. I think that's something that could be in my responsibilities.

Josh: A PA system, if that needs to get done. So we'll be up there on— we'll be up there on—

Tommy: it's like a wooden stage.

Josh: Nice little stage elevated area. Yeah, it's— but then, yeah, we need a bit of audio pumping out to the crowd.

Tommy: And so then we'll have how many seats? We'll have like 100 seats all sort of set up and there's some sections in the booth, like a booth area.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: I don't know how we're going to deal who gets the booth.

Josh: We actually have to have somebody organizing, like people. Managing the people coming in.

Tommy: Yeah, so we can't—

Josh: need a few gronks to help out with being ushers. So I mean, we've got our go-tos, which are Amy and Bree. They're our go-to gronks.

Tommy: Yeah, I haven't asked Bree yet.

Josh: No, I haven't asked Amy yet. I'm sure they just want to have a lovely night.

Tommy: And, uh, well, what could we, uh—

Josh: I mean, so there's one more thing we haven't officially asked, but this show is where we officially ask people. Our show baker.

Tommy: Oh yeah, Alex.

Josh: Alex.

Tommy: What are you wanting?

Josh: We need your services as the show baker.

Tommy: The cake.

Josh: We need a cake. We need a 500 cake, whether it's 500 kilos, whether it's 500 grams, whether it has something—

Mason: sugar—

Josh: whether it's got 500 on it. The theme is 500, obviously.

Tommy: What about—

Josh: there has to be something. It's hundreds and thousands. That's, that's, uh, that doesn't work.

Tommy: And so '97, I'm thinking we bring that whole mixer to the event.

Mason: Yeah, yeah. No, I think that's a great idea.

Josh: Other—

Mason: well, we're gonna— it's gonna be problematic otherwise. Yeah, so I need that many inputs and outputs.

Tommy: So then we have the mixer. I think we can have some microphones. I think we could have some microphones. It would be good— I think we could speak to RØDE or Store DJ radio microphones, like a handheld, to get a handheld so we can have that around.

Josh: Mr. 97, I'd love him in a headset, the, the aeroplane headset. So he's walking around.

Tommy: So RØDE doesn't do that, so we'll have to The thing is, we'll need to—

Josh: Yeah, find somebody. But yeah, so we have either Mr. 97 in a headset and a bum bag and he walks around and he hands out. So like we get him in the crowd. We got Gronk over there. Fucking Gronk Trev, he's over there. Can you go give him the microphone? And so you're just out there with sort of interacting. Oh, it's exciting. How are you feeling about the night, Mr. 97?

Mason: Like, yeah, I'm excited.

Josh: You've got a few of the Coconut Crew coming to support.

Mason: Yeah, Jason and Andre coming.

Josh: Appreciate that.

Tommy: How do you feel about like— I'm just geeking out in the technology. Okay. I could have— we could have like almost a— so we could have the headset microphone to get headphones so you can hear everything that's happening. And I'll get you a pack where you can turn the mic off and on because you might be wanting to talk to people or things like that, or moments where you don't want to patch through.

Mason: Yeah, yeah.

Tommy: And so there'll be moments where you'll be able to press the button, like, so we'll talk to you and then you'll be able to turn on your mic, unmute your mic, be able to talk. Now the trick is going to be you're going to have your mic and there's going to be the wireless mic. You don't need to talk into the wireless mic as well. You give them that mic and you can just be talking into your one. I'll make it— I'll add some compression and stuff so you sound good.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: The concern I have is you cannot turn the microphone on if you're too close to the speakers. Oh, if it's real, if we get any fucking feedback it just looks bad. It's amateur hour, which is—

Josh: this actually is also with feedback for the show. If you give us feedback for the show, we'll take feedback.

Tommy: But the squealing sound of speakers is pet peeve. It's—

Josh: yeah, I mean, I'm— because we're a kind of show where it's actually being managed from the people up on stage in terms of the audio.

Tommy: Well, that's my thing, like the whole mixer thing. It's— there's gonna be a lot going on, but I think My feeling is we embrace the technology stuff and just chuck everything at it.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: Yeah. Do you, do you feel the same way?

Josh: Yeah. I mean, money is just a—

Tommy: Well, so you were saying, you were like, man, when we first got there, you're like, now you don't want to be worrying about that stuff. You just want to be able to focus on the thing. I've actually— and I initially was like, yeah, we're just maybe getting AV guys or something. I actually think that part of the fun is me being able to set up and kit it out the way that I want to kit it out.

Josh: It's more just while we're on stage, like What happens if you need to, if it starts squealing its head off? Because it's always the case, right? You get—

Tommy: you've tested everything.

Josh: Josh Pitterman, he's at EMCG and he's about to do the bloody national anthem and he says, have you checked it?

Mason: Yeah.

Josh: And then he goes out and it's fucked.

Tommy: Yeah. He couldn't hear the in-ears.

Josh: It's like the moment, the thing that you needed to do. One job, one job. So then what happens?

Tommy: That brings up another interesting point. I was thinking I want this to be good. I want this to be fucking amazing. Like, I actually want this to be amazing. Like, this is right in my sort of wheelhouse in regards to putting on a performance for a bunch of people.

Josh: I mean, it starts at home.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: Your parents have people over for dinner. You say, can I put a pots and pans show on?

Tommy: Well, it's— for me, it started like my auntie used to have a fax machine, and so the fax paper where it was all attached really long, I'd create an awesome banner and she had— this is Maureen— at Maureen's place she had a, uh, uh, like a rise, like a risin' bit type of thing.

Josh: It's perfect for a stage.

Tommy: And so that would be the stage, and I put the whole thing down. One of the things I was thinking is I think that maybe at the start, maybe in the middle, or maybe at the end, we have an acoustic performance by someone Well, there's a bunch of time before we start the live show and the live show starts.

Josh: So the venue opens.

Tommy: Or what about Amy and her sister?

Josh: We open. There's a, there's a bunch of time. So there is a, there is time. You know what would be cool? We've got half an hour after, and this is the thing, it might run over. So maybe beforehand, just like some light music. It's just like some—

Tommy: I'm thinking like Because one of the criticisms— so one of the things when we had released the sounds, Jack and Radio Mike in the studio—

Josh: I know, but they were on Uncommon. I saw that, I saw that performance.

Tommy: But I spent half an hour trying to get reverb in the mixer so that when they did the performance, they had reverb. Couldn't fucking work out how to do it anyway. I'm like, Mr. 97 was basically like, man, No one fucking cares. Like, it doesn't matter. Just run with it. Anyway, the guys do one round of performance and then Jack says, hey man, can we just get a little bit of reverb? I nearly had a meltdown.

Josh: Rockstar.

Tommy: So the thing is, rockstars demanding reverb. I would love to have some form of performance where like with reverb between— yes, between now and then where there's reverb. But not only that, I want the option because I know the mixer can fucking do it. PreSonus, help me. I'm trying to work out how to do it. I want to be able to during the show at any point turn on some reverb.

Josh: Which is— what is reverb?

Tommy: Like, you do it on your iPhone?

Josh: Just— okay.

Tommy: Hello, hello, hello, hello. Welcome, welcome, welcome.

Josh: Oh, it's for singing. It's not for us. We don't want that shit.

Tommy: But I think that there could be some funny moments where I'm like, it's the Daily Talk Show, show, show, show.

Josh: I mean, you just did it. You just bring your own reverb, to be honest.

Tommy: What do you think?

Mason: Can you do it on the iPad?

Josh: I reckon, I reckon.

Tommy: How would you do it on the iPad? I want to hear his rationale for the iPad.

Mason: One, I'm just, I'm just thinking through what the interface looks like because you've got this, you've got all the levels on the iPad, but can you turn it off? And because you still work out how to do that.

Tommy: So the mixer, yeah, definitely I could control the mixer from the iPad. The idea of having a microphone through the iPad, too much latency. No, no, no, the idea of having— yes, there is within the Presonus, there's an FX button, and that FX button controls all the faders, and you can turn up how much of the specific effect. Are we still rolling, by the way? Because the screen just came off. We can control how much effect we're giving it. And so because I can control the fader, I can do that. So I'm confident. So I think that that would be a fun thing to do.

Josh: Yeah, I think it'd be good too. There's also— we're trying to work out how we do this. Like, I think that there is a period of time when we're not actually in the venue.

Tommy: And you and I, you say you and I, Josh, how do you feel about that? '97, how did you imagine the night? Like, if you were to paint the picture of the night, 6:30, people are arriving, what's their experience? What's the user experience?

Mason: Yeah, I mean, I, I don't know, I don't know how the tickets— I mean, I guess you're going to get your ticket scanned on the way in.

Tommy: It's like the TEDx talk that we did with—

Josh: it's simple. That's the easiest part.

Mason: Yeah, that's easy. You come in, get your ticket scanned.

Tommy: Um, can we have lanyards?

Josh: Yeah, we can't. We need to get a unique—

Mason: yeah, yeah, they're gonna be good.

Josh: Yeah, yeah.

Tommy: How cool would that be to have lanyards? Yeah, does everyone get a lanyard or just—

Josh: it'd be cool, it's cool.

Tommy: Or just the Grong Squad for like—

Josh: nah, Grong Squad, like everyone gets it. This is all— yeah, yeah, this is all blue sky thinking. Just, this is a question.

Tommy: I want a barcode. I want barcodes on all of them.

Josh: Um, it can't— it's not got nothing to do with the ticket then because this ticket The ticket process.

Mason: I don't care about it, I just want there to be a barcode.

Josh: You put a barcode on there. People get barcodes tattooed on them. Doesn't really mean anything.

Mason: Anyway, so you come in, get your ticket scanned, potentially pick up a lanyard. Um, I don't know.

Tommy: Was the lanyard in your vision or did I throw that in?

Mason: No, no, you just threw that in. There's going to be—

Josh: The guy who doesn't like balloons is talking about lanyards, so I'll just leave that out there. Anyway, continue.

Tommy: I think it's a good keepsake for everyone.

Mason: There's gonna be a place. What do you do with your bags and stuff? You want to, you want to have a spot?

Josh: We're not a fucking bag room place.

Mason: No, but people are going to have like— Have you ever been out?

Josh: Have you ever been out?

Tommy: Yeah, we need a cloakroom. People are—

Mason: No, people are going to be coming from work. It's a 6 PM.

Josh: Have you ever been? Have you ever been? What do you do when you go to the movies? They got a cloakroom there?

Mason: Well, I don't want to keep my bag with me the whole night.

Josh: And so obviously he's never been out before to a fucking event. No, because people go to the circus, you go to the fucking nightclub, most of them, they're not going to like— Maybe a bag room.

Tommy: Do we need security checking bags?

Josh: No, there's no fucking bag room. You bring your own bag.

Tommy: What about people checking bags?

Josh: So if you brought your gym bag from work, you're fucked up.

Tommy: No, but if people, I think backpacks and stuff, people will be kept like—

Mason: 100%.

Tommy: Wayne will be walking straight from where his work is. You make a decision, right?

Josh: Like, what are you guys living in? What world are you living in?

Mason: I think in terms of like, even if you don't have an area, right, you just want your seat to put it under.

Josh: Of course, that's the solution. But you're talking like it's a bag room. There's a— so, so in the, in the time, there's 100 seats to be able to get to.

Mason: In the time between checking in, do you just drop your bag off at a seat? You hold it on, that's just yours, or you go sit down.

Tommy: Can we— I think we need to make it exactly what happens at events. Should we guys—

Josh: I feel like you guys have never been to an event.

Tommy: Should we allocate the seats?

Josh: Oh, definitely no allocation. It's first in, best dressed, and there will be someone— we probably need someone young someone who, you know, probably needs someone young up on stage giving some direction.

Tommy: Mr. 97, could you do that?

Josh: Mr. 97, do a bit of a— like, if we had the microphone, could you be the guy up on stage saying, you know, guys, I was all concerned about your bags and bringing your gym bags, and maybe you got stuff like you should go and sit down, maybe put it under there. Um, seats aren't— they're not like—

Tommy: why are you doing that?

Mason: It's not reserved seating.

Josh: It's not reserved seating, so please make sure Toilets are that way. Like, this is a great MC.

Tommy: Yeah. What about the idea of you dressing up as a flight attendant? No. What about this?

Josh: Could we put it out there that—

Tommy: What about the tailors that were going to come on the show with you?

Josh: No, no, no.

Mason: Could there be a 3D print my suit?

Josh: No, but could there be— I reckon, could we get the Gronk Squad to decide what Mr. 97 wears on the night?

Tommy: Oh, that's a great idea.

Josh: That's fucking a brilliant idea.

Tommy: Maybe—

Mason: I love it.

Tommy: Like, I know it's a bit radio, but it'd be great to have a wheel that we turn. Wheel of Fortune. Yeah.

Mason: What are the options?

Tommy: I mean, it's, I know when Hamish and Andy were in New York, Jack Post was dressed up as a butler. So I think we rule out the butler.

Josh: You can't be Jack. Yeah, can't do that. There's, what is there, Onesies costume shop. I mean, if there's one guy, because it is close, we're actually flying out on Halloween to the States. And so maybe you were just bringing a bit of the Halloween stuff. I mean, Mr. 97 could be. A Halloween costume. I wonder what—

Tommy: I wonder what about the idea of him switching costumes? So pre-show he has a certain costume, and then when the show's on he's got a new costume.

Josh: Yeah, yeah.

Mason: Where are we?

Tommy: So you and I agree that it doesn't necessarily make any sense for us to— like, we love hanging out and all that sort of thing, but from a showmanship point of view, to bring the fucking boom boom boom like you had this vision which sounded like a UFC fight where you want to come out, you want cameras following us, tracking as long as we come out. Like you've just run into something.

Mason: Through the crowd, you're just walking through.

Josh: If you've seen, uh, what's it— oh fuck, what's his name? He just fought over the weekend. Yeah, yeah.

Tommy: What was the song? KSI?

Josh: A guy just fought recently and it was so good. So good. Stylebender. He's a, a guy from Auckland. And, or from New Zealand, your, your native land. Yeah, um, he's from there and he did the best walkout in Melbourne at the UFC. It was so good, he had a full dance and he came out to pumping music. Anyway, it was nothing like that. All I just thought was we need to at least have the pre-show, like, you know, Mr. Nice Evan up there telling people what's happening, some vibe happening, some music happening, and then we come out and go up on stage and do the show.

Tommy: Do we have guests?

Josh: I just think you don't, you don't do well with the, um, the greetings. So I'm trying to like, how do I look out for my bro? And it's, let's not, uh, empty your tank with a few handshakes and kisses.

Tommy: Well, what a night. Could I, um, just—

Josh: your emotional tank is what I'm saying.

Tommy: What about if I wore a t-shirt that said hugs only? Yeah, so if people can bring in the branding Yeah, maybe a hat hugs only, or maybe we just make it clear, hey, at the end you can come and like, we're gonna all get a hang and chat. No, just only give Josh a hug.

Mason: The Gronk Squad greeting is a hug.

Josh: Have we determined that before?

Mason: No, I don't think so.

Josh: No, I like it.

Tommy: It's like the Josh behind that.

Josh: I like you sort of like, yeah, no, we didn't determine it before. It's like the minimalist. No, we haven't, but that's good. I like that. Bring more of that. See the confidence, like he said that like it was a thing.

Tommy: Well, I remember there's— I've heard guests before saying like, I sort of walking to the desk as they're grading Miss 97. She's like, ah, I get a hug from everyone. I'm like, oh God, what has 97 done?

Josh: My wife shook Ash Williams' hand.

Tommy: And I would too. No, I enjoy a good handshake of Ash.

Josh: No, no, but I was looking at Ash. I was just— he's definitely a smoocher. Like, he's definitely going in for a kiss, but he's on the couch.

Tommy: You were eyeballing the handshake was happening. Hands, sit down.

Josh: Uh, yeah, so I love that. I love that.

Tommy: So Queen, Queen Gronkh, she's like, she's the best MC.

Josh: Yeah, so she's the best MC. Could it be a duo?

Mason: Yeah, we can do that. I mean, I'm, I'm happy for Gemma to—

Tommy: no, no, no, I think that you would have to lead.

Mason: But I mean, yeah, uh, but this is the first ever time I've MC'd anything. Actually, probably the first time like publicly doing it.

Tommy: I mean, Gemma's expensive. This is the problem. So if we if Jem will do us a freebie. But the thing is, because this is the other thing, we're going to have all of these VIP Gronks. We want to bring them into the show in some way. So it's like you have fucking—

Josh: oh my God, I just worked something out.

Tommy: Screwedder Derek. You have Tall Gronk. Like how we— Belinda K. Yeah, yeah, all the names. How do we actually— how do we get everyone involved? Or Am I doing the wrong approach where it's like I'm being the mum that's like, everyone, everyone gets the same thing?

Josh: No, I think, I think if I was going to any live event, I would expect some entertainment and to sit there. And it's like anything. You go to the circus, you don't want to be picked out. People actually like enjoying watching something play out. And so hang on quickly. There is booths at the back, which one will have a camera obviously in the booth. But these are— it's almost nightclub-esque, I think. Unless there's some— there is some reserved seating and it's if you have a Squeegee keyring. There is something. It's like a nightclub. Like you get primo access. So BK, I know he's coming. There's some primo shit happening.

Tommy: Just use your barcode on your lanyard and that will get you in.

Josh: No, no, no. Squeegee.

Tommy: You have to bring the squeegee. But then you don't have the squeegee.

Mason: What? So if you've got a hat, what?

Josh: Well, if you've got them, if you've got a hoodie too, like there's something, there's a, there's a hoodie tier, there's a Squeegee Kieran Colt tier, which these went out. I mean, there's people in America that have these two, two people in America have the squeegees.

Tommy: I think the big thing is going to work out how we can integrate people in a fun way. I think we can do, we can play games and stuff like that and really fucking like, let's make it the best fucking night ever.

Josh: The thing that happens with that is structure, and it's not your best suit.

Tommy: No, I think structure could work.

Josh: No, no, it does. That's what I'm saying. It has to, it has to flow through with structure. And one of our greatest gifts is not to be able to stick to a structure. Well, it's good.

Tommy: It's a good thing that we have two mics.

Josh: We need someone to run this, like a good producer who's been throwing up his hands. How many seconds have we got left to talk?

Tommy: Yeah, we're done.

Mason: Yeah, literally 1 minute. Oh, did you not see the—

Josh: No, sure, but have we finished?

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, we'll try. We'll try and link this whole thing where it's like the fact that he didn't say your time's done. No, he did 1 minute.

Josh: That's what I saw.

Mason: I literally did the 5 and the 1.

Josh: Yeah. Initiative to say, you guys, you need to stop talking. Your time's up.

Tommy: You, as a— just some feedback. When he did the one finger—

Josh: saw it.

Tommy: You don't need to lose your mind. So, you know, before we go, I want to— I'm trying to get the listeners, the viewers, they don't know he's done that. And so that's a good guide for us just to be like, oh yeah, blah, blah, blah. You actually— like, you don't need to. This isn't the fucking project that's going into some other show.

Josh: This is going into another show. This is going to the show of life. And as soon as this stops, yeah, you can have your Sunday night.

Tommy: Anyway, it's a Daily Talk Show. hi@thedailytalkshow.com is the email address if you've got any ideas around this. And I guess I think this is the contentious issue around the live event is having worked in live events now within the sense of the Nando's thing. You get very mic heavy. You love to get on the mic, you love talking. And so we need to come across with some potential safe words. So if I feel that you're talking too much, or if you feel that I'm talking too much, we can say steak.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: Or we can say alofento.

Josh: The thing is, we're doing a show. That's why it's not going to be the furthest thing from what we do.

Tommy: But it'd be good to just sort of, you know, have that 1-minute thing and you sort of brought that energy. We don't want that on the night.

Josh: Yeah, but there's a few things that are going to be different and so we don't want to change too much. And that's why I'm saying I don't want to layer it too much for you and for myself.

Tommy: Well, the thing is, 1,400 farmers in South Africa, that's the Nando's, that's, that's what they've got.

Mason: The chillies.

Tommy: Yeah, the bird's eye African, African bird's eye chilli is how they make the peri-peri sauce. Great. Anyway, LA fact.

Mason: LA fact of the day. The LA Department of Water and Power spent $34 million on 96 million black balls that they put into the water reservoir to stop it from evaporating.

Tommy: Seen the video?

Josh: Yeah, I've seen crazy. I don't know if it was the LA one, but I saw those, all the black balls rushing down. That's so cool.

Tommy: Yeah, you imagine it just like stops all the, like the heat being able to— Yeah, the water, the whole thing. Yeah. Science. All right. It's a daily talk show. We'll see you on Monday, guys.

Mason: See you guys.