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Tommy: The Daily Talk Show.

Josh: It's The Daily Talk Show, episode 488.

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

Josh: It's Thursday. You've already had a productive morning.

Tommy: Oh yes, I have. As I pull back my jumper sleeve and reveal the blood test that I've had this morning, feeling lighter, 100 mils lighter, maybe less.

Josh: So 97 and I were talking about the blood test. So you were going to get your doctor's referral, which you have to.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: Which you thought you would then have to go and go to a, what's it called?

Tommy: Pathologist.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: Two birds, one stone. I didn't know they did this. As the doctor pointed out, I said to the doctor when I went in to get the referral, I said, oh, this place is looking great because it's been renovated since I last was there. He said, yeah, it looked like a brothel before, didn't it?

Josh: It's like, I wouldn't know. But I guess that, and it's in St Kilda.

Tommy: I followed it up by saying, well, around here you wouldn't quite know where you stumble into, would ya?

Josh: And so the question is, what did you actually get your blood taken for?

Tommy: Just ask. So I thought— so this is all for the reveal on the 500th. We've got a bit of a thing going where we're trying to work out who out of the 3 of us has the most testosterone, the highest level.

Josh: But I've been speaking to 97 about potentially opening it up to cholesterol and other things.

Tommy: No, no, no. So I just got— kept it specific. I'll give you some information, uh, on how you go about it. Keep it specific. Just get— I just— I'm looking to get my testosterone tested. So I didn't— the only thing I lied was I panicked. I panicked when he said, what do you do? I said, oh, I'm on TV.

Josh: I'm on TV.

Tommy: I was like, my approach going in was like, I'm not gonna lie. About what I'm getting this test for. I won't mention the competition, but I won't say— I won't try and put it in, oh, I want my cholesterol, I want my vitamin D, I want my testosterone. I was just like, just say testosterone, that's what I want tested. And, um, and so I brought that up, and then he asked why. Well, he started asking a few questions, and he— and it was like, well, uh, are you married? Are you, you know, in a relationship? And I was like, yeah, I'm I'm married and I have a kid. He's like, oh, you just never know around here, there's, you know, some people, you know, they're into both.

Josh: I was like, what does that mean?

Tommy: Well, because he's like, um, he's basically saying when he asks a lot of people, what are you into, in, in the, in the kindest possible way about, are you gay, are you straight, are you whatever, and he says a lot of people answer, I go both, I go both ways. Fair enough. But I don't know, he was curious about that. And so he asked me, have I got kids? What kind of exercise I do? He was trying to understand why I wanted the testosterone levels tested. I just said I was curious. And he said there's a movement, so many people are having their testosterone tested at the moment.

Josh: Well, the funny thing, like, so I was saying to 97, slightly different to what, uh, you were saying, which is around the— there's not really a good storey in, in there. Like you haven't really given a good story.

Tommy: I don't need to give a good story. This is— I was, I was thinking of giving good story, trying to get a good story.

Josh: You panicked and said you're on TV.

Tommy: I gave him that bit. He didn't— that wasn't it.

Josh: He just said, what channel? No problem.

Tommy: No, he didn't. He's from New Zealand, so he's like, I've got no idea about that stuff. So I was lucky. Imagine if they watch TV all the time.

Josh: Yeah, I was on The Project once for a 7-Eleven bit, and I wasn't even allowed on the main stream.

Tommy: Drop the story. And just go straight to it.

Josh: Well, I'll tell you what my storey is going to be. So I am about to undertake a big diet change. I normally take a bunch of like Brazil nuts and all these different things because I think that they're helping testosterone. And so I'm wanting to get, there's a few things I wanna get checked, cholesterol, vitamin D, also my testosterone. And I wanna—

Tommy: Don't muddy the water. Don't muddy the water.

Josh: What are you worried that's going to happen?

Tommy: Nothing, he said that this country has Australia has spent— look it up, what's the figure of what's the cost for checking people's vitamin D levels in this country? He said it was like millions and millions and millions of dollars with no effect, like no change to what people are doing. And so the problem, like I didn't pay for any of this, right? Who pays for it? Medicare, the government taxpayers. And so it is, he's saying they're going to if they can see on your records if you're getting your vitamin D tested all the time, they're going to start charging people. That's fair for it, because yeah. And so the other thing he did point out was the thing about tests are you're testing to get some kind of number or reading, which then you either act on it or you don't. And the thing about acting on these things is like, well, if you've got low testosterone, then Then there's testosterone replacement therapy, that kind of stuff, which I didn't even wanna get into that shit. I was just like, look, I'm curious. I just brought it back to that. Look, I'm curious. I'm just wanting to understand now. So maybe in the future I can see the difference. And so you'll get a convoluted, like they'll come back to you with so much stuff.

Josh: You could have just said, I reckon you could probably say I'm extremely agitated all the time. I think it could have something to do with testosterone and it would actually work based on— You can try that.

Tommy: I just don't think there's any need to— this bullshit is just—

Josh: I mean, you're the guy that said that. I mean, it's not actually bullshit. I'm vegetarian now. I want to test what the—

Tommy: Yeah, but I reckon you just drop the Brazil nuts, Josh. Oh no, I like the Brazil nuts. That was a nice touch because it reminds you of what, you know, food. I think you actually just say the testosterone stuff. I'm just curious to see if it changes my testosterone levels.

Josh: Why?

Tommy: Are you being the doctor? I'm being Josh.

Josh: No, no, no. But I know you could do that. But my thing is, it's like if I'm going to go to the doctor anyway, like I might as well get vitamin D, see where everything's at.

Tommy: Yeah, I just would lead with the testosterone thing because we don't fucking know.

Josh: Like I was thinking about, I was like, what the fuck, what if we came back, it's like you got diabetes or whatever?

Tommy: Well, that's blood sugar.

Josh: Yeah, so that's what I was thinking. I was thinking like fucking doing the whole— annoying.

Mason: A good reveal for Ep 500.

Tommy: Yeah, just make sure you can get it within 3 days.

Josh: Is that what you're— is that why you're so annoyed about it? Because you just want to make sure that it's 3 days?

Tommy: What am I annoyed about?

Josh: Or just you giving a bit of pushback with that?

Mason: I mean, if you do a bunch of tests and it's going to take longer, right?

Tommy: You're going to get a piece of paper with all these things. I'm going to get one that it was purely a testosterone.

Josh: So you're upset that you don't— you didn't cheque it all?

Tommy: No, no, no. I actually made the decision during the conversation with him not to bring in those other things. I was like, yeah, I'll just keep it at this one single conversation.

Josh: That may be why it is that you're like bringing that energy, because you made that decision in your head No, no, no.

Tommy: I actually just think you complicate everything. And I think that the admin of going to a doctor for the first time in 10 years is quite a lot.

Josh: But the thing is, I might as well, because I was even thinking, fuck the whole bulk billing thing. I'll just go to a GP and fucking pay.

Tommy: You can still get the— it's just not as— it's not free. But I just don't want to put any roadblocks in front of you boys because I've booked in for tonight. Oh, have you?

Mason: Yeah.

Tommy: Where are you going?

Mason: Uh, a place in Bowen, just Bowen Medical Center or something like that.

Tommy: Did you find it, baby?

Mason: It's Bulk Billing 720.

Josh: Were you signing autographs out the front for any Gronks Squad or doing an appearance? You've given the exact medical centre and the time.

Tommy: Yeah, hopefully the doctor.

Mason: I was also going to give the centre and then Tommy's like, oh, where are you doing it?

Tommy: It doesn't really matter, so give them a good prop.

Mason: I mean, I said, yeah, so definitely a signing outside.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: Yeah, I talked about where I was going.

Josh: It's, um, and so then you got to go back as well to get the result. Yeah, of course. So I've done, I've done all this before, and it could be interesting getting my— so I did this after reading Four Hour Body. Yeah, would have been maybe 2011, I think. Yeah, got all that, did the DEXA scan, did the blood work, and then they came back with the whole list. So I think I've got it in Evernote somewhere.

Tommy: Oh, that's good.

Josh: So I could compare from when I was 21.

Tommy: I wonder if they did test your testosterone, do you think, back then? I mean, are you looking for vitamin levels? Because Tim Ferriss is all about like, what are your levels for everything?

Josh: Yeah, I, I could definitely have a squeeze and see, see what it is. That's a good point.

Mason: Did you analyse it after you got it?

Josh: Yeah, so the doctor, no, so the doctor was like, oh yeah, no, that's, it's pretty— like, I feel like given how bad my diet was, there was nothing alarming.

Tommy: So the human body is pretty resilient to how us gronks treat them. And so, yeah. So you got— so you got— have you booked in?

Josh: No, I think Bree was saying, oh, she needs to get blood tests done as well.

Tommy: I know.

Josh: And so she's like, oh, you could even just go to my— because she goes to the doctor regularly. She's like, just go to the same GP as me.

Tommy: She does. She pay?

Josh: No.

Tommy: Yeah, she pays. Okay.

Josh: So might as well just do that.

Tommy: Yeah, so we're gonna get it done, boys. Yeah, we'll get it done.

Josh: While you were, um, getting your testosterone checked, yeah, I was demonstrating the level of testosterone this morning.

Tommy: Push-up competition, squats, or what are your deadlifts? What were you— how are you? So chin-ups?

Josh: I was walking across the road and I was on the intersection, like on the, um, the pedestrian walking and a car was already giving way to some pedestrians that were already walking across.

Tommy: You had the green light? Yeah.

Josh: No, there was no green light. It was just one of the outside Dan Murphy's pedestrian crossings.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: Oh no, no. We didn't have even the lines or whatever.

Tommy: Okay. You just had an intersection.

Josh: It's Hotham and Smith.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: And I'm walking across the road from Dan Murphy's to Fixation.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: And I'm in the intersection. I'm walking and a car does the whole sort of slips in front of me, like drives quickly in front. What would you do in that moment?

Tommy: It's not much you can do. Morning traffic. I've been the perpetrator of doing that. I mean, if it's that, if they did it really dangerously and they actually were close to hitting you, I punched the car. I mean, did you look at who the fuck was in the car?

Josh: No, it wasn't a punch. So imagine you're walking. I walk like this. And so rather than— it wasn't a like that punch. You have to watch a video, guys, thedailytalkshow.com. It was a like that, you like knocked. It was like a knock.

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, made a really good unusual knock. You're walking, it's a backhand like that.

Josh: So that would, you know, no, but that's—

Tommy: yeah, it depends on how— if you can get high, if you're going low, you're walking like that already.

Josh: Yes, I'm walking like that. So imagine just like my arm through your arm, like in a walking position. Yeah, it's almost— I just walked into the the car and just so happened I had my fist clenched.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: Anyway, guy slams on his brakes. Awesome. He's in a Mazda.

Tommy: So I felt sort of safe because, yeah, the guys still drive Mazdas, do they?

Josh: When they're driving a Harley.

Tommy: Yeah, they got their Harley confiscated and they're driving a Mazda. Yeah, they got their Mercedes impounded and they've got to borrow a Mazda from a mate.

Josh: I know. Anyway, I felt pretty safe. But anyway, he— this guy, uh, British dude, yelling and swearing at me, saying, you got your AirPods in, and it's like, you know. And then I was just like, you've got to give way, you got to give— like, you turn. He's like, I was, you know, yeah, I was turning, yeah. But like, basically saying that I was wrong anyway, like, because he'd sort of— as soon as that happened, he like drove up to like the island bit of like where the corner is to have this conversation with me. And so like I walked over there and just sort of said, hey, like, this is, you know, this is what happened. And he was just like swearing at me and all that sort of thing. And then he— I was like, I'm basically done. I've got everything. Like, there's nothing else to really add. So I was walking to get my coffee, and as I was starting to walk away, he did this like turn of his car, turning around. And then went into a parked sort of position. And I just walked over and took a bunch of photos.

Tommy: With him watching?

Josh: Yeah. With— yeah. Of his number plate and all that sort of thing. And then just turned around and started walking. He's like, hey, oi, oi, oi. I was just like, ignored him. Yeah, just had my AirPods in. Doing the annoying thing of like him, his position, this whole thing of like the guy with his fucking AirPods. I don't know what's going on.

Tommy: No wonder he can't hear me.

Josh: Yeah. And so it was, it's funny, I called like I got a real fucking hit out of it. It was great. And so I said to 97, I called him. I was just like, I had to tell him the storey because it doesn't— it's not that often. What I loved about it was there was a clear situation of he was breaking the rules.

Tommy: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Josh: And so there wasn't— it wasn't like, oh, you did this. Like, it was all very clear.

Tommy: Yeah. But I mean, the problem with doing those things is that if it turned the other way, you can't handle yourself.

Josh: No.

Tommy: Well, if like, if he can fight and you can't fight and he fights you.

Josh: If he hits me, he's fucking—

Tommy: No, of course he does. But that's what I don't want you to get hit. So that's—

Josh: I mean, the thing, maybe that's why I don't care necessarily about— I'm like, look, if you want to punch, if you want to like throw the first punch, if you want to punch me amongst all this sort of thing, I know, I know. But the thing— But my point is, it's like Uh, maybe it's like my basketball days. I could fucking offensive foul, just jump in front and fucking take it. I'm actually okay taking a punch.

Tommy: I know, it's amazing because there's— but there are psychos out there.

Josh: What, so King hits me and kills me?

Tommy: No, of course.

Josh: Yeah, but then that guy is fucked.

Tommy: Yeah, but my point is, was it worth— was it worth the hitting of his car? I know, the point is I'm trying to go, how do you not die? And then doing that.

Josh: But I— What's the likelihood of dying? Like we talked about—

Tommy: I mean, not dying, but just getting punched by the vehicle.

Josh: Alright, so if I got hit by the car.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: I guess so the question remains, do— When something like that happens, should there be some form of communication to that driver so that they know that they nearly hit me? Yeah.

Tommy: Oi. I mean, I've done the—

Josh: it's for me, the oi thing is just— it really has impact. Or it does actually.

Tommy: Fuck yeah.

Josh: Fuck yeah.

Tommy: I think it's a good one too. Fuck yeah.

Josh: Fuck yeah. I think the guy wouldn't even connect that was him. That bang on the side of his car. His thing is, have I been— have I hit someone?

Tommy: No, it's not what he did. He's like, he knows exactly what's fucking happened. You can't— you met— like, he knows he did the wrong thing. Like, he knows he ducked in front of you. And then he's got hit. I nearly got hit, someone reversing out, and I literally smashed the back of it, like bang, bang, the back of their car. They got the biggest fucking fright of their life because they knew that they— it was different, like they didn't know they were trying to duck in front of me. They were reversing out without even fucking considering anything going on. It was so dangerous. My point is, you do this— what are you saying?

Josh: I just love that it's like you tell the exact same storey and like, and that's why it's okay for me to do it.

Tommy: No, it's not. No, no, no. You can't handle yourself.

Josh: I think I can.

Tommy: I don't think you can.

Josh: I think I can. I mean, the thing is, it's not okay.

Tommy: I'm saying handle something based on what, right? You do shit and you're like, fuck, I've yelled at people. I've yelled at people while driving and it's like, what if they were an absolute psycho?

Josh: But if you think about it, I did handle myself because I didn't escalate it to the point of an altercation.

Tommy: No, but hang on, I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm just saying the potential of doing these kind of things is, is, can be fully, fully fucked by the, with how the other person reacts.

Josh: What are people saying on Instagram?

Mason: No, 7, uh, well, Andrea Clark just joined. She said, yeah, Andrea, Andrea, we haven't got any other messages.

Josh: Okay, that's fine, Andrea. We're just arguing on whether— we're not arguing at all because you're bringing a level of energy today that seems like—

Tommy: yeah, but I just think that it's— my point is, if you do it to the wrong person, I've always thought, what if it is some bikie that you, you do that to, because I've done it too many times.

Josh: Well, and so what happens in those cases?

Tommy: And they're an absolute psycho that is just on the tipping point. Like, that can happen in life, right? You just— you're in the pathway.

Josh: What just happened?

Tommy: Someone just dropped my phone. You're in the pathway of someone who is just at their tipping point, and that just tips them over the point, tips them over. What do you want from it? What did you want from that?

Josh: So it's, it's about, for me, that I was nearly hit. And that's like a complete disregard of the law. So, the thing is, does he walk away potentially with that in his mind where it's like, does he have the right of way or doesn't he?

Tommy: Like, I think it's illegal. So, it is giving pedestrians is illegal.

Josh: Exactly. And so, that was my point. I think that he walks away, maybe does a little Google search.

Tommy: Nah, he's angry. He doesn't give a shit. I don't know.

Josh: I think he was like an IT professional angry.

Tommy: No, but this is the thing. IT professionals are the ones probably punching on down the pub later on because they're just silly. And I wonder, I think like, um, it's a weird one because he got his backup, right? He knows he did the wrong thing. Yeah, he has to know.

Mason: Goldie Guts says, just tell him you love him, Tommy.

Josh: Yeah.

Mason: And Dan Wickman says, I think Josh would beat Tommy in an arm wrestle. That would settle this for me.

Tommy: That's a good point. Should we just do it quickly?

Josh: All right, so how do we actually get it set up?

Tommy: You go to, you go sort of that side.

Josh: Okay.

Tommy: And you go with your right?

Josh: Sorry everyone!

Mason: Both right, yeah, here we go!

Josh: I'm off cam—

Mason: Alright, 3... 2... 1... Go! Oof!

Tommy: Ohh! Ahhh!

Josh: Getting there!

Mason: Yeah! This is intense, you're gonna have to go to YouTube to watch this! You nearly made the biggest recovery there Josh, you saved it!

Josh: Oh, like, to be honest, I just got over it.

Tommy: I'm glad that I got my, um, the doctor said you can't move your arm, do any heavy lifting for 2 hours, and I went my left arm because I was like, I won't need that.

Josh: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you like it.

Mason: Great, that was fun.

Josh: That's good. Well, we got— maybe we do it there for, uh, at 500.

Tommy: It actually takes a bit out of you, doesn't it?

Josh: Yeah, yeah, I'm fucked. Uh, is this how you felt this morning?

Tommy: After the confrontation with that man?

Josh: I was actually like, there was an excitement level to it.

Mason: I loved it.

Tommy: Yeah, adrenaline kick.

Josh: Yeah, because it's like, what I liked about it is like, we just have a conversation. Like, he was yelling and all that sort of thing.

Tommy: The thing is diffusing people, like anyone who's being, um, angry towards you, like, is so—

Josh: I didn't say you're a fucking idiot.

Tommy: Nah.

Josh: What I said was I had right of way. And so it's that sort of like, it's not like he was like swearing at me, but yeah, it was very—

Tommy: We're watching a video. We're watching this video. We're watching this video.

Josh: I would have expected more, by the way, from you.

Tommy: But I played it. I knew exactly what I was doing.

Josh: I think that that's the funny thing. I'll tell you how this plays out.

Tommy: TJ always does this where it's like, mate, do you want me to tell you exactly what I thought? And it was exactly how it played out. I would just let you, I would let you go at the start. And then I would ramp it up as hard as I could. But that's what's the thing, go back, because I knew, I knew you still had some gas in the tank. You did that to me, I held off, and then I knew I could gas you down because you were, you were—

Josh: I was also keeping in the fact that I didn't, that I couldn't, um, lift my— like, I was, I was— where is that?

Mason: You were reaching for the table a little bit.

Josh: Yeah, I was ready to sort of use my body weight.

Mason: Ben says another year off the porn and Tommy would have lost that.

Tommy: Very good point.

Josh: That's so funny.

Tommy: We're watching this video early in the week of a woman on the tram in Melbourne, and she, she wasn't, she wasn't in good— she wasn't a good sort. She was, um, a battler, an Aussie battler, but she was swearing and carrying on, and the tram just turned on her, rightfully so. She was being an absolute nuisance. But the amount of people that were swearing at her as well, saying 'Get the fuck off' or 'Shut the fuck up.' Which really, it's, uh, if you look at it from the perspective of it's an—

Josh: she's an easy target.

Tommy: Oh yeah.

Josh: And so everyone's like, everyone's saying 'fuck you' because they know that, yeah, in a fight it's not an issue.

Tommy: I was thinking though, so in that situation, relating it to like these where people are sort of highly strung in a moment, um, what if you just said to that lady, if one person on that tram said, can I give you a hug or something? Or just went up and said, are you okay? Is everything all right? You know, like, I think about how do you do the opposite? It's like those YouTube videos where, um, you in fight situations, people rip off their clothes and then the other person runs off because they're so confused. But if you were to defuse it by saying something lovely—

Josh: Well, I mean, what I said to him, I remember the other thing, which is like, you're in a car, I'm walking. Yeah, like, that's, that's also the I mean, the thing is, he's, he's got a fucking, um, a Mazda, whatever, like a four-wheel drive looking thing. It's like, yeah, he could run me out. Like, the thing is that from a power point of view, it's not even okay, like getting punched or things like that.

Tommy: I think I told you, um, Mr. 97, when I went to Fitness First in Doncaster, I'd never been there before. First time I went there 2 things about it.

Mason: Is that your new local, by the way?

Tommy: It's so close to me, I didn't realize. I was like, oh, this membership's fucked, I have to go back into Richmond, took— take me forever. Anyway, it's, um, 2 things about it. It's 2— it's across 2 levels. Remember how you like think about people who complain because they can't get a park close to the gym, and then you think, ah, they're complaining because they have to walk 100 metres to the gym? I see, I see, I've always said go to the gym however you get there, it doesn't matter if you have to drive, whatever. This gym, I don't think this is fucking okay, there's a lift between the levels and I'm not kidding you, people do their weights down the bottom and get in the lift to go up one flight of stairs. Leg day. To get— not even leg day, not even leg day, like these people that are doing it, they're going between levels in a gym that there's a staircase. I've never taken— I will never take that lift, and they're fucking walking down the stairs.

Josh: Mate, you're perfect. That's what, that's what I take from all of this.

Tommy: Don't be upset that you, um—

Josh: No, I think it's good. Like, if you look—

Mason: I bet you in an arm wrestle.

Tommy: It's all good. I know it's okay, baby. That's okay. Anyway, I'm getting to my point. The—

Josh: I thought that was your point, that you're perfect, because you know, you know, he's a bit grumpy today, isn't he?

Tommy: He's a fucking—

Josh: No, I just—

Tommy: He's got in a fight this morning, got beaten in an arm wrestle this afternoon— today.

Josh: Um, There's certain energy.

Tommy: My point though, okay, there was nearly— I nearly witnessed a fight at the gym between these two guys, and then 10 minutes later another fight between two other people. They never got to the—

Mason: This was at Doncaster?

Tommy: Doncaster Fitness First. It's a rough gym.

Josh: And did you tell them, guys, just calm down, have a hug?

Tommy: No, these guys you wouldn't want to fucking mess with. But they were like— and their point was not many people throw punches these days because there's cameras everywhere and people film like you holding it up as soon as something happens. The, the, the guy said to him, um, I gave you a chance last time, come to the change rooms right now, no cameras, let's go. I was like, oh my fucking God, this is Jesus.

Josh: Oh, they've really thought it through, haven't they?

Tommy: This is the thing, no, they don't really think about where the cameras are.

Mason: I mean, the thing is they've just said that on camera.

Josh: Well, I was also thinking about like, say, all the cameras type of thing. You think about dashboards, you think about, you know, car dashboards. What about like pedestrian dash cams?

Mason: Ped cam.

Josh: Is that a thing?

Mason: No, I just— No.

Josh: Oh, like a ped cam. Or it could be a, like a GoPro. I mean, it would— It's very obvious.

Tommy: Have you seen the cops, what they've got?

Josh: Yeah, yeah. The chest sort of body cam. Body cam.

Tommy: Yeah, it's in their uniform. Maybe you could get in the middle of your hoodie. What is it?

Mason: Is there any— Oh, in the O, we could get a little pinhole camera.

Josh: Well, do you feel that there's a certain If you have a dash cam, do you think that you're more likely to get into road incidents? Oh yeah, because you know that you're filming, you're looking for it. And so I think that if I was wearing a GoPro on my head every day to work, you'd be— I'd be lunging out into pedestrian.

Mason: You'd be trying for claims left, right, and center.

Josh: I mean, it's not the claims, it's just the content. Yeah, you just shot the content. Wellington Street. 30 kilometres an hour for a bunch of the patch there. And so, the thing is that from a pedestrian point of view, if you're crossing along the zebras, you should be at like 30. You can fucking stop when you're like 5 metres away from the highway. And so, that's like the— As a pedestrian, I feel safer crossing the road knowing that those quickest stops should be easy. And if they can't stop, they're probably speeding.

Tommy: Yeah, I think, yeah, that's, I think that's why they did the 30, because it's like, yeah, it's a shared zone, significantly reduces the incidences.

Josh: 97. What are you going to say to the doctor?

Tommy: Yeah, you got to get your storey straight, or fucking lack of story, just like remove it.

Mason: Yeah, well, I mean, I think, I think I'll probably run with what you said, but my, my initial thought was around you could, you could pump up a storey around like having low sex drive.

Tommy: Yeah, definitely, definitely. Just because he said to me that's why people usually get it checked, they get low sex drive. He said, you look fit and healthy.

Mason: Yeah, exactly.

Tommy: Yeah, I mean, the good thing is, Jim Fitness, they'd be thinking this guy wants steroids for sure.

Josh: And so what did you say? So before I said, what sort of questions do you think they'll ask? And I can't even remember how you said the word. What did you say?

Mason: I said, how often You masturbate.

Tommy: Masturbate. Mistake, or you actually call it that?

Mason: No, no, I actually say that.

Josh: Masturbate.

Mason: Yeah, I don't know, I don't know why. Have you heard masturbate?

Josh: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you say masturbate.

Mason: I don't know why.

Josh: It's not like how I say Nando's instead of Nando's.

Mason: You're not being funny? No, no, no, I've just, I've just always said that.

Josh: Masturbate. Yeah, I guess it's easier to remember the spelling.

Tommy: Master. Anyway, um, LA fact of the day, son. LA fact of the day. Today.

Mason: So, there's a museum in LA called Getty Museum and it has one of the most iconic collections of art in the world and is also known for its architecture and gardens. This is what I was talking about yesterday. Each year the Getty Museum employs hundreds of goats to do its landscaping, letting the animals graze on the grass and bushes, keeping everything looking neat and tidy.

Josh: I like that.

Tommy: Are they paying $5.01? What is it like a—

Josh: Like super?

Tommy: Yeah, the American version of super. Yeah, they're employing these goats. The, um, I'd like to go and see the goats grazing in just a certain time of year.

Mason: Yeah, definitely.

Tommy: I said, I mean, getting into the winter-ish, do you think it'd be nice? Like, like more— October's meant to— November's meant to be the rainy season of LA, which is not much.

Josh: We nearly got a sheep when I was growing up.

Tommy: Did you?

Josh: Yeah, to look after the grass. We had a land— like, our school had a bunch of sheep and a lamb. Like, there was a lamb that was like a runt or whatever it's called. Yeah, yeah. Named Frankie. And Frankie got to stay in our classroom and be able to feed it and stuff. Yeah.

Tommy: I wonder if they've pulled back on like animal, like keeping animal pets in classrooms and shit nowadays.

Josh: I feel like it's probably a good, a good thing.

Mason: Did you have chickens? Yeah, baby chickens. Did you do like chicken races and stuff?

Josh: No, not races. It wasn't sort of, we weren't doing cockfights and stuff.

Tommy: This is sort of like, but yeah, ball with eye. They'd be like, a few of the kids came Primary school, razor blades on their feet.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: Um, uh, what were the worms? The, um, silkworms. Silkworms.

Josh: That's all low level.

Tommy: I just remember the smell of them. Hamster— not hamsters, the guinea pig versions. But anyway, thanks for the LA Fact of the Day. We got an email.

Mason: We got an email from Lucy. Hi guys, just wanted to say a quick hello and let you know how much I've been loving the show. Just discovered it a couple of weeks ago after hearing it mentioned on the Shameless podcast, and heck, I've been busy catching up. I'm a uni student here in Melbourne just finishing my law science degrees. Was loving the penalty unit chat the other day. Who said law can't be fun? I'm also a vegetarian. You can do it, Josh.

Josh: Thank you.

Mason: I know it sort of seems like you're missing out on stuff at the start, but once you find substitutes that work for you, it is so good and yummy.

Josh: I don't feel like I'm missing out at all, by the way.

Tommy: When you have pizza for lunch, it's fucking— there's nothing— you're not missing out.

Mason: For me, it's halloumi, aka crack. Veggie bolognese using corn mince. Yeah, what's corn mince?

Josh: Don't know, look it up. You've got to go your own way, don't you?

Mason: Same chewy texture as beef but made with— made from egg whites.

Josh: Well, there you go, there's your answer.

Mason: And curries. The flavour from the curry paste in jars is actually super tasty.

Josh: In jars, as in, is Lucy eating—

Tommy: mixing it in?

Josh: No, she's just eating it out of the jar like peanut butter.

Mason: I mean, that's, that's, that's intense.

Tommy: Adding flavour to the veggies and stuff, maybe.

Mason: Yeah, I don't know. I'm pretty sure she just adds it in. Uh, anyway, I love how your show feels, uh, like listening— sorry, I love how your show feels like listening in on a little chin wag between mates. I think it is legitimately impressive how the show can go from insightful discussions on career and relationships to ways you could subtly conceal the fact that you were smelling your finger after picking your nose. You're sniffing your foot as well.

Josh: Yeah, that happened.

Mason: This is what we need in our lives.

Josh: Thanks, Lucy.

Mason: Thank you for giving me something to look forward to every day. I will continue to recommend the show to my friends. I'll leave you with this thought: your belt is the first thing you touch after you wipe your bum in the toilet, but you never wash your belt. Sorry, I know it's a bit crude, but I was thinking about it the other day listening to the Uber Eats delivery/toilet debacle. Thanks again, guys. PS, sorry for the long email. I fucking hate admin too.

Josh: Lucy, a lot of commonalities there.

Tommy: So true, the belt thing.

Josh: Yeah, I mean, I've got disgusting— you should see my belt. I've got quite a cool— have you seen my belt before, 97?

Mason: I have. It's got like a— it's like a rodeo belt. You've really got—

Josh: what do you mean?

Mason: No, it looks like— yeah, rodeo. See, it's got like— look at it.

Tommy: And that's the second time he's done it today.

Josh: I mean, so this is—

Mason: oh geez.

Josh: Yeah, you're right, Lucy, that's absolutely foul. No, it smells like money. Like metal. Like a real— isn't it amazing? Oh, but anyway, no, but that is like a cowboy belt.

Tommy: Look at it.

Josh: What do you mean a cowboy belt?

Tommy: So this is what—

Josh: this is a great belt for if you fucking— if you fluctuate a few sizes because it's—

Mason: it's flexy.

Josh: Yeah, it's, uh, it's almost like it's belts for the people who like elastic because it doesn't have holes in it.

Tommy: You can go anywhere at all. So no, I don't need to touch the other end.

Josh: Hold tight.

Tommy: Oh wow.

Josh: Yeah, so it's elastic.

Mason: How did you find that? Did you just go to the shop?

Josh: Uh, Colas Tade from Envato, he, uh, he had one and I think I was like, that's great. I've got them in two different colors. They're great, they're really good. It's, uh, the brand for people playing at home, oh, it's Mr. Simple. Ah, they had a big sale the other day. Hopefully they're all good.

Tommy: Anyway, uh, looking forward to it, boys. So you're booked in, Mr. 96?

Mason: I'm booked in tonight.

Tommy: Yeah, JJ, you can book in online, you can book in online.

Josh: I think I think I'll do the just the testosterone one because I don't want to be responsible for it being delayed.

Mason: And then, yeah, I'm just going to do tests.

Josh: I don't want to make you upset.

Tommy: I reckon the thing about, uh, look, I'm just sort of starting to get into—

Josh: I'm fine.

Tommy: Just monitoring, monitoring story.

Josh: Yeah, yeah, I don't think it'll be— please don't break. One interesting fact, uh, Mr. 97's mate went in, uh, tried to get a referral for the whole mental health plan. What is that called? Mental health plan?

Mason: Yeah, I think it's a mental health— it's Australian Government. 5 or 10.

Josh: I think it starts with 5 and then you can get up to free or subsidised sessions. His mate went in, said, I've got some mental health issues. Doctor's like, nah, sorry.

Tommy: Yeah, that's fucked.

Mason: Yeah, it's full-on, isn't it?

Tommy: I mean, please encourage him to go to another GP. Yeah, because I'm sure, like, the GP, like, that person's— what they said doesn't mean someone else.

Josh: 97 was saying— 97 and I were saying that his mate mustn't have revved up the storey enough. Problem is if you rev it up too high do they let you out? Like there's a— You know, you're just trying to fucking overplay your way into that.

Tommy: Did he tell me what specifically he said? He's like...

Mason: It was around sleeping in and anxiety.

Tommy: He wasn't trying to get medication or anything?

Mason: No no no literally referral for the flight.

Tommy: The problem with that is I could go in right now say "I'm going on a flight, I've got anxiety can I have some medication?" They'll give it to me. I've done that before. That's disgusting. Yeah yeah. That's fucking disgusting.

Josh: Um, did you talk about it on your TV program?

Tommy: Yeah yeah look I'm bringing that up on the 6:30 Report that I do. On the television.

Josh: It's an interesting insight saying the TV thing, isn't it?

Tommy: I panicked and I was like, I fucking don't got no interest in doing TV or radio.

Mason: Why is that your go-to?

Tommy: Why was that? No, I panicked.

Mason: Yeah, but why was your—

Tommy: it's not my go-to.

Josh: I don't know, some weird tick.

Tommy: Yeah, weird. What do you do? Um, TV, right? I said it so quickly. That was what I'm admitting. I don't know what the fuck happened. I had a breakdown, boys.

Josh: Yeah, it's interesting. Okay, all right, it's The Daily Talk Show. If you want to be like Lucy, we would appreciate, uh, sending an email to us, hi@thedailytalkshow.com. Apple Podcast reviews, I think Lucy also gave us a podcast review.

Mason: Yeah, the one we read out.

Josh: Yeah, top, top gronk.

Tommy: And all the tickets to the live show are gone, sold out, completely sold out.

Josh: Sold out for free, sold out, hashtag free, free sold. Anyway, uh, it's The Daily Talk Show.

Mason: See you tomorrow, guys.